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Volume Nine

Number Three

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The Elks MagazineFeatures for August, 1930

Speech of Acceptance of Grand Exalted S^t n T?^rr.,^ » u r- i oiRuler Lawrence H. Rupp tea Set a Kogue, a story by George Creel.... 21

Illustrations hy Henry B. DavisA Slimmer Road, photograph by John Ti,<. n » r i rni i i ttt

Kahel r j ihe (^uest of the Thunderbus—-Part IV, aromantic novel by John Chapman

Blood of a Foreign Crew, a story hy Ed- Hilder 24mund M. Littell 9 Illustrations by Raehurn Van Buren

Illustrations by L. R. Gvstavsonr-ditorials 28

East Is West, an article by Charley Pad- „dock 19 Proceedings of the Grand Lodge Conven-

With photographs "" Atlantic City 30 to 37The Private Lives ofSeveral People, book Elks Magazine-Viking Prosperity Tour.. . 38

reviews by Claire Wallace Flynn 15 r.Reports of Grand Lodge Officials and Com-

Behind the Footlights 16 mittees 40 to 45

The Game of Neo-Friendship, an article by Under the Spreading Antlers—News of theGelett Burgess 18 Qrder... 4-6

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Behind the Footlights 16

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Lawrence H. Rupp, of Allentown, Pa.,Lodge, No.130, elected Grand Exalted Ruler at the GrandLodge Meeting in Atlantic City, N. July 8,1930

The Elks Magazine

August, 1930

Speech of Acceptance

Grand Exalted Ruler RuppBefore the Grand Lodge at Atlantic City, K

July 8, 1930

f^RAND EXALTED RULER, Past Grand Exalted Ridersand Brother Elks of this Grand Lodge:

I am grateful to the delegates in this Grand Lodge assembled for the high honor that has been conferredupon me.

To be selected as the leader of this great Order for the coming year is a proud distinction. To be called intoa position that has been filled so ably by the distinguished Americangentlemen who have preceded me in thisoffice arouses in me feelings of great responsibility. I feel humble, indeed, as I appraise that responsibility. Ihopethat withyour help I may meetit; that I may be ablefittingly to fill thishighoffice, so that myyearmaybringfurther glory to the great fraternity whose representatives you are.

You are entitled to know something of my program. That program will be based upon my conception ofthe ideals of the Order, its needs, and its hopes for the future. It will not be a startling program. I will notask 3:ou to voyagewith me into any strange and uncharted seas.

Sixty-two years have passed since our Order was founded. On that day in February, in i868, when itsfounders decidedupon its basic principles, the livid scars of the CivilWar had not yet healed, the din of thatfratricidal combat had hardly died away, the hatreds engendered by that strife of the sections had not yetcooled.

Then it was that those who founded the Order felt the need of human brotherhood. They phrased thatneed in the principles of the Order: Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity, upon which the temple ofElkdom has been reared. To paraphrase the stately language of Emerson: "They builded better than thqrknew."

Florence Finch Kelley has a poem that runs thus:

"Oh, how Life chases us, rushes us, races us!From day until day forever he chases us,

As he pricks us with goads and he fficks us with whips.Till we have no time to live!

When a new day comes and with it time starts anew,Then we think we shall live and the tyrant beshrew.

Who is always rushing us on from this to that,Tin we have no time to live!

But his whip cracks again and we run on as before.While he rushes us on till we reach e'en death's door.

And he chases us on through the years to the grave—And we've had no time to live!"

I am sure that they whofoundedour Order in that longago, in that time of strain and stress, felt that therewasa needofa fraternity in whichmenmight have " time to live," and to fillthat time with thoughts and deedsof Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity.

There is a significance in these principles. These are not martial words. There is about them nothing of thetumult of the battlefield, no sound of beating drums and marching armies and charging cavalry. They arepeaceful words, expressing the aspirations of men who desire to dwell in harmony and friendly relations withtheir fellows.

It ismy belief that ifwecanretraceourfootsteps to the altar ofElkdomduringthe coming yearand reconsecrate ourselvesto the high ideals of the Order we will be firedanew with a zeal that wiU ffingits boundaries stillmorewidely and bringinto its circle a largermembership.

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Theworld needs brotherhood now asit needed it in iSfiR Tf j ^ - . , t. j"good fellowship," with all the impUcatlons of that term fa th T A j ') as m the decades since our Order was founded.

The worlddoesn't need dictators. Ithasthesp j.. , .need great capitalists and captains of industry. It has th^e. Tt°need?Ld"hearts^.''' 'It was Tennyson who said:

"Kind hearts are more than coronetsAnd sunple faith than Norman blood."

During the days of Louis XIV lived Fenelonof the "sumihine King" stUl adorn the city of PaS ° TTpeople. Fenelon reared astructure in areS^irkable sent™ P"'" " tax-nddenendure long after the glittering palace of Louis XIV arvwil the times in which he hved, that willVat Versailles and theTnanon shall have crumbled. Hesaid:

better than^y^country^"^^ myself, my country better than my family, and the human race

ne^^^ th^t i!^pirSiort°(Iday' speaking eloquently from the depths of akindly heart.Modem life is complex It changes its pattern like akaleidoscope day by day. Ithas many distractions.

1rf moving-picture theatre, these and other interests have crowded in upon ourfraternal life. Their appeal makes more apparent the necessity for stressing good fellowship, brotherhood.In our haste to pursue the material things of life we are neglecting the things that are more important,

noma ous as i ma> seern, ma emocratic land we are losing our liberties. We arehedged about with lawsand hniiUtions and mhibitions. We write our intolerances into our Constitution and into our Statutes. Whatwe need is to rebuild the cleansing fires of fraternity on the hearthstone of every Lodge of the Order, so that thewarmth of the.e fires may be felt throughout the land. To stress these things will be my program.

I can point to what has been accomplished. I can call the roll of the great leaders of the Order, living and

I ^our splendid achievements. I can point to the Memorial Building on the shoresof Lake Michigan, the finest of its kind m.America; to the Home on the sunny hills of Mrginia, where so manyo our ro ers are our^ests ^waiting the last roll call; to the Magazine, which has achieved the highest placeaniong emag^ines o its m the world; to the Llks National Foundation, that will be asource of strengthand aguaranty for the permanence of our Order through the years to come.

I may arouse your pride in the physical bigness of the Order, its wealth, its 1,500 homes, its 800,000 members.These things are the tangible evidence of the intangible but persuasive power of good fellowship, the con

crete result of the practice of brotherhood in a fraternity in which men have "time to live." But what I hopetodo is to fill the hearts of Elks with the firm conviction that Elkdom is a "delectable land," into which othersshoidd be brought, to assemble atthe altar with us, to be initiated into the open mystery of brotherhood. Thusour Order wdl gam the inspiration to grow and the enthusiasm that will bring to itgreater prosperity.

May I ask for your hearty support? WiU you carry the message for me?I shall not be a tasl^^ter. Go back to your Lodges and tell them for me that I hope for their continued

prosperity, that if I am invited I shall attempt to visit them, that1shall not lookfor lavish entertainment but thatifin honor of the office I hold they might fmd it possible on the occasion of my visit to initiate a class to be inducted into this "delectable land" I will be very, very happy.

I am following in the footsteps of a distinguished Georgian, Walter Andrews, who is closing a successfuladministration. Hefollowed thepathso magnificently blazed by theGrand Exalted Rulers who preceded him.Byvirtue of theofhee towhich I have been elected I will carry thestandard which hebore fora year. Will youmarch with me for a season? Will you Join infurthering theprinciples ofElkdom?

Wecan, lamsure,byour mutual love for thisgreat Order broaden itsscope, enlarge its activities, bringwithinits folds a large number of our friends and fellow Americans, who will glory with us in the opportunities ourfraternity offers for theexpression of thatkindliest ofsentiments, brotherhood, which makes life worth while andjustifies the existence of our organization.

We can accomplish much inAmerica to translate the principle ofbrotherhood into terms of a larger liberty,ridding our land of intolerances, of bitternesses, of prejudices, so that of our Order it may continue to be saidthat it represents the highest ideals of American life,

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"Now," hesaid, "gotany thin gelse to say?"

ONLY twice had his father said it;Hans Jensen, standing on the lowstern deck of the outward-bound fish-

boat, with the chatter of his brother's voicesounding in his ears, remembered that verydistinctly. And neither time had his blond-haired, blue-eyed Norwegian father given.way to the passion that was so characteristicof his mother's French blood. No; his voicehad been cold and harsh, on that day fouryears ago, when, for the second time, evenas he lay on the sickbed, from which henever arose, his eyes had been the icy onesof a man who has come—sailing—from thenorth.

"The blood of a foreign crew!" he hadrasped—and each time Hans had refusedto believe.

For Hans was fond of his younger brother.He always had been. And as he looked athim now, standing there on the after deckof the Marie, talking more than he had evertalked before, he realized that from the timeFrank was a baby, placed in his care whilehis mother did the housework, they hadbeen comrades. They had worked togetherand played together, Hans always doingmore than his share of the chores, and morethan once acting as protector when largerboys would have bullied his younger brother.He had felt the same protective impulsewhen his father first gave vent to those harshwords.

"A grocery clerk!" So his father had exploded before he voiced the bitter indictment. That was when Frank had graduatedfrom high school and announced his intention of staying on shore instead of becominga third member of the fishing crew. "ACopyright, IQ30 by Edmiiitd M. Lilid

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clerk, with flour on your pants!" Then hehad turned his cold-eyed glare from Frankto his mother, "The blood of a foreigncrew!" he had rasped.

Hans was twenty-two at the time. Instature and color and strength he was theimage of his father, and he guessed what wasmeant by those words. His mother, heknew, had always been fearful of the water,and bccause Frank resembled her—he hadher dark eyes and black hair, her slender,wiry figure—his stocky, thick-shoulderedfather believed him to be afraid of the water,too. But Hans didn't agree with him.Frank wanted to be a storekeeper, that wasall; and though Hans had long chcrisheda dream of the two of them on the lake together, he wanted Frank to follow his owninclination.

But that was four years ago—before theirfather died. And now Frank was twenty-two, Hans twenty-six, and theywere on the lake together at last—with Frank talking a blue ^streak.

The water had been calm 'Wtwhen just after daybreak theyhad dropped down the s%vift, Fnarrow current that poured outfrom beneath the power house

to make the fisherman's business street. Nota ripple had marred the surface thatstretched away beyond the two breakwaterpiers that conducted the creek into the lake.But Frank, standing beside him and lookingahead over the roof of the low cabin, hadn'tbeen so calm.

"Well, here we go," he began as soon asthey left the dock. There was a certaintenseness in his voice. His eyes glittered

metallicaiiy. "Beeni waiting for this a long

(y ^ time, but it's never too

No, it was never too[ late to start. Hans

told him so—andthought of the secondtime his father hadvoiced those words.Rolling his head on hispillow, his father had

lA ej'edglare,andrasped:L* "The blood of a for

eign crew!" — andHans, once more, had refused to believe.

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how. I ought to; I've heard it talked aroundhome long enough. Besides, I'm a fisherman's son, and . . . where are we goingto-day?"

Hans told him. "Straight west. There'sa bank just this side of North Island. We'vegot five gangs of nets on it," And he thoughtof the weeks that had followed the conversation with his father.

Terrible, those weeks. None of theeight fishermen had ever seen a poorer season. And with the doctor biUs mounting,the Jensens never could have managed if ithadn't been for Frank.

Nor had Frank complained, even thoughhe had every right to. He had begun tohave dreams of his own by this time. Hewas in love with Alma CIoss, the blue-eyed,flaxen-haired fisherman's daughter, whoseem.ed to be unable to decide between himand Ansil Larsen. He had been saving hismoney with the idea of opening a store ofhis own, thus putting himself on an equalfooting with Ansil, who had just been madea partner in his father's fishing business. Butnot one word did he say about this interruption of his plans; he gave what money wasneeded without any comment whatsoever.

And now he was exclaiming: "All thewayover there? " Then, in a diSerent tone:"Well, it'll be a nice ride, won't it? Almostten miles. And there isn't any danger ofrunning aground either, is there? No, sir.When we get close to Snagtooth Shoal we'llwatch out for it, won't we? We won't strilceand go down like Carl Erickson did, will we? "

I SHOULD say not," Hans repliedgruffly. "We couldn't hit it if we

wanted to. Not to-day. It takes a stormto make Snagtooth dangerous. That's whenCarl Erickson got lost—in a fall storm.To-day we could go right over it and nevertouch."

At the same time he was thinking of thecircumstances which had resulted in hisbrother being with him to-day. Theirfather had died in a painless coma, thenChris Olsen had left.

Just how he was going to manage, hedidn't know, for there were noextra fishermen to be found inthe little village of Norland, andhe couldn't handle the boatalone. It was Frank, once more,who supplied the answer.

"Why," he had said with aquick glance at his grievingmother. "I'll help you out.We're not so busy at the storenow. The resorters are goneand—I'll go."

And here he was, talking analmost endless streak.

" Sure. Calm as a mill pondto-day. Nothing so terribleabout this, is there? Just a lotof water with land sticking upout of it. All but SnagtoothShoal. Just water. Deep water.And why not? Ha-ha! It's gotto be deep. How else could ithold all tiie fish we're going to catch today?"

He needed no answers; Hans discoveredthat very soon. He was only talking. Andwhy not? He was in a new and strange environment; he was chattering excitedly.The same spirit had moved him when severalyears ago they had gone to their firet circustogether. That was his mood; so Hansnodded or grinned or dropped a word wherehe thought it necessary, and otherwisestayed silent. In no time at all, it seemed,they had coasted up to the first buoy, and

the net was coming in, bringing many fish."Look at 'em! Just look at 'em come in!

Talk about luck—maybe I'm not the bo3''that brings it, eh? I told you we'd catch'em to-day!" Frank's voice was loud. Hiseyes were brilliant, and hisfingers trembled.

"And I guess if Pa washere he'd say I was a fisherman, wouldn't he? And youdon't have to know how toswim, either," he said whenthe last net had been hauledand the. nose of the broad-beamed Marie was pointedhomeward. " Pa couldn'tswim, could he? And neither can you. Wcll,I can't swim either, but I can be a goodfisherman just the same, can't I?"

Hans was standing -with his feet astraddleof the tiller and gave a mechanical answer toFrank, who stood beside him. They were incalm water at the moment, but Hans couldsee that the wind had freshened in the westand that out beyond the lee of North Islandwhitecaps were running.

"Very soon," he thought as Frank's voicerattled on, "we'll be out into some freshweather; what \vill Frank do then?"—andfelt himself stiffening with anger as thethought took shape in his mind. It was asthough some stranger had voiced it. Hisfists clenched at his sides. "Do?" heanswered himself. "Why, nothing! Frankis a fisherman's son!" and laughed aloud.

Soon they were pulling into the channel,and beneath the push of the breeze from thewest, waves were beginning to slip in underthe stern, lifting and dropping it with increasing motion. Frank's hands lifted to thehandrail that edged the cabin roof andgripped it so tightly his knuckles were white.

"And don't you think I'm not strongenough to swing those boxes of fish, either,"he chattered on. "I guess I can handle 'emas good as you or anybody else. It's just—Gosh! That was some sea!"

It wasn't much of a sea, as a matter offact. The day was of the sort that madea fisherman glad he was alive, and the wave

There was a troubledlook in her blue eyes

that had slippedin behindthem had nothingalarming about it. But Frank, one hand,flung out spasmodically, clutched flans l>ythe arm. His voice Avas a whisper. Thedark pupils of his eyes were ringed aboutwith while. His face was colorless.

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It was fear. With sinking heart Hansrecognized it. His father had been right.But each time he had voiced his thought,Haps had refused to believe, and by all thewhitefish in Lake Michigan, he would still

refuse to believe! He facedhis brother. He spread asmile of great contemptacross his face, and in a voicethat was far too loud heanswered:

"A sea? Call that a sea?Ho-ho! Why, that was onlya ripple! The trouble wthyou, young feller, is youhaven't got your sea legs

yet. Stand up straight, man! Ride theboat, don't let it pitch you around. Thinkyou can be a fisherman in an hour or two?"

"No-no." Frank's voice faltered. "Iguess not. B-but "

"Why, you don't even know how to steeryet," Hans rushed on. "And here I beenletting you stand around doing nothing!Get forward and grab that wheel. Hold hernose on the hill back o' town. I'm going towash some nets and I don't want you running any snake's trail, get me?"

' I ^HERE is more than one kind of fear;Hans learned this during the space of the

next few breaths. There is the kind thathis father had meant when he rasped: "Theblood of a foreign crew!"—and there is thehideous terror that stops the heart whena brother shows signs of turning craven.Was he going to collapse? It looked likeit. Or would he accept the strength thatHans was trying to pour into him?

/'Go, get in there!" Hans wondered ifhis eyes were icy like his father's as he bellowed. "And don't let go of that wheel tillwe're scraping the dock, hear me?"

Frank heard. Somewhere back of thosewildly staring e^^es there was an attentivesanity, and it took hold. His mouth, whichhad dropped slackly open, closed. .He swallowedonce with difficulty. He grinned. Orrather, beneath dark eyes in which therewas such a look of suffering as Hans neverwanted to see again, he bared his teeth.Then he sucked in a breath that hissedthrough them, lowered himself into the cabin,and with hands outstretched to steady him,stumbled forward to the wheel.

Nor were his struggles over. A weaknesssuch as the one that bestrode him was notto be conquered in a moment. More thanonce during the next half hour he turnedaway from the wheel and looked back withhis mouth open as though to call; Hans sawit from the corner of his eye. But each timeHans pretended not to see, and saw hisbrother's lips tighten, saw hini turn backto the wheel again. Not a word was exchanged between them until, having drawnclose to the out-thrust ends of the twopiers,Frank looked back with the frightened lookin his eyes, and called.

"You'd better take her in, Hans. I—it'spretty narrow there."

It was, quite narrow. Only forty feet ofcurrent separated the two cribbings thatprevented the waves of the lake from washing sand into the mouth of the creek, andcompared to the broad reaches of waterbehind them the gap looked as small asa needle's eye. But it was more than threetimes as wide as the Marie, and Hans saidso. Gruffly.

"You can't miss it," he growled. "Andyou've got to take her in. I've got to mindthe engine."

"I know, but ""Look," Hans interrupted, pointing.

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"There's a bunch o' the boys standing on thedock. Show 'em,"

That won. Frank's lips tightened and heturned back to the wheel. And Hans, whilehe stayed astern ostensibly to mind the engine, sat on the edge of the heaving sterndeck where he could rest a hand upon thetiller.

In they went, the nose of the Marie slidingfairly into the center of the outpouringcurrent. The stern lifted on the charge ofa following wave. The boat rushed forward,yawing \videly—and the tiller failed to move.Frank's nerve had failed him. He was rigid,his hands frozen to the wheel.

It took all the strength Hans could musterto snatch control away from him. He hadto thrust against the tiller \Wth all hisstrength before he could throw it over.But he brought the nose of the boat around.It cleared the cribbing with bare inches tospare. They were safely in.

And with not a soul the wiser—or so Hans

The "Marie"plowedsturdily on. He couldsee the man's arms fly out and the blackthread of line settle across his shoulders.

They had made it!

thought with huge satisfaction; for once hernose w^as straightened up, Frank's rigidityleft him. Once more his hands were movingthe wheel; Hans could feel their touch on thetiller. He heaved a sigh and reached forward to throttle down the engine.

"/^OOD work!" he called. "Donelike alisherman, boy!" And as he passed

Frank on his way to the bow line, he clappedhim on the back. "That's showing'em!"he bragged—and caught a glimpse of thetense white face that stared fixedly aheadthrough the square of glass above the wheel.

It was a dead give-away, that face. Hansknew it even before he saw the interestedej'cs of the men who loitered on the docks oneither side. They all knew that this was

Frank's first trip. They had all been speculating, no doubt. And now they wereseeing what Hans had hoped would be asecret between him and his brother. One ofthem, as the boat slid up the current, threwa jeer.

"Hey, white-face! What's the matter?"Ansil Larsen. Flat-faced, -wide-mouthed

Ansil Larsen, whose small ej'cs leered evillyand whose teeth showed in a broad grin.He was thinking of Alma Closs and what hewould have to tell her; Hans knew that andhis blood boiled.

No answer from Frank. He probablyhadn't heard. He was ijitent upon bringingthe boat in to the dock, which he did like anexpert, then he jumped back to shut of! theengine. But when he appeared a momentlater on the stern deck, A^sil made sure hewould hear.

"What's the matter, Frankie?" he called."Mamma's boy been seasick?"

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East Is WestBy Charley Paddock

and Leigh Miller. These stars are trainingnot only for victory in their own great meetbut to conquer the /Vmericans as well. Noone enjoys continuous defeat, and it is onlynatural that even the British, splendidsportsmp though they are, should have amore kindly feeling toward our athleticrepresentatives and our country as well,If they should win once in a while.

The history of our athletic friendshiphas been rather spotted, to put it mildly.Back as far as 1908 the English were ratherfed up on American victories. That yeartheyheld theOlympics in London, and fromthe opening day of the meet a large per-

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A I AHE British Empire Games will beI held in Hamilton, Ontario, on August

Sixteenth, with a thousand athletesin competition, representing Australia, NewZealand, South Africa, Bermuda, BritishGuinea, Newfoundland and Canada, aswell as England, Wales, Scotland, NorthernIreland and the Irish Free State. Theevents will include track and field sports,rowing, swimming, boxing, wrestling, soccer,lawn bowling, and lawn tennis.

The primary purpose of this great meetwill be to develop a powerful British Empireteam for the 1932 Olympic Games at LosAngeles, as well as to revive British enthusiasm in the Olympic sports. These games,however, have a still greater significance,for they will serve not only in establishingcloserrelationshipamongthe several coloniesof the British Empire, but they arcexpectedto strengthen the friendship of all English-speaking peoples. In order to see that thelattei purpose is more completely accomplished. a meeting will take place betweenthe winners of the Empire games and thewinners of our own National Championships dunng the latter part of the samemonth.

Though the champions of track and fieldwho have victoriously represented theUnited States for three decades in international competition will have equallystrong successors in this meet it is not at allcertain that we will win. The last Olympicgames proved that the British, when pre-sentmg a united offense, can stand upagainst the athletes of any single nationeven including our own.

Among those who will particioate in the^eat Canadian meet are Douglas Lowe,Lord David Burghle ' and Jack London ofEngland. Weighman-Smith and Atkinsonof South Africa. Dr. Patrick O'CaUaghanof Ireland and the Canadian champions,Percy \\ illiams, Phil Edwards, Jimmy BallCopyright, 1930, by Charles W. Paddock

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centage of the spectators watched eachsucceeding American triumph with increased bitterness. It all began when theAmerican Flag-bearer in the parade ofathletes did not dip the Stars and Stripesto England's royaltj". The fact that it is atradition and an unwritten law that theAmerican Flag shall never be dipped hadnothing to do witli- the case, according tothe English viewpoint, and this feeling washeightened still more four years later atStockholm, when the American standard-bearer by mistake dipped the flag to theKing of Sweden. The spectators rushedfrom the stands on that occasion andembraced the Yankees. Though it waslater explained that the dipping was entirelyaccidental, the Swedes refused to believe it,while the English said that the Americansshould have had the same kind of an accident in 1908.

A NOTHER event occurred in the Londongames which still more intensified the

feeling between tlic English and the Americans. The Yankees had swept the field invirtually every competition, but the Englishfelt that they were to get full revenge intbe Marathon, that classic climax of theOlympics. They had a representative fromCanada named Tom Longboat, an Indian,who was considered the greatest distancerunner in the world. The United States didnot have a single outstanding candidate.

At the end of the first ten miles of the 26which the marathon runners are called uponto complete. Longboat dropped by the way,and a heavy-set little Italian named Do-rando took the lead. In second place, morethan a quarter of a mile behind, came anunknown, Johnny Hayes, a New Yorkstore clerk, who did not look like an athlete,and had never been accused of being oneuntil he had qualified for the Americanteam.

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was anything to keep America from anothertriumph. Dorando at last plodded his wayinto the Olympic stadium. He had onlyto run a lap and a half around the track inorder to capture the laurel wreath. Dorando completed the first lap, but withless than a loo yds. to go the last vestigeof his strength departed, and he fell faintingto the track. Meanwhile Hayes came intothe stadium, circled the track, and foundhimself less than 50 yds. behind the Italian,who courageously struggled to his feet,bUndly staggered fonvard a few yards, anddropped unconscious again. This time,with a Hayes victory inevitable, Englishofiicials rushed to Dorando's aid and carriedhim across the line ahead.

The stands were in an uproar, someclaiming that Dorando might still have

finished unaided in front of the American,while others said that he would be disqualified for having received aid. Thelatter, of course, was the only step whichcould be made in the case, for the rules emphatically stated that no such assistancemight be given. The English did not gracefully accept Hayes as the champion, and agreat deal of bitterness followed the incident.

It took a long time to bridge the riftbetween our athletes. And the war did nothelp matters. Though the Australian,New Zealand, South African, and Canadiansoldiers became great pals of the .\mericandoughboys, none of these seemed to havemuch in common, with the English Tommies. After the Armistice, it was GeneralPershing's idea to hold a series of company,battalion, and division competitions, in ah.kinds of sports, the winners to representthe Stars and Stripes, against the championsof the other Allied Nations, who would beselecting their stars in the same way. Thisplan was successfully carried out, and theInter-.Allied Games were held in a stadiumbuilt by American engineers at Join\d]le-le-pont, which was afterwards presented to theFrench, being the only thing our fellowsfound in France.which was too big to bebrought home as a souvenir. The Englishdid not enter into the spirit of this occasion,and their star athletes failed to compete.

The withdrawal of the British team wasresented by the Americans, and when we allmet at Antwerp the following year, in the

70Olympic Games, we bad little to do with theEnglish athletes. They lived in theirCjuarters and we in ours. An occasionalcold greeting was the best that either sidecould manage. This condition prevaileduntil the finals of the 800-meters, whichproved to be one of the greatest battlesever held in the history of track sports.

On the last turn of that race, Bevil Rudd

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of South Africa, an Oxford student, lockedelbows with Don Scott of America, andaccidentally pushed him from the track.Even in that moment of excitement andstrain when Rudd saw in front of him theOlympic tape which he had always hopedthat some day he might break, and when heheard those thousands on every hand yellingfor him to go on, he turned his head andsaid, "Beg pardon, Scott!"

Rudd lost that race by a scant two feetand there were a lot of people at the finishline that day who said that if he had keptstraight to his course and had not taken thatmoment to turn his head and to speak thatword, that he would have won the championship of the world. And he probably would.

But the first thing that Scott did when hefinished was to relate the incident, and itdid-more to cement the athletic friendshipbetween England and .'Vmerica than a dozenvictories on the field might have accom-pUshed.

Some way or other that night many ofthe Americans found themselves in theBritish quarters, while just as many of theEnglish were in our otvti. From that day onwe have been as one on the field of competition. British athletes have no longerlooked upon us as crude denizens of theWest, nor have we considered them as high-hat, cold-hearted sticklers for form.

This pleasant relationship has continuedthrough the years, stimulated by the

competition of Enghsh stars in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival from time to time,and by the International Collegiate Matchesbetween Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, andYale, and Oxford and Cambridge. In rg24at Paris, Bevil Rudd, no longer a competitor,but still a gracious companion and a splendidsportsman, served as Master of Ceremoniesfor the athletes of the two nations, andthe meetings which we had together willremain as cherished memories for us all. _

As the Ol>Tnpic ship dropped anchor inthe harbor at Amsterdam for the games of1928, Lawson Robertson, head Olympiccoach, and the writer, received a cablegramfrom Rudd in South Africa, wishing goodluck to the American athletes, for thoughhis own countrymen were in competitionagainst us, he appreciated that the Olympicgames mean something more than victory

or defeat, and serve as the best vehicle tobring a closer relationship between the representatives of the English-speaking peoplesof the world, whether they live in the Eastor the West, the North or the South.

It is with the same spirit that the champions of the British Empire and our ownnational stars will soon meet, for we havelearned that to know each other is to

like each other. This friendly feeling, however, will in no way affect our keen rivalry,and we appreciate that each winner in theBritish Empire meet will prove a formidableopponent.

Heading the list for England is noneother than Doug Lowe, whowas good enough to win the 800meters in the 1924 OlympicGames at Paris, and then ranaway from his field in spectacular fashion at ^\msterdam fouryears later. Lowe expects tocome out of temporary retirement for these games, not somuch with the purpose of pre-paring himself for the Los

Angeles Olympics as of stimulating interestin middle distance running throughout theEmpire. Lowe represents the flower ofEnglish athletic manhood, standing for allthat is finest in sportsmanship and runningskill. The latter was displayed most strikingly in the 1928 games, when he savedhimself heat after heat, and even in thefinals allowed that long, easy stride of histo carry him over three-quarters of thedistance without great exertion. But whenhe did bear down, he left such, stars asSera Martin of France and Lloyd Hahnof .\merica, as though they were standingstill. He won by ten full meters and provedhimself the greatest half-miler in the world.Since that time no one has risen to disputehis reign, with the possible exception ofPhil Edwards, the Canadian.

•pDWARDS was a sensation of the 1929' Intercollegiate Meet in this country,

running "under the colors of New YorkUniversity, and breaking Ted Meredith's oldhalf mile record, with a new mark of i min.52-1/5 seconds. A few weeks later, Edwardswon our National Championships, and aftera successful 1930 indoor season, he standsout as a worthy opponent for the handsomeEnglishman.

The hammer throw is still another eventwhere the British Empire possesses a champion who at present seems to be in a classby himself. O'Callaghan of Ireland, inwinning the .Amsterdam games, not onlyproved himself the best man but promisedto be a record-breaker in the future. Hisform is not yet perfect, and it was hisstrength which accounted for his 1928

victory. There is no reason to believe thathis physical prowess has deteriorated, whilehis form has doubtless improved.

A classic duel is sure to ensue whenBurghley of England faces Weighman-Smith and Atkinson of South Africa in the

Percy lFilUams,just above; and GeorgeSimpson, above at the left, both may-set new sprinting marks. At the right,Edwards of Canada; and at the top,London of, and quite appropriately,

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hurdle events. No one gave these boysmuch credit before the last Olympics, butall three reached the finals. Atkinson, theonly man considered as having any chanceagainst the Americans, was beaten by hiscountryman, Weighman-Smith, while LordBurghley won the 400-meter hurdles fromMorgan Taylor, the greatest championAmerica ever produced in this event. It isdifficult, indeed, to select a winner out ofthis trio, but one fact is definitely established: that all of them will give the Americans plenty of competition.

Chief interest, however, will be centeredin the sprint events. New Zealand will besending their new star, Elliot; while Leggeof South .'Vfrica. Hanlon and London of the

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British Isles, and Fitzpatrick and Millerof Canada, will all be on hand to disputethe supremacy of the lithe-limbed PercyWilliams of \'ancouver. B. C.

Though little has been heard about thisyoungster since he won both the 100 and

200 meters at Amsterdam, something no other representative ofthe British Empire ever accomplished in the Olympic Games,he has bv no means fallen fromform. Reports have recentlycome to me that \\i]liams hasbeen working desperately hardin developing tlie middle part ofhis race, which in the past hasbeen his only weakness. The

fair-haired Percy is one of the fastest menfrom the starting holes that the game hasever known, and his pick-up during the first30 yards has placed him in front of his fieldon every occasion that he has toed the markoutdoors during the past three years. Hisfinish has also left nothing to be desired.And now they say that he has learned howto change from his starting form into fullstride without the loss of a fraction of asecond.

IN RUNNING, the majority of sprintershave always labored under the same

handicap to which an automobile is subjected when the gears are shifted. A man,in common with a machine, is forced tostart in low gear, but soon finds himself atthe point where his power is being wastedunless he can stride out, as an automobiledocs in high gear. This change of pace hasbeen fatal to many a sprinter. Williamsclaims to have conquered the handicap.

Though the fleet Canadian has neverofficially broken any world marks for standard sprinting events, he has alwa3'S managedto beat the record-breakers, which naturally has caused considerable curiosity.People have wondered how it was possiblefor this boy to win in 9-4/5 seconds over competitors who were consistently racing thesame distance one-fifth of a second faster.The secret has been in the track itself.When Williams won the Olympic title, hewas running on a soft cinder path, heavywith recent rain, and easily cut up. Again,last smnmer, when he defeated the American

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N'OT more thanafortnight ago, hauntedbv the terrifying number of "lives"we had recently read, we cried, "No,

by heaven, not another biography for ayear!" We felt that there was somethinj:almost ignoble about all this curiosity thatliad been developed as to the private lifeof the other fellow. Hardly a man is nowalive who has not bared the secrets of hissoul in eight point type, and the churchyards have been so thoroughly picked overthat well may we exclaim with Maeterlinck,

"There are no dead!"It wasn't that we were not just as happy

as the next book-fiend to pour over suchrevelations; it was simply that we felt our-self being drowned in them.

So, sitting down to write these Augustcolumns we decided on frivolous love storiesfor a change. To that end we nailed,figuratively of course, a neat little sign on thedoor: "No biographies need apply!"

Pretty soon we heard something dropoutside on the doorstep—something thatsounded like a book. \\ c took no notice.Pretty soon what was evidently anotherbook deposited itself upon our threshold.

Then another and another. Finally wecould stand the persistent thuds no longer.We opened the door a crack and a proudlooking black and gold volume pushed itsway in, as spokesman for the lot, and simplyinsisted that we listen to it.

"I am," said the tome, "the story of somehigh and low moments in the life of Mr.Albert Payson Terhune, the man whowrites the dog stories. Better read me."

"This is a bad day for you," we laughedcruelly, thinking to frighten the thing away.But it wouldn't go.

"Your loss," it replied, and patiently,but without any humility whatever, laiditself upon our table.

We went on with our work. We tried toforget the horde outside the door. But thelove stories went from bad to worse—incredibly awful tales about duU-witted ladsand wasps of girls. Romance that day wasnot putting its best foot forward. In desperation, when we could stand the drivel nolonger, we took up Mr. Terhune, . . . andthat, my children, is how we have come towrite about the other fellow once again.Col'yrighl. rQjo, by Claire WaUacc Flynn

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Book Reviews

By Claire Wallace Flynn

To the Best of My MemoryBy Albert Payson Terhune. (Harper &

Brothers, New York.)

A TIPTOP book, this delightful recordof one who has found life a grand,

man-size proposition. It provides gay reading from the first hne of the dedication tothe very last word of the tale. Wo adviseyou to get a copy of it before your earliestconvcnicnce—and we expect to be thankedfor the tip.

We must admit that Mr. Terhune, in hiseffort to be nobody's hero, does pile it on abit thick about his own failings. He makeshimself out at the very start as a superblittle sinner, a liar of such gusto and finetechnique that strangers believed his preposterous tales, and the punishments administered by a shocked family never appearto have disturbed him much. Later on heturned his imaginative talents to good useas a newspaper man and a novelist.

For us the very best part of the bookare those chapters in which the authorgives such a priceless picture of the yearsduring which he was on the staff of theNew York Evening World.

A newspaper is a thing into which menpour more than their brains. They give,and it is part of the game, their very bloodand brawn. Nerves are mostly on edgein a newspaper office. Friendships run high,and so do hates. Politics are rife. Humorrescues tragedy just as it is about to go overthe brink. And, next to a stage career, it isprobably by all odds the most temperamentalof professions. Mr. Terhune lets us into theinner circle of a newspaper crowd with a fineopen gesture. It makes great reading.

Take, for instance, his reminiscence ofthe night of the famous Stanford Whitemurder. He had gone to report a show inprogress on the Madison Square RoofGarden in New York, and was sitting but afew tables away from Mr. White, the notedarchitect, when Harry Thaw walked up toWhite and shot him dead.

The biggest story of a year was breakingjust a dozen feet from him. Terhune hadbut a few minutes to catch the first editionof the morning World. He raced downflight after flight of stairs to the nearesttelephone. Someone was using it and re

fused to give it up. Mr. Terhune, who isof gladiatorial figure, grabbed the instrument. The ousted man and a friend of hisargued the rape of the telephone withfists and a chair. But Mr. Terhune, whohad entered the ring with such chaps asCorbett, Kid McCoy and JefTries, held themat bay with one hand while he managedto get his story through to the oflice at themoment it was going to press.

This is the sort of stunt that gives a realnewspaper man a deep and glorious thrill.But despite all such extravagant momentsMr. Terhune never descends into sentimentality about the " old shop " nor professesto love it. In fact, during his twenty-oneyears on the World he "never once ceasedto detest his various jobs and the newspaper game in general." This, we thinJc,makes what he has to say about Park Rowall the more worth-while.

There is, however, much more than newspaper memories in this good volume.Travel—the hard climb out of little payand much work to tlie place he now occupiesin the writing world—that hungry morningwhen he got away with a free breakfast in abaker's shop—and the picture of his happyyears at Sunnybank, where his kennels ofcollies provide him with most of the heroesof his well-loved tales.

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The Life Story of a Great Indian—as toldto Frank B. Lindcrman. (The John DayCompan}', New York.)PLENTY-COUPS, chief of the Crows, is

the American of this tale.The old man, sitting under the cotton-

woods before the door of his cabin onArrow Creek, gave his remarkable story toMr. Linderman by means of the signlanguage and through interpreters, and ourauthor has reshaped his material into oneof the most striking pictures of Indian lifethat has ever been produced.

There have been innumerable attemptsto immortalize the vanishing red man inromance and history, but when these donot fall into sentimental gush and spuriouspicturesqueness they arc often renderedworthless to the serious student by their

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mence before some time in September. Evena forecast of the cheer to comeis subject to sudden changes, but ive will venture to predict a little, anyhow.The Aslaires are promised for mid-September in apiece called Tom,Dick andHarry." Along about the same time you will see Dancing Partner, a playfrom theHungarian, ivith Lynn Overman, Irene Purcell and Charlotte Gran-ville;ArthurByron, inapiece called"One,Two, Three" and verypossibly HelenHayes in "Mr. Gilhooly" an adaptation from the novel of Liam O'Flaherty.

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Miss Barrymore will make her bow in October in "Scarlet Sister Mary," a playmade from the book loritten by Julia Peterkin a year or so ago. This will bea decided novelty as Miss Barrymore will impersonate the colored heroine inblack face. Then the Theatre Guild ivill contribute "Elizabeth the Queen"for its initial offering tvith Lynn Fontanne as Elizabeth, and Richard Bennett•will return in a play called ''Solid South." There is a race on bettveen tivoearly contestants for Broadivay, both unique in having all-feminine casts. Oneis entitled '"Ladies All," no players announced, and the other "'A WonderfulEvening" with Claiborne Foster scheduled to head the cast—Esther R. Bien.

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IN MY youth I was romantic. I believed in Santa Claus. When I wasolder I was still more romantic. I

believed in Friends. But I soon found thatfriendship wasn't nearly so easy as I hadthought. It is one of the most difficult Httleold arts in the world. It has to be studiedlike counterpKjint. It has to be analyzedlike Greek brachycatalectics. It has to bepractised as scientifically as chemistry orkissing or auction bridge. But, once Ibegan to understand it, once I got the realkick out of it, I found that nobody on earthneed ever annoy or disappoint me ever,ever again. No longer, like Job, did I feellike cursing my friends: "How long will yevex my soul?"

Why, even our own gentle, optimisticEmerson, you know, used to wail, "Friendssuch as we desire are dreams and fables."But this is the constructive, radioactiveyear 1Q30. If we can handle ions, hormones,aeroplanes and T.N.T., lift old ladies' facesand rejuvenate graybeards, it's a pity if wecan't apply the \4tal principles and laws ofhuman friendship. I know you've beenbored with Toms who were damn fools, andimpatient with the Dicks who are alwayslate, and angry with Harrys who double-cross you. Now do you mind my suggestingthat perhaps the fault wasn't altogether withTom, Dick and Harr>', after all, but partlywith your own charming but unreflectingself? All right. Now go on with the story.

I got my first gentle hint at a tea table,one day, in Mayfair. I was telling a wiseold lady in short skirts how my friendNaylor bored me. "Oh, he's always tellinginterminable stories," I growled, "at justthe wrong time."Copyriiihl, iQjo, by Celell Burgess

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FriendshipBy Gelett Burgess

Drawings by Arthur Dove

now, I feel like a smug, overfed millionaireexpatiating on how he came to the city a poorboy, and almost starved, at first. Not thatI was starved, exactly. Of course I hadfriends, good friends—much like yours,probably. Perhaps too much like them.But we aU have our faults and I suppose weall feel impatient with the faults of others.In short, as my wise old lady said, we're allasses because we expect perfection and don'tknow how to play the game of Friendship.

And then, one day—presto! My eyeswere opened. I discovered that even' one

I know that Charles irritated me, weak orwill never pay back wicked. Witless or wise, could mimster tothat five. But J like my happiness. It was like joining somehis eyes and I like secret fraternity and finding a million newhis taste in neckties ready-made friends in a minute.

And when should that day be but Christmas Day? And who should teach me but alittle child?

I had sent Archie a box of carpenter'sIt when one's tools. As soon as the presents were dis

tributed from the tree, Archie started, whilehe comes to we cracked walnuts, to build a house.

y," I added, (A House of Friendship, perhaps, such as II'ass." h^-d tried in vain to build. Like mine, his;he slipped in, first experiments were disastrous.) Wely dear young heard a scream.^he ass." Hardly had his mother cried, "I told yout took me ten so!" when I was at Archie's side. "I drovedwhy I was an a nail," he was sobbing, "and it hurt me)r half-friend aw—aw—awful!"lie toes, so to "You mean you pounded your finger," Iy sane person was bandaging his bruise, "with thatlurt. hammer!"agonized way "No, no!" he screamed, "with that nasty1those asinine old thing there!"

answer my "But that's a screw-driver," I said; "it'sI beggar, like not meant to drive nails with, at all. Noler. Anxious wonder you were hurt. You should haveL Receipt re- used that for screws."" Did you or Archie was so interested that he stopped

Tph I sent last cryingwhile I explained the uses of his sawn reply. And and gimlet and plane, and how he could30 adorably I make round holes with the bit, but squaretorture me all holes had to be cut with the chisel. Each

tool, I told him, had its special use, and wasnow, that I no good at all for anything else.

3S Cutting to And it was while I was showing him how5. You prob- to use the knife safely—the knife—why,pretty, witty, what was Mi,ss Cutting but a knife that Iny." Always had tried to take hold of bj' the blade?help wash the Very useful she was, in her way, but dan-ttting can tell gerous. 'UTiy permit her to cut me? Tivke

But pretty her by her social handle, be careful not toalicious. To- let that sharp point and keen edge of hersher amusing get into my private affairs, and she could

yncrasies and never harm me. Nobody dislikes a real,v the Smiths knife; they use it, or let it alone.iggerations of And Naylor—what was he but a dull-nfidences. headed hammer with which I had tried tosulTcringdays drive in delicate screws? Naylor was ex-

"It's usually one's own fault when one'sbored," she observed.

"Well, he can't talk when he comes toplay chess with me, anyway," I added,"but every other time he's an ass."

With my second cup of tea she slipped in,with the lemon, "I'm afraid, my dear youngfriend, that it's you who are the ass."

Well, she was right. But it took me tenyears to find out just exactly why I was anass. Every time a friend or half-friendstepped on my sensitive psychic toes, so tospeak, I asked myself how any sane personcould help being annoyed or hurt.

I have to grin, now, at the agonized wayI used to try and try and try, in those asininedays, to make Cousin Eva answer myletters. I implored her like a beggar, likea schoolmaster I scolded her. AnxiousSpecial Delivery letters with Receipt requested. Frantic telegrams: "Did you ordid you not ever get the photograph I sent lastChrislnm-s?" Never a word in reply. Andyet, when Eva played Liszt so adorably Ialwaj's forgave her and let her torture me allover again.

And how absurd it seems, now, that Ishould ever have allowed Miss Cutting todisturb my delicate sensibilities. You prob-abl}' know a Miss Cutting—pretty, witty,and " such awfully good company." Alwaysready to brush Grandma's hair, help wash thedishes, make fudge. Miss Cutting can telldivertingly ridiculous stories. But prettyMiss Cutting, I fear, is malicious. Tonight you'll be laughing at her amusingdistortion of the Smiths' idiosyncrasies andprivate affairs, and to-morrow the Smithswill be screaming over her exaggerations ofyour very own most sacred confidences.

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ccllent for chess, why try to use him forthe theatre, where he talked right throughthe whole play? If I could like a hammer,why couldn't I like Naylor? I could finda screw-driver in some other friend.

I had discovered a new kind of Friendship.New to me. at any rate, and that was whyI call it Neo-Friendship. I had tried before, you see, to value my friends quantitatively. But they can't be graded so thatyou can say just exactly how much betteryou like John than Henry. You like themfor all sorts of reasons.

Immediately the cause of all my troublewas clear. Ever}' one of my friends, I saw,was just a different kind of social tool. • Afew were versatile and had several uses, likethose corkscrew-can-opener-glass-cutter affairs. You could dance or flirt with themand a'so discuss phlogistics or the immigration problem. Some had only one use, likea level or a file. You could enjoy only theircooking or their clear, crisp enunciation.But each had his own special character andquality given him by tlie great Maker ofhuman tools. The trouble with me was thatI had thought a friend was useful for ever>'-thing, like those fifty-bladed knives you seein the windows of hardware shops, andnobody ever fmds in every-day life.

Cousin Eva was a delightful pianist.Why couldn't I rejoice in that, and not tryto make her all over into a punctual,methodical correspondent? Do you harnessa nightingale into a donkey cart or expecta rhinoceros to have feathers, fly up intoa tree and sing, tra-la?

My tool box of friends was too small, now.I had to widen my analogy. Some of myneo-friends were phlegmatic, but quiet andrestful, like a shady tree. Some aboundedwith life and happiness like wind and sunshine. But you don't want either sun orshade all the time. I could enjoy each inhis own way and season. Some were strongmeat. They nourished me with solid pro-teid common sense. Some were delicate asmandarin oranges, with the most refreshingvitamins of humor. In my Geography ofNeo-Friendship lived cold, crafty business

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men like Esquimaux, and sensuous, temperamental artists like Zulus, and I founddelight in each. No more did I expect arugged, straight-spoken, ministerial Canadianto have the manners, morals, costume andclimate of a subtly wise, mysterious Chineselawyer. I was no longer shocked when Ifound tiiat some were cannibals and someHoly Rollers.

There was one lady, though, whom I hadhard work classifying. She used to delugeme with flattery so overt, so extravagant,that it made me seasick. But finally Irealized that she was merely a cocktail.Altogether too strong and sweet and insidious for a steady beverage,but rather stimulating when ^taken in small, occasional doses.I'd sip her adulation till I was r—"inspired to try to prove that I ' "/• 'was really as clever as that damnfool had said.

Every one, I found, had somequality that I could enjoy. Tobe sure, it might not be anything you would like, at all.Luckily the law of Relativityobtains not only in light andmotion, but delight and emotion.You may like a man who collectsbutterflies and would drive me away intears. .'Vnd the flapper who diverts meby reciting saucy Umericks may bore you todeath. As you've heard Auntie Bromidesay, "what's one man's meat is anotherman's poison," or else we'd all want tomarry the same girl, and Presidents wouldbe elected unanimously.

Where's the trick, then, in Neo-Friend-ship? Simply in finding the points of s>-m-pathetic contact between you and youracquaintances, and keeping right to thosepoints as carefully as a slack-wire walkerkeeps to his wire without a falling-out.They may not have what you expected at all.Once a man came to me to do some typewriting. He made fearful botches of it. butwe got to talking about Charlie Chaplin'smustache and forgot about the copyingand went to the movies together.

And then,—presto! My eyes were opened. And who should leach me but a little child?

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Why try to reform people who don't wantto reform, and simply won't, anyway ?

Neo-friends are apt to be like that waitressin the country restaurant, when the fellowordered ice-cream.

" Which'll you have, lemon or vanilla?""Vanilla, please.""We ain't got nothin' but lemon."So why tr)- to reform people who don't

want to reform, and simply won't reform,anyway? They ain't got nothin' but lemon.

And, after all, doesn't everj' big manufacturing concern (we're all in the businessof manufacturing happiness, you know)retain a vocational expert to determine thequalifications of its employees and make thebest use of them? In a modern plant a manis seldom discharged in the petulant, discouraged way I gave up my friends. If heproves unsatisfactory in one position he isgiven a trial in another department. Apoor bookkeeper may be excellent at amachine. Why shouldn't we test theadaptability of our friends in the same way,and find a place for every one of them, evenif you can use him for only five minutes?

I meet Charles on the street. W e chat,we laugh, we part. Charles has promisedto pay back that five next Thursday at noon.I know he never will. But I like the twinklein his ej'es. fine eyes, and I hke his taste inneckties. For that five minutes, standingon the corner, he is my friend. And don'tthink that a neo-friend is merely a near-friend, either. For the one quality you like,he's perfect.

Why, I found a point of contact even withgabby iVIiss Gabble. She hasn't had aaoriginal idea for seven years, poor thing, andshe indulges in that most frightful of femalecrimes, egotistic Narrative. But, believeme, the delicate, artistic way she can handleher knife and fork is graceful and restful.She can cat lobster or asparagus or shad,yes, even spaghetti, without seeming reallyto eat them at alt. And so. when I take herto dinner. I shut my ears to her verbosityand oj)cn my eyes to her Emily Post tablemanners. She is my very best restaurantfriend.

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For the Life of Us We Can^t UnderstandWhy Our Friend—

Drawings by George Shanks

Van Smythe-Smythe, who takes a most nauticalglory in the dangers of ocean racing

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And harpooning walrus seems to hold no terrors for him

Is it any wonder that we can't understand why heacts like this when faced by a two-foot putt?

August, 1930

Set a RogueBy George Creel

Illustrations by Henry B. Davis

A WILD storm whipped the outerworld, but inside the basementspeakeasy all was warm and cozy,

rich kitchen smells giving body to thesmoky air. The clatter of voices, highpitched and checrful, bespoke a generalabsence of care, but contentment seemedpeculiarly the property of an elderly gentleman in a front booth. The rubicund face,crowned by a thatch of snowy hair, radiatedpeace and good-will; and soft, crooningnoises bubbled from his lips as he pouredcognac over a lump of sugar, balanced itcarefully on a spoon, and reached out fora match.

"Well, for the love of Mike! If it ain'tol'Pop!"

Spoon and sugar splashed down into thecolTee,and the startled head, lifting suddenly,showed eyes hard as agates and featurestightened into a mask of wariness. On theinstant, however, vigilance fell a^ 'ay, andthe facial effect was again one of an all-embracing benignity.

"Jimmie, my boy!" The rich, full voicehad the flow of syrup. "Lord, but you gaveme a start. For a minute I thought it wasa pinch. Not that the minions of the lawhave anything on me, of course," he hastened to add. "Sit down, you young scamp,and give an order."

"Nothin' for me, Pop." Jimmie protested. "I just finished lunch an' lampedyou as I was goin' out. Gee, but you'relookin' swell. An' pipe the clothes."

"Not clothes," the proud owner ran acaressing glance over his attire, flawless incut despite a certain hint of the clerical."Garb, my boy. Garbl I got them inLondon."

"London? So that's where you've beenthe last six months. A business trip?"

" Pleasure entirely." A plump, manicuredhand gestured grandly. "Slim GrannanCopyright, 1030, by Ceorge Creel

went with me. He'd cleaned up ratherhandsomely on a certain deal out West, andI was in funds myself "

"Sell some sucker the Woolworth Building?" grinned Jimmie.

"Nothing so crude." Pop Bronson,prince of confidence men, rebulied the youngrum-iTunner with a look. "Florida lands."

"I know." Jimmie grinned even m.orebroadly. "The kind where you have to hireVenetian gondoHcrs for yard men, an' tliepostman comes 'round in a steam launch.But how about this London business?"

"Well, having money," Pop explained,"and feeling that it might be weh to absentourselves from home pastures for a wliile,SUm and I decided that it would be a goodidea to give Europe the once-over."

"I been that way myself," Jimmie noddedsagely. "See America first is all right, butwhat if America sees you first? Hey? Well,what kind of a time did you have in dearold Lunnon? Gee, but I've always beencrazy to got over there. Take off your shoes,rest your dogs, an' spill me the whole story."

Pop's expression mingled joy and in-creduHty. Wiis it possible that he had actually found one \viUing to listen to a returned traveler? In a low tone, calculatedto soothe, he ordered coffee and cognac, andthen seeing that Jimmie showed no signs ofalarm, settled back luxuriously, a modernChaucer in full flight.

"Some trip! And believe me," he boastedgenially, "we did it right. I've never beenone of those birds who go places on one shirtand a two-dollar bill, and come back without ever changing either. Nothing cheap!That's what I told Slim right at the start,and I must say he didn't need coaxing.Two-way pockets, that boy, and no speedlimit. And was a good lime had by all?Say!

"Of course," Pop admitted, "we got somemighty lucky breaks. Up in the ship's smok-

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*^Did you really havea valet?" Jimmy wasplainly impressed. "Aguy to helpyou dress?"

ing room, the very first night out, who doyou think we run into? An English birdI kept out of the hoosegow down in TiaJuana ten years ago. He'd made a squawkabout some fake gambling game, not knowing it was owned by the chief of police, andat the time he came under my observation,five or six members of the local constabulary had worked him over until mightylittle was left of the original pattern. Icould see he was just a youngster, so Ibutted in, explaining that he was a friend,and backed up the play w^ith a handful ofpesos. Next day, I sHpped the poor kidenough change to get bade East.

"Well, you'd have thought I was his richuncle from Australia, tlie way ho carried onat seeing me, although it tiu-ned out moneywas the least of his troubles. It seems hisold man sloughed oft" in England soon afterthe Tia Juana mess, leaving him a bunch ofjack a giraffe couldn't sec over, along \\iththe fan^y title, an' there he was sitting ontop of the world with nobody telling him tomove over. A lord! That's what he was,Jimmie. A regular honest-to-goodncss lord!

IT HAD me buffaloed at first, never having met anything higher than a South

ern colonel, but say, he was easy as an oldshoe. Notiiing would do but we must callhim Harry, and right off it was Pop this andSlim that, just like we'd been raised together.He had our scats changcd to his table, andgave us half of his plovers' eggs, and everynight saw us sitting in on bridge games witha bunch of swells I never thought to meetoutside of a Sunday supplement."

"Did you pull anything?" asked Jiiiunieinterestedly, knowing the old man as a cardshark with four sets of teeth.

"Everything I had." Pop shook his headmournfully. "It was the only way to keepfrom winning. Why, you never saw sucha lot of suckers in all your born days. Ajack four times was their idea of a quicktrick, an' a king queen suit made them secpii\k and purple grand slams. Slim almostcracked under the strain, but being its they

were Harry's friends, there was nothing todo but bear it.

"\Ve certainly went good. At a ship'sconcert, Slim sang some Mexican love songshe picked up while running guns across theRio Grande, and I put over the parlor magicstuff I used to do with a medicine showthirty years ago. Bythe time the boatreached Southamp-ton we were theminers' pets, and it ^J\ ^was all we could doto keep from beingdragged off to Har- \ry's ancestral castle nsome place in Sur- ;'rev. He was hell ' «bent on it, being all f/S fialone except for fiftyor sixty people over ^w'cek-ends, but we v-'• ?finally argued him 'Ska \ /into letting us get -^t/^London out of our .

'"Some burg, Jim- >y\-- ''mie. and that's no _f \bull. Notareal •' itown like New Yorkor Chicago, ofcourse, but nice and homey. More likeBrooklyn, you know, with yards and trees.And the historic spots convenient and comfortable, with none of this climbing up anddown like in the Statue of Liberty. At theOld Cheshire Cheese you couldn't only sitright in Dr. Samuel Johnson's chair, whoever he was, but get as good a glass of aleas ever cooled a fevered tonsil."

"Did you see the King an' Queen an'Prince of Wales?" interrupted Jimmie.

"Often, my boy. Often. We went toBuckingham Palace quite regularly to watchthe royal family emerge."

"What did they look like?" Only a truedemocrat could have put such passionatecuriosity in a tone.

"Just so-so," Pop made the confessionrather reluctantly. "Good-hearted andfriendly, bowing right and left all the time,but not w^hat you'd call bright. After thefirst flash. Slim swore the reason they had somany soldiers on guard was to keep Americancon men from slipping in and hornswogglingthe King out of his bridgework. But asI told him, what could you expect? Penanybody in a palace, only letting them outto lay corner stones, and they're bound to beshv of savvy.

" T COULD have stayed in London awhile longer, but at the end of two

weeks, Harry wired us to report for OldHome week, and sent up a car for us. Honest. I thought the driver was kidding whenhe turned in a big iron gate and drove upan avenue cf oaks a mile long, for the placewas the size of a state normal school or aMasonic home. It was Harry's dump allright, for he was out on the terrace to giveus the glad hand, and took us up to ourrooms himself, followed by a small army offootmen.

"No fooling, Jimmie, the cell he assignedme could have been used for whippet races,with space enough left over for a baseballdiamond and at that, Harry was worriedto death for fear I'd feel cramped. Slimtold him we'd take the rooms for a weekanyway, and maybe keep 'em steady ifthe table proved satisfactory, and none ofthe other lodgers played the saxophone,after which we went downstairs and tookturns throwing mud in each other's eye.

"When I got back to the stadium to dress

for dinner, the valet had laid out ever>'thingall ready for me to step in, and maybe Iwasn't glad I'd thrown away my old stuffbefore Iea\ang London. Slim had kept someancient under^vear, and he found it righton top of his brand new haberdashery. Hetried everything but taking them out into

tlie woods for a midnightburial, but his bird wouldferret out that bum unionsuit no matter where hehid it, and fold it so every

HflK hole showed."4^^ "Did you really have a

/"-Tr valet?" Jimmie wasj I \ plainly impressed to the

u , ('. point of reverence. "AU ' 1. guy to help you dress?"% V\ IV "Only at first," Pop

\ assuredhim./< "After thesecond/ flHiiyObvX day I promised' little shadow

an extra tip of5^;-five pounds if

l^e'd quit tryingto help me on

' with my pants,\ ^ and stay out in

the hall until Igot through wash

ing. I'm no \"ictorian, heaven knows, butnobody can tell me that a bathroom's anyplace for a rally or Rotary Club meeting.

" Some forty or fifty people came to dinnerthat night, and one sweep of the old eagleeyes showed me that I had dra^vn the pickof the herd. Most English girls go it a bitstrong on the neck and nose, besides beingafflicted with a rush of teeth to the mouth,but the trick I took in was about as perfecta piece of assembling as the human factoryever turned out. Absolutely nothing out ofplumb. We hit off like a house on fire, forright at the start she asked if I wasn't Pop,and said Harry had been telling her allabout me, and she just adored me already.

"Her name was the Lady Miranda—Ladybeing the handle they put on to the daughterof an Earl—but I've seen check-room girlswith more high hat. Sure I met her oldman. Slim made the mistake of telling bimsome joke stuff about America, and wecouldn't lose him. No matter where wewere or what we were doing, up would comethe Earl, bringing along a new bunch tohear about how the Missourians hunteddown their boys when they got to be twenty-one, roping and throwing them so as to putshoes on.

"Well, it didn't take me a minute to seethat Lady Miranda was the bright red appleof Harry's eye, for he kept craning aroundto watch her, and his ears stood out likeflanges trying to get what we were saying.The little gal seemed soft on Harry, too,because she made me spill everything Iknew about him, and didn't I think he washandsome and talented and were aU thewomen in the States crazy about him?

"Yessir, I would have taken any betthat the two were as good as engaged, butwhen we all met up again in the drawing-room, I wasn't so sure. There was a dark-skinned bird, patent leather hair and everything, that fastened himself on the LadyMiranda like a Texas tick, and Harry wasthrown back for a five-yard loss every timehe tried to carry the ball. A good-lookingyoung fellow, but the kind that makes youkeep feeling to see if your watch is still there.

' 'That night in the gunroom, while we weretaking a few aboard after all the others hadgone, I brought up the matter of the Colorado maduro gent, and got the lowdown.His name was Ciregorio Ruiz, and nobody

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knew much about him, Harry said, excepthe came from the Argentine and was awizard at sucking the poison out of a tango.It seems he'd met Lady Miranda whileHarry was olT in the States, looking at somecopper properties down New Mexico way,and he'd sure put the Indian sign on the littlegirl if appearances meant anything.

"Our boy friend was certainly on theropes and ready for the count. This Gre-gorio was always visiting in Lady Miranda'shome, town as well as country, and whereonce it had been almost a case of name theday with Harrj^ now she seemed to put himin the same class with poison ivy and con-ta^ous diseases. It served him right, hesaid, for ever going away and leaving apoor little bird to be charmed by a damnedpoisonous snake.

"Slim's advice was to walk right up toGregorio and £ivQ him a good bust in thenose. He'd had an experience with two orthree South Americans back home, and heknew a lounge lizard couldn't take it.Harry liked the idea at first, but finallyconcluded that Miranda was free, whiteand twenty-one, and had a right to hertastes.

"Things rocked along that way for acouple of weeks, Harry falling farther backamong the also-rans, and Gregorio struttingall over the place until I came close to takingSlim's advice myself. That cake cater certainly had a mug that looked incompletewithout a fist in the middle of it. And seeingLady Miranda fall for the rat sure burnedme up. At that, the more I saw of her. themore I got puzzled, for she never talkedabout anything but Harry, and alwayswith that gooey look in the eyes.

" TX/'ELL, along in the middle of the third* * week, Slim busts into my room fairly

whinnying with excitement. He'd been outto a lawn party of some kind, and happeningto take a fancy to mooch down by the lakeand see what made the swans go 'round,who should he pipe but Gregorio and LadyMiranda, sitting on a bench under somecedars.

"'Don't tell me you eavesdropped.Slim,' I said to him, shocked almost todeath.

"'Not very good,' he admitted. 'Theclosest I could get was twenty feet. ButI heard enough to make me know it ain't onthe level. The guy's got something on her.Pop. Sure's you're born. She was beggin'him, wringin' her fingers together, and thewop was talkin' downright rough. I don'tknow yet how I kept from sockin' him.'

"'Maybeyou're right.'I said."'I know dam' well I'm right,' said Slim.

'He's pullin' somethin' crooked. Pop.'"We talked a long time that night, and

the next day I piled into a car and drove toLady Miranda's pa's place. She was tickledto death at seeing me, and took me out intothe gardens, although protesting she didn'tknow what the neighbors would say, seeingher walk off unchaperoned that wa\'' with adashing young stranger with a raven mustache and a wicked look, that boded no goodfor an innocent p,irl. Her line of chatterdidn't fool me at all. for her eyes looked kijidof red around the rims, and when I finallygot rid of the Scotch gardener who followedus like a beagle, afraid we might pick someflower that he was growing for the CountyHorticultural Show, I let her have bothbarrels.

"'What's the idea?' I said. 'You loveHarry and he lov6s you. Where does thisRuiz come in. anyway?'

" She didn't try to bluff or stall or anythingbut just broke down and cried like a baby.

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A lump ill my own throat near choked me,she was so little and pathetic, and I justput my arm around her and told her totell Pop everj'thing and he'd fix it. Lookingback, I get kind of dizzy at my nerve, butall the same, Jimmie, earl's daughter or, nocarl's daughter, she got a lot of comfort sobbing it all out on the old shoulder.

"SHm was righter than a rabbit. WhileHarry was off in the States, she'd got to dancing around with this Gregorio, and admittedto falling for him like a ton of brick. I don'tknow what it is, but those Argentine birdshave ccrtainly got something where the galsare concerned. It doesn't last long, from allI can make out, but the temperature suredoes run high while the fever's on. Lady^liranda's attack was as short as it wasviolent, but in her delirium she made themistake of writing the usual letters.

"'And he won't give them back,' shewhimpered. ' Not nnless I marry him. Andif I don't marry him, he—he—he'll p-publishthem.'

"'Good Lord,' I told her. 'Is that aU?You had me thinking it was a secret marriage with him hiding your lines. Come onover with me right now, and tell Harry thewhole storv. What sort of a man do youthink he is, anyway?'

'"I couldn't! I just cohWh'/.' She threwa fit at the bare idea. ' I'd dir. if Harry eversaw those letters. Oh, Pop, you never readanything so mushy, so positively sickcntng.I must have been crazy. Every time I thinkof them, I simply perish with shame.'

" So that's the way it was. Lady Mirandawouldn't marry Gregorio, not if she died,and Gregorio wouldn't let her marry anybody else, keeping the letters as his ace_ inthe hole. I went back home, after promisingher I'd think of something, and that nightSlim and me went into joint and solemn session after getting Harry off to bed. Thething to do, of course, was to grab the fataldocuments, but how to get cagey Mr. Ruizto meet us at the old miU with the paperswas a puzzle. Slim was all for taking himby the nape of the neck and shaking himloose both from letters and histeeth, but I pointed out that whilethe rough stuff might be all rightfor pleasure, it held small hope ofresults.

"'Where do you think he keepsthem?' I said. 'On him or in hisrooms?'

"'On him, of course,' says Slim.'He's the sort of bird that loves toread his mash notes over and over.If I'm right, the thing's easy. Ihappen to know that Daruiy Martin's in London.'

"' And who's Danny Martin whenhe's home?' I asked.

'"The best dip in the world,'Slim answers. 'He could take oneof your eardrums without youknowing it. He had everything hisown way in Chicago when I wasthere, but the police split keptgetting bigger and bigger until hecouldn't even make living wages,so he beat it over to London.Danny's my friend, and I'll gethim to go through Ruiz from theinside out.'

"We told Harry that we hadsome business in London thatmight take us a week, and beforeleaving Xtipped Lady Miranda offnot to let Ruiz come down, nomatter what he said. We spent acouple of days locating DannyMartin, being as he wasn't givinghis address to everybody, but when

we did see him, he was tickled to death to doa favor for Slim. A swell looking little fella,more like a college professor than a dip, andli\dng in elegant lodgings with his stalls.Crazy over London, too.

"'This is the place to do business in,' hetold us while a libation was being poured out.'A fellow gets a chance to keep what hemakes. Why, I'll bet you couldn't get oneof tliese London bobbies to take a split, notif you begged 'em.'

" T HAD Gregorio's address and Danny andhis mob got busy the next morning.

When he came out, they trailed him over toRegent Street and gave him the good old run-around in a crowd, the stalls bumping intohim while Danny removed everything butthe sucker's birthmark. They came backto our hotel with a wallet, a watch, a stickpin, a gold fountain pen, a lipstick, twotheater tickets, a comb, and a couple of in-\'itations to parties, but no letters.

"'Sorry,' said Danny, 'but unless he had'em under a filling in his teeth, they weren'ton him.'

"' Well, I reckon they must be in his room,'I says to Slim after Darmy left.

"'Yeah?' he said. 'And what about it?'"'We've got to get them, stupid,' says I."'Sure,' he grumbles, 'but

how? I never went in for second-story work, and no moredid you.'

"'Well,' says I, shooting itright back at him,'if I'm nottoo old to learn, you oughtn't tobe. Pick up those flat wheelsof ,yours and come along.'

"We hoofed it over to Gregorio's hang-out in Brook Street,and set ourselves across the way.It was all of three hours be-

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fore the lazy hound decided to take the air,too busy putting the patent-leather finish onhis hair, I suppose; and before he'd fairlyturned the corner, we were hop-skipping upthe stairs. Coming to the door with hisname on it, I stopped Slim and we tookour handkerchiefs and tied 'em around ourfaces, figuring we needn't take any morechances than we had to.

"'What'U I do -when the door opens?'Slim whispered.

'"If it's a man,' I told him, 'just imaginehe's Ruiz and let go. Show me that haymaker you're always bragging about.'

"Well, it was a man, and say, the smackSlim gave him could have been heard inHoboken. The poor sucker went down likea dropped chain, and we bundled him intoa closet so's he could come to without embarrassment, and locked the door on him tomake sure nobody intruded. Gregorio'sdump was just what you would expect ofa cake-eater: all full of divans and cushions and incense; and hunting for the letters was like going through a woman'sbureau drawer. We drew a blank in everyroom until we came to a sort of library,and there, tucked away behind some curtains, was a little portable steel safe.

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WhileJerry was engaged in carrying Beauregardto the beach. Sheila removed the outboard motorfrom her capsized craft. Queenie, who throughoutthe excitement had been jumping up and dotvn,was dispatched to the house for a bottle of her

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TheQuest ofThe Thunderbus the more ridiculous and the more bafifiing it

appeared to him. As may have been inferred, from the haphazard and headlongway in which he had plunged himself into itby betting his father that he could securethe Old Thunderbus, Jerry was given to acting first and thinking afterwards. At thetime of making the wager, his sole idea was topostpone—and possibly forestall—the openbreak with Mr. Marshall which would resultfrom a positive refusal to go to work in theComet factory. He had had no knowledgewhatsoever of the complications that wouldconfront him, but had merely trusted to luckthat somehow or other he would be able tobring off the feat. Having been brought upto regard Mr. Carmichael as a pirate and alow person, he had had no scruples abouttrying to hi-jack him. And having heardnothing conccrning even the existence of

'T^HE prcccding installments of this delightfullyromantic and highly amusing novel havebrought

J crry Marshall through the strange -wager with hisfather, through the chaotic com^y of the Careyboarding-house in Maine, and, by a clever ruse,into the prcscncc of the lovely Sheila Carmichaeland the Old Thunderbus itself. However, severalimcxpectcd occurrences chang^ the smooth courseof events. The ancicnl automobile, the reasonfor the wager, was so placed as to make Jerry'sremoval of it very difficult; thebogus lord had begunto make himself unpleasant; and, to cap the climaxof reversals, Slicila had turned a cold shoulder onJ crry who, as the new installment begins, findshimself in a desperately depressed state of affairs.

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Part IV

A LL the next morning Jerry kept to hisroom, thinking*over hisfirst afternoonwith the Carmichaels, and resisting

the impulse to telephone to see whether ornot Sheila was still angry with hira. Hemaintained a feeble hope that shemighteventelephone him, if only at her father's behest,and to ask him over for another game. But,as lunch time came and there had been nocall, and as the day wore on and still therewas no call, he realized that his hope wasvain.

The more he thought about his situation,

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Nowthat he wason the ground, however,rt seemed anything but straightforward.Certain phases of the undertaking had beeneasier to accomplish than he had expected.But, inspiteof that fact, or, rather, becauseof it, other factors had crept in to make theproposition more difficult.

One of the first steps had been to makeentry into the Carmichael estate in order tofind out whether the Old Thunderbus wasthere, and whereabouts it was kept. Thishe had contrived to do. The question was,however, what had he gained by it? Tobegin with, he had found out that the ancientcar wasin so conspicuous a spot that tosteal it without firet drugging the entire

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household would be as successful as tr>-ing tohide a barrel of beer under your bathing suit.Not only that, but in making the discovery,he had been brought into contact with Mr.Carmichael and Sheila. Instead of hatingthe former, with a lusty, inherited hate,he liked him very much. Instead of despising Sheila, as the offspring of the traditionalenemy, he was unreasoningly in love withher.

He still felt that to abstract the Old Thunderbus from the Carmichael house and restore it to his father would be a perfectlylegitimate act. He had no doubts as to itslegality. What he did doubt was—providedhe invented a way of spiriting the car fromits place—whether or not he could bringhimself to go through with it, in view ofhis feeling toward Mr. Carmichael andSheila.

By John Chapman HilderIllustrated hy Raebum Van Buren

His motive in venturing to secure the OldThunderbus had been primarily selfish.To be sure, it would make his father happyto regain possession of the machine; butmaking his father happy had been a secondary consideration, subordinate to freeinghimself from the yoke of the parental factory. He would have to decide which wasthe more important: freedom to arrangehis own future, which would involve makingoff with the Old Thunderbus, or sacrificinghis future for the sake of Carmichael's and

Sheila's regard.f-. So far as Jerry could see, he

' would be the loser whatever hap-^ ' pened. If he succeeded instealing

the old car, he might win freedom; to choose a career, but he wotild

, never be able to see Sheila again.^ i; On the other hand, if he aban-

doned the project, he would beforced, under the terms of hiswager, to spend the next five years

jMh. in Detroit. This would not be^ unendurable if he could take Sheila

there as his wife. But he could notask her to marry him without tell-ing her who he was, whereupKDn

^ ^ she would almost certainly refusehim. And even if, by any remote

^ • chance, she accepted him, knowing1 ' who he was, and Mr. Carmichael

•. did not object, it was hardly to' be expectcd that Mr. Marshall

would look with favor on thematch.

^ welter of conflictingW",''-, possibilities—and impossibili-

ties—Jerry could see no unob-structed exit. Upon one course

IBr only was he able to make up hisBf mind.: And that was to make sure,

whatever else might happen, thatTy Sheila should not be won. by the

bogus Lord Beauregard. If hecould not have her himself, he would, atleast, see to it that that outsider did not gether.

He was a good deal puzzled with respectto Beauregard and his status. From Sheilasattitude toward the man and Mr. Carmichael's, also, it was difficult to tell howthey felt about him. Certainly their attitude did not seem to be one of dislike.They did not treat him with any deference,but they apparently treated no one withdeference, so that meant nothing. Theirmanner with him gave the impression thatthey considered him one of the family. Itwas this evident acceptance of Beauregardthat Jerry could not understand. To him,the fellow was so obvious a sham that, evenif he had not known him to be an impostor,he would have guessed it. He found it hardto believe that the Carmichaels could be sonaive as to be deceived by such a second-rate impersonation. Even if they themselves were not familiir with English types,surely Dennis, a Britisher himself, must haveseen at a glance that Beauregard was notwhat he claimed to be. If he had, however,he could not have told his emploi'ers of hissuspicions, for, impostor or not, there theman was. Uving in the bosom of the household as a familiar and an equal, calUngSheila bv her first name.

Jerry felt that he ought to be able somehow, by using his brains, to turn his knowledge of Beauregard's imposture to his ownadvantage. Presvimably it was information

that Mr. Carmichael would be glad to haveand that he should be willing to pay for.Would he, however, be ^villing to p)ay theprice Jerry would ask, i.e.: that he reh'nquishhis claim to the Old Thunderbus? Thoughhe had never considered himself a businessman, Jerry was shrewd enough to realizethat to make a trade of any magnitude it isnecessary first to agree upxjn the terms andsecond to make provision for their enforcement. If he went to old man Carmichaeland said, "I have some information of valueto you and I want the Old Thunderbus inexchange for it," Carmichael would say:"Tell me what it is and then I'll tell youwhether it's worth that much to me." Theold fellow would also wonder why he wantedthe Old Thunderbus, instead of somethingmore negotiable. Turning over in his mindthe possibility of consummating such a deal,Jerry saw that it would not be practicable.And yet, he told himself, there must besome way of capitalizing his inside knowledge about Beauregard. If he could onlythink it out. ...

"LJ E GOT up and stretched. Almostalldayhe had been hunched in his chair, light

ing one cigarette from another, until by mid-afternoon he was thoroughly cramped andsemi-anesthetized. Outside, it was gorgeous.A brigHt warm sun hung in a cloudless skyand made a brassy sheen on the sea. Throughthe open window floated the soothing droneof bees, the chirp of birds and the occasionalfar-off chuffing of motor boats. It was acrime to stay indoors, yet Jerry had deliberately done so, even facing his bedroom•wall rather than risk being distracted byouter sights—the little red flag on the Carmichael golf course, for instance. But nowhe felt he had done all the consecutivethinking of which he was capable for thetime being. His brain had taken all thepunishment it could absorb and was beginning to give symptoms of distress. Intenton trying to solve his problems at one sitting, he had drawn his nerves and hismuscles into an unnatural tautness. Hestretched again, looked out at the oceanand decided to go for a swim, hoping thatthe frigid water would clear his head andwhip up his circulation.

His bathing suit was hangingon the Une in the back yard,drying after his early morm'ng 'plunge. As he went to get it,Queenie watched himand way- Sfklaid him en route to the house.

"Hello, Mister," she said,with her usual amiable, if vacu-ous, grin.

"Hello, Queenie," said Jerry. _i-::"Goin' swimmin'?"

Hecouldnotverywelldenyit."Can I go, too?" "**"It's a free country.""Yeah—but can I go with you?""Of course." What elsecouldhe say?"I got a bathing suit.""Good for you.""Will I put it on?""You can't go without it," said Jerry."Can I go swimmin' with you? Honest?""Of course," said Jerry, "I said so once.""Will you learn me to swim?""Oh—" he hesitated. This was more

than he had bargained for."Will you?" hopefully."Weil—we'll see. I—ah—I'm not a good

teacher. No patience.""I learn things easy. An' I can float

already. I can float good.""I shouldn't wonder," said he. Secretly

he thought it would take at least twohundred pounds of lead to keep her fromfloating, but he did not say it. •

"If you're coming with me you'd betterlook slippy," he advised her.

"Look slippy? What's that, Mister?""Snap into it."A few minutes later, accompanied by the

voluble Queenie, whose vastness was nowise diminished by a brilliant scarlet bathing suit that was a little too small for her,Jerry walked briskly across the fields to thecove he had discovered the morning afterhis arrival. After being cooped up alonefor so many hours, it was good to be out inthe sun again and to have the companionship of another human being, even thoughit was that of a chattering, overgrown child.Queenie's conversation, limited as it was, forthe most part, to motion-picture mattersand her own prospects of becoming aluminary of the screen, required little eS'orton the part of the Ustener. Jerry found itrather soothing, for an occasional yes, no,or certainly, was all that was necessary tokeep it going. With Queenie he felt freefrom the constant compulsion to keep onthe alert. Even when she began questioning him about his work he did not have tobe too careful with his answers. The slightest items of misinformation seemed to satisfyher. From having agreed reluctantly toher plea that he allow her to go swimmingwith him, he came to be qiiite grateful toher for having suggested it.

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came conscious of a high, whining soundand, looking for its source, spied a small,dark speck on the water about a mile away,scudding along past one of the islands.When he first saw it, the little boat wasrunning parallel to the shore line, but as hewatched, it s\vung abruptly and headed for

, the cove. There were two people in it, aman seated amidships and a woman in thestern. Their faces were not yet distinguishable, but somehow they looked familiar.

"Whose boat is that?" Jerry asked, withquick apprehension.

"Looks like Miss Carmichael's," saidQueenie. "Sounds like it, too."

"Hm," said he. "Moves fast, doesn't•t?" While saying this, he searched hastilyfor some cranny in which to take cover. Hefound himself suddenly eager not to haveSheila see him sitting there with Queenie.At low water he might have hidden, butthe tide was high just now and no cover wasavailable.' To escape observation, therewas only one course: to get into the waterhimself and, even more urgent, to getQueenie in too. With that; hulking bodyand that flamboyant bathing suit submerged,it was possible that they might escapeSheila's notice.

"The way to learn to swin is to go inall at once," he said. "Take my hand andwe'll both dive together. You can standout there. Don't be afraid, you'll be allright. Come on."

So unexpected was this command, and soperemptoty, that Queerue obeyed beforeshe had time to think. Gripping his hand,she shut her eyes and jumped, hitting thewater with a mighty splash. In the shockof the sudden immersion, she let go ofJerry's hand and, on coming to the surface,clutched wildly at the air and opening hermouth to screech, swallowed a lot of sea.But as her feet touched bottom and shefound she was not out of her depth after all,her panic was short-lived. Between^aspsand gurgles, she achieved a triumphant grin.

"Gee, Mister," she shouted, "I dove!"

"DUT Jerry, assured that his cornpanionj*-* was in no danger, was more interestedin noting the result of his ruse than in congratulating her on her achievement. He wasconsiderably reKeved to see that the littleboat wasno longerheading straight for them,but was skirting the opposite shore of theinlet, which, at that point, was about aquarter of a mile wide. There was nodoubt, now, as to the boat's occupants. Hecould identify them easily. He had no wayof telling, however, whether they had identified him. He could only hope they hadnot and that they would go far enough upthe river to enable him and Queenie to getback on land unobserved.

But he had not reckoned with the latter'smood of high adventure. Queenie, somewhat disappointed at Jerry's lack of appreciation of her initial effort, and wantingtremendously some recognition of her valor,decided to encore her aquatic act and toassure herself of an audience. Accordingly,while Jerry, with chattering teeth, sto^immobile nose deep in the water, intentlywatching Sheila's boat, Queenie, unseen byhim, clambered out onto the rocks. Andstanding there in fuUview she began wavingher arms and yelling:

"Come and see me dive! Come and seeme dive!"

Jerry whirled around and glared at her.It was fortunate for her that no lethalweapon was within reach, for he could haveshot her, at that moment, without compunction. Sheila and Beauregard had probably not heard her yells, owing to the wasp-

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He looked again at the boat and groaned.It was skimming across directly towardthem, bouncing along at twenty-five milesan hour.

The next few minutes were crammed^th action. Jerry thought at first thatSheila intendedto run him down. Shekeptthe nose of the squat little craft aimed rightat him. He wasprepared to dive to onesidewhen suddenly, without slackening speed,she yanked the tiller hard to port. Theboatswerved, careened andcapsized. Beau-regard, who had been nervously holding onto the gunwales, was ilung ten feet throughthe air into deep water, where he thrashedaround like a fly in milk. Sheila, who atthe last moment had jumped clear, bobbedup and shouted to Jerry.

"Get Charles," she cried. "He can'tswim."

While Queenie jumped up and down with

With a squeal of terror, the unfortunateQueenie tried to hide her booty behindher back. "You'd better hand it over,"insisted his lordship, "if you don't want

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excitement and Sheila retrieved the painterof the overturned boat, Jerry ploughed, asswiftly as his numbed muscles would let him,to the aid of the unfortunate Beauregard.As is usually the way with non-swimmere,the latter's sole thought was to climb outof the water, using his rescuer's body as aladder. Jerry disabused his mind of thatand aU other ideas by giving him a sharpuppercut on the chin. After which, he towedhim in, emptied him of the water andstarted him breathing again.

Not imtil he had made sure that Beau-regard would be all right and had dispatchedQueenie to the house for a bottle of herfather's applejack to hasten the miserablecreature's recovery, did Jerry pay any attention to Sheila. That young person,

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"What was the big idea?" he inquired."First you start to run me down and thenyou throw his dear old lordship into thedrink. What's it all about?"

"I didn't start to run you down at all,"retorted Sheila, loftily. 'T saw your littlegirl friend waving and yelling and I thoughtshe was calling for help."

"For me?""Exactly. Then when I saw that you

were all right and didn't need help, I decidedto go away from here and not interrupt youwhen you were busy. I'm sorry if I brokeup your party. Or perhaps it wasn't aparty. Perhaps you were dictating astory."

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EDITORIALGRATIFYING

^ I ^HE annual sessions of the Grand Lodge areI important and significant events in ourX fraternal history. They are not only the

occasions when the legislative power of the Orderis exercised in the enactment of laws and thedeclaration of policies, but they are alsothe stipulated occasions when the statistics of theOrder as a whole, which have been previouslycollected and analyzed, are presented in officialreports, so that an accurate estimate may bemade of the Order's progress and well being.

The subordinate Lodges, of whose members theOrder is composed, are scattered all over the broaddomain of the United States, and are maintainedunder widely variant conditions. Each Lodge is,in a sense, a somewhat independent unit, as to itslegitimate activities; and it is accorded a fullmeasure of authority over its membership. It isbecause of those facts, perhaps, that so manyindividual Elks, not directly in contact with theGrand Lodge, limit their fraternal horizon to thejurisdictional boundaries of the local Lodge.

But such members do not get a true picture ofthe Order of Elks. It is too much colored byexperience and observation merely coextensivewith their respective communities. If their ownLodge be prosperous and active, it is quite naturalfor them to assume that such conditions aregeneral. If, on the contrary, it be simply driftingalong, engaged upon no worthwhile endeavor, it isequally natural that they should consider thewhole Order to be in similar unsatisfactory plight.

Only those who study the official reports madeto the Grand Lodge, which are based upon acareful analysis of the data which has been securedfrom all the Lodges, can acquire a comprehensiveconcept of our great fraternity and form an intelligent opinion of its general condition.

It is gratifying to be able to cite those reportsmade to the Convention recently held at AtlanticCity as convincing evidence of the Order's continuing prosperity and of its fine achievements inits chosen field of service. There was a substantialincrease in the number of initiates during the

year as there was in restorations of lapsed member- •ships. Financially, its physical assets show aconsiderable increase. Careful supervision ofbuilding operations has insured a sounder businessbasis for these local Lodge enterprises, which arequite generally distributed throughout the different sections of the country. The aggregate ofexpenditures for charitable and benevolent purposes is the largest in the Order's history. And theaccretions to the National Foundation have metall reasonable expectations.

Any one but a confirmed pessimist will experience a deep satisfaction in the contemplation ofthe Order's present condition and its prospectsfor the future. In all essentials it is moving consistently forward,

A DISTINCTIVE RECOGNITION"^HE open letter which President Hoover re-

cently addressed to the Order, and whichwas formally presented to the Grand Lodge atAtlantic City by the Grand Exalted Ruler, wasnot a mere empty compliment. It dealt with aserious and pressing economic problem of nationalimport; and it frankly invited the cooperation ofan agency deemed peculiarly capable of effectivehelpfulness.

It can but bring a feeling of pride to everymember to note this distinctive recognition, by thePresident, of the Order's demonstrated patriotismand his confident reliance upon its ready responseto his call for a needed service to the wholecountry.

And it is pleasing to think that he recalled aformer occasion when, as United States FoodAdministrator during the World War, he selectedthe Order of Elks as the first fraternal organization to be called upon to assist in carrying forwardthat essential war measure; and that its responsewas so eagerly prompt and its cooperative activities so splendidly organized and efficiently administered as to win his warm expre sions ofappreciation and approval.

The action of the Grand Lodge, pledging theOrder to every possible activity in promotion of

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the President's suggested program, was whatmight have been anticipated. It may be confidently assumed that the subordinate Lodges andindividual members will observe that pledge ingood faith and in the proud consciousness that theOrder of Elks has again become a chosen instrumentality for an important patriotic service.

OUR NEWEST PAST GRANDIT IS customary, at the end of a Grand Exalted

Ruler's term of office, to speak words of praisefor his fine administration and to pass commendatory resolutions in appreciation of his outstandingservices. Happily those expressions have been

. quite uniformly well deserved throughout thehistory of the Order. We have been singularlyfortunate in our fraternal leadership. And thisfact has prevented any actuality, or seeming, ofempty formality from attaching to such expressions. They have always rung true with sincerity.

And so again, in paying this tribute to WalterP. Andrews, who has just retired from the officeof Grand Exalted Ruler, honesty and sincerityprompt every phrase of appreciation and praise.

His own earnestness and sincerity have beenmarked characteristics which have won the admiration and esteem of thousands of Elks whohave seen them displayed in word and in deed.His energy and eagerness to perform every dutyof his office really overtaxed his strength andcontributed no little to a serious illness which incapacitated him for a time. And his warmhearted, lovable, sunny disposition insured him awelcome to every fraternal circle.

Walter Andrews proved himself a worthy successor of the long line of able and distinguishedGrand Exalted Rulers who have preceded him.And the Order is fortunate in having him still"numbered among those whose advice and counselit seeks and values.

RITUAL EXEMPLIFICATION*I 'HE real necessity for effective ritual exemplifi-

cation, particularly as to the constantly usedopening, closing, and initiation ceremonials, hasbeen frequently stressed in these columns. Butthe importance of the subject justifies referenceto it again, even at the risk of possible criticismof its lack of novelty in substance or suggestion.

The State Associations are performing a splen

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did service in encouraging a keener interest in thismatter among the subordinate Lodges. Ritualcontests are held annually by nearly every oneof the State organizations. And there is a continuing growth in the number of local units entering the competitions. This naturally results ina general improvement in the rendition of theritual in all the Lodges. Even those which donot compete derive some degree of benefit fromobservation of the work of the teams which dostrive for the coveted prizes.

And the contest held at the recent Conventionat Atlantic City, under the auspices of the GrandLodge Committee, was an inspiration to all whowitnessed it. Its influence will doubtless bereflected throughout the Order.

But there are still too many Lodges in whichthe conduct of the prescribed ceremonials whollyfails to measure up to the standard which shouldbe maintained. The officers in these Lodges areutterly neglectful of the obligations they haveassumed; and the members are too lenient in permitting such delinquency to continue.

The opening and closing ceremonies of a subordinate Lodge are beautiful and most impressive when properly conducted. Our initiationritual is of surpassing excellence. It is doubtfulif those of any other fraternity are superior insubstance, phraseology or action. The timerequired for exemplification is brief, muchshorter than in many other orders. And effectivedelivery is reasonably within the capacity of everyLodge official. But it does require serious interest,full appreciation of the purpose in view, and careful preparation. These are essentials, and theyare definite official obligations.

The report of the Ritualistic Committee to therecent Grand Lodge Convention was an unusuallythoughtful and well-considered document. Itcontained a number of recommendations for minorchanges in the rituals, which were adopted. Thesedo not involve any material alterations, but theydo insure a smoother rendition and a more impressive effect, which will be readily noted.

It is to be hoped that the Committee's earnestappeal for a better observance of their ritualisticduties on the part of subordinate Lodge officerswill result in a marked improvement throughoutthe Order in this essential feature of our fraternalactivities.

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The Grand Lodge Convention inAtlantic City, New Jersey, July, 1930

AHE sixty-sixth Grand Lodge Conventionand general reunion of the Order, heldwithin sight and sound of long Atlantic

rollers, breaking on mile after mile of sunlitbeach, was as enjoyable in its holiday and socialaspects as it was successful on its business andadministrative side. The lure of Atlantic City,most famous of all seaside resorts, drew throngsof Elks from all over the country and these,with their families and friends, foimd, inthe preparations made for their welcome byAtlantic City Lodge, No. 276, and in the resort's manifold attractions, material for days ofrecreation and diversion and nights of socialentertainment and foregathering. Though thewhole city was gaily decorated with the nationalcolors and the purple and white of the Orderit was, quite naturally, the magnificent boardwalk, and the beach which it parallels, thatfurnished the backgroimd for most of that convention pageantry, both formal and informal,which is one of the most colorful and memorablefeatures of these annual gatherings.

It was on the boardwalk, in front of the hugeMunicipal Auditoriimi, that tJie fct functionof an oflScial nature was held. Here, at two-thirty in the afternoon of Simday, Jiily 6, thefour cars of The Elks Magazine—VikingProsperity Fleet finished, with flying colors,their long transcontinental journeys which, beginning last April, had taken them as visitorsto more than four himdred Lodges lying betweenthe Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Accompaniedby a police escort and by city and Lodge officials,the cars had left Philadelphia, Pa., &at morning. Reaching their final destination in theconvention city, the drivers were greetedofficially by Grand Esquire Harry Bacharach,Exalted Ruler of Atlantic City Lodge, and byActing Mayor Joseph Paxson, to whom theypresented letters entrusted to their care at theirstarting points and along their routes, includingthe missive from President Hoover addressedto the officers and members of the Benevolentand Protective Order of Elks of the UnitedStates of America. Also present to greet thetravelers were Grand Exalted Ruler Walter P.Andrews; Past Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph T.Fanning, Editor and Executive Director ofThe Elks Magazine; Charles S. Hart, BusinessManager of the Magazine and originator ofthese cross-countiy good-will tours, and a largegathering of distinguished members, includingPast Grand Exalted Rulers John K. Tener,Rush L. Holland, James R. Nicholson, EdwardRightor, Fred Harper, Bruce A. Campbell, FrankL. Rain, William M. Abbott, W. W. Mountain,J. Edgar Masters, William H. Atwell, Charles H.Grakelow, John F. Malley and Murray HiUbert.

Public Opening SessionThe Grand Lodge Convention was officially

opened at the public Opening Session held inthe ballroom of the Municipal Auditorium onMonday evening, July 7. The splendid roomwas filled with a large and enthusiastic audiencewhen the Legion of Honor and the MoimtedGuard of Atlantic City Lodge escorted theGrand Exalted Ruler, Past Grand ExaltedRulers and other active and past Grand Lodgeofficers to the stage. Followinga beautiful organprelude by Karl Bonawitz, and several popularorchestra selections, Mme. Nora Allen Volpi,guest soloist, sang "The Star Spangled Banner."Grand Chaplain the Rev. Dr. John Dysart delivered the invocation, and then State SenatorEmersonL. Richards,EsteeinedLeadingKnightof Atlantic City Lodge and presiding officer ofthe Opening Session, welcomed the Elks onbehalf of his city and his Lodge. Another soloby Madame Volpi preceded a vigorous, heartfelt address by Governor Morgan F. Larson, ofNew Jersey, a member of Perth Amboy Lodge,No. 784, who dwelt upon the great humanitarianprogram of the Order as exemplified bydts work forcrippled children. His talk was followed by aselection by the Atlantic City Elks Quartet.

Senator Richards then spoke of the tragicautomobile accident in which, but a few daysb^ore. Mayor AnthonyM. Ruffu, Jr., had losthis life. Mayor Ruffu, a member of Atlantic CityLodge, and a devoted and widely known Elk,met his untimely death so shorUy before theopening of the Convention that his name appeared in the printed program as the one whowas to deliver the address of welcome on behalfof the municipality. In his stead, Senator Richards introduced Past Exalted Ruler Joseph P.Perskie, City Solicitor, who greeted the visitors.

Following another solo selection by MadameVolpi, Senator Richards introduced GrandExalted Rider Walter P. Andrews, who paideloquent tribute to the memory of the lateMayor Ruffu, and expressed to the bereavedfarmly, the members of Atlantic City Lodge, andthe citizens generally the deep and sinceresympathy of Ae Orderat large. Mr. Andrews'response to the official addresses of welcome wasa most happy one, graciously acknowledging thehospitality of the city and the State. In speaking of the Order and its accomplishments, heemphasized hiswhole-hearted beliefin the powerof its cardinal tenets to fashion a better and ahappier world,offeringas proof of his statementsthe great good accomplished within the countryby the practice of the cardinal virtues of Charity,Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity by themembers of the Order.

Following a further number by the AtlanticCity Elks Quartet, the Opening Session closed tomusic from the magnificent organ.

The First Business SessionThe first business session of the Sixty-sixth

Grand Lodge Convention was opened by GrandExalted Ruler Walter P. Andrews with theformal ritual shortly after 10A. M., on Tuesday,J^y 8, in the same spacious room in the Municipal Auditorium in which had been held thepublic exercises the evening before. At theConclusion of the ceremony the Grand Exalted Ruler instructed Grand Esquire HarryBacharach to escort to the dais the .Past GrandExalted Rulers present. This having been done,the former heads of the Order were introducedaccording to their seniority of service as follows:Joseph T. Fanning, John K. Tener, Rush L. Holland, James R. Nicholson, Edward Rightor, FredHarper, Bruce A, Campbell, Frank L. Rain,William M. Abbott, W. W. Moimtain, J. EdgarMasters, William H. Atwell, Charles H. Grakelow, John F. Malley and Murray Hulbert.Following these introductions there was a pausein the proceedings to allow the official photographer to take a pictxire, after which Mr. Andrewsca^ed to the dais for introduction Pardon Commissioner William J. Conway, the members ofthe Board of Grand Trustees, the Grand Justicesof the Grand Forum, and the members of allGrand Lodge Committees.

After the introductions, the Grand Exalted Ruler spoke of the report which he had submitted of his year of service and announced that,inasmuch as it had been printed and distributed,he would not take up the time of the GrandLodge with a recapitulation or discussion of it.He said, however, that he wished again to emphasize his belief in the enduring powers forgood of the concept of the brotherhood of manand his high hopes tor even greater achievements by the Order as long as the ideals onwhich it was founded, and in the light of whichit has grown, are kept clearly before it. Healso acknowledged the devoted cooperation ofall who worked with him during his year ofoffice and spoke particularly of the invaluableassistance of the Good of the Order Committee,which prepared manuals for the guidance ofDistrict Deputy Grand Exalted Rulers andsubordinate Lodge officers, and of the Ritualistic Committee, whose efforts were responsiblefor the inclusion in the program of the Convention of the first national ritualistic contestever to be held.

Mr. Andrews then appointed the followingCommittee on Distribution: Michael Feinberg,Chicago, 111., Lodge, No. 4, Chairman; Benjamin S. Fisher, Marshfield, Ore., Lodge, No. 1160,and S. John Connolly, Beverly, Mass., Lodge,No. 1309. He also appointed the followingCommittee on Memorial Serv-ice: Past GrandExalted Ruler William H. Atwell; Pardon Commissioner William J. Conway, and EugeneEibeling, of Atlantic City Lodge.

The Grand E.\alted Ruler then announcedhis appointment of John S. McClelland, ofAtlanta, Ga., Lodge, No. 78, as Grand Justiceof the Grand Forum for the term of five years,and his appointment of Past Grand ExaltedRuler Raymond Benjamin, whose two-year termas a Trustee of the Elks National Foundationhad terminated, to succeed himself for the seven-year term. Both of these appointments wereunanimously confirmed by the Grand Lodge.Mr. McClelland was then called to the stage andmade a brief speech of acceptance. Mr. Benjamin was not able to attend the convention, beingdetained in Europe, where Mrs. Benjamin isslowly recuperating from a serious illness.

At this time the Grand Exalted Ruler announced the appointment of aides to the GrandEsquire and assistants to the Grand InnerGuard and Grand Tiler.

Mr. Andrews then recognized Chairman C. C.Bradley of the Grand Lodge Committee onCredentials, who submitted his preliminary report. The final report of this Committee, presented r.t the third Business Session on Thursday, being more complete than the preliminaryone, we quote herewith the final figures. Theattendance of Grand Lodge members was asfollows: Past Grand Exalted Rulers, 15; GrandLodgeOfficers, 19; Grand Lodge Committeemen,25; District Deputy Grand Exalted Rulers,126; Representatives, 932; Alternates, 122;Grand Lodge members, 474—a total attendanceof i>7i3* Mr. Andrews then announced hisappointment to the Committee on Elections, ofwhich Jules Bertero, of St. Louis, Mo., Lodge,No. 9, was Chairman. After the submission, byApproving Member John K. Burch, of thepreliminary budget of the Board of GrandTrustees, the Grand Exalted Ruler recognizedPast Grand Exalted Ruler John K. Tener, whomoved that the privilege of the floor be grantedto Claude T. Reno, a member of Allentown. Pa.,Lodge, No. 130, but not a member of theGrandLodge. This was unanimously accorded,and Judge Reno, who is President Judge of thethirty-first Judicial District, placed in nomination for the office of Grand Exalted Ruler thename of Lawrence H. Rupp, in the followingaddress:

"This is one of the distinctively happy episodesmy life. By your special indulgence, I am permittedto stand here and nominate for the high office ofGrand Exalted Ruler my most intimate friend. Wewere boys together, we attended college at the sametime, we were admitted to the Bar on the same day.Together we have gone down the avenues of life,hand-in-hand, sharing the joys of prosperity, sharingsolace and comfort when the shadows of adversityfell upon us. And now as a climax, when, as we tridybelieve, Lawrence H. Rupp is about to realize theoutstanding ambition of his life, I count it a blessedprivilege to bear testimony to the splendid attainmentsof mind and heart which signally qualify himfor that great trust.

"I shall not long detain you with a recital of thedetails of his career. As I have already intimated,after the completion of an amazingly brilliant collegecareer, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar.Immediately he became a busy practitioner. Whenmost men are still nursing their hopes,and meanwhilepractising more economy than law, he was on thehigh road of succass. He had fine ability and he %vasruggedly honest, but I should be damning him withfaint praise if I were to suggest that be had these andnothing more. He had dash and verve and courageand a captivating personality; he had humble confidence in himself which engendered the confidence ofothers and he was so supremely devoted to his casesthat he inspired the faith of others in his cause. Soonpolitical preferment sought him out and his term as

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prosecuting ofl&cer, won easily in a campaign whichgave him a tremendous majority, is still regarded asthe standard of excellence. He prosecuted vigorouslybut he never forgot that even a defendant has rightswhich even a District Attorney is bound to respect.He served a term as State Chairman of the Democraticparty and then, although he might have had anyoffice within the gift of his people, he voluntarilyclosed his political career as far as holding publicoffice was concerned. He remained as he began, alawyer, a busy practitioner, a leading attorney in hissection of the State, now representing vast and important business and financial interests, yet always free tochampion the cause of the humblest litigant and givehim the best of his mighty talents.

"But these details do not reveal the real man.Mark Twain says that a man really dwells mostlyin his mind. Judged by that standard, our friendhp had a rich and an enrichinglife. Nature endowedhim with a reccptive, an acquisitive mind, and amarvelously retentive memory. Wide reading, deepstudy, serious reflection have made him a versatilescholar, a cultured gentleman, a man of varied andinfinite charm. He has traveled in every realm ofknowledge and he is perfectly at home in wide anddiverse areas of learning. I think he has read everything worth rea^ng in poetry, fiction, biography,philosophy, history and the sciences. Reading hasindeed made him a full man, talking a ready man, andwiting an exact man. He writes as well as he readsand he talks—^but it is not necessary for me to speakof his superb oratorical gifts to you who have satso often under the Joyful spell of his matchlesseloquence. What has happen^ to you has been theexperiences of audiences all over this country, ffispissing personal presence, his resonant speakii^voice, his delicious humor, the height of his ideals, hisdepth of feeling, his utter sincerity form a combinationwhichalwajfsmove audiences to an extraordinaiydegree. I venture to think that in the year which isto come the whole Fraternity from coast to coast, fromits center to its circumference, will be profoundlymoved and stirred to its highest pitch of devotion andfidelity by his splendid eloquence.

" Still, if you know only the mind of a man you donot truly know the man. The qualities of a man'smind are merely symbols, the qualities of his heartare realities. Long ago a wise old man said in .iccentsthat come flowing down the stream of the centuries,*As a man thinketh in his heart, so is Ke.' We whoknow him best admire our friend for the qu^ities ofhis mind but we love him for the issues of his heart.He has a deep heart, an understanding heart; not apassive but an active heart, a heart hitched to adynamo. He radiates cheer and optimism, love andbrotherhood, ineffable tenderness and wide_ sympathy. He is a genius for friendship; his capacity formaking and holding friends is infinite. _He ishappiest when he is serving men, when he is doingsomething for his friends, when he is giving andspending himself for a great cause. And whenI speak of service I am not thinking of it in thatcheap sense in which it is employed in these modemdays, mere accommodation for the sake of a profit,but I am thinking of ^at highest kind of servicewhich is consecrated self-sacrifice for the goodof others without thought of self. So genuine, soabsorbing, so consuming is this passion for servicethat those who know him best were not at all sur-pri^ by an attitude that has puzzled other men.This spring the minority party of our State unanimously offered the nomination of Governor to ourfriend. I need not say that generally the nominationis only an honor; still, it is an honor conferred not byfavor but upon merit. This year, by reason of circumstances to wldch I need not refer, the nominationseemed to be something more than an honor. Thereseemed to be in the whole situation real possibilitiesfor the election of the minority candidate. Thus ourfriend was faced with a cruel dilemma. Obviously, hecould not be a candidate for Governor and a candidatefor Grand Exalted Ruler at the same time. Indeedhe could not be Governor and Grand Exited Rulerat the same time and give each officeits just due. Isay it was a cruel dilemma but he rose to it grandlyand characteristically, as his friends knew he would.He renounced the opportunity to be Governor andarmounced his determination to move out into afidd of activity wider than public office, into _a fiddbroad as the world itself, where as an authentic missionary of love and brotherhood he could grasp opportunities for deep and lasting serviceand reap rewar^of true and inner spiritual satisfaction which publicoffice can never bestow. You see, the mind, temptedbj ^thesnares and delusionsof public office, said, 'Youhave a chance to be Governor,' the heart, appraisingthings at their true value, said, 'You would rather beGrand Exalted Ruler"; and the heart won.

"This is, I know, but a partial and I fear an inartistic portrait of our friend. I'd love to complete itby painting more details upon that background. Ishould have said something about his love and workfor this Fraternity, but you probably know thatbetter than I do. But I have already made largeclaims upon your patience and I must reluctantlydose this tribute. On behalf of AUentown Lodge,No. 130, I nominate for Grand Exalted Ruler, itsfavorite, its bdoved son, Brother Lawrence H. Rupp."

The address seconding the nomination of Mr.

Rupp was made by Past Grand Exalted RulerCharles H. Grakelow. There were no othernominations for the office, and Mr. Rupp'selection was imanimous.

The other officers were also elected unanimously. They are:

Grand Esteemed Leading Knight, MartinJ. Cunningham,Danbury, Conn., LodgeNo.120.

Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight, LeonardR. Ellis, Hot Springs, Ark., Lodge, No. 380.

Grand Esteemed Lecturing Knight, J. T.Farrer, Provo, Utah, Lodge, No. 849.

Grand Secretary, J. Edgar Masters,Charleroi, Pa., Lodge, No. 494 (re-elected).

Grand Treasurer, Lloyd R. Maxwell,Marshalltown, Iowa, Lodge, No. 312(re-elected).

Grand Tiler, L. F. McCready, Miami,Fla., Lodge, No. 948.

Grand Inner Guard, John F. Holliday,Washington, Ind., Lodge, No. 933.

Grand Trustee, five-year term, James 8.Richardson, Cincinnati, O., Lodge, No. 5.

Grand Trustee, one-year term (to fillunexpired term of the late Richard P.Rooney), Henry A. Guenther, Newark,N. J., Lodge, No. 21.

After the nominations of the above new officers, and before their election. Grand ExaltedRiiler Andrews spoke of his previous appointment of Henry A. Guenther to fillthe unexpiredtermof the late Grand Trustee Richard P. Rooneyand asked the Grand Lodge for confirmation ofthis appointment, which confirmation wasunanimously accorded.

There was no contest for the place of meetmgin 1931. TheinvitationofSeattle,Wash.,Lodge,No. 92, tenderedby Past Exalted Ruler ArthurS. Morgenstem, was unanimouslyaccepted.

Mr. Andrews now requested Past GrandExalted Rulers John K. Tener, Charles H. Grake-low and John F. Malley to escort the GrandExalted Ruler-elect to the platform. He thenpresented his successor to the GrandLodge, andMr. Rupp delivered the speech of acceptancewhich is printed on pages 5 and 6 of this issue.

The Grand Lodge then adjourned, to meetagainat 10A.M., Wednesday, July 9.

Second Business Session

The session was called to order by GrandExalted Ruler Andrews who, after the invocationby the Grand Chaplain, read a telegram con-vesong good wishes to the Grand Lodge fromPast Grand Exalted Ruler James G. McFarland,who was kept from attending by the illness ofMrs. McFarland. Mr. Andrews then read intothe record a report of lie return to the GrandLodge of $686.74 of the $1,000 forwarded lastyear by his predecessor, Past Grand ExaltedRuler Murray Hulbert, to J. D. Walsh, Glen-cive, Mont., for flood relief.

The chair then recognized Past ExaltedRuler Michael Feinberg, of Chicago, Bl., Lodge,No. 4, Chairmanof the Committeeon Distribution. After reporting for the Committee, Mr.Feinbergspoke of the Grand Lodge Conventionof 1933, and repeated the invitation of hisLodge, first delivered last year, to entertain theGrand Lodge at that time, when the fortiethanniversary of the World's Fair will be markedby another great exposition.

The first regular order of business of thesession was the reading by Past Grand ExaltedRuler John K. Tener, Chairman, of the reportof the F.Iks National Memorial HeadquartersCommission, and the turning over by him to theGrand Secretary of a draft for $i50,000 representing, in part, the net surplus earnings of The ElksMagazine for the past year, less the necessaryworking capital retained for the coming twelvemonths. The report, which appears elsewherein this issue, was xmanimously approved andaccepted.

Past Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph T. Fanning,Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Director ofthe Commission, then made a supplementaryreport to the Grand Lodge, outliningthe methodpursued by liie Commission in arriving at adecision concerning the desirability of accepting the invitation of the American Legion toparticipate in the construction of the WorldWar Memoriial known as Pershing Hall, which

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is now being completed in Paris, France. Heexplained that Past Grand Exalted RtilersRajrmond Benjamin and Murray Hulbert, beingin Europe during the earlier part of this year,he had requested them to make a first handinquiry. This they did, Mr. Fanning said.Mr. Hulbert, at the request of Mr. Fanning,then took the floor and rendered an accoxmtof his and Mr. Benjamin's investigation ofthe property acquired by the Legion; spokeof the financial soimdness of the arrangementmade for the completion of the btiilding, andsubmitted, for the Elks National .MemorialHeadquarters Commission, the following reportand subjoined resolution:

Early in the year 1919 the American Legion hadits birUi in the City of Paris, France, and me ParisPost No. I thereupon came into existence.

Inspired by a group of Legionnaires, among whomwere Gen. John J. Pershing, Brig.-Gen. CorneliusVanderbilt, Col. Laurence Benet and Col. Francis E.Drake, and loyally supported by the late AmbassadorMyron T. Herridc, the idea was to establish a permanent War Memorial Building in Paris which willnot only serve as a great pantheon commemoratingthe valor and heroism of the American ExpeditionaryForces, but woidd also serve as a headquarters forthe American Legion and the fraternal and philanthropic organizations which cooperated with theA. E. F. in the World War. This project was offidallysanctioned at the Ninth Annual Convention of theAmerican Legion hdd in Paris in 1927.

Subsequently, the American Legion Building,Paris, Inc., was organized under the laws of the Stateof Ddaware.

This is a non-profit stock corporation, of whichGeneral Per.shing, Colond Drake, Colond Benet,Albert Cudebec and Ambassador Walter E. Edgeare the directors. This corporation acquired a privateresidence known as 49 Rue Pierre, Charron, Paris,which building has been remodeled and is to be formally dedicated and known as "Pershing Hall."

Invitations were extended to and have been accepted by the United States Navy, United StatesAnny, United States Military Ac^emy, UnitedStates Marine Corps, National Giiard, American RedCross, Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus, JewishWdfare Board, Salvation Army, Grand Lodge ofMasons of State of New York and other jurisdictions,and the Daughters of the American Revolution, toestabli^ in "Pershing Hall" Memorial Salonscommemorating their respective services in the WorldWar. Contributions range from $7,500 to $35,000.

The dtizens of Clevdand, Ohio, have also ^tab-lished a Salon in "Pershing Hall" as a memorial tothe late Ambassador Myron T. Herrick.

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks werealso invited by the American Legion to establish aMemorial Salon in said building. This invitation wasreferred by the Grand £:|alted Ruler to the ElksNational Memorial Headquarters Commission.

At the solidtation of Past Grand Exalted RiilerJoseph T. Fanning, Editor and Executive Director,Past Grand Exalt^ Rulers Rayniond Benjamin andMurray Hulbert visited and inspected the premisesowned and acquired by the American Legion Building, Paris, Inc.

A six-story building has been erected and is in.course of completion which will be connected with"Pershing Hall" by a gallery, through wluch willoperated elevator service to both buildings. Thegroimd floor in the new building will be a recreationcenter. The second floor will be an auditorium- havinga nnrmnl seating capadty of one himdred and sixty-four and a maximimi seating capadty of about twohundred. The upper floors will be utilized for schoolrooms and other activities of the Legion.

It has jDeen proposed by the American Legion,that in consideration of a subscription by the GrandLodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order ofElks of $30,000, that the Auditorium will be designated as "Elks Memorial Hall," commemorating theservices of the seventy thousand Elks who respondedto the Colors and the 1,000 of whom made the supremesacrifice in the World War.

"Now, therefore, be it RESOLVED:"That the members of the Grand Lodge of the

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in convention assembled in Atiantic City hereby acceptthe invitation of the American Legion to designatethe Auditoritim in the American Legion Building,Paris, France, as Elks Memorial Hall and do herebyappropriate the sum of $30,000 out of any available fimd, not heretofore appropriated, to be paidto the American Legion Building, Paris, Inc.,whenthe GrandExalt^ Ruler shallhave enteredinto an agreement with the American LegionBuilding, Paris, Inc., setting forth terms and conditions of said subscription."

The report and resolution were unanimouslyapproved and adopted.

Upon a motion by Past Grand Exalted RulerJames R. Nicholson, the report of the Good ofthe Order Committee, of which he is Chairman,was then made a special order of business at the

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opening of tlie second half of the session attwo-thirty.

Past Grand Exalted Rvder Bruce A. Campbell now made the final report of the GrandLodge Committee on Memorial to Past GrandExalted Rvder Astley Apperly, the other members of which were Grand Secretary J. EdgarMasters, and Fred O. Nuetzel, of Louisvifle,Ky., Lodge, No. 8, and moved that the Committee be discharged. The report, \manimouslyapproved, was in part as follows:

Early in October of" last year, the undersigned,pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Grand Lodgeat Los Angeles, California, were appointed by theGrand Exalted Ruler as a committee to consider,determine and present in some suitable form amemorial to the memory of our late Brother Astley.•\pperly, of Louisville, Ky., Lodge, No. 8. Your committee proce^ed inmiediately to perform the dutydelegate to it, and after consultation with membersof Brothei Apperly's family and the ofiScersand members of Louis\^e Lodge, it was determined to erect amonument on the family lot where Brother Apperly isburied in Cave Hill Cemetery at Louisville, Ky.

On Sunday, May 25, 1930, the monument selectedby the Committee was imveiled and dedicated withimpressive ceremonies, assisted by a committee ofLouisville Lodge, No. 8. An account of the dedication ceremonies, together with a photo of the monument, appears in the July issue of The Elks Magazine, to which reference is had for the nature andcharacter of the memorial erected and the programincident to its unveiling and dedication.

The total amount expended by your committeein performing the task delegated to it was $2,407.98.All of the accounts of the Committee have beenaudited and approved by the Approving Membwof the Board of Grand Trustees and by the GrandExalted Ruler.

The thanks of the Committee and the GrandLodge are due to the officers and members of Louisville Lodge, No. 8, and particularly the special committee appointed by the Lodge, consisting of PastExalted Ruler William Neal, Past Exalted RulerJohn C. Schildt, and Chris J. Franz, Secretary ofLouisville Lodge.

Your committee further reports that it has performed all of the duties delegated to it and presentsthis, its final report, with the request that it bedischarged.

Next to be recognized was Past Grand Exalted Ruler John F. Malley, Chairman of theElks National Foundation Trustees. He explained the purposes of the Foundation, andspoke of the splendid response of the subordinatelodgesand State Elks Associations tothe appealfor subscriptions for Honorary Founders Certificates, and reported that the artist's design forthese certificates had been accepted and was inprocessof printing. The full and official reportof the Foxmdation's Trustees had been printedand was in the hands of the members of theGrand Lodge before Mr. Malley spoke. Thisreport is largely reprinted elsewhere in thisissue. At the close of Mr. Malley's remarksPast ExaltedRulerAbrahani'M. Herman, representing Orange, N. J., Lodge, No. 135, handedto the Grand Exalted Ruler, who passed it onto Mr. Malley, a check for $i,oqq for the subscription pledged by the members of No. 135on the occasion of their fortieth anniversary, atwhich time Mr. Andrews was their guest. C. L.Doherty, of Rapid City. S.D.,Lodge, No. 1187,was then recognized, and announced that checksfor $1,000 each, representing contributions fromHuron, S. D., Lodge, No. 444, and the SouthDakota State Elks Association, were in themails.

Grand Exalted Ruler Andrews fhpn calledPast Grand Exalted Ruler William H. Atwell tothe rostrum for the conduct of the annual Memorial services. Following a baritone solo, "ThouArt Passing Hence," by Powell Evans, Mr.Atwell delivered a beautiful and deeply movingmemorial address, speaking of the unity of spiritand purpose to be found among the members ofthe Order, of the quiet charity and thoughtfulhelpfulness of those who had passed on, and oftheir abiding place in the affection and admiration of those who had known them best.Another solo, "God Shall Wipe Away All Tears,"sung by Evan Prosser, preceded the eulogy ofPast Grand Exalted Ruler Thomas B. Mills,delivered by Pardon Commissioner William J.Conway. A duet, "Watchman, What of theNight," by Mr. Prosser and Mr. Evans, broughtthe beautiful service to its close.

Second Half of the Second Business SessionPast Grand Exalted Ruler James R. Nicholson

was recognized by the chair, and spoke of thework of the Good of the Order Committee, ofwhich he is Chairman. He expressed the deepappreciation by the committee of the help givenby Grand Lodge officers, District Deputy GrandExalted Rulers and subordinate Lodge officersin contributing valuable information in regardto general and local conditions, and personallythanked the other members of his committeefor their unflagging interest and zeal.

He then introduced Dr. Carroll Smith, ofSt. Louis, Mo., Lodge, No. 9, a member ofthe committee, who explained the plan outlined_in 1928, under which the committeehas since operated. He stressed the inquiriesconducted among the subordinate Lodges of theOrder and urged their study and the applicationof the committee's findings in the light of localconditions, calling upon the.delegates to analyzethe state of affairsin their ownLodges. He thencalledattention to the finework of the LapsationConunittees in Buffalo, N. Y., I^dge, No. 23,PMadelphia, Pa., Lodge,No. 2, and Milwaukee,Wis., Lodge, No. 46, in securing the reinstatement of large numbers of Elks who had allowedtheir membership to lapse. Dr. Smith asked thecontinued cooperation of the subordinate Lodgesin contributing to the committee reports of anymethods proven to be successfulin bettering conditions and advancing the interests of the Order.

The official report of the Good of the OrderCommitteewas, in part, as follows:

Report of the Committee on Good of the OrderThe Committee is very happy to be in position to

report that throughouttheyear the fullestcooperationreceived from the Grand Exalted Ruler and his

office, the Grand Secretary, the Editor and l^ecutiveDirector of The Elks Magazine, Past Grand Exalted Rulere, Grand Lodge officers and committee-men, District Deputies and from the Officers of thesuborduiate Lodges. Many helpful suggestionswere received relative to methods of meeting various[troblemsof the Lodges of the Order. These suggestions and comments were carefully considered andpassed along to those Lodges in need of or requestingsuch information.

Committee Meetings^At the_ installation of the District Deputies inChicago in September, 1929, the Chairman of theCommittee address^ them andcalled their attentionto the duties of their office and the manner in whichmey might be helpful to the subordinate Lodges,opeanc attention was called to the 1929report of theGood of the Order Committee and the DistrictDeputies were requested to study and re-study tirematerial contained therein.

He s^gKted that they comparc the showing oftheir Districts with that of other Districts throughout the country:and that they study the per capitattpenditures for charity and compare the showing ofthe v^ous Lodges, Districts and States. It wasiwmtra out that it was their duty to analyze conditions m their territory in the same manner ^at theywould_ ai^yze a business problem in a businessorganization and determine ways and means for thesolution of such problems.

ipsQReport of the Good oftheOrder CommitteeShortly after the GrandLodge Convention at Los

Angdes in ;^ly, 1929, a copy of the report of theOood of the Order Committee was sent to all the subordinate Lodges with a request that they go overthe report carefully and search for items of interestto them. Many Lodges followed the Committra'ssuggestion and subsequently advised that they iLsedmany of the suggestions contained in the report togood advantage.

The District Deputies also were provided with acopy of the report so that they could use the factsrontained therein during their visitations to thelodges. Correspondence from these men indicatesthat they also have fotmd it po.ssible to use to advantage some of the suggestions contained in thisreport.

The Committee has therefore prepared a comprehensive set of statistics of membership losses andgains, charity expenditures, suggestions for officersand committeemen of subordinateLodgesand itemspertaining to the welfare of the Order. Arrangements have beenmade to send a copyof this reportto each of thesubordinate Lodges, andit is thehopeof the Committee that those interested in the direction of the subordinate Lodges will give some consideration to and take advantage of the facts contained therein.

Good of the Order QuestionnaireLi order that the Committee might have the

benefit of information relative to conditions in thesi^ordinate Lodges, a questionnaire was sent outwhich made inquiry regarding the membershipstanding on September 30, 1929; the number of

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members in good standing on that date and thenumber in arrears; information relative to theactivities that were engaged in and that were ofinterest to the members; the nature of their community welfare work; whether or not lapsation workwas carried on; whether or not activities were engaged in to secure the interest of the ladies. TheLodges were requested in this questionnaire, to submit any suggestions that might be beneficid to theLodges in seeing new members, in retaining oldmembers and in holding the interest of all members.

The Lodges were requested also to report whetheror not they had any financial problems that wereretarding the growth of the Lodge and if so, in whatmanner the Committee could be of assistance to them.

(A copy of the questionnaire is included in theprinted report as Exhibit A.)

The Committee is glad to be able to report thatout of 1,419 Lodges to whom question siires weresent, 1,343 replies were received.

The Committee desires to bring to the attentionof the subordinate Lodges the importance of theirgiving prompt attention to requests made of themby Grand Lodge Committees.

'Many suggestions relative to Lodge activitieswere received and after careful consideration, thosesuggestions that were felt might be of assistance tothe Lodges, were tabulated and sent to those Lodgesrequesting such information. (A copy of the tabulation of suggestions is incorporated in the printedreport as Exhibit B.)

District DeputiesHaving an intimate contact with the District

Deputies, the Good of the Order Committee was inposition to observe the activities of these men, working for the best interests of the Order. It was verypleasing to note the manner in which they performedtheir work and the spirit with which they enteredinto their activities.

Manual for District DeputiesThe Committee with the approval of the Grand

Edited Ruler published a Alanual for the use of theDistrict Deputies containing many suggestions regarding the manner in which they might best performthe duties of their office.

A copy of the Manual has been sent to eachDistrict Deputy.

In it are incorporated suggestions relative to thefollowing: Survey of conditions in the District.Manner of contacting the officers of the various^dges. Official visitations of the Lodges. Check-ipe of Lodge records, officers and activities.Address to the Lodge. Report to the Grand ExaltedRuler. Cooperating in the solution of Lodge problems. Institution of New Lodges. Summary andfinal report to the Grand Exalted Ruler. Finalappe^ to the Lodges. Assistance to succeedingDistrict Deputy.

This Manual was gratefully received by the District Deputies and a considerable number haveTTOtten to the Committee, advising that they foundthe information contained in it of great assistance tothem in their work.

The Manual was prepared with the assistance and cooperation of a large number of membersof the Order, and the Committee wishes to acknowledgethis assistance and to expressits appreciation.

Manualfor Subordinate Lodge Officersand Committeemen

Encouraged by the reception of the Manual forDistrict Deputies, the Committee with the approvalof the Grand Exited Ruler undertook the prepara-tion of a Manual covering the duties and responsi-biUties of the Officers and Committeemen of thesubordinate Lodges. This Manual is designed topoint out to these brothers those things pertainingto their duties of which they should be particularlywatchful, the manner of performing their work andof analyzingand meeting the problems of the Lodge.

The Manual was prepared with the assistance of alarge number of brothers who are active in theaffairs of the Order and the Committee feels that itwill be of considerable benefit to the subordinateLodges, if the information contained therein will becarefully studied.

A copy of the Manual has been sent to all of thesubordinate Lodges of the Order, with a letter tothe Exalt^ Ruler, suggesting that he hold a conf^-enre of all of the officers and committeemen of theLo(fee for the purpose of discussing the Manual andperhaps adopting such suggestions contained in it asmight prove to be helpful to their officers and to theLodge.

A copy of the Manual has also been sent to allSecretaries of the subordinate Lodges.

Membership Statistics,The Committee felt that it would be helpful to the

District Deputies to have in their possession, information which woidd show them the trend of the membership in the Lodges of their district. Accordinglya tabulation was prepared showing the membershipon March 31, 1924,of each Ix)dge, the amoxmt of thegain or loss for each year from March 31, 1924 toMarch 31, 1929, the membership on the latter date,the gain or loss for the five-year period, the number

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•of years that the Lodge showed a gain and the niunberof years'that it showed a loss.

A copy of the tables for his District was sent toeach District Deputy. A copy of the tables coveringall of the Districts in the State was sent to the GrandLodge officers located in the State and to the Presidentof the State Association. A copy of the tables covering the territory of particular interest to them wasfurnished to the Past Grand E.xalted Rulers. A fullset of the tables was sent to the Grand Exalted Ruler.

With this information before them in convenientform, these men could trace the membership trendfor each Lodge and could see how they were progressing or losing in membership. The tables broughtout the weak spots in the Districts and pointed outthe places where assistance seemed to be necessary.

(A similar set of tables covering the five-year period,March 31, 1925 to March 31, 1930, is incorporated inthe printed report as Exhibit C. A table showingthe losses and gains in membership of each Stateand Grand Lodge District for the same period isshown as Exhibit D.)

It is suggested that those interested in the welfareof the Order, make a careful study of these tables andpick out the weak spots in those sections in whichthey have influence and attempt to assist in buildingup those Lodges.

An analysis of these tables shows that in the lastfive-year period, 289 Lodges have shown losses ineach of the last five years; 359 Lodges have sho\mlosses in four years; 310 Lodges have shown losses inthree years; 211 Lodges have shown losses in twoyears; 124lodges have shownlossesin one year, andonly 62 Lodges have shown gains in each of the fiveyears.

Particular attention should be given to the Lodgesshowing losses in each of four or five years. It willbe noted that there are 48 per cent, of the Lodges ofthe Order in that class. The Committee feels that ifproper steps are taken a considerably better showingwill be made by the end of the next Grand Lodge year.

Attendance CommitteeThe Committee has given careful consideration to

a suggestion received which recommends that theLodges look into the possibility of appointing anAttendance Committee whose duty it shall be to checkup on the members who are not attending meetingsregularly and learn if possible, why that is the case.

It was pointed out that a large number of membersnever attend meetings and for that reason are somewhat out of touch with Lodge activities. As a resultin many cases those members who have lost theirinterest are dropped because of failure to keep up thepayment of their dues.

When a member is consulted about his failure toattend the meetings, in many instances the interestthus shown in that member will be the cause of therevival of his interest in the activities of the Lodge,and he will again become an active member.

A record showing what members are failing toattend meetings might be obtained by having rachmember who does attend either record his name in abook provided for that purpose or by depositing acard carrying his name and Lodge number into a receptacle provided therefor, as he enters the Lodge room.

Some Lodges have already used this method withsuch .success that the Committee strongl recommendsthe adoption of some method of this character andbelieves that tliereby the membership and interestof many brothers disposed to drop away from Lodgeactivities may be retained.

The Committee appeals to every Exalted Ruler toinstitute this method of maintaining the membership of the Lodge and continuing the interest of eachindividual member.

Lapsation Work^Replies to the Good of the Order Committee ques

tionnaire furnished the Committee with informationrelative to the number of members ddinquent in thepayment of dues on September 30, 192^.

Throughout the year the Committee emphasizedto the subordinate Lodges the importance of havingan active Lapsation Committee. It will be recognizedthat a considerable number of members are droppedeach year who could be saved to the Order if properefforts were made to retain their interest and withtheir interest, their membership.

The larger the amount of their dues and the oldertheir debt to the Lodge, the more difficultit wiU be tosecure payment. It is suggested, therefore, that theCommittee start working as soon as a member's nameis shownon the delinquent list and not wait until theend of the year before taking action in attemptingto secure payment of back dues.

Particular attention is called to the possibility ofbringing back into the fold, many of the members whohave been dropped in years past and securepaymentfrom members who are six months, a year and eventwo years in arrears.

State-Wide InitiationsIt has come to the attention of the Committee that

much success has attended the efforts of one StateAssociation in sponsoring a State-wide initiation.Every Lodge in the State was encouraged to have asmany candidates as possible for initiation on Febru-ry 12th, Lincoln's Birthday. The candidates werenil initiated in their home Lodges on that date.

In another State the State Association sponsored aState-wide initiation in connection with a ritualisticcontest but in this case, held the initiation of all thecandidates in one Lodge. Every Lodge responded byprocuri^ candidates and as a result of the veryimpressive ceremony performed by the winners of theState Ritualistic contest, all members were very muchenthused.

The Committee feels that this practice is commendable and should be encouraged.

Ritualistic Contests

It has long been recognized that one of the mostimportant factors of our initiatory services is theproper rendition of the ritual. The Committee hMencouraged the officers of the Lodges to improve theirefficiency in this work.

The practice of holding State-wide ritualistic contests, usually under the directionof the State Assoda^tion, has been gaining in favor and practice ^d unquestionably much improvement in ritualistic workhas resulted.

Group EntertainmentReports have been received by the Conmiittee of

the success of group entertainments. This activity isvery helpful, particularly to the smaller Lodges andshould be encouraged. Many Lodges are so locatedthat it is comparatively easy for the members of oneLodge to attend a meeting of a sister Lodge.

With a number of Lodges participating, the scopeof the entertainment can be enlarged, a better p^gram prepared and its success made more certain."Rje Committee suggests that the subordinate Lodgesconsult one another relative to the possibility ofarranging for such group entertainments.

CItarity TablesThis Committee has prepared a tabulation of the

expenditures for charity of the subordinate Lodges.Cftistabulation hasbeen combined withthemembershipTables and is incorporated in the printed report asExhibit C.) The tabulation shows the total «pendi-tures for diarity, the amount spent per capita, andthe rankof the Lodge in the State. The SubordinateLodge officers are urged to study these statisticsand it .is suggested that they compare the amountspent by their own Lodge with that spent by otherLodges. (A tabulation of expenditures by Districtsand by States isalso incorporated in the printed reportas part of Exhibit D.) _ , , „ ,

One of the principal activities of the Benevolentand Protective Order of Elks is its charitable work.In many of the Lodges this work constitutes the mostimportant activity engaged in by the Lodge. TheCommittee desires to present a few facts in connection with these tables. A total of $2,640,701.41 wasspent by the Lodges of the Order for charitablepurposes for the year endingMarch 31, 1930. Thisrepresents an expenditure of $3-47 per capita.

TTie per capita expenditiires this year were greaterthan ever before and it is very gratifying to note Aatthe increasein such expenditiu*es this year over tho^of last year amounted to $.33 per member. Thisyear the State of New Jersey leads in per capitaexpenditures with $7.72. The Canal Zone District•ranks first with an expenditure of $18.13 per capita.The District of New Jersey South ranks second withan expenditureof $14.60 per capita. Atlantic City,New Jersey, Lodge No. 276, ranks first among theindividual Lodges with an expenditure of $60.61 percapita.

There were twenty Lodges in the Order that expendedmore than $10percapitafor charity,which isindeed a most conunendable record.

The officers of the subordinate Lodges might wellask themselves, "How does our Lodge stand in theDistrict? What contribution is our Lodge making-to the record of the State and how does oxur Statecompare with other States?"

If the Lodges will make their charitable activitiesone of the most important parts of their programthe Committee feels that they will be well repaidnot only in increased interest on the part of theirmembers but also in the prestige whidi will result andwhich will encourage many worthwhile citizens of thecommunity to seek membership in the Lodge.

LodgesNeeding Special AttentionFrom time to time the Grand Exalted Ruler re

ferred to the Committee matters regarding Lodgesrequiring special attention. The Committee attempted to help these Lodgesas much as possiblebyreferring these matters to membersof the Order resident in or near the community where the Ix)dge waslocated and also requested the District Deputies togive their fullest cooperation to such Lodges.

The Committee feels that through the efforts ofthese men, considerable assistance has been given tothe Lodges in the solution of their problems.

While the members of the Committee could notmake a personal investigation they attempted to dowhat was within their power either through correspondence with the Lodge or through contact bythe District Deputy and others.

The Committee wishes to acknowledge its appreciation of the assistancegiven to it by such brothersin these matters.

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available when necessity arises, some competentrepresentative of the Grand Exalted Ruler to a^tin analyzing and endeavoring to correct the conditionsof Lodges that are experiencing difficulties, financialor otherwise.

A proper knowledge of these conditions can not beobtained by correspondence nor by this method canthe solution of such be foimd.

It is believed by the members of the Committeethat if capable men of business and fraternal experience could spend some time with the officers andmembers of a Lodge requiring attention materialassistance could be render^ and many problems thatmight develop seriously and affect the very existenceof the Ix>dge mi^t in this manner be remedied.

The Grand halted Ruler possesses the power tosend special representatives to investigate the condition of and help Lodges that are in need,of advice andassistance.

Men of the character and training of those who'could render the best assistance, however, could notafford to spend the necessary time on this work without proper compensation. Your Conmiittee, therefore, recommends:

"THAT the Grand Exalted Ruler be authorized tomake temporary appointments from time to time ofspecial representatives to investigate the problems ofLodges requiring assistance and advice and cooperatein the solution of such problems, and that provision bemade for the proper compensation of those thus assigned."

Additions to Application for Membership BlankThe Committee gave consideration to the applica

tion for membership blank, and suggested to theGrand Secretary that the following question beadded to this form: "Give the name and addressof three nearest relatives."

Every year a large number of members are droppedfrom the rolls because the Lodges lose track ofthem because of change in their residence.

The relatives of such members are usually acquainted with their movements and the Comnutteefeels that with this information in its files it will beextremely helpful to the Lodge in locating suchmembers.

Elks National ParkAt the Grand Lodge session at Los Angeles,

there was referred to the Good of the Order Committee the following resolution referring to the ElksNational Park:

"WHERE.\S, It has been brought to the attention of the Grand Lodge of the Benevolent andProtective Order of Elks, that the subordinateLodges in the Western section of Colorado, havefor some years past been devoting their time andenergy and means to bring to this Grand Lodgefor its attention the advisability of the »ta.blish-ment of a National Elks Park in the vicinity ofOuray, Colo., and

"WHEREAS, The project is such, and the workdone thereon, tiiat a report upon the same, afldthe advisability of accepting the proposed siteshould be made to this Order.

"NOW THEREFORE, Be it Resolved, by ^Grand Lodge of the Benevolent and ProtectiveOrder of Elks, that the Grand Exalted Ruler beand he hereby is authori;^, en^wered anddirected to refer this matter to the Committee onGood of the Order, which Committee be andhereby is authorized, empowered and directedto fidly and completely investigate and reportto the next Grand Lodge session, the feasibilityand advisability of accepting the site, and makingit an institution of this Order for the benefit andenjoyment of the members thereof, and for thepublic." .The Grand Lodge had previously given considera

tion to this project. At the Grand Lodge sessionheld in Portiand, Ore., in 1925, Past Gr^d ExalteRuler John P. Sullivan, as Chairman of the Soa^and Community Welfare Committee ot tte GrandLodge, reported as follows on the advisability andfeasibility of the Grand Lodge entering into such animdertaking. , • ^

"If this Grand Lodge endorses such a project,it means committing the Order ultimat^ to theexpending of a vast sum of money which wouldhave to be raised and obtained from some source,and the only source to which this Grand LodgecoiUd appeal is to the subordinateLodges Uiroughthe imposition of an additional per capita^ tax;and our Order today is already engaged in aamany national projects as can well be earned outat this time. , , , ^

"Your Committee can not but feel that anydecided addition for such purposes to the presentper capita contribution would be unwise, andwould not meet with the general approval andendorsement of the membership at large.

" For the reasons assigned herein and for manyother reasons good and sufficientand patent uponthe face of the papers, your Comnuttee has unanimously resolved, and it does hereby repwt unfavorably on the said National Park Project

^is r^lution was adopted by the Gr^d Lodge.In order that the Good of the Order Committee

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project. Brother Wflliam T. Baldwin "of the committee was requested to visit the re^on, meet thebrothers interested in this undertaking, study itspossibilities and report to the committee.

Brother Baldwin made a visit to the region andreported at Uie meeting of the committee held inFebruary. From the brothers interested in thismovement, the Committee received much information relative thereto.

The members of thfe Committee carefully considered all of the possible avantages of the Orderentering into this project and the r^ponsibilitiesfinancial and otherwise, which necessarily would beinvolved.

As a result of its deliberations the Committee reports that it is the unanimous opinion of its membersthai the Grand Lodge should refrain from indorsingor otherwise assuming any responsibility in connectionwith the establishment of the proposed National ElksTark, it being recognized that no Grand Lodgefunds areavailable for such purposes, and that it would not onlybe unwise but impossible to raise through such sourcesas the Grand Lodge has for raising funds, the moneyrequired to cany on this project through to the successfulconclusion which the Order would expect and demand ifit undertook or even sponsored the proposed Park.

The Committeefurtherfeds that this vast Park ProjeUis wholly without the plans and purposes of the Order andis primarily and properly a matter and function of thegovernment.

Red Cross Article

Early in the year tl^e Chairman of the Committeewas a^ed by &e Editor of the Red CrossCourier,to prepare an article on the charitable activitiesof the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

(A copy of this article is incorporated in the printedreport as Exhibit E.)> The Committee feels that this article which ismerely a condensation of existing records can beadvantageously used by the subordinate Lodges inacquainting the present membership and prospectivemembers with the charitable activities of the Order.

The members of the Grand Lodge will be interestedin the following editorial which appeued in the sameissue of the Red Cross Courier as did the above referred to article, testifying to the splendid cooperation that has been m^ntained between the AmericanRed Cross and our Order:

"Cooperation with the American Red Crossis an imswerving policy of the Benevolent andProtective Order of Elks. In the World War therelief commission of the Order collaborated withthe Red Cross War CouncU, and a hospital program for the benefit of wounded soldiers was withfine vigor put into motion by the Elks. Throughout the years of peace the Order of Elks has beenever cooperative in relief for disaster sufferers, aswell as in the local welfare activities of Red Crosschapters."

Radio Hook-Up for Eleven O'clock ToastThe suggestion was received that the Committee

give some consideration to the possibility of a nationwide radio hook-up to broadcast the Eleven O'ClockToast.

In its investigation the Committee found thatseveral Lodges broadcast such a toast from localstations and the practice was well received by themembers and the public.

The Committee feels, however, that on accoimtof the difference in time throughout the coimtry it isimpossible to enter into such an activity on a nationalsc^e.

The Eleven O'Clock Toast is an important featureof Elkdom. It is recognized that by broadcasting thisToast it is brought to the attention of a large numberof members and non-members and creates interestin the Order. The practice is a splendid one and theCommittee feels the movement should be encouraged.

The report of the Good of the Order Committee, and all of the recommendations andfindings therein, was approved by the GrandLodge.

Mr. Nicholson then took the floor to reportU|)on the disposition of several resolutions submitted by the Elks of Arizona and contiguousStates, having to do with the provision of GrandLodge assistance in the care of members of theOrder who annually go to the Southwest in considerable numbers for the treatment of tuberculosis. He did not read the resolutions but saidthat it had been long recognized that the Lodgesin this district were faced with a very specialproblem in that members of the Order from alloverthe country, seeking healthin theirlocality,quite naturally turned to them for help when indifficulties, financial or otherwise, and that theseLodges were most commendably anxious to doeverything in their power to meet these requests and to extend to the sufferers everyfraternal sympathy and comfort. He said thathis committee therefore recommended to theincoming Grand E.xalted Ruler that he considerthe donation of $3,000 from the special fund

provided for the assistance of subordinate Lodgesin.such drcimistances, and furthermore recommended most earnestly: to the Elks NationalFoundation Trustees a study of the situation ofthese' Southwestern Lodges, with a view toassisting them financially in their important andpraiseworthy work.

Grand Exalted Ruler Andrews then read,and recommended to the attention of the incoming Gr^d Exalted Ruler and Good of the OrderCommittee the following resolution presentedby Robert S. Macfarlane of Seattle, Wash.,Lodge, No. 92:

" WHEREAS the Grand Lodge of the Benevolentand Protective Order of Elks has constructed atBedford, Va., and now maintains and operates ahome for its indigent and needy members; and

"WHEREAS such Home is available to newmembers of the Order as well as the older membersthrough whose efforts it has been made available;

"Now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that the incoming Grand Exalted Ruler, with the assistance ofsuch committee as he may deem appropriate, consider and reppit at the 1931 Grand Lodge sessionupon the propriety and adyisability^ of requiringeach applicant for membership" in the Order tomake some uniform donation for the benefit ofsuch home."

The Committee on Memorial to Past GrandExalted Ruler James U. Sammis, next presentedits final report. This was read by H. B. May-nard, of Waterloo, la., Lodge, and was, in partas follows:

At the Miamimeeting of the Grand LodgeheltlinJuly, 1928, the newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler

by resolution directed to appoint a committeewhichshouldreport at tlw following meetingof theGrand Lodge recommendations for a suitable memor-^ to'thememory ofPast Grand Exalted Ruler J. U.Sammis.

In conformity with this resolution Grand ExaltedRuler Hulbert appointed Past Grand Exalted RulerJohn G. Price, Columbus, Ohio, Lodge, No. 37; PastGiMd Exalted Ruler Thomas B. Mills, Superior,Wisconsin Lodge, No. 403; and Past Exalted RulerJames G. Murtagh, Waterloo Iowa," Lodge, No. 290.On September 12, 1928,Brother Murtagh was calledm death and Past Exalted Ruler Charles C. Bradley,of I^ Mars, Iowa, Lodge, No. 428, was appointsm his stead.

Upon the formation of the Elks FoimdationCommittee the Grand Exalted Ruler asked PastGrand Exalted Ruler Price to accepta membershiptherron and upon his acceptancc he resigned fromthe SammisMemorial Committee. To the vacancythereby created. Grand Exalted Ruler Hulbertappointed H. B. Maynard, Waterloo, Iowa, Lodge,No. 290,and upon the suggestion of Past Grand Exalt^ Ruler Mills, Brother Maynard was also madechairman of the committee.

The Committee, thus constituted, reported itsrecommendations to the Grand Lodge meeting at-Los Angeles at the meeting in July, 1929 and theywere by that body imanimously approv^, makingavailablethe sumof $2,000 for the memorial and $50per month to the widow during her lifetime.

(For a description of the memorial and itsunveilingdedication, readers are referred to theaccount publi^ed in "Under the SpreadingAntlers.")

Just as the comnuttee deliberations were concluded and contracts awarded, our beloved assodatePast Grand Exalted Ruler MUlswas called,on March19» 19301 to Wsfinal reward. The surviving membersof the committee desire that this report of our workrecord our testimony to the value of his wise counseland his practical advice. He enjoyed our confidencefrom the beginning of our association and our contacts thereafter won for him our fraternal love.

From the $2,000 made available for our use, thefollowing (total) expenditures were made andvouchers issued: $1,492, leaving a balance unusedand returnable to the Grand Lodge funds, $508.00.

Grand Trustee Henry A. Guenther was thenrecognized and on behalf of the Board of GrandTrustees submitted a recommendation for anadditional dormitory at the Elks National Homeat Bedford, Va. The following resolution, em-bodjnng this recommendation, was then offeredby Past Grand Exalted Rule Fred Harper, andimanimously diSbpted."RESOLVED.

I. "That the Board of Grand Trustees be, and arehereby, authorized and directed to enter intoall necessary contracts on behalf of the Order,for the prompt construction, at Bedford, Virginia, as a part of the Elks National Home, of anadditional dormitory, to provide for approximately one hundred additional residents, at acost not to exceed the sum of two hundred andforty thousand dollars, and to be of such archi

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tectural design and character of construction-and location as to the said Board shall seem wise.

2. "That there be and hereby is appropriated for thepurpose of defraying in part the cost of saidadditional dormitory the sum of fifty thousanddollars from the Home fund, and fifty thousanddollars from the surplus earnings of The ElksMagazine, paid over to the Grand Lodge at thissession, said amounts to be available as andwhen needed for said purpose.

3. "That the Board of Grand Trustees be, and arehereby, specifi<^y authorized and directed, inthe name, and in behalf of, the Benevolent andProtective Order of Elks of the United States ofAmerica, to borrow such sums, from such sourcesand upon such terms, as to the Board shall seemproper, to defray the remaining cost of said additional dormitory in such manner as the saidBoard shall deem proper."

John K. Burch, Approving Member of theBoard of Grand Trustees, then read a list ofthose Lodges whose charters had been revokedduring the year by the Grand Exalted Ruler andasked approval of the action, which was unani-mousl3^granted.

Grand Exalted Ruler Andrews then passed thegavel to Past Grand Exalted Ruler William M.Abbott, whorecognizedChairman John'R. Coen,of the Committee on Judiciary. Mr. Coen introduced_the following associate members of thecommittee, George F. Corcoran, York, Neb.,Lodge, No. 1024; James T. Hallinan, QueensBorough, N. Y., Lodge, No. 878, and WilliamH.Beck, Jr., Griflin, Ga., Lodge, No. 1207. Mr.Coenthen presented the report of the committee,recommending amendments to the Grand LodgeStatutes, all of whichwereapproved and enactedinto the laws of the Order.

Acting on the recommendation of Grand Exalted Ruler Walter P. Andrews, relative to theamendment to Section 40b, of the Grand LodgeStatutes, to the effect that said section beamended so as to prohibit the use of the word"foundation" in the title, or designation of anycharitable funds sponsored by any agency of theOrder, the Committee on Judiciary recommended that the following paragraph be added:

"No subordinate Lodge, group of Lodges orState Association, shall hereafter sponsor orcreate any charitable fund, trust or other agencyusing the word, "foundation," or any title ordesignation in which said word shall appear."

On the recommendation of Grand ExaltedRuler Andrews, relative to the adoption ofproper legislation authorizing the Grand ExaltedRuler to appoint special representatives fromtime to time to study problems, give assistanceand cooperate with lodges requiring attentionand provide for compensation for such representatives, the Committee reported that in itsopinion authority for appointment of suchrepresentatives is now delegated by section 9,article 4 of the Constitution of the Order andtherefore recommended that section 48 of theGrand LodgeStatutes be amended by adding tothe last paragraph the following provision:

"Special Deputy Grand Exalted Rulers appointed by the Grand Exalted Ruler shall receivesuch reasonable compensation as may be fixed byhim."

On recommendation of Grand Exalted RulerAndrews, the following paragraph was addedto Section 48b, in order to insure the witnessingof initiation ceremonies by the District DeputyGrand Exalted Ruler upon the occasion of hisofficial visit to a subordinate Lodge:

"If the subordinate Lodge visited shall haveno candidate awaiting initiation, the Exalted Rulershall or the District Deputy, upon his failure soto do, shall select some member to act as a candidate."

The recommendation of Grand Exalted RulerAndrews, relative to an amendment of section56 of the Grand Lodge Statutes providing for anincrease in the contingent fund provided for theuse of the Grand Trustees in the operation andmaintenance of the Elks National Home fromtwenty thousand dollars to twenty-five thousanddollars was followed by the committee in recommending that this section be amended by substituting the words "twenty-five" for the word"twenty" in the last line thereof.

Acting upon the recommendation of GrtmdExalted Ruler Andrews, amendment of Section62 was suggested by the addition of the following paragraph:

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"The Superintendent (of the Elks NationalHome) so employed by the Board of GrandTrustees, shall before entering upon the dischargeof his duties, procure, execute and furnish to theGrand Lodge, sufficient surety bond in the, penalsum of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars, the formof bond and the sureties thereof to be approvedby the Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary,and said bond filed with the Secretary of theBoard of Grand Trustees.

" Said bond shall be conditioned for the faithfulperformance of his duties, and the safe keeping andsecurity of all moneys or property coming into hispossession as such Superintendent. The premiumfor such bond shall be paid by the Grand Lodge."

At the request of the Board of Grand Trustees,Section 66 was amended to read as follows:(The changes in this section are indicated by theitalics.)

Section 66. Applications for admission to theHome must be made in writing, on blanks furnishedby the Grand Secretary, and signed by the applicant. The application shall state the age of theapplicant, his physical condition and the numberof continuous years he has been in good standingin the Order, and in his Lodge. In additionthereto and as part of said application the applicantshall execute and acknowledge an agreement orassignment in writing, in which he shall grant,convey, assign, transfer and set over to the GrandLodge, all property, real and personal, which hethen may own or have an interest in, or which femay thereafter acquire, to be held in trust by saidGrand Lodge for the purpose of conserving the sameand collecting any income therefrom in order toreimburse said Grand Lodge and the subordinateLodge of which the applicant is a member, for allexpenses incurred by said Grand Lodge aiid saidsubordinate Lodge in connection with the admissionof said applicant to said Home and his maintenancetherein, including expenses of any sickness or t^funcr^ of said applicant in case of his death whilea resident of said Home. It shall be the duty of theGrand Lodge to return any of said property, or anybalance of funds remaining unexpended to the heirsor legal representatives of said applicant who may belawfully entitled thereto. All applications must beapproved by the subordinate Lodge of which theapplicant is a member, at a regular meeting; iindsuch approval shall be attested on the applicationby the Exalted Ruler and Secretary. The application thus endorsed shall be forwarded to theSecretary of the Board of Grand Trustees. AnyLodge misrepresenting any facts in connectionwith an appUcant or application, shall be deemedguilty of an ofiFense against the Order, and upontrial and conviction shall be punished by reprimand or forfeiture of charter. Any applicantmaking misrepresentation shall be deemed guiltyof an offense, and shall forfeit his right of admission to, or residence in the Home, and shallalso be subject to charges and trial in his Lodge.(For form of application see appendix 66.)

The Committee on Judiciary reported that ithad carefully considered the recommendationof Grand Exalted Ruler Walter P. Andrewswith reference to the amendments to ChaptersI, 3. 4 and s of Title II of the Grand LodgeStatutes pertaining to Forums and Appeals inorder to provide for the appointment of a Presiding Justice for the subordinate Forum in eachsubordinate Lodgewho shall preside as a Judgeover subordinate Forum Trials and have authority to dispose of legal matters, and recommended the adoption of statutory amendmentsas follows: (The italics denote the changes.)

Chapter iSection 70. Substitute the words "Presiding

Justice" for the word "Chairman," so that theamended section shall read as follows:

The judicial power shall be vested in one GrandForum consisting of five Grand Justices, and insubordinate Forums, selected and appointed in eachsubordinate Lodge as hereinafter provided. TheGrand Justice whose term shall next expire shallbe the presiding ofiicer of the Grand Forum andshall be designated as Chief Justice; provided,however, that in case of incapacity on the part ofsuch Justice to act, the Grand Forum may designate one other of its members to act in Ws placeand stead. The presiding officer of each subordinate Forum shall be designated as PresidingJustice, and shall be appointed as hereinafterprovided.AU the remaining sections of Chapter i, being

Sections 71 to 73inclusive,to remain as nowadopted.

Chapter 2All sections of Chapter 2, consisting of Sections

74 to 78 inclusive, to remain as now adopted.

Chapter 3Section 79.—Same.That a new Section 7ga be adopted to read as

follows:

Section 7ga. The Exalted Ruler shall, at thefirst regular session of each subordinate Lodgeheld in the month of September, 1930, and annually thereafter, at the next regular sessionafter his installation, appoint a member of theLodge, and who shall be a lawyer in the activepractice of his profession, if available, as a memberof the subordinate Forum, and which said membershall be known as the Presiding Justice of the subordinate Forum,and who shallp^orm such dutiesand exercise such powers as a member of saidForum as provided for by the Statutes of the Order.Section 80.—^Same.Section 81. That the first paragraph of Section

81 be amended so that same shall read as follows:\Vhen a complaint against any member of the

Lodge is filed with the Secretary he shall immediately serve a copy thereof upon the accused,and also notify the Exalted Ruler owi the PresidingJustice of the stibordinate Forum of its receipt.The second paragraph of Section 8i to remain as

now adopted.Section 8ia. The first paragraph of said section

to remain as now adopted.Amend the second paragraph of Section 8ia by

substituting in lieu of the word "five" the word"four" in the third line thereof, and by striking outthat portion of said secondparagraph beginning withthe word "at" in the fifth line of said second paragraph and ending with the word "forum" in Aeseventh line thereof, so that said amended sectionwill read as follows:

At the next regular session of the Lodge, succeeding the drawing of the names from the subordinate Forum Box, the Exalted Ruler shall underthe head of "New Business" appoint/oar of theimchallenged members whose names were sodrawn, to be and constitute the subordinateFonmi for the trial of the case. The Secretary

minutes of all its proceedings.Section 82.—Same.Section 82a. First parasraph to remain as now

adopted. Amend tiie secondparagraph by insertingthe words "or byPresiding Justice" after the word"complaint" in the fifth Une.

The third paragraph of Section 82a remains asnow adopted.

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Section 83. Amend by inserting the words "together with two copies thereof" after the word "com-plamt" ui the third lineof the firstparagraph.

Section 83a. Same.Section 83b. Same.Section 83c. Same. , .Section84. Amended by Wm. T. Philhps sug

gestion.Section85. Amend so that it shall read as

follows: , . , , ,The Presiding Justice shaU hear the plea of the

accused at a place and time determined oy him notlegs than five nor more than ten days £ifter theappointment of the subordinate Forum. TheSecretary shall immediately notifiy the accusedand accuser of said time and place so fixed. _Thepresence of four members of the subordinateForum together with the Presiding Justice shallconstitute a quorum for the transaction of business.The time for the accused to file his plea, and anyproceedi^s before the Presiding Justice or thesubordinate Forum, may be continued from timeto time, but a continuance shall not be grantedfor slight or trivial reasons and only when it appearsabsolutely necessary for the proper presentationof the case. , , .,Section 86. Amend the first paragraph of said

section by inserting the words "Presiding Justice"in lieu of the words "Chairman of the subordinateForum."

The balance of said section to remam as nowadopted. .

Section 87. Amend said section by substitutingthe words "Presiding Justice" for the words "subordinate Forum" in the first, foxirth, fifteenth andseventeenth lines of the first paragraph of saidsection, and also by striking out the words "subordinate Forum shall meet" in the twelfth line ofsaid first paragraph and substitute in lieu thereof"Presiding Justice shall." Also amend said firstparagraph by striking out the word "to" in thethirteenth Une.

The second paragraph of Section 87 remams asnowadopted. Amend the third paragraphof Section87 by inserting the words "requ^t the PresidingJustice to" following the word "discretion" in thefourth line of said third i»ragraph: also by substituting the words "Presiding Justice" Jot Ae word"Chairman" in the seventh line of said third paragraph; al» by substituting the words "PresidingJustice" for the word "Chairman" in the thirteenthline of said third paragraph.

Section 87a. Same.Section 88. Amend the first paragraph of said

section by substituting the words "Presiding JustKc"for the words "subordinate Forum" in the ninthline ticreof.

Amend the second paragraph of said section by

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substituting thewords"rA« Presiding Justice" ioTihawords'" a subordinate Forum" in the first line thereof;also by inserting the words " the Presiding Justice or"following the word "by" in the tenth line of saidparagraph and also by striking out the letter "a"immediately preceding the word "subordinate" inthe tenth line of said paragraph so that said amendedparagraphs will read as foUows:

The Esteemed Loyal Knight shall, unless disqualified, conduct the prosecution of the case, andmay be assisted by other counsels who are membersof the Order. Should the Esteemed Loyal Knightbe disqualified, the Exalted Ruler shall appointsome impartial member to prosecute the chiargcThe accused shall be entitled to be personaUypresent at all stages of the proceedings until thecase is submitted for decision, and may be represented by counsel who is an Elk. Ui»n the request of either party, the Presiding Justice shall ap-point a stenographer who is an Elk, to take all testimony produced at the trial. If such stenographeris not available, the Secretary shall record thetestimony as accurately as possible.

The Presiding Justice shall have power to issusubpoenas and other process to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence.Either party shall be entitled to subpoe^, andwhen the same are required they shall be signed bythe Secretary under the Sealof tie Lodge, to compelattendance at the trial of any witness residingwithin the jurisdiction of the Lodge. Subpoenasshall be served personally upon the witness. Anyperson over the age of twenty-one years, and not aparty to the case, may serve a subpoena. Wilfuldisobedience by a member of any order or processissued by tite Presiding Justice or subordinateForum g>ia11 constitute a contempt punishableby not to exceed tlu-ee months suspension, in thediscretion of the subordinate Forum. 117, ii9»121, 122, 123, 125.Section 88a. Amend said section by substituting

the words "Pre«<it«g Justice" in lieu of "subordinateForum" in the firet line thereof; by inserting thewords "Presiding Justice or the" immediately preceding the word "subordinate" in the second line ofsubdivision three of said section.

Section 89. Amend the first paragraph of Section8g so that same shall read as follows:

The members of the subordinate Forum includingthe Presiding Justice shall be the sole judge of thefacts proven. The Presiding Justice shall pass uponand decide as to the competency, materialUy andrelevancy of evidence ojffered. Tedinical objectionsas to the form of questions shall not been enttt-tained.' Admission or confessions of'the accu^d incourts of the land, or elsewhere, may be received.

The secondparagraph remainsas nowadopted.Section 89a. Amend the first paragraph of ^d

section by substituting the words " Presiding Justicefor the words "subordinate Forum" in the first, andseventh lines of said paragraph.

The second paragraph of Section 89a remains asnow adopted.

Section 90. Same.Section 91. Same.Section 92. Same. _ . • vSection 93. Amend said section by xnsertng the

words "except the Presiding Justice'' after the word" Forum" in the last line of said section.

Section 94. Amend the first paragraph of section94 by substituting the words"Pressing Justice forthe words "subordinate Forum" in the sixth line

The second and third paragraphs of said sectionremain unchanged.

Chapter V—AppealsSection 06. Amendsaid Section 96by substituting

the words "Presiding Justice" in lieu of the wor^"Chairman ot the subordinate Forum" m the fafthlineof the first paragraph of said section. _

The second paragraph of Section 96 remains as nowadopted.

TheCommittee onJudiciary, at thesuggestionof Secretary William T. Phillips of New YorkLodge, No. I, concerning the expiilsion of amember convicted of a felony or misctemeanorinvolving moral tiirpitude, recommended thatsection 84 of the Grand Lodge Statut^ beamended by strikingout the last sixlinesofsaidsection and substituting therefor the followmg:

"The Secretary of a Lodge receiving such information shall thereupon obtain a cerUfiM transcript of the final judgment andsendee imposedupon such member by the State or Federal Courtand upon obtaining same and the fihng thereof inhis office, shall immediatdy give ^ty daysnotice to the offending member bjr^ registered mail,and if the offending member so sery^ shaj notwithin said thirty-day period file wi^tary a written notice of a demand for a heanngbefore tiie subordinate Forum, th& Secretary shallreport the fiUng of said transcript of proce^npshowing a final conviction as herein defined to thePresiding Justice of the subordinate Foruni whofshnll thereupon enter an order for the «pulsion otsaid member from the Order and which order

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shall be entered in the minutes of the Lodge and.shall have the same force and effect as a final decision of the subordinate Forum and sentencebased thereon."

The Committee, on the recommendation ofGrand Exalted Ruler Andrews, relative to achangein the amountofindebtedness to be paidby an applicant for reinstatement in the subordinate Lodge in that the required payment bereduced from the amoimt of two years' dues tothe amount of one year's dues, recommendedthat Section i8o be amended by striking out theword "two" where same appears in the fourteenth and twenty-fifth lines of this section ^dby substituting the word and by insertingthe following proviso following the word "dues"in the fourteenth line "and in addition thereto^the Grand Lodge dues {which shall include themagazine fee) for said annual period and whichGrand Lodge dues so collected shall be remittedmonthly to the Grand Secretary"; and by insertingthe following proviso following the word"greater" in the twenty-ninth line "and inaddition tltereto, the Grand Lodge dues {whichshall indude the magazine fee) for said annualperiod and which Grand Lodge dues so collectedshall be remitted monthly to the Grand Secretary

At the suggestion of Grand Exalted RulerAndrews, in order to insure a more strict supervision over the activities of Antlers Lodgessponsored by subordinate Lodges by Ae Order,the Committee recommended that said Section183a be amended by adding the followingprovision:

"The Grand Exalted Ruler for cause may cancdany permitsogrant^.

"Each subordinate Lodge shall exercise strictsupervision over the activities of a Lodge ofAnders, sponsored by it, to the end that the besttradition of the Order may be emulated.

"The Exalted Rulers of all subordinate Lodgeshaving heretofore or that may hereafter spon^rthe organization of an Antlers Lodge shall appointfrom the membership of the subordinate L<)dgean advisory council of five to supervise all activitiesof said Antlers Lodge, the members of said advisory council to serve for one, two, three, fourand five years respectively from the first day ofApril, following the date of their appointment, andannnally thereafter, the Ex^t^ Rtder shallappoint a member of said advisory council to servefor a term of five years."

At the recommendation of Past Grand ExaltedRuler Joseph T. Fanning for an amendment toSection 192 in order to harn\onize the records ofThe Elks' Magazine and the offices of theGrand Secretary and of the r^ective suboriK-nate Lodges relative to affiliation by Diimt,recommended that the third paragraph of Section192 be amended to read as follows:

Section 192. (The first, secondand fourth paragraphs of said amended section remain as now

be the duty of the Secretary of aLodge to which an applicant may submit hisTransfer Dimit for its action to notify within oneweek the applicant and the Secretary of the Lodgewhich granted such Dimit, and the Grand Secretary of the rejection or affiliation of said applicant,as the case may be. In case the applicant failsto complete his affiliation within thirty days afterhis election on Dimit, such election shall be void,and the Secretary of the Lodge which granted theDimit and the Grand Secretary shall be immediately notified of such voidance.

At the recommendation of Grand ExaltedRuler Andrews, Section 214, having to do withthe publication of bulletins was- amended byinserting the words "or Antlers Lodge sponsor^by any subordinate Lodge of the Order" followingthe word "Order" in the first line of the firstparagraph of said section.

The recommendation of Grand Exalted RulerAndrews, relative to the necessity of statutoryauthorization of the granting of dispensationsby the Grand Exalted Ruler for the holding of"Flag Day Services" on a day other than thatspecified in the Rituals of the Order,was met byinserting in Section 229 the words "for a differentday or" following the word "dispensation" inthe fifth line thereof.

The recommendatione of Grand Exalted RulerAndrews, concerning the re-indexing of theGrand Lodge Constitution and Statutes and thepossible revision to date and reprinting of thedigest of Opinions and Decisions of 1924 andCumulative Supplement thereto, owing to the

large supply of-Opinions and Decisions now inthe possession of the Grand Secretary's office,was referred to the incoming Committee onJudiciary.. The report,was approved, and the amend

ments suggested therein were adopted and arenow part of the laws of the Order.

Following Mr. Coen, Chairman W. C. Robertson, of - the Ritualistic Committee, introducedhis associates, David Sholtz, Daytona, Fla.,Lodge, No. 1141; J. C. Dallenbach, Champaign,HI., Lodge, No- 398; George Crane, Aberdeen,S. D., Lodge, No. 1046,and George W. Denton,Gloversville, N. Y., Lodge, No. 226. He thenpresented the report of the committee. Sincemuch of this had to do withspecific changes ofvarious parts of the ritual, information concerning which ^oxild beconned to members ofthe Order,weare printing herewith only as muchof this report as may properly be made public.Such sections follow:

Through the cooperation of the District Deputiesand the officers of the various State Associations,elimination contests to determine in which subordinate i^dge the ritualis being exemplified the mostproficiently have been held in a number of States,whileothers have signified their intention of stagingsimilar contests later in the year when their Association are scheduled to meet. Reports from all sidesindi^te that there has been a general improvementin rituahstic work and a natural quickening of interest and increased attendance at initiations hasresulted.

^ order to keep incloser contact with thevariousLodges, the GrandLodge jurisdiction, as heretofore,has been divided into five districts, each of which isunder the supervision of one member of fhig committee.

At the outset, our plan was to confine our effortsthis year to competition between the Lodges of eachState, andthat lat^ regional contests andultimatelya national championship contest would be practicable.

But the demand for a national competition hasbeen so great that your committee has been ableto stage a contest here at Atlantic City.

Those who were fortimate enough to witness thecontest Tuesday afternoon at the Auditorium doubtless received an inspiration from this, the firstnaUonal contest in the history of the Order, whichwill impel them to return to their respective subordinate Lodges and encourage grater efforts toward^ ritualistic perfection.

It is our pleasureto advisethat Wilmington, OhioIxKlge, No. 797, won the first prize; that the secondplace was won by Norwood, Mass., Lodge, No.1124; and third place by Cocoa, Fla., Lodge, No.1532-

The judges of the contest were D, Ciurtis Gano,Rochester, N. Y., Lodge, No. 24; O.L. Hayden,^va, Okla., No. 1184; and Frank J. Lonergan,Portland, Ore.,Lodge,No. 142.

The checkers were Heniy C. Warner, Dixon, 111.,T J®®* Mallory, Fort Morgan, Colo.,Lodge, No. 1143.

They announc^ that only 62-100 of a pointseparated the winner from the team taking thirdplace.

Last year at ^s Angeles, your committee presented a standardized set of rules to govern ritualisticcont^ts, which was adopted and made availablein mimeographed form from the office of the GrandS^etary. Profiting,' however, from suggestionswhich came from various members of the Order,who have hadlong experience in such competitions,these rules have been completely revised, a newscore card has been devised and a set of instructionsto judges has been prepared and will be submittedfor your approval with this report. It is the opinionof your committeethat these rules shouldbe printedin inexpensiveform or be mimeographed since somechangesand additions may be found necessary as ares^t of the experience this session in a work inwhich we are pioneering so far as the national featureof the competition is concerned.

The_ work of contacting the various Lodges in thefive dktricts above referred to, has necessitated avoluminous corregrondence and entailed a considerable sacrifice of time and money by committeemenin ^siting subordinateLodges and State Associationgatherings. In order to facilitate the work hereafter,it is recommended that the Ritua^tic Committeebe organized each fall at the time of the DistrictDmuties' conference with the Grand Exalted Ruler.This would afford an opportunity for each memberofthe ^tualistic Committee tomeet for afew minuteswth the District Deputies from the territory underhis supervision and outline the work to be accomplished in fostering State-wide, regionaland nationalntualistic contests, thus avoiding the necessity formuch corrrapondence and the loss of valuable time inan enterprise which calls for the closest cooperationand teamwork if it is to meet with the full measureof success it should attain.

The reports of the District Deputies are about theonly medium by which the Ritualistic Committee can

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^certain the merit of the current ritualistic workin the subordinate Lodge. It is suggested that thereport forms issued to the District Deputies be sofashioned that a duplicate report may be made withrespect to the ritualistic work of each officer in eachLodge visited, and that one copy be mailed by theDistrict Deputy to the Ritualistic Committeeman inhis territory.

Last September, Brother H. R. McCann, Secretaryof Sandpoint, Ida., Lodge,No. 1376, raised the question to whether our present custom of permittingtiie Bible to rest upon the flag of our country was notin violation of the code prescribed by the War Department. Since that time we have received two orthree similar inquiries aJong the same line. In orderto get a clear ruling, our Committee placed the matterbefore Col. W. C. Sweeney, Commander of the 3rdU. S. Infantry, who had his Adjutant, Captain Town-send, confer with the War Department, which issueda circular setting forth flearly that the flag sho^dnever be used as a decoration or a drapery by military organizations, but should always be left flyingfree. The Department makes it clear, however,that it does not seek to establish rules and regulationsfor civilian practice, or to interfere with any use of theflag by civilians so long as that use is generallyrespectful. For that reason, in the opinion of ColondSweeney and Captain Townsend, there would beno objection whatever to placing the Bible reverentlyujran the flag. In view of this opinion, your committee believes that the present method of arrangingthe altar should be continued.

Your committee submits the following resolution:

"BE IT RESOLVED that the custom of joininghands and singing "Auld Lang Syne" accordingto the tradition of the Order just before the Exalted Ruler declares the Lodge closed, be revivedand be made an optional ceremony of the closingritual."

This report, with the resolution and the recommendations, including those not herewith published, was xmanimously approved and adopted.

Mr. Abbott at this point returned the gavelto Grand Exalted Ruler Andrews who calledto the stage Exalted Ruler Thomas C. South,of Wilmington, O., Lodge, No. 797, winners ofthe first national ritualistic contest, and entrusted to his keeping, imtil such time as anotherLodge shall win it, iJie Grand Lodge cup emblematicof the championship.

Past Grand Exalted Ruler Abbott then movedthat the session be adjourned imtil ten o'clockon the following morning. This motion wasseconded and carried.

The Third Business Session

As the first act of his conduct of this sessionGrand Exalted Ruler Andrews called to therostrum, and introduced to the Grand Lodge,Perry Buchanan, veteran member of Springfield,Mo., Lodge, No. 409, who had travelled 150°miles by automobile to be present at the Convention.

Mr. Andrews then recognized John K. Burch,Approving Member of the Board of GrandTrustees, who presented the final budget for1930-31} which was unanimously adopted.

Past Grand Exalted Ruler Fred Harper nextintroduced the following resolution:

"^SOLVED: That $70,000 of the excessearnings of The Elks Magazine, turned over tothe Grand Lodge at this Convention, be carried mtothe General Fund of the Grand Lodge and madeavailable for expenses of the Grand Lodge as provided in the final budget of expenditures for thiscoming year."

This was unanimously adopted.Secretary Ralph Hagan of the Board of

Grand Trustees, after introducing a number ofroutine resolutionshaving to do with the authorizationof certainregular disbursements of GrandLodge funds, offered the following:

"RESOLVED: That in accordance with SectionIS, Article 3, of the Constitution, and Section 49of the Grand Lodge Statutes, there are herebyfixed and assessed upon each Member of the Orderas of April ist, 1931, annual dues in the amount of$1.35; that of the amount so fixed and assessed,$1.00 for each Elk on its roll of Membership as 01said April 1st shall be paid by each subordinateLodge on or before May ist, 1931, for the expenseof publishing and distributing the National Journal known as The Elks Magazine, and the sameis hereby appropriated for such purpose; and ofthe amoimt so fixed and assessed, 35 cents for eachElk on its roll of Membership as of said April istshall be paid by each subordinate Lodge on orbefore May ist, 1931, to meet the expenses of theGrand Lodge, including the maintenance of theElks National Home, and the same is herebyappropriated for such purpose."

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This resolution was unanimously adopted.Mr. Hagan then submitted the following report:

Your Board of Grand Trustees has, iinder Section 39a, Chapter 3, of the Statutes, examined theapplications for Charters of the following Lodges:No. 1567, Gilroy, Cal.; No. 1568,Maynard, Mass.;No. 1569, Clifton, N J.; No. 1570, Compton, Cal.;No. 1571, Mineola, Texas; No. 1573, Pampa,Texas; No. 1574, Southampton, N. Y.; No. 1575,Hillsdale, Mich.; No. 1576, Ajo, Ariz.; No. 1577,Craig, Colo.; No. 1578, Eustis, Fla.; No. 1579,Grove City, Pa.; No. 1580,Belvidere, 111.; No. 1581,Borger, Texas; No. 1582, Malad, Idaho; No. 1583,Union, N. J.; No. 1584, Grants Pass, Ore.; No.1585, Westficld, N. J.; No. 1586,Brighton, Colo.The applications being in proper form, and theSubordinate Lodges having complied with theGrand Lodge Statutes, Section 102, Chapter i,Title III, and the Charter Fee having been paid,your Board of Grand Trustees recommends thatCharters be issued to the above named Lodges.

After the approval of this report and the accompanying recommendation, Mr. Hagan thenread the following, which was unanimouslyadopted:

Brother Clyde Jennings, a member of LynchburgI/)dge No. 321, with the adjournment of the GrandI^dge session of 1930, now being held in AtlanticCity, New Jersey, will have conduded a service offive years as a member of the Board of Grand Trusteesof the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

The unusual ability and the loyal devotion whichhe has displayed in the performance of his importantduties as a member of the Board, as Home Memberm charge of the Elks National Home, and as Chairman during the past year, have won the admirationof his associatesand deserve the grateful appreciationof the entire Order.

His genial personality and companionable disposition have made association with him a happy experience for all his fellow members who will cherish thememo^ of their fraternal contacts.

Desiring to give expression to their sentiments, andto make suitable record thereof, the Board of GrandTrustees, in session assembled, Brother Jenningsnot being present, do hereby

RESOLVED: i. That this tribute to BrotherClyde Jennings be spread at length upon theminutes of the Board.

2. That Brother John K. Burch be and ishereby directed on behalf of the Board to presentto the Grand Lodge for adoption by it a resolution authorizing the Board to purchase andpresent to Brother Jennings a testimonial of theiresteem and of their appreciation of his servicesto the Order.

3. That a copy of these Resolutions be presented to the Grand Lodge with the request thatthey be spread at length upon the minutes ofthat Body.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: Thatthe Board of Grand Trustees be, and are hereby,authorized and directed to purchase and presentto Brother Clyde Jennings a suitable testimonialof the esteem and regard in which he is held bythe members of this Body and of their admiration for, and appreciation of, his distinguished

Iservices as a member of the Board during thepast five years.

Past Grand Exalted Ruler John F. Malleywas next recognized by Mr. Andrews, and readthe following resolution, which was adopted bythe Grand Lodge:

"WHEREAS: The Charter of Boston LodgeNo. 10 was revoked by the ExecutiveOrderissu^by and with the consent of a majority of theBoard of Grand Trustees on the nth day of June,1930. for violation of the Constitution and Statutesof the Order, and of the laws of the commimityin which said Lodge is situated, and said ExecutiveOrder was duly served upon said Boston LodgeNo. 10 and said Boston Lodge No. 10, within tendays after service of said Executive Order made awritten demand for a hearing before the GrandExalted Ruler and Board of Grand Trustees andin pursuance of provisions of Section 140of GrandI^dge Statutes, a hearing wasgivento said BostonLodge No. ID by the Grand Exalted Ruler andBoard of Grand Trustees, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, July sth, last, at the HotelTraymore, Atlantic City, and after hearing therepresentatives of said Boston Lodge No. 10and after consideration of all facts and argumentspresented by the representatives of said BostonLodge, No. 10, a decision was made by the GrandExalted Ruler with the concurrence of a majorityof the Board of Grand Trustees that said ExecutiveOrder be confirmed, and said decision was dulyserved upon the Secretary of said Boston LodgeNo. 10 on the 9th day of July, 1930, and said Boston Lodge No. 10 by its duly authorized representatives has acquiesced to said decision and haswaived its right to appeal, and said decision hasbeen confirmed by the Grand Lodge, and,

"WHEREAS: Under the laws of the Order,

the Charter of Boston Lodge No. 10 has beenrevoked as of the 19th day of July, 1930, and onsaid date, said Charter of Boston Lodge No. 10will stand revoked, and,

"WHEREAS: The oflBcers and a substantialnumber of Past Exalted Rulers and members ofsaid Boston Lodge No. 10 have petitioned theGrand Lodge to reinstate said Boston Lodge No.ID under the provisions of Section 141, GrandLodge Statutes, upon such conditions as the GrandLodge shall determine to be for the best interestsof the Order, and said petitioners have representedthat the hotel whichh^ been conductedas part ofthe dub of said Boston Lodge No. 10 beleased or otherwise di^sed of and that the dubrooms. Lodge rooms over headquarters of saidBoston Lodge No. 10, will be established in a location outside of the present hotd building, and thatsaid Boston Lodge No. lo will not conduct in thefuture a hotd in connection with its dub, and thatall conditions which in any way have contributedto the violation of the law as charged in the saidExecutive Order will be changed, and the saidBoston Lodge No. 10 will pay all Grand Lodge duesfor which said Lodge is indebted to the Grand Lodge,and if reinstated will be conducted in accordancewith the laws of the Order and in a manner toreflect credit upon the Order.

"NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:That on or after the first day of December, 1930,the Charter of Boston Lodge No. 10 shall berestored and said Lodge shall be reinstated assubordinate Lodge of this Order, provided thatthe Grand Exalted Ruler shall find and so certifywith the concurrence of a majority of the Board ofGrand Trustees, that the Corporation known asBoston Lodge No. 10, BJP.O. Elks by its officersand members has caused the hotel property ofsaid Lodge or Corporation to be leased or disposedof or otherwise has become divested of said property, and has establi^ed its Lodge rooms, dubrooms and headquarters in a place outside of saidhotel building, and has discontinued the hotdbusiness as an activity conducted by said Corporation, and has agreed not to conduct a hotd inconnection with the dub of Boston Lodge No.10 if reinstated, and has paid the Grand Ix)dgedues for which said Boston Lodge No. 10 wasindebted to ^e Grand Lodge, and since the revocation of the Charter of Boston Lodge No. 10 hasnot functioned as a subordinate Lodge of thisOrder or attempted to do so or hdd itself out assuch Lodge or represented that it had or was entitled to have any of the rights and privileges or toexerdse any of the functions of a subordinateLodge of this Order and also has changed allconditions which contributed in any degree tothe violations of law as charged in the said Executive Order all to the satisfaction of the GrandExalted Ruler and a majority of the Board ofGrand Trustees, and

••IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED: That uponsuch reinstatement all property received by theGrand Lodge upton said revocation of the Charterof Boston Lodge No. 10 ^all be restored to it bythe Grand Lodge as far as practical and the members of Boston Lodge No. 10 entitled to certificatesof status under provisionof Sections 142 and iij3,Grand Lodge Statutes, at the time of such reinstatement shall be reinvested with membershipin said Boston Lodge No. xo."

Chairman C. C. Bradley of the Committee onCredentids then presented its final report, thefigures from which were quoted earlier in thisartide. The report was enthusiastically accepted, the announcement of a total GrandLodge attendance of 1713 being heartilyapplauded.

Pardon Commissioner William J. Conway nowoffered the following resolution which wasunanimously adopted:

"RESOLVED: That the incoming Grand Exalted Ruler be authorized to appoint a committeeof three to consider, determine and present in somesuitable form a memorial to the memory of ourlate Brother, Past Grand Exalted Ruler ThomasB. Mills of Superior, Wisconsin, Lodge No. 403;the said Committee to determine the charwterand nature of such memorial and to cause it tobe erected at the expense of the Grand Lodge."

At this point Past Grand Exalted RulerFrank L. Rain was recognized and offered aresolution that upon the conclusion of thismeeting the Grand Lodge adjourn, to meet inSeattle,Wash., the weekofJuly 5,1931,and thatthe first business session be called for 10 A. M.Tuesday, July 7. It was unanimously adopted.

Past Grand Esteemed Leading K^ghtRobert S. Barrett then took the stage to makethe report of the State Association Committee,of which he is Chairman. Mr. Barrett had beenassisted during Convention week by Past GrandTrustee Robert A. Gordon of Atlanta, Ga.,Lodge, No. 78, who acted in the stead of Past

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Exalted Ruler J. J. Doyle of Los Angeles, Calif,.Lodge, No. 99, who was unavoidably preventedfrom attending. After introducing his associate on the committee, D. Curtis Gano, ofRochester, N. Y., Lodge, No. 24, Mr. Barrettread the report, unanimously approved by theGrand Lod^, of which thefollowing is a condensed version:

Your Committee on State Assodations begs leaveto submit the following report of their activitiessince their appointment in September 1929.

As soon as your committee was appointed, theChairman wrote to the Grand Exalted Ruler, askingfor an outline of the duties of the committee, as sameare not covered in any of the Grand Lodge Statutes.In response thereto we received certain instructionsfrom him which are summed up within the followingparagraph:

"While the record does not show any specificinstructions which should be followed by theState Assodation Committee, I know that youappredate the type of service which the Committeecan perform for the best interests of the Order.You should keep in touch with the officers of thevarious State Assodations, encou^ing them intheir work, and, of course, at all times keeping inmind that their Assodations have no l^^tivepower and their activities should not be consideredany part of the Grand Lodge policy. In otherwords, you should keep the activities of the StateAssodations strictly within the meaning of the law."In compliance with these instructions, which have

been dosely followed, your committee has devotedmuch of its time to correspondence with the officersof the various Assodations with the object of keepingin dose touch with their activities, and encouragingthem to greater effort for the devdopment of theirAsssdations and the subordinate Lodges withintheir States. For the purpose of administration, theUnited States was divided into three divisions, andone member of the committee placed in charge ofeach of these divisions.

Believing that a personal contact with the officersand members of the State Assodations was extremelydesirable, your committee has endeavored to berepresented as far as possible at each annual meetingof the various State Assodations. The fact that manyof the Assodations hold thdr annual meetings following the Grand Lodge Re-union, and prior to theappointment of this committee, made it impossibleto visit them all, but with few exceptions we havebeen represented at meetings of the Assodationswhich have been hdd since last October. At eachof these meetings it has been the effort of the memberof the committee who was present to outline theobjects of a State Assodation in accordance withthe practices already exhibited by most successfulAssociations.

These objects, as stated by your Committee, aresiunmed up as follows:

Social. The promotion of cooperation betweenthe various subordinate Lodges in the State andtheir members, and the bringing together in theannual convention or re-imion of large numbersof individual Elks so that they may secure a wideroutlook upon the Order and its activities than isoffered in their own commimities.

Subordinate Lodge Activity. The stimulation ofsubordinate Lodge activity by dissemination ofinformation, cooperation and visits by the officersand committeemen of the State Assodations toLodges forming the Assodation, beari^ in mindin these matters that the State Assodations canonly encour^e the subordinate Lodges in suchforms of activity as have been approved by theGrand Lodge. This work may be projected invarious directions, but care should be given to thefollowing spedfic needs:

(a) Exemplification of Ritual. The encoiu-age-ment of subordinate Lodges to perfect theirRitual should be an important part of the work ofthe State A-ssodations. A committee should beappointed to have charge of this work. This committee should work in conjunction with the GrandLodge Committee on Ritucil. In large Assodations,where the number of the prindpal Lodges warrantit, the State should be divided into convenientjurisdictions, with a committeeman in charge ofeach jurisdiction. The holding of regional andState-wide Ritualistic contests, the latter to ta^e

' place at the annual meeting of the State Assodation, should be encouraged.

(b) Devdopment of Communi^ Welfare andSodi Service Program. A State Committeeshould be appointed for the purpose of advisingand encouraging subordinate Lodges to adopt adefinite program forcommunity w^are and ^dalservice. This committee should work in conjunction with the Good of the Order Committee ofthe Grand Lodge. Forms of activity on the partof Lodges in these directions might indude:Service to crippled children; Work for underprivileged children; Scholarships to deservingstudents in business colleges, high schools andcolleges; Loan Fund to deserving students: Distribution of food, dothing, and fuel to needy

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The Elks MagazineThe EJks Magazine-Viking Prosperity Tourd., I. - I' Nearer

wno^AL cosyf ^Ti

The Purple and White Fleet, as It Neared,o^nd Attained, Its Long Journefs End

C C '/rom Governor conveyed the letter (below)Governor Morgan F. Lar^^n Pennsylvania, to

P^ 'Pose of the Prosperitv% Jersey, selling forthf y and urging its support

sAoT"^ Ruler Walter P. AndrewsJ'mAres Pilot Robert E. Clift uponGa. After this greeting,

SorA ; I."'''®"/''® carhendaA f of the city, Mr. Andrewsdelegation of the members ofCir tvhich conducted the pilot to the?JZ Ragsdale elthe official welcome of the municipality

For a short period, during its stav in Att^ .Ga., Grand Exalted Ruler WaitedP a!,Z °'took the wheel of the Elks Magazine-Vik^'Prosperity Tour car. He is shown below ifthe driver's seat, surrounded by a cheeringgroupofother members of hishome Lodge Nn78, ivho, together with a squad of motor^d^police, met the car at Center Hill, formeda parade and escorted the visitor into the rit^,

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^ *««lf of July 6, 1930.

be'cSleT Of the trip le to dellreronenninL. *• tl'air ooonS*??? ®*' *o SlKs *herolnI hear???®" °bd the pfet^ f® elimlnatloa otto the oi? PreaiS °° national prosperity.Order hSa fJ" ^iks fl, oooordlng bish pra^oOf our identifiai'.i^tplotlo endeoTora. ^".te•otlS baS »lth tbe beet ""f"'*"the welfare of o^ influence In pro-

ffhite Fleet to the"I'tio Of yo«P8^f®°""eration rtloh is eo o»r-»Bd the good people of your State.

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GREATas was the enthusiasm with which thedrivers of the Prosperity Tour cars were

greeted at the outset of their trips across thecontinent, it was equaled by the acclaim whichmet thern as they approached the finish of theirruns, on schedule to the minute, outside themammoth municipal Auditorium on AtlanticCity's renowned boardwalk. From start to finish, the tour, thanks to the wholehearted cooperation of the Lodges along its routes, was

a complete success

Notables of the Order and of theconvention city were present on theboardwalk at Atlantic City tvhenthe four cars constituting the ElksMagazine- Viking Prosperity Tourfleet arrived. At the right. ActingMayor Joseph Paxson shakes handswith Grand Exalted Ruler WalterP. Andrews. With them is PastGrand Exalted Ruler Joseph T,Fanning, Editor and ExecutiveDirector of the Elks Magazine

Philadelphia and the members of LodgeNo. 2, there, welcome the four bearers ofthe President's message. From left toright are Pilots Willinm C. Cunningham^W. B. Hart and George Alpers; Secretary Henry J. A. Newton, of Philadelphia Lodge; Mayor Mackey, entrustingto Pilot Robert E. Clift a message to theActing Mayor ofAtlantic Citv; ana ExaltedRuler Edward A. Kelly. When the carsdeparted for the convention, many Philadelphia Elks accompanied them right up tothe doors of tfui Auditorium in Atlantic City

The drivers of the four cars delivermessages to the heads of the citygovernment and of the ElJts ofAtlantic City: above, from left toright, are Pilot W. B. Hart, ActingMayor Joseph Paxson, of AtlanticCity; Pilot Robert E. Clift, GrandEsquire Hnrry Bacliarach, ExaltedRuler of Lodge No. 276, who a fewdays later was elected, for the thirdtime. Mayor of Atlantic City. Atthe right of Mr. Bacharach arePilots George Alpers and William

• C. Cunningham

Exalted Ruler Samuel McKee(above, at the left) welcomes PilotGeorge Alpers at the Home of NewYork, N. Y., Lodge, No. 1, whilePast Grand Exalted Ruler MurrayHulhert, at the left of Mr. Alpers,stands by. The members of No. 1,headed by Mr. Hulbert and Mr.McKee, met the Purple and WhiteFleet's representative at the Yonkersline and, with the assistance of amotorcycle escort, conducted him tothe Elks Home in the heart of themetropolis in almost record time

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Excerpts from the Annual. Report to the Grand Lodge

Of the Grand Exalted RulerWalter P. Andrews

July 7, I930-

To the Officers and Members of the GrandLodge of the Benevolent and ProtectiveOrder of Elks of the United States ofAmerica:

My Brothers:The Grand Lodge at the Los Angeles Convention, 1929, unanimouslyconferreduponme one of the highest and most responsible

distinctions known to fraternal life—the officeof Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent andProtective Order of Elks of the United States ofAmerica.

This filled me with the greatest possiblepleasure and impelled me to the highest resolvefor service.

I stated these personal feelings in my addressof acceptance; and I forthwith entered upon myyear of vmremitting labors for the upbuilding ofElkdom throughout the Grand Lodge jurisdiction. I have visited State Associations andSubordinate Lodges and striven with the utmost devotion and ^eal to fulfill every high resolve and ambitious hope for wide accomplishments in the purposes and ideals to which theOrder of Elks is committed.

My work in this behalf has been supremelyagreeable because it has been in the interests ofBrotherhood as organized and prescribed by theOrder of Elks, and I have the satisfaction ofknowing that I have spent a whole year of diligent and zealous service in this great cause.

I cannot find words with which to express myappreciation and thanks to the Grand Lodge andall brother Elks for this honor conferred upon me,together with this opportunity afforded to me toserve the Order in the capacity of its ChiefExecutive..

The Grand Exalted Ruler is required by Section 24, Chapters, Grand Lodge Statutes, to render at the end of his term of office a printedreport of all the business and transactions of hisoffice during the Grand Lodge year in which heserved.

In accordance with the provisions of said Section and in compliance therewith, I now takepleasure, in submitting this, my report, includingherewith suggestions and recommendations,which I deem for the best interest of the Order.

Visits of the Grand Exalted RulerI have visited Subordinate Lodges and State

Associations very extensively this year, detailsof which have been printed from time to timein The Elks Magazine.

These visitations gave me a fine contact withthe Brothers throughout the country andfurnished me splendid opportunities to discussElkdom, its principles, purposes and idealswith the Brothers in every Section.

I shall always treasiire^in my memory thecordial and hospitable receptions I have received.

I am glad to report that the Order is maki) gsubstantial and satisfactory progress everywhere with some exceptions. I have been impressed with the great number of substantial,livable, comfortable, inviting and suitableHomes owned by the Subordinate Lodges, manyof which are free from debt and most of whichare well financed. These Homes are generallylocated centrally in the various cities and arewell smted for use as fraternal, social, charitableand civic welfare centers.

I have vigorously lu-ged this year that allSubordinate Lodges utilize their Homes, intheir respective cities, as centers of Civic,Charitable, and Welfare Work, and tixat theyassume leadership in such activities, in thename of Elkdom.

I have urged throughout my term of officethat the Subordinate Lodges use their Homesfor these purposes and thus coQperate activelywith constructive and charitable people of their

various cities, and win for themselves andElkdom the praise and good opinion of theirndghbors. Such work as this is in strict accordwith the principles and purposes of Elkdom andit would be an easy matter for SubordinateLodges to make the name of Elkdom respectedand admired everywhere.

One of our great problems is to make thepublic know and understand us better.

I have made thousands of finefriends this year,whom I value very highly, and I hope ^at itmaybe my good fortune to meet them hereafterfrom time to time.

The Elks National FoundationThe Order of Elks from its very inception has

held Charity foremost among all virtues, andto that end and purpose all the instrumentalitiesof Elkdom have l^en continuously employedand engaged in the ministrations of chanties inall of the communities where SubordinateLodges of Elks are located.

The Grand Lodge Convention in Miami,1928, provided by constitutional amendmentfor tie creation of the Elks National Foundation, which is indeed the supreme and perpetualplan and project of all Elkdom for Charity in ahuge and national scope. The adopted planof thig Foimdation is based upon voluntary action, which is to accumulate tiirough volimtarysubscriptions a Foundation Endowment Fimdwhose principal shall remain intact and whoseinterest gViall be devoted to nation-wide charitira,without any deduction whatever for administrative or overhead expenses.

Tn other words, this Charity accumulated anddispensed throughthe ElksNationalFoundationwill go to the object of charity 100 per cent.This organization is created to be co-existentwith the life of the Order of Elks, and we beUeveit will grow into huge proportions as the yearspass by. ,,

I am very thoroughly^ and profoundly soldupon tViis plan to provide for Charities perpetually and largely, and I have used everyeffort, as Grand Exited Ruler, to aid in itspromotion and development, and all of myDistrict Deputies have teencharged throughouttheyear with the duty of devoting themselveswholeheartedly to securing subscriptions to thisFoundation Endowment Fimd. I am glad toreport that theyentered zealously intothisworkand have been instrumental in secujing, thisyear, more than two himdred subscriptions toFounders Certificates of one thousand dollarseach in this Endowment Fund.

The full detailed reports of the accomphsh-ments and progress of this Elks NationalFoundation will be reported to the Gra^Lodge by Past Grand Exalted Ruler John F.Malley, who is iJie Chairman of the Board ofTrustees of said Foundation.

From my experience this year, I feelimpeUedto express the opinion that the Grand ExaltedRuler should be constituted an ex-officio memberof the Board of Trustees of the Elks Nation^Foundation, which, I feel sure, would redoundto the future welfare of the Foundation, as wellas to the good of the Order,

The Elks MagazineI have upon every opportunity this year pre

sented the merits of The Elks Magazine to ourSubordinate Lodges and to all Elkdom.

It is the constituted Organ of the Order; it isabsolutely essential to the dissemination of theprinciples and affairs of the Order; it is theleading fraternal magazine of the World; it isgrowing constantly in merit and importance,and I now, at the end of my term, have a higherand deeper ^preciation of itsvalue toElkdomthan ever before.

I congratulate very heartily and most sincerely the Elks National Memorial Headquarters Commission, Past Grand Exalted Ruler

Joseph T. Fanning, who is the Editor andExecutive Director of this Magazine, as well ashis entire staff, upon the high standard of theMagazine, which they are producing, and thegreat accomplishments, which they are achieving for the welfare of Elkdom in this respect.

I acknowledge my indebtedness to the Magazine for helpfulness and support throughout myterm of office, and I heartily e.xtend my thanksfor same.

Portrait 0/ Past Grand Exalted RulerJoseph T. Fanning

A very happy and appropriate ceremonyoccurredon the eighth of June, 1930, in the officeof the Grand Exalted Ruler in the Elks NationalMemorial Headquarters Building, Chicago.

Mrs. Joseph T. Fanning came into the Conference and presented to the Order of Elks avery fine oilportrait, a speaking likeness of Mr.Fanning, by Albert Salzbrenner, and requestedme to make the official presentation for her.

Past Grand Exalted Ruler John K. Tener,Chairman of the Elks National Memorial Headquarters Commission, responded in a very beautiful and touching address of acceptance.

The portrait now hangs in the Chicago offif®of the Grand Exalted Ruler in this spilepdidMemorial Building, and is a distinct additionto the artistic effect of this Building.

EUcs National Memorial HeadquartersBuilding

I have had the pleasure and privilege oftravehng very extensively in foreign countriesand have visited many wonderful edificesabroad, but I can truthfully say to allbrothers of Elkdom that this Building, standingnear the shore of Lake Michigan, in LincolnPark, Chi^go, is one of the most beautifiuand splendid memorials I have ever seen, and itshould excite m the minds of all Elks the highestdegree ofappreciation and pride.

Lu Bccmis Building witn nis <jv»"and realize what the Order of Elks has done forthe patriotic purpose of memorializing ourbrothers who fell in the World War, as weU asthose who served and returned.

The Elks National Home^ The first big effort at charitable service wasmaugurated thirty years aco bv theIx)dge of E^s when the Home was estabUshefor apd and indigent Brothers, who are unaWto take care of themselves andwho would o^erwise have been left to pass through their de^JJ^^years without the comforts and solaces

This National Home is located atVirg^a, in the midst of beautiful sce^^ en-roun^gs and has been expanded itlarged ^ the years have gone by, andf^er,comfortably houses, as the guests ofthree hundred and one of our aged ^^9^1and we have a waiting list of twenty-fi^®' yhave visited this Home three times dimog ^term ofoffice and no undertaking iriOrder of Elks isengaged impresses me more^ great and splendid provision for shelter anahome comforts to our aged and mdigen«-Brothers.

We must never fail in our duty to the ElksNational Home.

Anew buUding to provide increased facilitiesto take care of Brothers now on the waitinglist and others to follow, who qualify underourRules of Admission and thus are entitled to bereceived at theHome as guests, is needed, and Irecommend that immediate attention be givento the proposition of erecting a new building ordormitory-unit at this Home.

Brother Robert A. Scott is the Superintendentof this Home, and I am very much impressed

August, 1930

with the character of his service, to such an extentthat I believe he is the ideal man for the place.

I have also witnessed the interest shown inthis Home by the two near-by Lodges of Roanoke,Nimiber 197, and Lynchburg, Number 321,as well as the interest of the neighbors and peoplewho reside in the City of Bedford. This is verypleasing and very encouraging, and I take thisopportunity to commend and thank them all.

President Hoover's LetterIt is with honor and pleasure that I call atten

tion to the fact that on April 18, 1930, thePresident of the United States addressed aletter to the Officers and members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the UnitedStates of America, which was published in full inthe Elks Magazine of June, -1930.

Mr. Hoover expresses in his letter his greatinterest, as the nation's President, in the prosperity and welfare of the millions of men,women and children who constitute the citizenryof this great Republic.

He vrrges that States, cities, counties and allbusiness concerns \mite to abolish unemployment "by cooperating with all movements toaccelerate building constructions, especially offamily dwellings, new roads, and local and Statepublic works. These measures wll provide employment, enlarge buying power, increase thecirculation of money, create markets for farmsand factories, and assure prosperity and contented homes."

The President honors and commends Elkdomin the following language: "Your Order, whichsince its inception has identified itself wth theinterests of our nation, can play an invaluablepart in bringing about this happy result."

As Grand Exalted Rxiler, authorized to speakfor 1,586 Subordinate Lodges of Elks and 800,-000 Brother Elks, I most heartily thank President Hoover for this splendid letter and thekind and commendatory words in which herefers to the Order of Elkis.

Appreciation of the Order of ElksI have spoken and written throughout my

term of ofl&ce with an earnest desire to have AeBrothers everywhere hold and cultivate a highappreciation for the Order of Elks, the eternalvirtues upon which it is based and the supremeideals through which it is actuated.

I feel in my heart that no brother Elk, whoreally understands the Order and has the properappreciation of its principles and ideals, couldever bring himself to the point of voluntarily<^uitting the Orderand relinquishing his connection with it through lapsation or Dimit.

An Elks' membership card shoiild be a proudpossession and highly valued by every holderthereof,

T^ Order is distinctively American, whollypatriotic, wonderfully democratic, free fromprejudice" and intolerance, founded upon theeternal virtues of life and should appeal mostpowerfully to every American citizen, whoseheart is right and in the right place.

State AssociationsThe State Association is a veiy important

organization in Elk affairs and is capable ofaccomplishing great good for the Order.

A State Association, however, must alwajrsbear in mind that it has no legislative powerswhatever, for all such powers rest exclusivelymth the Grand Lodge.

The State Association is naturally and properly designed for the purpose of bringing the Subordinate Lodges of a particular state into closeunion and co-operation with each other, for thepurposes of intervisitation and helpfulness inall ritualistic matters and other Elk functions.

I have urged this year upon State Associations that they and their Execuive Committeeskeep in close touch with all weak Lodges of theirStates and visit them in large bodies and helpto keep them established as Subordinate Lodges,and to see to it that they do not falter or fallbehind in their work.

A great field is thus opened to the StateAssociations, working in conjvmction with theGrand Exalted Ruler and his District Deputies.

District Deputy Conference

I called a Conference of all District Deputiesand a few heads of Grand Lodge Committees to

meet me at the Elks National Memorial Headquarters Building in Chicago, on September 21and 22,1929. I wasvery muchpleased to notethat the attendance of District Deputies was almost unanimous; only three or fourwereabsent.

I am glad to report that my District Deputiesthift yearhave done wonderfully fine work, andI am more convinced than ever that the systemof District Deputies is a splendid part of ourElk organization. Ofcourse, we sometimes getdiscouraged at the work of indifferent, im-ambitious District Deputies, but the fine workof numerous others impresses us greatly andconvinces us that the system is good. • •

This meeting woimd up witha luncheon m theCongress Hotel on September 22, at which Iinstalled all of the District Deputies and spokeupon Our Plans and Policies.

Manualsfor District Deputies andSubordinate Lodge Officers

I call special attention to two Manuals thathave been prepared thisyearby the Good of theOrder Committee, of which Past Grand ExaltedRuler James R. Nicholson is Chairman. Hisassociates upon the Committee are BrothersCarroU Smith, St. Louis Lodge, No. 9; W. T.Baldwin, OroA^e Lodge, No. i4S4> Sam Stem,Fargo Lodge, No. 260, and E. M. Wharton,Greenville Lodge, No. 858.

The Manual for District Deputies and theManual for Subordinate Lodge Officers areseparate pamphlets and each is exceedinglyinstructive and beneficial. ^ .

I commend and thank this Committee for thisexcellent service to the Order.

I hope the District Deputies "will constantiyuse their Manual, and that the SubordinateLodgeOfficers willdo likewise.

Building Applications GrantedAll applications filed by Subordinate Lodges

in compliance with the provisions of Chapter14, Grand Lodge Statutes, have been carefullyanalyzed, and whenever there was any doubt asto the finanrial ability of the Lodge to executeits building program,or whereit appeared thatthe project was unsound, the application^wasdenied. In keeping with the strict supervisionand careful analysis made of all applicationsfiled duringthis GrandLodge year, the BoardofGrandTrustees, withmyapproval, havegrantedpermits aggregating an expenditure of $5,024,-733.84.

Applications filed by the following Subordinate Lodges received unanimous approvals— •

Little Rock Lodge, Ark., No. 29; Detroit Lodge,Mich., No. 34: St. Joseph Lodge, Mo., No. 40;Faterson Lodge,N. J., No. 60; Roanoke Lodge, Va.,No. 197; Red Bank Lodge, N. J., No. 233; Tucsonl^dge.,Ariz., No. 385; Hiiron Loc^e, S.D.,No.4^;Auburn Lodge,N. Y., No. 474: Olean Lodge, N. Y.,No. 491; Hattiesburg Lodge, Miss., No. SQQL^t^oLodge, Wis.,No. 662;East St. LouisLodge,Dl., No.664: Eureka Lodge, Utah, No.7"; Hilo Lodge, H. I.,No. 7S9: Winsted Lodge, Conn., No. 8^; BdoitLodge, Wis., No. 864; LongBeachLodge, Cahf.,No.888; Holyoke Lodge, Mass., No. 902; Etna Lodge,Penn., No. 932; San Pedro Lodge, Calif., No. 900;Clarksdale Lodge, Miss., No. 977; Decatur Lodge,Ind., No. 993; MiddletownLodge, Penn., No. 1092;BerwickLo^e, Penn., No. 1138; Greenwich Lodge,Conn., No. 1150; Marshfield Lodge, Oregon, No.1160; Rome Lodge, N. Y., No. 1268; Watson^^eLodge, Calif., No. 1300; Inglewood Lodge, Calif.,No. 1492; Biurbank Lodge, Calif., No. 14975 Lynd-hurst Lodge., N. J., No. 1503; West Haven Lodge,Conn., No. 1537; Liberty Lodge, N. Y., No. iS4S;Watkins Glen Lodge, N. Y., No. 1546-

The Antlers

I have, in accordance with the provisions ofSection 8, Article IV of the Constitution, andSection x83a, G. L. S., granted permite to thefollowing Subordinate Lodges to institute organizations of young men, between the ages offifteen and twenty-oneyears, to be composedofwhite male citizens of tiie United States ofAmerica, to be known as Antiers:

Wheeling Lodge, West Virginia, No. 28; AtlantaLo^e, Georgia, No. 78;Salt Lake City Lodge, Utah,No. 8s; DefianceLodge, Ohio, No. 147; San AntonioLo^e, Texas, No. 216; Stockton Lodge, California,No. 218; East Liverpool Lodge, Ohio, No. 258;Atlantic City Lodge, New Jersey, No. 276; PendletonLodge,Oregon,No. 288;BiloxiLodge, Mississippi,No.606: Santa Barbara Lodge, California, No. 613: Tellu-ride Lodge, Colorado, No. 692; Long Beach Lodge,California, No. 888; East Chicaro Lodge, Indiana,No. 981; St. Petersburg Lodge, Florida, No. 1224;

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Glendale Lodge,Califomia,No. 1289 ;Lakdand Lodge,Florida, No. 1291; Alhambra Lodge, California, No.1328;Two Rivers Lodge,Wisconsin, No. 1380; GallupLodge, New Mexico, No. 1440; Bradenton Lodge,Florida, No. 1511; Taft Lodge, California, No. 1527.

Emergency Charity FundAfter investigation, and with the approval of

the Board of Grand Trustees, one thousand dollars was forwarded to Brother Jacob Gunst,Chairman of the Arizona State Elks AssociationTubercular Committee, to be expended by andunder the direction of the Arizona State ElksAssociation in furthering the effective work being carried on in the interest of those sufferingfrom this dreaded disease.

On August 19, 1929, Brother Joseph H.Creedon, Secretary of Detroit Lodge, Michigan,No. 34, called my attention to the fact that amember of Bucyrus Lodge, Ohio, No. 156, w^confined in a hospital in the City of Detroit,and in a veiy serious condition. I immediatelycommunicated with the officers of BucyrusLodge, advising them in this matter, and, in theemergency, I forwarded fifty dollars to BrotherCreedon, with instructions that he immediatelyextend relief to this Brother, who shortly afterward lapsed into unconsciousness and died.

On December 19, 1929, Brother L. F. Pfoten-hauer. Secretary of tiie Oklahoma State ElksAssociation, advised me that many lives hadbeen lost in a coal mine explosion at McAlester,Oklahoma, and urged me to assist in financingthe relief work being carried on in the affectedarea. Three hundred dollars was forwarded toBrother Pfotenhauer as a Grand Lodge contribution to this emergency.

A. C. Richardson, a member of Mt. SterlingLodge, Kentucky, which Lodge lost its charterduring the year 1927, received a permanentinjury upon admission to this Lodge, and for thepast eighteen years has suffered as a resultthereof. A request was made to my immediatepredecessor. Past Grand Exalted Ruler MurrayHulbert, to bring tWs case to the attention of theGrand Lodge.

He referred this request to Past DistrictDeputy Grand Exalted Ruler Harold Colee ofSt. Augustine Lodge, Florida, No. 829, for investigation and report.

Past District Deputy Colee made a carefuland thorough investigation of Mr. Richardson'scase, and filed a report with me on September24, 1929. After carefully reading BrotherColee's report, I was convinced that this casewas one in which the Order should take favorable action and on November 29, 1929. at thefall meeting of the Board of Grand Trustees, Ilaid the entire matter before the Board for di^position. Upjon my recommendation, the Boardof Grand Trustees authorized me to withdraw$250 from the Emergency Fund account in myhands and tender the same to Mr. Richardson infull settiement of his claim.

In order that further demands might not bemade Von the Grand Lodge, a proper releasewas executed and the same is now on file and Mr.Richardson's claim paid and satisfied.• I wish to personally thank Past DistrictDeputy, Grand Exalted Ruler Colee for thesplendid manner in which this case was investigated and reported on in the interest andprotection of the Order.

OnJanuary 18,1930,applicationwasmade tome, tiirough Brother Harry M. Ticknor ofPasadena Lodge, California, for assistance toMrs. Mary B. Brown, widow of the late PastGrand Exalted Ruler Robert W. Brown.

I, accordingly, with the consent of a majontyof tie Board of Grand Trustees, sent to BrotherTicknor five hundred dollars for her relief; andshortiy afterward she died.

Asimilarappeal wasagainmade forassistance,and, I sent to Brother Ticknor an additional$500, which was also approved by a majontyof the Board of Grand Trustees.

On May 4, i930j Nashua, New Hampshire,was swept by fire, causing a loss estunated at$50,000,000; 400 homes were destroyed and2,000 thousand men, women and children wereleft without shelter, many of whom lost theirentire worldly possessions. ,

After investigation, and reports received fromDistrict Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler HermanH. Rice; E. Ray Shaw, ExaltedRulerof N^huaLodge, No. 720; andBrotherWilliam F. Sullivan,Mayor of theCityofNashua, I forwarded $2,500

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to be expended for relief work among the strickenpeople of the City of Nashua.

I commend Nashua Lodge, the Elks of NewHampshire and New England for the promptmanner in which they responded in this catastrophe, and for the effective relief work theyextended during the great emergency.

SummaryReceived from Grand Lodge $6,600.00

A. Brother of BucyrusLodge, Ohio, No. 8gi.... $50.00

A. C. Wchardson, formermember of old Mt. Sterling Lodge, Ky 250.00

L. F. Pfotenhauer, Secy.Oklahoma State El^Association 300.00

Harry M. Ticknor, representing Grand ExaltedRuler 1,000.00

E. Ray Shaw, Exalted Ruler,Nashua Lodge, N. H., No.720 2,500.00

4,100.00

Grand Exalted Ruler's EmergencyCharity Accoimt $2,500.00

Subordinate Lodge Assistance FundAt the 65th Session of the Grand Lodge, held

in Los .\ngeles, July, 1929, a resolution wasoffered and adopted, appropriating the sum of$4,ooo to the Subordinate Lodge AssistanceFund, the same to be administered by the GrandExalted Ruler, with the consent of a majorityof the Board of Grand Trustees, for the partialrelief of Subordinate Lodges upon which exceptional demands are made for assistance ofmembers of other Lodges.

Upon application and after careful consideration, $3,000 of this appropriation was forwardedto the Minnesota State Elks Association, toassist in the welfare work being carried on atRochester, Minnesota.

One thousand dollars of this fund was appropriated to Hot Springs Lodge, Arkansas,Nimiber 380, to assist in carrying on its welfarework at Hot Springs National Park.

Grand Lodge Appropriation $4,000.00Contribution to Minne

sota State Elks Assoda-• tion $3,000.00Contribution to Hot

Springs Lodge, Ark.,No. 380 $1,000.00 $4,000.00

General Assistance Fund

The sum of $10,000 was appropriated by theSixty-fifth Grand Lodge Convention to be administered by the Grand Exalted Ruler, with theconsent of a majority of the Board of GrandTrustees, to assbt any worthy and needy memberof the Order who is suffering from disease of anincurable character or tot^ disability, and iswithout funds, property or relatives able or willing to care for him.

Twenty-four members of the Order werereceiving relief from this fund when I tool&office.Three of the above members died during they^r just closed, and two members were substituted therefor. To-day, twenty-three members of the Order are receiving assistance eachmonth from the General .Assistance Fund.

Several applications for assistance from thisFund are now on file, but until additional moneyis available, such applications cannot be favorably acted upon.

I recommend that the General AssistanceFund appropriation for the ensuing year be increased to $12,500.

NecrologyDuring this year, 1929-1930, the roll of mem

bership of the Grand Lodge has suffered largelosses by death.

I am called upon to report the names of 428of our brothers who have been summoned intothe eternal keeping of the Father of all mankind.

We unite our sorrows, sympathies and solicitudes with those of all the respective bereavedfamilies, and we pray for all of them thoseconsolations that a loving Father reserves instore for His children.

Since our last Grand Lodge Convention inLos .Angeles, the followng Brothers have passedonward:

Past Grand Exalted Ruler Thomas B. Mills,Superior Lodge (Wisconsin), No. 403, who diedMarch 19, iqjo;

Richard P. Rooney, Grand Trustee, Newark(N. J.) Lodge, No. 21, who died December 30,1929;

John D. O'Brien, Past Grand Esteemed LoyalKnight, St. Paul (Minn.) Lodge, No. 59, whodied August 13, 1929.

(A complete list of all Grand Lodge membersdeceased during the past year is included in thebound copies of this report.—Ed.)

By-Laws of Subordinate LodgesI have endeavored, this year, with the co

operation of the Chairman of the JudiciaryCommittee and my District Deputies, to haveevery Subordinate Lodge bring its By-laws upto date.

Some Subordinate Lodges have not revisedtheir By-laws for many years, others donotpossess By-laws and many Lodges have neveradopted a set of By-laws for their own use.

I hope tJiat the incoming Grand Exalted Ruler•will continue the effort I have made in thistespect in order that every Subordinate Lodgeof the Order may, as soon as possible, possess acomplete and up-to-date set of By-laws.

Lapsation Committee1 call attention to Section134b, Grand Lodge

Statutes, which was enacted at the GrandLodge Convention in Los Angeles, 1929, andprovides that the Exalted Ruler at the nextregular session after his installation shall appoint a Lapsation Committee, to consist of notless than three members to hold office for oneLodge year. The Exalted Rulers are not confined to three members upon tliese LapsationCommittees, butmay appoint asmany membersas the local situation may render advisable.

This is very important work, and, whenproperly and energetically done, will savethousands of good members to our SubordinateLodges and to our Order.

I urge with great earnestness that all of ourSubordinate Lodges give special attention to thework of the Lapsation Committee. We shouldnot allow oxu: Brothers to carelessly drift away,but we should unite our efforts and keep themin our folds and prove to them that we appreciate their membership.

CommercialismSection125,GrandLodgeStatutes, whichout

lines the duties of each Subordinate LodgeSecretary, among other thmgs, sets forth hisduty as to whom the roll of membership withthe street addresses thereon shall be furnished.

Some unscrupulous and designing membersand non-members of the Order have procuredrosters of some of our Subordinate Lodges, andxised the same to circulate their personal literature for business and commercial purposes—Ivurge every Subordinate Lodge Secretary toassist in protecting the membershipof our Orderby guarding the membership roll and withholding the same from individuals or organizations,who are not legallyentitled to receivethem.

I commend those Secretaries and members ofthe Order who, during the past year, forwardedto me literature received by them from personscirculating their wares without authority. Everycase which came to my attention was immediately taken care of and proper action takenagainst the offending parties, and it was notnecessary for me to proceed against any offendingmember this year, for the reason that as soon asliie matter was brought to his attention, heimmediately apologized for" his action anddeclared that hk illegal activities would cease.

Each Grand Exalted Ruler for many yearspast foimd it necessary to refer to "COMMERCIALISM" in his official circulars, as wellas in his annual report to the Grand Lodge, andI trust that these violations will ultimatelycease.

Conclusion

I am deeply appreciative of the fact that anopportunity has been afforded to me to serveOur beloved Order in the capacity of GrandExalted Ruler.

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I have not, for a single moment forgotten thegreat responsibilities that thereby devolved uponme.

I have taken my work with the utmost degreeof seriousness, and have preached and proclaimed, and in every way disseminated theprinciples and.fimdamentals of Elkdom.

Throughout my term of office I have lookedupon the Subordinate Lodge as the imit of theOrder and have sought to procure the operationof every imit in accordance with the laws, rituals,principles and ideals of Elkdom.

In addition to my nine Official Circulars, Isent three special letters to each Exalted Ruler ofevery Subordinate Lodge of the Order, in which Isought to put myself into the closest possiblecommunion with each Exalted Ruler, the chosenhead of his own Subordinate Lodge.

I have done likewise with all of the DistrictDeputies and have also kept in close touch witlithe Past Grand Exalted Rulers and the GrandLodge Chair Officers, who are serving with me.My piupose was to seek co-operation from all,and I am more than pleased to announce thatmy efforts in these directions were most satisfactorily rewarded.

I now, at the end of my term, thank all of thePast Grand Exalted Rulers, all of the GrandLodge Officers, all of the Grand Lodge Com-mitteemen, all of the District Deputies, and allof the Officers and Committeemen of theSubordinate Lodges, for their loyal and helpfulco-operation during my term of office.

We all need re-baptism in the true spirit ofElkdom and a new resolve to devote ourselveseven more zealously in the future than we havein the past to the principles of Elkdom, and tothe upbuUding of the Order.

I had hoped to be able to report a gain inmembership this year, and I bent every effortin that direction, but as the end of the fiscalyear approached I was deluged with letters fromLodges expressing their regrets that they hadbeen compelled to drop large numbers ofBrothers at the close of the year on account ofnon-payment of dues, which resulted throughbusiness depressions and wholesale unemployment throughout the country. As a matter offact, we initiated 2,000 more members thisyear than we did last year and I have receivedmany notices of large classes since March 31,1930, but I make no effort to take any accountof them, as all such increases naturally andlegally belong to the statistics of next year. Ihave, however, worked as hard to save old members and to secure new ones since April first,as I did before, feeling as I do that these efforts,and the efforts of all of my co-workers, are notpersonal, but for the good of the Order. I ampleased that statistics of this year show $200,000more of charity expended than last year, and Ihope that they will show an equal or larger gainnext year.

I am naturally of an optimistic disposition,but, taking everything into consideration, I feelthoroughly warranted in saying to all theBrothers,that the OrderofElksis goingforward,becoming stronger and better, and is makingreal progress, and while we are proud of thesefacts, we know that we could greatly accelerateits progress by a greater degree of loyalty, devotion, fidelity and cooperation throughout allthe organizations and instrumentalities of theOrder.

I bespeak for my immediate successor, andall the successors who may hereafter come, anincreased degree of devotion, service and cooperation and a finer achievement of success andprogress.

I have no regrets, I have thanks for all and Ilay down the responsibilities of my office withan absolute consciousness of having done mybest.

Finally, I wish to mention and thank myexceedingly efficient, faithful, and devotedSecretary, Brother S. John Connolly of BeverlyLodge, Number 1309, Massachusetts, for his constant and untiring service to me and to theOrder during the period of his association withme.

I heartily thank him and express the hopethat he and his family may enjoy good healthand every earthly blessing.

Walter P. Andrews,

Grand Exalted Ruler.

August, 1930

Excerpts from AnnualSubmitted to the Grand Lodge at Atlantic

From the Report of the Board of Improvement FundGrand Trustees AttheLos Angeles Session ofthe GrandL(5dge

an appropriation of Si2,ooo was made, to beElks National Home known as the Special Replenishing Fund, for

'nr^HE Elks National Home, which is main- use in making improvement to the ElksI tained by the Order for those of our National Home. /\il expenditures therdrom

brothers who, by various circumstances, have been under the direction of the Homehave been forced to seek residence there, has just Member of the Board of Qrand Trustees-passed through the most successful year since Maintenance of Home

"YoSt'eTat Bedford, Virginia, in tire famous The total outlay by the Grand Mge forBlue Ridge Mountains and nestled in the very operatmg the Home during the year June i,shadows of the Peaks of Otter, the Home is 1929, to May 31, 1930.ideally situated. In that section of Virginia the Amounts to $i2c>,q56.o7four seasons of the year, while well defined, are Add—Inventories at beginning s,5fjQ-i6not in the least bit extreme. The climate is .ideal, as is attested by the generalgoodhealth of _ t rtLrn-the residents, other than those afHicted with Lcss-Inventones atdosechronic diseases. $128,983.28

The grounds which surround the Horne are —Sale of Supplies 1,548.98continually being beautified by the planting ofadditional shrubbery and flowers. The lawns $127,434.30

in similar cases . be deducted:The buildings are kept in perfect repair and Building Maintenance $2,933.88

no visitor would dare suggest that the original Grounds Maintenance 986.22group had been there fourteen years. In the «maintenance of the building an engineer, car-penter and painter are kept continually on the Leaving basis for Lodges' proportion. $123,514-20job.

At a recent meeting of the Board steps were On May 31, 1930, there were 301 residenttaken to improve the hospital facilities and brothers at the Home, an average of 289 for thegeneral comfort of the sickby the appointment year, and the average cost per resident for theof a resident physician and female nurses. yearended that date was $427.37.

The Home is filled to capacity and with a Thefollowing tableshows theaverage numberwaiting list at thepresent time. The Board will ofresidents for the past five years, with averageask the Grand Lodge in Atlantic City to pro- maintenance costs ofsame:vide ways and means for the erection of an- —Average number ofresidents, 204...$451.35other dormitory similar to cottage "G," 1927—Average number ofresidents, 208... 480.65erected in 1927, and to contain approximately 1928—Average number of residents, 220... 444-23100 rooms ^929—.\verage numberof residents, 260... 430.C8

Also, in this connection, wth the continual i93t^Average number of residenU, 289... 427.37powth of the Home, it will soon be nccessary pto increase our acreage in order to proMae r jpasturage for the ever growing dairy herd. ^secretary

Elsewhere in this report the Superintendent The total income of the Grand Ixidge forlists the different entertainments given at the tjig year ended May 31, 1930, amounts toHome within the past year. Special^mention, $585,339.74; expenses amount to $416,973.74,however, should be made of the attention given showing a net gain of $168,366.00.the Home by Roanoke and Lynchburg Lodges. Current assets,$515,742.15; invested in bonds,Two of the most pleasing entertainments at the $25,572.00; fixed assets, $1,011,152.08, makingHome are the annual picnic and Christmas party the total assets of Grand Lodge$1,552,466.23.

''X'Boa?d'Si'\o^cSrr^^^^^^ of Depu» in Snboraina.ethe different Lodges having members at the o .t jHome, the request that at Christmas time these AttheLos Angeles Session of theGrandLodge,members be remembered with a gift of some by the enactment of Statute 48b, subordinatecharacter. Last Christmas the Superintendent Lodges were relieved from the expense of Dis-wrote a personal letter to each of the Lodges trict Deputy visitations. This item ofexpense,having a member at the Home and the response amountin;j to $15,466.22, ViTis this year paid outwasmostgratifying. the earnings of The Elks Magazine and is

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ReportsCity, N. J., in Julynot included in the statement of Grand Lodgeexpenses.

Subordinate Lodge Finances

Reports filed in this office show that thesubordinate Lodges of our Order had at the beginning of the year just closed cash assets of§5,094,245.39. During the year, they receivedfrom all sources $25,983,271.64, and expended$29,152,081.14, leaving their cash balance as ofMarch 31, 1930, 84,925,435.89.

These reports show the total assets of subordinate Lodges to be $105,999,629.89.

Charitable, Welfare arid Patriotic WorkBelow is a list of Charitable, Welfare and

Patriotic acti\'ities in which subordinate Lodgesare engaged, together with total moneys expended for same:

Relief of Members, their Widows,Orphans, Dependents, Burials, etc. $583,710-69

Summer Camps, Outings, etc 93.389-25Milk, Ice and Fuel 29,032.21Crippled Children 205,278.71Medical Aid 64,706.51Hospitals 80,296.95General Aid for Needy Families 207,176.43Thanksgiving Baskets 57i3o8.90Christmas Baskets 7S7.4i4-i5Miscellaneous Charities 49,816.29Boy Scouts 93.085.70Girl Scouts 8,666.83Big Brother Work 28,613.92Playgrounds, including Prizes 22,443-72Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc 133.973-34Scholarships, Text Books, etc 36,146.09Veterans' Relief 16,848.45Flag Day, Constitution Day, etc.;... 107,581.32Elks National Foundation 65,211.95

Total $2,640,70141

Detail of subordinate Lodges* charitable,welfare and patriotic activities has been assembled and immediately after the Grand LodgeSession an analysis of this work, in book form,will be mailed to each subordinate Lodge of theOrder.

(The following facts from the report of theGrand Secretary have been summarized by theeditors of The Elks Magazine.)

There are at present 138Lodgeswith memberships of more than 1,000. Brooklyn, N. Y.,Ix>dge, No. 22, is the Order's largest, with aroster of 17,594.

Thirty-six Lodges showed noteworthy membership gains, each of them having added 100or more members during the year.

Ninety-five Lodges contributed rnore than$5,000 each to charity, the five largest giversbeing Brooklyn, N. Y., No. 22, $92,553-95>Newark, N. J., No. 21, $78,957-79; York,N. Y., Lodge, No. i, $76,255.42;. Atlantic City,N. J., No. 276, $67,160.24; Minneapolis, Minn.,No. 44, $39,100.00. Many others gave greatly,and in proportion to their membership, but thelist would be too long to publish here.

Report of the Elks National MemorialHeadquarters Commission

To the Officers and Members oj the GrandLodge of the Benevolent and ProtectiveOrder of Elks of the United Stales ofAmerica:

N THE report of this Commission made tothe Grand Lodge last year at Los Angeles,

it was stated that with the exception of two largesculptural groups to occupy niches in the frontof the Memorial Building and certain paintingsto be placed in the Reception Room, the Building, with ail its embellishments, would be complete.

The June issue of The Elks Magazine carried illustrations of the large mural paintings

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by Mr. Eugene F. Savage designed for theReception Room. They represent respectively"Armistice" and "The Pursuits of Peace."Even the inadequate reproductions in black andwhite give some idea of the magnitude andartistic excellence, but only when seen in place,as they are now, can the wonderful coloring anddecorative effect be fully appreciated. They aremasterpieces of a great artist and are worthy ofthe conspicuous panels provided for them. Theinstallation of these murals completes the interiorornamentation of the Building, except for twosmall bronze groups representing "Earth" and"The Spirit of .-Vir," which have been modeled

by Mrs. Laura Gardin Eraser and whichare nowbeing cast and will soon be in place in theReception Room.

The heroic bronze groups by Mr. Adolph .'V.Weinman which are to occup)' the niches at theends of the two wings of the Building arethe only remaining exterior art features to beinstalled. An accident sustained by Mr. Weinman and a succeeding illness has delayed thecompletion of these groups. However, one ofthem is now cast in the bronze; the other is al-rnost ready for the foundry, and it is cxpcctedthat these exterior features will be erected inplace within the year. The installation of these

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features will entirely complete our- Buildingjwhich is acclaimed by competent'critics as one ofthe most distinctive and beautiful memorialstructures in the world.

It is a great satisfaction and pleasure to theCommission to be able to state that since theopening of the doors of this magnificent Buildingto the public, it has been visited by some 202,-500 persons who have enjoyed its beauty and allthat it symbolizes. And we aga^ express thehope that no Elk finding himself in Chicago willfail to make a pilgrimage to this MemorialBuilding, which is already known and willendure as the very shrine of our Order.

The Illustrated Booklet

_The Grand Lodge at Miami adopted a resolution authorizing the preparation and publicationof an illustrated IraoUet descriptive of thisMemorial Headquarters Building, which bookletwas to be made available by purchase to visitorsat the Building and to all Elks.

By executive order Grand Exalted RulerHulbert assigned the task of preparing, publishing and distributing this illuminated booklet tothis Commission, and the Grand Lodge at LosAngeles last year appropriated the siun of$2,500 to be applied to the initial expense involved.

The Commission has undertaken this service,and, without any expense thus far incurred,

made satisfactory progress in the preparation of the contents of the book and in arranging for its publication.

Until the exterior art features, which are tobe illustrated therein, have been completedandplaced in position, this work cannot be finished.Your Commission, therefore, can only reportthat the book will be ready for distribution atthe earliest practical moment.

The Elks MagazineYour Commission is particularly gratified with

the report which it is privileged to submit forthe fiscal year just past. During seven of ttetwelve months upon which it is based thecountry was suffering from a business depressionwhich has seriously affected the attitude of ad-vertisere, from whom the surplus revenue of theMagazine is derived. (The subscription pricedoes not, by a considerable margin, cover thecost of production of a publication of its mechanical and editorial standards.) In theseconditions, which have reflected themselves inreduced earnings of practically everyperiodical,The Elks Magazine has given proofof soimdstanding and able administration, by showing asurplus profit which, while less tlian the totalsreported for 1928 and 1929, is still'greaterthat of any other year, and above the averageestablished over the eight years of its existence.

A certain number of subscriptions, and theconsequent revenue, were lost as the result of a

to Order. Suchperienced by all fraternalof which have been affecteddegree than has the jOrder of F.Iks nevolent and Protective

me reauction of the per;capita tax for thevear

Inthe more settled business conditions whichat Sast^ <i"ringft of the coming year

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to Kftc ^ business departmentea^gs, or by the editorialthe high quaUties ofhterary and pictonal merit which have made

T the foremostmag^es of tte day. It seems hardly neces-^'official publication, newsof the activities of Subordinate Lodges, State

Elks AMociations and the Grand Lodge, when ofbe fh ^ heretofore,tlSaf m^t thorough consideration, andtMt nothing will be allowed to interfere withits adequate presentation.

In the last analysis, however, the success, orf^ure, of anypublication lies with its readers.As has teen stated previously, it is the revenuetrom advertising which makes it possible to

^ magazine of the qualityof The Elks and, conversely, it is the quality ofUie magazme, plus known returns, which attracts advertisers. Every Elkis, therefore, in a^ition to help not only the Order in general,but hiBU^ m particular, by patronizing thosennM which advertise in his magazine and byma^g It clear, when hedoes so, that his actionIS tlwresult ofsuch advertising. Therenderingof this service by the members will insure anmcreasingly larger and better magazine, andgreater financial returns to.t^e Order,^The Elks Magazine has earned, during the

^ht years of itsoperation, a total net surplus of$1,621,927.07, representing a yearly average of$202,740.88. Its surplus earnings for thefiscal year which ended May 31, 1930, were$215,613.34.

From the total surpluses earned during the

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past eight years, there [have been turned over,to the Grand Lodge, or paid out at its direction,the following sums: , „ ,

Total Surplus$1,621,927.07

Turned over to Grand Lodge andused for reduction of per capitatax for year 1924-25 8200,000.00

National Memorial HeadquartersCommission, to defray cost ofart features for National Memorial Headquarters Buildini;. . 480.000.00

Administrative expenses of National Memorial HeadquartersCommission from June 1,1926,to May 31,1929 87,344.74

Maintenance, taxes, city improvements andotherexpenses oftheNational Memorial Headquarters Bidding fromJune 1,1926,to May 31,1929 107,338.81

Payment in full of Grand Lodgeappropriation of $350,000to theEIks National Home, Bedford,Va 350,000.00

Tiro Elks Maoazike has paidthe following sums from its surplus balance of the past year:

Aoministrative expenses of National Memorial HeadquartersCommisdon from June 1, 1929,to May31,1930. 26,546.33

Maintenance, taxes, city improvements, and other expenses of theNational Memorial Headquarters Building from June 1,1929,to May 31,1930 36,180.65

Payment of expenses incurred bythe Grand Lod^ for officialvifflts of District Deputies, during the ensuing Grand Lodgeyear, in accordance with theresolution adopted by the GrandLodgeat Los Angeles, California,July, 1929 15,466.22

Paid herewithfrom surplus to the , „„Grand Lodge 150,000.00 1,452,870.75

Leaving asurplusbalance of. S 169.050.32The balance thus obtained ismade up as follows:

Inventoryof invoices (printing and wrajipcrpaper, stories, articles, cover designs, illu-stra-tions, etc.) already paid for, but applicable to _future issuesof the Magazine 8 93,M3.M

Cashsurplus—working capital,June 1,1930 7a,026.i57S 169,050.32

With these reports on the Elks National Memorial Headquarters Building and The ElksMagazine, and as a part thereof, there is fileda financial statement to June i, 1930, of thereceipts and disbursements of the Commissionon account of the Headquarters Fund and thePublication Fund, under the official audit ofWest, Flint & Company, New York, N. Y.

The Grand Lodge Auditing Committee alsoaudited the accounts of both of the Funds undMthe control of the Commission and has certifiedits approvalof them in its report to the GrandLodge.

Fraternally submitted,ELKS NATIONAL MEMORIALHEADQUARTERS COMMISSION,

Joseph T. Fanning, John K. T^ner,Secretary-Treasurer. Chairman.

Digest of the Report of theElks National Foundation Trustees

This is the second annual report of the F.lkgNational Foundation Trustees. It mightproperly be called the first annual report,

Mcause the Board had been organized onlyatew months when the report was made to theGrand Lodge Convention at Los Angeles onJulj^ 10, 1929.

Since the report of one year ago was notprinted in form for general distribution, and wehave had frequent requests for a book or bookletgiving information relative to the Elks NationalFoundation, we believe that it is advisable tostate herein some of the facts which should beknown to all members of the Order, evenif werepeat what has been said in some previouscommunication.

InceptionThe Elks National Foundation became an

institution of the Benevolent and ProtectiveOrder of Elks by virtue of the constitutionalamendment adopted by the Grand Lodge in

Convention at Miami, Friday, July 11, 1928,approved by a large majority of the membershipacting through Ae subordinate Lodges, andproniulgated by the Grand Exalted Ruler inOfficialCircular No. 3, dated December i, 1928,as Article V of the Grand Lodge Constitution.

Therefore, the Foundation is the creation ofthe membershro of the Order. It should beregarded as the project of each individualmember, of each subordinate Lodge, of eachState Association, and the enthusiastic cooperation of all these units of the Order isnecessary for its success. The national aspectand scope of the Foimdation make it the paramount purpose of present-day endeavors ofthis great benevolent fraternity.

Distribution

The income of the Foimdation which is available for distribution annually will be apportioned in an equitable manner by the Foundation Trustees, with a view to advancing the

philanthropic endeavors of the Order in everysection of the United States and its possessions.

Salient Features

Threegreat outstanding characteristicsof theElks National Foundation are that it is to 1^_ apermanent fund; that its income is to betributedin its entirety for the purposesfor whichit exists,and that the fimd is to be raised voluntary without compulsion of any kind,—no tax,no levy, direct or indirect. It is to be the expressionin this form of the generosity of the membersof Elkdom.

Method of Raising FundsTheGrandLodge by vote passedat the annual

session of 1928 turned over to the Elks NationalFoundation Trustees $50,000 in money and$50,000 par value City of NewYork 4^% GoldBonds. The raising of additional funds wasentrusted to the EUcs National FoundationTrustees under the plenary powers given to them

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in Article V of the Grand Lodge Constitution.Similarly, during the year just closed the para

mount duty of the Foundation Trustees has beenthe raising of funds. To meet the requests ofthose who wished to subscribe for HonoraryFounders' certificates but who did not wish topay a large amount in any one year, it has beenprovided that a subscription of Si,ooo for anHonorary Founders' certificate may be paid byannual installments of not less than Sioo.

Pursuant to the policy stated in our report oflast year and encouraged by the remarkable enthusiasm and generosity shown by the membersin attendence at the annual session of the GrandLodge in Los ^Vngeles, the Foundation Trusteeshave urged members to make voluntary contributions and pledges according to their means.

An appeal for good \\'iU donations was sent tothe n\embership through the Elks ilAGAZiNEand by letters to the ollicers of the subordinateLodges and state associations during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. This was not productive of large results in individual gifts, butit served to stimulate interest and brought resultsin subscriptions from the Lodges.

Progress

The progress which has bean made during theyear covered by this report is most remarlcablewhen one considers that the nation has been inthe throes of a severe business depression, andthat we relied wholly upon voluntarj' subscriptions and donations. Charts and schedules havebeen prepared and are made a part of this reportso that each member may know the amount andsource of the money which is in the fund. Butto bring out clearly the extent of the forwardmovement, this comparison is made with thefigures of one year ago.JO jg29 1930

Honorary Founders' certificateBubseriptions: lndi\'idual.... 87.000.00 $28,000.00State AssociationSubordinate Lodge 40,000.00 344,000.00

Total Suljscriptions $52,500.00 $301,500.00Miscellaneous pledges and sub-

Bcriptions 862.00 9,073.o0$53,3J2.00 8'100.573.50

Total Paid In $37,052.00 $110,072.00Balance due on pledges and sub-

scriptiona 16,300.00 290,501.50Transfer from Grand Lodge 100,003.00 100,000.00

Grand Total. .. $1.53,3-52.00 $500,573.50

Last year we reported the oifer of Mr. W. W.Marshall, of Daytona Beach, Florida, to turn overto the Elks National Foundation Trustees substantially all of his property, subject to the payment to him and his wife of a life annuity andthe discharge of certain liens then upon theproperty, for the purpose of creating a fund tobe administered by the Foundation Trusteesfor the benefit of boys and girls under the age offifteen years. We had intended to accept thisoffer, but, unfortunately, the financial disasterwhich occurred in the State in which the propertywas situated made it improbable that the annuities and carrying expense could be paid out ofthe income from the property, or that any substantial amount could be realized from sale ofthe property. Therefore, in order to avoid asituation which might embarrass either the donoror the Foundation Trustees, we deemed it thewise and conservative action to decline the offerof Mr. Marshall.

Grand Exalted Ruler Walter P. .^clrews hasbeen most enthusiastic and energetic in hisadvocacy of the Elks National Foundation. Hehas given it great impetus by the endorsementof his high office and by expressing his personalbelief that the Foundation is destined to be thegreatest achievement of our Order. We wish tomake record of our appreciation.

Undoubtedly you ha\'e followed the work ofthe Elks National Foundation Trustees throughthe monthly bulletins which were carried inThe Elks M.\gazine. We found the magazinethe most effecive means of disseminating information in our campaign for funds. The reaction from the members showed that there waskeen interest in the results which were beingobtained in different sections of the country.We are grateful to Executive-Director JosephT. Fanning for his valuable advice and his readycompliance with all our requests for space inthe magazine.

The members will find much of interest and

of profit if they study the recapitulation chartwhich is part of this report.

We group for special mention and commendation the states which have more than twentypercent of the Lodges resident therein enrolledin the honorgroupof the Elks National Foundation by reason of subscriptions for HonoraryFounders' certificates.

Percentageioo%83%82%66%50%40%40%37%37%36%35%31%28%27%.20%

lat of the

thirteen subordinate Lodges situated outsidethe forty-eight states of the Union, eight havesubscribed for Honorary Founders' certificates.

Tlirough the courtesy of Grand Exalted RulerAndrews, who always evidenced his zeal for thecause of the Elks National Foundation, theChairman of our Board was invited to attendand address the conference of District Deputiesat Cliicago on September 22, 1929, For suchinformative value as it may have_, the addressdelivered by the Chairman at said meeting ismadea part ofthis report. The District Deputieshave been of invaluable assistance to us in carrying on the work of education and of promotionand of fund-raising. We make this formalacknowledgment of our indebtedness to_^ tliem,and of our appreciation for their effective cooperation.

It is true that in some sections of the countrythe record does not show results in the form ofsubscriptions and contributions, but, nevertheless,we know from letters and reports which havecome to us that the Elks National Foundationhas won the hearts of the members of the Orderin every part of the Elk domain, and that material results will come as soon as there is animprovement in the financial situation.

We believe that the District Deputies whohave been successful in enrolling all the Lodgesof their districts as subscribers for HonoraryFounders' certificates of the Elks NationalFoundation are entitled to special commendation.

Maine

District Deputy Arthur C- Labbe, MaineEastDistrict Deputy L. Kenneth Green, Maine West.

Massachusetts

District Deputy Richard A. Cantwell, Massachusetts West.

New York

District Deputy John T. Buckley, New YorkNorth Central.

District Deputy John H. Bums, New YorkWest.

District Deputy William H. Evans, New YorkWest Central.

New York South East District is also 100%enrolled. In this district, twelve of the Lodgessubscribed last year when Brother PeterStephen Beck was District Deputy, and thethirteenth, a Lodge instituted this year, duringthe term of District Deputy Eugene E. Navin,immediately sent in a subscription.

The State of Maine has the distinction ofhaving all districts 100% enrolled and of leadingtlie States of the nation in this meritorious work.

New ' '"ork State with ninety Lodges hasseventy-four subscriber Lodges and four of theeightDistrict Deputy districts are 100%enrolled.Past Grand Exalted Ruler Murray Hulbert,with characteristic enthusiasm, volunteered toassist the Elks National Foundation Trustees,and to super\'ise and supplement the work ofthe District Deputies in New York State. Weare exceedingly grateful to him for what he hasdone.

Connecticut, with t\venty of its twenty-fourLodges enrolled to a record of 8^^%, and Massa

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State Lodges Enrolled

Maine 14 14

Connecticut 24 20

New York go 74Massachusetts 60 40

Nevada 6 3

Pennsylvania 117 47Rhode Island 5 2

California 72 27Vermont S 3New Hampshire II 4Arizona 14 SFlorida 32 10

Idaho 14 4New Jersey 55 15Maryland 10 2

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chusetts with forty of its sixty Lodges enrolledto a record of 66%, also evidence the cooperativework of the District Deputies.

During this year, we have received a few smallbequests and we have been informed that substantial bequests have been provided in willsrecently made. We ask aU members, especiallythose of you who have the right contacts, toassist in keeping the Elks National Foundationin the favorable consideration of philanthropicpeople.

Finances

Our financial statement is comparativelysimple. We have everything which we have received, plus accumulated earnings, to wit:

StatementDebil

Received to account of Invested inPrincipal... $210,072.00 S«uritics.. $185,699.26Income 9,620.78 CashinEank. 33,999.52

5219,698.78$219,008.78

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The money which has been received has beeninvested in sound securities. In this matter wehave adhered to tlie conservative policy outlinedin our previous report.

Expenses

At the Grand Lodge Session of 1929, Sio,ocowas appropriated for administrative expensesof the Elks National Foundation. We have keptwell within this appropriation. The actual expenditures for the fiscal year ending May 20were 86,770.29. We shall not ask for a largerannual appropriation unless and until we have adefinite promotion program which justifies it.

Honorary Founders' CertificatesThe design of the Honorary Founders' cer

tificate of the Elks National Foundation whichwill be issued to a subscriber—individual, subordinate Lodge and State Association—havingpaid into the fund Si,ooo or more, has been approved by the Foundation Trustees and will beexhibited at this annual session of the GrandLodge. It is symbolic of this great philanthropicinstitution of our Order, a temple of philanthropy in process of construction. The mainstructure has advanced to the point of usefulness.Its beauty is apparent. Its proportions areindicated as monumental, but its actual size isleft to the imagination and idealism of each individual.

"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul.As the swift seasons roll!Leave thy low-vaulted past!Let each new temple, nobler than the last.Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast."

The certificate which is exhibited is a prooffrom an etching on copper,—the work of ArtistW. H. W. Bicknell, of Winchester, Mass. Honorary Founders' certificate No. i will be issuedto Past Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph T. Fanning,who has the distinction of having contributedthe first $1,000 to the Elks National Foundation.

Conclusion

The Elks National Foundation is a greatpermanent institution standing upon all theenduring principles of Charity, Justice and Bro-therl)'Love, and rising in the strength and to thegrandeur of hdght and proportion which fidelityto Elk ideals makes possible. Under its fosteringinfluence, the noble thought and tender, generousimpulse of this great American fraternity canbe translated into deeds beneficial to our fellow-men. It is not the work of a day, of a year,of a decade.—it is an all-time endeavor. Theremust be patient, persistent and untiring effortin its building. There must be adherence at alltimes to the noble purpose of its conception.

Time may testandappraise, but truecharacterand lofty ideals will show forth their worth.

Respectfxilly submitted,ELKS N.\TION.AI. FOUNDATION

TRUSTEES

John F. Malley, ChairmanRaymond Benjamin, Vice-ChairmanJohn G. Price, SecretaryJames G. McFarlandCharles E. PickettEdw,\rd RtghtorCharles H. GrakeloW

Grand Exalted Ruler Andrews PaysFarewell Call as Head of OrderONE of the most enthusiastic and largely-

attended meetings in the history of Atlanta, Ga., Lodge, No. 78, was that inci

dent to the official visit there of Grand ExaltedRuler Walter P. Andrews, making at this, hishome Lodge, the last formal call of his administration as chief executive of the Order. Mr.Andrews made the principal address of the evening, his speech evoking a tremendous outburstof applause. In the course of the session, theLodge presented to him a token of its esteem forhim both as Grand Exalted Ruler and as a member of Atlanta Lodge of long and loyal service.

New Haven, Conn., Lodge ElectsCongressman Tilson Life Member

At a banquet in its Home and before a throngof three hundred which included men of note inboth public life and in the Order, New HavenConn., Lodge, No. 25, presented recently toCongressman John Q. Tilson, majority leader inthe House of Representatives, a life membership,in token of the Ix)dge's appreciation of his distinguished services to the Order. Prominentamong those who attended the affair were PastGrand Exalted Ruler John K. Tener, formerGovernor of Pennsylvania; Past Grand ExaltedRuler Murray Hulbert, former member of Congress and at one time President of the Board of.•Vldermen of New York City; Congressman SolBloom, former Congressman P. B. O'Sullivan,William L. Higgins, Secretary of State of Connecticut; Earnest L. Averill, Deputy Attorney-General of the State; Mayor Thomas A. Tullyof New Haven; Joseph F. Morrissey, Chairmanof the Republican Town Conmiittee, who actedas toastmaster for the occasion; District DeputyGrand Exalted Ruler John J. Nugent; PastDistrict Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler James F.Degnan; Martin J.Cunningham, President of theConnecticut State Elks Association; William T.Phillips, Past President of the New York StateElks Association; and Samuel McKee, ExaltedRuler of New York, N. Y., Lodge, No. i. Theprincipal speakers were Mr. Tener, Mr. Bloom,Mr. O'Sullivan, Exalted Ruler J.ames Chew, ofNew Haven Lodge; Mr. Tully, and the guest ofhonor, Mr. Tilson. Frank M. Lynch was chairman of the committee in charge of the banquetand presentation ceremonies.

United States Senator Metcalf MadeMember of Providence, R. L, Lodge

Providence, R. L, Lodge, No. 14, recentlyinducted into membership United States Senator Jesse H. Metcalf, before a gathering ofbetween eight hundred and a thousand Elks,the largest assemblage ever known to the Lodgeand one including many notable members ofthe Order and men prominent in public affairs.A distinguished participant in the initiationc.'remonies was George W. Denton, member oft.le Grand I^odge Ritualistic Committee. Senator Metcalf, one of a class of thirty candidates,received during the evening a telegram ofcongratulation from Vice-President CharlesCurtis and a letter of welcome from Past GrandExalted Ruler Charles H. Grakelow. A banquet

and a_ program of entertainment followed thereception of the new members into the Lodge.In attendance were District Deputy GrandExalted Rul^r Hugh T. McNeill of Massachusetts; Mayor James E. Dunne of Providence;Judge James E. Dooley, and General JosephFitzpatrick.

JFashington, Pa., Lodge CelebratesTwenty-Eighth Anniversary

Before nine District Deputy Grand ExaltedRulers and 400 members of the Order, representing twenty-seven Lodges, Washington, Pa.,Lodge, No. 776, celebrated recently its twenty-eighth anniversary. As a part of the evening'sprogram, the ofBcers of No. 776, assisted by a^pup from Wheeling, W. Va., Lodge, No. 28,initiated a class of candidates. Entertainmentwas provided later by a group of dancers and bymembers of the Department of Music of theWashington Seminary.

Southwest District Association ofPennsylvania Elects Officers

At the annual election of officers of thePennsylvania, Southwest, Elks Association, heldat Allegheny Lodge, No. 339, recently, thefollowing were elected to serve for the ensuingyear: President, A. J. Gerard, Knoxville Lodge,No. 119C; Vice-president, James M. Kelly,Sheraden Lodge, No. 949. The Associationre-elected Secretary Charles S. Brown of Allegheny Lodge, No. 339; and Treasurer WilliamT. Love of Canonsburg Lodge, No. 846.

Canal Zone Elks Give Bon VoyageBanquet to Richard M. Davies

Upon the eve of his departure for the GrandLodge Convention in Atlantic City in the dualcapacity of Representative of Panama CanalZone Lodge, No. 1414, and of member of the

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Grand Lodge Auditing Committee, the officersand members of Cristobal, C. Z., Lodge, No.1542, tendered a farewell banquet a short timeago to Past District Deputy Grand ExaltedRuler Richard M. Davies. Many Elks prominent in No. 1414 also attended the affair in tokenof wishing Mr. Davies a pleasant journey.

Palo Alto, Cal., Lodge BandEntertains Veterans

The Elks band of Palo Alto, Calif., Lodge,No. 1471, under the direction of the Social andCommunity Welfare Committee, entertainedrecently the inmates of the United StatesVeterans' Hospital at Palo Alto. A monthlyseries of these concerts has been given by theband of No. 1471 assisted by the Berkeley, SanMateo, Oakland, San Jose, Salinas and SantaCruz Lodge bands.

Member Gives Freeport, N. y., LodgeFlag Which Crossed South Pole

Upon his return from theAntarctic,where he hadspent two years with Admiral Byrd's expedition,Sergeant Benjamin Roth presented to his Lodge,Freeport, N. Y., No. 1253, an American flagwhich had been carried over the South Pole onthe famous flight of his commander. The flag,together with a letter from Admiral Byrd attesting to the fact that it had crossed the earth'ssouthernmost point, will be framed and hung inthe Home of No. 1253.

Lake Worth, Fla., Lodge is ActiveIn Community and Fraternal Affairs

Both in community and fraternal affairs LakeWorth, Fla., Lodge, No. 1530, has recently beenespecially active. Among its efforts early in thesummer was the organization of a baseball teamfor competition in the county league. This willgive an opportunity to the citizens of Lake

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Past Exalted Ruler Vincent Ellsworth {at the extreme right) and his Sfven brothers, all oftvhom were recently made members of Monongahela, Pa., Lodge, No. 455

Jefferson. During the forenoon preceding theprogram honoring the anniversary ol thecountry's emblem, Mr. Andrews placed a wreathon Jefferson's tomb and visited the home ofPresident James Monroe, a building now anational shrine." The Flag Day ceremonieswere conducted under the auspices of Char-lottesville Lodge, No. 389, and presided over byits Exalted Ruler, Stuart S. Rothwell. Thefull text of Mr. Andrews's address was publishedin the July issue of the Magazine.

Ladies' Club Presents HandsomeBible to Berwick, Pa., Lodge

The Council Cup Chapter, Delphian Society,an organization of prominent women, presentedrecently to Ber^^•ick, Pa., Lodge, No. 1138, aBible, handsomely bound. The Lodge has forthe last three years given over to the use of theseladies a room in the Home; and it was in tokenof their appreciation of this courtesy that theygave the Bible to the Lodge.

Bronx, N. Y., Lodge Gives OutingTo 650 Crippled Children

The annual Crippled Children's Outing provided by Bronx, N. Y., Lodge, No. 871, recently,proved one of the most successful of this seriesof holidays lor helpless youngsters. Six hundred and fifty little guests, in charge of thirtynurses from the Lincoln Hospital, were entertained on a long steamboat ride which gave

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them glimpses of most of Manhattan Island,the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Coney Island, andthe Statue of Liberty. Lunch was served onthe trip and special diversion presented byprofessional clowns, magicians, ventriloquistsand other performers. Members of the Lodgecalled for the children in the morning anddrove them to the Elks Home. While waitingfor the start an orchestra played for the youngsters. From tliere the boys and girls were carried in a score of sight-seeing buses to the pierat West 129th Street and the Hudson River.Buses and automobiles owned by membersconveyed the yoimgsters home upon their return from their voyage down the bay. Theouting was in charge of a committee headed byPast Exalted Ruler Edgar Hirschberg.

Boys'Harmonica Band ofMt. Vemon,N. Y., Lodge Gives Two Concerts

The Boys' Harmonica Band sponsored byMount Vemon, N. Y., Lodge, No. 842, gaverecently two concerts which won unusual manifestations of appreciation. The first was a program for the inmates of the St. Agnes' Hospitalfor Crippled Children, at White Plains. Thesecond concert was one for the WestchesterCounty Grand Jurors Association, upon the occasion of its dinner at the Home of Moimt \'er-non Lodge.

Bronx, N. Y., Lodge Degree Team IsPresented Championship Cup

Matthew J. Merritt, Vice-President of theNew York State Elks Association and Chairmanof its Drill Team Committee, presented to BronxLodge, No. 871, at a recent meeting, the Championship Cup and Trophy which its drill teamhad won at the Association convention in Niagara Falls a short time before. This is thethird consecutive time the Bronx Lodge teamhas been victorious. A number of delegatesfrom Queens Borough Lodge, No. 878, whoseDrill Team gained second place in the competition, attended the presentation ceremonies.

Lodges Warned Against Impostor WithCard of Napa, Calif, Lodge Member

Charles Schenkmeyer, member No. 687 ofNapa, Calif., Lodge, No. 832, has requested theMagazine to warn the Secretaries of otherLodges against anyone who may present hismembership card. This, together with Mr.Schenkmeyer's watch, watch chain, elk's toothand other efTects, recently was stolen from histailoring establishment in Sacramento.

Worth to see games on Thursday, a half-holidayin the district. The Lodge has also appointed acommittee to meet \vith one of the Chamber ofCommerce for the purpose of modernizing theequipment of the local motion picture theatre;and it is sponsoring a boys' harmonica band. Afraternal event promising exceptional interest isLake Worth Lodge's projected entertainment ofthe members of West Palm Beach Lodge, No.1352.

New Past Exalted Rulers AssociationFor New Yoik, East, Formed

District Deputy Grand Kxalted Ruler LouisA. Fisher was clccted President recently of thenew Past Exalted Rulers Association of NewYork, East, which was formed a short time before at Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 842. Thei^sociation named Past Exalted Ruler Paul J.Miller, of Poughkeepsie Lodge, No, 275, asSecretary-Treasurer.

Detroit, Mich., Elks Entertain 1,400Orphans and School Children

1,400 orphans and school children, from fifteencity institutions, were entertained by the Elksof Detroit, Mich., Lodge, No. 34, recently in theauditorium of the Cass Technical High School.Among the features of the day's program weretwelve acts of pageantry, in which most of thechildren took part; vocal selections by the policequartette; and a picnic lunch of ice cream, cakeand candy. For over thirty years Detroit Lodgehas sponsored this annual event.

Elks of Northwest PennsylvaniaHave Fund to Aid Students

The Pennsylvania, Northwest, Elks .Association announced recently the readiness for functioning of its Students' Aid Fund. Subscriptions to this at present amount to about $1,500,and it will be dispensed in helping worthy students who have had two years in higher institutions of learning to complete their courses. Theorganization administering the fund will operateunder a charter issued tlu-ough the VenangoCounty Court.

Easton, Pa., Lodge Celebrates ItsTwentj'Sixth Anniversary

Easton, Pa., Lodge, No. 121, celebrated ashort time ago the twenty-sixth anniversaryof its institution. The program of entertainment arranged in observance of the eventcomprised a luncheon and a card party for ladiesin the afternoon; and a vaudeville show and adance in the evening, all of which were thoroughly enjoyed.

Grand Exalted Ruler DecoratesJefferson's Tomb, on Flag Day

Grand Exalted Ruler Walter P. .Andrewsdelivered on June 14 the principal speech at theFlag Day exercises held jointly by all the Lodgesin Virginia at Monticello, the home of Thomas The West Virginia State Elks Association Hospital for Crippled Children, at Martmsburg

Altoona, Pa., Elks EntertainMembers of Nearby Lodges

As a stimulus to fraternal activity during thesummer, Altoona, Pa., Lodge, No. 102, inaugurated recently a series of stag parties to which anumber of nearby Lodges were invited. Thefirst was attended in gratifying numbers. Theaffair began with a soft-shell crab supper andincluded later a program of boxing bouts andother entertainment.

Memorial to Past Grand ExaltedRuler Sammis Dedicated

In the presence of the members of Le Mars,Iowa, Lodge, No. 428, of Mrs. Sammis, her sonand daughter, and many family, business andpersonal friends, the dedication and unveiling ofthe memorial to Past Grand Exalted Ruler JamesU. Sammis was performed with simplicity anddignity a short time ago in the city cemetery atI^ Mars. Dr. C. A. Mock delivered the invocation and benediction; and Charles A. Wemli,Past Exalted Ruler of Le Mars Lodge, theeulogy. Exalted Ruler Joe M. Kass, also ofNo. 428, then introduced Past Exalted RulerH. B. Maynard, of Waterloo Lodge, No. 290,Chairman of the Grand Lodge Committee onthe Memorial to Past Grand Exalted RulerJames U. Sammis. Mr. Maynard made thededicatory address. At the close of this, Exalted Ruler Kass and other members of Le MarsLodge unveiled the memorial. This is a tabletin bronzeset in a base of marble and bearing thefollowing inscription: "1863-1927, James UriahSammis: The Grand Lodge of the Benevolentand Protective Order of Elks of the United Statesof America dedicates this tablet in commemoration of his distinguished services to the Order,for many years in its Coimcil and in 1909 as itsChief Executive."

Son. Diego, Calif., Lodge DedicatesNew Home on Fortieth Anniversary

On the fortieth anniversary of its institutionand in the presence of seven hundred Elks,representing more than thirty Lodges, Sanpiego, Calif., Lodge, No. 168, dedicated recentlyIts magnificent new Home. The dedicatoryexercises, occurring on the second day of aweek's program of events in observance of theoccasion, were presided over l)y Past ExaltedRuler Michael F. Shannon, of Los AngelesLodge, No. 99. His staff of officers for the ceremonies comprised seventeen Past ExaltedRulers of the San Diego Elks. Mr. Shannonlater addressed the gathering, congratulatingSan Diego Lodge upon its contributions to the

Order since its institution and unon hem erectmg so solendid a ^ successits future® endtroS OttS T'"Past Exalted Ruler Eucene Da? weremember; and Exalted Ruler Robert Mof San Diego Lodge NotahS»program which ensued were anew pipe organ the sift tn t imembers; afd thrren^tiin Sand voc^ selectb^s An f flater, a buffet suppedHome foUowed the formal e^^S^^Onday belore that fixed for the SPi On thethe Homewasopened to

events^f the^e^en day^smoker and entertainmTnf were aan athletic and a^seS^nt^.r^'^

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for the entire period ofIts run was estimated at 6,000. The enStai?ment consisted of six fi^st-class drcus Lets"among the performers being one extreSpopular uuth the children, Baby Nemo, asStrained elephant. Many Lodges in western

fo? Elkir^^ cooperated with the New Kensington Elks by sendmg delegations to the circuson special mghts. Represented among tneaudience mthe course of the circus were SJmbers

T^^ ' hburg. Apollo, Wilkinsburg,p®'ConnellsviUe, Kittanninf;

towli h '' Sheny, Etna, Union-r Altoona Lodges,

fjpr?. f Kensington assisted in lur-thering the venture by placing a generousnaneT advertising in the news-^^3 \ particularly prominentPast Exalted Rulers' Night. Upon the latteroccaspn ^e Lodge was host to the newsboys ofthe New Kensmgton Daily Dispatch, which hadlent its columns freely to publicizing theevent.

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An event of importance during the circus'sstay in the city was the sending of Baby Nemoto perform before the inmates of St. Anthony'sOrphanage, twelve miles from New Kensington.Interest in the circus was promoted before itsopening by a popularity contest for youngwomen employees of a score of local businessestablishments and by dropping from an airplane a number of envelopes which, whenreturned to circus headquarters, entitled thebearer to a gold cash award or a ticket for theentire run of the show.

Renovo Lodge Host to Elks ofNorth Central Pennsylvania

Two hundred members of the Pennsylvania,North Central, Elks Association gatliered recently for their regular quarterly nseetihg at thenew §25,000 summer Home of Renovo Lodge,No- 334- This number represents an increaseof nearly seven times that of a year ago, whenthirty Elks belonging to the Association assembled. An important part of the conventionwas the election of officers for the coming year.C. Gordon Hay, Ridgway Lodge, No. 872, waschosen President; Gilbert Hagenbuch, BerwickLodge, No. 1138, Vice-President; Russell S.Stout, Renovo Lodge, Treasurer; and WilliamB. Waite, Milton Lodge, No. 913, Secretary.The_ Association selected Berwick as the placefor its September meeting. After the businesssession Renovo Lodge gave a banquet for thevisitors. At this the guests of honor were JohnF. Nugent, Vice-President; M. F. Home, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; and Ralph M.Robinson, Chairman of the Credentials Committee, of the Pennsylvania State Elks Association.

Paterson, N. Lodge ProvidesOuting for Orphans

A throng of children requiring fifty-sevenautomobiles to transport was recently conducted out of the city and into East Side Parkby members of Paterson, N. J., Lodge, No. 60,for the Lodge's annual Orphans' Outing. Atthe park entertainment was provided by theband of No. 60, and by a vaudeville show, anda picnic lunch served. At the conclusion of theouting each youngster was given a present bythe Lodge. The girls received wrist watchesand the boys military brushes.

Huge Entertainment Provided atSanitarium by Pawtuchet, R. I., Lodge

Using three large stages upon which were runthree acts simultaneously, the Social and Community Welfare Committee of Pawtucket,R. I., Lodge, No. 920, recently entertainedseveral hundred patients of the State sanitarium for tuberculosis at Wallum Lake. Itwas declared to be one of the most spectacularpresentations in the ten years since the inauguration of this annual event. On the stages,placed outdoors in front of their differentwards, more than 260 entertainers periormed inrotation before an audience compo.=;ed of theinmates and the many visitors who had come asguests of the Lodge. At the conclusion of theprograms the Lodge gave each of the child-patients an American flag. Upon tlieir returnto the city, the actors were the guests of theSocial and Community Welfare Committee at alunch served in the auditorium of the ElksHome.

'i'liQ memorial to Past GrandExalted RulerJanies Uriah Sammis, unveiled and dedicatedrecently m the city cemetery at Le Mars, Iowa

New Jersey Crippled Children'sCommittee Head at Bayonne Lodge

Joseph G. Buch, General Chairman of theCrippled Children's Committee of the NewJersey State Elks Association, recently attendeda breakfast given by the Crippled Children'sCommittee of Bayonne Lodge, No. 434. In hisaddress to the members of the Lodge gatheredtherefor the occasion, Mr. Buch paid a tributeto the thoroughgoing and efficient work beingdone by them for the alleviation of sufferingamong crippled youngsters. Several monthsago Mr. Buch was appointed by PresidentHoover to serve as a member of the WhiteHouse Conference on Child Health and Protection.

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The highly proficient Degree Team of Evanston, III., Lodge, No. 1316

Grand Esteemed Leading KnightGuest at Jersey City, N. J., Lodge

In the presence of Grand Esteemed LeadingKnight William Conklin, 126 candidates, constituting the largest class in ten years, wereinitiated by Jersey City, N. J., Lodge, No. 211,at a recent meeting. In honor of the presence ofthe distinguished guest, the occasion was designated as "Bill Conklin Night." Before theLodge session 300 members of the Lodge escortedMr. Conklin through the streets of Jersey Cityin a parade, led by a band of sixty pieces. Atthe Home, later, the Grand Esteemed LeadingKnight delivered an inspiring address. After thesession a dinner was served and entertainmentprovided by professional performers.

Red Bank, N. J., Elks BreakGround for New Home

On the site where the new Home of RedBank, N. J., Lodge No. 233, will stand manyrnembers of the Lodge gathered recently to participate in the ceremonies of breaking the ground.Short talks were made by Past Vice-PresidcntCharles Wibiralski, of the New Jersey State ElksAssociation; Exalted Ruler Fred A. Ellison andAugustus M. Minton, Chairman of the Board ofTrustees since the institution of Red BankLodge. The new Home will cost appro.ximately$200,000.

Elks at Eau Claire, fF^is., PresentBenefit Showfor Tornado Victims

In cooperation with a theatre in that city, themembers of Eau Claire, Wis., Lodge, No. 402,recently organized and presented a benefit showfor the relief of the seventy families of the community made destitute by a tornado a shorttime before. Admission to witness the performance took the form of contributions of non-perishable food-stuffs, of which forty bushelbaskets were collected. These supplies weretransported to the headquarters of the RedCross by trucks lent free of charge by a coal

merchant of Eau Claire, and were sorted anddistributed later by members of the Lodge,assisted by volunteer workers from the CatholicWomen's Club and the Girl Scouts of St.Patrick's Church.

Long Beach, Calif, Elks InitiateClass at Santa Ana Lodge Home

The olTicers and a number of other members ofLong Beach, Calif., Lodge, No. 888, visitedSanta Ana Lodge, No. 794, recently and thereconducted initiatory exercises. This is one of aseries of exchanges of fraternal calls planned bythe Long Beach Elks. They have arranged,for a time soon after their owTii visit to SantaAna Lodge, to act as hosts to a delegation ofmembers of Whittier Lodge, No. 1258.

Joint Picnic of Minneapolis, Minn.,And St. Paul Lodges a Big Success

So thoroughly enjoyed by the thousand persons who attended it was the joint picnic heldrecently by St. Paul, Minn., No. 59, and Minneapolis, No. 44, Lodges, that it was planned immediately after the affair to make it an annualinstitution with the two Lodges. The festivitiesincluded an elaborate luncheon, a series of nearlythirty contests, including a golf tournament anda ball game; and a splendid dinner. G. Smith,of St. Paul Lodge, won the competition on thelinks; and the Minneapolis Elks proved superiorin the ball game.

Wallace, Ida., Elks Guests of ButteLodge on Their Way to Convention

In the course of their journey to attend theconvention of the Idaho State Elks Associationat Pocatello, the Drum Corps and the delegatesof Wallace Lodge, No. 331, were the guests ofthe members of Butte, Mont., Lodge, No. 240.The Wallace Elks were met at the railroadstation and escorted from there to the ButteCountry Club, where a splendid dinner wasserved. They were, when they departed, unani

mous in ex-pressing their appreciation of theirenjoyment of the hospitality of the members ofButte Lodge.

"Edgar T. Reed Night" ObservedBy Union Hill, N. J., Elks

President Edgar T. Reed, of the New JerseyState Elks Association, was a guest at a recentmeeting of Union Hill Lodge, No. 1357, an eventnamed in his honor "Edgar T. Reed Night."Vice-President Harry McGill and a largedelegation from Perth Amboy Lodge, No. 784,accompanied President Reed. After the businesssession the Elks of No. 1357 provided theirguests with entertainment and supper.

Five Lodges Hold Joint MeetingAt Mobile, Ala., Elks Home

.\t a joint meeting of fiveLodges, held recentlyin the Home of Mobile, Ala., Lodge, No. 108, asingularly good program of speeches and musicwas enjoyed by the large attendance. Thesession opened with short talks by the ExaltedRulers of the five Lodges participating in theevent. They were C. Q. Carman, Mobile Lodge;Thomas A. Johnson, Pensacola, Fla., Lodge, No.497; H. Wambsgans, Biloxi, Miss., Lodge, No.606; C. H. Castenera, Gulfport, Miss., Lodge,No. 978, and C. A. Carrier, Pascagoula, Miss.,Lodge, No. 1120. Mayor Harry T. Hartwell ofMobile welcomed the visiting Elks on behalf ofthe city and Judge Tisdale J. Touart, also of^lobile, delivered the principal address of theevening. Musical numbers were provided by achorus of thirty-eight members, accompaniedby the Mobile SjTnphony Orchestra. Precedingthese ceremonies a banquet was tendered thevisiting Elks and their ladies at the CawthornHotel.

San Pedro, Calif, Lodge ObservesTwenty-fifth Anniversary

At a dinner-dance, attended by 150 membersand their guests, San Pedro, Calif., Lodge. No.966, celebrated recently its twenty-fifth anniversary. One of the important events of theevening was the presentation of life memberships to the eleven remaining charter membersof the Lodge. The ceremonies were performedby Exalted Ruler Fred Smitli. Those to receivethis distinction were B, F. Davis, Sr., CharlesDreifus, John Guodie, J. S. Gwaltney, E. B.Scott, Richard Quinn, Joseph Horgan, John E.Logan, Lazard Lippmann, C. Henry Olsen andJoe A. Weldt.

Reno, Nev., Lodge Has *'DaysOf '49'* Celebration

A unique and attractive celebration was enjoyed by the members of Reno, Nev., Lodge, No.597, and their guests recently when the Homewas decorated to represent the days of the '49gold rush. The fete, which lasted two days,was opened by a parade of bands, cowboys, andmany old-time stage coaches driven by mendressed in the costumes of the period. Severalrooms of the Home were arranged like old-fashioned dance halls where the spirit of thewild west was carried out to perfection.

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Two glimpses of the outlook at sunset from the Home ofAgana, Guam, Lodge, No. 1281

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News of the State AssociationsReports of Many Annual Conventions

Iowa

IN SPITE of rain that fell at inopportiinetimes, the silver amuversaxy convention ofthe Iowa State Elks Association, held early

in Jime at Fort Dodge, proved one of the mostsuccessful in the last quarter-century. Businesssessions were not called until the second day,the opening events being a number of sportingcontests during the first morning and afternoon,a banquet in the evening at the WahkonsaHotel, followed by boxing bouts and, later, adance. In the golf tournament and trap shoots,the representatives of Fort Dodge Lodge, No.306, were prominent. Their squad won theteam championship, and one of its members,S. T. Thompson, was first in the medal play.In match play, Dr. G. Earl Hermance, ofMarshaUtown Lodge, No. 312, defeated M. E.Hamilton, of Fort Dodge Lodge, one up, forthe individual championship. The entrants ofFort Dodge Lodge in the team competition intxap shooting were victorious, although manyindividual prizes went to the marlumen ofWebster City Lodge, No. 302. Upon the dayfollowing these sports, the first formal meetingof the convention was held, with PresidentB. B. Himter in the chair. Among the reportssubmitted at this session was that of the IowaElks Scholarship Fund. It made known thegratifying fact that forty-eight scholarship loanshad been made up to the time of reporting.The big outdoor picnic, attended by 900 E1&and members of their families, took place in theafternoon. It was during this that a downpourof rain came, forcing the festivities bade fromthe grounds at Cofim's Point to the shelter ofthe Home of Fort Dodge Lodge, where theywere continued with no loss of spirit and enjoyment. The third and final day was devotedto memorial services, conducted by the Rev.Fa^er J. J. Keane; to a ritualistic contest,which w^ won by Fort Dodge Lodge; and tothe election of officers. Those chosen to directthe affairs of the Association for the comingyear were Clyde E. Jones, Ottximwa Lodge,No.347, President; Sam W.Hirschl, Davenport^dge, No. 298, FirstVice-President; J. LeRoyNichols, Clinton Lodge, No. 199, Second Vice-President;Wilton J. Moore, Fort Dodge Lodge,Third Vice-President; L. D. Ross, CedarRapids Lodge, No. 251, Secretary; J. J. Barton,Fort Dodge Lodge; A. Henigbaum, DavenportI^dge; R. E. Johnson, MarshaUtown Lodge,No. 312, Trustees; and R. E. White, OttumwaLodge; Henry Louis, Iowa City Lodge, No.590; and E.H.Johnson, Trustees of the Foimdai-tion Fxmd.

Mississippiy^ELEGATES and a host of other "F-llfc

representing fifteen Lodges in the State,gatherM recentlv at the aimual convention ofme Mississippi State Elks Association, held inClarksdale, and coincidentally with the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of1-odge No. 977 there. Prominent among theresolutions adopted during the business sessionswas one recommending that every Lodge inthe State give at least one benefit show a yearT?ii . purpose of raising funds to support the.^Iks unit for tuberculosis patients at McGehee.At the election of officers, William Estopmal,oulfport Lodge, No. 978, was re-elected Presi-

Others chosen were W. G. Paxton,V' ^l^burg Lodge, No. 95, Fu^t Vice-President;c Causey, Hattiesburg Lodge, No. 599,Second Vice-President; W. B.Wilkes, Greenvme•LjOdge, No. 148, Secretary-Treasurer, a rejection; E. L. Fontaine, Clarksdale Lodge,

fo'* tlieNorthern District ofMississippi;and C. H. Castenera, Gulfport Lodge, Trustee•J Southern District. The convention de-aded upon Hattiesburg as the place of meeting

next year, and the third Tuesdav and Wednesday of May as the time. The celebration of thearnyal of the quarter-century mark in the lifeof Clarksdale Lodge was held at the Moon Lake

by the Oar^ffe ffieh ^ afternoonbarbecue in the evening attSd ^

SrSSSiSHo*? thfciS

North Dakota

teSt S activity. In-fSSer bv «T, heightened^^er by an opportumty presented to the

to x^tness the hSldhig of a crippled^dren's chnic. This was conducted bvDrhSSTofficer^ ' f^ assistance of thek wS Kilboume; and

courtesy of Sam

Past PrMMpn^r Association; andPMt President Curtis P. Brown. Mr. Stem, inG. Owens,

^ duties as Chiefthe Federal Farm Board, presided atSL? of ^e convention. Attendance atwas exceUent. Large delegations from

?ho2n f present. Officers^o^n for the year now beginning were NormanPresident; Sam

T f' Vice-President; George T.Kjchmond, Jamestown Lodge. No 00c Sprrptary; William Broderick, WiUiston L?^e, No

Doyan, Devil'sLake Lodge, No. 1216, Trustee for three years,ii. K. Jensen, Mandan Lodge, No. 1256, wasconned Chairman of the Committeeon Cnppl^ Children. Fargo was selected asthe place of the convention nextyear.

Nebraska'T*HE Nebraska State Elks Association, at its

twentieth annual convention, held in Yorkfor ^e ^ys dumg the middle of June,decided to increase its efforts this coming yearm behalf of the crippled children of the State.

became manifest at the opening event of^e ^semblage, a banquet at the McCloudHotel, attended by one hundred Elks, comprising officers of the Association, delegates to theconvention and visiting members of the Order.At thedinner, Judge George F. Corcoran, toast-master, first introduced Charles A. McCloud,seniol- Past Exalted Ruler of York Lodge, No.1024, and Trustee of the Association, who welcomed the out of town guests to the city and tothe Lodge. C. A. Laughlin, President of theAssociation, responded for the visitors. Afteran interlude of community singing, Charles A.Goss, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ofNebraska, the principal speaker of the evening,delivered an address upon the history and theaccomplishments of the State. There followedan illustrated lecture by J. R. Jewel, head ofthe Rehabilitation Division and Supervisor ofthe State Departmentof Vocational Education,upon the treatment and training for self-supportof crippled children. An important part of thislecture was the depiction of the work done atBeatrice this year by the Nebraska State ElksAssociation. Dr. C. P. Fall, of Beatrice, oneof the surgeons who had conducted the clinicthereand Allen H. Mann, employed by theAssociation to ofiake a personal canvass of

success. For definite action in furthering thiswelfare enterprise, August Schneider, PastPresident of the As^ciation, and now Chairmanof its Crippled Children's Committee, called a

meeting of the group he heads immediatelyafter the conclusion of the banquet. The otherguests then repaired to the Lodge Home for asocial period. The following morning the hretof the Association's business sessions was held,with another in the afternoon at which officersfor the coming year were elected. Those chc«enwere Howard W. Loomis, Fremont Lodge, No.514, President; WalterC.Nelson, Omaha ^age>No. 39, First Vice-President; A. E. Wood,Lincoln Lodge, No. 80, Second Vice-Pres^ent,L. L. Turpin, Omaha Lodge, Secretary;. Fra^Real, McCook Lodge, No. 1434, Treasurer; C.A. McCloud, York Lodge, Chairman of _theBoard of Trustees; and William Gregorwus,Columbus Lodge, No. 1195, and C. A. Laughlin,Grand Island Lodge, No. 604, Trustees. Otherofficers, appointed by the newly elected president, were the Rev. T. Porter Bennet, YorkLodge, Chaplain; Thomas S. Fielding, AllianceLodge, No. 961, Tiler; and Elmer Johnson,Omaha Lodge, Sergeant-at-Arms. The afternoon of the second day was devoted to spjort^a golf tournament, won by the team pf YorkLodge; and a tennis tournament. While th«ewere in progress the ladies who accompamedElks to the convention were entertained at acard party and tea. In the evening, LincomLodge defeated Omaha Lodge in the ritualisticcontest for the Charles A. McCloud cup. Nme-teen candidates were initiated during theseexercises. A buffet supper closed the evening sevents. The business session the followingmorning witnessed the installation of the newofficers and arrival at the decision to hold the1931 convention in Omaha. In the afternooncame the grand parade, headed by the band ofthe 134th Infantry and including several Lodgebands. The Elks musical organizations latergathered at the East Hill baseball park for aband contest. First place in this was won bythe Omaha Elks Band. The York LodgeMilitary Band was second. The grand ball,the concluding event of the convention^ andattended by both delegates and other visitors,tookplace in the evening at the Assembly Hall,with the members of York Lodge acting as hosts.

MichiganpRAND TRUSTEE JOHN K. BURCH,^ D. Curtis Gano, of the State AssociationCommittee of the Grand Lodge; and over 300delegates, representing forty-nine Lodges, attended the twenty-fifth annual convention ofthe Michigan State Elks Association held inHancock recently. A well planned program ofentertainment was successfully carried out inconjunction with the business sessions of theconvention. On Sunday, the day after theopening of the convention, short talks werebroadcast over the radio by Mr. Burch, Mr.Gano, and byofficers of the State Association ^dof Hancock Lodge, No. 381. When the conventionopened officially on Monday, Mayor NormanD. Starrett, of Hancock, delivered an address ofwelcome on behalf of the city; and ExaltedRuler George M. Waldie expressed the greetingsof the Lodge. The election of officers followed.The Association named Amiel J. Toupin, Mar-quette Lodge, No. 405, as President to succeedWilliam Dickson Brown; George C. Ackers,Manistee Lodge, No. 250, as First Vice-President; B. P. White, of Detroit Lodge, No. 34.as Second Vice-President; and Frank C. Condon-of Hancock Lodge as Third Vice-President.Edward E. Nolan, of Lansing Lodge, No. 196,was re-elected Secretary; and Patrick H. Close,Jackson Lodge, No. 113,was re-elected Treasurer.For Trustee, the Association chose Earl Lein-inger, Ishpeming Lodge, No. 447. Before tliesession adjourned for the day it was voted tohold the 1931 convention in South Haven.That night a bo.xing match was held at theamphidrome in Houghton. The next day,Tuesday, there was a ritualistic contest, amongthe teams of Manistee, Muskegon, Jackson andCalumet Lodges. First place was won by

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The Quest of the Thunderbus{Continued from page27)

impolite retort, when Queenie arrived with theapplejack,

"Better give his nibs a few drops of this,"he said, handing the bottle to Sheila. "Hedoesn't look it, but he's still alive. Just dozing.And you, Queenie, race up to the house andphone Henry Gay to bring his car at once."

"Why not Dennis?" asked Sheila."Not at all," said Jerry. "We always send

our guests home in taxicabs. Rim along, Queenie,and do as I tell you.'!

Pleased to be found useful, the huge girllifted her blimp-like legs in a fair imitation ofa trotting elephant.

"A splendid docile wife for somebody,"murmured Sheila. Then she turned to ther^mbent Beauregard, who groaned and openedhis eyes and, seeing her approaching with thebottle, managed to sit up and open his mouthalso.

"What happened?" he asked, a bit weakly."Ouch, my chin!"

"Don't try to talk," said Sheila. "You'vejust been saved from drowning."

Beauregard shivered."My chin hurts," he complained." You're lucky to be able to feel pain," said

Sheila. "Here, swallow some of this to warmyou up. And then sit up and thank our Mr.Ma.Ywell for saving your life. If he hadn't beenlurking about in the water I don't know whatmight have happened. I'd have had to pullyou out myself, I guess."

"Why doesmy chin hurt?" askedBeauregard,fretfully. " My whole jaw hurts when I moveit."

"Better not move it then," Sheila suggested."It hurts because our Mr. Maxwell socked it.He was enraged because we broke in on histSte-i-t6te and lashed out at the fet rhin hesaw. It might have been mine "

Beauregard took another lengthy swig fromthe bottle and looked from Sheila to Jerry witha puzzled frown.

"Don't understan'," hesaid,"I mean t'say—ow—my jaw." He massaged his mandible.Then another thought occurred to him and heglared at Sheila. "^Tiat you turn the boatover for, eh? Silly trick."

angry with her," put in Jerry,ohe didn't do it on purpose. She lost her heai

that's all."Sheila shot him a quick look."That'll cost you something," she said,

significantly."Charge it to my account," said Jerry, with

a grin. "I still owe you a few."The appearance of Mrs. Carey and Queenie

plloping down the hillchecked thisexchange ofhostilities. The former, puffing, but still inpod voice, dominated the situation by sheerforce of lung power.

" My lands," shebellowed, "you're all soakin'.1-ook at you. Miss Sheila, look at Lord Beauregard! Look at you, Mr. Ma.xwell. Teeth allchatterin'. Come up to the house andgetwarmby the stove. You're all over goose-pimples.You 11 catch your death o' cold. Come up and

I'll make you some coffee."She did not wait for an answer to her invita

tion but, wping the perspiration from herback of her hand, started

"^ck toward the house on the run.Go ah^d," Jerry ordered Sheila. "You're

frozen. I'll see to his nibs.""You may needhelp," saidSheila.Jerry wentover to Beauregard, who was still

on the ground, propped against a rock, rubbinghis chm with one hand and clutching thebottiemth the other. At Jenys approach, he took

tucked the bottleback. It washalf empty.

Whatyouwant? " heinquired thicklyFeeling better?" asked Jerry.None of your business."

"Don't besurly, Charles," said Sheila. "Getup and come with us."

"Not me," said Lord Beauregard, eyeing hersuspiciously. o > ^ 6

"P house," said Jerry toWm Queenie both. I can handle

"Please don't be rough," saidSheila.Don't worry. I won't hurt him!"

"No^ T asked Sheila,passed out" ® ^ut he

3-

^ and the snoringGay ^ HenrySlifjeS^^ It was Sheila

^'^ed him."nw? ^c^ticagam? " heasked her.«go' tbeapig,"saidshe.

What will you have?""Want todo something for me?""For instance?""You are a pig."

like me to do?"the wayyou feel aboutit."

" MissCarmichaelwasnot in.FilHna?-c ^ himself, "that's that."

the garden andfi? ' agamst the gate, thinkinga;ternoon. It seemed tShun that the whole busmess had beenabout as

purposeful as an old-fashioned custard-piecomedy; a scrambled series of episodes thatmade no sense whatever. If they had any bearing on hisown situation, it was too obscure for^ to gr^p The only things that stood outdefinitely m his mmd were that at the momenthe WM not mfavor %vith Sheila and thatQueenie,siinple soul, was aninfernal nuisance. Notonly^d she precipitated the afternoon's crazydomgs byinsisting ongoing swimming with himbutafterwards, m the kitchen, while they werewarmmg themselves by the stove with Mrs.Carey s coffee, she hadembarrassed him horriblybefore Sheila by repeatedly declaring him to bea hero. And Sheila, of course, had slyly eggedher on and laughed at his discomfiture.

Occupied thus, with thoughts more ruefult^n otherwise, Jerry was presently roused fromhis brooding-by the arrival of a sleek motor carwhich shd to a silent stop across the road.Dennis was at the wheel, and, seeing Jerry,touched hiscap. Sheila, appearing not to noticemm, spoke a few words to the chauffeur andstrode off toward the cove.

Dennisgot out of the car, crossed the road andaddressed Jerry.

"Hello, Dennis. How's the world?""All right, sir, thank you." He paused and

aUowed the bare suspicion of a smile to illuminehis professional gravity. "I have a message foryou, Mr. Maxwell. Miss Carmichael directs meto ask you to be good enough not to follow herdown to the water. She has come for her boatand expressly wishes you to know that she doesnot need any help."

"Those her exact words, Dennis?""They are, sir," said the man,Jerry chuckled."Much obliged, Dennis."Thrustmg lus pipe into his pocket without

bothering to knock out the ashes, he loped inthe direction the girl had taken. She was fussing with the outboard motor when he reachedher and did not look up. She had changed intodry clothes—a khaki shirt and skirt, with shortwoolen socks and moccasins—and had on arakish French blue beret, which set off the goldentan of her complexion.

Jerry watched her in silence while she competently drained out the carburetor and the gastank, deaned and dried the spark plugs andtightened the connections, humming to herselfas she worked, ostensibly oblivious to his presence. After a little she began to talk, to herself,but loud enough for Jerry to hear.

The Elks Magazine"That young Mr. IMaxwell," she said,"is the

rudest, most self-centered person I have evermet. At first I thought he was rather nice. Iquite liked him at first. He looks like a gentleman. It just shows you can't judge by appearances, We try to be decent to him and invitehim to play golf with us, but he prefers to ^s\vimming with Queenie. So he can show off,I suppose. He knows she's easily impressed.She thinks he's a great man. .V hero, no leM.It must be great to be called a hero shebrokeoffas Jerry, no longer able to contain Wi""self, burst into laughter so loud that she couldnot possibly ignore it.

"You were eavesdropping," she accused him."Why did jou follow me? Didn't Dennis giveyou my message?"

"He did, but ""You decided to force yourself on me. Is

that it? ""No. I thought you might change your

mind—about needing help.""Well, I haven't." She picked up the inotor

in one hand and in the other a gallon tin ofgasoline she had brought, and started to carrythem to the boat.

"Give me that engine," said Jerry."Go away," said she, holding on to it."Give it to me," he insisted."Go away," she repeated. "I don't like you.""Will you give me this motor, or ""You can't bully me. Go away."In the middle of this conflict, Queenie bore

down on them."Yoo-hoo, Mr. Maxwell," she yodelled,

"supper! Supper's ready, Mr. Maxwell."Jerry looked at the large girl and then at

SheUa."Tell your mother," said he to Queenie, "I'm

sorry, but I won't be home for supper.""All right. Mister," said Queenie, a trifle

downcast, "I'll tell her." She trudged off."Aren't you taking a good deal for granted?"

asked Sheila."Yes," said Jerry. "Do you mind?""Terribly," said she—but she smiled as she

said it.

CHAPTER XII

'T'HAT night, Jerry went to bed elated. Notonly had his evening wth the Carmichaels

been delightful, but, he felt, it had been profitable as well. For the first time since he had mether. Sheila stopped fencing uith him andseemed to go out of her way to be agreeable.WTiether or not this change in her attitude wasattributable to the absence of Beauregard, hecould not tell. All he knew was that she wasthe most beautiful, most provocative, mostpiquant and most desirable girl he had everhoped to meet.

Seeming to catch her mood, Sheila's fatheralso was in gay and genial humor, talking ofbooks, of art, of the industrial age, of golf andmotor cars and the state of the world in general.

When at last he got up to leave, Jerry agreedreadily that next day, when he was to bringover his license plates and take the Lancia, hewould bring his golf bag, stay to lunch andspend the afternoon on the links.

It was not only this pleasant prospect, however, that caused his elation, but the fact thathe had made up his mind what to do. ThingsMr. Carmichael had said about the Old Thunder-bus had given him an idea. From it there hadsuddenly emerged what seemed to be a solutionto his problems.

The plan Jerry had conceived was relativelysimple. The more he considered it and weighedits chances of success, the better he liked it.Briefly, the plot was as follows:

After dinner he had referred casually to theOld Thunderbus and asked Mr. Carmichaelif the weird little vehicle could still run. Mr.Carmichael, who was very proud of the machine,said not only that it certainly would run, butthat it would run indefinitely. When Jerry expressed mild doubt on that point, the oldgentleman added that not only would the carstill run, but that he would back it for reliabilityagainst any cheap modern one, such as theComet, for example. It might not be veryspeedy, he admitted, but he would wager anyreasonable sum that he could drive it to Bostonand back, a matter of some two hundred mileseach way, without once having to stop for repairs.

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The Quest of the Thunderbus{Contimied from page 52)

Jeny did not want to seem impolite, he said,or to cast aspersions on Mr. Carmichael's mechanical kno-.vledge, but he would lay the oldgentleman a thousand dollars, even money,that the Thunderbus wouldn't run to Bostoneven one way, without a breakdown, let llonethere and back. W'hereupon his host retortedthat he would give him two to one on theproposition. To which Jerr\' said "done," butadded that it would be like stealing penniesfrom a blind man's dog's tin cup.

A date for this test could not be definitelyset at the time, said Mr. Carmichael, because hewas working on an important experiment whichmight take from a week to a fortnight, but assoon as he was through with that, he would tuneup the Old Thunderbus and make Jerry athousand dollars poorer.

Though he had not started the discussion ofthe ancient car's capabilities uith malice aforethought, Jerry was quick to perceive that atrial run, such as Mr. Carmichael proposed,would give him the \-er>' opportunity he hadhoped for to get the machine in his possession.When the>- were on the road, it would be aneasy matter, once the car had been put in somegarage for the night, to have it loaded onto afast truck and driven to his father's warehousein New York.

_Jerr\- realized that when Mr. Carmichael firstdiscovered what had been done to him, he wouldbe fit to be tied. He was convinced, however,that after the old gentleman's initial anger hadburned itself out, sportsmanship and a sense ofhumor would induce him to take his defeatgracefully. \^'hatever rancor remained, Jerrytold himself, he could probably dispel by playing his remaining trump, the exposure of Beau-regard. For that ser\-ice alone Mr. Carmichaelshould be willing to forgive him the theft of theold car. Jerry was ignorant of Beauregard'sreasons for being on the scene, but he wassatisfied that they were highly felonious.

Meanwhile, he decided, he would make himself as agreeable to Sheila and her father aspossible, on the theor>' that if they liked himthey would be more ready to forgi\-e him whenthe time came to draw upon their clemency.

It was not without certain twinges of conscience that Jerry determined to carty throughhis scheme. The action of winning the Carmichael's friendship in order later to betray itwas not an appealing one. In fact it seemed apretty shabby trick to contemplate. On theother hand, he sincerely believed himself to bean agent of justice. He reminded himself that,after all, in restoring the Old Thunderbus to itsrightful owner, he would be committing nocrime. Having originally acquired the car bythe simple ex-pedient of refusing to surrender itMr. Carmichael had retained it by right ofpossession only. And if he lost it to Jerrv, hissole valid complaint could be that the youngman had outwitted him.

pSrandltoS dellTf th"pected her of laughing at him. E^t^Sin'tSre"were moments in which she was very nice- and

Ms'h^S. te had buiit up£)URTNGtheIast week or so, however he had

H-xSiSFiS

knockS'LroSf S\tunch 0had not alLren\'blow t ' Ssdignity; ,t had made his jaw ache for davshi^ Status

prStii anH , ':ooding over his waningboS^it un he could do tohrwi ^ ^™rd thatsirtlShim w telephone. The newsbrSllIn?V ® imagine who wouldMaxwell young

lUJoisitP-'heasked.sir " rLhed'fwf Portland calling,?Jt?" ^ maid. "Shall I say you are

"No, no," said he hastily. "I'll talk to them "

XnT 'lf agitation he went to the tele-be Jnk- -vr Portland on the wire, it couldDened h"7" ^°"^^^hing must have hap-ES bSl.''''' " <" his partner,

"Hello, hello." ^

a a moment of confused cross-talk,TW ^ c^cks and buzzes.Then thevoice ofMeaney.

is tS'vAn>° Stinkpot,Well IJct ' Fred. Can you hear me?Well, listen, Stmkpot, is it hot up there? What'

yo" hear me? Well,vl! ^ coming up to see you. What say?Thpr»>^°" 1, ^^•I ^ ooming anyway.There s a hotel, am t there? I'll go to the

to-night. About six."V\ itha muttered curse. Lord Beauregard hungup the receiver. What the devil did the silktool want to come nosing around for? Thing's

being in theneighborhood to complicate them. He knewpromise to keep in the back

ground butjikely_ as not he'd appear at theCarrmchaels and invite himself to meals. Apnme bungler, Meaney was. Bull in a chiiiashop.

Inwardly raging, Beauregard pulled on a capand set out for a solitary walk.

CH.\PTER Xm

I.

'PEN days after his involuntan,- plunge intothe cold Maine water—since which ex

perience he had steadfastlv declined all invita-tions to go boating—Mr, Alfred Walter Grisgsto the Carmichaels known as Lord Beauregard?atalone at the luncheon table, gloomily readinga day-old \ork newspaper.

Things had not been going any too well forhim of late. Mr. Carmichael, with whom he

f ? workmg quite steadily every morningmtheiahoratorj', had been increasingly captiousand canning. Sheila, though she was unfaiWlypolite to him, was too much in the companvof the newcomer, young Maxwell. The latterby re^on of superior prowess atgolf, swimmingand the management of boats, was undermining)us influence in the household.

-Maxv.-ei! had come on the scene—with that confounded dog, Lancelot, foreverat his heels—the outlook had been fairly brightSheila had not been so polite then, perhaps,but she had at least seemed interested. She hadbeen willing to uaik with him and talk ^vith himand had taken him for dri\es and put up withhis wretched attempts at golf, m other words,he had felt himself making progress with her.

_ It was not only his lordship who was troubledm spirit. The redoubtable Queenie also feltlow m her mind.

When the charming Mr. Maxwell had takenup residence in her mother's house, the blimp-hke girl had naively hoped to captivate him.Wealthy, according to village gossip, good-looking and, by his own admission, a writer forthe_ screen, he reprpsented to her all that wasdesirable in a member of the oppo.=ite sex. Withsublime confidence in her own power to attract,she had entertained visions—colored bv scenesshe had witnessed in the movies—of romanticmoments spent with him, culminating finally'" a regular seventh-reel climax featuring amidnight elopement in a high-powered car, orpossibly an airplane, pursued by her father anda posse, firing revolvers.

For the first few days he had not paid muchattention to her, but when, at last, he had consented to take her swimming, she had believedhe was beginning to fall under her spell. Then

The Elks Magazinehad come Miss Carmichael and her boat andMr. Maxwell's heroic rescue of the flounderingLord Beauregard. Since which time, she,Queenie, had seen the gentleman of her heartonly at breakfasts. For he had acquired thehabit of jumping into his car e\ er)- morning andshooting off in the direction of the Carmichaelestate, returning each night after she and herfamily had gone to bed. Not only that, butLancelot, her own dog, had forsaken her to gowith him. It was very hard.

Almostas much as by the fact that Mr._ Jlax-well had abandoned her for !Miss Carmichael,Queenie was worried by his evident abandonment of his work. Where were those stoneshe had begun to write on his arrival, those stonesthat would become movies and in which, she hadfondly hoped, his influence was to have assuredher of important r6les? He had promised to lether read what he wrote. But now he wasmaking no pretense at writing. And he didn teven want to talk about it.

That very morning she had asked him, atbreakfast, when he was going to have a storyfinished, so that she could see it and he Iwdlooked kind of red and said he didn't know. Hehad seemed in a great hurrj' to get away, gulpinghis coffee and rushing off %vithout even waitingfor Lancelot to jump into the front seat withhim as usual. She had tried to call the dogback when he started running after the car, buthe hadn't listened to her. _ .,

"Why don't he write somestories like he sMdhe would?" she complained, as she helped hermother clear the table.

"Why don't you mind your owtt. business,daughter?" Mrs. Carey observed.

"I can wonder, can't I?" she inquired rebel-liously.

Not only could she wonder, but she did. Shewondered so steadily all morning that by earlyafternoon she could stand it no longer. Forbidden, since the episode of the plus-fours, toenter Jerry's room, even to n\ake the bed, shehad succumbed onl)' twice to the temptationto go in and rummage through his things. Onboth of these occasions her visits had been briefbecause of her fear of being caught. Each timeshe had stolen a small object, a handkerchiefand a necktie, and hurriedly crept out, secretingher booty in her own room. But cach time shehad wished for the chance to examine^ all luspossessions at leisure. She longed especially toget her hands on his manuscripts.

At last, on this particular afternoon, theop-portunit}' had come. ^Irs. Carey had gone tothe village, marketing. Queenie had the houseto herself. She went into Jerry's room andlooked through the papers on his table. Theyj-ielded nothing of interest. She turned nextto the dresser. The two upper drawers werelocked—a minor obstacle inasmuch as the keyof her own dresser, a duplicate, would openthem. Eagerly, like a terrier digging at a rabbit-hole, the huge girl scrabbled the contents of onedrawer. Finding that it contained nothing butsocks and handkerchiefs, she dived irito theother. There, under a tangle of neckties, herfmgers met and closed upon a small leather object. Jerry's pocketbook.

The sound of a car coming along the roadthrew her in a momentary panic. Swiftly slipping her prize into the bosom of her dress, shelocked the drawers, left the room and ran downstairs. Fearing to inspect her loot in the house,she crossed the road and, quivering with excitement, made her way down to the cove, where,after looking around for possible obser\-ers, shesat in the shadow of a large rock and drew forththe swag.

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It happened, however, that Queenie had notcome to the cove unobserved. Stalking along atrail through a nearby patch of woods, his mindoccupied with his troubles, Beauregard. whofrom long habit always kept one eye cocked forpotential danger, caught a glimpse of the ^rl asshe started down the hill. Not feeling in themood for conversation of the brand he felt shewould offer, he crouched behind a huge fallentree, from which point of vantage he could seewithout being seen. He was annoyed, at first,that she had halted the train of his thoughts.But the furtive manner in which she looked abouther before sitting down aroused his interest,lividcntly, he thought, she was up to some secret

{Continued on page 56)

August, 1930

You'd like to be in this man's shoes ...

yet he has "ATHLETE'S FOOT"J

A YACHT, the graceful lines of whichare as well known on Narragansctt

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The Quest of the Thunderbus{Continuedfrom page 54)

miscliief. Watching keenly while she took thepocketbook from her dress and, after lookingaround once more, began to open it, the thoughtoccurred to him that it might be useful to havethis girl in his power. As she slipped her fingersinto a compartment of the wallet, Beauregardstepped quietly from his hiding-place.

"What have you got there? " he asked, sternly.With a squeal of terror, the unfortunate

Queenie tried to hide her booty behind her back."Nothin'," she said."Yes you have," said Beauregard, "I saw it.

Give it to me."Queenie whimpered. "It's only an old pocket-

book. I found it—up on the road.""In that case," said he, "there's.no harm in

letting me see it. Hand it over.""I will not.""You'd better," insisted his lordship, "if

you don't want to get into trouble."Queenie looked around wildly. There was no

heh in sight."I'll tell my pop on you," she threatened

weakly. ' *My pop's the sheriff ""Oh,noyou won't, mygirl,"said Beauregard,

"but I'll tell him on you. Come along, now, besensible and hand over that pocketbook."

Thoroughly frightened, the wretched girlobeyed.

"Please don't tell Pop on me," she begged."I'll see," said Beauregard, snatching the

wallet. With agile fingers, he explored its recesses, disappointment showing on his face ashe found the open compartments empty. Therestill remainedone, fgistened with a snap. Opening this, he discovered a little bundle of newspaper clippings. On unfolding them his eyesgleamed and he emitted a low whistie.

The clippings borie photographs of Jerry.And under the photographs was the followinglegend:

"Mr. Jerome Marshall, of Magdelen College,who won his match yesterday against Mr. J. B.C. Keating in the Oxford-Cambridge tournament. Mr. Marshall is the son of Mr. JosephP. Marshall, the well-known American motorcar magnate."

"Holy Aunt Maria!" ejaculated Lord Beauregard.

"What is it?" asked Queenie."Never you mind," said the other, folding

the clippings carefully and tucking them in hispocket. "Lookhere, mygirl,"hesaid, handingher the enipty wallet. '' Canyoukeepa secret?"

Yes, sir," averred Queenie."Well then, promise not to say anything

about this and I won't say anything to yourfather."

"Yes, sir. But—" she hesitated. "Whatabout them papers? "

"You haven't seen any papers. Put thewalletback where you foundit and say nothineUnderstand?" ^

IICan't I see "em?""No. TW wouldn't interest you anyway.

We thought fora moment andeyed hersolemnly,inen, producmg some money from his waistcoatptKket, heselected a ten dollar bUl and dangled

^ " he asked.Vi Queenie, taking the bill

Ss mmd ^ ^chance to changewatched the grotesque girl

l!ni disappeared over the crest of the^il, then sat on a rock and reread the captionunder Jerry s picture. "Son of old MarshaU,to' 1; 1. usedto be Carmichaels partner. Pots o' money.<-om^ up here mcog. What for? What's the

lordship lit a cigarette, inhaleddeeply and, speculating over his newly ac-quir<^ mformation and how best to use it idlvwatched a flock of gulls that were squ^wSand screaming overhead. Presently he sSup and stretched and chuckled. "Thinks he'sclever, do^ he?" he said to himself. "Thinks

he? Thinks hecan badger old Carmichael into giving him aneasy chance to sneak that old car for his father,eh! That s what he's up to, the sneaky youngblighter. They 11 glad to know that, theywill. Worth something to 'em to know that.Won t that pretty ladgo out on his ear, though iWon t he lust! Him and his Rolf and his swim-

a,"oest? TS?at'L?go?d\nf wStill she sees these dinninirc qk«.ii j

so fa.t you

shikel^^S ?a mdhonaire and would be good for atouch—and then, after he had forked out ex^into nis mmd, Beauregard laughed alotiH TtVBB amaster-stroke. The belK i? wal'thS

shaking down himself He

independently.Ihus, notonly would he, Beauregard keen clearof aiwssible blackmailing charge if the attemnt

^ly cWe, should faU; bSHlso he 3dskin incase the prospective victim hat>-pened to cut up rough. The memory of wSto his

He looked at his watch. Half-past threeM^ey would probably arrive in Waterboro

Nearly w ZSBea^reLrH^»H K telephoned,SfSS? V thought ofn^omng. Now, however, he began to look

in the sooner could be setwiSe Mr M to eliminatew ® fiT^-^I^^^^^hall, from the pic-Jith the mtruder out of the way, it

'^hich he, himself, hadoriginally come to Mame.

CHAPTER XIV

expectations were bub-Beauregard, Jerry and

froS tW » objiteratmg the traces of lunchSaw ^ surroundmgs. It had been a quite

r Jorapicnic, requiring extensiveafto^ard^"^ considerable K. P. activity

Though there seemed to be every outwardchirpy, Jerry had

been morose all morning. It was not the,^at was perfect. A heavy fog,which had rolled m from the ocean overnight,

threatenmg for a time toforce a change in theirdays pl^ had conveniently lifted with theveermg ofthewmd, and thesky, though cloudy,held no hmt of storm. There was afresh breeze,made to order for saiUng and the sea, while byno ineans rough, was choppy enough to call forCMeM navigation. Nor was it the programmewmch oppressed hhn, for that, too,wasperfect-a day on the water, alone with Sheila.

On one other occasion only, during the pastten days, had he spent the entire day with heralone. Every other day, for part of the timeatleast, either Beauregard, or Mr. Carmichael,or both had been present. Once, all four hadgone for a picnic at an isolated cabin back inthe hills which local legend reputed to behaunted. Anotherafternoonthey had all drivendownto PemaquidPoint,a rockypromontory afew miles down the coast, where they hadfished in the surf. Most mornings, while Carmichael and Beauregard worked in the laboratory, Jeny and Sheila had played golf, atwhich they were joined, after lunch, by theother two. Under Sheila's urging that he teachher the finer points of the game, Jerry abandoned all pretense of working, asserting, whenshe taxed him wth laziness, that he had gonestale and needed a rest. On the links they nearlycame to blows. To bedevil him, Sheila pretended at first to be incapable of grasping theprinciples he expounded and demonstrated,supposedly for the benefit of her game, and dideverything %vTong. Then, when she had madehim thoroughly exasperated and out of patienceand on the point of murdering her with a niblick,she suddenly dropped her poseof stupidity andproceeded to play a brand 01 golf that approached

The Elks Magazinethe mechanical precision of his own. Re-proacTied for having deliberately made a foolof him, she confessed to having been taught, asa little girl, by Walter Travis, a close friend ofher father's, and having also been coached,from time to time, by professionals.

"I wanted to see if you had a temper," shesaid cheerfully. "And I'm glad you have. 1was afraid you might be one of those awfulpeople who never get mad."

"Temper!" said Jerry. "You're lucky to bestill alive. I'm a terrible man when I'm roused.Five minutes more and I'd have broken a clubover your little bean. Temper, eh? You bet.I inherited it—" he broke off sharply. Itwould be unwise to bring his father into theconversation, even anonymously.

" Greatoldboy, WalterTravis," he remarked."An old peach," said Sheila, feelingly.

"Shame he had to die."A strange girl, thought Jerry. One moment

flippant, mischievous, full of irreverence; thenext, moist-eyed at the memory of a childhoodfriend. She baffled him—and fascinated him.He couldn't tell whether she really liked him ornot, or whether she really liked Beauregard ornot. It seemed to him that she treated thempretty much alike.

On this particular morning, their second dayalone together, conditions, as has already beensaid, were ideal. That is to say, the physicalconditions were. But though it seemed sheeringratitude to harbor the blue devils of melancholy on such a day, Jerrj' could not overcomehis depresfcion of spirit. For ever since malunghis decision to effect the theft of the OldThunderbus during the course of ite reliabilityrun, he had been eaten, as the saying goes, byanticipatory remorse. The more he conten^plated the act, the more indecent it appearedto him. And as he hoisted the mains'l 01Sheila's boat he made up his mind, grirnly,that when they had had lunch he wouldconfessall and be prepared to take the consequences.

About three miles off shore was a curious rockknown as Devil's Reef, a fortj'^-foot column 01which the top was barely visible at high tide.The waters adjacent being an excellent fishinggroimd. Sheila and Jerry headed for the reef,tied up to a nearby lobster buoy and threw overa couple of lines, baited mth clams.

Sitting on the gunwale of the little sloop,gently bobbing his fish-line up and down, anempty pipe between his teeth, Jerry breatheddeeply on the salty air and suffered exquisiteagonies. In his highly sensitized state, he^ waskeenly alive to the stark beauty of his environment; the shifting cloud-patterns in the vastsky, the patting of the waves against the boa^the gem-like islands crowned with dark andstately spruce, the cries of sea-birds and theleisurely flight of a far-off heron. _It was all sotranquU, in contrast to his own inner turmoil,that it actually hurt. He wished he were a dogand could throw back his head, point his muzzleto the heavens and frankly and unrestrainedlyhowl. But more keenly than anything elsewas he conscious of the nearness of Sheila. Outof the comer of his eye he could see her, theloveliest sight of all, slim and brown and cooland detached, fearfully detached—and unattainable. There she sat, a magic figure in afaded blue sailor suit that matched her eyes,humming softly to herself and looking at himas if she did not see him.- "If she doesn't like me," he pondered, ' whydoes she want me to be wth her? Is she plajangmeagainstBeauregard—andplayinghim agamstme? She can't be as cold-blooded as that.Certainly she can't have any feeling for thatawful specimen. But she's as nice to him asshe is to me—well, perhaps not quite, lately.But still—oh, what's the use? I'll have to getbut, that's all. Tell her who I am and why Icameand get out, and stop being a damn fool.He clamped his jaws so tight that the stern ofhis pipe, weakened by previous gnawing,snapped and the bowl fell overboard.

"Curse," he exclaimed, as the briar bobbedabout on the water, eluding his attempt tosalvage it with a boat-hook.

"Savage this morning, aren't we?' saidSheila, smiling.

Jerry grinned ruefully."My favorite," he said."That's the worst of possessions. One gets

attached to them. If we're going to catch any{Continued on page 58)

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58

The Quest of the Thunderbus(Conlinued from page 56)

fish you'd better have a look at your hook. I'dhave mentioned it before, but I didn't want todisturb you. You seemed miles away."

"I wasn't. I was thinking " he stopped.He had begun to say he had been thinking abouther. "By George," he exclaimed, hastily pullingin his line, " they've swiped my bait, the devils."

"Little fellows probably," remarked Sheila."They got mine, too. When the small'onesnibble, you can't even feel 'em half the time.Throw me a clam, will you? "

They baited their hooks again and put outtheir lines. Jerry felt a strike almost immediately and hauled in a viciously squirming dogfish, a species of shark, which he despatchedwith a well-aimed blow on the head. Thisinitial unprofitable catch disposed of, the two,between them, managed to hook upwards of adozen useful feh, cunners and small rock cod.At the end of an hour, they untied and headedfor an island, a mile or so further out, wherethere was safe anchorage for the sloop. Theywent ashore, with their supplies, in the dory.

While Sheila skinned and cleaned their fish,Jerry built a great fire of driftwood in a hollowof the rocks and, when there was a glowing bedof embers, piled on several armfuls of wet seaweed. Into the latter, at Sheila's direction, heplaced dams that had been dug for them thatmorning on the mainland. Then he built asmaller fire on which to boil water for coffeeand to cook the fish.

As they worked, Jerry's spirits rose somewhat.To balance a coffee pot and a frying pan on astove improvised from stones requires concentration. For a time he was too busy for brooding. Not only that, but there is somethingabout the combined aromas of coffee and crispning bacon and the fragrance of wood-smoke thattends to banish depression. At last the clamswere ready, the fish lay demurely in the pan andJerry, like a condemned man fadng hb finalbreakfast, fell to, determined to live for themoment and enjoy it, even if it turned out tobe the last moment he was ever to enjoy.

There is a vast difference between the clamof commerce and the clam which has been dug,feebly protesting, only an hour or two beforehe is to be eaten. There is a difference, also, between the clam which has been cooked in thesteam of mere water and the clam which hasbeen cooked in the steam of fresh-picked seaweed heated over a drift-wood fire. Until youhave tasted the latter, you have never reallytasted clams in their apogee. They have a flavorthat it would be not only futile, but presumptuous, to attempt to describe. The first one surprises the palate, which demands a second inorder to authenticate its sensations. Afterthat, you simply go on eating and marveling.When you have negotiated three or four dozenand have followed them down with a couple ofplump young just-caught fish, crisply fried,together with hardtack, coffee and a few home-[ aked cookies, you do not take kindly to theidea of undergoing a self-imposed martyrdom.

Before lunch, Jerry had told himself that afterthe meal he would pull himself together, tellSheila everything, beg forgiveness for havingdeceived her and bow his head to the inevitable.But when lunch was over and the last dam hadbeen ferreted out of the sea-weed and the lastcwmb of the last cookie had beencrunched, hefelt his resolutions ooze away. Try as he wouldto force himself into the ordeal, he lacked thepower of will. Every fibre of his clam-stuffedbeing cned out against his making^ the effort.

"Coward," said his consdence, "do it nowwhile you have the opportunity. Be a man!Do it now and take your medicine."

"No, no," shrieked Inclination, "not now.To-day is too perfect. Don't spoil it. Waittill to-morrow."

The debate was short and was won by In-clmation. He decided to wait until to-morrow.Upon this dedsion, the last vestige of hisgloom

mingled with the smoke of his dgarette and disappeared in the breeze. He knew he was beingweak, but he didn't care.

They spent the afternoon in exploring theisland, which was upwards of a mile in extentand densely wooded. Somewhere, in thethickest part of the woods. Sheila said, therewas a large heronry. If Jerry had never seenone, he would find it interesting. They setforth in search of it, but though they could hearthe hoarse cries of the young birds, they wandered through thickets and underbrush for twohours withoutlocatinga single nest. At length,following an old trail which seemed as if it wouldlead them to the other side of the island, theycame into the open at the exact spot fromwhich they had started.

"I don't seem to be much of a guide," saidSheila, laughing

"I think you're a marvelous guide," saidJerrywarmly. "In factI thinkyou're altogethermarvelous." The words siippedout.

Sheila colored and looked away."Good heavens," she exclaimed, "if wedon't

get off we'll be aground." She began to runand Jeny ran after her. The tide was nearlyten feet lower than when they had arrived.By dint of fast work theygot aboardwhile therewas stiU water enough to float them out of theanchorage.

" minded so terribly ifwehad been stranded?" asked Jerry, whenthey were dear of the rocky little bay.

"Yes.""Why?""Because.""Would your father have minded? "^addy never minds anything I do."oPy*?" thinking ofBeauregard, eh?"bneila did not answer."Were you?""Perhaps.""Were you?" he persisted.Again she did not answer."You like Beauregard pretty well, don'tyou?"

I m not on the witness stand.""Do you?""I prefernot to say."'IYou do," hesaid, accusingly.

You are being very rude," she said. "Youwere quite unbearable this morning and nowyou re being unbearable again.'

"But Sheila ""I don't want to talk to you," said she,

turmng her back on him.Jerry bit his lip, furious with himself. Why

had he beensucha fool? He had had no right toqu^tionher. Why hadn'thekept his resolutionandmade himself come out into the open, hoursago, as he had planned—gotten it over with,one way or another?

"Sheila," he said, "I've gotsomething to tellyou. Something very important—"

"I don't careto hearit," saidshe.He opened hismouthandshut it again. There

was no use in making his confession while she wasm thismood. Byto-morrow, perhaps, shewouldhave relented.

"I'm sorry I said what I did."She did not acknowledge the apology.."If you don't want to put a hole through this

boat, you'd better watchyour course,"she said,coolly.

Jerry took this rebuke in silence. They wereout in the channel now, but at low tide it wasnarrow and tricky. When Sheilaspoke they wereheading for a submerged reef that would havenpped the keelcleanoffthe sloop. Ashe veeredsharply, mbsing this hazard only by inches,Jerry felt like an utter ass and Sheila's expression did nothing to alleviate the feeling. Shelooked very superior and critical—at least shedid to him—and the knowledge that he hadgivenher cause to look superiorand critical madehim angry not alonewith himself, but with her.

The Elks Magazinetoo. For the next half hour, he tried not to lookat her.

It was Sheila who spoke first."Our Mr. Maxwell certainly is a morose

devil," she obser\'ed, addressing the universe."But I suppose writers are like that.''

Jerry said nothing."It's temperament," went on Sheila, "that's

what it is. Artistic temperament. A prettyname for a wretched disposition."

Jerry began to grin. This was Sheila's way ofletting him know that he was forgiven for previous trespasses.

"We cannot seem to cope with the artistictemperament at all. We take Mr. Maxwell outin our boat and fill him to the eyes with richfoods and show him lovely islands, thinking toplease him. But is he pleased? Is he grateful?No. He tries to wreck our boat, and when wemake a suggestion to him he sulks. That's temperament for you. Thank Heaven we haven'tany of it."

"Oh, look here,' put in Jerr>% "that's a bitthick. You have more than any girl I everknew."

Sheila looked at him as if she did not see himand continued to address the universe in general.

"We've been wanting to ask him a favor, butthere's probably no use. He's such a meanhound "

"If he knew what it was he might grant it,"said Jerry, and added, "that is, if he were askednicely."

"I wonder.""\Vhatisit?"This time she looked at him as if she did see

him. She looked at him very studyingly, if thereis such a word.

"Don't make Daddy go through with that bet.That trial run."

Jerry took a deep breath."Why?""It would hurt him to lose.""You think he would?""Of course. It's ridiculous. The Old Thun

derbus wouldn't run from here to the villagewithout breaking down."

"No. Not being an amphibian, I don't suppose it would."

"You know what I mean. Don't try to befacetious."

"I'm not. I'm being literal.""That's worse."Jerry steadied the tiller with his knee while he

lit a cigarette. "Your father built that car,didn't he?"

"Well?""He ought to know whether it will run or not.

He thought it would the other night. He thoughtso two thousand dollars' worth. I didn't thinkit would run—not to Boston and back, anyway.That's why I bet him. But I think you'rewrong about it hurting him to lose. He's abetter sport than you give him credit for."

"Not at all. Daddy's the best sport in theworld. I know that. But it would hurt lumjust the same. Not losing the bet, but losingfaith in the Thunderbus. He loves that old car.It was the best thing on wheels in its day. Allthese years he's been kidding himself that hecould run it any distance, any time he wanted to.It makes him happy to think so. It would makehim miserable if the old thing let him down.Don'tyou see?"

"I see that you want me to call off the stunt.But I don't agree with your reasoning. I don'tbelieve there's anyone less in need of shieldingthan your father. If ever any man could takecare of himself—"

"All right," said Sheila coldly, "you refuse.We'll let it go at that."

"Oh Lord," groaned Jerry softly. Then, toSheila: "Please don't be angry. I'll call it off.I'U do anything that will please you."

The girl looked at him unpassively."There's nothing you can do to please me,

thanks. Absolutely notliing.""So it seems," said Jerry. But he said it to

himself.{To be conclitded)

seventy-year old yachting rivalry between Englandand the United States willcome to trial again in September. Be sure not to miss James B. Connolly's

timely review of the contests past and present, called "The Quest of Sir Thomas,'in September, Also thestoryof Earl Sande, "A BigLittle Man,' byJack O'DonnelL

August, 1930 59

The Grand Lodge Convention in Atlantic City(Conlimiedfrom page 37)

offered the following resolution, which wasunanimously adopted:

"RESOLVED: That the appropriation of830,000, made by the Grand Lodge at this sessionto the American Legion Building, Paris, Inc.. bepaid out of the excess earnings of The ElksMagazine turned over to the Grand Lodge at thissession."

Mr. Andrews then passed the gavel to PastGrand Exalted Ruler Joseph T. Fanning, whorecognized Grand Esteemed Leading EInightWiUiam Conklin. Mr. Conklin offered the following resolution:

"RESOLVED: That the Committee on StateAssociations be instructed to take \mder consideration and further the interest of producing'Better Parades' at our National Conventions inaccordance with the rules and r^ulations setforth in the attached booklet issued by the NewJersey State Elks Association, attached herewith."

This was unanimously adopted.Past Grand Exalted Ruler Bruce A. Campbell

then requested the privilege of the floor for amoment. Advancing to the microphone, heannounced that Past Grand ExaJted RulerFanning, charter member and senior IPastExalted Ruler of Indianopolis, Ind., Lodge No.13, was entering into his fiftieth year of GrandLodge membership, a record which he doubtedwas excelled, or even equalled by any other Elk.He then asked the Grand Lodge, by a rising vote,to instruct the Grand Secretaty to record thisfact in the minutes of the session. This wasdone, to the accompaniment of enthusiasticapplause.

Grand Chaplain Dysart then introduced thefollowing resolution, which was adopted by arising vote:

WHEREAS the Sixty-sixth Session of the GrandLodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order ofElks of the U. S. A. is now being brought to aclose, after a most successful and enjoyable meeting, terminating as it does a year of toe and lastingattainment for the Order, under the gracious andactive leadership of Hon. Walter P. Andrews asGrand Exalted Ruler, who has unspsjingly givenhimself to the conscientious performance of thefar-reach^ and exactingdutiesof a distinguished,and at times onerous position, entailing as it didthousands of miles of travel undertaken atalmost in defianceof health and strength, as Lodgesin every State of the Union were visited; aind

WHEREAS this Grand Lo^e, and the Orderatlarge, are deeply appreciative of t^ year ofsplendid devotionto duty,and indefatigable"activi^on the part of its belov^ leader, therefore be it

persons; Distribution of Christmas and Thanksgiving baskets; Assistance to Boy Scouts and otherorganizations: Establishment of night schools incitizenship; Red Cross work; AmericanizationProgram: Assistance to persons afflicted wthchronic diseases.

(c) Membership and Lapsation Committees.Separate committees on membership and lapsation should be appointed in each State Association to work in connection with the subordinateLodge committees, appointed for the same purpose,and with the Grand Lodge Good of the OrderCommittee.

Dcielopmeut of a State-wide Benevolent or Edttca-tioml Program. The third principal activityof a State Association should be the developmentof a state-wide benevolent or educational program.The adoption of this program should be consideredwith the greatest care, and no steps should be takento commit the State Association to a program thatwill be more extensive than its resources will permit, or involve it in a large capital outlay withno adequate means for continuing annucd expenses,bearing in mind that a State Association has nopower to raise funds except by voluntary contributions of the Lodges forming its membership.State-wide programs already adopted by variousState Associations, and which are now in successfuloperation, include work for crippled and underprivileged children, establishment of scholarships,and loan funds for needy students, the care ofjHjrsons suffering from disease, and assistance toblind and disabled children and adults. Jn noneof the programs already adopted is there indudedthe erection and maintenance of hospital buildingsor other permanent structures, and the work issuccessfully conducted on a yearly basis within thecurrent resources of the various State Associations.Interruptions or discontinuance of the work byreason of changing conditions within the Association would not discredit the Organization or causeany ^rious loss of prestige as would be the effectin the event it would be necessary to close down apermanent institution.Your committee takes pleasure in presenting here

with a complete list of the State Associations \rithinteresting data regarding their respective organizations. There are 44 Associations in which 1256subordinate Lodges are affiliated. These Associationshad a gross revenue last year of $89,014.73, withexpenses of $68,903.51.

Following the vote on the above report,Frank J. Lonergan, of Portland, Ore., LodgeNo. 142, moved a rising vote of thanks for theirhospitality and appreciation of their splendidefforts, to the State of New Jersey, to AtlanticCity L^dge, No. 276, to Grand Esquire HarryBacharach and to the press of Atlantic City,which vote was enthusiastically accorded.

Past Grand Exalted Ruler Fred Harper now

RESOLVED: That this Grand Lodge, availingitself of the opportunity, most happily gives expression to'its deep and abiding sense of gratitudeand appreciation to Brother Walter P. Andrews forhis outstanding and memorable service, invariablyrendered in a spirit of brotherly love, and withthe charming coiurtesy so characteristic of the chivalrous SoutUand of which he is a distingvushed son,and to assure him that his year of service as GrandExalted Ruler will be long recalled as a delightfulone, and to bespeak for him and- his charmingand gradous wife, many long and enjoyable years,in whici the heaven-sent blessings of health,happiness and material good shall richly attendthem as the years come and go; and be it further

RESOLVED: That the Board of GrandTrustees be and are hereby authorized and directedto purchase and present to Brother Andrews asuitable and appropriate token of the sincereaffection and high regard in which he is held, andwhich may in the future years recall the joys ofhis service as it brings to him the continued assurance of the love and best wishes of the greatBrotherhood he has so splendidly, and gradouslyserved: and that a copy of these resolutions,artistically engrossed and appropriately bo\md,accompany this token of appredation.

Before returning the gavel to Mr. Andrews,Mr. Fanning spoke of the splendid Grand Lodgeattendance, saying that he believed there were alarger number present than on the final dayof any other previous Grand Lodge Convention.

Mr. Andrews now made a brief and movingvaledictory in which he spoke of the satisfactionhe had derived from the year of ofl&ce which hadgiven him the opportunity to spread throughout:the country his concept of the true spirit ofElkdom. Speaking of the incoming GrandExalted Ruler, he paid tribute to Mr. Rupp'squalities of heart and mind, and expressed hisconfidence in and hope for a year of great growthand process by the Order. He complimentedhis District Deputies UF>on their almost 100%attendance at t^e Convention, and upon theirdevoted and able work during the year.

Then followed a greeting to Grand ExaltedRuler-Elect Rupp in the form of a song especiallycomposed for the occasion and sung by theoctette of Allentown Lodge, and the installationof the new ofl&cers, conducted by Past GrandExalted Rxiler Charles H. Grakelow. Presentedby Mr. Andrews, the new Grand Exalted Rulerspoke of his hopes for the coming year and of hisconception of the place and the possibilities offraternity in the daUy life of men.

Following the closing ode, the Grand Lodgeadjourned to meet again, in 1931, at Seattle,Wash., during the week of July 5.

Blood of a Foreign Crew{Continuedfrom page xi)

current, the stem pivoting on the stem of theboat below it. The gap of water between it andthe Larsen boat on the other side began to narrow swiftly. Fifteen feet, and Frank got to hisfeet. Ten feet, and he crouched. Five feet, andhe leaped, hip boots, oilskins and sdl. He struckthe deck of the Larsen boat, sprang again inwhat was almost a bounce, landed on the dock—and Ansil's bellows stopped.

'T^HE scuffle was a short one, finished by thetime Hans had arrived to help him. For Ansil,

confident of his superiorheight and weight, hadfailed to reckon upon the cold fury of Frank'sattack. He swimg his fists, but Frank chargedthrough them. He staggered backward and fell,with Frank on top. Then up jumped Frank, hishands gripping Ansil's coat. A quick heave, andAnsil rolled off the edge of the dock to drop witha mighty splash into the chilly water just asternof his boat.

"Now," said Frank, straightening up andlooking aroimd. "Anyone else got anything tosay?"

No one answered. There was no soimd savethat of Ansil's threshing in the water below.

"Any of you over there?" Frank shot acrossthe creek.

Still no word. The men just stood, watching.Then Frank shmgged his shoulders.

"All right," he said, a crooked smile twisting

Cruel, that taunt. Frankie was the namehis mother had used when he was small, andwhen Ansil Larsen drawled it—Frank straightened up slowly, the stem line still in his hands.His face was still white, but his dark eyes wereblazing with a light that was anything but fear.

"No, I'm not seasick!" he shouted across thecreek.

"Well now, that's my mistake," drawledAnsil, his eyes almost ludden behind his highcheeks as his grin broadened. "That makes itdifferent, don't it? I thought maybe you washangin' onto the wheel to keep your stununicksteady."

"\^at's it to you?" Hans shouted at him,and Frank whirled on him.

"You keep out of this!" he snapped, thenhe turned to Ansil. "No, I wasn't seasick," hesaid. "I was scared. I was afraid I couldn'tget into the creek. I couldn't twist the wheel,so Hans did it for me. Does that suit you? "

And Hans would have kept it a secret! Heopened his mouth to shout, and heard Ansilroaring his delight.

"Haw-haw! Ho-ho! Frankie, the sailor manfrom the grocery store. Scared-o'-the-waterFrankie!"

" But I'm not afraid of you," Frank shot acrossthe current. " Wait a minute and I'll show you."

It took less than two minutes to make thatcrossing. Frank let the bow swing out with the

his mouth. "You heard what I said. You'vebeen tal^g behind my back for a good manyyears; I know it. And you seem to be afraid tosay anything to me. That suits me. But ifany qf you change your minds, I'll tell you this:I'm going to be a fisherman from now on. I'llbe at the Jensen fish shanty. And if you wantto do any talking, you know where to find me."Then he tumed to Hans, who had taken a standclose beside him. "Come on," he said. "Theseyellow-coated net-lifters think they've gotsomething on me, but I'll show 'em. Let's goclean our fish."

But Hans knew that everyone in the villagewould be talking over what he had wanted to bea secret—Frank's self-admitted fear.

And what if they did? he asked himself.Maybe Frank did have a weakness. Maybesomething uncontrollable inside him tumed hisblood to water when he was on the lake, but hehad the courage to admit it publicly,to thrash theone who tried to make a joke of it. He had acourage greater than that: he was brave enoughto continue as a helper on the daily trips thatfollowed, to appear at the post-office or in thestore just as he had always done; and whatgreater courage could anyone possess?

Ansil Larsen didn't see it as courage, of course."Yeah," Hans heard him sneer one evening infront of the Mercantile, "anyone can be an imi-

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when the lake's'afsmooth^i^ looking at the white-capped gray water, andgoin' to do in Novf^mW saying:Hans. I was just heUo, "Pretty rough to be going out,isn'tit?" ^get the November blows " ^ chucklcd a little. "Not when there s

"Were vou?" "Rplr,«r i_i money in it," he said. But he was thmkingsmiled. "Maybe vonM Hans something else—that Frank had fought longFrank what vou wprf« c-, ^ enough, that the coming season, when weatherWhich broughtsuch -i you?" like this was the rule rather than the exception,Ansil retired, muttering others that was a torment his brother sliould not have toage in what he of cour- It was hard, thus to toss aside a dream whichwere alone, she voiced i nUo v" 'i persisted inspite ofwhathehadseen duringvoice—until he made meivAr ^ u could thepastweeks. It wasn't easy to erase from _h^

"Ma-" and in hi? ° the sign: "Jansen Brothers, Fish" whichlight that was exactlv HiTa i the embodiment of that dream. Butat thein bis father's: she price of a brother on the rack, it was more than"the lake's nothine tn of -j t Kans so— he could ask. This he decided then and there,water with fish in it lr»fc r^f ° when they had gone into the shanty anaand I aregoing to net And Hans settleddown to work, hespokeout."But, oh, Ws -' shf . . "Wc"' ^ve'll be as good as done to-day,'' hetrembling, "if voii' r^tiM i, P?' ^oice said, his eves bent upon the cork he was lashmgHe cries out in his <;lppr. at night! to his side'of the net. "Nets, engine and boats,I hear him savinc- 'T''ll ,« !,• all in good shape. And a whole week left to loafit!'" ' whip It. Ill whip in, thanks to you. It's been fine, having you to

She also told Hans i i and wth all the luck you brought ICloss came to her kitrKA^ ^else: how Alma guess we've made about enough money to paybrought a cake whirh cV.^ porning. She back what you loaned us. Much obliged.'there was a troubled Innt in ^ baked, and Frank didn't seem to understand right away,nally she blurted: eyes. Fi- There was a question in his eyes as he straight-

"Frank, ishe maH of ^Pi still holding a lead sinker in his hand.She said she didn't knmu it i i. i Then he comprehended. Asoft light glowed m

anything about aCl Frank hadn't said his eyes. He smiled."Well, hehasn't rnir..^ ^ • "Oh, I see," he said. "You're trj'ing to tell

stopped. Then with n fri you don't need mv kind of luck any more,in her fair round mounting "No, I'm not. I'd like to have it for always,willyou—tell him T'H lii-1 \ went on. "I— But you'll be wanting to get that store of yoursthen she opened the started."ran home. door and almost There it was, an exit all prepared for him. A

door through which he could escape his torment

trembling, "if voii r^tiM i, i •' ^oice said, his eves bent upon the cork he was lasnmbHe cries out in his slfpr. at night! to his side'of the net. "Nets, engine and boats,I hear him savinc- 'T''ll ,« !,• all in good shape. And a whole week left to loafit!'" ' whip It. Ill whip in, thanks to you. It's been fine, having you to

She also told Hans i i and wth all the luck you brought ICloss came to her kitrKAn ^else: how Alma guess we've made about enough money to paybrought a cake whirh cV.^ jnorning. She back what you loaned us. Much obliged.'there was a troubled Innt in ^ baked, and Frank didn't seem to understand right away,nally she blurted: eyes. Fi- There was a question in his eyes as he straight-

"Frank, ishe maH of ^Pi still holding a lead sinker in his hand.She said she didn't knmu it i i. i Then he comprehended. Asoft light glowed m

anything about aCl Frank hadn't said his eyes. He smiled."Well, hehasn't rnir..^ ^ • "Oh, I see," he said. "You're trj'ing to tell

stopped. Then with n fri you don't need mv kind of luck any more,in her fair round mounting "No, I'm not. I'd like to have it for always,willyou—tell him T'H lii-1 \ went on. "I— But you'll be wanting to get that store of yoursthen she opened the started."ran home. door and almost There it was, an exit all prepared for him. A

door through which he could escape his torment" A ND when T -u- . without any loss of dignity. Hans bent to the

mother went on her hTv rn^V lashing ofthe cork again lest Frank see what wastears, "he smiled filled with m his eyes—and heard his brother say:'Well, maybe I'll if ^fopped smiling. "Yes? Well, the store can wait. I've gotawhile.' .Xfoh Knn something else io do."be too late. I know hnw what it was, Hans found out a few hoursDe too late T u C 11 vviu r\na wnac it was, nans louna out u icw

same way, and-^an't Z, -l was one o'clock. They were comingThe look in his pvm v i^. him? back from dinner and met a crowd at the top oflooking, and thp wlw • thinks I'm not thehill. All eyes were looking outover theangryyou see?" ^ losing weight—can't lake. A pair of field glasses was being passed

Yes, Hans could qpa -nt., • . l^and to hand. Far out there wasa speck,position than he tn fv j"® ^^as ma better now visible at the summit of a wave, now lostman who tried to cLTJ of a to sight in the trough.

Indian u , "It's Larsen," someone said. "He's driftin',to a close the u <^alm days, brought Look: there's Ansil wavin' a slicker."open again until o' good that'll do him," said another,sort of dlv. w the "He'd better get busy with the engine. CIosSFrank was bpino-^ '®l^ '""\an s courage. Yet can't get to him in time to keep him off Snagtooth

He hSS . if he don't. Not in this u-ind."ness that was rf-mo ^^th a deft- "Him fix an engine? Huh!" snorted another,dSy^to tSrJnr'f "Slicker-wavin's aU he's good for. But liisbrought the .1/ar/e daddy will let him play engineer! Bet it's hisdock\n>h th! r "P to the fault they're stuck."either side of r ^ 'eteran—and on It was then that Frank spoke up. "You saythatweredailvm^r^ 1^ Soing after him?" His voice wasat last thp deeply etched. And when strained and brittle. Closs was Alma's father,thp Hci-frir^ i'P to the dock after "Yeah. He's gettin' ready now," someonelof>L-M of season, he straightened up, said,andHanssawin his brother's eyesthe samesnpnt alt U-, j earth on whichhe had fighting light he had seen once before, whenInntT 1 ^tn recently, and heaved a Frank had crossed the crcek in pursuit of Ansil.Sf ^ nothing but vast "Weil, tell him he needn't go," Frank saidr. • 5 y . slowly. "We'll get him. Come on, Hans," andfniitri I t t magnificent, the battle he he plunged down the slope toward the shanty,to wo " I,- ^X°'"tl^ while, permitting him There were a dozen reasons why Hans should.V • himself thm in a struggle against some- cry halt, and ever>- one of them took shape inxmng ne couldn t help? Such was the thought his mind at that moment. Some of them wererians entertamed as theysat together in the fish voiced by the suddenly galvanized bystanders.

lanty talking about everything but what was "Hey, that's Ansil Larsen out there." "Comemost important m their minds, andmade ready back here, you fool! You don't know enoughor iNo\ember. Why stand wordlessly by and about the water'" "Hey, let an old hand dosee your brother's lace draw into haggard lines, that stuff!" And the rest Hans thought. Their

s eyes take on a fearinglookwhen they glanced mother. His wifeand children. The boat, theirout over stormy waters? Such was his thought only capital. But all of them he ignored in thewhen, a lew daysbefore theseason reopened, they thought of what his brother had said; "I'vestood onthehill beside thedam andwatched the got something else to do." He raced down the•t^afsen boat drop clown the creek. hill, to find that Frank had already flung open

Indian Summer hadgone andtheskywas now the door of the shanty and was dragging outSray with heavy clouds that scudded south coils ofropeand arrnloadsof slickers. He dashedahead of a raw wind. The Larsens, they had insidefor his boots, and when he came out foundheard, had beenapproached by twobusiness men Frank casting off the lines. He had to jumpfrom Grand Kapids who wanted to go to North across a gap of water to board the boat, and byIsland. Beingcity men, they were in a hurrj'. the time he had fended its drifting bulk awayThey had offered good money for the trip, so the from a neighboring craft. Frank had started theLarsens had agreed to take them. It was not engine and jvimped to take the wheel. Theunusual, and Frank knew it. but now he was A/i/r/c was headed out.

Indian u "It's Larsen," someone said. "He's driftin',a close Look: there's Ansil wavin' a slicker."

"Lot o' good that'll do him," said another."He'd better get busy with the engine. CIosScan't get to him in time to keep him offSnagtoothif he don't. Not in this wind."

"Him fix an engine? Huh!" snorted another,"Slicker-wavin's all he's good for. But liisdaddy will let him play engineer! Bet it's hisfault they're stuck."

It was then that Frank spoke up. "You sayCloss is going after him?" His voice wasstrained and brittle. Closs was Alma's father.

"Yeah. He's gettin' ready now," someonesaid, and Hans saw in his brother's eyes the samefighting light he had seen once before, whenFrank had crossed the crcek in pursuit of Ansil.

"Weil, tell him he needn't go," Frank saidslowly. "We'll get him. Come on, Hans," andhe plunged down the slope toward the shanty.

There were a dozen reasons why Hans should

niseyestake ona fearing lookwhen theyglancedout over stormy waters? Such was his thoughtwhen, a few days before theseason reopened, theystood on the hill beside the dam and watched theLarsen boat drop down the creek.

Indian Summer hadgone andtheskywas nowSray with heavy clouds that scudded southahead of a raw wind. The Larsens, they hadheard, hadbeen approached by two business menfrom Grand Kapids who wanted to go to NorthIsland. Beingcity men, they were in a hurrj'.rhey had offered good money for the trip, so theLarsens had agreed to take them. It was notunusual, and Frank knew it, but now he was

August, 1930Into what a sea! Fairly calm just beyond the

piers because the rise of Bald Bluff to the northcreated a sort of !ee, a half mile beyond, the seawas brutal. Charging hills of water that borerelentlessly down upon them. Cold, gray waterthat rose up and up, broke into white froth, andfilled the wliistling wind with spray. Sometimesthey broke o\'cr the deck, sometimes theypounded down upon the ver>- cabin roof. Always they broke and Hung white spra>'.

But the Marie took it all. A staunch boat, she.Broad of beam, squat of cabin, she had been builtfor work, not play. There were no cushionedchairs on board, not even any benches. Onlya painted floor, broken near the stern by anengine, a sturdy, .two-cylinder one that throbbedlike a strong man's heart. And two men,brothers.

Hans, now fully aware o£ what Frank wasdoing, stayed back beside the engine. AndFrank, his face pressed close to the bit of squareglass through which men had once thought theyspied a coward, gripped his hands about thespokes of the bucking wheel until every knuckleshowed white. This was liis daj'. Hans gave itto him. " I've got something else to do," he hadsaid, and now . . .

On and on, a dark squat shape of battle-graytossed by the white-capped gra>' of a maddenedlake. There were no frozen hands upon thewheel now. Frank was all hot courage. Fora speechless liour they plunged and rolled whilethe gale roared above and beneath them. It wasan hour wthout so much as a sight of the boatthey had come to save, but at last Frank j-elled.

Hans leaped forward to peer through thespray-drenched glass. There she lay, the otherboat, almost directly down wnd from them.And just beyond, terribly visible against thelowering gra>' of the clouds, rose high-flung massesof white froth—the demoniac spittle from Snag-tooth Shoal.

Hans looked at Frank. His face was white.Both faces must be white, Hans thought, forfear was in him, too. But Frank's eyes were stillon fire, not circled with white; and his steadyhands swoing the wheel so that the bow paidoff some more. He was heading—steadily, likea sailor!—on a course down wind past the Larsenboat.

Dangerous, that. Hans knew it. They wouldalmost touch those yawning ja\vs. But it was theonly way. If they wasted time trying anythingelse, both boats might end on the rocks. ^VndFrank was sure. The ver>' posture of his bodytold him that Frank was sure. So he jumpedback to the engine, stood ready for whatevermight befall.

•r)OWN they went, now quartering theseas in^ another direction. Slowly they passed thedrifting hulk. It was held bow up by a fish boxon a line, Hans saw. Around they came, into atrough that rolled tliem on their beam ends.Hans braced himself with his hands on the ceiling and wondered if they would go over. Theydidn't. Instead, she came around. Slowly theyheaded up into the wind.

"Take the wheel!"Frank yelled it over the roar of \vind and water

and the crash of waves on Snagtooth Shoal, andHans thought of the time Frank had so weaklybegged him to take the wheel.

Hans knew what Frank proposed to do now.He intended to pass the line. He intended totake himself out upon the low stern deck—thedeck on which his fear had first overtaken him,and which now was a footing a thousand timesworse. With one hand gripping the handrailhe intended to heave the line to the helpless boat—a defiance of fear that was beyond compare.

Could he do it? Hans didn't know. If hefailed, it was death for them all. Frank knew it,too. It showed in his white, strained face. Butin his eyes blazed the unquenchable fire thathad been there at the start, and somehow Hansknew he would.

He took the wheel. Frank scrambled back.Staring ahead at the spume-dimmed shape ofthe helpless craft off their bow, he heard the sterndoor close with a bang, knew Frank to be outside. Up into the raging sens they crawled.Slowly they came abreast of the drifting boat.Was Frank ready? Quickly, Hans looked back.He saw Frank's slicker, water-drenched, pressedagainst the glass. Yes, he was ready. He wasreleasing his grip on the handrail, hoisting a coilgrjp

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Ioi line. He was freeing some loops, gatheringthem in his right hand . . . and the deckdropped away from under his feet, he staggered! Quick as a flash, his hand gripped thehandrail again. He was still on board. Theline was ready, too; and Hans flung a glance toport to see where the Larsen boat was.

Dead abeam now, it carried Ansil on its bow.He was kneeling tiiere, both hands ready tocatch a flying rope. It was dropping back a little,the Marie plowing sturdily on and the helplessone drifting back. Now .Ansil was abeam. Soonhe would be in the right place. Hans couldn'tsee Frank—but he could see Ansil's arms flyout and the black thread of a line settle across hisshoulders. Good work, Frank!

But now, even worse was to come, for Frankhad to leave the safety of the handrail. Thetowing line had already been made fast to thestern cleat of the Maric; Hans had seen to that.But now Frank had to go back there and easeout the slack. He had to let the dead load comeslowly onto the Hne lest under a sudden strainit would part; and that, with Snagtoothwaiting,couldn't be allowed. Should Hans go back andhelp, or should he let Frank do it?

The thought came and went in a flash. Theanswer was quite clear. This was Frank's day.He should do it all. But none the less, Hansjumped back to the stern and took the tiller.

Frank wasalreadyat work. He was kneelingon the deck. Water was surgingaround and overhim, but his hands were busy with the line. Hehad taken up some of the slack near the cleatand was watching the coil pay out. Now it wasgone, and Frank stood up—unsupported onthat deck! The line tightened. The loadjerkedon his arms, and Frank, taking the load, bracedhimself on the plunging deck and eased it down.He bent overslowly. The line was taut. Then,fully laden, it lifted up out of the water with along lash of white spray, and Frank released hisgrip. The rope dropped. It struck the deck—and held. Frank's job was done. All was well.He flung his hands into the air as a signal to.\nsil and the rescue was completed—by onewho had whipped his own fear.

But the job wasn't completed. There wasyet a long, slow pull ahead of them. Frank knewit and acted accordingly. He turned about,clawed himself fonvard along the tiller bar anddived into the cabin, then he scrambled forward and took the wheel again. There was to beno letting down for him. There was to be notalk, either. Time enough for that when theyhad pulled a helpless boat up the creek, dropped

it there, and were themselves tied up to theirown two piles.

The Larsen boat, they learned afterward, hadrun out of gas. It had been Ansil's fault, and wasa crime against good seamanship. But neitherFrank nor Hans was thinking of it then. Han.s,having made the bow line fast while Frank shutoff the engine, had plunged back into the cabinagain.

There were manj- people outside. Every fisherman on the creek was there, so were wives andchildren. So A\as .-\lma Closs—ron Frank's sideof the creek, not on Ansil's. Frank must haveseen her there and had a thought about his"after a while." But he didn't mention her. Heonly held out a bleeding right hand and smiled atHans.

"That's the blood of a foreign crew, Hans,"he said. 7 here was a little smile on his face.His low voice was clear and steady. "That'smother's blood. And lather's." His eyes lowered to the crimson that rose from a jagged tearin the heel of his palm, then lifted to Hans again."You've got that blood too, Hans. You've always had father's and you've been showing methe mother side of it for quite a while. Thatmakes you a pretty good man to go into partnership with, doesn't it?"

This time he grinned—the wholehearted grinof a man just through with a diflicult job, notthe sickly grimace of one with terror in his heart.And Hans looked down at the bleeding palm,seized the hand and studied it closely.

"How'd you do tliat?" he growled."Why, a piece of wood, I guess. On the edge

of the cabin roof. I must have ripped it when Igrabbed for the handrail. That was a scare, letme tell you! I thought I was a goner sure. ButI got hold of something."

"Yeah," Hans growled, "you got it all right.jVnd you been dripping blood all over the cabinfloor ever since. What d'you think this is. aslaughter house? What d'you think we gota first aid kit for?"

"I didn't know you had one," Frank said."Besides, there was more to do. I didn't wantto "

"Well, we've got one. It's over in the toolbox. Go get it, 'fore Alma pulls a faint on you.. . . No, not there! The other corner, youfathead! Plenty of iodine, now. Pour it onheavy. Xow the bandage. . . . No, not thatway! Come here; I'll do it for you. S'poseI might as wellstart takin' care of you right now.Probably have to do it from now on if I'm goingto have a fool like you for a partner!"

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"'That's the baby,' said Slim, all excitement.Think so myself,' says I. 'Can you open

"'With my teeth,' he grinned. 'Just one ofthose tin boxes they make up for the boob trade.'

"Down he went on his knees, twirled the knobabout ten minutes, and there she was,wideopen,and basket parties welcome. Say, there musthave been a million letters in that safe, all fromhalf-witted gals, and it took us an hour to localeLady Miranda's, not knowing her handwritingand having to open up every package for a lookat the name. Slim got fit to be tied, readingsome of the slush.

"'Damned if I know what's come over women,' he wolfed. 'They don't seem to wantregular men any more.'

'"We found Lady Miranda's prize package atlast, and from the way they began and ended,I didn't blame her for not wanting Harry to seethem. Slim was wild to throw ink over Gre-gorio's cushions and hangings, but I made himcome along, and inside of an hour we were in thebig bus, beating it back to Surrey lickety-split.It was pretty late when we reached our neighborhood, but I knew we had something thatwould make the little girl only too glad to leapout of bed, so I told the boy at the wheel to keepright on, and take us over to the Karl's place.

"I'll say I was right. Lady Miranda camedown on the run, taking the stairs in one jump,and when I put the package of letters in her hand,

darned if I didn't think she was going to passout on us. .And what do you think she did,Jimmie? She kissed us! Yes-sir! The daughterof an earl ups and plants her rosy little lips squarein the center of this battered old mug, and thenfills 'em up again for Slim. We pinched ourselves for weeks, making sure we were awake,and even now we have to keep telling each otherit really happened.

"'It's the most wonderful wedding presentany girl ever had,' she told us, half laughing andhalf cr>-ing.

"And that's what it was, Jimmie. Lady Miranda could hardly wait until morning to go intoa clinch A\ith Harry, and it couldn't have beenmore than next day before the t%vo of them signedarticles for the main bout at a swell church inHanover Square. I heard it was one of theswellest affairs of the London season, with everybody in the world there except Mr. GregorioRuiz, the late ]..ove Letter King."

"Don't tell me you weren't at the wedding?"exclaimed Jimmie.

"No," said Pop, "we didn't stay. In fact, wewent right on to Dover that night, and got themorning boat to Boulogne. By the day of thewedding, Slim and me were headed for home ona liner out of Genoa. Y'see, Jimmie, there wasquite a nice bunch of money and jewels inGregorio's safe, and what was the sense of turning down a good business opportunity, even ifit was a pleasure trip?"

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The Game of Neo-Friendship{Conliniicd from page iq)

mine of information. He is up-to-the-jifly onthe news of niy trade. But, alas, he's an elbow-eater and a cup-cuddlcr; he gobbles as if he werecatching a train. I never permit him to annoyme, though, bccause I never invite Fred todinner. He's my trade journal and privatedetective and I Mmply couldn't do without him.

Do you call this philosophy conceited orutilitarian or cokl-])looded? There are plentyof texts 1 could quote, even from the Bible, toprove its orthodoxy, not to speak of thatfamiliar line that ends, "and good in ever^'one."So long as you don't imagine that yon are theone e.xceptionally pcrfcet person, and are wUlingto accept the fact that, to others, you may bemerely a screw-driver, or something, there's nomore selfishness in these classifications thanthere is in chcmistry. No one praises potassiumfor aililiating with nitrogen and oxygen inKNOj, nor blames it for flaring up angrilywhen it strikes water.

A ND there's this queer thing, too, about Neo-Friendship, that I can illustrate by what is

called Central Fixation. Kindly cast your eyeson this sentence:

Cold I Am and Beautiful axd Very Vain.Now, if you focus your eyes fixedly upon the

single word Beautiful, so that you see it clearand black, while you're still conscious of therest of the sentence—of the whole sentence—•the Cold and Vain will seem gray and indistinctand actually tend to disappear.

The analogj' (though somewhat goody-goody)is plain. It can be applied perfectly to thosepeople whom, though you think you detestthem, you secretly admire for some one thing.If you concentrate your interest upon that oneadmirable qualitj-, all the other less pleasanttraits are subtly reduced to their lowest terms,because one can possibly think of but one thingat a time.

In short, the whole theory of Neo-Friendshipis summed up in the hoary parable of the manwho didn't know whether to marry the beautyor the wonderful soprano. When he woke up,the day after the wedding, and saw that mugon the pillow beside him—"Damn you, sing!"—he soon forgot, probably, to notice her lack ofpulchritude.

Now t am well aware that you can't reallyprove anything by metaphors. So let's take apractical case. Ex'crybody, for instance, dislikes a tightwad, and hates to see his parsimonytriumph. But did ever you try the experimentof letting a tightwad get something for nothing—ever invite one. say, to a lavishly generous meal?You'd be suq5ri«ed. No one on earth can testifyto such sincere gratitude. His amazement anddelight at your extravagance (which would breakhis heart) will pay you big dix^idends on theexpense.

That little comedy will illustrate, too, howyou can get a still higher view of friends and neo-friends so that you can enjoy, yes, really enjoy,even their faults. If you look upon life asdrama (all the world's a stage, you know), youctin have as much fun as if you were sitting inyour own private theatre, like the mad King ofBavaria, and everj'body were acting for yourespecial benefit. You'll marvel at the dialect,the "business," the wonderful interpretations ofmen and women w]\o have heretofore got yourgoat. You'll laugh at the credulity, the shamsof human nature. You'll even come to applauding the villains for their techniqu'e. Andthen, like a theatrical manager, you can selectthe types you need for your own little life-drama, and cast them according to your merits.With your e\-perience you won't ask the winkysoubrette to play a heavy emotional role, orexpcct the old man to do the frivolous juvenilein a coonskin coat.

Every actor and author has to regard hisacquaintances as lessons in human nature.Didn't Charlie Chaplin delightedly follow thatsplay-footed Cockney all over London? Canyou imagine Dickens being angry or annoyedwhen he found Uriah Hcrp in real life? He wasmerely an interesting character for fiction. Voltaire, (ioethe, Shakespeare, .Vristophanes—didthey have anything but enjoyment in knoAvingthe prototypes of the pedants and hypocritesand bounders they created for our diversion?

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Be an author. Write your own life. Yourown comedies. Try this philosophy of Neo-Friendship, do try it some rainy day when youhave a grouch. Look at every one you meetwith fresh eyes, as if you'd never seen himbefore, as if you'd just arrived, young andenthusiastic, in a strange city. You'll discoverthe Romance of the Commonplace. You'll find,next morning, probably, that you're singing inyour bath. You'll burst right out laughingwhile you're brushing your hair.

.\nd if your wife or your husband, mother,sister, looks in, anxiously, and wants to knowwhat's the matter, you'll say:

"Oh, nothing much, only—why, I met GelettBurgess yesterday, and "

"Why, I thoughtyou always said he was ""Yes, my dear, yes, I know. But d'you

know, I find he's a darned good scrcw-driver—about the best one I ever saw! Gee, wc had afine old time. Yes, we're going over there tohave lunch again next Saturday."

The Private Lives of Several People{Continued from page is)

utter lack of understanding. But this volumemiraculously preser\-es a certain strength andtruth and sympathy. It displays that richfeeling for its subject which is the very heart ofa book of this character. In fact, American is,in every way, a work of the first rank. Here isgorgeous natural history. Here is matchlessIndian stuff.

Picture yourself as sitting beside Mr. Linder-man the day that the Crow chief promised totell his tale. There he was, more than eightyyears of age, his firm mouth and chin, his commanding nose and fighting forehead still- fitmodels, says Mr. Lindcrman, "for a heroicmedallion."

He took his broad-brimmed hat with its eaglefeather from his head and standing up said, asthough it were a sort of oath, "... a man inhis rigid mind should speak slraighl to his friotds.I will beginal the beginning." The beginning,ofcourse, was the memory of his childhood; thetribal, nomadic customs of his people; theglorious, free life on the plains in the days beforethe buffalo herds were swept away. Indianboys were trained by strange lessons and rites.When they were little more than babies they hadto leam to run straight and tirelessly. Plenty-coups' grandfather was his teacher. He madethe lad stand up before him, naked except forhis moccasins.

"Now catch me thai yellow butterfly" heordered. "Be quick."

It was no easy task, but finally the childbrought the butterfly back to his grandsire,who bade him rub its win^s over his heart andask the butterfly to lend him their grace andswiftness.

Slapping their young joints and muscles witha flat beaver's tail was supposed to encouragethem to swim, and at seven years of age ourtiny "chief" already had graduated to a genuinearrosv with an iron tip.

With so strenuous and incredibly early amatriculation, Plenty-coups soon found himselfa real warrior. The old man made no boast toMr. Linderman of the many Indian scalps hehad taken—those were all simply part of anIndian's career. But one thing he made sureto tell him—he had never killed a white man.

Instead, he had been the white man's friendand guide and fellow-fighter, even when thewhite man confused and embittered him.

The old Crow refused to carry his storybeyond those years of stalwart youth when thewide plains belonged to his brothers, and whenlong lines of proud red men on horses, followedby pack-horses and travois "reaching fartherthan we could see," moved in season from oneregion of plenty to another, taking with themtheir ancient codes and legends.

After life had passed into mere existence upona reservation, he considered his own life ended.But Mr. Linderman has filled it out for us.He has told us how Plenty-coups, his soulcrushed, became a leader for his people, visitingthe Indian Department in Washington wit^impressive pleas; urging the young men of histribe, during the world war, to offer themselvesas soldiers; and at last acting as representativeof all the Indian tribes in .\merica and placing"the red man's" wreath of flowers_ upon thegrave of the Unknown Soldier at .Arlington.

Thanks to this remarkable book, the Indianof the plains is no Unknown .American to us.In these pages he lives nobly and with dignity,and Mr. Lindcrman has presented, whetherconsciously or not, one of the most powerful

pleas ever made for white justice to the red manThe illustrations by Herbert Stoops, deeply

colored by the mood of the tale, are an integralpart of the pages, and greatly add to the enjoyment of the book.

Vagabond Dreams Come TrueBy Rudy Vallee. (E. P. Dutton & Co.,

New York.)'yiTIS is the red, red lining of Mr. Valise's

heart.This is the true story of how he came to con

quer his millions over the radio, in night clubs,in the pictures—the real personality back ofthat voice that croons the love songs of thenation. In a word, gentlemen, Rudy Vallee'sautobiography.

Three short years ago, this son of a NewEngland druggist, this soft-voiced, saxophonicyouth, graduated from Yale. He tucked hisdiploma {"a college training has never hurt anindividual" says he) under one arm and asaxophone unaer the other, and made his firstlunge at fame. Last year he was playing andsinging with his extraordinary little band ofeight musicians at the Paramount Theatre inNew York and the police had to be called outto keep the lines in order. A few months ago,the day that his first talking picture was shownin his birthplace in Vermont, the town declareda municipal holiday.

Now, no matter how much spoofing this youngman may receive for his devastating effect uponfeminine America, he must have something.And something, of course, can be reduced totalent and hard work.

Rudy \'all6e can play and sing. He alwaysgives his best. He knows his orchestras. Hedoesn't mind in the least putting in nineteenhours of grillingwork on a day's job. And thereyou are.

But to a palpitating world, it is not so mucha matter of all this as it is of the Vallee personality—a personality that has dropped as a roseof romance upon our hard-boiled land.

To hear him sing "Deep Night" or "TheVagabond Lover"—sugar-coated to the lastnote—is to realize that he has a mission in life;it is to realize why the susceptible young, thelonely, the sentimental middle-aged lap himup.

His story, to which no ghost writer has beenpermitted to add a rude, mature touch, is soterrifyingly naive that one is compeUed to putit down every few minutes and burst into strongand reviving language. But after all, underthe, Broadway glamour and the thick pink-icing there seems to be a likable chap; and hisbook contains an excellent picture of thatmysterious world where lilting dance orchestrasand popular songs have their birth.

Johnson of the MohawksBy Arthur Pound. (The Macmillan Co.,

New York,)TT IS a thrilling story of hazardous frontier

statesmanship and warfare that Mr. Pound,in coUaboration with Dr. Richard E. Day,Editor of Historical Manuscripts for the Stafeof New York, has to tell in this story of SirWilliam Johnson—empire builder, major-general, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Mohawk war chief, one of the only two men createda baronet in America, opener of the road to theWest, wealthy trader and farmer, and the headof an unconventional manor house in the Mo-

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hawk Valley Avhcrc his innumerable half-Indianchildren ran riot.

In this undoubtedly adventurous and romantic figure Mr. Pound has selected a heroof parts, too long largely- unknown to the .American reader, but now set forth in a full-sizedportrait with such new and important materialas to make not only an e.xciting narrative buta work of the greatest historical importance.

William Johnson, a young Irishman of excellent family, was brought to this country byhis uncle in 1738, and was shortly sent "bysloop" up the Hudson to the wilderness estateof that same uncle, where, without any loss oftime, he began to shape a career which Mr.Pound claims, and with good reason, to be quiteunparalleled in our colonial annals.

The Mohawks, one of the Six Nations,"exerciscd moral sway in the councils of Ificstrongest Indian bloc on the continent. . . .Whoever held the Mohjwks in hand held Mid-America in hand, as Pontiac discovered in thegrim year of 1763, when Sir William Johnsonand his brothers by adoption managed to keepall but one of the Six Nations out of the mostbitter Indian war the British fought in America."It is very proper, in view of his paramountinfluence over the savages, that much of Mr.Pound's enthralling story should be devoted tothe miraculous work he did in clearing apath for the tide of western immigration. Hisbiographer does not, howe\"cr, neglect thepersonal side of his man; "Ilis expansive andexpensive way of life, his wines and stables,'.' liisyoung Dutch wife and his lovely MollyBrant—the dusky, swift-limbed Mohawk girlwho was later to be the "light of his tent."All these are here.

To those of us who have prowled around thewell-preserved Johnson Hall, the splendidhouse that the baronet built in 1761 at Johnstown, New York, there is a rare delight in reading Mr. Pound's descriptions of baronial andfeudal life that went forsvard in that great mansion, conjuring up in one's mind those nightswhen enormous councils of Indians (sometimesas many as nine hundred) gathered. Fromthe candle-lit rooms one could see the countlesstribal camp fires gleaming for miles down thedark valley.

There, on the fine mahogany balustrade ofthe wide staircase, we have run our fingers alongthose hatchet scars which tradition says wereput there by the famous Mohawk chief JosephBrant (and Mr. Pound is willing to have usbelieve, if we care to, that Joseph was himselfone of Sir William's sons) when he and Johnsonfled from the Hall in 1776. These sign-scarsprotected the house from marauding Indiansduring the Revolution when the property wasconfiscated.

There is no lack of sheer romance in this admirable book, but primarily it stands forth as anoteworthy historical work. We recommendit to your immediate reading.

Times Square Tintypes• By Sidney Skolsky. (Ives Washbum, New

York.)

"T^ID you know . . .That Florenz Ziegfeld's daily telephone

bill is $50?That David Belasco carries a brief case on

•which is inscribed in gold letters: "The PlayI Am Now Writing"?

That George Gershwin is a swell wrestler?That Roxy was once a marine?That Elmer Rice, the 1929 Pulitzer Prize

play winner {Street Scene), hates Broadway?That Eddie Cantor is worth two million

dollars?That .A.1 Jolson owns part of the St Louis

National Baseball Club?And so on and so on.The dot-and-dash style of short and excessive

ly snappy biographical essays that stamps thisbook is something that Mr. Skolsky (Broadwaycolumnist) has carried to perfection.

_He knows the most amazingly intimate details of a book-load of folk who are famous fortheir contributions to Manahttan's show business. And he tells all he knows.

How_ he discovered all these scraps of low-dowi\ is a mystery to us. He surely neverthought up the questions that called for a!!this inside stuff. People must simply stormhis desk, shouting things like this;

"I once autographed asoldier's wooden leg!" or,"I'm George M. Cohan. I'm the man who isresponsible for Douglas Fairbanks's breakinginto the movies."

Well, it's a queer world.And tills is a very popular book. Better

look at it.

LivingstoneBy R. J. Campbell, D.D. (Dodd,Mead & Co.,

New York.)^NE day, a few months ago, a group of

colored people, American negroes, stoodbefore a tomb in Westminster Abbey singingsome of those "Spirituals" which we all adore.

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In the excellent hfe of Livingstone that wehave before us we read this: "He lived nowbut for one thing: to claim Africa for Christand make an end of the slave trade." That wasback in the '50's, when the interior of the darkcontinent was a terra incognita. To accomplishthe religious end of his mission this fearlessScot cut himself off from civilization for years.To bring about the other dream, he did all thatan explorer and a scientific travelermight do toset the stream of legitimate commerce in thepath of the cruel traffic in human beings. Herewas a Ufe-work and Livingstone gave his lifeto it.

The story of his exploits is a revelation of thestupendous strength of an apostolic mission.We would like to quote at length from thisthrilling book—to tell you of his taking hismidget craft two thousand five hundred milesacross the ocean to Bombay with a mere handfulof a crew—of his being found by Stanley afterthe whole world had given him up as lost in thejungles—but we ha\'e no more room.

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Member of New York, N. Y"., LodgeSupplies Plants Jar Hospital Roof

The report of the Social and Community Welfare Committee of New York, ?s. Y., Lodge,No. I, as submitted by Chairman .\ugustus F.Groll at a recent meeting, stated that the RoofGarden at the Misericordia Hospital has beenreplenished with plants and shrubs through thegenerosity of John J. Schmitt, a member of No. i.In this hospital there is a room endowed inperpetuity by Mr. Schmitt for the use of members incapacitated by illness.

Florence, Mo., Elks Induct FourSons of Life Member Into Lodge

Florence, Mo., Lodge, No. 409, initiated recently the four sons of Charles Holland, forthirty years a life member of the Lodge. Theyoung men who thus joined their father asmembers of the Order are Charles Holland, Jr.;Colley B., Massey, and Richard H. Holland.

Betty Bacharach Home is Given$10,000 Recreation Hall

William C. Grunow, President of the Grigsby-Grunow Company, makers of radio equipmentand other electrical devices, gave recently tothe Betty Bacharach Home for Afflicted Children in .Vtlantic City, N. J., a sum of ten thousand dollars for the erection of a recreation hall,as a memorial to his daughter, Lois C. Grunow.Work upon the building wasscheduled to beginafter the conclusion of the Grand Lodge Convention. The proportions of the structure areto be 25 by 100. It willhave a seating capacity

I of 200. One of its features is a miniature stage,where the children of the Home may presenttheatrical performances. In addition to therecreation hall, ^Ir. Grunow presented to theHome a radio surgical knife, an instrumentvalued at Si,500; two radio sets and three electric refrigerators. Acknowledgment of theHome's appreciation of these gifts was madepromptly by Exalted Ruler Harry Bacharach,and his brother. Congressman Isaac Bacharach,of Atlantic City Lodge, No. 276. It is understood that the need of the Home for such abuilding as that for which Mr. Grunow donatedthe necessary funds was brought to his attentionby police officials of the city, prominent amongwhom was P. J. Doran, Chief of the AtlanticCity Police Department and an Atlantic CityElk. It is expected that the new hall, to beknown as the Lois C. Grunow Memorial Recreation Hall, \nll be completed by the end of thesummer. It represents the seventh structuralunit to be given the Home. The other andearlier ones are the original Betty BacharachHome and grounds, the Jacob and Betty Bacharach .Administration Building, the GraceBacharach Memorial Ward, the McSweeneyIsolation Hall, the Mr. and Mrs. HackneyGarage and Dormitory, and the Caroline S.Stem School.

Permanent Organization of Union,N. J., Lodge is Effected

Union, N. J., Lodge, No. 1583, was formallyinstituted a short time ago. The initiation ofcandidates and the installation of officers tookplace at the Home of Elizabeth Lodge, No.289. Several Past Exalted Rulers of DoverLodge, No. 782, assisted in the ritualistic ceremonies.

Notables and Many Visitors AttendInstitution of Westfield, N. J., Lodge

In the pre.sence of Grand Esteemed LeadingKnight William Conklin, and 1,000 other members of the Order, District Deputy GrandExalted Ruler Francis V. Dobbin instituted,a short time ago, Westfield, N. J., Lodge, No.1585. The ofiicers of Plainfield Lodge, No.885, initiated a class of forty candidates, andMr. Dobbins thereafter installed the officersof the new Lodge. Herbert G. Mc.\voy waschosen Exalted Ruler and Dennis N. LeverSecretary. A dinner for the notable Elks in

attendance for the occasion preceded the institution and other ceremonies. .After this aparade was formed, with representatives ofmany neighboring Lodges in the line of marchers. First in the procession came a police escortand the members of the Westfield Town Council.They were followed by members of Union Lodge,No. 1583. A buffet supper at the Home ofWestfield Lodge, enlivened by entertainmentby the Elks Quartet of Bayonne Lodge, No.434, was an enjoyable event of the evening.

Ketchikan, Alaska, Elks Celebrateat Completion of Tennis Court

Members of Ketchikan, Alaska, Lodge, No.1429, and a large representation of the publicof the community attended a short time ago theceremonies marlang formally the completion ofa new tennis court, to be devoted to the use ofmembers of the Lodge and their families. Theexercises included an exhibition drill by theBoy Scouts of Ketchikan. Music for theoccasionwas provided by the City Band.

Ladies of Pittsburgh, Pa., LodgeGive Anniversary Dinner Dance

In token of the twelfth anniversary of theformation of their association, the ladies ofPittsburgh, Pa., Lodge, No. 11, gave recentlya dinner dance at the Lodge Home. More than200 persons were present in the gaily decoratedballroom, among whom, as guests of honor,were Exalted Ruler John A. Freyvogel, and PastExalted Rulers George J. Kambach, P. IM.Cancelliere and .Mbert Barchfield.

Passaic, N. J., Lodge ProvidesAn Outing for 900 Orphans

At the annual Orphans Outing sponsoredby Passaic, N. J., Lodge, No. 387, more than900 children from that city and the vicinitywere entertained recently at Olympic Park,Irvington. Each child was given a packet oftickets entitling him to every kind of ride andside-show, as well as to the other amusementsthe park offered. The youngsters were transported to and from the park by private automobiles lent to the Lodge for that purpose.

Bronx, N. Y., Lodge CelebratesTwenty-seventh Anniversary

In the presence of many Past Exalted Rulersand a large number of members, Bronx, N. Y.,Lodge, No. 871, celebrated its twenty-seventhanniversary recently. After a roll-call of old-timers, to which many responded, the officers ofNo. 871 initiated a class of twenty candidates.A special feature of the occasion was an addressby the guest of honor. United States AttorneyCharles H. Tuttle, a member of New YorkLodge, No. I.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Lodge ReceivesTrust Fund for Charities

Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Lodge, No. 275, was therecipient recently of a bequest from one of itslate members, Harr>- J. Selfridge, amounting toSi,000. The income from this money, in acharity trust fund, will be used by the Lodge forrelief and other charitable work.

Brooklyn, N. Y., Elks Entertain3,000 Orphans at Field Day

Three thousand orphan children were theguests recently of .Brooklyn, N. Y., Lodge, No.22, at its twentieth annual Field Day, held atEbbets Field, the grounds of the Brooklyn baseball club. Clowns, a gigantic white elephant,trick ponies and donkeys and other circus actsand a series of athletic events were the featuresof entertainment during the afternoon. Theorphans were carried to the field in buses and,in tlie case of the crippled among thein, fromSt. Giles's Hospital, in the private automobilesof members of the Lodge. As soon as he arrived at the scene of festivities, each child was

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given a box of toys, the collection includingconfetti, streamers and highly eflective noise-makers. In the contests among boys, the representatives of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphanagewon all the prizes. In the girls' games, theentrants from' St. Joseph's Orphanage wereequally successful. In addition to the youngguests, there were many notables of the citypresent at the affair. These included BoroughPresident Henn.- Hestcrberg, who was GeneralChairman of the committee in charge of theField Day; Commissioner John H. Crews,Vice-Chairman; Supreme Court Justices Mac-Crate and Lazansk>', of Xew York State;County Judge Xova. Municipal Court JusticeWynne, and Magistrates I-Iughes and Maguire.

Union Hill, N. J., Lodge Gives BenefitShow for Crippled Children

The Crippled Children's Committee of UnionHill, N. J., Lodge. Xo. 1357, recently sponsoreda party at the Lincoln Theatre for the benefitof the Crippled Children's Fund. -The receipts%vill be used for the financing of the clinic andthe convalescent station maintained by theLodge. An attendance of over 500 witne.ssedthe showing of a i,ooo-foot reel depicting thework that is being carried on by the Lodge atthe clinic.

News of the OrderFrom Near and Far

The ofliccrs and a group of other members of/Uhambra, Calif., Lodge, made a fraternal callrecently upon Huntington Park Lodge, andthere assisted in the initiation ceremonies.

Elmira, N'. Y., Lodge voted recently in favorof a resolution to improve the KIks Rest in Wood-lawn Cemeter>-. The plans for beautifying theplot are extensive.

The Drill Teams of both Redondo Beach andInglewood, Calif., Lodges gave exhibitions ashort time ago at the Home of Santa ilonicaLodge.

The Baseball Team of X^ew Orleans, La.,Lodge recentlj"- won the championship of theAmateur .Vthletic Union League in its district.The players finished the season without a singledefeat.

'With many old-timers pre?ent, Ogden, Utah,Lodge celebrated its twenty-ninth anniversaryat a meeting held a short time ago.

Edward J. McCrossin, President of the LifeMembership Club of Birmingham, Ala., Lodge,issued recently a bulletin expressing the Club'sgrief at the loss of one of its members, EdwardF. Herzog, who died a few weeks ago at hishome in Birmingham.

The members of Ridgewood, N. J., Lodgeinitiated not long ago a candidate whom theybelieve to be one of the oldest ever to be inducted into the Order. He is "Daddy" Sharpe,ninety-one years of age. iMr. Sharpe fought inthe Civil War, knew Abraham Lincoln, and forsixty-seven years has been a Sunday schoolteacher.

James H. Harrison, first Exalted Ruler ofWorcester, Mass., Lodge, died recently at hishome after a long illness. For thirty-eight yearsMr. Harrison was an acti\-e member of Worcester Lodge.

Blue Island, HI., Lodge gave a dinner a shorttime ago in honor of Frank !Miller, who, as amember of the bowling team, was the highest man in all events at the Elks NationalBowling Tournament. The first prize, a diamond medal, was presented to Mr. Miller at themeeting.

A fire destroyed the Home of Altus, Okla.,Lodge recently. Many of the records werelost.

The Social and Con^munity \\'elfare Committee of Union I-Iill, X. J., Lodge entertained,at a banquet recently, about 150 fathers whoare members of the Lodge, and their sons.

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The best method yet devised of makingmoney in the in\'estment business is to buywhen securities are low and sell when they

are high. Ever>- one knows that this is so, butvery few operate successfully on this basis,and deficient as most people are in knowledgeof investing, the reason seems rather psychological than chargeable to ignorance. When pricesare high everyone thinks they are going higher;when prices start down, few can see any limitto their decline. From a state of excessiveoptimism we sink to the depths of pessimism.

A year ago most of the people in the countryfelt that in order to make money all that wasnecessary was to buy stocks, any old stocks,and presently they would ad\-ance in price,and the owners would have a profit. For a whileit did seem as if this theory was correct; certainly it worked well for many people. Sincelast October the vast majority, with a fewbreathing spells in between, have seemed tofeel that the surest and quickest way to losemoney is to buy stocks. Many who once had aprofit which they neglected to take have held onuntil their losses have become substantial,and then have sold, explaining their actionon the ground that apparently evcrj-thing washeaded for ruin, and that even if they lost itwas better to have something left than to waituntil their shares were worth nothing at all.There are many who Ijought at the high priceslast year who are selling at the low prices thisyear.

Now it is well to remember that for ever>'buyer there is a seller, and that ever>' timesomebody sells, someone else buj's. The manwho bought at the top last year, bought fromsomebody who made a profit; the man who soldat the bottom, sold to someone.who is goingto make a profit. The people on the profit endof these transactions, one may be sure, were notswayed liy psychological considerations, but bya pretty certain knowledge of what they wereabout._It is also well to remember that public par

ticipation is necessary to make a bull market,and also necessary- to a bear market. ThedifTiculty with the public is that generallythey do the wrong thing at the right time.They will not buy unle.=;s everj'one else is buying,and when everj'one begins to sell they becomepanicky, and sell too. They are too often sheeplike, basing their actions on imitation ratherthan reasoned judgment.

In markets like those we have been experiencing recently it seenis to us that one of themost important considerations is faith, or lackof faith, in the ability of the United States torecover from ])usiness depressions and to becomeprosperous once more. True, the recent tariffact and the proposed pension bill do not inspiregreat confidence in the economic judgment ofour legislators, but as a prominent bankerexpressed it several 3''cars ago: "This country isbigger than any one man, or any one group;we can be set back temporarily, but we can'tbe stopped." Wc have had umsise laws beforethis, and legislation unfavorable to business,

but the country has grown and prospered inspite of them. Does anyone really believe weshall not continue to go forward?

Oftentimes the darkest time is just beforethe da%vn, and it may well be that the spiritof pessimism, soprevalent throughout the andjust now, isthe immediate forerunner ofa speedyreturn to better times. Looking back over oureconomic and industrial history, we find thatthese eras of depression ha\'e lasted on theaverageabout oneyear. Is thereany particularreason to suppose that the one through whichwe are passing now is going to have a longer ,existence? If a year is the normal period for ,readjustment, thenthe turn forthe bettershouldbegin to be observed shortly after these wordsappear in print. It was in August, 1929, thatshrewd obser\-ers began to note a falling off inour unexampled prosperity, and many of theseobservers started putting their investmenthouses in order to meet the troublous timesthey saw ahead. How wise these men were.Or perhaps they were only lucky?

IS ITpossible that these men are on the buyingend of securities now? Are they pessimists?

Do they think the country is headed for the scrapheap? Are they frightened by the low prices ofstocks and bonds? Do they think that presentlow prices are permanent? Or do they share theviews of the representative of a New York in-\-estment banking house whose words we quote:"The prospective investor should realize that itis only during times of business depression andpoor stock market conditions like this that heran secure the best common stocks at concessions. He should not allow himself to be toomuch influenced by the discouragingly weakbehavior of the market coming after a majordecline. At such a time acute weakness andpoor behavior is no reliable index of the market'sfuture course. Stocks must necessarily act, look,and be acutely weak in making a bottom; theycould not well look strong in doing so. Increased momentum is one good sign of an approaching turning-point. Sharp drops whichmake stocks cheap enough to attract importantnew buying finally result in a definite checkingof the decline and a reversal of the trend. Recent acute weakness, therefore, in this case, afterwhat seems like an adequate readjustment,should be hailed as a sign of approaching fairweather."

Everyone is constantly on the watch for bargains, and yet how many have thought farenough to realize that when business is goodand earnings are high, low priced stocks are notto be had; that it is only when everything looksblack that the shares of our leading corporationscan be purchased at prices to yield larger thanaverage returns. When everybody wants athing, competition for its possession is bound torun prices up; when the demand is slack, then itis that bargains are obtainable. .-Ml of thLs isobvious, of course, but it is the obvious thingthat frequently passes unnoticed.

The same idea was expressed recently by a successful stock trader. He put it rather bluntly,

The Elks Magazinebut in effect what he said was, "See what thepublic are doing, and do the opposite." Theseare unkind words, perhaps, but there is muchtruth in them. The trouble with the publicgenerally is that they either are all buying atthe same time or acting in concert when theysell, and it is the combined weight of the public'sorders which turns the scale of prices up or down.And usually they are late in both actions. Thepublic probably does not buy as large a percentage of worthless securities as formerly; rather,their purchases of good securities are made atthe wrong times. It takes courage to buy wheneveryone else is bearish, but that is when investments are cheap; one feels much more comfortable following the crowd, but leaders, notfollowers, are the ones who reap the greatestmeasure of success.

Objection %vill be made that it is dangerous tobuy securities when business generally is unsatisfactory. Of course one should always selectinvestments wth care, whether business is bador good, but it is the unsatisfactory condition ofindustty which makes it possible to pick up thesecurities o1 our leading corporations at lowprices. Moreover, it does no harm, in thinking ofthe future of securities, to bear in mind that unsatisfactory business is not the normal state ofaffairs in this countr>^ We are paying the penalty for over-optimism and over-confidence;during our recent period of unexampled prosperity we got the idea that there was no limit to theamount of goods we could produce and sell;mass production was a sure foundation on whichto base an enduringprosperity. We overdid it,and presently the countrj- awoke to the fact thatthe markets of this country, and of the world,could notabsorballourradios,motorcars,wheat,corn, copper, and oil. Supply had run ahead ofdemand, and when such a condition exists onlyone thing can happen—prices must fall. Noamount of legislation ever has changed, or everwill change, the old economic law. Productionhad to be curtailed until the slack was taken up,and the recent unpleasantness in the securitymarkets is nothing more than a reflection ofconditions in the industrial world where therehas existed an excess of goods which must be absorbed before demand once again creates a needfor greater supply.

This condition is gradually righting itself andunquestionably the time is coming when businesswillbe more as weexpect business in this countryto be. We went ahead too fast, and have had topay the penalty. Once having made amends,however, there is no reason to suppose that weshall not find real prosperity once more. Wealways have recovered from these recurringperiods of depression, and what has happened inthe past is usually a sound basis on which topredict the future. Business and prosperity goin cycles, but if we total the good years againstthe bad, the good outnumber.the bad by a comfortable margin. And usually it is only in badtimes, that stocks are cheap.

Sometimes when things look darkest, thatmeans a change for the better. iUong with lowprices for stocks we have had cheap money;the rediscount rate recently set by the FederalReserve Bank of New York has been the lowestin its history. Call money has recently beenavailable in New York at one and one half percent. Brokers' loans have shown a steady decline as weak margin accounts have been liquidated, and discouraged and disheartened investors have sold their holdings. Cheap moneydoes not necessarily bring about an immediateimprovement in business, nor does it necessarilyadvance the prices of stocks at once, but in thelong run these will be the results. Since thepanic of last October there have been six reductions in the bank rate, and cheap money is aboon to finance and business. No one can saythat security prices have not discounted badbusiness conditions and decreased earnings; infew instances have earnings declined anythinglike as sharply as stock prices.

^NE thing to remember in all this discussion,^ however, is that the yieldsobtainableon thebest securities will probably not in our generation be as high as they were before the war.People who used to get six per cent from the leading stocks, for instance, are very likely tobe disappointed if they hope to get that muchnow. Last fall, and again this spring, in spiteof the drastic decline in prices, it was almost impossible to buy the best high grade

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stocks to yield what we used to consider attractive returns. To yield six per cent most issueswould have to decline considerably from theirpanic lows, and it is doubtful if even the mostconfirmed pessimist expects that to happen.On the basis of yield, therefore, we shall probablyhave to revise our ideas of what we used to consider cheap securities, and what are consideredchcap nowadays.

What constitutes low prices for securities mustbe figured on a comparative basis. As thesewords are being %vritten, late in June, securityprices-are considered low. Is that any reasonfor selling if the securities represent soundbusiness undertakings? Or are these prices,perhaps, rather an inducement to buy? Onlywhen prices are low are there many bargains

•to be had.

N ews of tlie State Associations{Co>ifi>iucd from page jo)

Muskegon Lodge, No, 274, second prize goingto Jackson Lodge, Xo. 113. During this eventthe visiting ladies were conducted on a tourof Keweenaw County, which included luncheonat Lake Breeze. In the afternoon, a servicewas held by the Jackson Elks in memory of thelate Thomas G. Carroll, former Vice-Presidentof the Association. This ceremony, and that ofinstalling the newly elected ollicers, concludedthe ofEcial business of the convention. In theevening a banquet, attended by over 400 Elks,their ladies and other guests, terminated thefestivities.

Massachusetts

l^ORE than 200 delegates, representingfifty-three Lodges, attended the eleventh

annual convention of the jMassachusetts StateElks Association, held recently on the Island ofOak Bluffs, under the auspices of MiddleboroLodge, No. 1274. The following were electedto serve as ofTicers for the ensuing year: President, William E. Earle, Newton Lodge, No.1327; First Vice-President, Charles S. Riley,Northampton Lodge, No. 907; Second Vice-President, Patrick R. Riley, Fall River Lodge,No. 118; Third Vice-President, Michael H. Mc-Carron, Woburn Lodge, No. 908; Secretary,Jeremiah J. 1-Iourin, Framingham Lodge, No.1264; Treasurer, Bernard K. Carbin, LynnLodge, No. 117. The Association named tliefollowing for Trustees: Alfred C. Daniels, Pitts-field Lodge, No. 272; Edward J. Gihon, Wake-field Lodge, No. 1276; Bernard S. McHugh,Watertown Lo.dge, No. 1513; Albert M. Heath,Middleboro Lodge, No. 1274; Daniel J. Honan,Winthrop Lodge, No. 1078; James A. Bresnahan,Fitchburg Lodge, No. 847; and John A. l^Ioyna-han, Jewell Lodge, No. 87. The conventionofficially opened in the Island Theatre %vith anaddress by E. Mark Sullivan, member of theGrand Ixjdge Committee on Judiciary. Fromthere the delegates moved to Tivoli Hall, wherea class of candidates for Middleboro Lodgewas initiated under the direction of the degreeteam of Norwood Lodge, No. 1124, the StateChampions. One of the important events ofthe convention was the passing of a resolutionto maintain the grounds upon which is situatedthe Elk monument on the Mohawk Trail, inmemory of the members of the Order who gaveup their lives in the World War. Entertainment for those who accompanied the delegateswas provided by members of Middleboro Lodge.An old-fashioned Cape Cod clambake, bandconcerts and two dances were among the manyenjoyable items on the program.

South DakotaAT TI-iE election of ofTicers during the two-

day convention of the South Dakota StateElks Association, held not long ago at Siou.KFalls, George C. Hunt, Huron Lodge, No. 444,was chosen President for the coming year.Others to be elected to posts in the Ass.ociatiouwere J. P. Mclilroy, Rapid City Lodge, No.1187, First Vice-president; Casper G. Aaberg,Brookings Lodge, No. 1490, Second Vice-President; M. T. Woods, Sioux Falls Lodge, No.262, Tlilrd Vice-President; Carl H. Nelles,Madison Lodge, No. 1442, Secretary; Edward A.Porter, Aberdeen Lodge, No. 1046, Treasurer;and V. Ford Zeitlow, Aberdeen Lodge, Trusteefor five years. At the same session it was determined that the convention next 3'ear should beheld in Brookings, in June. This year's gathering of South Dakota Elks found virtuallyevery Lodge in Uie State represented. Amongthe features of the first day were the address ofthe retiring President, Mr. Nelles, to the delegates; and the presentation, by Aberdeen Lodge,

to the Association, of a golf trophy, to be competed for at the 1931 assemblage. In the afternoon there was a goH tournament, and in theevening the Aberdeen Lodge drill team, thebands of Madison and Huron Lodges, and theSioux Falls Symphonic band performed. .A.dance in the ballroom of the Home of SiouxFalls Lodge, and boxing bouts at the coliseumentertained the visitors later in the evening.The second day was replete with event. Reports of committees, an address by GeorgeCrane, of the Grand Lodge Ritualistic Committee; and memorial ser\'ices, conducted byDwight E. Campbell, Justice oi tlie State SupremeCourt and of the Grand Forum, occupied themorning. During the early part of the afternoon the parade was held, the more than twohundred marching Elks and their ofiicers, inautomobiles, being accompanied in the procession by the Aberdeen Lodge Purple GuardDrill Team, tlie bands of Madison and Brookings Lodges, and by the Sioux Falls MunicipalBand. Immediately after the termination ofthis parade through the principal streets of thecity, an initiation by ofiicers chosen by DistrictDeputy Grand Exalted Ruler C. L. Dohertytook place at the Home of Sioux Falls Lodge.While this was in progress, the Elks' ladies wereguests at a matinee. A buffet luncheon latein the afternoon, and a dance at the Home inthe evening concluded the festivities.

KentuckyT ITS aimual convention, held recently in

Asliland over a period of three successivedays, the Kentucky State Elks Association entertained two distinguished guests. They wereGrand Exalted Ruler Walter P. Andrews andthe Honorable Flem D. Sampson, Governor ofKentucky. Both made addresses on the opening night of the convention when, after an impressive street parade and initiation ceremonies,performed by the Degree Team of AshlandLodge, No. 3SO, the public joined the delegatesand other visiting members of the Order at ameeting in tlie liigh scliool gymnasium. EdwinN. Williams, retiring President of the Association, introduced Mr. Andrews, and Edgar B.Hager, Exalted Ruler of Ashland Lodge,Go\-ernor Sampson. Phil Millis, ExaltedRuler of Catlettsburg Lodge, No. 942, pronounced the Eleven O'Clock Toast. A featureof this gathering was the presentation byGovernor Sampson to Mr. Andrews of the commission of Colonel on his staff. A vaudevilleentertainment by professional performers and areception later, followed the meeting. Duringthe initiatory exercises, the Elks band, orchestraand quartet rendered musical selections. Tlieelection of ofiicers was the chief oflicial businessof the convention session the next morning. Thefollowing were chosen: Henry C. Curtis, Lexington Lodge, No. 89, President; Paul M. New-house, Fulton Lodge, No. 1142, First Vice-President; K. D. Harper, Catlettsburg Lodge,Second \'ice-President; Roger L. Neil, Jr., Newport Lodge, No. 273, Third Vice-President;Richard H. Slack, Owensboro Lodge, No. 144,Secretary-Treasurer; and Stuart L. Johnston,Paducah Lodge, No. 217; C. R. Levi, AshlandLodge; and Leland O'Callaghan, LouisvilleLodge, No. 8, Trustees. Diversion and entertainment provided for the visitors during the dayincluded a sight-seeing trip through a part ofthe three States of Kentucky, Ohio and WestVirginia; a giganric barbecue at Central Park,attended by more than a thousand guests; anda street dance later in the evening. Festivitiesconcluded tlie following evening with a farewelldance at El Hasa Temple.

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WashingtonTHE last day of the two-day convention

of the Washington State Elks Association,'held recently in Ballard, the hundreds of delegates from all sectionsof the State, their la^esand a host of visitors, witnessed the dedicationand the laying of the cornerstone of the $45,000Elks Convalescent Home for Crippled Childrento be erected near Fort Lawton. The impressive ceremonies were conducted by ofl&cersof the State Association and by prominent members of the Orthopedic Hospital Association.Addresses were made by retiring PresidentRussell V. Mack, of the State Association; andby Past Exalted Ruler A. W. Swanson of Everettliodge, No. 479,who presided over the exercises.In h^ speech Mr. Swanson said that the Association had adopted, at its business sessions heldthe day before, extensive social and communitywelfare plans for the coming year. These included the help of crippled d^dren, the entertainment of shut-ins, with the first week ofNovember designated as "Shut-in-Week";and an important Americanization program.On the day preceding the cornerstone ceremonies :the delegates to the convention elected the following officers to head the Association for thenew term: President, Emmett T. Anderson,!Tacoma Lodge, No. 174; First Vice-President,John C. Slater, Seattle Lodge, No, 92; SecondVice-President, A. W. Tenney, Ballard Lodge,No. 827; Third Vice-President, Elmer Ji Nelson, Wenatchee Lodge, No. 1186; Secreta^, ,Victor Zednick, Seattie Lodge; Treasurer, Richard A. Anderson, Port Angeles Lodge, No.353; Sergeant-at-Arms, A. L. Remlinger,Aberdeen Lodge, No. 593; Chaplain, Rev. T.A. Hilton, Seattle Lodge. Included in theroimd of entertairmient were a golf tourney,luncheons, sight-seeing trips for visiting ladies,banquets, massedband concerts and drSls, anda smoker.

IdahogMPH.\SIS upon ritualistic work featiu-ed

the ninth annual convention of the IdahoState Elks Association, held recentiy at Poca-tello, imder the auspices of the Lodge there,No. 674. This was manifested by the occurrence, .during the period of the assembly of the delegates, of the first inter-State ritualistic contest;and by the adoption, to further excellence in theperfonnance of ceremonial, of a resolutiondividing the State into two ritualistic districts.In the inter-State contest, the Degree Team ofCaldwell, Idaho, Lodge, No. 14^, defeatedthat of Logan, Utah, Lodge, No. 1453, by a

margin. Of especi^ note among theincidents of the business sessions of the convention were the vote in favor of the Association's subscription to the Elks National Foundation and the report of the Secretary-Treasurerupon the Association's scholarship loan fimd.The report disclosed that twenty-seven loansalready had been made to worthy students andtiiat of these six have been repaid. The fundis one of about $2,000, and was established twoyears ago. Enthusiasm at the convention, presided over by President P. G. Flack, was stimulated by addresses by District Deputy GrandExalted Ruler F. L. Crews; Dean R. Daynes,Exalted Ruler of Salt Lake City Lodge, No.85; and B. P. Spry, of the same Lodge, andS^etary of the Utah State Elks Association;and by the reception of telegrams of felicitationfrom Past Grand Exalted Ruler James G. Mc-Farland, Grand Chaplain John Dysart, andDistrict Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler M. J.Botinelli, of Idaho, North. Officers elected forthe coming year and installed by Grand TilerR. W. Jones, were the following: President,M. H. Eustace, Caldwell Lodge; First Vice-President, William C. RuUman, Wallace Lodge,No. 331; Second Vice-President, J. A. Stewart,BlacWoot Lodge, No. 1416; Third Vice-President, D. L. Rhodes, Nampa Lodge, No. 1389;Fourth Vice-President, Ben E. Kelly, LewistonLodge, No. 896; Fifth Vice-President, Harry J.Benoit, Twin Falls Lodge, No. 1183; andSecretary-Treasurer, Harry J. Fox, PocatelloLodge. In addition to the ritualistic contest,there was held one for drill teams. This waswon by the representatives of Boise Lodge, No.

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310, \vith those of Caldwell Lodge second. Inthe series of sports tournaments, PocatelloLodge carried away all honors, gaining thetennis and trap shoot trophies, and winning theprizes for both foursomes and individual playin golf. Social events which proved unusuallyenjoyable were the banquet for ladies at theBannock Hotel, and a subsequent theatre partyfor them; and the Elks Ball, held stiU later, atthe Dance Gardens.

ConnecticutyV T THE first convention since its formation

in January of this year, the ConnecticutState Elks Association, with 175 delegates representing twenty-one Lodges, met recently inHartford to elect the officers for 1930-31.In the majority of cases, the officers chosen werethose named for temporary service earlierin the year. They were Martin J. Cunningham,Danbury Lodge, No. 120,President; Roy R. Powers, Hartford Lodge, No. 19,First Vice-President;John P. Pickett, Middletown Lodge, No.- 771,Second Vice-President; William A. Gleeson,Torrington Lodge, No. 372, Secretary; JosephC. Ivers, Bridgeport Lodge, No. 36, Treasurer;and William' S. Murray, Norwich Lodge, No.430; William Riether, Waterbury Lodge, No.265; William H. Flood, New Haven Lodge, No.25; Vincent.R. Kilboy, Greenwich Lodge, No.1150; andRaymond E. Gilyard, Ansonia lidge,No. 1269, Trustees. At the banquet which followed the business sessions and wWch broughtthe convention to a close, speeches were madeby the several distinguished visitors present.These included Past Grand Exalted RulerJohn F. Malley; D. Curtis Gano, member ofthe State Association Committee of the GrandLodge; George W. Denton, member of theRitualistic Committee of the Grand Lodge;William T. Phillips, Past President of the NewYork State Elks Association; and Mayor Bat-terson of Hartford, Conn.

Utah

AT THE two-day convention of the UtahState Elks Association, held recentiy at the

Home of Logan Lodge, No. 1453, M. HowardGraham, Provo Lodge, No. 849, was electedPresident. Other officers named by the Association were the following: First Vice-President,A. L. George, Eureka, "Tintic," Lodge, No.711; Second Vice-President, Paul V. Kelly,Salt Lake City Lodge, No. 85; Third Vice-president, Frank W. Matthew, Ogden Lodge,No. 719. B. P. Spry, of Salt Lake City Lodge,was re-elected Secretary, and J. Edwin Steinwas chosen again as Treasurer. The first sessionof the convention began on Friday morningwith Exalted Ruler A. A. Firmage, of LoganLodge, presiding. The High School Band ofLogan, the official musical organization of theconvention, played during the opening ceremonies. Mayor A. G. Limdstrom then delivered an address of welcome to the delegatesand the other visitors. He was thanked byW. F. Jensen, the retiring President of the Association, in a cordial response. Among theseveral speeches which followed, the principalone was made by James De Vine of Salt LakeCity Lodge, a former Warden of the UtahState Penitentiary. Later in the day, theritualistic team of Logan Lodge performedbefore the members of the Association. On thesecond day, Saturday, the meeting was called toorder in the morning, for the piupose of electingofficers for the ensuing year. At this sessionaddresses were made by Grand Tiler R. W.Jones, who was a guest at the convention thatday; and District Deputy Grand Exalted RulerJohn F. Rowe. Among the several resolutionsadopted during this session was one endorsingthe plan to erect a mon\iment to Charles A. S.Vivian, the founder of the Order of Elks, inVivian Park, at Provo, where at one time he issupposed to have lived. The Association alsovoted to support the construction of a tuberculosis sanitarium for Elks in Arizona; and tocooperate with other fraternal organizations ofUtali in rehabilitation work among crippledchildren. While the delegates were in session,members of Logan Lodge provided entertoin-ment for the other visitors. On Friday, a sightseeing toiu- into Logan Canyon was enjoyed

The Elks Magazineby the ladies and several groups of Antlerswho accompanied the delegates to the convention, That evening an athletic show wasgiven for all, followed by a grand ball at thePalais d'Or. On Saturday afternoon, after thelast business meeting, a colorful parade, formedby members of the Order, city and countyofficials and many bands, marched throughthe city.

Minnesota

ly^EETING recentiy at the Home of BemidjiLodge, No. 1052, the Minnesota State

Elks Association, at its twenty-sixth annual convention, voted approval of the hospital workthat has been carried on in behalf of incapacitated members of the Order and voiced encouragement of an e.xpansion of activities fortreatment and education for self-support amongthe crippled children of the State. Delegates tothe convention furthermore showed favortoward the project of instituting a publicitycommittee in each member Lodge in order tobring promptly to the knowledge of the publicthe enterprises of communal benefit in whichthe Lodges engage. The report of the successof the hospital activities in Rochester proved ofespecial interest. This, submitted by theRochester Welfare Committee, disclosed thatamong the Elks present in that city for treatment were representatives of Lodges in forty-one States. More than eight hundred Elks havereceived attention and care. Over thirty-threehundred visits have been made in the last year,and 317 Lodges notified of the presence ofmembers in Rochester. In commenting uponthe report, Charles F. Englin, retiring Presidentof the Association, commended highly RoyShadduck, who has been in charge of thehospitalization work in Rochester, and to thistribute the delegates added their own, in theform of a tremendous burst of applause. Thereading of reports, of which Mr. Shadduck's wasone, took place at the first business session, heldon the altemoon of the opening of the convention. Other accomplishments of this meeting included the election of officers for thecoming year. The following were chosen: President, B, J. Branton, Willmar Lodge, No. 952;First Vice-President, O. M. Thurber, OwatpnnaLodge, No, 1395; Second Vice-President, A. K.Cohen, Brainerd Lodge, No, 615; Third Vice-President, Thayer C. Bailey, Bemidji Lodge;Secretary, Lannie C. IHome, Minneapolis Lodge,No, 44; Treasurer, William M. Ericson, RedWing Lodge, No, 845; and Trtistee for threeyears, John S. Siverts, Hibbing Lodge, No, 1022.In the course of the session a telegram of congratulation from Grand Exalted Ruler WalterP, Andrews was read. Early in the evening ofthis day a banquet for the Grand Lodge officerspresent, among whom were Grand SecretaryJ. Edgar Masters and Robert S. Barrett, Chairman of the Grand Lodge State AssociationCommittee; for the officials of the Association,Exalted Rulers and Secretaries of the Lodgesrepresenting and the Past Exalted Rulers andpresent officers of Bemidji Lodge, was held atthe Birchmont Hotel, After this those presentat the affair joined other Elks at the Home ofBemdji Lodge, where the Degree Team ofThief River Falls Lodge, No. 1308, initiated aclass of candidates. There foUowed speeches byMr. Masters and Mr, Barrett, both of whichwere received with enthusiasm. While thedelegates were in assembly during the afternoon and while they and other members of theOrder were gathered together in the evei^g towitness the ritualistic ceremonies, entertainmentwas provided for the ladies and other guestswho accompanied Elks to the convention.There was arranged for the ladies, in the afternoon, an automobile and boat tour of the ItascaState Park; and for them and other visitors aconcert was given in the evening at LibraryPark by the band of Bemidji Lodge. The following morning a golf tournament, at theBemidji Country Club; and a trap shoot, atthe Izaak Walton League Gun Club grovmds,took place. Early in the evening came thegrand parade of the convention, with GrandLodge, State Association, Lodge and city officials, and delegations of the visiting Lodges inline. Musical organizations which took part inthe procession were the Bemidji Elks Band, theBoys Band, the Willmar Lodge Drum andBugle Corps, the Hibbing American Legion

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Drum and Bugle Corps, the Hibbing BoyScouts Drum and Bugle Corps and the G. A. R.Drum and Fife Corps. Represented also werethe Bemidji Boy Scouts, the American Legionand Auxiliary, and the Police and Fire Departments of Bemidji. A dance at the BirchmontHotel was held later. The final event of festivity,a fish fry at Ponemah Point, was given at noonthe next day.

TennesseeT^ELEGATES from Lodges in the State,

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champion, Eddie Tolan of Michigan, he was racing over a soft surface. It so happens that Williams is a strider and does not dig into a track.He can nm just about as well over soft groundas hard, barely leaving more than spike marks.American sprinters, on the other hand, aredrivers, who dig into the track, but find themselves completely lost when nmning on the kindof surface to which Williams has been accustomed. It is mypersonal belief Uiat iJiough lielittle Canadian may again win when he racesthe sprinters of the British Empire, at Hamilton,he will lose to our American sprint aces on ahard-surface track in thig coimtry.

j^EVER in the history ofAmerican sprintinghave we possessed as many fleet-footed sons

ofMercury. Heading the list is Frankie Wykoff,the University of Southern California sophomore, who recently ran the 100 yards withoutstarting blocks, in 9-2/5 seconds, the fastestofficial time ever ^de. For many years, trackfollowers have claimed that 9-3/5 seconds represented the ultimate of htunan speed and en-diu-ance. It was even said that no man's legscould stand up imder the strain of such drivingpower as would be necessary for faster time.Strangely enough, Wvkoff ran this race at aperiod in his career when many of his admirersthoughtthat he wasabout through. Twoyearsago in the Final OlympicTryouts at Boston, heraced the loo meters foiu* times in one afternoon^ 10-3/s seconds, which equaled the Olympicrecord. This achievement is unparalleled insprinting, and indicated the possibility of9-2/sseconds. After that, however, Wykoff lostmuch of his speed and form. Critics believedthat he was burned out. His defeat at the handsof Hector Dyer of Stanford University earlythis sea^n in California, seemed proof of thatcontention. But Wykoff had gotten away to amiserable start that day and laboring imder t>iighandicap, he tied himself up so completelythat he never was able to break into his regular form. Wykoff, right, should beat themall in our national championships which comethe same day as the British Empire meet,and then he should win over Williams, Millar,London and the rest, in the InternationalGames.

There are some other American sprinters,however, who mayhavesomething to say aboutall this. George Simpson of Ohio State, holderof the world's record for the 100 yards withstarting blocks, at 9-J^ sec.,has been runninginsplendid form throughout the Spring, while asturdy young Texan named Cy Leland has notonly beaten theDixie Flyer, Claude Bracey, butTolan as well. Leland, aided by a wind at theKansas relays, was timed in 9-2/5 sec. hi^elf,and, though inexperienced, he does possess agreat fighting heart, and is strong enough tostand up under a series of heats. Like Tolan,he is alsoa hot weathernmner, and the meet inAugust shouldbe just to his liking.

The date of both our national championshipsand the following International meet, is liableto prove a severe handicap to American hopes.The major percentage of our track and fieldteams to-day is made up of Western stars whoarc accustomed to an earlier season thcai East-

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Elks Association, and elected Past DistrictDeputy Grand Exalted Ruler L. Z. Turpin, ofColumbia Lodge, No. 686, President. The conference was called at the suggestion of Robert S.Barrett, Chairman of the Grand Lodge Committee on State Associations. Representativesof the Lodges are plaiming to assemble later,probably in September, for the purpose ofeffecting a permanent organization.

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emers. The Intercollegiate championships thelast Friday and Saturday in May, mark the topof the Pacific Coast track year and it is hard forthe boys to retain their form even imtil the firstweek in July, when our National Championships are generally held. This time, however,because of the British Empire meet, the date ofour o^vn championships was switched to Augusti6th, which means that a majority of theWesterners will not even attempt to stay intraining for these games. Instead of sendingteams of thirty or forty men, the Los AngelesAthletic Club and toe Olympic Club ofSan Francisco will only have, according topresent plans, some twenty atiiletes betweenthem.

This means that ovir field-event strength willbe cut down and that we shall have few trackathletes wearing the colors of the West againstthe stars of the British Empire.

Our strength in the sprints and in the hurdleswith such men as Steve Anderson, CharlesRaster, Jeddy Welsh, Sentman of Illinois,Pogolotti of California, AUott of Denver, andTaylor of Chicago, should be great enough tooffset the brilliant Britishers. We are certain tofind ourselves lamentably weak in the halfmile, with only Bill Gemimg of Washingtonand Sam Martin as outstanding representatives.Leo Lermond, Rufus Kaiser, and Ray Congerwill have to do the best they can in the mile,while our ^stance nmners are hardly in a classwith some of the stars who will represent theBritish Empire.

We do make up for this weakness, however,in tile field events, with such great championsas Tom Wame of Northwestern and Fred Sturdyof the Los Angeles Athletic Club, in the polevault; Bob Van Osdel of Southern CaliforniaUniversity in the high jump; Hamm of ArkansMand Gordon of Iowa in the broad jiunp; EricKrenz of Stanford in the discus; Jim DeMers ofthe Los Angeles A. C. in the javelin and thosetwo shot-putters of the West, Rothert andBrix.

'T^RACK and field followers sometimes considerthe shot-put as an event devoid of thrills. The

present duel between Harlow Rotiiert of Stanford University and Herman Brix of the LosAngeles Athletic Club has brought color intothis form of competition. Brix, at the presentmoment, has a world's record up for consideration of 52 ft. 4 inches, and an unofficial inark ofalmost 53 feet. Rothert has thrown the sixteen-poimd iron ball 52 ft. 2 inches this season,and he has also beaten Brix each time theyhave clashed in 1930. The friendly feud between these two stalwart giants goes back a lotfarther than this year.

Ralph Rose, a three-hundred-pound behemoth of Michigan University, established theworld's record of 51 feet in this event in 1908,and the critics at that time said the mark wouldstand until another man as big and as fast asRose should come along. Twenty years passed,and that record still stood. But a few weeksbefore the Olympic Games of 1928, out of Germany came a man named Hirschfeld, almost asbig as Rose had been. The Germans believedthat Hirschfeld would not only win the Olympic

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championship, but would break the record thatRose had set so long before.

Some twenty thousand Germans came ,acrossthe Netherlands, down to Amsterdam, to watchlieir champion put theshot, and it sohappeiiedthat thiswas the first event on theprogram, andthe first man to step into the ring was Hirsch-fcld. Ahush settled over thestadium as the bigGerman prepared to^ throw. Suddenly, twentythousand German voices were raised in onegreatyell that echoed and re-echoed throughout thearena. None of us could miss the thrill of thatmoment, and how much more must Hirschfeldhave sensed it, as he stood there in that ringand realized that it was up to him to win for hiscountry. He seemed to get every bit of strengthand power that he possessed into his fu-steffort, and on his initial attempt the shot wentsailing out 51 ft. 6 inches to break a recordwhichhad stood for twenty years.

TN THE other ring, Herman Brix, then ofWashington University, took his place. He

boked almost like a midget beside the giantHu^chfeld, eventhoughheweighed well over twohundred poundshimself. Ashe prepared forhisfiret throw, possibly a thousand Americans gavehim a yell, and he, too, seemed to sense that itwas up to him to win back what Germany hadj^t gained and, though he had seldom surpassedfifty feetinprevious competition, he,too,seemedto get every bit of strength, of gameness andof courage that he possessed into his throw,and the shot went out 51 ft. 8 inches to breakthe world's record that Hirschfeld had just established.

•^^at was a thrill! The later Olympic victoryof John Kuck served only as an anti-climax,even though the stalwart Kansan put the shot52 ft. of an inch for a new world's record.It was Kuck's last great throw, while Brix hadjust found himself.

Another youngster had been eliminated thatday. His name was Harlow Rothert and it washis first big year of shot-putting. He had beenthe sensation of the American college season,improving in everymeet,but he had his bad dayat Amsterdam. The following year he againlost to Brix in the American Championships.

But now Rothert has come into his own.andseems on the verge of reaching 53 feet, if he getsright. Herpan Brix is in the same position.

Our National Championships, or the International meet which follows, may find eitherone of them as the new world's record-holder.In any event, they are the most likely athletesto furnish the real thrill of the field events thissummer.

Even with this array of stars, it is not at allcertain that we shall be returned the winner ofthe ^eatest dual meet ever held between theEnglish-speaking peoples of the world. Adefeat, however, would not be disastrous, forit would doubtless stimulate interest not onlythroughout the British Empire, but in otherforeign countries as well for the 1932 OlympicGames, and would prove that America was notinvincible. Incidentally, such a defeat woulddo a great deal towards spurring us on to thedevelopment of new material and a greater teamthan this country has ever known.

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