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Dear Brother Elks: I am deeply appreciative of the honor accorded ing our American youth into war on foreign shores, we me in being elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benev(^ are in favor of the fullest and most adequate prepared lent and Protective Order of Elks. In assuming this high ness to meet any war of aggression, to defend our shores office, I am well aware of the heavy responsibilities en and our national honor. tailed and that this country is facing a grave period in You have chosen me to lead you in this crucial year. its history. However, I am glad of the opportunity of I need your help m order that the Elks may uphold the leading this great Order in these momentous days, and glonous record of achievements, written during the days I pledge the allegiance of every member to our govern of the World War. As soon as the Elks National Defense ment in any eventuality that may arise. Commission prepares its program, and it is made avail So, in this, my first of a series of regular messages, able, I want each and every member of our Order to do I am appealing to all members of our Order throughout his part so that, in presenting a united front, we may the land to stand 100 percent behind our national defense prove to the country that we are loyal citizens and ready program. At the Houston Convention, the Grand Lodge to sacrifice both life and property, if necessary, to defend unanimously adopted a resolution creating an Elks Na our land and our institutions. tional Defense and Public Relations Commission. I There are many points in my program which I would named the Hon. James R. Nicholson, Past Grand Exalted like to discuss, but these will be taken up in later mes Ruler, of New York City, as Chairman and I am now sages. I want to thank the membership of our Order for requesting State Associations and subordinate lodges the confidence placed in me and I assure you that nothing to name a similar committee so that, all working together, will be left undone to make this year a glorious one in we may cooperate to the fullest extent with our national, the annals of the Order. state and local governments. We must establish ourselves firmly in the hearts of We all know the situation that confronts us now, but every community. We must prove that we are loyal Amer what the future holds, no one knows. In my acceptance icans, for by so doing we shall go forward. Membership speech I stated that we must see that America is safe in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks must be guarded from within, as well as without, for in this made a goal to be cherished and encouraged. Then, and blessed land of ours there must be no divided allegiance. then only, will the Elks be fully serving our communities Those who attended the recent Convention heard Con and our government. This goal can be achieved if the gressman Martin Dies, a Texas Elk, dwell at length State Associations and subordinate lodges do their part. on conditions as they exist in this country. Our eyes were As your Grand Exalted Ruler I am appealing to you opened by his revelations and I recommend that every for support. Be Alert. Be Loyal. Do Not Fail Me. We member read his speech, which will be published in a Must Follow Through. forthcoming issue of The Elks Magazine. Fraternally and sincerely. There are many ways in which the .membership of the Elks can prove its loyalty. Eternal vigilance is neces sary if we are to preserve the personal liberties obtained by the blood and sacrifice of our heroic forefathers. Everywhere, as Congressman Dies pointed out, there are '^•''"foes of our country ready to undermine our government and who seek to lull our citizens with propaganda so that GRAND EXALTED RULER we will not be prepared if the time comes when we must rise to defend our country. Be alert and loyal at all times, for while the Elks, as an organization, is opposed to send-

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Cover Design by Frederic Widlicka A Message from the Grand Exalted Ruler 1 Obituary Notice for Past Grand Exalted Ruler Walter F. Meier. .. 4 The Grand Lodge of Sorrow 5 Floats on Parade 6 Touched in the Head 8 Stanley Frank What America Is Reading 9 Harry Hansexi For Us the Living 10 David Lamson A Watch and the Wilderness 14 Max Brand Your Dog 16 National Publication of the Benevolent Edward Faust AND Protective Order of Elks of the United The Gold Coast 17 States of America. Published Under the Kiley Taylor Direction of the Grand Lodge by the Na tional Memorial and Pubucation Commission Editorial 18 Under the Antlers 20

"To inculccrie the principles of Charity, Justice, News of the State Associations.... 28 Brotherly Love and Fidelity; to promote the weHore and enhance the happiness of its members; to quick The Social Side of the Grand Lodge en the spirit of American patriotism; to cultivate Convention 32 good iellovrship. .. —From PreamWe

Bruce A. Campbell Frank L. Ram Rod and Gun 52 Chairman Secrelary-rreofiurer Ray Trullinger

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"^AVID LAMSON is with us again -/ with a story of Nazi Germany before the war. We know that it is dated, but it is such a gripping yarn that we think you will like it as much as we do. It is illustrated by George Howe, whose drawings have ap peared in most of the national maga zines. Mr. Howe knows Nazi Ger many from bitter personal experi ence. He says he enjoyed reading the story. It has been a long time since Max Brand has appeared in The Elks Magazine. In the meantime, he has become even more famous than be fore, with his Doctor Kildare stories. You have all seen them in the movies —and if you haven't, you should. Most of them were written for the movies and then published in Cosmo- politan magazine. Mr. Brand is about as prolific a writer as they come. He has turned out stories under as many as fifteen pseudonyms in the past twenty-five years. Most of his best Westerns were written from a secluded little spot in Florence, Italy—as far as possible from any western "local color". STERLING HAYDEN Hollywood weaned him away from 23-year old skipper, Italy, and he is still on the Coast, who has sailed the turning out pictures by the gross. Seven Seas. His story, "A Watch and the Wilder ness", will be included in a collection of his works which will be published by Dodd, Mead in September, or thereabouts. ON page 4you will find an obitu ary notice of the sad death of Past Grand Exalted Ruler Walter F. Meier. Most of you will remember him as a great and kindly man, and will grieve as we do at his untimely death. A list of the new District Deputies appointed by our new Grand Exalted Ruler is on pages 36 and 37, and on page 34 is the supplementary report of the National Foundation and the winners of the Foundation's scholar ...watch all the pipes ship awards. come out! That wonderful The social side of the Convention aroma and milder taste can was almost as much fun to report as it was to be there. Your editors had only come from Kentuclcy's a wonderful time in Houston. The finest BuHey .. . gentlemen of the press made our stay a memorable one. We spent our You'll Say VBLVErS evenings looking for and over Hous ton's Mexican restaurants. Chile in THE RIGHT WORD FOR any form is our favorite fodder and it is at its best in Houston. One half SMOOTH SMOKING of your editorial team fell for a Mexi MILD and COOL-NO "BITB' can sombrero about the size of a 40-gaUon milk can, and had some little difficulty getting it back to New York. We want to pass along the tip that it's true about Texas gals. They don't make 'em any -Tm prettier. And now, we are looking forward to Mr. Grakelow's Convention in Philadelphia next year. J. B. S. Copyright 1940. Liggett Sc Myers Tobacco Co When writinf] to adi^ertlaers pleaat- mention The Elka Magazine WALTER r. MEIER Post Grand Exalted Ruler

PAST GRAND EXALTED RULER WALTER held at Portland, Oregon, in July, 1925, he was' F. MEIER died in. Seattle, Wash., on Friday, elected Grand Esteemed Lecturing Knight. The July 19. He had been ill since June 1. following year he was appointed by Grand Exalted Mr. Meier was born in Lancaster County, Ne Ruler William Hawley Atwell as a Justice of the braska, on September 12, 1879. He was educated in Grand Forum for a five-year term and served as its the public schools of the State and graduated from Chief Justice during the year 1930-31. While serv the University of Nebraska in 1903 with the degrees ing as a member of the Grand Forum, Mr. Meier of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. He prac compiled the opinions, theretofore rendered by that ticed law in Spokane, Wash., for several years, body from its organization upon the adoption of removing to Seattle in 1909 where he has since re the new Constitution by the Grand Lodge in 1907, sided. He was a member of the Bar in the State of down to and including those rendered in 1928. This Washington. During his career he rendered public compilation was oflficially adopted by the Grand Lodge service for ^many years, first as Chief Deputy at the Miami Convention in 1928. Prosecuting Attorney for King County, and then In 1931, Mr. Meier served as a member of the com as Corporation Counsel of Seattle, to which latter mittee appointed by his lodge to handle the Seattle position he was twice elected. He also was elected Grand Lodge Convention. In 1931-32 he served as and served as a member, and as chairman, of the Chairman of the Grand Lodge Committee on Judici Seattle Freeholders Charter Revision Commission ary. He was elected Grand Exalted Ruler at the chosen by the people to propose a new Charter for Grand Lodge Convention at Milwaukee, Wis., in the city. He was widely known as a public speaker. 1933. Mr. Meier was also a Past Grand Master of Mr. Meier was initiated into Seattle Lodge No. the F. & A. M. in the State of Washington. More 92 on October 23, 1919, and at once identified him than a thousand people attended the funeral serv self with its activities. He was elected Esteemed ices, which were held at the Scottish Rite Masonic Leading Knight in March, 1921. The following year Temple on July 23 under auspices of the Rose Croix. he was elected Exalted Ruler, and also Second Vice- The Rev. Newton E. Moats, of the First Methodist President of the Washington State Eks Association. Church, gave the Eulogy. Most of the Elk lodges He was regularly advanced to the office of First in the Northwest were represented. At Washelli Vice-President of the. State Association, and was Cemetery, Seattle, where interment took place, the appointed by Grand Exalted Ruler James G. Mc- Elks' service was held, with Past Exalted Rulers of Farland as District Deputy for Washington, North Seattle Lodge acting as Grand Lodge officers. west, in 1923. In 1924, he was elected President of Mr. Meier is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna the State Association, and organized the move Meier, two sons, Ronald W. and Kenneth W. Meier, ment resulting in the subsequent erection in Seattle, and a daughter, Lois E. Meier, all of whom reside by the Elks of the State, of a convalescent home for in Seattle. To them The Elks Magazine conveys the crippled children. At the Grand Lodge Convention sincere sympathy of the Order. The Grand Lodge of Sorrow

At the hour of eleven, on Wednes- tablet upon which is inscribed, or en funds, but it included charity of . day, July 17th, as had been graved, the name of a Brother as he thought. They did not measure other settled by the Elks 76th Grand moves on to the Great Room. Once a men in their scales and, if other men Lodge Convention, business was put year, at eleven o'clock of a fixed day, had a fault, they wrote it in the sand, aside and the attention of the delegates the machinery of the Grand Lodge and not upon our imperishable tablets was turned to the Memorial Service pauses, while the members in silence of love and memory. There was very which paid honor to the memory of the hear the bells that have stopped ring little^ of the buzz, buzz, buzz, of the departed members of the Benevolent ing, and the voices of the brethren who invisible people who constantly say, and Protective Order of Elks. no longer sit beside them. It is the "They say," with them. They knew Past Grand Exalted Ruler Dr. Ed longing to live—^the thirst for immor there is no brotherliness in that ward J. McCormick of Toledo, Ohio, tality. sort of gossip, and, kno^ng it, they Lodge, No. 53, in the capacity of Act "This question of immortality is one condemned it. They may not all have ing Grand Exalted Ruler, requested the that has been asked during all the followers of the Great PWlosopher Grand Lodge delegates to stand silently ages. In fact, faith in it is, itself, im who said. Let him who is without sin, for a moment in memory of those who mortal. It is older than science, deeper cast the first stone—but each knew of were beyond recall. Grand Chaplain than philosophy, and as lasting as in the truth of that observation. They Rev. J. B. Dobbins, of Temple, Tex., fancy. It is as old as age, and as knew that life is giving and not taking. Lodge, No. 138, led those assembled in profound as love and death. No wind They knew that that is a difficult lesson prayer. Then Henry Wehrman, the can blow it out. The deeper the love, to learn. It is only mastered by the organist of New Orleans, La., Lodge, the more kindly the friendship; the richness of life. They found wealth No. 30, played Chopin's "Funeral stronger the tie, the more pronounced in hearing the 'God bless you's' that March". is the longing for it. So, I repeat, faith si^ang from the lips of those with Next, the Omaha, Neb., Lodge, No. in immortality is, itself, immortal. whom they came in contact. 39, Glee Club, national champions in "At these services, apology is never "We speak of them today even as the Grand Lodge Glee Club Contest of necessary. The word 'but' never they knew we would, and even as others 1939-40, rendered "The Long Day concludes a panegyric. The rule is the shall speak of us tomorrow. Closes", by Solomon. At the close of law of the Order—^the remembrance of that a door opens and this heart-warming song. Past Grand the good. The services are not tongue- the things that we see and Exalted Ruler William Hawley Atwell, less l)ells—nor soundless cymbals. They 1^1 and hear, and then go out the door of Dallas, Tex., Lodge, No. 71, deliv are moments of intense recollection. alo^ an invisible path. ered the following moving address: They are jewels of the dearest memo '"^ese paths, we like to think, lead "I stood in front of an old-fashioned ries. They are moments of re-living. to the gfreat Assembly Room where the house in Philadelphia, from the top of The call to the departed is not obli Almighty is the presiding officer, and which the Liberty Bell had announced gatory—it is the spontaneous act of upon the Judgment Day in that infinite many steps of importance in the build loving hearts. amphitheater, I think will be found ing and preservation of the nation. I "There can be no diagraming—no men who found their way there by could hear, as I stood there, the joyous comprehensive definition—of those learning from the Book that rests on ringing of that bell, I could hear its whom we remember, because they ran our altar. mournful tolling, yet it had not spoken the gamut of mental and spiritual since it lost its voice as it cried in reach. They differ as do the sunsets— " 'One dipped his brush in rainbow agony as John Marshall was carried as do the sunrises—as do the named tints away to Richmond for burial. stars—yet they are all included within And naagic grew as swift as thought; "We hear the dinner bells of child the frontiers that our philosophy and A fairyland of light and shade hood, church bells that ordered Sunday beliefs mark. And form and line was deftly worship—yes—and wedding bells ring. "These Brothers had outstanding wrought. We literally hear the bells after they characteristics. I do not speak empty stop ringing. If we do not, we are fulsomeness. I speak of men who ha'd 'Aether used his pen to sketch deficient in memory, and in that big a large vision of what the world needs, His scenes with firm and vivid spiritual thing which ties us to the past. and they tried to supply some of those stroke; "I can think of no wicked bells. All needs. They did not kneel especially In words that burned with living fire, the bells that I know of either warn, at any chancel, nor were they always And thought and inspiration woke. or rejoice, or call, or clang in gladness, learned in the sects of the world. They or toll in sorrow. worshipped in church, in cathedral, in 'Another touched the quivering string "I think experiences are bells. They synagogue—^sometimes in no house at And music flowed at his command; are suffered, or enjoyed, and furnish all, but they had a fundamental good The harmonies of other worlds a pull for better action. Those bells— ness and consciousness that was com Dropped pulsing, vibrant from his those experiences—are facts, not theo mendable. ry, not fancy, not untried, half-baked "They knew about little things and hand. suggestions. They are the fire and the furnished them when needed, but they soul of a great people—they are us! did not live in a small world. They 'Another had no brush or pen. "A few years ago, we drove from knew about the little boy who fur But only love and kindly deeds; Beyrouth, Syria, along the shores of nished the loaves and fishes when a Yet he wrought beauty §s he went the Mediterranean, to the mouth of great multitude was hungry. In service to his brothers' needs.'" Dog Rover. En route we passed by the "They had a big world, as distin bald, solid rock mountain on the face guished from a circumscribed world. When Mr. Atwell had concluded this of which many triumphant warriors If they ran races, they knew something moving speech, the Omaha Lodge Glee had chiselled their names after the besides horses. If they taught school, Club sang "The Lord's Prayer" by conquest of that part of the earth. they knew something besides the school Milotte, and Grand Chaplain Dobbins High up, and at the beginning, was a room; if they were attorneys, they offered again a prayer in memory of Pharaoh, then a Caesar, a Constantine, knew something besides Blackstone; if those who have left our ranks. a Napoleon, and so on down to General they were doctors, they knew some With the impressive strains of "The Allenby, one of the commanders of the thing besides pill bags. Their world Recessional", delivered by Mr. Wehr World War whose victorious army had was a big world. man on the magnificent organ in the gone that way. Each of those men "They had an abundance of love, as Music Hall of the Sam Houston Coli attempted a species of immortality. that word is used in St. Paul's admoni seum, the Grand Lodge of Sorrow Each tried to place his name where it tion with reference to charity. For came to a close and those Elks and would withstand the wash and destruc the greatest of these, said the apostle, their ladies who had attended, left the tion of the ages. is charity. This charity included not Hall, strengthened and uplifted by this "In our subordinate lodge there is a only the giving of the basket or of customary rite of our Order. \ - i

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TP® air in the great hail shook salute, and cheered with the rest. crashing, solid roar of applause. with the pounding chant of a His eyes met those of Captain "Our people," he shouted, "are im voices; Morse lis- Schroeder in the box beside him, and mune to the poison of democratic tened, his eyes intent and shining, he dropped his hand self-conscious phrases! We face the future calm mass emotion ly; but Schroeder caught his wrist and secure in our own strength! We M this land, he told and lifted it again and clapped him belong to the Leader! That is our cheering was or- on the shoulder. He tapped the greatness! That is what makes aeied, purposeful, bespeaking a medal swinging on Morse's coat front, us in soul one block of tempered disciplined spirit. No where it had been placed an hour steel! One nation—one people—one w'• army before by the man now mounting the Leader!" sieg—Heil, sieg— platform. Schroeder was shouting "Heil Hitler! Sieg—Heil, sieg—• something in his ear. Morse caught Heil!" The cheering became a sus only the words. "One of us!" The Thousands of people in the great tained, rolling thunder. A man ad- rest was lost in the tumult. hall, thousands and millions more vanced toward the platform; he was But Morse did not raise his hand like them, Morse thought, all over tail, broad-shouldered, aglitter with again. the land, all standing, all with raised i^edals. He held his right arm out- The man on the platform gestured arms,_ all with the light of passionate thrust stiffly, and turned his head commandingly, and instantly the hall devotion burning in their faces. One xrom side to side to acknowledge the was still. He began to speak—slow voice, one spirit, one people— cheers. Everyone was standing, ly at first, but with mounting inten Sieg—Heil! Hail, victory! iviorse, too, found himself on his sity, so that at climactic points of his To Captain Schroeder, friend, col teet, and as the man passed him address his voice blared shrilly like league, and his host here in Frank he raised his arm in impulsive a trumpet, answered always by a furt, Morse said something of this 10 as they left the Roemerplatz after where you're wrong, my friend. Ach! cried Karl, "They are beau the meeting. "Marvelous experi Scientists are also human beings, tiful! See how brightly they glitter ence," he said. "Extraordinary, to and their truth is human truth. Like in the sun. those guns!" watch that crowd. Like—like look everything created by the human ing into a blast furnace. Enormous, mind, it is bound by race—by blood." intense power—but controlled, di "You really believe that?" "Frau Schroeder?" he demanded rected toward a purpose—accom Schroeder answered soberly, "My sharply. "Does she know?" plishing something." friend, it is necessary that it be be The old woman shook her head. "Yes," said Schroeder, "that is the lieved .... Here we are. Mind the "No. She is sleeping. I told him— new spirit. You express it well, al step 1 No—you first." her illness .... He is eating now; though .... .Never mind. It is as As they entered the old-fashioned, he was famished; nothing all day, I told you in there—you are one of high-ceilinged hallway, the dining the poor one. Shall I tell him you us." room door opened and Frau Elsen, will come—later, perhaps?" "Oh, hardly that. After all, two the Schroeders' elderly housekeeper, "No. I must see him at once." years here—" came quickly toward them. Schroeder turned to his guest; his "But spiritually," Schroeder in "Please, Herr Captain!" Her voice smile was painful to see. "Excuse sisted, "and by temperament. And was muffled, tense. "Karl is here!" me, Herr Doctor—John. My nephew certainly by the value of your Morse saw his friend's face stiffen —one of those family affairs. I am work—" curiously. "Karl!" he breathed. so sorry, but—" "My work I do for its own sake; "Herr Gott, it has happened, then! "Of course. I'll just trot off to I've no interest in politics. A scien ... But why here? What does he bed then—unless there's something tist worth his salt has no nation." expect me—" He broke off, glancing I can do—" " 'Truth knows no flag', eh? That's nervously toward the stairway. "No, no—nothing. Good night,

II my friend. Your only night here— In the narrow hall his voice was loud at once ... I say, at once, Karl!" I hoped for an hour together. Next and shrill. There was no affection in the time, though. Good night." "Heil Hitler!" leave-taking between uncle and Morse lay for what seemed a long A thorough-going young Nazi, nephew—a formal salute, no more. time, drowsily conscious of a mur Morse reflected. The boy said stiffly, Schroeder, Morse said to himself as mur of voices from the room be "It is an honor, Herr Doctor Morse." he pressed the starter, seemed un neath his, Schroeder's study. He "You are lucky, Karl," said commonly anxious to get his nephew slept badly and woke early, with a Schroeder. "Herr Morse goes today out of the house. slight headache and a tightness in to Karlsruhe, by auto. He has agreed "We go first to Darmstadt," Morse his throat and chest. He dressed to take you with him." told the boy. "I must stop there for quickly; he had an appointment with Karl's face set sullenly. His eyes a little while. We'll be in Karlsruhe chemists of the Deutsches Waffen glinted toward his uncle, and his lips before three, though." und Munitionsfabrik—the famed parted. Schroeder stepped quickly Karl's hands lay clasped in his lap; DWM—in Karlsruhe at three, and a toward him. he stared straight before him, and stop at Darmstadt en route. "To your cousin's house, as we de said nothing. Morse tried again. As he descended the stairs, Cap cided. Herr Morse wishes to leave "You have been this way before? tain Schroeder emerged from his study; he smiled a greeting, but his face was grey and weary, and his eyes had a strained look. "I hope," he said, "that our chat lllusfrafed by GEORGE HOWE ter last night did not disturb you?" He saw the bag Morse carried. "Oh, you are leaving at once?" "I'm sorry, I must. I meet Bren- nermann in Darmstadt at ten " "Yes, of course. Well, your auto Theo abraptly he stiffened, clicked is in front of the house ready for his heels and flung up his arm. you, and Frau Else has breakfast Iq the narrow hall his voice was waiting. You will drive to Karls loud and shrill. "Heil Hitler!" ruhe today, you said?" "That's right." "John—is it asking too much— would you take a passenger?" '•But certainly. Gladly. Who is it ? "My nephew. My wife's nephew, properly speaking. Karl. You see, he—he is left an orphan, and he it has been decided that he should live with his cousin in Karlsruhe. Of course, he could travel by train, but 1 thought—he is only a lad, twelve, and with you—knowing him safe I —but of course if it will make trouble for you " Whatever was strange in this, U'hatever made Schroeder's voice husky and agitated to the point of incoherence, was none of Morse's concern. He said quietly, "I shall be glad to have company. Let him come, by all means." When they left the dining room the boy was standing at the foot of the stairway He paused uncertainly at sight of them; one hand still rested on the balustrade, the other held a small knapsack, tightly filled. He

miliar, some vague resemblance He realized suddenly that the re- semblance was to himself. In looking at Karl he might have been gazing into a somewhat distorted mirror— the same high, white forehead the aquiline; the kme long thiust of jaw Karl was staring at Morse quite as intently, with a like air of staitled w(^der. Schroeder was speaking. "Herr Doctor, may I pre- sent my nephew, Karl? Karl—our good friend Herr Morse." The boy said confusedly, "Herr Then abruptly he stiffened, clicked his heels loudly flung up his arm In the "big" salute Do you know this country, my boy?" "That bunch? I should say not! I belong now to the Jungvolk." Karl surveyed him coolly. "Yes." They're a slo^jpy lot. Look at them; "Well, is that—isn't that about the Morse felt his skin grow hot with half of them wearing bundschuhen." same thing?" the embarrassed feeling that he was "Is that wrong?" "Not at all. The Jugend play real no better than a chatterer, a Rre- "Of course, it's wrong! Laced war games, make long practice sumptuous servant. He drove in si half-shoes are required." marches, help in the fields at harvest lence for a time. In a small square "Why?" —all sorts of things. Our work is they passed a group of Hitler Youth, "Because it's in orders. Regula child's play compared to theirs. It is assembling in marching kit; and at tions." easy to see you have not been long this sight Karl roused to his first This, then, was the line to take. in Germany, Herr Doctor." show of interest, leaning from the He had hit on the boy's true interest. Morse felt his cheeks flush again. car and staring eagerly. Morse "Such things are not tolerated in Patronized by a baby! "It's not that, struck at the opening, pleased with your own H. J. group, I'll warrant." so much as my work," he explained his keenness in detecting it. "It will be two years," Karl in defensively. "I have little time for "I expect you'd very much like to formed him coldly, "before I am anything else. You know, you are be going along with them, eh?" privileged to join the Hitler Jugend. actually the first youngster I have talked to here. Really talked to." "Is that so? You are a—scholar— perhaps?" Arrogance, and a thin flavor of scorn in the words. "A scientist," Morse answered shortly. His ego de manded more. "Research chemist. Working with metals." "Really?" Karl considered this briefly. "German scientists," he de clared, "are the best and cleverest in the world." This was so obvious a challenge that Morse deliberately passed it. "Perhaps that is why I came here," he said softly. He was rewarded; Karl staggered, caught off balance. "But—but you're English, aren't you?" "No. American." "Really? A North American? Oh, well, then, that explains it." ^'Explains what?" "Why you came here. To get away from gangsters, wasn't it? And, of course, you are clearly a Nordic type." Talking with this incredible child, Morse thought, was like walking un der a series of unexpected cold showers. "I don't understand you. What do you mean, a Nordic type?" "Why, the length of your head—• color of skin, eyes, hair—body struc ture—all that shows it." "And so—?" "So you are naturally a leader, ex celling not only in warfare but also in technology and in scientific re search. I, too, am Nordic." Glib phrases, falling in a memo rized pattern. Morse sought another path. "I see ... So you know about America, Karl?" "Oh, but certainly. Gangsters rule the cities with bombs and machine- guns. The people have no work, and starve. And outside the cities men ride on horses and shoot each other with pistols. The Indians they shoot, too. Tell me, have you seen many Indians?" N "No. Only in motion pictures, like yourself. What else do you know about America?" "Well—" He frowned thought fully, trying to remember. "I used to know a lot of things. My father—" His voice caught a little. "My father liked to talk about America. He told me about—a man—Lin-coln, is that right?" "Abraham Lincoln, yes." "Abraham! Humph! ,.. He was your Leader?" (Cont'd on page 38) There's no real difference between a Yank and a Texas Reb. Each in his way can hear a song thot's im mune from death. by Max Brand

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His hand coiUdn't hold it. I steadied it ior him and he drank and drank.

the Mondays in the world. The there was only the fog of the trees woods stood close around us like a and mist in the air. permanent fog, with the shells cut He shot John Tucker between the Sometimes athing gets stuck ting lanes and avenues into it, but neck and the shoulder, so that his in your mind like a burr in a never punching all the way through head fell over on one side. My dog's hair and it won't come to clean, open sky. It was all mud friend Tad Crothers and Loomis out without tearing. It might be the and mist; there was not hope or carried him back from the line; and whine of a windmill that needs oil sense in anything except that we I was best pleased to see Tad out of ing, or the click-clunk of railroad knew Marse Robert was not lar there. He shot Phil Lawrence wheels over the rail-ends, or mostly away, thinking and thinking. through the back. Phil had been it will be a tune you can't shake out That day a damn' Yank climbed singing a song to keep us warm and of your ears, but what stayed with somewhere into the trees above our his mouth went on making the words me longest was something a Yank trenches and began to shoot us one and smiling for a moment. Bernard said back when I was one of Marse by one, taking his time and spottmg and Kendricks carried him back. Robert's boys. the best men as though he came And then, by God, he shot Tommy All those days the noise of the from Texas himself and knew us by Dean spang through the forehead, guns never ended, the cannon hurt name. What with the uproar and so there was no need to carry Tom ing our ears and the musketry crack the crowding of the trees and the back at all. ling like burning stubble. Some rain and the powder-smoke blowing, We tried to heap up the embank times the rain dropped like night we couldn't locate him. Sometimes ment of our trench to save us from falling; sometimes it blew away we thought we heard the clang of the rifle but there wasn't a single like dust before it touched the his rifle, thin and high over the bat trenching tool. We had to knife out ground; sometimes it came sheeting tle, like the sound of a silver spoon the mud with our bayonets and ladle straight down from tubs and buck falling in a room filled with people it up, but it turned to yellow soup ets, you might say, wetter than all and noise, but wherever we looked and went sluicing away.

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We had marched all the way from shot through the back as he got to May and in spite of the rain and in Manassas to Gaines' Mill to Fray- the edge of the trench. By the way spite of the battle, the spring of the zer's Farm and the second Manassas, of him falling and throwing out his year that was locked up in him so where Marse Robert fooled them so arms I knew that he'd dropped out long was bursting out. I couldn't bad, and on to Antietam's trouble, of my sight and out of my life and hear him whistle but by the beating and Fredericksburg that was so easy, all that was left of that partner was of his wings and the ruffing of his and Chancellorsville where we no more than a rag doll that lay face throat feathers I could see his song. stretched our legs so long, and down in the slime. I didn't try to get Not ten feet from him, a cannon- Gettysburg, full of mighty bad luck, back to the trench then. I got down ball clipped a branch out of the side and now we were whopping Butcher behind a bush and huddled there of a big tree but the crashing down Grant in the Wilderness. But it like when I was & boy in the attic of that bough was no more to him seemed as though we had done these bed listening to the winter outside than the fall of a feather from his things for Marse Robert only to have the house. Times like that I used nest. He was no more afraid of battle one Yank let the blood out of all of to want to be near Pa, and now I than Marse Robert. I kept looking at us and turn our trench into a damned wanted Marse Robert—as though he him until I saw something queer red latrine. We were so scared that didn't have more things than just about the forking of that tree where we wouldn't look at one another. All Texans to think about. Pretty soon the branch had been shot away. The our dead came crowding up so close I heard the trenches howl like a queerness was in the stub of a broken in my thoughts that I wouldn't turn hound dog that's had a ramrod cut branch. The shape of it seemed my head right and I wouldn't turn into his back; then all the rifles went wrong. I couldn't tell why until it it left, I felt them so near. Then off crash, so I knew the Yank had came home to me quick and hard, Billy Wendell gave the yell. There taken another man. I was glad that like a slap on the mouth. It wasn't wasn't an officer in sight so we had I couldn't tell whose dying it was any branch at all. It was the boot only the yell to lead us as we slopped that had hurt all the boys so much, on a man's foot and part of his out of our hole in the ground and but a lump came up in my throat shank. That was all I had for a went screeching through the woods. that I swallowed and swallowed and target but one of Marse Robert's We followed the little paths and swallowed, while I looked around me boys didn't ask for more than a blind lanes that the cannon had cut into the trees, high up where the fingerhold to pull a damn' Yank out open for us, but we couldn't find Yank somewhere sat like God in a of a tree. I got the old musket up anything in the trees so after a cloud making thunder, making light and steadied her until she laid her while we turned and went back. ning, except that this lightning hold right on the thin of the shank. When we returned, I was behind couldn't be seen. It didn't seem to amount to enough. the others because the mud was There was a bird on the tip of a I guessed where the rest of him bogging me down. I saw Red Stuart branch, singing. It was the month of {Continued on page 46)

15 talking about them in his favorite gin mill. In stories and plays, if he winds up by marrying the beautiful daughter of the wealthy malefactor whose dirty doings he has uncovered but which he refuses (for sentimen tal reasons) to write up for his paper, so much more the reporter is // he. Now, very likely there have been such gents among the news-chasers. There must have been, or the popular idea of the typical reporter would never have become fixed in the public mind. But after spending close to twenty-five years in and around newspapers and publishing generally, the writer assures you that they are the exception and not the rule. But the false glamour attaching to the reporter isn't the only distorted idea to which many of us like to cling. You who read this can very likely think of a dozen more. Off-hand, we don't know of a single subject that has become invested with more cock-eyed misbeliefs than our friend the dog. Suppose we ex amine a few of these? They're in teresting fantasies and, besides, we may get a truer understanding of the pooch. Without doubt, -the Number One of all misconceptions and the most unfair—not to dogs but to peo ple—is that which holds that the person who doesn't like dogs, or vice versa, is one who'll bear watching. Nonsense. Many fine people there are who don't care a naughty word about dogs, with or without reason. Another fairy tale concerns the dog that howls at night for no ap parent reason. In certain quarters this is regarded as a sure sign of death, although, oddly enough, never that of the dog. The reason for this vocal demonstration of Fido's may be nothing more than a desire on his part to declare himself, or even plain loneliness. If we accept a more scientific explanation it's to the effect that such solos are merely '• r' an outcropping of instinct. Our four- legged friend obeys a primitive im pulse which comes down to him from that distant time when all dogs hunted in packs—the howl being the rallying call to assemble for the hunt. Still another fable devoutly be lieved by some is that barking dogs Monkcmeyer Press Photo Service seldom bite. Don't trust this one. Our milkman did—and then, as a by Edward Faust concession to modesty, went home to change his pants. Then there's the wheeze about the 'Tain't So of a person, a thing or a situation. hair of the dog that bit you. Ad We were reminded of this not long mittedly this is a detour from the ONE of the oddities of human ago, after reading a pretty good nature is the readiness to ac subject at hand, but now that we've story about the newspaper business. mentioned it, we'll add that this isn't cept a misconception and the The hero—you've guessed it—was a to be trusted either. The testimony persistence with which we cling to reporter. It occurred to us that a of experts advises against it. it. But then, you will admit, a color lot of people who read that story are ful untruth is usually more interest not going to rate it as Grade A writ Three of the most commonly be- ing than a sober fact. What's more, ing, the reason being that the lad lieved-in fallacies about dogs have to most of us haven't the time to who led the yarn was described sim do with that dreadful sickness, thoroughly appraise everything that ply as a hard-working fellow trying rabies. Here you'll find people willing comes to our attention. Thus mis to get along. This, of course, runs to bet you money, marbles or conceptions form easily. Given a contrary to the popular idea of the mustard that mad dogs foam at the sufficiently striking departure from typical reporter which holds him to mouth. They don't. Instead they the normal, and, before we know it, be a lively wise-cracker who spends drool a stringy kind of saliva. An a mental image is created to be for half his time in the midst of thrill other school of heresay experts ever after identified as being typical ing situations and the other half {Continued on page 44) PROBABLY all Americans have wished they might ffo to Cali The Gold fornia before they die, and the nice thing about that wish is that it is very likely to come true. A mil lion or more visitors each year can testify to that. California is an obligingly con Coast venient State to visit. Long and nar row, it gives travelers on the road which runs from the Oregon line right down to Mexico the greatest possible variety of climate and scen by Kiley Taylor ery. There are glimpses of the blue vastness of the Pacific, lush vine yards, forests and towering, purple mountain peaks; and strung along the road are towns whose very names spell romance. Less modern but still enchanting is the old "King's Highway", which wanders through coast towns old and new from San Diego to San Francisco. California has luckily never learned to act her age. In spite of To the north is San Bernardino, the traces of the years, in spite of set against a spectacular backdrop of certain fateful experiences of her mountains wearing snow upon their early days, she still has the spright- peaks, and between San Bernardino liness of youth. Youth is felt in the and San Diego is Riverside, the core air, in the warmly smiling sunshine, of the orange country. Not to be and seen in California's slim, rangy missed is the famous Mission Inn, contours. And her beauty and vital beautiful in its Spanish architecture, ity are extraordinary. It is hard to and containing relics and art trea believe that those fertile valleys, sures known the world over. Sacramento, Imperial, San Joaquin, At San Diego was founded the are due to the resourcefulness of first of the missions which have man instead of being gifts of the played a prominent part in the his gods. The climate, famous to the tory of the State. After the first ends of the earth, varies with sharp mission, one after another was suddenness from invigorating high founded until there were twenty-six land air to the heavy heat of the Im of them, each a day's journey from perial Valley, which is below sea level. the previous one, stretching along California the coast up to the Upper San Fran might be said to cisco Bay. have begun life The motor road, slipping through at San Diego, lovely towns with singing Spanish / with its beauti names as pretty as their pink and ful, land-locked, white Spanish houses, pulls into Los natural harbor, Angeles. This city, the fifth largest as that city was in the United States, came into be the oldest Span ing when California was claimed by ish settlement in the States. A turbulent, rip-roaring the State. That frontier town, it was known for its harbor today is violence, and every man was a law a base for ma to himself. The turbulence and the rines and coast lawlessness have long since departed, guards, for and Los Angeles has settled down Army and Navy. to the picture business, but it is still Across the bay lively. With its various foreign is fashionable populations, it is many cities in one. Coronado, its Days can be spent in and near Los streets lined Angeles with no dull moments crop- with palms. {Continued on page 41)

The monument dedicated to James Marshall, who discovered gold in Caii- ioinia in January, 1848.

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A History Making Session VERY member of our Order should carefully read the report of the Houston Grand Lodge Session which will be found in • part in the August issue and in part in this issue. In manv respects this Session was outstanding and marked progress along the highway of accomplishments of which every member must take pride. One of the highlights was the inspiring patriotic address of Brother Martin Dies, a member of Beaumont, Texas, Lodge, No. 311, who as Congressman from that Texas district is known throughout the nation and also abroad by reason of his activities as Chairman of the House Committee investigating un-American activities. It was a forceful and brilliant address delivered to a responsive and sympathetic audience which from time to time interrupted with applause and at its conclusion staged a demonstration which has seldom been witnessed in the Grand Lodge. It was a spontaneous outburst such as might be expected from a patriotic assembly whose hearts had been deeply touched by an appeal to red-blooded Ameri cans for support of our country. There is no doubt that the great heart of Elkdom beats in devotion to our country, its form of government, its institutions and its Flag which typifies all that America means to us. Brother Dies' thrilling address was the occasion for the second wave of patriotic enthusiasm to sweep the Grand Lodge. The first was occasioned by the introduction and adoption of a resolution authorizing the Grand Exalted Ruler to appoint a special committee to be known as the Elks National Defense and Public Relations Commission. Its function is to create and supervise plans for the fullest cooperation by the Grand Lodge, the State Associations and the subordinate lodges with our national, state and local governments in any contingency. The preamble to this resolution refers to the Order's outstanding achievements during the World War, to reaffirmation of loyalty to our government, to the defense of our Constitution, to adequate pre paredness to meet any war of aggression, to awake public consciousness to the presence of subversive and fifth column activities and proclaim against the sending of our American boys to war in Europe. This preamble clearly points In general terms to the real object and pur pose for which the Commission is created. To meet the expense of this Commission, to provide funds for complying with the desire of Grand Exalted Ruler Buch to extend our rehabilitation work, and to provide additional funds for the Grand Lodge expenses at Convention cities, an increase of ten cents was made in the per capita tax. Looking to the purposes to which this additional tax is to be applied, the membership of the Order will gladly acquiesce in this action, in fact the membership unquestionably would have approved of a much larger increase if it had been deemed necessary or advisable by the Grand Lodge.

The Dignity of Labor AVING its origin in custom, at first not generally noticed, the first Monday in September gradually came to be recognized as Labor Day. In 1894 the Congress established it as a legal public holiday. The States have enacted similar legislation until Vjirtfis by H. H. Gilmore

18 now the day is universally recognized as set aside to honor those who comprise what is sometimes referred to as the laboring class of our citizenry. "Group" is a much better and more accurate word to distinguish laborers from other groups. In this country we recog nize no class distinctions. We are one common people and all laborers, if we are living worth-while lives. Voluntary idleness is not consistent with the American way or with the traditions handed down to us by those who founded and builded this Republic. Enforced idleness is very different and perhaps the most galling of all labor. Labor Day is generally accepted as being specially dedicated to those who earn their bread by the sweat of the brow, but it is a holiday for all and affords an opportunity to pay special tribute to the man in bluejeans and the woman in ginghams without whom this nation could not long survive. So it is that the white-collar brigade stands on the sidelines and applauds the marching throngs of those who on this holiday merit and reccive a sincere tribute of respect and appreciation. President Cleveland once said, "A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor."

The Cost of War NTIL the war hysteria which now involves the world, affecting every nation either directly or indirectly, surrenders to peace and good will, as it eventually must, the dollar cost will not be known nor can it be forecast with any degree of accuracy. Eliminating the greatest of all costs—the sacrifice of human lives— the financial burden laid on the backs of those surviving will doubtless reach and probably exceed one hundred billion dollars. The human mind cannot grasp such astronomical figures, neither can it grasp the full import of the many billions our government is to invest in equipping adequately to protect our lives, liberty and property from threatened dangers which, let us all devoutly hope and pray, may never materialize. We must realize, however, that we are living in a world gone mad, and prepare to meet and overpower any and every threat to our democratic institutions if they are to be preserved.

A Patriotic Duty N this issue we give you a full list of the District Deputies appointed for the ensuing Grand Lodge year. We have many times stressed the importance of these field generals in conducting the affairs of the Order by supervising the activities of subordinate lodges. Their responsibilities are greater this year than ever before. This year our lodges have the opportunity to demonstrate the truth of the statement that America needs the Order of Elks. Real, red-blooded Americans must be on guard in every State in the Union to assist in ferreting out those seeking to undermine our form of government. We want no Fifth Columns in this country. Every Elks lodge should be a patriotic center. The eyes of every Elk should be wide open and their ears alert to locate every sub versive movement, and promptly report it to constituted authority. We have seen what traitors have accomplished in other countries. The danger here may not be great, but it exists. We must not fold our hands in idleness and say to ourselves "it cannot happen here", for it can happen here and will happen here unless we get busy, and "we" means "you" and not some other fellow. Patriotism must BROTHmY embrace more this year than mere lip service and saluting the Flag. It means militant action not to prepare for war but to keep us out of war. Everything you hold dear in life as an American citizen depends on united action. Let no Elk fail in his duty to himself, his family and his country.

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News of Subordinate Above is a scene snapped during the eastward to Williamsburg and Norfolk presentation of a Flag and flag staff and on to the coast. Their co-workers which were donated by Lima. Ohio. are legion. The associated Women's Lodges Throughout Lodge to Schoonover Park on July 4tb. Clubs of Virginia have made roadside development their chief aim for 1940. the Order The State, through its landscape en^- neer, is supporting the plan which will Hose Day Is Observed at Laage Firemen's Band and a new banner was beautify the roadside and at the same unfurled with appropriate ceremonies. time battle erosion. Mr. Laage is a Floral Park. Bedford. Va. At a given signal, the weatherb^ten former treasurer of St. Louis, Mo., Rose Day was observed at the Bed- Old Glory, which had given faithful Lodge, No. 9. He has lived at the Elks wrd Floral Park on Sunday, May 26. service during the past year, was rev National Home for 12 years, happy in family groups and visitors, singly or erently lowered. Then the new Flag congenial surroundings and busy with ^ pairs, came from the home town of was raised aloft as the "Star-Spangled a hobby that has brought beauty to Bedford, Va., and the nearby cities of Banner" was played by the Junior the countryside. Koanoke and Lynchburg to enjoy the Band and all present stood at salute. and fragrance of the flowering The Park was dedicated in 1938. At shrubs and roses of every shade and the ceremonies, honors were paid Mr. New Castle, Pa., Elks Vote $500 variety—tree roses, climbers and Laage who had conceived and success For Local Playground Equipment pushes. A high compliment was paid fully carried out the idea of converting At its regular meeting on June 26, the park and its founder, George F. an old slave cemetery, overgrown with New Castle, Pa., Lodge, No 69, voted Laage, a resident of the Elks National weeds, into a miniature floral park be $500 for the immediate purchase of Home, by the visit of the Grand Ex cause of his love of flowers. Now, with five modern six-swing racks for place alted Ruler, Henry C. Warner, Mrs. another rosarian, his friend and co- ment at several of the 12 city-spon sored playgrounds. The new racks • and Joseph G. Buch, who has worker, Dr. T. Allen Kirk, a former become Grand Exalted Ruler, on president of the Rose Society of Amer provide swing seats for 30 children, cne Saturday before Rose Day. The ica, Mr. Laage is beginning to see an six swings being attached to each of nrst coins were dropped by the dis- other dream come true—a Roseway the five large standards. tuiguished visitors into the new Wish- ng Well, set against a background of owering syringa and surrounded by OSes and iris. The coins will be pre served as souvenirs and reminders of eir personal interest. As people never tire of wishing, coins accumulate from saved for the puichase of a drinking fountain for the park. the many friends who re- ponded to the beautiful invitations f,?!*ere Past Grand^oseExalted Day byRuler Mr. Laage,Judge Rush L. Holland of Washington, D. G., \ --jr : ^veral other prominent Elks and mem- attended1in . I^oanoke a body. RoseMusic Societywas fur who nished throughout the afternoon by the

Right: Mayor G. W. Krogman of Wild- wood, N. J„ presents a key to the city to Eugene Gallaher, of Millville, N. J., Lodge on the occasion of the 18th annual seashore event for crippled children. Right: A class inUiated by Crisiield. Md., Lodge, known as the State Asso ciation Class.

The money was voted at the recom mendation of the lodge's Social and Community Welfare Committee. P.E.R. Edward J. Ryan, Chairman, announced that the Committee hoped "to follow a five-year plan for playground equip ment donations", purchasing new equipment every summer.

Shreveport La., Lodge Endorses National Defense Program With reference to that important portion of the Elks' program for the coming year based on National Defense, Secy. A. L. Snider calls attention to served by the officers from the begin Enjoyable "Old Timers Night" the fact that at a meeting of his lodge, ning in that a great many of the Held by Beading, Pa.. Lodge Shreveport, La., No. 122, on June 13, newly-made Elks displayed a marked 1940, two resolutions were adopted Seventeen veteran members of Read interest in the activities of the lodge ing, Pa., Lodge, No. 115, who have which present clearly the patriotic and attended meetings regularly. Indi spirit which characterizes the member been active in the lodge for twenty- cations are that future officers of abil five years or more, were guests of honor ship. One of the resolutions was pre ity are numbered among the new sented to the Senate, for Congressional recently at a banquet. E.R. Walter G. members. Credit for much of the lodge s McAtee and several of the officers and records, by Senator John H. Overton of success goes to Mr. Douglas, who not Alexandria, La., the other to the House "Old Timers" spoke, and memories of only brought honor to the lodge by his the "good old days" were recalled. of Representatives by Congressman appointment a year ago as District Overton Brooks of Shreveport. P.E.R. James S. Roland, who was pres Deputy, but worked untiringly to bring ent, is the dean of the "Old Timers", Both resolutions are included in the about such satisfactory results. That Congressional Record, Vol. 86, No. 123, having held continuous membership for his efforts were not entirely confined 51 years. printed as of June 20, 1940. The to his own lodge is shown by the prog- former, presented by Senator Overton, r€ss msde by th6 oth6r 14 lodg6S in GlendiVe, Monf., Lodge Observes appears on page 13,224; the latter, the District. j presented by Congressman Brooks, ap Having conducted 17 initiations dur Its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary pears under "Petitions," etc.. on Pace ing the year, the Ritualistic Team of Glendive, Mont., Lodge, No. 1324, 13,201. ^ No 621 was sent to the Convention of celebrated its Silver Anniversary on the New York State Elks Association, Saturday, June 22, with an all-day cele A Year of Progress Is Reported held at Rochester in June. The team bration, starting at 9 a.m. with the By Plattsburg. N. Y., Lodge competed in the contest and reamed registration at the lodge home of some Early in 1939, plans were formu to Plattsburg with the State Cham 300 visiting Elks from Montana, Wyo lated under the guidance of Golda H. pionship. ming, Utah, Nevada, Minnesota and the Douglas, who has served three terms as Exalted Ruler, to make Plattsburg N. Y., Lodge, No. 621, one of the lead ing lodges in the State. One of the outstanding accomplishments has been a satisfactory gain in membership, placing the lodge in the lead among others in the Northeast District. A great deal of care was exercised by the Membership Committee in the selection of applicants with a view of obtaining material for the future building of the lodge. A gratifying condition was ob-

Idaho Boys' State leaders are shown, right, enjoying a banquet held by Boise, Ida., Lodge in their honor.

Below are those present al a banquet held by Newport News, Va., Lodge in honor oi P.E.R. Otto E. Schade.

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K'HA Above is a picture laken at the pres entation by Du Bois, Pa., Lodge oi a respirator to the Du Bois Hospital.

mm Left: The handsome float oi Red Bank, N. J., Lodge which won iirst prize in the city's Independence Day parade.

with the N.D. State Elks Association fW of which he was a Past Pi-esident. State Pres. L. B. Hanna, of Fargo Lodge, PmoVSM +PREPftREDNeSS s: PEftCE former Governor of North Dakota, and P.E.R. Sam Stern, Fargo, State Vice- Pres., were among those who acted as honorary pallbearers. Mr. Brown was a leader in local civic circles. He sei'ved as President of the North and South Dakotas. A parade The Elks' exhibit represented the his Moorhead Chamber of Commerce, was was then held in which fully 1,500 peo tory of the American Flag. The flags instrumental in securing the new ple participated and 30 floats were of each period were displayed on a stage armory, and was also a member of the entered. Music was furnished by the decorated in lavender and white, and Fargo Chamber of Commerce. As Miles City Elks Band, the Glendive a clock, with its hands pointing sym President of the Moorhead Rod and City Band, the Terry Cowboy Band and bolically to the hour of eleven, stood Gun Club in 1934, he was largely re the Glendive Elks Prum and Bugle in the center of the float. sponsible for the development of the Corps. A bicycle section followed the The flags, in the order of their adop Buffalo River State Park near Mus- main procession. During the after tion, were the John Cabot flag (1497), koda. noon, 41 candidates were initiated into British Colonial flag (1607), Taunton the Order by the officers of Glendive flag (1774), Gadsen flag (1775), First P.E.R. Robert L. Forbes of Lodge. Addresses were delivered by Navy Ensign or Grand Union flag New Rochelle, N.Y., Lodge Dr. J. C. Cherry of Goldfield, Past (1776), Continental flag (1776), Betsy Pres. of the Nevada State Elks Assn., Robert L. Forbes, founder and or Ross flag (1776), Fort McHenry flag ganizer 38 years ago of New Rochelle, E.R. Martin Walsh of Miles City, (1812), and the Stars and Stripes. The Mont., Lodge, and P.E.R. D. J. O'Neil, N. Y., Lodge, No. 756, died on June float was entered under the sponsor 21 at his home, after a lingering ill Glendive. ship of the House Committee. Entertainment for the ladies included ness. He was 61 years of age. Mr. a tour of the Badlands Pai'k, near Glen Forbes was a former publisher of The dive, followed by golf and cards and a Past Grand Tiler C. P. Brown New Rochelle Paragraph, a weekly, and banquet at the Glendive Golf Club. A Dies at Fargo, North Dakota The Daily Star. Retiring from the banquet for the men in the evening, In the death of Past Grand Tiler newspaper business, he became a realtor followed by a dance in the Elks' Hall, Curtis P. Brown, of Fargo Lodge No. of prominence. He was the senior Past completed the program. 260, North Dakota has lost one of its Exalted Ruler of New Rochelle Lodge. most prominent and faithful Elks. Mr. fled Bcrnfc, N, /„ Elks" Float Brown served Fargo Lodge as Exalted Wheeling, W. Va,, Lodge Holds Wins Prize in Local Parade Ruler in 1914-15, and after the expira Annual Outing For Orphans tion of his term was presented with As is its annual custom, Wheeling, Red Bank, N. J., Lodge, No. 233, an Honorary Life Membership. He was awarded the prize for the best W. Va., Lodge, No. 28, entertained the float in the parade held as part of the served as District Deputy in 1922-23 children from the orphanages of the city city s Independence Day celebration. and as Grand Tiler in 1927-28. For at an outing, held this year at Wheeling many years he was closely associated Park. At the same time, a large group of colored children from the local orphanage and day nursery enjoyed the same privileges and amusements at Oglebay Park as guests of the lodge. The Wheeling Chapter of the American Red Cioss, the local recreation depart ment staff, and the staff's of both parks cooperated with the Elks in taking care of the children.

Left; At the Indiana State Assn. Con vention held in Anderson are shown Stale Pres. Glen Mi'ler, Grand Exalted Ruler Henry C. Warner, retiring State Pres. Claude E. Thompson and Past Grand Exalted Ruler Floyd E. Thomp- *r

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That there was plenty to eat was At top is a picture of the Old Timers annual Independence Day celebration evidenced by the report which showed of Reading, Pa.. Lodge who were visited the municipally owned Sanders that edibles of all kinds were furnished honored recently by the Lodge. Beach where the Elks' Carnival was in enormous quantities including 132 held. A floor show, featuring popular pounds of wieners, 50 pounds of ham, entertainers, concluded the all-day 35 gallons of ice cream and 300 pounds held in the lodge room. A large num fiesta. The program included a parade, of candy. From his model Jersey farm ber of his fellow-members and other a track meet, water sports, a fireworks nearby, Charles H. Neubard sent 30 friends were present. display and dancing. gallons of milk packed in ice. The Mr. Schubert died suddenly while at An exhibition drill was given by sol W.P.A. orchestra furnished music at tending to his duties. He was known diers and Marines from the air stations Wheeling Park and a number of vaude to every member of the lodge as and Fort Barrancas. The private, cor ville acts were presented. The children "Schubie". Courteous and affable under poral and sergeant, selected by the in the group at Oglebay Park were en- all circumstances, he was always doing judges as the best drilled, were pre ^rtained by McDowell's Rhythm Band. a little more than his work called for, sented with medals. Winners in the Gifts were presented before the start and dipping constantly into his own track events were awarded prizes. was made for home, each child receiv purse to help some one in distress. ing a doll, a tricycle or some present Braddock, Pa., Lodge deceives equally desirable. Secy. Adam Martin Pensacola, Fla., Elks Sponsor a Its Founder's Certificate Past Pres. of the W. Va., State Elks Assn., who IS in active charge of the Successful Charity Carnival Acting as personal representative of Outing each year, officiated as usual. A successful Charity Carnival, staged the Grand Exalted Ruler, in South by Pensacola, Fla., Lodge, No. 497, on western Pennsylvania, D.D. John J. A. V. Schubert, Secretory July 4 was patronized by many visitors McGrath of Sheraden, Pa., Lodge, made from Alabama and a large home crowd. the official presentation of an Hon Of San Jose, CalU., Lodge Hundreds of participants m Pensacola's orary Founder's Certificate to Brad- Funeral services for A. V. Schubert Secretary of San Jose, Calif., Lodge' No. 522, for more than 25 years, were

Right: A group ol officers ol Marion, Ohio. Lodge and committee members who met Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins in Columbus to take him to Marion for the Pilgrimage to the Harding Memorial. Below are those who attended a ban quet given by the bowling league of San Mateo, Calif., Lodge.

/ Left is Grand Exalted Ruler Henry C. Warner with several prominent Wis consin Elks on the occasion of his visit to La Crosse, Wis., Lodge.

done for the proposed holding in San Mateo of the 1943 West Coast Bowling Conference, affiliated with the American Bowling Conference. Including the San Mateo Elks' alleys, 30 alleys are available in the new sports centers of Burlingame and San Mateo. All are equipped with the latest facilities known to the game and de signed to serve every comfort of patrons. The close of the Elks Bowling League season was celebrated with a banquet attended by more than 100 bowling enthusiasts.

Youths From All Parts of Idaho Are Entertained by Boise Lodge Boise, Ida,, Lodge, No. 310, enter tained 55 boys from all parts of the State at a dinner on July 25. The occa sion was the first annual Boys State gathering sponsored by the Idaho De partment of the American Legion. Rob ert S. Overstreet, E.R. of Boise Lodge, V ' i presided. P.E.R. Homer Hudelson, P.D.D., introduced the distinguished guests including the speaker of the Above is Babe Ruth with E.R. Carl A class of candidates was initiated and evening, P.E.R. Harry J. Benoit, of Walter and Ray Doan. national sports inspection of the newly decorated and Twin Falls Lodge, and P.E.R. A. H. promoter, on the occasion of the refurnished lodge rooms was made. Christiansen, Boise, 1st Vice-President Babe's visit to Muscatine, !a.. Lodge. E.R. Lowell J. Grady presided at the of the Ida. State Elks Assn. Many banquet. Among the many prominent prominent Elks and members of the dock. Pa., Lodge, No. 883, at a July Elks seated at the speakers' table with Legion were present. meeting. Among those who participated Mr. Warner were Dr. H. W. Schmitt, Tommy Uberauga, Boys State Gov in the ceremonies were E.R. Albert R. of Hibbing Lodge, D.D. for Minnesota, ernor, occupied a seat of honor at the Bodnar; P.E.R.'s John F. Nugent, North; Patrick J. McHugh, Grand banquet. The Band of Boise Lodge Past Pres. of the Pa. State Elks Assn., Forks, D.D. for North Dakota; Frank played several numbers and the Boise P.D.D. John F. Lowers, Trustees George V. Kent, Grand Forks, N. D., Trustee Elks Quartette sang. Sound pictures J. Morrison and Henry J. Gelm, George of the N. D. State Elks Assn.; P.D.D. of the United States Navy were shown L. Black and Ray Y. Swaney; James Clarence A. Erickson, Fergus Falls, through the courtesy of the United 0. Weaver, Hugh L. Mooney and Jo Minn.; P.D.D.'s M. D. Andei-son, Fargo, States Navy Recruiting service. After seph P. Zorn, Est. Lead., Loy., and N. D., and the Rev. Father P. Mc- the banquet, the boys were taken to Lect. Knights respectively, and Philip Geough, of Valley City, N. D., Lodge, the large municipal air station for an Roderus, Tiler. and S. A. Wallace, a charter member of inspection tour. Crookston Lodge. Crookston, Minn., Lodge Is Du Bois, Pa., Lodge Presents a Visited by Henry C. Warner San Mateo, Calif., Elks Raise Resuscitator to Local Hospital A few weeks before the Grand Lodge Bowling fo Rank of Major Sport An important ceremony of general Convention at Houston, Crookston The promotion of bowling to the ex interest took place recently at the Du Minn., Lodge, No. 342, held Open House tent that it has gained a prominent Bois Hospital when a special commit for its own members and visiting Elks place in the ranks of major sports on tee, representing Du Bois, Pa., Lodge, from many northwestern lodges so that the Peninsula, has for several months No. 349, presented the institution with they might meet Grand Exalted Ruler been the chief objective of San Mateo, a resuscitator of modern type. E.R. Henry _C. Warner, attend the banquet Calif., Lodge, No. 1112, in the field of Charles W. Allen was in charge of the given in his honor and listen to his recreational activity. Veteran bowlers program. Formal presentation was address. This was the first visit of a from the Elks' alleys have _joined_ civic made by D.D. Thomas B. Bradley of Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order to teams frequently participating in inter Du Bois Lodge. Crookston Lodge since 1924 when James city tournaments. The resulting in In accepting the gift. Sister M. Car- McFarland of Watertown, S. D., crease in popularity of the indoor sport melita. Superintendent of the Hospital, Lodge, was Grand Exalted Ruler and has been most encouraging to promoters thanked the Elks for their fine ges visited the lodge in his official capacity. and devotees of the game. Local bowl ture. Dr. E. F. Getto voiced the thanks Mr. Warner spoke at the banquet ers recently journeyed to Los Angeles of the medical staff and also explained which opened an evening of festivities the various details of the operation of where the invitational spade work was the machine. The resuscitator forms an important adjunct to the hospital's equipment, filling a long-felt want with particular reference to its use in emer gency cases. Ogdensburg, N. Y., Lodge Donates Playground Equipment At Beach The children of Ogdensburg. N. Y., began a season of fun, with chances of accident reduced to a minimum, when the municipal bathing beach on the St. Lawrence River was opened in June by city officials, through the cooperation of Ogdensburg Lodge No. 772. City

Left is the Ritualistic Team of Platts- burg, N, Y., Lodge. They are New York State Champions of 1939-40, la

employees cleared and cleaned the beach Above is a class of 41 candidates, Committee began to function on May 15 and within two months had taken which had not been used for several the oHicers of Glendive. Monl„ Lodge years, and the lodge supplied the play and distinguished visitors, photo care of more than 50 deserving cases. ground equipment. Funds were voted graphed during the celebration of A call sent out to the membership for by members of the lodge for the pur the Lodge's Silver Jubilee. wearing apparel for men, women and chase of slides, trapeze bars, flying children, met with prompt response. rings, flexible ladders, swings, hori people from Lima and surrounding Shoes are repaired and clothes are zontal bars and seesaws. cities, were broadcast by the local radio cleaned and pressed as soon as they station, WLOK. The Flag was raised are received. The undertaking is now Prominent Elks Attend Meeting by members of the Ohio National an assured success and the work will Guard and the American Legion, all of be continued throughout the winter. At La Crosse, Wis., Lodge whom were members of Lima Lodge. La Crosse, Wis., Lodge, No. 300, held an enthusiastic meeting on June 28, Millville. N, h. Elks Give ISth with the Grand Exalted Ruler, Henry Salt Lake City Elks Succeed Outing For Crippled Children C. Wai'ner, as a special guest and the With Special ChaTity Program More than 700 children from Mill principal speaker. His talk received Shortly after Edward L. Vetter had ville, N. J., and nearby localities, with much favorable comment. been installed as Exalted Ruler of Salt their mothers and sisters, guai'dians The Wisconsin State Elks Associa Lake City, Utah, Lodge, No. 85, he and nurses, were the guests of the tion was well represented by past and appointed a special charity committ^ Crippled Kiddies Committee of Mill present officers including Past State to act during the next 12 months in the ville Lodge No. 580 at the 18th annual Pres.'s William F. Schad, Milwaukee, distribution of shoes and clothmg to seashore outing given by the Elks on Joseph Selbach, Eau Claire, A. J. the needy. The committee went to July 17. Twenty-one private auto Ceniesse, Green Bay, Thomas F. Mc work immediately, first enlarging the mobiles and four large public service Donald, Marshfield, and Myron E. charity quarters in the lodge home and buses were used for transportation. A Schwartz, Two Rivers; Vice-Pres. adding shelving, dressing rooms, hang police escort, composed of local officers Frank W. Fisher, Janesville, and Secy. ers and stationery necessary for use and State troopers, accompanied the Lou Uecker, Two Rivers. D.D. William in the examination of applicants for caravan to Wildwood where they were J. Eulberg, Portage, E.R.'s Harold L. relief. Over the door of the spacious met by local police. Londo, Green Bay, and Joseph G. room is a card reading "Elks Benevo A brief stop was made, en route, at the Konop, Milwaukee, P.E.R.'s William lent Good Will Room", and at all times Baptist Cemetery in Cape May Court Uthmeier, Marshfleld, and Dr. R. T. a member is in attendance i^eady to Case, La Crosse, B. B. Anundsen, interview applicants who, if found Decorah, Vice-Pres. of the Iowa State worthy, are supplied with what is Below: Henry C. Warner is greeted Elks Assn., and Ernie Getts, Los An needed. Benevolent Good Will by a reception committee of Dickinson. geles, Calif., Lodge, were present. N.D., Elks when he visited that Lodge. Lima. O., Lodge Presents Flag And Stafi to Schoonover Park The presentation by Lima, 0., Lodge, No. 54, of an American Flag, a staff and a base, to Schoonover Park, was the opening event of the formal dedica tion and px'esentation of the park and swimming pool to the city of Lima. A parade was formed at the lodge home, headed by police on motorcycles y'vX "'US r in charge of James C. Schofield, a mem ber of Lima Lodge, the combined bands of the South and Central High Schools of more than 200 pieces, about 150 Lima Elks in automobiles, the local units of the U. S. Field Artillery and ammunition train, and membei-s of the Ohio National Guard. The Flag was px-esented officially by E.R. Robert M. Lane, and accepted on behalf of the people of Lima by Mr. Schoonover, donor of the park. Headed by his brother, Fred G. Schoonover, a member of No. 54, a squadron of air planes circled the field during the presentation ceremonies. The exercises, attended by approximately 40,000

Right: The Rilualistic Team of San *-4 \. Pedro, Calif., Lodge which will com pete in the contests at the Cali fornia State Elks Association Con vention this month. House. The children left the cars and Above are cificers and candidates oi ley, Phillipsburg and Madison, N. J., marched to the tomb of the late Edward Crookston. Minn., Lodge on the occa Lodges, followed by the Burlington S. Culver, former Millville resident sion of the visit oi Grand Exalted Ruler County delegation led by the McFar- and Elk and Mayor of Wildwood, who Henr? C. Warner. land American Legion Post of Burling for many years was a benefactor of ton, and a girls' Bugle and Drum Corps crippled children. Flowers were placed Nicholson, of Springfield, Mass., Lodge, from Florence, in white and gold uni at the base of the tomb and a memorial No. 61, and Charles Spencer Hart, forms. The boys of the Post in green service was held. A four-year-old child, Mount Vernon, N. Y., Lodge, No. 842; and white gave the parade a colorful dressed in purple and white, led the Leo J. Rogers, Mayor of Trenton, with touch and both outfits were loudly ap procession. Eugene Gallaher, Chair City Commissioners and members of plauded all along the way. Members man of the Millville Elks Committee, fte Board of Freeholders and the N. J. of the lodges in Burlington County fol spoke briefly. At Wildwood the children Crippled Children's Commission; for- lowed Lakewood Lodge which, with its had the run of the beach and boardwalk Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, of Perth band, led the fourth division, followed and free use of rides and amusement Amboy Lodge; seven bands; delega by the Camden color guard and the features. Later, at the Hotel Black- tions from nearby lodges of the Order; delegation from Freehold, N. J., Lodge. stone, T. M. Dauginas, the proprietor, representatives from all the 65 lodges Members of the Unemployment Com entertained the party at a bountiful m New Jersey and many from New pensation Commission marched with feast, followed by a vaudeville pro York State. A welcoming commit this group. Boy Scouts of the Trenton gram. tee of 200 citizens, named by Mayor area, bearing 27 flags porti'aying the Rogers, was also on hand, together history of the American standard, also Grand Exalted Ruler Buch with many employees of the New Jer- participated, accompanied by their Sea sey Unemployment Compensation Com Scout band. The Grand Exalted Ruler Comes Home to Trenton mission of which the Grand Exalted With the Houston Convention over, Ruler is Chairman. Members of Mr. is Vice-Chairman for the area. i he the newly-elected Grand Exalted Ruler, last division was composed of the ii'en- Buch's family were also present. ton Post 93 Junior Band, members ot Joseph G. Buch, of Trenton, N. J., Trenton police, headed by Police Lodge, No. 105, returned to his home Chief William Dooling, who handled the Post, and also general committee city, where he opened headquarters, the crowds at the station so splendidly, members. Traversing the principal and with his secretary, France M. Trav- business streets of Trenton, which were performed the same fine service during lined by enthusiastic spectators, the aline, Jr., of Camden, turned with his parade. The police car, in which rode usual energy to the task of answering Chief Dooling and Chief Phelan of the Grand Exalted Ruler was escorted to hundreds of congratulatory telegrams the lodge home, where he reviewed the Fire Department, was followed by the parade. . ^ and letters and setting up the office cars conveying the Grand Exalted force that will function through his Ruler and his party and by the Elaborate arrangements tor the administration. En route, Mr. Buch American Legion color guard. Then parade and for a reception m Mr. and his secretary stopped off in Chicago came P.E.R. William M. N. Gilbert, Buch's honor were made by Trenton where they familiarized themselves Lodge immediately after word had been Chairman of the Arrangements Com received of his election. Both events with^ the routine of the Grand Secre mittee and marshal of the parade, and tary's office and were given data on his aides; E.R. Leroy Ufert, of Tren were highly successful, due to the haid the work to be undertaken by the Grand ton Lodge, and Richard F. Flood, Jr., work of the committees and the co Exalted Ruler during the year. of Bayonne, Pres. of the N. J, State operation of the officers and members. On Wednesday, July 24, Mr. Buch Elks Assn.; State and past State offi Speakers at the reception included for was welcomed at the Pennsylvania cers, and the Trenton Lodge band with mer Governor Harold G. Hoffman, who Railroad station in Trenton. Never made the speech at Houston nominat wag a more impressive demonstration the Past Exalted Rulers of the Lodge, ing Mr. Buch. On behalf of the Un ^e present officers and members. employment Compensati^ given an individual in the history of The second division was led by the the city. On the station platform were Jewish War Veterans Junior band. In he presented the Grand Exalted Rulei Past Grand Exalted Rulers James R. with a fine crayon sketch made by toam- line were members of Freehold, Nut- uel Stewart, an employee, and gave as part of his talk the PO®'? such a hit at Houston, entitled M^tei Joe". Others who spoke were Past Grand Exalted Rulers Hart and Nich olson; former Governor Edward Stokes, of Trenton; Mayor Rofe^s, Past State Pres. Murray B. Sheldon, of Elizabeth, N. J., Lodge, who made the seconding speech at Houston; trie new Chairman of the Lodge Activities Committee of the Grand I odee. Col. William H. Kelly, of East Orange, N. J., Lodge, and State Pres. Ricnard 1?. Flood, Jr. The program was in charge

Left: Members ol Braddock, Pa., Lodge receive from D.D. John J. McGrath on Honorary Founder's Cerliiicat^ oi the Elks Notional Foundation. Left: Photographed at the Elks Golf Tournament held in Toledo, Ohio, are. right to left. Past Grand Exalted Ruler Dr. Edward J. McCormick. P.D,D. John C. Cochrane. Peter F. Whalen, of - Toledo Lodge, and Dr. C. J. Czamecld.

/ of the Exalted Ruler of Trenton Lodge, Mr. Ufert, who, in thanking the city officials for their cooperation, called on all the Past Exalted Rulers of the lodge and the members of the Arrangements Committee to rise in order that they iXihw*] might receive the credit due them. Mr. Buch received many beautiful baskets of flowers. He was greatly affected by the welcoming and declared PJKIi that it was a fine thing to come home and find that his own lodge and the city in which he had always lived regarded him so highly. He thanked the Mayor, the City Commissioners and all of his friends, and called upon all the mem bers of the Order who were present for the eai'nest support of his program during the coming year. After the re ception, refreshments were served under the direction of the Trenton Lodge committees.

Death Comes to /. B. Sleeman, Prominent Pennsylvania Elk James Brain Sleeman, P.E.R. of Huntingdon, Pa., Lodge, No. 976, and Past Pres. of the Pa. State Elks Assn., died at his home on July 26, after an illness of more than two months. Mr. Sleeman served two terms as District Deputy. He was one of the best liked and most respected Elks in the State. Above! Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph G. Buch, photographed Since the organization of the South with former Governor Harold Hoffman ol New Jersey, Central Elks District Association, Mr. Mayor Leo Rogers of Trenton, N. J.. and Mr. Buch's secre Sleeman had served as Treasurer. Ill tary, Frank M. Travaline, Jr.. at the home-coming cele health forced him to resign the office bration for Mr. Buch after the Houston Convention. in June. Mr. Sleeman was born in England in 1868. He became a citizen of the United States in 1895. For a number of years he was a member of the National Guard. He entered the employ of the J. C. Blair Company in 1897, was mas ter mechanic, and continued with the firm until the beginning of his illness. Burial took place in Riverside Ceme tery.

Left is the Elks Quartet of Zanesville, Ohio, Lodge, which sang at the me morial ceremonies for late President Warren G. Harding at Marion, Ohio, recently.

Below is Grand Exalted Ruler Henry C. Warner and prominent California Elks on Santa Barbara Old Mission steps, when Mr. Warner visited Santa Barbara. Calif., Lodge. JB' Above are some ol those who par ticipated in exerdses honoring the Flag, during the Oregon State Elks Convention held at Pendleton.

Lodge presiding. After an organ pre lude by Prof. A. G. Tucker and a prayer by the Rev. William A. Hallock, State Chaplain, addresses were delivp^d by P.E.R. Frank M. Miller, General Chair man of the Convention Committee, E.R. Albert W. Yogg of Rochester Lodge, and Mayor Samuel B. Dicker who wel MAINE J. Henry, Rumford; Secy., Edward R. comed the delegates on behalf of the Houlton Lodge No. 835 entertained Twomey, Portland; Treas., Everett A. city. Musical numbers were ren(^red the Maine State Elks Association dur McGlauflin, Portland. Past Grand Es bv the Rochester Gas & Electric Com ing its annual convention on June 1-2 teemed Loyal Knight Lester 0. Ayer, pany's Male Chorus. Speeches were Rumford Lodge No. 862 was an of Portland Lodge, was elected Trustee also made by State Pres Dr Francis nounced as the winner of the State for three years. Bath, Me., was chosen Ritualistic Contest. Scholarship awards as next year's convention city. H Marx, of Oneonta Lodge No. 1312; were presented to Stanley Percy, of Past Grand Exalted Ruler James T. Bath, Me., Stanley Vigette, of Rum- Hallinan, Queens Borough No. 878, and ford, and Margaret Smith, of Lewis- NEW YORK Past Grand Exalted Ruler Charles ton, Me. Untiring interest and good Opening ceremonies of the 28th An Spencer Hart, Mount Vernon No. 842. results have attended the work for nual Convention of the New York State PDD Frank R. Wassung, of Norwich Elks Association were held at the home Lodge No. 1222, Chairman of the crippled children carried on by the of Rochester, N. Y., Lodge, No. 24, on Scholarship Committee, introduced the Association which voted to make this Sunday, June 2, at 8 p.m., with Past following young people to whom schol year°" objective during the coming State Pres. D. Curtis Gano of Rochester arships were awarded on behalf of the Offices were elected as follows: State Association: Louis Biagi, spon ^res., Ernest C. Simpson, Waterville: sored by Schenectady Lodge, a student Jirst Vice-Pres., Dr. Joseph L. Brown, Below is Past Grand Exalted Ruler at Union Medical College; Mary Alice Sanford; 2nd Vice-Pres., Gordon W Dr. Edward J. McCormick, speaking Boehlert, Oneida, Oneonta Normal •Urew, Augusta; 3rd Vice-Pres., Arthur during the Convention of the Michi School; Albert DaSilva, Freeport, New gan State Elks Assn. held at Jackson. York University; Richard Fang, Roch-

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1 Right: The Degree Team oi Marquetle. Mich,, Lodge, which was the Class A champion at the Michigan State Elks Association Convention.

Below, right: P.E.R. Peter J. Genovese presents prizes to the winners of the Essay Contest at the Massachusetts State Elks Convention. The winners are, leit to right, Helen Hayes, Ger trude Eroceski and Pamela Walker. ester, University of Rochester; Joan Swartz, Albion, Denison College. The recipients expressed their thanks for the assistance of the Association in en abling them to continue their college educations. The benediction was pro nounced by the Rev. Dr. Arthur 0. Sykes, of Lyons, N. Y., Lodge, Past Grand Chaplain and Honorary Presi dent of the State Association. The first business session was held on Monday morning, with Dr. Marx presiding. In addition to routine busi ness, addresses were made by Judge Hallinan and Major Hart. P.E.R. Ar- den E. Page, of Hornell, N.Y., Lodge, Chairman of the State Ritualistic Com mittee, announced that the State Con test had been won by Plattsburg Lodge No. 621. Great Neck, Cortland, Albion and Little Falls Lodges also partici pated. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Pres. J. Theodore Moses, North Tonawanda- Vice-Pres.'s: S.E., William P. Dunne', Bi'onx; East, John J. Hayden, Beacon' E. Cent., Eli T. Conner, Port Jervis' S. Cent., Glenn R. Weigand, Elmira; N.E., Dr. William R. Eger, Schenec- tady; W. Cent., A. Floyd Tharp, Sen eca Falls; West, Richard J. Gavagan Lancaster; N. Cent., Hyman S. Weiner' Saranac Lake; Secy., William T. Phil lips, New York Lodge No. 1; Treas John T. Osowski, Elmira. Albany' twenty-fourth anniversary of his elec meeting. The final event of the Con N. Y., was chosen as the next year's tion as Honorary President and his vention, one of the most successful in Convention City. The Tuesday session twenty-fourth year as installing officer recent years, was the parade on was devoted chieily to reports made by of the Association were celebrated that Wednesday afternoon in which hand the Vice-Presidents and various com day by Dr. Sykes. After a brief address some floats, fine bands and colorful mittees. The Order was shown to be in by State Pres. Moses, and the final marching units took part. healthy condition throughout the State report of the Credentials Committee, The Lapsation and Membership Com submitted by Chairman Frank C. SOUTH DAKOTA mittees reported a fifty percent de O'Brien of Watertown Lodge, showing The South Dakota State Elks Asso crease in lapsations. The report of the a registration of 683 delegates, the ciation convened at Yankton, S. D., on Inter-Lodge Visitation Committee was session was brought to a close by State June 2-3. A splendid business pro not presented, due to the death of Chair Chaplain Hallock. , w gram was carried out and delegates man John T. Huguenin of Rome Lodge Rochester Lodge provided a delight and visitors were royally entertained No. 96. A brief Memorial Service for ful social program for the three-day by the local lodge, Yankton No. 994 Mr. Huguenin and other members who On Sunday morning, June 2, Grand died during the year was held at this Below are 5B candidates who were Exalted Ruler Henry C. Warner ar session. At the principal business ses known as the State President s Class, rived from Sioux City, la., where he sion on Wednesday, the State officers initiated in honor of Elmer B. Maze was met by State Pres. Leo A. Tem- were installed by Dr. Sykes. The by Santa Ana. Calif.. Lodge. (Coiitinued on page 42)

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fti The Social Side oi the Grand Lodge* Convention

Jack Miller Above: The Columbus. Ohio. Band for practice at the Houston Gun Club *'-r HE true worth of any great fra which won the Band Contest at the And at lovely Brae-Burn Country Club' ternal organization lies in Houston Convention, shown as they the qualifying round of the Elks Na ity to form a sobd front g marched in the Parade. Uonal Golf Tournament got under wav any threat to the nation s freedom. Ihe scores during the dav wors With this keynote, representatives performed in the lobby of the Rice Ho- ceptionally high. Those who weren^t 500,000 Elks heard jH., fp] Convention Headquarters. There watehmg the contests were registering Ruler Henry C. Warner, ^'j^Lodge wa'«; Open House all day long at Hous at Hous^n Lodge No. 151 and at Con officially open the -iriks in ton Lodge's Elks Gulch and also on the vention Headquarters Convention of the B. P- clol spacious grounds of the Gulf 10:00 A. M. the Ritualistic Con Houston on Monday evening, ^ly iotn BreWing Company, where free beer All day Monday, prior to the oftcia^ walserved from morning till_ night. Sh^inrSp,?.' StertfZ Opening Session, the city ^ nn Monday morning many important sion of the CoSlst tS Elks and their families. Band events took place. The traps were open proved to be Inglewoocl', Calif., Lodg" drill teams paraded the streets

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No. 1492, with a score of 97.512%. The Jr., Exalted Ruler of Houston Lodge, and decision, or will we hysterically first pi-ize was $500.00. Second came and Mayor Oscar F. Holcombe made flounder in the mire of propaganda and Miami, Fla., Lodge, No. 948, with brief welcoming addresses. Rev. Joseph war mania?" 97.465'/t and a prize of $250.00. South B. Dobbins, Grand Chaplain, delivered "Heretofore," Mr. Warner said Bend, Ind., Lodge, No. 235, won third the Invocation. Several musical num Americans have treated existing con prize of $125.00 with a score of bers were given by a mixed quartet ditions too lightly. The time for na 97.328'/r. Fourth and fifth prizes of composed of Nancy Swinford, Mrs. tional buck-passing has passed, and this $75.00 and $50.00, went to Lyndhurst, Louis Kier, Miller Spar-ks and Walter nation must wake up to its duties and N. J., Lodge, No. 1505, and LaSalle- Jenkins. responsibilities as a great and free re- Peru, 111., Lodge, No. 584, with respec Before a packed house at the Music puMic." tive scores of 97.175% and 97.144'/c- It Hall of the Sam Houston Coliseum, Mr. Elks from every State and Territory is easy to see how close the competi Warner, in the principal address of the more serious than at any Convention tion was, with only a fraction of a Opening Session, warned that the im since World War days, wildly applaud point separating first place from fifth. minence of American participation in ed the Grand Exalted Ruler when he Judge William Hawley Atwell, Past war cannot be laughed off, and asked said he wished it was in the Order's Grand Exalted Ruler, presided at the his audience the question, "Will we, as power to deport every fascist, nazi and Opening Session, and Joseph E. Meyer, American citizens, behave with dignity communist, as well as all aliens who i

Flwtos by Jess Gibson

Above: A distinguished group of Elks arrives at Houston. They are, left to AN ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING right. Past Grand Exalted Rulers Bruce THE GRAND LODGE ADDRESS OF A. Campbell. Dr. Edward J. McCor- CONGRESSMAN MARTIN DIES mick, Henry C. Warner. Frank L. Inasmuch as it was announced before Rain. Floyd E. Thompson, John K. the Grand Lodge that the address of Tener and James T. Hallinan, and Congressman Martin Dies, dehvered be Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph G. Buch. fore that body and received wth great a«la!«, wo»ld be September issue of THE ELp MAL. AZINE. and the noUce to that effect have been in the country for five years was likewUe published in our August and have not yet applied for American Zsue, it is with regret that the Edators citizenship. of your Magazine are unable to present Strongly condemning paid and un the speech in this issue. Congressman paid agents of foreign ideologies, Mr. Dies did not make his address uom Warner said the only way to protect dm-iv manuscript, and since he has been America's future was to deport each overwhelmed with work, it has been and every one of the alien propagan impossible for him to check and revise dists. his speech for publication. "Americans have accepted without The address will, however, be pub thought the heritage of their fore lished in a forthcoming issue oi our fathers who founded the nation, and Magazine. now have found themselves involved in the question of whether their children will enjoy the privileges they took as a matter of course. Lett is I. E. Reminger of Du Quoin. 111., "If we are to permanently succeed in Lodge, who was the winner of the this nation, we must kindle the spirit S2.000 John J. Doyle Perpetual Golf of sacrifice and patriotism which Trophy. thrilled the men and women of 1776 to die for an ideal. "We must be willing to sacrifiice our At bottom: Part of the 135 vehicles of luxuries. We must be willing to en the 69th Coast Artillery of the U. S. dure hardships and suffering. We must Army which took part in the Parade. be willing to strive constantly on be half of our nation, rather than on be half of personal comfort. "We, as Elks, should lead this spirit, no matter what the cost, to guarantee our liberties. Every Elk, and every other person, should be willing to say that no cost is too great to guarantee the preservation of the United States." Among the distinguished Elks on the platform were Past Grand Exalted Rulers John K. Tener; David Sholtz, former Governor of Florida; Raymond Benjamin; James R. Nicholson; Ed ward Rightor; Bruce A. Campbell; Grand Secretary J. Edgar Masters; Charles H. Gralcelow; William H. At- well; John F. Malley; John R. Coen; James T. Hallinan; Charles S. Hart, and Frank L. Rain. TUESDAY On the following day, July 16th, the principal event was the first official business session of the Grand Lodge, which was held at the Music Hall and Pbolo by Millcf Photo by Jack Miller

an account of which was published in Above: The Drill Team of Charleston. Okla., Lodge, No. 1446, and 5th Low the August issue of The Elks Magazine. W. Va.. Lodge which won the DrUl Net, F. M. Stones, of Houston Lodge. At 8:30 in the morning the finals of Team Contest held at Houston. At 2:30 the Band and Drill Team the Skeet and Tvapshoot Tournaments Contests started at Buffalo Stadium. took place. Houston Lodge swept all Tex., Lodge, No. 151; 4th Low Gross, B. The Ohio Elks swept the Band Con events, taking first and second places. J. Bell of Houston Lodge, and 5th Low test. In the Class "A" group, of 35 The scores were exceptionally high, Gross, Geoi'ge H. Lewis, Jr., also of men and over, they took first prize of with Frank Mann, of Houston Lodge, Houston Lodge. First Low Net, Forde $150. They followed this with $100 for showing amazing proficiency in break Johnson, Idaho Falls, Ida., Lodge, No. Best Appearance, and another $100 for ing almost every target that came his 1087; 2nd Low Net, J. K. Clason, Gal- the largest band from the greatest dis way. The winners are as follows: veston, Tex., Lodge, No. 126; 3rd Low tance. Charleston, W. Va., Lodge, No. Skeet Shoot—Small Bore Champion Net, Meddie Roger, Houston Lodge; 202, was first in the Drill Team Con- ship—1st, Frank Mann, of Houston, 4th Low Net, Dick March, of Duncan, {Contimted on page 47) and 2nd, Bill Hutt, of the same Lodge; 20-Gauge Championship—1st, A. D. Cobb and Bill Hutt, both of Houston Lodge. In the National All Bore Cham pionship Kenneth Bradshaw of Hous

ton won the first prize, and Frank •• ^99^ J Mann, second. High Gunner on 200 targets and all-around Champion was Frank Mann. In the Trapshooting •''m contest,' shooting for the Calvert Per petual Trophy, the Houston Lodge team, made up of Fx*ank Mann, Otto Sens, Norman Pillot, A. D. Cobb and Dr. C. S. Vincent, was the winner. While these contests were going on, the Golf Tournament was coming to an exciting close, with J. E. Reminger, of Du Quoin, III., Lodge, No. 884, winning the $2,000 John J. Doyle Trophy in 54 holes of medal play. The other win ners are as follows: Low Gross, W. J Hurley, Port Arthur, Tex., Lodge, No 1069;'2nd Low Gross, Sandy Boiles m Duncan, Okla., Lodge, No. 1446; 3rd r^ow Gross, Fiank Henshaw, Houston.

Above, right: The winner of the Cal vert Perpetual Trap and Skeet Shoot Trophy was the Houston Team: Frank E. Mann. Otto Sens. Norman V. Pillot, Dr. C. S. Vincent and A. D. Cobb.

Right are the winners of the first and second scholarship awards of the Elks National Foundation, Helen Ttipp and Edwin C. Smith, photographed with Past Grand Exalted Rulers John F. Malley and Raymond Benjamin. Foun dation Trustees. Fhftus l)\' .Tcss Gibsou The Supplementary Report of the

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TO the Grand Exalted Ruler and treason, and failure to resolutely face as a mathematician and a chemical Members of the Grand Lodge of these conditions is the forerunner to engineer. the Benevolent and Protective national suicide. And so here, in award The second prize scholarship has Order of Elks: ing scholarships to four of the out been awarded to Miss Helen L. Tripp Each year that we have offered standing students of our nation, we of of Watertown, Massachusetts, who was scholarships to the most valuable stu the Benevolent and Protective Order of graduated from Watertown Senior High dent graduates of high or preparatory Elks hope to kindle a spiritual fire in School this year. Her grading in each schools in the United States, we have these and other youths of our nation study upon graduation has been above had an increasing number of applica in the fervent hope that its brilliant 95 in each department and this grad tions, and the quality and attainments gjow may penetrate the darkness that ing she has consistently maintained of these students have been so excep clouds human intelligence in our land, in all four years of her high school tionally fine and the students of such and that through that stimulation of a high type that the task of selecting the spirit they may aid in restoring the course. She has been on the honor the four winning students has been ex roll each term and received the cum world to sanity and subdue and elimi laude award in 1938 and was chosen tremely difficult—and this year has nate the forces of hatred and destruc as one of the twelve persons in been no exception to this situation. tion. In fact, we might truthfully say that the senior class of 1940 to receive the The winner of our fourth scholarship cum laude award from Watertown if we had blindfolded all of the mem prize is Miss Jane Murphy of Birming- bers of the board and put the first High School. She has been elected to hani, Alabama, 16 years of age and a the Watertown branch of the National twelve names in a hat and drawn them graduate this year of the Woodlawn out one by one, no real great mis High School of that city. She has Honor Society which selects its mem take would have been made in any partic^ated in dramatics by taking bers on the basis of character, leader case. This speaks well for the youth ship, scholarship and service. of the country and under the circum She has been in the Girl Scout move stances we feel deeply gratified. ment for nearly eight years and last As you all know, the Elks Founda Taming of the Shrew", efforts worthy year received the golden eaglet award. tion is a charitable foundation, and, in of the most prominent members of the She has been a member of the Win its search for the most outstanding stu actors profusion; she has been presi- chester Girl Drum and Bugle Corps dents in the United States for the pur dent of the Glee Club and has held the and has acted as swimming instructor pose of awarding scholarships, seeks ottice of vice-president, secretary and at Perkins Institute for the Blind and not only to find boys and girls of bril treasurer of her session room as well at Cedar Hill Girl Scout Camp. She liant attainments but those whose ef as secretary to the girls' council. She has been very active in sports and was forts to acquire an education have been is a member of the National and Euclid- on the varsity teams in both field made under extreme difficulties, finan mn honor societies, is a Sunday school hockey and basketball; has excelled in cial and otherwise, and yet whose per teacher and pianist of the Lakewood tennis and won first prize in a ski race, severance _and determination to attain Baptist Church; she is a Girl Scout, fifty-yard dash and broad jump, and is an education indicate a high quality of has been a coach of students in both the proud possessor of a senior Red spirit to overcome all difficulties ob Latin and mathematics, and her schol Cross life-saver badge. structing their pursuit of knowledge astic record shows straight "A's" in She has won prizes for poetry, and that has carried them through success every subject. this last year was on the staff of the fully, and in the past we have found school paper; also sports editor of the many of this type. shocked veteran ofdaughter the Worldof Wara shell-who year book; secretary-treasurer of the One of the great principles to which has been unable to hold a job and has chemistry club; a member of the outing the membership of the Benevolent and club, astronomy club and dramatic club. Protective Order of Elks is pledged is Can you imagine a girl doing all that" support of the Constitution of the ? financial situation of the The financial necessities and stresses difficult and yet under which this girl fought for her United States and our democratic form has been able by her own of government. And as an incident to ^orts to aid m caring for herself education will be demonstrated when I that pledge, in these days when the while accomplishing all of these activi- tell you that she held a position as as responsibility for defending our Con sistant to a nursery school teacher stitution, maintaining our form of gov last June at during one summer and worked after ernment and preserving the liberties of 200, and the school and on Saturdays caring for of our citizens will rest largely in the sheshpIS one of ^ the finestschoolgirlsstates hethat has children; that she has earned her own hands of the youth of our country, our spending, clothing and dental money by Order awards scholarships to worthy havp 1.*^® thousands who caring for children afternoons and eve students in the belief that by fostering m? attended his high school. nings and at the present time is work their education we will stimulate their R tLw scholarship award goes to ing in the position of a waitress at a patriotism and create the intelligence, S; §,^^?Se of Atlanta, Geor- summer resort for the purpose of earn courage and determination needed to School of At- ing sufficient money for use toward her tuition at Simons College. It is insure the preservation of our nation. Society,I PF®«dentpresidentof theof Thi theDelta Stu- Practically the last nation of free with great pleasure that our Elks Na men on the eastern continent has dis TmH president of tional Foundation awards the second appeared, and one by one the lights of Club president of the prize of $400.00 to this girl with the liberty have been extinguished except Georgia and edi- hope that it will aid her in accomplish for the faint glimmer emanating from In ^ditionf to ft®these responsibleschool officesbook. ing her heart's desire in completing her Sweden and Switzerland, trapped na education. tions both. The pall of darkness, bru honors in public Our first prize of $600.00 is awarded tality and death extends over the whole J F' ^hem the medal for to Edwin C. Smith of Ilion, New York, whose average scholastic rating for of that land from the Atlantic to Asia ivLjfe?exercises last spring. annual literary and from the Arctic to the Mediterra the four years in the high school at nean. To the scroll of history have of the Na- Ilion was the highest attained by any tion^ AtWetic Scholarship Society, of student in that school in more than been added the names of many nations American Club, of the swim that have fought for the freedom of ming team, the cross country track twenty years. For this boy to get a man and lost. 95 in his scholastic rating was most team and was valedictorian of his grad unusual; 97, 99, and 100 are more The youth of our country must mark uatingclass. Hisscholastic ratingshows frequently found in his scholastic these events and from them learn that him with a credit of 95 to 99 in each record. He has been a Boy Scout for courage, sacrifice, eternal vigilance and and every subject in every semester. five years and during this period has preparedness is the price of the liberty ®4.v. ® ®®" especially briUiant in achieved the rank of Eagle Scout with that our forefathers won for them at mathematics and chemistry. His in gold palm which requires thirty-one the cost of blood and suffering. Blind structors stated that they had never merit badges. He was sent as repre- ness to these facts is tantamount to taught a boy with greater possibilities (Continued on page 48) 34 Elks National Foundati Scholarship Winners

Edwin C. Smith. Ilion. N. Y., Miss Helen L. Tripp. Watertown. R. Thornton Savage, Atlanta. Ga. First Prize. Mass.. Second Prize. Third Prize.

Miss Jane Murphy, Birmingham. Miss Elizabeth A. Casey. Ala- James E. Donohue. Westerly Ala.. Fourth Prize. meda, Calif.. Honorable Mention. R. I.. Honorable Mention.

.-t k T. Rogness lohnson, Jr., Sioux Miss Ruth Kolthoff, Miami, Flo William Langbauer, Chicago. Ill Falls. S. D.. Honorable Mention. Honorable Mention. Honorable Mention.

W. Barry Mallon, Malone, N. Y., BUI Morgan. Cookeville, Tenn., Miss Emma Verdurman. Portland. Honorable Mention. Honorable Mention. Ore.. Honorable Mention. The District Deputies Appointed by Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph G. Buch for 1940-1941

Alabama Harry K. Reid Birmingham No. 79 Alaska, East J. E. Johnson Ketchikan No. 1429 Alaska, West E. B. Collins Fairbanks No. 1551 Arizona, North Carl G. Krook Kingman No. 468 Arizona, South R. N. Campbell Yuma No. 476 Arkansas W. H. Lauhach Little Rock No. 29 California, Bay Clifford C. Anglim Richmond No. 1251 California, East Central L. O. Basteen Tulare No. 1424 California, West Central M. N. Waiters Watsonville No. 1300 California, North Dr. Charles C. De Marais Chico No. 423 California, South Carl J. Hose Ontario No. 1419 California, South Central Lloyd C. Leedom Long Beach No. 888 Canal Zone Maurice F. Hammond Cristobal No. 1542 Colorado, Central Don H. Conway Cripple Creek No. 316 Colorado, North R. Bruce Miller Greeley No. 809 Colorado, South David W. Griffith Trinidad No. 181 Colorado, West Leonard Glaser Durango No. 507 Connecticut, East William E. Beers New Britain No. 957 Connecticut, West Joseph W. Delaney Greenwich No. 1150 Delaware, Maryland and D. C., East Martin G. Hannigan Wilmington, Del., No. 307 Delaware, Maryland and D. C., West A. Guy Miller Annapolis, Md., No. 622 Florida, East Harry Haimowitz Lake Worth No. 1530 Florida, West Charles R. Walpole Sarasota No. 1519 Florida, North C. G. Campbell Lake City No. 893 Georgia, East W. C. McGeary Athens No. 790 Georgia, West Roderick M. McDuffU East Point No. 1617 Guam William G. Johnston Agana No. 1281 Hawah Dayton A. Turner Honolulu, No. 616 Idaho, North William S. Hawkins Coeur D'Alene No. 1254 Idaho, South Nicholas Ney Caldwell No. 1448 Illinois, Northeast Walter E. Miller Elgin No. 737 Illinois, Northwest O. J. Ellingen Mendota No. 1212 Illinois, East Central George A. Shields LaSalle-Peru No. 584 Illinois, West Central William Duffield Canton No. 626 Illinois, Southeast Zean G. Gassmnnn Olney No. 926 Illinois, South Percy L. Garrison Marion No. 800 Illinois, Southwest E. T. Gallagher Alton No. 746 Indiana, North Merritt Diggins Kendallville No. 1194 Indiana, North Central C. James Burke Peru No. 365 Indiana, Central William J. McAvoy Tipton No. 1012 Indiana, South Central P. H. Caldwell New Castle No. 484 Indiana, South Jere O. Goodman Linton No. 866 Iowa, Southeast J. W. Winger, Jr. Keokuk No. 106 Iowa, Northeast Arthur P. Lee Marshalltown No. 312 Iowa, West A. D. Bailey Fort Dodge No. 306 ^nsas, East Edgar M. Da/rby Junction City No. 1037 Kansas, West George Wallerius Salina No. 718 Kentucky, East Arthur W. Rhorer Middlesboro No. 119 Kentucky, West J. E. Hannephin Fulton No. 1142 I^uisiANA, North J. O. Modisette Jennings No. 1085 Louisiana, South Elward Wright Houma No. 1193 Maine, East Harold R. Keniston Waterville No. 905 Maine, West Joseph L. Brown Sanford No. 1470 Maryland, Delaware and D. C. (See Delaware, Maryland and D. C.) Massachusetts, Northeast Horace J. H. Sears Beverly No. 1309 Massachusetts, Southeast Francis W. Dorgan Taunton No. 150 Massachusetts, West John E. Keefe Springfield No. 61 Massachusetts, Central John A. Driscoll Maynard No. 1568 Michigan, West Owen J. Gavigan Ludington No. 736 Michigan, East Patrick H. Kane Port Huron No. 343 Michigan, Central J. Murray Reed Three Rivers No. 1248 Michigan, North Edwin Hedlund Ironwood No. 1278 36 Minnesota, North Frank H. O'Brien St. Cloud No. 516 Minnesota, South Walter J. Barron Mankato No. 225 Mississippi, South A. W. Lang Gulfport No. 978 Mississippi, North Griffin B. White, Jr. Canton No. 458 Missouri, East Oliver F. Ash, Jr. St. Louis No, 9 Missouri, Southwest William T. Walsh Springfield No. 409 Missouri, Northwest Fred S. Miller Macon No. 999 Montana, East Joel J. Steiner Lewistown No. 456 Montana, West Joseph Sullivan Anaconda No. 239 Nebraska, East Thomas J. Connelly Lincoln No, 80 Nebraska, West C. E. McCaffrey Hastings No. 159 Nevada John E. Cavanaugh Tonopah No. 1062 New Hampshire Dr. El-nest A. Wheeler Concord No. 1210 New Jersey, Northeast Charles P. McGovem Jersey City No. 211 New Jersey, Northwest William J. 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The Grand Exalted Ruler has appointed these men as his aides during his term in office 37 For Us The Living {Continued from page 13) "Our president, yes. He was a Karl's eyes blazed at him; the tone heavy with contempt. Morse's ears very great man." was high, strident—the voice of barely caught the whispered word, "The same as our Leader. My command. Morse forced himself to "American!" father told me he fought to free the smile. "Certainly, I am an American!" people from bondage. So also does "Oh, certainly—lieutenant. But I he said quickly. "But a scientist our Leader fight." have no doubt of your discretion and first." He hesitated, fingering the "M-m. I understand your father loyalty. I am sure you are no in new medal in his vest pocket. A admired Lincoln?" former." childish business, but he was dealing "Oh, very much. He used to tell Through a swelling moment the with a child. He brought out the me many stories—but I have forgot storm gathered. Then Karl screamed, decoration. "See, here. Like your ten. That was a long time ago, when "What do you mean? What do you uncle, I also have been honored. I I was young, and before our Leader mean by that?" have been told these are not given came to us. So it was all right, then." Morse stared at the boy. "Mean?" lightly." "What do you mean, all right?" "Answer me! What has Schroeder After a wide-eyed glance, Karl Morse asked curiously. told you about me?" Morse braked looked away sullenly. "That is true," "Oh, nothing." The boy's voice the car, swung it out of the traffic he muttered. "I am sorry. It would was stifled, remote. "Oh, well, you lane. The boy plunged on, his voice be better if I went on by train." know—democracy, and all that." He shrill and shaking with hysteria. He had triumphed, but Morse took gave Morse a side-long look, as if "He has no right to accuse me, to lie no pride in the victory. He slipped uncertain how this would be taken. about me! Schroeder is a coward, a gears; the car moved forward. But Morse was ready to own himself weakling—he'll be in trouble him "You'll do nothing of the sort," he beaten. He pointed down the road. self one of these days! That's why said harshly. "I told your uncle I'd "Look there—a new factory. Fine, he was so anxious to get rid of me— take you to Karlsruhe. I mean to do isn't it?" he's afraid! He knows well I am it. You will stay with me. Under loyal! He—" stand ?" "THE plant was gigantic. Black Morse caught his wrist, jerked Zu befehl .. plumes floated from tall chimneys, him forward almost savagely. "Si Morse's head throbbed dully, and and a great red-and-black flag above lence!" he ordered. "Listen to me, the tightness in his throat and chest the central building whipped stiffly Karl! I haven't any idea what you're had become a small pain. He in the wind of autumn. One wing, talking about, and I don't care. But thought: I shall be down with a cold apparently all of glass, was still un I warn you, be careful how you speak tomorrow. No, I shan't. A touch of der construction; facing the road of your uncle! He is a loyal, devoted, liver, that's all. Must take more was the familiar sign: "We thank very skilful worker, and my friend. exercise. Over a bridge the car our Leader that we are working here He is twice decorated by the crept in low gear, behind a great today. Heil Hitler." State—" wain loaded with grain sacks. Was Karl said coolly, "Not fine. In fact, Karl's voice, like his eyes, was that a wagon wheel squeaking, he no good at all." wondered, or a ringing "Eh? Why not?" i in his ears. Aspirin— "Too big, too open, Darmstadt— and too near the fron Karl said in a voice tier. A perfect tar painfully humble, get." His hand floated, "Herr Morse, I—I want banked, dove sharply. to tell you—I'm awful- "Z-z-z-zumeo-ow! ,' ly sorry. It shames Boom! Boom! Right down the chimney!" "That's all right. We He flung himself back all fly off the handle in the seat, aiming an now and then." imaginary machine- < 5 "You are very good. gun. "Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta! I did not mean—but I Brum! Br-rum! No— ^58* /. —you see. I—" His too late. Got clean ^ voice broke. Morse, glimpsing the lad's At the look on the white-knuckled fist, man's face the boy seeing how rigidly he laughed openly, a light, •'.ijCj*' • held himself in the mocking laugh. Morse • seat, knew he was fight- felt himself old, shaken, I ing to keep back tears, a little sick; but the f F and was carefully laughter stung him. He I silent. tried to speak casually. By and by the boy "1 was in Luebeck said huskily, "You— last month," he said. ^must think me aregu- "You should see what / lar mother's boy, a cry- they're building there. |K baby, sniveling like Factories half under Wtm this." ground — hidden by ||^H B "No." trees. Why, at one |k "Well, I'm not. I place, near Trave- can be as hard as the muende, just below a WM |r next one." ^ "I believe you." "Pardon me, sir! I ^ \ "It's only that— must remind you—you that—" have no right to dis "Karl, I don't think cuss with anyone what "You're healthy enough, Mr. Fay, ior me to wishish you are a mother's boy you have seen in the I were in your skin—bom the neck down, oi course."e." at all. I think you are secret areas!" a brave young fellow who has had more trouble put upon Incredible, how loud the roar of had plunged him into a whirling him than he can well carry. That the motor had become. The road chaos, out of which had risen first a is no cause for shame. You don't swung dizzily under Morse's eyes for pressing need for solitude. He was have to pretend with me." an instant; he wrenched at the wheel in a fever of impatience to be away Karl bent his arm against the seat and shook his head. Silence was from the swift rush of the highway, and put his head down, weeping worst of all; this must be answered. away from the sight and sound and openly. 0 God, let me say the right thing! smell of men and machines, to sit After a time Morse said, "You His voice, surprisingly, was per down quietly with Kai'l and plunge don't have to tell me about it. But if fectly steady when he spoke. "I see. into this matter, identify the issues you want to, I shall be glad to listen. That is how it was with you, Karl?" hidden in it, and set out again upon That's what strangers are whatever course they for—to listen. Then they might discover in the go away and we never see process. Unless this were them again, and so our done, he knew, he would secrets are safe." be haunted all the days of The boy did not look up. Morse said no moi'e, • rhisKarllife.moved in the seat. and marveled at his own He became conscious of wisdom in so doing. They the boy's puzzled, half- reached Darmstadt and frightened gaze. He an passed it without paus- swered the unspoken ing; not for worlds would question. Morse have broken the "I just thought," he slender thread trembling said, "we'd have a picnic. between himself and his Have you ever been on a companion. Brennermann picnic? Frau Elsen made could wait; the boy was a lunch for us. Or did more important. Morse fy— she? Never mind; there did not ask himself why r I By are chocolate bars. When this was true, nor did it j ' ^ I was a child we used seem to him strange that ' y often to take our lunch the habit of years of in- and go off—there was a difference to all personal ^ 1""^ place — Fiddler's Grove and subjective factors in i they called it—near town. the lives of others—and And other places, too—" even in his own life— _ "But Herr Morse! We should have melted sud cannot go in here." denly in this chance en ••pFi "Why not?" counter. Karl's troubles Ois-o... "We're on an artillery had become important to "'V . practice range. There him, that was all—not out was a sign back there ... of mere curiosity, and not We'll get ourselves in for Karl's sake alone. trouble if they catch us." Here, concealed, lay a matter vital to "Yes. And do you, too, think me "Nonsense; we're doing no harm." himself as well as to the boy—or per a betrayer, a Judas ?" Beyond the first low hill, the road haps he and the boy were identical, "I think only this: that you are dipped into a shallow valley where one being? Now, where had that both brave and honest, and whatever oaks and beech trees bent above a idea come from? Karl had reminded you have done was done bravely and narrow stream. Morse let the car him of someone, at first sight—who honestly according to your—accord roll to a stop and sat for a moment, was it? A boy he had known once— ing to the code you've been taught to leaning on the wheel. To him the somewhere ... At any rate, they accept." pale autumn sunlight had suddenly would—must—find a solution for Karl said in a quick monotone, "I become a white glare in which every this matter, whatever it was. If only never dreamed they would—take detail of the scene—the brushy hill his ears would stop ringing, and the him away. I meant no harm to come side, the trees, the brook—was bril dry burning go out of his veins. to him. Believe me, I only thought to liantly clear and yet remote, unreal, "Herr Morse." save him. He was in danger be like a stage setting painted on flimsy "Yes?" cause he laughed at the Leader, he canvas. "Do you think one should be loyal poked fun at everything, he talked I could take Karl's hand, he to one's country?" to those who are our enemies, and thought, and we could walk right "Why, yes, of course!" the Jews who were his patients through that hill into the white "And if you—know someone who he treated and cared for. And I dusty highway by Fiddler's Gi-ove— is not loyal, who refuses to support thought—if he were warned—made and there would be the red-wheeled the State and the Leader, is it not to realize this was a serious business buggy and the white mare, and— your duty to correct him?" ... But they took him and—there "Let us go over and sit on those "Perhaps—yes." must have been other things come logs, in the sun," he said. "This is "Yes, certainly. Well then, if he out—I don't know—no one knows a fine place, beside the stream." persists in his disloyalty, it might what goes on in those—places—and Karl said, "Hush! The guns are even be your duty to—report him, so—and then—two days ago—the firing! Over there!" nicht tvahr?" package—" "Be damned to the guns." Morse Reluctantly, "Well, yes, I suppose "Karl!" had thought the dull, intermittent so—if the matter were serious." "Yes, yes, the package—with his throbbing was in his own ears. He "Serious or not, isn't that some ashes—and—and—Ach, lieber Gott, was impatient of the guns and the thing for the authorities to decide? er war viein Vater, und ich kan ihn headache, of the rawness in his Even a little treason is still a trea nicht vergessen!" throat and the fever. He had no son !" A dirt road, newly graded, led time for these things; they were "I see what you mean." Nothing away from the highway toward the annoying distractions standing be for it but agreement; only let him dark line of the Odenwald. Morse tween himself and his purpose. He come to the point! swung the car into it, almost under said deliberately, "You know. Karl, "And, Herr Morse, it is not less true the wheels of a huge camion whose my father was also a doctor, like —is it—if the traitor is—one dear driver leaned out to curse at him. yours." to you—is even your own father?" Morse did not hear him. Karl's story "So?" His mind was on the artil- lery range, beyond the hills. Order Castle ... I'll show them! of his grandfather, John Morse, "A country doctor, with a horse They shan't keep me from it! I'm Captain, C Company, 12th Ohio and buggy. He was a fine man. I as good as they are—and a better Regiment ... never realized before how fine, how Nazi!" ". It is for us the living, good ... He loved to play the Oh, for words—for the magic rather, to be dedicated here to the fiddle," he added, for no reason ex words to call up the bright face of unfinished work which they who cept that the image was before him. truth! His father would have known fought here have thus far so nobly "And mine, the flute!" Karl's —his father, just beyond the hill ... advanced. It is rather for us to be voice was suddenly eager. They If only the red-wheeled buggy would here dedicated to the great task re stared at each maining before other, impressed. us — that from Karl offered a these honored new confidence, dead we take in- "Herr Morse, do creased devotion you know some- to that cause—" thing else? You "Herr Morse, yourself — look Herr Morse, look very much like n quick! Guns! A my father." ^ p PFaW whole battery!" ^Qlg|*|j|™ Amid a roar of man said - TA exhausts and the slowly, "we should clash and rumble very of great wheels friends. Shake the battei'y rolled smoothly over the Morse warned down himself—be easy. IIIIIII^T^^^H across the little Go gently now. valley. Karl The new mood, danced and chat- fragile as moon- tered with de- light, could shat- light. "Ach, tvun- ter so easily. He HHjjjk^^S derschov, ivun- looked away. derschon! Are "There ought ^HSlK beauti- to be fish in that ful, Herr Morse! brook," he said. That's what I'm "When I was a KSLSK going to be when boy, we to I am older—an ride out with my officer of artil- father to the mill dam, when he beautiful! went on his See how brightly rounds among his they glitter in the country patients. sunlight, the And we would guns!" fish there, for Thecolumn sunfish and perch. And he would stop, and the keen-eyed, kindl^y blurred and wavered before Morse's pick us up on his way home—in his lean toward them, "Want a lift back eyes; he caught desperately at buggy ,.. Here, Karl, have some home, boys? Better than riding Karl s arm. "No!" he cried hoarse chocolate. I wish—there should be shank's mare . . . Now, Karl, I want ly. "Karl, listen to me! You must more for you to eat." to tell you about America. ^Four come with me, to America! You "This is very good, thank you." score and seven years ago .. are brave and true, a good fight "On Saturday," Morse said dream Morse straightened suddenly. er, and there they have need of ily, "my mother used to bake bread "Karl," he said quietly, "you say fighters—men with courage and —great golden loaves, white as snow your father admired Lincoln. Tell —Karl, you must listen! For inside. Fresh white bread with me, did you ever hear him read a you father's sake, Karl! Karl!" heaps of yellow butter, and vegetable speech Lincoln once made, on a soup—that was our Saturday night battlefield where soldiers were But Karl was gone, racing to the supper always." buried?" roadside, right arm up in salute, "I—don't know. I think—" his childish, piping voice crying the """HAT must have been good." "It begins this way: 'Four score salute to the soldiers who rode with "Oh, yes ... Karl, how would and seven years ago, our fathers the guns. A great, aching weariness you like to go to America?" brought forth upon this continent a fell over Morse; the guns and the "I?" The boy's glance was puz new nation, conceived in liberty—' " small figure at the roadside seemed zled and uncomfortable; he smiled "Oh, yes, I remember! Often he to dance and flicker in a gray mist uncertainly and turned away his used to say that; he knew it by come out of nowhere—a mist torn by head. "You're joking." heart, my father!" bright flashes of blinding light "No, I mean it, truly. I am going " '—and dedicated to the propo "How they glitter in the sunlight, back there soon—at once—why sition that all men are created the guns!" should you not come with me? equal— .. .'" He was conscious of a sharp pain After all you didn't seem awfully Amazing with what smooth cer in his hand; he looked down dazedly, anxious to go to live with your tainty the noble, sonorous phrases and found that he was holding the cousin." unfolded in his memory. On each "Oh, that! I shan't be there long, Memorial Day the G.A.R. veterans bright new medal in his clenched fist. I can tell you." had marched to the cemetery at the The clasp had pierced his palm. He ;;No? What, then?" edge of town, and stood at attention summoned up his strength and threw — You won't give me away?" beside the Civil War Memorial while the medal from him, as hard as he could. The medal, too, glittered gaily ^ promise." Judge Mielnik read aloud the Get Well, I mean to get admitted to tysburg Address. And then the in the sunlight as it soared in a long an Adolph Hitler School, and pre volley, and the sad bugle, and the arc, to fall among the litter of the pare, later, for a National-Socialist wreath of flowers upon the grave hillside. The Gold Coast

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ping up. A trip to Hollywood is on which is associated in their, minds trip to Twin Peaks, from which can the list, for nearly all of California's with that startling and long-reach be seen San Francisca and the Bay visitors like a close-up of screen ing event in California's history, which lies beyond. Across the San stars, glimpses of their striking the discovery of gold near Sacra Francisco Bridge flares Treasure homes, and a studio or two. mento. Until 1849 San Francisco, Island, magnificent with the Golden A quite different atmosphere is nearing the century mark then, Gate Exposition. felt at nearby Pasadena. Pasadena, had been a dull and quiescent little Equally associated with the Gold at the base of the Sierra Bladre group of buildings and a fort, famed Rush is Sacramento, where the first Mountains, is famous for the Tour only, if at all, for its magnificent gold nugget was found. At Sutter's nament of Roses, and it happens also harbor and for the Golden Gate. Fort, the Swiss John Sutter gave to be the richest city per capita in Now, less than one hundred years asylum to the worn-out travelers America. The Huntington Library later, it is one of the most cosmopoli who came over the Overland Trail. at San Marino with its priceless old tan cities of the United States, with The fort was a forerunner of the books and 17th Century paintings, is one of the important harbors of the great ranches, and in that part of only a few miles away. Within easy world. The change occurred almost the country many ranches still flour reach are Malibu, a favorite resort of between sunrise and dark on that ish. Not too far away are those the actors of Hollywood, and Santa momentous day. Ships and people storied ghost towns, quiet now that Monica and Long Beach, with their of all nations crowded the harbor, the world has passed them by. To miles of sandy beach along the ocean and the Barbary Coast came to life. the westward is Santa Rosa, near front. In San Pedro, the Los Angeles Fires and earthquakes and civiliza which was the Jack London Ranch. hai'bor, may arrive a visitor from tion have changed that San Fran As the road climbs north, the South America, or a homing liner, cisco, but just walking through the scenery changes. In place of the weary after her six-thousand-mile streets of the city today, up the hills palms of the south there are forests, journey from the Orient, come to and down, listening to a clatter of the great Redwoods, and up near the rest. To welcome them there may foreign tongues and gazing speech border Mt. Shasta. There is at the even now be a part of the United less upon the flowers banked high at Lassen Volcanic National Park the States Pacific fleet. the edge of the sidewalk is an ad one and only active volcano in the U.S. Twenty-five miles out in the ocean venture. It is amusing to ride up Away back to the south, cater- lies Catalina Island. Only two hours the hill on the cable car which San corner from San Francisco and San away by steamer, it offers such di Franciscans take so casually. Diego, towers Mt. Whitney, the high versions as the Casino, golf, deep- An experience which most visitors est point in the United States, and sea fishing. There are the submarine take care not to miss is the Thirty almost within sight is another of gardens to be visited in glass-bot Mile Drive. The Drive includes Sky those famous strange deviations of tomed boats. At the right time ofyear line Drive, a gorgeous boulevard nature which abound in the western there may also be the Chicago Cubs which overlooks the Pacific, and a portion of this country. Death Val in training, and perhaps a ley, a part of the Great movie company or two. Mojave Desert, lurks sin Up the coast from Los ister and terrifying. This Angeles dreams Santa Bar- »is the lowest spot on the bara. The quiet the beauty continent. Now a national and the early Spanish mis monument, Death Valley sion style of architecture A will always be a reminder wrap this charming town 3 of the travail and the in an aura of other days. * dreadful end of the pio There are miles of water neers and forty-niners who front at Santa Barbara, sought to cross it. too, and the curving beach Yet the Valley is not all meets the Santa Ynez I horror. Its temperature, Mountains. One of the deadly in the summer best preserved of the mis months, moderates in the sions, and one of the finest - winter, and from Decem architecturally, is a spot ber to May is almost ideal. to be visited here. The days, warm and sunny, On Monterey Bay is an- ^ and the cool nights have other old town, Monterey, made it a popular winter endearingly reminiscent )f resort. There is beauty olden times in sDite of the there, too, in the bright, Presidio, the United States shifting colors. Army Post. The Royal , For every minute of a Presidio Chapel was the vacation in California second of the missions to ^ there is something to do, be built. Monterey has and something to see. been called the center of There is a gigantic spec California history because _ tacle of nature to gaze it was founded by the upon, a sport to watch or to Spaniards. ^ take part in. And for those Delightful and treasured who are tired of doing and by Californians as are all Bfl of seeing, and want only of these historic settle- to sit and rest in one of ments, it is San Francisco ^ California's sweet and love- which is dearest to their How do I like the new house? It's a iiist class ly towns there is a place file trap, if you aslt me!" hearts. It is San Francisco in California's sunshine. News of the Stale Associations

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mey of Huron Lodge, and P.D.D, J. M. Twin Falls. Idaho Falls Lodge was from Florence Lodge No. 1020, led by Lloyd, P.E.R. Fred H. Leach and the winner of the State Ritualistic E.R. Joe W. Phillips. Greenville was Charles Gumey of Yankton Lodge. Championship. The lodge room was second, Charleston third and Columbia The Sioux Falls Motorcycle Patrol es then prepared for the Annual M^ fourth. The Exalted Ruler's Ball, held corted the party to the Convention City morial Services. Appropriate music in the evening at the lodge home, which was decorated with American was rendered by the Boise Elks Chorus climaxed the first day's entertainment. Flags and the Elks purple and white. and the Lewiston Quartette. Past A bridge party for the wives of at A breakfast in honor of the Grand State Pres. Ed. D. Baird of Boise, a tending delegates was held the next Exalted Ruler was given that morning member of the Grand Lodge State morning at the Wade Hampton Hotel and an officers' and past officers' din- sociations Committee, delivered the while the Association was in session Mr was held in the evening. Mr. Memorial Address. Finals in the Ora at the lodge home. At 1 p. m. the Warner was presented with a beautiful torical Contest, sponsored by the State Memorial Address was delivered by Mr. wmt watch by the State Association. Barrett in which he paid a beautiful Elks Americanization Committee ot tribute to those Elks who had died dur Huron, Mitchell and Sioux Falls which P.E.R. E. M. Grant, Lewiston, ^dges tookfirst honors in various con was Chairman, were held at the High ing the past year. A barbecue for Elks tests steged as part of the convention and their guests followed the Service. School in the evening. Dick Maquire, The Grand Ball in the evening was the enterteinment. The Elks Purple Color of Lewiston, was the winner. Guard and Drum Corps from Aber closing event of the Convention. deen, S. D., made an impressive ap Important State Association business James A. McAlister, of Charleston was taken care of at the next day s Lodge, was elected President at the pearance at the Garden Terrace Thea session, and on the closing day, June o, business session presided over by Mr. tre, where an evening entertainment officers for 1940-41 were elected un^i- was staged, as well as in the splendid Elliott. The other State officers are: mously as follows: Pres., Beecner 1st Vice-Pres., W. F. Tolley, Anderson; mile-l THEY HAD, <( • AFFORD TO LAU6H IN EVERY DRAW rr AND TURN IT J AWYBE THAT NOWADAYS, SMOKJNS OF COOL, MELLOW RHODE ISLAND OVER FOUR TIMES ) WAS THE ONiy y^OUR C00L-BURNIN6 ' RA. — fT SMOKES A resolution indorsing national de > IN EACH OF SIX J ''way TOGETA ^PRINCE ALBERT ^ / "V SO fense measures and the work of the A DIRECTIONS V^COOL SMOKE y Dies Committee was adopted at the annual convention of the Rhode Island State Elks Association at the home of Providence Lodge No. 14 on Saturday, June 8. John H. Greene, Jr., of New port, was elected President of the As sociation. The following officers were also elected: Vice-Pres.-at-Large, Dr. Ambrose H. Lynch, Providence; 2nd Vice-Pres., Alfred H. Chapman, Wes terly; 3rd Vice-Pi-es., James A. Taylor, TODAY,ANY PIPE \/ AND ATASTY Woonsocket; 4th Vice-Pres., William W. IN RECENT LABORATORY LOADED WITH ' ^ TOO. RA.^ GOT PLENTy Woodcock, Pawtucket; Secy., Charles [Of THE GOOONESS-THE W. Noonan, Providence; Treas., Dr. "SMOKING BOWL" TESTS, PRINCE ALBERT IS A REAL k RICH TASTE OF CHOICE Edward C. Morin, Pawtucket; Trustee PKI^C£ALBeRr BURNED K PEACE-PIPE Ji: TOBACCO WITHOUT A for five years, Edwin G. Spooner. New port. Newport was selected as the city • fe** harshness! in which the Association will hold its P£^££S 1941 Convention. A $300 scholarship provided by funds from the Elks National Foundation C00l£R was awai'ded Joseph Crane O'Neill of Pawtucket. Because of the closeness of THAN THE AVERAGE OF the competition, the Association voted THE 30 OTHER OF THE a second scholarship from its own treas ury for Miss Alice Curran of Newport. LARGEST-SELLING BRANDS The scholarships were presented by TESTED— COOUSrOfAU! P.E.R. Col. Thomas J. Flynn, of Provi dence Lodge, Chairman of the Board of CopyriKlu. 1940, K. J. Hcyiiolds Tob. Co.. Wlnstoo-Salcm, N. C. Trustees of the Association. The dele gates voted to send to President Roose velt and Representative Martin Dies /?k\HCE ALBERT'S V copies of the resolution "heartily in- 'CRI/MP corAND NO-BITE ) dorsini? all the efforts being made by PROCESS CLEAR THE WAV the President and by Congress to make this nation impregnable from outside ( FOR SMOOTH, MILD > assault" and "the activities of the Dies ^rUCE OH \ > PIPE PLEASURE ^ Committee to expose and prevent all assaults from within". Other copies will go to Rhode Island's Senators and -jbMSueBfE! Representatives in Congress. The Con ^ RA.'S GOT vention was addressed by Past Grand Exalted Ruler John F. Malley of THE RISHT CUT FOR Springfield, Mass., Lodge; Grand Es PERFECT PACKING, < teemed Leading Kni8:ht Judge John P. EASY DRAWiNG.ANO^ Hartigan of Providence Lodge; E. Mark Sullivan, Boston, a member of EVEN BURNING ^ the Grand Forum, and D.D. John E. Mullen, Providence. Dinner was served in the evening, followed by dancing and —/ ROLLING'S A\ entertainment. 50 SI6HT FASTER W/ITH I pipefuls of fra PRINCE ALBERTy TOO. NORTH DAKOTA grant tobacco in NEATEST, FIRMEST Winding up its three-day annual every handy tin of i' Jr. A convention at Dickinson on Tuesday, Prince Albert '/MAKiN'S'S/MOKES BYA June 11, the North Dakota State Elks t-v LONG SHOT ys ^ Association chose Grand Forks as the meeting place for 1941, and reelected all incumbent officers. Renamed with former Governor L. B. Hanna of Fargo Lodge, now serving his 12th consecu tive term as President, were Vice- {Continued on page 54) When wrltinff to advertisem ploaae mention The Elks Magazine Your Dog {Continued from page 16)

firmly believes that all mad dogs rush longs to the upper classes of dogdom. and yet is clearly heard by the dog. around wildly. This is only half true. It becomes our painful duty to point In the matter of scent perception the There are two forms of hydrophobia: out that with the exception of the dog has this faculty developed to a one wherein the dog does go on a Chow Chow, whose mouth in the remarkable degree. Perhaps you've rampage; the other, far more dan pure-bred imist be black, the color noticed, even when he is resting, a gerous, causes him to seek dark cor of the mouth for other breeds re dog's nose continually twitches. He ners in a certain sulky way. Third of veals nothing about their social is cataloguing and classifying odors, these illusions is that the mad dog all of which have some significance shuns water. Not so; he'll drink, if While we're at it, we might as to him, for the dog world is a place thirsty, as long as his jaws are not well knock this one over, too; it con of sounds and odors of which we are locked. The dog with a foaming cerns the belief by some people, not entirely unaware and the dog s seem mouth suffers from no more than a too many, thank goodness, that dogs ingly mysterious recognition of them harmless fit, and his bite at that time possess some peculiar sixth sense un has very likely promoted the idea is no more dangerous than any other known to humans. Such a specious that he is endowed with a sixth sense wound that requires dressing and conclusion we suspect as wishful which is denied to us. sterilization. When Fido is moved thinking on the part of certain sen to fling a fit, this may be caused timentalists, the kind who do more Oneconceptions,of the mostbecauseunfortunateit has miscast either by nervous shock, digestive harm to the cause of dogs than do disorder, worms, yes, even water a cloud over many a fine breed, is the some forthright enemies of that ani idea that certain varieties are s^rvation, or any of a number of mal. It is notable that those who dullards or, worse yet, notoriously simple reasons having nothing to do subscribe to this opinion when asked undependable and vicious. These two with rabies. Now we're not trying to say what the sixth sense is, to should have gone the way of red to suggest that if you at any time describe how it works, become a bit flannel underwear, mustache cupsand are so unfortunate as to be bitten, vague. Now, the writer doesn't PJ®" other things pertaining to the horse- you should take it as a laughing tend to have an inside track leading and-buggy days, but m certain quar matter. You won't anyway. And to Fido's mental processes. Eminent ters they still linger to cast doubts in with darned good reason. But don't psychologists who have closely stud the minds of many. Toboth these no go into a panic. If the bite is severe ied him admit that the dog s in tions we have but one answer—it enough, go to your doctor at once, tellect is a scarcely explored ain't so, there being no such thing particularly if the dog is one that is But it's our conclusion, and this aite as a blockhead breed nor a breed a stranger to you. In the latter case, a long period of association witn marked for its unreliability. Here best go to the M.D., even if it's only dogs, that this sixth sense business again, we get back to our premise a superficial scratch. An ounce of arises from the remarkable that a departure from the normal so prevention, you know. Not to fortify of scent and hearing possessed y often creates the image that we hold you with a false confidence but mere them. When you see your dog s ears as typical of a thing. There are ly as a statement of fact, we'll add rise and fall, particularly wh®n to admittedly, some dogs that are canine that many people who handle dogs you there isn't a sound that you fatheads and there are those indivi- in kennels or otherwise, get bitten can hear, he isn't engaged duals among all breeds that are vil- occasionally and don't think too spiritual seance but is himself heal lains at heart. In qualities of much about it beyond giving the ing things that are entirely maudi- character, dogs are very much like wound the medical attention it war ble to you. The bark of a distan people. There are good dogs and rants. With them it's part of the dog, someone walking on the there are bad dogs, just as the human day's work, not hoped for but not road or street, the faint chirp of a race has its saints and its sinners. To too surprising when it happens. sleepy bird, all these carry a message condemn an entire breed for the mis to your dog. Then, too, his ears are deeds or failings of a few is as ob Another rankiboo notion (we so sharply attuned that many a , viously unfair as to indict a nation » hope that youngster down in so high pitched as to be unheard for the idiocies or transgressions of Baltimore who writes to ask about by people is distinctly detected by a few of its people. As to the canine this annually, is reading this) is that him. As a matter of fact, and vi^e addlepate, we have no explanation gun-powder fed to a dog will make it mentioned this in our December a - for him any more than we can ac vicious. Why on earth anyone would tide, there is a dog whistle on tne want to malce a dog sour on the count for the human ignoramus. market that can be tuned to a pitcn For the dog that may be quick to world, we don't know. But the an almost inaudible to the human ear swer to this ab resent over-fa- surdity is that in- p - I miliar handling, stead of making there is some al- the dog savage it i"„ -is ,1.the titleM-Ai of1 lowancemade. To tobeginbe is more likely to "How to Know and Care for Your Dog" is the Utle of lel Department with, most of the make him sick. a book recentiy published by the Kennel Department No, Irvin, gun- ust, the editor breeds that have of The Elks Magazine. Edward Faust, the,editor ^ been thus ma- powder won't ler and expert, ligned are found make your dog a of "Your Dog" and a well-known breeder and expert, demon. But has written it in a thoroughly down-to-earthearth style and among the dogs may do things to it is chock-hiU of practical informationlation for the working his digestion. .led. , well ,, illus- group,the Collie,such theas Then we come dog owner. It is a beautifully printed, well illus to that classic trated. 48-page book and covers such:h subjects as Doberman Pins- hocus-pocus about x j- i_ .i_. ts, the mongrel the roof of the feeding, bathing,bathi common illnesses, training and tricks, the mongrel Shepherd, the dog's mouth re- versus thepe pedigree, popular breeds, etc. The retail:il pricepnce of this Arctic breeds, vealing whether book is 50c, :but it is available to readers of The Elks Magazine Samoyede, Mala- he's a thorough- -^i _ stamps. Send kindred bred or just one at° a specicdspecial pricep of 25c. Thiscan be sent in cash or stamps. Send„ dogs, including of the common for your copy WOW. Address—The Elks Magazine—50-50 E.42nd St., the Chow Chow. herd. The popular New York,York. The last named, belief being that incidentally, isn't if it's black he be- officially cata- logued as a working dog by the specimen that may be dull-witted or for convenience sake, into one and American Kennel Club, governing bad-tempered. it became Bloodhound. body for pure-bred dogs, but he Another dog that lives in the really is that. Dogs of these breeds NOW, there's one dog that's per shadows is the Poodle, so-called were primarily developed for only haps more libeled and slandered French Poodle. To begin with, he's one thing and that was work—to than any other—and with no reason not at all French but is instead a herd, to pull small carts or sleds at all. He's the Bloodhound. In the German dog. His name is derived and protect lives and property. Being popular mind he's regarded as a four- from the word pudel, meaning water, the dogs of a frugal people they legged terror particularly fond of and it fits him to a T as he is one of originally were not intended to be escaping criminals, with or without the finest of all water retrievers. Be pets. salt. Actually, he's one of the most cause the French were quick to ap The ancestors of these dogs spent gentle of all dogs. But possessing preciate the merits of this good dog their lives in isolated rural areas, as he does remarkable scenting and popularize him in that country relegated to the barns and stables of power, he is astonishingly successful he wrongly became known as the their masters. They saw few stran on the trail. Hence, he has become French Poodle and for some reason gers and were very likely taught that the choice of law enforcement officers or other lost caste on this side of the such were persons to be regarded in tracking criminals—and lost per big drink. He's not at all a boudoir with suspicion. Hence it is not hard sons, too. His name being associated hound, but a fine, upstanding, keenly to understand why an occasional usually with violence or wrong-doing intelligent dog. Occasionally he is descendant of these breeds will to or other unhappy circumstances, has used in this country as a gun dog, day revert to its ancestry and be a resulted in his being branded a dog but, suffering from an inferiority bit more reserved than most dogs demon. He's a long way from being complex in the minds of so many, and quicker to resent the stranger that. He's not a bit savage—on the he's not used this way nearly as and undue handling. Some few trail or off. His only duties are to much as his abilities warrant. breeds other than working dogs are track his quarry, locate it and hold Our old friend the English Bull likewise occasionally regarded with it at bay until John Law arrives to dog, the pooch with the pushed in suspicion, certain of the terriers make the capture. "But," you'll say, face, is another whose real worth among them. Again we'll say that "look at the name. Doesn't that sug isn't truly appreciated and about the breeds as a whole should not be gest bloodshed?" Well, it has to do whom there is much misconception. condemned. Here it is a case of with blood, but not the way that's He's admittedly the most ferocious reckless breeders in their haste to commonly believed. This dog was looking brute that lives, but, believe perfect a type—to stream-line their one of the first whose breeding was it or not, he's one of the most gentle, dogs—bred from those which more carefully supervised to retain certain patient creatures among all dogs. closely approached the standard of qualities. For this reason it became He's an Englishman and gets his perfection, regardless of disposition known as the blooded hound, just name from the fact that long ago he or intelligence of the parent stock. as today we refer to blooded horses was developed for the alleged sport Result—certain straivs or families or blooded stock of any kind to indi of bullbaiting. Because of his toler of such breeds may be thus tainted cate the pure-bred. After centuries, ant disposition he's ideal for chil so that today we find occasionally a these two names merged, no doubt dren. He's a real gentleman.

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might be and aimed at the heart of wouldn't have been worth a hang, lined pocket inside the coat. When my guess. Then I squeezed the though he had done pretty good up that was in my hand, I stopped think trigger. a tree. ing of everything else and just The foot jumped out of sight I sat down on a stump and looked damned the whole world, specially ahnost like I had shot it off. I laid at him and then down the corduroy the Yankee part of it. back small behind my bush and sang road that ran off among the trees There isn't much that a man can "Little Brown Jug", though I through the mud. So much artillery need and love and always keep with couldn't hear myself. I sang, because had traveled across it that the logs him. Even a wife stays at home. I knew I had him. A Texas boy you were splintered and warped in the Only a man's horse and dog go with can punch full of bullets, but a him and a straight-shooting gun, and center and their ends stuck up. Some a watch that keeps time. Texas life won't run out through of them were pounded as soft as cloth This was a regular Jim Dandy, little holes like that. Only the life where the wheels had bumped them. the kind you put under your pillow of a Y^k is like a bubble and if you The ends of them dripped mud. It and press in the dark of night and prick it anywhere it busts and it's was queer, sitting there in the rain it chimes back the hour as true as gone away. I kept looking for him and knowing that we didn t need the church bells of a Sunday morn to loosen his hold and come down, Marse Robert any more just then. ing. They don't make a watch like bumping his way from branch to I got a twist of grass and that; they build it. And the builders branch. But he didn't come. There the sweat away from the Yank s are all Swiss with eyes finer than was a runnel of water that came •^en a man begins to leak blood ne needle points that could unravel a from the foot of that tree toward the is always thirsty, so I spiderweb into strands like it was bush where I lay and after a while my canteen but his hand couldn a rope. When they get through you the water in it began to turn red, so hold it. I steadied it for him and he have a watch that will keep time that I knew his blood was soaking drank. ^ Afterward his head lay bacK whether you're shooting wild geese along the bark of the tree to the and he looked at me. Then he closed - or riding herd, or just sitting on the ground. You couldn't have told, by his eyes and seemed de^. front porch watching the world turn the red of it, who was ^djdng,-Con He had on good looking boots as itself over on its back. If you feel federate or Yank. I kept watching soft as glove-leather, so I weary of waiting for things to hap the place in the tree and seeing the off one of them and threw a^^y my pen you open up the watch, the big bird that sang beside it until final own shoe. His boot fitted me fine outside cover and the thin inside ly a musket dropped. It whammed It came onto my foot cover that never stops shining, and against the lower-branches, bouncing silk. I felt sort of graceful. If his you see the wheels going jog-jog from one to the other until it landed boots were so good maybe the res back and forth, all at a balance, all in the pine needles. Still the Yank of him was Just asjine, so I opened together, under and over, side by didn't follow his gun. up his coat and had to let out a side, married together, never to part After a while I got up. holler, for the whole inside of that and in the noise of every tick there "Hey, Yank," I said, "come on coat was lined with chamms as soft is a little golden, chiming sound that down and let's have a little talk." as the breast of a duck, my should says, "Good news .... good news!" I laughed when I said it and hurt he care if Marse Robert's boys were my belly, because I hadn't eaten for stuck in the rain and the mud when WELL, just to one side of the mid so long, I pressed my hand over the he could keep himself as dry and dle of that watch my bullet had pain until it was easier, and kept warm as a muffin? gone through and spread the insides looking up through the leaves, but he clean through the Yank. I shook it didn't come down. I glanced over to BESIDES the coat there was aflan in my hand, and I hated the damned the trench and there were all the nel shirt as soft as down and be Yanks, and I hated the damned war boys waving me in. A Yank shell neath that was an and I knewwhat death was. AnywayI came along and took the upper half enough linen as, one of Gener^ opened up the case and inside the big of Tim Maynard away with it but Hood's handkerchiefs. I front cover there was something that nobody ducked back into the trench. between my fingers and laughed to stirred the hair of my head like It seemed that other kinds of death myself, thinking how fee ^^® murder right under my eyes. For didn't matter except what came out the skin out. Before I somebody working small had painted of the rifle of the Yank in the tree. clothes there were the pockets to go the picture of a girl on the gold, and through, so I sat do^ cross-legged my bullet had taken off the bigger Then he came down. His legs with the whole grab-bag all to my half of her head. There was only were crazy. They seemed already self I found three handkerchiefs, dead below the hips but he helped two*as clean as a cat's whiskers; a left some of her hair and a part of himself slowly from place to place. pocket-knife with blades of .razor her smile, and, by the jumping, it I enjoyed seeing the Yank come steel; a sewing kit in a flat pigskin might have been Judy Anne! I mean down to surrender and I enjoyed see case with a scissors in it so neat she was so young that like Judy ing how the one side of the tree was it made me laugh; a pocket-sized Anne she was a little bit scrawny red with his blood, but I could feel book in a language I couldn't read; in the throat and in the arms, but an ache in my own side when I saw a chunk of good hog-sausage wrapped what was left of her smile showed where the blood was running from in paper—I started eating the sau me the whole of her just as I could his body. When he got to the lowest sage; a purse with three dollars fif see Judy Anne whirling at a dance, branch, I held up my hands and teen cents in real gold pieces—one or riding a horse, or just sitting helped him the rest of the way, for me, one for my friend Tad, and stiU. though that hurt my stomach again. one to send home to Judy Anne. It Just about that time I thought I Finally he was lying on the ground. was like picking things off a Christ heard a bird singing and it seemed The boys in the trench had seen and mas tree—there was always some to me that I must be crazy; but I they gave me a yell. thing more to find. Shoved down into wasn't, for a quiet time had come in I stood and looked at my Yank. a special trouser pocket there were the battle the way it always does, as He wasn't mucH older than my nine two razors of good Sheffield steel, and though even war had to have a cat teen and there wasn't much to him. when I saw ^1 that heap of loot I nap for a minute or two, and in the He didn't have the look of strength knew there was enough to make camp pause I was hearing that bird just in his neck. There was no Texas talk for a month. That was before busting himself on the tip of the rawhide in him. On the ground he I got at the watch in its own leather- branch. Right then the Yank, that 46 I had thought was dead, began to Tad Crothers said, "Hey, didn't speak, I snapped shut the watch, he have two boots?" quick, and moved to cover up the pile I reached down and pulled off the of loot. I was scared as though he Yankee's boot. It was kind of had a gun pointed. But he wasn't familiar, feeling the mud go squash even looking at me. He was staring around my bare toes; it was kind of BRACE UP WITH up at the bird and saying words that a comfort. Behind me, I could feel I didn't understand. The sound of the rain soaking into the blades of them was, "Ca')-mina morte carent." the pocket-knife, and into the pig He stopped talking but he seemed to skin sewing kit to get at the needles 77/£ keep on smiling, so it was a minute and the scissors that would just have after the battle had started roaring fitted the fingers of Judy Anne and again before I realized that he was I could feel the fine teeth of rust dead for sure. I put the watch back beginning to eat the edges off the in its pocket and went home through steel. Then along came Lieutenant the rain to our trench. Carrington, chewing something. What the Yank had said kept ding- I said*, "Give me a chew of that donging in my mind and the look of tobacco, Lieutenant." him smiling, like my brother Pete He spat out a chunk of slippery lazing in bed on a Sunday morning. bark and said, "I wish it were!" I wondered what the words meant, "Lieutenant," .! said, "what's the but even if the Yank had talked meaning of this: 'Carmina morte English I wouldn't have understood. carent?'" We could have met twenty times and He said, "Where did you go to even drank together and still I would school?" have hated his Connecticut and he I said, "That's the trouble. I would have despised my Texas. He'd didn't." been raised mighty careful and culti A big shell went by with a sound vated by hand like a truck garden, like sailcloth tearing. We both while I'd been turned loose on-a, ducked a little. He said, looking horse; so the only way I could in after the shell, "It means: 'Songs troduce myself was with a bullet, and are immune to death.' Where did so he was lost the minute he was you hear that?" found. I got to thinking of Judy "I don't know," I answered him. Anne so hard that I was homesick. "But somehow it just got stuck in All I wanted was to see her or know my head." the meaning of what the Yank had I looked over to where the bird said. had been singing in the tree but it The boys crowded around me and was too far away to be seen, or per started making a fuss. They seemed haps it was tired of singing all by gladder to have me back, almost, itself and had gone off looking for than I was to be there. company. j Improves appearance—gives that trim, athletic look , IVrO man can look his best when a bulg- Social Side of the Convention ' 11 ing, sagging waistline spoils the fit of his clothes—makes him seem sloppy and {Continued from page 33) old. Smart men know it's important—and easy to avoid "Mid-Section Sag"—keep test, with Tulsa, Okla., Lodge No. brilliant parades ever held in Texas that trim, athletic look. Just brace up with 946; Pottstown, Pa., Lodge, No. 814, thrilled crowds estimated at more than The Bracer! Remember, when you look and Columbus, Ohio, Lodge, No. 53, 100,000. better, you'll feel better, tool placing in that order. For the Best Led by the mechanized units of the Uniformed Drill Team, Columbus, Ohio, 69th Coast Artillery's anti-aircraft bat A Bauer & Black product, only The Lodge won $75, and Charleston, W. Va., teries from Fort Crockett, the parade Bracer has all these features: No Rip— Lodge received $25. was featured by beautifully decorated seams cannot pull out. No Roll—four re At 6 o'clock, the Old-Time Southern and illuminated floats. movable ribs at top. No Bulge—knit from Barbecue started. There were thou fn the line of march were 25 bands, "Lastex" yarn, has two-way stretch. No sands of Elks present, but there was marching singers from lodges in Okla Bother—convenient flly-front. plenty for all. Great tubs of choice homa, Indiana and California; drill pieces of barbecued steer, hogs, chick teams; women's marching units; high At department, drug, men's apparel, ens, etc., were placed around the in school pep teams; Houston's Elkadettes sporting goods stores and physicians sup field and garnished with baked potatoes and Ranger band, and delegations of ply houses. and corn. Judging from the quantity ex-servicemen. consumed, everyone must have enjoyed The parade was reviewed from the himself. At 9:00 there was an exciting steps of the City Hall by i-etiring Grand double-header ball game between two Exalted Ruler Henry C» Warner, of local teams. Dixon, 111., and incoming Grand Ex IS MADE WITH "LASTEX"/ WEDNESDAY alted Ruler Joseph Buch, of Trenton, /[J\ YARN, HAS TWO-WAY Mf Early Wednesday morning, the N. J. STRETCH /' Grand Lodge business session was held The parade disbanded at the Coli in the Music Hall and just after it, the seum, and the annual ball was held Glee Club Contest, took place. It was there. It jonr dealer cannot gupply you wilh The Bracer, simply fit) won by Santa Ana, Calif., Lodge, No. Prizes won in Convention competi out and moil the coupon ^vilh a check or money order. Price 794, along with a prize of $100. Sec tions were announced at the ball. These S2.00 (Canada 32.75) ond place and $50 went to Omaha, Neb., included Parade Floats: Massachusetts, I — 1 Lodge, No. 39. Next came a luncheon I BAUER & BLACK, Division ofTheKendall Co. 1 first; Kansas, second; Oklahoma, third. I Dept. D-20. 2500 So.Dearborn Sl.. Chicago, III. 1 and style show for the ladies in the The ball was an unqualified success I (Id Canada, Slntion K. Toronto.) | main ballroom of the Rice Hotel, under from beginning to end. the direction of the ladies of Houston I I am enclosingcheck or mooey order for ' Thursday, after the final Grand I« Please sendme Bracers. I Lodge. Lodge business session, the day was I My vaistmeasoreiDeot IS | After the afternoon business session given up to sightseeing trips to San I Name I came the huge "Patriotic Elkdom on Jacmto battlegrounds and down the I Address — — | Pax'ade," when the colorful and gay canals. A great many Elks also went . City State . Convention reached a spectacular on the post-Convention tour to beau j My dealer's name and address is j climax. One of the longest and most tiful Mexico City. —— MM I17ie» writitnj to advertisers please mention The Elks Maijazino Supplementary Report of the Elks National Foundation {Continued from page 35) sentative of Troup Seven of the Boy illness and injury of a younger brother the first four picked that way would Scouts to the National Jamboree in who was an invalid for many years. have been no mistake. But it was 1937 in Washing^ton and also is the However, the boy persisted,^ and necessary for us to pick four from the possessor of a life guard certificate. earned money to take care of himself group for the award of these scholar He has played tackle on the varsity and pursue his schooling by delivering ships as that had been our proposal. football team and has held the track newspapers on a paper route for five However, after that had been done it position as 100-yard and 220-yard dash years, by peddling handbills, selling was the unanimous decision of our man and during the last two years the magazines and working at various jobs Board of Trustees that there were sev Ilion High School track squad has been during summer vacations—as a caddy, eral of these student applicants who both county and sectional champion. He ought to be encouraged and helped, and as a grocery clerk. Throu^ that we decided therefore to give additional played intra-section football and this medium* he has been able to buy his honorable mention scholarships of year was a member of the ski team. own clothes, his own spectacles, and He has taken part in canoeing, swim any and all so-called luxuries which $150.00 each to the following worthy ming, ice-skating and tennis, being one young men both need and r^uire. students: of the school's speed skaters. For two T. Rogness Johnson, Jr., of Sioux In awarding our first Falls, South Dakota; Bill Morgan of years he has been a member of the boy, we believe we are starting on the Cookeville, Tennessee; Elizabeth Casey student governing body as well as road to eminence and leadership in our of Alameda, California; W. Barry Mal- class president during his junior year nation in the years to come one of the lon of Malone, New York; Ruth Kolt- and class treasurer during his senior most outstanding young men in our hoff of Miami, Florida; Emma Ver- year and, as a member of the school durman of Portland, Oregon; James senate, was chairman of the athletic ^°l"want to say frankly to th® mem E. Donohue of Westerly, Rhode Island, committee; for two years he has been bers of the Grand Lodge Jhat if we and William Langbauer of Chicago, s^etary-treasurer of the Boys' Rifle had sufficient funds from the income The award of these honorable men Qub, took a leading role in the senior of our Foundation, it would make every tion scholarships, my Brothers, ex play and is a member of the senior an member of our Board of Grand Trus hausted our funds and for that reason nual staff and monitor in the school's tees supremely happy to be able w and; that reason alone several other teaffic system. He is a member of the award a scholarship to every one of the boys and girls worthy of help had to be Junior and Senior National Honor So worthy applicants who filed their peh- denied. cieties and president of the Ilion Chap tion for help with us. It is a I believe that you will feel as regret ter of the Senior Honor Society. He is breaking task to deny many of tlw^ ful about this as we do, but until our one of the two boys of the graduating The struggles of youths to elevate Foundation income is increased, our cl^s of 1940 this year of-Ilion High themselves in the world, to acQ^^^e su ability to help will be necessarily re School who has won an honor "I" given ficient knowledge to enable them t stricted. No greater and worthier or for points covered by extra curricular battle with the problems of are nobler work could be done by our Order activities. displayed in many, many than the encouragement and education And how has this boy been able to that we examined, and -qFJ of the youth of our country, particu Mcomplish all of these things and make pealing story is concealed by the cold larly in these days when it is to them this marvelous scholastic record? For type of the petitions of boys and girls that we must look for the preservation many years his family lived on a low who come to us for help. of our nation, and we are nappy to be economic strata, both father and As stated to you earlier in this re able to render even the slight aid that mother being factory workers. Much port, we could have taken, the highest we can in that ijatriotic effort by of their earnings went to pay hospital twenty of the student applications, and granting these particular scholarships. and doctors' bills accruing from the drawn four names out of a hat, and

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least seriously injured—and the most said he didn't believe Bowman had inches, is a murderous niissile. Mod publicized—victim. Two weeks hit him purposely, upon being re em ball players are content to pur earlier, Peewee Reese, the brilliant leased from the hospital two days sue a policy of live yj; young shortstop for whom Brooklyn later; the entire affair was promptly there probably isn't a pitcher in the gave $40,000 in cash and players forgotten. business today who wants to send^ arbitrarily valued at $35,000 more, It always is. They'll do it every rival to the hospital with a- broken was felled by Jake Mooty of the time. Deliberate attempts by pitch head. Batters are dusted off with Cubs and was out for three weeks. ers to intimidate batters with bean-balls to scare them, to prevent Medwick was playing again within throws known in the trade as "bean- them from taking too many liberties the week. Then the Giants' Billy balls" are an integral part of the with a pitcher or to loosen them Jurges was hit by the Reds' Bucky game and, after all these years, the up for the next pitch, usually a baU Walters. Jurges really was in bad practice cannot be eradicated by over the outside corner. shape. Five weeks after the acci order. Bean-balls are deplored in The argument used by pitchers in defense of this nasty trick goes like dent, he had to return to the hos the abstract, but, like wife-beating, pital to have the balancing mechan another persistent evil, the practi this, "Batters are taking the bread and butter out of our mouths every ism in his inner ear checked, and tioners insist it is their inalienable the Giants, who had been within right to maintain discipline. time they get a hit. If we let em striking distance of first place be It is violating no confidence to re dig'in for toe-holds, we'll never get fore their shortstop was hit, nose port that a swift, hard ball is thrown anybody out. We gotta loosen up bat pre^ close to someone at least once ters now and then to stop 'eni from dived precipitously and threatened during every ball game played in crowding the plate. It's our living. to fall into the second division. America every day. The burden of Sounds brutal and callous. It's not This traumatic triple launched ducking these dangerous throws is cricket, but it's baseball. Good base much plain and fancy screaming, of an occupational hazard of baseball. ball, unfortunately. course, yet one significant point Only on very rare occasions—^less Accidents resulting from players' was overlooked. To rave about the than one in a thousand—does the getting skulled by pitched balls seem lethal bean-ball is to stamp your pitcher intend to hit the batter. to run in cycles. The Medwick case, self as a not-too-knowing outsider. Pitchers know a baseball, thrown at marked as it was by fishy circum The ball players have a realistic at the average speed of 110 miles an stances, was one of three in June titude toward the dusters which hour over a distance of 60 feet, 6 of this year, but Medwick was the stems from the traditional toughness 48 most of them like to affect. Besides, triples—and had the hits washed off first three years in the National if they are frightened by a ball the records by a terrific rainstorm! Lea'gue. The players who were the thundering' down upon their heads— As a matter of fact, a duster-offer clay pigeons for Grimes and Dean as you, and certainly I, would be— merely makes a tough hitter so much were sore, but not terribly hurt, since they wouldn't be in the big league, tougher. both men usually warned the hitter, in the first place. Their fear would "I used to be knocked down a lot by gestures and caustic cracks, and have been exposed in the minor when I was hitting after Ruth," gave him ample time to protect him leagues and they would have been Gehrig recalls. "Babe would hit one self. Curiously, a ball thrown straight forced out of the business. and the pitcher would get sore and at a man's head is not dangerous. It For sevei-al years the New York try to take it out on me. When that is the pitch aimed behind the batter's Neivs, the newspaper with the happened, the game became a per head which inflicts the damage, prob largest circulation in this country, sonal issue between the pitcher and ably because the batter loses sight has been crusading for protective me. I'd bear down harder to get even of the ball momentarily just before helmets to be worn by batters. At with the guy who had thrown at me. it reaches him. the hist All-Star game, a designer of I usually did all right." The only pitcher in the sixty-four a helmet submitted his creation for When a player is beaned, the vic years of organized professional base experimental purposes. The great tim and his team are satisfied, in ball ever charged generally with ma majority of the players even refused the absence of contrary evidence, to licious intent to skull a batter was to be photographed wearing one. regard the accident as a horrible mis Carl Mays of the Yankees. On August Thought they'd look like sissies. take. The unfortunate part is that 16, 1920, a Mays pitch struck poor Medwick, whose cranium still was the maimed hero seldom has all the Ray Chapman, of Cleveland, on the sore, would not try one on, just for faculties needed to hear this pious temple and Chapman died the next a fit, and threatened to punch in the assurance. After all, the best pitchers morning. That was the first and last nose the guy who tried to make him do lose control occasionally. C/rl fatality in the history of major- do it. Physicians warned Jurges it Hubbell never threw at a man's head league baseball and the reaction was might be fatal for him to play again in his life—the screwball, over the terrific, particularly in view of the without a helmet. Jurges said he heart of the plate, was enough to ugly, and uninvestigated, rumors of wouldn't wear one of the damn' cool off hitters—and his control al the Black Sox, who had sold out to things if nobody else did. ways has been nearly perfect, yet gamblers in the 1919 World Series. The strangest aspect of the bean- even Hub broke Buddy Hassett's arm For three seasons it had been com ball practice is that it doesn't serve several years ago when Hassett was mon talk in the dugouts that Mays its intended purpose. A little thing trying to escape a pitch traveling in was "a mean player", that he had like a baseball hurled at his head the general direction of his head. "ice water in his veins". Several doesn't intirriidate the good hitter. Only three pitchers in the last Cleveland players threatened to "get" If it did, he. wouldn't be a good twenty years have been accused of Mays and end his pitching career, hitter. In . 1934, Lou Gehrig was consistent throwing at batters' nog and on the day Chapman died, the knocked unconscious by Ray White gins. One was Burleigh Grimes, a Tigers and Red Sox announced they in an exhibition game at Norfolk, highly combative, competitive citizen would refuse to bat against Mays. In Va. The following day, in Wash whose zeal to win verged on insanity. an unprecedented gesture of sym ington, Gehrig got three successive Another was Dizzy Dean during the pathy, the Tigers offered to lend Naturc's PROTEcme Bunding protects the Muskeuunge onrEirs The muskellunge, mighty fresh water game It takes real skill to coax the"musky" from the fish,can be seen onlywhen he leaps forthelure Protective Blending of his deep water haunts PROIECnVE

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{Continued from page 9) tempted to steal cattle because it was killed no more than five, "not count criminals who haven't heard that easy before the days of fences, and ing Indians", although he must have and who wouldn't believe it if they they held up trains in order to get wounded a large number. Mr. Raine did. Mr. Raine doesn't believe in large sums of money. But in the knew Bat when he came to Denver in heroics about outlaws. "The plain end they were wiped out. A few 1905, and he also met other char truth is that they were cold-blooded sheriffs were rubbed out at the acters of the West, outlaws in prison killers who had to be exterminated same time, but when it was over, and officers in various occupations for the benefit of society," says he. about 1900, the sheriffs were the to which they retired after the West He wants credit to go to the law victors. settled down. enforcement ofiicials who solved the This book is pretty well packed problem. (Houghton, Mifflin Co., $3) V 0 matter how unmelodramatic with tales about gunmen. It gives N Mr. Raine makes his chronicle, a clear idea of the lawlessness in F you are interested in swing he can't keep all the high drama out. the West after the Civil War to the bands you may be interested in the There is something thrilling in the 20th century. It shows that crime life of bandsmen, although that does mere recital of the story of Lieut. doesn't pay, but there are always not follow. A few seasons ago Doro Lee Hall of the Texas thy Baker made the subject Rangers, who surrounded a exciting by writing a novel hall with twenty-five men about a trumpet player in in order to get seven men "Young Man With a Horn". who were attending a wed It was supposed to be based ding dance. There were on the career of Bix Beid- more than fifty inside, but i> erbecke, whose records are by sheer bravado Hall treasured by their owners. faced them down and took the prisoners. Judge Pleas- with "Piano in the Band" ants was a man of similar and makes use of similar fortitude. Threatened with backgrounds. His story fol !Nowlows thecomesfortunesDale Currariof the death if he did not release the men, he denounced piano player, who wants to them before a courtroom break away from the jazz filled with their sympathiz- ^ routine followed by the ers. The outlaws went to . | leader, Jeff Walters. Wal jail and the judge was ters won't stand for swing never harmed. and eventually this proves Hollywood can't improve • his undoing. But before on a story like that. There that happens we see the were plenty of other en- \ boys on the road, playing counters in which the ban small-time cafes and get dits shot first and both ting bossed around by sides lost men, but Mr. cheap gorillas as if they Raine refuses to glorify were slaves. Band music the gunmen. They were may be mellow and lovely, not as good as the legends but behind it is a world of declare, says he, and he hectic emotions, of jeal ought to know. He thinks ousy, back-biting, frustra that Bat Masterson, the fa tion, long hours and mis mous Dodge City sheriff • treatment. Mr. Curran who was said to have knows his stuff and he's He says thot some oi the truths he's telling are as planted thirty-five outlaws much of a surprise to him as to us!" ** a romantic. (Reynal & in Boot Hill cemetery, Hitchcock, $2) W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM is i only 66, but he is signing off as a writer of short stories. He has written between 80 and 90 of them —shrewd, sharp, wise studies of hu man nature in a tight place. He is going to quit writing because he feels that he no longer expresses or understands a great slice of his pub lic. Of a writer he says, "A genera tion has arisen which is strange to him, and it is only by an effort of the will that he can understand the interests of a world of which he can Ettr now be only an observer. But to understand is not enough; the novel ist must feel, and he must not only feel with, he must feel in." That's a brave thing to say, and it shows that while Mr. Maugham may THANKS TO not understand the new world, he surely understands his function and POLIDENT Beauty Bath capacity as a writer. He makes Keeps Plates Like New—Withouf Brushing these statements in the preface to his last book of short stories, "The Are you letting dingy false teeth destroy your Mixture As Before". (Doubleday, Doran, $2.50). Ten good short perhaps your whole charm? Does stories to add to your Maugham col the very thought of unattractive plates make lection—stories about people who you self-conscious when you should be well- have something on their minds. One FALSE TEETH WEARERS poised? The thing to do is—get Polident—a is about Lord Montdrago, minister often worst breath offenders powder that magically dissolves away tar for foreign affairs, who invariably A dark film collects on plates and nish, stain, food-deposits from plates, remov dreams of altercations with a mem bridges, that soaks up odors and ber of parliament named Griffiths, impurities! It gets in crevices able hvidges—•without brushing, acid or dan where briishing can't even reach! ger!What a difference in the way your phitc looks and discovers, a day or so later, that Almost always it results in "den and feels! Polident purifies your plate — leaves it Griffiths seems to know about the ture breath"—probably the most clean — attractive! Gums look more "alive" too! dream. One is about the English offensive breath odor. You won't Leading dentists recommend POLIDENT. Only man who established himself at 35 know if you have it but others will! Yet Polident quickly dis 30c, any drug store; money back if not delighted. on the island of Capri, buying an solves all film— leaves gfafgaa Hudson Products, Inc., 220 West lOtb St., New York, N. Y. annuity that would keep him inde plates absolutely odor- free and sweet. pendent until 25 years were over, Miliions call Pol- jMk . and who now faces the end of the idont a blesslngi term and is not ready to die. One POLIDCnT is about a convict on a penal island Cleans. Purifies Without Brushing! who has a killing to answer for; ' I. f Do this daily: Add a little Polident powder to another deals with an Englishman's glass water. Stir. Theo puc in place or bridge for 10 adventure with his perfect parlor to 15 minutes. Rinse—and it's ready to use. maid, who remains perfect; another has to do with acrobats who are in a rut. Mr. Maugham's characters are not exactly people we'd like to have around the house, but his writ Do You Like to Get Letters? ing is always enlightening, and good entertainment. So do we—your comments help to guide us in giving you the very finest magazine you can read. Aviation stories are keeping As individuals, and as a group, Elks represent one of the finest and pace with aviation news—and it's the sensation of this war. Leland most productive markets in America. The half-million Elks in this Jamieson's snappy story, "Attack!" country spend almost TEN MILLION DOLLARS annually for Mem which first appeared in The Saturday bership Dues alone. Evening Post, is out as a book. It brings fighting by airplane right up During the last eighteen months our Editorial pages have been to our doorstep. The interesting stepped up to the 1940 tempo—new illustrations, plenty of color, im thing about the author is that he proved type and new interesting features. All the fine stories, articles flew in the Army Air Corps for three and Lodge Notes that have made The Elks Magazine the standout years, trained other aviators and is in its field for 18.years have been retained—but they are being pre now a pilot for the Eastern Air sented to you in a new and modem dress. Lines. His technical knowledge ought to be perfect. (William Mor • Our advertising revenue has been stepped up too—the first nine row & Co., $1.50) ... "Flight Sur months of 1940 show an increase of about 50% over the same period geon" is a novel by Cameron Rogers of last year. We're pointing out this fact to advertisers, of course. And and Herman E. Halland. Lieut. you can help to keep this increase in the advertising revenues of your Commander Halland was associated magazine constant— with the flying corps of the Navy until last year. He was commander Buy the products advertised in The Elks Magazine—when pur of the first squadron flight from chasing by mail be sure the advertiser knows you saw his message Norfolk to Panama. This story in this book by opening your letter with "I saw your ad in The Elks opens an entirely new field for writ Magazine ** ers. It's about two men and a girl, (Continued on page 56) writin'i to advertisers please mviition The Elka Mayazino A. punch tastes better icith champagne, Bui connoisseurs cor// a// maintain Your hrand must have a famous name. Insist on .,, J

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Which material sent for publica how's your shootin' eye? is as it should be, swivel chair con tion in The Elks Magazine Hunting season is only a few servationists to the contrary. should be in our hands days or weeks away, depending on This season a comparatively new your stamping grounds, and by the fowling piece will be added to the col not later than the first of time this immortal prose assails lection which your agent annually the month preceding the astigmatic optics, the writer hopes to hauls across the line for the Canadian date of issue of the Maga be making life precarious for sundry inaugural, namely, a Model 12 Win black ducks, teal and other feathered chester heavy 12-gauge magnum. It zine—for example, news fauna up in zat belle Quebec. isn't often this skeptic becomes all un items intended for the Oc For the benefit of you fellows in done at the seams over a shotgun, but tober issue should reach habiting northern tier States, it might chums, that nine-pound cornsheller, be remarked that there's nothing like chambered for the three-inch Win us by September 1st. an early season Canadian duck hunt chester or Western shell, is the answer to sharpen wing-shooting form, and to a wildfowler's prayer. If you're an ioritint/ to udccrtlxerH itlca/tc- mention The E11:h Maoaz<»c honest-to-gosh duck or goose shooting careful when you kill them things." nut and are possessed of real shooting For the next two hours I concen skill, bend an ear to the following; trated on long shots, passing up doz FACTORY-TD-YOU In the first place, the Winchester ens of easy chances. The magnum's magnum is no trinket for the once-in- performance was amazing. Two honk a-whiie duck hunter of average ers were dropped out of one small shooting ability. It's a 75-yard meat flock, the first landing 72 paces from getter in the expert duck shot's the box and the second about 10 yards hands, but it's definitely not the ty beyond. Both were cleanly killed with ro's baby. Remember that. If you 2's. Two single geese later were shot don't know your leads beyond 50 well beyond 70 yards and one of these yards there is little use fooling was dead when it hit the marsh. around with other than a standard At a little after nine o'clock the bag 12. limit was complete with four geese, This new addition to the arsenal five big black ducks, a mallard, a sprig PDT THIS 1941 got its first acid test last November and three spoonbills, and not one of ' M-TUBES CHASSIS IN YOUR on Mattamuskeet Lake, North Caro the birds had been killed inside of 50 rn^W AMAZING lina, greatest wintering ground for yards. In comparison with a standard OWN CABINET FOREIGN RECEPTiOK Canada geese on the Atlantic Coast 12-gauge, shooting the l^/i-ounce and the happy feeding ground for load, the magnum's performance was COMPLETE WITH countless pintails, black ducks, mal a revelation. TUBES AND • SPEAKER , _ lards and other shallow water "WOW, you can eajoy ^il9 ^ Two shot loads are available for the inishty power ... /M quackers. this weapon, 1%- and 1%-ounces, of a i4-tube 1041 radio at the amazingly low j m factory-to-you price of Sio.gS- BriUiant A lusty wind was whistling down both loaded in three-inch cases. The formance—beautiful tone. Now.tuoeinbroad- •J casts direct from distant overseas stations. out of the northeast that morning as latter is recommended as there seems SEEMIDWESrSANSWERTOTRAOE-INS! X I stepped into the blind with a gradu little reason to shoot anything but a Big 1941 catalog shows how to buy at X btNU wholesale price ... direct from factory. X |4 posj CARD ated bean farmer, who was doubling magnum load in a magnum gun. The Read about sensational-new 14-tube X mrr cabinet model at S30.9S- Also other X F0RrKCC194{ in brass as a "guide". One first look 1%-ounce load throws but Vs of an chassis and cabinet models from 5 to # nf unui > 17-tubes ... up to Swave bands ... / CATALOG WOW. around disclosed that it was going to ounce more shot than the standard including Kadio-phonofsraph-com- i/ usER-AGENTS be a red letter day. A steady stream of shell. binations and Home Recorder. Make Extra Money! high-flying pintails was drilling past Obviously, there is no advantage overhead; stray blacks and mallards shooting other than heavy pellets in were skimming the marsh and no mat a magnum, hence No. 4's are recom ter in what direction you looked there mended for ducks and 2's for geese. were geese and more geese. Shot lighter than 4's lose their effec "Today," said your hero to himself, tive punch beyond 55 yards, whereas. surveying the entrancing scene, "is 4's will kill cleanly at 60. No. 2's re- - the day you're going to find out exact tain enough energy to wreck a goose To ly what this new back tooth rattler at 75 yards and perhaps a bit beyond. will do." All Members "THE writer's gun weighs an ounce THE first opportunity came about or two over nine pounds and two minutes later when seven Can- swings as smoothly as a bank vault adas winged diagonally over the box door. It's a Trap Grade, with over CONGRESS recently enacted at about 30-yard range. If ever there size forearm and the solid ribbed, a law making it compul was a setup shot at unsuspecting 30-inch barrel is choked tighter sory for postmasters to charge geese, that was it. Under other cir than a dowager's midsection. These cumstances those honkers would have guns also are obtainable in 32-inch publishers two cents for every taken a shellacking, but a 30-yard shot barrel lengths, and in this book are at geese with a magnum would have the finest long range duck guns ever change of address. proved nothing, so I passed 'em up. made, particularly for the chap who The guide was too dumfounded to say prefers a slide-action repeater. This law places an unusual anything for a moment, then he The stock is a full pistol grip and expense of several thousand turned to me with outrage written all equipped with rubber recoil pad. Re over his disappointed puss. coil, even when heaviest loads are dollars on THE ELKS MAGA "Why didn't you cut down a pair?" fired, isn't at all severe; in fact I can't he questioned, not without some heat, detect much difference between the ZINE unless every member im "Man alive, you want to take them magnum and the standard 12-gauge mediately notifies THE ELKS things when you can get 'em!" load, fired from a lighter weapon. "Too close," I replied, "I want to This shotgun also handles the 2%- MAGAZINE or Lodge Secre try out a new long range gun." inch shell nicely and makes a dandy tary as to his change of ad "I've seen a lot of funny things trap gun. happen in this here blind," he coun A new Winchester product which dress. tered, "but I never saw anyone pass all prospective shotgun purchasers up a shot like that before. You ain't should examine before buying a gun Please cooperate with your been drinkin' have you?" this fall is the Model 40 stream-lined It was evident he considered his self-loader. Unless this gun nut is sad Lodge Secretary and notify customer completely nuts. ly mistaken, you're going to see a lot him at once of your new ad A moment later a single, sky-high of 'em around in the next few seasons, sprig headed our way. The bird wasn't and also at big league skeet shoots. dress. traveling fast, neither was it loafing It's unquestionably one of the finest— along. But it was up there a full 65 if not the finest—automatic shotgun yards and a beautiful target. The first ever produced; beautifully balanced shot was a clean miss but the second and finished as only the New Haven blast of chilled 4's caught it squarely, outfit finishes popular priced sporting ELKS ARE WELCOME AT and down it plummeted directly into firearms. the blind, smacking the guide a re The new self-loader combines the New York's LARGEST Garage sounding thump in the slats as it sleek frame and modern pistol-grip Heart o£ Midtown, near hotels, the.itres, shops. Short 5c ride to World's Fair. Clean, conrtcous, landed. stock of a fine hammerless pumpgun reasnnable and safe. You lock your car. "That gun sho' do reach up some," with the barrel, magazine and fore he said, as he rubbed his bruised arm of an improved autoloader. In KENT AUTOMATIC 210 E. 44th St., side, "but ah wish you'd be mo' stead of the usual unsightly receiver, PARKING GARAGE off Third Avenue '•itiin; to advertisers please mention The Elks Mayazinc Winchester's Model 40 has a grace in fact, they're the best decoys writer personally prefers the latter, fully rounded hind end which delights this writer ever has gunned over in keeled and ballasted with a short strip the eye and which certainly contrib more years than he cares to remem of sheet lead. "Doughnut" type an utes to more accurate gun pointing. ber. And that includes the land- chors, which easily slip over the de This shotgun is obtainable in 30- and made variety. coy's head, expedite rigging out and 28-inch barrel lengths, modified or Wildfowler Decoys are available in picking up and also save a lot of an full choke for field shooting, or in 24- cedar, balsa wood and cork, and in any noying tangles. inch overall barrel length with Cutts species. With or without keel. The Something else which should inter Compensator attached. Nothing but paint job is perfect. Naturally, they're est duck hunters is the new combina 12-gauges now are available. While not to be purchased at bargain base tion "Turn-about" seat and shell box, we're on the subject of shotguns and ment prices. Cost runs from $18 to manufactured by the Gross-Given duck shooting it might not be amiss $36 per dozen, depending on desir^ Mfg. Co., of St. Paul. This gadget is to bring up the subject of decoys. material, but they're worth it to the a strong, water- and weather-proof Most duck hunters aren't too fussy chap who takes his duck gunning se metal box holding eight boxes of about those all-important counter riously and wants the best. The balsa shells, equipped with an adjustable feits, but they should be. In these wood decoys are so light a dozen weigh revolving seat. This permits the days of hard-to-fool qua(^ers it pays about as much as two of the pine or shooter to survey the surrounding to have the best rig obtainable. cedar variety. This a decided advan landscape without continually twist Most commercially made decoys tage when rigs must be toted into ing his neck around like a prairie owl. now on the market resemble the un swamps or other hard-to-reach hot The top of the shell box—^which fortunate result of an avian misal- spots. For all-around service and light serves as the seat—is covered with a liance. They're likely to frighten hell weight, the cork stools are tops, par thick, sealed, rubber sponge cover put of moredecoying ducks than they ticularly for eastern black duck gun which is considerably more comfort lure within range. However, superbly ners. Give 'em a little singe every fall able . than the usual up-ended shell made blocks are available and two with a blowtorch and they're all set case in a duck blind. gents named Ed MuUiken and Jim If you'd like to have more in for the autumn wars. No painting job formation regarding any of the Moore, of Saybrook, Conn., turn 'em is required. out under the trade name of Wild- articles mentioned in this depart fowler Decoys. Decoys made by .this For all-around heavy duty, espe ment, just drop a note, or postal small Nutmeg State factory are un cially along the coast where decoys card, to the Rod and Gun Depart questionably the finest blocks manu get slammed around, the solM cedar ment of The Elks Magazine. We'll factured in the United States today; blocks are, of course, the best bet. The gladly send it along to you.

News of the State Associations (^Continued from page 43) Pres. Sam Stern, Fargo, Secy. E. A. MICHIGAN Pres., Irvine J. Unger, Detroit; Vice- Rwd, Jamestown, and Treas. Alec Ra- Jackson, Mich., Lodge, No. 113, enter Pres.-at-Large, Albert J. Ott, Traverse wit^her, Williston. This was the As- City; District Vice-Pres.'s: Cent., John ^dation's 20th Annual Convention. tained the Michigan State Elks Asso Van Peenen, Lansing; N. Cent., B. J. ciation on June 13-14-15-16, meeting Tally, Bay City; East, Leon D. Barlow, E.R. E. W. Tobin of Dickinson Lodge for its 35th annual convention. In was General Chairman of the Commit Detroit; West, William T. Evans, Mus cluded in the large attendant were kegon; S. W., Bohn W. Grim, Sturgis; tee in Charge of Arrangements, as Past Grand Exalted Rulers Dr. Edward sisted by W. A. Brown. N. W., Dr. E. A. McDonald, Petoskey; J. McCormick, Toledo, O., and Grand Secy., Joseph M. Leonard, Saginaw; Grand Exalted Ruler Henry C. War Secretary J. Edgar Masters, Chicago, ner arrived on Monday. The Conven 111.; Grand Trustee Joseph B. Kyi®* Treas., James G. Shirlaw, Battle Creek; tion Parade was held that afternoon, Gary, Ind.; John K. Burch, Grand Trustee for four years, Herbert A. featuring a hundred saddle horses, Kurrasch, Alpena. Benjamin F. Girdler, Rapids, Mich., former Chairman of the Grand Rapids, was appointed Chaplain floats. Elks' bands from Fargo, James Board of Grand Trustees, and Norman town and Bismarck, drum and bugle C. Parr, New Philadelphia, and Claude for his fifth consecutive term. A reso co^s from Glendive, Williston and lution on Americanism was one of sev E. Thompson, Frankfort, Past Pres. s eral important resolutions passed by Minot, the Dickinson High School of the Ohio and Indiana State Elks Band and the Williston Clown Band. Associations respectively. The Conven the Association. P.E.R. Alfred P. At the banquet that evening, held in tion was characterized by a pleasing Chambe, of Detroit Lodge No. 34, pre we Knights of Columbus Hall, Mr. spirit of comradeship, and a well- sided over the Lodge of Sorrow. The Warner, who delivered the principal rounded prog:ram was carried out by impressive services were held in the address, was presented with a sterling Jackson Lodge for the entertainment Jackson Lodge home. silver pitcher, a gift from the State of Elks and the large number of visit Dr. McCormick was the guest speaker Association. Theodore Kellogg of Dick ing ladies. at the Public Flag Day Service held in inson Lodge acted as Toastmaster. D.D. Marquette Lodge No. 405 won the connection with an evening pageant at P. J. McHugh of Grand Forks, State first prize of $75 and possession of the the beautifully illuminated Cascades on Pres. Hanna and Vice-Pres. Stern also Michigan Elks Cup for one year in the the 465-acre William and Matilda spoke. The banquet was followed by Class "A" division of the Ritualistic Sparks Foundation. An exhibition drill a dance. With the exception of out Contest, closely followed by the other by the famous Zouaves of Jackson door features and the annual banquet, participating teams from Niles, Lans Lodge, with Capt. William Sparks, all of the convention activities were ing, Kalamazoo, Ludington, Grand P.E.R., commanding, followed the ser staged in the Elks' auditorium and Rapids, Muskegon, Owosso and Benton vice. Other outstanding features of club rooms, recently remodeled and re Harbor. The seven individual cups of the four-day meeting were the mile- decorated, Dickinson Lodge has one of fered for officers judged best in the long parade and the annual banquet at the finest homes in North Dakota, and contest were all won by the Marquette which Mr. Burch acted as Toastmaster every comfort was provided. officers. Alma Lodge No. 1400 was the and Grand Trustee Kyle gave a splen The registration office reported a Class "B" winner over Detroit No. 34, did address on the principles of the greater attendance than at any pre gaining permanent possession of the Order. vious annual meeting the State Asso John K. Burch Trophy and receiving ciation has held. The splendid Ritua the $75 cash prize. A $75 cash prize NEBRASKA listic Contest was won by Minot Lodge was also presented to Kalamazoo Lodge At the Annual Convention of the No. 1089. Included in the major events No. 50 as winner of the Ritualistic Nebraska State Elks Association, held on the three-day program was a mam Drill Team Contest, with second prize in McCook on June 9-10-11, officers were moth concert under brilliant floodlights going to Muskegon Lodge No. 274. St. elected for 1940-41 as follows: Pres., gt the high school athletic field on Joseph Lodge No. 541 was selected as Fred R. Dickson, Kearney; 1st Vice- Sunday night, in which the bands and the host lodge for the 1941 Convention Pres., Hugh Schooley, Alliance; 2nd drum corps from Fargo, Jamestown, which will be held in June, and officers Vice-Pres., Dr. C. D. Evans, Columbus; Bismarck, Minot, Williston and Glen were elected and appointed to serve 3rd Vice-Pres., A. C. Bintz, Lincoln; dive Lodges took part. during the ensuing year as follows: Secy., H. P. Zieg, Grand Island; Treas., 54 F. C. Laird, Fremont; Trustees: J. M. McCourry of McMinnville, Chairman Fitzgerald, Omaha, P. N. Kirk, Grand of the Oratorical Contest, to make the Island, J. P. Glasgow, Chadron; Chap "two contests part of the regular con lain, the Rev. John B. Mayland, Nm-- vention program, was favored by the folk; Tiler, George S. Farran, Norfolk; Association. First, second, third and Sergeant-at-Arms, William J. Sheehan, fourth cash prizes in the 1940 Oratori Grand Island. Norfolk Lodge No. 653 cal Contest, held at the Vert Audi will entertain the Association when it torium on the evening of June 14, were convenes in 1941 during the week of presented respectively to Aleene Bar June 14. ton of the LaPine High School, spon Memorial Services were held for Past sored by Bend Lodge; Harry Thurman, Pi'es. Guy T. Tou Velle, late Chairman Medford High, sponsored by Medford of the Grand Lodge Committee on Ju Lodge; Richard Owen, Lebanon High, diciary, whose death in an automobile Albany Lodge, and Helen Woodman, collision was reported in the July issue Carleton High, McMinnville Lodge. The of The Elks Magazine. The Memorial contest was followed by a "Frolic" for Pass Case, Card Case, Bill Fold, Check Cover KTEW STYLE extra thin model. Just what every Address was delivered by Judge James the ladies at the Country Club while A* man needs. Made of high-grade black, genuine the Elks attended a stag at the lodge calfslda. Bpedally tanned. TouA. durable. M. Fitzgerald, a member of the Grand texture, shows real quality. SUt stitched, 1/10-14K Gold Forum. home. Filled comers. Size 3« i S closed. You simply can t wear out this qualityproduct. 22-karat gold name, address, wse The Ritualistic Contest was won by Satui'day's program began with an emblemiree.Tbisengravlogordinarilycosts»X.socura. Grand Island Lodge No. 604, competing officials' bx'eakfast at the Pendleton with Fremont Lodge No. 514. The an Hotel followed by the final business ses Dired-To-You ONLY ^4^5 nual banquet was largely attended by sion at which State officers were elected Enclose $4.95 Mon^ Order or Check. Sent C. O. D, Elks and their ladies. D.D. E. L. Meyer, as follows: Pres., J. E. Luckey of Eu if youpr^er. State lodgeemblem wanted. All arti- elca fully guaranteed. Your money cheeriolly refunded if of Alliance Lodge, gave a splendid gene Lodge; 1st Vice-Pres., Robert A. not thoroughly satisfied, two weeks' trial. address. The report made by the Thompson, Klamath Falls; 2nd Vice- /\ a n Write for FREE card cato- \Mrwr>rtV mUTTA. log of novel, nsefnl gifts. Benevolence Commission showed that Pres., E. H. Miller,^ Heppner; 3rd Vice- %JIAA Merchants,manufacturers, insurance men,tailors—with preferredcostomers—profitby six clinics were conducted during the Pres., H.. E. Nicholson, Astoria; Trus ourquantitydiscountson personalizedgiftgood-willbailaers. year by the Crippled Children's Com tees: J. Edward Thornton, Ashland, mittee. The examination of 520 chil John S. Jenkins, Baker, and Cliff Mudd, LANDON & WARNER dren brought the total to 2,543 cases Salem. Ex-nest L. Scott of Medford handled since the inception of the pro and H. L. Toney, McMinnville, were re- gram. The Association levies assess elected Secretary and Treasurer re ments for the support of its activities spectively. At the end of the installa and the maintenance of the Benevo tion ceremonies, conducted by retiring lence Commission. Pres. Effenberger, Pres. Luckey ap pointed Seymore Friendly, of Portland, OREGON Sergeant-at-Arms, N. H. Gunderson, TRAVEL Six hundred and ninety-seven regis Marshfield, Assistant Sergeant-at- tered delegates and visitors, and many Arms, John N. Mohr, Hood River, others who did not register, attended Chaplain, and George W. Johnson, AGENTS the Annual Convention of the Oregon Lakeview, Tiler. The Association went State Elks Association at Pendleton, emphatically on record in favor of na June 13-14-15. The meeting was the tional defense. Presentation of the More than *200 Travel Agen most productive since the Association Ritualistic Trophy was made to the cies selling Steamship_, Hotel and was reorganized four years ago, and a Portland team by Chairman Allen. A sub.stantial increase in membership was gain in membership was achieved dur other Travel accommodations are shown. The first official event was the ing the year, with good showings being owned and operated by Elks. Ritualistic Contest won by the team made by Albany, Pendleton and Cor- from Pox-tland Lodge No. 142, scoring vallis Lodges. If you sell this kind of service 96.2 points. Lakeview, Grants Pass, On Saturday afternoon, the Conven make sure we have your name Klamath Falls, Medford and Baker tion Parade, headed by the Colors and Lodges finished in the order named. In the local American Legion Drum and and address in the Travel De its opening business session, the Asso Bugle Corps, and witnessed by large partment files of The Elks Mag ciation accepted the invitation of As crowds, marched through the business toria Lodge No. 180 to hold the 1941 section to the Round-Up grounds where azine. We frequently receive convention in Astoria. Mayor C. L. a concert was given and a softball rallic; for travel information from Lieuallen welcomed the delegates and tournament was held in which the State Trustee Charles J. O'Neill, Baker Elks defeated the Elks from our readers. Some of these we Grants Pass, responded. Among the Hood River. The Convention was con can refer to you if we know who speakei-s were State Pres. Oscar Effen- cluded with the Purple Bubble Ball at you are. Just address Travel berger of Tillamook, Ore., Past Grand the home of Pendleton Lodge. Inner Guard Harrie 0. Bohlke, of Department, The Elks Magazine. Yakima, Wash., Lodge, and Past Presi MASSACHUSETTS dents of the Ore. State Elks Assn. The Massachusetts State Elks Asso *That v)e know about. Bruce Ellis of Pendleton and E. W. ciation, meeting for its 26th annual Winkle, Medford. convention, was entertained by Pitts- It was reported that Tillamook and fidd, Mass.. Lodge, No. 272, on June Bend Lodges had burned their mort 15-16-17. Between four and five hun- gages and that Heppner Lodge was di'ed delegates participated. In addi Fistula Sufferers preparing to do likewise. An initiatory tion, more than 800 visiting Elks at meeting and entertainment at the tended and many ladies were present. Face Danger home of Pendleton Lodge No. 228, The business session, held on the second One of the tragic results of ncKlected tistiil.i frc- qtiently is loss of bowol control together with ncr preliminary to the convention proper, day at the Union Square Theatre, was vous diseases and gencr.il ill hwlth caused by scif attracted a large crowd, and the featux-ed by a fine speaking program poisonin|:. Thousands could save themselves from Elks assembled in Pendleton partici and the election of officers. Pres. Wil humiliation and serious illness by t.iking proper treatment in time. The Thornton &• Minor Clinic pated in the Flag Day exercises at liam F. Hogan, of Everett, presided. —oldest known rectal institution in the world— Roosevelt Bowl with Walla Walla, P.E.R. James Fallen, Mayor of Pitts- offers a FREE Book which e.xplains Fistula and Wash., Lodge, No. 287, in charge, and field, made the welcoming address. The other rectal diseases: tells how more than 50,000 persons have heen Ijcnefited. by their mild, corrective Frank J. Lonergan of Portland, Ore., Convention went on record as endors institutional tre.-«tmcnt—without hospital confineiiient. Lodge, a former Chief Justice of the Write for this Free Book .nnd Reference I-ist. .Ad ing the national defense program and dress Thornton & Minor Clinic, Suite 979, 926 McGee Grand Forum, as the principal speaker. passed with enthusiastic approval a St.. Kansas City. Mo. The smart-stepping, uniformed Astoria timely and patriotic x-esolution intro Elks Band, the Pendleton Drum Corps, duced by E. Mark Sullivan, of Boston, the Heppner Orchestra and the splen a member of the Grand Forum. During did Elksbandsfrom WallaWalla, Wash., the business session, visiting members and Baker, Ore., figured prominently W \ SaffereTS afflicted with of the Ladies' Emblem Club were taken bladder trouble, eleeplessness. in the various convention activities. The on a motor tour of scenic spots in Cen ptiin in hips, back and legB and recommendation of Mr. Lonergan, sup tral and Northern Berkshix-e. The mo {general impoteney—ffet Dr. Ball's ported by P.E.R. Jack E. Allen of torcade of 40 automobiles was provided IT-pape Free Book that tells yoa how you may bovo now zcsti All is completely explained in thia Pendleton Lodge, Chairman of the with a police escort. Thomas J. Dono enh'KhteninK l^ee Book. Send for your eopy Now. Ritualistic Committee, and Roy A. van, Chairman of the Emblem Club Ball Clinic. Dent. 7107, Excelsior Spriiiss, Mo. ritinn to udvcrliHcrs plcaae moition The Elks Tour, was in charge of all the arrange KENTUCKY ciation on the concluding night of the ment. Covington, Ky., Lodge, No. 314, act Convention. Judge Joseph P. Good- The following ofScers for 1940-41 ing as host to the Kentucky State Elks enough, of Covington Lodge, acted as WCTe elected: Pres., Daniel J. Honan, Association meeting at Covington on Toastmaster. Included in the many Winthrop; Vice-Pres.'s: Arthur J. June 16-17-18-19 for its 32nd annual entertainment features were a burgoo Harty, of Winchester Lodge, Francis convention, handled the important un and barbecue at the Twin Oaks Country J. O'Neil, Attleboro, and James A. dertaking with marked success. Special Club, dances, the banquet and floor Bresnahan, Fitchburg; Secy.-Treas., praise was given R. H. Jobert, E.R. show, luncheon and cards for ladies at reelected,_,Thomas F. Coppinger, New of Covington Lodge, and Paul J. the Lookout House, and buffet lunch ton; Trustees for three years: Dr. Wil eons, suppers and minstrels at the lodge General Chairman, for the success of home. liam F. Maguire, Wakefield, T. Francis the convention. Over 700 delegates Roark, Gardner, Dr. John H. Walsh, were registered, more than at any pre Phillip Stevens, of Princeton Lodge, Waltham, Mason S. McEwan, Brook- vious State meeting. Middlesboro was elected President. Other officers hne, and Dr. Henry I. Yale, Peabody. Lodge No. 119 was the winner of the chosen were: 1st Vice-Pres., William After the election of officers, prizes beautiful silver loving cup, donated H. White, Ashland; 2nd Vice-Pres., F. were awarded to three high school girls annually by Past State Pres. Col. A. Homra, Fulton; 3rd Vice-Pres., H. for writing the best essays on "Berk- James A. Diskin of Newport Lodge, Bennett Farris, Richmond; Secy.-Treas., ^ire s Contribution to the American D.D. and a former member of the Richard H. Slack, Owensboro, reelected Revolution and the Establishment of Grand Lodge State Associations Com for the thirteenth consecutive time; These United States". Winners of the mittee, and his brother, Lawrence J. Trustees: William M. Sellmeyer, Cov cont^t, sponsored in the Pittsfield and Disldn, Commonwealth Attorney of ington, Kelly D. Harper, Catlettsburg, ^uthern Berkshireschools, were: First, and Sylvester H. Grove, Louisville. Pa- Campbell County, to the lodge having ducah was chosen as the 1941 conven £neld &gh Hayes,School;16, second, a junior Missat Pitts- Ger- the largest number of delegates and tion city. Retiring President Dr. John visitors in attendance. ^ V^roc®ski, 17, a senior at Searles The Convention opened with an ad B. Floyd, Richmond, was given a vote High School in Great Barrington; third. dress of welcome by Mayor i^lliam of thanks for services rendered during Walker, 17, a senior at his term of office. Secretary Slack's rittsneld High School. The presenta- Beuttel. Response was made by P-^.R. report showed that a membership gain taons were made by Attorney Peter J. Arthur W. Rhorer of Middlesboro. The had been made in Kentucky, and that Invocation was given by the Rev. Father during 1939-40, contributions made by Genovese, P.E.R. of the local lodge Michael H. Hinssen, Cincinnati, and the Chairman of the Essay Contest, Benediction by the Rev. Philip Wigger- the State Association to the Elks amount spent for charity by Tuberculosis Fund amounted to ap man, Covington. Among t^ proximately $2,500. Massachusetts lodges during the past at the business session was Dr. Paul A. year amounted to $88,108.35, according to the annual report submitted by Turner, Superintendent of the Hazel- Secy-.Treas. Coppinger. Lowell Lodge wood Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Louis MISSISSIPPI No. 87 topped the list with an expen ville, who described the work of treat Ben Wilkes, of Greenville Lodge, was diture of $11,650.3&. ing and caring for the patients at the elected President of the Mississippi institution, the facilities of which have State Elks Association at the Annual _ Conyention Parade was held on been increased by large sums of woney State Convention at Jackson on June Saturday night, June 15. Adams Lodge donated by Kentucky lodges of the JNo. 1335 was awarded a prize for hav 23. Sam Miller, Hattiesburg, was re- Order. A resolution was adopted in elected to serve his third term as Sec ing the largest delegation in the line which praise was given the ^tivities of march. First, second and third retary-Treasurer. The other officers of the ^te Judge Roger L. Neff of the for 1940-41 are as follows: 1st Vice- honors for the best drum corps went Campbell County Circuit Court, who Pres., A. W. Lang, Gulfport; 2nd Vice- to the Polish Drum Corps of Adams, the died in June after having Pres., Fulton J. Welsh, Hattiesburg; Dalton American Legion Drum Corps last November. Judge Neff, P-E.R. of and the North Adams Sons of the 3rd Vice-Pres., A. W. Cunningham, Newport Lodge, was a Past President Vicksburg. Past Grand Exalted Ruler Legfion Drum Corps respectively. Pres- of the State Association. At ceremonies Edward Rightor was the principal lodge home for the Conven in Evergreen Cemetery, a wreath was speaker, and Past Grand Tiler Sidney tion Ball held after the parade were laid on his gncave by a committee headed more than 2,500 Elks and their ladies. by Postmaster Richard T. Von Hoene, A. Freudenstein, who accompanied him After the Invocation had been given from New Orleans, also addressed the P.E.R. of Covington Lodge. A resolu Convention. J Stete Chaplain Harry A. McGrath tion of sympathy was also adopted on of Winchester, the assemblage of Elks the death of P.E.R. Arthur W. Ellis The fourteen lodges of the State were pledged allegiance to the Flag and then of Bowling Green Lodge, 3rd V^ice- represented and delegations attended sang the national anthem. Many mem Pres. of the Association, who died dur from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, bers of lodges in Vermont and Connecti ing the year. The Association also La., Lodges. All of the speakers cut and more than 150 Elks from Troy passed a strong resolution relative to stressed Americanism. The host lodge, and Albany, N. Y., watehed the parade the subject and practice of American Jackson No. 416, received the delegates and attended several of the social func ism and pledged itself to fully support and other visiting Elks with hospital tions. Also on the program were a the United States and its institutions. ity and entertained them delightfully dinner at Wild Acres Sanctuary and Lieut.-Gov. Rhodes K. Myers, of Bowl after the business session. Retiring an entertainment and a floor show at ing Green, was the principal speaker at Pres. L. A. Nichols, of Vicksburg, pre the home of Pittsfield Lodge. the annual banquet given by the Asso sided.

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