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SEPTEMBER, 1935 CENTRAL EDITION The Social Side of the 1935 Grand Lodge Convention A LITTLE CHILD means so much more to you than A LITTLE TIME
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General Features This Month Under the Spreading Whether you attended the 1935 Grand Antlers 20 Borden Chase Lodge Convention or not, there are many im portant features in this issue concerning that It Takes Men great meeting that you cannot aiTord to miss. The Grand Exalted First, there is the colorful story of the Ruler's Visits 23 Social bide of the Convention, in which are Joel P. Glass given detailed accounts of the Public Session, the colorful Grand Lodge ConventionParade, Finding the Way the Crystal Ball, the Elks National Golf News of the State Asso Tournament, and the many other contests ciations 24 to the Knockout. 9 which were held at Columbus. Then there is the supplementary inforniution concerning the Grand Lodge Business Sessions, which Participants in the Na Cast and Broadcast. 12 you owe it to yourself to read. tional Ritualistic Con Published in this issue also are the names George Beck of those men whom Grand Exalted Ruler test 25 James T. Hallinan has appointed to serve as Tin Pan Alley his District Deputies during his term of of fice. Turn to this list, and acquaint yourself The Social Side of the Anthem 13 with the name of him who is to be your Dis trict Deputy this year. You will be meeting Grand Lodge Conven him shortly. tion 26 Talcott Powell And, last but not least, are those features T.V.A 16 dealing with the activities of the subordinate Lodges and the State Associations, as well as Supplementary Informa an account of the visits which the Grand Ex tion on the Grand News ofElkdom alted Ruler is making at this lime. The general features in this issue are also Lodge Business Ses heartily recommended. The story, "It Takes sions in Columbus. . 31 The District Deputies Men" is as fascinating and dramatic as it is Appointed by Grand unusual. The titles of the two articles, "Finding the From the Album of the Exalted Ruler James Way to the Knockout," and "T.V.A." should Good Will Fleet 33 T. Hallinan 4 give some hint of their equally interesting though widely differing subjects. And "Tin Pan Alley Anthem," if you will only read it, will reward you with laughs aplenty. Cover Design by Editorial 18 Walter Beach Humphrey Address All Communications to The Elks Magazine, 50 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y.
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WHO ELSE WANTS REAL BLOW-OUT PROTECTION '•^HIS is the kind of weather that gives heart—if protection against treacherous X you the urge to hop in your car and high-speed blow-outs is what you really HEAT CAUSES BLOW-OUTS-> "step on-the gas." But remember, it's want —put a set of GOODRICH, spelled THIS LIFE-SAVER GOLDEN PLY mighty important to have real blow-out G-O-O-D-R-I-C-H, Goodrich Silvertowns RESISTS HEAT-PREVENTS ) protection between flying wheels and to on your car. For on/y in Silvertowns will ^ THESE BLOW-OUTS r day's fast highways. Because, speeds of you secure the priceless protection of the 40, 50 and 60 miles an hour generate ter Life-Saver Golden Ply. rific heat inside the tire. Rubber and fabric begin to pull apart. A tiny blister forms Another Safety Feature and grows bigger and BIGGER. It may burst quickly or the blow-out may not The outside of the Goodrich Safety Silver- happen for months. Just the same, that town is just as amazing as the inside. See blister, as long as it is in the tire, is a real that big, rugged Silvertown tread at your driving hazard. Goodrich dealer. Feel these husky cleats grip your hand. Then you'll realize why Don't gamble! Silvertowns also give you such marvelous That's why thousands of motorists all protection against dangerous "tail spin" over America have stopped gambling on skids. tires and switched to Goodrich Safety Remember, that invisible blister—that Handsome emblem Silvertowns. By resisting internal tire heat blow-out in the making may be in your tire L letpi with red crystal rc- the Life-Saver Golden Ply that's built into right now. So don't try to squeeze another I IILLal fleeter to protect you every Goodrich Safety Silvertown keeps few hundred miles out of unsafe, tread- if your tail light goes out. Go to your Goodrich dealer, join Silver- rubber and fabric from separating—blis worn tires. Don't be satisfied with anything town Safety Leapue. and receive one ters from forming. Thus high-speed blow but the SAFEST tires for your car—espe FREE. Or send lOe (to cover pack outs don't even get a start. If you have the cially when Goodrich Silvertowns cost not ing and mailirfg) to Dept. 563. safety of your family and your friends at a penny more than other standard tires. The B. F. Goodrich Co.. Akron, O. Copyright 193 5, The B. F. Goodrich Lo. WEW Goodrieli S ilver lown^^ WITH MFE-SAVER COUDEN PIT The Elks Magazine The District Deputies Appointed by Grand Exalted Ruler James T. Hallinan Following are the names of those members of the Order who have been appointed by Grand Exalted Ruler James T. Hallinan to serve as District Deputies during his term of office:
Alabama C. L. Haley, Jr. Florence, No. 820 Illinois, East Central P. O. Box 236 Charles IV. Kurts Kankakee, No. 627 Florence, Ala. First Trust Building Kankakee, III. Alaska, West A. E. Frodcnberg Anchorage, No. 1351 Illinois, Northeast Frans A. Koehler Des Plaines, No. 1526 723 Fourth Avenue 628 Lee Street Anchorage, Alaska Des Plaines, III. Alaska, East George G. Mcsserschmidt Juneau, No. 420 Illinois, Northwest Philip H. Ward P. O. Box 1945 Lawrence Building Sterling, No. 1218 Juneau, Alaska Sterling, 111. Arizona. North Alexander IV. Crane Phoenix, No. 335 Illinois, South P. O. Box 274 Walnut Street Murphysboro, No. 572 Phoenix, Ariz. Murphysboro, 111. Arizona, South Arthur Turner Miami, No. 1410 Illinois, Southeast H. C. Hardy Live Oaks Street and P. O. Box 4 Mattoon, No. 495 Kingston Avenue Mattoon, 111. Miami, Ariz. Illinois. Southwest Bryan Caffery Jerseyville, No. 954 Arkansas W. H. Laubach Little Rock, No. 29 104A South State The Democrat Printing and Lithographing Co. Illinois,r West Central^John Jerseyville,F. Strand111. Little Rock, Ark. 313 E. Broadway Monmouth, No. 397 California, Bay John R. Thornton Vallejo, No. 559 Alonniouth, 111. District 431 Georgia Street Indiana, North Harley H. Rudolph Vallejo, Calif. Long Beach Michigan City, No. 432 California, East J. Emmett McNamara Merced, No. 1240 T - Michigan City. Ind Central Court House, Indiana, North Central p^ed A. Wieckimr ' Merced, Calif. Room 219 State• House Bluffton, No. 796 California, West Louis N. Crawford Santa Maria, No. 1538 , ^ Indianapolis, Indiana Central 8 Gibson Drexler Building Indiana. Central //. d. Andrews Santa Maria, Calif. S. ?th Street Noblesville, No. 576 California, North William J. Qninn Stockton, No. 218 ^oblesvllle, Ind. 83 West Adams Street Indiana, South Central Harry E. McClain Stockton, Calif. 240 State House Shelbyville, No. 457 California, South A. George Fish San Diego, No. 168 Indianapolis, Ind. 350 Cedar Street Indiana, South. David R. Scott San Diego, Calif. Corner 9th and B Linton, No. 866 California, Ckntual Otto H. Duelke Inglewood, No. 1492 Streets 224 So. Commercial St. Linton, Indiana Inglewood, Calif. Iowa, Northeast F. Earle Handlcy Dubuque, No. 297 Canal Zone Grovcr F. Bokan Panama C.Z.,No. 1414 Jackson Blvd. Lodge Hall, Bnlboa iJubuque, Iowa C. Z. Iowa, Southeast S. A. Martin Centerville, No. 940 Colorado, Central Gcoroc L. Hamllik Central City, No. 557 Box 323 Elks'Hall, Main Street Centerville, Iowa Central City, Colo. Iowa, West John J. Barton Fort Dodge, No. 306 Colorado, North W. E. Daley Loveland, No. 1051 1018 First Ave., N. 134 E. Fourth Fort Dodge, Iowa Lovcland, Colo. Kansas, East James D. Kelsey Leavenworth, No. 661 Colorado, South IV. R. Crylie Salida, No. 808 Fourth and Seneca Streets 143 F Street Leavenworth, Kansas Salida, Colo. Kansas, West C. G. Brosiits Wichita, No. 427 Colorado, West Charles J. Sclmler Telltiride, No. 692 221-223 N Market Street V. O. Box 1710 Wichita, Kansas Kentucky, East Telluride, Colo. Charles B. Truesdell Newport, No. 273 Connecticut, East George H. Loc-wrnthal Middletown, No. 771 129 Woodside Place 83 Berlin Street Fort Thomas Sta. Middlctown, Conn. Newport, Kentucky Kentucky, West Connecticut, West Joseph A. Miildoon Bridgeport, No. 36 Arnold Wcstermann Louisville, No. 8 849 H.Tncock .-Xveiiue 411 Marion K. Taylor BIdg. Bridgeport, Conn. Louisville, Ky. Delaware, Maryland John P.. Lynch Washington. No. 15 Louisiana, North A. J. Manhein Shreveport, No. 122 and District of Room 116, 14J2 F Street Alilan and Edwards Sts. Columbia N. W. Shreveport, La. Washington, D. C. r.ouisiANA, South Sidney A. Freitdcnstcin New Orleans, No. 30 I'LORiDA, East Caspian Hale New .Smyrna. No. 1557 Room 330, Post Office 1'. 6. Box 6.i3 BIdg. New Smyrna, Fia New Orleans, La. Jacksonville. No. 22\ Florida, North M. Frank O'Brien Maine, EasT Albert G. Mcrritt C/O Elks Home , Elks Home. Main Street Houlton, No. 835 Jacksonville, Fla. Houlton, Maine Florida, West .U. Austin •Vrcadia, No. 1524 -Mai.ve. West Clarelire //. Thxno Biix 698 Sanford, No. 1470 -Arcadia, Fla. 9 .Shaw Street Sanford, .Maine Georgia, North /. lU-sh .Athens, Xo. "90 16.^ Clayton Strt-i-t MAS.SACIirSKTTS, Frpik /). Houlihan Franiinghani, No. 1264 Athens, (u-ornia ( E.NTIiAI. 485 Massachusetts .Ave Cambridge, .Mass. (iKOROIA, Soi-TH Gfiiyiic II''. rpihitrch Savannah, No, 183 1106 K. .53rd .Strci-t .Ma.ssaciii\si;tts, Jos. IV. Myers Medford, No. 915 .Savannah. Ga. XoKTllhAST 25 Emerson Street jNlediord. .M.iss. fit; AM Frrd H'-. Fall Agana, No. 1281 Klki Home .Massachusktts, Daniel J. Houan Winthrop, No. 1078 -Xtiana. (iiiani Southeast 23 Freeniont Street Hawaii f.il-.i'in H. Kii\-by Honolulu, No. 616 Winthrop, Mass. 1 1 J"' l'"oit Stri-ct Massaciu setts, West J. Bernard Boland Honolulu, H.iv.aii 100 Eagle Street North Adams, No. 487 Idaho, North Jav.i s II. X' tl St. Maries, No. 141s North .Ailams, Mass. M.iin .111(1 l'".li vciitii .'Streets MicHir.AN. Ckntral C. J. Howe Hillsdale, No. 1575 St. Mario, Idaho 60 W. .Manning Street Hillsdale, Micli. Idaho. Soi th Ihintri 11 mlrlscii Boise, No. 310 c/o V'cti-rans .Xdniin. Miciiigan, East Ward E. Fiilcher Pontiac, No. 810 Boise, Idaho 32 Dwight Avenue Pontiac, Mich. September, 1935
Michigan, North Frank O. Lopic Iron Mountain, No. Oklahoma, East Harry F. Hinish Tulsa, No. 946 c/o Nat'l. Bank 700 1111 S. Denver St. Iron Mountain, Mich. Tulsa, Okla. Michigan, West Albert J. Ott Traverse City, No. 323 Oklahoma, West C. R. Harter Hobart, No. 881 244 East Eleventh Street Hobart, Okla. Traverse City, Mich. Oregon, North Jesse V. Andrews LaGrande, No. 433 Minnesota, North C. A. Bardessono Hibbing, No. 1022 c/o The Toggery 212 Power Building LaGrande, Ore. Hibbing, Minn. Red Wing, No. 845 Oregon, South Jas. T. Chinnock Grants Pass, No. 1584 Minnesota, South Harris F. Anderson South Sixth Street Gladstone Bldg. Grants Pass, Ore. Red Wing, Minn. Pennsylvania, James A. Ellis Carnegie, No. 831 Mississippi, North Irving I. Kaufman Columbus, No. 555 P. O. Box 198 Southwest 653 Orchard Avenue Columbus, Miss. Bridgeville, Pa. Mississippi, South John J. Kennedy Biloxi, No. 606 . Pennsylvania, Larry D. Gent Franklin, No. 110 Treasui-y Dept. Northwest 1101 Chestnut St. New Orleans, La. Franklin, Pa. Missouri, East G. D. Bartram Hannibal, No. 1198 Pennsylvania, Central W. C. Kipp Apollo, No. 386 ISOO Booker Street Box 405 Hannibal, Missouri Harmersville, Pa. Missouri, West Don H. Silsby Springfield, No. 409 Pennsylvania, Edward. D. Smith Lewistown, 663 326 Landers Building South Central Smith Building Springfield, Mo. Lewistown, Penna. Montana, East /. H. Boltling AUles City, No. 537 Pennsylvania, George J. Farver Berwick, No. 1138 208 S. Jordan Ave. North Central 105 West Front Street Miles City, Montana Berwick, Pa. H. F. Root Montana, West Missoula, No. 383 Pennsylvania, Freeland, No. 1145 P. O. Box 18 "Hellgate" A. L. Mitke Bonner, Mont. Northeast 931 Birkbeck St. Freeland, Pa. Nebraska, East Fred C. Laird Fremont, No. 514 Court House Pennsylvania, John S. IVilliavis Bristol, No. 970 Fremont, Neb. Southeast 236 Cedar Street Bristol, Pa. Nebraska, West James L. Martin Scottsbluff, No. 1367 c/o Ideal Laundry Philippine Islands E. G. Hoffman Manila, No. 761 Scottsbluff, Neb. c/o Associated Oil Co. Manila, P. I. Nevada Puerto Rico Chester W. Siegmund San Juan, No. 972 San Juan, Puerto Rico New Hampshire Albert N. Morris Berlin, No. 618 Rhode Island Geoj^e A. Dolan Westerly, No. 678 196 Emery St. 42 E^ranklin St. Berlin, New Hampshire Westerly, R. 1. New Jersey, Central Clias. Roscncraus Long Branch, No. 742 South Carolina Georqe M. Thompson Charleston, No. 242 , Garfield Ave. Elks"Home, 54 Went- Long Branch, N. J. worth St. New Jersev, Northeast Nelson A. Fomfrct Paterson, No. 60 Charleston, S. C. 533 East 27th St. South Dakota Milton E. Dczvdell Mitchell, No. 1059 Paterson, N. J. 400 West Fifth St. . New Jersey, Northwest Harvey E. Harris Bloomfield, No. 788 Mitchell, S. D. 65 Washington St. Tennessee, East C. Vernon Hines Nashville, No. 72 Bloomfield, N. J. _ 407 Union Street New Jersey, South Howard F. Lewis Burlington, No. 996 Nashville, Tenn. 206 E. Union Street Tennessee, West Joe Freed Trenton, No. 1279 Burlington, New Jersey Thomas Bldg., High and New Mexico Arthur Carr Santa Fe, No. 460 Eaton Sts. Elks Home, 111 Lincoln Trenton, Tenn. Ave. Texas, North Matt M. Sinnett Pampa, No. 1573 Santa Fe, New Mexico Box No. 1148 New York, East John P. Doyle Mount Kisco, No. 1552 Pampa, Tex. Elks Home, 445 E. Main Texas, Northeast E. J. Ormsby Mexia, No. 1449 Street Box 1146 Mount Kisco, N. Y. Kilgore, Texas New York, East Robert S. Kelly Newburgh, No. 247 Texas, Southeast IV. W. Short 342 Third Street Houston, No. 151 Central 3108 Main Street Newburgh, N. Y. Houston, Texas New York, Northeast Francis G. Roddy Troy, No. 141 Texas, South E. A. Bergfeld 2168 Thirteenth Street Seguin, No. 1229 213 E. Court St. Troy, New York Seguin, Texas IVm. A. Wolff. Rome, No. 96 Texas, West New York, North T. J. 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Durham Greensboro, No. 602 Wenatchee, Wash. 116 N. Greene Street Frank L. Cooper Everett, No. 479 Greensboro, N. C. Washington, Northwest Colby Building North Dakota Xocl F. Tharalson Devils I.ake, No. 1216 Everett, Wash. Chamber of Commerce Aberdeen, No. 593 Devils Lake, N. D. Washington, M. B. Lxtlc SolTIIWEST 401 W. 3rd St. Ohio. North Central Harlow M. Stahl Bellevue. No. 1013 .Aberdeen, Wash. R. F. D. No. 1 Wkst Virginia, North Harry R. Cronin Fairmont. No. 294 Bellevuc, O. Jacobs Building Ohio, Northeast Ralph H. Stone Conneaut. No. 255 Fairmont, West Va. 338 Liberty Street Coiineaul, O. West Virginia, South H. B. Smith Blucficld. No. 269 2114 Fulton St. Ohio. Northwest Mt-lfin C. Liqht Lima. No. 54 Bhieficld, West Va. 1106 Old N.itional City Fund du Lac, No. 57 Bldg. Wi.';coNsiN. Northeast tV. I., .-iinsworth ]-inui, O. Box 365 Fond du I.ac, Wis. Ohio. Soith Central Robert IV. Dunkle Wausau, No. 248 604 Cherokee Road rhillicothe, No. 52 Wi.sc(iNSiN, Northwest IV. 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The shout that came from McGow's throat was a cry of victory. He wasn't alone. His men had come back. And they werefighting the blow 1J men. He knew they him, knew that every man in the tunnel would have been glad to drive a fist against his jaw. And he knew when the shift was over one them Within the fought six. Each had once been his friend. He had fought them ^ methodical thoroughness, just as he was driving them to their work '* in the tunnel. He had won each hght. But here beneath the river he was losing. Thirty men had turned against him, and he could not continue to drive a gang who t . refused to be driven. He was naked to the waist. A heavy growth of sweat drenched HB^%|9Hr hair covered his chest and arms. His hands
bossLuke McGowthe hogs.a And^headinghe was driving a crowding ^UjjjlS^ work upon a gang of sullen men. j^' There ^was the Swede—blond, ^ Crouched beside him at the ^ muck pile was Red Mullans— red haired and with a red stubble of beard upon his chin. He was thick chested and short. Twisting K^J|F -|^HL||a^H sinews knotted and lumped upon b» his arms. He fought the sand as though it were a man, ripping. slashing, throwing it from him. And when ho glanced at McGow he spat. "Thinks he's a man killer, eh?" he grunted. "I'll take it out of him when we get up top." "He break you damn neck." Takes said the Swede, and his shovel bit into the sand. 'That Luke McGow he go crazy I guess. Why „,,,„ he want to drive us this way? He usen t to be like that." Above, close under the curving roof of the thirty-foot tube, There were others who wondered as they stooped above a group of giant blacks stood grouped upon a wooden platform. the muck pile Men with wide backs and muscular arms. They were the men of the iron gang. And their arms rose and And the tiickering lights of the tunnel caught puzzled frowns fell in steady cadence, tightening segments that formed the upon their faces as they swung to their labor. They were big tunnel lining. Some were Jamaicans others ebony skinned men powerful men and ihey were proud of their might. They Senegalese—all were monstrous in size They worked silently hate'd this man who drove them. Hated him because they save for a few grunted words. But their eves drifted con suddenly coukl not undersUnd him. Mr. stantly to the man below them Here beneath the river they worked in a mad world. Forty For ten years Luke McGow had held the respect of his pounds of compressed air thrust against each square inch of men. He was known wherever tunnels were built as a good Lrface in ihe tube. It caused a mist like a hea\-y fog that boss a square man. He wanted no shirkers in his gang. He rolled in billows along the tunnel. Through it the noise of asked for a fair day's work. But he had been content when loots came as the mut^led clang of steel against steel. It lifted he received it. at times to reveal the mo\ing forms of half naked men Always there had been a word of praise for the huge bl;Kks shoveling sand into iron muck cars that clattered off into at the end of each shift. He had been known to stand with darkness. the muckers, swingmg a shovel in a wild race against two September, 193S
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men—with a week's pay bet upon the loading of a muck car. loading cars in the bottom, the iron gang above rested upon But all that was gone now. For two weeks he had made their wrenches. When he climbed the curving walls of the that tunnel a little section of hell. He drove the iron gang tunnel to curse the blacks, the miners in the forward section with curses that lashed. He raged at the miners. No matter of the tube laughed silently. And they shirked. The gang how much sand the muckers moved, it was never enough. had given McGow a fair day's work. But he was not content. From the first moment of the shift until the last it was drive, Now they would give him nothing. drive—drive until they staggered about like drunken men. From the dark reaches of the tunnel came the tread of Until there was fire in their chests and their breath came in heavy boots. The Swede looked up from his work, passed sobbing gasps. the back of a hand across his dripping forehead, and grunted. Once there had been laughter and good natured joking in "By Gar—I'm glad this shift be over," He swung toward the heading- The Negroes had chanted snatches of song as McGow. "Hi. Luke " Ihev whipped the heavy wrenches up and down. The miners '"Wait," said Mullans. "Let me tell him." had" found time for a bawdy jest or a rough prank. And He stepped from beside the muck pile and stared at the McGow's laugh had been louder than any. heading boss. That was over. Now McGow drove them like slaves. And ''Here's the new gang—Driver," he called. the men were fighting back. While he watched the muckers The shovels stopped. The wrenches stopped. There was a The Elks Magazine silence in the tunnel made more intense by the dull thun-ier head. His right fist pounded the heading boss's face. It lifted of air belching from the feed line. Each man stood quietly and fell, bruising, cutting, hammering. McGow fought silently; and looked at McGow. And the relieving gang who had His great arms thrust the mucker from him. He scrambled come in to take over the work in the tube, halted in the to his knees and gripped the mucker by the hair. His right bottom, staring. fist traveled in a short arc and landed fairly between Mullans's Driver McGow. He had a new name that would mark him eyes. He stood erect. And looked for a brief moment at the wherever sand hogs worked. Driver—the name was a curse. man beneath him. Man killer. Slave driver. It meant more than either. It told "Pick him up," he said to the others. And he left the lock. of a man who was not satisfied with the best his gang had Blue prints and scale maps lined the walls of the superin to offer. tendent's office. The air was heavy with tobacco smoke. A "He break you neck, like I tell you," warned the Swede. battered flat top desk stood beneath the single window. Be "Maybe," said Red Mullans. "We'll see." hind it sat the superintendent, and seated upon one corner Driver McGow said nothing as he led his men along the of the desk was Harry Gribling, master mechanic. completed section of the tunnel. And the forty minutes spent He was tall, thin and with the look of a man who has spent in the decompression chamber were forty minutes of silence. his life working upon machinery. His eyes were blue, a Seated on long wooden metallic blue. His jaws were benches against the sides of square and seemed to click the lock, the men stared when they moved. His the or fum- was long His were bloodless to clean drawn to a from the "McGow One minute of decompres- "He made a for each pound of pres- for the week sure used in the tunnel he's been falling back every the hard and fast rule. Dur- PJHH day. Look here"—he crossed ing this time the compressed 't )BHH|^BnH[9[ ^ large map upon which air seeped from the tired B| 'i the progress of the tunnel bodies of the sand hogs. And H? ' ^ was marked at the conclusion during this time they settled j V ^ 4 of each shift—"twenty-five their differences. Locked in I ^eet of tunnel was the aver- this iron cylinder by tons of ^ y age day's work two weeks pressure they were in a j when I tried world of their own. What- 3^^B to get you to put in the ma- ever happened was a secret chines. For the past week of the tunnel. McGow's ^^^^^^^BI^BiBSiBB we've been getting less than gang looked at the floor and ShSB twenty. I tell you McGow's licked." Twenty minutes had t ^^^LS||pB "I'm afraid you're right, passed. Twenty minutes of \ Harry," said the superinten- silence. Red Mullans rubbed dent, and there was reluc- the knuckles of his left fist tance in his answer. against a dirty trouser leg. Rand Talbot was facing a He blew upon the palm of . decision that had to be made. his right. He glanced at the • He had put it off for months. man he had named Driver. superintendent it was And McGow's lips were tight ' .f definitely a part of his job to against his teeth. fij^KKsBpBI^^P^^^B save money for the company. Air whispered through the Gribling's figures proved exhaust The finger B^rZBBI^^^^^^pi|||5a conclusively that machinery of the recording gauge moved could take the place of half slowly around to The FB^^BRBB^B^r BB.C^B men in the tunnel—even more than half. It would be outer door groaned with the cheaper and more efficient. release of pressure. MfB^^U^ Sweat and muscle would give "You're out," said the lock-tender. moving wheels and pistons. Red Mullans laughed. Bj^W Steel would replace flesh and "Yellow," he said, and F^Bsm ^ would started toward the door. go. Belt conveyors and bolt Driver McGow threw him- tightening machines would be self the length of the lock. ^5-" B^^BBB set up in their place. He gripped Mullans by the •"•""''1||E%'-Talbnt had spent forty shoulder and spun him •Iv years of his life drivmg tun- around. "You've asked for .'jt.'i ^BP*^ nels beneath the of the world. He remembered the Red." he said.^ And^iis^ fist ' I''//, r time when a courageous group l^^B of laborers had first tested ^ The mucker's knees Jjfci buckled. His head drooped forward. He pawed blindly """f 'tr/tack the river with his hands until they ^^BBlflb^ whUe they built a tunnel hooked onto Driver's shoul- •>. t • i deep (Co/ilinued on page 3/} ders. He cursed. .-\nd B' ^ - •; butted his head against Mc- Cow's chin. Thev were floor of the lock. The gang ond take drew hack to give them room,
Driver's September, 193^ Finding the WUy to the Knockout
by Joel P. Glass
Above; Joe Louis triumphs over Carnera. The poiverful Italian, itihose doiunfall in this fiffht •was brought about by Louis's constant punches to the head, is on the left. He ts able to stand, but he received plenty of pun ishment. Center: An action shot of the fight nhich made James J. Braddock the present heanyu'eight champion. Baer is on the right. Below: A dramatic moment during the fa mous Dempsey-Tunney fight in Chicago in 1927. The referee is starting the much-talked- of 14 count here I he scene is Madison Square Garden- not the present, but the old one. The time a night in 1928. The occasion is a battle- in the squared circle. This is not a highly important fight. JNo championship is at stake. Yet the followers of boxing are deeply interested. They are pres ent in large numbers to judge the ability _ot a husky young stranger from Chicago engagmgly named Tuffy Griffiths. Tuffy never has displayed his wares to a New York audience. He has won, however, fifty-five straight battles in the West, mostly by stretch ing his opponents flat on the canvas, unable to rise. The fans love knockouts. They love fighters who know the solution to the difficult puzzle of finding the way to the knockout spot. This first Eastern engagement in the historic Garden, goal of every ambitious boxer, may place Tuffy on the road to a championship, glory and the big money. The promoters haven't given him a set-up. Neither have they sought to make things too hard for him. Opposite him is one James J. Braddock. Jim is a fine young fellow, clear- eyed. rosy-cheeked. He has been fighting a litUe more than two years. He has a pile-driv ing right fist. It has brought him a siring of one, two and three-round knockouts. It must be admitted, though, that his victims have been far from world-beaters. The Garden The Elks Magazine
At right: A tense moment during the Dempsey-Sharkey fight, that Jack Demp- sey had planned for months in advance, and luhich he had to m Photos for this article by Acme, Inlcrna- lional, Keystone, and L'lirffwoorf 6- Un- denoood crowd looks on him as a trial horse for sense. Jim Braddock. From now Tuffy Griffiths, who is backed at 6 to 1 on he met men of bigger calibre— in the betting. Jim doesn't realize that men like Joe Sekyra. Leo Lomski. this night he is beginning a career of Tommy Loughran and Maxie underdogging that will lead him to a Rosenbloom. He shared in fatter world's championship. purses. But there was something Braddock is a stand-up fighter. No wrong. He lost too many bouts. crouching and weaving for him. He is His rivals could not knock him always in position to hit. You will see out; but neither could he knock that as the fight goes on this is impor them out. And the decisions went tant. But let him tell it as he told it against him. to me: After the Griffiths fight the fans "I had made no particular plans that had wondered if Braddock was not would lead up to a knockout of Grif a champion in the making. Pres fiths," said Jim. "I didn't know much ently they wondered no more. about him except that he kept boring in. Time was to prove them wrong, So, when the bell rang for the first but meanwhile Jim's services be round, I just went in to box him and came less and less in demand. feel him out. Days of poverty descended. Who "He kept coming in, shooting \vide could foresee the comeback from obscur On the technical side it is easy to an left hooks at me. I thought, 'If I can ity that was to make him the conqueror swer these questions. catch him with a righL as he steps in of Champion Max Baer? u Braddock, Baer is a right- with that left hook I may put this guy I talked with Jim at his training camp handed^ hitter. He denies that his right down.' Nobody did any damage in this just before this meeting, so momentous wild, as so many people think. round- Griffiths was feeling his way, to him. He told me then he never laid 1 m always aiming it at something." he too. When the second round began I down plans for leading up to a knock assijred me about the time he met Brad- waited to see what he would do. Sure out until he got into the ring. "I watch iJ" course Braddock was too enough he kept coming in. Pretty soon for an opening," he said, "using my left old a hand not to perceive when Max he opened up with another of those hand to maneuver the other fellow into was going to unlimber that right. He hooks. position. When I get the chance I could block it, if he wished; but there "I was all set for it. Quick as a flash throw the right hand at him. I deliver was a much easier way to avoid it. This I stepped inside and poked my right to my knockout punches with my right." was to bend back and let Max's fist However satisfactory the outcome of whistle harmlessly past his face. From his jaw. The blow traveled only six this position, Jim was able to send in a inches. But down he went for the ten the Braddock-Bacr fight may have been, the public was not at ail happy over its solid return. He upset the champion's count. He was as game as they come. timing. He didn't realize how badly he was jicrformance. Almost all who saw it On the other hand, Jim's left found hurt. The old instinct to keep going either at the Madison Square Garden was still in him and he tried to rise by Bow! or in the movies—have asked Baer's jaw and face pretty continually. crawling up the referee's legs." either, "Why didn't Baer knock out There wasn't much kick in it, but it kept If this fight ruined Tuffy Griffiths as Braddock?" or "Why didn't Braddock Max away from him and also spoiled a championship prospect, it made, in a knock out Baer?" his balancc and timing. Hitting Max September, 1935 Top af right: Lee Ramage succumbs io the battering of Louis's powerful punches. Louis took more than his share of pun ishment from Ramage, considered by many one of the most scientific fighters. The negro held on, hovjever, and luon. Below at left: Jimmy McLarnin in the sensa tional match 'With Young Corbett, in fwhich McLarnin knocked out Corbett in the first round._Below at right: The Baer-Carnera fight, in which Baer used to advantage pointers he had picked up when boxing with the Italian in the movies with it frequently and occasionally scoring with his right, he would have been foolish to have opened up too much in an effort to knock out the champion. It might have cost him victory. Nowadays you don't have to knock out a cham- ])ion to take his title away. Jim felt reasonably sure he was out-boxing Baer and that he would get the decision. There were, however, other reasons why the fight was a disappointment. A partial explana tion lies in that statement of Braddock's that he does not plan a fight in advance. A further ex planation is contained in a similar attitude on the part of Baer. Jim and Max are what may be called ring opportunists—and neither of them a first-rate one, either, when it comes to that. There are two classes of boxers. There are those who let the circumstances of the battle decide their movements. They look for their opponent's vulner- able side and then seek to penetrate it Neither Braddock nor Baer possesses svith a knockout blow—or the equivalent the qualities of a Dempsey, though Max punch that will make them master of the comes nearer to doing so than Jim. The situation—as the fighting progresses. surprising circumstance is that Baer Then there are those who give to every should have remained an opportunist man they meet a vast amount of pre- after the victory over Primo Camera liminary study and who plan their fights that made him champion. It was a bit long before entering the ring. On the BPr of information about Primo which he whole the planners are better fighters •|||| personally gathered long before they than the opportunists, though the latter were matched that started him on the often rise to great heights. Jack Demp- road to victory. With this information sey was an opportunist developed to the in his possession he was able to hatch Nth degree. But he was a tiger in the a plan. The plan was the big Italian's ring. His keen eyes detected an open- Wjf , undoing. ing for one of his vicious thrusts almost M "I learned how to beat Camera while before it appeared. • His mind tele- V we were both in Hollywood for-the film graphed the news to his elastic muscles ing of the {^Contimied on page 34) with amazing speed, and they responded with uncanny accuracy and power. Hb Either a knockout followed, or the way At leftr Joe fVelling and Benny for one was prepared. ' Leonard pose before their fight back in mo I Above VI circle is Patti Chopin, one of the Columbia System's featured singers, who is heard at various times during the week. Lovely to look at, delightful to know. .•. One might think the leap front acting dear, old, psalm-singing Seth Parker to play ing a G-Man would be a long one, but Phillips Lord (upper right), with his cus tomary agility, seems to have made it with ease. ]^ow you can hear him making believe he is a G-Man along with all the movie stars except Shirley Temple. Actual crime cases are taken from the files of the Depart ment of Justice, turned into radio scripts sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Company, and then J. Edgar Hoover, the super-G- Man, approves the whole thing. But don t U'lUiixltT think this lets Seth Parker out, no siree bob! He plugs right along just the same. #• At right is an action shot of Ray iKoble. the British orchestra leader, rehearsing his band. Alongside him is Al Bowlly, his fea tured singer. ]\obles soft, sophisticated arrangements and insidious rhytlnns hai'e mode his hand one of the most popular in the East. (Inset), being poked in the ribs, is a cari cature of Charley (4'inninger by Xavier Cugat, the Cuban rhumba gentleman. Pf'in- ninger is now on an BC-l'f EAl' program, called the Ivory Tent Show. Sunday eve- nin 'IS. At bottom is decorative Marjorie Logan, a society girl luho has been singing about in Nezv York's smart clubs and w'ise broadcast ing stations. She croons torch songs best of .y" anything, and looks like Tallulah Bankhead. September, 1935 After I played her some by George Beck of my songs, she prom ised she would do some- thing for me. She has lots of drag with the music publishers who are all the time trying to get her to sing their songs m Illustrated by TTn^n Earl Oliver Hurst [leyey^them The Riverdale Sentinel, Sept. 12 Mr. Bender a substantial salary increase in a last-minute effort to keep him in Riverdale. FRED BENDER LEAVES FOR NEW YORK THE SENTINEL joins its best wishes to those of all River dale. We are sorry to see him go; but know he will bring much Local Musician to Further Composing Career credit to his home town. Good luck, Freddy; and good songs. Fred Bender, popular young maestro of the Riverdale Melo dists, left yesterday on the 3:12 for New York City, where the one-time super-salesman of Kedrick's Furniture Store will Dear Diary: September 13 take up his residence while in pursuit of that elusive lady, Well, here we are in New York City. It is a tuemendous. a Fame. vast metropolis, after Riverdale. I had no idea any place Included in the crowd of well-wishers seeing him off were the could be half so wonderful and am afraid I will wake up to composer's mother, father and sister; most of the members of find it all a dream. And here in our little room in Tin Pan the Riverdale Social Club; and James Kedrick, proprietor of Alley, where all the famous composers got their start, I will Riverdale's leading furniture salon, who offered the departing begin' creating the melodies all the world will soon be singing. The Elks Magazine advantage of you in money matters. Especially if they see POST CARD you are not a New Yorker. Dear Sally: Sept. 14 Please get some sense and come home to New York is a vast metropolis. I Your loving Sally. am sorry you were not at the train to I baked you a cake I am sending. Also the song you see me off. You missed my speech and wrote called Milady Love that you dedicated to me is very cute. I missed you. This is a picture of Miss Sally Foster Sammy Swain played it for me and says it is a cute song but Times Square, the crossroads of the 21 Elm Lane the words aren't very good. He thinks Milady Love is a bad world. I just moved in this block. Riverdale, Vermont See arrow. Write me at 151 West 47th title, as nobody knows what it. means. Sam is a cute Street. Will write more soon. Love. boy. I wish you- had as much ambition as him and would Fred apply yourself more diligently to common-sense things like furniture and not music. POST CARD Hi Butch! Sept. 14 Mr. William Drake jsi West 47th Street Please send me a copy of the Sen tinel with the write-up about me and Ike Sentinel York City my speech I made. This is some town. Mr. William Drake Riverdale, Vermont V/j/ Watch me. make it sit up and beg. I'm The Sentinel Hi-di-ho Butch!. at 151 West 47th Street, in the heart Riverdale, Vermont Boyoboy. did I meet a woman! Her name is Florence Hilton of Tin Pan Alley. Write me there and and she smgs over the radio on a small station where I went best to the gang. t^o look lor a piano-playing job to keep me in groceries till I Fred hit the big-paying composing money. I've been going the rounds of the music publishers without any luck at all so far. POST CARD They all like my stuff swell only they won't take any songs from me because I am still an unknown outsider. How do Dearest Mom: Sept. 14 Arrived safe and already miss you they ever expect a fellow to become an insider unless they and Dad and Sis. I'm at 151 West 47th give me a chance to get in? You answer that for me. They Street. New York sure is a marvelous Mrs. Amelia Bender don t answer questions here. But wait, I'll show them. place except that the food isn't like 18 Elm Lane About Miss Hilton. She sure is something to look at bv the yours by a long sight. Will write loads Riverdale, Vermont hour and get all breathless over. I met her when some fresh soon and watch the money come roll guy tried to squeeze into a phone booth with her at the broad- ing in. Love. Fred Sfnl"y w-u ^^esh and I didn't MfMiss MfHilton was very grateful. She ^let me takehimherdownto dinand Mr. Fred Bender 21 Elm Lane, Riverdale, ner and right awy we were the best of friends. I told her all 151 West 47th Street Vermont, Sept. 18 about mysell and how tough it is for a fellow with a lot of New York City talent like me to get it recognized in this Dear Fred: town. I am sorry we had to fight be After I played her some of my songs, fore you went away, and I'm sorry I wasn't at the train to see \ promised she would do something for you off. But you know how I with the music felt about your leaving. I still i \jf publishers, who are all the time trying to can't see it and hope you will come \^C\ songs on the air so to your senses soon before it is T7 become popular. She said when V '^\ ^ slapped this guy down that I showed her too late and that you will come \ 1 a new and novel way of getting rid of home right away. Like I always \ \ song pluggers. said, I see no reason why you \\ Thanks for the letter and it's about can't wriie your silly songs in your spare time right here. I told you the night before you left that I will not stand for any more of your foolishness and I meant it. Tomorrow, your mother and I and your sister Elsie are going to look at the Swain cottage on the state road again. The one they built for their daughter who ran away with that Boston man. Mr. Swain said he would sell it cheap, all furnished like it stands. He i will make a special price because / it is for you and me. Remember / how much we fell in love with it / the last time we saw it? I think I j it's just loveiy, just right for us ^ to settle down in. I hope you ^ will get over that crazy idea of yours and settle down in earnest to try to make something of your- s'ilf and become manager of Ked- rick's some day. I saw Mr. Ked- rick yesterday and he said he would be glad to give you back your job any time because you bring him business. What progress have you made so far? Have they paid a lot of money for your songs? Be very careful of those New Yorkers. They're very sharp and will take September, 1935 time you sent the Sentinel write-up. It sure was lousy, that money on her. Especially as you have a girl like Sally waiting write-up. Why didn't you include the speech I made at the for you. station like I thought you promised? You wait and as soon Did you get the jelly roll and pie all right? as Miss Hilton gets me my big chance, I'll be sending you a Love, lot of real write-ups and interviews the New York papers will Mother all be printing about me. It won't take long, because all it takes is a couple of big hits and I can sure write them. TINKLE TVNES PUBLISHING CO. Watch the newspapers for stuff about me. I'll be sitting 1580 Broadway on top of the world with Gershwin and Berlin and Johnny New York City Green soon. But don't worry. I'm not the sort who will high- Miss Florence Hilton hat my friends. 354 West 12th Street Best, New York City Oct. 5 Fred Dear Flo: All right, I give up. Send this wonder-boy of yours along Mr. Fred Bender 28 Elm Lane and I'll listen. 151 West 47th Street Riverdale, Vt. I don't suppose you know it, but Tinkle and every other New York City October 4 publisher in town are so tied up with composers we can't move Dear Son: without stepping on a gross of them. If, as George Gershwin I take my pen in hand to write you that we are all well here so aptly put it, all song writers were laid end to end, it would at home and miss you very much. I am glad to hear you be a good idea. are working hard. Courage, my boy, and clean living will Why don't you tell him to get a job or something? Pub bring you success. lishers are taking only from writers on their lists. It's the only •I am sorry the food is so bad in New York. You must be way we can hope to get some very careful of your stomach and don't eat sweets or fried part of the money back that things. I am sending you a case of apples, the winesaps you ^ . we'vebeenputting out to them like so much, and I am baking a lot more goodies for you and every week in what is jokingly here is ten dollars. I am sorry but that is all the money I called advance royalty. A new- have in the house and Father says you can't get any more 'fev *lia comer doesn't stand a chance. from him. You know how hard times are. V {Continued on page 40) What is this you write about a girl, Florence Hilton? While she appears to be a very nice sort of person from your letters I must advise you not to get too friendly with any New York girls. Father says if you spent more time working and trying to find a steady job to keep you, and less time gallivanting, you wouldn't need so much money. I realize living is high in New York, but you had over fifty dollars when you left here and fifty dollars is a lot of money. It is different than you said it would be. I mean, you said you would soon be sending home money and here I am sending it to you. I am sure you aren't being reckless and spending your money foolishly. Like on girls. If Miss Hilton is the sort you say she is, I know she wouldn't let you spend your (^•Am He tried to pt fresh and I didn't think Miss tiilton itked the idea so I slapped him down Above, left: Sorns Dam hy night. One of the mighty structures that ivilt control the fiov: of iveitcr in the Tennessee I'alley by Talcott Powell nr\ I HE man was pomted out to me as a killer. He didn't American people. Those at its head believe • X look it. His ruddy face had the tart cheeriness of a can be approached only through an cnlighteneH , winter crab-apple. Though he looked sixtvish. his ruiiged capitalism. In fact, capitalism is the only "k hands were competent at the plunging handles of the pneu hear*^ anvthing about in the Tennes.see Vallev matic rock drill with which he was moving a bit of mountain -\Ve d'on-t need any of those foreign ideas r> down into the Clinch River Valley to make TVA's Norris and Fascism," said a steel worker to me on n Communism Dam. I asked this man. who had been known for years as TVA "Us Americans can solve our own A to the nemesis of all the "scabs"' in the soft coal mines of the own way." , ^ Problems in our .Appalachian Plateau, if he found his work as interesting as But the stand-pat type of Conservative wit}, .u his former career of mountain feudist. concrete brain pan finds no sanctuary for hi/ • reinforced •'I never want to ?ee a coal mine again." he grinned. "They The workers laugh at the "status quo" as a TVA. treat you right down here. It's no use to try to do right up are too busy dealing with the great and comn ir there in the mining region, because whether' you do or not. ever-changing nature to believe for one instnnf ^ forces of if they have anything agin you, they hang something on you." be held at a given point in suspended animn ; Back in the fall of I93.S. only a few months after Congress Neither does the fuiminatmg Radical find had authorized the Tennessee Valley Authority, three mining for soap-box forensics among the TVA pcnnt' Opportunities towns on the lip of the \ alley were torn with a desperate is preaching a fallacy when he talks of th^ a social struggle. Mine tipples had been burned: a railroad tariat. There can be no proletariat, one : P''ol^' trestle was dynamited and only the presence of the National nation is made up of people who want to ''' Guard prevented serious bloodshed. The bitterness increased homes, their own businesses and drive their as the striking miners watched their families starving. TVA What is really going on m the Tennessee was not primarily interested in the issue of the strike, but it laboratory experiment by which it is hoped tl . • ^ was interested in the festering .social sore which industrial will be found for bnngmg the forces of » some means strife had made of this mountain community. It alleviated sources info companionship with the desires 'ts re- the distress by the simple expedient of hiring one hundred who have been bound—temporarily, TVA hon being? of the strikers and putting them to work at 45 cents an of an industrial civilization. —to the wheel hour. Wages in TVA run from this figure for unskilled to What are the materials that are going into fi,- $1.10 for skilled labor. Disorder ceased when money began tube? First, there are the inanimate th' to flow back into the town. The feudist with the pneumatic square miles that make up the Tennessee Vn?P" 40.000 drill was one of these men. of from 40 to 50 inches a year; the 40 essent ?' rainf;''' This act typifies the underlying principles of TV.A. Ifs four lie in the mountains to the northeast: the" minerals fbat million dollar a month budget, its gigantic dams, it? Her all the way from that of the Great Lakec culean struggle to control a whole river and its tributaries, the lush loam of Middle Tennessee; the c semi-fropic";il. ;)r<' all aimed at bringing an economy of abundance to the the South where cotton and corn have 'iterallylitr".- minedlandsthe soil to Jl >• ^^1 m povjer for the rejuvenated region. Right ^Center: A versity of Virginia, the County Agent, and the T.V.A. of its vital elements. But it is the human material that counts most in the experiment. The Tennessee River tlows through portions of seven states. In the Valley proper live 2,000,000 people. Of these 2,000.000, nearly 1,000,000 have cash incomes of $100 a year or less, according to TVA surveys. These 1,000.000, who live little better than Chinese coolies, are victims of the sick bituminous coal industry in the mountains—an industry which, to make money, must sell 700,000,000 tons a year and which is now selling less than 500,000,000 tons. They are also the pawns of a cotton economy in the South where, if the price of this commodity falls below 12c, everybody from land-owner to share-cropper loses money. The answer, says TVA, lies in finding new uses for coal as a raw material. This can be done only by furnishing cheap electricity to set up an electro-chemical industry for the manufacture of dyes, drugs and a host of other articles from bituminous coal. Southern agri m culture must abandon its obsession about cotton and turn those tired lands back to pasture and other crops. If the South will not do this, America must face the fact that its Southerners who work the land will, per force, live on wages equal to the pittances paid in the new cotton fields of South America, Africa, Russia and French Indo-China. TVA says that even though Americans were willing to exist m the manner of the forced workers of the Soviets or of the Orientals of Indo-China, it would not be advisable to have such a group of people living in the United States. Here, then, are the physical and human materials Above. A badly eroded hillside before the C.C.C. mork began. which are gomg mto the great test tube. When areas are deforested and luater uncontrolled, this is tahat The technicians who are in (Continued on page 51) farmers can expect. Naturally, such land is totally unproductive. The Elks Magazine EDITORIAL THE COLUMBUS CONVENTION • ^iHERE are many factors which combined to make the Convention held at Columbus in July an outstanding one. The large registra- tion of Grand Lodge members, the largest in attendance for a number of years; the splendidly attended and admirably conducted public meeting which preceded the business session of the Grand Lodge; the sustained interest of the delegates and members in those sessions- the colorful parade, impressive both in character and number of participatin'* units- the elaborate decorations along the principal streets of the City; and the large number of Elk visitors—all these contributed to make the Convention a great fraternal event. But another very important feature which added materially to its success as well as to its pleasures, was the spirit of appreciative welcome which was manifest on every hand, and which was repeatedly expressed in the editorial columns of the local press. The following, from the Columbus Dispatch, is typical of such editorial comments: "The B. P, O. E., more commonly known as the Elks, is one of the out^tnnHinfr fraternal groups of modern times. ... They are Rood, solid, averapc 'Vmprirnnc with whom you and I like to play golf, do business, eat lunch and visit'at home In such an atmosphere the Convention, with its own inherent elements of earnestness, enthusiasm and harmony, was assured of success. With all its interesting incidents it will be recalled among the best ever held by the Order. ANOTHER OBJECTIVE ATTAINED yllT is gratifying to note from the annual report of Grand Exalted SjjK Ruler Shannon, presented to the Grand Lodge at Columbus that I the Order's campaign, under his direction, against un-American activities, had quite satisfactorily achieved its purpose. Evidences collected from all sections of the country give proof that the people Gener ally had been aroused to a definite and watchful interest in the subiect Numerous curative and protective acts by legislative bodies and institu tional authorities are directly traceable to the Order's activities during the year. The menace arising from the subversive purposes of the enemie«; nf our form of government has not been entirely removed, of course. It still exists and must be constantly guarded against. But the danger is redurpri tn a minimum so long as true Americans remain watchful and alert to nnt#^ it= manifestations, and to oppose its purposes with promptness and aseressive vigor. Under Grand Exalted Ruler Shannon's splendid leadershin orHpr has performed another outstanding patriotic service to our Country FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY LODGES DID question of membership is always an important one for anV \/I< organization. While numbers alone do not mean succes<; „ tpn 1^1 progress, itu is true that theythev are indicative ofnfactivity'- . ^ They'^do mean an enlarged capacity, they do provide more availai i funds with which to prosecute objectives. Increased membership ^ desirable, and every reasonable effort should be made to secure if ' In the Grand Exalted Rulers report to the Grand Lodge at Columbus attention was called to a very significant fact bearing on this subject While the Order as a whole sustained a loss in membership during the past year, September, 193S yet approximately four hundred and fifty of the subordinate Lodges reported gains. About one-third of the total number of Lodges, located in every section of the United States, increased the numbers on their respective rolls. It is perfectly apparent from this fact that the aggregate loss to the Order cannot be ascribed solely nor primarily to industrial conditions; else there would have been no gain in any of the Lodges, for all have been facing the same general conditions. The trouble lies in the lack of leadership and inspired enthusiasm and determination in too many of the Lodges. Four hundred and lifty Lodges have shown what can be done when a real purpose has been courageously pursued. It is but to repeat a truism to say that the Order of Elks is founded upon principles which appeal to good men. It is performing services which all such men must acclaim and in which they would like to share. The oppor tunity for such participation needs only to be presented in an appropriate way to win thousands to our ranks. Every Elk ought to be sufficiently enthusiastic about his membership, its privileges, advantages and pleasures, to wish to share them with others who are worthy, and to be willing to seek such others as fraternal associates. Most Elks would make this effort if they were inspired and enthused by their Lodge leaders. That is the only way to solve this particular problem. Four hundred and fifty Lodges did it last year. Fourteen hundred Lodges can do it and should do it, this current year. ' HITCH HIKING custom of hitch hiking, of soliciting free transportation in auto- mobiles traveling in the desired direction, is one peculiar to this II country. It was born in part of the generous disposition of auto drivers and in part of the readiness of foot travelers to impose upon that disposition, eventually to take it for granted almost as a matter of right. The habit of hikers along the highways to solicit rides soon became nuisance to autoists. One could go but a short distance on any main artery of travel before some pedestrian on the side of the road would give the well known thumb signal as a request for a lift. It would have been bad enough if the nuisance feature had been its onlv objection. But the criminal element soon discovered in the nrarfivt inviting opportunities for victimizing the unwary. It became a favorite trirk of such people to assume the appearance of physical disability thus nre senting a peculiar appeal to the sympathy of drivers. Theft, robbery assLlt and even murder, have become all too frequent incidents of the kindlv aS. of autoists mtaking such strangers into their cars. To the nuisance feature was thus added the real menace to safety and to life itself. In a number of states the unfortunate, and often tragic experience'^ nf trustmg autcsts have led to the enactment of laws making it a crim na offense to sohcU free ndes from strangers, and in some states it ifa :lTnt.?^wtse'"The';faithfully observed by driverssCd"L%refand rigidly en'Lre7by''l'ciak ^ person wiS^^m^M^ rarna^^S felT™™"^ ^ who is painfully plodding afoot along the same highway ''suf for^onrt thumbedrnrs^rs^again^Trl'mSj::solicitations of strangers.tt: ~"sh'' tk "gnoring the involvedThe Americanin the practice, Automobilehas issuerrw„lrr>As«;nriat;f^« ••• to discourage hitch hiking in everv nnc "i i members, urgmg them protection but as a service to Th™ That warning is worthv of thp • i • generally. It is commended to every reader of 'KrCorzL"'"™'''' " The Elks Magazine The impressive reception which welcomed the Good Will Tour Ambassadors before the State House at Denver, Colo., included among the many prominent Elks present. Governor Edward C. Johnson Under the Spreading Antlers News of Subordinate Lodges Throughout the Order New Lodge Instituted at is inscribed with gold leaf letters the re Parks. She later graduated from Ursuline cipient's name, his Lodge affiliation and the College in Dallas, and Incarnate Word Col Panama City, Fla. fact that he is one of the 25-year honor lege in San Antonio. The mastering of three In the presence of more than 350 Elks members. from all over the State, Panama City, Fla., Arnold Huppert, Sccy. languages is^ listed among her accomplish Lodge, No. 1598, was instituted by D.D. ments, Besides being a fine violinist, the young lady is equally proficient at the piano M. E. Welborn of Ocala on July 8. Prior Arizona State Elks Association to the meeting, a parade, led by the band ancl pjpe organ. She has given many piano from Marianna Lodge, No. 1516, formed at Distributes Hospital Booklets recitals in Dallas and in other cities in the the Dixie-Sherman Hotel and marched At the Grand Lodge Convention held in State, and her name has appeared on many Columbus, 0., in July, the Arizona State raclio programs. through the business section of Panama Elks Assn. distributed approximately 1,500 City to the St. Andrews Yacht Club build booklets describing the Arizona State Elks T\/T the name bestowed upon ing where the event was held. iirs. i'arks when, as an infant, she became Tubercular Hospital in Tucson. The book the ward of Dallas Lodge. Several years Headed by C. C. Gordon as E.R,, the lets are complete with a number of pictures ago she expressed a great admiration for Ritualistic Team of Tallahassee Lodge, No. of the institution, together with an explana the name Alloah" and desiring, as usual, 937, winner, for the third consecutive year, tion of the operation of the hospital, charges to please the young girl who had so long of the State Ritualistic Contest at the 1935 to patients, their care and other information Convention of the Fla. State Elks Assn., of value to persons unacquainted with the " ,.u e Lodge had ihehearts additionalof all Dallas name took charge of the initiation into the new project. confirmed in Court. As Alloah Dallas Elk, Lodge of a class of 61 candidates. The The -A.s5ociation announces that any one principal speakers of the evening were Grand wishing to sccure a copy of the booklet may at the close Trustee David Sholtz, Governor of Florida; obtain one by writing to Frank .\. Michel, liimbus -National Convention in Co- D.D. Caspian Hale, immediate Past Pres. of Sccy. of the .Ariz. State Elks Assn,, Box 2150^ the State Assn.; M. E. Welborn, at that Tucson, Ariz. introduced to the time D.D. for Fia. North, and P.D.D. Sol t.rand Lodge at the Convention to which Friedman o£ Quincy. The Florida Lodges DallL T by several members of represented were Lake City, Tallahassee, Dallas. Tex., Lodge, Announces ^vives. Before leav- Pensacola, Jacksonville, Quincy, Marianna, Marriage of Allooh Dallas Elk T ^vas given for her De Land, New Smyrna, Fort Lauderdale The officers and members of Dallas, Tex., Elks and and Ocala. Lodge, No. 71. announce the marriage of Nearly 1,000 sandwiches were served dur their young protege, Miss Alloah Dallas ing the festivities at the Yacht Club and an Elk, to William Parks of Chicago, III. The informal spirit of friendliness prevailed. The ceremony took place in Chicago on July 19 officers and members have gone to work in at St, Ita's Catholic Church, where Mr. is earnest to make their Lodge one of the best, Parks has officiated as organist for the past- and a successful future is predicted. J. G. seven years. The young man is a protege his genuine talent in music found guidance. Mathis is the Exalted Ruler, and Casper E. of Monsignor C, J. Quille. pastor of the Harris is the Secretary. Church, Both Mr. and Mrs. Parks have Work Pro^^sses in Cincinnati M. E. Welborn, P.D.D. been blind from birth. Lodge for Elks Nat'l Bowling Mrs. Parks was adopted by Dallas Lodge 1 ournament Livingston, Mont., Lodge when she was but a few weeks old. For 26 years the Lodge has given her the best Cincinnati, 0,, Lodge, No 5 is alreadv Honors Veteran Members of care and has spent many thousands of Livingston, Mont., Lodge, No. 246, held dollars on her education. She attended the a meeting recently that was a celebration School for the Blind in Austin, Tex., where dnnSf njj held in Cin- in honor of those members who had been she finished with high honors several years c nsim I'^mediatelv after the affiliated with the Lodge for 25 or more ago. It was there that .she first met Mr, in at tw u Tournament in Cicero. consecutive years. An interesting feature 19'?6?v,.nt936 cxent, a committeeCincinnatibeganwas holdinggrantedmeet-the of the evening was the installation of the new officers by retiring E.R. Joseph Brooks who, in the years that he has been a member of No. 246, has served four terms as Ex alted Ruler. The meeting was then turned over to P.D.D. Arnolc! Huppert, Secy, oi Livintiston Lodge. In a brief but interesting talk, Mr. Hup pert went back to the year 1S02 when Liv ingston I.odge received its charter, and gave a review oi the Lodge's history. He then introduced J. C. \'ila? who is member No. 1 on the rof^ter. Mr. X'ilas has been affiliated with No. 246 for 43 consecutive years and served as Treasurer for 35 years. He is the Lodge's only living charter member. .•\t the conclusion of Mr. Vilas's remarks, f vj mm-rm r- mem each of the 33 guests of honor was pre :>ome of the 1000 children recently entertained by Pontiac, Mich., Lodge at sented with a wallet and card case on which the Midsummer Festival September, 193S OHXAaiCJ.PO.lLKi. HHA\9 COO laS tiir, NATIONAL GUARD (<. J0rvii iitug/Mi/i! /< Ontario, Calif., Lod^e recently entertained the metnbers of Company G, of the National Guard, at a dinner tn their honor, before the Company departed for war maneuvres at Guadalupe ings, which extended throughout the entire The Committee consists of Past Grand the Grand Lodge Committee covering that summer, for the purpose of making arrange Exalted Ruler John P. Sullivan, Past Grand activity for several years. He served the ments for the mechanics of the Tournament Exalted Ruler John K. Tener, and Henry Ind. State Elks Assn. as President in 1918-19. and the entertainment of bowlers who will W. Morganthaler, a prominent member and Judge Reilly was for four years in the be present in the city during the months of P.E.R. of Cincinnati, O., Lodge, No. 5. Alien Property Custodian office in Washing March and April. ton and was later associated for two years E.R. George F. Conver assumed leader with the International Big Brother and ship in getting arrangements under way. The A Note of Gratitude and Sister Society. He was also identified with hearty response which he has received from that Society in Chicago for four years. those requested to serve on committees re Appreciation to Good Will flects the keen interest felt by Cincinnati Funeral services were held in Hammond at All Saints Catholic Church. Burial took Elks. Members of No. 5 have always been Participants place in the St. John Cemetery. active in the National Tournaments. The Lodge has been represented by as many as On behalf of The Elks Magazine 25 teams and never less than 10. I take_ this opportunity to thank the Detroit, Mich., Lodge Home Reception Committees, officers and It is the desire of the Executive Com Closed to Communists mittee of the Cincinnati Elks Bowling members of the subordinate Lodges League to promote the greatest Tournament whose untiring and enthusiastic efforts Through its Board of Trustees, Detroit, held in recent years. Its aim is to make contributed so materially in making the Mich., Lodge, No. 34, announces that com the event a real national convention of 1935 Elks Good Will Tour the most munistic activities of the American Youth bowlers with teams from such distant points successful one since their inauguration Congress have made that organization in as Boston, New York, New Orleans, Denver seven years ago. eligible to use the Lodge Home. The Lodge and other cities not usually represented at I regret that it is impossible to write had been approached by a restaurateur • a Tournament held in a mid-western city. personally to every Elk who con with a proposal that the largest room in The Committee is composed of members of tributed in this achievement, and there the Home be used for a dining room where No. 5 who have gained a wide experience fore wish to express in these columns meals could be served to delegates during through active participation in Elk Bowling my appreciation of the splendid co the Convention of the Congress in Detroit. Tournaments during the past 12 years. operation extended our Good Will A banquet and a ball, which was expected The Committee presents an interesting Ambassadors throughout the entire to attract 1,000 persons, had been scheduled, suggestion to Elk teams on how to raise Order. and Detroit Lodge would doubtless have funds to defray their expenses. It advo Fraternally, netted a considerable sum. The Lodge, cates the payment of five or ten cents by J- T. Fanning, however, declined to consider the proposi members for each miss. hdilor and Executive Director tion, as its policy is to forbid any organiza Cincinnati Lodge advises that it will not tion with a red or communistic flavor the be necessary for visitors to leave the Lodge use of its Home for any purpose. Home for entertainment. The center of Prominent Indiana Elk, interest will be within the Home—one of the most spacious and well appointed in the Judge John F. Reilly, Dies Greenville, S. C., Elks Order. The death of the Hon. John F. Reilly a Open Refurnished Home James S. Richardson, Secy. Past Exalted Ruler of Hammond, Ind Lodge, No. 485, brought sorrow not only to The refurnished Home of Greenville, S. C., Indiana Elks but to members throughout Lodge, No. 858, was recently the scene of a Henry W. Morganthaler, the Order. He died on Mav 27 at St. Mar social event in the form of a luncheon Member of Herrmann garets Hospital in Hammond after a two- given by the House Committee for present Memorial Committee weeks illness. His widow, Mrs. Mary Jean and former members. The Home had just Reilly, and James D. Alfred, a stepson, been renovated and refurnished and new equipment purchased for all departments. In the report of the Grand Lodge Con survive. vention, appearing in the August, 1935, issue Judge Reilly was initiated into Hammond Two private dining rooms, a dining room of The Elks Magazine, an error was made Lodge on Jan. 17, 1907, and was elected for ladies, the buffet and a dining room for in announcing the membership of a Special Exalted Ruler in 1910. In 1913 he was men, are both comfortable and attractive. Committee appointed some time before to made an Honorary Life Member. He was arrange for a memorial to the late Past a sponsor of the Hammond Plan of the Big Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Lodge Grand Exalted Ruler August Herrmann, Brother Movement, and was Chairman of Opens Health Camp Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Lodge, No. 275, held the opening of its Health Camp at Freedom Plains, N. Y., not long ago, with approxi mately 1,000 persons from Poughkeepsie and neighboring Lodges in attendance. P.E.R. Daniel A. Kerr, of New York Lodge, Past Pres. of the N. Y. State Elks Assn., was among the many prominent Elks present. A fine barbecue was the feature of the event, and dancing, games, airplane stunts and trapshooting were presented as enter tainment. The day's proceeds were to be used to finance the expense of caring for the children using the Camp during July and August, under the auspices of the Pough keepsie Committee on Tuberculosis. Co,u;n,us. ana no, ' Frank J. Doran, Secy. moiaiers Home m Johnson City, Tenn. {Continued on page 47) 22 C The Elks Magazine Central Edition This Section Contains Additional News of Central State Lodges Kenosha, Wis., Lodge Observes City's 100th Birthday It was with a gala celebration that Ken osha, Wis,, opened its second hundred years of existence with Kenosha Lodge, No. 750, taking a prominent part in the observance. The Lodge put over an outstanding patri- atic meeting, as well as a loyal participation .in the celebration, that will be long remem bered. It was a notable achievement in civic and patriotic service. \Vith a burst of color and a surge of festive spirit, all Kenosha united in com memorating, on June 14, the settlement of the city exactly 100 years before by John Bullen, Jr., in the name of the Western Emigration Company. By a coincidence, the date fell on Flag Day, and the citi2ens, led by members of Kenosha Lodge, joined in the combined observance of the dav Since Kenosha Lodge had, in past years, sponsored the observance of Flae Dav, the Above, infront row are new members ofConcordia, Kans., Lodge; 2nd Lodge was mvitcd to usher in the cclebra- the Salina, Kans., Lodge Degree Team, which initiated them; back: tion of the Centennial at the Washington officers of Concordia Lodge Bowl where a crowd estimated at 30,000 was present to hear the speakers Rock Island, III., Lodge cers of Hastings Lodge conducted the ritual istic work in the initiation of a class ol Flag Day cards, bearing a nirt.ir,^ nf the Honors Charter Members candidates for No. 984. Two of the Hast American Flag, the DrcamKi« ♦ .u r-^r. ings members had attended the installation stitution, and the PleS^nr?'' Five of the nine charter members of Rock distributed by Boy Scouts tn V, ^ Island, III., Lodge, No. 980, were guests of ceremonies 30 years before. Five charter out the city with the ' : honor recently at the 30th anniversary ob members of Kearney Lodge were present. Tll-s Finos I '^^'"phmcnts of the servance of the Lodge, attended by 200. P.D.D. Thomas J. Welch, of Kewanee Lodge, The evening program i made the principal address of the evening. with a conccrt by the Those who had been members of No. 980 Wars band. At S:2o tlir. Foreign for more than 25 years were asked to stand escorted by Troop F Elks, for recognition. Wisconsin National' GimH f S E.R. Dr. Marcus M. Archer was Chair Bowl. Bert A, Thomson 'r man and P.E.R. Dan K. Brennan actcd as man of the Elks ProLT'ir^ ' Chair Toastmastcr. The minutes of the first meet master. He gave a iS ing were read by Secy. Sam Ryerson, a Day and of the p;irt the d Past Pres. of the 111. State Elks Assn. The in sponsoring and Drom,^r played audience joined in the Pledge of Allegiance introduced by P.E,R 't- He was to the Flag at the close of the program. speakers were introducr^r? - Dr. Marcus M. Archer, E.R. order: City Manager R following Kingsley, Pres. of thf- V Laughlin; R, S. V7i, Huvr Slirh Assn,: Harold M, Eri 1= Centennial Kearney, Neb., Lodge Lodge; Myron E. "f Kenosha Celebrates Birthday The quartet of Isew Lexuigton, Lodge. Pres, of the divers O., Lodge, which recently per who delivered the nrin -~' , Elks Assn., June 21 was the .30Lh anniversary of the formed at the Grand i-odge ney Judson Staplekamn''^.f ; Attor- founding of Kearney, Xeb,, Lodge, No. 0S4. Convention, in Columbus, ana ary, senior P.E.R, of t" Tren- On the occasion of the birthday celebration was presented with a cup oy the conclusion of the Lodge, At held by Kearney Lodge, a delegation of Columbus Lodge Thompson led the a^Cf-LTiprogram Mr. members from Hastings, Neb., Lodge, No. of Allegiance to the Kl- the Pledge 159, and Grand I-sland, Neb., Lodge, No. At the close of the business session, Mr. States, A fine displav^'^ r United 604, paid a fraternal visit. The celebration Flood gave a brief but instructive and en the first day's program f^ ^reworks ended concurred with the visit of the Elks Good joyable talk, and Mr, Rasmussen sang bration which lasted ^ Centennial cele- Will Drivers, P.D.D. Richard F, Flood, Jr., of his inimitable songs. The meeting was Preceding the festivh'; of Bayonne, N. J., Lodge, No. 434, and A1 followed by a luncheon and smpker. banquet was held at th Bowl, a Ra«musscn. a member of Oak Park, 111,, attendance was the largest that had turnea Lodge for local Elks ann Kenosha Lodge, No. 1295. out in many years—a manifestation visitors- Delegations w out-of-town The oi^icers of Hastings Lodge officiated gratifying to the Exalted Ruler and his stan from nearby LodepsJ-ut k.from Presentdistant notStates. only in the institution of Kearney Lodge in 1905. of officers. . , r- d In observation of this fact, the present offi H. L. Blnckledge, t.K. Fonk, Secy. CENTER POPULATION f lihton The Linton, Ind., Lodge Delegation to the Indiana State Elfts Association Convenfir.^ Haute, Ind. ' Terre September, 1935 The Grand Exalted Ruler's Visits Grand Exalted Ruler James T. Hallinan, of Queens Borough, N". Y., Lodge, No. S78, recently embarked from New York on a whirlwind lour of the Southeast, Midwest and West to hold a series of conferences with his District Deputies. Judge Hallinan's first stop on his swing through the country, was at Richmond, Va. The Tour carricd him as far as Butte, Mont. The Grand Exalted Ruler arrived in Rich mond on July 30 where he met with the District Deputies of the Middle Atlantic Region to confer with them regarding his plans for administering the affairs of the Order during the coming year. Judge Hallinan outlined the program and policies of his administration, and suggested a number of methods for effective coopera tion by the District Deputies themselves in carrying out his program. Emphasis was laid upon the value of Lodge and inter- Lodge activities in maintaining the present membership and at the same time attracting new members. He also called attention to tf the two National Classes to be initiated dur The Grand Exalted Ruler and distinguished Elks on the occasion ing the year. They are the Joseph T. Fan of Judge Hallinan's visit to Richmond, Va. They are, left to ning Class, to be inductcd into the Order on right, front row: D.D.'s C. Harold Owen, of Virginia, and Henry Thursday, November 14, and the Grand M. Durham, of North Carolina; Judge Hallinan; D.D. L. H. Exalted Ruler's Class in February. The Trulove, of North Carolina; George E. Strong, Washington Lodge conference ended with a round table discus Member of the Grand Lodge Committee on Judiciary. Back row, sion of problems and methods of Lodge left to right, are: John C. Garrett, Wilmington, N. C.; Theodore administration. J. Groh, Judge Hallinan's companion from Queens Borough The District Deputies present at the meet Lodge; and D.D.'s Benjamin T. Pitts, of Virginia; C. Vernon ing included Benjamin T. Pitts, Fredericks- Hines, of Tennessee, and John E. Lynch, of Md., Del., and D. C. burg, Va., Lodge, No. 875; C. Harold Owen, Lynchburg, Va., Lodge, No. 321; L. H. Alabama, Florida,South Carolina and Georgia. J. Clayton Burke, Secy., of Atlanta Lodge. Trulove, Wilmington, N. C., Lodge, No. Judge Hallinan met with the District Daniel J. Kelly, of Knoxville, Tenn., Lodge, 532 ; Henry M. Durham, Greensboro, N. C., Deputies at the Biltmore Hotel for a No. 160, Chairman of the Grand Lodge Com Lodge, No. 602; C. Vernon Hines, Nashville, luncheon-conference. Attending the meeting mittee on Distribution at the Columbus Tenn., Lodge, No. 72, and John E. Lynch, were D.D.'s George M. Thompson, Charles Convention, was in the delegation that met Washington, D. C., Lodge, No. 15,—D.D. ton, S. C., Lodge, No. 242 ; C. L. Haley, Jr., Judge Hallinan at the railroad station. for Md., Del. and D. C. Others attending Florence, Ala., Lodge, No. S20; J. Bush, The Grand Exalted Ruler paused in the the Richmond meeting were: Theodore J. Athens, Ga., Lodge, No. 790; George W. busy schedule planned for him in Atlanta to Groh, of Queens Borough Lodge, who was Upchurch, Savannah, Ga., Lodge, No. 183; place a wreath upon the grave of Past Grand Judge Hallinan's traveling companion on his G. M. Austin, Arcadia, Fla., Lodge, No. 1524: Exalted Ruler Walter P. Andrews, who was trip; George E. Strong, of Washington Lodge, Caspian Hale, New Smyrna, Fla., Lodge, No. a P.E.R. of Atlanta Lodge and one of the a member of the Grand Lodge Committee 1557, and M. Frank O'Brien, Jacksonville, South's most beloved Elks. The ceremony on Judiciary; Philip U. Gayaut, of Wash Fla., Lodge, No. 221; John S. McClelland, took place at Oakland Cemetery. ington Lodge, a Trustee of the Md., Del. of Atlanta, Ga., Lodge, No. 78, Chief Justice Judge Hallinan left Atlanta that night for and D. C. State Elks Assn., and John C. of the Grand Forum; Secy.-Treas. R. E. New Orleans where he was to officiate at Garrett of Wilmington, N. C., Lodge, No. Lee Reynolds, Atlanta Lodge, Vice-Presl the installation of the new Lodge. 532. George W. Crawford, Fitzgerald, Ga., Lodge' Meeting the Grand Exalted Ruler at the On the following day, Wednesday, July 31, No. 1036, and Past Pres. J. Gordon Hardy! New Orleans railroad station the next day Atlanta, Ga., was host to Grand Exalted Atlanta Lodge, all of the Ga. State Elks were the following distinguished Elks: Past Ruler Hallinan and District Deputies from Assn.; and Frank M. Robertson, E.R , and Grand Exalted Rulers Edward Rightor and Col. John P. Sullivan, D.D. Sidney A. Freudenstein, P.D.D. Waldo M. Pitkin and Charles C. Farrell, all P.E.R.'s of New Orleans Lodge, and D.D. A. J. Manhein of Shreveport, La., Lodge, No. 122. Judge Hallinan was escorted to the Charles Hotel, where he conferred with the District Depu ties of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. That night Judge Hallinan saw New Or leans Lodge, No. 30, formally installed in its new quarters at 70S Common Street. The Lodge, which has been reorganized under a new charter, was given the same name as that of the old Lodge—New Orleans, La., Lodge, No. 30. Approximately 300 old mem bers form the nucleus of the new member ship, Judge Hallinan presided over the elec tion of officers and the initiation of a class t ' of 17 candidates. Col. Sullivan was elected Exalted Ruler, and P.D.D. Abe Abrahamsen was made Secretary. After the ceremonies tlie Grand Exalted Ruler left New Orleans lor Dallas, Tex. On Friday, August 2, Judge Hallman ar rived in Dallas where he was proudly ac When Judge Hallinan reached New Orleans he was met at the claimed by the membership of the Lodpe statton fy above present and past officials: Past District and many distinguished Texas Elks. Dis Deputy jyaldo M. Pttkin; District Deputy A. J. Manhein; Past trict Deputies of the Southwest Region met Grand Exalted Ruler Edward Rightor; Past Exalted Ruler C. C. with him for a one-day conference to plan Farrell; Colonel John P. Sullivan, Past Grand Exalted Ruler the method of carrying out his policies and and Exalted Ruler of New Orleans Lodge; and District Deputy to discuss the affairs of the Order. Sidney A. Freudenstein (Continued on page 50) The Elks Magazine N ews of the State Associations Washington 1 HE Washington State Elks Association held its 32nd Annual Convention at Walla Walla on June 13, 14 and 15. The meet ing was highly successful with a registra tion in excess of 600. Past Grand Exalted Ruler Walter F. Meier of Seattle v/as the principal speaker at the sessions in the Lodge room of Walla Walla Lodge, No. 287, and also at a public gathering held at the Mar cus Whitman Hotel. Several bands, drum corps and hill-billy orchestras were in attendance. The out standing feature of the Convention was the Flag Day Service held by all the Lodges represented, each Lodge participating in one Flag Day Ritualistic Service at the Capitol Theatre. The theatre was crowded Parade ^of lndiana State Association Elks, at Terre Haute, Ind. to capacity. The meeting place of next year's Convention was hotly contested for O'Brien of Dcs Moines, la.. Lodge, No. voted to support the work of the Board dur by Bellingham Lodge, No. 194, and Poit 98, former Secy, of the Iowa State Elks ing the coming year. It was revealed that Angeles, "Naval," Lodge, No. 353, Port Assn.; Mayor P. M. Rensvold of Madison, during the 25 years of existence of the S. D. Angeles being selected. and the Rev. L. A. McDonald. Musical se State Elks Assn., $228,000 had been spent Officers who will serve the Association in lections were rendered by the quartet from for charity by the South Dakota Lodges, 1935-36 are: Pres., Emory B. Linsley, Aber Sioux Falls, S. D., Lodge, No. 262, and the deen; 1st Vice-Pres., Harrv O Bohlke. band from Watertown Lodge. Monday,n* additionconteststowere theparticipatedbusiness sessionin by theon various Ritualistic Teams, Bands and Drum Corps. The winners of all the contests, who \yere announced that evening at the Conven- and presented with trophies, were as follows: Ritualistic, Aberdeen Lodge, No. 1048; Band Contest, Golf and Tennis Tour naments and Vocal Contest, Sioux Falls Lodge; Trapshooting, Watertown Lodge; Kittenball Match, Madison Lodge; Drum Corps Contest, the Howard, S. D., Fire Dept. Boys and Girls Drum and Bugle Corps. The Bridge Tournament resulted in the victories of Madison Lodge—East and West—and Sioux Falls Lodge—North and South. Memorial services were held after the busi- ncss session with Past State Pres. Robert B. Meldrum presiding. A parade was held at 1:,10 P.M. through The presentation oj a gold loving cup. by Col. James A. Diskin, to the the principal streets of Madison, followed by owner of Late Date, winning horse of the Elks Handicap, at the Kentucky tne mitiation of a class of 29 candidates in State Elks Association convention in Louisville. At extreme left is C. B. t^e Pavilion on the shore at Lake Herman, Truesdell, D.D.: at right D. D. Arnold Westermann ine ceremony was performed by the offi cers ot Aberdeen Lodge who were the win ners of the Ritualistic Contest. Later a dutch Yakima; 2nd Vice-Pres.. H. Sanford Sauri, Among the reports read at the business lunch was served. The Purple Guard of Port Townsend; .3rd Mce-Prcs., Dr. V. N. session on Monday morning was that of the Aberdeen Lodge performed in the evening Christiansen, Longvicw; Secy., Earl B. Hunt, State Board of Health, announcing the re to the accompaniment of the massed bands Aberdeen; Treas., G. Ed Rothweiler, Bel sults of the crippled children work carried of Sioux Falls and Madison Lodges. Con lingham. .-Appointees are Sergeant-at-.-Vrms, on by the Board with the money appropri certs by the two bands were held afterward. ated by the State Assn. The Convention L. Rcmlinger, Aberdeen, and Chaplain, \Contimied on page 49) the Rev. T. A. Hilton, Seattle. Earl B. Hunt. Stale Secy. South Dakota The South Dakota State Elks Association held its 25th Annual Convention in Madison on Sunday and Monday, June 9-10. Repre sentatives from 10 of the 11 Lodges m the State attended, the total registration number ing 560 Past Grand Exalted Ruler James G. McFarland was present with a delegation from his Lodge, Watertown, No. 838. MacU- son, S. D., Lod^e, No. 1442, was host to the delegates and visitors. The Convention opened on Sunday morn ing with a series of contests. In the evening there were concerts by the band? of Huron Lodge, No. 444, and Watertown Lodge, fol lowed by public opening excrcises in the Garden Theatre on the campus of the East ern State Teachers College before an audience numbering approximatoiy 6,000 people. Grand Ksteemed Leading Knight Clyde E. Jones, of Ottumwa, la., Lodge, No. .^47, was the principal speaker. He was introduced to the audience by Mr, McFarland. Others who delivered addresses were Pres. Milton E. Dowdell of the S. D. State Elks .-Vssn.; K.R. Flathead Lake, the setting of the Montana State Elks Association"'""""" Fred Habeper of Madison Lodge; James Convention, viewedfrom the State Elks Camp Participants in the National Ritualistic Contest i /A « iV lodge / Raise the standard of the exemplification of the Elks Ritual in a Lodge, and you increase the vitality and activity of that Lodge. Never is a proficient rit ualistic team found in a Lodge not thoroughly alive TALLAHASSEE, FLA. The records of Newton, Mass., Lodge, whose team MONMOUTH.ILL. LODGE N0.937 again won the National Ritualistic Contest this year LODGE N0.397 NEWARK,OHIO give ample proof of this, as do those of the other KALAMAZ00,MrCH LODGE N0.39I ^ Lodges whose teams are also shown on this page LODGE N0.50 'r •• % i ** t (»« i i i '4 .4f % 4<; i LOOG^ The Elks Magazine The Social Side of the Grand Lodge Convention ITI HE traditional color, the pomp and cir cumstance, customarily . attendant upon a Grand Lodge Reunion, were greatiy aug mented by the variety and quantity of social events, amusements and diversions offered the officials, delegates and visitors at the Seventy-First Grand Lodge Conven tion held at Columbus, 0., in July. Resplendent in royal purple and white, flag-bedecked Columbus greeted Grand Ex alted Ruler Michael F. Shannon, of Los Angeles, Calif., on Friday, July 12. Walk ing under a row of flags held aloft by Boy Scouts, the Grand E.'calted Ruler was ushered into the city. He was received at the rail road station by E.R. Paul M. Herbert of Columbus Lodge, No. 37, his staff of offi cers, P.E.R. Robert T. Oestreicher, Chair man of the Columbus Lodge Convention Aview of the Parade as itpassed up one of the wide streets of Colutnbus Committee, and Secy. C. W. Wallace. A large crowd had assembled to join in the leryof FineArts and many attended the of The Elks Macn-;,,. r j Tx:-ti athletic:lic events. One of the most enjoyable held at the LnH.fr> u Will Tour cars welcome and many of the Elks present were • 1 X. .. -^oage Homo. Thr- Trinr Hr vfrfi accompanied by their ladies. of the social engagements was the tea given Mr. Shannon was taken down High for the ladies at the Governor's mansion. Street to the booming of a cannon mounted On the Saturday after the arrival of the ^strkPschT/ the United slates on a motor car in advance of the procession Grand Exalted Ruler an all-day Open ticaliy greeted and" enthusias- of purple and white trimmed automobiles House Reception was held at the handsome thc success of this i^r"? "Tour.""''''"'''' that formed his entourage. He was escorted Home of Columbus Lodge. In the afternoon bv Elk and city officials, a band, the uni the registration of Grand Lodge officials waT^cefebrate^d^J^^t'^^''^ Columbus Lod-e formed Elks Patrol of Columbus Lodge and took place at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, AnniversTrv r night with a Golden a Boy Scout Troop, to the Deshler-Wallick where Grand Lodge Headquarters had been Many distinn-ukh'^'i'^' Lodge Home, Hotel which was to be his official home established. Many committee conferences including the of the Order, during his stay in the convention city. were also in progress on that day. In the present in Cohimi Exalted Rulers From the moment of Mr. Shannon's arrival evening a band concert was given and danc- Grand Lodce Convention, a continuous stream of Grand Lodge officials, inc and entertainment were offered in the bers of the Ioc^l prominent mem- Commiltcemen, District Deputies, Repre Sunken Garden of the Home of Columbus of the charter'mnrni ' Two sentatives, Delegate.?, .Alternates and mem Lodge. also attended lu - Columbus Lodge bers poured into the city. The Home of On Sunday, July 14, special services were was represempH^^'''""' 0-. Lodge, No. .^2, Columbus Lodfie, at 2.S6 East Broad Street, held in churches of all denominations. The Lodge officiated at^K ^ was open to all comers during the en Rev. .Arthur O. Sykes, Grand Chaplain, bus Lodge 50 years '"®''lution of Colum- tire week, and no effort was spared to preached at the Central Presbyterian Church. During the first assure their comfort, convenience and enter At St. Joseph's Cathedral, next door to the week much took ni • Convention tainment. Lodge Home, six masses were celebrated. entertainment. atliletic Many events of a bewildering variety had Meanwhile registration of Elks and their baseball game hot, ^'I'urday there was a been arranged by Elks and city officials, families went on at the Lodire Home and anci Ihc'SXr R City team and special attention had been given plans delegations from Subordinate Lodges, arriv Red Bird Starlhir^ Birds at the new for entertaining the ladies. .Amons them ing in force, were being welcomed at the parks in the countrv ""d finest ball were sightseeing and shopping tours, band railroad station by reception committees. at various swimmin' was enjoyed concerts, carnivals, lectures, card parties and An important event in the afternoon was were raced above jh sail boats teas. Visits were made to the famous Gal- the reception to the drivers and entertainers on the Scioto Riv^r 9'^haughncssy Dam ^"d at Buckeye Lake. Alarge group ofmembers and delegates totheGrand Lodge Reunion, at Columbus, Ohio. September, 1935 Williams conducting, kept the crowd in ex *' *' ^' I' II"'" " cellent good humor. The Columbus Elks Chorus and the "'Chanters"—the famous Elks chorus of Los .\ngeles, Calif., Lodge, No. 99 —contributed to the pleasure of the occa sion. Chairman Oestreicher, of the Colum bus Lodge Convention Committee, intro duced Grand Esquire Dr. Edward J. Mc- Cormick who acted as Chairman of the first session. Dr. McCormick's first act was to intro duce the Past Grand Exalted Rulers who were present. They took their places on 'i-SSDChilG the platform in the following order; -, .. ; VK. U. Year Lodac Joseph T. Fanning 1903-04 Indianapolis. Ind. John K. Tcner 1907-08 Charleroi, Pa. William M. Abboit 1920-21 San Francisco. Calif. J. Edgar Masters 1922-23 Charleroi. Pa. '^''•J ^:'"^>;'-''^iVy I.,^ Rubh L. Holland 19C8-09 Colo. Springs, Colo. Charles H. Grakelow 1926-27 Philadelphia. Pa. John P. Sullivan 1911-12 New Orleans. La. Thefloat of the Arizona State Elks Association, symbolic of the State Elks' John F. Malley 1927-28 Springfield, Mass. admirable hospital work James R. Nicholson 1915-16 SprinRfield, Mass. Murray Hulbert 1928-29 New York, N. Y. Edward RiKhtor 1916-17 New Orleans, La. Polo games at Harbor Hills were among pionship and the Elks National Doubles Lawrence H. Rupp 1930-31 Allentown. Pa. the features of the daj''s program which also Championship in the Trap and Skeet Shoot Fred Harper 1917-18 Lynchburg. Va. included a sightseeing tour about Columbus ing Tournament. O. C. Voss, of Columbus, John R. Coen 1931-32 Sterling, Colo. Bruce A. Campbell 1918-19 East St. Louis, III. and the surrounding country. was High Over All. Clint Western, of Waller F. Meier 1933-34 Seattle, Wash. On Monday, July 15, the Elks National Greensburg, Ind., was amateur runner-up Frank L. Rain 1919-20 Fairbury, Neb. William W. Mountain 1921-22 Flint, Mich. Ritualistic Contest was held in the Lodge High Over All. The High Three-Man Team was composed of \V. P. Russell, H. A. Mel- room of the Columbus Lodge Home. As Chairman McCormick then introduced the reported in last month's issue, the Contest Imger, and C. D. Schlesselman. C. T. Stev was won by Newton, Mass., Lodge, No. 1327. es, of Zanesville, 0., tied with Arthur Chanters of Los Angeles, Calif., Lodge No. Cuscaden, of Tampa, Fla., as Professional 99, who had come all the way from the Newton Lodge was granted permanent pos Singles champions. C. T. Stevens is also Coast as a special escort of honor for the session of the handsome trophy presented Grand Exalted Ruler. As this splendid by Miami, Fla., Lodge, No. 94S, and the Professional Skeet Champion. Florida State Elks Assn., having won the The Grand Circuit Harness Races at the chorus sang "Stout Hearted Men" and an Contest three years in succession. The Ohio State Fair Grounds attracted a thron" especially composed salutation. Grand Ex Newton Team was declared the greatest of of race enthusiasts, and a baseball game alted Ruler Michael F. Shannon was intro duced amidst thunderous applause. Grand all time. between the Columbus Red Birds and St Paul drew a crowd of baseball fans. A band Chaplain .Arthur O. Sykes, of Lyons, N. Y., Other important activities included the concert, dancing and entertainment were in Lodge No. S69, delivered the invocation opening of the Sixth Elks National Golf progress at the Columbus Lodge Home. and E. R. Paul M. Herbert of Columbus Tournament at the Wyandot Country Club, Lodge was introduced by the Chairman. and the opening of the Trap and Skeet The Opening Public Session The Columbus Elks, Mr. Herbert said, Shooting Tournament at the Columbus Gun appreciated the high honor of having the Club. Curtis Rcid, of Chillicothe, O., Lodge, On Monday evening the entire city turned Grand Lodge visit them on the occasion No. 52, won the Golf Tournament when he out lor the public opening session of the of their 50th .\nniversary. Every local Elk scored 78 on the I'lnal 18 holes to finish with /ist Grand Lodge Reunion at Memorial felt this honor keenly, as well as the re a 54-hole total of 2.^6. Jack Maki, of Wau- nail, in the huge auditorium, containin<^ sponsibility that it entailed. Mr. Herbert kegan, 111., Lodge, No. 702, was a close some 4,000 seats, a new cooling svstem had urged every visitor to feel free to use the sccond, finishing but one stroke behind the been installed for the comfort of the audi facilities of the City and the Lodge to winner. Ri-id had rounds of 77, 81 and 78, ence and of those participating in the im the fullest extent. He expre.^sed the hope that every Elk who attended the Reunion while Maki scored SO, 71 and S6. E. E. pressive exorcises. McWhertor. of Sharon, Pa., and C. C. Gor The Session began with the 110 District would take home with him the simple, don, of Tallahassee, Fla., counted 2.59 each Deputies marching into the Hall in evening wholesome feeling of hospitality that was lo tic for third place. By his victory Curtis attire, to the stirnng music of the •^ida in the heart of each Columbus Elk. Reid gained possession of the $2,000 John March accompanied by the Elks Patrol of Dr. McCormick next introduced Mayor J. Doyle Trophy. Henry W. Worley of Columbus, a member Columbus Lodge. Throughout the course of Columbus Lodge. Mr. Worley declared John Taylor, of Newark, O., Lodge, No. 01 the program of speeches and song, the that there are bound to be many unpleas 391, won the Elks National Singles Cham- ColumbiTs Symphonv Orchestra, with Bert ant duties in connection with a Mayor's >1 •i I IS f T m 28 The Elks Magazine Below, the Iowa City, la., Lodge Trapshoot- ing Team; at left, John Taylor, of Newark, O., Lodge, Elks National Singles and Doubles Champion; and right, O. C. Voss, of Colum bus, O., Lodge, who ivas High Over All '^^IPhotnprophfionnaoca 27. 28. 2.1 are achrcick's Studio administration of bis City's affairs, but that "I was rather prepared for the traditional ceremony of the offering by his Honor, the thal^a'su^cc^ful old ."'dace this was an occasion when he looked for Mayor, or His Excellency, the Governor, ot shadow of one man lengthened ward with the keenest anticipation to the a mammoth key to the City of Columbus, or ganization over the Jtl 1"^"" very great pleasure that was his in welcom even the State of Ohio. result of the labor " j ® "I congratulate them on not atteniptinff to man. It has been tb -""dginent of any one ing the Grand Lodge to Columbus. He offer a key, even as a symbol, bccaiise we Llks ment, of heart interest said that he had not offered the Grand Ex are alreadv well aware that the pates of the the part of many mcif'-, i planning on alted Ruler or the members of the Grand City and State are open to us and it would be futile to try to find a key large enough to Lodge the keys to the City because the ad unlock the hearts of the people of this com- vance guard had already stolen them. He rninity. . , r . made it very clear, however, in simple and "I call attention at this time to the tact compares with the boct ^ miluence that this occasion makes for the necessity oi field and is, in this !(« convincing language, that every visiting Elk changing one of the important dales of history. lication, the best niaL-^r^^ was in possession of a key to the heart of Heretofore it was recorded that m 14y- "One Sunday "fSn '"f Columbus and its citizenry. A splendid and Columbus discovered Amcrica. Hereafter it men met in a room in ?? fourteen friendlv may he said that in 1935 Columbus discovered were the founder" of ^ity. They fitting tribute to Columbus Lodge was paid the Elks...... one short lifetime later—VL :, Today- by Mayor Worley when he stated that it "I have no doubt that you can rc^mily im places in nearly fourtf>^r, i "icetmR was one of the finest forces in the entire agine the City of Columbus as high Olympus cities are enlaced unnn I'V'drcd American with Elks quaffing ambrosia from golden cups, building of a i)crman,.TJ thintis in the City for patriotism, good citizenship and but I am concerned about the doubts some o fund, the principal of ' ''^'K-volence works of charity. vou may have relative to the arduous JaMors the income frnm whirl, i ''' ! forever, The next speaker was Governor Martin of the Convention. So I give you an idea of good deeds, ^^-ith ^ flowing river L. Davey of Columbus, who is a member of the serious problems of our meeting m every community undr-l reaching into Columbus. . , f ,i,„ eal ed The KIks' Katt.n F I' of Kent, O., Lodge No. 1377. In a stirring "Aithouch the Rrcatcst interest of tne Serious anrl -iry;. ! and well received address, liberally inter Grand Lodge in the affairs of our members "c"ksYr^'^o^',?'f •; '""aonual con- spersed with humor, the Governor explained and of our country is the human ititcrest, with the manifold ac iv i- ^ corporation nevertheless through our subordinate few of which I shall ^ that he was this year celebrating his 25th we have property assets of more anniversary as a member of the Order, hav hundred million dollars—to say nothing the Elks opera't"'l,'''g^!"' rknow that ing joined Ravenna, 0., Lodge No, 1076. in our liabilities. , "'rt great because 1910. He said that he loved the Elks first the largest m thp size—i)erhaps m.iny unique features " possesses because of their tolerance—their fine phil It has almost fiv^ i osophy of life; second, he loved the Order hundred thousand stu- for its liberal thought; third, for its be fhe campus covor= .i. nevolence, and lastly for its spirit of pa Continent and the isl.^H American oceans. 'S'and j.ossessions in two triotism. He explained that he had ordered There is a collcir,. t out a large contingent of the Ohio National evcrv important ei^f "t O'"" university in Guard to march in the Grand Parade on flag flies •>- «here the American We choose to cili .i. Thursday, as his tribute to all that Elkdom "Our university Lodges. stands for. Governor Davey went on to has one of the fines?®e,,?i " ^reat becaii-se it say that the State of Ohio was honored to have a visit from the Grand Lodge—that its members were welcomed by every single one of Ohio's six and a half million inhabitants. Our uiiivcrsitv ' At this point in the ceremonies Curtis L, '^"^cau-se it offers Lattimer, Director of the Columbus Elks LOVE OF Chorus, led his group in a most effective rendering of the Viking Song, with Glen G. Grabiil at the organ. Through the medium I COULD deserJi • of living statues, four magnificent tableaux suL"'r"^-Isubordmate Lodges fnl thisof sevenyear figuresby our were then shown at the back of the dais, each representing one of the Order's cardinal the past^ ^tensimilaryears.kinJ^ m ' beenfiguresdonethein principles—Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love •But kindness , and Fidelity. measured in terms'"! .friendship cannot be The "Prayer of Thanksgiving" was sung because of txtrnn,-,r dollars and cents, and dniary conditions times an "In my mind's eye, I view two scenes as important episodes in our national drama. "The first scene is in a room in the City of Philadelphia. I see a matronly young woman, more than ordinarily pretty, dressed in ample crinoline and wearing a fresh lace cap upon her hair. I watch her as she snips, close to the silken fabric upon which she has been working, the strand of a golden thread- I see her stick the nee alBesBra^l •^™t<€)SwSSE*l W. 4aifyiuit \ vcp^.smw IliUBtBr TEXAS Mu«ni '•ftrjJag 1)11 Schrcick September, 1935 Center: Miss Mary Louise Bruch- Below are Miss Bernice Stephens, man, of Prescott, Ariz., winner of Houston, Texas, and Jack of the Elks National Founda Campbell, of Hutchinson, Kans., tion Scholarship of $1,000. Ex who were both awarded Honor treme left: Bernard B. Bohren, able Mention Scholarships of of Olney, III., and left center: $300 by the Elks National Foun Burley C. Johnston, Jr., of Fort dation. Past Grand Exalted Smith, Ark., who received Hon Ruler John F. Malley is Chair orable Mention Scholarships of man of the Elks National Founda $300 each tion Trustees r\ Supplementary Information on the Grand ^odge Business Sessions in Columbus The Grand Lodge of Sorrow Mr. Nicholson continued, had suffered a vail. Translating his remarks into action, he great loss in Mr. Duffy's passing. He was a called a brief recess during which he asked With Past Grand Exalted Ruler John P. member of Providence, R. I., Lodge, No. 14, every man present to introduce himself to his Sullivan presiding, the Grand Lodf:e of Sor for .30 years; an officer in his Lodge for left and right hand neighbors and to the men row opened promptly at 11:00 o'clock on nearly 20 years, and he had held many who were sitting in front and behind him. Wednesday morning, July 17th. To organ Grand Lodge offices, including that of Grand .^t the conclusion of this unique hand-shak music Mr. Sullivan delivered the Thana- Treasurer for the past three years. Mr. ing ceremony, in which some 1.000 Exalted topsis most impressively, calling upon Grand Duffy, said Mr. Nicholson, brought great Rulers participated enthusiastically, the Chaplain Sykes for the invocation at its fidelity of purpose to all his tasks. He Grand Exalted Rulcr-clect, using his own conclusion. ,,, had excellent business judgment. Many Lodge as an example, went on to explain The Los Angeles Chanters then rendered Lodges which have fallen by the wayside how any Lodge could pull itself up by its would not have done so had they had a own boot straps, given the proper spirit and "To Our Absent Brothers," whereupon Past Jim Duffy to guide them. Grand Exalted Ruler Fred Harper delivered FoUowing the Eulogy, James R. Cooper, leadership. He said that in Queens Borough Ihe Eulogy for Past Grand Exalted Ruler a P.E.R. of Newark) Ohio» Lodge, No. 391 Lodge as many as 3,600 members out of a Walter P. Andrews, who died on March total of 4,400 had attended meetings. One recited a poem, "Memorial Day," written way to stir up such a high degree of inter ''^Most^ touchingly Mr. Harper referred to by Hobert Cameron Rogers, author of "The est as this, he explained, is to invite promi Rosary." his long years of association with Mr. An nent local personages to join the Lodge and drews, describing him primarily as a friendly Thereupon the Columbus Elks Chorus sang then to hojd receptions for them. man "Our hearts grow gentle and kindly "Shall I Be Forgotten," with Messrs. Old- Always start meetings promptly, he urged, at this hour," said Mr. Harper, "and Walter ham and Maize as the soloists. Next they even if only a few members are present. Andrews exemplified the spirit of friendship rendered "Farewell," with Mr. Moffitt as They should not be kept waiting for dilatory at its best—friendship toward his fellow the soloist. members. One good tip he gave in connec men and his Order. His devotion to the Past Grand Exalted Ruler Sullivan's clos tion with increasing attendance at meetings Order increased with his years of service ing remarks consisted of a most effective was that of the Exalted Ruler writing occa in its behalf. He felt great pride in its rendering of the "Crucifix of Tears." sional letters to members when they absent patriotic character and was a most ardent Toward the close of this impressive bene themselves from Lodge on several consecu patriot himself." diction the Los Angeles Chanters and the tive meeting nights. Mr. Harper went on to say that the world Columbus Elks Chorus softly hummed Charter member nights and nights for old was a better world because of men like Mr. "Aloha Oe," to end the 1935 Grand Lodge timers have proved to be excellent as a Andrews and that the Order of Elks was a of Sorrow. means of attracting members to Queens better Order because of the interest he had Borough Lodge meetings. There the two taken in it. At the conclusion he read the Informal Conference of Grand groups are entertained simultaneously. Any following touching telegram from Mrs. Exalted Ruler-Elect with body who has been a member for IS years or Leontine Chisholm Andrews, Mr. Andrews' Exalted Rulers more quahfies as an old timer. The old widow: timers are given ribbons of one color and "Last year when the doctors despaired of Promptly at 4:00 o'clock on Tuesday the charter members ribbons of another his life, he roused ion? enough to dictate a afternoon Judge Hallinan met with the color. Both groups are invited to dinner. me'^-safic to the Grand Lodge and onlv a few Exalted Rulers for a most inspiring informal weeks iieforc his passing he exprcssi-d a de No organization is closer to the Elks than sire to attend this Convention .and see you all. .^ssion, in the course of which he and other the American Legion, said Judge Hallinan, PlcTse express this desire to the Grand Lndq:e Grand Lodge officers discussed subordinate and he recommended that the local Legion L a message of love and remembriince from Lodge problems with them frankly and Post be invited to cooperate with the Elks hitn." as man to man. Speaking simply and di Lodge, particularly in connection with pa Russell Horton, soloist of the Los An rectly, the Grand Exalted Ruler-elect triotic days such as Flag Day, Armistice geles Chanters, then gave a beautiful ren prefaced his remarks by saying that in Day, and the like. dition of "In My Father's House .Are Many spile of the many difficulties which confront In connection with the vital problems of Mansions." the subordinate Lodges today, most of them increasing the Order's membership Judge Past Grand Exalted Ruler James R. can be overcome by prompt and decisive Hallinan said that he did not believe in Nicholson then delivered the Eulogy for action. The need is, he said, for leaders membership drives and that there would Past Grand Treasurer James F. Duffy, who who have a genuine desire to give all they never be one during his administration as died April 2, 1935. Mr. Nicholson character have to the Order rather than to take all Grand Exalted Ruler. He explained, how ized Mr. Duffy as essentially a simple man they can get from it. ever, that he would immediately set plans one who preferred the elementary things Judge Hallinan first stressed the impor in motion for two great national classes- of life—and said that he would, therefore, tance of holding fraternal meetings—meet one in November, to be known as the refer to him in homely phrases. The Order, ings in which friendliness and friendship pre Joseph T. Fanning Class; the other in Feb- 32 The Elks Magazine ruary,. 1936,- to be known as the Grand to learn. Go forth to serve." "You," he tions they would have a better knowledge Exalted Ruler's Class. Judge Hallinan an said to the Exalted Rulers present, "have of the Lodge's administrative and financial nounced that upon his return to New York, come here today to learn—and you could problems. he would try to secure President Roosevelt's have no better teacher than Jim Hallinan! In thanking Mr.. Hart for his re cooperation in addressing the country via Now go forth from here fully determined to marks, which were greeted with prolonged a national broadcast on one of these nights, serve!" applause, the Grand Exalted Ruler-elect and that he also intended to ask Vice-Presi- Mr. Grakelow's inspired remarks were stated that there is no member of the Grand dent Garner, or some other Elk prominent greeted with great applause. Judge Hallinan Lodge whose services can be as helpful to the in the nation's affairs, to speak similarly in expressed his thanks and then introduced to Exalted Rulers as the Chairman of the Grand connection with the second initiation. the assembly Charles Spencer Hart, Chair Lodge Activities Committee. He urged those On the matter of reinstatements the man of the Lodge Activities Committee of present to bring to this official their every Grand Exalted Ruler-elect said that not a the Grand Lodge. His Committee, said Mr. problem, and assured them that they would single unemployed member of Queens Bor Hart, serves primarily as a medium for the be accorded a most sympathetic and helpful ough Lodge had been dropped from the interchange of ideas that have worked out hearing. rolls. It is his firm belief that a good successfully in one subordinate Lodge and Judge Hallinan then introduced Governor lapsation committee can reinstate many that could be adapted to or adopted by other David Sholtz of Florida, Vice-Chairman of former members when it goes about the job Lodges with profit. He urged that the chart the Board of Grand Trustees, who, in one of conscientiously and thoroughly. When a of suggested Lodge activities with which his his characteristically straight-from-the-shoui- former member commits himself to the ex Committee had furnished each subordinate der talks, told the audience of the many tent of saying that he is willing to rejoin, Lodge,^ be reissued next year if the incoming splendid things that had come to him from his that is the time to get at least a partial Committee saw fit to do so. In this connec Elk affiliations. He said that he had rubbed payment from him—before he changes his tion he recommended that it be published in shoulders in his Lodge with men in any and mind. several sections—for Lodges of various sizes every walk of life, and was the better for it. Judge Hallinan stressed the point that —and suggested that the Exalted Rulers send pkdom, he pointed out, had helped him charity should begin at home, and expressed to the headquarters of the incoming Com keep his feet on the ground and had given the opinion that it is only right for a subor mittee a program of their projected activities him a far truer sense of the real values of life dinate Lodge to look after its former mem September 1, to the end that the best of than he had ever had before. "You are the bers who have been overtaken by bad times, them could be grouped and classified and rnen who put Jim Hallinan in office," he de- before they reach out beyond their present reissued in varying forms to Lodges of dif dared. Are you going to let him down? and former membership in their charitable ferent sizes. Lome back to next year's Convention and undertakings. He said that many Lodges Mr. Hart also recommended that joint show him an Order that is both larger in that have spent $30,000 in charity on non- nieetings be held at least once each month by membership and finer in spirit!" Elks, have spent less than 10 per cent of chair officers and trustees. In this way, he that sum on their own needy members and said, the junior officers particularly would After the applause for Governor Sholtz's former members—a policy which is obviously remarks had finally ceased the Grand Ex- have an opportunity to familiarize them alted Ruler-elect introduced C. Fenton unfair. selves with the Lodge's finances, so that when He urged that initiations be digni they progressed to the more advanced sta- MchoJs, Chairman of the Grand Lodge Ant- fied and inspiring in character rather than {Coiilimied on page 50) casual or informal, holding that it is up to each Exalted Ruler to rigidly stamp out vulgarity and horse-play at such solemn and significant ceremonies. ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION Regarding the matter of entertainment, the Grand Exalted Ruler-elect stressed the May 31, 1935 desirability of providing interesting pro {From the Chairman's Annual Report to the Grand Lodge) grams. With real competition today for a man's leisure hours, it is up to the Lodge to outstrip the radio, movies, and the like PRINCIPAL: PRINCIPAL AND INCOME in its offerings on meeting nights. He Donations Received: recommended that now and then the mem Grand Lodge bers themselves be given the responsibility State Associations, Suliordinate Lodges and $'00,000.00 Individuals . of arranging entertainment programs. This 2o8.548.50 makes for variety and for a sense of pride TOT^\L DONATIONS RECEIVED and wholesome competition in the staging Profit or Disposition of Sccuritv ?'328,548.S0 of the recreational parts of meetings. 175.00 The Grand Exalted Ruler-elecJ said that PRINCIPAL BALANCE he would of course be interested in seeing INCOME: $358,50 Bond Interest Received 562,659 20 new Lodges organized, but that it would Lc-ss: Bond Premiums Amortized 2,087!29 never be his policy to grant a charter to a Lodge that might injure an existing Lodge, Judge Hallinan's remarks were accorded Bank Interest great and spontaneous applause as he con : cluded and introduced Past Grand Exalted Income Received $70,345.20 Ruler Charles H. Grakclow, who also ad _u/o appropriated for Security Depreciation Offset 14,069.04 dressed the gathering in an inspired fashion. 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OHIO 84 The Elks Magazine Finding the Way to the Knockout (.Continued from page 11) picture, The Prizefighter and the Lady,'" turn a rival's strongest offensive into his decided to lick him while I was strong and Baer told me. "I used to tussle with Prirao greatest weakness. rushed him from the start. I got a quick just to feel him out. I thought we might Jack Dempsey, of course, provides the ex knockout. The high altitude in that coun fight some day and it would pay me to ception to the rule that the careful planners try still bothered me. know his reactions. I decided that though are the best fighters. But Jack was the "I didn't expect an easy time with Suden he was very strong and game he was not a supreme product of the rough-and-tumble berg. The sports were backing him 10 to 1, very fast thinker. Off the sets we used to school. He was a highly successful ex but it turned out that these odds were much box a little. I noticed an interesting thing. ponent of opportunism because circumstances too long. I stayed the limit. We slugged After Camera jabbed with his left hand he and his unique physical and mental organ each other all over the ring and the referee always dropped it. He didn't do this in ization combined for such a result. His called it a draw. But I had to be taken the picture, so I wondered if he would in a story of his first really testing battles is home in a wheel-barrow. real fight. When we were matched for the illuminating as well as amusing. It goes "We were re-matched and fought a month championship I thought to myself, 'If he back to 1915, when he was a middleweight later at Tonopah. Believe me, Sudenberg drops that hand against me I'll surprise and rather a poor one. was tough. This was the hardest fight I him.' When we finally met, Primo jabbed "I had been down in San Francisco where ever had. I knocked him down seven times with his left not long after the start of the they allowed four-round bouts at that time," in the first round, but he got up and came first round. Sure enough, he dropped it he told me, "but the pickings were poor and back for more. Before the fight ended I immediately. I waited for him to do it I decided to go to Nevada where longer kissed the floor myself half a dozen limes. again. Then I threw an overhand right fights were permitted. I went to Reno. "After the seventh round we were both above his left arm and nailed him on the "Things were no better there. I couldn't out on our feet, but kept on swinging. At chin. Down he went." get a match to save me. Then, just as I the finish I was stronger than Johnny and was completely broke, a telegram came from got the decision." Goldfield asking me if I would substitute Here you have a colorful picture of a This blow could have been a knockout for a fellow who was dropping out of a ring opportunist in the making. These if there had been time for Mas to obtain ten-round fight with Johnny Sudenberg. fights of Jack's were little more than a timing. As it was it paved the way for The telegram offered me SIOO and two continuance of the bare-fisted encounters of twelve subsequent knockdowns administered round-trip tickets. The promoters assumed his boyhood days. His body toughened by by Baer. He could have ended the fight I had a trainer. I didn't. hard blows and his wits sharpened by the earlier "But," he explained later, "Camera "I wired at once for the tickets and set variety of his experiences, he naturally gravi was very strong and I thought it better to off for Goldfield, taking with me as trainer tated from the corner lot to the prize ring. nurse him along. I paced myself and con and second a little fellow I picked up in served my energy. If I had opened up for Reno. He was broke, too. We were so a quick knockout I might have got careless dumb we never thought of asking for an Still, it must be confessed, it was a great and Prime would have hit me. advance. Probably if we had we wouldn't surprise when Jack told me that of all his You would think that his experience with have got it. battles in the ring only one was fought on Camera should have provided a moral which "What a ride that was! We were in a a tactical basis carefully thought out long Max could not possibly have missed. How- day coach. We didn't have the price of a before the fight and rigidly adhered to dur to get the victim into position for a knock sandwich. We left Reno at nine o'clock at ing its progress. out punch, and how to deliver it, would night and were not due in Goldfield until "That was my meeting with Jack seem to be a study which a champion or three o'clock the next afternoon. Weak Sharkey," explained Jack. "Assisted by Leo championship aspirant would exhaust to the from hunger, we finally fell asleep on each Flynn, I worked on a plan to beat Jack very last tiny detail. other's shoulders. We didn't have to worry months in advance of going into the ring The human body provides few knockout about baggage. All we had was my fighting with him." spots. You can weaken an enemy by head togs, done up in a newspaper. We looked This battle, you will remember, was in and liver and kidney blows and, of course, like bums and I guess we were bums. the nature of a comc-back attempt to win any punch has some effect, but as long as "Fifty miles out of Goldfield my pal woke another chance at Gene Tunney, to whom he can protect his chin, jaws, heart and up. Someone was yelling, 'Jack Dempsey! Jack had lost his title in 1926. He had been stomach he can baffle you. Jack Dempsey!' He saw a big man, dressed idle for a year at a time in his life when it To hit an opponent tellingly a fighter to kill with a diamond like a turnip in his is not so easy to recapture your former may deliver an unexpected thrust at the necktie, coming down the aisle. good condition. He was compelled to beat start of a bout, before he has got set. which " 'Here he is,' said my trainer, pointing Sharkey or he wouldn't get a chance at is rare; take advantage of a peculiarity in to me. I was still sound asleep. He had to Tunney. It was advisable to cast oppor style, as Baer did against Camera; foresee wake me up, tunism aside. a "lead and counter quickly; feint the other " 'Don't kid me,' replied the stranger, "Sharkey was very clever and fast on the into lowering or raising his guard, thus ex giving me one look. 'I'm looking for Demp ropes," Dempsey continued, "and I knew posing a spot where he may be hit; "shp- sey, the fighter.' I would have trouble hitting him on the ping" or blocking his lead, or stepping mside chin. I planned to play for his body. I or away from it, and then countermg; pur felt that sooner or later he would be unable posely expose himself to draw a lead, so he It took us quite a time to convince him to stand the punishment. Of course I would can hit the spot this lead exposes; persis I was the man he wanted. He turned out have to take a lot of it myself, but I was tently attack the head until the opponent to be Jake Goodfriend, the Goldfield pro in good condition and I figured I could becomes set in defending it and then switch moter. He had come down the line to pick do it. to the body; or vice versa. us up because he had arranged an exhibition "Everything turned out as expected. Jack On the defensive side, the boxer has two for me at Tonopah. It was sort of an hit me on the chin a lot. But I kept boring hands with which to block blows or push advertisement for the Goldfield fight. in with body blows and by the fifth round them aside; two feet with which to move "He had dug up a strong-looking colored I knew that the end was just a matter oi forward or backward, or sidestep; a head boy to box me. I was scared. Hungry as time. I could feel him weakening. When that can move in many directions to "slip" I was I was likely to make such a poor we came out for the seventh T'V? or otherwise nullify leads; a body that can showing that Goodfriend would ditch me. for the body as usual, tearing «n " weave or crouch and bend in or away; and, Luckily I got a break. I swung on the and rights. This brought his finally, Iwo shoulders behind which he can darkey and missed, but I fell forward with and at last I could shoot_ for his • bury the most vulnerable of all points, his my mouth open. He had ducked. My teeth threw a left hook to his jaw. It p chin It is an invariable rule that the chin cut a big gash in his forehead and blood must never be exposed. Hence, even on bhnded him. I socked him with a good °"But what about the most attack, the fighter keeps it down. one and he yelled for someone to take the Jack's punchcs—the ' fourteen Obviously, considering the possibilities of gloves off of him. defense the more advance information you "'My God, how dat boy can hit!' he said. Tunney down for that histonc can gain regarding your man's strength and Goodfriend didn't have much faith in c„„„t [„ Chicago m aii weakness, his peculiarities of behavior and me. even after that. He arranged another I asked abou > rather not talk about the action of his mind, the better prepared fight before I tackled Sudenberg, who had a past and gone. I d rather you arc to conquer him by strategic plan pod reputation. He was from Omaha and '^'This was Dempsey, the good sport in de- ning. It may sound paradoxical, but it is had had considerable experience. This time t f Volkinc I hastened to assure him that true that a brainy boxer often is able to I met a fellow they called Kid Harrison I I was nif pryin? !"'<> opinion of the September, 1935 justice of Referee Dave Barry's procedure If Dempsey was the king of opportunists, and counter offenses for Tom's leads and during the exciting seventh round of his Tunney was the king of careful planners of punches. struggle to regain his lost title. I merely ring tactics. As a small boy he had come "I had had Tom in my test tube for more wished to find out how he had hit Tunney in contact with gymnasium boxing; that i? than three years when at last we met in that devastating blow. to say, supervised boxing. By nature June, 1925. You will recall that during the ten rounds studious and methodical, the sport appealed "His best attack was a double feint which of their first meeting at Philadelphia and to him as a test of skill. When he became would make his opponent paw out with his six rounds of this second set-to, Gene's a professional he studied the methods of left hand to protect himself. Then he would superb boxing and generalship had prevented his opponents, their faults and their ad slip in with a terrific left hook to the liver jack from hitting effectively. How, then, vantages, with extreme care. Often he or chin. If it was to the liver, the blow did Jack finally manage to penetrate the did so even before he knew that he would cause the other man to drop his baffling defense set up against him? In his would fight them. When he met them elbow after a time. Then Tom would hit answer you discover again the opportunist, in the ring he had an astutely prepared him on the chin. but one so brilliant as to be dazzling. plan of battle. "The solution of this attack was not diffi In his story of his life Tunney gives his Gene probably is prouder of his victory cult. When he tried the double feint, I version of the encounter. He relates that over Tom Gibbons than of any other. feinted my left hand in a pawing motion, after fifty seconds of as he expected me to do jabbing, feinting and but, as he slipped in, mixing, he led with a p.i -. , '• /, ^ stepped back. Then,ashe "1 hit with his left, I count- ered heavily on his fore- head with a right cross. "This was a knock- ' out .blow, but I counted on to followed and laid 3'hard ^ kept it up whenever the opportunity offered. another right, but went After the tenth round up against the ropes. As ; y could feel him weaken- he bounced off, he says, bH He to pro- he raised his guard and Hfc= tect his head. This paved Jack slipped in with a F the way for left hook left hook that made him to the body that started sag. Then, he adds a — him toward a knockout. right and a left and a. That victory put me in right followed in this ^ line to fight Dempsey for order, practically knock- \ ing the stuffing out of ,] y^l him, and he went to the { '^Whether Referee Barry JI sometimes requires mon- was right in starting one Vj .1 W.* count, then waving Dempsey to his corner \", ,Vi.awi gBj; and beginning another, giving Tunney fourteen scconds in which to re- i JB cuperate, cannot be j JK ••• • argued here. But obvi- ; |Ep5 1^ ouslv Dempsey had j SjS ' landed a punch with j •• cvcrv knockout charac- j J\ he^ planned carefully his teristic. How he succeed- / ed in doing this is the I matter that interests us. I Bs /- jH Of the vital blow on | H j the chin that drove him ; M to the ropes and almost L. with Bennv for a bout cost him his champion Madison Square ship, Tunney says: "I "Are you two gentlemen together?" Garden. Acknowledging couldn't understand how to himself that here was I came to miss it as it a man who might well came. I was furious (over being so "I first saw Gibbons box in a bout with relieve him of the championship, Benny set careless)." ,,, Paul Sampson at the Pioneer Athletic Club seriously to work to guard against it. Probably you've never heard Dempsey s in New York in 1Q21," he said. "He won "I used to lie abed at night and think explanation of how he got in this deadly in a round and a half. His skill impressed over my opponent's offenses and defenses," shot which even Tunney did not understand, me tremendously." Benny told me. "I considered every pos for the former champion has seldom men Gene, himself developing into a great sible detail of their methods. I made it a tioned it and then very briefly. It gives boxer, did not consider himself ready to rule to grant that they were better in all vou an inkling of the man's incredible ability meet Gibbons at this time. But he was respects than they seemed. In this way I to grasp an opportunity in the space of a looking forward to the day when he would made certain I would meet no surprises. I split second. It is one of the ring's most have the privilege. "He was one of the was readv for,the Unexpected. amazing chronicles. most scientific men in the history of the "Welling was a tall, rangy lad who fought ".\fter my first fight with Tunney," Jack ring, knowing all the tricks of defense, and with his left hand extended and his right told me, "I knew every move he would he had gone the limit in a fifteen-round bout cocked on his chest, ready to shoot, like a make in the second fight. I was able to with Jack Dempsey." Gene told me. "I felt gun. Because of his height and his extended hit him hard in the seventh round be I would gain heavily by a victory over left arm I knew it would be hard to get a cause when he shot his left hand at me, him." hand into him, so I made up my mind that he didn't keep his _chin doivn. Always The way in which he fitted himself to I would have to box him until he made a before he had kept it down when he led. engage Gibbons is a remarkable chapter in mistake and opened up with his right hand. This time it was exposed so I hit him at a remarkable career. It fully illustrates I boxed him round after round, jockeying once." the method of the successful planner of him all around in an effort to make him This undoubtedly is one of the classic fights. shoot his right. Twelve rounds passed. With feats of boxing. Mind you, all manner of "The years 1923 and 1024 passed without only three more to go. it looked a? if he expert fighters had been trying vainly for' my feeling quite ready for Tom," said were going to be stubborn about it and years to hit Tunney on the chin. But in Tunney. "However, I felt I was improving would not give me a chance. variably it was tucked snugly down, where all the time. To prepare myself for the "You have to be patient. In the it couldn't be reached, when he led. meeting 1 felt would come some day, I thirteenth round he finally made Ihe mistake •'Out of twenty-five thousand punches. brought on men who had trained Gibbons I was waiting for and fired his right. I Gene lifted his chin only once," said Demp- to condition me for a few of my fights. was all ready. I made him miss and then sev thoughtfully. . . . "That was when I Jock Malone was one. Jimmy Delaney was threw my right to his chin with everything hit him in Chicago." another. With them I practiced defenses I had. Actuallv. it wa? the fir.'^t time during 36 The Elks Magazine the fight that I had thrown that right, for Barney got his chance at Canzoneri and I was afraid I would give him an opening took Tony's title from him in a ten-round for his right. Down he went. He got up decision bout at Chicago. They were re- again, but the end was in sight. The punch matched to meet in New York and here leh him in such a condition that I finished Barney went through what he calls "the him easily in the next round." hardest battle of my career." One of" the hardest tasks confronting the "It was more important to me than my ordinary fighter is that of knocking out a first meeting with Tony because then I had southpaw boxer. Jimmy McLarnin had this nothing to lose and now I had the cham task ahead of him when he was matched to pionship to lose," said he. "Against Tony meet Young Corbett III at Los Angeles on you can't very well plan in advance. He May 28, 1933, in an effort to wrest his wel is too fast, clever and shifty. About all I terweight crown from him. could do in training was to insure good Jimmy wanted the welterweight title condition and good timing. badly—not merely for himself, but on ac "Tony gave me plenty to think about count of good old Pop Foster, his manager, when we got into the ring. He kept me who had picked him up in Vancouver, B. C., guessing by fighting differently in every when he was an almost penniless kid, and round. First he would keep throwing a steered him to fame and fortune in the ring. left hook to the body. In the next round Also he wanted to show the Californians a he would try for the body with his right. few things. He hadn't forgotten the first When he had done that for a while he would excursion he and Pop had made into the start throwing his right at my head. One State in search of fights. Pop had taken time he would try to outbox me, another him to a promoter in San Francisco. time he would attempt to outslug me. As "I've got a mighty promising boy," he • fast as I built up a defense for one thing said. he would hand me something else. "Where is he?" asked the promoter. "About the sixth round I decided I "Here," said Pop, pushing Jimmy to the would have to start a two-fisted offensive front. He was seventeen, then, but he if I wanted to get anywhere. I could never looked to be scarcely fifteen. The promoter get him into a position where I could hit snorted. "You want to get me put in him effectively if the fight went on like jail?" he demanded. "That kid doesn't this. For several rounds I punched away. want a fight—he needs a nurse!" His answer was to weave back and forth to keep mc from getting set for a punch. "I wanted him to lead and started feinting This inauspicious introduction to Cali to get him to do so. My purpose was to fornia made Jimmy doubly anxious to stage get him to shoot his right. To accomplish a great show when he encountered Young this I purposely lo%vered my left hand to Corbett III, a native son. tempt him to try for my head with his "The champion had fought 200 times right. In the I2th this was just what he did. without ever being knocked out," he said, At once I threw in a left hook that stung "so it looked like a tough job. In addition him badly." to being a southpaw, he was a great de This punch did not knock Tony out but fensive fighter who made the other fellow it slowed him down. Barney's clever diag carry the battle to him. He would come nosis of the course he must take to offset in a lot, but he wouldn't lead. He would the challenger's skilfully planned attack, wait for his opponent to do that; then he worked out in the middle of the fight, would soak him with his left. His favorite brought him victory. During the remainder blow was a left to the solar plexus. It was of the bout he piled up points enough to a real knockout sock. hold his precious title. "Our idea (Note, please, that when Jimmy McLarnin talks of his fights he seldom says "I" or "me" but always includes Pop Foster The Carnera-Louis bout was a fine ex with an "our" or "we" or "us") was to ample of a well-planned fight. Camera, draw him out, if possible. We felt that if as everyone knows, can't stand punishment we could get him to lead we could beat on the head. It slows his thinking which, him. The psychology of it was to make as Max Baer had pointed out, is none too him think I was timid and that he could speedy. From the start, Louis went after whip me easilv. When he started coming in his head. The object was, if possible, to I backed up. "He let go this long left punch land a knockout blow; but, failing that, of his to the stomach. Joe wanted to get the Italian's guard up "We had planned just what we would do. so he could switch the attack to his body. I stepped inside with a short left hook to When this had brought Primo's guard down his jaw. It hit him before his left had got he would go for the head again. very far. K.O. for Young Corbett! We Louis's model for such an attack was his are the welterweight champion of the world! fight with Lee Ramage at Chicago last And the fight had gone only two minutes December, which contributed importantly to and 48 seconds." his ring education. Lee is a highly skilled Intelligent planning hke this often wiH boxer, rated by many to be the most brine a fight to a quick conclusion. A scientific since Gene Tunney and Tommy similar case was that of Barney Ross, one Loughran. The experts backed him at 3 to 2 time lightweight champion, who this sum to take a ten-round decision from Joe. mer took McLarnin's title from hmi r In 1933 Ross, then only a lightweight, For five rounds, Ramage hit the Negro met Johnny Datto at Pittsburgh. If he with so many left jabs he couldn't get beat Datto a match with Tony Canzoneri, balanced, all the time keeping out of the the champion, was in order. He planned range of Joe's hammer-hke fists by fast the road to Johnnv's knockout spot long footwork. Joe looked. frustrated and fajs in advance and traveled it with high speed sensational progress m the ring was when they faced one another. threatened. He decided he would have to try to slow "Datto, I knew, had a murderous right- •11 hand punch," Barney explained to me. "Also, Ramage up and bring his left hand down he had a tender chin. I decided to let him with punches to the body. Through the think he could hit me with his right, so I sixth and seventh rounds he followed this could get at that chin of his. In the second plan. Of course he had to take a lot of round I saw him lead his right. I didn't punishment himself. But he was willing. try to stop it, but let it pass by my head. Near the end of the seventh round he hit That is, I 'slipped' it. It hit me a glancing Lee on his left ribs with a right so terrific h7ow high on the left side and Johnny im that it stiffened his whole left side. Lee mediately tried to shoot his right again. It couldn't jab with his left any more. Neither was exactly what I expected. I countered could he run away. In the eighth Louis with a left to his chin for a knockout." toppled him with a right cross to the jaw September, 193S 37 that ended the bout. (See photo on page 11). go astray and he may have to reorganize a great deal from that fight. A moral he Now Camera was not in the same class his whole attack. But, in the long run, it is never forgot was that you must leave as with Ramage as a boxer. But his great the man. who studies his opponents ex little as possible to chance. He niet Greb height, his big arms and his long left jab haustively and then prepares careful plans in later fights and beat him. He boxed in provided the equivalent of Lee's skill. As for overcoming them who suffers the fewest a way that made it impossible for Harry long as he was fresh and strong he could upsets. to get close enough to butt him or use any defend his vulnerable spot, making it diffi I recall Gene Tunney's account of his other tricks of the sort. For other fighters cult for the shorter man to connect. But first battle with Harry Greb in his light he was also prepared. He never entered the after a series of terrific body punches, he heavyweight days. He planned to outbox ring without knowing to the last detail had to guard against them. In the sixth Harry, but the latter butted him so effec their methods and qualifications. The after round a successful body attack enabled the tively in the clinches that he broke his math of the Greb defeat was a long line Negro to feint Camera into position. He nose, closed one eye completely, and par of victories for himself which eventually tossed his right to Primo's glass chin and tially closed the other. Gene had to drop brought him the Heavyweight Championship. felled him. He got up, but a left and a his plans. The only course he could follow Sometimes the op>portunities of the ring are right quickly spelled the end for him. was to slug with both hands whenever Greb fine to string along with; but, in the main, In the course of a hard ring battle the came near him. the careful planners are the best ones on best laid plans of the brainy fighter may Gene lost the decision, but he learned whom to place your bets. It Takes Men {Continued from page 8) beneath its bed. He had seen them crip He stared at him, studied him, tried to ^slipped out before McGow realized he had pled, choked, killed by this tool that had understand him. But he could not. This spoken. It was habit. A holdover from the turned upon them. And he had seen them man was cold as the steel he worked with. time when his gang raced against time to get fight on, fighting the air as they fought the Machinery was his god. And on each suc the work done. ceeding tunnel he had introduced a set of river until tunnel building had taken whirling cogs and sliding rods to replace a "What's your hurr>'?" said Red. He place in the construction world as a solid, few men. Now he had made his final move turned to the telephone, gave an order and staple factor. Until subway trains roared lurched back toward the shield. He lifted beneath the rivers and passengers read their and the sand hog was to be a thing of the a shovel and jabbed listlessly at the silt. newspapers oblivious of the tons of water past. Some few of them would be kept to "What you do?" asked the Swede. "We run the machinery—a mere handful of the above them. reckless crew that had gambled their lives ain't muckers no more—Dat machine—he beneath the rivers. But the wild, cursing, do the work." fighting gangs that had poured their sweat "Driver says to load by hand till it's And now the men who had niade this into the building of the tubes, would not be fixed," growled Red. possible were to be shunted aside. Machines there. And McGow knew that this was "Dat guy go crazy for sure," said the Icrc coming in to take up their work. And bad. He knew something more than ma Swede. it didn't seem quite fair—or just. He chinery was needed to fight a river "Yeah—he's crazy like a fox. Drove us knew the master mechanic was "Ah, what the hell. You couldn't under till we couldn't stand up just before they Figures didn't He. But he had hoped Mc- stand about—men!" he said and slammed put in the machines. Wanted to get the Gorwould be able to do the i^Poss'ble, last drop of blood. Yeah—he's crazy." get just a little more work from the men— the door. "Wonder what make him change like dat. Sough to stave off the inevitable until the He used to be good guy." e^rtf the job. On the next tunnel things The rattle and clang of flashing steel "I don't know. But you better move might be different. Something ^^ght hap filled the tunnel heading. The shield looked that shovel or he'll be kickin' you out. pen to keep the men at work. And if not strangely empty. It was a huge drum that He's ready to make a shove." —Talbot didn't want to think about it. As he spoke, the entire mass of the shield His fingers were drumming a r^id tat fitted like a bracelet around the forward trembled. Six thousand pounds of pressure too upon the desk top when McGow en section of the tunnel—a circlet of steel with were directed against the jacks. The pistons tered the office. His smile was the ^nd a sharp cutting edge that drove forward into thrust back. The huge circle of steel ripped that takes the place of words to a beaten the muck. Around its rim was a set of its knife edges into the river bed. And black heavy hydraulic jacks. When pressure was silt gushed through the lower pockets. fighter. And Driver McGow tried to smile applied to these pistons they forced back in return, but couldn't. Inch by inch the shield crept forward. "You win, Harry," he said to the master ward against the completed tunnel lining Air screamed through the openings, twisting mechanic. "Put in your damn machines,. and the entire shield was driven forward and shredding the thick blanket of fog in- "I hear you've got a new name, saia into the river bed. And through the open the tunnel. A tension caught the men in Gribling. "Driver McGow, eh? Worked pockets great streams of black silt poured the heading as it always did when a shove them until they sweat blood and still they into the tunnel. was made. couldn't make the grade. You're a fool, Once there had been men to handle this McGow. Machines don't do that. Oil them silt—shovel it into the muck cars and send and treat them right and they ^don't care it away to the shaft. They were gone now. This was the crucial moment of tunnel how much you speed them up." Belt conveyors spun endlessly, scooping the building. When the shield was advanced "I'm sorry it happened, McGow, said powdered rock and dumping it into the the danger point was reached. The disturb cars. And above, around the circular roof ance of the river bed caused a leakage of ^^'That's all right," he answered. "They of the tube, another machine tightened the air. The pressure dropped, mist clouded the couldn't understand why I was driving them. bolts that drew the iron segments to a water tube, water gurgled into the lower section And they wouldn't take it." tight joint. of the tunnel—slow at first then faster and "But why didn't you tell them? Good Two monstrous negroes stood beside it. faster. The men jammed bags and mud Lord, man—" They had once been iron men—men who into the crevices around the shield, block "Oh, no," said Gribling. "That's out. swung a seventy-five pound wrench for ing the holes, saving the precious air. Tell them they're working to hold down hours at a time. Men who raced through A small percentage of the river bed must their jobs and of course they would speed •their work in the hope of setting a record be allowed to flow in through the pockets. uD And as soon as you decided not to no other gang could match. Now they Not too much—merely enough to allow the nut in the machines they would slow down were automatons, set to guide a machine shield to hold to its proper direction. And Lain. That's not fair—we agreed to that." and keep it running. it rolled down into the bottom in a sluggish ''Yeah, we agreed to it, said McGow. Standing beside an empty muck car, mass, stinking, rank, foul with the stench "And I've got a hunch you knew what Driver McGow looked at the handful of of centuries. would happen when I started driving. You men that had once been his gang. He saw "That's enough!" cried McGow to the always manage to figure things out pretty Red Mullans shut down the power on the man who manipulated the controls. "Close belt conveyor. Watched him as he walked those lower doors." '^'^^^ittle late for an alibi," laughed Grib- slowly toward the telephone and lifted the The shield-driver spun a handle. Hy receiver. draulic pressure was directed to the heavy '^That's no alibi. I'm just trying to tell "What's wrong, Red?" called McGow. gate that hung above each of the lower vou that they're my men—my gang—and "Machine ain't runnin' right," said Red. pockets. They started down, biting into the when I think—" he turned and walked to "I'm callin' for a mechanic." black streams of silt. Half way to the ward the door, opened it and pau.sed to "You and the Swede grab shovels and lower sills they stopped. look at the master mechanic. load a few cars till it's fixed." The order "Close 'em!" yelled McGow. "Do you 38 The Elks Magazine guys want the whole damned river in here?" Driver McGow lifted a plank. He hurled He leaped about in the darkness, work "They're jammed!" called the shield- it into the pocket. And suddenly he knew ing with the speed of a dozen men. He driver. "Stuck tight! I got six thousand he was alone. Gribling had figured their plastered the pocket solid with mud and hay, on them and they won't budge." chance with a mathematical sureness. Noth and lurched away from it, roaring at it, For a moment there was a silence. The ing could stop the river. But there would mocking it. He staggered across the tunnel men in the bottom looked to McGow. be other tunnels. And Gribling had left. to the opposite pocket. It was a lurching, The blacks stopped their work and stared. Yes, it was all over, thought McGow. drunken journey. For McGow was nearly The shield-driver stood motionless. Even the He would keep on flinging timbers into the through. But the fight was only half won. air seemed to pause in its screaming journey breach. But that wouldn't stop the river. Air would be hurling through this other through the river bed. Nothing could stop the river—except men. pocket too. It had to be stopped. And Mc Driver McGow leaped forward. Ten years He had battled other rivers before and he Gow knew he had no strength left. He beneath the river had taught him how to had won. But there had been a fighting, couldn't stop it. He was licked. meet this emergency. It had happened be cursing gang of sand hogs at his back. Now "You ran, Gribling," he yelled. "Ran out fore and might happen again whenever tun he was alone. And he was through, licked, and left me. Left me with your machines. nels were built. That stream of silt must be left alone in a tunnel to die. And they couldn't help me. Nobody could blocked before a channel was formed in the He remembered a time when the river had help me. Nobody but my gang. And you river bed. Once the air found an unob broken into the Holland Tunnel. Ah, that broke them, Gribling—broke them." structed passage through the muck, it had been a fight. A good fight. Red Mul Reason was gone. Driver McGow was would explode upward with the force of all lans was with him then. And the fiery fighting his last fight. He was going to die the many tons of pressure in the tunnel. haired Irishman had raged about the head beneath the river and he knew it. But he "Get me a plank, Red," he cried. "You, ing like a maniac, laughing at the river, wanted to die. His world was gone. His Swede—get a few timbers up here. Hurry daring it to come in and get him. And the world of driving men, sweating backs, proud, man! Jump to it!" Swede had made history when he had lifted arrogant fools who worked because they Red Mullans dropped his shovel. He a four hundred pound flat car from the loved it.^ They were gone. All gone. And stared at the twisting stream of black silt tracks and staggered into the pocket, hurl it was time for him to go. that spewed into the bottom. He listened ing it into the blow. Men still talked of His splashing steps carried him closer to to the air . screaming through the breech. that in the locker rooms and restaurants the pocket. He heard the roar of air as And he laughed. near tunnel shafts. It thundered through the opening. He bent "Like hell I will!" he yelled. "I'm goin'." Driver splashed through the fluid mud above a timber, striving with all the strength that circled his knees. He pawed about in that was left in his back to lift it. His the fog, searching for timbers. Yes, things fingers slipped. He plunged forward onto He turned and started up the tunnel. The had been different on the old jobs. The his face. And the slimy mud gushed into Swede watched him in open-mouthed won fierce pride of the sand hogs had driven his mouth. He spat. He coughed. And he der until he had taken five steps. Down them to perform the work of giants. How struggled erect. Again he gripped the went the Swede's shovel. And he followed. they had strutted and bragged. They were timber and heaved. One step, two, another The blacks were climbing down the flanges the kings of labor, doing things no other —^d his head butted into a naked back. t)f the iron, swinging at arms length like men dared. And their fight with the river His finprs lost their grip upon the wood. giant apes. They leaped to the floor and had been a personal thing. Driver could We stretched a hand forward. Touched the ran. count a friend lost for every tunnel driven, mud caked skin, drifted upward and clenchcd McGow cursed and reached for a timber. a man left behind in the mud with a hol m a thatch of red hair. He jerked it to He thrust it into the pocket. And from be low iron tube to mark his grave. Yes, they him. ' hind, a dozen paces up tunnel he heard a were giants. And they had asked no "Red!" he cried. "Red Mullans—what—" pounding of boots. Gribling was running quarter. •.u And give me a hand toward the shield. But that was long ago—four weeks ago. wim this timber. The Swede's gone after "Where are you going, you dogs?" cricd McGow laughed. Four weeks. And in a flat car." the master mechanic as he crashed into the those four weeks machines had destroyed men. "Afraid of the river?" them. There were no more sand hogs— "Let your damn machines fight it," said they were machine tenders. The machines The shout that came from McGow's Red. "We're getting out while we can." were fighting the river. throat was a cry of victory. He wasn't Gribling cursed and struck at Red with He lifted a bag of cement and stagged alone. His men had come back. And they a wrench. The movement was automatic, back to the shield. Water was coming in were fighting the blow. His men-his sand born of its own volition. For the space of through the lower section of the pocket. hogs were fighting the river. He felt new an instant Gribling ceased to be a master He spat in it. Machines I Machines fight strength surging through him. He laughed mechanic and became a tunnel builder. And ing a river. Well, why didn't they fight it he saw a tunnel being lost. now? Why didn't they do something? if fT ^ ^he timber and hurled "Hey, McGow!" he called. "Look at Again he laughed. And he turned to the ^ thrashed about the heading, suddenly loomed out of the 'em! Look at your sand hogs. These are belt conveyor. incn of the iron gang were carry- the rats you fought for. They're running— "Come on machine!" he cricd. "Come damn them. They're running." on, damn you! Let's see you stop the pocket. And they were -McGow did not answer. The air had river." found its way into the breech and was llcGoJ7eKL?'a bursting up through the river bed. There he cried. was no need now to stop the silt from pour 1 HE sound of his own voice startled him. The a Norse oath, ing in. It had stopped of its own accord. A And he paused for a sight of himself. face wlS heading. His round swirling hole had formed in the Driver McGow—branded by his own men— hlrtrifl v. •* were back and his pocket. A whirlpool of flying silt and and left alone to fight a river. He lifted ^bo^e his eyes. water had started and the pressure was his mud splattered arms and clenchcd his WP «=ar here," he cried. "But lashing into it. Fog closed in tightly and fists. Above him the curving roof of the KeaRpH Mullansff"]; rushed GarUveforward, lickshouting,you!" shrouded the heading in a white veil. A tunnel was barely visible through the mists. six foot plank cradled in his .strident, howling screech of escaping air And ninety feet above that roof, up through hey forced it into the pocket. The shut off all other sounds. a slimy river bed and fifty feet of water, the cement bags against it. And Driver McGow braced himself at the bot sun was shining. Gribling was up there they howled as thev worked. McGow tom of the shield. He hurled timbers and now, telling Talbot the tunnel was lost— pawed about for more boards, laughing, planks into the breech, wedging them, brac that the men had run and would not fight roaring—Jibing at the river. ing them for an instant and they were splin the river. «ut the river was fighting, too. With a tered and whirled up into the spinning maw. But Gribling was a liar. There was one gnndmg sound of tearing wood the breast Gribling joined him. And together they sand hog left. Driver McGow was fighting work bent beneath the pressure of the air. fought the blow. Bags, tools, coats, planks —fighting a battle he didn't expect to win, It cracked. .A.nd timbers, boards and bap anything and everything they could lay didn't want to win. were twisted away into maelstrom. Air hands upon was fed to the whirlpool. Stop Again he forced a timber into the opening, howled through the pocket. it they must or the pressure would be ex and he waited for the air to tear it and spin "I wish we have one flat car," growled the hausted. And with the pressure gone the it away. But the timber held. And Driver Swede. ^ "We stop him then—you bet. river would surge in upon them. McGow cursed, and laughed, and screamed Something big, yeah!" "The other pocket—is it open?" cried at the river. He lifted another timber and McGow was lifting a timber. Soniething Gribling. jammed it home. It held. And he crammed "Yes," answered Driver. big! Something big enough to block that planks and bags into the crevices. Pounded pocket! He turned to the belt conveyor, "Then we're through. We can't stop them them tight with his doubled fists. And they and his laugh was wild as the scream ot the both. Let's get out, Driver—we're licked." too, held. The air lifted its voice to a "Go—go if you want." shouted McGow. air. shriller scream. It whined like a beaten "The machine!" he cried. "Red—Swede "Go—and take your damn machines with thing. And Driver McGow laughed you." —grab the end of that conveyor. I*"®" louder. {Conthiued ofi pn&f- U.S. BUS TIRES > 0. S. B.S.EMGINEDouh'TINGS- 61CYCIE HHES fiUBBERfUSED TO METAl TISES U. S. RUBBER CUSHIDNIMC u.8.*iRTmnfR II.S. TRACTORTIRES U.S. HARD RUBBER STEERINC WHEELS U. S. TIRES- li.S.PHEUMATIC'.dcri 'i;." O.S. IMDUSTRIAL V NEWCAREOUIPMERTI TRUCK SOLIDS BOOTS 0. 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His laugh was loud —^help them you black beggars." against the pocket and was held fast by the and long as he hurled it from him. "May The gang milled about one end of the thrust of the air. be I don't see good before, eh?" twenty foot machine. The long frame was "Now give me a plank, men," he said. "A "Maybe none of us did," said Mullans hinged in the center upon an axle, and its plank—and by God we've licked it." and he grinned when Luke McGow threw a wheek were deep in the mud. They tore "Coming at you," cried a voice. And piece of mud at him. at it, set their naked shoulders beneath the McGow knew it was the voice of the super Quickly as it had started, the blow was half ton of steel. intendent. stopped. The pressure in the tube mounted Crouched beneath the opposite end was "What you doing down here, Talbot?" swiftly and dissipated the clouds of fog. McGow. His legs were wide spread. "Working for Luke McGow, right now," A tired group of men stood in the bottom. Sinews knotted and bunched upon his arms. said the superintendent, and threw a plank And there was pride in the face of each. The cords in his neck drew taut beneath the against the barricade. "Gribling said you For once again the sand hogs had beaten skin. His mouth was a slit that grew were short of men." a river. wider, thinner. "He's a liar. I've got men—^good men." The superintendent looked long at the "Can you make it. Drive—" Red Mul- The rush of air was slackening. They belt conveyors. And he scratched his chin laxis bit down upon the word. "Can you plastered mud about the boards, packing it with a muddy finger. make it, Luke?" tightly, beating it in with their hands. More "Wonder how much of a pricethose things "Lift!" cried McGow, as the name bags were piled against it. The Swede wal will bring as second hand machinery?" he poured strength into his back. lowed into the muck with a flat car held asked quietly. "Not much, I guess. It takes They lifted. The machine rose from the high above his head. men to build a tunnel." Tin Pan Alley Anthem iContinued from page IS) Haven't I got it tough enough with my der. And he's such a darling! I'm breath my heart belongs to Florence. But, then, I friends and relatives who think they can less and he thinks I'm quite a girl myself. dont suppose a girl like Florence could write music and lyrics without your shoving Oh, he doesn't say much and may be just a composer at me? Why can't you fall in a teeny bit unclever and loaded with self- knowi.n!f Maybe she'll like mefellowsfor myshe musicmust love with a dentist or C.P.A.? confidence; but he's so completely unspoiled even if I haven't the wit the New York fel- Tell your heart-throb to see me Tuesday so far that he's like a breath of fresh air. at two. Make it next Tuesday, not this, And he can write music. What I mean, wS i7 sound so clever. I and I hope I'm at home sick in bed. I'd MUSIC! "ke them. Maybe she rather be sick any time than have to listen. He was quite the Galahad when I was in amZVra ceiebnty/klike Gershwin. ® when I click and Wearily, and shame on you for this, distress in a phone booth. No, I had a MO/fs Moe Ornstein nickel. It was that Benny Bersky. You minp S ^ 'ot like mine, only remember I spoke about that Bersky menace r wish I 's easier to sing. the last time you were down? The little to do and still be Mr. Fred Bender 354 W. 12 St. squid, Benny, I mean, got the idea that saddlp him^ If thmk a fellow is wrong to 151 W. 47th St., New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. October 6 mine was the skin he loves to touch and kno^. obligations before he proceeded to do so publicly when Freddy Dear Fred: told him he dassn't with appropriate ges I've arranged for you to play for Mr. tures. That's how I met Freddy and bless Ornstein of Tinkle Tunes. He's a very Benny for it. I even forgive him stealing good friend of mine and will be glad to hear from Beethoven, Bach, et al, now. Riverdale.Vt. New York Cily your compositions. You'll find him a very Concerning my Freddy. He really isn't BuUh you dirly so-aj-s^: real, exceptionally nice person and he as stupid. He's just shy away from his piano sures me he will take a personal interest and acts as if I'm one of the untouchables. Sallv?^ Hat showing my letters to in you. There's something holding him back and I wrSewroie vo^you m strict a all? I Mr. Ornstein is a very busy man and finds don't know what it is. Can it be I'm losing that the earliest he can hear you is a week my lure? Trust Floppy to find out what from Tuesday, that's a week from today, at ails her man. Even if I have to make the women M s ton •' two in the afternoon. The appointment is advances, this man shall be mine. and T ^"ton IS a very n ce person all set. In the meantime, I advise you to We had dinner tonight here in this little fntlest fn that she took an keep practicing the song over and over. heaven of mine and I'm sure it was a dia interest. Now Saiiv^^l ^ The better a tune is played at an audition, bolically smart move on my part. He cer nastiest kinds of the better its chances for a sale. The one tainly enjoys his food and the kind I gave vou Shp fK.-!.! T. tters, all on account of you played the other night, called Milady him was sheer, shameless propaganda. her'back anrf having an affair behind Love, I think it was, would be your best He's dedicating his songs to me. Is that hL? to come right back bet of all I heard. I strongly advise progress? Also, you may be amused and you did? ^'ii too. Now see what against showing him the words you wrote amazed to learn that little Florence can be when I see fracture your skull for it. Milady Love may be a good enough thrilled on top of a bus. Me, thrilled all title, but to me it somehow doesn't fit that over a bus! Not only that; I've discovered Fred type of song. If he likes your tune, he'll an island called Staten through Freddy. On MissSally Foster have a lyric written to it and maybe he'll a ferry. He likes ferry rides, and by a 21 Elm Lane 151 W. 47th St. team you up with a regular lyric writer. strange coincidence, I just learned I adore Riverdale, Vt. New York City Yes, I'll be glad to have dinner with you ferry rides too. He must have Viking blood Dear Sally; October 13- tomorrow night. But you must come down in his veins. If it gets real cold one of to my place. I'll cook us such a dinner. I these nights maybe he'll offer to put some yo^°Suf''OTUe" suJE"® I love monkeying with pots and pans around thing around me to keep me warm. Like just didn't thin^^f"^®'^ my own stove. Then you can play for me an arm—I hope. Oh, where are the bliz you about Miss k-if neces^ry to tell after and I'll sing. My piano is full of the zards of '88! ing to tell ^ Hilton because there isnoth- bluest notes you ever heard. But that I'm coming up to see you one of these misunders and ^ knew you would shouldn't make much difference since you're fine days you can tell me how you went writing modern harmonies anyway. grabbing off your man, Bill. How is the nicestfriend and nprcn«a ver^lf? person. She isfe thi the My best till I see you at seven sharp. sweet idiot? I'm glad you stole him away fT me'^ tn "I so it's natural Don't come formal. Florence. from me. You saved me for Freddy. her Hke enthusiastic things about 254 West 12th St. Excitedly, trying to i ®utch. I was really only Mrs. Mabel Vflorhees, Floppy. beingpemg aradio star anH °"t.,11 of i;i.„him anyway,A fel-her New Milford, Conn. New York City Oct. 7 Dear Diary: Mabs Darling: She's wonderful. So simple and beautiful It's happened to me! To me! I'm in it and democratic. I know I am madly in her"""•rinterest""Kiltinasmewellis nurplvbe niceofones. a businessBesides,na- way up to here and the very thought of love with her and don't know what I can ture and she U towarf my goal. him makes me shiver and quake violently. do about it. I wonder if anyone was ever So you see you are all wrong about her. .\ow I know God's in His heaven and all's in my position. Engaged to one girl and ought to be grateful for what right with the worid since my Freddy came mad about another. I wonder if it wouldn't she IS doing for ^e and not think such into my life. That's his name. Fred Ben- be an injustice to Sally, marrying her when (Continued on page 42) OltiGolO Cigarettes Ci p. LoHllitril Co.. Inc. When atropical typhoon traps you on adesert isle with amuddle- minded cavalier, don't waste away waiting for the rescue. Relax! ... Light a sunny-smooth Old Gold. Its mellow fragrance will soothe your nerves and turn your predicament into a paradise. ONLY FINE OLD TOBACCO can give that natural aroma andfragrance of Old Gold cigarettes AT TRYING TIMES. . . .TRY A S^rrvooth OLD GOLD 42 The Elks Magazine {Continued from page 40) Miss Florence Hilton 151 West 47th St. your pores are wide open. Take time out, n«ty things about a perfectly swell girl who 354 W. 12th St. New York City sweetheart, and close them. First thing I am not the leasts bit interested in the way New York City Oct. 23 you know you'll be caught in a draft and you think even if she is very beautiful and Dear Florence: after the first couple of sneezes, you'll wake who is not interested in me in that way What have I done to offend you that you up one fine day to find yourself dead. either. ..- treat me like this? Why don't you answer Now I don't suppose I'll be exactly break I want to thank you for the last cake you my letters? This makes the si.xth one I've ing your heart when I tell you that little sent. It was delicious. I liked it better written and still you don't answer. And Sal is becoming quite a pal to Sammy than the layer cake you sent last week. why do you hang up when I call on the Swain. If you know where to look, and I Miss Hilton said whoever made it is a good phone? When you hear my voice, you do, you can spot them almost any time cook and she bet it was my mother when I always hang right up on me. holding hands and et cetera, as if each is told her it came from. Riverdale. I went Whatever it is I've done, I'm sorry. Won't afraid to let the other go. It's a liberal up to see her at her place the other night you tell me what it is so I can make education to watch them. Sally is a smart to play some of my tunes and I brought amends? If it's because Mr. Ornstein didn't little gal and Sam's pop has one of the best your cake along. We had it for dessert after like my song, I can write more and better businesses in the State. To Sally, your Miss Hilton made a very nice supper for us. ones. Please, won't you tell me what it is dad's music teaching can't hold a candle to So now I hope you understand that be and give me a chance to set myself straight Swams thriving hpdware store. Am I tween me and her there is nothing but a with you again? It matters terribly to me. making myself lucid even to you, dear bond of friendship and she is helping me to Please, hearts blood? I never could see Sally my- get ahead. Fred self-thats why I let you have her. And Love, and regards to your folks, as for Sammy Swain—well, I hope they are Fred Mrs. Mabel Voorhees, 354 W. 12th St. stuck on and with each other New Milford, Conn. New York City Now sit you down and write a guy how you re doing. Send me any dips you have TINKLE TUNES PUBLISHING CO. Mabs Dear: on yourself so far. We have to fill the 1580 Broadway All men are beasts. Every last one of Sentinel somehow. New York City them from the cradle to the carpet-slipper Love and kisses, Miss Florence Hilton Oct. 14 age. That's not a quote from any pro Butch 354 W. 12 St. found writer. It's just my own observation on man, Freddy included. I'm too full up New York City COHEN BROTHERS PIANOS to write any more about it, but it's a sor Pianos For Hire Dear Florence: did tale. When I see you, maybe. So save 626 Third Avenue N Y C I'm sorry,to hand you this, but your boy Mr. Fred Bender, Dr. ' Kovember 6 friend Bender is a swiftie and too slow to all your tears and prepare to have a good get away with it. cry with me when I come up. 151 W. 47th St. I\ovemt>er0 He has his nerve sitting down to my Miserably, New York City piano and admitting he wrote a number Flops Benny Bersky wrote and brought in to me ^verdur"'''.:™. last week. I will say, when your boy friend Mr. Fred Bender 354 W. 12th St. AOTE: YOU REMiTAT ONCE lifts, he picks dandies to steal. That won't 151 W. 47th St. New York City get him very far and I advise you to warn New York City Oct. 24 RFUnui^^ FORCED TO him against that sort of practice. He seems Dear Mr. Bender: YOURYnff^ PREMISES.A PJANO FROM too nice a kid to start off the wrong way in Surely you must be able to take a hint. this racket and he's certainly started wrong. To make it very plain, I cannot see you I don't know where he heard the Bersky again and must ask you not to phone, call 795 Sixth Ave tune, as it isn't published yet and hasn't or write. N. Y r been plugged; but he sure did hear it and Since you plead ignorance so innocently, PAWN TICKET can write anything he's ever heard. Almost Mr. Ornstein wrote me the day you played F-036S42 .. , note for note. for him and told me of your bald attempt ITEM: One genfs g„,d Sorry, and yours for good singing, at tune thieving. And that was the song MO/fs Mae Ornsiein you were going to dedicate to me. I could SUBJECT TO' SALP forgive almost anything but an outright UNLESS redeemed theft, and a theft from Benny Bersky at WITHIN ONE YEAR Oct. 14 that. Surely you can plagiarize from better FROM DATE ON THI? Dear Diary: RECEIPT. composers. I am puzzled. Mr. Ornstein was very nice Mr. Fred Bender to me until I played half way through Mi Florence Hilton 151 W. 47th St lady Love. Then he told me to get up and New York City he sat down and played the rest of the song Mr. Fred Bender 18 Elm Lane through without even looking at my manu 151 W. 47 St. Riverdale. Vt. Mrs. Mabel Voorhpp<: is a ti/ loiit c/ script. He made some nasty comment New York City Oct. 27 NfwNew Milford,MiUnrrf Conn.^ 354 W.york12thCitySt. about being original and wouldn't listen to Dear Son: any more of my songs. All of a sudden he What is the matter? Why haven't I had Darling Mab: November 14 was cold to me. I wonder what the reason a letter from you in the past two weeks? is. When I asked him how he knew my Are you ill? Has something happened? see yo^fndT//?,^^"' I'm coming up to song, he said he must have heard it some I am so worried and don't know what to so meet the S no i tomorrow, where, too, like I did. When I insisted I think. Nobody else in town has heard from all the scandal yon^l rehearsed m didn't hear it anywhere, but that I wrote you lately, either, so how can I help but can stav fivn , u . ® to tell me. 1 it all myself, he walked out on me and left think awful things? Father says he will for one of mv returning me flat without another word. send you money only on condition that Yes itl a»eged broadcasts^ you use it for train fare home and refuses didn'Ne l vfn We've made up. I absolutely to allow me to send you any, to eye becaJs?T^^ ^"en't seeing eye Dear Diary: Oct. 15 especially since he found out about that last anyway I kL too miserable, and Now what could I have done to annoy money order for twenty-five dollars I sent tsrSp'hi'STo z '"lur" Florence? She didn't keep a date we had you. little misunH^rcf bosom again. J"st a for tonight and when I called her up, she Write at once. I am so anxious about fault, than his Xnd^H vpr S seemed distant and reserved. I wonder if you. me I'm nnt o' ^ don't anyone ever ten she suspects I have a girl back home. I Love, my own rfehf ^ood little tactician m remember she did say something jokingly Mother about the cake. Something like she bet PS.—If you are in trouble, confide in there is someone in Riverdale who sends your father. He is a man of the world me good things. When I didn't answer that and understands about such things. He will she said it wouldn't surprise her if I did help and advise you. o7?he"IS«„tsl Twal have a girl. And Sally is certainly getting bossy in THE RIVERDALE SENTINEL cuses or him. When ataumtabfegirl does that for a her letters, even if she does write how much RIVERDALE, VERMONT m^, Its curtains. She's cone on him. she still loves me. She can't love me very Mr. Fred Bender Oct. 29 Prepare to offer hospitalfty to a gal effer- much if she insists I drop my career and 151 W. 47th St. vesang with the great emSn I may rave come home right away. If she takes that New York City attitude now, what will she be like later Hi Slob! a little; but that's th^way he affects me on? Now that I think of it, she's nearly a Why in hell don't you write? I suppose m>Sf him, which I do even to year older than me. and besides, I bet she it's that tomato you raved about so much. will get fat like her mother. She must be keeping you so hotted up Oodles 'n' September, 193S November 14 Dear Diary: Well, I can lick the world again. I took matters in my own hands today and a good thing I did. I've been following Florence around wherever she goes for days, ever since she wouldn't see me because she thought I was a song plagiarist. Today, after her broadcast, I followed her from the studio to the restaurant where she al ways eats after her broadcasts, and I stood outside - watching her from the windov/. It's like "buying H Suddenly,-1 got mad and couldn't stand it any longer, so I marched right in for a showdown." When she saw it was me, she blindfold" if you order tried to get up but I held her down and made her listen. I told .her plenty about how unjust she was for :condemning me a drink without H without a hearing and then I reminded her that I played that Bersky song before naming the brand ir* Tinkle ever published it, so I couldn't have heard it and stolen it from Bersky. I told her how I wrote it in Riverdale before I ever came to New York. Then a funny thing happened. She got all fussed and said she was a beast for ever doubting me in the first place and it didn t make a bit of difference if Ornstein thought I was a tune thief. She didn't. Not for a minute really. She sort of began to cry and when I kissed her, everybody looked at us but we didn't care a whoop. We left and went up to my room so I could play her my new song. The one I wrote since we broke up. Only I couldn't play it for her because those piano people sneaked in while I was out and took the piano, be cause I hadn't payed them the rent for it. Anyway, Florence did a very generous thing.. She called Mr. Ornstein and made him promise to hear mc again. He didn't want 'to at first, but Florence made him give in so I'm to play for' him again day after tomorrow. This new song will show him I can write music. I've been slavmg over it, putting all my heartbreak and When you order a drink in a despair into it. Maybe it's a good thing hotel, restaurant or club—make Florence broke off with me. If she hadn t, most likely I wouldn't have been inspired sure what you're getting! to write such a grand song. For your own good, for your She said it was too bad Bersky beat me in with the other tune and that such things own protection—specijy the brand often happen that two composers get the to be used. same melodic idea. That's \vhy most popu lar songs sound so much alike, I guess. I If you want to be sure of a guess Bersky is moved by the same inspira tion that moves me. His song, Wanna Do mellower high-ball, a smoother a Duet, is so much like Milady Love that cocktail, it's easy to say "Make it's hard to tell them apart. In fact, there's no difference e.vcept in the middle. He's go minewithSeagram's." Seagram's ing to make a lot of money out of it. So will Crown Whiskies are blended the his lyric writer, A1 Dorf. It's the biggest thing on the air already and sheet music is Seagram way for better taste. soiling by the ton. Lucky guy. A couple That is why they are America's of days and I'd have beaten him in. Oh, well, nothing can stop me now that favorite whiskies. When you Florence is friendly again. I kissed her a say Seagram's you're sure of a couple of times, and after the third time I better drink. didn't even think of Sally at all. I couldn t think of anything as a matter of fact. TINKLE TUNES PUBLISHING CO. 15S0 Broad-way, New York City FINE WHISKIES SINCE 1857 Miss Florence Hilton, November 16 354 West 12th Street, Neiv York City. Dear Florence: Mil Your boy friend Bender seems to have a preference for Bersky tunes. I heard him again and this time he assured me he had a honey. And so he had. He had Bersky's latest. The one I'm enclosing, Love, iemded ^M/mAied Where Is Thy Sting? Seagram-Distillers Corp., N. Y.—Plant: Lawrenceburg, Ind, Bersky brought it in several days ago and it s far and away the best torch I've ever heard. And IVe heard them all. Some thing must have happened lo Bersky's love- lifc. .Until recently that babv's devoted of the old rnasters.to perpetuatingThese days he'sthe worksreally inspired, and much as I dislike the twiro The Elks Magazine personally, I've got to give credit where tune too. I wrote it, God knows, out of credit is due. He means money to Tinkle blood and tears. I can prove it by Mrs. Tunes. Healy, my landlady. I had been playing WATCH YOUR _0f course I had Bender thrown out on that song over and over again for at least his ear when he insisted it was his song. a week before Bersky ever brought it to It's too bad about that one. He's all wrong Ornstein. She even threatened to make me and I tried to tell him so, but he got mad move unless I stopped playing it and fixing and wanted to iight. He'll never get to it up because all the roomers complained. first base behaving that way. I don't care about anything any more STEP! Drop him quick, giriie. A guy who'll except you. Music means nothing to me steal a tune will play his girl dirty every compared to you. It is you. It has always chance he gets, so don't give him a chance. been you from the first time I ever saw Best, you. _I felt it then and I know it now. MO/fs Moe Ornstein. It will be you always, forever. You are End: One copy everything that is holy to me. I wouldn't, "Love, Where Is Thy Sting?" I couldn't, lie to you. You must believe in me. Just this once again and let me Dear Diary: Nov. 16 prove I am not a tune thief. If you don't It happened again. I'm mad. I'm boiling. give me a chance I will do away with my- Ornstein threw me out bodily this time after showing me my new song already f.';life •.is Lbut ^anmeanempty,it. futileBccausenothing.without you published. It's by Benny Bersky again and is called Love, Where Is Thy Sting? Please, Fred. I can't understand it. It's note for note my new song that I put everything I had into, Ornstein wouldn't believe me when 151 West 47th St., New YorkJ2thCitySt. I argued it with him. I tried to call Flor New York City. Nov. 24 ence to tell her all about it, but she's not Mr. Bender: home. She's out of town visiting her folks. I approve most heartilv of your proposed If Ornstein wouldn't believe me, Florence action and believe me when I say I think has got to. She just must. Only she never It cannot possibly be too violent to suit me. heard me play this before it was published Gas in quantities would be a good method; like the other one Bersky beat me in with. though personally, I would advise any floor ATHLETE'S FOOT But she'll know I'm telling the truth. above the fiftieth of The Empire State Now I wonder. It can happen once; but ^n it happen twice in the same place? If fiftlfifty-_e\enth floor ^and I am ^ lawyersure heon willthe Isn't as deadly as the Bersky weren't an old timer and established ob igc you with a window. When shall I as a song writer, I'd swear he stole from me. I don't know what to think. I wish I did. And please look GILA MONSTER ... I wish Florence gets home quick so I can so that the lives of ask her what she thinks. Vol. f not be endangered. but It's a thousand times Nn ^^'ith my best wishes. TELEGRAM vou h." ^playing thewelcome tunes ofthere the otheruntil more widespread MISS FLORENCE HILTOX angels on your harp. 354 W 12 ST NYC NOV. 18 1:35 PM • Although horrible to look at, the gila DESPER.^TE you must ANSWER f..nvfully ^^nrforK"" \our'"'•'Etchingobituary.the newspapers hope monster has some of the beauty of excellent YOUR PHONE OR COME DOWN TO beadwork. But there is nothing lovely about DRUGSTORE Florence Hilton. - tinea trichophyton (the fungus which FRED causes Athlete's Foot). MISS florence^hilton The Athlete's Foot fungus may be lurking TELEGRAM 354 W 12 ST NYC 25 right now on your bathroom floor, or in the MISS FLORENCE HILTON 354 W 12 ST NYC NOV 18 3:20 PM locker room at your club or gym. MUST TALK TO YOU GOING CRAZY TTovi^^ou'''' crue'I^hen Not until the boring, dreaded fungus has PLEASE COME TO DRUGSTORE FRED prodded its way into the tender flesh be FRED tween your toes do you know it's got you. fsi wZi 354 West 12th St. Then—redness, tiny itching blisters appear. Dear Diary: Nov. 18 Nlw Yfrk'cllJ'- New York Ci/yCity Perhaps—excessive moisture, white, dead- She won't listen to me. Life is a burden. Nov. 25 looking skin, swelling and pain begin to I think I will get drunk. I will end it all. vou disappointed to learn plague you. Any of those signs may mean Mrs. Mabel Vorhees, 354 West 12th St. immediate steprto ATHLETE'S FOOT is digging into your New Milford, Conn. New York City Voiir .• Remedy your oversight. toesl Nov. 18 Sa e te "'r' Use Absorbine Jr. at Once Mabs dear: mo?r if \h\ '"c despise you At the very first symptom—douse on Men are not only beasts, they're liars as Absorbine Jr.! Laboratory tests show that it well. I walked in on something when I came back from New Milford that knocked F. H. kills tinea trichophyton in thirty seconds the pins right out from under me. I'll never, Dear D/ary," ~ after it has penetrated to the pest. never get over it. I'm the prize sucker of Always keep Absorbine Jr. in your medi them all and if I ever trust a man again, fliSant .n How can she be so cine cabinet and in the locker at your club 1 m going to shop for a straight-jacket hrink-brink ofn'f eternity?f ^^rtless iwhenjesniscI standher onNo,theI or gym. Use it after every bath to refresh trimmed with Alencon. •ove her. I hate her and will .how her I your feet and kill the fungus before it has a Your older, sadder and wiser chance to dig in. Even your socks must be Florence :"l understands, she boiled 15 minutes to kill the fungus. Don't be a victim of the switch racket. Dear Diary: Nov. 20 She hates me. I tried to force myself Good, dealers will give you the genuine BLRGLAR burgles GAS on her in the restaurant again today. She i-ove-sick Youth Attempts Absorbine Jr. when you ask for it. Re called the manager and had me put out. fuse substitutes ... It's thrifty to use When I tried a second tame, the manager V Theft for Suicide , , Absorbine Jr. because it takes so little to called a policeman. Life is an empty jest 27 (By bring relief. At all druggists $1.25 a bottle. and an unbearable burden. I will end it aD f-redL- rBender, u V'Hing23,mailof who151 Wsave47thhisStreet,name For free sample write to W. F. Young, Inc., all. forced a window last ni"ht in the apfirt" SpringBeld, Mass. menf ol Miss Florence Hilton, radio blues- Miss Florence Htllon, 151 West 47lh St. singer of•• West l^ih Sf forlor the purpose, 354 West 12th Street, New York City he confessed to" Magistrate O'Rvan New York City. Nov. 23 \rNight .ouri,Court. ofOltoshowing Maffistrateherher, , Florence dear, darling, The attempt and gas theft wen' loilid ABSORBINE JR. You must give me a chance to explain when Miss Hilton, entering her apartment, Relieves sore muscles, muscular achos, bruises, in person. Surely all my letters must have saw the burglar hoverinc over her gas sprains, sleeplessness, and SUNBURN convinced you I didn't try to steal this range. She scrcamcd Sly. Patrolman September, 1935 Shevlin answered her rich contralto and made the arrest over Miss Hilton's subse quent protests. The singer refused to press charges and the. burglar, maudliniy incandescent with repeal liquor, received a suspended sen tence from the understanding Magistrate, who listened to the would-be suicider's stammered story of unrequited love and Money shouts reprimanded him thus: "Stealing gas from her and littering up your lady-love's nice clean kitchen with your corpse is no way to show your de where a dime buys this!' votion. Unless you succeed in your next attempt, the Court will sentence you to 30 days for criminal fumbling. And next time, close the window so the gas won't leak out." telegram MR FRED BENDER 151 W 47 St NYC NOV 27 RIVERDALE VT IDIOT COME HOME IMMEDIATELY STOP I KNOW A BETTER WAY DAD THE RIVERDALE SENTINEL Riverdale, Vermont Mr. Fred {Gas-Bandit) Bender 151 W. 47th St. .. Nen: York City hov. 27 Dear Love-Sick Youth: Bovoboy, you did it with a bang! What a story! What a write-up! That s keepmg the old promises to me, ol' kid, ol kid. It was a honey and you sure made the front page, picture and everything "ght m The Sentinel. Big streamer, Local Boy Makes Good." When the story canie m over the wire, I beat it over to your house and lifted your confirmation and gradua tion pictures off the wall. I had your bap tismal picture, too, only the boss was afraid of censors. We sold out the whole edition to the last copy, due to my gifts as an """Need I say I will be watching the wires for more of your amorous antics? Indeed, I need not. Congratulations, lad. t.^en it it wasn't a success interview, it was a «rite- up. Success! Will twenty bucks cure what ever it is that ails you? Let me know and I'll send it along—if I can get it. Pull your socks up; out with the chin. You catch them easier that way. Ralph Bellamy, weli-known motion picture star, Union Leader smoker since 1932 As ever, Butch I USED to buy tobacco on the enjoyment than any fancy pipe Mr. Fred Bender theory that the more you 151 W. 47th St. Riverdale, Vt. mixture I've ever smoked—and New York City pay, the more you get. Then I it costs me onedime. When you Fred Bender: , ,..,,r learned that myarithmetic was First I want to say I am ^^^^ed at >oi^ halve your expense and double stupidity, Fred. And second that 1 am all wet. Because the mellow, your pleasure — that's the shocked that you could have toyed with my old Kentucky Burley in Union heart the way you have been doing a this kind of arithmetic I'm fond of. time. Saying you loved me when all the Leader packs more smoking (Great in cigarettes, too.) time you were ready to die for woman. You never offered to dtc , e p. Lorlllard Co., Is«. It only goes to show what trusting women are. ,. , u Don't think you can come crawling deck expecting me to take you back again a this. I won't. Imagine how it makes lilNIOlM LEADER look to the folks here. I can now why you didn't answer my letters, anu why you wouldn't come home. 1 can p two and two together and no matter w happens to you now it will serve you rignt. I am returning your ring and hope i never see you again as I am now engaged to Sam Swain, who has given me a ring with a much larger stone. Miss Sally Foster Miss Florence Hilton New Miljord, Conn. 354 W. 32th St. Nov. 27 New York City Flops dearest— You're all over the front page here at THE GREAT AMERICAIM SIV10KE 46 The Elks Magazine home as a Lorelei who lures young men to That's all for the present, except that T destruction. (See enclosed clipping.) What, love you. I love you to the ultimatest ult really, is it all about? I can't fathom it. and keep playing the song till I tell you Is love really like that? Maybe I've to stop. It's most important. missed something. What have you that I All my love, every bit, haven't that you can find a man in this day and age willing to kill himself for you? Florence You keep a stiff upper lip and speak to no TINKLE TUNES PUBLISHING CO. one till you've seen me and can brag. I 1580 Broadway must know everything. I'll listen breath New York City lessly without interrupting. Bill and I are Mr. Fred Bender coming down on•Thursday on some busi 151 W. 47th St. ness of his and some show-going, too. Till New York, New York December 8 then, be brave. Dear Sir: REDUCE Bill just said .there is something fatal Will you accept my most humble apolo about you. He admits (the beast) that he gies and call to see me at your earliest con 4 to 6 Inches nearly ended it .all once on your account. venience? I have done you a very grave Only, instead, he learned how to swim be injustice; but under the circumstances I cause he didn't know the lake was that deep am sure you understand and will not hold it where he jumped in. against mo or the Tinkle Tunes organiza Loads, tion. NEW Mabs Our mutual friend. Miss Florence Hilton, has convinced me beyond a shadow of Mr. Fred Bender 354 W. 12th St. doubt that you, and not Mr. Ben Bersky, ISl W. 47th St. Nev} York City ^^O'nposer of two of our leading song EASY WAY New York City Dec. 2 hits. Naturally I intend to make it up to Freddy darlingest: >ou to the last_ penny and would take it as Can you ever forgive me? I know all a great favor if you will read over some can't stand myself for being so contracts 1 have prepared for your signa NO DRUGS stupid. If you never do forgive me it will ture. I_ would also like to talk with you serve me right . . . only, I do love you so, concerning your future song output and so much. can assure you of terms equal to or better I discovered everything last night when than any you .may be offered by our com 1 was visiting a friend of mine and her husband who are stopping at The Shelby petitors. wotel on Forty-Eighth Street. Her room my personal check for one looks almost directly into your room. You intt f dollars which repre- really should pull down the shade. The sents part^ of royalties due you from sales Shelby stands back to back Whtr T a Duct" and "Love, with Mrs. Healy's rooming house and I saw dT;!! vn, -u r Sting?" The balance still "I wore the Director Belt and reduced you and heard you arguing with your land immediately upon re- my waistline from 42 to 33 inches. 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September, 1935 Dear Diary: Dec. 10 \ IV.; Life is now a bowl of cherries! Every- I thing is on the up-beat, like my lyric writer, Mm A1 Dorf, says. And it's all because of. Florence. She did it all and her friend was responsible too. At least her friend's head ache was. When Florence went to visit her at The Shelby there was a party going on upstairs right above her room. Her friend complained to the manager about her head ache and the noise, but the manager couldn't stop the party. So Florence went upstairs to put a stop to it herself and there she found Benny Bersky. He lives there and was giving the party to celebrate his suc cess. Florence saw it all. She figured if she could hear me so plainly arguing with Mrs. Healy in my room, then Benny Bersky could hear me too. She said can't I just picture Bersky with his ears cocked and his pencil poised listening to me composing my songs. I had to play the manuscript song (the one Ornstein gave Florence when she told him everything and made him a party to the plot) nearly a week before Florence told me I could stop. I wish I could have been there when Bersky walked in with it and told Ornstein he had a brand-nev/ hit. Florence was there and she said it was pathetic to see Bersky crying and slobber ing all over himself when Ornstein showed him he had the goods on him. Florence was so sorry for him, she persuaded Orn stein not to have him arrested. The poor guy must have fallen awfully low to do a thing like plagiarizing songs. I can't under stand why he bothered stealing the last one, the one that trapped him. It wasn t nearly as good as my two. ... Under the Spreading Antlers {Continued from page 21) Card Lost by Member of Terre Haute, Ind., Lodge Terre Haute, Ind,, Lodge, .\o. 86, an nounces the loss of the Life Membership Card belonging to one of its members, James M. Propst, whose membership num ber is 1159. The card was issued for the MEASURE THE year 1935-36. , , ^ , It is requested that this card be taken HARDIVESS OF GILLETTE STEEL up immediately if presented at any Lodge, and that the Secretary of Terre Haute HAVEN'T you of\cn noticed that a square cut diamond —pressed Lodge be notified. 1.1. evenin the samepacfcagesam^ n/irjcni(r«> ofnfni<.or> against lU.™the steel—measures^>^^1 hard C. L. Shideler, Secy. dinary blades—one blade may give ness with absolute accuracy. Vari you a decent shave—while others ations of more than 1'/^% from the Florence, Ala., Elks pull and scrape? Lack of uniform desired standard result in rejection Hold Barbecue ity begins with the steel itself. In of the steel. the finest coil of steel, hardness Members of Florence, Ala., Lodge, No. Here's one reason why you get a varies. This is why diamonds—rare 820, celebrated the Fourth of July with a far better shave every time you put and costly—80 times harder than big barbecue, followed in the evening by a a Gillette "Blue Blade" to your face. regular meeting. Clarence M. Tardy, of any other substance in the world— Its edgesareurei/orm/ykeenbecause Birmingham Lodge, No. 79, Pres. of the test the temper of Gillette steel Ala- State Elks Assn., gave a splendid talk ground on steel ofcorrect temper- after heat treatment in furnaces ex hard enough to cut glass, yet lough at the barbecue. clusive with this company. and resilient for long life. Try the Successful Summer Season Every minute of every working Gillette"BlueBlade" day samples of steel from the fur and see for yourself. of Quincy, Mass., Lodge naces are submitted to the hard A busy summer proppm, outlined at the Ask your dealer for •j i "— beginning of his administration, by E.R. nessi tester pictured above. Here a package tonight* Gn/ettei Clyde E. Orcutt, of Quincy, Mass., Lodge, Reputable merchants give you what you ask for. In • BLADE I No. 943, was successfully carried out. A live Entertainment Committee, headed by stores where substitution is practised—INSIST ON P.E.R. William C. Canniff, Jr., had much to do with the many activities, among which were numbered a dance at the Wollaston Yacht Club, a stag clambake and a clam bake for Elks and their ladies. Quincy Lodge's Beano Games are now in the tenth month and still going strong. George A. Rhodes, Correspondent 48 The Elks Magazine BROTHER ELK... The Social Side of the HeRE'STHE BEST BET IN NEW VORk.^ Grand Lodge Convention (Continued from page 29) Chanters and the excellent male chorus froiii 1301. The ladies drilled in front of the Lorain, O., Lodge, No. 1301. A baseball Home of Columbus Lodge. game at the Red Bird Stadium was a major Unique among the events occurring dur attraction in the early evening, and. was ing Convention Week was a scries of races followed by a soft ball game and fireworks. by horned toads brought to Columbus by Wrestling matches and exhibition boxing the Arizona Elks, who started on the bouts were presented throughout the week toads and arrived for the entertainment of fight fans. James with but 22 Those surviving presented a J. Braddock, World's Heavyweight Cham difficulty The city of Columbus could not GLORIOUS C furnish their staple diet of flies. F. A. DAYS ^ pion, was one of the famous fighters who appeared. J Trainer, and M. H. Stark Including weather, Toad Track Manager, finally pro- Room with Private Both and Radio. * Five Meals in Hotel Dining Room, The chief social event on Tuesday was * Dinner with floor show Hollywood the Governor's Purple and White Ball which ^lemorial Hall adjoining Restaurant. took place at Olentangy Park. Dancing, * Radio Ciiy Music Hall. bathing and the colorful pageant—"Days of nf fh the social high- * R. C A. Observation Tower, N. B. C. '49"— were especially enjoyed on that day. Si Th^ Convention—the Grand Crvstal Studios. A beauty contest was conducted at the Park S Nat nn-,1 is usual * Sightseeing Bus Trip one,nL fi'rh with excellentConventions,music aandmost n fT<;trfullvcolorful • with 300 charming young ladies entered in Consult your Club Secretary For reservation!. competition. Miss Oleta Richardson was decorated ball room. Th. Soor sho' was Also 2, 4, 5 and 6 day Special Tours chosen "Miss America of Elkdom" by the From $5.50 up. three judges, and was one of the guests of ColZb"us in • honor on the following evening at the Grand MiS F Exalted Ruler Guaranteed Daily Rafe Crystal Ball. Selccf Exalted $2.50 Single On the Tuesday night program was a ITS The bri,lli'„T"„:„Tworn With Private Bath and Radio concert by a well-known .4ntlers Band of Circulating lee Water 75 pieces comprised in the main of young musicians from Kent, Ravenna and War Ta l Drovidrri decorations of the large ren, O. ^ ^ spectacle of color and On the following day, Wednesday, July 17, /^Plymouth the program commenced with a concert by ioJed°fhe'''E]k ft? the Ball cn- the Los Angeles Chanters with J. Arthur other special ente^SS singing, iT.7.£»t.B •WAY Lewis, their leader, conducting. The second the Sunken GarS ' f dancing m Home. Columbus Lodge JAME OWNERJHIP^ffMCAPITOLS.PReSID£NT business session of the Grand Lodge was then held. At this session the Annual Me morial Service for departed Grand Lodge Members took place. It is reported else where in this issue. ^^ened^tL^^fficuV .'^fter the business sessions the Grand Tulv 18 program on Thursday, B.O Lodge officers and a delegation of local Elks LssLnf^fS'^S^^.''^ the final business IN PIPES visited the graves of three prominent Colum event was the imore^^;? Princ'P^^ bus Elks—Past Grand Exalted Ruler John stallation of the ne«^ r ceremony ol m- PIPE 25' G. Price, who held office in 1924-25; John by Toseoh T p ^ Grand Lodge officers W. Kaufman, a distinguished P.E.R. of g^an^d'lxalted. the Past SWEETENER Columbus Lodge, and P. J. Dern, who was a much loved and respected Trustee of the thJ^mi^lU-co'lor'id T '^'^"'"^day ^yas MADE BY THE MAKERS OF Lodge. In the party were Grand Exalted Ruler Michael F. Shannon, Grand Chaplain Slumbis. 7n' w?dfs\ree"s^of Arthur 0. Sykes, E. R. Paul M. Herbert of DrinWess Columbus Lodge, and a number of other S"itoS distinguished members of the Order. They ICAYWOODIE visited the Elks burial plot in Greenlawn HdTe 'l^:norO^,^^ny^S PROVED THE BEST SMOKING PIPE IN THE WORLD Cemetery after leaving Mr. Price's grave in KAUFMANN BROS. « BONDY, INC., NEW YORK, N. Y. St. Joseph's Cemetery. Early in the afternoon the Chorus of Medford, Mass., Lodge, No. 915, enter tained, and later the Grand Lodge convened i^oats in the procisinn'^''"''' interesting for its third session. senting the Arizo^; c" the one repre- DOG WORM Final play in the Golf Tournament took Tucson, Mhs M Hospital.at place on Wednesday and various other ac tendent of thl Thomas, Superin- CAPSULES tivities of a diverting nature filled the time parade. PriSs P^'-ticipated in the E of those who did not attend the Grand the States of 'he float? frorn for the mn<;t- Indiana—Honda Tlow Combined in- Lodge session. finest interpretatl"^*^'^"'' Indiana fo'' the % Protect your doC's health; filve him new "pep ; free him of entered by ¥ofo, - ^he float worms ... thocauseof75 -,oof nil doft ^ ceived the pri^e f°' 1' P' ^^2 uilmoiits. It's easy now. No more The prize contests for bands and drill .. l-"ize inr .u- from a ftucsslnii which kind of worms nfilict teams were held at Olentangy Park, the your clog; the new Pulve* \Vorm< fiiipnuIeB cxpe! Tape, Round, and preliminaries starting at two in the after Hook Worms in one dositiiJ. No liusslnji, gaftCIng, or noon and the finals becinning at eight in DArucn pv harmful cITctis. At pet shops and 82M VCADCYEARS Ornc driifiWilliamstores.Cooper7Sc, or& writeNephews.us direct.Jnc.. the evening. The Drill Team of Birmingham, EXPERIENCE 1929 Clifton Avc., Chicat^o. Itlioois Ala, Lodge, No. 79, was the winner in the Drill Team Contest, %vith the Medford, n • • • K Combinaiion Mas?., Lndce Team a close second. The KULVBX worm capsules splendid band of Piqua, O.. Lodge, No. 523, won first prize in the Band Contest, barely wresting the victory from the excellent or Raise Frogs For Us ganization from No'blesville, Ind., Lodge, No. special box opposite the 576. Wo TOpply Block fttid buy wlint you misc. N'o etporicnco With this impressive and iiuccseiirv. ItacJcyaril puikIu eiUirt yciu. Aiiy cliniatc Htjitnblu. One of the featured events in the after gallant spectacle was closed one of the most Our J-'REt; book "A I'oriuiio in i'VoRs" ospliiiiis uvcrytliing. noon was an Exhibition Drill by the Lady memorable Conventions of the Grand Lodge AMERICAN FROQ CANNIKQ C0„ (138-8). NEW ORLEANS. LA. Elks Drill Team of Lorain, 0., Lodge, No. ever held in its long and honorable history. September, 193S N evvs of the State Associations {Continued from page 24) At 9:30 the Convention Ball was held in the dance pavilion on the Chautauqua Grounds at Lake Madison with 600 couples participating. Vaudeville entertainment fur ther brightened the evening. The officers elected by the Assn. for the coming year are: Pres., Casper G. Aaberg, Brookings; 1st Vice-Pres., Milton E. Dow- dell, Mitchell; 2nd Vice-Pres., Herbert M. i. Johnson, Rapid City; Secy., Carl H. Nelles, Madison; Treasurer, M. M. Korte, Aber deen; Trustees: 0. F. McNulty, Sioux Falls, (five years) and William T. Williams, Watertown (one year). Sioux Falls was chosen as next year's Convention City. Carl H. Nelles, Slate Secy. Michigan The 30th Annual Convention of the Mi^i- gan State Elks Association was held at De troit June 14-15-16, with Detroit Lodge, No. 34, acting as host. Approximately 200 mem bers of the Order were in attendance, in cluding Past Grand Trustee John K, Burch, of Grand Rapids. Thomas J. Brady, ot Pontiac, Pres. of the Assn., occupied the Chair at all the sessions. E.R. I^vme J. Unger, of Detroit Lodge was General Chair man of the Convention. Under his leader ship the Detroit Elks furnished a complete and enjoyable program of entertainment. Ceo. O'Nsill, Slate Auditor, Pierre, S.D., anddaughter, Patricia Ann, In the State Ritualistic Contest, the offi cers of Kalamazoo Lodge, No. aO, defenders of the trophy cup, again won first place and as a result, entered the National Ritualistic I DISCOVERED Contest at Columbus where they made a most creditable showing. Lansing Lod!,e, No. 196, won the State Drill Team Contest. A NEW THRIFT IDEA A Lodge of Sorrow was held with im pressive ceremonies by Lansing Lodge, o. Gentlemen: 196, in memory of Past Pres Wi ham M. Bryar, Dowagiac Lodge; State Vice-Pres. I have been prompted to write you many times Earl Leininger, Ishpeming Lodge, and George to inform you of an actual test I gave your motor oil. S Baxter, who was an Honorary Life Mem ber of Detroit Lodge. The eulogy was given I drove my last car 52,000 miles and didn't by Past Grand Trustee Burch. have the motor touched until it had gone 42,000. Then The officers of the Mich._ Elks Bowling I had the valves ground, and the mechanic marvelled at Assn. met during the Convention, with Harr>' their fine condition. I attribute this mainly to the Ziegenhein of Kalamazoo Lodge presiding. use of Quaker State. Officers were elected for the ensuing >car, and a report of the meeting, submitted to On several occasions, however, I was prevailed the Convention, was duly accepted and made upon to change to another oil. When I found I was forced a part of the proceedings. to add more oil between changes than when I was using Frank G. Mitzel, of Detroit Lodge, Pres. of the Elks National Bowling Assn., was Quaker State, of course I went right back to Quaker elected Pres. of the State Assn. Vice-Pres. s State. elected are: L. M. Richard, Lansing, Thomas P. Gillette, Pontiac; John G. Steng- I also found that in using Quaker State, I lein, Marquette, and L. H. Fish, Benton could safely drive the car an additional two or three Harbor. Arthur E. Green, Kalamazoo, was hundred miles before changing oil. re-elected Secy., and James G. Shirlaw, Battle Creek, was re-elected Treas. The Trustees So I can truthfully say that, in the long run, are Herbert A. Kurrasch, Alpena; Paul J. I find Quaker State is much more economical than Ruppe, Hancock; John Olsen, Muskegon, using ordinary brands of motor oil. and Louis A. Worch, Jackson. Sincerely, Kalamazoo was chosen to entertain the Convention in 1936. handsome watch was presented to the retiring President, Thomas J. Brady, in appreciation of his untiring efforts in behalf of the Assn. during his year of office. The highiiffht of the social activities was the banquet given on Saturday evenin"-, June c£.&ice. of l.r by Detroit Lodge. The Hon. Ravmond Kelly, Corporation Counsel of the Citv of Detroit, was the principal speaker. A floor QUAKER STATE MOTOR OILS show and dance followed the dinner Retail price ... 35c per quart Arthur E. Green, State Secy. Quaker StateOil Refining Co., Oil City, Pa. 50 The Elks Magasine The Grand Exalted SUBSTANTIAL CITIZENSHIP IS REFLECTED IN Ruler's Visits EVERY STONE OF SUCH A STRUCTURE (.Continued from page 23) The District Deputies attending the parley were: E. A. Bergfeld, Seguin, Tex., Lodge, No. 1229; Matt M. Sinnett, Pampa, Tex., Lodge, No. 1373; E. J. Ormsby, Mexia, Tex., Lodge, No. 1449; W. W. Short, Hous ton, Tex., Lodge, No. 151; W. H. Laubach, Little Rock, .'\rk.. Lodge, No. 29; Harry F. Hinish, Tulsa, Qkla., Lodge, No. 946; C. R. Harter, Hobart, Okla., Lodge, No. 881, and_ Arthur Carr, Santa Fe, N. M., ^^•S-.-.ttwv,-,v^v;iv.-,., Lodge, No. 460. Judge Hallinan and Mr. night for Colorado Springs. Los Angeles Elks Home. More than a The Grand Exalted Ruler met with the thousand buildings are owned by Elks District Deputies of Colorado and a number throughout the country. of distinguished Elks on Sunday, August 4, at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Spnngs. Among those present were Past Grand Exalted Ruler John R. Coen, of Sterling, Colo., Lodge, No. 1336; Grand A Fraternal Magazine Esteemed Loyal Knight Dr. Lloyd R. Allen, ?/rW. E. Daley,SpringsLovclandLodge,Lodge,No. 309;No. D.D.'s1051; W. R. Crylic, Salida Lodge, No. SOS; SOME advertisers do not care for space in a "fraternal Charles J. Schuler, Teliuride Lodge, No. magazine"; there is some prejudice, whether justifiable 692, and George L. Hamllik, Central City or not, against such publications, in the minds of some Lodge. No. 557; E.R. D. C. Hatchings advertisers. and Secy. M. E. Stubbs of Colorado Springs Lodge, and Ted Barnes. The conference ex- The Elks Magazine is a "fraternal magazine" in the sense ^nued through the afternoon. Members of that it is the official organ of a great fraternal order; but Colorado Springs Lodge accorded the Grand there's no good reason why advertisers should miss the value and Mr Groh ^were royal hospitablywelcome, andentertained.both he of its advertising pages just because of its name, and general (turther reports of Grand Exalted Ruler classification. Hallinan s visits will appear in next month's issue.) The Elks Magazine is in a class by itself. It is first of all a good magazine, in the best sense of that expression. It carries news of the activities of the Order; but it is news that should be interesting to all good citizens, whether they're members or not. The members of this organization are doing a lot of things besides just being Elks. Civic affairs, community better ment, many public-spirited activities, are started and earned through by Elks lodges. The magazine keeps them informed as to what is being done. There are 500,000 of them; each one gets the magazine; it goes into homes, not offices. A hundred thousand of them are retail merchants Supplementary who sell the goods advertisers advertise in— Business of the Grand Lodge ^fieSlfis Convention (Continued from page 32) ^Magazine iers Council, who offered his service? and 500,000 identified reader-owners miormation regarding the Antlers, saying Wallicktw Hotel^^'ould allbe week. available at the Deshler- 50 EAST 42ND STREET - NEW YORK CITY Seeing Grand Secretary Masters in the KLKS NATIONAL MK.MORIAF, HEAI>Q1.ARTERS BI.DG.. audience. Judw Hallinan called upon him for C'hici»B<>. Ill, a few remarks, Mr Ma'^ters responded rnost effectivelv, savin" that the Grand Exalted Ruler-elect's policy was (o call the Order back to the basic princii>lo> of Elkdoni, and that such a fundamentally sound program was bound to succeed. Ho stressed the three following points as the most important ones EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY in the proper administration of a subor dinate Lodge: ULIGOVTJOBS M.in with car is offered Eprn $1850 to $3000 a Year cxcei>ttoiiuI opportunity 1. Sound business methods. to im!nc charge of the laboratory are no ordinary and judicial branches of the Nation are com impractical brain trusters. There are three ing to look upon TVA's ideals as a nation's of them, each receiving a salary of $10,000 ideals. a year, which is top in TV A. TVA is really what chemists would call a At 8:00 o'clock almost every morning in catalytic agent whose presence, it is hoped, Knoxviile, you may find Dr. Arthur Mor will bring an orderly mix out of the disorder gan, 57, at his desk. His friends call him a of the present conflicting economic forces practical mystic. He looks like a Savonarola in the Valley. Just as America grew from in well-tailored, modern clothes. Although the grass roots, TVA believes that the solu he is on leave of absence from the presi tion to our present problem must be found dency of Antioch College, for years before by the intelligent and far-sighted adaptation he entered academic work he had been one of the great forces of nature to man's needs. of the country's outstanding hydraulic The demands of our industrial economy engineers. have broken two natural, interlocking cycles From long experience, he knows what it and we are now suffering because they have is to meet a payroll and make an invest been smashed. First, there is the cycle which says that ilrd oV^BUCceasyot- ment pay. No one seems to know just what his politics are, but a brief conversation plants shall feed animals. Animals in turn with him reveals that he is savagely opposed borrow from the plant the necessities of life to the spoils system. Not one of the 13,445 and then return to the soil the vital ele direct employes of TVA got his job through ments of plant life. The use of every part itl, men whose ^ political patronage. All had to pass muster of an animal for manufacturing purposes, with a skilled personnel bureau. Dr. Arthur coupled with the demands of modern sani Morgan is directly responsible for the mam tation, have made it impossible for the ani mals to pay their debts. moth construction program and acts as gen The other cycle is that of water. Picture eral overseer and coordinator of the whole the sun as a gigantic pump, constantly plan. drawing water from the seas, scattering it in rainfall over the land, where the forests A FEW steps down the corridor, one finds with their spongy roots and the natural Dr. Harcourt Morgan He is President of vegetation store it in wet seasons and re tent business ma the University of Tennessee and for nearly lease it in dry. The water flowed in regular 40 vears the Tennessee Valley and its pos quantities from month to month down to sibilities have been more important to him the rivers which sent the water on to the QUICK'. than the hope of Heaven. He knows the ^he sun could again pick it up. WRITE company Ihis was the primeval and normal hydro- w. F. IOWA Valley people, from the dour and suspicious logicycle. But industry has demanded that E L - 9 S mountaineer Republicans to the easy going we slaughter our forests and plant land for Democrats in the flatlands. As head of a money crops which never should have felt state-owned institution, he is the plowshare. The result is that over vast of the rough-and-tumble scramble that areas there is no proper vegetation left to American politics, and he has usually ^me regulate the flow of the water. Our rain- out on top in his scuffles. His job with TVA fall_, instead of being a benign influence is agriculture. He is in the enviable posi which makes things grow, has become a tion of a man who at last has a rich oppor menacing force in the Valley, beating upon tunity to consummate the dreams oi a lile- the unprotected top soil, tearing it loose and carrying it down to our rivers. These, in ^"oavid Eli Lilienthal, 36, the third member turn, thunder away down their valleys in of the triumvirate, was a successful lawyer mighty floods during wet seasons and shrink and a former public service comn^ssioner to microscopic rills during dry ones. in the liberal state of Wisconsin. He is a gentleman with strong thews, who likes to use them in slugging matches with recal Remember that properly handled soil citrant power companies. It is lortunate and water are indxhaustiblc natural resources. that he does because he is in charge o n>BSMBSTER^^^'^ If the proper elements are constantly re Pass Cose, Card Case, Bill Fold. Check Cover TVA's power program. turned to the ground, the good earth will be The casual observer is likely to draw an ^EWSTVLR extra thin model. Just what every fecund for man's need forever. The same ' ^ man needs. Made of high-grade black, genuine immediate analogy between the regional gallon of water will help turn a thousand calfskin, specialty tanned. Touarh^ durable. Has Deautlfu] planning of Soviet Russia and TVA, or be soft texture, showa real quality. Silk stitched, U-karat ^Id properly situated turbines and even after it comers. Size 3H x6 closed. You simply can't wear out this tween TVA and Mussolini's experiments Suality product. 22-karat gold name, address, lodge emblem with the corporative state. It is true that has gone down to sea, will come back in rain ree. Tliifi eugruvinff ordluarlly costs $1.60 (.>xtra. there is a superficial similarity but at the to turn them again and again. Water is the same time there is a very fundamental perpetual motion machine which scientists Direct-To-You ONLY ^3— difference. Remember that Stalin and Mus have been seeking for years. But man,'in his Enclose $3,95 Money Order or Check. Sent C. O. D. folly and his anxiety to make immediate if you prefer. State lodge emblem wanted. All arti solini accomplish their ends by force. TVA cles fully truaranteed. Your money cheerfully refunded if profits, has wasted soil and water, the two not thorougliiy satiBfied, twu "weeks* trIoJK lifs no special power whatever. Its 13,Q00- /V ^ • r'm Wnte for FREE card cata- odd employees and executives must tactfully most valuable gifts which nature has given W^finv tUTTA. 'OBot novel, usefol gifts. TVA's attack on the problem of bringing tJIA/t Merchants, manufacturers, get the cooperation of the 2,000,000 resi insurance men, tailors—with prelerred euatomers—profit by dents of the Valley by example and about an economy of abundance is simple- ourquiintitydiscounts on personnlized giftgood-willbuildere. persuasion. It would carefully restore these two natural UNDON & WARNER Oapt. H-74 Chleagc, III. And what with Congress' acceptance of cycles. Over a million acres in the Tennessee President Roosevelt's TVA Bill, and the de Valley are runneled and gullied by water cision of the Fifth United States Circuit erosion. They can neither support human Court of Appeals upholding TVA on all dis life nor pay taxes to the public treasury. puted points, it seems that the legislative Those who live on them are on the relief opDortunltles for trained men. Good Pay Qualify In leisure time. Pre?loua experi ence uiinucfssary. FREE Book Kives details. raSClDallDS nillMllllinillllllllllllllllllllllXIIIHIIIIIIIIIimillllllllMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIII'lll"""""""""""""'""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""!'"''""''!!!""!"" LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS WnrL Room LP-6590 WashlafitOQ. D. C. Watch for "The Finnerty Label" by Stanley Paul VTWT husincea prufeuion ol I Ifl 1 m/ f 11 your own, with all tho tradu you can I II I Will attend to? Then become a foot i K\ § • 111 corr«ctlor>i*t, and in a few weolc» A horse racing story as unusual as it is entertaining earn biic incotnc In sorvico fecs-~not medlcftl or chiropody—eflsy terms for honxe tramiriK. no fur ther capiuil needed, no coods U) buy, no asretipy, Adiiress Stephonson Laboratory. 6 Back Bay. Boiton. Mat* The Elks Magazine rolls, useless to themselves and an expense whole pToject, one must view these dams it contributes its bit to the 600,000 horse to the people as a whole. not separately but as a complete engine. power—then on to Pickwick Dam, where So TVA is damming the gullies—and the For instance, the generators at Wilson Dam it will once more turn over generators technical answer to the whole problem is alone under present conditions will put out Our single drop of water then goes on to largely based on dams—with brushwood and not much more than 45,000 horsepower. the sea where the sun picks it up and brings earth to check the flow of rain water; is This represents only what they will produce it back to the farm near Knoxville and the smoothing out the fields which have been during the two dry months when the river whole process begins all over again. This so pitted by erosion that they look like the is low. But you cannot sell power unless process, by the way, should develop 2,322,000 Western front in 1918, and is planting the you can guarantee the supply twelve months kilowatt hours through the whole TVA proper trees and cover crops to prevent in the year. Of course, during the other ten system. further waste from taking place. These months, Wilson Dam sometimes produces What is to be done with all of this vast water-blasted acres will be back in produc as much as 200,000 horsepower and when power? The answer lies in the future, but tion within two or three years. Cheap fer the river is completely harnessed, that one TVA has some very specific plans for it. tilizer is necessary to restore the cycle of plant is capable of developing over 600,000 First, with cheap power and cheap river the soil. horsepower. So it is as foolish to speak of transportation, together with a wealth of TVA is using the facilities of the $130,- the production of the Muscle Shoals plant natural resources, ,t is expected that new 000,000 war-time muni industries not now exist- tions plant at Muscle this country, will Shoals to find out how to produce these necessary fertilizers at a cheap enough price to make it t - possible for the farmers to curious anomaly that the plant which was intended ?lne ^"icricanmoney whichwage isearnersnow to deal death to the Cen- ping to workers in Eng- tral Powers in the World I'oland and Ger- War has been found read- many. ily adaptable for the man- ufacture of the life-giving | elements necessary to the sibTlv'^ '^here are vast pos- ' industry, using Dams, big and little, run- '^^gjBgaJKk ning all the way from the two-foot brush pile flung shipped by water. "aU that across an erosion gulley to "^^BSSmC^A is cheap power, the mighty river dams, form the spear-head of hoped^ that small TVA's attack on the con- fused economy of the Val- ley. First, far back in the mountains is Norris Dam, which will be finished next May at an appro.ximate n ^ cost of $30,000,000. Next is the $38,000,000 Wheeler Dam more than 200 miles jk , down the river from Nor- V• ris. Then comes Wilson ^ A flpH Dam at Muscle Shoals. 'jR Then, farther down the JlftK stream, Pickwick Dam is . just getting under way ^ " the mercy near Shiloh Battlefield. LUlMiilM.k' fL , ^ speculators of the These dams have a ! - ^75^-'"' ' tSrbut can hold three-fold purpose: First, eiu l Perishable products, they will eliminate the ^ Inr f ^ better ll^eirprice. own use enormous waste due to the annual spring floods. Their . 'JSHEHk TVA believes effect in checking the pre- shf,.rrr"^'''"^an dollars cipitous rush of water — teff '"^-ested in de- during the wet season will kets be felt clear to New Or "When it's noon, ma'am, I eati" Inan j country has leans and will save the 'o^ned many millions of taxpayers of the whole f Tennessee and Lower Mississippi Valley as only 45,000 horsepower as it would be to developing our foreitrn purpose pi huge annual sums. Then, too, these dams talk about the power potentialities of one we ought to spend thi<^ 1 tn:rks are intended to flood out the shoal waters cylinder of an eight-cylinder automobile rather, than others '^oney on ourselves in the Tennessee River all the way from engine. The model town of NjV • Paducah. Kentucky, to Guntersville. Ala Let us project ourselves five years into the big dam, is a va t which is near bama, a distance of 358 miles. The railroads the future and trace what will happen to a what the Valley will ir, i f.°'^ket edition o' of the Tennessee Valley run almost entirely drop of rain water from the time it falls on works out accordint? t the project north and south. The river runs almost a farmer's land in the hills back of Knox- are completely electrifi° i entirely east and west. This 358-mile water ville. First, it will be soaked up by the even house heating h homes including way will open up areas which hitherto roots of vegetation and then released as a his own garden plot resident has have had no transportation whatever clear spring to flow down into the Clinch fully laid out that eiri , town is so care- and make the development of industry River. It will not carry any top soil with highways so that a chiM^ ^Ue practical. it to fill up the reservoir back of the dam to school and never be ^ ftir When Congress set up the Tennessee Val or clog the navigation channel because hazards. subject to any traffic ley Authority in the first year of the Roose erosion will be practically checked. This Some ten to fifteen fv , velt regime, it was authorized to build dams drop of water then goes to Norris Dam gone through that tn ^^sand people hav primarily for flood control and navigation. where it probably will be held in the great The Chief of PouL S'." 'he last year- By adding a few feet to the height of the reservoir with a 775-mile shore-line until not made a single arr«» ? ^ all dams and situation a power house at the the dry season, when it will be released to that time and tLt a ^ heel of each, costs would be increased only keep the level of the river even. been made, ail for mi ^ ^''^^^^ions a little and the dams could furnish power Turning generators as it leaves Norris, it and public inloxic:, which in turn could be so'd. Thu.s their moves on to Wheeler Dam where, again, it he accounted for this hI ^ llVf ^,ou e.xpense to the taxpayer might be amortized may be delayed in storage. Leaving there, treat people right, they behav^themselvL." over a period of years. it once more turns generators, goes on to To arrive at a proper conception of the the big power plant at Muscle Shoals where fi,theory of TV.^ m a singlesumssentence. up the whole ,.r.P -1- Kentucky —and that's where Crab Orchard first won its reputa tion. Many an old-time plantation owner relishedthe juleps made with this straight bourbon whiskey, as ruddy as a summer's sunset. But forscoresof yearsit remaineda local favorite, little known outside the blue grass country. Then—after repeal—all America wanted a good old-fashioned Ken tucky bourbon—a straight whiskey made the slow, time-honored way. And they wantedit reasonablypriced. You probably know what hap pened. Crab Orchard became ica^sfastest-selling I IHIS WHlSKty (S straight whiskey. 1 VtAR OLD If you haven't Kentucky straight whiskey tried it, you're miss- Made the goodgoo old-fashioned way ing a treat. It's Smooth and sotisfying to taste KiMMifi smooth and mellow Sold ot a prprice anyone tan pay Kentucky ^'•quality folk" gathered Sir™ —every drop a full from far and wide at the old Crab Orchard Springs Ihtcl year old—and really low-priced! I9JS. The American Medicinal Spificg Corporation, LoulsviliCi Ky. A good guifia to gooo whitxay AMERICA'S FASTEST.SELLING STRAIGHT WHISKEY ATHLETES SAY1 YOULL LIKE THEIR MILDNESS TOO! FAMOUS ATHLETES APPROVE CAMELS, SO THEY MUST HAVE REAL MILDNESS. THEY AAE GENTLE TO MY THROAT. AND WHEN I'M TIRCD I GET A "LIFT' WITH A camel! •••i inI m HOMEMAKER—Mrs. J. B. Feeley camels DO NOT FRAZZLE MV NERVES OR UPSET MY CONDITION AND THAT CAMEL TASTE IS JUST WHAT I WANT ... MILDNESS COUPLED WITH FULL. RICH FLAVOR! What Bill Tilden has to say about Camels is worth any smoker's attention. "Playing competitive tennis ACCOUNTANT—C. A. Petersefl day after day, I've got to keep in tiptop physical condition," says the42year-old "IronMan ofTennis Tsmoke Camels, the mild cigarette. They don't get my wind or upset iny nerves. I've smoked Camels for years, and I never tire of their smooth, rich laste! Camels must be made from choicer tobaccos LIFE'S MORE FUN I V; to be so mild and taste so good!" WHEN YOU KEEP FIT! SO YOU SEE WHY t TOO, SMOKE CAMELS. iVe SMOKED THEM FOR AGES, AND NO MATTER HOW MANY I SMOKE. TH6V ^ don't affect MV iJ WRITER-Eileen Tighe FOLLOW tilden SARAZEN, GEHRI6 AND THE OTHER ' SPORTS STARS IN SMOKING CAMELS I SMOKE CAMELS STEADILY THEV NEVER GET MY WIND 'g • Camels are made from mORE Domesnc-than any other popular brand. RHPORTER-Dick Himgerford R. J.Esyaolds Tob.cco Co., Wms»=-S^=».. N. C. e I9S6. «• J* Co.