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VOL. 33 MAGAZINE No. 10

NATIONAL PUBLICATION OF THE BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKSOF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THEGRAND LODGE BY THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL AND PUBLICATION COMMISSION.

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CITIZENS' CRUSADE Sfanfey frank 4FOUNDATION FOR THEIR FUTURE Dickson Hartwetl 6ELK SPICE FOR VA HOSPITAL LIFE National Service Commission 8A MESSAGE FROM THE GRAND EXALTED RULER 9

WHAT'S AHEAD FOR BASEBALL? Frank C. True 10THE GRAND EXALTED RULER'S VISITS 13ROD AND GUN Ted Trueblood 15

"TO OUR ABSENT BROTHERS"NEWS OF THE LODGES ,gWELCOME TO PENNSYLVANIA 21ELK FAMILY ALBUM ^2FOR ELKS WHO TRAVEL Horace Sutfon 24ELKS FAMILY SHOPPER

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' ^ sue is a job worthyof only the highest praise. On the whole,I think our Magazine maintains a con.-stant quality in the magazine field wayabove the average.

W. Glen Nichols

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Al Stump is so right about the fact thatfew realize the rise of the small collegesin basketball. Even a writer like Stumpdoesn't seem to know the records of HolyCross, which gave the NBA Cousy. Evenwithout a gym they have done very well.Look at the records next time you publish such an interesting article as AlStump had in the last issue.

Jim Brennan

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Mr. Brennan is right that Holy Crossdeserves recognition. Mr. Stump did notinclude their team for the reason that,while the college is not large from an enrollment standpoint, it is nationallyknown for its athletic teams. In the article, Mr. Stump was considering the littleknown colleges that have such strongbasketball squads.

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Enjoy your magazine so much, especially the January issue, in which youhave the pictures by W. R. Leigh. TheWest is our stamping ground, and welove his action pictures.

Mrs. George T. LodgeUtica, N. Y.

Our Travel Dept.We were interested, and of course

pleased, in a recent issue of the Bulletin from Yonkers. N. Y., Lodge,No. 707, in which there was an item

•about our Elks Travel Department,as follows:

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history of medicine.

BY STANLEY FRANK

The greatest mass experimentin medical history is building to a

tremendous emotional as well as scientific climax in an old maternity hospital onthe . University of Michigan campus.There experts are evaluating the effectiveness of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's vaccinefor infantile paralysis in last year's fieldtrials in which 1,830,000 school childrenparticipated. The prayerful hopes of parents and doctors are focused on the approaching appraisal, due next month, ofthe crusade against the most terriblescourge of children but, regardless of thestatistical findings, the vast project wasa memorable milestone in the field ofhuman relations.

Never before were so many volunteersneeded in peacetime to combat a commonenemy and never before were time andtalents contributed so generously. Authorities constantly tell us that community action is the most decisive elementin correcting conditions dangerous to thegeneral welfare. Repeated reminders thatit is our obligation as citizens to helpsolve a welter of problems ranging fromjuvenile delinquency to traffic congestionto overcrowded schools tend to make toomany of us callous to such appeals, butthe call for help in the fight against poliowas answered by the finest surge of public spirit since the war.

"The truly remarkable aspect of thepolio field trials was the extent of theaverage citizen's participation," Dr. Salkcomments. "It showed what can be donewith social as well as biological forces."

Some 20,000 physicians and 40,000

One of 650,000 children infected with vaccineor placebo in the polio test—Karen Blecho, 7,West Hempstead, N.Y., receives trial vaccine.

Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., left, director of the Polio Vaccine EvaluationCenter discusses correspondence on evaluation with Dr. Robert F. Korns.

registered nurses donated their professional services in giving injections andcompiling painstaking reports for Dr.Thomas Francis. Jr., who is conductingthe evaluation study. The field trialsnever could have been launched without

the cooperation of 14,000 school principals and 50,000 teachers. Trainedphysical therapists contributed approximately a quarter of a million free hoursexamining and rehabilitating the musclesof children who have been stricken bythe disease.

Photos from Natiottal Foundation for Infantile

iBrLiSr'il

The assistance of 200,000 ordinarypeople was indispensable in the massiveundertaking. Local chapters of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysisneeded help to handle an avalanche ofpaper work and to secure the necessarypermissions of parents for their chil-drens' participation in the field trials.That was the first, and most difficult,step in the entire operation and it wasaccomplished successfully cmiy becauselocal chapters were augmented by vol-

(Continued on page 46)Paralysis

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine used in mass experimentsin the United States, at work in the Virus Research Loboratory, Pittsburgh.

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BY DICKSON HARTWELL

Through direct assistance and training, the Ellis National

Foundation is building for the future of our young people.

SOME FIFTY YEARS AGO ayoungfellow in Springfield, Massachusetts,

faced a situation common to practicallyall young men in America. He was longon ambition but short on cash. This fellow, .John Malley, wanted to go to Yaleand learn law. and one day practice before the bar of the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts.

But Yale was then mostly for richmen's boys. John was rich in energyonly, which was unacceptable tender atthe Bursar's office. So he began translating some of his energy into cash via thework-your-way route. What he couldn'twork out he borrowed.

After he had labored and small-touchedhis way through about two years andeleven months toward his three-year lawcourse, somebody told John about scholarships. He was told he could have ap

plied for and because of his great recordprobably won several hundred dollars'worth of scholarships every year he wasin school.

John looked into the matter and what

he discovered made him mad. He found

out that there were scholarships, goodones, but those who got them were usually the sons of ministers, college professors. writers, or intellectuals. Thereseemed to be a conspiracy to keep thefact of scholarships a secret from everyone except these elite. No grocer's son,no blacksmith's son, no farmer's son. nofactory worker's son seemed ever to getto know about them.

And because John got mad, a lot ofthings in this world are different fromwhat they might have been.

For instance, because John got madthere's a girl who is going into the pub

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lic relations business soon. A few yearsago the consensus was that Lee wasn'tgoing anywhere—ever. There is a boyfinishing Harvard Medical School nearthe head of his class next June—a fewyears ago he was voted most valuablestudent. He once waited on table inBoston's Hotel Statler.

Because of John, a bright Georgia boynamed Earl Gober and alert Jean Anderson from Illinois—both of whom arelong on ambition and short on cash—arenow in college with a big slice of rheirtuition paid for. And so. too. have bet-nliterally hundreds of youngsters over thepast twenty years. In fact. John's indignation has so far done almost exactly§1,000,000 worth of good.

Moreover, nearly $5,000,000 is workingevery day in the United States economy

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Elk SpiceforU HospitalLife

Above; Books are being provided for our menin the Armed Forces by Elks ail over thecountry. This absorbed young soldier, seatedatop some 5,000 novels and magazines donated by Tacoma, Wash., Lodge to the 2ndInfantry Division, is Corp. Kenneth R. Eynonof the Special Services Section. The literarytandslide began shortly after the Elks heardthat soldiers at fort Lewis were in need ofreading matter. Under the leadership of Chairman John B. Cromwell, Jr., a P.E.R., Tacoma's5,200 Elks quickly filled an Army truck with afine collection of interesting literature.

Above: For the past eight years, as a regular cold-weather activityand in cooperation with your National Service Commission, the KansasEiks Assn. and Wichita Lodge put on monthly boxing and wrestlingmatches at the Veterans Hospital in Wichita. The evening's programbegins with each veteran's receiving a number as he enters the auditorium to watch three boxing and three wrestling bouts. Later there'sa drawing for ten silver dollars, following which refreshments areserved by the wives of the local Elks who join their husbands in makingthis project a success. This winter sports program, always participatedin by proressional talent, has the vote of the patients as the best showprovided for them. Pictured here are some of the men who helped puton the first show. Standing, left to right, are Johnny Nines, PaulWeinrich, Wichita Lodge's and the State Assn.'s Service CommitteeChairman Wallace Hutchinson, Gil Bartiett of the hospital staff andDel Luther. In the wheelchair is Frank Comer, and the young man is 1 1-year-old Johnny Massey who helps his father and the other Elks bydistributing cigarettes and ashtrays to the veterans in the audience.

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Above: Bingo is another popular indoor activity with the veterans. Here, Wallace T. Walkerand his capable committee from Grand Junction, Colo., Lodge entertain patients at an Elkbingo party at the local VA Hospital.

Left: During November, many lodges observedElks National Service Commission Night. Thisphotograph was taken at Palo Alto, Calif.,Lodge's affoir when Elks Service CommitteeChairman Don Lock, left, presented a 21" TVset to the VA Hospital in that city, accepted byits Manager, Dr. John Prusmack, right. E.R.John D. Morris presided at this meeting whenhe presented other gifts to the hospital, including the full repair of the set the hospitalhas been using, and three cases of cigarettesas part of his lodge's year-round program forservicemen hospitalized there.

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jA MessH(/c ft'om the Grand Exalted Jtuler

TI-JE month of march has alwaysbeen considered a most important one

for Elkdom. It is during this month thatthe final record will be written which willdetermine whether or not your lodge yearwas wholly successfuL Success, of course,may be determined in diflerent ways, butthis year it should be judged in the lightof how well your lodge achieved those objectives of our Gold Star Certificate Program designed for execution during thesubordinate lodge year.

Reports from the District Deputies indicate that most lodges have thus farachieved practically every attainable objective. Whether or not your lodge is inthis group, there is still time to put forththat final effort and work necessary tomake your record one of which all Elkdom might be justifiably proud. Forexample, you may still contribute an extra hour of your time to your locige program, make your contribution throughyour lodge to the Elks National Foundation, get tliat neighbor or friend enrolledas a member for the March class, dosometiiing that might be helpful to the

veterans' program, do something constructive toward benefiting the youth inyour conimiinity. or in some other wayparticijiate in your lodge program whichis directed toward the betterment of yourcommunity. All of these suggestions areobjectives in our program which, whenfulfilled, will reilound to the advancement

of your lodge and the community whichyou serve.

Now there is a matter wiiich occurs in

March that is of particularly vital importance. namely, tiie nomination andelection of io^ ge officers for the ensuingyear. Expericjice prompts me to say,•'Show mc a lo^ge with good leadership—good officers—and I will show you asuccessful lotige." Elkdom gives to eachmember the opportunity and privilege tonominate anu eject tiie officers of his

locige. i urge you to exercise, this democratic riglit bv attejiding your Marchlodgj meetings and assuring that yourelected officers are the most desirable for

the best interests of your lodge and yourcommunity.

Let us remember that we, the Elks,

Gold Star Ceriificaie Program Objective ISo. 12. Initialionduring March of a Class of at least 5 candidates honoring a distinguished member.

now 1.148.000 strong and growing daily,are in a position of great influence in (nircommunities. Therefore, we. the Elks,must be sure that this influence, throughour elected leaders and through a growing and active membership, is a good influence. a respected one. Let us be sure,therefore, that we continue to enjoy thekind of leadership that will inspire andencourage us to sow seeds of good deeds,the kind of leadership which will nurturethese seeds so that they will grow andmultiply so that it may be said, "Elkdomhas sown good seeds and reaped a harvest which will redound to the honor andglory of the communities served, to thehonor and glory of our Order."

Again, many thanks for your consideration and cooperation. You have, throughyour wholehearted assistance, your progress, your achievements made my administration a heartwarming assignment. Iam truly and deeply grateful and am confident that America will reajj its bestharvest from the best seeds ever sown byElkdom.

WILLIAM J. JERMCKGRAND EXALTED RULER

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BY FRANK C. TRUE

ILLUSTRATED BY KEN DAVIES

OLD, YET ALWAYS NEW'—the pre-dawn of anotherbaseball season. Winter winds have swirled away dust-

laden emotions of 1954. In their stead have been piledhigh drifts of fervent hopes that only a July sun can melt.

Any day. now, wildfire tidings of amazing rookies, thecreaking bones of high-salaried veterans and optimisticmanagerial pro})hesies, engendered by a warm, sun of theSouth and Far West, again will be with us.

The world may have its turbulent problems, but amongimportant questions of the moment are: What lies ahead inbaseball in general? Can the Giants repeat? Did theYankees, as some insist, clinch the 1955 American Leaguepennant by their 16-player deal with the Orioles? Or willCleveland's acquisition of Ralph Kiner from the Cubs givean edge to the Indians?

The overall scene in baseball is, frankly, of far deeperconcern right now in some quarters than the ensuing pennant races. Club owners, major and minor, are agreed thegame has arrived at the foothills of towering problems—problems which franchise relocations alone won't solve.

Let's take a look at a puzzling two-sided picture. Thefront view reveals plans of the two major leagues eventuallyto expand into 10-club circuits, although both leagues havevoted down the move for this year. One loop will reachinto the Pacific Coast League for Los Angeles and SanFrancisco. The other probably will add either Toronto,Montreal, Buffalo or the twin cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul.

Reversing the picture, we find the startling—startling tosome, anyway—fact that there aren't more than sevenhonest-to-goodness big league teams at full strength now.With the source of supply, the minors, drying up more andmore each year, where twenty major league rosters eventually are expected to come from is a good question. Theanswer, as any seasoned baseball scout knows, is that it's aphysical impossibility. Players can be paid more money;they can play in stadia called major league parks, but ittakes much more than that to produce big league ability.

The International League, the American Association andthe Pacific Coast League have been the principal stepping-

stones of players into big time. The International Leaguehas lost Baltimore and may lose both Toronto and Montrealbefore the readjustment is completed. The American Association no longer has Milwaukee and Kansas City, formerlytwo of its financial bulwarks, and may yet wind up minusMinneapolis and St. Paul. The Pacific Coast League, whichhas been rolling in its sleep with dreams of major leaguestatus, is certain to lose Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Thus is created the "rosy" picturc of contentment andcivic j)ride in twenty "big league" cities—until someoneasks the embarrassing question of where 500 major leagueplayers (twenty-five to each roster) are coming from. Thebackground of big league rookies is all that is needed toprove that circuits of AA classification and lower cannot beexpected to "feed" the majors with adequate ])laying material. As an official of one New York club remarked

anonymously the other day: "Big league baseball is beginning to take on the appearance of a dinosaur—small head,long ncck and ele])hanline body. You know what happenedto the dinosaur. Unless we can develop a larger head anda neck we don't have to stick out quite so far, we're liableto find ourselves in a precarious situation."

In 1949 the majors owned 112 minor league clubs outright. Today the total is forty—and decrcaang each year.Some of the most conservative major club owners viewexi}ansion plans as simply a question of how long the })ub-lic can be expected to support a sub-standard quality ofplay in twenty cities.

In Baltimore and Milwaukee the attraction unquestionably will pay good dividends again this year. In KansasCity. General Manager Park Carrol of the transplantedAthletics has offered to wager his team will draw 2,000,000fans this season. He could be right. But what is weiehin<»

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heavily upon (he minds of some major league magnates isthe question of that's going to happen when the pulse rateslows down at the sight of chronic second-division teams.

The minors, in one loud, unanimous voice, have shoutedthat a remedy exists for these ills. At their annual convention in Houston, Tex., last fall they pointed to thousandsupon thousands of empty seats (Continued on page 50)

^VisitsTHE GRAND EXALTED RULER S

Grand exalted ruler William J. Jernick arrived at CLAYTON,

MISSOURI, LODGE NO. 1881 on December

3, 1954. The occasion was the dedicationof Clayton's new lodge home. Among thehonored guests at the function were PastGrand Exalted Ruler and Mrs. Bruce A.Campbell, Nick H. Feder. Vice-Chairmanand Home Member of the Board ofGrand Trustees, and District DeputyEdward F. Huncker. Exalted RulerGeorge E. Murray, Jr., presided.

On December 4th, Mr. Jernick. accom-panied by Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Mr.and Mrs. Feder, visited WASHINGTON,MISSOURI, LODGE NO. 1559. He participated in a broadcast over Washington RadioStation KWRE with State Association

President Anthony J. Beckmann andExalted Ruler Wilbert A. Hackmann.That evening a banquet was given byWashington Lodge in the Grand ExaltedRuler's honor.

Next day, Mr. Jernick and his partyvisited JOPLIN, MO., LODGE NO. 501, wherea luncheon was held in his honor. Amongthe local, slate and national officials inattendance were Past Grand Exalted Ruler Campbell, Grand Lodge Auditing Committee member George D. Klingman,District Deputy Chris .Schwensen. StateAssociation Vice President Guy Moore,Past Grand Esquire H. H. Russell, StateAssociation Past President Ben Hanis,and Past District Deputy Charles Bot-torfT. That evening Mr. Jernick was principal speaker at the Lodge's well-attended Memorial Service.

On December 9th, the Grand ExaltedRuler was honored at a banquet given byIRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY, LODGE NO. 1245.More than 200 members attended thefunction; among the prominent guestswere Joseph F. Bader, member of theGrand Lodge Committee on Lodge Activi

ties; Grand Lodge State AssociationsCommitteeman Louis A. Spine, DistrictDeputies Thomas F. Brennan, Jr., andJames J. Foley, State Association President Edward Griffith. Past District Deputies Charles L. Ori, Theodore Grimm,William V. Evans and Vernet Hicks.Exalted Ruler George W. Kaufmann presided. Following the dinner, the lodgeofficers initiated a William J. JernickClass of 50 candidates.

On Saturday, December 11th, theGrand Exalted Ruler visited Boys Townin Arlington, New Jersey. On behalf ofLYNDHURST LODGE NO. 1505 and KEARNY

LODGE NO. 1050, he presented 50 beds tothe institution. In the past, Kearny andLyndhurst Elks have provided the homewith a barber shop, a locker room andconsiderable athletic equipment. A feature of the program was a luncheon atwhich the Elks played hosts to the 99boys of Boys Town.

Mr. and Mrs. Jernick visited PENNSGROVE, NEW JERSEY, LODGE NO. 1358 that

evening. The Grand Exalted Ruler received an official welcome from MayorHollis F. Ashcraft. a member of the Or

der, and was greeted on behalf of thelodge by Exalted Ruler Howard JohnO'Connor. Among the prominent Elksand civic dignitaries who attended thebanquet which followed were DistrictDeputy Dr. Frank Williams, State Association President Edward Griffith, GrandLodge Committeeman Bader, State Association Vice-President Joseph J. Noone,State Senator John M. Summerill, Jr.,Assemblyman John Waddington, andProsecutor Alvin R. Featherer. Also in

attendance were delegations from Mill-ville, Burlington and Mt. Holly Lodges.The banquet was followed by a meetingat which a William J. Jernick class of 23candidates was initiated.

At luncheon during his visit to Springfield, Ml., Lodge, Mr. Jernick, far right, is picturedwith, left to right; Exalted Ruler Walter J. Lanctot, State AssocicMon President R. G. Bor-mon, Past Grand Exalted Rulers Henry C. Warner and Bruce A. Campbell, Mrs. Campbell,and Dr. Nick H. Feder, Vice-Chairman and Home Member of the Board of Grand Trustees.

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Seen here during the Grand Exalted Ruler'svisit to Fergus Falls, Minn., Lodge are leftto right: District Deputy Russell Washburn,Past Grand Exalted Ruler Sam Stern, Mr. Jernick, and Exalted Ruler Virgil I. Hanson.

On behalf of Kearny and Lyndhurst Lodges,Mr. Jernick presents fifty beds to Father Eagan,Director of Boys Town, Arlington, N.J. Looking on is Mr. Joseph F. Bader, a member ofthe Grand Lodge Committee on Lodge Activities.

On Wednesday, December 15, theGrand Exalted Piuler left his home in

Nutley, N. J., for a three-day trip duringwhich he visited Eastern Pennsylvanialodges in company with Past GrandExalted Ruler Howard R. Davis. StateAssociation President Ruel H. Smith and

Past President Barney Wentz.Wednesday evening he was the guest

of honor in EAST STROUDSBURG, PA., LODGENO. 319, at a dinner attended by 150,with Past Exalted Ruler Frank S. LaBar

as master of ceremonies. A welcome was

extended by Exalted Ruler George H.Costenbader, and introductions weremade by Past Grand Exalted RulerDavis.

Thursday noon, December 16th, theofficial party traveled to Lansford, Pa.,where its members were the guests ofLANSFORD LODGE NO. 1337, with Exalted

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Seen during the Grand Exalted Ruler's visit to Asbury Park, N. J.,Lodge, left to right: P.D.D. Frank L. Ten Broeck, Sr., E.R. RusseMCasserly, Mr. Jernick, and Jack Glassford, Lodge Secretary.

At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Lodge, left to right: Past Grand Exalted RulerWarner, Mr. Jernick, Grand Trustee Arthur M. Umlandt and George W.Smith, Pres., Cedar Rapids Lodge Board of Trustees.

While in Jopltn, Grand Exalted Ruler Jernick, left, visited the ElksPolio Ward sponsored by Joplin, Mo., Lodge at Saint John's Hospital.With him here ore, left to right: George Klingman, a member of theGrand Lodge Auditing Committee, Sister Mary Consolata, Superintend-ant of Saint John's Hospital and two of the Polio Ward patients.

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At Fulton, N. Y., Lodge, left to right, seated: D.D. Joseph A. Fistick,Mr. Jernick, State Assn. Vice-Pres. Lawrence B. Cave. Standing: P.D.D.Clinton H. Hulett, Exalted Ruler Merton Tramblay, State ScholarshipComm. Chairman Franklin J. Fitzpatrick and Past District DeputiesJohn A. BueM and Roland B. Quade.

Honor Guests P.E.R. Alexis V. Muller, a fifty-year member, and Mr.Jernick, first and second from left, are seen with, left to right: Mrs.Muller, Est. Lead. Knight. Ray Barnum, and C. A. McNabor, P.E.R.,at the luncheon given by Lockport, N. Y. Lodge.

P.E.R. Clarence H. Sherwood presents a gift to Grand Exalted RulerJernick during his visit to Lyndhurst, N. J., Lodge. Looking on arePast Exalted Ruler Charles J. Goll and Joseph F. Bader of the GrandLodge Committee on Lodge Activities.

Ruler John E. Mitchell extending a welcome on behalf of the Lodge. Past SlateAssociation President Wilbur G. Warnerof Lehighton was in charge of the speaking program. Past District Deputy Daniel J. Reese, of Lansford, presided. Earlyin the afternoon the official party visitedRadio Station Wl.SH, outside Lansford,where a 15-minute round table discus

sion regarding the Elks program in Pennsylvania conducted by Brothers Warner,Davis, Smith, and Wentz, was followedby a 15-minute radio address by theGrand Exalted Ruler.

Thursday evening the Grand ExaltedRuler and his party were the guests ofLEHIGHTON LODGE NO. 1284, Willard H.

Green. Exalted Ruler. Two hundred Elks

attended a dinner in tlie club house thatevening, with Past State President Warner again acting as toastmaster, andMayor James Beisel extending a welcome on behalf of the city. He appointedthe Grand Exalted Ruler Honorary Mayor of the city. Past State AssociationPresident Dr. Charles V. Hogan also

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Nashville, Tenn., Lodge No. 71Decatur, Ala., Lodqe No. 655Homewood, Ala., Lodge No. 1736Atlanta, Go,, Lodge No. 78Newnan, Go., Lodge No, 1220Buckhead, Go., Lodge No. 1635Covington, Go,, Lodge No. 1806Cascade, Ga., Lodge No. 1640Marietta, Ga., Lodge No. 1657Gainesville, Ga., Lodge No. 1126Greenville, S.C., Lodge No. 858Gaffney, S.C., Lodge No. 1305Charlotte, N.C., Lodge No. 392Columbia, 5.C., Lodge No. 1190Jacksonville, Flo., lodge No. 221Gainesville, Flo., Lodge No. 990Lakeland, Fla., Lodge No. 1291Homestead, Fla., Lodge No, 1754Florida Keys, Fla., Lodge No. 1872South Miami, Flo., Lodge No. 1688North Miami, Flo., Lodge No. 1835Fort Laudardole, Fla., Lodge No. 1517West Palm Beach, Fla., Lodge No. 1352

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Friday noon. December 17th, BrollierJernick and his party were Iimchoon

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guests of 100 inemher.s of POTTSVILLE, PA.,LODGE NO. 207, with Exalted Kiilcr Er

nest C. Singer in cliaige of the program,foiJowing. whicli the [larty traveled toLebanon. Pa. in the afternnon. the members visited the Lel)anon Veterans' Hospital. where cigarettes and candy weredistril)uted and radio recordings weremade for use in the hos|)ital and localradio stations.

Left: Photographed at Pottsville, Pa., Lodgewere, left to right: Bruno Generella, PastGrand Exalted Ruler Howard R. Davis, BarneyWentz, State Assoc. Past President, E.R.Ernest G. Singer, Chaplain Blandford Jones,Mr. Jernick, William Moser, Robert Scheipe,Francis Toohey, John Campbell, Dr. CharlesV. Hogan, State Association Past President.

Below: Upon his arrival at Beckley, W. Va.,Mr. Jernick was greeted by officers andmembers of Beckley Lodge. He is seen here,eighth from right, with the group including E.R. G. R. Bartley to his- right, andSlcte Assn. Pres. Laurence Pruett on his left.

Friday evening tlie Grand Exalted Ruler's party were guests of 2.50 membersof LEBANON LODGE NO. 631, with Exalted

Ruler William D. Bailey |)residing. andPast District Deputy Homer A. Schreiberacting as master of ceremonies. Fridaynight tiie Grand Exalted Ruler and hisparly sj)ent in the famous Hotel Hershey,at Hersliey, Pa. Mr. .Jernick left Harris-burg on Saturday morning for home.

During his visit to Washington, Mo., Lodge, Grand Exalted RulerJernick made a broadcast at Stotion KWRE. With htm are E.R. Wil-bert A. Hackmann, left, and State Assn. Pres. Anthony J, Beckmann.

Seen here during the Grand Exalted Ruler's visit to Wheeling, WVa., Lodge are, left to right: E.R. Raymond C. Cody, Mr. JernickPast Grand Exalted Ruler Wode H. Kepner, Wellsburg E.R. Jennings

At Penn's Grove, N.J., Lodge, left to right; Rocco Grant, Treos-urer. State Assn. Vice-Pres, Joseph J. Noone, Mr. Jernick, StateAssn. President Edward Griffith, and E.R. Howard John O'Connor.

At Lincoln, Nebr., Lodge, left to right: Grand Lodge Judiciary Committee Chairman H. L. Blackledge, Past Grand Exalted Ruler Warner,Mr. Jernick, State Assoc. Pres. Roy Greenwalt, D.D. Andrew Mapes.

One day, even when the shooting

was good, Ted had nothing.

CLARE CONLEYand I went

hunting with hisfriend Fred Einspharone day last fall. I

^ . y had never hunted/V with Fred before. We

started up a creek,and when a covey ofHuns flushed Clare

and I each got one and missed one. Fredand I followed the covey and when it gotup again he killed one. I wing tipped another and tried to finish it with the sec

ond barrel, but by that time it was outof range.

A little farther up the stream, Clare'sspringer began bouncing out mountain

quail. My share of the shooting amountedto two hits and one miss. By the time wewere finished with the quail, we werenear the spot where my wing-tipped Hunwent down. Clare sent the dog over andhe caught it.

This made my score four hits and threemisses. I don't remember my tally for theremainder of the day, but it went alongabout the same—a few more hits than

misses. Now, there have been times wlienI shot better, but there have been manytimes when I shot a lot worse, too. I feltpretty good.

Clare later told me, however, that onthe way back to the car. when he waswalking with Fred and I was some distance away, Fred said to him, "I'm sur-

The puny catch Mr. Trueblood is so reluctantly shov/Ing is a shiner minnow.

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prised Trueblood did so poor. The wayhe writes about it, I didn't think he'dever miss a shot."

I'm glad Fred saw me on a good day!If he'd been with me on some of myreally bad ones he'd have thought I'neverhit a shot—or caught a fish either, forthat matter.

Naturally, in writing on fishing andhunting a fellow tells about the times hewas successful. It would be a little sillyto give explicit details of not catching atrout, not finding any quail, not seeing adeer or not hitting any ducks. Personally,I'm inclined to think that most of myreaders already know how to do that.(And if they don't they should be ableto work it out for themselves without anyhelp from me!) Better I should passalong a few tips on how to put meat inthe freezer.

On the other hand, I've been writingthis column for quite a spell, now. andI'd certainly hate to think that any readers of The Elks Magazine had the wrongimpression. Fellows, there have beendays when I couldn't make tobaccomoney if trout sold for $100 an ounce.There have been times when my shellsdidn't have any shot in 'em. There haveeven been occasions when you could hog-tie a buck and let me put the muzzle ofmy rifle in his ear and I'd miss him sixfeet.

Take an experience last winter, for example. I went duck hunting on Tues

day. and I just couldn't hold wrong. Ikilled ducks stone dead that I knew I wasgoing to miss when I pulled the trigger. Iput six mallards and two pintails in thebag and I only used nine shells! (In thePacific Flyw.ay last season we couldshoot three pintails or baldpates in addition to six of the other species.)

If that sounds like bragging, it's exactly what I had 'in mind. I don't getmany chances. Besides. I want to laythe foundation for what happened twodays later, on Thursday.

I went duck hunting again. Conditionswere equally good. I was shooting thesame gun and the same ammunition. Ihad slept like a top and eaten a goodbreakfast; I felt good. There is no earthly reason why I shouldn't have shot well—maybe not so well as I had on Tuesday because that was way over my head,but up to my usual average, at least.

Instead, everything I did was wrong.Ducks that I thought I was going to killdead flew on untouched. Ducks that werehanging in the air over the decoys—birds

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TO OUR ABSE

P.E.R. John L. Sutlive is pictured as he spoke during Sovannah, Ga., Lodge's program.

ELKDOM'S 1954 tribute to its AbsentBrothers was oljf-ervecl in accordance

with all llie Order's timedionored tra

ditions.

As in llie past six years, tlie LodgeActivities Conunittce of the Grand Lodgeinvited the lodges to submit reports ontheir Services so that the most representative might l)e selected. The men in chargeof this duty found it a difficult one—somany hundreds of fine ceremonies werereported. As a result, they were obligedto set up a group of six standards, pertinent to the quality of these events, onwhich to base their decisions.

Three ceremonies were singled outfor award in each of three groups—I,for lodges of over 1.000 members; II, forthose of between 500 and 1.000 mem

bers; III, for lodges, of less than 500members.

In Group I, the judges found that LasVegas, Nev., Lodge had earned thegreatest number of points, with 28 outof a possible 30. Local churches offeredtheir support, urging their parishionersto attend the Services, held in the tastefully decorated local high school auditorium. Chairman Austin Bowler and hiscommittee deserve great credit for thehandling of this well-paced program inwhich Monsignor Thomas Collins of St..loan of Arc's Catholic Church participated. and E.R. Harley Harmon deliveredthe Eleven O'Clock Toast. These Elkscalled upon the Moapa Valley Choir tolend its 100 voices to the occasion atwhich P.E.R. W. 0. Wright delivered the

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eulogy and the Kiwanis Quartet sharedthe musical spotlight.

Nashville, Tenn., Lodge captured thesecond award in this group with 26points. D.D. Earl F. Broden offered theToast and Grand Treasurer Robert G.Pruitt delivered a moving and well-phrased address before an attentiveaudience. The musical background wasfurnished by a five-piece instrumentalensemble and two soloists. As usual,this program was held at the lodge homewith E.R. Julius E. Curley and his officers exemplifying the Ritual.

Unusual Scenic Soiling

Corvallis, Ore., Elkdom's 24-pointceremony won it third-place honors inthis category. A large audience was wellrewarded for its interest in this affair,the unusual and three-dimensional setting for which was an illuminated snowcapped mountain peak rising against abackground of blue sky flecked withsparkling stars, and flanked by freshmountain greenery. The illusional qualityof the scene was emphasized by theritualistic lighting of tall tapers. A. J.Kauffman. Jr., delivered a tribute to hisDeceased Brothers, and the lodge officersrendered the traditional Service in three

parts, with vocal interludes by the OregonState College Choralaires.

Listed in alphabetical order are the25 lodges awarded Honorable Mentionin this group: Astoria. Ore., Augusta,Ga.. Bismarck. N. D., Buffalo, N. Y., Butte,Mont., Chicago (No.), 111., Dubuque, la.,

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P.E.R. W. O. Wright delivers the eulogy

El Paso, Tex., Fargo, N. D., Fresno-Madera. Calif., Huntington. "W. Va..Idaho Falls. Ida., Inglewood. Calif-Jackson, Mich., Longview, Wash., Miami.Fla., Muskegon, Mich., Newark, N. J..Norwich. Conn., Palo Alto. Calif.,Phoenix, Ariz., Pueblo, Colo., San Diego.Calif., Sunbury, Pa., and Terre Haute,Ind.

The Ritual's solemnity was enhancedby the religious atmosphere created byEst. Lead. Knight A. A. Thomas and hiscommittee, in the Services of Savannah,Ga., Lodge whose score of 28 put it ontop in Group 11. Led by a crucifer, acolytes and color-bearers, the full-vestedchoir of St. John's Episcopal Church entered the crowded lodge room followedby the program participants. P.E.R. JohnL. Sutlive, shared the dais with one of thelodge's oldest members, Shelby Myrick.Sr., in eulogizing the Departed Elks atthis ceremony at which the ladies of the"Aidmore" Auxiliary received.

Rev. Monsignor Francis J. Lally,Editor of The Pilot, was the guest speaker at the second-place Group II programconducted by Winthrop, Mass., Lodge.Over 400 Elks and their guests gatheredin the beautifully decorated Elk auditorium with P.D.D. Andrew A. Biggio,Pres. of the Mass. Elks Assn.. and the

lodge's oldest active P.E.R., George T.Clark. The talented Bay State ChoralSociety furnished the vocal program forthis 24-point program.

In this category, a score of 19 wonCarlsbad, N. M., Lodge third-place hon-

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during Las Vegas, Nev., Lodge's fine Service.

ors. After two months' preparation, plansfor this program were culminated Dec.5th when Mayor Adalr Gossett greetedpersonally over 365 members of his lodgeand their guests. The ceremony, carriedto the public by press and radio, washighlighted by the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.Chorus and augmented by a special riteconducted by the Elks' ladies.

Honorable Mention in this class wasawarded to Bath, N. Y., Beaver Falls, Pa.,Charleston, S. C.. Dallas, Tex., Danville,Va., East Chicago. Ind., Gallup, N. M.,Galveston. Tex., Hot Si)rings. Ark.. .lop-lin. Mo., Lehighton, Pa., Louisville. Ky.,Marion, 111., Pottsville, Pa., Quincy,Mass.. Rockville. Conn.. Russell. Kans.,St. Cloud, Minn., San Benito, Tex.,Springfield, Vt., Tamaqua, Pa.. UnionCity, N. J., West Haven, Conn., Williston,N. D.. and Zanesville. Ohio.

Planning Important

Careful and early planning won 20points and first place in Group HI forWatertown, Mass., Lodge. P.E.R. D. S.Cohen, as Committee Chairman, startedhis project well in advance, securing Rev.Dr. Edson G. Waterhouse as speaker,and the local High School Glee Club togive vocal accompaniment to theseceremonies. Special invitations, mailedto members. Elks' ladies and civic leaders. were augmented by newspaper publicity announcing the program. As a result, this Service was the smoothest andbest-attended in the lodge history.

Three faiths were represented in the

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P.E.R. Louis Caporricio assists in the Watertown, Mass., Elks' Ritual.

second-place ceremony in this classification. conducted by a team of Past Exalted Rulers of Bath, Me., Lodge. This15-point event, the lodge's Golden Anniversary Memorial Service, was attendedby well over 400 persons who heard aProtestant Minister, a Rabbi and aRoman Catholic Priest.

Rounding out this final category is the13-point ceremony conducted at theFirst Methodist Church by E.R. T. W.Gardner and his officers of Martinsville,

Va.. Elkdom. P.D.D. J. C. Aaron spokeat this impressive Service during whichClaude E. Taylor. Jr.. Attorney for theCommonwealth, delivered the eulogy andthe Church Choir sang.

Lodges given Honorable Mention are:Ajo, Ariz., Asheboro, N. C.. Athens,Ohio, Boulder City, Nev., Columbia,Tenn., De Soto. Mo.. Gardner, Mass.,Jackson. Wyo.. Kearny. N. J., Logan,W. Va.. Madison, Ind., Montgomery, Ala.,Rocky Mount, N. C., and Shreveport, La.

Because of the vt/ide interest in activities at our National Home, we are publishing this pictureof the lovely altar before which the Memorial Services were conducted by E.R. Daniel F.Edgington and Home lodge officers. Rev. J. W. Rowe, Jr., Pastor of the Bedford Presbyterian Church, spoke, and the Bedford Christian Church Choir supplied the musical program.

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Stockton, Calif., Elk BuildersSee Scouf Buf/ding Dedicated

Dedication ceremonies for a buildingconstructed by over 150 volunteer laborers for use as a meeting place for theBoy Scout Troop sponsored by StocktonLodge No. 218 were conducted pecently.Henry Wolters, Jr., Chairman of thelodge's committee for this project reported the actual cost of the buildingwas §2,381.56, and estimated that theedifice and improvements on its groundswould have cost approximately S8,421had competitive bids been ordered.

Local Elks donated the bulk of the

money used in the construction, withthe assistance of profits made by theScouts through the sale of doughnuts,old batteries and newspapers. Theirheadquarters contains an a.ssembly room,staff and supply rooms, a kitchen and

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bathroom. Dan Nomellini, a local contractor, supervised the construction work,with building supply and equipmentdealers cooperating by either donatingma,terial or selling it at cost or below.John Kessel deeded the site to the Scout

District Council which gave use of theground to the Elks' Troop.

Grand Trustee Horace R. Wisely wasthe principal speaker on the dedicationprogram which had local lodge officersa/id State Elk dignitaries participatingbefore many interested spectators.

Fond du Lac, Wis., BIksReturn a Favor

About 50 years ago, the officials of theRueping Leather Co. in Fond du Lacpresented a grand piano to the local ElksLodge No. 57. They also did a 840,000decorating job on its home. No formal

acknowledgment of this kind gesture hadever been made by the recipients, and sowhen the Rueping Company celebratedits 100th Anniversary recently, the Elksseized the occasion as the long-due opportunity to show their appreciation.

An Anniversary Dinner was held atthe lodge home, with 220 persons onhand to honor officials of the company,including its President, Clayton F. VanPelt. Mr. Van Pelt, a P.E.R. of the hostlodge, has served the Order as GrandEsquire, as Chief Justice of the GrandForum and as Chairman of the GrandLodge Judiciary Committee. As theprincipal speaker, Mr. Van Pelt statedthe Elks' observance of the centennialwas the "kind of inspiration the employes of the tannery need to carrytheir work forward." He was pleasedand surprised with an unusual featureof the program—a take-off on the well-known TV program. "This Is Your Life."in which highlights in the executive'scareer were depicted, leading to his roleas company head and delineating his activities on behalf of his community.

P.E.R. William Weddig was GeneralChairman of the program during whichAllan L. Edgarton outlined the RuepingCompany's history and the part it playedin the lodge's development and progress.

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In conjunction with the official visit of D.O. R. C. Wood to Danville, Va., Lodge, this large classof candidates was initiated in the presence of Thomas J. Brady, Supt. of the Elks Nation.al Home.

E.R. Charles E. Orrison of Washington, D. C.,Lodge, right, accepts a $9,000 check, the profits of a Charity Ball attended by 1,200 Elksand their ladies, from Committee Vice-Chair-man Myron Lewis, left. Edward Henkel, Chairman of the Charity Ball Committee, looks on.

A pleased and surprised Leo C. Gavagan, 25-year Secretary of Phoenix, Arix., Lodge, was honored on his Silver Jubilee with the initio-tion of this fine class of 32 candidates. Past Grand Exalted Ruler Bruce

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CongratutatioHs

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A. Campbell, eighth from left foreground, joined in the tribute withD.D. E. W. Fredell and many of the man who had served Phoenix Elk-dom as Exalted Ruler during Mr. Gavagan's 25-year tenure of office.

A portrait of Nicholas Ware, for whom Ware County, Ga., was named,Is hung in the local courthouse by the Elks of Waycross Lodge. Participating In the formal presentation ceremony were, left to right: JudgeWalter Thomas; City Commissioner McGregor Mayo, Elk Chairmanof the project; Clerk of Court Erin Johnson; E.R, J. S. Tuten, andFrank B. McDonald, Jr., Pres. of the Waycross Bar Assn.

Fond du Lac, Wis., Lodge celebrated the 100th Anniversary of theRueping Leather Co. of that city with a dinner for its officials, includingits Pres., Clayton F. Van Pelt, P.E.R. and former Grand Lodge officer.Left to right; C. D. Wilson, Asst. Dir. of Tanning at Rueping; P.E.R. W. R.Weddig, Banquet Chairman; Rueping Co. Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr.Walter Schroeder; Dirk Van Pelt, a new 21-year-old Elk and Ruepingtrainee; his father, Clayton F. Van Pelt, and P.E.R. Allen Edgarton.

Photographed at the ceremonies dedicating the new home of Lynbrook,N. Y., Lodge were, left to right: Dedication Chairman Franklin J. Fitz-patrick, P.D.D.; the late George M. Petersen, E.R. of the lodge whopassed away suddenly just one week later, and Past Grand ExaltedRulers James T. Hailinan,. principal speaker, and George I. Hall, aP.E.R. of the lodge, who conducted the dedicatory ceremony.

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E.R. I. E. Myrland of Beloit, Wis., Lodge, second from right, presentsa $578 check to Mrs. Mary Evans, RN, right. Administrator of BefoitHospital, for a new Colson wheel stretcher cart for use in the hospital'semergency room. The greatly needed apparatus is the latest of manypieces of equipment the Elks have given this institution. Looking on areMrs. Hilda Milmine, RN, Dr. A. F. Sipple, P.E.R,, Elk Charity Committee Chairman, second from left, and Dr. D. T. Ryan, Trustee Pres.

Another important event in the schedule of No. 57 occuired a month laterwhen D.D. George Bake paid his officialvisit to its home and saw 69 candidatesinitiated. The spotliglit was shared withWilliam E. Meagher who received anHonorary Life Membership that evening,the anniversary of his 50th year as anEik. The famous Milwaukee Elks PlugsDrill Team put on a thrilling exhibition,and the talented Fond du Lac Elks'Chorus entertained.

Incidentally, this 21-year-old choralgroup has a proud record of achievement. Chiefly through its always successful concerts held each year, the lodge'sHandicapped Children's Fund has beenable to offer many benefits to disabledyoung people of the area.

E.R. Carlton Mauthe. who has actedas Secretary for the Chorus for the past20 years, reports that since 1942 the Elksingers have contributed well over $1,500to this Fund.

Paying tribute to Rube Walden, an HonoraryLife Member who has been a one-man membership committee for Aberdeen, Wash., Eik-dom since 1928, E.R. C. T. Agee and his officers Initiated 100 candidates, 50 of whomwere proposed by the guest of honor. Theevent, featured by the press and radio, waspreceded by a dinner attended by 450 Elksand the initiates. Chairman Edwin J. Alexander of the Lodge Activities Committee of theGrand Lodge presented a citation for "Outstanding Service to Aberdeen Lodge and theOrder at large," to Mr. Walden, whose efforts in maintaining the membership of thelodge at top level are unparalleled.

ISEWS of the LODGES

Lodge's Teen-Town, afour-room addition to

the lodge home, opento youngsters everyevening with Elk-provided Friday events.At right, Youth Committee Chairman W.A. Slauter.

Gloversville, N. Y., Lodge presents a radio-phonograph to the FultonCounty Chapter of Retarded Children, represented by Rev. WilliamWright, Pres., third from left. E.R. George Thompson looks on at right asEst. Lead. Knight Louis Jacobson, fourth from left, presents the giftmade possible by the lodge's summer theater production he headed.

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Pictured at Elmira College are E.R. Clarence E. Beckerman, third fromleft, and Scholarship Committee Chairman Thomas Craig, right, whenElmtra, N. Y., Lodge's $400 scholarship was presented to Miss Michael-ine Sweeney in the presence of College President Dr. J. Ralph Murray.

At the homecoming of D.D. Charles L. O'Brien to Meriden, Conn., Lodgeover 400 Elks saw 36 candidates initiated in honor of Grand ExaltedRuler Jerntck. Left to right are Mr. O'Brien, D.D.'s Edward J. Connolly and Aubrey H. Brown, and State Assn. Pres. Thomas F. Winters,

A disc-jockey's view of some of the 500 teen-age guests at EllwoodCity, Pa., Lodge's "Record Hop", sponsored by Chairman David Douthettand his Youth Activities Committee. The youngsters danced to recordedmusic with Bill Somner, disc-jockey from Radio Station WKST, handlingthe platters and mambo routines led by two professional dancers.

This is the Relief Committee which administers the many charitabledonations made by Elizabeth, N. J., Lodge. Seated are R. J. Higgins,left, and E.R. E. C. Heskin; standing, left to right: T. M. Whyte, Jr.,G. T. Cron, J. R. Lombardi and veteran lodge Secy. Emil T. Hirtzel.

1 Welcome

from Pennsylvaniato the 1955

Grand Lodge Conventionin Philadelphia

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Kodiak, Alaska, Lodge, instituted In 1949, now has well over500 members. Pictured center foreground, wearing his jewel ofoffice, is E.R. I. A. Bowman, with a recent class of 12 candidates,four of whom are the Naughton brothers. Reading in the usualmanner, the two on Mr. Bowman's right are Edward and HaroldNaughton; on his left are Ralph and Albert.

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Fairmont, W. Va., Lodge's E.R. G.W. May, left, with Elk J. LMcDonough, right, and his four Elk sons, left to right: JosephP., Thomas I., James H. and J. Robert McDonough

Susanville, Calif., Lodge's three-generationStampfli family. At left, Gus Stampfli, his sonMerrill, center, and grandson Clair.

D.D. Norman Gold, left, congratulates Rocky Mount, N. C., LodgeSecy. Norman Y. Chambliss, Sr., and his Elk sons, Norman, Jr.,third from left, and Air Force Lt. Joe, right.

Olean, N. Y., "Elk of the Year" former Trustee J. J. Ash, Sr.,25-year-member, center, with his Elk sons, left to right: Joseph,Robert, Ameil, John, Jr., Fred and Nicholas.

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On two of his visits as DistrictDeputy for Conn. N.W.,Charles L. O'Brien saw mem

bers of two fine Elk families

initiated. In the top photograph, taken at MeridenLodge, are Mr. O'Brien, left,E.R. A. Clayton Weisner whoinitialed a class of 36, right,with Elk Thomas E. Wininger,Sr., center, and his sonsThomas, Jr., and Robert whowere candidates. At bottom,the Deputy stands at centerwith, left to right, Frank andJohn Cisco, E.R. Dr. E. H.Lacore and George Cisco, and,seated left to right, newTorrington Elks Fred, Antonioand Arthur Cisco.

Pictured with their newly-initiated sons are two mem

bers of Dayton, Ohio, Elk-dom, Richard and EdwardPage, top, and Jack Gwaltneyand his son Bernard, below.

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For the Lodge or the individual wanting to give a lasting gift here is theanswer. These are pins so handsome,so well designed and made tlial notonly are they beautiful insignia of ourOrder, but also exceptional examplesof jewelry craftsmanship. All of themare 10k gold, beautifully enameledred, wliite and blue witli lastingcolors. All have gold plated attachingbuttons. They are pins of dignity tobe worn proudly by any Elk. As giftsyou could not bestow anytliing fineror more appreciated by a member ofour Order.

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1955 ELKS HAWAIIAN TOUR . . .Make your <lream trip to Hawaii this year! Jointhe 2ncl Annual Elks Hawaiian Tour beginningImmetUately following the close of the Annual Convention at Philadelphia this July-Tour, at special rates, Includes a complete clrcieof the Islanfls with a full program ot entertainment pUinned and conrliicted by those who knowthis Island Paradise. It Is an iinforgetiable experience -say tho.se who toured last vear.Write NOW lo C. E. Baker, Hllo Lodge No. 759,Hllo, Hawaii hv Air Mall for rates and make yourre.servations RAHI.V.

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A Good Place to Know

Rochester, Minn.No. 1091

"Vou'l! find Rocliester, Minnesota^ Lodge a comfortable and friend

ly stopping off place when in ourpart of Minnesota.

Finest liquors and excellent beerand other items for your pleasure.We do not have rooms for overnight stay nor do we serve mealsbut our Lodge is conveniently located only two blocks from downtown Rochester and well withinwalking distance of the leadinghotels and good restaurants. _Stopoff for a friendly visit. We aim loplease you.

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The swing in Florida has shifted in favor

of the traveler accompanied by his family,

BY HORACE SUTTON

ILLUSTRATED BY TOM HILL

I WRITE THIS from the kitchen tableof a little stucco shack at Ellinor Vil

lage. a middling mashie shot from thegentle Atlantic. Kitchen was never likethis. Outside my window, palms andpines are tossing softly in the mid-winterbreeze, and a youngster in a T-shirt andblue jeans is tossing a balsa glider intothe updrafts that have recently wafted infrom the Gulf Stream. In my otherkitchen, only yesterday morning, some1.000 miles to the north. I watched awhite snow fall on red roofs out of a lead-gray sky.

This afternoon I rode A-IA, the ocean-edged highway, for five miles down toDaytona, and found in the few yearssince I last visited here, that the motels,the small hotels, the efficiency apartments have sprouted like a multi-huedconcrete wall shutting out any view ofthe sea for the chance passerby. However, for the vacationer lucky enough toengineer a motel room. say. on the secondfloor, fronting eastward to the sea. theview is immen.se. Anyone who can't manage to live with the view day in and outas long as the holiday holds, can certainlyget a transient view of it merely by driving one's automobile out along the sands.It is the custom here to make a sort ofcar-stroller's highway of the beach whichis broad, flat and packed hard. Althoughspeed tnerchants once tested racers alongthese Daytona flats, today's tourists mustbe content with idling along at ten milesper hour, watching the burnished characters who wade into the edge of tkebreakers, the tiptoeing sand pipers, andthe gulls that wheel and wing and showup in great numbers before a mobile

hamburger stand, painted red. white andblue, that parks beneath the Daytonawalkway. There is also sand-sailing indry-land sailboats with wheels, not tomention swimming and sunning, andthat most popular of sports, rubbernecking at the seaside estates from anautomobile.

The swing in Florida very surely hasshifted in favor of the family traveler.The couple with a child or two in hand,once the untouchable of the tourist industry. ha.s finally become an object ofaffection of the resort owners, and thenew preference is apparent in the latestlayouts built here in the sun country.

NO PLACE makes abigger pitch forthe half-pint trade than Ellinor Vil

lage, which likes to call itself the world'slargest family resort. And well it may be.All told it comprises 650 ranch-typevillas each with its own landscaped yardin which to let the Indians run. Eachvilla has a kitchen complete with all theparaphernalia for cooking, washing, andstoring, not to mention dishes and silverware. A centrally-located shopping center is on hand with a super-sized supermarket, drug store, and a hashery thatputs up meals in boxes for the nightsyou want to stay home but still don'twant to cook. There is a full-scaled

restaurant on hand in the shopping center, and when you register you are alsoeligible for the Ellinor Village CountryClub which serves music-adorned mealsin the 82.50 dinner bracket.

Now then, if you want to park the offspring and play golf on the course thatonce delighted Mr. John D. Rockefeller,

Famous Miami city sky-line as seen from Miami Beach across Biscayne Bay.

there is a village nursery that will putup with the tykes at $5 a week for morning classes, or §10 a week for the fullday. including lunch. The nursery willalso dispatch sitters at the usual cityrates in case you are off to the dog trackfor the evening. Anyway, villas are ascheap as $9 a day, $59.50 a week, a setup which includes living room with sofabed, bedroom, bath and kitchen, risingto six-room villas that cost S22.50 a day,$139.50 a week for one to six adults.The house rule is that children are justplain free.

A couple of weeks back I made aforay into the posh playground of PalmBeach, or as they like to call it downthere, the Palm Beaches, which includesthe metropolis of West Palm whichcounts some 60,000 citizens. PalmBeach has been palmy since sometimeback in 1878 when a ship loaded withcoconuts foundered offshore and spewedits cargo all over the beaches. Well, bigpalms from little coconuts grow andthat's what happened down there. It wassuch a shady place that Henry Flagler

sent his railroad into town and put up ahotel too. called the Royal Poinciana. asocial enclave in the Florida jungle.Although the hotel has vanished, both itsmemory and a general social air remain.

As for the specialized air. you needn'tsearch for it farther than Worth Ave., apromenade of great gentility with goodspriced to match, but all told, a pleasurable place to shop if one has the moneyor can acquire an air of good living merely by looking. It won't be necessary todon a special dressy costume for thelocals saunter by in beach pajamas,slacks and even shorts, and among theyoung set, shoes and socks are not absolutely essential. Among the plushierestablishments are the Colony right intown and the Palm Biltmore which faceson Lake Worth, the lagoon that separates the Palm Beaches from each other.

The Palm Beach community has beenanchored north and south, with a pairof new locations—in the north the Colon

nades Hotel, in the south, La Coquille.Both are smack on the beach and you

(Continued on page 38)

Looking through glamorous Palm Way in Palm Beach, one of Florida's notable vacation spots.

Good Luck to

Elk Bowlersin the 1955 National Bowling Tourna

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Ft. Wayne Lodge No. 155extends a hearty welcome to our home.

15 minutes from the Coliseum. You can

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f Inihe DoghouseFausf asks—Do you own your dog? Or does he own you?

lOOK HERE my four legged friend, yes,L I mean you Mr. Dog and your sistertoo. I've a bone to pick with you and I'mnot jesting. Instead, I'm as serious as adog catcher and that should seem plentyserious to you. Now I have said a lot ofnice things about dogs and expect tocontinue saying them. But then, at suchtimes, I have in mind well-behaved dogsbelonging to people who, while being softhearted about you, haven't become softheaded. The kind of folks who own their

dogs and don't let their dogs own them.You say you don't know anyone whose

dog is boss of the house? Nonsense. Youjust don't get around enough. If you didyou'd find a surprising number of dogsthat have been permitted to becomespoiled canine brats—not pets but pests.Oddly enough, the people who sheltersuch dogs often have given untold timeto raising and training well-behaved, likeable children. Often, too, they are likeable people, the kind that other peoplelike to visit even though it means enduring all the nuisances- that the over-indulged dog is permitted to commit. Occasionally among the acquaintances ofthese likeable people there'll be a fewhold-outs who just won't visit where suchdogs are kept.

And Fido, I have news for you—I'mone of those same people. I refuse to bethe flattering spectator of your antics ifyou are one of those spoiled dogs. WhenI visit someone I like I'm not going topretend that I enjoy having their poochbutt into the conversation with incessantbarking or to have the visit interruptedfrom time to time to call my attention tosome smart aleck stunt you are doing tofocus attention on yourself. I don't cometo visit you, you four legged egotist. Nordo I welcome your effusive greeting thatleaves muddy footprints on my shirt frontand causes me to seek sanctuary behindthe largest piece of furniture in the room.Nor does my host or hostess' explanationthat you are "such a friendly fellow"soothe my feelings or pay the bill at thedry cleaner's and besides, it may be theonly shirt I own. If you want to try highjumping go practice on the man whothinks he owns you. You're his spoiledchild, not mine.

I'd like a few words with you, too,about the business of declaring yourselfin at every and any time there's something doing in the eating department,

whether it's cocktail snacks or a fullcourse dinner. If I want to eat with

animals I'll join a zoo. I'll probably getmore to eat because I won't be obligedto watch how daintily you eat. What'smore I very likely won't have to take myfood from a plate that you've used atsome previous meal. If in a moment ofweakness I accept an invitation to stayover for the night, I hope that you willget a severe attack of laryngitis and ifyou hold any ideas of sharing my bed oreven my room—forget them. I'll get upand wait for the last bus or snuggledown where the coal is kept. The latter atleast won't suffer from the insomnia thatafflicts you as soon as everybody else inthe house has gone to sleep.

Another thing, no matter how much, I like the people you live with don't

expect that I'll ever submit to taking youinto my home overnight because theycan't get a dog sitter. I did that once andthe untrained pooch I sheltered promptlyran away, which, because of an over-

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grown sense of responsibility on my part,caused me to spend the rest of the nightlooking for him. When the morning waswell gone and I was a nervous wreck thatpurp returned as refreshed as thoughhe had just gone around the corner fora beer and topped that with ten hours ofsolid sleep. No, I'll mind my own dog.He's been trained to stay around his ownhome at night and during the day too.

Being a trained dog he doesn't knowwhat insomnia is and although he sleepswith one ear open he long ago learnedthe folly of sounding midnight falsealarms. From what I've written, you andyour untrained, undisciplined sister willgather that you have a lot to learn andyou have. When I next visit the home youthink you own I hope the people wholive there with you will have learned thatwhile I like dogs it doesn't necessarilymean that I'll be expected to laugh offyour desire to make yourself my lap dog.No matter how cute your people thinkyou are I don't want to be your footstool

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LODGE NOTES

We have received another answerto the challenge offered in this column in our December issue byRockland, Me., Lodge in connection with the faithful lodge attend- ,ance of its Secretary. Albany, N. Y.,Lodge's E.R. Harold Segal reportsproudly that from the time Fred V.Decker became Asst. Secy, of thelodge in 1930, then Secy, in 1935,he has never missed one session.Not only that, but for 23 years, Mr.Decker attended every Elk funeralservice, with no exceptions. Considering the Lodge's average of 35 suchceremonies each -year, this wouldappear to be the essence of fidelity.

Alexandria, La., Elkdom isproud of its Exalted Ruler, Ca-mille F. Gravel, Jr., whose latefather had been a prominent andactive Elk for many years. Notlong ago, E.R. Gravel was invested as a Knight of St. Gregory, oneof the highest honors which canbe conferred upon a layman of theRoman Catholic Church. Twoother Alexandrians received PapalCitations with Mr. Gravel, one ofthem the widow of a devoted Elk,Alfred Wettermark, Sr. Mrs. Wet-termark received the Pro Ecclesiaet Pontifice Medal.

Howard C. Gordon's extensive efforts to combat juvenile delinquencyreceived wide publicity recentlywhen a leading news commentatorselected him as one of five who werecited for special tribute on his radioprogram. Air. Gordon, Treas., ofHarrisburg, Pa., Lodge and Chairman of Its Social and CommunityWelfare Committee, is also Co-Chairman of its Youth ActivitiesCommittee. Although he was fighting an ear infection, Air. Gordonhad spent the day of the broadcastbuying toys for under-privilegedchildren and almost missed hearingDrew Pearson say: "I would liketo pay tribute to Howard C. Gordonof the Harrisburg Elks who hasdone such u patient, painstaking jobof working with young people tokeep doivn juvenile delinquency."

New Albany, Ind., Elks weresaddened to learn of the passingof Peter G. Westrich. A memberof that branch of the Order fornearly 40 years, Mr. Westrich hadserved as its Tiler for over a quarter of a century.

Not long ago, 200 Poughkeepsie,N. Y., Elks and their friends madetheir tenth pilgrimage to the graveof our late President, Franklin D.Roosevelt, long affiliated with thatbranch of the Order. A short timelater, the officers of PoughkeepsieElkdom initiated Air. Roosevelt'sson, Franklin, jr., into their lodge.

Right: Citizens Day atHollywood, Fla., Lodgefound D.D. John Rosas-

co presenting American Flags to six newcitizens. With him areE.R. F. L. Williams,Chairman W. B. Hoff-heimes and P.E.R.E. A. Moser, right, andsecond and third fromright, respectively.Mayor A. G. Ryll,P.E.R., and P.E.R. NelsKnudsen of Pontiac,Mich., Lodge spoke.

Hospital Fund Augmented byLeadville, Colo., Elk Gift

Leadville Lodge No. 236 has swelledthe total of the St. Vincent's HospitalBuilding Fund measurably through itsgenerous $1.5.000 donation. Fund DriveChairman F. E. Luethi stated that thegift was the second largest contributionreceived, and St. Vincent's AdvisoryBoard Chairman T. P. Fahey expressedthe deep appreciation of the Board andthe Sisters who staff the Hospital.

The gift was made from the trust fundof the late George S. Trimble who, although not an Elk. so admired the Order's humanitarian spirit that he left asizable fund to he administered by Leadville Lodge, and another to be handledby Colorado Springs Elkdom.

Elizabeth, N. J., Elks Reporton Charitable Works

Elizabeth Lodge No. 289 announcescontributions of $4,299 to various civicand charitable enterprises in the area,with about half the sum going to fourhospitals. Added to $2,087.67 donatedearlier, the newest gift represents the$6,386.67 realized through a recent au-

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guests at Sarasota,Fla.-, Lodge's annualbanquet for the localhigh school footballvarsity and "B"squads. On hand werecoaches and the principal of the school,as well as all officersof the lodge.

Left: This is PennsGrove, N. J., Lodge's1954 Little LeagueChampionship Team.The Elks instituted theLeague in that areathree years ago, witha five-team franchise,and its own boys areSo. Jersey champions.

On behalf of Orangeburg, S. C., Lodge, E.R.M. Carson Sturgeon, right, presents to R.A.Huffstetler, Chairman of the Board of Trusteesfor Orangeburg Regional Hospital, a newIsolette to be used on premature infants, andthose with respiratory difficulties.

tomobile raffle. Other donations reportedby the lodge revealed a nine-monthcharity total of $14,181.67.

In the 14-year period ending in 1953.Elizabeth Lodge had distributed $282.-642.92 to various organizations; it hasrecently resumed its weekly bingo gameswhose entire proceeds are earmarked forcharitable purposes.

The Charity Ball held annually by No.289 is taking place this month, and notlong ago a class of 75 candidates wasinitiated in honor of State Assn. Pres.

Edward J. Griffith.

Sag/now, Mich., ElksHonor Joseph M. Leonard

Joseph M. Leonard is as familiar tothe members of Saginaw Lodge No. 47 asthe Elks Emblem. A loyal Elk since Jan.,1915, when he became affiliated withBay City Lodge, he has served Elkdom inmany capacities.

Transferring his membership to No. 47

in 1918, Mr. Leonard became its E.R. in1923. In 1936 he was appointed DistrictDeputy and from 1937 until 1947, whenhe became its Vice-Pres.-at-Large. Mr.Leonard was Secy, of the Mich. StateElks Assn., its President in 1948. He hadbeen State Chaplain in 1925. In 1937Mr. Leonard served on the Lodge Activities Committee of the Grand Lodge, itsChairman in 1938. He was again ap-

pomted to that group in 1949 followinga term as a Grand Lodge State Associations Committeeman.

Since 1931, Mr. Leonard has servedgenerously and well as Secy, of his lodge.It was therefore with regret that a largecrowd of his fellow members gatheredto bid him a temporary farewell in November. when he left with Mrs. Leonard

for an indefinite stay in Florida.

Right: In December, Seattle, Bollard, Renton and Klrkland-Bellevue, Wash., Lodges were hosts ot a successful dinnerfor representatives from almost every high school and college in the county. Designed to stimulate interest in the"Most Valuable Student" Scholarship program, the affairproved. excellent promotion for the lodges' varied youthprogram, notably the Youth Leadership Contests and thecelebration of Elks Youth Day. Nineteen of the 20 invitedschools accepted, including three colleges and oil publicand parochial schools. State Chairman E. J. Druxman introduced the guest speaker, Brian Cullerton, 1954 third-placevt^inner in the National Youth Leadership Contest. Picturedore the Exalted Rulers and Youth Activities CommitteeChoirmen of the participating lodges, and their guests.

Right: As port of Troy, N. Y., Lodge's 65th Anniversarycelebration a reunion of its Old Timers found this groupreceiving special commemorative emblems. Seated, left toright: C. A. Casey, J. T. Whitehurst, James MocLaren, F. M.Nielson, P.D.D. F. G. Roddy. Stonding: M. J. Kelly, Sr., L. J.Shearer, Secy. H. H. McCarthy, John Ruoff, Frank Shorteel,F. C. Casey, Carl Weiberg and Frank Ryan. Through thecooperation of Staten Island Lodge, William Dailey, confined to the home of his daughter in that community,received a SS-yeor-emblem pin at the same moment thisceremony v/as being held in Troy.

Above: The Ritualistic Team composed of former West Virginia District Deputies who put on a special initiatory ceremony for Cincinnati, Ohio, Lodge before a large crowd,including three current Ohio Deputies and seven Ohio E.R.'s.With host E.R. E. B. Burdick, Jr., in the background, are,left to right: W. Va. Elks Assn. Pres. Lawrence E. Pruett,A. E. Kollmerten, Paul Foster, George B. Reinhort, GrandLodge Youth Activities Committee Chairman Dewey E. S.Kuhns, Ross Irle and Frank Mortin.

Left: Photographed on the official homecoming of Dist.Vice-Pres. Clayton Ward to Whitehall, N. Y., Lodge areE.R. John J. O'Brien, center foreground; his fellow officers;State Pres. T. Emmett Ryan, fifth from left foreground, andMr. Ward, third from left foreground.

Below: Participating in the dedication of the building constructed by 160 Elk volunteers for the Boy Scouts sponsoredby Stockton, Colif., Lodge are, left to right; Hon. RobertSullivan, ar^ Elk ond Scout Executive Committeeman; DonNomellini, contractor; attorney George Ditz, an Elk; GrondTrustee Horoce R. Wisely; Scout Committee ChairmanHenry Wolters, Jr.; E.R. Chos. K. DeYoung; D.D. Fred R.Garrison; EJk Harold Arnold, County Scout Executive, andJohn Kessell, donor of the property.

Right: When seven-year-old Rickey Shanley, the son of one of its members, lost his battle with polio. South Haven, Mich., Lodge decided topresent an Iron lung to the local hospital in his memory. Learning thatthe institution had greater need for a blood bank, the Elks purchasedone as the memorial instead. Left to right: Hosp. Adm. W. W. Williams,Elk Trustees Chairman Kenneth Williams, E.R. Kenneth Springett andSocial and Community Welfare Committee Chairman Richard Lemek.Inspecting the equipment is Dr. Edwin Terwilliger, Chief of Staff.

Grand Secy. Dona/dson Fetedby Southwest Pa. Elks

A dinner, attended by nearly 450 persons, revealed the high esteem in whichGrand Secy. Lee A. Donaldson is heldby the Elks of the Pennsylvania Southwest District.

The testimonial took place at the homeof Etna Lodge No. 932 of which Mr.Donaldson is a P.E.R. and former Secy.During the program, the Grand Secretary accepted from his lodge's E.R., C. C.

i'.Left: The final conference between college basketball coaches, City ParkDept. officials and Dallas, Tex., Elk leaders on plans for the Dallas ElksCotton Bowl Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament played for the benefit of the Texas Elks Crippled Children's Hospital. Standing, left to right:D.D. D. H. Smith, E.R. W. H. Tucker, Asst. City Park Director Bill Keelingand Asst. Tournament Chairman Buck Cathey. Seated: Youth Activitiesand Tournament Committees Chairman J. J. Yadaek, Midwestern CollegeCoach Dallas Clynch, East Texas Teachers College Coach Bob Rogers, TexasWesleyan Coach Dan Hart and Austin College Coach Bryan Gilbreath.

Farbacher, a SI,000 check for the ElksNational Foundation. The event was oneof many held by Etna Elkdom as part ofits 50th Anniversary celebration.

Catskni, N. Y., Elks OfferService to Gl Parents

A free service, whereby parents maysend tape-recorded messages to sons orrelatives in the Armed Forces, has beenoffered by Catskill Lodge No. 134L Secy.Bert Hayes reports that for some time hislodge has owned an RCA tape-recording

Left: Las Vegas,Nev., Elkdom is un-derstondably proudof its Junior Baseball Team which hascaptured the LeagueChampionship of thatcommunity.

machine, and is now offering its use toanyone wishing to record "live" spokenmessages for transmission to GIs. Thetape runs for a half-hour period and therecordings are made in absolute privacy.

There is no charge for this service,with the exception of a small fee for theplastic tape itself, which is requested ofthose who can afford to pay it.

Mr. Hayes stated that the lodge hadlearned that recording machines whichwill play the tapes for our enlisted menare available at most Service bases, bothinside and outside the United States. Thereceiver may erase the ribbon and thenrecord his own message for return, if heso desires, although he may keep theoriginal tape as a permanent record.

Right: As State Supreme Court Justice,Past Grand ExaltedRuler James T. Halli-nan inducted twoQueens Borough,N. Y., P.E.R.'s asState Senators. Leftto right are JudgeHallinon; Mrs. J. G.Sweeney; P.E.R.Sweeney; J. A. Phil-'ips/ Dept. Secy.,N.Y.C. Comptroller'sOffice; P.E.R. F. D.O'Connor; Mrs.O'Connor, and ElkNat Lubin. The children are the O'Connor twins, Terenceand Thomas, andbrother Michael.

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BOWLERS INVITED TO ENTERN. Y. STATE ELKS TOURNEYUtica Lodge No. 33 will be host to

the 8th Annuoi Bowling Tournamentsponsored by the N. Y. State Elks Assn.,and invites all interested keglers of theState to make immediate arrangementsto enter the competition.

The contest will take place on fivesucceeding weekends, beginning Apr.16-17 and closing May 14-15, on the24 alleys of the Palace and SunsetBowling Centers.

An estimated prize fund of $10,000has been set up, and Utica Elkdom isextending every effort to insure on enjoyable and successful meeting. Amplehotel occommodations and parking facilities are assured. Meals will be servedat the lodge home, and special entertainment is planned for each weekend.

Inquiries should be addressed toMichael Pasternak or Floyd H. Good-nough, 291 Genesee St., Utica, N.Y.

Hot Springs, Ark., Elks Active

In keeping with the Grand ExaltedRuler's program stressing communityservices, the members of Hot SpringsLodge No. 380 have turned over to theOuachita General Hospital the custodianship of an iron lung. The S2.500 giftwas presented by E.R. James M. Vaughanand accepted by J. Barrel Wear, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for thecounty's new hospital. The lung, to beused without charge in the care of patients at that institution, is the secondgiven by No. 380. The first, given tothe Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital priorto the time it became a research centerfor arthritis, is now in use at the BaptistHospital in Little Rock.

During November the officers of HotSprings Lodge conducted the ceremoniesinitiating two fine classes into Elkdom—the Orval Forbus Class which became

affiliated with Eureka Springs Lodge;the second group was welcomed as HotSprings Lodge's own Grand ExaltedRuler Wm. J. Jernick Class.

Orange County, Calif., ElksCombine to Aid Cripples

The Orange County Society of Crippled Children and Adults has a new station wagon, donated by five Elks lodgesof the area to transport students fromtheir homes to the Society's Rehabilitation Clinic.

The Est. Leading Knights of Orange,Newport Harbor, Santa Ana, LagunaBeach and Anaheim Lodges—Lloyd Benson, Albert Matthews, A1 Hall, WalterRapp and Tom Yellis respectively, together with D.D. Benjamin F. Mattox,Santa Ana Lodge's E.R. Carl Proctorand Newport Harbor's E.R. ElwoodShell, made the pre.sentation at intermission time during a performance of theRudy Brothers Circus at Chapman College Stadium. The vehicle, accepted bythe Society's Vice-Pres., George Tatlock,will replace volunteer drivers who havebeen transporting students to the Centerand to the Santa Ana YMCA swimmingpool for treatment.

Proceeds of the Circus, sponsoredjointly by Orange Lodge and the Chamber of Commerce, went into the Elks'Charity Fund. Approximately 2,500 children from the Clinic, the Carl HarveySchool and elsewhere in the county,were guests of the five lodges at a circusmatinee performance.

News of Hillside, N. J., Lodge

More than 100 persons witnessed aRitualistic Contest presented in theirhome by the officers of Hillside LodgeNo. 1591 in the presence of D.D. J.Francis Moroney and Dist. Vice-Pres.Harrison S. Barnes. Prior to the cere

mony, the District officials and six otherswere dinner guests at the home of Elizabeth Lodge.

Another well-attended event at theHillside Elks' headquarters was a buffet

CONFIDENTLY YOURS-

IT WAS JUST alittle party that San Benito, Texas, Lodge wasputting on as "something special" for the youngsters who had

gathered in the new playground the Elks had donated and werededicating to them on Y'outh Day.

It was six-year-old Pedro Gomez, hobbling about with the aid ofbraces, wearing scabs on his knees and a grin on his face, who madeit "something spccial" for the Elks.

Someone took Pedro's jjicture that day, just as he accepted a"coke" from Earl B. Webb of the Elks Youth Park Committee, withChairman A. C. Henderson standing by.

There were 200 other young guests who were enjoying "fokes"and playing supervised games, and one of the San Benito Elks spentthe afternoon conferring with thom on the type of equipment they'dlike to have installed on the playground. Suddenly he felt an impatient tug on his trouser leg. He looked down and found Pedrobeside him. polio-ridden leg braced, his perpetual grin lifted eagerly.

"Want slide. Want chute-the-chute." he repeated several times inhis odd mixture of English and Spanish.

"But you couldn't slide down with your leg in braces. You mightget hurt," the Elk replied.

The grin vanished briefly as, with all the sincerity and wisdom ofany six-year-old who knows he's talking to a friend, Pedro explainedcarefully, "I could slide down i/ you'd he there to catch me."

Pedro's reply is a challenge to every Elks lodge in America.Think what you could do—"if you'd be there to catch me!"

dinner and awards program for theJunior Baseball Teams sponsored by thislodge. P.E.R. William Kobin presentedawards to the members of the undefeatedRed Wings who had shut out a LeagueAll-Star combination in an exhibitiongame at which E.R. Charles Neigel hadthrown the first ball. Secy. Kenneth W.Melroy handled the prize-presentationfor the All-Stars team. Est. Lect. Knight

Wm. H. Hoffmann. Sr.. and ChairmanJohn Wallace were in charge of the program during which Township Committee-man William Gural was MC. introducingthe speakers who included many civicdignitaries.

Individual awards went to Robert

Grasso. as Most Valuable Player; AlexSheara. Batting Champion and Runner-Up James Dale.

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UNCLE SAM has tried to stay on thefence during Latin-American up-

heavals but at times it has been difficult.We are a big. friendly, neutral nationand we don't like the words "Yankee Im

perialism" or to be called the "Colossusof the Nortli". At times, the U.S. wasforced to step in by itself but since 1947with the formation of the Organization ofAmerican States (OAS), the way is noweasier. OAS decides. Many old-timers remember the ruckus down on the Mexican

border when General Pershing chasedbandit Pancho Villa with little or no re

gard for boundary lines.There was a time, too. when we landed

U.S. Marines on Latin-American shores

and told fighting factions they couldshoot it out among tliemselves but keepof! American property. On other occasions, we announced we would not recognize any government set up by force. Weeven supervised some hot elections, withU.S. soldiers guarding the polls underagreement by both sides. In the old daysof quick turnovers, the United States wasa favorite place for juntas, and revolutions were plotted in New Orleans,Laredo, San Antonio and other convenient towns. Arms could be purchased secretly in the United States and soldiers offortune could be hired to lead and directrevolts.

In Washington, there was a mysteriousfigure, an American with whom thosewanting to start something might make adeal. One could arrange to get arms andammunition, bombs, and ships. It was astrange place, that office, filled withCentral and South American objects,even dried heads. Dark skinned servantsin native dress moved furtively about. Ifyou had the entree and wanted to findout about a junta or a revolt in the making, there was the place to go. Now all ischanged. Contraband trade in arms wasstopped long ago. Treaties and pactshave been made. Uncle Sam sits morefirmly, if at times uncomforlably, on tlieneutrality fence.

PUBLIC PRINTING SENSATION

Some sort of award should be presentedto Public Printer Raymond Blattenbergerof the Government Printing Office fordoing what is regarded as the impossible.Blattenberger came down to the U.S.Treasury the other day and handed

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Treasury Secretary Humphrey a checkfor S3,000,000. The public printermodestly said it was "in excess of operating requirements." More amazing, hetook office early in 1953 and in a yearhanded back $5,000,000 which he didn'tneed. Government bureaucrats look atBlattenberger like he's a bit off his rockerfor he has not only cut expenditures butat the same time has boosted wages$600,000. He even cut costs of offsetprinting 25 per cent and a year ago his5 per cent cut in printing rates was thefirst in 20 years. Something must be thematter with the man because he doesn'thave his picture put in the papers.

MAIL ROBBERIES FEW

Robbers seldom hold up U.S. Mailtrucks and for a good reason says Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield.Every thief knows a mandatory sentenceof 25 years in prison is slapped on anyperson found guilty of "effecting or attempting to effect a robbery of any person having lawful charge, control orcustody of any mail matter". That protects mail carriers, too.

VILLAGE FOR SALE

Federal Housing Administration, withforeclosures on dwelling units increasing. has a committee of experts trying tofigure out a remedy. It now holds title toover 11.500 units taken over under mortgage foreclosures. Two-thirds of thetotal were built for rental purposes underSection 608, the same section which gavea lot of builders "windfall" profits.

TRAFFIC HEADACHE

Washington traffic cops have a headache trying to keep diplomats .from violating traffic regulations. Every week scoresof traffic tickets are canceled because ofdiplomatic immunity. Generally, representatives of some 30 or 40 nations areinvolved, well scattered through the diplomatic list. Not only Ambassadors andMinisters are given immunity, but theirsecretaries, counsellors, military attachesand such can drive as they please andpark where they please. Not so long agoThird Secretary lem Kadul of Cambodiahad a ticket canceled for parking—of allplaces—on a sidewalk. Few tickets aregiven for speeding, however. Most are forstanding violations, such as parking

where it says no parking, parking overtime, parking near hydrants, near intersections and such. Trying to aid policein cutting down violations, a Washingtonnewspaper runs the list of diplomaticoffenders each week. It has helped.

PRE-FAB SCHOOLS

Facing a school shortage next fall,Washington's Board of Education wants$424,000 for demountable, temporaryclassroom buildings. These prefabricatedfour room affairs can be erected on anyschool lot and moved according to population increases in various suburbs.

FOR SAFER LANDINGS

The Air Force has perfected a machinewhich measures the exact visibility overan airfield and which can be radioed toa pilot to eliminate any chance of error.It can measure visibility down to 300feet.

$10 BILL PUZZLE

Look at the flag on top the TreasuryBuilding picture on the back of $10bills, even with a magnifying glass, andit appears to be upside down, a flag indistress. The Bureau of Engraving andPrinting has turned out $4,732,535,000of Tens since 1928 but nobody who hasany seems to worry over the upside downflag. There have been some queries theBureau admits and the answer, from theSecret Service, says it's all a matter ofshading, which appears to make the flaglook inverted. It actually is right sideup, says the Secret Service.

DISTRICT DASHES

Farm cooperative membership is now7.5 million, a new record and doublethe total 10 years ago. . . If your kidscome home from school with rice comingout of their ears, it's because the Govt.has given 140,000 bags of rice of 100 lbs.each for scliool lunches. . . Army Quartermasters Dept., by putting sliced breadin air-tight transparent envelopes andtreating it with radiation, says it keepsfresh for weeks. . . Washington is mullingover a gigantic plan to rid the city of itsslums in 10 years. . . A 175 gallon stillwas raided in a Washington apartmentbasement. . . Buddies can now join theNavy and stay together during theirtraining.

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The Hawaiian Elks Post Convention Tourof the Island is creating considerable in-terest and reservations are beginning tocome in. However, the Chairman of theCommittee warns that since July is thepeak of travel in the Islands, reservationsshould be made now in order that the Committee may make adequate arrangementsso that no one will be disappointed.

can step from your digs right onto thesand and from the sand, right into thebriney. There are some 600 feet of beachavailable at the Colonnades, with thewater running about 72 degrees all summer. And if the ocean isn't big enoughthere is an Olympic sized pool, and anadjoining tank for youngsters. The ratesthrough March 31st start at $100 a weekfor a ground floor efficiency, no meals,single or double occupancy. In April itdescends to $70 a month. There are, asyou can well imagine, any and all assortments and combinations available athigher prices. There's a convention hallat hand and the place is nominally veryquiet, unless you blow in with your ownconvention.

As for La Coquille south of the PalmBeaches, it is positively the dernier criin plushery, although happily it aims toaccept anyone who claims to be a gentleman, Anyway, you will find it a handsome collection of white buildings curving around the sea. holding apartments,masseurs, restaurants, steam rooms,

clubs, and a dining room paved withknee-deep carpet. Each of the apartments is the last word in modern decor,clean and new in appearance and design. Here, too, a special pool has beenbuilt for juniors, with undersized tablesand chairs where a young man of say.six, can park his young date. I fear youwould have to count on $33 a day fortwo in an apartment, but it's spiffy allright.

From La Coquille south to MiamiBeach, the landscape is all but a continuous string of motels and apartments

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The first German passenger ship to gointo operation in 15 years has beennamed "Berlin" and is sailing betweenNew York and Bremerhaven under theaegis of the North German-Lloyd Navigation Co. This ship, formerly known asthe "Gripsholm", will make 24 Trans-Atlantic trips during 1955. She has beenfully reconditioned and has accommodation for about 900 passengers.

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The following letter came from John S.Sirlin of Fairbanks, Alaska, Lodge—"TheFarthest North". He says among otherthings, "Thank you very much for the travel information I requested and receivedtoday. ... It is more complete than I hadhoped for—in fact I will use at least 90per cent of your data. . . . I will pass theword around so that more of the Brotherscan make use of this fine service."

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of rakish design, and hung with some ofthe fanciest handles known to purveyorsof the sensuous dream. "Castaways,they are called, and also "Bali Hai," and"Tahiti." Following the rash of SouthSea Island appellations there appeared anew motif—Africa. Came the Safari andthe Sahara motels, complete with stuffedcamels, stuffed zebras, stuffed elephants.

One gigantic enterprise, new this season, which seems to have no theme at allbesides immenseness, is the Golden Gatewhich sits at the headwaters of CollinsAvenue, at the doorway to the GoldCoast. Should you prefer the tall ocean-front type hotel, the Golden Gate hasone on the ocean side of the avenue,complete with beachfront, swimmingpool and water-surrounded open airdance floor for the evenings. The lower

MagazineTravel Service

Travel information is available to ElksMagazine readers. Just write to the TravelDepartment, Elks Magazine, 50 East 42ndSt., N. Y., stating v/here you want to goand by what mode of travel. Please print

' name and address. Every effort will bemade to provide the information you require, but kindly allow three weeks for usto gather the information. Because ofseasonal changes in road conditions, ifyou are traveling by car be sure to statethe dote that you plan to start your trip.

More and more Elks and their families

ore taking advantage of this service.Are you?

It is predicted that Trans-Atlantic travelfor 1955 will be the heaviest in history,so those of our readers who have an ideaof visiting overseas this summer betterstart making plans now. Incidentally, ifyou are going to Britain and Irelandyou will find travel costs further reducedthis year. In addition to the "Thrift TourTickets" for those traveling 1,000 or moremiles in Britain and the "9-Day GuestTicket", good for unlimited travel, thereis the new "Circular Tour Ticket". Thisticket is available for both first and thirdclass travel, is good for six months, andonly requires that tours consist of atleast three point-to-point journeys orlegs. The reduction from normal railfares is 10 per cent and includes cross-channel fare between England and Ireland.

reaches of the building contain a cafeteria. Across the streets are motorists accommodations, apartments and efficiencies, and four-room villas all on theEuropean or no meals plan. There is aswimming pool on this side too, not tomention space for the youngsters to playin, and a yacht basin should you cometearing in on your own Lipton Cup defender. The inland waterway, I ought toadd, streams right past the back door.

As for Miami Beach, slightly to thesouth, another relentless season is on,which is to say there are new hotels andthese too are patronized. The biggestsplash was made by the Fontainebleau,which caused a $14,000,000 rash of Gallicatmosphere along the Cote d'or. It iseasily the most fabulous extravaganzaon a fabulous strip, with 565 rooms,beautiful penthouse suites at $135 a day,service by Rene Black, the famed maitred'hotel who left the Waldorf for the job,a two-story cabana colony, and for thewee types, a swimming pool shaped likea cat. *

For the first time this year Floridavacation packages are being offered inthe winter by National Airlines whichhas hitherto pioneered the summer package program with resounding success.Forty-nine of Miami Beach's hotels willoffer a week's stay at $57 a person, afee which includes air conditioned quarters (two in a room), airport transfersand planned entertainment at the hotelyou choose. All this for six nights andseven days. After March 15th the ratedescends to $39 and up. For the complete cost of a winter week in the sun

add the air fare from your home townand whatever you figure it wlll cost youto eat while away. Hotels included in theprogram are such famous names as theSaxony, Roney Plaza, di Lido, Cadillac,Sea Isle, and Golden Gate.

Eastern Airlines, which, with National,conducts the air ferry to the Floridapleasurelands, expects to take 500.000passengers, repeat, half a million passengers, to Miami alone. They havescheduled a flight in and out of Miamievery twelve minutes. To put it anotherway, 2,000 seats will fly a day underthe aegis of Eastern pilots from NewYork to Miami. The chief difference between the two services is that Easterndepends on Constellations and SuperConstellations fitted with three seatsacross on one side, whereas Nationaluses DC-7s and DC-6Bs. Eastern haschosen not to participate in the winterpackage program although both linesoperate a summer package program.

Under the package system this winterit will be possible to hire a drive-your-self car for as little as $25 a week. Thedrive-yourself car operation seems madeto order for Florida where few vacationers have the time for long rides to thesunlands but would like to have a caronce they are there. Couture Motors inMiami and Miami Beach and NationalCar Rentals in Jacksonville ind Daytonaoffer cars without asking for deposits,even provide such services as tlie use ofa camera while employing the car. Youcan figure about $40 for a 7-day weekplus eight cents a mile for ordinary passenger car, slightly higher if you wouldlike to have a convertible and get yourself sunburned between here and there.Incidentally, you can, for example, drivefrom Miami to Jacksonville, seeing Ma-rineland, ancient St. Augustine and theother Florida sights en route, leave thecar at Jacksonville without extra cost,then take the plane or train back to thefrigid salt mines from there^

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to produce the profits that will enableJohn's peeve to go on paying off, we canhope, forever. For many years after,when the peeve was almost forgotten,John Malley's hope for an Elks NationalFoundation became a reality. But it tooka lot of doing and along the way Johngot a lot of help. Closely associated withJohn F. Malley right now are six PastGrand Exalted Rulers, who are Trusteesof the Elks National Foundation of whichhe is Chairman. These are: Robert S.Barrett, Floyd E. Thompson, Charles H.Grakelow, L. A. Lewis, Dr. Edward J.McCormick and Sam Stern.

It wasn't long after he had hung outhis shingle that John Malley got himselfelected to the Massachusetts senate.There he learned about a whole new

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This METHOD is NOT spinning, trolling, casting,fly fishing, trot line fishing, set line fishing, hand linefishing, live bait fishing, jugging, netting, trapping,seining, and does not even faintly resemble any ofthese standard methods of fishing. No live bait orprepared bait is used. You can carry all of the equipment you need in one hand.

The whole secret can be learned in twenty minutes—twenty minutes of fascinating reading. All the extra equipment you need, you can buy locally at a coatof less than a dollar. Yet with it, you can come in afteran hour or two of the greatest excitement of yourlife, with a stringer full. Not one or two miserable 12or 14 inch over-aized keepers — but five or six realbeauties with real poundage behind them. The kindthat don't need a word of explanation of the professional skill of the man who caught them. Absolutelylegal, too—in every state.

This amazing method was developed by a littlegroup of professional fishermen. Though they arepublic guides, they never divulge their secret to theirpatrons. They use it only when fishing for their owntables. No man on your waters has ever seen it, everheard of it, or ever used it. And when you havegiven it the first trial, you wilj be as closed-mouthedas a man who has suddenly discovered a gold mine.

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batch of scholarships he never heardabout at Yale. Every state senator, hediscovered, had the right to grant onefor a youngster, much as U. S. Senatorsnominate candidates for West Point andAnnapolis. This renewed the old irritation because he was sure that none butthe initiated knew' about these either.He looked further into scholarships anddiscovered that, relative to his own youthful knowledge of them, there were fundshanging on bushes. Communities hadthem. Cultural groups offered them.Even a few forward looking industrialcompanies gave them. But still very fewdeserving youngsters had any way to

i find out about them. He decided it

would be his personal mission to tell theyouth of the nation about them.

First he tried to organize communitygroups who would go before student assemblies and tell the youngsters whatrewards might be theirs in college if theyworked in high school. Nobody was interested.

What John didn't realize then is thatpeople can't get excited about a jobthat is just talking. What people like isto do something concrete. That "something concrete" finally crystallized yearslater.

IN LATE 1926 and early 1927 John Mal-ley spoke before many lodges and pre

sented a concrete proposal through whichthe Grand Lodge could assist projects ofthe State Associations and subordinatelodges. He suggested creating and building up a permanent fund, supervised bythe Grand Lodge, which could be usedfor such purposes.

Grand Exalted Ruler Charles H.Grakelow endorsed John's proposal inhis report to the Grand Lodge in July1927 and, appropriately enough, it wasendorsed by the Grand Lodge at thesame time it named John Malley GrandExalted Ruler.

It then became his responsibility toappoint a committee to conduct a surveyof the feasibility of the proposal madeformally in Grand Exalted Ruler Grake-low's report. The committee was to report the following year with its recommendations. Thus, in 1928, the Elks National Foundation came into being.

What came out of this has had fargreater significance than merely an insti-

i tution which grants scholarships. Whatdeveloped was another buttress in thefoundation of Elkdom's wide-spread phil-

: antliropy. Indeed, the organization hasgiven, during their struggling, needed financial support to some projects of StateAssociations of Elks which are now strong

! and independent.Today it distributes more than $]65.-

000 a year and the worth of its assetsis steadily increasing. Of course, allcontributions to the Foundation are deductible from income tax. In the last

• year donations alone from individuals,lodges and Associations increased itscapital by SCiS.OOO. At that rate its

capital will double in less than fifteenyears with a comparable increase in itseffectiveness. Certainly it can becomeone of the great philanthropic institutionsof America.

The Foundation is remarkable in manyways, not the least of which is the factthat it is operated without any administrative expense, such essential costs being borne in their entirety by the GrandLodge. But the really remarkable factabout the Foundation is that the majorshare of its funds—all except donationsto State Associations for their projects—goes for training. The greatest asset ofthis or any nation is the skill of its people. By contributing year after year tothe upgrading of the skill of the American people, the Foundation serves tostrengthen this country and the principlesfor which it stands.

Another happy fact about the Foundation is its flexibility. Many philanthropicorganizations are strictly tied by theircharters to limited fields and some are

so severely restricted by limitations imposed years ago by shortsighted donorsthat they are today virtually useless.The Elks National Foundation is suf

ficiently flexible, however, not only tomeet arising needs unanticipated whenit was formed but it can aid unusual andunexpected cases outside its usual orbit.

For example, it isn't always youngsterswho need a chance to study. Take HenryPriesing. Henry was privileged to participate right up to his neck in two of themost unpleasant occurrences of this century, but he was ineligible to participatein one of the great ojjportunities of theera—one which benefited millions of hisformer colleagues. And here is where theFoundation came to the rescue.

When he was going to the JamaicaPlains High School. Henry Priesingplanned on becoming a great engineer.Then his father, a law college graduate,unexpectedly died and Henry, who wasonly 19, had" to get out and support hisfamily. It was in the middle of a depression that had reduced grown men tofalling on their knees and weeping.Henry got a job in a gas station, hungon to it grimly, studied extension coursestrying to better himself, and by the timeof Pearl Harbor he had a family of hisown to support. He became a torpedoman on destroyers. When his serviceended he went to work with a will for abig construction company, determined tosave enough from the high wage rates tobe able to send his own son to college.

Then, on a hot July day in 1952. twomonths before his son was to enter col

lege, Henry fractured his neck whileteaching his four-year-old daughter toswim. The accident made him a quadra-plegic barely able to move his hands.Henry's house of hopes fell down abouthim. But to dash his hopes was not tokill his ambition. He wanted to learn

something as soon as possible that wouldmake him at least partially self-supporting. A battery of tests revealed unex-

pected talent. Analysis and discussionshowed that even in his condition Henrycould become a mathematics tutor. Andin a city of colleges such as Boston,mathematics tutors are greatly needed.As an ex-GI, ordinarily Henry wouldsimply have signed up under the GI billwhich educated so many veterans to newskills. But Henry's right to participatehad just expired. Despite his conditionit couldn't be renewed. When the Foundation learned of Henry's plight a scholarship was provided.

It isn't often that a 41-year-old mangets a study grant. Few of the big national philanthropic organizations couldhave helped him. Like hundreds ofothers, it was Henry Priesing's goodfortune that the Elks Foundation wasthere to meet a desperate need.

Take the case of Lee Lewis of Roxbury,Massachusetts, a personable young

lady of 27 who was graduated last summer by Boston University with a degreeof Associate in Arts after one of the

most extraordinary study courses in thehistory of education. Miss Lewis "attended" classes without ever leaving herhouse. Using existing telephone lines, atwo-way speaker and microphone systemwas installed in her room and in theclassroom miles away in the University.Thus Miss Lewis was able not only tohear everything that went on but to participate in the discussion as well. Thiswas a great convenience to Lee Lewisbecause by some cruel mischance she hasnever been able to move her arms and

legs. Getting to the class in a wheelchairwould have been impossible.

I have Lee Lewis' final report card infront of me. Despite the fact that Leewas carrying a heavier curriculum thanmost of her classmates, her lowest gradeis a C-!- and there is only one of those.The rest range up to A—. In additionto this rather remarkable record, LeeLewis holds down jobs with two com-jianies as a telephone solicitor. She sellsfurs and a complete baby service.

These achievements did not appeaseLee's ambition; she wanted to get alongin the world specifically in the publicrelations business. This meant furtherstudy, and because the courses by tele-

,phone are more costly than ordinary instruction Lee needed some financial help.She got it from the Elks Foundation.

Today this young woman is nearinganother goal on her way to a careerwhich, as it develops and becomesknown, will doubtless prove inspiring tomillions who are less in need of financialhelp than they are of the inspiration ofI.ee's determination and achievement. Itis Lee's example which should showthem that they, with nothing to holdthem back, can also get ahead.

These are great achievements, but theFoundation has always known there wereneeds in the world other than thosewhich might be met with scholarships.Due to Elkdom's increasing generosity

in contributing, the principle of the fund(which is never drawn upon) had beenbuilding up. and with an increasing income available for good work. Finallythe Trustees felt justified in branchingout. Aid would be given, they decided,in the fight then being organized againstcerebral palsy.

As great and as rewarding as havebeen the scholarship programs of theFoimdation, they can never match thedrama of its accomplishments in thefight against cerebral palsy. What hasbeen accomplished isn't even hinted atin the statistics—more than $120,000 expended to train more than 215 doctors,therapists, technicians and teachers inthe treatment of this devastating handicap. To get a real appreciation of theworth of this aid, one must understandthe nature of cerebral palsy—or CP asit is called by those with the courage toface up to it.

As recently as ten years ago. just before the Foundation first entered the CPfight, it was still a hush-hush handicap.People with CP children bore their affliction bravely or not, as the case might be,but they didn't talk about it. It was asif they had somehow incurred the displeasure of Heaven or that they were being punished for the sins of their fathers.At that time, with the exception of a fewlocalities, there was almost no placeparents with CP children could turn forhelp or advice.

Few people understand cerebral palsyor know that it could hai)pen to anyoneat any time. It results from injury tocertain brain cells. Sometimes the in

jury occurs before birth, sometimes during birth. It can result from prolongedhigh fever, even from an automobile accident. And if all the people affected byCP were brought together they wouldcreate a city about the size of Minneapolis or one larger than New Orleansor just smaller than Cincinnati. Lessthan half of those affected are children.

The EFFECTS of CP have beenscorned, joked about or ignored for cen

turies. It may produce a slight or seriousawkwardness of movement which in timespast, when standards of humor were considerably less than now, has seemed funny. It can produce defects in speech, hearing, eyesight or reasoning power—or allfour of them. No two cases are exactlyalike. No case can be cured with present knowledge. But practically everycase can be helped. Aside from mechanical aids, such as crutches and braces,which incidentally are constantly beingimproved, CP's can be helped throughinstruction.

Trained teachers are one of the mostvalued aids of the cerebral palsied today.Only in the past few years has it beenunderstood how much improvement inspeech and locomotion alone can resultfrom weeks and months of patient, scientific instruction. Youngsters who utteronly babbling noises can be made to talk

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understandably. Arms and hands whichdon't coordinate can be trained to handlesmall objects for practical purposes.This is happening today to childrenwhose parents a few years ago wouldhave been advised by reputable physicians to put them away in institutions"and forget about them."

The problem is the lack of trainedteachers—teachers with the skill and

patience to take weeks, if necessary, tohelp a child to the triumph of coherentlyvocalizing a single word. Into this breechthe Foundation stepped in 1950. and began making training grants which average some $600 each.

IT IS NOT often that a philanthrophypays double value, but it did in the case

of Lilian Landauer. A couple of yearsago Miss Landauer completed her Foun-dation-sponsored course of training atthe May T. Morisson Center for Rehabilitation in San Francisco and waspromptly given a job as a speech therapist at San Francisco State College ina clinic for CP children. A few monthslater the California Elks Associationneeded a speech therapist for its CPmobile unit whicli does an outstandingservice in Humboldt and Del NorteCounties in Nortliern California. MissLandauer was able to offer her Elks-provided training to an Elks servicej)roject—the neatest act of reciprocationof tlie year.

The Foundation maintains a continuinginterest in those it has helped. There is,for example, Anita Slominski. Followingher scholarshii), Miss Slominski becamefield director of the post-graduate coursein cerebral palsy which was given byColumbia University. This was organized to alleviate the desperate need forqualified personnel in CP treatment.When these courses were completed,Miss Slominski returned to her post inthe Cerebral Palsy Clinic of Riley Hospital in Indianapolis as Therapy Supervisor. She had been given leave of absence from her job there to take theadvanced study Vi»hich the Foundationmade possible.

Miss Slominski offers further interesting evidence of the flexibility of the ElksFoundation. The question arises as towhy should she, a person already welltramed, be given a scholarship whenthere are so many who have no trainingat all. The reason is that Miss SlominskiWas in a key position in a key institution.Tlie Clinic at Riley Hospital gives specialtraining to graduate medical studentsand to graduate specialists in speech,physical and occupational therapy, andto graduate psychologists working towarda Ph.D. degree, and to graduate socialwork students. After her extended training it was possible for the Clinic to consider expansion of its excellent programto include graduate medical students whoare preparing to become specialists intiie fields of neurology and pediatrics.The Foundation believes that training of

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doctors in the peculiar problems of cerebral palsy is of utmost importance. Bystrengthening the work at Riley Hospital,the Foundation has made a contributionto progress of immensely greater valuethan is represented by the relativelymodest sum of money involved.

Then there is Sue Terry Woodson,who was granted a scholarship for studyat Syracvise University. She undertookto teach at the Cerebral Palsy NurserySchool of The Children's Medical Center

at Wellesley Hills, Mass. Whenever university students came to the Center todo practice teaching. Miss Woodson enticed them into working with her so theywould learn about CP children. Moreover, she became one of the leadingdemonstrators at a CP workshop givenby Boston University at which many participants attended on grants given by theElks Foundation.

IN HONOLULU at The Queen's Hospital, there is Miss Hope Yee, who stud

ied on a Foundation scholarship underMargaret S. Rood at the University MSouthern California. Miss Yee has been

one of but two trained cerebral palsytherapists in Honolulu and has been ableto make her special skills available to theentire therapy staff of The Queen's Hospital, an invaluable contribution to thisinstitution.

These workers, aided by the Elks toimprove their skills, can be found allover the country—Mrsj. Margaret Anderson in St. Petersburg, Florida, Barbara Powell in Albuquerque, PriscillaMcNaughton in Cincinnati, RevillaWright in Oakland, California, NormaDoctor in Beaumont, Texas—they areheading up teaching programs, openingnew centers, gradually but steadily pushing back the frontiers of ignorance ofthis terrible handicap.

Perhaps the best way to explain how

they do this is through the experience ofElessa G. Prien. Before she was given aFoundation grant for study at the Cerebral Palsy Institute in New York therewas no Cerebral Palsy School in NewBedford, Mass. Due to her special training, she says, she was able to advise onthe establishment of a new school andclinic there. Within a few months theclinic was operating and one of its firstmajor activities was a frankfurter andmarshmallow roast for adolescent boysand girls. "It was tlie first time many ofthem had ever held a fork and roasted

their own weiner and eaten themselves,"says Miss Prien. "It was a thrill towatch them."

Under Miss Prien's guidance theschool went to work to find more and

more children needing help. Many"hopeless" cases were discovered. Onesix-year-old boy was found who was stillon a nursing bottle and, of course, hadnever walked. Within a year he was ableto walk, feed himself, drink out of a cupand partially to dress and undress himself.

Another child at age seven had neversat up or stood up. A few months latershe was getting around with a rockerand had become something of a pleasurable problem because she never wantedto stay still.

When the parents of tliese and manyother children come to Miss Prien, theireyes filled with joyous tears, and thankh^r with a fervor that is achieved onlyafter great suffering. Miss Prien thinksto herself again and again, "This happiness, this feeling of re-discovering life,this blessed freeing of the condemned—it might not have happened but for theElks National Foundation."

Multiply that by several tens of thousands and you begin to get the idea ofwhat the Elks National Foundation islike.

AN ELKS NATIONAL YOUTH DAY BULLETIN

Chairman Dewey E. S. Kuhns of the Grand Lodge Youth Activities Committee has mailed toall lodges and State Associations colorful Youth Day posters to be used to every advantagein promoting interest in your celebration of May 1st as Elks National Youth Day. He has alsomailed brochures carrying full details on the Committee's program, with suggestions for asuccessful May Day ceremony.

By this time, your own plans for this observance should be well under way in order thatall phases of it will proceed smoothly and that all possible methods to publicize it locallyare utilized to their greatest extent.

New Youth Day Report Coverage Inaugurated

So popular has Elks National Youth Day grown that it has become physically impossiblefor your Magazine to carry all the reports and photographs that are submitted to us. Ithas therefore been decided that accounts of the 1955 events ore to be forwarded to theGrand Lodge Youth Activities Committee for judging.

Those selected as most representative will receive a Grand Lodge Certificate and will bepublicized in the July issue of the Magozlne.

Brian M. Jewett, Woolwich, Maine, is the Committeeman who has been assigned this duty.Deadline for his receipt of your report is May 15th.

fieg/n Preparation of Your Report NOW

Because of the time element, if Is strongly suggested that the Youth Activities CommitteeChairman of each lodge immediately instruct a member of his group to begin NOW to collectall pertinent publicity and other data incident to the event, and to make up a day-by-dayreport on the progress of your plans, so that the full story may be ready for submission toMr. Jewett immediately ofter your May Day ceremony is over.

If this suggestion is followed, all he will have to do to get his complete, illustrated reportin the mail by May 2nd, is to secure good, clear reproductions of all photographs takenduring the actual program, caption them properly, and insert them in his brochure, alongwith clippings of all newspaper publicity given the program the day after it is held.

Remember—do not send your reports to the Magazine, and do not delay submitting themto Mr. Jewett. The May 15th deadline must be adhered to.

the white houseWASHINGTON

January 19. 1955

Dear Mr. Kuhns:

, V ,054-55 Youth Program o£ theThe details of ihc ^re ofBenevolent and Pro personalgreat interest to national good, ourhappiness and £or ^^^^uraged to learn to

this need.

I am sure youlems involved "^^^rity in aworld which oftenthe young toward adults must them-secms confused the standard wh.chselves keep constantlythey seek ^j^/tcnsions of modern

and dedication and understanding.

V are with you in your organizaUon s

Sincerely

— c KuhnsMr. Dewey E. Committee

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that I should have killed with a beanflipper—suffered nothing worse thanfright. When I did happen to hit one, itwas a mistake. I remember one mallarddrake in particular.

He came in alone and I missed himwhen he was only a few feet above thedecoys. He then flared up into the breeze,directly over the blind. I shot him withthe full-choke barrel when he was almoststraight overhead. I centered him. andhe couldn't have been 30 feet away.Later, when I picked him. I counted 39shot holes in his breast alone.

That was the only duck I hit squareall day. They kept coming and I finallykilled six, but I shot a box and a halfof shells to do it. I think every one Igot. except for the first drake, was acripple that I liad to shoot again on thewater.

AS MY little boy said when his mother's pet vase slipped out of his

hands and shattered into a thousandpieces. "Why was that?" I can't answer.My slump lasted about a week and then,after a couple of hours of lousy sliootingone morning. I suddenly began hittingducks again. The end was as mysteriousas the beginning.

Of course, there are a lot of reasonsfor mi.ssing ducks. One of tlie most com-

j mon—but one at which I'm usually ableto catch myself—is stopping the gun asI pull the trigger. You can't hit 'em ifyou do that. Occasionally I seem to haveto go through a seizure of it. I knowwhat I'm doing wrong, but I can't help it.

I think flinching probably is one ofthe causes of unexplainable misses, andit's hard to detect. But if I was flinchingduring my slump last winter, why did Isuddenly get over it during the middle ofa morning's shooting? I can't answerthat, either.

Maybe it'.s just as well we don't knowwhy we miss sometimes. It keeps ushumble.

Of course, fishing really is my forteand I think I'm probably a better fisherman than I am a hunter. But there have

been times when I wondered, .lust about

a year ago. for example, something happened lhat I don't understand yet.

One Sunday afternoon. Bill Schwartzand I walked out on a bar to fish for

steelheads. Bill was a little quicker insetting up his tackle and so he made acouple of casts while I was still runningmy line through the guides. As he wasretrieving his lure the second time, hehooked a five-pound steelhead.

I leaned my rod against a willow towatch the fun and when he had worn

the fish out I helped him land it. Consequently. my outfit still was not set up bythe time he was ready to resume fishing.He wanted to wait for me but I foolishlysaid, "Go ahead."

He made three more casts. On the last

he hooked another steelhead of aboutthe same size and landed it. too. Thelimit was two. He stepped back and quitfishing. Never before did I see anybodycatch two steelheads in five casts. I de

cided there must be a tremendous schoolof them in the pool and. taking the spotBill had just vacated, I began castingeagerly.

I cast steadily for the remainder of theafternoon. Maybe I cast 500 times; maybe5.000. For a while. I used the same lurethat Bill had caught his on and then Itried several others. I never got so muchas a touch.

Why, I ask again, was that? I fishmore than Bill does. I've caught moresteelheads, too, because he's only beenfishing for them three or four years, Ithink I know how to work a lure to makethem hit it. But the embarrassing factremains that they did hit his and theydidn't hit mine.

While I don't mind confessing that Isometimes get skunked, there are occasions when, I will admit, I would muchprefer to say nothing. Several years ago.I wrote a magazine article and not longafterward the editors sent me a wire.They were going to run the piece in anearly issue and there was. they said,only une possible illustration. They hadto have a picture of me with a big fish.

I was in a spot. I had no picture ofmyself with a big fish. Furthermore, it

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was March. Trout season wasn't open;it would be impossible to catch a bass.What to do? I finally decided that theonly possible out was to catch a steel-head and use him. They still were running in a stream about 75 miles away.Even though it was late in the seasonand they would be in poor condition, oneof them might do.

I loaded my fishing tackle, cameraand wife into the car next morning without much hope. As every angler knows,when you have to catch a fish it's usuallyimpossible.

The day was raw and dismal. Therewas a fitful wind and it rained some

every now and then. Nevertheless, wefished persistently. Late afternoon came,and what little light there was began fading rapidly. We were working down ariffle. I was in the lead and my wife wascoming along behind, fishing water thatI had already covered, when I heardher shout, "Fish on!"

Sure enough, her rod was bent and theline was running out. We waded ashoreand slie said, "Don't you think you'dbetter go get the camera?"

I couldn't deny the logic of her suggestion. I hurried to the car and got thecamera and flash bulbs, and by the timeI returned she had beached her fish. Itwas a steelhead 27 inches long thatwould weigh about eight pounds. He wasthin, but he'd have to do. We set up thecamera and she took five or six picturesof me in different poses with her fish.Then we went home.

Now, I could see no particular reasonfor mentioning this experience to anyone. After all, I could have caught asteelhead myself if I had fished longenough, but we had to have the picturein a hurry. She happened to catch thefish, and that was that.

Unfortunately, I failed to reckon withthe morbid satisfaction that all wivesseem to find in putting one over on theirhusbands. In three days, everybody intown knew about it. When the pictureappeared in tlie magazine I took an awfulbeating. Even now, after six or sevenyears, my friends occasionally greet mewith, "Your wife caught any more fishfor you lately?"

Years ago, it used to bother me whenI got skunked. I thought I was prettygood and it hurt my ego when I couldn'tfind a deer, hit clucks or catch fish. NowI've become more philosophical about it.After all, if we always got the limit theelement of chance would be gone andmuch of the sport would be missing. I'dundoubtedly get more fish and game nowif I were more aggressive, but I've discovered that I can enjoy myself thoroughly even though I don't fill my creelor hunting coat.

This is not to imply that I don't try.I'm not the kind of sportsman who doeshis hunting and fishing on the frontporch of the club house. Perhaps Ishould say that I now find more satisfac

tion in trying and that the catch, or kill,is proportionately less important. Still,there have been times. . . .

Not long ago, three friends and Ispent two days on a stream that produces more big trout than any other inour area. The water was very low andvery clear and we could see them. Mostof the time we knew that we were fishing over rainbows that ranged from twopounds up to seven or eight—and somethat we saw probably were even bigger.

During the entire two days, none of ushooked a single decent fish. Occasionallywe'd get one of them to follow a fly fora little way, but they never struck. Ifinally wound up using a leader thatwas 18 feet long and tapered to 4X, butit was no use. Either our flies were notquite right or else they saw our leaders—or both. Whatever the reason, the troutwere more than a match for us and we

went home completely skunked exceptfor a few foolish little ones.

Only one amusing thing happened. Iwas across a big pool and somewhat upstream from my three companions whenI noticed some dimpling rises near amoss bed. I began casting to them andsoon hooked a Rocky Mountain whitefishabout 18 inches long. Now. whitefish actually are not bad sport. Although theycan be very selective at times, they oftentake flies readily, and they fight aboutlike grayling. Still, I was disappointedbecause he was not a five-pound rainbow.

My companions saw me playing a fishand one of them called to ask me whatI had. I told them a whitefish, and whenI beached it on the spit of gravel whereI had been standing I held it up for themto see.

Of course, they were so far away thatthey couldn't tell what it was, but theycould see that I'd landed a good-sizedfish of some kind.

When I hooked the second one a few

minutes later, one of them again shouted,"What you got?"

Again. I told them a whitefish. Theonly trouble was that a whitefish in thisstream was as badly out of place as abuffalo in Thomasville, Georgia. I neverheard of anyone's catching one here before. I knew my pals didn't believe me.In fact, by now they had started aroundthe pool my way. They undoubtedlythought I'd blundered onto the secret ofcatching the untouchable trout and wastrying to keep it from them.

Merely to egg them on, I shouted,"I said I'm catching whitefish. and

1 don't need any help!" and with that Iheld up ihe second fish for them to see.That did it. They hurried on as fast asthey could come.

Fortunately, they had a long, hardroute over extremely bad footing tocover. By the time they arrived, out ofbreath and eager. I had two more white-fish stretched out on the gravel. Theirfaces, when they finally were close enoughto see that I really had told the truth.

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unteers from the Elks, P.T.A. groups,the American Legion and a score ofother civic organizations.

More than 325.000 people were actively engaged in the battle against polio atone time or another—and fewer than250 have received any payment for theirwork. Half of them are girls who beganfeeding 144,000.000 pieces of information into a battery of tabulating machinesin Detroit last August. The remainderare a handful of epidemiologists on leavefrom university posts for the past yearand a half to serve on Dr. Francis' staff,about one hundred doctors and technicians examining blood and stool specimens in twenty-seven laboratories andseventeen medical intelligence officersborrowed from the U.S. Department ofHealth.

In the final analysis, the majority ofAmericans had a vital role in the cam

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evaluation study swelled the total tomore than that. And every cent camefrom the March of Dimes fund which is

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tect unknown children from the diseasethat struck their loved ones. On severaloccasions Dr. Gordon Brown, who is incharge of the blood laboratory at theUniversity of Michigan, found himselfin the agonizing position of asking thefamily of a polio victim to give samplesof blood while funeral services were being held for a dead child. Despite theirgrief, they never refused Dr. Brown'srequest when he explained gently thatsuch samples were important weaponsin the fight against the disease that hadbrought tragedy to their homes.

On January 15, 1955, Mr. and Mrs.Gerry Jacobs arranged a big benefit showfor children in Newark, N.J., with theproceeds going to the March of Dimes.Richard, their eight-year-old son. succumbed to polio last August.

Dave Preston, the National Foundation's Science Editor, tells of accompanying Dr. Richard Seibert on a call in EastDetroit on a miserable, rainy night lastOctober. Dr. Seibert, a tall, affableyoung fellow, is a medical intelligenceofficer on loan from the government withspecial training in the control of communicable and exotic diseases. His mission this night was to get blood samplesfrom a child just stricken with polioand from his parents and two other children in the family. Seibert and Prestonarrived at the home at 7 P.M., a likelyhour for finding the family together.Both parents were still at work in fac-

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tories trying to meet the added strain ofan intolerable burden.

In addition to the paralyzed child,another child in the family was bornwith cerebral palsy. The third cliild hadsuffered a nasty fall the day before andhad been so terrified by a tetanus injection that he went into hysterics whenDr. Seibert took out a needle for theblood sample. Preston suggested thatthe family had too many other troublesto be bothered with giving blood, butDr. Seibert said it was a necessary procedure. They drove around in the rainfor two hours until the parents returnedfrom work at nine-o'clock, bone tiredand distracted with worry. When Dr.Seibert explained tlie purpose of hisvisit, they helped him cajole the hysterical youngster and patiently answered along list of questions he needed for acomplete case history.

"The desire of those poor, patheticparents to help was the most touchingthing I've ever seen." Preston says."When we were leaving, they made agesture that really made me choke up.They went to the icebox, took out the onebottle of beer in it and insisted that wetake it. We could do notliing for theirown paralyzed child, but they wanted toshow they were grateful that we weretrying to help other children."

SUCH heart-warming demonstrationsare familiar to people who have been

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There are twenty-six diseases withhigher mortality rates than the onedeath per thousand popiilalion attributedto polio, but none leaves such tragicscars. A child who survives another disease probably will not have visible aftereffects, but one polio victim in everythree is a grim reminder of the scourgein a community for the rest of his life.Fully half those afflicted with polio immediately suffer some degree of paralysis.If it does nut disaj)poar after seventydays, there is little chance that muscular function will be regained rapidly.Thirty per cent are left with significantresidual, or peruianenl. paralysis. Theyeventually are able to find employment,but fourteen j)er cent are crippled sobadly they cannot be self-supporting.Six per cent die.

Until Dr. Salk developed his vaccineat the University of Pittsburgh in 1952.aided by a grant of $965,950 from theNational Foundation, no effective agentheld the promise of combating the threetypes of virus which cause polio. Im-|)ortant groundwork in the field was doneby Drs. W. A. Park. M. Brodie and J. A.Kolmer in the 1930's. but their vaccines

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Parents will remember the high hopesraised by Dr. William McD. Mammon'sgamma globulin, which was tested extensively in 1951 and 1952 during severepolio epidemics in Sioux City, Iowa, Prove, Utah, and Houston, Texas. GG. helpedto check the epidemics and the NationalFoundation appropriated the sum of§19,000,000 for future supplies. However,officials of the organization knew thatGG was not the final answer. GG gave ahigh degree of protection against polioonly for five weeks and none after eightweeks. That meant it was practical togive inoculations of GG only after theoutbreak of an epidemic. Science waslooking for an immunizer that offered |longer periods of protection and couldbe given before polio invaded a community.

The publicity surrounding the GGtests obscured experiments conducted inPittsburgh at the same time with Dr.Salk's vaccine featuring a new approachto the problem. His vaccine is made bygrowing the polio virus in cultures ofmonkey kidney tissues, then treating thevirus with formaldehyde to inactivate it.Previous vaccines were based on theprinci|)le so successful in smallpox andother diseases. "Live" virus was injected ,to produce a weak case of the disease in 'line with the theory that the body then ;would build up immunity to future attacks. Dr. Salk's vaccine is made from

"dead" virus which, he believes, raisedantibodies to higher levels. It all soundspretty complicated, but Dr. Salk, a slim,dark man of forty, has a rare gift in hisprofession for explaining technical matters simply and succinctly.

"I think natural immimization can besurpassed by the use of dead virus, anartificial means." he says. "This is aclear departure from conventicmal belief, ,but it has been established by work withinfluenza and other virus infections. If

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plan was to have every state in the unionparticipate in the field trials, but Minnesota, Arizona, Maryland and Georgiadeclined for a variety of reasons. In somecases, public schools' closed before theinjections were to be given in the spring,a time when a dangerous rise in polioattacks could be expected. A far moreserious problem to contend with werethe objections of parents to expose theirchildren to a new, and largely untested,vaccine.

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received a compound fracture of herarm which was followed by an infection entailing the necessity of the removal of several inches of the bone.

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to 60 per cent requests of the parents inthe test areas for their children to be vaccinated. It is believed that public acceptance will be 90 per cent for proposedinjections in 1955.

Since children from six to eight areamong those most susceptible to paralyticpolio, it was decided to concentrate onthat age group for the purpose of gathering uniform data. It was imperative towork with schools because their estab

lished facilities made them ideal vehiclesfor assembling records in the test areas.

That was just the beginning of an incredibly complicated process. The children in the test areas were then separated into three categories. Injections ofDr. Salk's vaccine were given to 440,000,each receiving three shots over a periodof five weeks. In eleven states, 210,000

children were inji'clecl placebo, asubstance that huiks exactly like tlie vaccine but has no effect. Only two people,Dr. Francis and his deputy. Dr. RobertF. Korns, knew whether a child was getting the vaccine or placebo. The remaining 1,180,000 children merely wereregistered for comparative observationin the study group. About 40,000 children in all three categories gave thefirst of three small samples of blood, avital procedure to compare antibodycounts before and after the injections.

Sticking needles Into 650.000 kids wasthe nerve-wracking job it figured to be.A small army of women volunteers wason hand in the schools to placate screaming, terrified youngy^ters. Representativesfrom the Nalioiial Foundation again hadto go through the business of reassuringparents the vaccine was harmless. Inone county, two principals refused to letpolio-fighting teams enter their schoolswhen the countryside was swept by scarere|)ortH that monkeys had died after receiving injcclions of the vaccine.

Morton Boisen, on loan from the U.S.Bureau of the Census to assist Dr.Francis in the statistical evaluation, was

pretty upset when he saw a doctor chasea frighlened boy down the corridor of aschrtol in South Bend. Indiana, seize thechild by the scrulT of the neck and jabhim with a needle. It ileveloped that thedoctor was the child's grandfather andwanted lo make sure he was i)rotected.In some places, civic groti|)S gave thekids lolli|)o)is and balloons to calm (heirfears, ihen had lo slop repeaters fromsneaking back in line for secoiuls of theprizes. In South Bend, an injection wasgiven by mistake to a boy whose parentswere deail set against it. That could havebeen a sticky silualion leading to legalaction, perhaps, but tiie parents listenedto reason and agreed lo foi get it.

Du|)licates of ihe basic information onthe cards of 1.8.S().000 children w<'re filed

wilh Dr. Francis in Ann Arbor, schoolsclos<-d for the snmmer and the jieriod ofgrim, watchful waiting began. It wasn'ta long wait. Hot weatlier brouglit. asalways, a shar|) rise in the outbreak ofpolio. In 1954. there were 39.000 cases,the third woj-st epidemic ever rect)rded.Only 1952. wiili 56.000 cases, and 1949,with 42,000, claimed more victims.

NOW TME machinery of tlie field trialswent inl(j high gear and tackled an-

ticii»ated complications. Public health ofU-cers in each of the 217 lest areas hati

been instructed to send a collect telegram to Dr. Francis in Ann Arbor reporting eaidi polio case immediately.Knowing that many children would beaway at camps and snmmer resorts. Dr.Francis made airangements wilh allstates, the National Ofiice of Vital Statistics and hospitals tliroughout the country to receive a similar mtlification ofevery case they recorded. That was anec<!ssary measure to keep track of allthe children in the contiol group.

As the telegrams poured into AnnArbor, Dr. Francis' staff waded throughthe 1,830,000 cards to determine whetherthe Johnny Brown or Susie Smithstricken at a summer camp in Mainewas registered in their files from anotherlocality. It also was imperative to makecertain that the child actually had polio,a disease difficult to diagnose in the earlystages. Encephalitis, mumps, meningitis and many other virus infections oftenare mistaken for polio by the most competent doctors. And, conversely, poliosometimes is not spotted immediately.False diagnoses would destroy the validity of the polio study, of course.

Upon receipt of each notification ofan attack, Dr. Francis sent a telegramto a doctor in the vicinity of the childasking him to examine the patient andanswer in exhaustive detail a list of

twenty-five preliminary questions. Sinceit was vacation time and children often

were separated from their families, asimilar wire was sent to another doctorfor information on the patient's parents,brothers and sisters. Many children inthe study were stricken outside the areain which they were registered and contact had to be made with doctors whowere not among the 20,000 originally enlisted in the plan. These doctors sometimes had to travel 100 miles into iso

lated areas at their own expense to getthe required information and it is totheir everlasting credit that not one everrefused Dr. Francis' call for help.

It may be urgent at this point to correct a possible misconception. The Na-tii)nal Foundation did not limit its moneyand resources to children in the vaccine

trial group. It was as vitally concernedas ever with every polio victim and spentm<ire than S28.800.000 in 1954 aidingindividual cases. Medical attention was

given unstintingly to all polio sufferers.But at the same time scientists con

centrated on getting statistical information within the vaccine trial group for theevaluation study.

Several paragraph ago. we mentioned144.000.000 pieces of information weregathered, collated and analyzed. Thatwas not a typographical error. The 70possible entries on 1.830,000 basic registration cards were just the foothills ofa mountainous mass of material. Two

dozen notations were added for each ofthe 650.000 children getting injectionst)f vaccine or placebo. More than 200j)ertinent items were added to the recordof each child who contracted polio.Within twenty days after the attack, forexample, a therapist made an exhaustivecheck on 54 different muscles and re

peated the examination after the critical70-day period to determine the degreeof residual paralysis. Then, of course,there was an intensive medical report onthe victim and mendjers of his family.

The data gathered from blood testsadded up to 21.600,000 separate items.Each of the three samples of blood takenfrom 40,000 donors was tested for posi-

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tive and negative reactions to the threeviruses which cause polio. Eighteen testtubes were needed for each blood sample.Multiply eighteen by three, for the cycleof three tests, and you get 54 tubes foreach donor. Multiply 54 by 40,000 andyou begin to get an idea of the enormityof the job.

Inevitably, mistakes and inconsistencies cropped up in comparing information on the cards. Dr. Francis and hisstaff wrote 1,000 letters a week on theaverage last summer to clear up the inaccuracies and to double-check information.

"We strained every possible effort toget our statistical material completelyaccurate to insure the integrity of theevaluation study," Dr. Francis explains.Incidentally, Dr. Salk did his first workwith viruses at New York University under Dr. Francis, a world-renowned epidemiologist. "As few as two mistakesfrom each of the 217 test areas couldthrow off our findings by as much astwenty per cent. That margin of errorcannot be tolerated when the lives andwelfare of children are at stake."

A couple of typical complications underscored the need for precautionsagainst errors despite the best intentionsof the people cooperating in the fieldtrials. Fully five per cent of the childrenin the entire study group moved beforesummer was over, usually into areas notincluded in the project. This meant tracking down new addresses and making certain that the proper Bill Jones had beenfound among maybe fifty kids with thesame n; me.

It meant heroic measures to make surethat no case of polio among the 1,830,000study group children was "lost" becausea child had moved. Fortunately, doctors,hospital authorities and health officers inevery part of the country, whether fieldtrial or not, made sure that informationabout polio among these children wassent to the evaluation center at AnnArbor.

Two types of field trial were conducted. In some areas of the country, children in second grade received vaccine,while first and third graders are beingobserved as control groups. In other

areas, half the children were given vaccine and the other half received theplacebo, a fluid which looked like thevaccine but is known to have no effect.

In parts of tTie nation where somechildren received vaccine and others gotplacebo, local authorities did not knowwhich was which, and shots were givenaccording to code numbers on vaccinebottles.

You may be wondering why the intricate operation was cluttered up withplacebo and the hocus-pocus of codenumbers. It was not done, we can assureyou, to heighten suspense in the officialreport now being prepared by Dr. Francis. On the contrary, the idea was to stopidle speculation founded on a relativelyfew cases. If a community knew thatthirty children inoculated only with theSalk vaccine had not contracted polio,false hopes might be raised. On theother hand, public confidence in the'vaccine would be undermined if there weretwo or three polio victims in a smallvaccinated group. Truly safe and scientific conclusions can be drawn onlyfrom a large number of case historiesand that required time while Dr. Francissifted and weighed tons of evidence.

There undoubtedly will be awave ofrumors and wild guesses concerning

the effectiveness of the Salk vaccine as theApril 1 target date for Dr. Francis' official report draws closer. You are advised to ignore all loose talk. Only twopeople, Drs. Francis and Korns, knowwhat the comparative statistics have revealed. They alone can answer two me-mentous questions: (1) Does the Salkvaccine cut down the incidence of poliosignificantly? (2) Does it reduce permanent paralysis?

Several important facts unrelated tothe two questions have been established.The field trials revealed new informationconcerning the origin and spread ofpolio. The old belief that it was borne bypolluted water or insects and struck indiscriminately has been discredited. It isone of the bitter parodoxes of our timethat the danger of polio increases withthe rise in living standards. Poor sanitation actually promotes protection against

the disease by inducing light attacks ininfants which build up immunity to laterinfection. Polio is less likely to causeparalysis in babies than older children.America's gleaming bathrooms and extensive networks of sewers and reser

voirs reduce the chance of contamination in infants, but they do not developnatural immunity to polio and, as a consequence, are hit harder a few years laterwhen they are exposed to the virus.

"Polio is a group contagion that isspread mainly along narrow channels ofintimate family associations," Dr. Francis says. "You can sit next to a carrierin a crowded room without any danger,but you may become infected if the carrier prepares food for you, if you usehis glass or bathe in the tub he has justused. Polio even can be spread by putting all the family wash in the samelaundry machine or tub of water. It issignificant that the incidence of poliofalls off sharply as family ties weaken."

We will not abandon family ties soimportant in the emotional developmentof a child. Nor will we discard hygienicsafeguards that have curbed other diseases. The severe polio epidemics of recent years certainly will be repeated unless a vaccine is found:—and there arestraws in the wind suggesting that thelong search is near an end. We have absolutely no authoritative, advance information on the Francis report, but. . . .

The National Foundation already hasplaced orders with six commercial laboratories for. $9,000,000 worth of theSalk vaccine for delivery within the nexttwo months. Plans have been made togive injections to 1,390,000 children inthe control group who were not vaccinated last year and to 7,895,000 othersin the first and second grades throughoutthe United States if the vaccine is licensed. An organization with a deepsense of responsibility would not havemade such a staggering investment ofpublic funds unless there was very greatfaith that the money would be put tothe best possible use.

Dr. Salk led the crusade against thescourge, but behind him there were160,000,000 citizens marching withdimes, determination and compassion.

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in minor league parks that should havebeen occupied by fans who were elsewhere watching big league games on television. They passed a resolution askingfor the reinstatement of an old rulewhich confines telecasts to a 50-mile areaof major league parks. Nineteen of thethirty-three surviving minor circuitseven voted indignantly to abandon themajor-minor agreement, under whichCommissioner Ford Frick rules all baseball. Fortunately, the agreement, whichexpires in 1956, requires a three-quartermajority vote for such action. But anominous future lies ahead.

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The majors, in reply, have been quickto reiterate the existence of two sides toall questions. Now impending against thebig leagues is one suit for restrictingbroadcasts and another for not restricting them. Either way they retreat, theyback into a buzz saw. Lawyers have longmaintained that to restrict broadcastswould be contrary to law. In legal feesalone, baseball has spent $500,000 since1946—with the end nowhere in sight.So the majors, on advice of counsel,needed only two minutes to kill theminors' resolution on television at theirmeeting in New York.

Next time you're enjoying a baseballgame, if you glance in the direction ofthe clubhouse in envy of the "opulentclub owner, whose carefree life consistsof nothing more worrisome than watching his team play every day", just remember it has been estimated that ahome attendance of 1,000,000 annuallywill be necessary from now on for amajor league pennant contender to dobetter than break even financially.

So much for baseball's headaches.There is a brighter side. No longer willyou have to fidget in your seat, inwardlyuttering invectives at the thought of ar-

riving home late for a cold dinner, whilesome pitcher stands motionless, seemingly for eternity, staring at the catcher.The majors, in a "take-the-bull-by-the-horns" burst of action, have hauled forthfor enforcement a rule that has remained

dormant in the book for years.From now on, if tlie bases are unoccu

pied, any pitcher who loiters longer thantwenty seconds after assuming a pitching position will have a ball calledagainst him. The plate umpire will haveno option. The penalty is compulsory.In addition to his mask, chest protectorand shinguards, the perspiring arbiterbehind the plate now must operate astop-watch part of the time.

Not only docs the two-hour gameseem fairly certain to return from

the almost forgotten past, but more majorleague clubs are nioving back the startingtime of their day games to 1:30 P.M.Cleveland is the latest city to discoverthat when a man takes an afternoon offfor a game he doesn't want to wait arounduntil 2:30 P.M. before action starts. The

Ohio city also has cut iialf an hour offthe starting time of its night contests,which will begin at 8 P.M.

One change in the rules which, judging from opinions expressed thus far,appears certain tq result in complications is the provision limiting the catcher's box to a width of forty-three inches,with no depth specified. A few hoursafter the new measure had been an

nounced, howls from catchers echoedthroughout the land. They were joinedby many pitchers. All were agreed thehard-working backstop would have towork a little harder this year.

The motive behind the change, ofcourse, is to make the intentional i)assmore difficult. The catcher won't be permitted to leave his box until after the

ball has left the pitcher's hand. If heshould, a balk would lie called. Whichmeans the average receiver's squattingposition must be transformed into thepreliminary motions of a bullfrog leapwhen a batter is to be walked intentionally. A pitcher could throw a slow ball,but what if there's a fast base-runner on

second ?

"I can't see this rule serving any purpose at all—beyond giving the catchermore work." said Carl Hubbell. famed

southpaw pitcher of the Giants sometwenty years ago. "It's not going toeliminate the intentional pass, which isa strategic part of baseball, but it probably will result in some wild pitches."

But what al)out the more pressingbusiness of pennant races, which will beat hand next month? In corner storesthroughout every city and village of theland you will hear: "Can the Giants repeat?" Abstention from predictions isone of Manager Leo Durocher's virtues,but listen to Horace Stoneham, presidentof the Giants:

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league will have to catch us. No, we'renot hunting for any deals. We can standpat. Of course we're not slamming thedoor on anybody who cares to talktrades."

Then Stoneham. finding the temptationto seize opportunity by the forelock irresistible, wafted a poison dart across iheEast River into Brooklyn. With tongue incheek, confident the percussion he wasabout to create would accomplish thedesired end, he purred:

"I look for the strongest opi)osilionto come from Milwaukee. I figure theBraves to finish ahead of the Dodgers.There's been a lot of lalk about a revamped Brooklyn lineuj), but unless theycome up with a whale of a change, 1can't see them as a big threat. Don't forget Milwaukee will have Bobby Thomsonfrom the very start this season. (Thomson was disableil most of last year witha broken ankle.) Then, too, Chet Nicholsand Bob Buhl should be belter pitchersthan they were in 1954. Yes. the Braveshave a lot of talent—Warren Spalin. Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron and others."

Is Stoneham kidding? Don't forget theGiants and Dodgers, traditional enemiesfor more than half a century, are theonly clubs in the National League whosecombined total of fandom has access toeither park by suhway or bus. The worstfinancial blow that could be dealt thePolo Grounders would be a hopelesssecond-division team in Brooklyn. As interpreted by Stoneliam's listeners, he wasmerely stirring the fire to get a '"deeperburn" in Flatbush.

T THIS JUNCTURE, you may besmiling tolerantly and asking your

self: "Just who will it be, the Giants.Dodgers or Braves?" Suppose we lend anear to ihe experts. Most "experts'', you'llrecall, belong to that august body ofaugurs who last s[)ring picked the Dodgers and Yankees as pennant winners intheir respective leagues; then, later, in a"sure-shot" scramble to repair damagedprestige, calmly informed a waiting |nib-lic the Indians would sandbag the (Giantsin no more than six games in the worldseries.

Well, this season the experts visualizethe Giants, Dodgers and Braves in a raceright down to the wire—in that order—with the remaining first-ilivision bertha battle between the Phillies. Redlegsand Cardinals. The Pirates are seen as

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The hullabaloo caused by the Yankee-Oriole deal, of course, merely was anamplified echo of the tumult created twodays previously among National Leaguefans when Greenberg proudly announcedthe acquisition of slugger Ralph Kinerfrom the Chicago Cubs for a "substantial" amount of cash and one anonymousplayer to be named later. Even Commissioner Ford Frick had something to sayabout this transaction.

"It is a bad, though legal, waiver rulewhich permits an American League pennant winner to acquire a player likeKiner from the Cubs without teams lowerin the National League standings gettinga crack at him first," said Frick. "Whenclubs get waivers on players in September now, the waivers stand until after thefirst month of the next season. In thatway, a club can deal a player to anyclub in the other league after its ownleague has waived on him."

I tain waivers on Kiner for severalmonths prior to the deal, but one National League club reportedly blocked the effort. Waivers, of course, can be withdrawn by a club after they are asked,which is one way of discouraging teamsJn the same league from claiming a valuable player who is tabbed "for sale" toanother league. So the stubborn NationalLeague club in question finally gave upand Kiner's hopes of playing in his firstWorld series were renewed.

Now 32 years old, Kiner, who hit .285or the Cubs last season, will plug a gap-

jtJg hole in the Indians' outfield. Hislome run prowess, however, slumped toa new low of twenty-two last year, soI'S worth to Cleveland in this depart-

nient cannot be assessed before nextSeptember.

The most important question in theAmerican League today is: Will Kinerstrengtlien the Indians more than Turleyand Hunter will the Yankees? Tlie consensus appears to be "no." Turley, whoWon fourteen games for the Orioles lastseason and led all major league pitchersin strikeouts, with 185. seems to be ashoo-in as a twenty-game winner with

Elk History Presentation To Porterville Library

Grand Exalted Ruler William J. Jerniek presents two copies of the "History of the Or-der of Elks'' to Mrs. Dorothy Margo, Librarian of the Porterville Library, on behalf ofPorterville, Calif., Lodge No. 1342. Left to right are: Exalted Ruler Harry B. Jackson,D.D. Lester J. Hamilton, Mrs. Margo, Mr. Jemick, Past Grand Exalted Ruler L. A. Lewis.

New York. Kiner, it is conceded, isn'tlikely to be responsible for twenty gamesin the Indians' "win" column. Furthermore. the 25-year-old Hunter is regardedby Manager Casey Stengel as the Yankees' No. 1 candidate to succeed PhilRizzuto. now 36, at shortstop. Larsen hasbeen an in-and-outer, so is a questionmark.

As for the Yankees' outfield weakness,don't be surprised to see Yogi Berra,normally a catcher, and the AmericanLeague's most valuable player for 1954.roaming the outer spaces occasionallyor filling in at third base this year.Stengel still has three good outfieldersin Mickey Mantle, Hank Bauer and IrvNoren. but he also has a bright prospectin rookie catcher Elston Howard, whocould relieve Yogi for other duties.

The White Sox, busily engaged indeals which have brought Walt Dropo,Bob Nieman, Ted Gray and Clint Courtney, among others, into their ranks, viewthings thusly tiirough the eyes of theirgeneral manager, Frank Lane:

"I feel we have strengthened the spotswhere we needed help. Both the Yankeesand Indians should be better this year, sowe were forced to make these moves,which I hope will enable us to get aheadof them this year."

Swinging back to the National League,just in case there's any lingering doubtin your mind as to why the Dodgers appear stronger than the Braves—tliere aretwo reasons. First, word has it thatcatcher Roy Campanella's injured hand,which reduced him to a token role lastseason, has responded favorably to asecond oj)eration. A normal Campanellacould bring untold hilarity to Flatbush.Secondly. Karl Spooner, young southpawpitcher whom the Dodgers brought uplate—much too late—from their Fort

Worth, Tex., farm club last season, stillis glowing in the aureole created whenhe fanned fifteen Giants in his debut fora one-game strikeout record for Brooklyn pitchers. When he followed that effort by striking out twelve Pirates toestablish a major league record forstrikeouts in successive games, the Dodgers knew they'd struck gold.

A physically intact Bobby Thomson,of course, will make for a much strongerMilwaukee threat, but, contrary toStoneham's prophecy, there is no solidground upon which to build hope thatBuhl, who won only two of nine gameslast year, with an earned run average of4.01, and Nichols, who had a 9-11 won-and-lost record and an earned run average of 4.43, will be better pitchers thisseason than they were in 1954.

As to the wisdom or fallacy of theGiants standing pat on their lineup, Eddie Brannick, secretary, who got hisstart in 1907 by sitting on the bench withthe late John McGraw as guardian ofthe ball bag, would have a final woid.

"Let's be serious," urged Eddie, willing for the moment to sacrifice his reputation as baseball's champion wisecrack-er. "Have a look at our regular startinglineup. It averages twenty-nine years inage. A minimum of four years to go formost of them. In centerfield is the league's1954 batting champion and most valuable player, Willie Mays, fn rightfieldis the runner-up for individual battinghonors, Don Mueller. Monte Irvin inleftfield has a lifetime batting averageof .299^. Behind the plate we have WesWestrum. His hitting could improve, buthe's one of the most dependable catchers,defensively, in the business. WhiteyLockman. on first, didn't have a goodyear at bat. but there are few betterfielding first-basemen. The same goes for

Davey Williams at second and Hank Wilhelm; a 17-game winner, Ruben Go-mez; a guy who won fourteen games, SalMaglie, not to mention a 10-game winner,Marv Grissom.

"Yeah!" with finality. "We need newplayers like a monkey cage needs rubberbars."

Thompson at third. At short, who in theleague would you choose over A1 Dark?

"On the mound we can put a 24-year-old kid, Johnny Antonelli. the league'stop pitcher last season. Behind himstands another 21-game winner, Hoyt

In the DoghousefContinued from page 31)

or provide temporary sleeping accommodations on my person.

You may be as big as a great Daneand if that's so I'd just as soon have ahorse sit on my lap or you might, regardless of your size, have trifled recentlywith an ancient fish. In either event yourpeople may think that their darling isirresistible but I'll reserve the right tomy own thoughts, chief among which isthe thought that I won't visit there againvery soon. Maybe they'll guess why butmy guess is that they won't becausepeople who are so fatuous about theirdogs always believe them to be the bestof all dogs and only a 100 per cent churlwould think otherwise. You may thinkyou're about the smartest dog I ever sawor your people may think so, whichamounts to the same thing, but I'll refuseto admire any of the show-off tricks theyhave you perform—more than once foreach trick. Anyway, I have a dog athome that's twice as smart as you, youbig stiff. But I'll be polite and admireeach of your tricks-—once around only.Encores are out.

I won't fall for that old stuff of pretending to take something away from oneof your people so they can show me whata wonderful guardian you are. I fell forthat once and was lucky to get my rightarm back. You save that faithful friend,noble guardian business for the men whocome to fix the TV set. Remember too,if you've learned to shake hands thatwe'll shake once and that's for keeps. Irecall trying to spend an evening of whatI had hoped would be a pleasant socialcall only to have it ruined by a dog thatknew only one trick—shaking hands.When I arrived the family decanter waspractically full of lemonade, when I leftit was still practically full. My hostsspent what seemed the entire eveningadmiring their dog. I spent it shakinghands with that pooch.

Now Mr. or Mrs. Dog Keeper if youhave been leaning over Fido's shoulderreading this you may have an idea thatthis fellow Faust is just a common scoldwho really doesn't like dogs at all. Let meassure you that such is not the case. It isbecause I do like them that I have triedto point up some of the things that dogowners do, or rather don't do, that makethose who may be neutral about dogsdefinitely dislike them. Among those relatively few who from the start don't likedogs, the untrained, spoiled dog strengthens that dislike sometimes to actualhatred.

To a large extent this is the fault of

the dog owner, not the dog. It s a raredog that cannot be trained. True, somedogs are natural show offs, spoiled andundisciplined as are some children andaccordingly disliked through no fault oftheir own but through mistaken kindnessand indulgence on the part of those whoare responsible for them. For this thereis no excuse; anyone who. is physicallyable to take care of a dog is physicallyable to train it. A well-mannered dog, andthat means a well-trained dog, is a dog tobe admired and a delight to its owner.The spoiled dog is a nuisance to everybody, including its owner, although thelatter may not be fully aware of it.

There's no reason why a dog can't betrained and that training, basic as it maybe, will make the difference between acompanionable dog and the nuisance dog.This training can easily be given at home.There's an old saying supposedly amusing that you've got to know more thanthe dog to train it. What this actuallymeans is that you have to impose yourwill on the dog. To a degree, trainingchildren is pretty much the same. If thesmall fry in their formative years are allowed to do exactly what they please theyusually find the world a hard place inwhich to live when they grow up. Thesame holds true for the dog; life is onlyeasy as long as he is protected andsheltered and his faults condoned by anindulgent owner. But in the eyes of otherpeople that dog is simply a pest. If sucha dog is thrown on its own it has a hardtime to get adjusted, not as hard as doesa spoiled child, because dogs adjust morereadily than human beings.

In training a dog there are two basiclessons it must learn. The first, if it isto be kept as a housepet, is housebreak-ing. The second is obedience. The latterdoesn't call for teaching cute tricks. Itjust means what the term expresses—obedience to simple commands. It hardlyseems necessary to note here that the dogis not a human being. He's an animaland as such can be a very useful companion and assistant to his owner. But ifhe is babied, treated like a helpless child,beyond his piippyhood and for the restof his adult life, he'll be just a toy, nogood to himself and just a toy to hisowner. Who wants that kind of dog? Thedog to fulfill his destiny and be the happier is the trained, unspoiled dog, a realcompanion to its owner, a guardian thatwill readily lay down his life for thatowner's life and property. When you havesuch, then brother you have a dog, one ofthe noblest of all animals.

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Be sure the walls are smooth. If uneven, sand away the rough spots thatcould work through the paper later. Fillcracks or holes with patching plaster,sanding this smooth when it is hard.

Calcimine paint or whitewash must beremoved with warm water. To paper overplywood, apply a coat of shellac first sothat the size and wallpaper paste willnot make the grain rise.

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You CAN do asuper-professional jobof hanging wallpaper if you start

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To do your own estimating, multiplythe total length of all the walls by theirheight. Divide the square-foot area soobtained by 30 to get the number of?ingle rolls needed. Deduct one roll for

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DETAIL STEPS IN HANGING WALLPAPER

and other preparatory work is done.You will need a big table on which

to cut and paste the paper. A two-by-sixplywood panel, or a couple of wideplanks, can be laid on sawhorses. Youcan rent tables in some communities.

You will also need a sharp knife, apair of scissors, a smoothing brush, apaste brush, a bucket, an edge roller,a rule or yardstick, a piece of string, a bignail or spoon, and a stepladder. A casing wheel is hai.dy for cutting paperaround molding and trim. Keep it sharpby stroking it on emery cloth. Tie a cordacross the paste bucket to lay the brushon.

When ready to begin, measure theheight of the room from ceiling to baseboard and cut the first strip of paper afew inches longer than wall height. Usethis piece to start the job at the left sideof the largest unbroken wall area. Inthis way you will be cutting a number offull length pieces first and have somesmall waste pieces that you may be ableto use later above doors or windows.

1. After cutting first strip 8" longer than v/allheight, lay it face down on the table. If paperhas a "right-side-up" pattern, begin pastingat bottom of strip. Brush paste first down thecenter for about two thirds length of strip, thenfrom center to edges.

2. Pick up the corners of the pasted end andfold it back, paste to paste, within 2" of thestill unposted part. Then pull the folded parttoward the end of the table to bring all theunposted part up on it.

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If the curl is troublesome, let about2' of paper overhang one end of thetable, lay your arm over it, and gentlydraw the paper back over the table edge.

Now, starting from the left corner ofthe wall area to be covered first, measureout the width of the paper, less one inch.That is to say, one inch short of the rightside of the paper. At this point place atack in the wall near the ceiling and attach the string weighted at the bottomwith the nail or spoon. This gives youa truly vertical (plumb) line to alignthe first strip by; you cannot rely on theroom corner, which may be far fromplumb.

The drawings and captions below showhow to paste, fold and hang the paper.Your first strip will "turn the corner"but this margin on the adjoining wallwill eventually be covered by the laststrip you hang.

When you reach a right-hand corner,carry the paper around the same way,trimming it lengthwise if necessary sothat it overlaps the next wall by no more

3. Paste the rest of the strip. Then fold itback like the first end, bringing top end bottom of the strip about 3" opart. Slip middlefingers under the paper between the ends, peelbock the top end a bit, and grasp comers ofthe top end with thumbs and index fingers tocarry the strip.

4. Holding top of strip 2" or 3" above ceilingline or molding, with its right-hand edge porol-lel to plumb line you have dropped (see text),withdraw middle fingers ond let the top folddrop. About 1" of left edge goes info roomcorner.

5. Flatten paper against the wall with the drysmoothing brush, first down the center, thentoward both edges. As you reach the lowerfold, pull down the bottotn end. If right-hond

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than 1". If the paper wrinkles when youpress it into the corner, make pie-shapedcuts from the edge just short of the corner. These will be covered by the following strip. Hang each first strip on a wallwith the plumb line to make sure that thepaper will run true.

If you have no casing knife, or findthat it tends to tear the pasted paper,run the scissors along the ceiling line,baseboard, or window casing to score thepaper. Then pull it away, cut along thescored line with the scissors, and patit back firmly. If you find the paperdoes not stick tightly at any point, apply more paste. After each strip of paperis applied, use a wet sponge and washoff any finger marks and excess paste,being careful to rub gently. Too much,rubbing will remove some of the coloreven if the paper is considered washable.

When you get around to any switchor outlet plate, turn off electricity atthe fuse box. Then remove the coverplate. Paper right over the box, cutpaper inside the box. Replace plate.

edge is not parallel to plumb line, slide paperabout with open polms (don't pull it by theedges). If necessary, pull the strip off and re-hang it.

6. Keep smoothing the strip right down to thebaseboard. Cut it here and along the ceilingline with a casing knife, or use scissors as explained In the text.

7. Test match the pattern by holding the rollup along first strip. Some patterns line yp otthe some point, others are "holf drops anmotch up holf a pattern apart.

8. Cut second strip so thot pattern will joinproperly at the fop and paper overlaps ceilingline as before. Butt its left edge against rightedge of firsf strip. If pattern does not matchexocfly, slide paper with palms, watching outfor wrinkles.

9. After honging three or four strips, firmseoms by running roller gently over them, usea cloth instead of roller on embossed poperto avoid flattening it. Cleon off squeeied-owfpaste promptly with a domp rag or sponge,rinsing it between uses.

10. To paper around openings, motch the stripand hong if right over the window or doorcasing. Then cut back to outside of casing ofcorners as shown. Press paper in along edgesof casing and trim if.

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OUR TRUE NATURE

While any State of the Union Address of a President may have pointsabout which some may disagree, therewas a statement in President Eisen

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"At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the

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MARCH

March is, to the members of theOrder of Elks, something more than amonth that is supposed to come in likea lion and go out like a lamb.

It is really one of the most importantmonths in the year so far as the activities of the subordinate lodges of the

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We say this for the reason that the Statutes of the Orderprovide that nominations for lodge officers shall be madein March and further provides as follows:

"The annual election shall be held at the second regular session in March by each lodge holding regularand semi-monthly sessions and at the third session inMarch by each lodge holding weekly sessions."

And so, March becomes the month in which the officersof subordinate lodges are selected.

There is a very strong practice in the Order of holdingto "rotation in office," the effect of which is practically toselect a future Exalted Ruler when a Lecturing Knight iselected, or even when the Exalted Ruler appoints hisEsquire. It is common for lodgea to advance an Esquireto Lecturing Knight and lor the members then to carryhim through the chairs until he becomes Exalted Rulerwhen he appoints an Esquire who will in turn automaticallybecome Exalted Ruler.

This practice is all right so long as good men are selectedfor either the Esteemed Lecturing Knight or the Esquire atwhichever point the rotation system is inaugurated.

However, the unfortunate thing about it is that the Elks,being very good natured and patient and considerate, arevery reluctant to elect anyone in opposition to a man whohas served as either Esquire or Esteemed Lecturing Knightor one of the other chair offices when he is nominated fora higher office.

It is true that the Order gets a very high grade of Ex

alted Rulers under the system now employed, but it is important to see that there is not even one bad or unfortunateselection. Is that not important enough so that every member of the lodge should be well informed as to who hasbeen nominated for office, who is talked about for office,and what has been the record made by those in office whoseek an elevation? And having this information, is it notalso important that each member participate in the selection and the election of officers, after careful considerationof the character, the attainments, and the possibilities ofeach man who is suggested for recognition?

//DID IT"

When the recent newspaper itemreported that Actress Betty Hutton])lanned to retire from the entertainment world and devote some of her

time to the Brownies, it reminded usof an incident which illustrates the

excellent training this junior Girl Scoutorganization gives the children.

One day not long ago our ten-year-old daughter returnedfrom a. meeting held by Brownie Troop No. 110, bright-eyed and bubbling to tell us of an important assignmentshe had received from the troop leader. In her hand sheheld an empty, one-pound coffee can. She was to paint thistin a dark color, she explained, and letter on it in white thewords: DO IT". Her friend Patricia was to proceed inthe same way with a second container, except that she wasto letter the words: "DID IT". She explained the use to bemade of these tins, or boxes as she called them, in the following recital:

Well you see, daddy, the Do Its are written on slips ofpaper and put in here, and we take them out of the Do Itbox one at a time and do what it says to do and then whenits finished we put the slip into the other box with the reslof the Did Its. See?"

What wonderful training with the simplest of equipment.There seems little question that the Brownies of Troop 110are getting an early and meaningful start in life towardobjectivity in a way that all the members of our Orderwill warmly applaud.

It is evident to all of us that if these children learn theirlesson well and carry such training into their lives they willface the world in their adult years as happy, successfulpeople.

Are we ourselves pursuing the same kind of objectivity inour own affairs? What extra effort have we devoted recentlyto that end we want to achieve in the business world, or inthe spheres of the spirit, of culture, and of morals, particularly those embraced in our Cardinal Virtues? And howabout fraternal activity? Have we been promising ourselvesto give a little extra time to service on a worthwhile Lodgeproject but taking refuge in the thought: I'll get to itsometime?

We shall do -well to borrow some enthusiasm from theBrownies and pick out a Do It from the items we havetucked away in mind. If we really work on it and "dowhat it says to do", we will find ourselves raising a glassand shouting in triumph: DID IT!

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