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PPF 9
PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL FILE
Gifts [Y]
June 1942
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ated. The President's sincerest thanks for
your prayerful wishes and generous expression
of commendation go to you with this little
note.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE 0. TULLY
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Mrs. May Bolen,
4244 Forley Street,
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ated. The President's sincerest thanks for
your prayerful wishes and generous expression
of commendation go to you with this little
note.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE 0. TULLY
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Mrs. May Bolen,
4244 Forley Street,
cap
Elmhurst, Long Island,
New York.
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June 3, 1942
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My dear Mrs. Bolen:
The fine spirit which prompted
your letter of May thirty-first, with the
enclosed holy medal, is indeed much appreci-
ated. The President's sincerest thanks for
your prayerful wishes and generous expression
of commendation go to you with this little
note.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE 0. TULLY
X
Mrs. May Bolen,
4244 Forley Street,
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so much for your spiritual thought of them.
It was indeed kind of you.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
P. W. Davis, Esq.,
Homestead, 333 West 15th Avenue,
Pennsylvania.
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SPIRITUAL BENEFITS
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many Novenas of Masses offered at Mary's Central
630 MASSES DURING THE YEAR, including
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Shrine, Germantown; Queen of the Miraculous Medal
Shrines of Mary.
Community Chapel, Germantown; and at other
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Seminary, Northampton, Pa.; St. Vincent's Seminary
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Association in its three-fold work of propagating devotion by our
Members share in the spiritual good accomplished
Members and spreading the Faith in Mary's Kanchow Vicariate, China. priest-
should mutually help one another by their prayers.
PROMOTER SINCE 1936. P.W.DAVIS
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SPIRITUAL BENEFITS
many Novenas of Masses offered at Mary's Central
630 MASSES DURING THE YEAR, including
Shrine, Germantown; Queen of the Miraculous Medal
Chapel, Princeton, N. J.; Chapel of Mary Immaculate
Shrines of Mary.
Community Chapel, Germantown; and at other
Seminary, Northampton, Pa.; St. Vincent's Seminary
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FATHER SKELLY WELCOMES YOU!
JOSEPH A. M. QUIGLEY
Censor Librorum
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ELCOME, dear Member, to our "Great
Imprimatur
Family" of the Miraculous Medal.
D. CARD. DOUGHERTY
Archiepiscopus
Whether you have been a Member for many
Philadelphiensis
years, or whether you are now enrolling for the
Die 22 Septembris 1941
first time, I know that Our Lady is highly
pleased to have you in her Association. For
CONTENTS
now you are an active Member in an organiza-
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tion that is laboring prodigiously to increase
Father Skelly Welcomes You
3
devotion to the Virgin Mother of God. Not
History of the Medal
6
only do you wear the Medal of Mary's Im-
A Remarkable Conversion
11
maculate Conception as a badge of your own
The Association of the Miraculous Medal
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love for her, but now you are also giving your
aid and giving your heart to proclaiming afar
The Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. 15
the depth of her compassion and the power of
Letters of Approbation
her love. You are distributing far and wide
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millions of her Miraculous Medals in order
Mary's Central Shrine
20
Mary's Chapel at Princeton
that all men may come to know Mary more af-
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fectionately and imitate her virtues more
Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton
23
earnestly.
Benefits of Being a Member
24
How to Become a Promoter
25
In Mary's name, therefore, and for Mary's
Perpetual Membership
26
honor I welcome you warmly to our company.
Miraculous Medal Novena Prayers
27
Important Information
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S
EE what a blessed company it is! I am
Indulgences (Apostolic, Crucifix, Rosary and
speaking not of myself, but of what the
Scapular)
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Promoters-our "Devoted Workers"-and the
Rays from the Hands of Mary
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Members of our Association have SO far ac-
complished for the glory of God and the honor
of His Immaculate Mother.
Address all communications to:
REV. JOSEPH A. SKELLY, C.M.
Why, it is nothing short of astounding how
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the Promoters and Members through Mary's
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benign favor have developed her Association.
Copyright, 1941,
The Central Association of the Miraculous Medal
In a little over a quarter of a century it has
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grown from nothing, until it now embraces
thousands of Members in every State of the
Seminary at Northampton, Pennsylvania. And,
of Mary's Medal and her works has proved SO
Union. and in many foreign lands. The appeal
although the chapel and the library are not yet
finished, the new seminary is admirably suited
compelling that we have among our Members
to priestly studies.
both Catholics and non-Catholics, government
Finally, we are committed to aiding the Vin-
officials, moving picture actors, maids and
centian Fathers in their mission work in the
chauffeurs. housewives, business men and fac-
Vicariate of Kanchow, China. This sublime
tory workers, priests and nuns In fact no
foreign mission enterprise we have supported
ing call.
station in life has been deaf to Mary's rally-
in no small degree, first by helping to educate
the future missioners, and then by financing as
far as we are able all the missions of Bishop
And what have we done to fulfill the aims
O'Shea and his valiant priests.
of our Association? The first aim is to augment
devotion to Mary Immaculate. For this, we
have distributed over ten million Miraculous
Medal booklets, and more than 30 million
ABOUT Will these holy and prospering works
read more at length in the later
Medals. We have built Mary's Central Shrine
pages of this booklet. I have touched on a few
-the "Center and Heart" of the Association-,
to give you a fair estimate of the noble labors
which ranks as one of the foremost religious
you share in by becoming a Member of the
shrines of America. Here was inaugurated the
Central Association."
Miraculous Medal Perpetual Novena, and here
between 15 and 20 thousand persons attend
You are indeed welcome to our ranks, for
these devotions every Monday in the year.
you are another pillar for all our sacred under-
From this shrine the Perpetual Novena has
takings. And may you, dear Member, never
cease to share in all these blessed works. In
spread to 1565 other churches. And we have
printed more than 4 million Novena Booklets,
return for the help which you give, rest as-
and about that many people make the Novena
sured, Our Lady will open upon you the flood-
gates of her favor and her mercies and at the
publicly each week.
end, Mary will show herself to you, as you are
The second aim of the Association is to help
now showing her to others, and lead you glo-
educate aspirants to the priesthood. Hence we
riously to life everlasting.
have built at the preparatory seminary of the
Vincentian Fathers the Queen of the Mirac-
ulous Medal Chapel,- gem of purest Gothic
Father Skelly
for the crown of Heaven's Queen. Besides, we
have erected the magnificent Mary Immaculate
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HISTORY OF THE MEDAL®
the Virgo Potens Altar, Our Lady appeared
T
HERE is no superstition, nothing of
"standing on a globe, her face beautiful be-
magic, connected with the Miraculous
yond words. Her fingers were covered with
Medal. Its story is very simply told.
precious jewels whose light dazzled me. And
In 1830, when France was in upheaval, with
I heard: 'Behold the symbol of the graces I
wars lowering on the horizon and starvation
gnawing the common people, the Blessed Virgin
appeared at least three times in the Mother-
house of the Sisters of Charity in Paris. Her
confidante was a humble novice, Sister Cath-
erine Labouré, who in 1933 was declared
Blessed. Sister Catherine writes thus of her
first visitation, on July 18:
"That night at eleven-thirty, I heard my
name called three times. Upon drawing my
bed curtains I beheld a child of four or five
years who said to me: 'Come to the Chapel.
The Blessed Virgin awaits you!'
"I dressed hastily and followed him to the
sanctuary. I saw a Lady descend the steps of
the altar and seat herself in the chair used by
our Director. Then I sprang forward, throwing
myself on my knees on the steps of the altar.
I rested my hands on the knees of the Blessed
Virgin. She said to me: 'My child, I am going
to charge you with a mission.' I am unable to
FIRST APPARITION OF MARY IMMACULATE
TO BLESSED CATHERINE
say how long a time I remained kneeling at
her side and listening to her instructions."
shed upon those who ask for them.' Then an
oval formed around the Blessed Virgin and I
read in letters of gold: O Mary, conceived
T
HE second and third apparitions were very
without sin, pray for us who have recourse
much alike, the principal manifestation tak-
to thee.
ing place November 27, the day we observe as
"The vision reversed, and I beheld the letter
the birthday of the Miraculous Medal.
M surmounted by a cross, at the foot of the
Blessed Catherine herself describes it.
cross a bar; and below all, the Heart of Jesus
On the epistle side of the sanctuary, over
crowned with thorns, and the Heart of Mary
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pierced with a sword. A voice said to me:
Have a Medal struck after this model. Per-
carry such weight. A railroad signal, for in-
sons who wear it indulgenced will receive great
stance, is nothing but a feeble light glaring
graces, neck.' especially if they wear it around the
through a bit of red glass. And yet that simple
signal can halt the mightiest train and save
hundreds of lives. So we may say that the Medal
T
HE ecclesiastical authorities after two
is a signal designed by Mary and approved by
years of rigid investigation declared the
apparitions to be fact and not fiction, and al-
lowed the Medal of the Immaculate Concep-
tion to be struck and to be used by the faithful.
In distressed France the Medal spread like
wildfire. Marvels of grace and health, peace
and prosperity followed in its wake. So that
before long the people were calling it the
"Miraculous" Medal.
Such is the story of how Our Lady brought
to earth the first badge and seal of her Im-
maculate Conception. Largely due to the Medal,
the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was
defined by holy Church twenty-four years later.
And four years after that, Our Lady appeared
at Lourdes as though to confirm the now infal-
lible doctrine of her glorious privilege.
No one should consider it strange that God
works miracles through a Medal. Does He not
use water to cleanse the soul of original sin in
MANIFESTATION OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
Baptism? Does He not use oil to confer His
TO BLESSED CATHERINE ON NOVEMBER
27, 1830
graces in Confirmation and Extreme Unction
Similarly, He uses a Medal, not indeed as a
sacrament, but as an agent, an instrument. in
God. For us to wear the Medal upon our
bringing to pass certain marvelous results. "The
breasts is a signal to Mary that we need her
weak things of this earth hath God chosen to
aid, and Mary has promised to recognize that
confound the strong."
signal always. "Persons who wear it indul-
The Medal is indeed another of those tre-
genced will receive great graces." And Mary is
mendous trifles which even in everyday life
every day fulfilling her promise!
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LThe us examine the meaning of the Medal.
obverse is the joyful side, because it
A REMARKABLE CONVERSION
shows Mary in the glory of her Immaculate
The power of Mary's intercession has been wonderfully mani-
Conception. She stands upon the globe, as the
fested in modern times in the conversion of Alphonsus Ratis-
Queen-Mother of all mankind. Her feet crush
bonne, a prominent Jew and a stern adversary of the Christian
Faith. Toward the middle of January, 1842, he went to pay
the serpent, to proclaim that Satan and all his
a visit of courtesy to a friend in Rome, the Baron Bussieres,
who was an excellent Catholic. They spoke a great deal about
are
brood are helpless before her. From her out-
stretched hands pour "the graces which she
religion, and Ratisbonne attacked and denounced as supersti-
tious the faith and practices of the Church. "Well," said the
sheds on all those who ask for them." Etched
Baron, "I will propose to you an innocent challenge. Here is a
about the rim is the invocation composed by
little object which we call the Miraculous Medal. Will you
accept it and consent to wear it around your neck for some
Mary herself: "O Mary, conceived without sin,
time? You will see that it will produce a revolution in your
pray for us who have recourse to thee."
thoughts. I will also ask you to read every day a short prayer
The reverse of the Medal is the sorrowful
called the Memorare." Although Ratisbonne regarded the
Baron's proposal as almost absurd, yet he accepted the challenge
side, for it pictures Mary's suffering. There are
for the sake of friendship.
no words there because, as Mary said to Sister
He did indeed put on the Medal and recite the Memorare
Catherine, "the M and the two hearts express
daily. Five days later, when in the neighborhood of the Church
of St. Andrew delle Fratte, he entered it-not out of any real
enough." Indeed they do! For they tell us that
devotion, but merely from curiosity. It was about midday.
Mary is not only Queen and Mediatrix but
All at once he was seized with a marvelous and indescribable
emotion. He raised his eyes: his immediate surroundings seemed
Mother of Sorrows and Co-redemptrix as well;
to have vanished, and he saw before him only the Immaculate
she is ever by the side of her sorrowing chil-
Virgin Mary, as she is represented on the Miraculous Medal,
dren, as she was by the side of her Son. For
and radiating unspeakable splendor. With a silent gesture of
her maternal hand she invited him to kneel on the pavement.
the love of men His heart wears a crown of
He did so, and at that moment the beautiful vision disappeared.
thorns; for the love of men hers is pierced with
Overwhelmed by the wonderful experience, he arose another
man, like St. Paul when converted by divine grace on the road
a lance. Beneath the cross we find the letter
to Damascus. In an instant the veil was removed from his eyes,
M, because to the end Mary stood beneath the
his prejudices were entirely overcome and he now implicitly
cross of Christ.
believed the divine truths which he had hitherto blasphemed.
The twelve stars refer to the Apostles, the
On the 31st of January Cardinal Patrizi baptized Alphonsus,
giving him the name Marie, and confirmed him. The news of
first messengers of Christ's salvation; or per-
this wonderful conversion astounded the world. The Pope, after
haps to the stars in the vision of St. John, in
four months of examination and prayer, pronounced the miracle
authentic. A three-day solemnity was established in the Church
which "a great sign appeared in Heaven, a
of St. Andrew to celebrate this miracle yearly with fitting mag-
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
nificence, and to thank God for His mercies bestowed through
Mary Immaculate.
under her feet, and on her head a crown of
M. Ratisbonne, at the inspiration of Mary, studied for the
twelve stars." For it is Mary's part to bring her
priesthood and was ordained in order that he might labor for
children through the sorrows of earth to the
the conversion of the Jews. Going to Jerusalem, he took over
bliss of Heaven, where in the crown of the
the Pretorium of Pontius Pilate, cleared away the rubble, and
from this sacred spot worked heroically until his death in 1884.
Queen they will shine like stars for all eternity.
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THE ASSOCIATION
OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
NOTES
Miraculous Medal for good that he wished to the
Pope Pius X had such faith in the power of
Following is the list of days on which a plenary in-
dulgence may be gained (under the usual conditions of
devotion to it throughout the world. For this end spread he
Confession, Communion and Prayer for the intention
members. And he granted great privileges and indulgences to its
erected "The Association of the Miraculous Medal."
of the Pope) by those who have been invested in the
Medal. The day of investiture at the hour of death:
once a year during the exercises of retreat: the first
Sunday of each month; all the Saturdays of Lent;
To become a member of this Association one
Passion Sunday and the following Friday; Wednesday,
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only be invested in the Medal by a priest who has need the
Thursday and Friday of Holy Week.
proper faculties, and wear it suspended from the neck
and upon the breast.
Feasts of Christmas. Epiphany, Easter, Ascension,
Pentecost, Holy Trinity: Immaculate Conception, Na-
Article I.
tivity of Mary, Purification, Annunciation, Assump-
tion; St. Joseph, March 19: Blessed Joseph Mary
The Association of the Miraculous Medal in honor
Thomas, March 24: Canonization of St. Cajetan, April
of the Immaculate Conception has been established
12: Finding of the Holy Cross, May 3: Blessed Paul
as a living and perpetual memorial of the apparitions
Buralis, June 17: Nativity of St. John the Baptist.
of Mary Immaculate which took place at the Chapel
June 24: SS. Peter and Paul, June 29: Last Sunday of
of the Daughters of Charity, Rue du Bac, Paris, in
July: Our Lady of the Angels Portiuncula), August
the year 1830, the feast of which is celebrated on
2: St. Cajetan, August 7; St. Augustine, August 28:
November 27.
Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14: St.
Article II.
Michael, Archangel, September 29: Guardian Angels,
October 2: St. Theresa, October 15: All Saints, No-
The end or aim of the Association is to render due
vember 1: St. Andrew of Avellino, November 10:
honor to Mary Immaculate, first by sanctifying our-
Blessed John Marinonius, December 13: first and last
selves, and second by contributing to the sanctifica-
days of the Novena in preparation for Christmas once
Medal. tion of our neighbor by means of the Miraculous
during the exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament
at the Forty Hours' Devotion. If the one invested
should become a priest he may gain a plenary indul-
Article III.
gence on the day he celebrates his First Mass.
The Association, canonically erected in each diocese,
is governed according to its own laws and usages, by
Article V.
diocesan directors, appointed by their respective bish-
All the faithful of both sexes may become mem-
ops, but under the authority of one director general.
bers of this Association and share in its privileges.
The only condition is that they wear the Medal on
the breast suspended from the neck, when the Medal
Article IV.
has been blessed and imposed according to the rite
By virtue of a Rescript of His Holiness, Pius X,
approved by Leo XIII (April 19, 1895), by a priest
June 3, 1905, the same privileges and indulgences
delegated to do SO.
granted to the Association of the Scapular of the
Article VI.
Immaculate Conception (Blue Scapular) have been
Medal. extended to the Association of the Miraculous
The principal feast of the Association is November
27-Feast of the Apparition of the Immaculate Virgin
of the Miraculous Medal.
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Article VII.
THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF
The associates incur no new obligations. They are
recommended to repeat frequently the invocation in-
THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
scribed on the Medal: "O Mary, conceived without
sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.'
This Association owes its origin to a telling
manifestation of the generosity of Our Blessed
By virtue of a decree of the Sacred Penitentiary,
Mother. For when Father Skelly in 1914 wrote
April 22, 1933, a partial indulgence of ten years
an appeal for our preparatory seminary at
be gained each time that a member with contrite heart may
Princeton, he enclosed in each letter a Miracu-
devoutly recites six Our Fathers, Hail Marys and
Glorys for the intention of the Holy Father. By re-
lous Medal. The response was so favorable that
peating these prayers at least once each day for a
no one could doubt that to Mary alone could
month, a plenary indulgence may be gained under the
be credited the success. Mary then must be
usual conditions.
thanked and repaid: but how? Wide consulta-
tion and long prayer finally bore fruit in this
PRIVILEGES FOR ALL
conclusion: to establish an association to pro-
A person who does not belong to the Association
mote devotion to Mary by means of the Mi-
who has not been invested in the Miraculous Medal or
raculous Medal. And thus, with the cordial
may still gain great indulgences by wearing the Medal.
approval of the religious superiors and the
He may gain a plenary indulgence on the day on which
blessing of the ecclesiastical authorities, was
he first receives the Medal properly blessed, on Easter,
and on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, under
instituted THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF THE
the conditions of Confession, Communion, and a visit
MIRACULOUS MEDAL.
to a church dedicated to Mary or his parish church
The Association was established in March,
to pray for the intention of the Pope. (Brief of Sep-
1915, at St. Vincent's Seminary, Germantown.
tember 30, 1895.)
Philadelphia. Its leading purpose was to in-
The faithful at large may gain 300 days' indulgence
crease devotion to the Immaculate Mother of
each time they recite the following prayer, and a
God through the Medal which Mary herself
plenary indulgence once a month under the usual con-
ditions if they recite the prayer daily: "O Mary, con-
revealed. A second aim was to help young men
ceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to
to become worthy priests of Mary's Divine Son.
thee." (Pius XI, April 15, 1932.)
And when our Vincentian Priests were directed
by Our Holy Father in 1922 to evangelize the
On the Feast of the Manifestation of the Miraculous
Medal, November 27, all the faithful may gain a plen-
Vicariate of Kanchow, China, the objects of
ary indulgence, provided they go to Confession, and
the "CENTRAL ASSOCIATION" were broadened
Communion and visit a church or chapel of the Priests
to include the support of this sublime work.
of the Mission (Vincentians), or of the Sisters of
Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, and pray there for
the intention of the Pope. (Brief of August 24, 1894.)
The young organization took root, and grew
steadily but slowly. By dozens and then by
All the indulgences mentioned above are applicable
to the suffering souls in Purgatory.
hundreds, the yearly membership fees of
twenty-five cents came in. The small room in
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St. Vincent's Seminary used by the Associa-
tion was no longer adequate. The Daughters
years we had to make an addition to this build-
of Charity, willing to befriend a work closely
connected with their Community, provided
ing Association. to keep pace with the still developing
quarters at the Gonzaga Orphan Asylum. The
Association, outgrowing this new home in
All these details would argue that we are "in
turn. took temporary offices in the Immaculate
Conception Hall.
business" for Mary Immaculate. That is true.
Years ago, Father Faber wrote about a society
which he established:
"There is hardly any worldly object of im-
portance which has not some association to de-
fend its rights and forward its interests; why
should not the interests of Jesus have one also?
Science has its meetings, and its corresponding
societies. Men band together to gain the vic-
tory for some political opinions. They form
companies for railroads and for steam packets
and for coal mines. Why should we not open an
office to transact the affairs of Jesus, and to
protect His rights, and advance His interests?"
THE OFFICE OF THE "CENTRAL ASSOCIATION"
But while employing sound business methods
100 E. PRICE STREET
GERMANTOWN, PHILA., PA.
to advance Mary's interests, we have always
On May 1, 1917 we took possession of a
anchored our main reliance on prayer. We have
large house on Chew St.: this we named
made no move in the work of the Association
"Mary's Fortress." From it issued whole bat-
without first asking Our Lord and Our Lady
talions of Marian letters and pamphlets. And
for guidance and benediction. And whatever
to almost every town and city in the United
success was granted must be laid to prayer.
States and Canada, and to many foreign coun-
tries marched file on file of Mary's Miraculous
* * *
Medals.
Yes, it was supernatural aid that paved the
Eventually even "Mary's Fortress" cramped
way for every enterprise: for example, to mail
our constantly expanding activities. So that in
into thousands of homes the MIRACULOUS
January, 1922, we bought the present office
MEDAL Magazine, to distribute 10.017.880
building at 100 East Price Street. After a few
booklets setting out the purpose and the work
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of the "CENTRAL ASSOCIATION,' and to send
throughout the world 30,245,252 Medals.
LETTERS OF APPROBATION
Moreover, our Association has been privi-
Our Association is pleased to number among its friends many
members of the hierarchy and clergy of the Church. We quote
leged to supply the means to erect Mary's
the following letters of approval:
Central Shrine in Germantown, the Queen of
From His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, Vatican City:
"On the occasion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of The
the Miraculous Medal Chapel at Princeton, and
Central Association of the Miraculous Medal the Holy Father
Mary Immaculate Seminary at Northampton.
imparts to Father Skelly and the Promoters and Members the
Apostolic Benediction implored."
(Signed) Cardinal Maglione.
At Mary's Central Shrine on December 8,
From His Excellency, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani:
1930, we inaugurated the Perpetual Novena
Dear Father Skelly,
Devotions in honor of Our Lady of the Mirac-
"It is a pleasure to take this occasion to express my heartfelt
gratification for the splendid work and widespread apostolate
ulous Medal. Having begun with one service
that has been carried on by the Association of the Miraculous
on each Monday of the year, we now have to
Medal, and I am most pleased to extend to you and your asso-
ciates in this holy endeavor my cordial blessing. May God be.
conduct twelve services each week, because
stow upon your labors abundant heavenly benedictions, and
deign to grant the continuation of the success marked in these
from 15,000 to 20,000 people attend. The col-
first twenty-five years.
lections taken up at all these services for the
"Your success in bringing millions of souls to honor the
Blessed Mother and her Divine Son is renowned. and I feel
past eight years have been turned over to the
that there is profound justification for the Silver Jubilee which
you are about to celebrate."
poor and the unfortunate.
(Signed) Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,
Apostolic Delegate.
The Perpetual Novena has now also been
From His Eminence, D. Cardinal Dougherty:
taken up by 1,565 other churches,- 40 States
Dear Father Skelly,
in this country, and in the Canal Zone, Canada,
"It has been brought to my attention that you are soon to
keep the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the foundation of The
Hawaii, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and
Central Association of the Miraculous Medal, of whose head-
China. To further this work we have distributed
quarters you are, and have been, in charge.
"It is gratifying to learn how the influence of your Associa-
4,581,905 Novena Booklets.
tion has been extended, not only throughout the United States,
but also to other countries; and that, wherever the Association
of the Miraculous Medal exists, devotion to the Blessed Mother
of God has been spread or intensified.
"Fathers of the Church and eminent theologians teach that
In 1832 when Sister Catherine's confessor,
devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is the badge of Catholicity
Father Aladel, showed her the first Medal, she
and is based upon the fundamental doctrines of Christ's Incar-
nation and Redemption.
exclaimed, "Now it must be propagated This
"In these days of materialism and growing unbelief, it seems
a special providence that the Blessed Mother of God herself
has been the battle cry of our Association for
appeared to the humble Sister of Charity, Catherine Labouré.
over a quarter of a century. Now it must be-
and bade her become an instrument of Providence for devotion
to the Mother of God through the Miraculous Medal.
come yours, too, dear Member! Rejoice in all
"Your Association. therefore, has my congratulations on the
wondrous fruits that it has borne; and my best wishes for a
that your Association does for the glory of God
continuance of its extraordinary success.
through Mary. And leave no stone unturned to
"You personally, also, merit felicitation for the edifying
manner in which you have devoted your life to carrying out
bring Mary and her blessed Medal into the
the wishes of the Blessed Virgin herself. as expressed to
Catherine Labouré."
lives of others.
(Signed) D. Cardinal Dougherty.
Archbishop of Philadelphia.
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MARY'S CENTRAL SHRINE,
On September 8, 1927 His Eminence, D.
Cardinal Dougherty solemnly blessed and dedi-
cated Mary's Central Shrine. This sanctuary
was made possible and actual by the generosity
of the Promoters and Members of the "CEN-
TRAL ASSOCIATION," and it stands as a glorious
and lasting memorial of their unbounded love
for their Immaculate Mother. Many non-
Catholics and millions of Catholics have knelt
spellbound in awe and admiration before the
unearthly beauty of this modern, but already
famous, shrine of Mary. World-travelers de-
clare that, among all the shrines that jewel this
earth, Mary's Central Shrine stands second to
none.
The light of myriad votive tapers plays over
the marble of its sea-green columns and wine-
red bays, its resplendent mosaics of gold and
pigment, its stained glass windows in rich har-
monies of sunset reds and winter blues. The
statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal,
lodged in white radiance over the altar, awakens
strange movements in the heart. This statue.
carved from the finest marble of Carrara, is the
masterpiece of an unknown genius; for he has
brought the satin marble alive with the virginal
purity and maternal kindness of Mary's heart.
MARY'S CENTRAL SHRINE
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHAPEL, Sr. VINCENT'S SEMINARY
Her downcast eyes gaze not to challenge, but
500 E. CHELTEN AVENUE
are lowered in humble entreaty. Her out-
GERMANTOWN, PHILA., PA.
stretched arms seem to be reaching gently for
The following indulgences were granted to Mary's
all her children prostrate there "sinful and
Central Shrine: 1-A Plenary Indulgence may be
sorrowful."
gained once a day. Conditions-Confession, Com-
munion, visit to our Shrine and prayers for the in-
Such is the throne room of Mary, where
tention of His Holiness, the Pope. 2-A Plenary
hearts leap up to the queenly embrace of our
Indulgence may be gained under the same conditions
Immaculate Mother, and where she proves her-
by all who come to Mary's Central Shrine on a pil-
self the Mother of God by her heavenly favors.
grimage. 3-The Shrine Altar is Privileged for any
priest who says Mass there for the faithful departed.
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After Mary Immaculate, erecting a fitting the shrine to the glory
MARY'S CHAPEL AT PRINCETON
MARY IMMACULATE SEMINARY,
of
NORTHAMPTON
vine turned Son. to the "Central Association'
Three years after building the chapel for
of her Di-
our preparatory seminary, we undertook a far
suitable of the
greater task, in erecting an entire major
chapel is was wanting. Because J., a
seminary, namely, Mary Immaculate Seminary,
seminary, the most important classroom the
by its we undertook to build a of a
sublimity should bring home chapel to the which stu-
Courtesy of The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.
at Northampton, Pennsylvania. A task greater
in demands and difficulties, because it called not
only for a chapel but also for classrooms, li-
where the full ceremonies of the Church could
dents the sublimity of the priesthood ; a chapel
brary, auditorium, infirmary, reception rooms,
bedrooms and kitchen. A task greater in im-
be carried out perfectly with the aid of flaw-
portance, as a university is greater than a high
school, for here must be given the schooling in
less appointments. Such a chapel, painstak-
the profound sciences of philosophy and theol-
Church, the mother of the arts, demanded great
ingly fashioned in the best traditions of Holy
ogy and piety: the final training for the most
exalted profession upon earth-the holy priest-
expenditures even though labor and materials
hood of God.
were low in price. But the Promoters and
The more gigantic the pious work we under-
Members of the Association. in keeping with
take, the brighter glow the faith, the generosity,
their own tradition of open-handed generosity
the enthusiasm of our Promoters and Members.
in helping the divine Priesthood, supplied the
So nobly did they lend their aid that we were
means to build and complete in 1934 the superb
able to open the new seminary on Mary's name-
Queen of the Miraculous Medal Chapel.
day, September 12, 1939.
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BENEFITS OF BEING A MEMBER
OF THE "CENTRAL ASSOCIATION"
HOW TO BECOME A PROMOTER
Our Members enjoy enormous privileges
To become a Promoter, send the names of
benefits. First, since they are the backbone and
eight or more Members, living or deceased, and
all our Association, they partake of the merits of
the membership fee of 25c for each to
our works to increase devotion to the of
Rev. Joseph A. Skelly, C.M.
tion maculate Mother of God, to assist in the Im-
100 E. Price Street
and training of priests for the service educa-
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
of Mary's Divine Son, and to support the of
Our Promoters share in one thousand
Who the American Vincentian priests in labors
Masses each year. Besides the six hundred
which can ever gauge the graces and blessings China.
and thirty Masses in which they share as Mem-
for these widespread and holy works earn
bers, they also share in an extra Novena of
our Members?
Masses each month; in ten extra Novenas of
share in 630 Masses each year. That is, in
Moreover our Members, living and deceased.
Masses and ninety-three single Masses offered
each year at Shrines of Our Lady; in three
tral Novena of Masses each month at Mary's Cen- a
Novenas of Masses said each year at Mary's
Central Shrine in preparation for the Feasts of
Shrine, Germantown: at the Queen of
Miraculous Medal Chapel, Princeton, N. J.; the
the Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Conception
and St. Joseph; and in Father Skelly's Mass,
Mary Pa.; Immaculate Seminary, Northampton, at
offered each Saturday at Mary's Central Shrine.
tian at the Community Chapel of the Vincen-
The names of active Promoters are enclosed
Fathers, Germantown: and another special
in the Gold Heart which is kept before the
Novena; also ten extra Novenas during the
Statue of the Blessed Virgin at our Shrine.
year offered at other famous shrines.
Premiums are given to our "Devoted Work-
And when the membership fee is sent in each
ers" in appreciation of their help in our work.
year, the Member receives in return an artistic
The MIRACULOUS MEDAL Magazine is sent
Miraculous Medal, a Membership Card, and
to our Promoters four times a year, in March,
this Membership Booklet.
June, September and December.
May any one become a Member and share
Promoters receive a distinctive Miraculous
in all these great privileges and benefits Yes,
Medal which they only are privileged to wear.
any one, living or deceased. All that is neces-
One who at the time of death is an active
sary is that the name of the person, together
Promoter shares perpetually in all the spiritual
with the membership fee of 25 cents be sent
benefits enjoyed by Promoters: also a perpetual
to Father Skelly. There are no other obliga-
Membership Certificate signed by Father Skelly
tions. Wearing the Medal, or attending the
will be sent to the next of kin. The names of
Miraculous Medal Novena, does not make one
deceased Promoters appear in our quarterly
a Member.
Magazine and prayers are asked for the repose
of their souls.
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PERPETUAL MEMBERSHIP
Perpetual persons Membership means that the
MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA PRAYERS
or life and after enrolled will share always person®
In the name of the Father and of the Son
Masses death) in the many Novenas (during
and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
CIATION for Members of THE CENTRAL of
Come, O Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy
Masses, OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL. Asso-
faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy
Five which total 630, are said as These
love. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall
and Novenas of Masses offered each follows:
be created. And Thou shalt renew the face of
ten other Novenas of Masses offered month, dur-
the earth.
ing the year.
Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the
For the in nominal sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00)
hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy
-sent one complete payment-one
living or deceased, may be enrolled as person, a Per-
Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly
wise and ever to rejoice in His consolation,
petual Member. An exceptionally fine
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
ficate, suitable for framing, is issued for certi-
of Perpetual Membership, inscribed with the each
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us
who have recourse to thee. (3 times.)
ulous Medal is sent with each Perpetual Mem-
the one enrolled. A rolled gold Art Mirac- name
O Lord Jesus Christ, Who hast vouch-
bership Certificate.
safed to glorify by numberless miracles I the
A Family may be enrolled perpetually for
Blessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate from the
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) -sent in
first moment of her Conception, grant that
complete this payment. In the case of single one
all who devoutly implore her protection on
would include the sender, his or her persons
earth, may eternally enjoy Thy presence in
brothers and and sisters, and grandparents, parents, living
heaven. Who, with the Father and Holy
deceased: in the case of married
Ghost, livest and reignest, God, for ever and
ever. Amen.
this would include husband and wife, their persons chil-
dren, and their parents, their brothers and
O Lord Jesus Christ, | Who for the accom-
sisters, living and deceased. A beautiful Cru-
plishment of Thy greatest works, hast chosen
cifix is sent with the Family Perpetual Mem-
the weak things of the world, that no flesh
bership Certificate.
may glory in Thy sight; and Who for a
On the occasion of the death of a loved one,
better and more widely diffused belief
in
we recommend that you enroll the deceased
the Immaculate Conception of Thy Mother,
a Perpetual Member of the "CENTRAL Asso- as
hast wished that the Miraculous Medal
be
manifested to Blessed Catherine Labouré,
CIATION." A Certificate made out in the name
of the departed loved one is always deeply ap-
grant, we beseech Thee, that
filled
with
like
preciated by the surviving relatives.
humility, | we may glorify this mystery by
word and work. Amen.
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MEMORARE
Remember, O most compassionate Virgin
AN ACT OF CONSECRATION TO OUR
Mary, that never was it known that
LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
one who fled to thy protection, implored any thy
O Virgin Mother of God.
Mary
Immac-
assistance or sought thy intercession,
ulate, | we dedicate and consecrate ourselves to
left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, was
thee under the title of Our Lady of the Mi-
we fly unto thee,
Virgin
of
Mother;
virgins,
raculous Medal. May this Medal be for each
to
thee
our
we
come:
before
thee
one of us a sure sign of thy affection for us
kneel sinful and sorrowful.
we
Mother of the
and a constant reminder of our duties towards
Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions,
thee.
but Amen. in thy clemency hear and answer them.
Ever while wearing it, may we be
blessed by thy loving protection and preserved
in the grace of thy Son. O Most powerful
NOVENA PRAYER
Virgin, Mother of our Saviour, keep us
O Immaculate Virgin Mary,
close to thee every moment of our lives.
Mother of
Our Lord Jesus and our Mother,
Obtain for us, thy children, the grace of a
powerful and never failing intercession, in thy
with the most lively confidence
penetrated
all-
happy death so that, in union with thee, ! we
may enjoy the bliss of heaven forever. Amen.
manifested SO often through the Miraculous
Medal, we thy loving and trustful children
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us
implore thee to obtain for us
who have recourse to thee. (3 times.)
the
graces
and
beneficial to our immortal souls, and the they souls be
favors we ask during this Novena,
if
for whom we pray;
Prayer Said During the Blessing and
(Here privately men-
tion your Petitions). Thou knowest, O Mary,
Investing of the Medal
how often our souls have been the sanctu-
"O Almighty and Merciful God, Who, through the numer-
ous apparitions of the Immaculate Virgin on earth, has
aries of thy Son
Who hates iniquity.
Ob-
deigned continuously to perform wonderful things for the sal-
tain for us then
vation of souls, graciously bestow Thy blessings on this medal
a deep hatred of sin
and
that they who piously venerate and devoutly wear it may
that purity of heart
which
will
attach
feel Thy protection and obtain Thy mercy. Through Christ
God alone SO that our every thought, us word to
our Lord. Amen."
and deed
may tend to His greater glory.
Words Addressed to Those Being Invested
Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-
in the Medal
denial that we may recover by penance
"Receive this holy medal, wear it faithfully and keep it
what we have lost by sin and at length attain
with fitting veneration, that the most pious and Immaculate
to that blessed abode
Queen of Heaven may protect and defend you; and, repeating
where thou art the
the marvels of her love, may she mercifully obtain for you
Queen of angels and of men. Amen.
whatever you suppliantly ask of God. so that in life and death
you may rest happily in her maternal embrace. Amen."
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
INDULGENCES
Whether a person is a Member of our "Cen-
tral Association" or not, he does not gain the
Strictly speaking, our Association has for its
indulgences mentioned on page 12, unless he
peculiar scope to promote devotion to Our Lady
invested in the Medal and wears it suspended is
through the Miraculous Medal. We do however
from the neck upon the breast. One must be
distribute rosaries and crucifixes. All the rosa-
ries which we send out of our office are specially
personally invested by a priest who has special
blessed and bear the Apostolic, Brigittine, Cro-
faculties. Any priest may obtain these faculties
zier and Dominican Indulgences. The crucifixes
without difficulty by applying to Father Skelly,
are enriched with the Indulgences of the Way
as thousands of. priests have already done.
of the Cross and for a Happy Death. And be-
And SO any living person may gain all the
cause we are often asked about these indul-
indulgences attached to wearing the Miraculous
gences, together with the Scapular Indulgences,
Medal simply by being invested in the Medal
we here give an explanation of all of them.
by a priest and then wearing the Medal about
APOSTOLIC INDULGENCES
the neck.
Apostolic or Papal Induigences were orig-
inally attached to objects of piety given by the
Only those persons, living or deceased, share
Sovereign Pontiffs to prelates, kings, and other
in the rich treasury of merits accruing from the
great personages. Now these indulgences may
pious works of THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF
be attached to rosaries, crosses, crucifixes,
THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL and in its many No-
medals, small statues, etc.,-made of durable
venas of Masses who are enrolled as Members
material - - by a priest having the proper
faculties.
in our "Central Association." The name and
the yearly membership fee of 25 cents should
Chief among the Apostolic Indulgences is
be sent to Father Skelly, 100 E. Price St., Ger-
the plenary indulgence at the hour of death. To
mantown, Phila., Pa.
gain this, it is necessary to:
1. Keep the blessed article on one's person or
Therefore, to share in (1) the indulgences to
in a decent place at home;
be gained from wearing the Medal, as well as
2. Confess and receive Communion if possible;
in (2) the privileges and benefits of the "Cen-
3. Pronounce the Holy Name of Jesus, if pos-
tral Association,' a person has both to be
sible with the lips, otherwise in the heart;
invested in the Medal and to be enrolled in the
4. Commend oneself to the divine mercy with
Association. Merely attending the Miraculous
love of God and sorrow for sin, and accept
Medal Novena does not satisfy either of these
death with resignation to God's Will and as a
requirements.
punishment for sin.
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CRUCIFIX FOR A HAPPY DEATH
THE ROSARY
bears a plenary indulgence at the hour of death.
A crucifix that has the Apostolic Blessing
The Sacred Penitentiary in 1937 decreed that
Any one who has such a crucifix may gain this
by reciting the prayers of a rosary of five dec-
indulgence in his last hour by kissing or touch-
ades, even though the rosary has been given no
ing the blessed crucifix and observing the con-
special blessing, a person may gain the follow-
ditions set out above for all objects that have
ing indulgences:
the Apostolic Blessing.
1. Five years, each time he recites five decades
by himself;
CRUCIFIX FOR THE WAY OF
2. Ten years once a day, if he recites five dec-
THE CROSS
ades with one or more persons;
A crucifix may be blessed with a sign of the
3. If he recites five decades with one or more
cross by a priest who has the requisite facul-
persons at least three times a week, then on the
ties, SO that this crucifix bears all the indul-
last Sunday of the month he gains a plenary
gences of the actual Way of the Cross. To gain
indulgence, provided that he goes to Confession,
these indulgences from the use of such a cruci-
receives Holy Communion and visits a church
fix, it is necessary:
or public oratory;
1. That some serious reason impede one from
4. As often as he recites five decades before
making the actual Way of the Cross;
the Blessed Sacrament, whether It is exposed
2. That one hold the crucifix in one's hands:
or within the tabernacle, and goes to Confes-
sion and Holy Communion, he may gain a
3. That, while thinking of the Passion, one
plenary indulgence;
recite twenty times the Our Father, the Hail
5. During October, he gains an indulgence of
Mary and the Glory.
seven years once on every day on which he re-
When there are a group who cannot make
cites five decades;
the Way of the Cross, all may gain the indul-
6. If he recites five decades on the feast of the
gences if one holds the blessed crucifix while
Blessed Virgin of the Rosary in October and
all say the prayers.
on each day of the Octave, he gains a plenary
If a person is SO sick that he cannot say the
indulgence, provided that he goes to Confes-
required prayers, he may gain the indulgences
sion, receives Holy Communion and visits a
by contritely kissing the crucifix which some
church or public oratory;
one holds before him, or even by looking at it
7. If he recites five decades on each of the ten
with sorrow, and saying some short prayer in
days after the end of the Octave of the Blessed
memory of the Passion. If he cannot say the
Virgin of the Rosary, he gains a plenary indul-
prayer, let him then look with sorrow upon
gence, provided that he goes to Confession, re-
the crucifix and he may thus gain the indulgences.
ceives Holy Communion and visits a church or
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BRIGITTINE INDULGENCE™
SCAPULARS
St. Bridget may be attached to a common
The indulgences of the six-decade Rosary of
The scapular originally was an article of
of five decades by a special blessing. To rosary gain
dress which the members of certain Religious
this Brigittine Indulgence however the Creed
Orders wore over their shoulders. Later on,
must be said instead of the Glory at the end of
this part of the robe was also worn by mem-
bers of associated Confraternities, but it was re-
each decade. The principal indulgences to be
gained are these
duced to two small pieces of cloth joined by
1. One hundred days for each Our Father,
cords or tapes, one piece resting on the breast,
each Hail Mary and each Creed when five dec-
and the other on the back. And as the original
ades are said;
robe of the Orders varied, SO too did the
2. If five decades are said daily, a plenary in-
Scapulars.
dulgence may be gained once a year, with the
Today the five principal scapulars are: The
Brown, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; the
usual conditions of Confession and Communion,
Blue, of the Immaculate Conception; the Red,
and an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory
for the intention of the Pope.
of the Passion; the White, of the Holy Trinity;
and the Black, of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.
CROZIER INDULGENCE
These are often made up into one five-fold
scapular.
A priest who has the proper faculties may,
with the sign of the cross, give to the beads the
To gain the Scapular Indulgences, including
Crozier Blessing. By using such beads an in-
a plenary indulgence on the day of investiture
and at the hour of death, one must be invested
dulgence of five hundred days for each Our
Father and each Hail Mary may be gained.
by a priest having this faculty.
THE SCAPULAR MEDAL
DOMINICAN INDULGENCE
In place of the cloth scapulars, a scapular
A priest who has the necessary faculties may,
medal may be worn. But while the Holy Father
with the special formula, give to the beads the
permits its use, he does not wish the original
Dominican Blessing. By using these beads the
cloth scapulars to fall entirely into disuse. The
following indulgences may be gained:
scapular medal should have on one face an
1. One hundred days for each Our Father and
image of Our Lord with His Sacred Heart, and
each Hail Mary when five decades are said;
on the other an image of the Blessed Virgin.
2. A plenary indulgence once a year if five dec-
The medal must be blessed by a priest who
ades are recited daily for a year, on the usual
has faculties for blessing the respective scap-
conditions of Confession and Communion, and
ulars. All those, but only those, who have been
an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory for
invested in the cloth scapulars may gain the in-
the intention of the Pope.
dulgences by wearing the scapular medal.
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1620 St. Louis
SPIRITUAL
RAYS
Conversions "I have a sister and a brother-in-law who are both converts.
have had them enrolled ever since 1 became a Promoter of
The I Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. I give all
credit for their newly-found happiness to Our Blessed Lady."
-Canada.
"Among my new members I have a girl who worked some
7
years with me in the Maternity Department of our hospital.
In the obedience to the decree of Urban VIII, we wish to
Two years ago I gave her a Miraculous Medal, asking her to
that terms miracle and such like, when made use of declare
submit following pages, have only a purely historic value, and that in the
wear it. She said she would if it would help the babies. Last
without reserve to the judgment of the Church the we
year she was received into the Church and she is now a won-
facts we narrate.
derful Catholic."-Pennsylvania.
We estimate that during its existence THE
Sacraments
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIRACULOUS
"Please enter the enclosed name on your membership list.
MEDAL has received, including the favors re-
This woman attended the Miraculous Medal Novena services
after having been away from the Church for eight years.
ported at the Perpetual Novena, the accounts
Through the intercession of Our Lady she obtained the grace
of about 350,000 favors obtained by clients of
to return to the practice of her religious duties."-New Jersey.
Mary Immaculate. During the past year, over
"After being out of the Church for nearly fifteen years I wish
thirty-five thousand favors have been reported.
to make known that through the intercession of the Blessed
Of these favors over one quarter are spir-
Mother I was married by a Catholic priest. I can never be suf-
ficiently grateful for this great blessing."-Tennessee.
itual, including many conversions to the Faith
"I sent a Miraculous Medal and a Novena booklet to a man
and returns to the Sacraments. Almost half of
who was very ill. He had married outside the Catholic Faith
the favors reported are temporal in character,
and had not been to Church for twenty years. I had him en-
and include many positions obtained, restora-
rolled in the 'Central Association.' Two weeks later he had his
tion to health and financial help procured. The
marriage rectified and received the Sacraments. We are very
thankful to Our Lady."-District of Columbia.
remainder of the favors reported are miscel-
"Please enroll a new member in the 'Central Association' for
laneous graces and blessings which have been
eight years. Thanks to Our Lady, my father returned to the
received through the all-powerful intercession
practice of his religious duties after an absence of thirty years,
of Mary, Queen of the Miraculous Medal.
and died a very happy death."-Michigan.
Promoters and Members of our "Central
Home-Family
Association" are requested to send us a short
"I have received many favors through the Miraculous Medal
Novenas at Mary's Central Shrine. I wrote a petition two years
account of favors received through the Mirac-
ago which was almost immediately answered I asked Our Lady
ulous Medal.
to help my husband cease an affair with another woman which
The following are excerpts from encourag-
threatened the security of our home and children. Shortly after-
ing letters from Promoters and Members tell-
wards, this affair ceased and has never been resumed. My hus-
band and I recently celebrated our eighth Wedding Anniver-
ing of favors obtained from Mary.
sary."-Ohio.
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1620 St. Louis
TEMPORAL
SICKNESS
Work
Children
"Our prayers have been answered. I have at last received
steady employment. All thanks to Our Lady of the Miraculous
"My son was seriously sick and as he did not get any better
Medal!"-New Hampshire.
I pinned a Miraculous Medal on his shirt and promised publi-
cation if he recovered. Thanks to Our Blessed Mother, he took
"I asked your prayers that we might move into another State.
turn for the better that night and was completely well in a
A good position obtained through the intercession of Our Lady
a short time. I am enclosing a donation for your works."-
of the Miraculous Medal proves to be a better answer to our
Nebraska.
prayers than we could have hoped for."-Wyoming.
Mental
"My husband lost the position which he had held for sixteen
"My brother had been confined to a hospital for some years,
years; and after praying to Our Lady that he would find the
as he was suffering from a mental disorder. A friend enrolled
equivalent or that I might secure work, my prayer was
him in the 'Central Association' so that he might share in the
answered. My husband obtained other but less remunerative
many Novenas of Masses, and we all prayed to Mary Im-
employment and I also received a position in the place where I
maculate that he might recover. Now he is better and working
had been employed before my marriage. Thanks to Our Lady of
the Miraculous Medal."-New York.
again,-thanks to Our Blessed Lady. We shall never cease to
spread devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal through
your Association."-Maryland.
Financial
Operation
"The day on which I received a letter from the 'Central
"I had my daughter in the hospital for four weeks with a
Association' found us very much worried. Our mortgage note
ruptured appendix. The doctors said they would have to operate
was due and the tenant owed us three months' rent. After hav.
again for an abscess that had formed in the intestines but they
ing almost given up hope, I received a notice from our lawyer
decided to wait awhile. In this emergency we implored the aid
saying that he had the rent. I thank you for letting us share
of Our Blessed Mother. The abscess burst during the night, and
in the Novena."-Louisiana.
in one week my daughter was home and is now doing fine. All
"I am renewing my former members' subscriptions and am
thanks to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal."-Massachusetts.
entering two new members on my list. Our Lady of the
Tuberculosis
Miraculous Medal has helped me in so many financial difficul-
"I am a patient in a Tuberculosis Sanatorium since last
ties Newfoundland. that I am glad to show my gratitude in this way."-
August, but expect to go home soon. Much gratitude is due to
Our Blessed Lady for obtaining from her Divine Son my re-
"For a long time our financial affairs had been in such a de-
covery, I shall do all in my power to promote devotion to her.
plorable state that the situation was most discouraging. We
I have been a member of the 'Central Association' for some
prayed to Our Blessed Mother for aid and she did not fail us.
years."-Wisconsin.
All my family are grateful for this benevolent act of Our Lady
Accident
of the Miraculous Medal."-Philippine Islands.
"My husband, a non-Catholic, has worn a Miraculous Medal
"I am enclosing a donation for a Recreation Room Chair in
constantly for sixteen years, and we both pray to Our Blessed
the new Seminary. A friend of mine had a farm for sale and
Mother for protection. One day a huge tree fell on his truck,
after trying for over a year to sell it he became very much
smashing the top completely. People who saw the accident said
discouraged. I suggested that he nail a Miraculous Medal over
it was miraculous how he stepped out of that cab uninjured
the door of the house and I made a Novena. Three weeks later
He agrees that it was through the help of Our Lady of the
the farm was sold at a very good price. We are very grateful
Miraculous Medal that his life was spared. We have received
to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal."-Connecticut.
numerous benefits from Our Lady."-Illinois.
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39
In Your Charity
Kindly remember the "CENTRAL
ASSOCIATION" in your will. Thus,
even after your death, you will be
mn7.
are
helping to honor Mary on earth and
el
providing for the education of young
men for the Priesthood of her Son.
Insert in your Will this clause:
I hereby give, devise and be-
P.P.F9-M
queath unto The Central Associa-
tion of the Miraculous Medal,
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.,
the sum of
President a copy of the school magnaine,
Dollars ($
) for the further-
a letter to him which was signed by
ance of its works.
ester Rolle, James Norton. Ack'd 6-7-42.
Or remember our works through
the medium of Insurance. Arrange
mag
for a policy payable upon your death
to The Central Association of the
Miraculous Medal: or sign a
'Change of Beneficiary" form, mak-
ing our Association the beneficiary
of any present policy.
Every person leaving a bequest or
insurance to the Association is en-
rolled as a Perpetual Member,
thereby sharing in the thousands
upon thousands of Masses offered
for Members, living and deceased,
through the years.
1/0 moarn 1620 m. St. Louis
Chicago all
George
1
nn7.
are
el
PUBLIC SCHOOL No. 15,
Jersey city, N. J.
P.P.F9-M
6-7-12
Sent the President a copy of the school magnaine,
"The Eluo and Gold", along with a letter to him which was signed by
the editors - Angela Sellare, Lester Rolle, James Norton. Ack'd 6-7-42.
See - P. P. F. 9 -
mag
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are
the
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Moarn 1620 m. St. Louis
Chicago all
P.P.7
are
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June 5, 1942
q-m
Dear Mr. Oraves:
This is to acknowledge your letter
of May twenty-eighth, and I regret to advise
you that we have no photographs of the Presi-
dent's sons available for distribution.
With regard to your further request,
I am very glad to send you a copy of the letter
XP.P.7.9-P
which Miss M. A. LeHand, Private Secretary to
the President, addressed to Mr. Christian M.
Thomsen on March twenty-seventh, 1941.
Very sincerely yours,
STEPHEN EARLY
are
Secretary to the President
X
Mr. George J. Oraves,
c/o Modern Art Works,
1620 N. St. Louis Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
Enclosure
AW:mb
in
Time is would be put away for safe keeping
Thanking you very much I Remain
% modern art Horks sincerely yours
1620 m. St. Louis
Chicago all
George Oraved
may- 28,1942
1620 n. st. Souis an
Chicago see
Mr. Stephen Early
Secretary of the President
up,
Hashing ton W.C.
Look
about march 21, 1941 mr Chris
for which on march the 27th we received
Thomsen sent a plaque filed P.P. to F. 9-T our president
one from the President himself.
a letter of thanks from you and later
send of you ass a you be kind enough to please
There Hould is a request I and 11 making
mr Rossevelt picture (sons) of their each of the boysof
plate to again send to our president in
so we could make up a service star
that in service uniforms
the appreciation in his keeping our country
Democracy we want it to be
from him before one as the last one was stolen
also a Copy of the letter we received
when the home was hung larized and this
time it would he put away for safe helping
Thanking you very much I Bemain
of modern art Horks sincerely yours
1620 m. St. Louis
George I Oraved
Chicago all
MAX MANDEL
to
June 6, 1942
m
9'
e
My dear Mr. Mandel:
Many thanks, in the President's behalf,
for your kind thought of him. Your friendly act
in presenting to him the folder which accompanied
your note of June fifth is indeed appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
Max Mandel, Esq.,
1225 Broadway,
New York, N. Y.
cd
Victory
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MAX MANDEL
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR Hosiery & Underwear
Thank
1225 BROADWAY . NEW YORK, N.Y.
MURRAY HILL 3-3415
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office
to
June 3rd 1942
How Pres. F.D. Roosevelt
W as hing ton
DC.
Honerable Sir:-
It is indeed a
pleas are to hair you on my
mailing ing list.
Yours for Victory,
has have
MAX MANDEL
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR
Hosiery & Underwear
1225 BROADWAY. NEW YORK, N.Y.
MURRAY HILL 3 - 3415
WEARE ALL OUT FOR VICTORY
BUY U. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS AND STAMPS
I am pleased to enclose a folder with
my compliments, for your Stamp Book.
DO YOUR PART!
Buy your stamps today, tomorrow, and
every day.
have MAX hand MANDEL
ANDERSON, Miss Margaret - Editor
COMMON GROUND
New York, N. Y.
May 26, 1942.
Letter to the President saying she was forwarding the summer
issue of the magazine calling his attention to a group of photographs by Alexander Alland
on "Freedom of Wership". Sent to the Study. Ack.-6/4/42.
See P.P.F. 9- C
mef.
Security
P.P.S.
9-m
(magazine)
President
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June 3, 1942
P.P.F.
q-m
My dear Mr. Wilson:
It was indeed thoughtful of
you to write the President as you did
on May twenty-ninth. He is happy to have
P.P.
an inscribed picture of the Cedar Bayou
Methodist Church and also appreciates
your kindness in sending him the booklet
and clipping. I am sure you know how
much your prayerful wishes mean to him.
Very sincerely yours,
M. H. MCINTYRE
Secretary to the President
X
Reverend Terry Mason,
The Methodist Church,
Cedar Bayou,
Texas.
cb
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Bayou
sk; to
HODIST CHURCH
( WILSON, PASTOR
BAYOU, TEXAS
pB
May 29, 1942.
T.A.
Roosevelt,
use,
ston, D. C.
Mr.
dent:
eply grateful to you for the inspiring
tanding and encouragement which you sent
community in response to my recent letter.
of nothing SO reassuring now as to find
scious man in the White House, for there
hen the right kind of leadership was SO
1 nope you will not mind my having published ex-
cerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas
J. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.
You will find these in the attached booklet, which
also contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was
delivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who
was born and raised here at Cedar Bayou.
As he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can
be the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its
first chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;
for certainly God has matched us with this hour.
May He bless you and keep you.
Sincerely yours,
Jarry Wilson
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ack.
Mis then
RCH
ch
To dispone of picture B.B.
May 29, 1942.
My Dear Mr. President:
I am deeply grateful to you for the inspiring
message of understanding and encouragement which you sent
to me and to our community in response to my recent letter.
I know of nothing SO reassuring now as to find
a spiritually conscious man in the White House, for there
was never a time when the right kind of leadership was SO
necessary.
I hope you will not mind my having published ex-
cerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas
J. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.
You will find these in the attached booklet, which
also contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was
delivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who
was born and raised here at Cedar Bayou.
As he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can
be the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its
first chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;
for certainly God has matched us with this hour.
May He bless you and keep you.
Sincerely yours,
Jarry Wilson
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Inscribed picture of the Cedar Bayou
Methodist Church on stripping desk; to
ack.
be attached to file.
HODIST CHURCH
Y WILSON, PASTOR
R BAYOU, TEXAS
May 29, 1942.
Roosevelt,
The white House,
Washington, D. C.
My Dear Mr. President:
I am deeply grateful to you for the inspiring
message of understanding and encouragement which you sent
to me and to our community in response to my recent letter.
I know of nothing SO reassuring now as to find
a spiritually conscious man in the White House, for there
was never a time when the right kind of leadership was SO
necessary.
I hope you will not mind my having published ex-
cerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas
J. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.
You will find these in the attached booklet, which
also contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was
delivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who
was born and raised here at Cedar Bayou .
As he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can
be the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its
first chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;
for certainly God has matched us with this hour.
May He bless you and keep you.
Sincerely yours,
Jerry Wilson
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ack.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
TERRY WILSON, PASTOR
CEDAR bayou, TEXAS
May 29, 1942.
The Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, D. C.
My Dear Mr. President:
I am deeply grateful to you for the inspiring
message of understanding and encouragement which you sent
to me and to our community in response to my recent letter.
I know of nothing so reassuring now as to find
a spiritually conscious man in the White House, for there
was never a time when the right kind of leadership was SO
necessary.
I hope you will not mind my having published ex-
cerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas
J. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.
You will find these in the attached booklet, which
also contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was
delivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who
was born and raised here at Cedar Bayou.
As he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can
be the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its
first chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;
for certainly God has matched us with this hour.
May He bless you and keep you.
Sincerely yours,
Jarry Wilson
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A
Tuesday, May 19, 1942
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Cedar Bayou Church Opens
this important milestone in your
church's history is a forerunner
of many future years of useful
Where $6000 Carillon Was Dedicated
T.
service.
Pr
2-Year Centennial Program
The note from Mr. Jones read:
"We cannot forget the spiritual
values which we, as a nation, have
By
supported since its founding. The
Dall
forces arrayed against us have
price
Carillon Presentation Is High Light of Day's
shown by their actions that they
are entirely irreligious. Ameri-
Price
Program.
cans, regardless of church affilia-
istered
tions, have always been imbued
forme
with faith in God. It is my hope
busine
that the affirmation of this belief,
More than 1100 South Texans
at Te:
native of Cedar Bayou, a New
which has taken place in a small
Sunday participated in the day-
York business executive for the
Texas community, will spread
Doc
long program marking the start
last 25 years, who dedicated the
throughout the land."
regula
of a two-year program of the cen-
instrument to John M Kilgore, a
McNutt's message stated: "My
tennial of the Cedar Bayou Meth-
member of the church 54 years,
sentiments of appreciation and
ing
odist Church, established 98 years
now chairman of the board of
gratitude for the forthright and
ago.
stewards, and superintendent of
active part taken by the church
was
Highlight of the afternoon pro-
congregation of Cedar Bayou in
ness
the Sunday school for 35 years.
gram was the presentation of a
The theme of the all-day serv-
support of the world-wide strug-
ice, "Together in Freedom's Holy
gle for freedom in which we are
$6000 carillon by J. Austin Smith,
Ho
Cause," won national recogntion
now engaged. It was in the small
Ned
in laudatory comment by letter
towns and country crossroads of
been
and wire from President Franklin
this nation that the spirit of de-
major
D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
mocracy first took root. There it
Doesn't it seem
velt, Jesse H. Jones, secretary of
has been nurtured and strength-
commerce; Paul V. McNutt, ad-
ened throughout our history. To
ministrator of the Federal Security
them. today, we look for unwaver-
ALL-VECETABLE more
Agency; Bishop A. Frank Smith
ing faith and firm conviction in
of the Methodist Church, Col. Ike
the promise of freedom for the
Ashburn, director of civilian de-
dignity of man. Your dedication
fense in Harris County; Senators
to the cause of freedom and hu-
Harold H. Burton of Ohio and W.
manity should serve as an inspi-
Lee O'Daniel of Texas, and Frank
ration to all people of faith in
E. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y.,
this country and as a model for
In NR (Nature's Remedy) Tablets,
publisher of a chain of Eastern
their emulation."
there are по chemicals, no minerals, no
newspapers.
Rev. F. M. Richardson, super-
phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are dif-
intendent of the Galveston district
ferent-act different. Purely vegetable-a
President Sends Message.
of Methodist churches, preached
combination of 10 vegetable ingredients
formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated
President Roosevelt's letter re-
for both the morning and evening
services of the church.
or candy coated, their action is depend-
minded "we still need the spirit
able, thorough, yet gentle, as millions
of NR's have proved. Get a 25 box
of the old Texas pioneers, which
Basket Lunch.
today
or larger economy size.
is but another word for missionary
At noon members of the con-
The Cedar Bayou Methodist Church, where a $6000 carillon was
zeal. I am sure the sacrifices made
gregation and their guests took
dedicated Sunday. The carillon was presented to the church by
LAXATIVE
by the founders of your church
part in a basket picnic lunch
J. Austin Smith of New York City, a native of Cedar Bayou, in
will inspire their sipiritual de-
spread in a grove of moss-fes-
honor of John M. Kilgore, who has been a member of the church
Now...
scendants to carry on without fal-
tooned oak trees on the lawn of
for 54 years. The church is 98 years old.
25
CANDY
tering in doing the will of the
the Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge,
Master."
which adjoins the church ground.
facture of all distilled and malt
COATED
Mrs. Roosevelt's wire read:
Young and old alike attended
liquors and beverages for the du-
WICKARD REJECTS
"Please extend my congratula-
or REGULAR!
the all-day service, the oldest
ration of the war."
tions and best wishes to all par-
being Mrs. Annie E. Hunt, who
NR TO-NIGHT; TOMORROW ALRIGHT
ticipants in the centennial cele-
has passed her eighty-ninth birth-
History of Democracy Traced.
TEXAS PLEA FOR
bration of your church. I hope
day. Dressed in a bright blue
In his dedicatory address, Smith
dress, Mrs. Hunt greeted many
traced the history of democracy
friends, and reminded some of the
through its struggles and conflicts
COTTON INCREASE
young men she had known their
down through the ages from its
grandfathers.
beginning in the teachings of Jesus
The SIMPLE way to get
The occasion was marked by
Christ, and its development in
By Associated Press.
the old-time Methodist fellowship:
America.
Washington, May 19.-Secretary
cousins, uncles and aunts visiting
"America will not fail." Smith
CASH for
each other, some for the first time
challenged, "as long as the spirit
Wickard, at a conference with
in years, with friends renewing
of democracy is symbolized by a
representatives of Texas, Okla-
old acquaintances. Proud mothers
man with a Bible in one hand and
homa and New Mexico cotton
exhibited their latest babies to
a gun in the other.
growers, turned down their plea
equally proud kin seeing them for
He lauded Kilgore as "a man of
for increased acreage allotments
the first time,
unselfish devotion to his church,
but approved a plan to carry the
The perennial dry issue was
Hospital Bills
Educational Expense
a man who possesses a philosophy
problem directly to President
championed by Rev. Wharton Gil-
as strong as the rock of ages," and
Roosevelt.
Consolidation of Debts
Paying Taxes
ette of La Porte. He circulated
praised him as "one of the out-
Burris Jackson of Hillsboro,
two petitions at the meeting, one
standing Methodist laymen in the
chairman of the Texas state-wide
Repair on Car or Home
Other Worthy Purposes
asking for approval of the Shep-
state."
cotton committee, said Wickard
pard bill "to provide for the com-
Flag-raising ceremonies at the
appeared sympathetic toward their
Loans from Fifty to Three Hundred Dollars
mon defense by prohibiting the
new 100-foot flagpole given the
request but informed them that
sale of all intoxicating beverages
church closed the program late in
the farm law prevented him from
PERSONAL LOAN DEPARTMENT
and the suppression of vice in and
the afternoon. Joe Kilgore pulled
transferring acreage allotments
near all military training centers
on the ropes to raise the huge
and naval establishments," and the
from growers who failed to plant
American flag, and below it, a
other addressed to President
their entire quotas to other grow-
Christian banner, while the as-
ers who wanted to plant more
Roosevelt.
sembled throng, led by Walter
than their allotted number of
Dry Petition Sent President.
Jenkins, sang the Star-Spangled
acres.
Banner.
The cottonmen agreed that no
The petition addressed to Presi-
help appeared possible from this
SAVINGS
dent Roosevelt carried the legend,
FURNISHED ROOMS-
source, said Jackson, but contend-
"We, the undersigned citizens of
Advantageously located for your
ed that the secretary of agricul-
INSURED
AND BUILDING ASSK.
Texas, respectfully request Frank-
convenience, can be quickly and
ture could grant their request by
lin Delano Roosevelt, president of
easily selected in The Chronicle's
ordering an increase in the na-
GIBRALTAR BUILDING
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
the United States, to declare a
Free Room Rental Bureau. At our
tional acreage allotment.
prohibition of the sale and manu-
front counter, Travis at Texas.
SEAMAN INJURED IN
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Edward Scherck
Parent
Moody to Launch
LETTER-GRAPH
Teacher
His Campaign At
Associations
His Old Home Town
Add a
Take:
Letter
Rearrange and Have:
By Associated Press.
Seventy-five-dollar scholarships
RAMBLE
To climb crawlingly
Austin, May 19.-Dan Moody,
will be awarded to one senior high
one-time youngest. governor of
schoolboy and one senior high
SONNET
Chants
Texas, announced he would start
schoolgirl at the regular meeting
FRIED
Ardent; zealous
his stump speech campaign for the
of the Houston Council of Parent-
United States senate Saturday
OATS
Very small quantities
night in Taylor, his old home
Teacher Associations Thursday at
town.
10 a.m. at the Y. W. C. A.
RUINS
Becomes liable to
The redheaded attorney, now a
Eligibility of students is based
The letters added will spell, from top to bottom, a word meaning
resident of Austin, recalled that
on three factors: Twenty-five per
RELATING TO COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.
it was in Taylor in 1926 that he
Answer tomorrow.
launched his successful campaign
cent for personality and potential
against Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson,
leadership, 25 per cent for school
Yesterday's key word: CIVIL.
then governor.
citizenship and 50 per cent for
Yesterday's results: COWLS, INCENTIVE, VIEWS, VARIED,
The senatorial candidate assert-
ALLSPICE.
scholarship, with an average of B
ed he would call upon his oppo-
or better required. The scholar-
nents, Senator W. Lee O'Daniel
and former Governor James V.
ship is to be used in the next
Unitarian Laymen
dent: George I. McFerron, vice
president; J. T. Lassiter, secretary,
Allred, to clarify their attitude to-
term of college.
Participants for this year are:
Hold Annual Dinner
and M. K. Briggs. treasurer.
ward the 40-hour work week.
Milby, Joyce Modisett and Allen
Drew Auxiliary.
Freitag; Sam Houston, Martha La
ROOMS EVERYWHERE.
Rue and Robert Tesoro: San Ja-
Alfred W. Drew Auxiliary No. 6,
cinto, Lola Beth Buckley and
The Laymen's League of the
But where? At The Chronicle's
to United Spanish War Veterans
First Unitarian Church held its
Lawrence Carnes: Davis, Evelyn
Free Room Rental Bureau. We
will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in
Cobb and Edward Koehl; Austin,
annual banquet and election of
will help you find exactly the room
the old Y. M. C. A. Building. A
Betty Lou Bates and William
officers Monday night at the Ben
short business session will be fol-
Milam Hotel.
you want. Call at our front coun-
Scruggs; Lamar, Roselyn Huwieler
lowed by a social hour with re-
W.D. Krupke was elected presi-
ter, Travis at Texas.
and Preston Frazier; Reagan,
freshments served.
Gladys Kopecky and Garvin Ber-
ry. The students and their prin-
27th ANNIVERSARY FEATURES
cipals are asked to be at the coun-
cil meeting, where the name of
one boy and one girl will be
drawn.
Mrs. H. O. Johnson, chairman of
the high school loan fund, will
have charge of the program. Mrs.
Charles Haden will speak on the
history of the loan fund and Mrs.
J. H. Clare. president of council,
will present the scholarships to
JACKET-DRESS JOYS!
the winners. Serving with Mrs.
-Photo by Gittings.
Johnson on the committee are
k has gone to Harrisburg, Pa., to join
Mrs. Clare, Mrs. Haden, Mrs. P.
stationed there.
J. Dulin, J. O. Webl and A. G.
YES. RAVE REDINGOTES!
Bauguss.
Wil-
perform the ceremony and the
Following the student program,
wedding music will be given by
Mrs. Ruth Beam of the Crime Pre-
ng.
sun
Robert Owen, organist.
vention Bureau will speak and
with
Mrs. John H. Cochran and Mrs.
Mrs. Dulin will report the na-
LONG COAT SHEERS!
sage
G. W. Cochran entertained Mon-
tional convention. Mrs. C. R. Lar-
om's
day night with a dinner party at
imer, Eleventh District president,
repe
the Ship Ahoy for members of
will install the council officers for
ces-
the families. The table was graced
the coming year.
anna
Mrs. J. V. Latham, director of
EVEN SHADOW-HOUR BLACKS!
by an equa bowl in which was
floated pink blossoms.
public welfare, has arranged with
re-
A recent compliment for Miss
the utility division of the Office of
wick
Cochran was a shower given by
Civilian Defense to show a film
hted
Mrs. E. A. Milton.
on "black-outs" immediately fol-
nde-
lowing the meeting.
uble
Chevy Chase Riding Club.
COOL RAYON JERSEY PRINTS!
em-
Woodrow Wilson P.-T. A. will
Chevy Chase Riding Club will
en-
meet Wednesday, at Bill Williams'
hold its Mayfete at 5:45 p.m. Wed-
ide's
Chicken House, following the ride
nesday at the school.
As-
from 6 to 7 p.m. Plans for a de-
ames
Past Chiefs.
fense party will be discussed.
Cook,
Past Chiefs Club of Houston
VACATION LOVE WOOL KNITS!
Houston Pen Women.
Temple No. 9, T Pythian Sisters,
asen,
meets at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday
and
New officers of the Houston Pen
with Mrs. H. J. Burke, 7845 Day-
Women installed recently were
ton. A covered dish luncheon will
later
Mesdames V. M. Craven, presi-
be served.
hern
dent; F. J. Lennon and Lillian
SPLASH PRINTS! WHITE ICED DARKS!
for
Gaisford, vice presidents; Frank
Mothers Club.
hite
Clappert and Clara Wampler, sec-
Mothers Club of First Methodist
red
retaries. Alfred Gregory, treasurer,
Church will hold a brunch at 10:30
Both
and L. W. Sackett, historian. Mrs.
a.m. Wednesday at the church.
Ola H. Beaubien, outgoing presi-
MANY SUMMER SUIT-DRESSES!
rad-
Mrs. S. J. Granger is hostess chair-
Out-
dent, was presented with a lit-
man and a summary of the year's
Mrs.
erary reference book and a num-
work with an installation of offi-
Mr.
ber of personal gifts. In the an-
cers will be held.
ealy
nual literary contest awards Ida
LINEN COAT DRESSES!
and
B. Botts won first and second
Heights Camp, R. N. A.
lgin.
places in poetry; Erna Beth Fox-
Heights Camp. Royal Neighbors
worth, first, and Elizabeth Moore,
of America, will hold memorial
second in fiction, and Elizabeth
ancy
services at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the
Moore first and Mrs. Beaubien,
Woodmen of the World Hall 2102
MOST ANY COLOR!
WE MUST
time
ANSWER CAIN'S
QUESTION
THE METHODIST CHURCH
TERRY WILSON, PASTOR
CEDAR BAYOU, TEXAS
"Together in Freedom's holy Cause"
To Our Members And Our
Friends of All Faiths:
Every time J. Austin Smith has touched
my life it has made me a better man and a
better preacher.
Though I seldom yield my pulpit to any-
one, I urged him to come all the way from
his home in New York to make an inter-faith
address on the community occasion of the in-
auguration of our centennial activities. His
roots being here, he came.
His message merits perpetuation. It is
not only a formula for victory but a formula
for living.
For that reason I have caused it to be
printed as one of the documents we will pass
on to posterity in a sealed time capsule to
be opened when this church celebrates its
sesquicentennial in 1994.
You will find the message, "We Have Got
to Answer Cain's Question", on the following
pages. I commend it to all Americans of all
faiths in all walks of life.
May God bless you and keep you.
Arry Pastor Nilson
the
"It was in the small towns and country cross-roads it has been of this Nation that faith
spirit ened of throughout democracy our first history. took root. To them, There today, freedom we for the Paul V. McNutt. man.
and firm conviction in the promise of
the teachings of Jesus were living in the hearts of His followers.
WHATEVER WE may have thought this war was about in
And they set in motion every means dictators and emperors and
the beginning, it is crystal clear now that it is a struggle to the
vandals and barbarians could devise to extinguish the basic idea
death between two ways of life as far apart as the poles.
of Christianity from the face of the earth.
One of them grows out of the liberated will of the people;
A thousand years later the followers of the teachings of
the other is an imposition upon the will of the people.
Jesus, writhing from centuries of persecution and spiritual if not
One of them is based upon the dignity and sacredness of
physical slavery, rose up in a crusade of resistance. They had
human personality as a living temple of God; the other upon the
been denied the protection of the law. Their bibles and religious
pagan ideology of human subjugation by force.
writings had been confiscated and destroyed. Their desire for
There was never a time in our lives when it was SO necessary,
peace in a world that knew no peace, their Christian humility of
spirit in a world of brutal pagan force, were qualities their per-
even at the cost of being academic, that we understand the causes
secutors had twisted and distorted to scornfully picture them as
of this struggle; that we refresh our memories about where our
cowards without the courage to fight for their convictions. And
roots are, and where our strength is. For it is only in this way
now, as a final degrading attempt to break their spirit with shame,
that we shall find the formula for victory and be able to go ahead
the Holy Sepulchre was desecrated.
"Together in Freedom's Holy Cause."
That was the Pearl Harbor of the eleventh century. The
There is nothing new about this struggle. It started when
spirit of Christian freedom blazed, a wave of righteous indignation
the totalitarian world of 2,000 years ago rocked under the impact
swept the Western World, and popular Christianity discovered
of the then revolutionary teachings of Jesus, and the dictators
itself for the first time. For then and there a thousand years of
of that day realized that between them and Jesus there was no
Christian teaching bore fruit in the form of a spirit-the victory-
choice Jesus What had but stirred that they either the did hitherto not He realize or they enslaved then should will was perish. of that the the common teachings people of
compelling spirit of oneness, of unity, of cooperation, exercised
with the conscious power that the wrong shall fail and the right
prevail.
in a way that was to sway history, have the profoundest effect
They marched into the teeth of forces that massacred them.
upon all the subsequent political and social life of mankind, spread
If ever there was an example of the power of the liberated spirit
in the world a new respect for man as man, and constitute the
of man over the implements of man this is it. The streets of
foundations of a completely new way of life.
They did not realize that, but they soon recognized that
The battle of the dictators is, and always has been, against a
Jerusalem flowed with blood until men on horseback were splashed
free way of life. As long as a free way of life exists anywhere in
with it. But they kept coming-these men of faith-for they never
the world they must attack it. The attack may be military, it may
saw the shadows of doubt and fear. When they fell they fell
be political, it may be economic. But if ever it stops while liberty
forward, and they rose with a singleness of purpose and a unity
lasts anywhere in the world, including especially this America of
of purpose which kept the light before them and the shadows
ours, the citadel of freedom, the dictators will fail.
Thus they must attack, and they do attack, not merely the
behind them. And they won.
Such a widespread uprising of the common people in rela-
institutions of freedom but the very residence of freedom-the
tion to a single idea in the history of the world. It was
liberated human will; and the very source of freedom-the church
response to a and was dominant new religion which promised mankind
of Christ. To win, they must destroy both. That is what they are
control over new its decisions, its plans, its destiny; a religion which a
trying to do now.
injected into the of something stronger than death,
Let those who doubt that, face the fact that in Poland, to
banishment of fear, spirit man which knew no defeat, a splendor
take only one of many examples, 631 churches, 454 chapels, and
like the vision of an assurance It not have been the birth of modern the
253 convents and religious edifices, have been destroyed or closed
in two provinces alone, and three-quarters of the population have
democracy-this a first grail. may of the independent spirit of was
been deprived of the services of the church even on the death bed.
common there stirring be no doubt whatever that it any
Let them face the fact that to destroy even the possibility
directly inspired people-but by the can of Jesus; nor can there be time.
of future Christian leadership 25,000 religious leaders and others
doubt that at that time modern teachings democracy stirred for the first
noted for social activities have been murdered in cold blood.
Let them face the fact that to insure broken spirits, as well
as present demoralization and future degradation, Polish women
ALL thousand-year-lons.herige example, of
not subservient enough to the conquerors are sent to houses of
of the THIS is but one example, a of life paid for to
prostitution, alcohol is forced upon peasants as payment for grain,
freedom price the founders of our way of the vicious extremes break
no classical or patriotic music is permitted, every monument,
which pagan we enjoy intolerance today; went an example even in the middle ages to
every document, every Polish culture, is being destroyed, the press
is entirely wiped out, and there is no longer a single school.
the human will of man.
For that-human spirit and subjugate freedom-is the all that they were fighting
about then. It is all that we are fighting about now.
A
ND OUT of it all came a tiny ship. God's troubadors must
And let them face the terrorizing fact that 2,000,000 Poles
have sung peans of praise the day she landed at Plymouth Rock.
have been lifted bodily from their homes in the dead of night
For here, again, was something which had never occurred before
without notice. They are permitted to pack one suitcase or parcel,
in the history of the world. Just as the teachings of Jesus liberated
then locked in cattle cars. Before leaving, they are forced to
the spirit of mankind and produced a stirring of modern democ-
prepare their homes for the arrival of the people who are to live
racy in the eleventh century, SO now they were to produce the
in them-their self-proclaimed superiors-and leave the keys hang'
birth of democracy. A new nation was about to be born-not
ing on the door knob. They never see their homes again.
for greed, not by conquering hordes, not by force of arms-but
Can you see any difference between the objectives of this
by simple men of faith who came searching for a land in which,
conflict and the objectives of the eleventh century conflict? Isn't
for the first time in their lives, they could live the freedom of a
it clear that the aim still is to extinguish from the face of the earth
new and liberated religion.
the teachings and influences of Jesus? Isn't it clear that the dic-
Is it any wonder that the Mayflower arrived safely? Think
tators of today, like those of two thousand years ago, recognize
of it! Forty-one men and their families and all their worldly goods
that the liberated spirit of mankind rose from and exists only by
crowded into a tiny ship out on the North Atlantic for 63 days,
virtue of those teachings?
including the usually stormy month of September! A ship of only
What has happened to Poland is not an isolated case. It is
180 tons, SO small she could have been stored away in a corner
typical of what happens, typical of the first thing that happens,
of the 40,000-ton Titanic which later was to be swallowed up
in every country when dictators conquer. It is an example of
by that same North Atlantic. They believed in Divine Providence,
these men of faith, and Divine Providence looked after them, both
countries-which, what people can were happen only to a a country-what little while ago has were happened free and to here." many their
then and later.
No other nation on earth has its roots in such soil. Is it any
truth The awful saying, truth even is that as it you did and happen I, "It there. can't And happen the awful
wonder that no other nation on earth has ever prospered SO rapidly
and done SO much for SO many in SO short a time?
the has. For is that six hundred it can happen years after here. the It eleventh can happen century anywhere, stirring and of
And let us get it clearly in mind that they did not come here
spirit of freedom it happened all over Christendom; the drums
seeking a greater freedom than they could have had in the old
of paganism echoed all over Europe and the land was drenched
world. They saw no prospect of religious freedom of any kind in
with a river of blood.
We need to remember that freedom, as the Founding Fathers
that world. At that time the 30-year war in Germany had already
conceived it, had nothing to do with government or politics, for
started. France was in trouble which was to produce a revolution.
they and theirs remained loyal to Britain for the next 156 years.
The 48-year rebellion and revolution in England was in the mak-
It had nothing to do with the press, or speech, or assembly,
ing, and the edict of free worship was still 68 years away.
for at first there were not enough people to make any difference.
No, these men left no doubt about why they came. It was to
They came to live the freedom of a new and liberated
live a life in which God was the center. They said SO in the May'
religion, and freedom was a word which, to them, expressed the
flower Compact in these words: "In the name of God, Amen.
teachings of Jesus.
We, having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement
of Christian faith
We need to remember that their faith sprung from within
a voyage
doe
solemnly and mu-
themselves-from the realities of the church-not from edifices,
tually in the presence of God covenant and combine ourselves
together "
for they had none for a long time. Nor did they have Sunday
It was the reality of that kind of faith which put a bible in
Schools, either then or for the next 117 years.
one hand and a gun in the other and gave them the courage to
Yet, in spite of these handicaps, by the spiritual integrity of
face and ungrudgingly bear hardships almost inconceivable to us,
their homes-by lessons handed down from father to son in the
and yet to love America as a land SO well they could think of
home-they wove the realities of their faith into the thought
her as a song-to be sung together.¹
pattern of succeeding generations.
And gave them the practical sense to know that even an
For example, 156 years after the Mayflower Compact, Patrick
Indian understood that in unity there is strength. It was the
Henry, by the realities of the same kind of faith, put immortal
reality of that kind of faith which gave their America the God-
vitality into his speech, and the practicality of invincible resolu-
Country-and-Me courage to declare its independence and rise up
tion into the hearts of the people with such language as this:
157 years later as an invincible David to put down a Goliath.
"Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means
And the practical tolerance to conclude a lasting treaty of
which the God of nature hath placed in our power
people
peace, based upon their declaration that they held all the rest of
armed in the holy cause of liberty
are invincible
There
mankind "enemies in war, in peace friends."
is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations
Is
And the practical tolerance to conclude another lasting peace
life so dear, or peace SO sweet, as to be purchased at the price
nearly a hundred years later with "malice toward none."
1 America was written by a minister and first sung in a Sunday School.
war, in peace friends"-perhaps the slogan "a war to end war"
of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God!
give me
would have lived.
liberty or give me death."
In short, the daily conduct of our nation's founders was
As another example, our forefathers stated that the purpose
directed by an inner light of unifying faith-their passionate belief
of the Declaration of Independence was to enable the people to
in themselves and supreme confidence in the presence of God-
assume a "station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God
which naturally determined their behaviour as a people, and
entitle them."
naturally conditioned them for shock, whether economic, military,
They said men were "endowed by their creator" with the
or otherwise.
inalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And that faith, that unifying faith of the individual, was
They appealed "to the Supreme Judge of the world for the
reflected in the aggregate spirit of their communities; and this com-
rectitude of our intentions." And, "with a firm reliance on the
munity spirit became the cohesive spirit of democratic America,
for these communities were America.
protection of Divine Providence," they pledged their lives, for
tunes and sacred honor.
In view of this language, what a natural thing it is to see
THAT IS our heritage. That is where our roots are. That is
George Washington on his knees before his God at Valley Forge-
what President Roosevelt was talking about the other night when
and how different this picture from those which have been left to
he told us our forefathers left a model for the moral stamina we
us by wars of our times.
must have to defend and perpetuate our free way of life. That
is the United States of America which our Texas forefathers
As still another example of how they projected their faith
looked at a hundred years ago when they met on this very spot
into succeeding generations, this one 243 years after the May'
to found this church in a log cabin.
flower Compact, we find "malice toward none" in the very life
We Americans might look at that picture of democracy at
of our most tragic immortal who prayed at Gettysburg, "That this
work a hundred years ago and quite justifiably say that this nation
nation, under God, shall have a new birth," and who closed the
then represented the culminating result of 1,842 years of struggle
Emancipation Proclamation by invoking upon it the gracious
to find and live the free way of life.
favor of Almighty God."
Now, since everything is relative, is there any other picture
If the Versailles Treaty had been concluded in this spirit-
with which we can compare this one? Indeed, there is.
and with each participant holding "The rest of mankind enemies in
It is not limited to a mere 1,842 years. It is a 7,000-year
And can we have any doubt at all that this liberation resulted
just as directly from the teachings of Jesus?
panorama which stretches from the quasi-civilized communities
If we believe that-and history leaves no room at all to believe
of the Sumerians down through the Egyptian Empire, the splendor
anything else-then we have got to believe that the one and only
of Greece, the science of Alexandria, and the glory of the Roman
great world-wide organization to which we can turn now for the
Empire up to the birth of Jesus when Augustus Caesar was
strength and inspiration and moral stamina to defend and nurture
emperor. Its culminating result, as far as mankind was concerned,
and perpetuate a free way of life is the Church itself.
was slavery for the common people! Here's how the historian
If we, as church people, fail now to face that fact, and fail
pictures it:
to act upon it with all the fervor of our beings, then I say to you
"When we begin to realize how essentially
the Roman
that just as surely as the sun comes up tomorrow morning democ-
Empire
was a slave state and how small was the minority who
racy as our forefathers conceived and lived it will perish.
had any pride or freedom in their lives, we lay our hands on the
But, we are told, the churches today are quite different from
clues to its decay and collapse. There was little of what we call
what they were a hundred years ago. We are told they have
family life, few homes of temperate living
The free will and
slipped. We are told they have failed us. But have they? Or have
the free mind were nowhere to be found. The great roads, the
we failed them? If the Church "is but an echo of our own voices,"
ruins of splendid buildings, the tradition of law and power it left
as some say, shall we blame the preachers, and let it go at that?
Or shall we look to ourselves for some of the fault?
for the astonishment of succeeding generations must not conceal
It is true that our flame of faith was burning brighter a hun-
from us that all its outer splendor was built upon thwarted wills,
dred years ago than it ever had before, or, perhaps, ever has since.
stifled intelligence, and crippled perverted desires. Athens decayed
It is just as true, and this is most significant, that democracy was
under the Roman sceptre. The science of Alexandria decayed.
as nearly in full bloom then as it ever had been or ever has been
The spirit of man, it seemed, was decaying in those days."
since. It, therefore, is true that a change in the color and pattern
There are our two pictures, one before and one after the
and texture of our national life has taken place.
world felt the impact of Jesus' doctrine of the Fatherhood of God
But none of this is due to any slipping or failure of the Church.
and the brotherhood of man. Looking at them in the light of the
And now I am speaking of the realities of the Church, not of men
record of the Christian era, can we doubt for a single instant that
and edifices; for the realities of the Church, the realities of religion,
democracy sprung directly from the liberated spirit of mankind?
America had breathed, and democracy, still in short britches,
reside in the hearts of men. These are realities which we can fail,
now was to feel the surge of materialism.
but which never will fail us.
The response to that surge amazed the civilized world. It
The Golden Age dawned. That-plus the fact that we ducked
proclaimed America the cradle of democracy, the birthplace of
Cain's question-is what caused the change, the deterioration, in
freedom, and the land of golden opportunity where every mother's
the spiritual and consequently the democratic vitality of our na
son had a chance not only to be president but to have six silk
tional life. Those are the reasons why the face of the world is
shirts, two chickens in the pot, and a car in the garage.
being turned red by the fever of war; the reasons why we are in
And it produced a tide of immigration swirling in from every
double jeopardy, from a menace without as well as from a menace
direction, bringing the good and the bad, to help skyrocket the
within.
then population of 17,000,000 gained in 224 years, to 130,000,000
America, this eager and richly endowed youngster, stood
in the next hundred years; and, not without risk of tinge, to make
at the threshold of a new and challenging age. Her boundaries
America the melting pot of the world.
had expanded to encompass the larger part of a continent. There
No, there is no question about it, democracy, this precocious
was danger in this, for, as history shows, the absence of com
youngster, responded to the surge of materialism and did a whale
of a building job. Nothing that was ever done by any nation under
munication and transportation facilities always had resulted in the
any form of government anywhere even remotely approaches it.
breaking up of large areas into separate nations, eventually to
Yet-something went wrong. What are we going to do
war with each other.
about it? Shall we blame the physician for the disease and let
But-and was this Divine Providence again?-the telegraph
the patient die? Shall we perform an amputation and cripple him
and the railroad were here by then to bind that new nation in a
for life? Or shall we frankly recognize the fault and cure it?
unifying network of steel. And, to speed the development and
Our answer to those questions will have an impact upon
use of these new facilities, the rich valleys of the west were beckon
future generations. And by "our" answer, I mean the answer of
ing, the discovery of gold in California, and of oil in Pennsylvania,
this country church community right here at Cedar Bayou. For,
was just around the corner; and in the offing stood the stimulating
don't forget this, the United States of America was born out of
genius of Bell and Edison and Ford.
communities just like this one. And don't forget either that this
The dare of the unknown, the challenge of a new horizon,
country community still is typical of the real America; and that,
the spirit of the pioneer - all these were at work. Industrial
in the aggregate, communities like this, standing together, can
gate the sacred responsibilities of parenthood by expecting a half
save her not only from the greed of dictators, but, equally as
hour of Sunday School to balance all other influences of the
important, from the dangers of old cleavages and internal problems
entire week in the lives of these coming men and women of
America.
which will be upon us the minute this war is over. And I don't
know any other way she can be saved. The purple mountains of
The institution of the hickory switch also was abrogated.
It used to be that a switching at school meant another one at
materialism may look very reassuring, but America's roots and
home. Now it calls for a parental screech that makes headlines in
her salvation are in these spiritually fertile valleys of Beulah land.
the newspapers.
Now we all know what went wrong in our building operation.
The neglect of spiritual values extended also to our schools.
We concentrated upon producing things and gettings things to
Anti-religion can be taught in them, and many of our universities
the neglect of those spiritual values which were SO woven into
are called "hot-beds of atheism." But religion cannot be taught
the thought process of America's designers they became an inner
in them. We divorce religion from education. Did our Forefathers
light which directed the whole force of their lives and gave
do that? Perhaps the answer is that Harvard as well as Yale
meaning to their words and substance to their acts, if not immor
and Princeton all were begun primarily to educate young men
tality to both.
for the ministry.
As a result of this neglect, in the midst of our building
And they wrote in their copybooks that honesty is the best
operations our economic flood caught us unconditioned for shock
policy. We stopped doing that and witnessed the confidence-
and possessed of everything but an Ark. When the things we
shattering spectacle of greed and bribery with black bags and
had gotten and counted on for our security began to disappear
tin boxes and fake loans clawing at our very citadels of integrity-
we had nothing left to hang on to. And when our banking system
and getting in to debauch officials and destroy our faith in
tottered and bread lines formed we felt chaos instead of the
leadership.
undergirding faith of our fathers inside ourselves.
The neglect extended to our churches. In the earlier days
The effect of this neglect was not limited to economic life.
the church was not only the most important influence in the
It extended to our homes. Our forefathers perpetuated their faith
community, but on the skyline it was the biggest thing in sight.
in their daily home life. To entirely too many Americans today
It was a hub. Community life revolved around it. Not to be in
a home is a place to sleep and sometimes eat. We go to any length
it and of it was to be suspect. We, too, worship at the biggest
to provide our children with sound bodies and minds, then abro
thing in town, but it isn't a church. Far more than half of us belong
The cry of "wolf, wolf" has turned out to be a false alarm
to no church at all. And, of those who do, most of them go to
SO often we just don't respond any more, even when the cry dies
church only twice a year, Christmas and Easter.
on a sob of desperate reality.
About the time we abandoned the institution of the hickory
In our twilight state of spiritual faith this skepticism, com-
switch for our children, we abandoned the equally wholesome idea
bined with recent economic disillusionment, distrust of the present,
that our preachers could and should verbally step on our immoral
and uncertainty about the future, makes us vulnerable not only to
toes. It used to be that a sermon or a private talk which did that
domestic panaceas and alien cure-alls, but to subversive propa-
sent us off to repent. Now we just go into a sulk and take a swing
ganda.
at our church with an economic club by closing the purse strings.
There is in the "preaching" of the athiest and the radical a
No wonder we sometimes hear "the echo of our own voices."
fanatical zeal, an injected idealism, which has undoubted power
The wonder is that more preachers don't bend to the storm.
to win converts. There is in it also adroit recognition that the
As an overall result of our neglect, and of our own change
average mind cannot grasp abstractions; that it is moved more
in attitude, the most astute observers of our times, not only
by emotion than logic; that its instinct is to settle problems by
shibboleth rather than solution. When we hear it repeated from
clergymen but business and political leaders as well, are telling
us that "
SO many sources, some of it for the first time from our own school
We are worse off today than ever before because
the spiritual aspirations of humanity are in eclipse," that " His
children, the effect is that we are less shocked by radical proposals
until liberty-destroying ideas, which on first utterance startled
tory shows no such wholesale abandonment of respect for spiritual
values as prevails today
us, gradually take on the illusion of allure to a constantly increasing
and that "
A society of a
deteriorating morality will perish as surely as there is a law that
number of people.
lifts the tides
All these are forces of erosion which, with other forces, work
to widen and make even more dangerous old cleavages which
Does that scare us? It does not. Long experience with pressure
industrial America thus far has done more to widen than to bridge.
groups, and the extravagant statements of our politicians have
Some of them are superficial; but others are deep and they are
made us so-what-ers.
caused by ancient animosities and motives which have festered
We have been warned before-warned that if one nominee
beneath the surface SO long they are ready to break through and
was elected "grass would grow on Fifth Avenue," and heard the
resolve themselves into cult form, or into a power unit.
cry that "our country is in peril" when another nominee arose.
If we don't win this war, we won't have to worry about that.
same thing-the same decline, the same spread of materialism-
But if we win, as we must, those dangers are going to be on top
took place all over the world. As a matter of fact it had its
of us before we know it. And, because they are rooted in man's
inception in Europe about four centuries ago, long before America
inhumanity to man, unless we have the God-given wisdom to
was settled.
handle them as a process of democracy's evolution under the
About that time the rennaissance and the distant but glitter-
doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man,
ing promise of the entry of the golden age turned man's attention
we'll then do just as much damage to ourselves and to democracy
to himself and his undeveloped powers. This utopian promise
as the axis powers would do now if they could.
and the subsequent advances of science and invention dwindled
his dreams of a universe with God at the center to a world in
This is a time for us to remember that it was man's inhumanity
which he was the center, and the power theory was born.
to man-man's refusal to answer Cain's question and face the
Force-minded philosophers nurtured it for four centuries.
answer-and nothing else, that led to the disintegration of the
400-year-old Roman Empire. We are in our 322nd year. Are we
Might-craving dictators flowered it in four years. As the lightning
headed for disintegration in another 78 years?
precedes the thunder, that thought preceded and cleared the way
for a chaos which threatens to shatter the world at our feet.
That is up to us. But whatever we do, we'll do with our
For all that we have witnessed in the Europe of our era is
eyes open. For the greatest preachers of our day are telling us that
but the cumulative effect of the march of time and the practical
When a nation loses its moral sense, its decay is inevitable";
application of that thought carried to its logical conclusion.
that
It is chiefly moral deficiencies which endanger modern
Everywhere that has been done it has closed, first closed, the
nations"; that "
Atheism will undermine the foundations of
churches then broke the back of moral integrity, destroyed free-
civilization"; and that
"
When you knock away the founda-
dom, and deified brute force.
tions of Christianity you knock away the props of civilization
That was the storm which was in the making a hundred
These are recent utterances, but they all refere to ancient
years ago when this church was founded, and America stood at the
truths; the same truth that Washington was talking about when
threshold of her building era. Even then there were prophets who
he said "Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that
could see it coming. Heine was one of them. Here is his prophecy:
national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
"Christianity has occasionally calmed the brutal lust for battle,
Now, is this decline in spiritual vitality something which
but it cannot destroy its savage joy. Where once that restraining
is peculiar to or the result of democracy? Indeed, it is not. The
talisman, the Cross of Christ is broken
the
old
stone
gods
will
We must believe inside ourselves that we Americans possess
rise from unremembered ruins and Thor will leap to life at last
the capacity to make the adequate response and realize the reward,
and bring down his gigantic hammer on the gothic cathedrals
and know that working together we shall find the way-and we
This is no mere fantasy
will.
the thought always precedes the act
as the lightning the thunder-never doubt it, the hour will come."
We can know that we possess that capacity because, no
matter how low the flame of faith may be burning, it still is
burning, for the basic teachings of Jesus are a part of us.
INDEED, the hour has come. It is an hour of double jeopardy,
We possess it because the acquisitive instinct which gives
from without and from within. It presents the challenge of a
us wings to lift ourselves to the peaks of achievement carries with
cocked gun. It calls for thinking which seeks a way to respond,
it a protective instince which will blaze in defiance of those who
instead of a reason not to. It demands that precedent be laid aside,
tamper with that which is ours, once we see it as ours in the
for nothing like it ever faced us before.
sense that it immediately touches us.
We possess it because there is an inherited something in
It can be an hour of doom for our way of life. It also can be
our national blood stream which no other nation in the world
the hour that precedes a new dawn, for adequately responded to,
possesses; a presently dormant something which wisely activated
it can produce a flowering of democracy such as we have never
can stand America on her feet-united, dynamic, invincible-in
known; a full flowering, not just a material one as heretofore,
any just cause. And that's all we need to lick any menace from
but a spiritual and social flowering as well.
without or from within.
That is the reward. To realize it, we must rise up to it. For
These qualities, this capacity to adequately respond, are
democracy is a spirit. It resides in us-in our will. It can't reside
not limited to any one group. They bridge cleavages and differ-
anywhere else. It can't exist, except as we will it to. It can't
ences. They are just as common to labor and capital as they are
flower, except as we do. It can't develop, except as we do. If we
to agriculturalists and churchmen, and they are equally common
are materialistic, it will be. If we are spiritual minded and socially
to those of all creeds and denominations.
conscious, it will be. It's phenomena-the things and rights and
The rewards for such an adequate response go SO far beyond
privileges it yields, and the government and society and morality
the removal of the axis menace, which must be the first objective
now, that someday this menace may almost seem a blessing in
it produces-are but the verities of our aspirations, or of our
disguise.
neglectfulness; and they are as limitless as our dreams, or as little.
For, without it now, we would not have the white heat of
is as dangerous as a cocked gun that the church can have even a
emergency which is required to weld us together, and we would
chance to get the support it should have had long ago, that the
not possess the urge to do the deep searching inside ourselves to
ministers can have even a chance to receive both the freedom and
throw out everything less important than the survival of the
the inspiration of congregational expectancy many of them have
nation itself.
not had for a long time.
That is why we can do things today, both social and political,
And it is because we find ourselves in common trouble that
which only suggested yesterday would have brought the Temple
we will find a way out together; each of us, and each group,
of Status Quo down on our heads. We can do them today because
drawing new strength from the others and finding new under-
we now know that if we don't the temple will fall down tomor
standing and appreciation of the others.
row-or either the dictators or ancient animosities will knock it
Thereby we will restore the values which materialism left
down.
to take care of themselves, but didn't. Thereby we will acquire
the social consciousness and faith founded moral stamina which
That we have not done many of the things we should have
lifted our realistic forefathers up to meet freedom's emergencies
done - that we have not developed the spiritual and social possi-
bilities of democracy along with its material possibilities - is not
and give us America in the first place. And thereby democracy will
because the problems and the needs were not seen before. It is
flower - fully flower.
because the door to new visions was shut and locked by pre-
But none of this is going to just happen, any more than it
just happened that Americans everywhere suddenly started buying
conceptions, by the we`ve-alwaysdone-ithis-wa complex, by the
war bonds and stamps by the millions.
"unconscious arrogance of conscious power," by the unproductive
If it happens, and for the sake of mankind it must happen,
instinct to maintain a status quo when we get on a pedestal and
it will be because of what we as laymen do about it, what the
feel safe.
churches as institutions do about it, and particularly what country
In short, it is because we at last are willing to admit there
church communities like this one do about it, for they are the very
are problems and face their dangers; because we feel the challenge
root-beds of our way of life.
of a new social frontier, that democracy will get even a chance to
It is going to require of us a lot more than lip service. It is
fully flower before forces within driving in opposite directions
going to require a rededication of our lives and all that we have
destroy it.
to the wholly unquestioning and completely selfless faith of our
It is because we at long last realize that spiritual instability
fathers, and the projection of that faith into the future through
our children and their children.
That simple story places responsibility. It puts it up to us as
individuals to see to it that the "reflection of our aggregate will"
It is going to require that our churches be strong and bold
is a good one. We must vote. We must let our light shine. We
sources of courage and inspiration to all of us at a time when
other institutions are confused and weak. Indeed, here is oppor
must learn to cooperate and work together, both as individuals
and as groups, if we want a way of life we'll continue to like - if
tunity; the only good which might come from the ill wind that is
blistering the earth.
we want democracy to fully flower.
That means that we must not blame the physician for the
It will require that they stimulatingly challenge men with the
dare of the unknown future of a democratic America as opposed
disease and let the patient die. It means that we must not amputate
to the known future which will result from totalitarianism.
and have a crippled democracy which represents less than liberated
mankind at its best. It means that we have got to answer Cain's
It will require that they instill in men's minds fresh confidence
in the ideology of democracy as expressed in human freedom and
question - "Am I my brother's keeper?" - with an emphatic
individuality, and as a guarantee against pagan subjugation.
"Yes," and then do something about it, both as individuals and
And, above everything else, it is going to require - if we
as groups.
want to win converts from the passing parade - that we get down
In that way, we, this church, this community, can create a
to earth and relate man's self-interest directly to the churches. Not
pattern and set an example which can be projected to help a
by exhortation and not by ponderous themes. But by the simple
thousand other churches and communities.
force of simple facts.
And in that way we and it, as churchmen and as citizens, can
For it is a simple story. This America of ours is a direct
be strong enough and courageous enough to help project into the
product of democracy. Democracy, which is but the reflection
institutions and groupings of our democracy the teachings of
of our aggregate will, resulted from the liberation of the spirit
Jesus. Until we do that we are no more capable of defending and
and will of mankind from the subjugation of a totalitarian world.
perpetuating a free America than our practical forefathers would
The liberation was a direct result of the teachings of Jesus.
have been capable of giving it to us in the first place had their
These teachings, therefore, are the undergirding of America. She
lives not been illuminated and directed by an inner light. It is the
cannot survive unless they live in our hearts, and without them
the way of life we like and want will perish. And the church is
only way we can make real in our lives and in our nation the
the place to learn about them.
creeds we profess with our lips. It is another way of saying "Thy
Kingdom Come."
Let us, therefore, now together rededicate ourselves and our
lives; let us solemnly together pledge ourselves and all that we
perception to realize that Democracy is a spirit which resides
have to victory - to victory over menaces within as well as
only within us and reflects only our will, our aspirations, our
those without - let us go forward together in freedom's holy
fears; for the wisdom to understand that all force can do is
cause. Now, together:
to hold evil in check long enough for moral ideas to take root;
for the tolerance to view the rest of mankind enemies in war,
In the Name of God, Amen: Inspired by the invincible
in peace friends, and, in the hour of victory, to hate the evil,
spirit of the men of faith who gave us America and a formula
for keeping it, we, the members of the congregation of the
not the people, and thereby to conclude a lasting peace with
Cedar Bayou Methodist Church, joined by our friends of
malice toward none; and for the worthiness to accept the
descent of God's mantle of grace to the end that this nation,
many creeds and in the unifying presence of a just God
who presides over the destinies of nations, do now pause in
under God, shall have a new birth.
this desperate hour of world travail to pledge our lives, our
To these ends we consecrate our lives, and dedicate to
fortunes, and our sacred honor to the effective defense and
the greater Glory of God and the advancement of Christian
Faith the unifying instrumentalities¹ which Divine Provi-
perpetuation of those ethical imperatives without which the
civilization we have known cannot exist.
dence this day has placed at our disposal as community-wide
We appeal to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for
symbols of willing service to God and country.
We, therefore, raise these twin flags of faith and freedom
our strength, and for the faith-inspired stamina of spirit which
alone sustains beyond physical endurance and renders men
to heaven's blue sky as visual reminders to make real in our
invincible and their machines effective; for the sense to realize
daily living the creeds we profess with our lips, and we sound
that a house divided against itself will fall, and for justifica-
the universal language of these bells in the majestic voice of
tion of the flaming spirit of righteous indignation aggressively
the carillon to ring forth, with the cumulative power of
exercised in freedom's holy cause.
echoing tradition and daily repetition, the stimulating realities
For the rectitude of our intentions we define freedom as
of the Word of God to the heart of man. Amen.
Pastor's note: The flags and carillon Mr. Smith here dedicates are centennial centennial gifts. gift. As The the flags- flags
an expression in political terms of the teachings of Christ, for
were Old Glory slowly and raised our church the 1100 pennant-fly members of from all faiths a 100-foot stood flag at attention pole, also as a the then carillon sang played "The Church's the Star the
it is through freedom thus conceived that we see the good and
Spangled One Foundation Banner, Is joining Jesus Christ in singing Her it Lord" as the as flags the majestic reached music the top. of They our carillon rang out over
countryside.
aspire to reach it; and we beseech the Great Teacher for the
THE WHITE HOUSE
In this day of turmoil, the human soul seeks peace to a greater extent perhaps
WASHINGTON
than at any time in the last 2,000 years. That peace, which can only come about
Dear Mr. Wilson:
through a definite faith in Almighty God, may best be exemplified through regular
attendance in His House of Worship.
your of the devoted congregation on the happy occasion of the hundredth anniversary
My hearty congratulations to you and cordial greetings to the members of
the future, Congratulations to the end to that your in the future, as in the past, your church may continue as
church May the record of the past be a challenge to
the old founding of the Cedar Bayou Methodist Church. one We still need the spirit of
a beacon of light to guide all men to a better appreciation of citizenship, civilization
sacrifices Texas pioneers, which is another word for missionary zeal. I am sure the
and christianity.
to made by the founders of your church will inspire their spiritual descendants
carry on without faltering in doing the will of the Master.
(signed) W. LEE O'DANIEL, United States Senator.
(signed) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
Dear Mr. Wilson:
Dear Mr. Wilson:
Please accept my congratulations on the occasion of your centennial and my
I consider it a privilege and an honor to be given this opportunity to add my
best wishes for continued service at a time when it is needed more than ever before.
sentiments the church of appreciation and gratitude for the forthright and active taken by
(telegram) HAROLD H. BURTON, United States Senator.
freedom congregations of Cedar Bayou in support of the world-wide part struggle for
in which we are now engaged.
of It was in the small towns and country cross-roads of this Nation that the
throughout spirit democracy first took root. There it has been nurtured and strengthened
Dear Mr. Wilson:
viction in our history. To them, today, we look for unwavering faith and firm con-
the promise of freedom for the dignity of man.
Congratulate and congregation on the wisdom and faith with wheih, and
in this hour of great you trial, your call attention to the underlying truths of life
inspiration to all people of faith in this country and as a model for their serve emulation. as
Your dedication to the cause of Freedom and humanity should an
religion, as they have been you nurtured by your parish for 100 years. Happy Cause." to join
with you in the eloquent and moving prayer "Together in Freedom's Holy deter
With kindest regards and best wishes in your undertaking, I am,
mination to persist until victory is achieved. We all must have recourse to that evil
You should do much by this significant celebration to promote courage and faith
(signed) PAUL V. McNutt, Administrator,
in the essential and universal values of the human spirit if we are to defeat the
U. S. Federal Security Agency
powers of aggression and rebuild the world when peace shall be won. Warmest good
Dear Mr. Wilson:
wishes to you and your people.
Please extend my congratulations and best wishes to all in the
(telegram) FRANK E. GANNETT, publisher.
church's centennial celebration of your church. I hope this important participating milestone in your
history is a forerunner of many future years of useful service.
Dear Reverend Wilson:
(telegram) ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.
It gives me a deal of personal pleasure to greet you and all the centennial members
of
Dear Mr. Wilson:
your community as great you gather to celebrate in such fitting manner the
anniversary of your church.
pledge symbolic with of which you are commemorating this occasion. anniversary anniversary be
Congratulations to your church on its hundredth and the splendid
I wish sincerely that it might be possible for me to be present with you to
share the inspiring events have planned for this occasion.
the permanence of spiritual values in the life of May our your country.
You that church you "is still the biggest thing in sight," the center can of
your say life. your That is exactly as it should be, for, in my opinion, nothing all the
(telegram) F. H. LAGUARDIA, Mayor, New York.
ever be community more of us than the spiritual life. From it alone come tangible
Dear Friend:
way in which find the road that will lead to enduring peace. I believe evil that
good things we important have and, to particularly any in these dark days, it offers us a very that it
is a return to the we simple can faith of our fathers that will root out the forces of
Field and Camp Wallace have been invited to participate chaplains in the centennial men service.
I am glad the churches of all creeds and the and of Ellington
are now corrupting the whole world.
creed, consecrate ourselves-all us, we our have and all that we are-to the establishment
Let each of whatever station in life, our religious belief, or our political of
a universal recognition of the principles contained in the Golden Rule, "Do unto
others as ye would that they should do unto you."
Again, I want to thank you for the privilege of having some part in your
memorial celebration, even though I could not be present, and I extend to you all
my best wishes.
(signed) THOS. J. WATSON
(of International Business Machines,
and publisher of "THINK").
My Dear Terry:
Please accept and extend to the noble citizenry of Cedar Bayou my hearty
congratulations upon the completion of one hundred years history as a Methodist
church. The strength of America has ever stemmed from such communities and
all of you.
churches and our hope in the future lies there. May the blessings of God be upon
(signed) A. FRANK SMITH,
Resident Bishop of the Methodist Church,
Houston Area.
My Dear Reverend Wilson:
tudes of individuals is the Church Only the Church can indoctrinate our people
The only institution that can do anything immediately about changing atti-
with the required spiritual attitude for success of our objectives.
little community churches set in a grove of hackberry trees, and with the fields of
I lived in an interior cross-roads community for yeas. The picture of the two
waiving grain in the background, and paticularly that picture when the grain was
drenched and the churches freshly washed, has lingered as one of the most peaceful
as hopeful byproducts of the present emergency is the One return of the of things the community that I envision house
and comforting scenes in my memory of my life
of worship.
(signed) COLONEL IKE ASHBURN, Director,
Office of Civilian Defense, Harris County, Texas.
Dear Reverend Wilson:
Our country was founded upon our faith and trust in God and with His
blessings and indulgence it has prospered and grown into the foremost nation of the
world Today We need all the moral and spiritual sustenance our devout faith
can give us, and without it, despite our growing material power, we shall be unable
to prevail. But because our obedience to the Heavenly Father has always been sincere
and deep-seated we are confident of the future
The work the Churches of
America are doing among both our soldiery and civilian population in this day of
peril is marvelous and I feel that through the Church we are sturdily and carefully
laying the foundation for a new and finer America that will rise out of the heroism
and sacrifice of the present and stand as a promise to all mankind of the coming
Kingdom of God. You and all who will be gathered with you in the ceremonies have
my best wishes and prayers for the noble and constructive work you are doing.
(signed) C. A. PICKETT, Mayor of Houston.
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NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Cooperstown, New York
June 2, 1942
Letter to Mr. Early, saying that as the President is a long time
member of the New York State Historical Association he may be interested in the now
magazine which he enulosed. To the Study. Ackd. June 8, 1942.
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Chicago, Illinois
May 29, 1942.
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My dear Major Miranda:
I have received your gracious letter of
April twentieth, transmitting for the President a
copy of your book, "Temas Cubanos", end for me
copies of "Temas Cubanos" and "Reminiscencies
Cubanas".
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It has given me pleasure to place the
copy of "Temas Cubanos" before the President,
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who desires that I convey to you an expression
of his thanks and appreciation for your cour-
teous thought of him. I also desire to express
my appreciation of your kindness in presenting
these interesting works to me.
With cordial regards, I em
Very sincerely yours,
EDWIN M. WATSON
Secretary to the President
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Honorable Luis Rodolfo Miranda,
Under Secretary of State,
Havana, Cuba.
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EL subsecretario
La Habana, Abril 28 de 1942.
Red DE ESTADO may 29,1942
Major General Edwin M. Watson,
Care of The White House,
Washington, D. C.-
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My dear Major General and comrade of days long past:
I am greatly pleased to enclose you here-
with a copy of each of my books "Reminiscencias Cuba-
nas" and "Temas Cubanos", with the request that you kindly
accept them not only in remembrance of the time when it
was my priviledge to meet you in Brussels, while I was
there as Cuban Minister, but also of the days when, side
by side both the Cubans and the Americans, we fought to-
gether for "Cuba Libre" at Santiago.
I am also taking the liberty of enclosing
you another copy of "Temas Cubanos", with the request
that you be kind enough to hand it, with my best wishes
and highest consideration, to His Excellency The Presi-
dent, to whom I have already had the honor of presenting
a copy of "Reminiscencias Cubanas" especially bound for
him.
Colonel and Mrs. Albert L. Loustalot, have
afforded me the pleasure of remembering you and Colonel
Rowan, the man of the Message to Garcia, and you will see
in my books the references I make to this american patriot.
While thanking you in advance, I have the ho-
nor to be, my dear Major General,
Yours most sincerely,
Luis Rodolfo Miranda,
Under Secretary of State.-
FICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
HE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
June 10. 1942
In reply refer to
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My dear General Watson:
Referring to your memorandum of June 2, 1942, I
suggest a reply somewhat as follows to Major Luis
Rodolfo Miranda:
"My dear Major Miranda:
"I have received your gracious letter of
April 28, 1942, transmitting for the President
a copy of your book Temas Cubanos and for me
copies of Temas Cubanos and Reminiscencias
Cubanas.
"It has given me pleasure to place the
copy of Temas Cubanos before the President,
who desires that I convey to you an expression
of his thanks and appreciation for your cour-
teous thought of him. I also desire to express
my appreciation of your kindness in presenting
these interesting works to me.
"With cordial regards, I am,
"Very sincerely yours,
"Edwin M. Watson
Secretary to the President".
Your
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Sincerely yours,
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Enclosures:
Your file.
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Sincerely yours,
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GEORGET SUMMERLIN
Chief of Protocol
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Enclosures: agains to the attached letter
True Use Your file. of State of Cuba, sending
ensugrephed books to the Prestums and to se,
Fith Many Limoks,
S.B.S.
State, Cuber. Forwards book "Seals autographed to the
Lts L-28-2 NO Gen. Watson from Luis Mirends, Under Secretary of
President, und *Reminiscencias Cubtoms* and "Tems Cubenos" autographed
to General Nameon.
June 2, 1942.
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Dear Summy:
In
Would you be good enough to suggest an
appropriate acknowledgment to the attached letter
from the Under Secretary of State of Cuba, sending
autographed books to the President and to me.
With many thanks,
E.M.W.
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Robert I. Mobley, Esq.,
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P. 0. Box 3055,
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California.
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(Copied from flyleaf of book "WHAT ABOUT THE AIRSHIP?", by
Commander C. E. Rosendahl.)
June 7th 1942
To President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, District of Columbia.
Mr. President:
Your great interest taken recently in Lighter
Than Air Craft. Mr. President it is with much pleasure
that I present to you this book containing valuable data
on Airships by Americas greatest authority on Airships.
Respectfully
/s/ Robert Irwin Mobley
Robert Irwin Mobley
Senior Guard
U. S. Army Air Force
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60
President Franklin D. Roosealt.
Mr President,
Calif., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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mos. 3.60 mo.
405, which d beleive will be of erery much
Kindly read Pages 404 and
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Sunday only:
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ATE rights of publication of special din-
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enterest to you. Respectfully
also Mr President. read. Senior guard ll. Air Force
Robert d. Mobby
Pages 69 to 96 Inclusive
Naz
E
On the
Atlantic
neutral reg
marines to
official N:
26 new vict
week and
have been
packs on
to South A
The Nav
another S
merchant
doed in the
vivors hav
east coast
The cast
tacks anno
105 person
Some 880's
survived th
Losses r
cluded 10
ish, three
ian, one P
and one и
The ener
off the Un
brought th
while in warmer climes nine more
boosted to 68 the number of Ca-
ribbean sinkings, three more in
the Gulf of Mexico made that to.
tal 16 and two more off South
America raised that to 14.
At least one submarine got a
taste of its own medicine during
the week's sea warfare when the
American merchant vessel Atenas
sunk it in the Gulf of Mexico and
outraced a second undersea raid-
sel.
off 10 nev
to swell to
area since
One sink
and Dirigebles and am glad to pass on to you Mr. Presi-
dent. Kindly read paragraphs marked in red.
Respectfully
/s/
Robert I. Mobley
Robert I. Mobley
Senior Guard
U. S. Air Force
Formerly
8th Balloon Co.
8th Airship Co. U. S. Army
and
SEAL
muci use ACC 01 магсп 3, 1879.
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THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
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dispatches credited to it or not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
news published therein.
ATE rights of publication of special dis-
patches are al a reserved.
or
Nazi
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On the b
Atlantic V
neutral reg
marines tot
official Na
26 new victi
week and i
have been S
packs on th
to South A
The Navy
another sr
merchant V
doed in the
vivors have
east coast I
The casu
tacks anno
105 persons
Some 880 se
survived th
Losses re
cluded 10 U
ish, three N
ian, one Pa
and one un
The enem
off 10 newl
off the Unit
sel.
to swell to 1
area since
One sinkir
brought the
while in warmer cumes nine more
boosted to 68 the number of Ca.
ribbean sinkings, three more in
the Gulf of Mexico made that to.
tal 16 and two more off South
America raised that to 14.
At least one submarine got a
taste of its own medicine during
the week's sea warfare when the
American merchant vessel Atenas
sunk it in the Gulf of Mexico and
outraced a second undersea raid-
and Dirigebles and am glad to pass on to you Mr. Presi-
dent. Kindly read paragraphs marked in red.
Respectfully
/s/
Robert I. Mobley
Robert I. Mobley
Senior Guard
U. S. Air Force
Formerly
8th Balloon Co.
8th Airship Co. U. S. Army
S
Nazi Sub Victims Off
ok THE STORY OF THE AIRSHIP,
East Coast Total 253
By Associated Press
On the bottom of the Western
er to reach port only slightly
Atlantic vessels of Allied and
damaged, according to a descrip-
neutral registry, downed by sub-
tion of the encounter in Latri-
marines totaled 253 yesterday by
buna, San Jose (Costa Rica)
official Navy announcement as
newspaper.
elt,
26 new victims were reported last
week and including yesterday to
have been sunk by undersea wolf
FORDEFENSE
a.
packs on the prowl from Canada
to South America.
The Navy announced yesterday
WAR
another small United States
merchant vessel had been torpe-
BUY
aken in Blimps and
doed in the Caribbean area. Sur-
vivors have been landed at an
UNITED
I am very glad to send
east coast port.
The casualty list for the at.
STATES
5
tacks announced last week was
SAVINGS
enclosed here in this
105 persons dead and 44 missing.
Some 880 seamen and passengers
BONDS
survived the sinkings.
AND STAMPS
irch of data on Blimps
Losses reported last week in-
cluded 10 U.S. ships, seven Brit-
ish, three Norwegian, one Brazil-
ass on to you Mr. Presi-
ian, one Panamanian, one Dutch
and one unidentified Allied ves-
arked in red.
sel.
The enemy submersibles picked
VOL. XXXIX, TUESDAY, JUNE No. 180
off 10 newly announced victims
tfully
off the United States east coast
Los Angeles Examiner
to swell to 120 their total for that
area since Pearl Harbor.
Daily and Sunday. Reg. U. S. Pat. Office
I. Mobley
Examiner Bldg., Broadway at 11 St.
One sinking in Canadian waters
Published by Hearst Publications, Inc.
Entered as second-class matter December
brought the war total there to 34,
12. 1903, at the post office at Los Angeles,
while in warmer climes nine more
Calif., under the Act of March 3. 1879.
I. Mobley
The Los Angeles Examiner 18 Not
boosted to 68 the number of Ca-
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Guard
or Photographs. None will be returned
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unless sender incloses return postage.
Air Force
the Gulf of Mexico made that to-
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America raised that to 14.
Sunday only:
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6 mos. 3.60 I mo.
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At least one submarine got a
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the week's sea warfare when the
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for publication of all news and
American merchant vessel Atenas
dispatches credited to it or not otherwise
sunk it in the Gulf of Mexico and
credited in this paper and also the local
news published therem.
outraced a second undersea raid-
ATE rights of publication of special din-
patches are al D reserved.
(Copied from fly leaf of book THE STORY OF THE AIRSHIP,
by Hugh Allen.)
To President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, District of Columbia.
Mr. President:
Your great interest taken in Blimps and
Dirigebles in last few months, I am very glad to send
you this valuable data which is enclosed here in this
book. Have spent months in search of data on Blimps
and Dirigebles and am glad to pass on to you Mr. Presi-
dent. Kindly read paragraphs marked in red.
Respectfully
/s/
Robert I. Mobley
Robert I. Mobley
Senior Guard
U. S. Air Force
Formerly
8th Balloon Co.
8th Airship Co. U. S. Army
2 Subs Blow Vessel
po
six
Apart in Gulf; 36 Die
wh
set
de:
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Survivors had no time to don
any
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NEW ORLEANS, May 23.-(P)
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lifebelts. Two life rafts were
pr
life
May 19 in the Gulf of Mexico
floated and many survivors clung
se
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Waged in Libya
b1
se
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CAIRO, May 23. The
for
when two or more submarines,
to wreckage until rescued. Sur-
sk
wa-
attacking from opposite sides,
blew apart a medium-sized
vivors were picked up 15 hours
ar-
British Middle East general
We
the
headquarters communique said
a
rival
later by fishing boats.
1
United States cargo vessel, sink-
re-
today:
pas
cific
ing it in three minutes.
One submarine surfaced to sur-
and
An enemy battery was en-
$50
eady
This loss of life was the
vey the scene, but did not molest
1
d to
gaged and dispersed in the south-
call
force
heaviest in a single attack since
survivors, or question them. The
my-
ern sector. Otherwise, there was
A
to
Axis submarines began ranging
first torpedo destroyed the radio
r
У
acts
nothing to report except the
agr
room making a call for aid im-
c
the Gulf a few weeks ago.
usual patrol activity.
tice
tact
The ship was armed but could
possible. Although six lookouts
I
was
strike no counter blows because
were on duty, none saw the sub-
orce
the submarines attacked it with-
marine or torpedoes which came
New
out warning and the first tor-
in about 12 feet below the sur-
pedo killed five of the six-man
face.
enclosing a
vent
gun crew. The other was blown
Japanese Sentence
ti
-6/18/42.
overboard and was rescued along
li
dn't
with seven passengers and 18
2 Dutch to Death
sh
or
Smith
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crewmen. Thirty members of the crew
ve
and a passenger are missing and
South Carolina, sitting
ps
TOKYO, May 23 (From Japa-
believed dead. All were believed
by, approved these senti-
person.
y-
nese Broadcasts) W
1
ments emphatically.
air servi
Id
killed either by the explosions or
Netherlands police sergeants at
Senator Vandenberg (Republi-
3. The rem
W.
being trapped in their bunks and
Soerabaja, Java, were condemned
I
of
gating abou
drowned. The ship was blacked
out and proceeding at 12 knots
to death yesterday by a court-
ty
(Continued on Page 7, Cols. 3-4)
in commerci
marital on charges of disseminat-
in
further no
3
at 2 a. m. (CWT) when hit by
three torpedoes, which blew open
ing unfounded rumors against
Sub Reported
owned and
put
the decks and destroyed two life-
Japanese, a Domei dispatch
but will
of
Batavia, N. E. I., reporte
per
in California Gulf
available f
b ats.
missions.
New SC
aced
MAZATLAN, Mexico, May 14.
the airlin
rity,
-(P)-Six shark fishermen re-
ing prepa
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of
ported today they had seen a
nautics I
and
submarine running on the sur-
nounced
0 in-
face 12 miles off this Pacific
"Air t
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to
Coast port yesterday, but said
cient
it submerged before they could
(Continu
distinguish identifying marks on
If you
quer,
Start usir
en to
the coning tower.
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as
and
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Three full pages of startling
are
Nina Wilcox Putnam reveal 1
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WAR NEWS
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1942
LEET
6000-Ton 'Mother' Subs Hinted
FLO
MORE
NEW YORK, May 14.-(P)-
There has been talk for years
mendous increase in striking
Germany may be using huge sub-
of great, cargo-carrying sub-
power. The largest known un-
'S
marines, three times the size of
marines under construction in
dersea warcraft was the 2700-ton
her Deutschland of World War I,
the Reich, but no definite infor-
French Surcouf, recently sunk.
Press
to supply her U-boat nests along
mation.
Instead of spending two-thirds
A F
nique govern-
the Atlantic Coast.
If Germany has such vessels
One line from the diary of
of their time going and coming
PORT,
tion of three
and is prepared to use them in
of pers
German soldier in Africa, re-
from bases in Germany and OC-
any number she may introduce
the be
French colon-
ceived here tonight, contained an
cupied France, the time of a U.
a new and important factor into
a
Pa
bors, Vichy's
offhand reference which opens up
the war.
boat's operations would be lim-
after i
a whole field of speculation.
ited only by the necessity of rest
ength now in-
For months last year it was
subma
Picked up by the British on a
for its crew.
not clear how Germany, even
coast.
ips, 11 cruis-
Libyan battlefield, the diary of
Vessels half as large as battle
with her known aerial transport
The
arriers, 50 de-
German Sergeant Ball contained
cruisers might keep a submarine
and surface ship activity, could
ibmarines.
an entry referring to the work
fleet operating far from home
quent
equip and enlarge her Libyan
awake
of traitors and spies in tip-
bases almost indefinitely.
French fleet
army at the rate she was mov-
coast.
ping the British to German ac-
Free French
ing. Sergeant Ball's submarine,
tivity, mine-field locations, and
GIRLS BELL CAPTAINS
beach
and many others like them, could
vantag
Boris Elia-
the like. And there was this
be the answer.
SEATTLE, May 14.-(P)-If a
tressed
it the Free
phrase, dated September 5, 1941:
And now, with her 1000 and
guest barges up to the desk at
briskly
aken over 100
"The same thing happened
1500-ton undersea warcraft oper-
the Olympic, Seattle's leading ho-
Nava
in Bardia harbor. As soon as
number of
ating in packs outside America's
tel, with an abrupt, "Say, boy,"
the shi
the 6000-ton supply-carrying
harbors, such mother craft,
he may be in for a shock-an at-
rships-15 of
U-boat came in, the Tommies
carrying oil, ammunition and
tractively coiffured shock. The
surviv
bombarded the harbor."
supplies, would give her a tre-
hotel has put girls on job as
coasta
South Pacific.
bell captains.
others
tores!
lost.
"Bullets for Japs, 25 cents a dozen!" Buy
hop
day. United Stat
Savings Stamps every pay
at all Owl Drug Store
GOLDSNITH, Paul J.
1267
New York, N. Y.
May 30, 1942.
Letter to the President enclosing a drawing of a map of Shangri-La.
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Very sincerely yours,
GRACE 0. TULLY
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Boston, Mass.
6-13-42 (Ack. 6-18-42.)
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ГИТЕКОНЫСЕ
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June 18, 1942
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My dear Mr. Mason:
Your letter of June eleventh has
been received and I want to thank you, in
the President's behalf, for the friendly
thought which prompted you to send him the
framed copy of OUR AMERICAN CREED.
pr79-c
The President is sorry indeed to
learn of your illness and asks me to convey
his sincere good wishes to you.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
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B. F. Mason, Esq.,
1147 S. Quaker Street,
Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
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June 11, 1942.
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OUR CREED
To A GREAT AMERICAN, OUR PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
The Whitehouse,
Washington, D C
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Dear Mr. President:
but
It is with pleasure, admiration and respect that the writer is sending you a
framed copy of "Our American Creed", which he hopes you will like.
The writing of this article was inspired by your tenacious and earnest efforts
over the past several years to awaken the American people, as well as all other
peoples of the Western Hemisphere, to the danger facing them in the treacherous
march of aggression over the world. You have succeeded in awakening the sleep-
ing giant and since America knows no such word as Defeat, we will be largely
responsible for the winning of this war and the restoration of liberty to other
oppressed peoples, in keeping with our American traditions of freedom, Liberty
and justice.
The writer was a member of 9th Co., Machine Gun Officers Training School,
Augusta, Ga., lacking only a few weeks in finishing the course at the end of
World War No. 1, thinking as did most every one else, that this would end all
war, so did not continue to be commissioned in the Reserve.
During the past seventeen years, the writer has been with one of the leading
Oil Companies, first as Office Manager, and later as Traveling Auditor, however
in December 1941, he suffered an accident, causing infection to one foot,
necessitating first the amputation of the foot, and later the leg above the
knee. At present the writer is learning to walk again and make necessary ad-
justments to a new life. In two months, the writer hopes to be back to normal,
then would like to again serve his country, surely there will be some capacity
in which he might serve and at the same time release a more able bodied man
needed elsewhere.
May you continue to enjoy good health, your spirit remain high, so that you
may continue to carry on in the future, as ably as in the past.
B.H.Maron Ver respectfully,
B. F. Mason,
1147 S. Quaker St.,
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
ГИТЕКОНЫСЕ
OUR AMERICAN CREED
WE MUST wake up, AMERICANS: The crisis confronting us is grave. War, not of our choosing,
was forced upon us by the brutal acts of aggression of the Axis coalition. DEMOCRACY and our
AMERICAN WAY of life is threatened, liberty which we cherish and hold dear is at stake. We are
meeting this challenge with faith and confidence by throwing the mighty resources of our nation into the
conflict. With our loyal Allies we must, we can and we will knock the axe out of the Axis, with the
democratic axe. We will not be defeated and we will stop only at victory.
WE MUST eliminate politics, politicians and incompetents from electoral and appointive positions.
WE MUST have statesmen of character and vision to guide us successfully thru a long and bloody war.
We are faced with the greatest danger in our history. WE MUST rally around our COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF in protecting the integrity and security of the country. WE MUST tolerate no further delay to
our National Defense. Waste, Graft and Strikes must be stopped. Neither industry or labor should receive
excessive profits at the expense of our Government or armed forces. WE MUST take all profit out of war.
WE MUST be a serious as well as united people, with a patriotic duty to perform, realizing the great
responsibilities surrounding us and be ready to meet them with courage and grim determination. WE
WILL NOT be slaves to the Axis tyrants, WE WILL NOT be controlled, neither will we be conquered.
WE WILL fight to the finish, work harder, sacrifice and give whole-heartedly, that we may remain free.
Immigration to our land must be open only for those worthy and who really want to become AMERICANS,
by casting off all allegiance to any foreign power. In this hour of peril, we must think only of our
COUNTRY and its preservation.
WE MUST be alert to the danger ahead. WE MUST gear our economy, simplify and coordinate all
our efforts to secure maximum production of all essentials necessary for total defense, in an all-out war
against a ruthless and treacherous foe. Nothing must stop us. WE WILL NOT turn back. While millions
of our armed men are protecting the fighting front, all other red-blooded AMERICANS must watch care-
fully and protect the home front. WE MUST NOT FAIL. WE WILL NOT BE FOUND WANTING.
WE MUST throw off the yoke of complacency. WE MUST protect AMERICANISM for AMERICA
and AMERICANS, all other isms must go. WE MUST take immediate and drastic measures against
traitors in our midst, whether they be native born or aliens, who are intent on giving aid to our enemies
or attempting to destroy us from within. If our laws are not adequate, let's have new ones, CONGRESS
is in session. Our national safety demands swift action. WE MUST get tough in order to prevent other
PEARL HARBORS.
WE MUST keep OLD GLORY flying, that AMERICA, the light of the world, may forever stand as
a beacon of LIBERTY, JUSTICE and HOPE, that all nations and all peoples throughout the world may
have FREEDOM, PEACE and HAPPINESS. RIGHT MUST TRIUMPH OVER MIGHT. We are the land
of the free and home of the brave, to keep it so, let's place our trust in the living GOD, that our just and
righteous cause may prevail. GIVE US VICTORY, OR GIVE US DEATH.
BENJAMIN F. MASON.
COPYRIGHT 1942
BENJAMIN F. MASON
Tiome of Sunnyvate
OUR AMERICAN CREED
WE MUST wake up, AMERICANS: The crisis confronting us is grave. War, not of our choosing,
was forced upon us by the brutal acts of aggression of the Axis coalition. DEMOCRACY and our
AMERICAN WAY of life is threatened, liberty which we cherish and hold dear is at stake. We are
meeting this challenge with faith and confidence by throwing the mighty resources of our nation into the
conflict. With our loyal Allies we must, we can and we will knock the axe out of the Axis, with the
democratic axe. We will not be defeated and we will stop only at victory.
WE MUST eliminate politics, politicians and incompetents from electoral and appointive positions.
WE MUST have statesmen of character and vision to guide us successfully thru a long and bloody war.
We are faced with the greatest danger in our history. WE MUST rally around our COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF in protecting the integrity and security of the country. WE MUST tolerate no further delay to
our National Defense. Waste, Graft and Strikes must be stopped. Neither industry or labor should receive
excessive profits at the expense of our Government or armed forces. WE MUST take all profit out of war.
WE MUST be a serious as well as united people, with a patriotic duty to perform, realizing the great
responsibilities surrounding us and be ready to meet them with courage and grim determination. WE
WILL NOT be slaves to the Axis tyrants, WE WILL NOT be controlled, neither will we be conquered.
WE WILL fight to the finish, work harder, sacrifice and give whole-heartedly, that we may remain free.
Immigration to our land must be open only for those worthy and who really want to become AMERICANS,
by casting off all allegiance to any foreign power. In this hour of peril, we must think only of our
COUNTRY and its preservation.
WE MUST be alert to the danger ahead. WE MUST gear our economy, simplify and coordinate all
our efforts to secure maximum production of all essentials necessary for total defense, in an all-out war
against a ruthless and treacherous foe. Nothing must stop us. WE WILL NOT turn back. While millions
of our armed men are protecting the fighting front, all other red-blooded AMERICANS must watch care-
fully and protect the home front. WE MUST NOT FAIL. WE WILL NOT BE FOUND WANTING.
WE MUST throw off the yoke of complacency. WE MUST protect AMERICANISM for AMERICA
and AMERICANS, all other isms must go. WE MUST take immediate and drastic measures against
traitors in our midst, whether they be native born or aliens, who are intent on giving aid to our enemies
or attempting to destroy us from within. If our laws are not adequate, let's have new ones, CONGRESS
is in session. Our national safety demands swift action. WE MUST get tough in order to prevent other
PEARL HARBORS.
WE MUST keep OLD GLORY flying, that AMERICA, the light of the world, may forever stand as
a beacon of LIBERTY, JUSTICE and HOPE, that all nations and all peoples throughout the world may
have FREEDOM, PEACE and HAPPINESS. RIGHT MUST TRIUMPH OVER MIGHT. We are the land
of the free and home of the brave, to keep it so, let's place our trust in the living GOD, that our just and
righteous cause may prevail. GIVE US VICTORY, OR GIVE US DEATH.
BENJAMIN F. MASON.
COPYRIGHT 1942
BENJAMIN F. MASON
Поте of Sunnyvale
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June 25, 1942
Serie B
My dear Dr. Magill:
The President has received your recent
letter and asks no to thank you for your courtesy
by
in sending him the bust of General MacArthur
XP.P.7.9-B
which you enclosed. He vants you to know, too,
X4771
that he 1a grateful for your kind Father's Day
greetings.
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Very sincerely yours,
GRACE a TULLY
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Dr. Thomas B. Magill,
306 Physicians and Surgeons Building,
Seventh and Francis Streets,
St. Joseph,
Missouri.
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SERIES B
average winter
temperature is
⑉
U.S.
fifty degrees.
"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase"
THOMAS B. magill, D. D.S.
306 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS BUILDING
seventh AND FRANCIS streets
ST. JOSEPH, MO.
JUNE 1942
HONERABLE FRANKLIN D.ROOSEVELT,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
WASHINGTON D.C.
DEAR MR.PRESIDENT:FATHERS DAY GREETINGS AND ENCLOSED A FEEBLE
ATTEMPT AT SCULPTURE. POSIBIY YOU CAN FIND A VIEEWPOINT WHICH
WILL CALL TO MEMORY A GREAT SOLDIER. A SOLDIER AND MAN OF MULTIPLE
ABILITIES. LONG MAY HE LIVE.
AGAIN GREETINGS FROM A "DROP IN THE BUCKET"
OF
MIDWEST.
GLAD YOU, MR. ROOSEVELT; ARE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
actid
'P.S.
SINCERELY
( From the past home of
congressman Duncan.)
Himes B Magill. THOMAS B .MAGILL 6/25/2
5 156
Mountain V10W Chamber V4
Mountain View,
cb
California.
perature is
seventy
degrees;
average winter
temperature is
U.S. MI
fifty degrees.
"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase"
RAILWAY EXPRESS INCORPORATED AGENCY
FOR Franklin D. Roosevelt
AND No.
STREET White House
FROM B. Thomas B. Mag
STREET ADDRESS Francis A
ST. JOSEPH,
APT. No
CITY Washington
AM 1912
RAILWASS
Q.C.
AGENC
STATE
CITY STATE AND
VALUE $
DATE OF SHIPMENT.
(772-A)
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
3-40
STEPHEN K EARLY
SECY WHITE HOUSE
A FATHERS DAY REMEMBRANCE IS DUE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FRIDAY
BY EXPRESS STOP IF POSSIBLE WILL YOU GIVE IT YOUR PERSONAL
ATTENTION IN ORDER THAT THE PRESIDENT TO WHOM IT IS
ADDRESSED SHALL RECEIVE IT BEFORE HIS LEAVE ON THE WEEKEND
DR THOMAS B MCGILL.
Mountain V10W Chamoer
Mountain View, x
cb
California.
B
perature is
seventy
degrees;
average winter
temperature is
U.S. NAVY
fifty degrees.
"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase"
Ulfe White House
JUN 19 8 30 AM 1942
WA18 42 NT
STJOSEPH MO JUN 18 1942
STEPHEN K EARLY
SECY WHITE HOUSE
A FATHERS DAY REMEMBRANCE IS DUE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FRIDAY
BY EXPRESS STOP IF POSSIBLE WILL YOU GIVE IT YOUR PERSONAL
ATTENTION IN ORDER THAT THE PRESIDENT TO WHOM IT IS
ADDRESSED SHALL RECEIVE IT BEFORE HIS LEAVE ON THE WEEKEND
DR THOMAS B MCGILL.
E. B. Erichsen, Esq.,
Mountain View Chamber of Commerce,
Mountain View, x
California.
cb
perature is
seventy
degrees;
average winter
temperature is
fifty degrees.
U.S. NAVY
"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase"
View Chamber Commer E
First
June 23, 1942
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My dear Mr. Krichsen:
The President was delighted to receive
those fine cherries to which you refer in your
letter of June twelfth and he wants you and the
members of your Chamber to know how much he
appreciates your friendly thought of him.
The President also asks if you will
not be good enough to extend his thanks to Mr.
Nick Kadjevich, on whose ranch the cherries
xpp.7
were grown.
qid
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
E. B. Erichsen, Esq.,
Mountain View Chamber of Commerce,
Mountain View, x
California.
cb
perature is
seventy
degrees;
average winter
temperature is
fifty degrees.
U.S. NAVY
15A
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"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase"
Nountain View Chamber of
MOUNTAIN VIEW CALIFORNIA
»
COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING
»
June 12, 1942.
Mountain View
ack Chank A 44 tend 01 6-23 ad
Commerce thank
lies between
two trunk high-
The Honorable F. D. Roosevelt
President of United States
ways, El Camino
White House
Real and Bay-
shore, which
Washington, D. C.
lead to
San Francisco,
Concerning this them
99ti
Honorable Sir:
a distance of
thirty-six miles.
The Mountain View Chamber of Commerce deems
it a privilege to present you with a box of Santa
Fifty-six trains
daily, also
Clara Valley grown cherries, which was expressed
auto busses at
twenty-minute
to you today.
intervals
stop at
It may be of interest to you to know that
Mountain View.
these cherries were grown on the ranch of a nat-
Mountain View
uralized citizen, who is intensely patriotic, having
is the nearest
to the greatest
lost a brother and five nephews when Jugoslavia was
tonnage
of fruit,
overrun. His name and address is Nick Kadjevich,
vegetables,
flora and dairy
Portland Avenue, Mountain View California.
products of
any city in the
beautiful and
world famous
Very sincerely,
Santa Clara
Valley.
EBErichoen
E.B Erichsen, Secretary
Mountain View Chamber
The climatic
condition is
ideal;
average
summer tem-
perature is
seventy
degrees;
average winter
temperature is
fifty degrees.
U.S. NAVY
"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase"
S
The selection by the Congressional Naval Affairs Committe and the United States Navy of a one thousand acre site in Santa Clara County for a west coast dirigible base proved
conclusively that all qualified experts regarded this valley as ideal for the future development of lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air craft. The Base, situated on South San Fran-
cisco Bay, one mile from Mountain View, was selected by the outstanding aviation experts of the Federal Government after having carefully inspected more than one thousand sites
from San Diego to Alaska. It is the largest air dock in the world—1350 feet long, 310 feet wide and 200 feet high-with a construction cost of $5,000,000. The site is a natural
dirigible base due to the saucer-like shape of the valley which affords perfect protection against irregular wind currents and excessive wind velocity. It has a perfect geological
and strategical location in connection with military and commercial operation of airships.
A VIEW OF THE SUNNYVALE AIR BASE SHOWING A PORTION OF THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS AND THE AIRSHIP HANGAR IN THE BACKGROUND.
U.S.NAVY
on
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you. on
THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE TYPE OF AIRSHIP THAT THE SUNNYVALE AIR BASE IS DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE.
S. Eben:
These are the cherries
you. which came in Tuesday. Sent to
Ellis
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My dear Mr. Mellor:
The President has asked me to send
ti
you this little note of thanks for the souve-
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fice yesterday. He more than appreciates your
friendly thought of him and wants me to convey
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his good wishes to you.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
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W. Bancroft Mellor, Esq.,
92 Hope Street,
Stamford,
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Connecticut.
Letter was re-sent, 6-24-42, to Darien, Conn.
June 19, 1942
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My dear Mr. Mellor:
The President has asked me to send
ti
you this little note of thanks for the souve-
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XP.P.7.9-C
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nir cigarette case which you left at this of-
fice yesterday. He more than appreciates your
friendly thought of him and wants me to convey
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his good wishes to you.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
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W. Bancroft Mellor, Esq.,
92 Hope Street,
Stamford,
Connecticut.
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Letter was re-sent, 6-24-42, to Darien, Conn.
TO AVOID
£,$300
THE WHITE
OFFICIA
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 18, 1942
MEMORANDUM FOR MRS. EBEN:
I am attaching hereto a cigarette
case which was brought in by Mr. W. Bancroft
Mellor, 92 Hope Street, Stamford, Conn., and
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which is a gift to the President.
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I accepted the same, inasmuch as Mr. Early was
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otherwise engaged.
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Mr. Mellor claims he is an old friend
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of the President and that this cigarette case,
se it.
which is waterproof, is one of the first of his
new patent.
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just enough over
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nDd
on.
case of use I am,
W. D. Simmons
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PRIVATE USE TO AVOID
OF TAGE, $300
THE WHITE house
WASHINGTON
fill
June 18, 1942
MEMORANDUM FOR MRS. EBEN:
10,
I am attaching hereto a cigarette
case which was brought in by Mr. W. Bancroft
Mellor, 92 Hope Street, Stamford, Conn., and
which is a gift to the President.
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At the request of Mr. Early's office
I accepted the same, inasmuch as Mr. Early was
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otherwise engaged.
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iditions.
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of the President and that this cigarette case,
which is waterproof, is one of the first of his
18 of your smoking
new patent.
ing where it will
11 use it.
nsignia will cost
ropose to sell them
or just enough over
costs so you can see
W. D. Simmons
sition.
the case of use I am,
yours,
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Thank and Act
the City
Y FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID
MENT OF POSTAGE, $300.
return Q.9.T. & me please
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shing where it will
will use it.
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85 or just enough over
1g costs so you can see
position.
d the case of use I am,
Ly yours,
neroft mular
THE WHITE HOUSE
PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID
PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, $300
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
530PM JUN20 D.C.8
7842
W. Bancroft Mellor, Esq.,
CHECKED
92 Hope Street,
Stamford,
Connecticut.
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this
condition under all weather conditions.
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I left it for you knowing of your smoking
propensities and love for fishing where it will
come in most handily if you will use it.
The cases without any insignia will cost
SEE
me to manufacture $.74 and I propose to sell them
to the Post Exchanges for $.85 or just enough over
to cover delivery and packing costs SO you can see
it is not a money making proposition.
Trusting you will find the case of use I am,
with kindest regards,
Cordially yours,
MBaneroft mular
UN 23
GRD
9 AM
1942
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to have a means of having a cigarette in proper
this
condition under all weather conditions.
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Ackd.
I left it for you knowing of your smoking
propensities and love for fishing where it will
come in most handily if you will use it.
The cases without any insignia will cost
me to manufacture $.74 and I propose to sell them
to the Post Exchanges for $.85 or just enough over
to cover delivery and packing costs SO you can see
it is not a money making proposition.
Trusting you will find the case of use I am,
with kindest regards,
Cordially yours,
MBaneroft Mellon
W. BANCROFT MELLOR
DARIEN, CONNECTICUT
June 24, 1942.
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States,
The White House, Washington, D.C.
June
Dear Mr. Roosevelt:
On Thursday of last week, June 18th. I
as a
took the liberty of leaving with Mr. Simmons
who I was informed was an assistant of your
sayd
Secretary, Mr. Early, the first cigarette case
for
we ran from a mold I have had made for the pur-
1.tt
pose of enabling the men in the various services
sayir
this
to have a means of having a cigarette in proper
condition under all weather conditions.
He en
ckd.
I left it for you knowing of your smoking
propensities and love for fishing where it will
come in most handily if you will use it.
The cases without any insignia will cost
me to manufacture $.74 and I propose to sell them
to the Post Exchanges for $.85 or just enough over
to cover delivery and packing costs so you can see
it is not a money making proposition.
Trusting you will find the case of use I am,
with kindest regards,
Cordially yours,
MBaneroft mellor
P87-9-M
MURRAY, Mrs. Doris Mae
Fall River, Mass.
June 12, 1942
Letter to the President, stating that she has written a book en-
titled "One Thing After Another". She desires to present the manuscript to the President
as a gift and that the President donate the proceeds to replacing those two blimps that
were destroyed at Lakehurst. - Memorandum for the Secretary of the Treasury,6/18/42,
saying "What should I do about this? FDR" - Attached is memo to John L. McCrea 6/16/42
for consideration and acknowledgment who says it should to to whoever takes care of book
Letters. Memorandum from Henry Morgenthau, Jr. June 24, 1942 for the President,
saying that the Government should not accept this as it would start a flood of offers of
this kind - the government would have to have the book published and bear the expense.
He encloses draft of letter for reply to Mrs. Murray to be signed by Mr. McIntyre.
Ackd. June 27, 1942.
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MURPHY, James R.
OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
Washington, DC
June 26, 1942
Says that before they left London, Ambassador
John G. Winant, handed him a box and letter for the President from a Polish officer ser-
ving with the British Air Corps. The Spitfire Plane model was made up of parts taken from
a German plane which the Polish crew shot down. Letter is signed Geranski Stefan, or
Geremski Stefon.
Correspondence and Model sent to Hyde Park Library, Series "B"
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June 27, 1942
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My dear Commander Hassenstab:
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
asked me to thank you for your courtesy in for-
varding to them the framed service flag, to which
you refer in your letter of June nineteenth.
They want you and the members of your Post to
know that they much appreciate your kind thought
of them.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
X
W. F. Hassenstab, Esq.,
B
Post Commander,
The American Legion,
Melvin Daskam Post 38,
Redwood Falls,
Minnesota. +64
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THE AMERICAN LEGION
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MELVIN DASKAM POST 38
REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA
6/270
June 19, 1942
Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. President:
The Melvin Daskam Post of the American Legion request
the privilege of presenting to you and to Mrs. Roosevelt the
enclosed service flag which was designed and executed by Legion-
aire Richard Quehl, Order of the Purple Heart, of Redwood Falls.
While we recognize that no official service flag for
this war has been designated, we hope in the event that some
design becomes official you will continue to keep this one for
the inspiration and the symbolism of its design. You will
notice the colors of our country are enclosed in an unbroken
circle, signifying the unity of the American people. The gold
chevron of the design we prefer to recognize as the chevron of service
and the rainbow at the top, the symbol of God's covenant to man,
we take as a harbinger of victory.
Sincerely yours,
Melvin Daskam Post No. 38
Department of Minnesota
American Legion, Redwood Falls
By: W.F. Hassenstab
Post Commander
LW. Nassinger
L.W. Hassinger
Adjutant
WASHINGTON
June 18, 1942
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MEMORANDUM FOR
HONORABLE GEORGE 7. SUMMERLIN:
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In
Will you not be good enough to
have an appropriate note sent to McLaren
and McCaul, Limited, expressing the Pres-
ident's thanks for the poster.
Please return the poster to this
office when it has served its purpose.
GRACE 0. TULLY
XPP7
q-p
To the President, from
McLaren & McCall Limited,
224 Bloor Street West,
Toronto, Canada.
Poster - "The Atlantic Charter" - to go to Print Case when
returned from State Dept.
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UNITED
STATES
DEFENSE
BONDS
AND
STAMPS
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SHINGTON, D.C.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
In reply refer to
PR
June 24. 1942
My dear Miss Tully:
In compliance with your memorandum of June 18,
1942, I am returning herewith the poster sent to the
President by McLaren and McCaul Limited, of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
The appropriate American consular officer has been
requested to convey to the senders an expression of the
President's thanks and appreciation.
Sincerely yours,
Johnson Chief of Protocol
Enclosure:
Poster.
Miss Grace G. Tully,
FORVICTORY
The White House.
BUY
UNITED
STATES
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BONDS
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June 12, 1942
Gentlemen:
Many thanks in the President's
behalf for those fine lobsters received on
June second and June ninth. He wants you
to know that he more than appreciates your
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kindness as he is indeed very fond of
lobsters.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
Matinicus Lobster Company,
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Tillson Avenue,
cap
Rockland,
Maine.
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June 24, 1942.
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Dear Murrow:
I am sorry for the long delay in
writing to thank you for that very lovely
cigarette box which you sent to me. I am
particularly glad to have it because the
design of the sloop is more Dutch than it is
English. I feel certain that the man at the
tiller looks like a Roosevelt.
With my grateful appreciation for
your thought of me, and with every best wish
Always sincerely,
(Sgd) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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Ed Murrow, Esq.,
Columbia Broadcasting System, X 256
London, England.
COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.
817 EARLE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C.
METROPOLITAN 3200
June 2
1942
Miss Tully, dear:
Before Ed Murrow left for England he left this
with Will to bring to me So I could Rend it
to the President.
Aee the jokes I' I've ever hard about husbands
Carrying letters about for ye are and forgetting
are Dorts of errands must be true for Will
Groug ht this down this week-end.
to Dee that it gets to the President with more
In any event I hope you el be kind enough
London and be said it reminded him So much
speed. Mr. Murrow found it in a Shop in
of the Presidens that he Couldn + resist
Sending t if him.
Sincerely Aun gillis = X
PS 1- How about lunch some
day not too far away
Ps-2- - How about my farm ?
Imiss I seeing you all
very much.