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SOMETHING is going to be clone aboutproviding more space for the White

House offices. Now in the recommendedstage, the project will cost up to 325 million for an executive office building to beconstructed on the site of the old State,War and Navy building, just west of theWhite House. Also planned is a S2-millionrebuildingof the White House WestWing,now used for the Presidential offices. Itwill be made over into a residence for distinguished visitors. Alterations to theWhite House East Wing will cost $150,000and a tunnel from the White House to theExecutive office building will cost S300.-000. It will take four years to do at! thisand the President has approved the change,although he will be out of office then. TheWhite House offices have been cluttered upfor years, way back to F. D. R.'s secondterm, when the first polio March of Dimesletters had the White House post officeclogged for days. President Truman triedto get action but nothing was done. Sincethen the White House staff has grown from12 secretaries and administrative assistants

to 38. Total employes have increased from140 to over 300. The plan now discussedis to tear down the old State, War andNavy eye-sore, an architectural monstrosity,shove the White House grounds out to 17thStreet on the West and build a three orfour-story office building in keeping with

the surroundings. The White House itselfwould be entirely a residence for the Presidential family, with the exception of theofficesof the social secretary and the WhiteHouse police.

ASK $150,000 AWARD

A bill before the Senate, introduced bySenator Saltonstall of Mass., would giveretired Captain of the Na\'y Laurance F.Sallord S150.000 for inventing 20 cryptographic systems. Captain Safford retiredat 63 in 1953, after 37 years of service. Hismarvelous codes, used in World War II,were never deciphered by the enemy. Lastyear. Congress awarded $100,000 to Colonel William Friedman of the U. S. Army,who made similar codes.

SOLAR HOT SPOT

Made from an old Army searchlight, theNational Bureau of Standards has perfecteda solar furnace capable of producing 6.300degreesof heat, or two thirds of the surfaceheat of the sun itself. It's a gigantic "burning glass"' in which sunlight is reflectedfrom the huge searchlight mirrors onto aspot about a quarter of an inch in diameter.The furnace is used to test heat resistance

of ceramics and other materials.

SAND FOR SENATORS

One of the many duties performed bySenate pages is to fill the tiny bottles ofblotting sand which are on each Senator'sdesk. The sand is seldom used but it iskept fresh and clean, just in case a Senatormight be using a quill pen and a lot of ink.Senators fill their own silver snuff boxes.

REMOVE SECRECY LABEL

Weather data for Air Force flyers is nolonger a Defense Dept. "secret." It is anautomatic 55-sccond telephone recording,changed every hour, giving visibility, ceiling. temperature, wind, etc.. and endingwith the words "this information is for military use only and dissemination to the public is not authorized." Anyone, however,could look in the Pentagon phone book,where the weather number is listed, and getthe information. When a CongressionalHouse Committee called attention to this,red-faced Pentagon top brass re7noved the'"secrecy" label. The weather phone number is Pentagon, ext. 79355.

BIG CHIEF

In the new African state of Ghana, FrankHoleman, a Washington newspaperman, isknown as the "big chief" of the UnitedStales. Holeman is big, 6 feet 7, and he wasa commanding figure in Ghana with thecorps of newsmen covering the recent visitof Vice President Nixon. At the Independence Day ceremonies, the tall reporterwore a sports shirt so splashy in colors it

made the brilliant robes of the Ghana chief

tains look drab in comparison. One Ghananotable asked if Holeman. sporting such awonderful shirt, was the big chief of theAmericans. A newsman with the partynodded and replied that Holeman was"chieF' of the National Press Club in Wash

ington. That did it. Ever^'body walkedaround salaaming. As a matter of fact,Holeman just recently finished his term aspresident of the Press Club.

RESERVISTS WELL TREATED

Young men in the new Army Reserve sixmonths' training at Fort Knox, Kentucky,get kid glove treatment, compared to regular army recruits. They are two or threeyears younger and many are away fromhome for the first time. They have betterquarters, sleep on air mattresses in puptents and have a lot of off-duty time to fixtheir autos and work in the hobby shop.Their barracks have curtained windows,individual lockers and tiled showers. Theyhave lots of visitors. Regular army recruits,however, have one advantage—beer in thePX—which is strictly forbidden the reservists. "Mothers wouldn't like it," anofficer explained.

POTOMAC POSIES

Caribbean cruises are not sailing fromWashington this Spring, the Potomac Riveris too shallow in spots . . . The last AirForce B-17 "Flying Fortress" of WorldWar IT days has been junked and is now atarget for anti-aircraft practice . . . Younggraduate engineers and scientists get starting salaries of S-4.480 in Federal jobs butbeginners' pay of $4,700 is recommended. . . For civil defense use. some states are

getting property for free which cost thegovernment S2 million . . . No. the hip boot?for his chauffeur on the Senate expenseaccount of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas were not for trout fishing.They are used for washing the limousine ...A Senate Internal Security Subcommitteerecommends that representatives of Tass.the Soviet news agency, be barred from allconfidential press conferences and deniedpolice press passes . . . Treasury is sendinga letter to all parents having babies thisyear to buy U. S. Saving? Bonds for thekids . . . Police seized a good whisky stillin operation only a few blocks from theCapitol . . . About 2 million workers wereinjured while on the job last year. LaborDept. reports . . . Federal Trade Commission is policing radio and TV ads withmonitors, following complaints that whatthey say or show isn't necessarily so . • •The new A-powered aircraft carrier willcost $300 million ... A girl from Indianapolis. making out an application for agovernment job, filled in the line "Veterans' Preference" with one word, "Sailors."

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CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1957COVER BY WOODI ISHMAEL

TOM WRIGLEY WRITES FROM WASHINGTON

$28/006 REWARD Stan/ey Frank

DANGER STRUCK Char/es Yerkow

YOUNG TIGERS IN A HURRY Tom SUer

THE HEEDLESS HORSEMEN William Byron Mowery

A MESSAGE FROM THE GRAND EXALTED RULER 12

REMEMBRANCE STRIKES THE MATCH IN KOREAThrough Your National Service Commission 13

FOR ELKS WHO TRAVEL Horace Sutton

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Dennis James wos Masterof Ceremonies for this Telethon show in which MissModenna M. Brossard,employed by the UnitedCerebral Palsy Associationof Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas, demonstratedthe therapeutic use of parallel bars for young PeteBarrientos. Miss Brossardcompleted her advancedtraining in cerebral palsywith the assistance of a

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Recent Elks National Foundation

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Miss Renate Nothman, sponsored byNew Haven, Conn., Lodge, for a post-graduate course in cerebral palsy therapy atColumbia University in New York.

John Ferree, sponsored by Louisville,Ky., Lodge, for advanced training in cerc-Lral palsy therapy at Columbia University.

Miss Henrietta Baron, sponsored byLong Branch, N. J., Lodge, for advancedtraining in cerebral palsy therapy at Columbia University.

Joseph F. Gangemi, sponsored by Syracuse, N. Y., Lodge, for a course in specialeducation at Syracuse University.

Norris W. Eastman, sponsored bySpringfield, Mass., Lodge, for a course inadapted pliysical education and recreationat Springfield College.

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With the help of Mrs. Rosemary Botta, this littleboy at the Walter D. Matheny School for Cerebral Palsy Children, Far Hills, N. J., is learningto care for himself. Mrs. Botta took a postgraduate course in cerebral palsy at ColumbiaUniversity in New York, made possible by agrant from the Elks National Foundation. Mrs.Botta was sponsored by Somerville, N. J., Lodge.

A Gift From The Heart Is Bet-ter Than The Rarest Jewel.

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Rehabilitution of physically handicapped children.

Specialized training of personnelto staff Cerebral Palsy TreatmentCenters.

Hospitalization for tubercular patients.

College scholarships to the ambitious, well qualified boys andgirls of our community.

Youth leadership activities.You, my Brother, can help immeas

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Obscure but intelligent workers in big and small business are

yielding a harvest of ideas for better products at less cost.

BY STANLEY FRANK

ILLUSTRATED BY DONALD F. MOSS

IF YOU ARE BAFFLED by any mechani-I cal device more intricate than a zipper,you will be tickled to learn that the wheelhas turned full circle in the race to maintain America's technological supremacy.The most important piece of equipment inindustry today is a plain, wooden box thatdoes not contain a single electronic tube ora complicated dobickus only a graduatephysicist or engineer can understand.

This box is, in fact, empty every morning. but each night it yields a rich harvestof ideas that keep our economy operatingat peak elliciency. For this is the old-fashioned suggestion box, still the best gadgetever invented for capitalizing on our mostvaluable national asset—the intelligenceand initiative of our people.

In 1957, some 7,000 firms with organizedsuggestion systems will receive more than8,000,000 ideas for turning out better products at cheaper cost. Virtually all the suggestions will come from obscure workerswliose technical training has been limitedto practical, on-the-job experience. Andfully 25 per cent of the ideas submitted willbe adopted by top executives who will bevery happy indeed to give approximately$65,000,000 in cash bonuses to smart, enterprising employees.

"Surveys of our members show that companies recover more than ten times theamounts of the bonuses," reveals Bettyr.ronenworth, secretary of the National Association of Suggestion Systems, in Chicago.'"That estimate covers only savings in production methods, overliead costs and man-hours of work. It docs not include benefitssuch as better public relations, highermorale among workers and safety measures.Those intangibles cannot be evaluated indollars and cents, but they contribute enormously to a company's good will."

It must be sound business practice to reward handsomely a worker who has enoughinterest in his job to devote thought to iton his own time. A fast-growing trendamong big corporations is to give employees a percentage of the net savings effected in the first year by the adoption oftheir ideas, less installation costs if re-tooling or the purchase of new machinery is involved. The awards range from 10 per centup to the whopping 25 per cent givenby theCleveland Graphite Bronze Company—andthey add up to a lot of money.

The all-time record bonus is 5528,006

paid by Cleveland Graphite in 1948 toCharles Zamiska, a furnace operator whocame up with an improved method forhandling carbon cores used in the shellcasting department. The previous year DanReba received .§12.104 for his exploratoryspadework in the same process.

The highest award in 1956 also was paidby Cleveland Graphite to Hal Rogers, whocollected S10,229 for an inspiration whichseized him while he was eating his lunchin the shade of the plant building. Rogersidly noticed that the pull rolls from fourbig milling machines, which had been discarded as obsolete, were stored temporarilyunder a canvas until they could be cartedaway to the junk pile.

"It suddenly occurred to me that thosediscarded rolls could do the job as well asthe new machinery the company was goingto buy," Rogers relates. "So I just made afew preliminary sketches, outlined the ideain general and dropped it in a suggestionbox. Next thing I knew, it was adopted andI got a check for §1,100. Later, the net savings were computed and 1 learned I wasentitled to a total bonus of S10,229. Thatwas quite a windfall for a couple of hoursof extra work."

In the last dozen years Cleveland Graphite has paid §77,692 for just thirteen ofthe thousands of ideas poured into its suggestion boxes. '"Those little receptaclesplaced all around the plants have been atremendous factor in the growth of the company," says Frank J. Carbon, head of thefirm's suggestion system. "Their impact onrelations between management and laborhas been even more important than thevery substantial savings we've realized. Anemployee derives much greater satisfaction from his job when he is provided withan opportunity for contributing to, andparticipating in, a successful operation. Itgives bim a sense of belonging which promotes loyalty to the company."

The cushy dividends accruing from suggestion boxes is not confined to stock

holders in profit-making corporations.Every citizen in the United States is benefiting appreciably by the extension of suchprograms. The largest, and most enthusiastic, advocate of suggestion boxes is thelargest business in the country—the federalgovernment. Sure, taxes are fierce, but allof us are spared much more painful bites

out of our paychecks only because a newpolicy permits 250 government agencies tofollow the lead of private enterprise.

Since November 30, 1954, suggestionssubmitted by government workers have cutfederal expenditures by a quarter of abillion dollars. On that date Congresspassed the Employees' Incentive AwardsAct authorizing the Civil Service Commission to pay bonuses for money-saving ideas.It was no coincidence that in 1956, the firstfull fiscal year the Act was on the books,there was a 35 per cent increase in suggestions received—and a 38 per cent increase in resulting dollar benefits. Bonusestotaling 35,888,531 brought economiesamounting to S69,603,566.

"The American people bought the biggest bargain in their history—and I meanbargain in the best sense of the word,'George M. Moore, Civil Service Commissioner, declared last November. Mr. Moorehardly was guilty of overstatement.

Everyone gripes about red tape, butRuby Finch, a clerk in the Detroit office ofthe Army's Ordnance Tank-AutomotiveCommand, finally did something about it.She devised a streamlined plan for keepinga world-wide inventory on spare parts forthe armed forces that annually cuts forty-six million inches off lists recorded ontapes. Herbert Poenish, a civilian whotackled a similar problem for the Engineering (^orps, could have retired for life hadhe been working for a private company thatgives a bonus of 10 per cent for the firstyear's savings on an improved method.Poenish's scheme for processing replacement parts used in the Army's engineeringequipment reduced overhead costs byS5,500,000 annually. His bonus of Sl,700was one of the largest ever awarded to agovernment employee.

Former servicemen can thank Richard

J. Kuhn, a document analyst in the Veterans Administration, for the faster actionthey are getting on applications for benefits.Requests previously were subject to long,annoying delays because so many fraudulent claims were presented that dischargepapers and other official records had to beexamined painstakingly for alterations anderasures. Kuhn rigged up from salvagedequipment anelectronic magic-eye machineJhat exposes any doctored document.

Kuhn received Sl.OOO for his invention.(Continued on page 51)

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DaWe played the roles of Marshal Earp and

Doc Holllday, Then the real thing came along^

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT The interior of the bar appeared awfully darkto Davie Vernon, menacing, outright forbidding.

That evening at nine-thirty when hewas supposed to be at home studying

for the mid-term exams, Davie Vernon wasseated alone in one of the high-backedbooths of Mr. McHugh's soda parlor.Davie was not unaware of his own feelingof guilt, waiting here to meet Eileen indirect disobeyance of his parents. Notthat his father or mother minded his taking Eileen to a movie or for a soda; norwas it as if he were out with a gang getting into trouble. Davie's parents simplywanted him to make a good showing inthe mid-terms.

Davie had already lost interest in the

cherry soda resting on the table beforehim. His back was to the street. Heglanced impatiently at the ornamental mirror strip on the rear wall, there seeing aview of the store doorway and the glasscandyshowcase upfront. NoEileen, though.

Mr. McHugh, the genial elderly proprietor, usually closed by ten, which, ashe'd often said, gave him a little time athome with Mrs. McHugh and Billy. Davieand Billy were in the same class in highschool. At the moment Mr. McHugh wascleaning up in back of the fountain, theplace empty, except for Davie.

"T just got," Mr. McHugh called over

to Davie, "a copy of 'Guns at West Rock",Davie. Ever read it?"

Davie said, "rm not reading any of 'emright now, Mr. McHugh. Mid-terms.'"

The proprietor grinned. "Sure. I forgot.I'll let you have 'Guns at West Rock' whenI finish."

"Okay," Davie said absently.Thus reminded, and with time on his

hands, Davie Vernon momentarily let hismind edge over to the episode in the lastbook he'd read, the one in which WyaltEarp and—

"Are you sure Eileen is meeting you(Continued on page 36)

WAY BACK TX 1940 Jack Zeller,then overseer of ihe Detroit farm

hands, callcd a fledgling catcher to oneside:

"You're not sjoing arivwhere in l^ase-ball: you can t hit well enough. But youdo have the brains and drive to become afine manager, maybe a big league manager."'

The youngster was John Thomas (Jack)Tighe. pronounced Tie, the new managerof the Detroit Tigers, a franchise generally raled as one of the most valual)le ineither big league.

Tighe. a smiling, balding Irishman wholooks a bit like Joe McCarthy, heired aclub that has finished in the second division for six consecutive seasons, also aclub that trailed the Yankees of 1956 bya whopping margin of 15 games. Furthermore. attendance last summer slumpedfrom 1.181.{)3f« in 1955 to 1.051.182.very ordinary piece of business in spaciousBriggs Stadium.

Yet Jack Tighe now finds himself sweptalong on the greatest wav<' of Detroit optimism in a decade. And he doesn't seem tomind at all. The cash customers are onlyslightly more optimistic than the manager.

won't finish any worse than second, Tighe told the owners last December. At the training camp at Lakeland,Fla., in mid-March. I asked him if he stillthought the Tigers would finish second.

"I do," he said emphatically, "and I

think we might possibly even do better!"Tighe saw nothing in the daily exiiibi-

tion games, even the ones with the redoubtable New York Yankees, to inducea state of shock. He has told his playersihey can win the pennant. Such optimismwas contagious. Newspapermen interviewed him daily, talked to his youngstars, reminisced with the few old-timersstill around and met the ambitiousrookies.

There was a new spring in every stepand the earlv-bird fans now insist thatDetroit has a great chance to take thepennant away from the Yankees. Thesepartisans make Lakeland their winterhome—Michigan car lags wore almost ascommon around the camp as Floridaplates. This year the pilgrimage to Lakeland was the biggest ever: back in Detroitadvance ticket sales boomed, showing apre-season increase of 25 per cent overthe 19.56 season.

The skeptics wonder—and have everyright lo—why the Tigers, who won only82 games last season, can be tagged as aserious challenger. The reasons are fourfold . . .

First, the makeup of the AmericanLeague favors a young and brash rival.

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Tlie Cleveland Indians, having failedoften, are older and slower. The samegoes for the Chicago White Sox, who maysuffer without Frank Lane's smart tradingtouch, and the Boston Red Sox still haveaches and pains in the infield.

Second, the Tigers have new owners,a new organization and a firm determination to produce a winner. An 11-mansyndicate, of which more later, shelledout .S-o.500.000 for this club, an all-timehigh in baseball. These investors can gettheir money back only if they put theTigers in tiie World Series. It's thatsimple.

Third, the Detroit finish in 1956. At(Continued on page 47)

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In Detroit there are new owners,

a new organization and a

rook/e manager—all with a firm

determination to produce a winner.

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Tlxe HeedlessThe thoughtless highway slaughter of our wild

life creatures totals tens of millions yearly,

BY WILLIAM BYRON MOWERY

I ATE one evening Igol inlo my car at aJ bus-terminal town an hour out of New

York City and drove the thirty miles onhome, through a Sleepy Valley country ofwooded hills, old farm valleys and moon-gleaming lakes. The drive should havebeen pleasant and enjoyable. It was the'witching hour of two o'clock and the nightwas coldly beautiful, with a new snowturning the countryside to dark silver anda bright moon drifting tiirough a broken

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field of woolpack high in the western sky.But death had danced a macahre jig

among the wild creatures along that stretchof road. Time after time I slowed downand jotted a sad little statistic onto therecord board beside me. Here in a rockcut a raccoon, of a family I had often seenplaying there, lay dead on the road shoulder. Farther on a hig fat possum had beenhit, though it wasn't dead yet—unfortunately. Down in the next valley a pair of

rabbits, evidently at their courting in theroad, had been run over. . . . Altogether,fourteen such entries on that thirty-miledrive.

Also, I had to pass the small stonebridge in a wooded valley where I hadbeen the person, one night last winter, tocome upon a wrecked car and its deaddriver. Just a few minutes earlier he hadcome tearing around a bend, doing fifty ona slick, winding night road, and gone whizzing past me. At the bridge, where lie hita doe, skidded and crashed into the stoneabutment, destiny had caught up.

Everywhere these days, in newspapers,magazines and over the air, the heavy tollthat automobiles are taking in human lifeand injury is being dinned at us constantly, as it should be. but about the highway

slaughter of our wild creatures, literallyby the tens of millions, we never hear oneword. They have no defense, no voice, noway of asking us, please, to give a littlethought to this carnage among their ranks,so I am going to be their spokesman andplead their cause here. 1 want to discusstheir night ways a bit, then take you on adrive and show, by actual demonstration,how we can cut this carnage to a smallfraction of what it is now.

And incidentally—or maybe it's not soincidental—I will show you that one ofthe lives we save may sometime, in verytruth, be yours or mine. Our safety andtheirs are tied up in one bundle.

I suppose there are a few individualswho will shrug and say, '"So some animalsget killed—so what?" But the great ma

Illustrated by GEOFFREY BIGGS

jority of people hate it when they run oversome wild creature, and they wish theycould somehow avoid such accidents. Also,they don't like the danger, ever present indeer country, of winding up themselves•against some stone abutment or rollingdown over a throughway embankment.

As roads and cars get faster, and especially as these modern roads are being extended into big-game country, liighway authorities are finding themselves bedevilledby the problem of the human casualtiesresulting from collisions with animals likedeer and bear. This type of casualty issteadily mounting and no method yet devised, such as fencing, offers any genuineremedy. In a short time after its operationbegan one of our Eastern throughways hadupward of a thousand "deer accid''"ts."

Just consider what this problem is going tobe when we get that huge national networkof fast highways.

Emphatically, this vast and increasingdestruction of our wildlife, along with thehuman casualties involved, is nof some

thing we just have to accept, as an inevitable, gory part of the automobile age. Fourtimes out of five ive can avoid running intoor running over these wild creatures. Ifwe know how. If we know a few wildlifefacts, which I will give, and know a specialtrick or two with the steering wheel atnight.

wHEN I first began studying this matter of animal fatalities on the high-I immediately ran into several puz-

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DEVELOP ELKDOM'S RESOURCES"

\f ISITS with thousands of Elks in every section of our nation enthuseme with the potentialities of our great Order.

Elkdom has tremendous programs and a sound organization basedon 89 years of experience. Our manifold benevolent, educational, veterans rehabilitation and patriotic activities, administered by our GrandLodge and State Association officers, Commissions and Committees, allare channeled to the community level in our subordinate lodges.

They are designed for the protection of our American Heritagethrough the development of our Youth. Their worth is evidenced bythe millions who are attracted to our ranks and are responsible forour steady growth. But there is a glaring weakness on our local levelsdeserving sober consideration.

Review of our membership statistics for the past five years showsthat each year an average of 102,393 join our Order, 82,863 by initiation. These same years are offset by annual losses "of 75,948, limitingour average net gain to only 26,446. "

Of the losses, 41,809 are "dropped for non-payment of dues" andthe percentage to initiations has risen each year.

True, selective membership will correct the first fault. Putting newmembers to work while they are freshly imbued with the spirit of Elkdom can correct the second fault.

Our new Exalted Rulers, installed last month, have the opportunityto block this loss if they will include these new Elks on the working committees and utilize the enthusiasm which prompted their afliliation.

However, if the local lodges do not have active programs they cannot absorb this new manpower. Therefore, that becomes the firstobligation.

Programs of activity are usually dependent upon secretaries who arereimbursed for their efforts. The importance of these secretaries as administrators as well as Elks can not be stressed too strongly. They havea twofold obligation in the dispatch of their responsibilities and opportunities for our great Order and can be one of the most effective factorsin maintaining and expanding membership.

I have faith that our new Exalted Rulers will start the ball rollingat once with inspired programs, proper indoctrination and assimilationof new members, and thus contribute to the growth of our splendidOrder.

Very sincerely,

GRAND EXALTED RULER

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"A STRONGER ELKDOM FOR A BETTER AMERICA"

REMEMBRANCE STRIKES THE MATCH IN KOREAthrough your National Service Commission

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL

WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

IN REPLY REFER TO

AGMZ-P 005 (15 Feb 57)

The Elks National Service Commission2860 Chrysler Building, NorthNew York, New York

Gentlemen:

I am happy to note the continued activity on the part of yourcoimission in donating cigarettes to military personnel in Korea.May I once again, on behalf of the Honorable Wilber M, Brucker,Secretary of the Aru^r, inpart the gratitude of Department of theArmy for your noteworthy contributions which are reaching so iranyhundreds of our personnel*

With the return to more normal conditions in Korea, it isunderstandable that the thoughts of many folks here in the UnitedStates would no longer be of servicemen in that country. However,the fact remains that many of our troops are still serving on thatfirst line of defense. It is with these thoughts in mind thatknowledge of your continued, consistent, and extremely generouscontributions to the welfare of those personnel in Korea can beespecially appreciated not only by Department of the Army here inWashington but also by our soldiers in Korea.

Your donations of cigarettes since the end of 1953> as reportedto this office by the R» Reynolds Tobacco Conpany, now total3,600,000.

With this letter may I again convey to you my sincere thanks,as well as those of the commander of forces in the Far East, foryour continued thou^tfulness.

Korea is still very real. To America it is a vital outpostthat must be garrisoned and patrolled.

Korean duty for a serviceman is lonesome. Since defenseactivities in the Far Kast cannot be made public, it followsthat any morale problems in this remote part of the worldreceive little attention.

Sincc tiie start of hostilities in Korea, vour National

Sincerely yours.

HERBERT M. JONESMajor General,The Adjutant General

Service Commission has sent, and will continue lo send,millions of cigarettes to these lonely G.I.'s.

Thousands of cards and letters of appreciation expresseloquently the gratitude of these men. We have publishedexcerpts from these messages before; this time, we are reprinting a letter which proves their superiors also apprecialeyour interest in the men they command.

RETIRE IN MEXICO

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HERE'S YOUR HOMEAWAY FROM HOME-WHEN m

MILWAUKEEMilu-aukoe. Wise.. Elks LodKe gUts you all the con-veiilenrca of a rtno hold iilus a "armtii ami frieiuill-ness while not olilrusive is here and jour's for thsasklnK, There are feaUircs too, thiit you uoti't find inthe averase hotel. suiiniiilnB poo!, syninaslum. locliorsslcaiil room, inassace and HbIiI Ircatments available"l-adies rest room. i>rl\ate dlnlntt and meeting roomsund a spacious Mailiio dininj: room, Ilooms for cardsi)ll!iard8 and Kenoial recrcalton and a well Btockei!Illirary. Howllnjf. of course anil the alleys are coot!All Pi>rn lo Elks and llielr nucsts. Hotel rooms arcslac. Iloof piovlcles suiibiUhinK iind ihere are horse-.hof C0I11I-. To ciij'iv II eood time in Milwaukee tolive comfortably and pleaBsntly stay at the No' 4nLodge.

24 well-equipped rooms,many with baths

Good food in our haiulsome Rainbow Lounge prepared by our OMnolief noted for excellent cuisine.

SCRANTON, Pa., No. 123A few accommodations available.Advance noticc appreciated.

VISITING

MIAMI BEACH?HAVE FUN AT 7607

Experic'iicc real SoiitiiL-m Hospitality at yourElks LodKc in the playjiroimd of Anierica. Utistir-pnsscd ifiL-ation overlooking bentitiful Biscaynt* Bay.AttractivL' bar and recri'ution rooms. Sandwichesand light snacks served until midniglit. Vat-aliim-inu Elks and their ladies always weleome.

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Some of the country's great national parks

are easily reached from our Convenf/on City,

BY HORACE SOflblK'!ILLUSTRATED BY H. B. VESTAL

rONLY TAKES ONE ROBIN or onecrocu.s before the folders are being un

folded on ihe floor, and with ihe Elksconvening by the Golden Gate this summer, July 14-18, what should he carpetingyour living room now are maps of thescenic lands that stretch north, east andsouth of San Francisco.

Here are some of the possibilities forexcursions on the way to San Francisco oron the way home. First of all, north ofthe city by the Bay stretches the RedwoodEmpire, a majestic land covered by a million and a haif acres of Redwood forests.Some 97 per cent of ail the world's giantsequoias, a species that once grew inEastern Europe and Siberia grow herenow. Thi?y are the tallest living things onearth, the highest of them, the FoundersTree, stretching 364 feet high. (SomeAustralian partisans had claimed yearsago that eucalyptuses Down Under weregrowing higher, but scientific measurerswent into the field and the Aussie claimshave since been withdrawn.)

From March until July the Redwood

Empire blooms with apple, pear, pruneand other varieties of fruit trees. Thewild lilac, poppies and buttercup.?, thelilies, 'mustard and dogwood ignite theplain, and the gladioli burst into colorfulclusters near Grants Pass in Oregon,which is the northern gateway to the Redwood Empire for those who live above it.Besides the tonic value of the beautifulscenery, the Empire also encloses a variety of mineral springs in Napa, Lake,Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Firstpopular with the Indians, the mud andsulphur baths are popular with the palefaces who take the waters (and the mud)for the relief of arthritis, rheumatism,sciatica, fatigue, etc.

One park on the road from the northcountry down to San Francisco is CraterLake National Park, whose centerpiece isa magnificent lake inside the crater of anextinct volcano. Once a mountain thatprobably crumbled after it blew its top.Crater is now a center for visitors whocluster at Rim Village, a settlementperched at 7.100 feet. The lake itself is

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loaded wilh rainbow irout, and silversidcsalmon, but you'll have to troll from aboat and use a 350-foot line. The lake is2,000 feet deep. Shore iishing with dryflies is best in August and September.From Rim Village it's a crooked routedown a mile and a half to the watersedge where you can rent boats for rowingor fishing. Twice a day a boat makes asightseeing tour around the lake and apark naturalist goes along on one tripand points out such blossoms as CreepingRaspberry, or Pussypaws. Crater LakeLodge at Rim Village has rooms at anywhere from S7 to Sll, or less if you willdo without a private bath. Sleeping cabins are as little as S3 and that includesthe bedding. The famous Shasta Route ofthe Southern Pacific, operating betweenPortland and San Francisco, drops passengers at , Klamath Falls whence theCrater Lake bus will fetch you to thelodge. Elks and their families planningto go to the Convention aboard NorthernPacific's Grand Exalted Rulers SpecialTrain leaving Chicago on July 8th willenjoy this great scenic ride on July 13thfrom Portland to Oakland.

Farther south, the Lassen Volcanic National Park houses the only recently activevolcano on the mainland of the U.S. (Itwas exploding as recently as 192L) Itopens usually late in May, runs throughmid-September, and there is hiking, boat

f

ing, horscback riding, and fishing too, although here you will need a Californialicense. The park gateway is Redding,forty-five miles away, a lumber and shipping center and the seat of Shasta County.Gray Line Tours also runs a sidetrip fromRedding to the Shasta Dam which includes a tour of the lake of the dam on acruiser. Shasta is higher than the Washington Monument and the water drop overthe spillway is three times longer thanNiagara Falls.

Between Lassen Park and YosemitePark, covering the state border betweenCalifornia and Nevada where it breaks inits familiar western angle, is Lake Tahoe,a touring possibility for those who wantto roll out of San Francisco along Route40. The possibilities are endless, whatwith Truckee, Reno and Carson City allwithin easy striking distance.

As for Yosemite, one of the most famous of all parks, it lies virtually due eastof San Francisco, an awesome preserve ofgranite walls, tumbling falls, and hugetrees, all of it embracing no less than1,189 miles, enough to make a fair sizedprincipality. Here again there are hikessometimes led by a park naturalist; thereare not only horseback riding but overnight saddle trips. Bus companies runmotor tours touching the highlights withinthe park. And besides all this, there are

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Time's getting close! The GrandLodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks meets in SanFrancisco July 14-18. So, now'sthe time to make your reservationsif you vt'ant to go west on NorthernPacific's "Grand Exalted Ruler'sSpecial," direct to California.

You're cordially invited to joinus on the tour party leaving ChicagoJuly 8th. Your traveling companions on the "Grand Exalted Ruler'sSpecial" will be friendly BrotherElks and their ladies from the Midwest and from many eastern andsouthern states.

Here's the trip of the year . . .one you won't want to miss. WhenElks get together there's always funand good fellowship, and you canexpect this trip to California onNP's "Grand Exalted Ruler's Special" to be a great success from beginning to end.

For free details about the GrandLodge trip, or information abouttwo fascinating NP extension toursto Alaska or Hawaii, mail the coupon below. Just be sure to checkwhich trips you're interested in.

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Welcome to the Convention in San FranciscoCome Westward to California. Brother Elk.

All of the 128 Elks Lodges of California join with San Francisco Lodge No. 3 in cordially inviting you to he our guest at the 93rd Grand Lodge Convention which will open in San Franciscoon Sunday, July 14 1957, and continue through Thursday, July 18th.

San Francisco is rich in the early history of the West.See the famous Golden Gate Park.

See the stupendous Golden Gate and Bay Bridges.

Enjoy San Francisco s Bohemian atmosphere and its renowned cafes and restaurants.Visit the giant redwoods.See the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University at Palo Alto.Plan to see Monterey Peninsula. Cypress Point, Pebble Beach and the Carmel Mission.Then plan to travel south to Santa Barbara, Los Ang(4es, Hollywood, the South Coast beaches,

San Diego and across the line into old Mexico.

San Francisco's climate in July is cool and invigorating and you need not worry about heat orhumidity.

The lodges of the Bay District of California are cooperating with San Francisco Lodge to provide you with the finest of convention entertainment. 125,000 California Elks sincerely welcomeyou to San Francisco in July.

Convention Date; July 14-18,1957

Sincerely and fraternally.

L. A. LEWIS

Past Grand Exalted Ruler

m&mA sporisman needs only his gun

and a call to have a chance to

bag a coyote, bobcat or fox.

BY TED TRUEBLOOD

ONCE when I was aboy I caught ajack rabbit in a steel trap. It was an

accident—rabbits actually are hard tocatch in traps of this type—and I decided to turn him loose. He crouched motionless as I approached, and I grabbedhim by the ears to hold him while I depressed the spring of the trap with onefoot and opened the jaws with the otherhand.

The instant I touched him, he beganuttering the most agonizing screams I hadeverheard. They were shrill, high-pitched,and-each of them lasted only a second ortwo, but one followed the other in rapidsuccession until he had shrieked about adozen times. He then paused, apparentlyto catch his breath, and was just startingagain when I got his foot out of the trapand turned him loose.

I was standing there, watching him hopaway, when I saw a movement on theridge about 75 yards beyond. It was acoyote. He had trotted up from the otherside and now he was stopped on top. looking eagerly in my direction. I had leanedmy .22 rifle against a sagebrush severalfeet away to release the rabbit. Before Icould reach it, the coyote apparently sawme. whirled around and disappeared backbehind the ridge.

If I had been a boy genius—or maybe even normally smart—I undoubtedlywould have put two and two together andprofited therefrom. Instead, it never occurred to me that the coyote's appearingat that particular moment was anythingbut coincidence. It was another 30 yearsor more before I intentionally called upmy first coyote by imitating the shriekingof a terrified or dying rabbit.

Meanwhile, down in Texas, a few hunters and cow punchers had somehow madethe connection. Maybe one of them hadan experience similar to mine and wasclever enough to guess the real reason forthe coyote's approach. They learned toimitate a rabbit's squalls, using only theirmouths and vocal cords. Then they discovered that if they took the tin noisemaker out of certain rubber toys, "pressedit against their lips and blew on it hard,

Ted Trueblood with a coyote that couldn'tresist the dying rabbit call.

the sound that emerged was a pretty goodimitation of a rabbit's shrieks.

Hart Stilwell wrote an article about thistime that he titled "Calling The Killers."He described the methods, and the amazing results, and more sportsmen began toget interested. The next step was inevitable. You could soon buy a call made specifically to imitate the shrieks of a terrified rabbit and guaranteed to attractcoyotes, foxes, bobcats and anything elsethat preys on our little short-tailed, long-eared friends. That, of course, includesjust about every meat eater, both lart^eand small, that inhabits North America.

For several years now, the BurnhamBrothers, of Marble Falls. Texas, andA. L. Lindsey, of Brownwood, in the samestate, have been marketing such calls.My friend Byron Dalrymple says this isthe most significant development in hunting of the post-war period, and he mayeasily be right. Before the advent of thesecalls, it was only by the most outlandishluck that a hunter ever saw any memberof the cat family—unless, of course, hewas actually hunting them with hounds.And most sportsmen do well to maintain

a pointing dog, a retriever or a beagle.They certainly can't afford to train norkeep a pair of hounds against the raretimes when they might make a trip forcats.

To a lesser degree the same thing applies to fox and coyote. Of course, we'veall seen one or the other, or both, occasionally while hunting upland game ordeer. But they were usually out of range,or wc caught only a fleeting glimpse ofthem with no opportunity to get off adecent shot. The dying-rabbit calls havechanged all this. Now any sportsmanneeds only his gun and a call to have achance to bag a bobcat, coyote or fox.And if he lives in an area where these

predators are abundant, that chance isbetter than good. The calls have providedthe average guy with a chance for sportthe year around, with special emphasis onthat normally blank period between theend of duck season and the beginning offishing.

If I am to be completely honest, Iprobably should confess here that 1 stillremained skeptical, even after the calls

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Netvs of the Lodgesm

Y'Photographed at »he dinner marking the 75fh Anniversary of Washington, D. C., Lodge were,left to right, P.E.R. and Publicity Chairman Ambrose A. Durkin, E.R. Joseph P. Gamble, U. S.Congressmen Russell V. Mack, P.E.R. of Aberdeen, Wash., Lodge who was the principal speaker,General Chairman and P.E.R. Joseph G. Motyka, and P.E.R. and Secy. Rosell T. Piekrel. CongressmanMeek, Mr. Durkin and Mr. Piekrel are former Grand Lodge Committeemen.

Washington, D. C., ElksMark Diamond Jubilee

U. S. Rep. Russell V. Mack, a P.E.R.of .Aberdeen. Wash.. Lodge and a formermemher of the Grand Lodge Stale Associations Committee, was an inspired speaker at the banquet marking the 75th Anniversary' of Washington, D. C., Lodge, No.15. The event, a dinner-dance, took placeon February 21st at the Sheraton-ParkHotel when General Chairman P.E.R.Joseph G. Motyka welcomed the lodge's

500 guests and E.R. Joseph P. Gamblesen-ed as Toastmaster. The publicity features of the observance were capablyhandled by P.E.R. Ambrose A. Durkin,former Grand Lodge Committeeman.

On Feb. 12th, the anniversary had lieencelebrated at a closed meeting when aclass of 85 was initiated by P.E.R. s ofthe lodge in honor of Past Grand ExaltedRuler Robert South Barrett. Dr. Barrettwas also on hand for the dinner-dance anddelivered a stirring address. Among the

guests were 92-year-old John Pierpoint, amember for 55 years, and 85-year-old JohnV. Schmitt, a half-century Elk, and D.D.'sCharles L. Mobley and Lloyd Pahlman.

In his message, written into the Congressional Record by U. S. Sen. J. GlennBeall, Congressman Mack explained theideals of Elkdom in eloquent terms, stressing the splendid character of WashingtonLodge which has grown from 41 CharterMembers to more than 2,200 today. Pointing to the fact that other organizationshad found it advantageous to provide asort of national building where theirmembers might assemlile on visits to theNation's Capital, Mr. Mack suggested thatthe Order of Elks direct its attention tothe erection of such a building.

A leader in civic, fraternal, charitableand patriotic activities of Washington formany years No. 15 has been active infinancing and organizing the new YouthCamp for underprivileged children.

Michigan Elks LaunchLaudable Major Project

The Michigan Elks Assn. has joinedother State Elk groups in the adoption ofa special program of benevolence. At its1956 Convention last June, Pres. RobertA. Burns was authorized to appoint afive-man Major Project Commission toselect and administer a special programfor the Association. Scheduled to be rotated over a period of five years, it iscomposed of Past Pres. Hugh L. Hartleyas Chairman, Dr. M. J. Kennebeck asSecy., and Carl H. Fernstrum, L. M.Richards and Philip Barney, with Mr.Burns and Vice-Pres.-at-Large Nelson H.VanDongen as ex-officio members. TheCommission held its first conference atthe Fall Round-Up of the Upper Peninsula Elks in September. A definite planwas decided upon, and Chairman Hartleypresented that plan to the delegates tothe State Assn.'s Midwinter Meeting in

The Charter Officersof Downey, Calif.,Lodge, No. 2020, ledby E.R. Larry Stevens,were photographedas they took the oathadministered by PastGrand Exalted RulerL. A. Lewis duringceremonies held at ElRancho High Schoolin Rivera. HuntingtonPark Lodge officialsassisted Mr. Lewis ininstituting the newlodge which beganits existence with 308

new members and

196 on transfer dimit.

AnnRKSS OF GRAND EX^LTKI") RI'LKR FRKD L. BOHN: Rooms 121-122, Zane Hotel, Zanesviiie, Ohio\I)I)RKSS OP GRAND .SEGRKTARY LEI'l A. DONAI.DSON: Elks National Memorial Building, 2750 Lake View Ave., Chicago 14, 111.

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E.R. M. D. McKay, center, presents to Chairman Hugh L. Hartley of theMichigan Elks Assn.'s Major Project Commission, left, Albion, Mich.,Lodge's $275 gift for the new Slate program for handicapped children.Looking on at right is Slote Pres. Robert A. Burns.

E.R. Hugh E. Gentilj of Pawtucket, R. I., Lodge, third from left, congratulates Lt. Gov. Armand H. Cote, second from left, on his initiationinfr> the Order as o member of o class named in honor of State Pres.Dr. Edword C. Morin, left. At right is D.D. Fred Quattromani.

Nilos. The '100 inonilKT.^ prcsrnt acceplcdllie plan with onlliusiasm and unanimously adopted a resolution aulhorizinga Sl.OO a?so$stnenl of all Michigan Elks,to ho earmarked for tliis program.

Initiated on a modest scale, the plancalls for ihe use of three Michigan hospitals as centers for providing clinical anddiagnostic assistancre to handicapped children. The service will be expanded gradually as ihe public becomes aware of its(existence an(l the sustaining interest ofevery lodge is assured.

Following diagnosis, a full report including the doctors' suggestions as towiiat can be done for each child, how longit should take to bring results and theexpense involved will be made in writingto the parents by the Commission. Parents in the position to do so will beexpected to pay: if the child is to be madea State ease, the KIks will make tliearrangements: if neither is possible, theC.ommission expects to be able to take on(he obligation.

All lodges should appoint a Chairmanfor this work, and are asked to findworthy cases and arrange transportationto and from clinics. The Commission alsoplans the employment of a competent director in tliis field.

Huron, S. D., Etks ProvideHotel for Community

Feb. 19th. 19.5 <. was a red-letter dayin the historv of Htiron Lodge No. 444and a vitally significant one to the entirecommunity. It was on that day that thefinal bond was paid by the lodge to retireits indebtedness on the Marvin Huf^hittHotel.

I'or, many years there liad been a cryingneed for a hotel in Huron, but no groupor organization was willing to undertakethe responsibility. In 1919. far-sightedHuron Elks, desiring to give tlieir community something of lasting benefit, decided to build tlie hotel to meet the demands of the rapidly growing city. Theirperseverance and devotion to thai goal resulted in llie erection of the liandsome,seven-story hotel which opened its doorsin Sept., 1921, and has been the commonmeeting place for the connnunity and itsmany visitors ever since. Containing 152rooms, a l)allroom which seats 350 per-

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COUNTRYCLUB

Hattiesburg, Miss., Lodge was the first organization of its kind in the Stote to receive a Tree FarmCertificate from the Mississippi Forestry Assn. The award was made at the lodge's Country C/ubwhere 1,340 of the lodge's 1,440 acres are covered by trees. Elk Trustees Chairman T. E. Rawls,fifth from right, accepted the award from Marion Stephens, Forestry Assn. Committeeman, fifth fromleft, in the presence of Elk and Forestry Assn. officials.

sons, several smaller dining rooms, loungeand coffee-shop. the Marvin Hughitt hasa stalT of 80. with an annual pajToll ofmore than §150,000. In 1956 over 600 regional and State-wide meetings were heldwithin its walls with 20,000 registrations.

The financing of such a project was ahuge undertaking and one that necessarilyspanned a good many years of hard work.And so it is only right that the burningof the last bond was celebrated with special ceremonies and gaiety.

Cheektowaga, N. Y., Lodge, No. 2015, was instituted under the sponsorship of North TonawandaLodge with 79 Charter Members who elected James Plumery as their first Exalted Ruler. Officiatingin the ceremonies were Past Grand Est. Lect. Knight J. Theodore Moses, Chairman James A. Gunnof the Grand Lodge Auditing Committee, State Pres. Francis P. Hart and Secy. Wm. R. L. Cook,National Convention Committee Director Franklin J. Fitzpatrick, D.D. Richard J. Gavagan, P.D.D.'sErwin E. Hamann and Clifford A. McNaboe ond Past State Vice-Pres. Joseph Bowen.

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LODGE NOTES

Final payment on Grand Island,Neb., Lodge's $2-,500 pledge to theLutheran "Hospital Building Fundwas made by lodge Trustees Chairman P.E.R. H. E. Hallstead to Hospital Mgr. Emory Giannangelo in thepresence of E.R. Earl L. Rembolt.

D.D. Friend L. May reports thatbis home lodge of Clifton Forge,Va., is the first in the SouthwestDist. to attain Grand Exalted Ruler Bohn's membership quota.

With the opening of the 19^7-58lodge yenr, Frank J. Stickney beganhis 34lh term as Secy, of Gardner,Mass., Lodge. A Charter Member,this devoted Elk has never missed alodge meeting. Memorial Sunday,Flag Day, funeral or any otherservice of his lodge since his initiation in1921.

D.D. and Mrs. W7n. F. McArdlewere among the 200 persons whoattended the "King and QueenNight" dinner and entertainmentprogram marking the 52nd anniversary of Quincy, Mass., Lodge.

Denison, Tex., Lodge is proud ofthe long service of one of its employes, Nathaniel B. Stimpson.Known affectionately as "Buzz" byall members, he is serving his 47thyear as lodge Steward. Employed as"extra help" for a dance the lodgeheld in 1911, Mr. Stimpson stayedon and has discharged his dutiesfaithfully ever since.

Myrtle Beach, S. C., Lodge helda successful Ladies and BingoNight recently, emceed by CarlisleTaylor. Prizes were won by FrankHughes, Ira Jennings, E. Olson,Jerry Blount and John French.

E.R. John B. White and his fellow Pampa, Tex., Elks u-elcomedState Pres. Chas C. Bowie on hisofficial visit recently. Mr. Bowie, aGrand Lodge Youth Activities Com-mitteeman, was accompanied byStale Secy. H. S. Rubenstein andTrustee Wm. J. B. Frazier of theTexas Elks' Crippled Children'sHospital.

We have just learned of thepassing of E. D. McArthur, a longtime member of Coos Bay, Ore.,Lodge who was mentioned in ourOld Timers feature last month.Mr. McArthur passed away at theage of 88 on March 20th, just 18days after his wife's death.

Recent initiates of South Orange,N. J., Lodge were Lloyd and Herbert Golby, stepsons of Elk AllieFrank. Another brother, Willard,and their uncle, Roy Cohen, are alsomembers of the lodge.

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These men were initiated into Iron River, Mich., Lodge in honor of State Pres. Robert A. Burns.

Baton Rouge, La., Elk official., .ecfed, initiated a .lass of « «tribute to State Pres. Clarence LaCroix who appears third from left, background.

Btickhead, Ga., Lodge officers are pictured with the class they initiated in honor of Grand ExaltedRuler Fred L. Bohn. Seated, center foreground, is A. J. Bohn, cousin of the Orders leader and along-time member of Buckhead Lodge.

Officials of Norwalk, Conn., Lodge, pictured with the class they initiated recently in the presenceof D.D. W. G. Harold, P.D.D. C. R. Mitchell and State Rep. L. J. Padula.

Edward W. McCabe,P.E.R. and TrCistee of

Nashville, Tenn., Lodgeand Chairman of the

Grand Lodge RitualisticCommittee, left, receives an HonoraryLife Membership cardfrom State Pres. HenryW. Beaudoin as Nash

ville E.R. Charles Pettylooks on. This presentation, highlighting thelodge's P.E.R.'s Nightprogram, was made inrecognition of Mr. Me-Cobe's long-time efforts in behalf of the

Order and his mariycivic activities.

Nashville, Tenn., LodgeHonors Edward W. McCabe

Presentation of an Honorary Life Mem-hership to Trustee Edward W. McCabehighlighted the obsen'ance of Past Exalted Rulers' Night at the home of Nashville Lodge No. 72.

The award was presented by Pres.,Henry Beaudoin of the Tennessee ElksAssn., after the rare honor was voted bythe Nashville Elks in recognition of Mr.McCabe's long and extensive service toElkdom, as well as his many other civicendeavors. A P.E.R. of the lodge. Mr.McCabe was instrumental in organizing(he Tennessee Elks Assn. 15 years ago,and later served as its President. He hasbeen District Deputy and has been aTrustee of his lodge since 1945. At thislime he is Chairman of the Grand LodgeRitualistic Committee, an office be hasheld since 1954.

More than 20 P.E.R.'s were honored ata dinner preceding the lodge session during which they served as tbe RitualisticTeam which initiated a class of 19 candidates in honor of Mr. Beaudoin.

P.D.D. Earl Broden, Stale Chairman ofihe Elks National Foundation Committee,presented participating memberships inllie Foundation to E.R. Charles Petty andEst. Loyal Knight Harry Lester, denotinga SlOO contribution to the Foundation byElks Morris Steiner and Abe Olsliine bothof whom have contributed several Foundation Certificates to other Nashville Elks.Demonstrating his lodge's participation inthe Foundation campaign, E.R. Petty presented to Mr. Beaudoin a .'15250 check, thefinal payment on its -SI .000 contributionfor the year.

Balfimore, Md., E.R. McCardeilHonored at Dinner

A crowd of 500 persons attended thebrilliant testimonial dinner given by Baltimore Lodge No. 7 for E.R. J. NeilMcCardell. The event was held in thebeautifully decorated main ballrooms ofthe lodge home, with Past Grand ExaltedRuler Dr. Robert South Barrett as a special guest.

Joseph L. Manning was General Chairman of the Dinner Committee, assisted byGeorge W. Krill and Ralph De Chiaro.Program Trustees Chairman was Nicholas M. Pirone, Sr. Others who contributed toward making the alTair the successit was included Ticket Committee Chairman Patrick F. O'Malley: -Menu Committee Chairman Martin J. Welsh, Jr.. Decoration Committee Chairman P.E.R. C. A.Hook and Reception Committee ChairmanCharles A. Kreatchman. All were assistedhy groups of competent members.

Rock Hill, S. C., ElksMake Hit With Orphans

"It was a swell party," children of theChurch Home in York told their hostsfrom Rock Hill Lodge No. 1318 followingthe banquet, movie and entertainmentprogram the Elks had provided for tliem.A chicken dinner preceded the showing

swsec.azsTT'FKx:

On P.E.R.'s and OldTimers Night at Hor-nell, N. Y., Lodge, an89th Anniversary Classwas initiated. Amongthe candidates werethe sons of two P.E.R.'s

and the son of thelodge's current E.R.Seated, left to right,with their fathersstanding behind themare John G. Geary andhis father, William;Robert E. Alger, andhis father Everett C.,and Peter M. Jordanand his father, E.R.Wiliiom M. Jordan.

Children and instructors of the Washington School in Medford, Mass., were guests of the Elks ofthat community at their annual "Good Neighbor Party". The Elks, whose home is located next doorJ* ^ party as a gesture of friendship and cooperation to impress the "good neighbor policy on the youngsters. P.E.R. Edgar C. Babcock was Chairman of the Committee.

of a movie on the local high school band'strip to Miami and the Orange Bowl game,narrated by Bob Bryant.

Highliglit of the evening were songs bytelevision star Fred Kirby who had thechildren join him in several speciallynumbers. He told the youngster? he'd tryto have them appear with him on TV; in

the meantime he posed with them for apicture he will show on his program.

Est. Lead. Knight Lem Holroyd presided, introducing special guesls. andpresented a gift to Mrs. F. D. MacLeanwho, with lier husband, has resigned asco-direetors of the Home after 17 years.

(Lodge Neivs continued on page 30)

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BLUE-GREEN

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View Of ono of the Jawns surroundlne the loveryS200.000.00 homo of Sourcoon PichortriEi ownerOf Mondo Crass and Nursery company, on thebeautiful beach of tho Cult ot Mexico: the entireseven Idwns, sidewalk shoulders dnd neutral grounds•irc pointed solidly In Mondo "Gross." truly one ofthe most attractive show Didces of the South*

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SO HARDY IT CAN BE PLANTED ANYTIME, it is recommended for beautiful lawns where mowinKis not desired. Blue-Green Mondo "Grass" retains its color the year-'round; thrives in shade or sun:extremely hardy, rarely requires watering; fantastically beautiful, drooping low to the ground inweeping style year after year. REQUIRES NO MOWING AND SHOULD NEVER BE MOWED.

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Mondo is resistant to diseases; insects and animals will not feed on it. Stops erosion: grows compactly. crowding out other grass and weeds: multiplies rapidly, approximately 100 times 110,000 )first year. Enhances property value. So sensational we expect to revolutionize lawn-making. Forgood coverage first year plant 4" to 12" apart. Numerous rooted blades to sprig.

Planting and culture instructions with each order. Shipped now or when desired. Remittance withorder. Shipped prepaid. MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: if not completely delighted you may return atonce for refund. Open account to A-1 rated Arms buying 1,000 sprigs or more, FOB. Biloxi. Distributors wanted everywhere.

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READ THESE FACTS BEFORE YOUORDER YOUR ZOYSIA GRASS

• U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE PERFECTS

"THEWORLD'S MOST PEHFEa lAWN GRASJl"

Approved by U. S. Go'f Assn.

• STAYS GREEN EVEN THROUGH DROUGHT

When or6ir\ary gross burns brown

CHOKES OUT WEEDS, CRABGRASS, OLD GRASS

2/3 LESS MOWING—2/3 LE" CARENO WATER PROBLEMS

Has survived 3 months in desert without water

GUARANTEEDUWHIXHIIICCW Soil—Even BeachesI

A True Perennial . . . Never Needs

Re-Seeding. Ends Seed Expense!

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Beautiful, Velvety Lawn!I J'O WASTE. NO SOD TO CUT.NO ShED FAILURE. Comes infresh, green plugs of living grassthat assure rapid, sure growth.2. Just a<-( pri!-cui plugs into holesill ground, ilke a cork in a tjotlle.(Plant 1 foot apart, checkerboard•Style. Easy planting instructionswith each order.)3. Each soil-nnrichrd plug takesroot, spreiids to cover plantedarea with thick, beautiful turf.4. Aniaziiii: root ay»lem grows SOdeep (2-3 feet down 1 your lawnlinds anti retains its own supplyof underground water. No moreugly brown or bare spots in yourluwn—EVER!

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Perfected byU.S. GOV'T.APPROVED

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Genuine AMAZOT is the revolutionary tawngrass that produces a weed-free, carefree lawn.So deep-rooted it goes weeks and stays beautiful without rain or watering, whether due towater bans or because you're away. Needs% less mowing, % less care than seed-typegrasses. Grows so thick it drives out weeds,crabgrass, old grass, etc. Even when otherlawns burn out or turn patchy this summer,yours win be lush green, beautiful—the prlcicof your neighborhood.

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AMAZOY costs you less because it ends seedexpense an<l waste forever—NEVER nee<is re-seeding. Each plug multiplies itself 50 timesin few months. Spreads into permanent, perennial turf so thick and rich, insects, fungus& disease can't live In it. Ends need for weedkiliers: cuts fertilizer co.sts. Won't winter kill.Praiicd by LOOK, NEWSWEEK, NAT. CEO-GnAPHIC, VNIfERSiriES, ETC. Platit lhatcariffrec lawn of your oicn-^ORDER NOW /

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ZOYSIA FARMSe02 N. How.ird St.

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FISH TO FRY, bake or broil look betterand taste better cooked and served onthis cast aluminum Fish Platter.Patterned on the "sizzling steak"platters, it's a piece that can turn anordinary meal into an occasion. Keepsfood piping hot, will not warp. 19^^"long, 11^^" wide at its widest point.S5.95 ppd. Downs & Co., Dept. E,Evanston, 111.

ADJUSTABLE COLLAR STAYS. No morefrantic searching for the right pairof stays. Throw them all out and usethis one pair of gold-plated, self-adjusting stays that fit any length collar.Non-curling. Here's a "little" gift withbig appeal for Father's Day, graduation or "just because". $1.00 a pairppd. Nancy Norman, Dept. E, 422Washington St., Brighton 35, Mass.

IExcept for personalized items, there is guaranteed refi

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jodgeVisits of FRED L.BOHISGrand Exa/fed Rufer AffendsNew York Lodge Banquet

New York Lodge No. 1 celebrated its89lh Anniversary, wiiich marked the birthday of the Order, at a dinner and dance inthe Slieraton-Astor Hotel, Februarj' 23rd,with 750 in attendance. Among the distinguished gue '̂ts were Grand ExaltedRuler Hobn and Past Grand Exalted Rulers Jame^ R. Nicholson, William HawleyAtwcll, James T. Hallinan, Henry C. Warner, Joseph B. Kyle and William J. Jer-nick; Grand Treasurer Edward A. Spry;James A. Gunn, Grand Lodge Committeeon Lodge Activities; District Deputy Gordon H. Meyer; Francis P. Hart, New YorkState Assn. Pres.; James A. Farley andFranklin J. Fitzpatrick, Past Pres. of theN. Y. Stale Assn.; Vice Pres. Robert Fisherof the Stale Assn.; John F. Scileppi, member of lln' Grand Forum: Earl Pitzer,Past Pres. Penna. State Elks Assn., andCarmine DeSapio, New York's Secretary'of Stale and long a member of No. 1; Rev.Col. Benjamin A. Tintner and Rev. PatrickB. Fay.

Exalted Ruler John J. Mangan intro-(Contimied on page 36)

At the dais during the89th Anniversary Dinner-Donee of New York

Lodge No. 1, on February 23rd, were fromleft: Past Grand Exalted Ruler James T. Hal

linan, Grand ExaltedRuler Bohn, Past Exalted Ruler James P. Som-

erville, Chairman forthe arrangements, andExalted Ruler John J.

Mangan.

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When Grand Exalted Ruler Bohn visited the Elks of the State of RhodeIsland on February 24th, present from left were: former Chief JusticeGrand Forum Judge John E. Mullen, Judge John P. Hartigan, DistrictDeputy Fred Quoftromani, (Mr. Bohn}, Stote Pres. Dr. Edword C. Morinand Judge Francis B. Condon. The reception and dinner was held atthe Biltmore Hotel in Providence.

Zanesville, Ohio, Lodge, of which Grand Exalted Ruler Bohn is a member,celebrated its 68fh Anniversary on February 28th and gave a banquet inhis honor. At the guest table, center foreground: Grand Lodge ActivitiesCommittee member Nelson E. W. Stuart, and to right, Mr. Bohn, ExaltedRuler A. D. Carpenter, lodge officers George Bloho and Cecil Baughman,District Deputy Paul T. Reed, Lawrence Derry, P.D.D. Thomas J. Price,Secretary to Grand Exalted Ruler James W. Plummer and H. M. Scott.

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Greeting Grand Exalted Ruler Bohn when he

arrived ot the airportat Huron, S. D., werefrom left: Past District

Deputy Keith Potter,Past Grand Exalted

Ruler James G. McFar-

land. Exalted RulerRoss B. Matson, (Mr.Bohn) , Past GrandTrustee Ford Zietlow,

Mayor E. F. Korstensand State President L.

J. Gregory.

At the 47th Anniversary banquet of the Mass. Elks, held in Boston inFeb seated from left: Lt. Gov. Robert Murphy. G.E.R. Bohn, Acting MayorWilliam Foley, P.G.E.R. E. Mark Sullivan and Judge John E. Fenton, member Com. on Judiciary, Standing from left: P.G.E.R. John F. Malley, JudgeWilfred Paquette, Toastmoster, State Pres. John Murray, Grand TreasurerEdward A. Spry and William Hogan, Grand Lodge Ritualistic Committee.

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R. D. Bonnell, Pres. of the Elks National Bowling Assoc., presented GrandExalted Ruler Fred L. Bohn with a $1,000 check for the Elks NationalFoundation at the opening of the tournament at Columbus, Ohio, onMarch 2nd. Others present from left: Local tournament choirmon GeorgeMoon, Exalted Ruler Victor Pearce, Columbus Lodge; Past Grand TilerIrvine J. Unger; officers of the Elks National Bowling AssociationE. N. Quinn and Joseph Krirels.

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NEWS of the LODGES

For the past eight years, French Sensabaugh has directed the highly successful "Minstrelks" show for hisBrother Elks of Cumberland, Md., Lodge. The show,produced annually by the lodge for the benefit of theAllegany County League for Crippled Children, netted$9,126 this year. Mr. Sensabaugh is pictured here withhis wife who acts as stage manager for the event.

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Presque Isle, Me., Lodge is earning a fine reputation with the successof its ar^nual Elks Frolic, an outstanding program of entertainment directed by Brian M. Jewett of the Grand Lodge Youth Activities Committeeand presented at Limestone and Presque Isle Air Force Bases. Photographed at the 1957 event were, left to right, Fronk Sullivan of theBoston Red Sox; Deputy Base Commander Col. Frank Keller of PresqueIsle, Mr, Jewett and Sammy White of the Red Sox. The diamond starsplayed stellar roles in the show.

The Ouincy Veterans Council presents a citation to Quincy, Mass.,^Lodgein appreciation of the services to the Council last Veterans Day'by theElk-sponsored Junior Choir. Left to right are Council Adjutant F. S. Mac-Kenzie, Choir Director John Morley, Miss Marjorie Monson, representingthe Choir, Council Jr. Past Cmdr. Arthur I. Senter, E.R. Anthony M.Cardarell and Edwin C. Hinckley, Cmdr. of the Veterans Council.

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E.R. George Wendel,left, congratulatesFrank Herbert, a consistent player for theFreehold, N. J., Colonials, Champions ofthe Regional HighSchool Shore Football

Conference, at theElk banquet honoringthe young men andtheir coaches. Theevent, a cooperativeaffair, was attendedby 1 50 boosters whosaw E.R. Wendel present gold footballs tomembers of the squad.

Former Exalted Rulers of Danville, Va., Lodge .°'the banquet held in their honor by therr fellow Elks on P.E.R. s Night.

Photographed at the home of Toms River, N. J Lodge when o class wasinitiated in honor of State Assn. Pres. Dr Louis ""bner are, left toright. Senior P.E.R. George S. Covert, Dr. Hubner, and E.R. Wm. H. Mee.

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West Haven, Conn., Lodge's "Elk of the Year" was Alex J. Botte, honoredat a testimonial dinner. Photographed on that occasion, left to right,were Chairman Joseph P. Gregory, P.E.R., who presented the plaqueto the guest of honor, Mr. Botte, Dr. Gervase J. Connor, noted surgeon.Chairman James A. Walsh, Sr., of the Armstrong Rubber Co.'s Board ofDirectors, and Rev. John Dwyer Hurley of St. Aedan's Church in New Haven.

Cumber/and, Md., M/nsfre/ksScore Anof/ier Hit

The Allegany County League for Crippled Children was richer by S9,126 thanksto the success of the Minstrelks of 1957put on hy Cumberland Lodge No. 63. Theevent is sponsored annually by the lodgewith P.E.R. John H. Mosner as GeneralChairman; this year's production playedto standing room only at all four performances.

For many weeks the cast of over 100rehearsed diligently under DirectorFrench Sensabaugh. Their talents andefforts made it possible for E.R. BruceMackey to present the net proceeds toMiss Henrietta Schwarzenbach, Pres. ofthe League.

We//-known Palatka, Fla.fElk Howell Davis Mourned

Howell A. Davis, a Charter Member ofPalatka Lodge No. 1232 and a prominentindustrialist of ihe area, passed away in aJacksonville hospital recently following along illness.

Born in that community on May 1, 1873,Mr. Davis bad spent many years in publicservice.

Always deeply interested in communityand welfare activities, Mr. Davis had beena most active member of No. 1232 whichhe served as Exalted Ruler in 1911. Hebad also been President of the FloridaElks Assn. in 1914, and was its Historiansince 1946.

He is survived by iiis wife, daugliter.son, four grandchildren and a number ofgreat-grandchildren.

Massac/iuseffs BIks AidMarine March on Polio

Leominsler Lodge No. 1237 played hostto a detail of Marine Reservists when theymade an overnight stop there on a 130-mile track from Greenfield to Boston toassist in the March of Dimes campaign.

Due at five p.m., the contingent was delayed by a severe sleet and snowstorm, so

that they did not arrive in Leominster until eleven-thirty p.m. On hand to greet thetired Marines were State Assn. Pres. JohnJ. Murray, D.D. G. H. Mackie, E.R. JohnErdman, State Rep. J. Robert Mahan, Est.Loyal Knight L. J. Cormier, Mayor of Leominsler, and former Mayor P.E.R. M. P.LaPierre. The Elks served their guests afine hot roast beef dinner, and then hadDr. James V. McHugh, a member of thelodge, give the Marines a physical examination. After a night's rest at a motel atthe expense of the lodge, the servicemen

were served breakfast by their hosts beforecontinuing their journey the followingmorning.

The members of Framington Lodge No.1264 also gave a rousing welcome to the"Marching Marines" when they arrivedin that community. Following dinner withKen Hanna, a member of the lodge, ashost, they were guests at the home of No.1264. At that time E.R. Bernard R. Kane

presented a check to their leader, Capt.Michael Pizziferri, as a contribution of hislodge to the Polio Fund.

Major league baseball players gathered Informally with members of Nashua, N. H., Lodge duringthe Elks' Annual Sports Smoker, attended by 200 members and guests. Left to right ore ProgramChairman William Howard, Dick Donovan of the Chicago White Sox, Eddie Pellagrini who wasformerly with the Boston Red Sox, Robert Murray who coaches baseball at Providence College, Mgr.Johnny Pesky of the Birmingham team of the Southern Association, Walter Dropo of the White Soxand Atty. J. Leonard Sweeney who served as Master of Ceremonies.

E.R. Terrill M. Brenner of New Brunswick, N. J., Lodge, fourth from left, with State Assn. Pres. Dr.Louis Hubner, fifth from left, and the six candidates initiated into the lodge in honor of Dr. Hubner.

Below; Leominster, Mass., Elks serving on the Reception Committee togreet Marine Reservists on their 130-mile journey for the March ofDimes included. Mayor and Est. Loyal Knight L. J. Cormier, foreground,Sfote Rep. J. R. Mahan, second row, left, and, background, left to right,State Pres. J. J, Murray, E.R. John Erdmon, former Mayor P.E.R. M. P.LaPierre and D.D. G. H. Mackie.

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Above: Chairman James A. Gunn of the Grand Lodge Auditing Committee, second from left, presents an Honorary Life Membership to E.R.Dr. Edward J, Sloan of New Rochelle, N. Y., Lodge, center, at a dinnerheld in Dr. Sloan's honor which marked the lodge's 55th Anniversary.At left is Mayor George Vergara, one of the speakers and ot right isPast State Pres. J, Raymond McGovern who was Toastmaster. Bertram L.Kantor, fourth from left, served as Program Chairman with Thomas M.Guion as Co-Chairman. More than 300 persons attended the affair,among them P.E.R.and Secy. George P. Forbes, one of the lodge's CharterMembers; State Vice-Pres. Fred E. Crisp and D.D, J. Gilbert Collins.

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During Terre Haute, Ind., Lodge's combined celebration of the Order'sAnniversary, P.E.R.'s and Old Timers Night, a class was initiated in thepresence of D.D. Roland Campbell. Among the candidates was RobertWeust, right, pictured as his father. Elk Horry Weust, congratulated himin the presence of his brothers Harold and Harry, Jr., also Elks.

Not long ago the Entertainment Committee of Sharon, Pa., Lodge presented the first set of new jewels of office in the lodge's 66-year history.Committee Co-Chairmen Horold Robbins, left, and George Crishon, rightwere pictured as they placed the jewels on E.R. Wayne C. Thompson'second from left, and Secy. John T. Lyons, P.D.D., second from right.Looking on are Committee members Richard Scragg and Cecil Phillips.

Above: P.E.R. W. B. West, left, and E.R, L. W.Ferguson, right, use a saw to cut the cake mork-ing the Order's 89th Anniversary and the 52ndbirthday of Tulsa, Okla., Lodge as Est. Lead.Knight Lorin Hedrick, second from left, and LoyalKnight Carl Britton supervise.

Right: TV star Fred Kirby is pictured in the background with children of the Church Home Orphanage who were guests of Rock Hill, S. C.,Lodge at a banquet, movie and entertainment.Est. Lead. Knight Lem Holroyd presided, andgifts donated by the Elks were presented.

(Lodge Neics continued on page 35)

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Willimantic, Conn., Elk officials won the 1957 State Ritualistic Title andthe trophy presented by Chairman Arthur J. Roy of the Grand LodgeCommittee on Lodge Activities, a P.E.R. of that lodge. The accomplishedteam is pictured with P.E.R. Edward E. Arnold, coach, left background,und Inner Guard Eric Lind, Candidate, right background.

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Photographed during the Conference conducted byat the Elks National Home in Bedford, Va., at which Supt. Thomas J.Brady was host, are, left to right, E.R. E. W. Mays of Clifton Forge Lodge,Danville E.R. W. L. Oakes, Past Grand Exalted Ruler John L- Walker,D.D. May, Roanoke E.R. Charles M. Oakey, lynchburg E^R. H W Mead,E.R. Roy Harlow of the Home Lodge and Martinsville E.R. S. E. Shumate.

Above: Among the 55 Old Timers honored by Wausau, Wis., Lodge notlong ago were, seated left to right, 52-year Elk Harry Hummell, 56-yearmember Sam Winkelman and 55-year member Hon. J. J. Okoneski.Standing are E.R. G. G. Lefla, right, and Est. Lead. Knight D. A. Gormon.

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In Ihe DoghouseDalmatians can do lots more than chase after fires.

IN ENGLAND he's somelimes affectionately called the plum pudding dog. In

America Mark Twain said he wasn t surewhether it was a white (log with blackspots or a black dog with while spots. Butto anyone knowing that spotted pooch,he's a Dalmatian, perhaps one of the mostoddly colored of all dogs. Tn those distantdays when his Highness the Horse wasstill King, the Dalmatian was a pretty important person. No well-organized firehouse was without him and in many a private and public stable he was considereda very necessary associate. Todays youngsters can have their rocket planes andspace ships hut, Ah Me!, they'll neverknow the thrill of hearing the clanging,banging, horse-drawn fire engine roaringdown the street paced by a Dalmatian andleaving in its wake a stream of sparks,smoke and enthusiastic small boys. Yes,the Dalmatian was a true fireman butmore than that, a devoted follower of theborsos.

Why this breed is so strongly andstrangely attracted to Dobbin is one ofihose mysteries of Nature, but the attraction is there and has been since 'way backwhen. My own private crystal ball tellsme that this is so because the Dal. as he's

known, is an independent sort of fellowlikely to scorn the restrictions of his master's home for the freedom that usuallymarks most places where horses arestabled. But he's an amiable dog. highlyintelligent, clean and easy to keep cleanand in this motorized age has little, if any,reason to go stable hunting. Other thanhis color there's nothing odd about hiin.That color by the way, while usually blackon white, is sometimes varied lo brown onwhite.

If you happen to have a Dalmatian,note please, that the standard for thebreed in both varieties of color specifiesthe black or brown spots to be distinct andwell defined and about of a size var)'ingfrom that of a dime to a half dollar.Large, solid patches of color are viewedwith disfavor by both breeders and dogshow judges.

When the breed originated nobodyknows, although there exist frescoes onwalls of ancient Egyptian tombs thatportray dogs strangely spotted like themodern Dalmatian and greatly resemblingit in conformation. Where the breedoriginated is another mystery, but theDalmatian Club of America, composed of

breed enthusiasts, agree that authoritativewriters first place the dog as a native ofDalmatia, originally a province of Austria. He's an accommodating dog, havingbeen effectively used in war for sentinelduty as well as for herding and hunting.He's remarkable, loo, for his memory. Iassure you that this is a fact, havingowned or been owned, f'm not sure which,by one of these dogs some years ago. IfSkip were around today I'm sure he couldtake carc of his own income tax.

WHILE the American Kennel Club,governing body for pure bred dogs,

classifies the Dalmatian as a non-sportingdog he's anything but that, for he is verymuch a sportsman. This is only one mansopinion but I hold a belief that somewherealong the family tree of the Dalmatianthere's an infusion of pointer blood. Justwhen or where this occurred; well yourguess, if you care to make one, is as goodas mine.

In the bygone days of the stage coachthe Dalmatian was particularly useful asa guardian. He would jog along underneath the coach or sit at the side of thedriver. When the coach stopped for a

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change of horseS. his job was to guard thebaggage. Even in those early days thewicked were flourishing and our friend theDalmatian's job was to see that they didn'tflourish by tampering with the baggage atcertain wayside taverns.

The greatest use of these dogs was fromabout 1800 to 1850. More people weretraveling by stage coach at that time thanperhaps during any other period. It wasthen that the Dalmatian became known asthe coach dog. and coach dog he is todayin the minds of many who don't know histrue family name. There s scarcely abreed that has had more nicknames attached to it; he's been called the plumpudding dog, the fire dog, the coach dog.the spotted dog and even the leopard dog.Yes, and during the years immediatelybefore Mr. Ford gave us the model T. theDalmatian was known as the carriage dog.

Another point in favor of this good dogis that he'll declare himself if need be,but only when the need really exists. Atsuch time the wise owner will heed thewarning. But motorized age notwithstanding, you'll still find one of these speckledbeauties here and there around firehouses

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Three typical Dalmatians tvith markings of similar sizes.33

Mexico, always a favorite vacation land forour traveling readers, will warmly welcomea great number of Elks after the Convention this year in San Francisco. This prediction is based on the number of requestson the Mexican Post Convention Adventour.This tour will spend a week in Mexico andall the many wonders and unusual attractions to be found south of the border willbe included. The best hotel and restaurantaccommodations are already engaged and,with English speaking guides who knowall the answers, this tour will be unforgettable. Write us for the official folder, orto Mexico RamirezTours, Rhin 29, Mexico5, D. F.

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Post Convention Tour interest this yearseems greater than ever—no doubt because of the numerous opportunities of'fered for an unusual vacation. In addition to Mexico, requests are arrivingevery day for the folders of the severalother tours offered our readers. The 4thAnnual Elks Hatcaiian Tour, The AlaskaElks Tour to the Land of the Mid-NightSun and the Grand Exalted Ruler's Trainand tours in connection icith that All-Elks Special. Write to us for these folders. We are sure you will be interestedin one of these many tours following theConvention this year.

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The following month—August—offers theannual Inler-Tribal Indian Ceremonial atGallup, New Mexico, August 9th through11th.This is "Today'sGreatestLiving Tribute" to the American Indian and is witnessed by increasing thousands of touristseach year. This year an expanded programof dances, parades, races and rodeos makeit a must for any of our readers who planto be in theSouthwest this summer. Galluphas 10 hotels and 36 motels, so visitors willfind adequate and modern accommodations.We have the folders, or write Indian Capital Memorial Commission, P. 0. Box 1029,Gallup, New Mexico.

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And for those of our readers tvho plan tobe in the neighborhood of Yelloivstone,there will be eighty days of Rodeo fromJune J5th to Labor Day at West Yellotc-stone, Montana. The Ratchide Rodeo isa family affair anil the answer to thequestion of what to do that is differentand exciting in the evenings. If you arewithin reasonable distance of this event,you will miss something if you do not attend.

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Dan Sanborn, our good friend on the Mexican iJorder who does such a wonderful jobof guidingand counseling our manyvisitorslo Mexico, has sent along a new and very

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complete folder on Mexico. Any of ourreaders planning to visit Mexico this yearshould have this material and we will sendit along to those who write to us.

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The Caribbean Tourist Association ismaking plans to tcelcome an increasednumber of summer tourists this year.Even the "off-the-beaten-track" resortsare sprucing up for the expected rush.ISevis, a fifty-square-mite island, is expecting a boom this year in honor of thegreat American statesman born there onJanuary 11, 1757—Alexander Hamilton.Special guides are being trained to takevisitors to the historic spots includingHamilton's birthplace. Four cruise shipstcill call at Nevis this year and many special excursions are being planned fromnear-by St. Kitts.

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Alaska is another tourist spot creating alot of interest this year judging from therequests for information. With an extraship making the run—"S.S. Coquitlam"—and the regular service of the CanadianPacific s "Princess Louise ' and CanadianNational's "Prince George," there will be39 cruises to Alaska this summer. If youare planning to drive and would like to

ship your car back and come home byboat, you will be able to do so from White-horse to Vancouver for S121.

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Our European traveling readers on theWest Coast may note fly from San Francisco to London via British Overseas Air-

tvays. This service teas inaugurated onApril 2nd from London, with the firstflight out of San Francisco on April 4th.Round trip fare& include a 15-day excursion rate of $623. The normal touristfare is $720.

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The present-day skiing enthusiast need noIpnger hang up his skis when the weatherturn^warm in most of the country. There isno "closed season" at Timberline Lodge,high on the slopes of Mt. Hood in Oregon.The Cascade Mountains offer some of thefinest skiing during the spring and even aslate as July and August. The Lodge is located 63 miles from Portland and roundtrip bus fare is S3.61. Passengers are metby Timberline station wagons at Government Camp for a six-mile drive to theLodge. United Airlines serves Portlandfrom all over the U. S. with speed, comfortand low fares.

For Elks Who Travel(Continued from page 15)

such resort-like sports as tennis and swimming. The nights bring dancing, campfireprograms, movies and the nightly fireball,when a flaming bundle is dropped over theside of a canyon wall. The burning cascade is pitched over the valley's rim atGlacier Point where the drop is an awesome 1,000 feet.

When it comes to accommodations,Yosemite has a choice of half a dozenplaces ranging from the outdoorsy swankof the Ahwahnee to a bathless wood cabin.For instance, the Ahwahnee, which is onlyon American plan (with meals), extracts$22 a day for one person in a room, orS17 to S18 a day if two occupy the sameroom. Now, then, at Camp Curry four persons in a tent could make it for $2 each,or S7.50 each with food. A wood cabinwithout bath but with meals is S8.50 withtwo in a cabin. In between these extremesis the Yosemite Lodge, Big Trees Lodge,the Glacier Point Hotel, Wawaona Hoteland the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge. Thelast named has canvas cabins at S2.50 perperson (two in a room) and the otherplaces average out at about S8 a night,or S12 to S16 with food.

Asix-day saddle trip departs every Saturday and Sunday in season and makesa tour of the High Sierra camps, stayingone night in each. There is lime for resl-'"8' fishing and sightseeing en route, andalthough it comprises a fifly-mile excursion through virgin country, women andchildren are invited. The lab comes toS79, which includes a saddle mule, ashower balh (listed in order of necessity),a guide, dormitory lodgings and all meals.Private tents can be rented on advance

notice. The seven-day hiking trip looksin at five High Sierra Camps and ought tobe all right as long as you're used to highlevel hiking. Hoofers leave by bus everyMonday—an ideal way to start a hikingtrip—starting in the valley and riding upto the rim which is a rough climb evenfor a bus. The bus transportation, lodg-ihg in dormitory tents, shower bath ateach camp and the services of the guidebring the entrance fee lo S24 here andmeals are extra. Figure about $6 a day.No more than 15 are taken in a group andkids between 12 and 18 are welcome ifaccompanied by an adult.

South of Yosemite but still easily reachable from San Francisco is Sequoia andKing Canyon National Parks, two preserves that adjoin each other. Sequoia,which was founded in 1890, is secondoldest of the U.S. parks, whereas King,founded in 1940, is one of the newest.Although there are 32 known groves ofgiant trees inside the park, the ParkService says it is possible that othergroves might exist but have been passedunnoticed. The largest tree in Giant Forest is the General Sherman Tree, 36.5 feelin the beam and 272.4 high.

While the trees are large the rates aremodest at Sequoia. Rates at Giant ForestLodge are roughly about SIO per person,which includes food, but anybody who isa Spartan can make it in a bungalow tent.cottage with three other room-mates atSl-75 per each. United Airlines, theSanta Fe, and the Southern Pacific allservice the park, which is 180 miles fromYosemite and 270 miles from the GoldenGate.

News of the Lodges(Continued from page 32)

Bradford, Pa., LodgeAnniversary Observed

Bradford Lodge No. 234 marked itsGolden Jubilee with a dinner and socialprogram at wliicli trihulc was paid to fourliving Charter Mfwnbers and Old Timersof 45 or more years' alTiliation. Two of theoriginal Bradford Elks were on liand,P.E.R. Herbert H. Black and Joseph Ball.Not able to allend were P.E.R. J. W.Hurley, now a resident of Tulsa. Okla.,and Timothy E. Costello. As a .symbol ofthe anniversary, E.R. Ferris Thompsonpresented a 50-year membership pin loGeorge Kretz, who boasts the longest continuous service lo the lodge in addition lothat of its Charter Members.

The lodge home was suitably decoraledfor the occasion under the Chairmanshipof Elmer V. Kelly, Jr., and a fine enter-lainment program was presented.

Connellsville, Pa., LodgeHome Rededicated

A four-day series of events marked ihecompletion of the extensive renovating jobon ihe home of Connellsville Lodge No.503. Highlight of ihe program were thecornerstone-laying and rededication atwhich D.D. Homer Huhn, Jr., Mayor A. LDaniels, P.K.K-- General Building Committee Chairman James E. Goddard,P.E.R.. and K.R. H. A. Hild and his officersolFiciated. Other participants included StalePres. A. L. Heisey, Past. Pres. F. T. Benson, P.D.D. C. H. Ellis and So. Dirt. Pres.M. A. Shust.

The decision to rebuild the home whichhad been remodeled ihree times since theElks erected it over 40 years ago was madein September, 1955. Completely modernized and ivfurnishcd, it has been rebuiltto suit every need of ihe membership.

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duced Grand Exalted Ruler Bohn, the evening's principal speaker. Esteemed Leading Knight James J. Carr presented PastGrand Exalted Ruler Hallinan with acheck for S500 for the Elks National Service Commission, and Brother Hallinanpromptly turned it back to New YorkLodge as the first contribution to theLodge's building fund. Delegations fromnumerous New York and New Jerseylodges joined in the anniversary celebration. Past Exalted Ruler James P. Somer-ville presided.

Mr. Bohn Honored byElks of Rhode Island

Accompanied by Grand Treasurer Edward A. Spry, on Februar>' 24th GrandExalted Ruler Fred L. Bohn visited theElks of the State of Rhode Island. Ontheir arrival at Union Station in Providence, they were met by a large delegationof Elks headed by District Deputy FredQuattromani, Slate President Dr. EdwardC. Morin and the Boy Scout Troop fromProvidence Lodge. In the evening a reception and dinner were held at the BiltmoreHotel with over 400 Elks from the eightlodges of Rhode Island attending.

Danger i^truek(Continued from page 7)

tonight? Mr. McHugh called from thefront of the store. "It's getting kind oflate."

"I know," Davie said, shaken out of histhoughts of the famous western lawman."I'll just wait a few more minutes." Andwhile waiting he'd have time to imaginehow Gary Cooper might portray the role ofWyatt Earp in a tense moment at sun-up,striding down a quiet street while fromdoorways of—

"All right. Davie." and the clank ofglasses told him Mr. McHugh was occupied again.

Davie glanced at the clock, then at themirror showing the store front. One ofDavie's brows went up, and his mindshifted over to the illustrious Doc Holli-day when he was . . .

Davie knew his western heroes, knewtheir deeds, their mannerisms, their everything. It was one of Davie's harmlesspastimes when he occasionally identifiedhimself with the likes of a quick-on-the-draw sheriff, a shrewd-trading pioneer witha trusty Remington, and even the likes ofa noble Indian chief.

A pastime, a daydream, in the fashionof a boy his age. If anywhere in it therewas the faintest molding of character,Davie Vernon was far from aware of it.Certainly not in the fact that he oftenadopted a slouching stance the way he'dseen Gregory Peck portray a western gun-fighter on the screen. Or in the way Daviesometimes drawled his speech, imitatingJohn Wayne. Even here, in Mr. McHugh s

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Among those present were GovernorDennis J. Roberts, of Providence Lodge;Lt. Governor Armand H. Cote, of Paw-tucket Lodge; Judge John P. Hartigan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ofthe State of R. I., and a member of Paw-tucket Lodge; Judge John E. Mullen, ofthe Superior Court of the State of R. 1., aPast District Deputy and a member ofProvidence Lodge: Brother George Dolanof Westerly Lodge, a Past District Deputyand the oldest living Past Pres. of theState Association. The Toastmaster of theevening was Judge James E. Leighton,Vice President of the State Association.

Past Exalted Ruler C. Max Turcotte of

Pawtucket Lodge was Chairman.

Zanesville Celebrates68th Anniversary

The Grand Exalted Ruler's home lodge,Zanesville, Ohio, celebrated its 68th Anniversary on February 28th, and honoredMr. Bohn and Past District DeputiesThomas J. Price and Harold V. Tom ata banquet.

The program was under the direction ofCecil Baughman. Following the banquet,150 Brothers attended a special meeting atwhich a class of twelve candidates wasinitiated. James W. Plummer, Secretary tothe Grand Exalted Ruler and Vice Presi

place, Davie had a habit of imagininghimself silting not in a soda parlor boothbut being at a poker table in a gold mining town of the old west.

Now a gunfighter would never have puthis back to the door, and Davie was awareof it. Mr. McHugh's place had a doorleading out back to the alley, and the alleyled to the street. Davie had long ago discovered this, the way Hickok or Earpwould have paid heed to such small things.Not that Davie was planning to use theback door to the alley. It was all in therealm of daydreaming, the illusion ofmake-believe for a youngster nearingeighteen who'd maybe read too manystories of famous westerners and had thenfound it pleasant imagining himself intheir boots, quick on the draw and outguessing any bad "hombre."

Davie thus sat with his hack to thefront door—the thing Earp would neverhave done!—to preclude the possibilityof being recognized by, say, a neighborwho might then tell his father or mother.And yet, with his back to the front, Daviewas in control of the view—just the wayEarp would have been—by watching thatmirror strip ornamenting the far wall.The mirror reflected a bare fifteen-inchlength and a six-inch width, but it wasenough to sen the front of the store, thedoorway, and the avenue outside.

Davie tasted his soda with no particularinterest, then looked at the clock again.

"Almost time to lock up," Mr. McHughcalled over the counter, wiping his handswith a towel.

Davie leaned back and stretched hislegs under the table, Gary Cooper fashion.He felt a little hurt about Eileen not

dent of the Ohio Elks Assn., presentedhonorary life memberships to BrothersPrice and also to Brother Jack Tom onbehalf of his father, Harold V. Tom.

Present for this outstanding occasionwere Grand Lodge Activities member Nelson E. W. Stuart, District Deputy Paul T.Reed, and State Assn. officers LawrenceDerry and Harold M. Scott.

Grand Exalted Ruler at HuronLodge for Mortgage Burning

Februar)' 19th was a big day for Huron,S. D., Lodge. It was the occasion not onlyof the burning of the final mortgage bondon Hotel Marvin Hughitt lodge home,but also a visit by the Grand ExaltedRuler, who arrived shortly before noon.

Mr. Bohn was greeted by a large delegation. headed by Exalted Ruler Ross B.Matson and Past District Deputy KeithPotter. Past Grand Exalted Ruler JamesG. McFarland, State President L J- Greg-or>' and Past Grand Trustee J. Ford Ziet-low were on hand. Huron Lodge held aluncheon for the visiting Elk dignitariesand in the afternoon initiated a class of 40candidates. A dinner was held that evening. The occasion received outstanding attention from '"The Huronite and the DailyPlainsman" and Radio Stations KIJV andKELO-TV of Garden City.

showing up, but at his age Davie merelyshrugged it off. He'd see her at schoolin the morning. His mind, instead, wentto Doc Holliday, wondering if the greatgunfighter ever had much trouble with hiswomen, and from this thought Davie wenton to visualize himself, chaps slapping ashe strode across the saloon boardwalk, hisColt swinging heavy and low against hisright thigh, his Stetson tipped back toshow his face, handsome but rugged—

Davie leaned a little in order to seehimself in the ornamental mirror. Well,in another couple of years his face mightget to looking harder than it did now.Davie then bent up his legs, about readyto slide out from behind the table, hisright hand making a scooping move athis thigh, as if his low-slung gun were inthe way. The mirror still showed the frontdoorway, and now in addition showed thetwo young "hombres'' entering.

Davie paused, watching the quicknessof their movements in the mirror. He sawone of the men go through the openingbetween the counter and the small tablewhere the cash register stood.

Mr McHugh saw them too, and rushedforward. "Hey! What's the idea!"

Davie suddenly sat frozen in his seat,his eyes fixed on the mirror, as if thereflected action was part of some television play. What he was seeing appearedharmless enough, nothing' more than two"hombres" hurrying into a soda parlor,and yet there was the air of tension afterMr. McHugh shouted to them, the starkugliness of one of the men pulling out a

"You bums! Mr. McHugh was shouting. The high glass candy showcase hin-

dered Davie's view now. Only the soundscame to him. He heard the cash registerkey ring, then the crash of glasses andagain Mr. McHugh's voice: "You bums!Stop that! No—no you don't—"

Davie sat rock-still. The shot of thegun rang out awfully loud, and continuedto ring in the sudden silence.

"I had to," Davie heard the words. "Hewas holding onto me! T had to!"

"Let's get out of here."His eyes still fixed on the mirror, Davie

saw a hrown tweed jacket as it darted outinto the night.

Davie was scared, clear through. Theentire action had transpired in but a fewswift seconds. Without wondering why hewas doing it, Davie Vernon ran out theback door into the alley. The darknessclosed in on him and for an instant herealized he was in a panic. As he rantoward the street he had time to think andreproach himself for the way he'd boltedout of Mr. McHugh's place—so unlikeWyatt Earp or Wild Bill Hickok, so cowardly.

Only vaguely was he aware of the importance of his presence in the store,only vaguely thinking that his descriptionof the brown tweed jacket might help thepolice.

Davie slowed his run as he came outon the side street. He tried to tell

himself that he wasn't running away fromthe shooting. Ml lie was trying to do waskeep out of trouble. After all, he was onlyeighteen, almost. The best thing he coulddo right now was get home.

He started to cross the street, stillgoaded by his thought to walk around tothe front of the store, and fmd out howMr. McHugh was, but in that instant hesaw two men walking hastily toward him.Davie went on across the street. One ofthe men wore a brown tweed jacket, theother and Davie now took time to look—wore a blue suit. One of them, Davieknew, had fired the gun in Mr. McHugh'ssoda parlor. They were now getting intoa car, and Davie took his lime to sec itas a '39 repainted gray coupe with abadly-ripped rear left fender. As the carsped away Davie tried to note the licensenumber but couldn t.

This was no illusion, no daydream. Thiswas for real. What hurt Davie deeply wasthe way he'd reacted when danger struck.He sensed a peculiar resentment, a neardisgust with himself. Gone was whateverbravado of a western gunfighter he'd everpretended, gone was even the desire toreturn to the store and tell the police whatever he could. All he wanted was to gethome. . . .

"I thought I told you to be in-the houseby nine-thirty," Davie's father said to himthe moment he came through the door.

"Dad, T think—" Davie said, his voiceweak, "I think I saw a killing. I—I gotto tell you about it ... it happened . . ."

For a long time neither his father norhis mother spoke. Like parents, they momentarily thought of the newspaperstories,

the stomp-killings, row<lies on the loose,teen-age gang wars, with their son somehow mixed up in it. Mr. Vernon slowlylet go of the paper he was reading, andasked: "Just what kind of killing did yousee?"

Davie blurted out his story. He told itquickly. "I think—I think. Mom," heturned to face his mother, "they killedMr. McHugh."

Davie's mother wept. She put her armsaround him, and Davie couldn't quiteunderstand when she said over and over,"But you had nothing to do with it—youhad nothing to do with it, Davie." Therewas a certain joy in his mother's voice,which wasn't for Davie to understand. Hisfather slumped back in a relieved way,and then fumbled for a cigaret. "Davie,don't ever," his father said, "scare us likethat."

Davie stood awkwardly now, shiftinghis weight, finding his own hands in theway. "Will you call the cops, Dad?" heasked hoarsely.

"The cops?" his father said after him."Well, I don't—" He got up and walkedaround, trying to put life into his legs.Davie's mother sat down on the couch andbegan wiping her eyes.

"If Mr. McHugh is hurt," Davie said,"I mean hurt real bad, or—or if he's dead—then—"

"Now wait a minute." his father said."I don'l want you mixed up in anythinglike this."

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"I don't want you mixed up in anything," Davie's father said again. "I'msure the police will be able to handle it.This can be very bad, and you know it.I don't want you mixed up in it. Davie."

The decision not to telephone the policewas perhaps a typical one for Davie'sfather and mother. The reasoning wassimple and direct, "^^rom their point ofview—to keep Davie out of trouble. Surelysomeone else beside their boy had seenthe killers escaping, if they were killers.

But the decision didn't set well withDavie. Perhaps because he was still engrossed in his self-disgust, having revealedhimself not the equal of even the poorestgunfighter he'd read about, or perhapsbecause of his age, he nevertheless seemedunable to evaluate the intricate shades ofhis feelings. Bui what he did know wasfor sure—he wasn't brave, and neitherwere his parents.

The following day the newspapers toldof the murder of Mr. McHugh. The policehad nothing to go on, the papers said.Billy McHugh's empty seat was a mutereminder of tragedy everytime Davielooked there. When Eileen tried to tellDavie she had had to help her motherwith curtains the night before, he told herlo leave him alone.

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daydreams he had sliaped himself into areckless, daring, bold gunfighter. He hadnever expected to witness a killing, true,he'd been safe in his make-believe worldof Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok andthe rest, making up dangerous situationswith himself always the fastest on thedraw. Never was he in real danger, andnow this was stark reality and he'd realized the vast difference. He was not cutout for a brave showing. He was nothing.A coward. And what hurt all the morewas knowing his father and mother werecowards.

In other words. Davie Vernon had unveiled himself. He wasn t good enough topolish the boots for a man like Earp orHickok. . . .

IT WAS FOUR EVENINGS LATERI when Davie was to meet Eileen in frontof the pet shop on the avenue, not farfrom the now-closed soda parlor. He'dnever told her or anyone else that he dbeen there that fateful night. But soonhis chance was to come . . .

As Davie waited, cars sped by, nowand then one with twin tail pipes roaringand making him tremble a little. The'39 coupe of.the killers had had twinexhausts. Davie felt he'd hear that soundthe rest of his life.

Dungaree clad and wearing a red jacket,Eileen showed up behind Davie and pokedhim in fun. "Hi, wha-cha lookin at?Wow! Look at the iongface."' She giggled."Where're we going? Are Squatts andDolly meeting us?'*

Davie wasn't talkative, nor in the moodfor kidding. "Squatts and Dolly went tosee a movie," he said.

"Then treat me to a vanilla malted,Eileen suggested as they walked along."Say, what's with you anyway? '

"Nothing."'She tried to interest him in some school

rumors, her doings at home, and plansabout college, all to no avail. "Hey!' sheexclaimed as they passed the second sodafountain. "Aren't we?"

"Aren't we what?" Davie asked absently.

"Going to have a soda or ice cream orsomething." Eileen had come to a haltand was looking at Davie in a tolerantway. "You're a couple of days removed, 'she chided him.

"Let's go up to Tully's,'' Davie said."Okay, l)ut what's wrong with right

here?" She didn't expect an answer, sothey started walking again up the avenue.Tully's was farther up where the kidsusually went for hamburgers. It wasexactly in the opposite direction from themain business district.

There were no crowds up this way.nothing to remind Davie of Mr. McHugh splace. Davie was not in a position toanalyze his actions, much less understandlhat he was in every way avoiding theplace which had showed him up for whathe was. If only his father had telephonedthe police, if only his— Davie tried tosuppress his thoughts, his shame.

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He was in this slate of mind then,walking along with Eileen, when he sawthe parked gray '39 coupe wilh its badly-ripped rear left fender. _

Recognition shook Davie down to Insheels His heart pounded uncontrollably,but he said the words that fitted his age.

"Gee, gosh!""What, Davie?" Eileen asked as she

too stopped to glance across the street."Gee, gosh," Davie said again. That s

their car! ' ,Eileen naturally latched on to a parked

Cadillac. "Someday," she said confidently,"you'll have one too. Let's go.

But Davie was suddenly in anotherworld, not entirely a make-believe

world of western gunfighters and motionpicture screen heroes, for now. this instant. with time in which to gather himselfinto a force, with time to realize that hewas no more cowardly than any otheryoungster his age, Davie knew exactlywhat he could do to avenge the killing ofMr McHugh. It wasn't something thatEarp or Doc Holliday would have done,no. it was what Davie Vernon could do.

"Davie!" Eileen cried out. She wasn'texpecting him to grab her wrist so hardand pull her into a house doorway."What're you doing. Davie?'"

^^See thai car," Davie began. "Listen-listen good now." It was the way GaryCooper would have spoken, in a drawl,but hard and tough. "Do you rememberwhat happened to Mr. McHugh"—andthen Davie for the first time told Eileenhis story.

"Davie, I'm scared. I'm not as brave asyou. Oh, Davie."

Davie spoke quietly to her. holdingboth her hands in his, He asked her to

get hold of herself, and lo run down toward the business section of the avenueand there get a cop. "Tell 'em what Itold, you! Tell 'em to hurry back here!"

"What'll you do. Davie?""I'll keep my eye on their car. Now

hurr>'!""Oh, Davie . . . Davie . . . I'm scared.""Okay, so you're scared. Now huny

up. will you!"After Eileen left. Davie, under normal

circumstances, might have done what hesaid. Keep his eye on the car. And whenthe police arrived he could have themsafely take over. But reading about finedeeds of Earp and his kind, seein"Cooper and Wayne and Peck portrayingeven greater actions. Davie couldn't verywell just wait it out.

Farther up the avrnue ho saw the lonelighted sign: Bar & Grill Davie walkedthe distance, his stride big, as if he worehigh-heeled hoots, his arms limp at hissides and palms open, as if he'd suddenlybe forced to whip out his Colt and openfire.

Davie. of course, possessed no ColtThis part, one might say, was still partof his teen-age imagination: he was. quitesubconsciously, in the satisfying role of awestern sheriff, and he was going lo havea look-see for himself yonder at thesaloon. Eileen's words still ran.' in hisears and gave him a peculiar sense ofpower and courage. "I'm not as brave asyou, Davie, she <1 said, and she'd meant it

The interior of the bar appoare.l awfullydark, menacing, outright forhiddin"- Farin the rear, as in Mr. M,flugh-s"'puJ„.%\'ere tables and i)enches set apart asbooths. Davie could see eouplps lalkin"over drinks in what seemed to him'a na°tural manner. Davie turned around' andretraced his steps, again looking in. thistime at the men standing at the bar

Davie couldn't mistake that 'browntweed jacket, the shoulders and the backof the neck. And drinking alongsidepal, stood the other killer, wearin.' ihesame blue suit which Davie ret-alled

Davie felt his hearl pound faster" -illthe way up into his ears. Re squim'eddown the avenue lo see if Eileen was coming up wilh a policeman. Eileen waialways late. Davie peered over the cartops, hoping Eileen had come upon a police prowl car. The only thing in sight h'rdown by the fourth traffic; light was thebus. a truck, several yellow taxicabs" andprivate cars. No police car.

Davie turned hi,< attention buck to themen at the bar. His imagination loUl himhe'd have no trouble fighting those twomen. No. he wouldn't be so foolish lolisten to his imagination. Yet the illusionof Earp and Hickok nudged him. pushinghim to action. He crossed the stn'et se\^eral times, went <lown lo their parked car.all the while fighting olT temptation thatwould cause him lo take a foolish step.He got back to the bar. The only thing he'could do, he admitted, was enroll the helpof others inside the place. And he hadto do it now, for he saw lirown jacket

loss money to the bartender and then button up in a move to leave.

Davie trembled- a little as he grabbedthe door handle, squeezed the catch, andpushed the door in. He'd made his move.There was no backing down now. Hisknees felt weak, unwilling to support him.The scowl tossed his way by the bartenderalmost sent Davie outside.

"What d'ya want, kid?" the bartendercalled to him.

But—the way he'd seen Gregory Peckstand his ground—Davie kept on withwhat he had to do.

The t^vo men, both young and not verymuch older than Davie, turned to look athim. So did others there at the bar.Davie's legs turned limp; he was suddenlyafraid and thought he could still get outof there.

But he didn't. He lifted his left armand pointed his finger straight at the twomen before him.

"They're killers!" Davie shouted.

He saw the two men stiffen and exchange glances quickly, but they

made no wrong moves. Some of the othersin there had turned to look, and were smiling at the sight of Davie pointing accusingly. Brown jacket gave a little laugh, andsaid "Clown" so everybody could hear.

"I saw you!" Davie shouted. "1 saw oneof you kill Mr. McHugh!" Davie turnedto face the others at the bar. "I swear!Somebody grab them! They're killers!"

Nobody moved. Here was the peculiarpower of accusation, a boy pointing andshouting, and yet no one dared take achance. Someone or other may havesensed Davie was telling the truth, butthe same caution that had held Davie'sfather in check held these men. Why takea chance? Why stick my neck out?

Perhaps what saved Davie was the factthat the two killers couldn't afford to takea chance either. Panic urged them to action, a panic which showed in their youngfaces and in their wild eyes. Davie sawit, understood it. The realization struckhim that these two men were just asscared now as he'd been when he sawthem in Mr. McHugh's place.

"Cowards!" Davie shouted. "Yaaa!Look at them! They're scared! Cowards!Somebody grab them! Somebody—"

Even for scared men, the one in theblue suit hit awfully hard. The fist sankdeep into Davie's stomach, sent himagainst the far wall with a sickened feeling. Davie was watching both men reachthe door at the same time, and still no onein the crowd had moved to help.

"Grab them!" Davie shouted again,struggling to his feet.

It is difficult for two men to go throughthe same door at the same time. Brownjacket had fumbled, and the door hadslapped back at him. For a moment hewas caught there, pushing the door thewrong way, desperately trying to reachthe street and take flight after his paltoward their parked car.

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Davie in a flying tackle headlong for thedoorNvay. All he could do was scoop hisarms and grab brown jacket around theknees.

With this much happening before theireyes, several men at last parted from thebar and rushed in to give Davie a hand.Brown jacket kicked and struggled, hisshoe grazing Davie's ear hard enough lobring blood. Davie felt nothing in iheway of pain, not now anymore; he hearda car starter whirring and whirring andwhirring, unable to start the motor of the'39 coupe—

The police prowl car screamed to astop, parking at an angle. Eileen wasthere, jumping and getting in the way ofeverybody. Davie saw a sedan pull up,and suddenly there were a couple of detectives holding the crowd back, uniformedpolice asking questions, excitement, excitement.

One of the detectives was asking Davienow if he was the one who'd seen the menin Mr. McHugh's soda parlor, and Daviewas telling him the whole story whilethe detective was trying to slow him downand get it in proper order.

The detective was grinning. He thentook Davie's name and address. "Youlook all in. kid—you ought to be at home."

"Okay, folks."' one of the policemenwas saying loudly. "That's all now."

Eileen was hanging onto Davie's arm,chirping excitedly at him, none of whichpenetrated. Davie's gaze was fastened onthe detective, and he now went over to himand handed him a small object. "I tookit out," Davie said to ihe detective.

The other grinned again. "So that'swhy the punk couldn't get his car started.Thanks, kid. We'll be around lo talk toyou, sometime tomorrow. You better goon home now."

When Davie and Eileen walked away,the detective said to his sidekick: "Thesekids pick up all sorts of gimmicks fromthe movies. The kid"—he held up hisopen palm for the other to see—"took thedistributor cam out of their car."

"That's the movies for you," the otherdetective said.

Eileen hurried her way, eager to reachhome and the telephone so she couldspread her version of the story. Davie. onihe other hand, was taking his time, walking with big steps, letting his imaginaryColt slap against his thigh, walking lightlyin his high-heeled boots, which provedharder pretending due to his low.heeledloafers.

Davie was his old self again. He wason edge, true, but that was something toi)c expected after what he'd been through.

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Ritualistic Contest

Chairman Edward W. McCabeof the Grand Lodge RitualisticCommittee asks that applicationsfor entities in the National Ritualistic Contest to be held in SanFrancisco, Calif., during the period of July 14th through the 18thshould be filed with him promptly, as State winners are determined at P. O. Box 202, Nashville,Tenn.

A revised judges' training sheethas been printed and copies maybe obtained from the office of theGrand Secretary.

Exhibits and DisplaysAs Chairman of Exhibits and

Displays for the Grand LodgeConvention, J. Edward Stahl ofthe Grand Lodge State Associations Committee has notified allState Presidents that the GrandLodge Convention Committee hasselected the Civic Auditorium inSan Francisco for these displays,and has arranged with the J. L.Stuart Co. of, that city for materials, etc.

The Committee will assignspace for State exhibits in the order in which they are received.Upon receipt of request for space,the Committee will forward thatinformation to the J. L. Stuart Co.which in turn will contact theAssociation direct, making all necessary arrangements. Expensesfor shipping, handling, boothequipment and so on will be assumed by each State.

With his letter, Mr. Stahl included a form, a "Booth Display"and rate sheet which are to befilled in and returned to him aspromptly as possible, so that theneeds of each State Associationwill be known.

The change came over him as he realizedhe was nearing home. The change wasvisible, inasmuch as Davie had sloweddown and had shoved aside his thoughtsof Wyatt Earp, played by Davie Vernona few moments before. What Daviethought of now was his father and mother—yes, they'd like what he'd have to tellthem, but . . . but ihey were still hisfather and mother who iiad been afraid

to telephone the police that first night.This was on Davie's mind when he

reached home, and this was what madehim hang his head upon entering the frontroom where his father and mother were

waiting for him."Aren't you late coming home again,

Davie?" his father asked.Davie wanted to tell him what had

happened, he wanted to tell it real badly,but somehow the kick of it was gone. Allhe could say was "Yes, Dad."

Davie's mother saw the blood on herson's ear and neck. "Look at you!" shesaid, visibly holding herself in check."Where were you? What were you doing?Davie . .

"We can go into that later." Davie'sfather said flatly. "Sit down, Davie—wewant to have a talk with you right now."

Davie sat on the edge of the chair andwaited for his father to begin.

"Davie, your mother and I have giventhis a great deal of thought. We want youto understand the importance of right andwrong. Davie, are you listening to whatI'm saying?"

"Yes, Dad.""As I was saying, then, everybody

should know what's right and what'swrong. Now we feel, your mother and I,that we did the wrong thing not telephoning the police about the McHughthing, we—well, let's say we made an er-ror."

Now Davie sat upright, expectantlywatching his parents, waiting.

"If we," his father went on. "permitourselves one error and don't give it anythought, we might end up making othererrors and not thinking anything about it.Now. as I said, we gave this a lot ofthought, Davie. What we did was to telephone the police. We told them you wereat Mr. McHugh's place when he waskilled. The police are sending a detectiveover here, he'll be here any minute. Nowyour job will be to tell him everything."

For a brief moment Davie stood theresilently, and then tears came to his eyes,tears which he didn't try to suppress. Herushed forward and grabbed his father,which was something Davie hadn't donein a long time. After all, Davie was goingon eighteen now.

Davie's father then did the only thinghe felt appropriate under the circumstances. He folded his arms protectinglyover his son and, turning to Davie'smother, said there was no need for everybody crying and carrying on like that.

"Come on, now—that detective'll behere any minute."

"Okay, Dad," Davie said.

The Heedless Horsemen(Continued from page 11)

One reason animals frequent roads isfor the warmth. On bitter nights followingan afternoon of sunshine, roads are considerably warmer than the air or ground,and this linger of warmth is sometimes noticeable as late as midnight. Black-top

zling questions. Why do animals ventureonto roads at all? Why are casualties soheavy on some nights and light on others?Why are September and February the badmonths? Why are certain stretches of theroad, and even certain spots, so deadly?

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roads may be as much as twenty degreeswarmer than the natural terrain. Oursmall friends like to stand on registers too,and they have four feet that get cold.

Rainy darkness is always a bad-casualtytime for creatures of the night. Ordinarily,

animals prefer to travel in cover of somesort, but in rain-drencliecl grass or brushtheir fur gets soggy, cold, heavy: so theytake to the roadway to gel relief from thisconstant soppiness.

Exactly as children do, young animalsresort to ihe smooth, level surface of roadsfor their play—those games tiial are amazingly like lag or hide-and-seek. Youngrabbits will spend hours at their intricate,fascinating play maneuvers. The peak ofyoung-animal activity comes in lale summer, and this is why September is a inonlhof heavy loll.

When uncrusled snow lies deep over thefields anil woods—and jusi a few inches isbelly-deep for small aninuUs—the snow-plowed roadways naturally afford mucheasier going, sometimes the only going.The lale-winter period of heavy snows coincides with the mating season of mostsmall animals anti also with the time wlientheir food is scantiest and they often areonly a jump or two ahead of starvation.During this period they travel far andwide, as their snow tracks show. This combination of circumstances is why F{-bruaryis the worst month of the year on the record sheet.

In the wilillife scheme of things thislate-winter destruction is doubly serious,because creatures killed then have a iiiglistrategic importance. They are tiie indi-vitluals which have survived the variousvicissitudes of the preceding seasons, andthe new crop depends on them. A rabbitkilled in February is as bad a loss as halfa dozen killed in August.

Otlier r<'a»oiis for their frequentingroads are: dust baths, to keep down parasites; food scraps llioughtb'ssly tossed outof cars (what a thoroughly bad businessthat is!); and those chain casualties wherea creature will linger around a mate orlitter male which has been killed. Thishabit, a sort of primitive wake, is verystrong with rabbits aiul raccoons.

Simple crossings, however, account forthe majority of limes that animals ventureonto highways. All animals do a gooddeal of traveling on trails lhat are ancientfootpaths of their tribe. These patlis mayhave been in use for dozens of generations.In fact, some bear trails in the West areknown to l)e a thousand years old. Deercrossings are of course lamiliar to everybody, but the smaller creatures are just ashabituated to their ancestral paths. Thedeadly spots which show up so clearly ona record sheet are places where these trailscut across a highway. Or maybe its thehighway that cuts across these immemorialtrails.

But whatever their reasons, the fact remains tliat animals do frequent roads, andwe must take this fact into account. Somepeople don't. One evening 1 saw a mancallously run down and kill two youngraccoons and when I later asked him ifthat had l)een necessary, he made ihe stupid reply: "Then tell 'em to stay oH: iheroads! They don't pay taxes, do they?''When fate, a couple of years laler. toucliedhim on the shoulder one night and gave

him the one-way ticket, it was no accidentbut a direct consequence of his unrealisticattitude.

No, animals don't pay taxes, but theypay a heavy price just the same. My statement about the ''tens of millions"' of wild

life victims was no exaggeration but cold-sober fact. Every road is a toll road forwild creatures and the price they pay isnot a few dimes but death.

YOU sometimes hear it said lhat in thecourse of time the wildlife in the terri-

ton- along a road gets killed off and that'sthe end of the loss. The trouble with thisidea is that it isn't so. Go out and take adrive on some long-established road andyou'll see it isn't >o. The higiiway leadingpast my house was a pike lhat Washington smen used, and it s been hard-topped for acouple of generations—and it's the worstroad in these parts for casualties. Animalsdon't stay put. Foxes will shift their homerange as much as fifty miles in a month, asslu<lies have shown. In spring and lalldeer travel extensively. Coyotes will moveclear across a stale in a year, (iray s(juir-rels migrate en masse to better areas. Myown studies of the woodchuck sliow lhateven tiiis stolid, home-loving citizen willpack his suitcase and depart for greenerpastures.

The truth is that when an area along aroad gets depopulated, other animals Jromfarther back move into it, and they in turnget killed off.

This wildlife destruction has come onlittle by little and so lias gone unnoticedby the general public, but in many sections conservation officials, whose businessit is to know about such things, now ratethe automoi)ile as the jNumber One destroyer of small game animals and fur-bearers in their territory. In a south-central Ozark region that I knew well. Iremarked to a senior game warden thatthe wildlife around there seemed to bedefinitely less abundant than what I remembered, and his reply was fairly typicalof what conservation people are thinking:

"It s these new highways and the big increase in cars. They're killing more coons,rabbits, possums, skunks, groundhogs andwhat have you than our imnters. trappersand natural predators combined. The onlyway to realize this is to go out and makeactual counts, and then figure that this ishappening every Iiour of the day and nighton every mile of road in the land."

He was so right. Actual counts andstudies are the only way we ever realizetlic full toil that the automobile is taking.Otherwise we grossly underestimate. Forexample, I have asked men who live on the"Back Road" across the valley, "Howmany animals, do you think, get killed onthis roa<l in a x'ear? Tlu' usual answer is,"'Oh, a few tlozen.'' Let's look at my studyof that road:

This is a six-mile stretch of secondaryleading along the flank of tiie valley. It isnot much traveled at night, about seven

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cars per hour from dusk lo dawn, and theadjacent territory is about average in regard to wildlife abundance. With the helpof two friends ^\'ho traveled it regularly,one at midnight, the other at sun-up, I wasable to get fairly reliable figures on thenight-time casualties there through thecourse of a year. Not counting the daycasualties, which probably were not heavy,or the unknown number of creatures that

were wounded and crept oil into the brushto die. or the casualties removed by scavengers, that road killed .27 animal permile per night, or 1.62 animals per nightfor the six-mile stretch.

This innocent-looking figure of .27 animal per night-mile works out to nearly sixhundred creatures a year! And this is onlyrecorded casualties. There were many others. as indicated above. The real total wasprobably close to nine hundred—which isconsiderably different from "a few dozen."

Let me emphasize that this Back Roadis neither exceptionally good nor bad; it'ssomewhere near average for the countryaround here. Some local roads are plainlyworse, as my data shows, and some arebetter. My sampling figures for otherstates and sections—^Florida. the Midwest,Colorado and an area around Edmonton—are too scanty for more than a mention,but they suggest higher figures than here.

This .27 animal per night-mile mayseem small, but when we start applying itto areas it begins growing like the jiniiout of the bottle. When I applied it to theroads of this township, for instance, I sawbeyond any question that the automobiledocs kill more game and furbearers. farmore, than all the local hunters and trappers. When we apply the figure to acounty, the yearly total climbs into sixfigures. When we multiply this by thethree thousand counties of the land, thetotal gets astronomical, and we begin tosee why conservation people regard thisincessant, mounting drain on our wildliferesources as the worst recent developmentin their field.

As surely as tomorrow's sunrise, thisvast national network of new, fast roads isgoing to mean grief, not only on accountof the wildlife destruction but also thehuman casualties, unless this problem isstudied out beforehand ^nd vigorous stepstaken.

Before going on that night drive, itmight be well for us lo dispose of the

day casualties, which don't make up a verylarge part of the total and which concernmostly woodchucks. squirrels, young rabbits and those venerable woods tortoiseswhich go slow-poking across the highwayon summer days.

When we see a creature on the roadahead, we should never try to avoid it byswinging over to the left of the line, assome people do. This is a dangerous habitto form and can lead to a bad-type collisionwith another car. Rather than swing out,we should allow the casualty to happen,regrettable though that may be. But inmost instances we have time to slow down

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and let the animal get safely off the road.The trouble is that so many drivers

don't slow. It isn't that they don't care orare bad drivers essentially. They will slowfor other reasons, such as the standardhighway rules and courtesies, or the directions given in driver manuals, but not foranimals on the road. The explanation, Iwould say, is that they haven't been toldwhat to do in this case and they don'texercise very much imagination. However,more and more drivers are slowing to avoidthese casualties, and maybe in time thoseless alert individuals will get the idea thatit's the proper thing to do.

Now for that night drive. You've runover animals and you don't like it. You'vehad a narrow escape or two from bad deeraccidents and know that injury or deathcan be waiting in the buckrush at almostany deer crossing. So you want to pick mybrains. All right, let's go.

Suppose it's a rainy night in late October, and we're driving along that BackRoad, with the wooded hill range on ourright, some dairy farms and swamp areason our left. For the purposes of our tripwe push along as fast as is safe on a road

Tribute to AidmoreWhile The Elks Magazine does not

make a practice of running poems becauseit would obviously be unfair to select afew of the many received for special attention, we recently noticed a poem thatappeared in '"The Spirit of 78"', bulletinof Atlanta, Ga., Lodge, written by Mrs.Kermit Carr, who is Vice President of theElks Aidmore Auxiliary. Aidmore - isknown throughout Elkdom for the greatwork it is doing to help crippled childrenlead happier lives. While space does notpermit using Mrs. Carr's entire poem, because of its association with Aidmore wehere reprint it in part.

My legs were crooked—born that way;I couldri l move around,I'd never stood or walked.Sometimes I d crawl upon the ground.They called it ''act of providence,''Which has to be endured.Anyway, the neighbor said,Such cases can I be cured.

The Elks' doctor saw my legs.He didn't shake his head.Like most folk do. '''We'll fix you upAs good as new, ' he said."We're awful poor,' said Ma,"It's hard to pay for food and rent.""Give us that Boy," the Elks said,"It won't cost you a cent!"

I don t know how they did it;I m not much on Doctor's talk;I only know I used to crawl—And now! See, I can walk!I wonder why mother cried whenI went home, not craivling anymore,But through her tears I heard her say,"God bless the Elks and Aidmore."

that is wet and full of curves. It's teno'clock and not many cars are abroad.The night is velvety black, the air rain-sweet and heavy with the smell of dam])woods and autumn leaves, and the animaleyes here and there along the way are likedifferent-colored jewels. Most of the carswe do encounter are hitting it up fasterthan we, and we wonder why they don'ttake it a little safer, a little easier, andenjoy an hour when it's a pleasure to beoutdoors.

Several hundred feet ahead we pick upa pair of eyes on the right side of the road.The blue twinkle tells us it's a raccoon,and it's crouching there a minute or two tomake sure the coast is clear before it startj;across. All animals do this. When theycome to a road, or any other open stretch,they instinctively stop, look, listen andmonitor the air with their nose. If we knowabout this habit of caution, we can use itto keep them from coming on out and getting run over.

•'Watch." I say. With a simple littlemaneuver, while we're still two hundredfeet away, I drive the raccoon back fromthe road, back into the brush, and we goharmlessly past.

A few hundred yards farther on we spota pair of eyes, burning amethyst in color,in a cornel thicket on the left side of theroad. It's a fox. Probably it's been mousing in a swamp near by and is returningto its lay-up in the hills. ''I'll make himcross the road," I say, shifting my lights alittle. Sure enough, the fox flashes acrossthe road and up a grassy hillside, withthat airy, graceful flight that live foxeshave but dead, run-over foxes don't.

This time you catch on that my controlover the actions of those animals is somehow connected with shifting my lights, hutyou don't yet know exactly how it works.So we tootle along till I find what I'vebeen hoping for—a rabbit sitting in themiddle of the road. I slow down to a dogtrot and glide up quietly. The rabbitstarts to hop off the road to the left. 1shift lights in that direction, and it veersback to the center again. Then it tries tohop off to the right, but I shift that wayand it turns back to the while line.

After several attempts to break free, itgets philosophic about the matter and goeshopping down the road ahead of us.

This harmless little stunt, which any-body can go out and repeat, illustrates thesimple rule back of controlling animalactions along the highway. An animalgoes the opposite direction from our lightshift. If we shift to the left, it goes right,and vice versa. A very slight shift, a verj^small turn on the steering wheel, is allthat is necessary or advisable. We don'thave to swing out lo the mid-line or overonto the shoulder. A swing of a few inchesis multiplied into many feet by the projected shaft of light. It's the light beam,not the car itself, that influences thecreature.

All animals that I know of respond tothis light shift. Out in the Gunnison RiverValley one night a friend and I drove a

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jackrabbit along for seven miles, and wemight still be driving it except that wecame to the outskirts of Gunnison and adog got into the act.

Every few yards, as we drive our cottontail along, he gives a funny little leapstraight up in the air. This is a "spy hop*'—to see what on earth that huge enemy isthat's purring along behind him. We smileat tiiis amusing, jack-out-of-the-box leap.But deer, too, have this spy hop habit, andsometimes their hop is a little on the grimside. A deer that is blinded by a speeding,on-rushing car will often give one or moreof tliose up-and-down bounces just beforeit gets hit, and when that happens it comesslamming back over the engine hood andthrough thewindshield. After one of theseaccidents the driver will often state thatthe deer he hit was acting crazy.

We don't want to drive our cooperativerabbit out of bis home territory, so weshoo him over into a field and watch Jiimgo streaking back toward where we pickedliim up, and you remark that he'll surelyhave something to tell the boys backyonder. I remark that if a fast car hadcomc along instcail of us, he wouldn't bealive to tell anybody anything.

Around the next bcnil a tongue of woodsreaches down to the road, and there wespot seven deer, standing in the roadsidebrush like dun ghosts iind reconnoitering.Nearly every night a number ofdeer comndown through that strip of timber, a typical deer crossing, and pasture on the succulent swamp-edge grass on the other side.Tn the past three years that spot has beenthe scene of at least two deer-car collisions, one of them plenty bad. Probablythere were other collisions that were keptquiet. Most states have laws requiringdeer accidents to be reported, becausesome individuals actually go hunting deerwith old, banged-up automobiles. But asoften as not, especially on back roads,people will just stick the deer in their carand take it home, figurmg that the hundred pounds of venison will make up in

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NATIONAL MASS MEDIA AWARDS PROGRAM OF

THE THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATIONVith the support of sixty-two national organizations, including the

BPOE, the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation in 1955 established its Na

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part for the damage to lights and fenders.After a deer accident the driver will

often say, quite sincerely; "It just suddenly appeared out of nowhere. 1 don'tunderstand where on earth it came from."Well, deer don't jump out of nowhere andthey don't materialize out of thin air. Inmany instances the animal was standingnear the road reconnoitering, and the reason the driver didn't see it was that he had"bumper vision." He was staring fixedlyat the road in front of his car, instead ofconstantly shifting his gaze from side toside, near to far. Bumper vision, or "roadhypnosis," is bad enough in the daytime.At night it's a wide-open invitation fortrouble. I don't know of a better way tostave olf bumper vision than by watchingahead for animals, identifying them by thecolor of tiieir eyes and shooing them inthe direction we want them togo.

You and 1 both picked up those deerwhen we were a good four hundred feetaway. We agree that there's no excusewhatever for hitting a deer at that place.Bumper vision or excessive speed or bothwere the explanation of the accidentswhich had occurred there.

Tlie seven deer staring at us from thel)rush are flicking their ears nervously andtrying lo make up their collective mindwhat to do. I shift my lights to the left.Almost with one motion the seven turn intlieir tracks and drift back from the road.As we go by we see a big buck a rod orso from the higliway, covering the retreat;

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the others are easing on back among thetrc<'S.

Except for those rare occasions whendeer are being chased by dogs or areotherwise frightened or confused, they willalmost invariably stop near the road edgeand reconnoiter, before crossing, and ifwe are alert we can see them. A band ofreconnoitering deer will always respondto this light shift. Sometimes they willturn silently and disappear back into thewoods. Occasionally they will merely"freeze" and stand quiet till we are past.

But if we go barreling down at them,blinding them with our lights and maybeadding to their bewilderment with a blarefrom the horn (Great day, a deer doesn tknow that a horn blast means to slay offthe road!), there is never any predictingwhat they'll do. Sometimes they go crashing back into the woods, in the directionthey came from. Sometimes they break upas a group and go glancing offevery whichway. Sometimes they all come piling outonto the road.

A mile farther on we pick up a big doeahead, apparently alone. She crosses theroad, leaps the fence and trots down acrossa little field. You watch her and remark,'"That's one we don't have lo worry ahout.'I shake my head and say, "You're wrongabout that." I am already slowing downand watching sharp—not watching the doebut the scatter of woods to our right."This is the most dangerous kind of a deerset-up. It could be that she's alone, but

the chances are that she's leading a file ofdeer across the road and down to thatswamp."

Deer traveling in file are usually led bya doe and often they are widely spaced, asmuch as a hundred yards apart. Thosebehind have a strong, sheeplike instinct tofollow the leader, willynilly, and that'swhere the trouble comes in. The driverwill be watching that front deer, alreadyacross, and suddenly—bang-o!—anotherdeer leaps in front of his headlights orcomes whanging into the side of the car.The rule to follow here is this: when wesee one deer, we should automatically assume there are others around. We shouldslow down as much as possible, stopwatching that front animal and keep asharp lookout for those others.

In our granddaddy's time, railroad engineers were told that when they sawbuffalo, deer or elk on the tracks theyshould switch off their headlight and givea gentle toot or so with the whistle. Withdeer on the highway it used to be gooddriving procedure to stop, dim the carlights and let the deer all get across. Onlittle-used roads in rural areas that is stillthe safest way to handle this deer-in-filesituation. But don't try it, don't even thinkof trying it, on our fast modern roads. Astop is more dangerous than a deer collision. One of those highway idiots whoride our taillighls will come smashing intous if we slop. Or any driver hilling it upat the allowable speed may fail to see usin time to avoid a crash.

No, we don't dare stop on a fast road.The best we can do is a compromise: slowdown as much as is safe; lower our lights;watch for those animals following theleader. Usually this compromise is goodenough; it will lake us safely through thatfile of deer. It's the procedure that youand 1 use, and it takes us through that lineof dun ghosts with a good margin ofsafely.

WE COME TO THE END OF THEBACK ROAD and as we swing home

you read off our record sheet and we talkabout our drive. The rain had put an unusual number of animals on the road—•raccoons, foxes, rabbits, deer at threeplaces, skunks, possums, even a muskrai—and the other cars had taken a heavy toll,eight casualties. And if a fast car had

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happened lo pass that tongue of woods ortlie deer-file crossing, we might have foundan automobile overturned in a ditch or

wrapped around a tree.We ourselves, not dawdling but driving

at a good speed, were at no time in anydanger of a deer accident, we ran overno creaturc, we didn't even have a nearmiss.

It doesn't, of course, always work outthis neatly. In spite of knowing about thelight tricks and animal ways at night, aperson will still have the occasional accident. But we can cut the number of thesedown tremendously. For whatever it'sworth, I myself have run over just twoanimals in the last five years, a rabbit anda muskrat, and I do a lot of night driving.

And, of course, people who insist ondriving too fast for the conditions of theroad won't find very much help in thesesuggestions of mine. They are so busyplaying Riissian roulette with the roadhazards that they don't have time to lookfor animal eyes or deer or anything else.

Take that drive of mine mentioned atthe beginning. It was thirty miles of hill-and-dale road, sheeted with ice at places,with snow crawl at others, and throughcountry where deer were plentiful. Themajority of the drivers were taking it at asafe, sensible speed, but there were halfa dozen cars that went zipping past, doingmost of that wildlife slaughtering and risking their own crack-up. I doubt if a singleone of those fast cars had any valid reasonfor being so hellbent on getting whereverthey were going.

Besides the danger, they missed so.

much. They missed all the rare, sparklingbeauty of the countrj' and the night. Someof those scenes from the hilltops, outacross the dark-silvered, sleeping valleys,were unforgettably pretty. Yet those carsnever slowed, lingered, looked. They wentwhizzing along as though the few minutesthey saved were worth gambling their livesfor.

Or take that winter night and the chapI found at the stone bridge. When he wentpast me, doing his fifty on a winding, rain-wet road, I thought I recognized him butwasn't sure till a little later. I rememberthinking that sometime or other his luckwas going to run out. if he was the personI thought, but I hadn't any suspicion, ashe vanished around a cun'e, that matterswere closing in on him even then. I wasvery wrong.

When I saw the wreck ahead, I pulledto one side and hurried up to the bridge,with a flashlight. Over in the brush Iheard a thrashing sound and thought itmight be the man, stumbling around grog-gily, and I stepped into the thicket. But itwas the doe he had hit, bone-broken anddying. At the car I took a look throughthe shattered window and saw the driver.One look was enough.

As I walked back to my car, to drive onin and report the accident, I noticed thatmy headlights were playing on a big,prominent sign, "Deer Crossing." He certainlyhad seen that sign but evidently hadpaid no attention to it. I wondered if hehad thought, as he once remarked to me:"Tell 'em to stay ofF the roads! They don tpay taxes, do they?"

In the Doghouse(Continued from page 33)

across the country. They are that traditional among fire fighters. I'm quite surethat many so kept still respond when thealarm sounds. In a town not far fromwhere I live, one of the stations hasSmoky—seems they're always given thatname—a dog that promptly hops on thetruck as soon as he hears the town's firesiren and hasn't missed a call in all theseven years of his duty.

But don't get the idea that the Dal-m'atian is a purely ornamental adjunct tothe fire department. Time and again newspaper accounts have appeared showing thedog having rendered active assistance atthe scene of a fire. They ve guided firemen in finding persons trapped in buildings, have helped in rescue work, and nota few have been injured through falls,burns or by inhaling suffocating smoke.Yes, there are many four-footed heroesattached to our firehouses throughout thenation. Some have learned to climb ladders, and there's even a record of one dogthat rescued a cat. Some years ago, thedog Mike, attached to Engine 8 in NewYork City, was accorded the-privilege ofhaving his own railway pass, this beinggiven to him for'heroic services rendered.The pass was engraved on a silver platefastened to his collar and, believe it or not,

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matian and I've seen some few in my time,but like most dogs his size, he can give apretty good account of himself if he hasto go to war on his own. While this is notintended as a knock against certain otherbreeds, a nice thing about Mr. Dalmatianis that he doesn't have to be clipped,cropped, docked or altered in any way tosuit the whims of fashion. He's all dog,looks like a dog should—nothing freakishabout him—and comes to his owner justthe way Nature made him. His coatshould he short, hard and fine, never silkyor ragged. When he's groomed, whichisn't necessary very often, a brisk polishing with a soft cloth upon which a fewdrops of olive or mineral oil have beensprinkled, will make him sparkle, deepen

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I've found that, being an intelligentdog, he's not very hard to housebreak. Intruth, he learns to be a gentleman aroundthe house sooner than many other dogs.The standard for his breed states that heshould be between 19 and 20 inches highat the shoulder (where dogs arc alwaysmeasured for height). His weight shouldbe between 35 and 50 pounds. Theserequirements are for both sexes.

For spectacular appearance, the onlyother dog approaching the Dalmatian'scoloration is the harlequin Great Dane.But then he's a giant, albeit a gentle giant,and if you have room for him, a fine quietand powerful guardian to have around.He, too, is a black and white speckled dog,a variety of the Dane family.

Rod and Gun(Continued from page 17)

were marketed commercially. The wholeidea seemed sort of silly to me. Besides,I always was busy with some outdoor activity, anj^vay. This was true even in thewinter when I have to budget my sparetime between crow hunting and steelheador whitefish fishing. Nevertheless, I finallysuccumbed. Herb Carlson and Clare Con-ley and some of the other fellows I knowbought them, and they reported good luckin callingbobcats and coyotes up to withinshootable distance.

My first attempts at calling were notvery successful so far as furred predatorswere concerned, but I soon learned oneinteresting thing: If there is a magpiewithin hearing distance when you blowthe call he will come—right now. If thereare a dozen, or 40, they will all come. Ifyou sit perfectly motionless, they willoften light almost within arm's reach.

I suppose magpies, being primarilyscavengers, hope to pick up the scraps leftby whatever caught the rabbit. Regardlessof their reason for coming, it is perfectlyall right with me. I like to shoot magpies,and this is the only method of callingthem I have ever found.

Hawks occasionally come to the call.So do dogs hunting on their own and strayhouse cats. Coons sometimes come. So,very likely, would a weasel, marten, cougar, or Isear if you happened to blow thecall within his hearing and under the rightcircumstances. I have no doubt that itwould be deadly on lynx in the North,since their diet consists primarily of snow-shoe hares, although I have never heard ofanybody's trying it there. I have blownthe call while watching deer dozens oflimes. They invariably threw up theirheads and looked. Sometimes they resumed feeding and sometimes they ran asthough the devil were after them, eventhough I may have been 400 yards awayand downwind.

The entire subject of calls and callingis a fascinating one, and I suspect thatman's attempts to lure various birds andanimals by this means extend far back

beyond the dawn of recorded history. Ihave heard Eskimo children imitate perfectly the calls of many of the birds thatspend their summers in the North. American sportsmen use a surprising variety ofcalls. In fact, when I stop to total themup, the Trueblood family itself has quitea bunch.

In a box downstairs there are t^vo elkbugles, two duck calls, one goose'call, onecoyote call, three crow calls, and oneAudubon bird call. The last is strictly mywife's idea and is not used with evil intent upon our little feathered friends. Itis surprisingly effective, however, in getting them to reveal themselves to belooked at. In addition, v/e both call quailwithout the aid of any mechanical device.

We use all of our calls and whistlequail more or less regularly. If we livedin the South I'd certainly have a turkeycall of one kind or another, and maybe asquirrel call. If we lived in the Northwe d probably have a moose call. In someareas bucks are called by rattling theirantlers, and there are several mechanicaldeer calls on the market. In fact, I hadone once, but the boys were so fascinatedby the noise it made that they worried itto pieces before I ever had a chance totry it. *

The various calls function in differentways. An elk bugle, for example, issuesthe challenge of a bull elk in rutting s®®*son, and the bulls that come to it are looking for a fight, while a moose call imitatesa cow that is interested in looking for aboy friend.

The most widely used duck calls imitate the invitation of a female mallard tojoin her for food, rest or a social visit.On the other hand, the most effective crowcalling in the summer consists of reproducing the pleading of a young crow indistress. In the winter your crow call maysay, "Come on over boys, I've found thegrub," or, more likely, be an excited invitation to join a battle "against some mutual enemy, such as a hawk or owl.

Most calls, of course, imitate the voice

of the species we are uUenipling to call.Maybe that's why it was so long beforesomebody thought of the now-popularpredator call. It makes no attempt tosound like any of them, but instead issuesthe distress screams of the animal uponwhich they all prey, the rabbit.

Some birds and animals are easy tocall; others are difficult. Also, as we haveall observed, the success of our callingmay vary widely from day to day. Undoubtedly there is a wide variation in theway sounds carry under different atmospheric conditions and in different surroundings.

In my opinion, all of the scavengersand predators are easier to call than gamebirds or animals. This, I think, is becauseihey generally are more intelligent, strangethough that may seem. Curiosity is amark of intelligence, and crows and magpies, coyotes, bobcats and foxes all arecurious to a marked degree. All of themare likely to investigate, albeit with caution, anything out of the ordinary thatthey happen to see or hear.

Their reaction when they discover thatthey have been duped sometimes is ludicrous. I didn't give the first coyote Icalled a chance to learn his error. I shothim before he saw me, and he never knewwhat happened. The second one, however,is still, to the best of my knowledge, hunting mice and rabbits.

(CROSSED ARIDGE, traveling upwind,and just under the crest I sat down with

my back against a clump of bitterbrush. Istarted "squeaking.*' as I call it. and continued for about 15 minutes. Then, concluding that there was nothing withinhearing except tiie four magpies and aStellar jay, which had already come andgone, I started to move on. I had walkedonly a few yards, however, when I saw acoyote break out of tiie timber across thevalley. He was fully 250 yards away, buthe was coming straight toward me in afast lope.

I quickly sat down again and resumedsqueaking. He had a steep hill about 100yards long to climb, hut he got there muchsooner than I thought he could. In fact,I barely had time to draw my gun, cock itand lay it across my lap when I saw him.He was 27 yards away, downwind. Insteadof coming straight to me he had run upthe hill a little to one side—possibly todetermine whether something bigger thanhe had the rabbit.

Apparently, he both smelled and saw

me at the same time, just as he stoppedwith head and shoulders showing abovesome rabbit brush. You should have seen

his face! He made me think of a hungryman silting down before a big steak—ona wired chair and getting a terrific shock.

I didn t even attempt to shoot him. Instead, I laughed out loud. He jumped andturned and seemed to run for several seconds in the same spot, but in a few seconds more he had disappeared around thehill.

His surprise undoubtedly was slight,however, compared to that of a bobcat Ionce called up. Rob Donley and I, cougarhunting along the Middle Fork of theSalmon River, in Idaho, had walked upLittle Loon Creek to the forks. There wetook our packs off and sat down on a log.Rob's two hounds were trotting aroundnearby.

I got my call out and started to squeak.Not more than three or four minutes later,a bobcat came up over the bank, about 30yards away. Holding my squeaker in onehand, I continued to call while I tried tofumble my gun out of my pack with theother. Meanwhile, I whispered to Rob tosit still.

Just as I got the .38 clear, one of thedogs trotted past about halfway betweenus and the cat. It crouched in indecision.There was some brush in front of it and Ihated to shoot for fear a twig would deflect the bullet, but I decided it probablynever would come any closer after seeingthe hound, and it could jump down behind the bank out of sight. I shot, andmissed.

Immediately, we botli jumped up. Robcalled the dogs and put them on its trail,and they gave it a hard run for about amile until it finally plunged into a mazeof cracks and crevices among a jumble ofboulders at the base of a cliff.

After giving up, we built a fire on thespot of bare ground underneath a tree andsat down to enjoy a pot of tea. While theamber brew whs steeping, Rob said. "I llbet that's one bobcat that's wonderingwhat in the hell has come over the rabbitsaround here. He hears one in trouble andcomes to help it out, and look what happens. First, it shot at him. Then it liol-lered and yelled and sicked the dogs onhim. Then he had to run for his life. I'llbet he spreads the word to stay-away fromrabbits in distress!"

Maybe he did, loo. We stayed in thaiarea about a week longer, but I never didsqueak up another cat!

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the All-Star "break" in July the Yankeeshad a handsome 53-25 won-lost recordwhich gave them an 18-game bulge on thewobbly Tigers, who werecozily entrenchedin fifth place. From July through September the Yanks won 44, lost 32: I)etroit hada 48-30 record, a flag-winning pace. Unfortunately, for Detroit, the AmericanLeague doesn't operate on a split season.

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O'Neill, each of whom learned his baseball behind the plate. Cochrane led theTigers to pennants in 1934-35, Baker wasthe flag-winning pilot in 1940, O'Neill in1945.

Tighe succeeded Stanley (Bucky) Harris, a big league manager for 28 of the last33 years who had the stamp of being aneasy-going leader. The new owners quickly declared themselves for a manager with"spirit and aggressiveness."

"When I read that in the papers Iknew I wouldn't be back," said Harris,without rancor. Famed as Washington's"'boy wonder" manager of 1924. Harris isa quiet, genteel type, seldom involved insquabbles with the umpires, seldom critical of his hired hands, seldom given topublic displays of temper. This was easilytranslated into complacency—a bum rap,but the men who put up the record-breaking pile of cash felt a managerial changemight be the very thing for the Tigers,who undeniably have the nucleus of agreat team.

Tighe, who was one of Harris' coacheslast season, said of the 1956 team: "Weshould have finished in the first division."Harris, however, had no apologies. Hepointed out that Harvey Kuenn, the shortstop with the solid bat, was hurt early inthe season; Frank Lary, the 21-game winner, got off to a miserable start and so didthe brilliant Al Kaline.

Harris, now a special assistant to General Manager Joe Cronin of the BostonRed Sox, assays the 1957 Tigers in thismanner:

"Detroit needs a first baseman, anotherstarting pitcher, a catcher and an outfielder," obviously a large hill of goodsin one year, or even two. Harris insiststhere is no catcher on the Tiger payrollcapable of providing the hitting and leadership a flag winner needs.

As the Tigers wound up spring drills inFlorida it was entirely possible that the

first base problem had been solved. "IfRay Boone (a converted third baseman)can't do the job," Tighe told the writer,"I'll put him back on third and use EdRobinson and Earl Torgeson. If Boonecan adjust to the job, I'll put Jim Finiganon third base. ' Robinson, acquired fromKansas City, is a sluggish 37, but he givesthe Tigers a dangerous left-handed pinch-hitter and reliable reserve.

"I'd really like to use Kuenn at third,"Tighe confided, "but I haven't got a shortstop." Kuenn, of course, is a standout bigleaguer at 26; if he has a weakness it isin being a bit slow as the middle man onthe double play. But Kuenn and youngFrank Boiling give the Tigers much betterthan average coverage through the middle.

Manager Tighe will rely on Bob (Red)Wilson, a former football star at Wisconsin, and Frank (Pig) House, the §75,000bonus baby of 1948. to give him adequatecatching. He can hardly expect more.House and Wilson hit a total of 17 homeruns last season.

Kaline, of course, is the Detroit star ofstars; he easily ranks next to MickeyMantle in the American League's currentroll call of heroes. Kaline is just as important to Detroit as Mantle is to theYankees, if not more so. A batting champat 20 in 1955, Kaline had 128 runs-batted-in in 1956. only two less lhan Mantle.Kaline and Kuenn supplied the one-twopunch that tortured rival pitchers lastSeptember when the Tigers won 20 of 27games. Unexpected help came, too. fromCharlie Maxwell, an ex-Boston bench-rider who suddenly blossomed at 30.Maxwell hit .326. collected 28 home runsand 87 RBI s. All of which leaves BillTuttle as the real worry of the outfield.He had a horrible time of it in 1956. sliding from .279 Lo .253 but the Tiger brassfeels certain this 28-year.old will do muchbetter this summer. If he doesn't he willbe in the dugout watching 20-ycar-old Jim

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Small, wlio halted .319 in 91 at-bals lastseason, roam the outftelcl.

It is entirely within the realm of possi-bilily lhat the infield, outfield and catching can be good enough. Harris nolwith-standing, but Skipper Tiglie must find afourth starting pitcher if the Tigers are toleapfrog the Indians, White Sox and RedSox. Tiiree young fellows came with arush last sca?on—Billy Hoeft, 25; Frank"Lary, 26, and Paul Foytack, 27; they won56 of Detroit's 82 victories and there isno apparent reason why they can't do aswell or better. Tighe can count on SteveCromek, the "old man"' of the staff, for10 victories or so. mostly before the mid-season sun wills him: otherwise, the ac-cont is on youth. OfT-srason trades sentVirgil Trucks and Ned Carver to KansasCity, which means reinforcements mustcome from untried youngsters.

All through the pre-season exhibitionsTighe put the pressure on Duanc Maas,26-year-old speedhaller: Jim Running. 25,who has been up twice before; HalWoodeschick, 24, who had a 12-5 recordin Iriple-A play, and Don Lee, 23-year-oldsouthpaw who learned to pitch from hisdad, Thornton Lee, ex-White Sox star.

"1 expect one of those four to be myfourth starter," Tighe said. "The job isthere for the man who can win it."

Tighe is also taking a long look atLarry Donovan, a 23-year-old righthanderup from RufTalo; Joe Presko, an ex-Cardinal; Bob Miller, a bonus signee fromChicago who is only 21: and Al Aber. the30-ycar-old southpaw who headed the bullpen corps a year ago.

The pitching is not impressive, on paper, once you get beyond Lary (21-13),Hoeft (20-14) and Foytack (15-13), butwhen you consider the strange case ofLary you know anything ran happen evenin big league baseball. Lary won moregames than any pitcher in the league, yetthere were times when Harris had a greaturge to send, him back to his native Alabama.

'"We had no pitching depth," recalledHarris. "Otherwise, Frank would havebeen in the bullpen. I didn't have anyonewho could do better, so I just kept pitching him. His big fault was in gettingbehind the hitters.

"But Frank has the heart. The way hewas pitching in September he could win25 or 30 just as well as 21. Frank nevergives up on a baiter. The best hitter mayhave him 3-and-O with ihe bases loadedbut Frank will be trying on every pitch.You know, around Detroit ihey comparehim to Tommy Bridges (great curve baileroE the 30's), but Frank might be even better than Bridges in a few years."

Lary had a messy 4-10 record in earlyJuly, a 17-3 record the rest of the wayand he defeated the Yankees five times.Much has been written about Lary and hisknuckler, possibly too much if you listento some of Lary's victims.

"The knuckler didn't have much to do

with Lary's good record," said a rivalmanager. "Oh, it helped some but the fact

remains that Lary had excellent equipment all the time—a fine curve, sneakyfast ball, slider and exceptional fight. Hebegan winning when he quit getting behind the hitters."

Lary should be the bell cow of thishastily-rebuilt Detroit team. Like Mantle.Herb Score and many others, Lary wasprepared for stardom from the time hewas a grammar school hoy. Once you getbehind his veneer of reticence you discover that Lary comes from a colorfultribe of Alabama Larys. He is one of sixbrothers wlio learned the rudiments ofbaseball from their father, J. M. (Mr.Milt) Lary.

Al iheir home in Norlhport—five milesfrom the University of Alabama campus—there was. and still is, a pitcher's moundand home plate in the front yard. Mr.Mitt would sit in a rocker on the frontporch and coach his sons in the art ofpitching. The Larys lived for sports andmusic. All of them can play two or threemusical instruments, including the fiddle,or violin; two brothers starred in footballat Alabama. Frank and Gene, the babyof the family, bypassed football-for baseball. Gene won 19 games for Mobile lastseason, earning a full-scale tryout thisspring with the Cleveland Indians. Heappears headed for the baseball jackpotjust like Frank.

Thus, any analysis of the Tigers reveals as tremendous assets three strong

pitchers, a great shortstop, a brilliant outfielder. youth all over ihe place and a frontoffice that demands action. Tighe could bethe man to drive tlie young fellows, cajoletheir ciders and get the maximum out ofall hands. He has done it before in th<'long pull—four years as a non-hittinghush leaguer. 12 yfars as a minor leaguemanager, one year as a scout, three yearsas a Detroit coach.

Heeding Jack Zeller's advice in 1940.Tighe got a Class D managerial assignment that same season. He is a veteranof the bus and baloney circuit, managingal Muskegon. Mich.. Winston-Salem, N. C-Ratavia, Y., Flint, Mich., Toledo andBuffalo.

After getting the Detroit job last October Tighe put in a long distance call forhis mother in New Jersey.

"Hello, Mom," he said. "This is Jack.I got the job."

"That's fine, son; how much will youmake?"

"About S5.000 less than Stengel." hequipped, referring to Casey's new contracifor about S75.000.

"Son, don't ask for too much; theymight give the job to somebody else.You've waited loo long for this chance tolet il slip now."

Tighe is a chunky type, only 5-9; he hassmall, penetrating eyes and the jutting jawthat indicates the tenacious fighter he is.He talks easily and frankly with thenewspapermen. He'll be good copy, buthe knows when to use the muffler. Tlierewas the time late in 1953 when Tighe,

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then the manager al Buffalo, fell out withJoe Ziegler, the general manager. Jackwas on the verge of resigning with a bigblast at Ziegler. One of the Detroit scoutsadvised against it. Jack accepted thecounsel and thereby saved his future withthe parent club.

Tighe can be pretty rough on umpires,too. In that same season of 1953 he hadan historic run-in with Max Felerski ofthe International League. Tighe was accused of spitting in Felerski's face, acharge serious enough to put him out ofbaseball. Buffalo friends rushed to offerhim legal assistance. Tighe refused it.Instead, he offered to take a lie detectortest, never before or since used to settlea baseball argument.

"Unless I'm cleared that's the end ofme in baseball," says Tighe. The Buffalopolice department ran the test on Tighe'sveracity. He was absolved. PresidentFrank Shaughnessy accepted the report,but suspended the manager for three daysand fined him SIOO. "That was for popping off in the newspapers about thecase," explains Tighe. "I shouldn't havedone that."

In the minors Tighe built an excellentreputation for his attention to detail, especially in the handling of pitchers. Acase in point was Dick Marlowe's no-hittera few years ago. As the game endedBuffalo teammates swarmed the pitcherand began pounding him on the back.

"Wait a minute," said Marlowe. "Jackhad a lot to do with it. He found what Iwas doing wrong. He noticed my footwasn't coming down in the same place asI delivered the ball. So Jack watched thefoot while I pitched. I was so wrappedup in his coaching from the dugout thatI didn't know I had a no-hitter until theninth."

One Buffalo newspaperman, having ob

served Tighe as a triple-A manager fortwo seasons, said, "We've had some finemanagers around here . . . Paul Richards,Bucky Harris, Gabby Hartnett and RaySchalk, but none of them, in my book,measures up to Tighe in handling pitchers.

Detroit considered Tighe a better-than-fair catching prospect when Billy Doylesigned him in 1935, but- two years atCharleston, then two more at Beaumontin the Texas League (where he batted .220one season) convinced the brass thatTighe would never hit. Then it was thatZeller converted Tighe into player-manager at Muskegon.

Illness put him out of uniform in themiddle of the 1942 season. When he recovered he was made bullpen catcher atBriggs Stadium. He worked in a defenseplant in 1943, joining the Cleveland organization in 1944 for four years, winningpennants at Batavia in 1945-46.

"Cleveland treated me very well,"Tighe now says, "but Wish Egan (wellknown Detroit scout who died a fewyears ago) asked me to come back intothe organization. I managed Flint in theCentral League in 1948 (and won a pennant) and the next year they sent me ayoung fellow named Frank House," the§75,000 bonus catcher now with theTigers.

"The old guys on the club called himMoneybags," Tighe recalled, "but Housewas a fine boy. He soon won them over."

House is one of 13 Detroit players whoplayed for Tighe in the minors, whichhelps to explain why he was selected forthe big job. Nevertheless, the new ownerswere expected to pluck a so-called"name," someone with a solid managerialreputation in the majors.

It was common knowledge that Harriswould not be retained as far back as July

DEVOTED SCRANTON, PA., ELK AND CIVIC LEADER DIESConrad was in his second year as Commissioner, an office to which he was electedfollowing his resignation as Scranton Postmaster after 21 years of service.

At 30, Mr. Conrad had been the youngest Scranton Elk to hold the office ofExalted Ruler, and in 1918, three yearslater, he assumed house managership ofthe Scranton Lodge home. Later he servedas District Deputy for Northeast Pennsylvania.

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when Spike Briggs, then the president andnow the general manager, publicly criticized Harris and also the coaches, JoeGordon, Billy Hitchcock and Tighe. Gordon quit on the spot. Hitchcock and Tighesuffered in silence. The novice owners,after buying the club from the Briggsestate, had no idea who should managethe club. They left that to Briggs andJohn McHale, now the director of playerpersonnel.

"It was Tighe all the way," McHaletold me. "Lots of fellows know baseball,but Tighe also knows how to handle men."

Tighe himself knew nothing of thesediscussions until he was called to Detroitlast October 12. Five days later he gotthe assignment at about S25,000 a year.Tighe himself figures to benefit handsomely from the new spirit in the firm, a contrast to the "stand pat" policy of theBriggs family. The late Walter 0. Briggsfondled the team like a toy. Hewealthy enough to do .so; he enjoyed being the owner of a big league team. Hepaid fancy wages, maybe too high toattain the best results, and was alwaysreluctant to trade good players.

The TIGERS of the '30's always weredangerous, often a contender. In 1934,

Mickey Cochrane led a brilliant team toDetroit's first pennant since 1909 andthese stars—Charley Gehringer, HankGreenberg, Tom Bridges, Schoolboy Rowe.to name a few—repeated in 1935. OwnerBriggs was content to let most of his veterans die on the baseball vine rather thantrade for younger men. And even whenhe made a profit, which was often, heplowed the cash back into stadium improvements, bonus payments, the farmsystem and such.

The paternal approach died with Briggs-His heirs—Spike and four daughters—had no inclination to operate the clubalong this pattern. The daughters, in fact,preferred cash rather than a "piece" ofanything so hazardous as a baseball club.Thus, the Tigers, who need 1.000,000 cashcustomers to break even any year, weresold with Spike Briggs staying on to runthe show. His top aides are McHale, whomay eventually move into the lop job.and Herold (Muddy) Ruel, the assistantto the president.

They are answerable "only" to the11-man syndicate and the board of directors, headed by John E. Fetzer, owner ofseveral Michigan radio stations who supposedly has 83,000,000 of his own moneyin the club, and President Fred A. Knorrradio, television and insurance executivewhose idea it was to make an offer for theTigers.

While they are waiting for Tighe to deliver on the field the front office isn't wasting any time. The TV-radio fee wasboosted from $375,000 to $450,000, theprice of box seats was raised to three dollars, the night game schedule increased to21 (Detroit was the last American Leaguecity to install lights), and the management is pushing package ticket deals in

dozens of towns within range of Detroit.The first-year goal of ihe new regime is

two-fold: (1) Second place and (2) 1,500,-000 cash customers. Tf the Tigers achievetlie first the second is certain.

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A grateful republic should issue aspecial stamp, or something, to commemorate John A. Overholt's rare devotion toduty beyond tlie call of self-interest. Thisdefiescredulity, but Overboil recommendedihe abolishment of his S12,000-a-year jobin the Performance Rating Section. He gota ^5275 bonus for the adopted suggestionand, we're happy to report, a transfer tothe Civil Service Commission's planningstair.

If you've ever been irritated by a cocksure "expert" who {jrofesses to know allthe answers, you'll get a kick out of anincident that popped up two years agoin the Cleveland plant of Thompson Products, Inc., manufacturers of aircraft parts.The company's big brass and technicalspecialists were going crazy trying to reduce the fraying of belts on higli-speedmachines that polished blades for jetengines. Replacing as many as 52 belts aday on one machine was costing Thompson§43,000 and experts were getting no placefast until Mrs. Kmma Gabor, a machineoperator, applied her curly head to theproblem.

As every husband knows, nail polishserves other purposes besides beautifyingthe claws of our fine feathered friends. Forone thing, it slops runs in nylon stockings.Mrs. Gabor wondered whether il would dothe trick on those perishable maciiine beltsthat had to be changed every time sheturned around. She dabbed a little lacqueron the edge of a belt and, by George, itworked. Mrs. Gabor received S6,592, thelargest bonus ever paid to a woman up tothat time, for her down-to-earlh solution ofa tough nut that had slumped the masterminds in the research department. Thatfigure w^as topped last year wiien Mrs.Veronica Hartnett was given 85,575 and28 shares of slock in Swift & Co., a totalhaul worth $7,200, for an improved methodof selecting and processing beef livers.

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government. Since then the Peiping regime,abetted by the Soviets, has been unceasingin its efforts to obtain U. N. recognition,and this month's excerpt of '̂Freedom'sFacts" for that reason is particularlytimely. "Freedom's Facts" is a bulletinpublished monthly by the All-AmericanConference to Combat Communism, ofwhich the BPOE is a member.

If we open our morning newspaper oneday and read that Red China has beenvoted a seat in the U. N., we can credit theevent to a subtle propaganda campaignlaunched recently by the undeviating Redsin Peiping,

Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai hitthe theme of the program in a speech inMoscow on January 17 when he said: "Weare resolutely in favor of peaceful coexistence of countries with different socialsystems . . . We firmly favor settling all

no accident of history that it was notwidely adopted until the American tradition of freedom of opportunity was firmlyestablished. The Doges of Venice, themost enlightened rulers of that age, cutslits in the walls of their palaces to enablecitizens to register complaints againstoppressive laws and discriminatory decisions handed down by the courts. Thedemocratic concept of the public's right toprotest injustice was abused, however, bypeople who wrote anonjTnous lettersaccusing enemies of trumped-up crimes.The whole thing degenerated into such apoisen-pen racket that it was abandonedbut even if it had worked it would havebeen repressed eventually by the Europeancaste system founded on birth and wealth

The first suggestion box, as we know ittoday, was introduced bythe National CashRegister Company in 1894, but the principle behind it had been flourishing in thiscountry for a century. The self-made man,a phenomenon peculiar to America, alwayshas been prominent in our business, cultural and political affairs because our heritage is opposed to artificial barriers thatstifle individual initiative. One thread runsthrough practically every success storj^-. Atsome point in his career a bright, youngfellow attracted attention with a provocative idea that marked him as a comer andwas his springboard to the head of theparade.

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international differences by peaceful negotiations."

This surface show of peacefulness isespecially dramatic in respect to Formosa.

In January 1955 Red Chinese wereattacking the U. S. and its "Mutual Defense Treaty with the traitor Chiang Kai-shek," and a "Liberation" army was beingprepared for the forcible capture of Formosa.

Within the past few months, however,theRedChinese Premierhas called Chiang"an old friend" who could have a hifiihpost in Red China if a settlement of theFormosa question could be reached.

Along the same vein, Radio Peiping onFebruary 19 reported that a group offormer Nationalist Chinese officials hadbeen formed into a "Working Committeefor the Peaceful Liberation of Taiwan(Formosa)." Theirpurpose: to renegotiate

with the Nationalist Chinese for control ofthe island.

Behind this surface show of peacefulness, however, Red Chinese strategists areplotting to boost Red China into a seat inthe U. N.

The recent East European and Asiantours of Chou En-lai are a part of a driveto build up Red China's prestige. "Komso-molskaya Pravda" pointed out in a January 9 editorial that, "The number ofcountries maintaining friendly ties withPeople's China is growing. Thirty-three

corporations today worked their way upthrough the ranks by proposing bettermanufacturing or merchandising methodsthan competitors were using. If they wererebuffed by stick-in-the-mud bosses, theywere able to find people who hadsufficientimagination to give them financial backing.In the free enterprise system, good ideasare scouted as intensively as a .350 hitterin a bush league. It^s highly improbableeither will be lost in the shuffle.

The National Cash Register Company'spolicy of encouraging suggestions from em-ployees was copied in 1898 by EastmanKodak. Light years later General Electricand Consolidated Edison fell in line, andit s significant those four companies stillare the leaders in their respective fields.Other budding corporations, notably General Motors and Firestone, latched onto thesuggestion box, but thefactory worker waspushed into the background in the 1920s bythe research scientist, the new pin-up boy

in ustry, who was strong on theory butweak on practical experience.

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OSS o drop dead or advising him thatmora e could be raised by adding dancingprls to the payroll. Few workers botheredto submit ideas. Management was notinterested in them and those that were

states with a population of over one billionhave already recognized the Chinese People's Republic."

Recognition, world prestige, and professions of peacefulness are keystones in theRed Chinese drive to obtain a seat in theU. N. Red propagandists have been stressing the "growing international prestige"of Red China for the past six montiiis.Chou's travels abroad increase that prestige still further and encourage morenations to establish diplomatic relationswith Red China.

Why do anti-Communists oppose a U. N.seat for Red China? Aside from the question of principle involved—the fact thatRed China has not purged itself of itsaggression in Korea and is therefore notqualified for membership under the charter—there is the practical reality that theadmission of Red China to the U. N. wouldopen the door to the further spread ofCommunism in Asia on the one hand and,on the other, would place Red Chinaon the U. N. Security Council and in numerous U. N. agencies where they wouldbe in ideal positions to promote RedChina s plans for Asian conquest.

These are the real aims of the RedChinese peace talk today. Those fightingto strengthen the free world will exposeRed Chinese aims and tactics and continueto frustrate her efforts to sain a scat inthe U. N.

adopted brought piddling bonuses of tenor twenty dollars.

All that was changed abruptly by WorldWar II, when manpower and materialshortages put a high premium on improvisation. Business forced to look for shortcuts to problems never encountered beforefound many of the solutions in the skillsand know-how of veteran employees on theproduction line. The neglected suggest'O"box suddenly became a priceless asset andprogressive executives recognized itoffering more attractive incentives for ideas.The old token bonus that amounted to onlya day's pay was boosted to three figures,then was multiplied several times againuntil workers were given the opportunityto earn the equivalent of a full yearssalary. That did it. That stimulated anavalanche of ideas.

One indication of the mounting trend tosuggestion boxes is the growth of thenational association which promotes suchprograms. In 1942 the association waslaunched with twelve members in theChicago area. Today it has 1,200 membersand the list is expanding at the rate of10 per cent annually.

The suggestion box now is somethingmore than a gimmick handled by a secretary in her spare time. Nearly half theorganizations in the national associationmaintain full-time departments that workon suggestion programs exclusively. TheIllinois Central Railroad has 25 men who

dream up publicity campaigns within thecompany for wider participation by employees, evaluate ideas submitted and testthem in the field under working conditions.In many companies, the suggestion department is regarded as important as theresearch division for the development ofnew products and better manufacturingmethods.

Substantial bonuses are a great help, ofcourse, but they are not the secret of asuccessful suggestion program. "Top management must give it full support all theway down the line," says Gordon E. Wash-burn, suggestion administrator of AbbottLaboratories in Chicago. "Employees areconvinced their efforts are appreciatedwhen they see the big brass lake an activepart in the program. The chairman of ourboard, James F. Styles, Jr., personallygives awards every two weeks and he makesthe presentations in the winners' departments instead of putting the bonuses intheirpay envelope with a perfunctory noteof thanks. Mr. Styles says it's the mostenjoyable function he performs, and hisattitude is communicated to the workers.

"Every idea submitted must be givencareful consideration, no matter how crazyor impractical is appears to be. If a mantakes the trouble to write it down, it isn'ttrivial to him. When we reject a suggestion,we don't do it by a form letter. Someone

a position of authority personally tellsthe man why it was not adopted. Sure, itconsumes a lot of time, but it pays olf inthe •long run. In discussing an idea, weoften find that a man who doesn't expresshimself well in writing often gives a clearerexplanation of his suggestion in a face-to-face conversation. Many ideas that lookedunpromising on paper have been saved inthat fashion."

General Electric recently celebrated thegolden anniversary of its suggestion program by installingin its Schenectady, N.Y.plant a gadget called "the golden ear"which eliminates struggling with writtenwords, a difficulty that inhibits a self-conscious worker whose formal educationhas been sketchy. He simply steps on atreadle that activates a tape recorder andtalks into the ear.

The small businessman who cannotafford an elaborate set-up doesn't need it toreap the benefits of a suggestion system. Infact, the simplest programs pay the highestdividends. Whenever the suggestion boxis a dud, it is found that employees are soconfused by forms cluttered up with legalgobbledygook that they don't bother toread further. Firms employing as few asfifteen people have obtained excellentresults by encouraging suggestions throughpersonal contact. One man who runs awelding shop hit upon the ingeniousscheme of treating his eleven workers tocoffee and cake one afternoon a week.While the boys sat around shooting thebreeze he discussed their work and in thecourse of one month drew ideas from eightof them, a degree of participation neverapproached in large corporations.

The big trick in operating a suggestion

system is overconiing the average worker'sdiffidence and getting him to make his firstrecommendation. Once the ice is broken,he may turn out to be another WalterMillen, a die setter at WestinghouseElectric's plant in East Pittsburgh, Pa.Millen worked at Westinghouse for fourteen years before he sent in his first suggestion in 1954. An award of S134.50prompted Millen to submit 109 ideas in thenext year, and he cashed in on 75 for atotal haul of $2,000. Another heavy hitterin the suggestion league is PatrickFogarty, a tool-crib attendant at ClevelandGraphite. At the last count Fogarty had'clicked on 26 out of 57 ideas. The all-time endurance champ is John F. Carlsen,of Irwin, Pa., who has had 312 ideas accepted in 43 years. Carlsen never hasmadea big killing—his bonuses add up to about84,000—but he's still in there thinking andhoping to hit the jackpot as Ray A. Ham-merstrom did.

Hammerstrom, a mill worker, collected815,000 two years ago from the Jones &Laughlin Steel Corporation, and hedeserved every penny of it. He designed aswitching mechanism that saved a $19,-000,000 investment in a-new bar mill. Thismay come as a great surprise to FelixChristiansen, a production mechanic atthe American Can Company, but he established a new literary higha year ago whenhe was awarded S10,000 for a 21-wordsentence: "Use a pre-bead process on theSlaysman slitter, whereby each individualstrip will come out an efficient, easily-usedproduct." That breaks down to $476 aword, a rate never achieved even by GeorgeBernard Shaw, the wealthiest author ofmodern times.

IN A FAST-CHANGING WORLD whereI new inventions are obsolescent whilethey still are on blueprints, businessmenwho have kept pace with our expandingeconomy have learned to mine the gold insuggestionboxes. Good ideas, like gold, arewhere you find them—sometimes in themost unexpected places. Until a few monthsago the office routine in the Chicago headquarters of the National Association ofSuggestion Systems was disrupted everyfew days by part-time clerks who werebrought in to billmembers for dues on thedate of joining the association.

"This is a silly set-up," a girl fresh outof high school remarked to Betty Cronen-worth, the office manager. "Why don't youput yourmembers on a calendaryear basis?Then you can bill them at the same timeand save a lot of mOney."

Miss Cronenworth clapped a hand toher pretty brow and retired in confusionto her desk. "I felt like an awful dope,'she confesses. "There I was, sending outbulletins to our members urging them tokeep their eyes open for more efficientmethods and a girl with no business experience at all showed me I was using asystem older than the hills."

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KSHOPEasily Made Birdhouses for Contented Tenants.

BY HARRY WALTON

WATCHING acouple of birds set uphousekeeping and raise their young

can be the reward for pulling up a bird-house, as the family on The Elks Magazine cover this month are doing. Theircheerful songs, their busy goings and comings, make birds appealing to almost everyone. As a practical bonus, birds keep downthe insect population around a house.

The more desirable birds often needencouragement against starlings and English sparrows. These multiply fast, takingover all too many natural nesting sites.Putting up an easily built birdhouse or twomay induce bluebirds, wrens, robins orothers to make their home with you.

Although houses should be put out asearly as April, it is not too late to try fortenants this season. Wrens and robins nestseveral times a year. Of course the sooneryou put up a house, the belter the chancesthat il will be occupied.

Birds Cannot Be Crowded. Theyneed room to find enough food, and com-pelilion is especially keen between those ofthe same species. One or two houses areenough for an ordinary home lot. Moremay only discourage home-hunting birdsIf your land is big enough for severalhouses, space them well apart.

Identify your birds -first, so as to buildhouses to suit them. Some are fussy. Ifyou don't know birds, you might ask aneighbor, a scoutmaster, or the biology

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Fancy houses with miniature fences,trees, and gingerbread trimming are forpeople—not for the birds. Also undesir-ab e are oversize houses, square entranceholes and houses made of tin cans or withmetal roofs, which overheat badly. Freshpaint may discourage some birds, so homes

unpainted.Make ThemofWood. Slab wood withthe bark on. old boards from fences or

buildings and even box wood is suitable.It should be about an inch thick; slabwood may vary up to 2". New wood shouldbe rough .nsiead of planed, especially onthe ms.de ot the house, to help fledglingsclimb to the entrance. If you do usesmooth wood, you can nail a few thincleats mside to give young birds afoothold.

Ihe size of the entrance is important:to some extent it governs what species willtake possession, and keeps out undesirables.1 should be well above the floor, for birdslike privacy when nesting. Some meansof cleaning out old nests for future occupants must be provided. Perches, on theother hand, are unnecessary and even tendto encourage bird enemies.

A bird may hesitate to enter becausehis body in the entrance hole blocks outall light from the house. A few smallholes near the roof prevent this and provide much-needed air. Without ventilation,

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young birds may die from the heal. Drillsuch vent holes at an upward angle to keepout rain.

Let the house sides overlap the floor,rather than the floor the sides. This willkeep water out of the joint. Glued jointsare not necessary; parts need only benailed together.

A Simple Box House. This will temptwrens if made with a IM'' ^The latter makes it easier for birds to carryin nesting materials. Made of slab wood,the same house might attract a chickadee,nuthatch or titmouse, although these taketo man-made nesting sites less readily thanwrens (Figure 1).

The bottom and sides are 4" wide. Makethe front twice the stock thickness widerso that it overlaps the sides. Bore or jigsaw the hole or slot in the front; then nailthe bottom, one side and front to the back.Hold the roof in place to nail the upp®^cleat to the back. Then locate the second

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To prevent high winds from liftingthe roof, drill a hole through one housewall into the innercleat and push a nail in-

A Ranch Style House is shown inFigure 2. This too is for wrens, and welladapted to pole mounting. Bore the entrance hcfle before you cut the front to size;this will lessen the risk of splitting. Makeone bottom piece 4" wide, and the otherwider than this by the thickness of thefirst. Drill vent holes near the upper edgesof both pieces.

Make one top piece wider than theother to overlap it. To rainproof this joint,either use a water-resistant glue or creasea strip of composition shingle or roofingpaper and tack it along the roof ridge. Nailt^vo small blocks into the roof peak wherethey will bear against the house ends, andadd two hooks and eyes to lock the roofin place, one on each side.

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Bluebirds in the Garden call for aliouse wiih a 5" by 5" floor, about 8" deep.Change tlie depth to 6" and cut ihe en-irance liole a couplc of inches lower forviolet-green and tree swallows.

You can build the house shown in Figure] to these dimensions, or make the morepicturesque one in Figure 3. Bevel twoedges of the bottom and one of each sideand roof piece with a plane or rasp as required to make good joints. Shape thefront, cut out the entrance, and saw thispi^e apartatan angle.

Nail a cleat behind the high corner ofthe resulting bevel on the lower piece. Nailthis piece between the sides. Fit the largerfront piece above it and nail t^vo cleatsunder the roof and one to each side toretain it. Attach a flat brass hook or aturn button to secure the removable pieceat the bottom. This Ieaves it removablefor inspection or cleaning.

Robins Won't Nest inside four walls.An open siieif, mounted under the shelterof house eaves, is more to their liking(Figure 4). Such a nesting site is alsotempting to phoebes, or may attract barnswallows, catbirds or brown thrashers.

The back and roof are optional, but desirable if the shelf is to be mounted in ashelterless location. Cleats around theedges help hold the nest in. Drill a fewholes in the floor to let water drain out.

Woodpeckers Are Rustics. Theyusually make their own nesting holes, butmay be tempted by a natural-looking bird-house. Tlie one in Figure 5 is made of apiece of hollow log, roofed withslab wood.A cavity 4" in diameter will suit the smalldowny woodpecker. For othervarities andfor flickers (which are also woodpeckers)the house will have to be 6" or 7" in diameter, with a 2" or21/2" entrance hole.

Finishes For Birdhouses. Slab woodrequires no finish at all. If houses arepainted, it should be in dull browns, graysor greens. Oil stains,which soak in withoutcoating the wood,are easy to use and pleasing in elfect. Houses that must be mountedin hot, sunny spots may be painted white toreflect some heat.

Partial sunlight is preferable, but do notpickshady spots. Face birdhouse entrancesaway from prevailing winds. If you mounta house in a tree, do not hide it in thefoliage. Fasten it lower down on tiie trunk,

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where it may be seen readily. Trees areeasily climbed by cats and squirrels, so itis well to protect the nest by wrapping awide collar of smooth sheet metal around*the trunk, well above the height such ananimal might reach by jumping.

Nests are safest from bird enemies on thewall of a building. For some of the wilderbirds, which will not tolerate living so closeto humans, houses on posts are a goodcompromise.

They need not be unreasonably high,and should never be beyond easy reachfrom a ladder, for old nests must be cleanedout before a new couple will move in.Locations within reach of a man standingon the ground are usually satisfactory.Bluebirds will even nest in boxes atopfence posts.

Don't Furnish the Nest. Birds preferto carry in their own materials. If you putanything in the house, most birds will assume it is already occupied, and go elsewhere. For woodpeckers, however, it issafe to put in a handful of wood chips orshavings.

The houses shown in Frgures2 and 3 are•readily opened for looking into the nest.Thrilling as this is, it should be done onlyrarely, and never while the owners of thenest are about.

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When you haveto cut wedges orrip tapered members, it is easierand safer to use a

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Select t^vo piecesof absolutely straight stock about thickand 1" to 2" wide (plywood is a goodchoice). Cut them to equal length—about15" for short work, 24" for long cuts.

Nail a %" thick block to the edge ofone piece at one end. Place both piecestogether and mark them 12" from theother end. Then join them with anotherblock so that they touch at this end, usingone nail in each.

Woodworking tapers are commonlygiven as fractions of an inch per foot.Measure the required fraction across the

12" marks and nail a second block acrossthe open end of the jig to hold the twopieces this distance apart. Set the ripfence on the saw to rip the work to therequired width.

If pieces are to be tapered on bothsides, rip one side of all of them first.Then pry off the rear block and reset thejig to cut the other tapered side. Be careful not to cut into the nails in the stopblock.—Harry Walton.

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ELK MEMBERSHIP

It is to be assumed, of course, thatall Elks read in The Elks Magazinethe monthly messages of the GrandExalted Ruler.

We suggest that no one fail to readGrand Exalted Ruler Bohn s messagein this issue, particularly his refer

ence to the fact that if the Order kept on its membershiplist all who are initiated we would be gaining in membership at the rate of 75,000per year instead of between25,000 and 30,000.

There are many reasons for this loss of membership.Grand Exalted Ruler James during his administration

conducted a survey through his District Deputies, withthe cooperation of The Elks Magazine and the PublicRelations Department of the Order, to determine thecause of so many initiate'd into the Order failing to.maintain their membership.

The survey was very enlightening in many respects.The outstanding revealment was the fact that the largestpercentage of those who dropped or were dropped fromthe rolls were those who had moved away from the jurisdiction of the lodge into which they had been initiated.

He who can perfect a system of contact in respect tosuch Brothers designed to bring them back into theOrder will find it possible to reduce materially the defection and increase accordingly the annual membershipgains now enjoyed.

TITOISM

So much has been said and written (to a considerable extentby menin public ofiBce) against the grantingof aid to Yugoslavia that there comesto one as a surprise evidence of a different sentiment existing at the grassroots.

It develops that a member of the United States Congress, upon sending a questionnaire to 17,000 of his constituents treating of various subjects, had replies from4,800 and the replies showed more than a two to onepreference for continued aid to Yugoslavia.

Naturally, tlie principal objection to aid is that Titois a Communist and that his country is Communist.

It would appear probable that the majority of thosewho replied to the Congressman's questionnaire werecognizant of those facts but still favored aid.

Perhaps they drew a distinction between a communism like that of the Union ofSoviet Socialist RepubUcsand the National Socialism of Yugoslavia.

May we not assume that they feel we have much tofear from the activities of the former—its determinationsto force thewhole world to accept its ideology, attempting to accomplish its purpose by stealth, by murder, bywar and in violation of all the laws of God and, indeed,with the denial of the existence of God.

Perhaps those who favored aid to Tito make a properdistinction between such a communistic program andthat of a nation or a leader who is willing to keep com-

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munism at home and let the rest of the world follow inpeace its own ideologies.

May it not be that they are also drawing a line between those who have no God, accept no God-givenstandards of life and the people of a country in whichall rehgions are recognized and enjoy equal rights?

There is also the possibility that some of the Congress-mans replying constituents may have had practicalminds and felt that Tito, taken care of, could continue tokeep his country a strong obstacle to the attempt ofKremlin Communists to subdue and conquer the freeworld.

ELKS HOSPITALITY

Probably there are members of nonational organization in the countrymore generally hospitable than themembers of the nearly 1,800 lodgesof the Order of Elks.

Our members have such a goodrecord in that respect that when fail

ures occur they stand out like the proverbial sore thumb.Recently there came to our attention the case of a

Past Exalted Ruler who moved to a new location inthe jurisdiction of another lodge.

The complaint was made that when he visited thelodge where his new home was located no one paid anyattention to him and whenhe was taken ill and the localodge was told of his illness no one came to call.

Usually these neglects result from the idea that everyone has that someone else has taken care of the situation—that George should do it.

Might it not be a good idea for each of us under suchconditions to think of each one of these situations as ourpersonal responsibility and contribute to making ourOrder's reputation for hospitality not only good butperfect.

We have long thought it a good idea for the officers ofa lodge and the members of the House Committee to sodivide the reception responsibility as to provide thatduring all the open hours of the Club House someone isthere having the responsibility of seeing that visitingElks are received in the spirit of true fraternity.

REMEMBRANCES APPRECIATED

A resident in the Elks National Home advises thatsince he has been in the Home he has obligated himselfto scribble a line or two to every sick Brother of whomhe has heard, personal acquaintance or distance notregarded.

He states that he writes these sick people with noexpectation or wish for a reply; that he just wants themto know that he is thinking of them.

Already he has some 500 return reply letters, whichshows that people do appreciate remembrances of thischaracter. je • i •

Recently we heard of an important public official in anearby city who was in the hospital with a not severeailment but one that his physician felt could best behandled if he was not allowed to have visitors or telephone calls.

The patient, who places a high value on his friendships, allowed it to become known that while he couldnot receive visitors he would very much appreciate postcard messages of which, of course, he received a bountiful supx^ly.

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