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A MESSAGE FROM THEGRAND EXALTED RULER

"THIS is a message to the 600,000 Elks who are not in theArmed Services. It is, to me, one of the most important

messages I.have ever written.Within the next few months you will begin to meet many

new young men. They will have the same faces and formsof the boys you knew a year or so ago but they will bedifferent personages. They will have gone through experiences that have made many changes in their characterand habits. They will have a broader outlook on life. Theywill have been under strict army discipline. They will beimpatient of further authority. They won't stand for beingkicked around.

In the great majority the changes will not be deep.Many who have left college will return to their studies.Many will take up the Government's offer and enter educational institutions where technical training is provided.Some will want to go in business for themselves. The largest number, after milling around for a few weeks or months,will take up their old vocations on the farm or in factoriesor stores.

In a fairly large percentage the changes will be greater.The boys who have spent much time in the army, especiallythose who have been on the firing line, will not be so easilysatisfied. Deep seated changes will have been made in theirnatures. They will feel that they are due a great deal. Theywill be resentful at the men who have remained at homeand earned large wages while they have fought for whatthey consider a pittance. They will be unwilling to return totheir old jobs except at large increases in salaries. Theywill be critical of the government and easily led into movements that may prove dangerous to law and order.

Those who have been severely wounded will prove a moredifficult problem. At first, they will want to be let alone.They will be resentful of pity and help especially fromstrangers. They won't want to talk of their experiences.They will not want any outward expressions of sympathy.Later on, perhaps, they will begin to look around for someway in which they can help themselves. They will try tobe self-supporting if they can.

Our answer to the needs of all these men is patience andsympathy. Our patience must be long-suffering, especiallywith those who have been in the army a long time or at thefront. They will have a difficult time readjusting themselves. They will not be willing to take the first job that

comes along. My attention was recently directed to thisfact. A man who had been employed in a factory at $50 aweek rose rapidly in the army to the rank of lieutenantcolonel drawing about $6,000 per annum. On his returnhome his former employer offered him his old job at $75per week which he disdainfully refused. Some who havehad little business experience will be bitter when the banksrefuse to lend them money to start an imtried enterprise.Some will resent the inquiries made by our Elks' Rehabilitation Commissions who will want to help them.

In all of these cases patience is the first and main requirement. Tact is a supreme necessity. We must listen tothe stories of these men with every show of interest. Wemust go over their problems time and time again. We mustsympathize with their ambitions and desires. We must notbe discouraged if they do not take our advice and afterfailure return for further help.

For the wounded we have even a great task. Our sympathy must be deep and understanding but we must becareful how we show it. We must not hurt the tender sensibilities of men already grievously injured.

I am sure I can coimt on every Elk to go the limit inhelping these veterans, especially the 80,000 of our Brotherswho are in the service, in every possible way. I know ourRehabilitation Commissions, organized in more than athousand lodges, stand ready to give unlimited time andmoney to the great responsibilities that rest upon them. Iknow our lodges will see that our program for the entertainment and relief of veterans in the Army and Navy hospitals will be carried out. It is a great thing to head anOrder which will mean so much to those who have done somuch for our country.

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1945

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A Message from the GrandExalted Ruler 1

The Army that Will ComeHome 4Representative Forest A. Harness

Professor Disney 6Frank J. Taylor

Civil Air Patrol 8Fairfax Downey

The Fall of Manila Lodge.... 10William F. Boericke

Elks Flag Day Report to theNation 12

The Elks in the War,..„ 13

The Grand Exalted Rulisr'sBirthday Classes 16

Under the Antlers 18

Rod and Gun 28Ray Trullinger

In the Doghouse 36Ed Faust

What America Is Reading.... 45Harry Hansen

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IN THIS ISSUE

We Present—

OWARD BUTLER'S "Snide Sammy" is back on the cover again.He exhorts you to participate in

the Seventh War Loan Drive. "Gotyour Bond Bud?"

Representative Forest A. Harness ofIndiana, a member of the House Military Affairs Committee's trip overseasto our battlefronts and a member ofKokomo, Ind., Lodge, returned from hisjourney with a number of new convictions about our Servicemen. Youwill want to know what an on-the-spotmember of Congress thinks. He tellsyou in "The Army that Will ComeHome" which you will find on page 4.

There is certainly one citizen offabled Hollywood that can justifiablybe called fabulous. He is also called WaltDisney. To us he has become "Professor Disney" on page 6 where Frank J.Taylor tells us many of the little knownfacts about the "Profs" educational activities. They are numerous, progressiveand of world-wide importance. In fact,if Professor Disney keeps going, and hecertainly will, one of the requirementsfor school teachers will probably be theability to operate a movie projector.

Fairfax Downey was in on the landingstrip of our Civil Air Patrol activitieswhich are so important to the teen agersof the nation. In the early days ofthis war he took a flier at teachingmany of them the fundamentals of armydrill and discipline. Now that Disciplinarian Downey has been released fromhis Major's commission in the Army, wehave prevailed upon him to tell thestory of the C. A. P. on page 9.

"Elks Flag Day Report to the Nation", an important announcement appears on page- 12. Every member willwant to read it. It contains news forthose who are planning the Order'sFlag Day programs.

One of the greatest disasters theOrder has ever suffered was the loss of

Manila Lodge, P.I. and the decimationof its roll of members by the Japs.William F. Boericke, a member ofManila Lodge, who survived the brutaltreatment of a Jap prison camp, hassent us the story of "The Fall of Manila Lodge". It is a dramatic accountof the last hours forty men of our Order spent in their lodge under Jap rule.

The Elks War Commission is doinga great deal to help in the rehabilitation of the members and the families ofmembers of Manila and Guam Lodges.Coles Phillips, Editor of The Elks Magazine, is at the moment on his way tothe Pacific Ocean Area as a War Correspondent for the Magazine. He willreturn with first hand accounts of ourArmed Forces on land, sea and in theair. We know that he will do his utmost to be of help to members of Guamand Manila Lodges should he have theopportunity.

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Mike, the American who had beenwounded and discharged fromthe Air Forces, was still plenty

of man to rate as a hot pilot in mostleagues. A commercial air line at homehad offered him a job, at.good pay, butwhen I met him at a Mediterranean

station, he was on his way to a flightjob with the Chinese government.

"What's the matter with America?"I asked him.

"Civilians," he said. "Especially thearm-chair strategists, who explain that

home is all they really care about.An Army chaplain told me, "The

men regard this war as a disagreeableinterruption of their real life ... a dirtyjob they must finish before they canget back to the things they want.Hundreds of men have told me 'I've

heard nothing from home since I wrotebefore, so there's nothing for me towrite about.' What they do here isn'thistory or even spot news to them. Itbecomes mere instinctive struggle • forsurvival. To most soldiers, the misery

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the Germans are really yellow and theJaps don't know how to fly. And theplush-bottomed planners in Washington who figure it's probably cheaper tokeep the Army at full strength than tomuster us out and then keep us on relief. Two weeks was enough to brownme off."

Mike is typical. The Air Forces giveflyers 21 days leave in the UnitedStates between assignments: more thanhalf the men report back for duty before the leave is up. And the flyersaren't the only ones. A junior infantryofficer, returning to Europe after amuch longed-for leave, told me:

"It's kinda good to be back in a warzone and not have to watch civilianssuffer trying to buy a pack of cigarettesor fight their way into a bar for a drink.I'm going up where we only wonderwhether we'll eat."

The trickle of service men cominghome disabled or on leave is swellinginto an ever bigger stream, but thesereturning fighters have not so far, apparently, broken into our civilian shell.I am afraid we still rudely shatter theirdreams of home. If we don't learn how

to help them "shake down" naturallyinto the normal way of life they areseeking, the millions who some timesoon will pour in on us will be bitterly disappointed young men—for

and fatigue and boredom are endurableonly because they live with a brightdream of homecoming."

A single day with troops confirmsthe chaplain's appraisal. Wherever Ivisited, whether I talked with a veteranofficer or with the freshest replacementin the line, I had to answer two questions about home for every one I askedabout his part in the war. Just a g^uyfresh from the United States—any partof it—is a treat to the man long overseas. If you happen to be from his section of the country, or his own state,so much the better; if he finds you arefrom his home community, his eagerness fairly overwhelms you.

But home is merely the civilians,from whom the soldier has inevitablygrown away. And there is a wideninggap which we can close only if we hereat home learn something of the soldier'sview-point . . . something we have sofar failed to grasp.

Willard Waller, the well known sociologist who has studied veterans ofpast wars, has written: "The simplestand oldest method of psychology isstill the best. We must understandthe veteran by imagining what itwould be like to be in his skin . . .the tools with which to work arein ourselves, and the most useful ofthem is sympathetic imagination."

Mr. Waller might well have addedanother adjective or two. particularlydesignating the imagination needed inour problem. Fortunately, we need nottry to grasp the war in its immensityand total awfulness; that is beyond theaverage imagination, anyway. But weought to try, at least, to sense the magnificent spirit of our fighting armies;especially we ought to work at understanding what keeps just one plain,ordinary foot-slogger ticking, in spiteof all his fear, pain and misery.

That sense of understanding willnever come in a vacuum; the homely,simple facts of Army life abroad mustbe better known. Here are just a fewleads I picked up in a month spent withthe armies in Great Britain, Belgium,France, Italy and North Africa.

You will scarcely recognize in thereturning veterans the kids who leftyour neighborhood a few months ago.The youngsters have become men.Many a fighter has lived half a lifetimein a single bombing mission, or a singlenight in a fox-hole. All overseas soldiers look—and doubtless feel—ten or

fifteen years older than their age. Theyoung fathers in imiform who show yousnapshots of their children before theyknow your name will have changedalmost as much as the babies they leftbehind. In language, habits, viewpoint and plans for the future, our soldiers are radically different men. AnArmy poll in the Mediterranean theatreshows that 27% of them do not intendto return to their old home towns. An

OWI report states that three-quartersof the men already released have notgone back to .their old jobs.

Is it battle experience which haschanged these boys ? No, for onlyabout one in five has actually engagedin combat. Millions of returning veterans will honestly tell you they didn'tfire a gun against the enemy, and veryrarely heard a hostile shell explode.Yet they will have done the back-breaking work 'round the clock that keepsthe combat units rolling; they sufferdysentery, malaria, dengue fever andjaundice too. These men will bringhome no Purple Hearts, but they, too,will have paid for our victory.

• Combat men, half jocularly, half inearnest, accuse the rear area soldier ofliving in sinful luxury. The visitor issurprised at the evidence of hostility:combat troops on leave have occasionally refused to salute rear-echelon officers, men at forward gasoline dumpshave refused to service jeeps from rearoutfits. The combat soldier has a case.When he comes back, exhausted, filthy,dazed by the horrors he has beenthrough, the emphasis on "spit andpolish" repels him. He occasionally rebels against this discipline, runningafoul of the M.P.'s. One of the most

effective German propaganda leafletsdropped over our lines shows a ragged,

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The biggest, fastest growing college in the world today hasn't anycampus. Its students, numbermg

millions, are scattered from one end ofthe globe to the other. It began as aGJ. Joe college, with classes in a dozenlanguages. The prexy is earnest, spark-ly-eyed Walt Disney, creator of MickeyMouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, the SevenDwarfs and a host of other animatedscreen characters, most of whom noware waggish but serious-minded professors. No subject is too complex tobe handled in Disney's college, which Isnow three years old and going great.

Until war broke, Walt Disney hadno idea he was headed for a role in theinternational educational field. Then theNavy long-distanced, the day afterPearl Harbor, to the busy new studioat Burbank, California, where Disneywas up to his ears in entertainment.The Navy wanted twenty thousand feetof animated film, broken up into thirtyto forty reels, to teach ship and aircraft identification to hundreds of thousands of land-lubbers about to be inducted into the Service. The Navyneeded the film in a hurry.

"How long will it take to make the

shorts?" the ofiicer in Washingtonasked.

Having no idea what technical datawas to be worked into the films, Disneystalled for time.

"We'll give you six months for thejob," said the officer, "but we want thefirst reels delivered in ninety days. Now—what about the cost?"

Still in the dark, Disney picked a figure out of the air—$4500 a reel.

"Okay, you've got a contract," barkedthe naval man. "This conversation hasbeen recorded. Start to work on thefilms today; we'll send a technical adviser out next week."

That afternoon the Disney idea staff,specialists on the antics of mice, pigs,elephants, dogs, ducks and other animals that behaved like human beings,began boning up on the animation ofships and planes. Before long they hadadded electronics, air power, germs,-agriculture, baby bathing, glass making, riveting and nearly every otherfield of human knowledge to their curriculum. At one time last year, ninety-Jthree percent of the Disney studio staffjof 900 was helping teach someth^g tcsomebody somewhere around thAtIob«

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through the medium of animated fill"Disney College" has long since ^tagrown its war training, and is pomtefto a vast new postwar panoraM^"6iiealmost unlimited in horizon,

"The animated film has n^Jimita inscope and range," says "Erexy" WaltDisney. "Even we whOyQeal with itdaily are startled by its^onstantly en-'larging possibilities. Nothing is toolarge or too small. Oi^animation camera can take a position among the stars,it can reverse time^or centui'ies, it canmake visible the Wrth and growth ofcontinents. Or it/can show the actionof molecules or/the functions of thehidden organs /in the human body.

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Above is a portrayal of one form of disease transrriission as• shown In Disney's "How-Disease Travels".

Never drink water from any stream is one lesson, shown above,because of the germs it may carry. Below: Heat is the cleanser of

germs, as pointed out in a Disney educational film.

Things invisible to the eye, such as atmospheric phenomena, are open booksto the animated film. And there are nolimitations of nationality, because wehave a medium that speaks all lan-giiag-es."

Walt Disney, who likes to trace allhis lively cinema day dreams back tohis struggling' art days, says his teaching urge goes back to the Kansas Citystudio, where the idea for MickeyMouse—now "Professor" Mickey Mouse,the educator—grew out of the visits ofa beady-eyed little mouse that used tocrawl fearlessly onto Walt's drawingboard. One of Disney's first animationjobs was "Tommy "Tucker's Teeth", afilm made for a dentist to teach children

the right way to scrub their teeth.Though the film was a success, Dis

ney's teaching went into an eclipse foralmost twenty years while he built anorganization specializing in amusement.The next pedagogical job came in 1941from the Canadian government, whichused a Disney film to train soldiers inthe use of a new anti-tank gun. U. S.Navy ofilcers had seen this film, whichconvinced them that Disney had theshort cut to training recruits in thetechnique of war.

The first Navy series taught the Disney staff how to turn out education bymass production methods. The studionot only delivered the shorts on shipand aircraft identification on schedule,

but whittled $8000 off the price pickedout of the blue by Disney. It was followed by an order for another serieson weather, gunnery, fighter tactics,navigation. Each film synchronizedwith a manual; the film's job was toput life into the dry text being crammedinto cadets and enlisted recruits.

Before the first Navy job was finished, the U. S. Treasury had heardabout it, and boomed into the DisneyStudio with a new project—a tough one.This was called "The New Spirit" andin it "Professor" Donald Duck lecturedtaxpayers on the role of income taxesin the war effort. The Disney staffworked through the Christmas and NewYear's holidays to get this film readyfor delivery to the country's theatersin sixty days.

Meantime, the War Department hadawakened to the need of animated filmsin its training program. The Disneystudio detailed a force of artists towork with Prank Capra on inserts fora series of "Know Your Enemy" films.Some of these included animated maps,to orient G.I. Joe in global warfare.Then the AAF sent in a hurry-up callfor a series teaching plane identification, aerial gunnery, precision and torpedo bombing. The Marine Corpswanted more animated films to teach

invasion tactics for Jap-held jungle islands. The Navy ordered a new serieson aerial combat tactics, and flew pilotsfrom the South Pacific to furnish first

hand technical data for the Disneyanimators.

An unexpected payoff on this workwas that Disney idea men, who hadhitherto thought only in terms of

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Composed of pilots and sfudent pilots thisgroup of CAP members fs shown receiving instruction prior to a test flight.

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CALL him Lefty. That will do wellenough as a tag. He was alicensed pilot with a good many

air hours to his credit. When the war

began, he tried hard to enlist but because of a slight physical defect neitherthe Army nor Navy air forces wouldtake him, nor would any other branch.He faced sitting out the war, which wastough, and sitting it out on the ground,which was tougher still. A country atwar could not be expected to allow acivilian flyer to go traipsing aroundloose in the sky.

That's what he thought. How wrongLefty was is testified to by his adventures which would make a movie

thriller or one of those bated-breathmagazine serials. Better still they'd bematerial for a bang-up cartoon strip.They'd be based on the missions Leftyflew simply as a civilian volunteer and

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without ever leaving the limits of thecontinental United States. Even sothey'd build up into a strip that wouldmake Superman or Flash Gordon moveover and admit that truth is strangerthan fiction.

Take just a few of them. There wasthat time Lefty was flying coastalpatrol on the lookout for German submarines, thick along our shore then.He was using a light sports plane,single-motored, and he was 100 milesat sea and it was winter. Engine failuremeant goodbye and no argument. Downthere, cruising on the surface, he spotteda German sub. Quickly he radioed,calling bombers to the kill. But he sawthey wouldn't make it—the sub hadstarted to crash dive. So Lefty got outhis wire-cutters and cut loose the depthcharge slung under his fuselage. It wasa near-miss, but that's good enough

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with a depth bomb. One sub was subtracted.

On another flight he marked down afloating mine directly in the course ofone of our big troop convoys. His warning turned the ships aside just in time.

Lefty flew Mexican border patrol.There's a lot of territory to be watched,and there's only one way it can reallybe covered and that's from the air. Badhombres, who meant us no good, triedto sneak across frequent-like. Leftyflew so low he could read the licensenumbers on their autos. If they did notturn back, they were met by a reception committee of U. S. marshals, summoned by Lefty.

Lefty lost coxmt himself of the number of rescues of fellow aviators hemade—airmen down at sea or crasheddeep in a forest or desert. He helpedsave lives and property in forest fires

A low-flying light plane searchingterrain where larger ships find it too

risky to venture.

and floods. And he and his trusty planewere always ready when blood plasmaor blueprints or machine parts, urgentlyneeded, had to be rushed somewhere.

Some of his missions Lefty liked tocall believe-it-or-not jobs. When theneed for scrap metal was direst, he wasable to contribute considerable tonnage.Flying over isolated regions, he hadspotted old iron bridges and abandonedmining machinery which everyone hadforgotten. Also Lefty actually becamea wildfowl herdsman, shooing flocksgently away with his plane from cropswhich they had been destroying. Meatrationing would be worse than it is if itweren't for Lefty's aerial hunts for thewolves and coyotes attacking livestock.

Quite a man, Lefty? Yes, but bestadmit now that he is a composite. Butso are Superman, Flash Gordon, andthe other adventure strip heroes.

Lefty and his accomplishments are acomposite of the men and missions ofthe Civil Air Patrol, that remarkableorganization which was formed December 1, 1941, to mobilize our civil airmen,with their planes and equipment, forwartime duties. And were they needed!

We were so disgracefully unpreparedin the air—as elsewhere—that it is fair

to call our situation a desperate national crisis, which is exactly what Gen.H. H. Arnold, Commanding General,Army Air Forces, has called it. To

help meet that crisis, CAP flew 24million miles over water and spotted173 subs; 30,000 airplane hours ofborder patrol along the Rio Grande;thousands of miles a day on courierservice and towing aerial targets;search and disaster relief missions, andmock raids where it dropped leafletslabeled, "This might have been a bomb."In so doing, CAP served the countryand saved civilian aviation from beinggrounded for the duration.

Some of those services now are CivilAir Patrol history; they were takenover by the Armed Forces when CAPbecame an auxiliary of the AAF in1943. Others continue to be capablyperformed, for CAP will carry onstrongly through the war, and no letdown. More, its activities may well

carry on through into peace, for theadvancement of aviation in all its phasesis a principal objective.

This Civil Air Patrol is organized intoa wing command in each state, imderthe direction of a national commander

appointed by the AAF. The wingsdirect local xmits composed of civilianvolimteers who render part-time servicein uniform without pay. More than125,000 adults and cadets are activemembers. Some 75,000 former members now are serving in the ArmedForces or war industries. Every one ofthem had a headstart and was better

prepared because of his training withthe Patrol.

There's a staff of Air Corps officersat CAP National Headquarters in New

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Caps off to CAP whose

activities read like an adventure strip.At left: Pre-milttary age boys receive

valuable training under the CAP.

By Fairfax Downey Below: Women as well as men take avery active interest In the Civil Air Patrol.

New -YEAR'S DAY, January 1,-1942, was gloomy enough inManila. The American Armyorganization had gone to Bataan,

leaving Manila an open city. Hugeclouds of dark smoke still blackened theskies on the east where the oil tanks atPandacan were yet burning sluggishly.Down in the Port Area fires had beenstarted on the piers to bum up suppliesof every conceivable kind that theArmy couldn't take along with them.It had appeared expedient and reasonable to turn these supplies over to theFilipinos or to anyone else who couldget them away, rather than to destroythem uselessly by fire, and at first sightthis appeared to be just common senseand decency, but it led to an orgy ofrioting, looting, and plundering by thelawless elements in the city, who appeared in such numbers that the localpolice, already thoroughly demoralizedby the evacuation of the Army and thecertainty of the Japanese entrance,were utterly unable to cope with them.

This was the situation that confronted the 40-odd men who were stillliving at the Elks lodge home on January 1. Most of them were regular residents at the clubhouse, with all theirbelongings in their own rooms; somehad come in from Cavite when theArmy left, and others were visitingBrothers who had been caught withouthotel accommodations. The Filipinohouse-boys and room-boys still remained on the job, and the club staffof native servants was practically intact. To their eternal credit, so far asI know, not a single boy quit his jobor left his post despite the disorder inthe city and the need to provide fortheir own families.

The Elks lodge home is only a stone'sthrow from the Army and Navy Clubwhich had been completely abandonedby its native staff when the officers andresidents there had moved out with the

A member of Manila

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ot its capture by the Japs.

By William F. BoerickeArmy. Almost immediately the pillagers began to appear and the lootingcommenced. There was little we coulddo to protect our neighbor's property.We had no weapons; appeals to the police brought no response, and we hadour own building to consider, inadequately protected with sandbags, and afew baseball bats for us, the only

weapons we could get hold of. However, we did manage to salvage thefine old clock that was so prized at theArmy and Navy Club, as well as someof their canned food which was added

to our own supply. Everything waspiled hastily into one of our reception rooms, later to be inventoriedand stored—as we then hoped.

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January 2 saw the looting extendedon a wider scale. The rioters were getting" bolder. Grocery stores were beingbroken into, windows smashed, doorsdemolished. The streets were filled with

vehicles of every description, anythingon wheels, from roller skates to car-rematas, piled high with loot. It beganto look doubtful if we could succeed inholding off marauders from the Elksclubhouse. We had organized amongus regular groups of men who acted asguards for two-hour shifts after darkuntil morning, but across the streetswe didn't like the looks of severalgangs that were eying us speculatively.

Frankly, while we didn't want to seethe Japs enter the city, we were prepared for it, and we did believe thatwith their coming some sort of orderwould be re-established. We knew it

had to happen, and after nearly a weekof sleeplessness, uncertainty and disorder, almost any change that promiseda stop to the rioting and violence wouldbe welcomed. And so, when the firstcolumn of the Japanese advanced acrossthe Luneta about four o'clock in theafternoon of January 2, I think most ofus felt something akin to relief.

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peared at the club and we were orderedto assemble in the office. He didn't knowexactly what a club represented, butupon our assuring him with all positive-ness that we had no firearms of anydescription among us—which was Bibletruth—he told us to remain quietly indoors and await further instructions. Inthe meantime no one was permitted toleave the club building; even the house-boys were forbidden to go, or, if theyhad left, to re-enter. To make thingscertain, a Jap guard with fixed bayonetwas stationed outside the club grounds.

However, the next day passed without incident. Aside from having nonews—of course the telephone had beencut off—it wasn't a bad day. The cityhad quieted down. The Japanese Armyhad taken over the Army and NavyClub—what there was left of it—but itbrought them too close to us for comfort. We passed the time by movingall of our canned goods to the basementfor inventorying. It was a sizable job.We figured we had enough food on handto provide for us for several months.Meantime we had to face the situationwith such philosophy as we couldmuster.

Then it happened, on January 4th. A

small detail of Japanese officers filedquietly into the Secretary's office of theclub, flanked by a couple of chunkylooking soldiers who were not too careful with their bayonets, and a "proclamation" was read to us, which informedus that we were to be accommodated"in a safe place for our protection", andthat we were to vacate the club premises immediately, which was to be takenover for the Army. And that was that."You will pack a few things in a bag,enough for three or four days and takealong a little food." Apparently thiswas to allay anxiety that we were leaving the clubhouse for good and all, andindeed it was repeated again that our"protective custody" was to be only

"temporary.We inquired if we could have time to

eat some lunch before leaving for partsunknown. The answer was No, period.Some caustic remarks were made bythe Japanese interpreter, whose hourof triumph had certainly arrived, tothe fact that when he had been interned by the Filipinos some weeksearlier, he hadn't eaten for thirty-six hours. Possibly this was true.

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Elks Flag Day Report to the NationDRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN

will deliver a special message tothe Order of Elks on Flag Day.

The President, who is a member ofKansas City Lodge No. 26, has giventhis assurance to a Committee of Past

Grand Exalted Rulers, consisting ofJames R. Nicholson, Bruce A. Campbelland James T. Hallinan, who called onthe President at the instance of Dr.

Robert South Barrett," Grand ExaltedRuler, whose presence was preventedby previous commitments to subordinate lodges, to arrange for the presentation, on June 14, of a Report to theNation of the war activities of the

Benevolent and Protective Order of

Elks.

The Report to the Nation, compiledby the Elks War Commission, will bepresented to the 50 Senators and 205

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Representatives, who are members ofthe Order, at a special ceremony to beheld in the Caucus Room, of the UnitedStates Senate. A selected group willthen proceed to the White House whereGrand Exalted Ruler Barrett will present to President Harry S. Truman, acopy of the Report to the Nation. ThePresident has prepared a special FlagDay message for his Brother Elks, andfor the people of our Country. Thismessage will be released for transmission it is hoped in time to reach everylodge in the Order that it may becomea part of this year's Flag Day ceremony.

To the Elks every day is Flag Day.The Flag is flown every day in the yearfrom the home of every Elk Lodge; itsfolds lie "in silken benediction" uponevery Elk altar; its ideals are im

pressed upon every Elks' heart. But inthis year of victory, the European Warended, the Jap fighting a defensive waron the threshold of his own homeland,the "rising sun" sinking slowly butsurely below the horizon of the Pacific,Flag Day should be the greatest of alldays. A day of solemn rejoicing andprayerful thanksgiving, for the approaching end of the war which hasspread sorrow and desolation over theface of the earth. It is a day when allmankind may look hopefully towardsthe dawn of a day of peace and goodwill.

The Order warmly welcomes andurgently requests the American Legion,the Veterans of Foreign Wars and otherpatriotic organizations, many of whosemembers are also Elks, to join in thistribute to our Flag.

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Above: Soldiers and sailors who participated inthe celebration commemorating the first year's operation of Oakland, Calif.,Lodge's Elks Dormitory

for Servicemen:

Left: E.R. Al Walden, atright, congratulates RobertHeiken, Chairman of theMerchant Marine BookDrive for Marysville, Calif.,Lodge on the fine workdone by him and his committee in collecting more

than 3,200 books.

Below; Li. Comm. RayM acAr thur, nephew ofGeneral of the ArmyDouglas MacArthur, afterbeing initiated into Ingle-wood, Calif., Lodge. E.R.Burt Brooks presented himwith a special Manila-

MacArthur Class card.

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Above: E.R. B. R. Griffith of Santa Maria, Calif., Lodgepresents a fine accordion to Marine Master SergeantEmilio E. Sutti to replace one which was destroyed in

battle on the Marshall Islands.

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Above: P.E.R. Earl Lovejoy, Chairman of Detroit, Mich.,Lodge's War Bond Committee, center, purchasing SIS,000in Bonds from Norman Hill of the XJ. S. Treasury Department. Irvine J. Unger, Treasurer of the lodge, looks on.

Above: Standing behind some of the more than 2,000books contributed to the Merchant Marine by Ann Arbor,Mich., Lodge are D.D. and acting E.R. Judge Jay H.

Payne and P.E.R. and Secretary Irwin E. Stoll.

Left: Patients at Lawson General Hospital using one ofthe four miniature bowling alleys donated to the Hospitalby Atlanta, Decatur, East Point and Backhead, Ga.,

Lodges.

Below: Comm. Jack Dempsey, U.S.C.G., of Los Angeles,Calif., Lodge who K'as guest speaker at a luncheon held atthe home of Bronx, N. Y., Lodge. On Comm. Dempsey'a

right is E.R. Andrew C. McCarthy of Bronx Lodge.

Above: Col. Robert M. Watkins, Wesi~ern States representative of the Elks}Var Co/nm/ssion, center, discussingplans with the officers and members ofSan Die^o, Calif., Lodge's War Com

mission.

Right: As the officers of Jersey City,N. Lodge smile with approval E.R.James P. Dolan presents to William M.Frasor, Special Deputy, a check for onethousand dollars for the Elks War

Commission.

Below: Standing beside the sign in thepicture which is self-explanatory, areKenneth Ellington, Secretary of Anderson, Indiana, Lod^e, on the left, andE.R. William Heuchans, Chairman of

the drive.

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The Grand Exalled Ruler's

Birthday ClassesODGES throughout the country, in ap

preciation of Dr. Robert South Bar-_ rett, initiated classes in honor of his

birthday. Since there were hundreds ofthese observations, we regfret that it isimpossible for us to publish pictures ofthem. However, on these pages appearphotographs of three of the BirthdayParties the Grand Exalted Ruler attended in person.

Typical of the celebrations were thosewhich are described in this story.

On March 28th the Grand ExaltedRuler left his winter home in St. Petersburg, Fla., for ATLANTA, where the observance of his birthday had long beenplanned. He was met at the station byPast Grand Exalted Ruler John S. Mc-Clelland and a score of officers and PastExalted Rulers and escorted to the homeof P.E.R. Orvis Roberts where a realsouthern breakfast of fried chicken,grits, corn pudding and hot rolls wasserved by Mrs. Roberts. At noon he was

Below are leit to right, J. Frank Umstoi, D.D. for Florida, West, of Tampa Lodge,Dan Roth, E.R. Miami Beach Lodge, G.E.R. Dr. Robert South Barrett, and Val C.Cleary, D.D. tor Florida, East, oi Miami Beach Lodge during the birthday party

given Dr. Barrett hy Miami Beach Lodge.

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the guest at a luncheon given by the Directors of the Florence Crittenton Homewhere a birthday cake was the piece deresistance and at one o'clock at a luncheon given by Atlanta Lodge No. 78. Atthe latter affair the officers of manyother Georgia lodges were present. Robert J. Alander, District Deputy for Georgia, West, was also a guest. -

At six o'clock Atlanta Lodge was thehost at a birthday dinner given at theBiltmore Hotel. Sixty guests were seatedat a table beautifully decorated withSpring flowers, in the center of whichwas an elaborately iced cake lighted bymany candles. The meeting of the lodgefollowed and a huge gathering saw Exalted Ruler W. E. Spivey and his officersinitiate a class of 54 in an impressivemanner. Judge McClelland introducedthe Grand Exalted Ruler as "an Atlantaboy who has made good and who hascome back home," referring to the guest'sschool days spent in Atlanta. Dr. Barrett was visibly affected by the magnificent tribute given him as he rose tospeak on the part Elkdom is taking inwinning the war. At the conclusion of hisaddress he was presented with a personal gift in the shape of a $100 WarBond and a check for $1,000 for the ElksWar Commission. A buffet supper at theElks home followed.

On March 30th the Grand ExaltedRuler's actual birthday was celebrated inCHATTANOOGA, TENN., which is not far fromSewanee, his Alma Mater. It was a dayfull of interesting events. He was met atthe station by a large delegation of Elksfrom all over Tennessee, headed by Col.Milton B. Ochs, Publisher of The Chattanooga Times. At noon he was the guestof the Board of Trustees of the FlorenceCrittenton Home and cut the beautifulcake which adorned the center of thetable. At the luncheon he referred to thefact that the handsome building of theCrittenton Home was almost entirely dueto Chattanooga Lodge of Elks which hadsponsored the drive for funds to erect it.At four o'clock a cocktail party wasgiven in his honor at the Read House andat six o'clock the official banquet tookplace in the lodge room of ChattanoogaLodge No. 91. It was by far the biggestaffair ever held in the history of thelodge, more than 450 guests being present. The room was handsomely decorated, the center of attraction being amassive birthday cake, five feet high,weighing 50 pounds and adorned with68 candles. When the guest of honorcut it the diners rose en masse and sang"Happy Birthday to You". An address ofwelcome was delivered by Mayor E. D.Bass, a Past Exalted Ruier, who statedthat in his long career as Mayor he hadnever welcomed a guest whom he admired so highly as he did Dr. Barrett.The room was cleared and Exalted RulerWendell D. Hill and his officers impressively initiated a class of 60 candidates.

Ai lelt: Dr. Barrett sitting at the head ofthe table during a visit to Charleston, S.C.,Lodge. Standing behind the Grand ExaltedRuler are, left to right, Henry Tecklen-burg, P.E.R., Treasurer; D.D. P.E.R.James P. Furlong, Henry Lee, Entertainment Committee Chairman, E.R. Robert

M. Wood and P.E.R. J. Vincent Price.

Brief addresses were eiven by Alfred T.LcviiiG, Pi'Gsident of the Tennessee StateElk Association, and Albert G. Hcins, District Deputy for Tenn., East. W. PL Mus-talnc, l-'u.at Grand Inner Guard, wasamong those present. Dr. Barrett waspresented with a $100 War Bond by Exalted Ruler Hill as a gift from the lodge.

The Grand £}xalted Ruler's return tohis home in ST. Petersburg on Eastermorning was the occasion of a splendidaffair in honor of his birthday. A hugesign "Welcome Home and Happy Birthday" was hung on the outside of the lodgebuilding. Dr. and Mrs. Barrett wereguests at a cocktail party and dinnergiven at the "Chatterbox" at five o'clockat which were present the officers of thelodge and their wives. J. Frank Umstot,District Deputy for Florida, West, andMrs. Umstot, and Victor Wehle, Past District Deputy and Mrs. Wehle were alsoguests. At the lodge meeting which wasan "all-state meeting" because of theattendance of some 150 visiting Brothersfrom all parts of the Country, Dr. Barrett installed the newly elected officers ofNo. 1224. It was the first time any of themembers had ever seen the installationceremony conducted without the use of

Right: Grand Exalted Ruler Barrettcutting his birthday cake during hisvisit to Chattanooga, Tenn., Lodge.Left to right are Alfred T. Levine,Pres. Tennessee State Elks Association, Dr. Barrett, E.R. Wendell D.Hill, and Albert G. Heins, D.D. ior

Tennessee, East.

Below: Photograph of a recent luncheon tendered to the Grand ExaltedRuler by Tampa, Fla., Lodge. At thespeakers table are, left to right: DoyleCarlton, former Governor of Florida,Col. Horton, D.D. J. Frank Umstot,Dr. Barrett, E.R. L. D. Simmons, Dr.George Bennett, Chaplain, Col. EdLambright and Ralph M. Marsicaro.

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the printed Ritual. In his address whichfollowed Dr. Barrett called attention tothe Rreat progress made by St. Petersburg Lodge during the past year underthe administration of Exalted Ruler Jack

H. Conover. One hundred and twentynew members were added to the rolls, themortgage on the building was paid offand the lodge contributed to many worthwhile projects. Dr. Barrett was presented with a $50 War Bond. Mrs. Barrettreceived a handsome handbag of rarewoods from newly installed Exalted RulerLee Hayman, and retiring Exalted RulerConover was the recipient of a recliningchair from the lodge. A buffet supper formembers of the lodge and their familiesfollowed.

At the present writing, it is estimatedby Dr. Barrett and Grand Secretary J.Edgar Masters that 25,000 men have beenreceived into the Order as a direct resultof this tribute to Grand Exalted Ruler

Barrett. Credit should be Riven StatePres. Alfred T. Levine of Nashville,Tenn., who first suggested this plan toObserve Dr. Barrett's birthday in such anexemplary manner.

A few of the other lodges which initiated classes in honor of the Grand Exalted Ruler's birthday are: West PalmBeach, Miami Beach and Tampa, Fla.;Terre Haute, Ind.; Lincoln, Neb.; Wichita, Kans.; Washington, D. C.; Milwaukee,Wis.; Seattle, Wash.; Toledo, Ohio;Champaign, 111.; Saginaw, Mich.; SaltLake City, Utah; Allegheny, Pa.; Boise,Idaho; Denver, Colo.; Laramie, Wyo.;Spokane, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Houston, Tex.; Queens Borough, N. Y.; Lynch-burg, Va.; Louisville, Ky.; Birmingham,Ala.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Charleston, S. C.;Eugene, Ore.; Bloomsburg, Pa.; Fairbanks, Alaska; Watertown, S. D.; JerseyCity, N. J.; Clifton, Ariz.; Binghamton,N. Y.; Delta, Colo., and Detroit, Mich.

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News of Suhovdiinafe lodgesThrow

HAMPTOIN, VA. The people of theLower Peninsula within the jurisdiction ofHampton Ijods:e No. 366 now have use ofan iron lung, the only one in the area,bought by the lodge at a cost of $1,500.The lung was presented at formal ceremonies by P.E.R. Ross A. Kearney,P.D.D.. and officially accepted by GeorgeB. Colonna, Chairman of the Dixie Hos-

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pital's Board of Trustees. A demonstration of its workings was made for thebenefit of the Board of Directors andofficers and members of the lodge.

Because of its size, the lung is not portable but at Dixie Hospital it is availablefor use at all times as a resuscitator. although its principal use is for treatmentof victims of infantile paralysis.

HARTFORD, CONN., L#odge, No. 19,has forwarded over a ton of books to theMerchant Marine. Most of the 2,500 volumes are on the "must" list of those inthe know. P.E.R. Alfred B. Pimm personally accounted for 900 books.

ANN ARBOR, MICH., Lodge. No. 325,shipped out more than 2,000 good booksfor the use of the Merchant Marine andCoast Guard, supporting this drive as ithas all of the Elks War Commission'sprograms and its community projects.

State Vice-Pres. Jay H. Payne, D.D.,has substituted as Exalted Ruler for E.R.James O. Kelly, serving in the U. S. Navy.

WILMINGTON, DEL., Lodge, No. 307,decided three years ago to present somespecial piece of needed apparatus to alocal hospital each year. The latest is an$800 infant incubator, bought for theMemorial Hospital months ago whenArthur H. Clarke. Jr., was Exalted Ruler,but delivered only recently because warconditions prevented its delivery anyearlier. The presentation was made onMarch 31, with Mr. Clarke as speaker andR. R. M. Carpenter accepting for the Hospital's Board of Trustees. E.R. Leon XBuckley and his officers and ChairmanThurston Lowe and members of the Social and Community Welfare Committee,through whose efforts the incubator wasobtained, took part in the ceremonies.Previous gifts were a $500 adjustableoperating room lamp for St. Francis Hospital and a respirator for WilmingtonGeneral Hospital.

At left is a photograph taken at a recent dinner given by New Rochelle,N. Y., Lodge. In the usual order arePast Grand Tiler Michael J. Gilday,Past State President James A. Farley,Past Exalted Ruler, Haverstraw,N. Y., Lodge, Exalted Ruler MayorStanley Church and retiring E.R.State Senator J, Raymond McGovern.

Below are honored guests and theclass initiated by Columbia City, Ind.,Lodge in honor of the Si'a^e's newGovernor, Ralph F. Gates. Grand Es-Qu/re Joseph B. Kyle oi Gary, Ind.,Lodge represented the Grand Lodge.

Above ig a picture of members ofChehslis, Wash., Lod^e taken duringa banquet to celebrate the burning

of their mortgage.

GALENA, ILL., Lodge, No.882, steppedinto yie limelight recently when it presented a minstrel show before an audience so large that chairs had to be placedhere there to accommodate thecrowd. Every act was strictly "minstrel",and entertaining to the 'nth degree.

PLAINFIELD, N. J,, Lodge. No. 885,entertained veteran members on its "OldTimers Night" when each honored guestwas presented with a 25-year pin. E.R.Henry W. Quinn sponsored the affair as

song of his administration.When rnost men are perfectly happy

to sit on the sidelines, 77-year-old John. taken over as Exalted Rulerof No. 885. Pressed into service as Est

Loyal Knight when one of the officerswas called to the Colors. Mr. Winansproved his ability. In the six days afterhis own mstallation. he attended fiveother ceremonies.

Charlie Lamperti, anchorman for bothof the lodge s bowling teams, won hissixth ctmsecuUve average championshipm the N. J. Elks Central League andplaced second in the State League.

At right are members of Chattanooga, Tenn., Lodge's basketball

team.

Below are members of Plaindeld,N. J., Lodge who attended its "OldTimers Night" recently. The evening was sponsored by retiring Ex

alted Ruler Henry W. Quinn.

Pictured at the mortgage burning ceremony at Nutley, N. J., Lodgeabove are left to right, Hugh HaiUday, a Charter Member, E.R. AndrewHutch, P.E.R. Edward H. Yerg, P.E.R. William T. Maxwell, Wilson

O. Davis, a Charter Member, and P.E.R. George B. Harris, Jr.

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SHEiNANDOAH, Pa. News has been received of the death of P.E.R. John G.Thumm of Shenandoah Lodge No 945,Dean of Past District Deputies for PaN.E., and Inner Guard of the Pa. StateElks Assn. for the past 23 years. Burialtook place in Allentown where he hadbeen hospitalized for several weeks.

Mr. Thumm was widely knownthroughout the State, having been in theemploy of Armour & Company for thepast 43 years as sales superintendent ofthe canned and prepared food department in eastern Pennsylvania. Since theorganization of the Elks Northeast District eight years ago he had served as

At left: P.G.E.R Michael F. Shannonplaces Santa Barbara, Calif., Lodge'smor^^a^e in the fire while E.R. NorvellBass smilingly approves. Vincent H. Gro-cott, V.P. Calii. State Elks Assn. andchairman of the event, stands at speakers

table.

Below at left is R. R. M. Carpenter, Chairman of the Board of the Memorial Hospital receiving a check for an incubatorfrom P.E.R. Arthur H. Clarke, Jr., of Wilmington, Del., Lodge. Left to right areP.E.R. Clarke, Mr. Carpenter, Thurston

Lowe, and E.R. Leon Buckley.

Inner Guard and Chairman of the Publicity Committee. His affability andcheery disposition won for him a host offriends. His many charitable contributions were little known to the generalpublic, it being his desire that no publicity be given them. Elk charities—national, state or local—benefited through hisgenerosity. To St. Peter's LutheranChurch in Allentown he gate the newchancel, two beautiful silk flags withstaffs and holders and the hymnals, andhe contributed handsomely toward thepurchase of an organ.

Allentown Lodge No. 130 held funeralservices at the Trexler Funeral Home onthe Sunday evening preceding intermentat Union Cemetery. The State Association was represented by Vice-Pres.Charles V. Hogan of Pottsville Lodge.

0.4KM0iVT, PA., Lodg"e, No. 1668, cameinto being on March 25th at the home ofNew Kensington Lodge No. 512. A groupof Grand Lodge officers, with D.D. Clarence A. Shook of Uniontown and P.E.R.F. J. Schrader of Allegheny Lodge, assistant to the Grand Secretary, who actedas Grand Esquire and represented theGrand Exalted Ruler, were there to givethe new lodge and its membership of 115leading citizens a fine send-off.

A banquet was served for the 450 Elkswho were welcomed by Past State Pres.M. F. Home, and Past Grand ExaltedRuler John K. Tener, State Pres. W. P.Baird, Past Pres. Ralph C. Robinson, andOtto R. Grotefend, Pres. of the SouthDistrict, of which the new lodge is nowa member, were a few of those who spoke.

At left is a photograph made during theofficial visit of Grand Esteemed Leading Knight F. Eugene Dayton to LosAngeles, Calif., Lodge. Among thosepresent were, left to right, P.G.E.R.Michael F. Shannon, E.R. Fred J.Tabery, P.E.R. W. F. Rennolds ofManila Lodge, Lt. Ralph Johnson, recently re/eased from a Jap prison camp,Mr. Dayton and P.G.E.R. Floyd

Thompson.

Below is a picture of the Charles H.Grakelow Class initiated by Bethlehem,Pa., Lodge. In the center of the secondrow are Past Grand Exalted RulerGrakelow and E.R. John F. Bessemer.

The first thinfi- the new lodg:e did waspass a resolution authorizing the purchase of a $1,000 Honorary Founder's Certificate in the Elks National Foundation,and Mr. Schrader received a check for$100 as first payment on it.

CHEHAHS, WASH., Lodge. No. 1374,got a load off its chest recently when itburned the mortgage on its home—something that's been worrying those Elks for24 years. On this happy occasion, themembers and their guests enjoyed a delicious dinner and exceptionally fine entertainment.

P.E.R. Emmett T. Anderson of TacomaLodge, a member of the Elks War Commission, told of meeting refugees fromthe Philippines in San Francisco, and ofhearing these people's praise of the workthe Elks are doing for their Brothers rescued in that area. District Deputy K. M.Kennell, another Tacoma Elk. "complimented the lodge on its accomplishmentand P.E.R. Mayor L. A. Vimont. whopresided, called on the other P.E.R.'s totake a bow for what they had done toachieve this goal.

At right are some oi the members ofthe Junior League basketball teamsponsored by Claremont, N. H., Lodge.

Below are officersj members and initiates during a Past Exalted RulersMeeting held by Tucson, Ariz., Lodge.The occasion was observed by voting$750 to the Red Cross and $18,000 topurcftase a building for a teen agecanteen which Tucson Lodge is spon

soring.

QUEENS BOROUGH, N. Y., Lodge, No.878, lined the pockets of a great manycharitable organizations of the Boroughat a meeting on March 27th when Supreme Court Justice Henry Wenzel,Jr., Chief Justice of the Grand Forum,made the welcoming address. Giftsamounting to $75,000 were distributed byPast Grand Exalted Ruler James T.Hallinan, while Supreme Court JusticeFrank F. Adel, P.E.R., responded on behalf of the beneficiaries. In the past threeyears the Queens Borough Elks havegiven $156,000 to charity.

No. 878-was praised by Capt. E. B.Harp, Jr., senior Chaplain of St. AlbansNaval Hospital, for what it has 'done forthe veterans there, and Judge Hallinancomplimented P.E.R. Frank J. Rauch,General Chairman of the bazaar last November which made these donations possible.

Past Grand Exalted Ruler James R.Nicholson accepted, as Chairman of theElks War Commission, a check for$4,025, and Municipal Court Justice JohnF. Scileppi, Chairman of the War ServiceCommittee, received a check for $15,000

Above are 38 members of the "George E.Chambers Thanksgiving Class" initiated byBeaumont, Tex., Lodge. Carl R. Mann,D.D. for Texas, Southeast, and a group ofTri-Cities, Tex., Lodge officers officiated.

for Queens Borough Elks in Service andanother for $6,00(>--$l,800 of which goesto the lodge's social program and the remainder for maintenance of the Elm-hurst Center. A $15,000 check for thecharity and relief fund of the lodge wasgiven to E.R.-elect William R. L. Cookand the same amount went to JudgeWenzel for rehabilitation of members inthe Service.

A list of the beneficiaries and theamounts they received follows:

$1,0001,000J,0001.000J.OOO1.0001,0001,0001,000

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St. Albons HospitalSt, John's HospitolSt. Anthony's HospitalFlushing HospitalRockoway Beach HospitalWyckoff Heights HospitalQueens General HospitalSt. Joseph's HospilolJamoico HospitalQueens Council, Boy ScoutsCentral Chapler of the Red Cress

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Solvotion Army 500North Shore Chapler of the Red Crets 500Child Service League of Queent 400Ottilie Home in Queens 350United Hospital Fund 350House of Calvary 300Queens Girl Scoutt 250Queent Community Service Society 250Queens Society for Prevention of Cruelty to

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Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor 250Queens Visiting Nurse Service 250Queens Speech and Hearing 200Beach Haven Convalescent Home for Cardiac

Children '00Y.W.C.A. '00Queensboro Tuberculosis ond Health Associotion 100Isroel Orphan Home of Rockoway '00St. Albons Canteen '00

Above IS the group that participated in theceremonies held in conjunction with thedistribution of gifts amounting to S75,000by Past Grand Exalted Ruler James T.Hallinan of Queens Borough, N. Y., Lodge.Supreme Court Justice Henry G. Wenzel,Jr., Chief Justice of the Grand Forum,

made the welcoming address.

Leading Elks from every one of the NewEngland States took part in the testimonialdinner given Grand Treasurer John F.Burke. In the picture at left are Mr.Burke, Toastmaster P.E.R. Harry A. Mc'Grath of Winchester, Mass., Lodge andchairman Past Pres. of the MassachusettsState Elks Association William F. Hogan.

Three $1,000 gifts were made to charities of three faiths—Queens CatholicCharities, Queens Federation of Protestant Charities and the Flushing- FreeSynagogue and Queens Jewish Charities.Checks for $250 were to go to the National War Fund and the Greater NewYork Fund, while the Seeing Eye Foundation and the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation will each receive $100.

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bearded combat soldier prodded by thebayonet of an M.P. The caption:"We're right behind you, Buddy!"

But the rear-echelon soldier leads a

life that only a combat man could envy.If he's enlisted grade, he sleeps on asheetless, pillowless cot; lives in afloorless tent or unheated barracks;shaves and washes in cold water; getsrationed candy, cigarettes and softdrinkfi. He eats monotonous food,works long hours seven days a week ata job he didn't pick. When he gets apass, he often finds he is barred fromthe gayest places. A recent cartoon inthe "Stars and Stripes" shows two GI'speering wistfully at an attractive village. One is saying, "It's either enemy-held or Off Limits."

Officers in rear areas are probablybilleted in hotels with little heat, noelevators, and, of course, no room service, telephone, soap or towels. Theplumbing is always undependable. Wehave held Naples for over a year, but inthe largest officers' hotel, water neverruns to the top four floors; in an elaborate Rome hotel, reserved for general officers and colonels, hot water is supplied only two hours a week. As forfood, even in officers' messes far to therear, butter and coffee are served oncea day, the latter in tin cups.

But to the front line soldier all this,of course, is soft living. For weeks onend he may sleep on the ground, without a bath, a change of clothes, a hotmeal or an hour's sense of safety. Heknows that eveiy road on which hemarches may be mined, every objecthe touches may be a booby trap. Hehas seen his pals blown to bits in horrible death which missed him by inches.Afraid? Of course he is, and he feelsno shame. Only a fool wouldn't be. Still,he must stay right in there sluggingfor periods which exceed all reasonableestimates of human endurance.

And yet, in- Southern France wheremen were being evacuated to hospitalsin Italy, I heard men trying to pullstrings which would keep them neartheir imit. "If they get me back toItaly," the common remark went, "itwill be a long time before I rejoin theoutfit." These men did not want to goback into combat; but they would notaccept even the best excuse for abandoning their friends in the line.

Occasionally a man cracks under thestrain. But those who have been

through the mill never judge himharshly. They blame the circumstanceswhich kept him in the line so long.

"I'm 24 and I feel 54," a captain fromthe crack outfit told me. "After thestuff I've seen, I don't blame any manwho goes psycho-neurotic. We all havea cracking point. Mine might comeany day."

Make no mistake—the American soldier has no stomach for the bloodybusiness of front-line killing. He maycarry an instinctive aversion for the

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system he is fighting to destroy; buthe has no bitter personal hatred, nokiller lust. Sure, he killed Germans asmethodically and skillfully as he knewhow, because that was the only way tokeep his own skin and get the jobfinished. And this American fightingman is truly brave. I have yet to hearof an officer, asking for volunteers for adangerous mission, who failed to findmost of his command stepping forward.

The veterans who are coming homew^ill have been drawn apart from thecivilian life they have known by thedangers, the hardships and the sacrifices. But in another respect, also, theyhave become a fraternity. Overseaseven the humblest buck private belongs to a superior caste. He haslearned how it feels to ride in jeeps,planes and cars while civilians walk.For a long time now, men in uniformhave been the only ones in Europe whoever eat white bread, butter, real coffeeor candy. They have whatever electricity is available, while civilians arelucky to have candles. In many places,civilian curfew sounds before taps.

The Army occupies many of Europe'sbest hotels, and the only civilians seenthere are service personnel. Manybuildings, many whole areas, closed tocivilians, have become the special domain of the man in uniform.

The civilian abroad, therefore is rarely taken seriously, sometimes scarcelyseen. If he does come to the soldier'sattention, it is frequently through violation of Army property or trespass uponArmy-controlled territory.

American soldiers thus have few contacts with the European civilians, andthese frequently are not happy ones.Friction nearly always results whensoldiers are quartered upon a civilianpopulation. Our government has fairlywell barred our men from the nativemarkets by a neat bit of financialsleight-of-hand. It pays them in themoney of the locality, but maintains anarbitrary rate of exchange which givesthat money an artificially high value inrelation to our dollar. When Joe goesshopping, he finds he pays as much asfive to one for native goods or services.Still, he does to some extent competein local markets, which increases scarcities and further drives up prices.When the opportunity presents, thedoughfoot Don Juans always manageto score pretty heavily with the localbelles, many of whom may have hadprevious commitments. These andmany other irritations strain relationsbetween troops and civilians.

American soldiers have developed areal respect for those allies who haveheld on doggedly against the Nazi military might. They have a new conception of the great contribution theseAllies have made toward Germany'sfinal defeat. Our men often praise theAllied soldiers with whom they havefought. But a kind word for the Eu

ropean civilians, after the liberationhonejTnoon is over, is a rarity.

Abandon any thought you may havebeen nursing that the Army is goingto send several million cosmopolitesback into American civilian life. Italked with men just about everywhereour armies are fighting, and if there isa single comment applicable in everytheatre, it would go about like this: "Inever want to see the place again."

Ask a soldier over there what hethinks of Europe and he will probablysay, "It's filthy," or, "It stinks," or,"I'll love it when I can look back down

a gangplank at it." He has no chanceto see it in perspective, of course. Heknows only the misery and the awfulwreckage. He sees little but squalor,destitution and filth that there is no

soap and hot water to relieve. He cannot understand or feel any deep sympathy for peoples who too often seemto have lost self-respect; who beg whilehe is watching, and "scrounge" andsteal when his back is turned.

What real beauties and treasures

Europe has left to show the Americansoldier, he probably has been too busyto see. If not that, they probably areOff Limits.

Harsh as the soldier's opinion isabout Europe and Europeans, there itis, and you can take or leave it for allhe cares. There seems little likelihood

that the opinion is going to changemuch before the veterans come home.

Little wonder, then, that our fightingmen are. thS biggest "American Colony" ever; that they cling together ina tight fraternity all their own whichmay well survive their homecoming.Today, the widest division is still between soldier and civilian—even the

American civilian. I was cordially received by every soldier or officer Italked to, but probably because I wasfresh from home and therefore a likelysource of news. I frankly doubt that Iwould have been anything more than atolerable nuisance after the second orthird day.

American veterans of the last warcan understand, as I do, the probabilitythat the German soldier—the individual fighting man—will not suffer tooharshly in the judgment of our ownveterans. After all, he is a soldier, too,and any American combat man willtell you he was a skilful and mightytough one. OK, so we don't like thethings he fought for; or maybe hisindoctrination in Nazism has been sothorough in some cases that he remainsinsufferable. But there may be a goodpercentage of Germans to whom theNazi veneer will not stick in adversityand defeat. At least, I can believe theevidence that our soldiers in hospitalscommonly share their cigarettes withwounded prisoners of war, and try todraw them into conversation; and thatalong stabilized fronts Germans sangAmerican songs and our men sang

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many German melodies."Hatred," quoting^ Willard Waller

again, "is for civilians, killing for soldiers." And this difference might bea source of misunderstanding when ourveterans return. Consider the statement of H. R. Knickerbocker, who wasat Cassino. After the Iowa division hadfought there fiercely for 35 days, withheavy losses, their comment was, "Weain't mad at anybody."

Whenever a new arrival from theStates appears, soldiers swamp himbegging for news. Just a few days overthere shows why. "Stars- and Stripes"in the Mediterranean has no non-gov-emmental wire service, has little political news, little real "meat" fromhome. Overseas editions of home publications are little more than skeletonsof our papers here. Practically everypublication going over is weeks oldwhen it reaches the soldier.

The soldiers' questions to the' newcomer cover every conceivable field."What's Broadway look like?" "What'srationed at home now?" "How manysoldiers are left at home?" "Why don'twe get more of 'em over here?" "Whatis the real low-down about productionat home?" "How are the people takingit, and do they really know there's ahell of a war on over here?" "Whatabout these strikes; are people reallywalking out or slowing down in warplants?".

The soldier abroad is poorly informedabout labor conditions, but his indignation over strikes is very real. Therewas, in one division a widespread Don t-Write-Home movement during the coalstrike last spring; those soldiers wereprotesting in the only way they couldto all civilians, their families included.And the soldiers are bringing this indignation home with them, as wasshown, when service men stormed NorthAmerican Aviation Company's KansasCity bomber plant, dispersing picketsand tearing up union placards.

"The leaders," said the AP, "marchedthrough taverns, shows and other pleasure spots in the center of the amusement zone. In each place they stoppedmen in uniform asking them to join. Inshows, they interrupted the performanceand shouted their invitation to otherservice men to come along.'

Note the significant fact that theydid not ask civilians, who might havelust as heartily disapproved the strike,to join their march. That merelyseemed to be a bit of "fraternity" business, and it simply didn't occur to theservice men to invite outsiders.

The service men's reaction here wasperfectly natural, almost instinctive.And the incident typically illustratesthe gap between the military and civilian which we must find a way to close.

Commonly heard wherever soldiersgather is the question, "I wonder what4-F my gal's out with tonight?" Thebitterest group of fighters abroad—andthe most reckless in battle—are members of the "Dear John Club." Thesemen have been discarded by wives andsweethearts who have come to loveother, nearer men.

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For in the army there is a lot of sitting around, waiting for things to happen, and a great deal of time for talk.To the large service vocabulary of theirown making, they have generouslyadded words, phrases and usages fromevery people and langfuage they haveencountered.

Do soldiers talk about the ideals forwhich they are fighting? Very littlethat I could see. This sort of idealismdoesn't seem to wear well in mud, sweatand danger. Your soldier is a realist,frequently a cynic. Ask him about permanent peace. He is likely to report,"I suppose my son'll be over here sweating it out in 20 years." Inquire aboutinternational cooperation and he willprobably remark pointedly, "After this,these people will fight their own wars,if I have anything to say."

These Americans are fighting for asingle, simple objective—to get thedirty job done and get home. High-fiowing idealism usually sickens them.Soft-living "morale builders" backhome are usually-dismissed with curt,sulphurous language.

These simple facts we'd better remember when the veterans come home.And we'd better have the good sense torefrain from the chest-thumping aboutthe civilian war effort. The homecom

ing soldier won't be too sure he hasn'tbeen played for a sucker, anyhow, sowe'd better have tact enough to helphim avoid painful comparisons.

We don't need to dramatize nor pinmedals on every returning soldier.What he needs and has a right to expect, is honest appreciation of the jobhe has done and the sacrifices he has

• made to do it. Take the case of the

single fellow past thirty I saw nearLondon, who asked me what hischances were to get back to his sweetheart and the business he left at homethree years ago. In what order aremen going to be mustered out? If thefamily men go home first, just whencan he expect to get married and startpulling that business back together?Or consider the older married man andfather in France who wonders if his

war-sustained injuries will knock himout of his old profession. Are we going to help him over the rough spots?What about the youngster, whose warbride and two babies are wondering,with him, just how soon he can find hisfirst real job. And how about the boy,jerked out of college in his freshmanyear, who wants to finsh his education ? These are all individuals whoplied me with anxious personal questions. You could multiply by two orthree million and see the whole problem at least in outline. But each stillbreaks down as an individual, personalcase. If we are going to show our appreciation in the most practical andeffective way, we will work out theanswers and have them ready.

Yes, I know Congress can pass lawsand appropriate money and set upagencies to tackle these problems. Thejob still remains one which must bedone, however, at the community,neighborhood and home level.

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T ALWAYS has been a question inyour correspondent's mind whichare the more goillible: fish or fish

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Take, as an example, the countless anglers who accept and followpseudo-scientific fishing theories andold wives' tales because they seethem in print under the name ofsome dude who modestly hints he'sprobably the world's smartest andmost scientific angler. Let someslicker come up with the unique ideathat a fish's gastric juices are insome mysterious fashion agitated bythe pull of the moon on the earth,and thousands of trusting souls willlay a quarter, four-bits or $7.50 onthe line to get a load of this piscatorial wisdom.

Considering the fact there are anestimated eight million licensed fishermen in this country, all anxious tobecome expert and catch more fishthan the guy next door, it's easy tounderstand how the racing scratchsheet racket, adapted to angling, canreturn a pretty penny. After all,suckers live in and out of brooks.

One of the most numerous of thedream book angling clan is the watertemperature fanatic. This guy hasread that trout fishing, when watertemperature readings register below50 degrees, is a useless waste ofeffort. So he lays out a couple ofbucks for a thermometer, which heshould have spent on a better line.With this gadget clipped to his fishing jacket, he automatically becomesa scientific angler. It doesn't putmore trout in his creel, because hespends his time taking readings andshaking his head mournfully. Put

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the usual question to this bird on atrout stream and he'll reply: "No,no luck. Water's too cold. You knowtrout won't take a fly when thetemperature is down to 47".

Now, it just happens this writeris a member of a club which boastsa small trout lake. The season opensin early April in these parts—frequently in a gentle snowstorm, andwith shell ice rimming the shores.We've never dunked a thermometeron opening day, but we'll hazard aguess the water is never warmenough for comfortable swimming.Despite this fact, the boys alwayscatch scores of five-fish club limitson the inaugural, and always onflies. For you see this lake is restricted to fly fishing.

Years ago we enjoyed some of thegreatest rainbow trout fishing ofour life, high in the Cascade Mountains. The water was so icy itnumbed feet in 30 minutes throughwool socks and a pair of boots. Notwithstanding, you could catch poundto three-pound rainbows so fast thatfishing became a mild bore if takenin heavy doses. Those fish hit a flywith such dazzling speed it wasoften more fun trying to take thelure away from a fish than catching it.

So next time some angling scientist pulls the water temperature gagon you, remind him in a tactful waythat Oregon and Washington steel-head fishing nuts do all right forthemselves from November toMarch; that the cream of Maine'ssquaretail and landlock fishing closely follows the ice breakup in thoseparts, and that a surprising numberof eastern brook trout, lakers andlandlocked salmon are still takenevery winter through two feet of ice.

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by atmospheric pressure. These learnedgents would rather be found dead in abawdy house than caught fishing whenthe glass is low, or falling.

"It isn't in the cards to hit a goodday's fishing when the barometer isfalling," these fellows insist. No? Well,let's poke around in that one, too:—

One day early this spring we decidedto wheel over to a nearby lake, not tofish but to see how the other boys weremaking out. It wasn't a particularlycheerful day, and for some reason wetook a gander at the barometer. It waslow, and getting lower. So we pickedup a slicker and rainproof skimmer,just in case, and sallied forth. Al, oneof the neighborhood's smarter fishermen, was jointing up a casting stickwhen we arrived at the lake.

"You should have brought live baittoday," we greeted him, "and fished iton the bottom. With a four-inch

shiner. . . ."

"How do you figure that?" he brokein.

"The glass is dropping and thoselakers will be in deep water."

"Who said so?""The books say so," we explained.

"Any expert will tell you it's practicallyuseless to fish on a falling glass, andmy barometer was dropping when Ileft the house."

"How do those guys know what afish will do or not do?" countered Al,rummaging around in his tackle box."Have any of those experts ever interviewed a fish?"

"It's a matter of atmospheric pressure," we answered him. "Pushes thefish down, or something."

"Nuts!" exclaimed Al, coming upwith a battered casting spoon. "Howcan a fish feel atmospheric pressurethrough several feet of water? I didn'tlearn very much in school, but I learnedyou can't compress water. So if youcan't squeeze water, how does a fishknow. ... ?"

"Look," we broke in. "I'm a strangeraround here, myself. Go buy yourselfa book on scientific fishing and youwon't be asking so many dam foolquestions!"

"What for?" replied Al, zinging outhis lure. "I do all right, don't I? Theonly fishing books that interest me aretackle catalogs."

The water boiled twice a few yardsbehind Al's spoon as a cruising lakerengulfed a luckless minnow. Then another swirl rippled the surface a bit tothe right.

"Just as I figured," Al remarked."Those fish are feeding on minnowsnear the top. I guess they never reada book either, Or a barometer. Justplain dumb, like me."

Two or three casts later he was fastto a fish, which we netted. Nothing toget excited about—just a five-pounder.Before we had a chance to slosh out thelanding net and replace it on the bank,he had another fish on. We guessedthat one a seven-pounder. He caughtthree more within an hour and missedseveral good strikes.

"Not bad going for a day when you'renot supposed to catch fish," he cracked,gathering up his gear. "Here, you better take one of these fish home."

When we got back to the house wenoticed the barometer had dropped another two points.

Next, we have a surprising numberof gents who are convinced the moonexerts a mysterious effect on a fish sappetite, causing the finned critter tofeed like mad at certain specified times.Obviously, anglers who are privy tothis inside dope can't help but have adecided edge. It's just like knowing- inadvance what two gallopers are goingto click in a daily double!

Anybody who has fished along thecoast understands that the rise and fallof tide can and does affect his sport.Some fish move into inlets and bays tofeed on a flooding tide and drop back

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on the ebb. Tidewater pools in riversnot productive of fish at high water intervals, often afford superb fishing atlow water. And the other way around.

The same goes for ducks. Coastalwildfowlers who know their way aroundunderstand that tide phases determinewhen and where to rig, and for whatvarieties. They know, for instance, thatdivers such as Bluebills are likely tofeed over a clam flat during the highwater interval and fly somewhere elsebefore a dropping tide leaves a feedingground bare. They also know that shallow water or mudflat feeders such as

black ducks are almost certain to wingin for a clam cocktail when the tidegets low, and hunters determine theirgunning strategy accordingly.

This is all understandable. There is

no mystery or hocus-pocus. It all boilsdown to the simple fact that some duckscan feed in six feet of water and others

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But what logical reasoning is therefor assuming that the pull of the moonon the earth exerts any influence onthe feeding habits of a Rocky Mountaintrout, lurking in a riffle over 1000 milesbeyond the upper reaches of tidewater,and maybe 6000 feet or more above sealevel? Or on a Minnesota bass, finninga northern lake equally or even moredistant from the ocean ?

It takes a high degree of naive credulity to believe that productive anglinginterludes can be doped months in advance by determining when a non-apparent lunar pull is exerting its imagined workings on a fish's appetite.

Long before piscatorial scratch sheetswere conceived by angling mastermindsyour correspondent and a now departedrelative used to team up on a weeklytrout fishing junk.et through the springand summer months. The routine nevervaried. We'd arrive at the stream short

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knock off, eat, sprawl out on a sunnyrock and sleep or pick berries until mid-afternoon. Then we'd fish back up theriver, first taking only an occasionaltrout and then hitting them with aboutevery other cast as the afternoonlengthened and the fish settled down toserious feeding at dusk.

There never was any change; both ofus always filled a large No. 4 creel andnever stinted ourselves on fried trout

for lunch or supper. Those trout wereon the feed from daybreak to mid-morning every day, and from late afternoon until dark. It was possible tocatch an occasional fish during the nonproductive noontime hours, but we always considered that fishing slow andhardly worth the effort.

Practically identical conditions prevailed on every other fishing stream inthat corner of the state, except on thesmaller feeder brooks. From those youcould catch smaller trout all day longin the summertime.

There are no profound mysteriesabout successful fishing, although an

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It could be that the Johnny-come-latelyactually is a better all around anglerthan the local, but the native son willhave the edge because he knows wherethe fish are in that stream, what tocatch 'em with, and how. All of whichexplains why fishing guides are hired.And we've yet to meet one who put anystock in cockeyed fishing theories.Fishing guides on the average mightbe a little short in the matter of booklearning, but they're all definitely longwhen it comes to horse sense. Andhorse sense is all it takes to catch fish.

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York City. The Army furnishes andmaintains liaison type planes for CAP'Sorientation flights, supplies certain othertraining aids, and that's virtually all.Otherwise CAP rims and supports itsown show, financing it through contributions by active members and members of its League, a non-partisan, nonprofit membership corporation formedfor that purpose. Nobody who has seenCAP in action doubts that it puts on abetter show because it is animated bythe volunteer spirit and because it hasrefused to sit back and wait for Government handouts.

It takes its training seriously, doesthe CAP, from the qualified pilot, taking a special flight proficiency course,to the 17-year-old cadet who signed upto get set for the time when he will becalled into the Service. All membersattend weekly training sessions inaviation, military and auxiliary subjects. While flight training is not given(members are encouraged to leam tofly by purchasing flight time fromprivate operators), the student getseverything else but. Instruction is givenwithout charge. Navigation may betaught by a commercially rated pilot;radio by a skilled amateur or professional operator: first aid by a doctoror Red Cross instructor; infantry drill,guard duty or other military subjectsby a veteran of this war or the last.It's a heart-warming thing to seewoimded or other honorably dischargedveterans, back from the Pacific or theEuropean Theater, volunteering to teachthe CAP youngsters. These men neitherthink the war is over nor do they feel,despite their service, that they havedone their part and can sit out the restof it.

It's not hard to understand why CAPhas been so successful in recruiting andtraining cadets.

First, there's the glamor of flying.Next comes the realization that there's

a whale of a lot to learn, and it willmean plenty of hard study. You haveto bone up on map reading, theory offlight, meteorology, navigation, aircraftstructures, engines, instruments, Morsecode, air regulations, etc. Tell theyoung they'll have to pass an examination in ancient history, and the replymay be "For why?" or "So what?"

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But with aviation subjects, it's no pass,no fly. And they want desperately tofly.

So they really concentrate. They cansee the advantage to it. CAP—trainedboys, called to active duty, have chalkedup good records in the tough Armycourses to qualify pilots, bombardiers,navigators, and gunners. That, by theway, is a matter of interest to everyAmerican, not only as a patriot but asa taxpayer. It costs about $25,000 totrain a military flyer. Any reduction inthe percentage of washouts means anappreciable saving.

The boys can see the value of thework for the immediate and for a moredistant future, too. Many look forwardto careers in aviation. And practicaldemonstrations of the worth of whatthey have learned often occur duringtheir CAP training. Which is not onlya break for them but for others. Members of CAP units and the CAP CadetCorps have helped save scores of livesand many thousands of dollars worthof property.

Not long ago two Army Air Forceofficers, flying at night over the Virginiamountains, found their gasoline wasalmost gone. At the same momenttheir radio went out of commission.They swooped low over the town ofFront Royal, looking for some place tomake an emergency landing. Theyknew nothing of the small airportwhich had only just been completed.

CAP men spotted the plane, obviouslyin trouble. One signaled to it with hisautomobile spotlight. The pilot answered with his landing lights.

Every motor car in the vicinity wasmustered. With spotlights winking andheadlights full on, the caravan headedover the road to the new airport. Following the lights and the flow of traffic,the AAF flyers Were led to the field,brightly illuminated by the auto lights.They set their plane down on it safely,with 5 minutes' supply of gas left.

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was holding a meeting at the field, wasinterested in its work and had stayedone hour overtime. Members rushedout, lit the runway with their car lights,and the C-47 landed safely.

Considerable of the credit for suchhandy landing fields is due CAP. Outof 1,592 fields in 48 States open tocivilian flying, CAP owns, operates ormanages 215 in 31 States. It actuallybuilt 81 of them and made major improvements in 108. About one-third ofthese airports would have been closedfor the duration if it had not been forCAP.

It's been many years since Americahas seen such whole-hearted, co-operative community effort as was displayedin building some of these fields. Theyare like the old-time meeting-house orbarn-raising gatherings when all theneighbors rallied 'round, pitched in andlent a hand. That's the way the Redmond, Oregon, CAP airport was bmlt.Everybody came and worked from thegrubbing hoe stage on. In one day tworunways of 1900 and 1200 feet werebuilt. Later the length of the secondwas doubled.

Searches for crashed planes are afrequent CAP assignment. In a huntthrough the Rockies last year for amissing Army bomber, three CAPplanes were lost, two members of theNew Mexico Wing were killed and twoColorado pilots injured. At last thewreck was spotted by Lt. Arthur D.Williams, CAP. A ground party wassent in through the snow. 1st Lt.Dorothy P. Jones (CAP boasts not afew tried and true women members)and 2nd Lt. Sam Herzog led in a detailof CAP Cadets. They found the wreck,mounted guard over the nine bodies ofthe Army crew and sent guides to bringin a carrier party.

Other searches have had a happieroutcome. CAP parties have reachedand saved survivors of crashes like thatof an Army plane on the Camel's Humpin the Vermont mountains. A 16-year-old CAP Cadet, Peter Mason of Water-bury. also a Boy Scout, located the solesurvivor—a young waist gunner. Hehad been lying in the snow 40 hourswith only brief periods of consciousness.First aid and a rush to a hospital savedhis life. . .

Women as well as men members ofCAP fly these dangerous search missions. Women officers and non-comspost guards over a crashed plane sothat bomb sights and evidence of the6ause of the crash will not be disturbedby souvenir hunters who will appropriate anything.

Many CAP units have organizedground and crash crews, equipped withmedical supplies and radio; some takealong carrier pigeons. Crews are prepared to reach the scene of an accidentby foot, motor car, horse, or ski. Forlost plane searches the Florida Winguses two "Glades Rescue Buggies,"shallow-draft boats driven by planepropellers and capable of skimmingover swamp inlets. A woman officer ofthe Miami unit has a sideline: she huntswater moccasins in Glades, milks them

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of their venom and sells it to the Army.Obviously so determined a character,engaged in a search for a crashed plane,stops at nothing.

These CAP crews turn out when disaster strikes the community. When atornado hit Fort Dodge, Iowa, the chiefof police called on the CAP for help.In 15 minutes the entire crew, armedand equipped, reported and went onduty guarding damaged property andlive power wires and directing traffic.

The odd jobs CAP takes on are acaution. Anything remotely in line ofduty is welcomed as good experienceand as a way to give service. To lista few of these oddities, there are:Aerial scouts for escaped prisoners ofwar; parachute packing for service menwho are flying back to base; makingmaps of smoke and fume areas in industrial districts; helping to placestandard air markers on cities and

towns; running scrap paper and tinsalvage drives.

Nor are those the half of it. TheLima, Ohio, CAP Squadron is goingto chart the course of a mysteriousunderground river, using ultra shortwave radio and walkie-talkie sets. Lastyear a CAP plane acted as advanceagent for a brigade of machines andtheir crews engaged in harvesting amillion acres of wheat in the plainsStates. The season was late and speedwas essential in this huge task forwhich both manpower and machinerywere short. From farm to farm, a acoutplane hedge-hopped, surveying routes,lining up acreages to be cut and expediting all the other arrangements.The wheat was cut with fewer men andmachines and less fuel than ever before.

Add also game conservation as aCAP assignment. One thousand pound'sof rock salt were dropped from the airby the Easton, Pennsylvania, Squadronon terrain difficult of access to menbut a favorite haunt of deer. The deerhad been standing on railroad tracksto lick brine which had leaked fromrefrigerator cars. That had been thedeath of 32 of them. Now there is noreason why a deer should leave homeand get into trouble, with the CAPvirtually sprinkling salt on its tail.

All these tasks, CAP believes, willhelp bridge the transition to peace andmake opportunities for the men andwomen who come back from the warlooking for a job in aviation. Everynew airport, they point out, Is boundto mean more different kinds of businesses than you can spin a prop at.There'll be flight training and the rentalof planes to pilots. Then there's thesale of planes, parts, accessories,hangarage, maintenance, fuel, service,and insurance. Food and drink vendingmachines could balloon up through alunch counter to a regular restaurant.Tourist cabins may sprout or a nearbyfarmhouse be converted into an inn fortransients.

Plans for Tennessee's first permanentair center have been drawn by the StateCAP Wing Commander, Lt. Col. HerbertFox, for a tract on the CumberlandPviver near Nashville where flight opera-

tions already have begun. The newfield's adjuncts are to include: golfdriving ranges and putting greens,tennis and badminton courts, a baseballdiamond, a boathouse on the river bankwith seaplane facilities, a restaurantand drug store, and spectator bleacherson a small hill, surrounded by individualairplane hangars. Not to mention bridlepaths around the field and a ridingacademy, with a stable full of horseswhich will doubtless be notably air-minded.

Two members of the Oakland, California, Squadron have ordered helicopters for post-war delivery. A livelycorrespondence is being carried on between our CAP cadets and lads in the

corresponding British organization, theAir Training Corps. They have much incommon, these boys, much in commonnow as Allies and students of aviationand much in the future when the airwill be theirs.

It's true that a strong system of commercial aviation is a backlog of a nation's air defense. That was demonstrated when we entered this war. Wehad—and a good many people still don'trealize how lucky we were—morethan 100,000 civilian pilots, about asmany student-pilots and ex-pilots, 25,000private planes, and some 2,000 civilianairports. On that backlog for a foundation we built our mighty military airforces. Much of the building was donethrough the agency and organization ofthe Civil Air Patrol. It furnished tensof thousands of pre-trained men andwomen to the armed forces and warindustry. CAP's membership roster wasconstantly drawn on for airmen,trainees, and instructors for the pilot,ferrying and glider schools.

Those resources with which we beganthe war have now been multiplied manytimes in the men trained, the equipmentmanufactured, and the facilities developed during the war. Therefrom canand must be created a powerful reserveas a safeguard against another war.

For that reserve to continue powerful, its components must be kept effective and up to date. As regards personnel that means young men. Combatfljdng is a job mainly for men below 30.Our air force of today—or of the future—would rapidly become overage unlessnew trainees kept coming in.

Our air and ground defense of thefuture would be soundly based, as theyare at present, on universal militarytraining. If the United States establishes that system to operate after thewar—and it would be incredible if wehave not learned at long last howessential it is—the CAP organization,its procedures and experience, will provehighly useful.

The CAP Cadet Corps and its pre-flight training, for instance, could bevery profitably continued. Before reporting for their year of training at 18,boys of 17 or younger, just as they donow, could prepare themselves by voluntary, spare-time study of aviation andbasic military subjects. The resultwould be rapid advancement through

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For bedding, give Fido's cushiona summer vacation. It probably needsit anyway. Substitute, during the warmspells a few sheets of newspaper, asquare of linoleum or an old carpet.But the newspapers are best becausethey are cleanest. They can be destroyed every day. Next best is thelinoleum because that can be thoroughly soaped, disinfected and scrubbed. Thecarpet is all right but should be airedand swept every day. Don't worryabout this sort of bedding being uncomfortably hard for the dog. Actuallyit is the coolest he could have. Thefloor and inner walls of the house shouldget a coat of mild disinfectant eachweek or so but don't use a strong solution because the dog's skin is a heapsensitive to powerful germicides andbesides, his schnozzle doesn't relishoverpowering odor^ any more than enjoyed by his master or mistress.

Be sure that there is always available an ample supply of cool drinkingwater and DON'T allow the dish ordrinking pan to stand in the sun. Whowants to drink tepid water when thethermometer gets red in the face—orat any other time? You needn't putice in the water although a small pieceor two permitted to melt in it won't do

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any harm. Don't however, give the dogice water unless you want to doctor hiscramps or worse. A small piece of iceto chew now and then is not harmful although this should not be overindulged.

Although it is claimed by some thatdogs only perspire through tongueand mouth, this is not so. On warmdays I have seen clearly defined wetfootprints of my dogs on the concretefloor of my porch. Dogs that had nochance to wet their tootsies in anyother way. On close examination I'vealso found moisture xmder their armpits and undersides of their bodies. I'venoticed this too on dogs other than myown. True, by far the greatest amountof perspiration exuded by dogs, isthrough the mouth, but to say that theydo not perspire elsewhere is the stuffthey fill balloons with. Now perspiration as you know is nothing more orless than evaporation which is nature'sway of cooling. If there was no evaporation from the body during a hotspell it would be just too bad for Fidoand his master too. Now this bodilyevaporation or perspiration is composedlargely of water plus certain salts,chief among them our old friend sodiumchloride or as we are more familiarwith it—ordinary salt, the kind we useon our eatments. When the salt content of the body is dangerously reduceda lot of unpleasant things can happennot the least of which at this time isheat prostration. To offset such loss ofsalt it is well to put an occasional pinchof table salt in the dog's water when

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renewing: it. So important is the saltangle in summer that many industrialplants maintain salt tablet dispensingmachines adjacent to their employee'sdrinking fountains.

ERE'S another "don't". DONT permit any uneaten portions of food

to remain exposed on the dog's dish.This cat quickly attract vermin and besides will sour and if the dog eats itthen he or she will get a tummy achethat will make little Harry's experiment with green apples look like nothing at all. As for the dog's dinnerpail—well, this is a time when you cancut down on the volume a bit and if youcan get meat—I said if you can get it,(and IF you can keep from battlingyour pooch for it) then feed it. Youcan ignore that cockeyed belief of yesteryear that meat is bad for dogs insummer. If you know where such aprivate meat mine exists then be suretliis is beef if you feed it raw. Anyother kind should be thoroughly cookedand pork left out of the running entirely. (Faust what would you givefor a ham steak right now?) Withthe meat, feed all the green vegetablesthat the dog prefers and some do havesome of the weirdest preferences.Avoid root vegetables, beans and potatoes. Give fruit and vegetable juices.I can hear you snicker at this whenyou look at your ration book and Iknow darned well what my privateSecretary of War would say if she readit. I can also hear you think "Am I maintaining a dog or a Duke?" Well, alright, hoard those points and fall backupon one of the better known commercial dry dog foods as so many thousands of dog owners have done and havebeen so pleasantly surprised with theresults. Here again, if you want to dropme a line I'll be glad to give the namesof those that show high nutritive valueand are not only reliable but are relished by the dogs.

All through the rest of the year I repeatedly have to advise the customerswho ask about it, not to bathe theirdogs too frequently. But now it's sum-meTtime, the bridle is off—bathe himor her plenty even though it may be abit hard on the coat and not helpful tothe skin. Too frequent bathing does reduce the oil in both skin and coat and

is not to be employed any other time ofthe year. But be sure that after eachbath you dry your dog down to hisBVDs and a little romping at thistime will help promote circulation andmore thorough drying. Don't let yourpurp lie around particularly in a draft,unless you want to play doctor or callin the vet for a serious doggy cold orworse. Use any of the good dog soapswhich you can get at most well-stockeddrug stores and some of the grocerystores too or—there's a dry cleaningbathing preparation that I'll be glad totell you about should you care to use it.Those I've recommended it to have beenhighly pleased. It's slogan is "No mus-sin'. No fussin'. No cussin' "—and itlives up to it.

Another thing taboo in relation to

our friend's toilette concerns the mis-'taken kindness of some owners whohave their dogs closely clipped duringthe warm days. No matter how heavythe coat, leave it alone other than clipping shaggy hair that obscures the vision or matted hair that cannot becombed out. The coat instead of making your dog warmer actually servesas insulation against the rays ofthe sun. Time and again at summerdog shows I have seen some of theparticularly short haired dogs get gog-gle-eyed from heat prostration. I know,to the sympathetic owner it's toughto watch the long-coated pooch gasplike a Baldwin locomotive but closeclipping won't help at all. But whatwill help and that a whole lot too is aDAILY combing and brushing that willremove dead hair and that which isready to shed. Of course if yours is ayard dog this can be done outdoors andthe refuse hair becomes no problem atall. But if the dog is a house dwelleryear 'round then when combing andbrushing, stand the dog on a few sheetsof newspaper to catch the combings.Never force the comb through mattedhair as you may tear out live hair;try to separate the tangles with yourfingers. And don't try to comb Fidowhen his coat is wet; that too willresult in loss of good hair.

This is also the season when relentlesswar must be waged to keep down those

unwanted boarders that will attachthemselves to your friend's skin. I meanfleas and such-like parasites. This meansflea powder aplenty and unsparing useof it. I know of a number of goodones that I've used on my own scallywags but in every case the manufacturer's directions must be followed tothe letter. Ticks may become a problem at this time and particularly isthis true in the South. There just isn'tanything you can do about those pestsexcept remove each one by hand whenyou find them in the dog's skin. Forthose who don't know what Mr. Tick islike, he's at first a small sac-like creature that buries his head in Fido's hideand thrives by draining the dog's blood.In time, if undetected his body swellsand assumes a nasty greyish color. Tofacilitate removal a drop of turpentineor chloroform will help by causing thetick to relinquish its hold. When removing be sure that the head comesout with the body; if it is left in thedog's skin it can cause an ugly sore.

Interior body parasites should likewise be watched for and when foundthe dog should be given the properremedy. Don't, however, use any unknown brand of worm medicine. Andwhatever you do use be sure you follow the printed instructions implicitly.Best of all if this unpleasant job shouldbe needful, have your vet take over.It's a simple, overnight affair and willsave you doing a disagreeable task.

To return to our enemies the flies—if these bother the dog to the point ofbringing blood out of the ear tips orother tender parts of the body, thenuse a little tallow, axle grease, warm

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tar or camphor on the affected parts.You may find that your dog will de

velop what has long been termed "summer eczema". Actually it's a form ofskin trouble that can appear at anytime of the year and why it has beenrelegated to summer in the minds ofso many is hard to understand. Inwinter months when many dogs live inoverheated houses the same trouble willoften make itself known. It beginswith a chronic itching and not at allincidentally, there are three forms, dry,moist and dry without lesions. It usually appears first on the forepart ofthe dog. There'll be small red spotsthen an outbreak of postules followedby sores. The hair sheds, skin thickens and wrinkles. The dry form isthe chronic kind. Moist eczema shows

red spots, yellow discharge and itching

with or without postules but there'llbe no noticeable change in the skin.Most forms are due to over-feeding,lack of sufficient exercise and hot

weather or quarters. It can be curedand the dog's owner can do this ifthe disease hasn't progressed too far.There are several excellent commercial

remedies but if eczema has gotten outof hand then I advise a vet. I mightmention mange right here but thenthat's not peculiar to summer and besides I have discussed that pesky thingbefore to considerable length.

So much for the simple things thatrelate to your dog's happiness duringthe trying days of summer. There aresome few more but equally necessaryhelps for your pet that I'll tell youabout in the next issue of TJie Elks Magazine. Until then—all the best to you.

The Fall of Manila Lodge(Continued from page 11)

Well, you can't argue with bayonets.The officer allowed us 45 minutes to getready before embarking in the truckwhich was to take us away. This was avery short time in which to collect essentials and lock up the rest with theoptimistic but entirely unjustified hopeof ever seeing them again.

About this time another Japaneseofficer bounced into the office and hewas really excited. He was flourishinga wicked looking Colt .44 and waved itat us accusingly. We looked innocentenough, I hope, wondering what causedthe flood of guttural talk. The interpreter finally got the drift of it andturned on us." "You have been concealing weapons in the club compound," hestormed. "Which one of you owns thisgim ? He will be severely dealt with".As none of us had ever laid eyes on theweapon before, and were positive thatthere were no arms either among us orin any of the rooms of the clubhouse,we asked where it had been found. Itappears that it had been picked up ina hedge near our roadway, where nodoubt it had been thrown by some passerby in a panic when the Japs enteredthe city. All this we laboriously explained to the interpreter who lookedunconvinced. In despair I pointed tothe baseball bats and demanded why weshould have bothered with them to protect ourselves if we had guns to use.This argument seemed to register ^dthe officer went off, muttering to himself. ^ „

Having met this crisis successfully, afew of us went into hurried conferenceand determined to make a last-minuteplay for our food supplies. Through theinterpreter we informed the officer incharge that we hoped he would grantus permission to take along enoughfood from the ample stores in ourclubhouse basement to feed ourselvesduring the few days we were to beconfined. The answer was a decidedlynegative grunt. "Your friends willbring in chow for you," said the

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interpreter speaking for the officer.• This provided an inspiration. "Butwe have no families—we have nofriends—that is why we live alone byourselves, without women or children inthis club. No one will send in food tomen they do not know. We wish only tosave you the trouble of feeding us."This artful solicitude on our part wastotally unnecessary, as they never hadthe slightest intention of doing so.

However, it gave the officer something to think about. Starving peopleare a nuisance; besides it might createa bad impression among the Filipinos-whom it was desired to impress withJapanese magnanimity. We explained—we gesticulated—we put on a first-class show—that the food was waitingto be loaded right here in the clubhouseand that we could bring it up ourselves,three of us with the help of the house-boys—but it would take some time.Grudgingly, with much palaver amongthemselves, the officers gave in. To myamazement no objection was raisedwhen I asked for three hours to do thework, and we went to it before givingthem,a chance to reconsider.

The house-boys pitched in with a will.We directed them to bring up suchcanned goods as had the maximum foodcontent in the least bulk—canned milk,beans, meat, coffee, crackers. Weworked with system, losing no precioustime until a truck arrived. We also hadtime to move most of the trunks, bagsand personal effects from the rooms toa single room on the same floor, whichthe officers promised us would be sealedand kept inviolate by the army. Thispromise must have been observed forall of 24 hours after we had gone. Ayear later we were directed to send afew men to the Club to pick up whatthings of ours had survived the Japanese occupation of the clubhouse. Ascore of smashed and ruined trunks, afew pyramids of sodden clothes utterlyimrecognizable—shirts, coats, shoes,underwear, all shoved indiscriminately

into dusty heaps, surmounted with letters, photographs, business papers overall—this was the way the Japanesearmy had kept their word to us. Butfortunately for our peace of mind wedid not know then what was to happen.

And so we left the Elks lodge home^ that afternoon, not to see it again

for more than three years after fire andruthless shelling had reduced it toblackened ruins. As we drove away thelittle Filipino boys held up two fingersto make the V sign as we went past.Our destination turned out to be Villa-

mor Hall on the campus of the University of the Philippines, where alarge number of Americans and Britishers bad been hastily rounded up. Wewere commanded to go to the third floorwhich overlooked Taft Avenue, wherethere was a fair-sized auditorium that

might accommodate at a pinch about400 people. There were many morethan that number already there, menand women and children, sitting resignedly in stiff-backed chairs or pacingnervously around. There were millionaires and beachcombers, business leaders and ex-Army men, veterans of '98—all gathered together from the dragfnetthat the Japanese had put out. Many ofthem had been seized while walking thestreets and had had no chance to pickup anything from their homes.

The first problem was food. Therewas very little in sight, although already the bamboo telegraph had begunto work, and a small amount was coming in from some faithful house-boywho had learned the whereabouts of hisemployer and had passed the wordalong to others. But these dribletswould not feed upwards of 600 people.We of the Elks were sitting pretty—the40 men, young and old, had worked ascargodores and packed our dozens ofcases of food upstairs safely enoughunder our eyes. We would eat, but howabout the others ?

I think it was to the credit of Elkdomin general and this group of 40 men inparticular that there was no discussionat all about it. We improvised benchesand started opening up cases of food;milk for the children, three weenies,three crackers, and a dab of beans foreveryone who lined up in the room. Nota three-course dinner but very welcometo people who had been without food foralmost a day. The line seemed endless.No doubt we fed some repeaters, as we

had no way to check them, but it wasbetter that way than for someone to gohungry while we had food. There wereno knives or spoons or plates—thesehad been forgotten, but a folded paperwould serve for a plate and a pocketknife is an all-round utility tool.

We kept this up next day and serveda breakfast and a supper. There wasn'tmuch difference between the two, but Iheard no complaints. It made a big holein our supplies, but it helped save thesituation from becoming really tragic.Appreciation was naturally very greatfrom all those who had to endure thosetedious hungry hours. If we had beenallowed to build a fire outside on thecampus, where the Jap soldiers werebivouacking, and boil some coffee ortea—anything hot to drink—thingswould have been more tolerable but thiswas sternly forbidden by the Japs. No •one was permitted to leave the audi- ;torium except to pace up and downthe balcony, and if one did this, eyesmust be kept ahead and no glancingover the coping to the street below.

ON JANUARY 6 we were movedout. It was high time—sleeping

on cement floors without covering canbe done for a while in a warm balmyclimate, but it has its discomforts, andPhilippine sanitation, seldom too good,was rapidly failing under the demandsof 20 times the number ever expectedto be accommodated. Late that afternoon the interpreter mounted a chairand declared that "we would shortly bemoved to a place of considerable confusion", meaning the University of Santo Tomas, which was to be our homefor the next three years. But that isanother story in itself. My own mostvivid personal recollection as we leftVillamor Hall and started to climb intothe truck, was having my hand seizedfurtively by a Filipino whom I recognized immediately as my room-boy.Somehow he had got through the cordon of Japanese and was waiting forme. The honest fellow was sobbing likea child from emotion, and it touched mevery much. I slapped his shoulder andtold him to cheer up—we'd all comeback soon and be together once more atthe club. I often think of poor Gratiano.Later on he walked to Santo Tomas tobring me food that I am sure his ownover abundant family could ill spare. Iwish I could have thanked him. Someday I hope I can.

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amusement, became expert on wartraining.

To produce films in a hurry, the Disney personnel department made a hobby survey of the men and women inthe studio. This was a revelation. Oneman collected ancient automobiles andhad a score of them stored in garag-es.Another owned a prehistoric railroadtrain, with 500 feet of track in his backyard; The Grizzly Flats Railroad ranevery Simday, when he fired up -andsteamed down the track, carrying deadheads from the studio to whom he hadissued passes.

Hobbies became keys to the jobs tobe handled. One animator, whose hob

by for years had been studying U. S.warships, was able to identify everybattleship knocked out at Pearl Harborfrom the tips of superstructures showing above water in news pictures of thedevastation left by the Japs. He became key man of the unit producingidentification films for the Navy.

Others, whose hobbies were modelplanes, were shifted to units makingplane identification films. One of thetechnical advisers assigned by the Navyto the studio, to oversee the making ofa film on fighter plane tactics, wasCommander John S. Thach, originatorof "the Thach weave," which fooled andfoiled the Jap airmen in the South Pacific. To a Disney staff man who became expert on fighter tactics whileworking on this film and another for theAAF, Thach said repeatedly, "Boy, Iwish you were ten years younger. I'dmake a fighter pilot of you and use youfor my wing man."

One day Disney decided that some ofhis "experts" should attend a showingof the films before Navy trainees, to seehow the pictures were driving hometheir lessons and to. study ways of improving them. Two top Disney men.who had supervised the Navy films,were sent to the San Diego naval basewhere, by arrangement, they were admitted and shown every courtesy. Butjust before the show started, featuringthe films they had made, a naval officer politely shooed them away.

"Sorry," he said, "but civilians arenot allowed to see these films."

A good many Disney men became sowell posted on special subjects that theArmy, the Navy, and the Marinestagged them for special training dutiesin the armed forces, and Disney had totrain new men for the studio's twonewly formed educational departments,one headed by Carl Nater, coordinatorof War Films, the' other by Ben Sharp-steen, in charge of health films.

In the latter field—health education—the Disney staff hit its stride soonafter Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinatorof Inter-American Aifairs, lured Disney and a group of his key personnelto South America in 1941. The firstresult of this expedition was a goodwill film, "Saludos Amigos," followed

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by "South of the Border" and "ThreeCaballeros." While the Disney idea menwere gathering material for these essentially amusement features, they werealso absorbing ideas for a series ofeducational reels sponsored by the Coordinator's Office in Latin-Americancountries and by the OWI in the restof the world.

These films were education not onlyfor G.I. Joe, but for the masses as well.In one, the Seven Dwarfs became theprofessors who, in "The WickedScourge," taught people unable to readand write how to cope with malaria.In "Water, Friend or Enemy," the lessons of sanitation and health in primitive communities were driven home."The Grain That Built a Hemisphere"told the story of corn. Another filmtaught vaccination, still another defense against invasion by Nazi or Japforces.

Altogether, there are about twentyof these health and welfare films in theDisney educational mill or freshly outof it. The pictures were done with theintention of showing them free of costin foreign countries, mainly from trucksset up in village plazas, or in schoolyards. But they caught on in theatersas well, and as a result of this unexpected income, several have earnedmore than the cost guaranteed to theDisney studio by the Coordinator's Office and the OWI. Most of them havebeen done with Spanish and Portuguesesound strips, and some are done inChinese. Since the characters are symbolic, the films can be equipped withsound strips in any language.

The more ambitious of the healthfilms cost from $25,000 to $35,000 toproduce. The hurry-up jobs done forthe Army cost around $8000, althoughsome subjects were done for as little as$3500. Among the latter were thequickies, such as "Flush Riveting,'done for industries to speed training ofwar workers in aircraft plants and shipyards.

The Disney staff has animated andglamorized so many dull subjects, withthe aid of lively Disney brain children,that Walt has good grounds for hiscontention that "There's a good film inalmost any subject, if you- put someimagination into it." In one film, donefor OWI, and called "Out of the FryingPan and Into the Firing Line," MinnieMouse and Pluto dramatize with goodhumor the importance of fat salvage inthe war effort. Another, "The Feuhrer'sFace," done primarily for the Treasuryto help sell War Bonds, became such abox office hit that it won the Academyof Motion Picture Sciences Oscar forthe best cartoon of the year, provingthat education need not be dull.

Capitalizing on their "boning up" onaeronautics, the Disney staff took aflier, without sponsorship, on "VictoryThrough Airpower," based on Alexander de Seversky's potent book. Though

primarily propaganda for a hard-hitting air force, this film enjoyed a goodrun in theaters as an amusement fea

ture. The picture lost money, but demonstrated to the Disney studio thateducational films could play in the bigleagues.

The most prized trophies of the Disney studio belong to the members ofthe unit specializing on aviation films.One of their jobs was a film for theAAF on how to use the automatic pilotduring bomb runs. The technical adviser assigned by the AAF was a veteran bombardier from the South Pacific, Major Ola P. Thorn. When hedeparted for combat service, one of theunit men said, "Drop the next load ofbombs for us, will you, Thornie?"

"That's a deal," said Thorn, shakinghands.

Several weeks later, each man on

the picture unit received a cotter pin,removed from a bomb, along with thebomb tag. The letters were mailedfrom "Somewhere in India." On thetags were the notations, "Mickey Mouseand Donald Duck flew with us today.Elapsed time in flight, 17 hours—mission successful."

The unexpected popularity of thefilms done for government agenciesbrought an equally unexpected flood oforders for films dramatizing the production problems of several U. S. industries. At first, Disney shied off fromthese industry films, but later decidedto make a number of them, primarilyto prove the postwar educational possibilities of animated pictures. The bigand unsolved dilemma of education byfilms has been how to finance them.Although there are some 25,000 schoolsin the country equipped with projectors,almost twice as many as in theaters,most school budgets lack funds to payadequately for rental of films. Afterthe war, nearly all of the 118,000 schooldistricts expect to buy projectors. Thiswill give the "16-millimeter circuit,"which includes clubs and service organizations as well as schools, a potential circulation many times that ofthe theaters, where the life of mostfilms is limited to a few weeks. In the"16-millimeter circuit," a film may lasta lifetime. But what to use as a substitute for the box office income whichpays the studio bills is still an unsolved problem.

The answer, temporarily at least,seems to be the industry sponsoredfilms now coming out of the Disneyeducational plant. One such is "Bathing the Baby," sponsored by a medicalsupply manufacturer, for use in domestic science classes and clinics. In

this film the Disney staff have ProfessorStork lecturing the stork flock on thenew policy in baby delivery.

"It isn't enough to deliver the productand forget it," insists Professor Stork."You have to instruct the mothers."

The film does just that. Disney isjealously guarding the educationalstandards of these films. The sponsormay have his name in the title flash,but that is all. In "Bathing the Baby,"the sponsor's name on the can of baby

powder was carefully deleted.One reason the animated educational

films go over so well, in Disney's opinion, is the manner in which the peoplemaking the pictures put their heartsinto their work. When the studio was

turning out nutritional films for OWI,a wave of food consciousness swept thestudio. The story man on one foodfilm, who formerly had eaten anythingput before him, went home and reorganized his family's diet. On anotheroccasion, when they were working ona film featuring psychological studies,everybody in the unit was "psyching"everybody in the studio. But the finalproof came in the unit working on"Bathing the Baby." An epidemic ofbabies were born to wives of men working on that picture, the majority ofthem first babies. Jim Alger, the director, became a father; so did CarlNater, over-all supervisor, Erwin Verity, unit manager. Warren Williams,title man, and several others.

"I guess, when you're working on apicture like that, some of the stuffcomes off on you,", explained Disney.

In another film, "Building a Tire,"sponsored by a rubber company, thepicture puts across the lesson that industry has the same troubles as theArmy in training people to do strangejobs, and that the tire shortage isn't aproblem of rubber shortage but ofworker shortage. "How Glass IsMade," sponsored by one of the bigglass companies, does the same for theglass industry.

Among the other industry-backedfilms in the Disney mill or already completed is "Light Is What You Make It,"directed at the public but sponsored bythe National Better Light-Better SightBureau; "The ABC of Hand Tools,"teaching proper use and care of tools,and sponsored by a motor car manufacturer; "Arc Welding," done for another concern, helps turn housewivesinto war plant welders. "The MetalThat Comes from the Sea," backed bya manufacturer, previews the forthcoming light metals revolution.

One concern had 650 prints made foruse on the "16-millimeter circuit,"which in the course of five years reachesmillions of people in audiences of 30 to300. Though these films cost from $40,-000 to $60,000 to make, the Disneyplant is swamped with more requestsfor animated textbooks than can beturned out in the next two years. Disney picks his subjects with a partialityfor those that have international appeal, such as the OWI's animated picture, "Food for Thought," which teachesnutrition in any language.

Last year, the Disney staff washanded its most difficult educationalassignment yet. The Coordinator's Office wanted a series of films to tryteaching illiterate South American Indians to read Spanish. Disney acceptedthe challenge, and decided to teach twolessons simultaneously—health as wellas reading. When the films were finished, a committee of educators, accompanied by Ben Sharpsteen and DanMacManus from the Disney studio, flew

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to Ecuador to see if the trick wouldwork. Handpicking complete illiteratesin groups of sixty, the c6mmitteeshowed the films, induced the natives torepeat the words flashed on the screenalong with animated scenes showinghow polluted water carries germs. Intwo days the Indians, all adults, wereable to pass a paper test, reading ascore of words. Now the series is being expanded and will be adapted toseveral languages.

These expeditions of the earnest Dis-ney "professors" to determine whetheror not their animated textbooks areringing the bell with their unseen pupilshave humorous angles. On one, Disneyaccompanied some key unit men on atrip into a remote section of SouthernMexico, where the pupils were illiterateIndians. The only way they could bepersuaded to come to class was by hiring them. The expedition made the mistake of paying them more than a bareexistence wage. Result, the Indians cutclass until their money was gone, thencame back for more learning.

The appalling ignorance which Disney is trying to combat with the moresimple animated textbooks is illustratedby a question the Mexican collaboratoron this "exam" put to the class one day."Where is Japan?" he asked. The students stared with blank looks. No onecould recall having heard of Japan, except one man. "Senor," he said, Japanis at war with the North Americans.But neither he nor anyone else had theslightest idea where Japan was located.The crowning blow came with the nextquestion, which revealed that nothe class had evet heard of DonaldDuck, who is by all odds the most popular Disney character among LatmAmericans.

Today the Disney studio has half otits 900 people concentrating on educational and training films. Disney expects to maintain this percentage in thenew-found field, even after the 400 Disney men and women now in the ArmedServices return to their drawing boards.

One of his important prospective customers is the Chinese government,whose emissaries have told him thatanimated films are the one medium bywhich all Chinese can be reached, regardless of dialect. The Chinese havelaunched an ambitious program, as soonas war ends, to lift their masses out ofilliteracy and ignorance.

Exhuberant Walt Disney says, "Thereis no longer any question but that theanimated film is the most flexible, versatile, and stimulating of all teachingfacilities. The question now is, where,how, and with what means shall theeducational film be included in the toolkit of the pedagogues. If the educatorswill lay out the broad programs, decide the subject matter, and devise theteaching technique, animated films willget the lesson over to the pupils, whether they are returned G.I. Joes in thiscountry or illiterate peons in somebackward land.

"I believe that the returned soldier,accustomed to instruction from thescreen, will be receptive to pictures thatwill help him reverse the process andincorporate him into the ways of peace,just as he was indoctrinated for war."

For Disney, no subject is too complex for his animators to simplify. Having made films on the behavior ofstoiTOs, he is ready to tackle the intricacies of astronomy. Having done"Education for Death," he is eager todo a film on pregnancy.

"We must see that no schoolroom isso small or remote that it lacks thebenefits of educational films," the Professor says. "We must see that thereare no territorial limits to that classroom. In the animated film we havea medium that speaks all languages.What we can do in this country, wecan do as well in the classrooms ofSouth America, India, China, or Germany or Japan. It is a big job to makethe knowledge of the world live onfilms, but personally. I'm not afraid ofit because I know we have the men andwomen with the know-how to do it."

Civil Air Patrol(Continued from page 35)

their training period and probably itscurtailment if desired. Their gain wouldbe the nation's.

General Arnold has pointed the waywith these inspiring words:

"We are earning our leadership thehard way and we do not intend to relinquish it. That is where our yoi^gpeople—young men and women alike,boys and girls—come in. The Civil AirPatrol is providing American youth,tens of thousands of them, with indispensable training in aviation.

"These young people will not have tostart from scratch. They—and we mustincrease their numbers from tens ofthousands to millions—will form a newpool of experience, both military andcommercial. As they come to maturity,American air power too will come ofage and fhat coming of age will be ourbest guaranty not only of the leader-

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ship in the air but of our very existenceas a sovereign nation."

Postscriptremarked towardthe start of this article that there

ts material for a grand adventurestrip in the exploits of the menand women and the boy and girlcadets of the CAP. it has sincebeen learned that there actuallytSsucft, a strip. Maj. Zack Mosley,Florida Wing Commander, hasbeen featuring the CAP's lost aircraft search service in his "Stnilin'Jack" strip. One installmentshows the heroine pilot flying herscoxit plane low over swamps infested by ferocious, red-eyed alligators, when she is suddenlyhemmed in by a fog, a couple ofsqualls, and a baby hurricane.

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By Harry Hansen

ONE of the finest accounts ofwar experiences so far published—and there have been

some capital ones—is Ira Wolfert's"American Guerilla in the Philippines", which gives, better than pressdispatches, a clear idea of whatguerrilla warfare against the Japanese was like. Mr. Wolfert, whowrote that able book about the Solomons, has been the intermediary inthis account, for he has told it in thewords of Iliff David Richardson, aNavy man, 26 years old, who wasstranded on Leyte when John D.Bulkeley's famous PT boat squadron(celebrated in "They Were Expendable") met with mishaps. Richardson went into the jungles, joined upwith the guerrillas and practicallyestablished a radio network thatcould communicate with Gen. Mac-

Arthur and thus speed the liberationof the Philippines.

It was a stroke of genius for Mr.Wolfert—no mean writer himself—

to record, as nearly as possible, theway Richardson speaks, and thus lethim reveal, step by step, his difficultlife in the villages and woods, hisfight to get food and get rid ofulcers and other disabilities, hisraids on the Japs and contacts withother isolated Americans, who helpedform guerrilla bands. Other Americans were also improvising radiocommunication—"strictly hambone,but it worked"—writes LieutenantRichardson. Col. Fertig had a groupworking for him on behalf of thearmy, so the Navy, represented byLieut. Commander Chick Parsons,asked Richardson to develop a radiostation in the San Bernardino straitsand other radio stations around Sa-Hiar and Leyte to report Japanese

ship movements. The tale of howcommunicatioii was established andhow submarines and planes broughtnews of MacArthur and Nimitz tothe natives is thrilling. Richardsonbecame a major in the guerrillaarmy too and at the end of his storyGeneral MacArthur and General Ken-ney of the Air Corps are congratulating him on board the cruiser Nashville and recalling all the messageshe managed to get out of the islands.It is a tale less bloody than most,full of adventures- and sidelights onFilipino life, with steadfast courageand a little bit of love-making. (Simon & Schuster, $2.50)

But "Betio Beachhead", preparedon the orders of the U. S. MarineCorps by Capt. Earl J. Wilson andthree master technical sergeants whotook part in the Betio battle, is agrim tale. Blood, flowed freely atBetio, which is the atoll at the endof the fishhook that is Tarawa. Hereoccurred the first sea-borne assaultby amphibious tanks on a heavilydefended atoll. The book has bothpictures and text, and the reportingis excellent, conveying exactly whatthe individual soldier saw and experienced—not merely the fightingbut the moments before and after—the trip to the atoll and the raisingof the colors. It was at Betio thatthe planes and troops worked inperfect coordination, the planesblasting precise squares on the target map according to the needs ofthe ground troops. Here, too, theflame-throwers proved their greatvalue. One officer destroyed a Japanese machine-gun emplacement witha single blast from his flame gun."For seconds afterward the bulletsin the cartridge belts of the cre-

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When George W. Norris returned tohis home in McCook, Neb., in 1943after serving forty years in Congressas Representative and Senator, his friendand political associate, James E. Lawrence, editor of Lincoln, Neb., prevailedupon him to write an account of thoseyears. Senator Norris complied andfinished his autobiography, "FightingLiberal," in August of last year—whenit must have been pretty hot in Nebraska—shortly before his death. Hehad been the storm center of many political campaigns and his opponentshad finally downed him. The wonderwas that he was re-elected again andagain in the face even of opposition inhis own party, for, as he states clearly,he was always an insurgent Republican,a man who took his own stand on vitalissues and who, in the final years ofhis service supported many measures,such as the Tennessee Valley Authority,with which his party disagreed. Senator Norris has told, in this book, exactly why he voted as he did, and goingback to the days of McKinley, Bryan,Joe Cannon, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft,Wilson, Coolidge and many others nowa part of American political history.In one of his final chaptei-s SenatorNorris writes earnestly of the menaceof inflation. He feels that inflation isthe unseen enemy which will defeatany effective postwar program xmlesschecked. He calls on Congress to support drastic measures to check it, saying "men strike out against controlswhen thinking primarily of temporaryprofits," but adding that "regimentation during a war period, and its abnormal spending, are a cheap price topay in order to escape the great evilsof inflation." He tells his countrymen:"Liberalism will not die. It is as indispensable to life as the pure air allaround about." The frankness and clarity of Senator Norris' testament areinspiring. (Macmillan, $3.50).

If you and I decided to tell the worldall about the intimate concerns of ourfamilies and friends we would be calledcommon gossips. But it is different ifyou are a novelist or a philosopher—then you produce sidelights on humannature that may, with literary skill,become much more than mere entertainment. That is just what GeorgeSantayana, Harvard's retired professorof philosophy, has-been doing in Romewhile Mussolini was swashbuckling allover Italy—writing his memoirs andmaking the stories of his family andfriends significant. Many readers will

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remember his novel about the BostonBrahmins, "The Last Puritan," whichwas based on his long residence andsocial- life in Cambridge and Boston.He retired to a convent conducted bythe Blue Nuns in Rome and there,somewhat enfeebled but with a clearmind, began writing "Persons andPlaces," of which the first volume, "TheBackground of My Life" was publishedlast year and the second, "The MiddleSpan," appears this month. This second volume deals with his young manhood, his travels in Europe in his twenties, and his first appointment atHarvard, when he took over one ofWilliam James's classes in philosophy—there were only three or four pupils—at $500 a year. A few days laterPresident Eliot gave him another class—this time of three pupils—and another $500. We must remember thatthis was in the 1880s, and while thepay was little enough, it would probably be around $2,000 today.

Mr. Santayana taught there thirtyyears, and yet says his position wasalways "insecure," and his views wereopposed by many. Yet he seems tohave made a brilliant impression on hispupils. An analytical man, who sayshe always thought before he acted, hesized up everyone—the .members of hisfamily in Avila, Spain; his colleaguesat Cambridge: his associates in Londonand elsewhere, with an unsentimentaleye and often with an amused, cynicalattitude toward the vagaries of humanbeings. He was never wholly convincedthat William James's pragmatic philosophy was sound, but he preferredhis brother Henry James; he had someremarkable adventures with the youngLord Russell of the 1880s—falling outof a boat into the Thames, for instanceand finding out that'Russell had a v/on-derful command of profanity. ewatched several of Queen V'ctona sprocessions as a guest of Jo nRockefeller and tells some highly amusing anecdotes about the financier s sotin-law, Charles Augustus Strong. Hecites this anecdote about the elder JohnD. Rockefeller: "One day when I hadmentioned Spain, he asked me, after apause, what was the population ofSpain. I said I believed it was then19000.000. There was another pause,this time rather longer, ^said, half to himself: "I must tell themat the office that they dont sell enoughoil in Spain. They must look the matter UP'' There are some remarkablecharacter sketches- almost caricatures

of Mr. Santayana's college friends,but the sparkle of the text is m the author's observations, his comment onhimself no less than on his associates;his brief, sharp reflections on Americanlife Mr. Santayana, now 81. does notbelieve strongly in the influence of idealsof individuals on political events; hethinks strong, basic influences "mevi-tably entangle and subjugate men ofaction." Yet he is far from being radical in his views. He has always remained a Catholic, no matter where hisphilosophical ramblings have taken him.(Scribner, $2.50)

Among the new novels. Johannes V.Jensen won the Nobel prize in 1944and his greatest work, "The LongJourney," has just been reprinted byAlfred A. Knopf. In it Mr. Jensen develops a whole Nordic mythology ofhis own, telling the story of the evolution of primitive man in the cold northand the gradual migrations southward.He is at his best when reconstructingthe ice age, the primeval forests andthe taming of fire to the uses of man,but in his later chapters his symbolicuse of Columbus. Cortez and Darwinis confusing. I do not believe it willprove as interesting to Americans asit has to Scandinavians, who are saturated with mythological stories ... Aslice of American boyhood is revealedin capital fashion by William Maxwellin "The Folded Leaf", the story of therelationship of two boys, one a strongathletic and assertive type, the otherfrail and his shadow. The fine thingabout this story is that it is much morerepresentative of American school lifethan the usual stories about adolescents; while there are some lapses oftaste in the author's language, thereare no unwholesome sex situations;the boys are natural and their jealousies and triumphs those of "regularfellows". (Harper, $2.50) . . . LudwigBemelmans has taken a hand in writing a story about Nazi life in "TheBlue Danube." This tells how a German anti-Nazi, a French prisoner ofwar and several others in a little Bavarian town get the better of a brutishgauleiter and the scheming town assessor. Mr. Bemelmans knows how tomake the officials look ridiculous. Hedraws his own impressionistic picturesof them, too. Entertaining, though notas amusing, naturally, as his storiesabout life in the famous Hotel Splen-dide. (Viking Press, $3) . . • "The IronGates," by Margaret Millar, is a prettygrim murder mystery, with InspectorSands unravelling secrets of the houseof Dr. Morrow, whose wife escaped toan insane asylum. But it certainly holdsthe interest. (Random tfouse, $2.50) . ..Whereas "Cats Don't Smile", by D. B.Olsen, has a novel detective MissRachel Murdock. aged 70, who enjoyslooking into little details of crimmalproblems and solving them. This is notso grim. (Crime Club. $2) . • • Theremust be men who have all sorts oftheories about catching fish—that it'sbest at the dark of the moon and whento use "a fly and a worm. Elmer Ransom is the well-known writer on sportswho has put a number of his storiesabout trout, bass, salmon and wildgame into a book called "Fishing's JustLuck and Other Stories",—he has achatty style and entertains ey®" ^hosewho don't fish. (Howell, Soskm $2). . .Taylow Caldwell. whose bulky novelsabout the families of munitions makersmust have beguiled the hours of manywoman readers, has a new one-—just asdetailed, just as long, and just as fullof violent family clashes, this time thestory of mercantile life in upstate New-York in the 1850s. It is called TheWide House". (Scribner, $3).

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OAKLAND, CALIF., Lodge, No. 171,held Open House one Sunday afternoonin April to celebrate the first birthday ofits 130-bed dormitory for servicemen,where 41,000 boys have relaxed duringthe year.

• The accommodations are ideal—eightshowers, a spacious lounge and readingroom with radio, stationery and magazines—with everything clean as a whistleand every attendant willing and able.

No. 171 also provides a checking servicefor the Armed Forces—the only one of itskind in the city. Another of the lodge'swartime activities is getting along fine,too—the book collection program for theAmerican Merchant Marine. The firstbatch numbered 375—all great books infirst class condition—and another, just asgood, followed in no time. The War Commission Committee is now workingwholeheartedly on behalf of the Veterans' Administration and Oakland Regional Hospital in recruiting registerednurses for service in veterans' hospitals.

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The Bonrd of GranJ Trustees reports that there are several rooms atllie Elks National Home awaiting, applications from members qualified foradmission. Applications will be considered in the order in wliieh received.

For full information, write RobertA. Scott, Superintendent, Elks National Home, Bedford, Va.

GLENDALE, CALIF. Local members ofthe Fourth Estate and newsmen of theentire metropolitan Los Angeles areawere guests of Glendale Lodge No. 1289at its 13th Annual Press Night on April16. Members of the city council andheads of the city departments attended.After a short business session, at whichE.R. Maynard G. Olmstead presided.Master of Ceremonies Roy N. Clayton,Public Relations Director of the lodge,took over. Since they were inaugurated,Mr. Clayton has been in charge of everyone of the Press Night programs.

The principal speaker was Judge W.Turney Fox of the Los Angeles CountySuperior Court, who spoke on "Freedomof the Press During Wartime". Otherspeakers were H. C. Burkheimer, Publisher of tbe Glendale News, Thomas D.Watson, Publisher of the Glendale Starand Jimmy McLarnin, former world welterweight champion, now a resident ofGlendale.

The occasion also served to celebratethe appearance after a year of PastExalted Ruler Philip Sonntag of theU.S. Navy, home on furlough. In a fittingceremony, he was presented with a lifemembership card.

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MINOT, N. D., Lodge,-No. 1089, heldwhat was one of its largest and most successful crippled children's clinics on April16, with the state and county welfareboards cooperating. Luncheon and refreshments were served the 158 childrenexammed during the day and their attendants. Heading the examining groupwere Dr. Joel C. Swanson, Dr. H J For-Un, both of Fargo, N. D., and Dr. R. E.Dyson of Minot. The chairman of thepage's Crippled Children Committee, R.F. Mills, was awarded a life membershipr^ently in appreciation of his long andeffective service.,-The same day the clinic was held,Mmot Lodge completed and shipped outIts collection of books for the MerchantMarme—a total of 6,025, weighing about6 A tons. A great many books for children came in, but these wei'e segregatedand presented to local hospitals.

led by P.E.R. T. J. Mc-Urath, Chairman of the lodge's War Commission. Cooperating with the Elks werejv?® Parent-Teachers Associations andthe State Theater in Minot. The schoolchildren worked hard too, with an eye

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Our President

ARRY S. TRUMAN succeeded to the Presidency of theUnited States in the most fateful days of world history.Without warning he was elevated from the office of

Vice-President to assume the mantle of a great leader, at whosesudden passing theworld stood appalled.

President Truman found himself, within a few hours afterthe death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in a key position of worldleadership. With the war in Europe drawing to a close, ourforces in the Pacific plunging forward to bloody victory, andthe complex problems of peace settlements lying before himhe has, with his first utterances, won the confidence of theAmerican people.

President Truman is a man of the people. Like Lincoln,he came from the farm, has known the vicissitudes of afarmer's life, andhebattled his way to highest honors throughthe political intrigue of a great city. He is typical of the Middle West, where honesty and industry count for more thanriches and where personal integrity is a yardstick by whichis judged the character of men.

President Truman is a true son of the Middle West, afriendly and understanding man, loyal to his friends, frankand just in all hisdealings. He isa fraternalist and his interestin fraternal affairs demonstrates that he likes people and hasfaith in what is sometimes called "the common man", butwho is in reality the overwhelming mass of the Americanpeople, the rock upon which our country stands.

President Truman is an Elk, a member for many years ofKansas City Lodge No. 26 and more than 700,000 Americancitizens are privileged to call him brother. They join theirfellow-countryman in hailing theChief, confident that he willlead the world into a future of security and peace.

Our Flag

OUR Flag, which played its part on all the world sbattlefields, on the sea and in the air, has never, since it was

first raised over the armyof Washington, gone into battle save in the cause of human liberty, and in the great globalstruggle of today, has vindicated the principles which gave itbirth. Its red is brighter, with the blood of our bravest, shedfor liberty, its white is cleaner, washed with the tears of theirloved ones, its field, aglow with "the light that was neveron land or sea", reflects the immortal souls of those asleep "onfame's eternal camping ground", and all people, war wearyand heartsore look to "its clustering stars and streaming light"to lead them into a world haven of peace and good will.

"TO INCULCATE THE PRINCIPLES OF CHARITY. ®JSIlANCELOVE AND FIDELITY; TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE ANDTHE HAPPINESS OF ITS MEMBERS; TO THE ^ OFAMERICAN PATRIOTISM, TO CULTIVATE GOOD FEJ-LO^SHIP . ...-nOM PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION, BENEVOLENT AND

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Victory

AFTER six years of warfare, diabolical in conception,/\ and the most ruthless in execution ever recorded by

history, fighting in Europe has come to an end.As the Allied Armies, marching deep into Germany, have

captured one prison and concentration camp after another,the basic pattern of the conflict has become more and moreapparent. The war just ended, was not a war for territorialconquest alone, but awar of extermination. The incredibledisclosures of barbaric cruelty, inhuman practices, deliberatestarvation, and the perversion of biological and pathologicalscience, lead to the inevitable conclusion that its ultimateobjective was to wipe out or reduce to the lowest human levels,all the peoples of Europe in order that- the Master Racemight become supreme.

It was awar that came very close to attaining its objectives.Had it not been for the courage of the soldiers, and thepeople of Britain, who at one time stood alone against German might, the story of VE day would never be written. Ifthe men of the Allied Armies had not stood firm until theproductive might of the United States enabled them to copewith the superiority of German equipment our civilization,must have fallen. But the arms and munitions came, andthen the Americans came also, to join the Allies in a mightyonward sweep, ending in the defeat of German arms andthe most crushing, complete and overwhelming defeat in thehistory of warfare.

Adolph Hitler, whose diseased brain conceived the maddream of world domination, and in its attempted fulfillmentslaughtered women and little children, destroyed pricelessmonuments of centuries of European culture, spread devastation and sorrow over half the world, is dead—or in hiding

the most execrated man in the world. The partner of hisAxis, the "Jackall" Mussolini, whose dream of empiredragged his own country into disastrous war, is dead—executed by his own countrymen, and his body lies in a pauper'sgrave.

Italy, the one-time Axis partner, seems to be on the wayto redeeming the crimes of her betrayers, but the plight ofGermany kindles no spark of pity, for the world remembersthat eighty million Germans stood squarely behind Hitler'sruthlessness and cruelty, and that the whines of his one-timefollowers are inspired by a self-pity, in which there is notrace of regret for the destruction they have brought uponthe world.

For we in- America the war is not over. There is anotherAxis partner, Hirohito, the last of the unholy three, and ourcountry is dedicated to the task of completing the workbegun in Europe which will not be ended until the lastvestigeof tyranny is wiped from the face of the earth.

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D F I POSSESSED a shop or store, I'd drive the grouches off my floor!-\^i

I'd never let some gloomy guy Offend the folks who come to buy;

I'd never keep a boy or clerk • • "With mental toothache at his work,

w^'$Nor let a man who draws my pay Drive customers of mine away.

Mk-I'd treat the man who takes my time*** And spends a nickel or a dime ^

and make him feel ^iMlTThat I was pleased to close the deal,With courtesy,

B ecause tomorrow, who can tell? He may want stuffy I have to sell,

And in that case, then glad he'll be ~ To spend his dollars all with me.

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