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    "ocrText": "PPF 9\nPRESIDENT'S PERSONAL FILE\nGifts [Y]\nJune 1942\nPPF900531\nbegg-M\n7,611/42 For the pr.7.\nR\nunonome\nplease place for\nme\n(seaver)\nJulia O'D Mullint\n\"trith thanks\"\nsince remember and you\n?\nupF9-M\nare\nel\nB.B. - Groshon said This looked\nP.P.7.\nlike a need- - Itea him * T.A.\nIdont see her\nq-m\nhe had better file for fear she\nreight claim the unknown me soldier\n1\nas hero\nici-\nated. The President's sincerest thanks for\nyour prayerful wishes and generous expression\nof commendation go to you with this little\nnote.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE 0. TULLY\nx\nMrs. May Bolen,\n4244 Forley Street,\ncap\nElmhurst, Long Island,\nNew York.\nop-g-M\nare\nÈ\nel\nmis, Eben,\nThe attached letter\nP.P.7\nT,A, is for small flower\nq-m\nGroshon\nyour\n-\nenclosed holy medal, is indeed much appreci-\nated. The President's sincerest thanks for\nyour prayerful wishes and generous expression\nof commendation go to you with this little\nnote.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE 0. TULLY\nx\nMrs. May Bolen,\n4244 Forley Street,\ncap\nElmhurst, Long Island,\nNew York.\nare\nel\nJune 3, 1942\nP.P.7.\nq-m\nMy dear Mrs. Bolen:\nThe fine spirit which prompted\nyour letter of May thirty-first, with the\nenclosed holy medal, is indeed much appreci-\nated. The President's sincerest thanks for\nyour prayerful wishes and generous expression\nof commendation go to you with this little\nnote.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE 0. TULLY\nX\nMrs. May Bolen,\n4244 Forley Street,\ncap\nElmhurst, Long Island,\nNew York.\nand\nchay 31 31/42\n6-6ap\n11)\n\"\nElmhurst LI\n4244 Forley SX\ndur. Y.A Rooserely\nare\nel\nthe \"M.Sa\"\nD.C,\nmay God in all\n4, 1942\nhis mercy 4 bless\nfor tid the markyon rely esident\npl.,7 q.M\nand\nare doing,\n: you ever\nught of them.\nmoot Sincerely,\n(Dass.) may Bolen\nely yours,\n.\nTULLY\nP. W. Davis, Esq.,\nHomestead,\n333 West 15th Avenue,\nPennsylvania.\nmtl\nare\nel\nthe 15.\nJune 4, 1942\nMy dear Mr. Davis:\npl.,2 a.m\nOn behalf of the President and\n9\nMrs. Roosevelt I want to thank you ever\nso much for your spiritual thought of them.\nIt was indeed kind of you.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nP. W. Davis, Esq.,\nHomestead, 333 West 15th Avenue,\nPennsylvania.\nmtl\n1\nare\nPUBLIC SCHOOL No. 15,\nel\nno letter\nsident a copy of the school. nagasine,\nther to him which VISA signed by\nRolle, James Norton. Ack'd 6-7-2.\nwith booklet\nmog\nand religions\nmedaltor\nN\nboth The\nPresident\nand Mrs.\nRosseilt\nare\nThe Central Association of\nthe Miraculous Medal\ngermantown, philadelphia, PA,\n% modern art Works sincerely yours\n1620 m. St. Louis\nChicago all\nGeorge Oraved\nR.P.F9-M\nare\nPUBLIC SCHOOL No. 15,\nel\nN. da\n/\n-Angt a copy of the school. magasine,\n\"O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.\"\nto him which was signed by\n0, James Norton. Ack'd 6-7-2.\nMembership CARD\nmag\nTHE CENTRAL ASSOCIAN OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL\n100 E.PI\nRMANTOWN, PHILA., PA.\nEleanor Roosevelt.\nIS A MEMBER AND FOR ONE YEAR\nSHARES IN ALL THE SPIRITUAL BENEFITS\nTHE ACCOMPANYING\nCOPYRIENT 1941\nTHE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION\nMEDAL IS BLESSED\nor THE MIRAGULOVE MEDAL\nDIRECTOR\nSTATE\nary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.\"\nMembership Card\nTHE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL\n100 E. PRICE STREET, GERMANTOWN, PHILA., PA.\nare\nFranklin D. Roosevelt.\nis A MEMBER AND FOR ONE\nSHARES IN ALL THE spiritual BENEFITS YEAR\nCOPYRIGHT 1041\nTHE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION\nTHE ACCOMPANYING\nor THE MIRAGULOUS MEDAL\nMEDALIS BLESSED\nDIRECTOR\nThe Central Cigar\nthe Miraculous Medal\nGERMANTOWN, PA,\nman\n% modern art Horks Sincerely yours\n1620 m. St. Louis\nChicago all\nGeorge Oraved\nare\nPUBLIC SCHOOL No. 15,\nel\n11.\n223\na copy of the school magasine,\nSPIRITUAL BENEFITS\nhim which was signed by\nmany Novenas of Masses offered at Mary's Central\n630 MASSES DURING THE YEAR, including\nJames Norton. Ack'd 6-7-42.\nShrine, Germantown; Queen of the Miraculous Medal\nShrines of Mary.\nCommunity Chapel, Germantown; and at other\nGOOD HEALTH\nmog\nChapel, Princeton, N. J.; Chapel of Mary Immaculate\nSeminary, Northampton, Pa.; St. Vincent's Seminary\nTO\nhood, Lady of the Miraculous Medal, educating young men for the to Our\nAssociation in its three-fold work of propagating devotion by our\nMembers share in the spiritual good accomplished\nMembers and spreading the Faith in Mary's Kanchow Vicariate, China. priest-\nshould mutually help one another by their prayers.\nPROMOTER SINCE 1936. P.W.DAVIS\nOVER\n712\nSPIRITUAL BENEFITS\nmany Novenas of Masses offered at Mary's Central\n630 MASSES DURING THE YEAR, including\nShrine, Germantown; Queen of the Miraculous Medal\nChapel, Princeton, N. J.; Chapel of Mary Immaculate\nShrines of Mary.\nCommunity Chapel, Germantown; and at other\nSeminary, Northampton, Pa.; St. Vincent's Seminary\nis Members share in the spiritual good accomplished\nGood HEALTH\"\nare\nAssociation in its three-fold work of propagating devotion by ot\nhood, Lady of the Miraculous Medal, educating young men for the to Ou\nMembers * should mutually * help one another by their prayers.\nand spreading the Faith in Mary's Kanchow Vicariate, Chin pries\nPROMOTER SINCE 1936.\nine muracuious P.W.Darrs meam\nOVER\nGERMANTOWN, philadelphia, PA,\npmain\n% modern art Works sincerely yours\n1620 m. St. Louis\nChicago Ill\nGeorge Oraved\n1\nW-6537\nare\nSCHOOL No. 15.\nel\nMembership\nesident a copy of the school. magasine,\n.etter to him which was signed by\n12° Rolle, James Norton. Ack'd 6-7-42.\nBooklet\nmog\nare\nThe Central Association of\nthe Miraculous Medal\nGERMANTOWN. philadelphia, PA,\n% modern art Horks singerely yours\n1620 m. St. Louis\nChicago all\nGeorge Oraved\nNihil Obstat\nFATHER SKELLY WELCOMES YOU!\nJOSEPH A. M. QUIGLEY\nCensor Librorum\nW\nELCOME, dear Member, to our \"Great\nImprimatur\nFamily\" of the Miraculous Medal.\nD. CARD. DOUGHERTY\nArchiepiscopus\nWhether you have been a Member for many\nPhiladelphiensis\nyears, or whether you are now enrolling for the\nDie 22 Septembris 1941\nfirst time, I know that Our Lady is highly\npleased to have you in her Association. For\nCONTENTS\nnow you are an active Member in an organiza-\nPage\ntion that is laboring prodigiously to increase\nFather Skelly Welcomes You\n3\ndevotion to the Virgin Mother of God. Not\nHistory of the Medal\n6\nonly do you wear the Medal of Mary's Im-\nA Remarkable Conversion\n11\nmaculate Conception as a badge of your own\nThe Association of the Miraculous Medal\n12\nlove for her, but now you are also giving your\naid and giving your heart to proclaiming afar\nThe Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. 15\nthe depth of her compassion and the power of\nLetters of Approbation\nher love. You are distributing far and wide\n19\nmillions of her Miraculous Medals in order\nMary's Central Shrine\n20\nMary's Chapel at Princeton\nthat all men may come to know Mary more af-\n22\nfectionately and imitate her virtues more\nMary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton\n23\nearnestly.\nBenefits of Being a Member\n24\nHow to Become a Promoter\n25\nIn Mary's name, therefore, and for Mary's\nPerpetual Membership\n26\nhonor I welcome you warmly to our company.\nMiraculous Medal Novena Prayers\n27\nImportant Information\n30\n*\n*\nS\nEE what a blessed company it is! I am\nIndulgences (Apostolic, Crucifix, Rosary and\nspeaking not of myself, but of what the\nScapular)\n31\nPromoters-our \"Devoted Workers\"-and the\nRays from the Hands of Mary\n36\nMembers of our Association have SO far ac-\ncomplished for the glory of God and the honor\nof His Immaculate Mother.\nAddress all communications to:\nREV. JOSEPH A. SKELLY, C.M.\nWhy, it is nothing short of astounding how\n100 East Price Street\nthe Promoters and Members through Mary's\nPRINTED\nGermantown, Philadelphia, Pa.\nbenign favor have developed her Association.\nCopyright, 1941,\nThe Central Association of the Miraculous Medal\nIn a little over a quarter of a century it has\n3\ngrown from nothing, until it now embraces\nthousands of Members in every State of the\nSeminary at Northampton, Pennsylvania. And,\nof Mary's Medal and her works has proved SO\nUnion. and in many foreign lands. The appeal\nalthough the chapel and the library are not yet\nfinished, the new seminary is admirably suited\ncompelling that we have among our Members\nto priestly studies.\nboth Catholics and non-Catholics, government\nFinally, we are committed to aiding the Vin-\nofficials, moving picture actors, maids and\ncentian Fathers in their mission work in the\nchauffeurs. housewives, business men and fac-\nVicariate of Kanchow, China. This sublime\ntory workers, priests and nuns In fact no\nforeign mission enterprise we have supported\ning call.\nstation in life has been deaf to Mary's rally-\nin no small degree, first by helping to educate\nthe future missioners, and then by financing as\nfar as we are able all the missions of Bishop\nAnd what have we done to fulfill the aims\nO'Shea and his valiant priests.\nof our Association? The first aim is to augment\ndevotion to Mary Immaculate. For this, we\nhave distributed over ten million Miraculous\nMedal booklets, and more than 30 million\nABOUT Will these holy and prospering works\nread more at length in the later\nMedals. We have built Mary's Central Shrine\npages of this booklet. I have touched on a few\n-the \"Center and Heart\" of the Association-,\nto give you a fair estimate of the noble labors\nwhich ranks as one of the foremost religious\nyou share in by becoming a Member of the\nshrines of America. Here was inaugurated the\nCentral Association.\"\nMiraculous Medal Perpetual Novena, and here\nbetween 15 and 20 thousand persons attend\nYou are indeed welcome to our ranks, for\nthese devotions every Monday in the year.\nyou are another pillar for all our sacred under-\nFrom this shrine the Perpetual Novena has\ntakings. And may you, dear Member, never\ncease to share in all these blessed works. In\nspread to 1565 other churches. And we have\nprinted more than 4 million Novena Booklets,\nreturn for the help which you give, rest as-\nand about that many people make the Novena\nsured, Our Lady will open upon you the flood-\ngates of her favor and her mercies and at the\npublicly each week.\nend, Mary will show herself to you, as you are\nThe second aim of the Association is to help\nnow showing her to others, and lead you glo-\neducate aspirants to the priesthood. Hence we\nriously to life everlasting.\nhave built at the preparatory seminary of the\nVincentian Fathers the Queen of the Mirac-\nulous Medal Chapel,- gem of purest Gothic\nFather Skelly\nfor the crown of Heaven's Queen. Besides, we\nhave erected the magnificent Mary Immaculate\n4\n5\nHISTORY OF THE MEDAL®\nthe Virgo Potens Altar, Our Lady appeared\nT\nHERE is no superstition, nothing of\n\"standing on a globe, her face beautiful be-\nmagic, connected with the Miraculous\nyond words. Her fingers were covered with\nMedal. Its story is very simply told.\nprecious jewels whose light dazzled me. And\nIn 1830, when France was in upheaval, with\nI heard: 'Behold the symbol of the graces I\nwars lowering on the horizon and starvation\ngnawing the common people, the Blessed Virgin\nappeared at least three times in the Mother-\nhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Paris. Her\nconfidante was a humble novice, Sister Cath-\nerine Labouré, who in 1933 was declared\nBlessed. Sister Catherine writes thus of her\nfirst visitation, on July 18:\n\"That night at eleven-thirty, I heard my\nname called three times. Upon drawing my\nbed curtains I beheld a child of four or five\nyears who said to me: 'Come to the Chapel.\nThe Blessed Virgin awaits you!'\n\"I dressed hastily and followed him to the\nsanctuary. I saw a Lady descend the steps of\nthe altar and seat herself in the chair used by\nour Director. Then I sprang forward, throwing\nmyself on my knees on the steps of the altar.\nI rested my hands on the knees of the Blessed\nVirgin. She said to me: 'My child, I am going\nto charge you with a mission.' I am unable to\nFIRST APPARITION OF MARY IMMACULATE\nTO BLESSED CATHERINE\nsay how long a time I remained kneeling at\nher side and listening to her instructions.\"\nshed upon those who ask for them.' Then an\noval formed around the Blessed Virgin and I\nread in letters of gold: O Mary, conceived\nT\nHE second and third apparitions were very\nwithout sin, pray for us who have recourse\nmuch alike, the principal manifestation tak-\nto thee.\ning place November 27, the day we observe as\n\"The vision reversed, and I beheld the letter\nthe birthday of the Miraculous Medal.\nM surmounted by a cross, at the foot of the\nBlessed Catherine herself describes it.\ncross a bar; and below all, the Heart of Jesus\nOn the epistle side of the sanctuary, over\ncrowned with thorns, and the Heart of Mary\n6\n7\npierced with a sword. A voice said to me:\nHave a Medal struck after this model. Per-\ncarry such weight. A railroad signal, for in-\nsons who wear it indulgenced will receive great\nstance, is nothing but a feeble light glaring\ngraces, neck.' especially if they wear it around the\nthrough a bit of red glass. And yet that simple\nsignal can halt the mightiest train and save\nhundreds of lives. So we may say that the Medal\nT\nHE ecclesiastical authorities after two\nis a signal designed by Mary and approved by\nyears of rigid investigation declared the\napparitions to be fact and not fiction, and al-\nlowed the Medal of the Immaculate Concep-\ntion to be struck and to be used by the faithful.\nIn distressed France the Medal spread like\nwildfire. Marvels of grace and health, peace\nand prosperity followed in its wake. So that\nbefore long the people were calling it the\n\"Miraculous\" Medal.\nSuch is the story of how Our Lady brought\nto earth the first badge and seal of her Im-\nmaculate Conception. Largely due to the Medal,\nthe dogma of the Immaculate Conception was\ndefined by holy Church twenty-four years later.\nAnd four years after that, Our Lady appeared\nat Lourdes as though to confirm the now infal-\nlible doctrine of her glorious privilege.\nNo one should consider it strange that God\nworks miracles through a Medal. Does He not\nuse water to cleanse the soul of original sin in\nMANIFESTATION OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL\nBaptism? Does He not use oil to confer His\nTO BLESSED CATHERINE ON NOVEMBER\n27, 1830\ngraces in Confirmation and Extreme Unction\nSimilarly, He uses a Medal, not indeed as a\nsacrament, but as an agent, an instrument. in\nGod. For us to wear the Medal upon our\nbringing to pass certain marvelous results. \"The\nbreasts is a signal to Mary that we need her\nweak things of this earth hath God chosen to\naid, and Mary has promised to recognize that\nconfound the strong.\"\nsignal always. \"Persons who wear it indul-\nThe Medal is indeed another of those tre-\ngenced will receive great graces.\" And Mary is\nmendous trifles which even in everyday life\nevery day fulfilling her promise!\n8\n9\nLThe us examine the meaning of the Medal.\nobverse is the joyful side, because it\nA REMARKABLE CONVERSION\nshows Mary in the glory of her Immaculate\nThe power of Mary's intercession has been wonderfully mani-\nConception. She stands upon the globe, as the\nfested in modern times in the conversion of Alphonsus Ratis-\nQueen-Mother of all mankind. Her feet crush\nbonne, a prominent Jew and a stern adversary of the Christian\nFaith. Toward the middle of January, 1842, he went to pay\nthe serpent, to proclaim that Satan and all his\na visit of courtesy to a friend in Rome, the Baron Bussieres,\nwho was an excellent Catholic. They spoke a great deal about\nare\nbrood are helpless before her. From her out-\nstretched hands pour \"the graces which she\nreligion, and Ratisbonne attacked and denounced as supersti-\ntious the faith and practices of the Church. \"Well,\" said the\nsheds on all those who ask for them.\" Etched\nBaron, \"I will propose to you an innocent challenge. Here is a\nabout the rim is the invocation composed by\nlittle object which we call the Miraculous Medal. Will you\naccept it and consent to wear it around your neck for some\nMary herself: \"O Mary, conceived without sin,\ntime? You will see that it will produce a revolution in your\npray for us who have recourse to thee.\"\nthoughts. I will also ask you to read every day a short prayer\nThe reverse of the Medal is the sorrowful\ncalled the Memorare.\" Although Ratisbonne regarded the\nBaron's proposal as almost absurd, yet he accepted the challenge\nside, for it pictures Mary's suffering. There are\nfor the sake of friendship.\nno words there because, as Mary said to Sister\nHe did indeed put on the Medal and recite the Memorare\nCatherine, \"the M and the two hearts express\ndaily. Five days later, when in the neighborhood of the Church\nof St. Andrew delle Fratte, he entered it-not out of any real\nenough.\" Indeed they do! For they tell us that\ndevotion, but merely from curiosity. It was about midday.\nMary is not only Queen and Mediatrix but\nAll at once he was seized with a marvelous and indescribable\nemotion. He raised his eyes: his immediate surroundings seemed\nMother of Sorrows and Co-redemptrix as well;\nto have vanished, and he saw before him only the Immaculate\nshe is ever by the side of her sorrowing chil-\nVirgin Mary, as she is represented on the Miraculous Medal,\ndren, as she was by the side of her Son. For\nand radiating unspeakable splendor. With a silent gesture of\nher maternal hand she invited him to kneel on the pavement.\nthe love of men His heart wears a crown of\nHe did so, and at that moment the beautiful vision disappeared.\nthorns; for the love of men hers is pierced with\nOverwhelmed by the wonderful experience, he arose another\nman, like St. Paul when converted by divine grace on the road\na lance. Beneath the cross we find the letter\nto Damascus. In an instant the veil was removed from his eyes,\nM, because to the end Mary stood beneath the\nhis prejudices were entirely overcome and he now implicitly\ncross of Christ.\nbelieved the divine truths which he had hitherto blasphemed.\nThe twelve stars refer to the Apostles, the\nOn the 31st of January Cardinal Patrizi baptized Alphonsus,\ngiving him the name Marie, and confirmed him. The news of\nfirst messengers of Christ's salvation; or per-\nthis wonderful conversion astounded the world. The Pope, after\nhaps to the stars in the vision of St. John, in\nfour months of examination and prayer, pronounced the miracle\nauthentic. A three-day solemnity was established in the Church\nwhich \"a great sign appeared in Heaven, a\nof St. Andrew to celebrate this miracle yearly with fitting mag-\nwoman clothed with the sun, and the moon\nnificence, and to thank God for His mercies bestowed through\nMary Immaculate.\nunder her feet, and on her head a crown of\nM. Ratisbonne, at the inspiration of Mary, studied for the\ntwelve stars.\" For it is Mary's part to bring her\npriesthood and was ordained in order that he might labor for\nchildren through the sorrows of earth to the\nthe conversion of the Jews. Going to Jerusalem, he took over\nbliss of Heaven, where in the crown of the\nthe Pretorium of Pontius Pilate, cleared away the rubble, and\nfrom this sacred spot worked heroically until his death in 1884.\nQueen they will shine like stars for all eternity.\n10\n11\n1620 Louis\nChicago\nTHE ASSOCIATION\nOF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL\nNOTES\nMiraculous Medal for good that he wished to the\nPope Pius X had such faith in the power of\nFollowing is the list of days on which a plenary in-\ndulgence may be gained (under the usual conditions of\ndevotion to it throughout the world. For this end spread he\nConfession, Communion and Prayer for the intention\nmembers. And he granted great privileges and indulgences to its\nerected \"The Association of the Miraculous Medal.\"\nof the Pope) by those who have been invested in the\nMedal. The day of investiture at the hour of death:\nonce a year during the exercises of retreat: the first\nSunday of each month; all the Saturdays of Lent;\nTo become a member of this Association one\nPassion Sunday and the following Friday; Wednesday,\nel\nonly be invested in the Medal by a priest who has need the\nThursday and Friday of Holy Week.\nproper faculties, and wear it suspended from the neck\nand upon the breast.\nFeasts of Christmas. Epiphany, Easter, Ascension,\nPentecost, Holy Trinity: Immaculate Conception, Na-\nArticle I.\ntivity of Mary, Purification, Annunciation, Assump-\ntion; St. Joseph, March 19: Blessed Joseph Mary\nThe Association of the Miraculous Medal in honor\nThomas, March 24: Canonization of St. Cajetan, April\nof the Immaculate Conception has been established\n12: Finding of the Holy Cross, May 3: Blessed Paul\nas a living and perpetual memorial of the apparitions\nBuralis, June 17: Nativity of St. John the Baptist.\nof Mary Immaculate which took place at the Chapel\nJune 24: SS. Peter and Paul, June 29: Last Sunday of\nof the Daughters of Charity, Rue du Bac, Paris, in\nJuly: Our Lady of the Angels Portiuncula), August\nthe year 1830, the feast of which is celebrated on\n2: St. Cajetan, August 7; St. Augustine, August 28:\nNovember 27.\nExaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14: St.\nArticle II.\nMichael, Archangel, September 29: Guardian Angels,\nOctober 2: St. Theresa, October 15: All Saints, No-\nThe end or aim of the Association is to render due\nvember 1: St. Andrew of Avellino, November 10:\nhonor to Mary Immaculate, first by sanctifying our-\nBlessed John Marinonius, December 13: first and last\nselves, and second by contributing to the sanctifica-\ndays of the Novena in preparation for Christmas once\nMedal. tion of our neighbor by means of the Miraculous\nduring the exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament\nat the Forty Hours' Devotion. If the one invested\nshould become a priest he may gain a plenary indul-\nArticle III.\ngence on the day he celebrates his First Mass.\nThe Association, canonically erected in each diocese,\nis governed according to its own laws and usages, by\nArticle V.\ndiocesan directors, appointed by their respective bish-\nAll the faithful of both sexes may become mem-\nops, but under the authority of one director general.\nbers of this Association and share in its privileges.\nThe only condition is that they wear the Medal on\nthe breast suspended from the neck, when the Medal\nArticle IV.\nhas been blessed and imposed according to the rite\nBy virtue of a Rescript of His Holiness, Pius X,\napproved by Leo XIII (April 19, 1895), by a priest\nJune 3, 1905, the same privileges and indulgences\ndelegated to do SO.\ngranted to the Association of the Scapular of the\nArticle VI.\nImmaculate Conception (Blue Scapular) have been\nMedal. extended to the Association of the Miraculous\nThe principal feast of the Association is November\n27-Feast of the Apparition of the Immaculate Virgin\nof the Miraculous Medal.\n12\n13\n1620 St. Louis\nArticle VII.\nTHE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF\nThe associates incur no new obligations. They are\nrecommended to repeat frequently the invocation in-\nTHE MIRACULOUS MEDAL\nscribed on the Medal: \"O Mary, conceived without\nsin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.'\nThis Association owes its origin to a telling\nmanifestation of the generosity of Our Blessed\nBy virtue of a decree of the Sacred Penitentiary,\nMother. For when Father Skelly in 1914 wrote\nApril 22, 1933, a partial indulgence of ten years\nan appeal for our preparatory seminary at\nbe gained each time that a member with contrite heart may\nPrinceton, he enclosed in each letter a Miracu-\ndevoutly recites six Our Fathers, Hail Marys and\nGlorys for the intention of the Holy Father. By re-\nlous Medal. The response was so favorable that\npeating these prayers at least once each day for a\nno one could doubt that to Mary alone could\nmonth, a plenary indulgence may be gained under the\nbe credited the success. Mary then must be\nusual conditions.\nthanked and repaid: but how? Wide consulta-\ntion and long prayer finally bore fruit in this\nPRIVILEGES FOR ALL\nconclusion: to establish an association to pro-\nA person who does not belong to the Association\nmote devotion to Mary by means of the Mi-\nwho has not been invested in the Miraculous Medal or\nraculous Medal. And thus, with the cordial\nmay still gain great indulgences by wearing the Medal.\napproval of the religious superiors and the\nHe may gain a plenary indulgence on the day on which\nblessing of the ecclesiastical authorities, was\nhe first receives the Medal properly blessed, on Easter,\nand on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, under\ninstituted THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF THE\nthe conditions of Confession, Communion, and a visit\nMIRACULOUS MEDAL.\nto a church dedicated to Mary or his parish church\nThe Association was established in March,\nto pray for the intention of the Pope. (Brief of Sep-\n1915, at St. Vincent's Seminary, Germantown.\ntember 30, 1895.)\nPhiladelphia. Its leading purpose was to in-\nThe faithful at large may gain 300 days' indulgence\ncrease devotion to the Immaculate Mother of\neach time they recite the following prayer, and a\nGod through the Medal which Mary herself\nplenary indulgence once a month under the usual con-\nditions if they recite the prayer daily: \"O Mary, con-\nrevealed. A second aim was to help young men\nceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to\nto become worthy priests of Mary's Divine Son.\nthee.\" (Pius XI, April 15, 1932.)\nAnd when our Vincentian Priests were directed\nby Our Holy Father in 1922 to evangelize the\nOn the Feast of the Manifestation of the Miraculous\nMedal, November 27, all the faithful may gain a plen-\nVicariate of Kanchow, China, the objects of\nary indulgence, provided they go to Confession, and\nthe \"CENTRAL ASSOCIATION\" were broadened\nCommunion and visit a church or chapel of the Priests\nto include the support of this sublime work.\nof the Mission (Vincentians), or of the Sisters of\nCharity of St. Vincent de Paul, and pray there for\nthe intention of the Pope. (Brief of August 24, 1894.)\nThe young organization took root, and grew\nsteadily but slowly. By dozens and then by\nAll the indulgences mentioned above are applicable\nto the suffering souls in Purgatory.\nhundreds, the yearly membership fees of\ntwenty-five cents came in. The small room in\n14\n15\nSt. Vincent's Seminary used by the Associa-\ntion was no longer adequate. The Daughters\nyears we had to make an addition to this build-\nof Charity, willing to befriend a work closely\nconnected with their Community, provided\ning Association. to keep pace with the still developing\nquarters at the Gonzaga Orphan Asylum. The\nAssociation, outgrowing this new home in\nAll these details would argue that we are \"in\nturn. took temporary offices in the Immaculate\nConception Hall.\nbusiness\" for Mary Immaculate. That is true.\nYears ago, Father Faber wrote about a society\nwhich he established:\n\"There is hardly any worldly object of im-\nportance which has not some association to de-\nfend its rights and forward its interests; why\nshould not the interests of Jesus have one also?\nScience has its meetings, and its corresponding\nsocieties. Men band together to gain the vic-\ntory for some political opinions. They form\ncompanies for railroads and for steam packets\nand for coal mines. Why should we not open an\noffice to transact the affairs of Jesus, and to\nprotect His rights, and advance His interests?\"\nTHE OFFICE OF THE \"CENTRAL ASSOCIATION\"\nBut while employing sound business methods\n100 E. PRICE STREET\nGERMANTOWN, PHILA., PA.\nto advance Mary's interests, we have always\nOn May 1, 1917 we took possession of a\nanchored our main reliance on prayer. We have\nlarge house on Chew St.: this we named\nmade no move in the work of the Association\n\"Mary's Fortress.\" From it issued whole bat-\nwithout first asking Our Lord and Our Lady\ntalions of Marian letters and pamphlets. And\nfor guidance and benediction. And whatever\nto almost every town and city in the United\nsuccess was granted must be laid to prayer.\nStates and Canada, and to many foreign coun-\ntries marched file on file of Mary's Miraculous\n* * *\nMedals.\nYes, it was supernatural aid that paved the\nEventually even \"Mary's Fortress\" cramped\nway for every enterprise: for example, to mail\nour constantly expanding activities. So that in\ninto thousands of homes the MIRACULOUS\nJanuary, 1922, we bought the present office\nMEDAL Magazine, to distribute 10.017.880\nbuilding at 100 East Price Street. After a few\nbooklets setting out the purpose and the work\n16\n17\nof the \"CENTRAL ASSOCIATION,' and to send\nthroughout the world 30,245,252 Medals.\nLETTERS OF APPROBATION\nMoreover, our Association has been privi-\nOur Association is pleased to number among its friends many\nmembers of the hierarchy and clergy of the Church. We quote\nleged to supply the means to erect Mary's\nthe following letters of approval:\nCentral Shrine in Germantown, the Queen of\nFrom His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, Vatican City:\n\"On the occasion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of The\nthe Miraculous Medal Chapel at Princeton, and\nCentral Association of the Miraculous Medal the Holy Father\nMary Immaculate Seminary at Northampton.\nimparts to Father Skelly and the Promoters and Members the\nApostolic Benediction implored.\"\n(Signed) Cardinal Maglione.\nAt Mary's Central Shrine on December 8,\nFrom His Excellency, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani:\n1930, we inaugurated the Perpetual Novena\nDear Father Skelly,\nDevotions in honor of Our Lady of the Mirac-\n\"It is a pleasure to take this occasion to express my heartfelt\ngratification for the splendid work and widespread apostolate\nulous Medal. Having begun with one service\nthat has been carried on by the Association of the Miraculous\non each Monday of the year, we now have to\nMedal, and I am most pleased to extend to you and your asso-\nciates in this holy endeavor my cordial blessing. May God be.\nconduct twelve services each week, because\nstow upon your labors abundant heavenly benedictions, and\ndeign to grant the continuation of the success marked in these\nfrom 15,000 to 20,000 people attend. The col-\nfirst twenty-five years.\nlections taken up at all these services for the\n\"Your success in bringing millions of souls to honor the\nBlessed Mother and her Divine Son is renowned. and I feel\npast eight years have been turned over to the\nthat there is profound justification for the Silver Jubilee which\nyou are about to celebrate.\"\npoor and the unfortunate.\n(Signed) Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,\nApostolic Delegate.\nThe Perpetual Novena has now also been\nFrom His Eminence, D. Cardinal Dougherty:\ntaken up by 1,565 other churches,- 40 States\nDear Father Skelly,\nin this country, and in the Canal Zone, Canada,\n\"It has been brought to my attention that you are soon to\nkeep the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the foundation of The\nHawaii, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and\nCentral Association of the Miraculous Medal, of whose head-\nChina. To further this work we have distributed\nquarters you are, and have been, in charge.\n\"It is gratifying to learn how the influence of your Associa-\n4,581,905 Novena Booklets.\ntion has been extended, not only throughout the United States,\nbut also to other countries; and that, wherever the Association\nof the Miraculous Medal exists, devotion to the Blessed Mother\nof God has been spread or intensified.\n\"Fathers of the Church and eminent theologians teach that\nIn 1832 when Sister Catherine's confessor,\ndevotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is the badge of Catholicity\nFather Aladel, showed her the first Medal, she\nand is based upon the fundamental doctrines of Christ's Incar-\nnation and Redemption.\nexclaimed, \"Now it must be propagated This\n\"In these days of materialism and growing unbelief, it seems\na special providence that the Blessed Mother of God herself\nhas been the battle cry of our Association for\nappeared to the humble Sister of Charity, Catherine Labouré.\nover a quarter of a century. Now it must be-\nand bade her become an instrument of Providence for devotion\nto the Mother of God through the Miraculous Medal.\ncome yours, too, dear Member! Rejoice in all\n\"Your Association. therefore, has my congratulations on the\nwondrous fruits that it has borne; and my best wishes for a\nthat your Association does for the glory of God\ncontinuance of its extraordinary success.\nthrough Mary. And leave no stone unturned to\n\"You personally, also, merit felicitation for the edifying\nmanner in which you have devoted your life to carrying out\nbring Mary and her blessed Medal into the\nthe wishes of the Blessed Virgin herself. as expressed to\nCatherine Labouré.\"\nlives of others.\n(Signed) D. Cardinal Dougherty.\nArchbishop of Philadelphia.\n18\n19\nMARY'S CENTRAL SHRINE,\nOn September 8, 1927 His Eminence, D.\nCardinal Dougherty solemnly blessed and dedi-\ncated Mary's Central Shrine. This sanctuary\nwas made possible and actual by the generosity\nof the Promoters and Members of the \"CEN-\nTRAL ASSOCIATION,\" and it stands as a glorious\nand lasting memorial of their unbounded love\nfor their Immaculate Mother. Many non-\nCatholics and millions of Catholics have knelt\nspellbound in awe and admiration before the\nunearthly beauty of this modern, but already\nfamous, shrine of Mary. World-travelers de-\nclare that, among all the shrines that jewel this\nearth, Mary's Central Shrine stands second to\nnone.\nThe light of myriad votive tapers plays over\nthe marble of its sea-green columns and wine-\nred bays, its resplendent mosaics of gold and\npigment, its stained glass windows in rich har-\nmonies of sunset reds and winter blues. The\nstatue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal,\nlodged in white radiance over the altar, awakens\nstrange movements in the heart. This statue.\ncarved from the finest marble of Carrara, is the\nmasterpiece of an unknown genius; for he has\nbrought the satin marble alive with the virginal\npurity and maternal kindness of Mary's heart.\nMARY'S CENTRAL SHRINE\nIMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHAPEL, Sr. VINCENT'S SEMINARY\nHer downcast eyes gaze not to challenge, but\n500 E. CHELTEN AVENUE\nare lowered in humble entreaty. Her out-\nGERMANTOWN, PHILA., PA.\nstretched arms seem to be reaching gently for\nThe following indulgences were granted to Mary's\nall her children prostrate there \"sinful and\nCentral Shrine: 1-A Plenary Indulgence may be\nsorrowful.\"\ngained once a day. Conditions-Confession, Com-\nmunion, visit to our Shrine and prayers for the in-\nSuch is the throne room of Mary, where\ntention of His Holiness, the Pope. 2-A Plenary\nhearts leap up to the queenly embrace of our\nIndulgence may be gained under the same conditions\nImmaculate Mother, and where she proves her-\nby all who come to Mary's Central Shrine on a pil-\nself the Mother of God by her heavenly favors.\ngrimage. 3-The Shrine Altar is Privileged for any\npriest who says Mass there for the faithful departed.\n20\n21\nAfter Mary Immaculate, erecting a fitting the shrine to the glory\nMARY'S CHAPEL AT PRINCETON\nMARY IMMACULATE SEMINARY,\nof\nNORTHAMPTON\nvine turned Son. to the \"Central Association'\nThree years after building the chapel for\nof her Di-\nour preparatory seminary, we undertook a far\nsuitable of the\ngreater task, in erecting an entire major\nchapel is was wanting. Because J., a\nseminary, namely, Mary Immaculate Seminary,\nseminary, the most important classroom the\nby its we undertook to build a of a\nsublimity should bring home chapel to the which stu-\nCourtesy of The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.\nat Northampton, Pennsylvania. A task greater\nin demands and difficulties, because it called not\nonly for a chapel but also for classrooms, li-\nwhere the full ceremonies of the Church could\ndents the sublimity of the priesthood ; a chapel\nbrary, auditorium, infirmary, reception rooms,\nbedrooms and kitchen. A task greater in im-\nbe carried out perfectly with the aid of flaw-\nportance, as a university is greater than a high\nschool, for here must be given the schooling in\nless appointments. Such a chapel, painstak-\nthe profound sciences of philosophy and theol-\nChurch, the mother of the arts, demanded great\ningly fashioned in the best traditions of Holy\nogy and piety: the final training for the most\nexalted profession upon earth-the holy priest-\nexpenditures even though labor and materials\nhood of God.\nwere low in price. But the Promoters and\nThe more gigantic the pious work we under-\nMembers of the Association. in keeping with\ntake, the brighter glow the faith, the generosity,\ntheir own tradition of open-handed generosity\nthe enthusiasm of our Promoters and Members.\nin helping the divine Priesthood, supplied the\nSo nobly did they lend their aid that we were\nmeans to build and complete in 1934 the superb\nable to open the new seminary on Mary's name-\nQueen of the Miraculous Medal Chapel.\nday, September 12, 1939.\n22\n23\nBENEFITS OF BEING A MEMBER\nOF THE \"CENTRAL ASSOCIATION\"\nHOW TO BECOME A PROMOTER\nOur Members enjoy enormous privileges\nTo become a Promoter, send the names of\nbenefits. First, since they are the backbone and\neight or more Members, living or deceased, and\nall our Association, they partake of the merits of\nthe membership fee of 25c for each to\nour works to increase devotion to the of\nRev. Joseph A. Skelly, C.M.\ntion maculate Mother of God, to assist in the Im-\n100 E. Price Street\nand training of priests for the service educa-\nGermantown, Philadelphia, Pa.\nof Mary's Divine Son, and to support the of\nOur Promoters share in one thousand\nWho the American Vincentian priests in labors\nMasses each year. Besides the six hundred\nwhich can ever gauge the graces and blessings China.\nand thirty Masses in which they share as Mem-\nfor these widespread and holy works earn\nbers, they also share in an extra Novena of\nour Members?\nMasses each month; in ten extra Novenas of\nshare in 630 Masses each year. That is, in\nMoreover our Members, living and deceased.\nMasses and ninety-three single Masses offered\neach year at Shrines of Our Lady; in three\ntral Novena of Masses each month at Mary's Cen- a\nNovenas of Masses said each year at Mary's\nCentral Shrine in preparation for the Feasts of\nShrine, Germantown: at the Queen of\nMiraculous Medal Chapel, Princeton, N. J.; the\nthe Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Conception\nand St. Joseph; and in Father Skelly's Mass,\nMary Pa.; Immaculate Seminary, Northampton, at\noffered each Saturday at Mary's Central Shrine.\ntian at the Community Chapel of the Vincen-\nThe names of active Promoters are enclosed\nFathers, Germantown: and another special\nin the Gold Heart which is kept before the\nNovena; also ten extra Novenas during the\nStatue of the Blessed Virgin at our Shrine.\nyear offered at other famous shrines.\nPremiums are given to our \"Devoted Work-\nAnd when the membership fee is sent in each\ners\" in appreciation of their help in our work.\nyear, the Member receives in return an artistic\nThe MIRACULOUS MEDAL Magazine is sent\nMiraculous Medal, a Membership Card, and\nto our Promoters four times a year, in March,\nthis Membership Booklet.\nJune, September and December.\nMay any one become a Member and share\nPromoters receive a distinctive Miraculous\nin all these great privileges and benefits Yes,\nMedal which they only are privileged to wear.\nany one, living or deceased. All that is neces-\nOne who at the time of death is an active\nsary is that the name of the person, together\nPromoter shares perpetually in all the spiritual\nwith the membership fee of 25 cents be sent\nbenefits enjoyed by Promoters: also a perpetual\nto Father Skelly. There are no other obliga-\nMembership Certificate signed by Father Skelly\ntions. Wearing the Medal, or attending the\nwill be sent to the next of kin. The names of\nMiraculous Medal Novena, does not make one\ndeceased Promoters appear in our quarterly\na Member.\nMagazine and prayers are asked for the repose\nof their souls.\n24\n25\nPERPETUAL MEMBERSHIP\nPerpetual persons Membership means that the\nMIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA PRAYERS\nor life and after enrolled will share always person®\nIn the name of the Father and of the Son\nMasses death) in the many Novenas (during\nand of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\nCIATION for Members of THE CENTRAL of\nCome, O Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy\nMasses, OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL. Asso-\nfaithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy\nFive which total 630, are said as These\nlove. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall\nand Novenas of Masses offered each follows:\nbe created. And Thou shalt renew the face of\nten other Novenas of Masses offered month, dur-\nthe earth.\ning the year.\nLet us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the\nFor the in nominal sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00)\nhearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy\n-sent one complete payment-one\nliving or deceased, may be enrolled as person, a Per-\nSpirit, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly\nwise and ever to rejoice in His consolation,\npetual Member. An exceptionally fine\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\nficate, suitable for framing, is issued for certi-\nof Perpetual Membership, inscribed with the each\nO Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us\nwho have recourse to thee. (3 times.)\nulous Medal is sent with each Perpetual Mem-\nthe one enrolled. A rolled gold Art Mirac- name\nO Lord Jesus Christ, Who hast vouch-\nbership Certificate.\nsafed to glorify by numberless miracles I the\nA Family may be enrolled perpetually for\nBlessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate from the\nOne Hundred Dollars ($100.00) -sent in\nfirst moment of her Conception, grant that\ncomplete this payment. In the case of single one\nall who devoutly implore her protection on\nwould include the sender, his or her persons\nearth, may eternally enjoy Thy presence in\nbrothers and and sisters, and grandparents, parents, living\nheaven. Who, with the Father and Holy\ndeceased: in the case of married\nGhost, livest and reignest, God, for ever and\never. Amen.\nthis would include husband and wife, their persons chil-\ndren, and their parents, their brothers and\nO Lord Jesus Christ, | Who for the accom-\nsisters, living and deceased. A beautiful Cru-\nplishment of Thy greatest works, hast chosen\ncifix is sent with the Family Perpetual Mem-\nthe weak things of the world, that no flesh\nbership Certificate.\nmay glory in Thy sight; and Who for a\nOn the occasion of the death of a loved one,\nbetter and more widely diffused belief\nin\nwe recommend that you enroll the deceased\nthe Immaculate Conception of Thy Mother,\na Perpetual Member of the \"CENTRAL Asso- as\nhast wished that the Miraculous Medal\nbe\nmanifested to Blessed Catherine Labouré,\nCIATION.\" A Certificate made out in the name\nof the departed loved one is always deeply ap-\ngrant, we beseech Thee, that\nfilled\nwith\nlike\npreciated by the surviving relatives.\nhumility, | we may glorify this mystery by\nword and work. Amen.\n26\n27\nMEMORARE\nRemember, O most compassionate Virgin\nAN ACT OF CONSECRATION TO OUR\nMary, that never was it known that\nLADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL\none who fled to thy protection, implored any thy\nO Virgin Mother of God.\nMary\nImmac-\nassistance or sought thy intercession,\nulate, | we dedicate and consecrate ourselves to\nleft unaided. Inspired with this confidence, was\nthee under the title of Our Lady of the Mi-\nwe fly unto thee,\nVirgin\nof\nMother;\nvirgins,\nraculous Medal. May this Medal be for each\nto\nthee\nour\nwe\ncome:\nbefore\nthee\none of us a sure sign of thy affection for us\nkneel sinful and sorrowful.\nwe\nMother of the\nand a constant reminder of our duties towards\nWord Incarnate, despise not our petitions,\nthee.\nbut Amen. in thy clemency hear and answer them.\nEver while wearing it, may we be\nblessed by thy loving protection and preserved\nin the grace of thy Son. O Most powerful\nNOVENA PRAYER\nVirgin, Mother of our Saviour, keep us\nO Immaculate Virgin Mary,\nclose to thee every moment of our lives.\nMother of\nOur Lord Jesus and our Mother,\nObtain for us, thy children, the grace of a\npowerful and never failing intercession, in thy\nwith the most lively confidence\npenetrated\nall-\nhappy death so that, in union with thee, ! we\nmay enjoy the bliss of heaven forever. Amen.\nmanifested SO often through the Miraculous\nMedal, we thy loving and trustful children\nO Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us\nimplore thee to obtain for us\nwho have recourse to thee. (3 times.)\nthe\ngraces\nand\nbeneficial to our immortal souls, and the they souls be\nfavors we ask during this Novena,\nif\nfor whom we pray;\nPrayer Said During the Blessing and\n(Here privately men-\ntion your Petitions). Thou knowest, O Mary,\nInvesting of the Medal\nhow often our souls have been the sanctu-\n\"O Almighty and Merciful God, Who, through the numer-\nous apparitions of the Immaculate Virgin on earth, has\naries of thy Son\nWho hates iniquity.\nOb-\ndeigned continuously to perform wonderful things for the sal-\ntain for us then\nvation of souls, graciously bestow Thy blessings on this medal\na deep hatred of sin\nand\nthat they who piously venerate and devoutly wear it may\nthat purity of heart\nwhich\nwill\nattach\nfeel Thy protection and obtain Thy mercy. Through Christ\nGod alone SO that our every thought, us word to\nour Lord. Amen.\"\nand deed\nmay tend to His greater glory.\nWords Addressed to Those Being Invested\nObtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-\nin the Medal\ndenial that we may recover by penance\n\"Receive this holy medal, wear it faithfully and keep it\nwhat we have lost by sin and at length attain\nwith fitting veneration, that the most pious and Immaculate\nto that blessed abode\nQueen of Heaven may protect and defend you; and, repeating\nwhere thou art the\nthe marvels of her love, may she mercifully obtain for you\nQueen of angels and of men. Amen.\nwhatever you suppliantly ask of God. so that in life and death\nyou may rest happily in her maternal embrace. Amen.\"\n28\n29\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION\nINDULGENCES\nWhether a person is a Member of our \"Cen-\ntral Association\" or not, he does not gain the\nStrictly speaking, our Association has for its\nindulgences mentioned on page 12, unless he\npeculiar scope to promote devotion to Our Lady\ninvested in the Medal and wears it suspended is\nthrough the Miraculous Medal. We do however\nfrom the neck upon the breast. One must be\ndistribute rosaries and crucifixes. All the rosa-\nries which we send out of our office are specially\npersonally invested by a priest who has special\nblessed and bear the Apostolic, Brigittine, Cro-\nfaculties. Any priest may obtain these faculties\nzier and Dominican Indulgences. The crucifixes\nwithout difficulty by applying to Father Skelly,\nare enriched with the Indulgences of the Way\nas thousands of. priests have already done.\nof the Cross and for a Happy Death. And be-\nAnd SO any living person may gain all the\ncause we are often asked about these indul-\nindulgences attached to wearing the Miraculous\ngences, together with the Scapular Indulgences,\nMedal simply by being invested in the Medal\nwe here give an explanation of all of them.\nby a priest and then wearing the Medal about\nAPOSTOLIC INDULGENCES\nthe neck.\nApostolic or Papal Induigences were orig-\ninally attached to objects of piety given by the\nOnly those persons, living or deceased, share\nSovereign Pontiffs to prelates, kings, and other\nin the rich treasury of merits accruing from the\ngreat personages. Now these indulgences may\npious works of THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF\nbe attached to rosaries, crosses, crucifixes,\nTHE MIRACULOUS MEDAL and in its many No-\nmedals, small statues, etc.,-made of durable\nvenas of Masses who are enrolled as Members\nmaterial - - by a priest having the proper\nfaculties.\nin our \"Central Association.\" The name and\nthe yearly membership fee of 25 cents should\nChief among the Apostolic Indulgences is\nbe sent to Father Skelly, 100 E. Price St., Ger-\nthe plenary indulgence at the hour of death. To\nmantown, Phila., Pa.\ngain this, it is necessary to:\n1. Keep the blessed article on one's person or\nTherefore, to share in (1) the indulgences to\nin a decent place at home;\nbe gained from wearing the Medal, as well as\n2. Confess and receive Communion if possible;\nin (2) the privileges and benefits of the \"Cen-\n3. Pronounce the Holy Name of Jesus, if pos-\ntral Association,' a person has both to be\nsible with the lips, otherwise in the heart;\ninvested in the Medal and to be enrolled in the\n4. Commend oneself to the divine mercy with\nAssociation. Merely attending the Miraculous\nlove of God and sorrow for sin, and accept\nMedal Novena does not satisfy either of these\ndeath with resignation to God's Will and as a\nrequirements.\npunishment for sin.\n30\n31\nCRUCIFIX FOR A HAPPY DEATH\nTHE ROSARY\nbears a plenary indulgence at the hour of death.\nA crucifix that has the Apostolic Blessing\nThe Sacred Penitentiary in 1937 decreed that\nAny one who has such a crucifix may gain this\nby reciting the prayers of a rosary of five dec-\nindulgence in his last hour by kissing or touch-\nades, even though the rosary has been given no\ning the blessed crucifix and observing the con-\nspecial blessing, a person may gain the follow-\nditions set out above for all objects that have\ning indulgences:\nthe Apostolic Blessing.\n1. Five years, each time he recites five decades\nby himself;\nCRUCIFIX FOR THE WAY OF\n2. Ten years once a day, if he recites five dec-\nTHE CROSS\nades with one or more persons;\nA crucifix may be blessed with a sign of the\n3. If he recites five decades with one or more\ncross by a priest who has the requisite facul-\npersons at least three times a week, then on the\nties, SO that this crucifix bears all the indul-\nlast Sunday of the month he gains a plenary\ngences of the actual Way of the Cross. To gain\nindulgence, provided that he goes to Confession,\nthese indulgences from the use of such a cruci-\nreceives Holy Communion and visits a church\nfix, it is necessary:\nor public oratory;\n1. That some serious reason impede one from\n4. As often as he recites five decades before\nmaking the actual Way of the Cross;\nthe Blessed Sacrament, whether It is exposed\n2. That one hold the crucifix in one's hands:\nor within the tabernacle, and goes to Confes-\nsion and Holy Communion, he may gain a\n3. That, while thinking of the Passion, one\nplenary indulgence;\nrecite twenty times the Our Father, the Hail\n5. During October, he gains an indulgence of\nMary and the Glory.\nseven years once on every day on which he re-\nWhen there are a group who cannot make\ncites five decades;\nthe Way of the Cross, all may gain the indul-\n6. If he recites five decades on the feast of the\ngences if one holds the blessed crucifix while\nBlessed Virgin of the Rosary in October and\nall say the prayers.\non each day of the Octave, he gains a plenary\nIf a person is SO sick that he cannot say the\nindulgence, provided that he goes to Confes-\nrequired prayers, he may gain the indulgences\nsion, receives Holy Communion and visits a\nby contritely kissing the crucifix which some\nchurch or public oratory;\none holds before him, or even by looking at it\n7. If he recites five decades on each of the ten\nwith sorrow, and saying some short prayer in\ndays after the end of the Octave of the Blessed\nmemory of the Passion. If he cannot say the\nVirgin of the Rosary, he gains a plenary indul-\nprayer, let him then look with sorrow upon\ngence, provided that he goes to Confession, re-\nthe crucifix and he may thus gain the indulgences.\nceives Holy Communion and visits a church or\n32\npublic oratory.\n33\nBRIGITTINE INDULGENCE™\nSCAPULARS\nSt. Bridget may be attached to a common\nThe indulgences of the six-decade Rosary of\nThe scapular originally was an article of\nof five decades by a special blessing. To rosary gain\ndress which the members of certain Religious\nthis Brigittine Indulgence however the Creed\nOrders wore over their shoulders. Later on,\nmust be said instead of the Glory at the end of\nthis part of the robe was also worn by mem-\nbers of associated Confraternities, but it was re-\neach decade. The principal indulgences to be\ngained are these\nduced to two small pieces of cloth joined by\n1. One hundred days for each Our Father,\ncords or tapes, one piece resting on the breast,\neach Hail Mary and each Creed when five dec-\nand the other on the back. And as the original\nades are said;\nrobe of the Orders varied, SO too did the\n2. If five decades are said daily, a plenary in-\nScapulars.\ndulgence may be gained once a year, with the\nToday the five principal scapulars are: The\nBrown, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; the\nusual conditions of Confession and Communion,\nBlue, of the Immaculate Conception; the Red,\nand an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory\nfor the intention of the Pope.\nof the Passion; the White, of the Holy Trinity;\nand the Black, of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.\nCROZIER INDULGENCE\nThese are often made up into one five-fold\nscapular.\nA priest who has the proper faculties may,\nwith the sign of the cross, give to the beads the\nTo gain the Scapular Indulgences, including\nCrozier Blessing. By using such beads an in-\na plenary indulgence on the day of investiture\nand at the hour of death, one must be invested\ndulgence of five hundred days for each Our\nFather and each Hail Mary may be gained.\nby a priest having this faculty.\nTHE SCAPULAR MEDAL\nDOMINICAN INDULGENCE\nIn place of the cloth scapulars, a scapular\nA priest who has the necessary faculties may,\nmedal may be worn. But while the Holy Father\nwith the special formula, give to the beads the\npermits its use, he does not wish the original\nDominican Blessing. By using these beads the\ncloth scapulars to fall entirely into disuse. The\nfollowing indulgences may be gained:\nscapular medal should have on one face an\n1. One hundred days for each Our Father and\nimage of Our Lord with His Sacred Heart, and\neach Hail Mary when five decades are said;\non the other an image of the Blessed Virgin.\n2. A plenary indulgence once a year if five dec-\nThe medal must be blessed by a priest who\nades are recited daily for a year, on the usual\nhas faculties for blessing the respective scap-\nconditions of Confession and Communion, and\nulars. All those, but only those, who have been\nan Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory for\ninvested in the cloth scapulars may gain the in-\nthe intention of the Pope.\ndulgences by wearing the scapular medal.\n34\n35\n1620 St. Louis\nSPIRITUAL\nRAYS\nConversions \"I have a sister and a brother-in-law who are both converts.\nhave had them enrolled ever since 1 became a Promoter of\nThe I Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. I give all\ncredit for their newly-found happiness to Our Blessed Lady.\"\n-Canada.\n\"Among my new members I have a girl who worked some\n7\nyears with me in the Maternity Department of our hospital.\nIn the obedience to the decree of Urban VIII, we wish to\nTwo years ago I gave her a Miraculous Medal, asking her to\nthat terms miracle and such like, when made use of declare\nsubmit following pages, have only a purely historic value, and that in the\nwear it. She said she would if it would help the babies. Last\nwithout reserve to the judgment of the Church the we\nyear she was received into the Church and she is now a won-\nfacts we narrate.\nderful Catholic.\"-Pennsylvania.\nWe estimate that during its existence THE\nSacraments\nCENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIRACULOUS\n\"Please enter the enclosed name on your membership list.\nMEDAL has received, including the favors re-\nThis woman attended the Miraculous Medal Novena services\nafter having been away from the Church for eight years.\nported at the Perpetual Novena, the accounts\nThrough the intercession of Our Lady she obtained the grace\nof about 350,000 favors obtained by clients of\nto return to the practice of her religious duties.\"-New Jersey.\nMary Immaculate. During the past year, over\n\"After being out of the Church for nearly fifteen years I wish\nthirty-five thousand favors have been reported.\nto make known that through the intercession of the Blessed\nOf these favors over one quarter are spir-\nMother I was married by a Catholic priest. I can never be suf-\nficiently grateful for this great blessing.\"-Tennessee.\nitual, including many conversions to the Faith\n\"I sent a Miraculous Medal and a Novena booklet to a man\nand returns to the Sacraments. Almost half of\nwho was very ill. He had married outside the Catholic Faith\nthe favors reported are temporal in character,\nand had not been to Church for twenty years. I had him en-\nand include many positions obtained, restora-\nrolled in the 'Central Association.' Two weeks later he had his\ntion to health and financial help procured. The\nmarriage rectified and received the Sacraments. We are very\nthankful to Our Lady.\"-District of Columbia.\nremainder of the favors reported are miscel-\n\"Please enroll a new member in the 'Central Association' for\nlaneous graces and blessings which have been\neight years. Thanks to Our Lady, my father returned to the\nreceived through the all-powerful intercession\npractice of his religious duties after an absence of thirty years,\nof Mary, Queen of the Miraculous Medal.\nand died a very happy death.\"-Michigan.\nPromoters and Members of our \"Central\nHome-Family\nAssociation\" are requested to send us a short\n\"I have received many favors through the Miraculous Medal\nNovenas at Mary's Central Shrine. I wrote a petition two years\naccount of favors received through the Mirac-\nago which was almost immediately answered I asked Our Lady\nulous Medal.\nto help my husband cease an affair with another woman which\nThe following are excerpts from encourag-\nthreatened the security of our home and children. Shortly after-\ning letters from Promoters and Members tell-\nwards, this affair ceased and has never been resumed. My hus-\nband and I recently celebrated our eighth Wedding Anniver-\ning of favors obtained from Mary.\nsary.\"-Ohio.\n36\n37\n1620 St. Louis\nTEMPORAL\nSICKNESS\nWork\nChildren\n\"Our prayers have been answered. I have at last received\nsteady employment. All thanks to Our Lady of the Miraculous\n\"My son was seriously sick and as he did not get any better\nMedal!\"-New Hampshire.\nI pinned a Miraculous Medal on his shirt and promised publi-\ncation if he recovered. Thanks to Our Blessed Mother, he took\n\"I asked your prayers that we might move into another State.\nturn for the better that night and was completely well in a\nA good position obtained through the intercession of Our Lady\na short time. I am enclosing a donation for your works.\"-\nof the Miraculous Medal proves to be a better answer to our\nNebraska.\nprayers than we could have hoped for.\"-Wyoming.\nMental\n\"My husband lost the position which he had held for sixteen\n\"My brother had been confined to a hospital for some years,\nyears; and after praying to Our Lady that he would find the\nas he was suffering from a mental disorder. A friend enrolled\nequivalent or that I might secure work, my prayer was\nhim in the 'Central Association' so that he might share in the\nanswered. My husband obtained other but less remunerative\nmany Novenas of Masses, and we all prayed to Mary Im-\nemployment and I also received a position in the place where I\nmaculate that he might recover. Now he is better and working\nhad been employed before my marriage. Thanks to Our Lady of\nthe Miraculous Medal.\"-New York.\nagain,-thanks to Our Blessed Lady. We shall never cease to\nspread devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal through\nyour Association.\"-Maryland.\nFinancial\nOperation\n\"The day on which I received a letter from the 'Central\n\"I had my daughter in the hospital for four weeks with a\nAssociation' found us very much worried. Our mortgage note\nruptured appendix. The doctors said they would have to operate\nwas due and the tenant owed us three months' rent. After hav.\nagain for an abscess that had formed in the intestines but they\ning almost given up hope, I received a notice from our lawyer\ndecided to wait awhile. In this emergency we implored the aid\nsaying that he had the rent. I thank you for letting us share\nof Our Blessed Mother. The abscess burst during the night, and\nin the Novena.\"-Louisiana.\nin one week my daughter was home and is now doing fine. All\n\"I am renewing my former members' subscriptions and am\nthanks to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.\"-Massachusetts.\nentering two new members on my list. Our Lady of the\nTuberculosis\nMiraculous Medal has helped me in so many financial difficul-\n\"I am a patient in a Tuberculosis Sanatorium since last\nties Newfoundland. that I am glad to show my gratitude in this way.\"-\nAugust, but expect to go home soon. Much gratitude is due to\nOur Blessed Lady for obtaining from her Divine Son my re-\n\"For a long time our financial affairs had been in such a de-\ncovery, I shall do all in my power to promote devotion to her.\nplorable state that the situation was most discouraging. We\nI have been a member of the 'Central Association' for some\nprayed to Our Blessed Mother for aid and she did not fail us.\nyears.\"-Wisconsin.\nAll my family are grateful for this benevolent act of Our Lady\nAccident\nof the Miraculous Medal.\"-Philippine Islands.\n\"My husband, a non-Catholic, has worn a Miraculous Medal\n\"I am enclosing a donation for a Recreation Room Chair in\nconstantly for sixteen years, and we both pray to Our Blessed\nthe new Seminary. A friend of mine had a farm for sale and\nMother for protection. One day a huge tree fell on his truck,\nafter trying for over a year to sell it he became very much\nsmashing the top completely. People who saw the accident said\ndiscouraged. I suggested that he nail a Miraculous Medal over\nit was miraculous how he stepped out of that cab uninjured\nthe door of the house and I made a Novena. Three weeks later\nHe agrees that it was through the help of Our Lady of the\nthe farm was sold at a very good price. We are very grateful\nMiraculous Medal that his life was spared. We have received\nto Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.\"-Connecticut.\nnumerous benefits from Our Lady.\"-Illinois.\n38\n39\nIn Your Charity\nKindly remember the \"CENTRAL\nASSOCIATION\" in your will. Thus,\neven after your death, you will be\nmn7.\nare\nhelping to honor Mary on earth and\nel\nproviding for the education of young\nmen for the Priesthood of her Son.\nInsert in your Will this clause:\nI hereby give, devise and be-\nP.P.F9-M\nqueath unto The Central Associa-\ntion of the Miraculous Medal,\nGermantown, Philadelphia, Pa.,\nthe sum of\nPresident a copy of the school magnaine,\nDollars ($\n) for the further-\na letter to him which was signed by\nance of its works.\nester Rolle, James Norton. Ack'd 6-7-42.\nOr remember our works through\nthe medium of Insurance. Arrange\nmag\nfor a policy payable upon your death\nto The Central Association of the\nMiraculous Medal: or sign a\n'Change of Beneficiary\" form, mak-\ning our Association the beneficiary\nof any present policy.\nEvery person leaving a bequest or\ninsurance to the Association is en-\nrolled as a Perpetual Member,\nthereby sharing in the thousands\nupon thousands of Masses offered\nfor Members, living and deceased,\nthrough the years.\n1/0 moarn 1620 m. St. Louis\nChicago all\nGeorge\n1\nnn7.\nare\nel\nPUBLIC SCHOOL No. 15,\nJersey city, N. J.\nP.P.F9-M\n6-7-12\nSent the President a copy of the school magnaine,\n\"The Eluo and Gold\", along with a letter to him which was signed by\nthe editors - Angela Sellare, Lester Rolle, James Norton. Ack'd 6-7-42.\nSee - P. P. F. 9 -\nmag\nN\nare\nthe\nI\n%\nMoarn 1620 m. St. Louis\nChicago all\nP.P.7\nare\nel\nJune 5, 1942\nq-m\nDear Mr. Oraves:\nThis is to acknowledge your letter\nof May twenty-eighth, and I regret to advise\nyou that we have no photographs of the Presi-\ndent's sons available for distribution.\nWith regard to your further request,\nI am very glad to send you a copy of the letter\nXP.P.7.9-P\nwhich Miss M. A. LeHand, Private Secretary to\nthe President, addressed to Mr. Christian M.\nThomsen on March twenty-seventh, 1941.\nVery sincerely yours,\nSTEPHEN EARLY\nare\nSecretary to the President\nX\nMr. George J. Oraves,\nc/o Modern Art Works,\n1620 N. St. Louis Avenue,\nChicago, Illinois.\nEnclosure\nAW:mb\nin\nTime is would be put away for safe keeping\nThanking you very much I Remain\n% modern art Horks sincerely yours\n1620 m. St. Louis\nChicago all\nGeorge Oraved\nmay- 28,1942\n1620 n. st. Souis an\nChicago see\nMr. Stephen Early\nSecretary of the President\nup,\nHashing ton W.C.\nLook\nabout march 21, 1941 mr Chris\nfor which on march the 27th we received\nThomsen sent a plaque filed P.P. to F. 9-T our president\none from the President himself.\na letter of thanks from you and later\nsend of you ass a you be kind enough to please\nThere Hould is a request I and 11 making\nmr Rossevelt picture (sons) of their each of the boysof\nplate to again send to our president in\nso we could make up a service star\nthat in service uniforms\nthe appreciation in his keeping our country\nDemocracy we want it to be\nfrom him before one as the last one was stolen\nalso a Copy of the letter we received\nwhen the home was hung larized and this\ntime it would he put away for safe helping\nThanking you very much I Bemain\nof modern art Horks sincerely yours\n1620 m. St. Louis\nGeorge I Oraved\nChicago all\nMAX MANDEL\nto\nJune 6, 1942\nm\n9'\ne\nMy dear Mr. Mandel:\nMany thanks, in the President's behalf,\nfor your kind thought of him. Your friendly act\nin presenting to him the folder which accompanied\nyour note of June fifth is indeed appreciated.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nMax Mandel, Esq.,\n1225 Broadway,\nNew York, N. Y.\ncd\nVictory\n7\nMAX MANDEL\nWHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR Hosiery & Underwear\nThank\n1225 BROADWAY . NEW YORK, N.Y.\nMURRAY HILL 3-3415\nackyd\noffice\nto\nJune 3rd 1942\nHow Pres. F.D. Roosevelt\nW as hing ton\nDC.\nHonerable Sir:-\nIt is indeed a\npleas are to hair you on my\nmailing ing list.\nYours for Victory,\nhas have\nMAX MANDEL\nWHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR\nHosiery & Underwear\n1225 BROADWAY. NEW YORK, N.Y.\nMURRAY HILL 3 - 3415\nWEARE ALL OUT FOR VICTORY\nBUY U. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS AND STAMPS\nI am pleased to enclose a folder with\nmy compliments, for your Stamp Book.\nDO YOUR PART!\nBuy your stamps today, tomorrow, and\nevery day.\nhave MAX hand MANDEL\nANDERSON, Miss Margaret - Editor\nCOMMON GROUND\nNew York, N. Y.\nMay 26, 1942.\nLetter to the President saying she was forwarding the summer\nissue of the magazine calling his attention to a group of photographs by Alexander Alland\non \"Freedom of Wership\". Sent to the Study. Ack.-6/4/42.\nSee P.P.F. 9- C\nmef.\nSecurity\nP.P.S.\n9-m\n(magazine)\nPresident\n1844- PREPARING FOR FIRST CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION- 1944\nJune 3, 1942\nP.P.F.\nq-m\nMy dear Mr. Wilson:\nIt was indeed thoughtful of\nyou to write the President as you did\non May twenty-ninth. He is happy to have\nP.P.\nan inscribed picture of the Cedar Bayou\nMethodist Church and also appreciates\nyour kindness in sending him the booklet\nand clipping. I am sure you know how\nmuch your prayerful wishes mean to him.\nVery sincerely yours,\nM. H. MCINTYRE\nSecretary to the President\nX\nReverend Terry Mason,\nThe Methodist Church,\nCedar Bayou,\nTexas.\ncb\n1844 PREPARING FOR FIRST CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION- 1944\nBayou\nsk; to\nHODIST CHURCH\n( WILSON, PASTOR\nBAYOU, TEXAS\npB\nMay 29, 1942.\nT.A.\nRoosevelt,\nuse,\nston, D. C.\nMr.\ndent:\neply grateful to you for the inspiring\ntanding and encouragement which you sent\ncommunity in response to my recent letter.\nof nothing SO reassuring now as to find\nscious man in the White House, for there\nhen the right kind of leadership was SO\n1 nope you will not mind my having published ex-\ncerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas\nJ. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.\nYou will find these in the attached booklet, which\nalso contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was\ndelivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who\nwas born and raised here at Cedar Bayou.\nAs he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can\nbe the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its\nfirst chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;\nfor certainly God has matched us with this hour.\nMay He bless you and keep you.\nSincerely yours,\nJarry Wilson\n1844 PREPARING FOR FIRST CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 1944\nack.\nMis then\nRCH\nch\nTo dispone of picture B.B.\nMay 29, 1942.\nMy Dear Mr. President:\nI am deeply grateful to you for the inspiring\nmessage of understanding and encouragement which you sent\nto me and to our community in response to my recent letter.\nI know of nothing SO reassuring now as to find\na spiritually conscious man in the White House, for there\nwas never a time when the right kind of leadership was SO\nnecessary.\nI hope you will not mind my having published ex-\ncerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas\nJ. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.\nYou will find these in the attached booklet, which\nalso contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was\ndelivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who\nwas born and raised here at Cedar Bayou.\nAs he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can\nbe the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its\nfirst chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;\nfor certainly God has matched us with this hour.\nMay He bless you and keep you.\nSincerely yours,\nJarry Wilson\n1844 PREPARING FOR FIRST CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION- 1944\nInscribed picture of the Cedar Bayou\nMethodist Church on stripping desk; to\nack.\nbe attached to file.\nHODIST CHURCH\nY WILSON, PASTOR\nR BAYOU, TEXAS\nMay 29, 1942.\nRoosevelt,\nThe white House,\nWashington, D. C.\nMy Dear Mr. President:\nI am deeply grateful to you for the inspiring\nmessage of understanding and encouragement which you sent\nto me and to our community in response to my recent letter.\nI know of nothing SO reassuring now as to find\na spiritually conscious man in the White House, for there\nwas never a time when the right kind of leadership was SO\nnecessary.\nI hope you will not mind my having published ex-\ncerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas\nJ. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.\nYou will find these in the attached booklet, which\nalso contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was\ndelivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who\nwas born and raised here at Cedar Bayou .\nAs he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can\nbe the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its\nfirst chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;\nfor certainly God has matched us with this hour.\nMay He bless you and keep you.\nSincerely yours,\nJerry Wilson\n1844 PREPARING FOR FIRST CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION-1944\nack.\nTHE METHODIST CHURCH\nTERRY WILSON, PASTOR\nCEDAR bayou, TEXAS\nMay 29, 1942.\nThe Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt,\nThe White House,\nWashington, D. C.\nMy Dear Mr. President:\nI am deeply grateful to you for the inspiring\nmessage of understanding and encouragement which you sent\nto me and to our community in response to my recent letter.\nI know of nothing so reassuring now as to find\na spiritually conscious man in the White House, for there\nwas never a time when the right kind of leadership was SO\nnecessary.\nI hope you will not mind my having published ex-\ncerpts from your fine letter, along with those from Thomas\nJ. Watson, Mayor LaGuardia, and others.\nYou will find these in the attached booklet, which\nalso contains the dedication address, which, by the way, was\ndelivered by one of our former members, now of New York, who\nwas born and raised here at Cedar Bayou.\nAs he says, this can be an hour of doom, or it can\nbe the dawning of a new day in which Democracy shall have its\nfirst chance to fully flower. Which it shall be, is up to us;\nfor certainly God has matched us with this hour.\nMay He bless you and keep you.\nSincerely yours,\nJarry Wilson\n1844- PREPARING FOR FIRST CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION-1944\nA\nTuesday, May 19, 1942\nTHE HOUSTON CHRONICLE\nCedar Bayou Church Opens\nthis important milestone in your\nchurch's history is a forerunner\nof many future years of useful\nWhere $6000 Carillon Was Dedicated\nT.\nservice.\nPr\n2-Year Centennial Program\nThe note from Mr. Jones read:\n\"We cannot forget the spiritual\nvalues which we, as a nation, have\nBy\nsupported since its founding. The\nDall\nforces arrayed against us have\nprice\nCarillon Presentation Is High Light of Day's\nshown by their actions that they\nare entirely irreligious. Ameri-\nPrice\nProgram.\ncans, regardless of church affilia-\nistered\ntions, have always been imbued\nforme\nwith faith in God. It is my hope\nbusine\nthat the affirmation of this belief,\nMore than 1100 South Texans\nat Te:\nnative of Cedar Bayou, a New\nwhich has taken place in a small\nSunday participated in the day-\nYork business executive for the\nTexas community, will spread\nDoc\nlong program marking the start\nlast 25 years, who dedicated the\nthroughout the land.\"\nregula\nof a two-year program of the cen-\ninstrument to John M Kilgore, a\nMcNutt's message stated: \"My\ntennial of the Cedar Bayou Meth-\nmember of the church 54 years,\nsentiments of appreciation and\ning\nodist Church, established 98 years\nnow chairman of the board of\ngratitude for the forthright and\nago.\nstewards, and superintendent of\nactive part taken by the church\nwas\nHighlight of the afternoon pro-\ncongregation of Cedar Bayou in\nness\nthe Sunday school for 35 years.\ngram was the presentation of a\nThe theme of the all-day serv-\nsupport of the world-wide strug-\nice, \"Together in Freedom's Holy\ngle for freedom in which we are\n$6000 carillon by J. Austin Smith,\nHo\nCause,\" won national recogntion\nnow engaged. It was in the small\nNed\nin laudatory comment by letter\ntowns and country crossroads of\nbeen\nand wire from President Franklin\nthis nation that the spirit of de-\nmajor\nD. Roosevelt, Mrs. Eleanor Roose-\nmocracy first took root. There it\nDoesn't it seem\nvelt, Jesse H. Jones, secretary of\nhas been nurtured and strength-\ncommerce; Paul V. McNutt, ad-\nened throughout our history. To\nministrator of the Federal Security\nthem. today, we look for unwaver-\nALL-VECETABLE more\nAgency; Bishop A. Frank Smith\ning faith and firm conviction in\nof the Methodist Church, Col. Ike\nthe promise of freedom for the\nAshburn, director of civilian de-\ndignity of man. Your dedication\nfense in Harris County; Senators\nto the cause of freedom and hu-\nHarold H. Burton of Ohio and W.\nmanity should serve as an inspi-\nLee O'Daniel of Texas, and Frank\nration to all people of faith in\nE. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y.,\nthis country and as a model for\nIn NR (Nature's Remedy) Tablets,\npublisher of a chain of Eastern\ntheir emulation.\"\nthere are по chemicals, no minerals, no\nnewspapers.\nRev. F. M. Richardson, super-\nphenol derivatives. NR Tablets are dif-\nintendent of the Galveston district\nferent-act different. Purely vegetable-a\nPresident Sends Message.\nof Methodist churches, preached\ncombination of 10 vegetable ingredients\nformulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated\nPresident Roosevelt's letter re-\nfor both the morning and evening\nservices of the church.\nor candy coated, their action is depend-\nminded \"we still need the spirit\nable, thorough, yet gentle, as millions\nof NR's have proved. Get a 25 box\nof the old Texas pioneers, which\nBasket Lunch.\ntoday\nor larger economy size.\nis but another word for missionary\nAt noon members of the con-\nThe Cedar Bayou Methodist Church, where a $6000 carillon was\nzeal. I am sure the sacrifices made\ngregation and their guests took\ndedicated Sunday. The carillon was presented to the church by\nLAXATIVE\nby the founders of your church\npart in a basket picnic lunch\nJ. Austin Smith of New York City, a native of Cedar Bayou, in\nwill inspire their sipiritual de-\nspread in a grove of moss-fes-\nhonor of John M. Kilgore, who has been a member of the church\nNow...\nscendants to carry on without fal-\ntooned oak trees on the lawn of\nfor 54 years. The church is 98 years old.\n25\nCANDY\ntering in doing the will of the\nthe Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge,\nMaster.\"\nwhich adjoins the church ground.\nfacture of all distilled and malt\nCOATED\nMrs. Roosevelt's wire read:\nYoung and old alike attended\nliquors and beverages for the du-\nWICKARD REJECTS\n\"Please extend my congratula-\nor REGULAR!\nthe all-day service, the oldest\nration of the war.\"\ntions and best wishes to all par-\nbeing Mrs. Annie E. Hunt, who\nNR TO-NIGHT; TOMORROW ALRIGHT\nticipants in the centennial cele-\nhas passed her eighty-ninth birth-\nHistory of Democracy Traced.\nTEXAS PLEA FOR\nbration of your church. I hope\nday. Dressed in a bright blue\nIn his dedicatory address, Smith\ndress, Mrs. Hunt greeted many\ntraced the history of democracy\nfriends, and reminded some of the\nthrough its struggles and conflicts\nCOTTON INCREASE\nyoung men she had known their\ndown through the ages from its\ngrandfathers.\nbeginning in the teachings of Jesus\nThe SIMPLE way to get\nThe occasion was marked by\nChrist, and its development in\nBy Associated Press.\nthe old-time Methodist fellowship:\nAmerica.\nWashington, May 19.-Secretary\ncousins, uncles and aunts visiting\n\"America will not fail.\" Smith\nCASH for\neach other, some for the first time\nchallenged, \"as long as the spirit\nWickard, at a conference with\nin years, with friends renewing\nof democracy is symbolized by a\nrepresentatives of Texas, Okla-\nold acquaintances. Proud mothers\nman with a Bible in one hand and\nhoma and New Mexico cotton\nexhibited their latest babies to\na gun in the other.\ngrowers, turned down their plea\nequally proud kin seeing them for\nHe lauded Kilgore as \"a man of\nfor increased acreage allotments\nthe first time,\nunselfish devotion to his church,\nbut approved a plan to carry the\nThe perennial dry issue was\nHospital Bills\nEducational Expense\na man who possesses a philosophy\nproblem directly to President\nchampioned by Rev. Wharton Gil-\nas strong as the rock of ages,\" and\nRoosevelt.\nConsolidation of Debts\nPaying Taxes\nette of La Porte. He circulated\npraised him as \"one of the out-\nBurris Jackson of Hillsboro,\ntwo petitions at the meeting, one\nstanding Methodist laymen in the\nchairman of the Texas state-wide\nRepair on Car or Home\nOther Worthy Purposes\nasking for approval of the Shep-\nstate.\"\ncotton committee, said Wickard\npard bill \"to provide for the com-\nFlag-raising ceremonies at the\nappeared sympathetic toward their\nLoans from Fifty to Three Hundred Dollars\nmon defense by prohibiting the\nnew 100-foot flagpole given the\nrequest but informed them that\nsale of all intoxicating beverages\nchurch closed the program late in\nthe farm law prevented him from\nPERSONAL LOAN DEPARTMENT\nand the suppression of vice in and\nthe afternoon. Joe Kilgore pulled\ntransferring acreage allotments\nnear all military training centers\non the ropes to raise the huge\nand naval establishments,\" and the\nfrom growers who failed to plant\nAmerican flag, and below it, a\nother addressed to President\ntheir entire quotas to other grow-\nChristian banner, while the as-\ners who wanted to plant more\nRoosevelt.\nsembled throng, led by Walter\nthan their allotted number of\nDry Petition Sent President.\nJenkins, sang the Star-Spangled\nacres.\nBanner.\nThe cottonmen agreed that no\nThe petition addressed to Presi-\nhelp appeared possible from this\nSAVINGS\ndent Roosevelt carried the legend,\nFURNISHED ROOMS-\nsource, said Jackson, but contend-\n\"We, the undersigned citizens of\nAdvantageously located for your\ned that the secretary of agricul-\nINSURED\nAND BUILDING ASSK.\nTexas, respectfully request Frank-\nconvenience, can be quickly and\nture could grant their request by\nlin Delano Roosevelt, president of\neasily selected in The Chronicle's\nordering an increase in the na-\nGIBRALTAR BUILDING\nOPPOSITE POST OFFICE\nthe United States, to declare a\nFree Room Rental Bureau. At our\ntional acreage allotment.\nprohibition of the sale and manu-\nfront counter, Travis at Texas.\nSEAMAN INJURED IN\nTHE HOUSTON CHRONICLE\nEdward Scherck\nParent\nMoody to Launch\nLETTER-GRAPH\nTeacher\nHis Campaign At\nAssociations\nHis Old Home Town\nAdd a\nTake:\nLetter\nRearrange and Have:\nBy Associated Press.\nSeventy-five-dollar scholarships\nRAMBLE\nTo climb crawlingly\nAustin, May 19.-Dan Moody,\nwill be awarded to one senior high\none-time youngest. governor of\nschoolboy and one senior high\nSONNET\nChants\nTexas, announced he would start\nschoolgirl at the regular meeting\nFRIED\nArdent; zealous\nhis stump speech campaign for the\nof the Houston Council of Parent-\nUnited States senate Saturday\nOATS\nVery small quantities\nnight in Taylor, his old home\nTeacher Associations Thursday at\ntown.\n10 a.m. at the Y. W. C. A.\nRUINS\nBecomes liable to\nThe redheaded attorney, now a\nEligibility of students is based\nThe letters added will spell, from top to bottom, a word meaning\nresident of Austin, recalled that\non three factors: Twenty-five per\nRELATING TO COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.\nit was in Taylor in 1926 that he\nAnswer tomorrow.\nlaunched his successful campaign\ncent for personality and potential\nagainst Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson,\nleadership, 25 per cent for school\nYesterday's key word: CIVIL.\nthen governor.\ncitizenship and 50 per cent for\nYesterday's results: COWLS, INCENTIVE, VIEWS, VARIED,\nThe senatorial candidate assert-\nALLSPICE.\nscholarship, with an average of B\ned he would call upon his oppo-\nor better required. The scholar-\nnents, Senator W. Lee O'Daniel\nand former Governor James V.\nship is to be used in the next\nUnitarian Laymen\ndent: George I. McFerron, vice\npresident; J. T. Lassiter, secretary,\nAllred, to clarify their attitude to-\nterm of college.\nParticipants for this year are:\nHold Annual Dinner\nand M. K. Briggs. treasurer.\nward the 40-hour work week.\nMilby, Joyce Modisett and Allen\nDrew Auxiliary.\nFreitag; Sam Houston, Martha La\nROOMS EVERYWHERE.\nRue and Robert Tesoro: San Ja-\nAlfred W. Drew Auxiliary No. 6,\ncinto, Lola Beth Buckley and\nThe Laymen's League of the\nBut where? At The Chronicle's\nto United Spanish War Veterans\nFirst Unitarian Church held its\nLawrence Carnes: Davis, Evelyn\nFree Room Rental Bureau. We\nwill meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in\nCobb and Edward Koehl; Austin,\nannual banquet and election of\nwill help you find exactly the room\nthe old Y. M. C. A. Building. A\nBetty Lou Bates and William\nofficers Monday night at the Ben\nshort business session will be fol-\nMilam Hotel.\nyou want. Call at our front coun-\nScruggs; Lamar, Roselyn Huwieler\nlowed by a social hour with re-\nW.D. Krupke was elected presi-\nter, Travis at Texas.\nand Preston Frazier; Reagan,\nfreshments served.\nGladys Kopecky and Garvin Ber-\nry. The students and their prin-\n27th ANNIVERSARY FEATURES\ncipals are asked to be at the coun-\ncil meeting, where the name of\none boy and one girl will be\ndrawn.\nMrs. H. O. Johnson, chairman of\nthe high school loan fund, will\nhave charge of the program. Mrs.\nCharles Haden will speak on the\nhistory of the loan fund and Mrs.\nJ. H. Clare. president of council,\nwill present the scholarships to\nJACKET-DRESS JOYS!\nthe winners. Serving with Mrs.\n-Photo by Gittings.\nJohnson on the committee are\nk has gone to Harrisburg, Pa., to join\nMrs. Clare, Mrs. Haden, Mrs. P.\nstationed there.\nJ. Dulin, J. O. Webl and A. G.\nYES. RAVE REDINGOTES!\nBauguss.\nWil-\nperform the ceremony and the\nFollowing the student program,\nwedding music will be given by\nMrs. Ruth Beam of the Crime Pre-\nng.\nsun\nRobert Owen, organist.\nvention Bureau will speak and\nwith\nMrs. John H. Cochran and Mrs.\nMrs. Dulin will report the na-\nLONG COAT SHEERS!\nsage\nG. W. Cochran entertained Mon-\ntional convention. Mrs. C. R. Lar-\nom's\nday night with a dinner party at\nimer, Eleventh District president,\nrepe\nthe Ship Ahoy for members of\nwill install the council officers for\nces-\nthe families. The table was graced\nthe coming year.\nanna\nMrs. J. V. Latham, director of\nEVEN SHADOW-HOUR BLACKS!\nby an equa bowl in which was\nfloated pink blossoms.\npublic welfare, has arranged with\nre-\nA recent compliment for Miss\nthe utility division of the Office of\nwick\nCochran was a shower given by\nCivilian Defense to show a film\nhted\nMrs. E. A. Milton.\non \"black-outs\" immediately fol-\nnde-\nlowing the meeting.\nuble\nChevy Chase Riding Club.\nCOOL RAYON JERSEY PRINTS!\nem-\nWoodrow Wilson P.-T. A. will\nChevy Chase Riding Club will\nen-\nmeet Wednesday, at Bill Williams'\nhold its Mayfete at 5:45 p.m. Wed-\nide's\nChicken House, following the ride\nnesday at the school.\nAs-\nfrom 6 to 7 p.m. Plans for a de-\names\nPast Chiefs.\nfense party will be discussed.\nCook,\nPast Chiefs Club of Houston\nVACATION LOVE WOOL KNITS!\nHouston Pen Women.\nTemple No. 9, T Pythian Sisters,\nasen,\nmeets at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday\nand\nNew officers of the Houston Pen\nwith Mrs. H. J. Burke, 7845 Day-\nWomen installed recently were\nton. A covered dish luncheon will\nlater\nMesdames V. M. Craven, presi-\nbe served.\nhern\ndent; F. J. Lennon and Lillian\nSPLASH PRINTS! WHITE ICED DARKS!\nfor\nGaisford, vice presidents; Frank\nMothers Club.\nhite\nClappert and Clara Wampler, sec-\nMothers Club of First Methodist\nred\nretaries. Alfred Gregory, treasurer,\nChurch will hold a brunch at 10:30\nBoth\nand L. W. Sackett, historian. Mrs.\na.m. Wednesday at the church.\nOla H. Beaubien, outgoing presi-\nMANY SUMMER SUIT-DRESSES!\nrad-\nMrs. S. J. Granger is hostess chair-\nOut-\ndent, was presented with a lit-\nman and a summary of the year's\nMrs.\nerary reference book and a num-\nwork with an installation of offi-\nMr.\nber of personal gifts. In the an-\ncers will be held.\nealy\nnual literary contest awards Ida\nLINEN COAT DRESSES!\nand\nB. Botts won first and second\nHeights Camp, R. N. A.\nlgin.\nplaces in poetry; Erna Beth Fox-\nHeights Camp. Royal Neighbors\nworth, first, and Elizabeth Moore,\nof America, will hold memorial\nsecond in fiction, and Elizabeth\nancy\nservices at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the\nMoore first and Mrs. Beaubien,\nWoodmen of the World Hall 2102\nMOST ANY COLOR!\nWE MUST\ntime\nANSWER CAIN'S\nQUESTION\nTHE METHODIST CHURCH\nTERRY WILSON, PASTOR\nCEDAR BAYOU, TEXAS\n\"Together in Freedom's holy Cause\"\nTo Our Members And Our\nFriends of All Faiths:\nEvery time J. Austin Smith has touched\nmy life it has made me a better man and a\nbetter preacher.\nThough I seldom yield my pulpit to any-\none, I urged him to come all the way from\nhis home in New York to make an inter-faith\naddress on the community occasion of the in-\nauguration of our centennial activities. His\nroots being here, he came.\nHis message merits perpetuation. It is\nnot only a formula for victory but a formula\nfor living.\nFor that reason I have caused it to be\nprinted as one of the documents we will pass\non to posterity in a sealed time capsule to\nbe opened when this church celebrates its\nsesquicentennial in 1994.\nYou will find the message, \"We Have Got\nto Answer Cain's Question\", on the following\npages. I commend it to all Americans of all\nfaiths in all walks of life.\nMay God bless you and keep you.\nArry Pastor Nilson\nthe\n\"It was in the small towns and country cross-roads it has been of this Nation that faith\nspirit ened of throughout democracy our first history. took root. To them, There today, freedom we for the Paul V. McNutt. man.\nand firm conviction in the promise of\nthe teachings of Jesus were living in the hearts of His followers.\nWHATEVER WE may have thought this war was about in\nAnd they set in motion every means dictators and emperors and\nthe beginning, it is crystal clear now that it is a struggle to the\nvandals and barbarians could devise to extinguish the basic idea\ndeath between two ways of life as far apart as the poles.\nof Christianity from the face of the earth.\nOne of them grows out of the liberated will of the people;\nA thousand years later the followers of the teachings of\nthe other is an imposition upon the will of the people.\nJesus, writhing from centuries of persecution and spiritual if not\nOne of them is based upon the dignity and sacredness of\nphysical slavery, rose up in a crusade of resistance. They had\nhuman personality as a living temple of God; the other upon the\nbeen denied the protection of the law. Their bibles and religious\npagan ideology of human subjugation by force.\nwritings had been confiscated and destroyed. Their desire for\nThere was never a time in our lives when it was SO necessary,\npeace in a world that knew no peace, their Christian humility of\nspirit in a world of brutal pagan force, were qualities their per-\neven at the cost of being academic, that we understand the causes\nsecutors had twisted and distorted to scornfully picture them as\nof this struggle; that we refresh our memories about where our\ncowards without the courage to fight for their convictions. And\nroots are, and where our strength is. For it is only in this way\nnow, as a final degrading attempt to break their spirit with shame,\nthat we shall find the formula for victory and be able to go ahead\nthe Holy Sepulchre was desecrated.\n\"Together in Freedom's Holy Cause.\"\nThat was the Pearl Harbor of the eleventh century. The\nThere is nothing new about this struggle. It started when\nspirit of Christian freedom blazed, a wave of righteous indignation\nthe totalitarian world of 2,000 years ago rocked under the impact\nswept the Western World, and popular Christianity discovered\nof the then revolutionary teachings of Jesus, and the dictators\nitself for the first time. For then and there a thousand years of\nof that day realized that between them and Jesus there was no\nChristian teaching bore fruit in the form of a spirit-the victory-\nchoice 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\ncompelling spirit of oneness, of unity, of cooperation, exercised\nwith the conscious power that the wrong shall fail and the right\nprevail.\nin a way that was to sway history, have the profoundest effect\nThey marched into the teeth of forces that massacred them.\nupon all the subsequent political and social life of mankind, spread\nIf ever there was an example of the power of the liberated spirit\nin the world a new respect for man as man, and constitute the\nof man over the implements of man this is it. The streets of\nfoundations of a completely new way of life.\nThey did not realize that, but they soon recognized that\nThe battle of the dictators is, and always has been, against a\nJerusalem flowed with blood until men on horseback were splashed\nfree way of life. As long as a free way of life exists anywhere in\nwith it. But they kept coming-these men of faith-for they never\nthe world they must attack it. The attack may be military, it may\nsaw the shadows of doubt and fear. When they fell they fell\nbe political, it may be economic. But if ever it stops while liberty\nforward, and they rose with a singleness of purpose and a unity\nlasts anywhere in the world, including especially this America of\nof purpose which kept the light before them and the shadows\nours, the citadel of freedom, the dictators will fail.\nThus they must attack, and they do attack, not merely the\nbehind them. And they won.\nSuch a widespread uprising of the common people in rela-\ninstitutions of freedom but the very residence of freedom-the\ntion to a single idea in the history of the world. It was\nliberated human will; and the very source of freedom-the church\nresponse to a and was dominant new religion which promised mankind\nof Christ. To win, they must destroy both. That is what they are\ncontrol over new its decisions, its plans, its destiny; a religion which a\ntrying to do now.\ninjected into the of something stronger than death,\nLet those who doubt that, face the fact that in Poland, to\nbanishment of fear, spirit man which knew no defeat, a splendor\ntake only one of many examples, 631 churches, 454 chapels, and\nlike the vision of an assurance It not have been the birth of modern the\n253 convents and religious edifices, have been destroyed or closed\nin two provinces alone, and three-quarters of the population have\ndemocracy-this a first grail. may of the independent spirit of was\nbeen deprived of the services of the church even on the death bed.\ncommon there stirring be no doubt whatever that it any\nLet them face the fact that to destroy even the possibility\ndirectly inspired people-but by the can of Jesus; nor can there be time.\nof future Christian leadership 25,000 religious leaders and others\ndoubt that at that time modern teachings democracy stirred for the first\nnoted for social activities have been murdered in cold blood.\nLet them face the fact that to insure broken spirits, as well\nas present demoralization and future degradation, Polish women\nALL thousand-year-lons.herige example, of\nnot subservient enough to the conquerors are sent to houses of\nof the THIS is but one example, a of life paid for to\nprostitution, alcohol is forced upon peasants as payment for grain,\nfreedom price the founders of our way of the vicious extremes break\nno classical or patriotic music is permitted, every monument,\nwhich pagan we enjoy intolerance today; went an example even in the middle ages to\nevery document, every Polish culture, is being destroyed, the press\nis entirely wiped out, and there is no longer a single school.\nthe human will of man.\nFor that-human spirit and subjugate freedom-is the all that they were fighting\nabout then. It is all that we are fighting about now.\nA\nND OUT of it all came a tiny ship. God's troubadors must\nAnd let them face the terrorizing fact that 2,000,000 Poles\nhave sung peans of praise the day she landed at Plymouth Rock.\nhave been lifted bodily from their homes in the dead of night\nFor here, again, was something which had never occurred before\nwithout notice. They are permitted to pack one suitcase or parcel,\nin the history of the world. Just as the teachings of Jesus liberated\nthen locked in cattle cars. Before leaving, they are forced to\nthe spirit of mankind and produced a stirring of modern democ-\nprepare their homes for the arrival of the people who are to live\nracy in the eleventh century, SO now they were to produce the\nin them-their self-proclaimed superiors-and leave the keys hang'\nbirth of democracy. A new nation was about to be born-not\ning on the door knob. They never see their homes again.\nfor greed, not by conquering hordes, not by force of arms-but\nCan you see any difference between the objectives of this\nby simple men of faith who came searching for a land in which,\nconflict and the objectives of the eleventh century conflict? Isn't\nfor the first time in their lives, they could live the freedom of a\nit clear that the aim still is to extinguish from the face of the earth\nnew and liberated religion.\nthe teachings and influences of Jesus? Isn't it clear that the dic-\nIs it any wonder that the Mayflower arrived safely? Think\ntators of today, like those of two thousand years ago, recognize\nof it! Forty-one men and their families and all their worldly goods\nthat the liberated spirit of mankind rose from and exists only by\ncrowded into a tiny ship out on the North Atlantic for 63 days,\nvirtue of those teachings?\nincluding the usually stormy month of September! A ship of only\nWhat has happened to Poland is not an isolated case. It is\n180 tons, SO small she could have been stored away in a corner\ntypical of what happens, typical of the first thing that happens,\nof the 40,000-ton Titanic which later was to be swallowed up\nin every country when dictators conquer. It is an example of\nby that same North Atlantic. They believed in Divine Providence,\nthese men of faith, and Divine Providence looked after them, both\ncountries-which, what people can were happen only to a a country-what little while ago has were happened free and to here.\" many their\nthen and later.\nNo other nation on earth has its roots in such soil. Is it any\ntruth The awful saying, truth even is that as it you did and happen I, \"It there. can't And happen the awful\nwonder that no other nation on earth has ever prospered SO rapidly\nand done SO much for SO many in SO short a time?\nthe has. For is that six hundred it can happen years after here. the It eleventh can happen century anywhere, stirring and of\nAnd let us get it clearly in mind that they did not come here\nspirit of freedom it happened all over Christendom; the drums\nseeking a greater freedom than they could have had in the old\nof paganism echoed all over Europe and the land was drenched\nworld. They saw no prospect of religious freedom of any kind in\nwith a river of blood.\nWe need to remember that freedom, as the Founding Fathers\nthat world. At that time the 30-year war in Germany had already\nconceived it, had nothing to do with government or politics, for\nstarted. France was in trouble which was to produce a revolution.\nthey and theirs remained loyal to Britain for the next 156 years.\nThe 48-year rebellion and revolution in England was in the mak-\nIt had nothing to do with the press, or speech, or assembly,\ning, and the edict of free worship was still 68 years away.\nfor at first there were not enough people to make any difference.\nNo, these men left no doubt about why they came. It was to\nThey came to live the freedom of a new and liberated\nlive a life in which God was the center. They said SO in the May'\nreligion, and freedom was a word which, to them, expressed the\nflower Compact in these words: \"In the name of God, Amen.\nteachings of Jesus.\nWe, having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement\nof Christian faith\nWe need to remember that their faith sprung from within\na voyage\ndoe\nsolemnly and mu-\nthemselves-from the realities of the church-not from edifices,\ntually in the presence of God covenant and combine ourselves\ntogether \"\nfor they had none for a long time. Nor did they have Sunday\nIt was the reality of that kind of faith which put a bible in\nSchools, either then or for the next 117 years.\none hand and a gun in the other and gave them the courage to\nYet, in spite of these handicaps, by the spiritual integrity of\nface and ungrudgingly bear hardships almost inconceivable to us,\ntheir homes-by lessons handed down from father to son in the\nand yet to love America as a land SO well they could think of\nhome-they wove the realities of their faith into the thought\nher as a song-to be sung together.¹\npattern of succeeding generations.\nAnd gave them the practical sense to know that even an\nFor example, 156 years after the Mayflower Compact, Patrick\nIndian understood that in unity there is strength. It was the\nHenry, by the realities of the same kind of faith, put immortal\nreality of that kind of faith which gave their America the God-\nvitality into his speech, and the practicality of invincible resolu-\nCountry-and-Me courage to declare its independence and rise up\ntion into the hearts of the people with such language as this:\n157 years later as an invincible David to put down a Goliath.\n\"Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means\nAnd the practical tolerance to conclude a lasting treaty of\nwhich the God of nature hath placed in our power\npeople\npeace, based upon their declaration that they held all the rest of\narmed in the holy cause of liberty\nare invincible\nThere\nmankind \"enemies in war, in peace friends.\"\nis a just God who presides over the destinies of nations\nIs\nAnd the practical tolerance to conclude another lasting peace\nlife so dear, or peace SO sweet, as to be purchased at the price\nnearly a hundred years later with \"malice toward none.\"\n1 America was written by a minister and first sung in a Sunday School.\nwar, in peace friends\"-perhaps the slogan \"a war to end war\"\nof chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God!\ngive me\nwould have lived.\nliberty or give me death.\"\nIn short, the daily conduct of our nation's founders was\nAs another example, our forefathers stated that the purpose\ndirected by an inner light of unifying faith-their passionate belief\nof the Declaration of Independence was to enable the people to\nin themselves and supreme confidence in the presence of God-\nassume a \"station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God\nwhich naturally determined their behaviour as a people, and\nentitle them.\"\nnaturally conditioned them for shock, whether economic, military,\nThey said men were \"endowed by their creator\" with the\nor otherwise.\ninalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\nAnd that faith, that unifying faith of the individual, was\nThey appealed \"to the Supreme Judge of the world for the\nreflected in the aggregate spirit of their communities; and this com-\nrectitude of our intentions.\" And, \"with a firm reliance on the\nmunity spirit became the cohesive spirit of democratic America,\nfor these communities were America.\nprotection of Divine Providence,\" they pledged their lives, for\ntunes and sacred honor.\nIn view of this language, what a natural thing it is to see\nTHAT IS our heritage. That is where our roots are. That is\nGeorge Washington on his knees before his God at Valley Forge-\nwhat President Roosevelt was talking about the other night when\nand how different this picture from those which have been left to\nhe told us our forefathers left a model for the moral stamina we\nus by wars of our times.\nmust have to defend and perpetuate our free way of life. That\nis the United States of America which our Texas forefathers\nAs still another example of how they projected their faith\nlooked at a hundred years ago when they met on this very spot\ninto succeeding generations, this one 243 years after the May'\nto found this church in a log cabin.\nflower Compact, we find \"malice toward none\" in the very life\nWe Americans might look at that picture of democracy at\nof our most tragic immortal who prayed at Gettysburg, \"That this\nwork a hundred years ago and quite justifiably say that this nation\nnation, under God, shall have a new birth,\" and who closed the\nthen represented the culminating result of 1,842 years of struggle\nEmancipation Proclamation by invoking upon it the gracious\nto find and live the free way of life.\nfavor of Almighty God.\"\nNow, since everything is relative, is there any other picture\nIf the Versailles Treaty had been concluded in this spirit-\nwith which we can compare this one? Indeed, there is.\nand with each participant holding \"The rest of mankind enemies in\nIt is not limited to a mere 1,842 years. It is a 7,000-year\nAnd can we have any doubt at all that this liberation resulted\njust as directly from the teachings of Jesus?\npanorama which stretches from the quasi-civilized communities\nIf we believe that-and history leaves no room at all to believe\nof the Sumerians down through the Egyptian Empire, the splendor\nanything else-then we have got to believe that the one and only\nof Greece, the science of Alexandria, and the glory of the Roman\ngreat world-wide organization to which we can turn now for the\nEmpire up to the birth of Jesus when Augustus Caesar was\nstrength and inspiration and moral stamina to defend and nurture\nemperor. Its culminating result, as far as mankind was concerned,\nand perpetuate a free way of life is the Church itself.\nwas slavery for the common people! Here's how the historian\nIf we, as church people, fail now to face that fact, and fail\npictures it:\nto act upon it with all the fervor of our beings, then I say to you\n\"When we begin to realize how essentially\nthe Roman\nthat just as surely as the sun comes up tomorrow morning democ-\nEmpire\nwas a slave state and how small was the minority who\nracy as our forefathers conceived and lived it will perish.\nhad any pride or freedom in their lives, we lay our hands on the\nBut, we are told, the churches today are quite different from\nclues to its decay and collapse. There was little of what we call\nwhat they were a hundred years ago. We are told they have\nfamily life, few homes of temperate living\nThe free will and\nslipped. We are told they have failed us. But have they? Or have\nthe free mind were nowhere to be found. The great roads, the\nwe failed them? If the Church \"is but an echo of our own voices,\"\nruins of splendid buildings, the tradition of law and power it left\nas some say, shall we blame the preachers, and let it go at that?\nOr shall we look to ourselves for some of the fault?\nfor the astonishment of succeeding generations must not conceal\nIt is true that our flame of faith was burning brighter a hun-\nfrom us that all its outer splendor was built upon thwarted wills,\ndred years ago than it ever had before, or, perhaps, ever has since.\nstifled intelligence, and crippled perverted desires. Athens decayed\nIt is just as true, and this is most significant, that democracy was\nunder the Roman sceptre. The science of Alexandria decayed.\nas nearly in full bloom then as it ever had been or ever has been\nThe spirit of man, it seemed, was decaying in those days.\"\nsince. It, therefore, is true that a change in the color and pattern\nThere are our two pictures, one before and one after the\nand texture of our national life has taken place.\nworld felt the impact of Jesus' doctrine of the Fatherhood of God\nBut none of this is due to any slipping or failure of the Church.\nand the brotherhood of man. Looking at them in the light of the\nAnd now I am speaking of the realities of the Church, not of men\nrecord of the Christian era, can we doubt for a single instant that\nand edifices; for the realities of the Church, the realities of religion,\ndemocracy sprung directly from the liberated spirit of mankind?\nAmerica had breathed, and democracy, still in short britches,\nreside in the hearts of men. These are realities which we can fail,\nnow was to feel the surge of materialism.\nbut which never will fail us.\nThe response to that surge amazed the civilized world. It\nThe Golden Age dawned. That-plus the fact that we ducked\nproclaimed America the cradle of democracy, the birthplace of\nCain's question-is what caused the change, the deterioration, in\nfreedom, and the land of golden opportunity where every mother's\nthe spiritual and consequently the democratic vitality of our na\nson had a chance not only to be president but to have six silk\ntional life. Those are the reasons why the face of the world is\nshirts, two chickens in the pot, and a car in the garage.\nbeing turned red by the fever of war; the reasons why we are in\nAnd it produced a tide of immigration swirling in from every\ndouble jeopardy, from a menace without as well as from a menace\ndirection, bringing the good and the bad, to help skyrocket the\nwithin.\nthen population of 17,000,000 gained in 224 years, to 130,000,000\nAmerica, this eager and richly endowed youngster, stood\nin the next hundred years; and, not without risk of tinge, to make\nat the threshold of a new and challenging age. Her boundaries\nAmerica the melting pot of the world.\nhad expanded to encompass the larger part of a continent. There\nNo, there is no question about it, democracy, this precocious\nwas danger in this, for, as history shows, the absence of com\nyoungster, responded to the surge of materialism and did a whale\nof a building job. Nothing that was ever done by any nation under\nmunication and transportation facilities always had resulted in the\nany form of government anywhere even remotely approaches it.\nbreaking up of large areas into separate nations, eventually to\nYet-something went wrong. What are we going to do\nwar with each other.\nabout it? Shall we blame the physician for the disease and let\nBut-and was this Divine Providence again?-the telegraph\nthe patient die? Shall we perform an amputation and cripple him\nand the railroad were here by then to bind that new nation in a\nfor life? Or shall we frankly recognize the fault and cure it?\nunifying network of steel. And, to speed the development and\nOur answer to those questions will have an impact upon\nuse of these new facilities, the rich valleys of the west were beckon\nfuture generations. And by \"our\" answer, I mean the answer of\ning, the discovery of gold in California, and of oil in Pennsylvania,\nthis country church community right here at Cedar Bayou. For,\nwas just around the corner; and in the offing stood the stimulating\ndon't forget this, the United States of America was born out of\ngenius of Bell and Edison and Ford.\ncommunities just like this one. And don't forget either that this\nThe dare of the unknown, the challenge of a new horizon,\ncountry community still is typical of the real America; and that,\nthe spirit of the pioneer - all these were at work. Industrial\nin the aggregate, communities like this, standing together, can\ngate the sacred responsibilities of parenthood by expecting a half\nsave her not only from the greed of dictators, but, equally as\nhour of Sunday School to balance all other influences of the\nimportant, from the dangers of old cleavages and internal problems\nentire week in the lives of these coming men and women of\nAmerica.\nwhich will be upon us the minute this war is over. And I don't\nknow any other way she can be saved. The purple mountains of\nThe institution of the hickory switch also was abrogated.\nIt used to be that a switching at school meant another one at\nmaterialism may look very reassuring, but America's roots and\nhome. Now it calls for a parental screech that makes headlines in\nher salvation are in these spiritually fertile valleys of Beulah land.\nthe newspapers.\nNow we all know what went wrong in our building operation.\nThe neglect of spiritual values extended also to our schools.\nWe concentrated upon producing things and gettings things to\nAnti-religion can be taught in them, and many of our universities\nthe neglect of those spiritual values which were SO woven into\nare called \"hot-beds of atheism.\" But religion cannot be taught\nthe thought process of America's designers they became an inner\nin them. We divorce religion from education. Did our Forefathers\nlight which directed the whole force of their lives and gave\ndo that? Perhaps the answer is that Harvard as well as Yale\nmeaning to their words and substance to their acts, if not immor\nand Princeton all were begun primarily to educate young men\ntality to both.\nfor the ministry.\nAs a result of this neglect, in the midst of our building\nAnd they wrote in their copybooks that honesty is the best\noperations our economic flood caught us unconditioned for shock\npolicy. We stopped doing that and witnessed the confidence-\nand possessed of everything but an Ark. When the things we\nshattering spectacle of greed and bribery with black bags and\nhad gotten and counted on for our security began to disappear\ntin boxes and fake loans clawing at our very citadels of integrity-\nwe had nothing left to hang on to. And when our banking system\nand getting in to debauch officials and destroy our faith in\ntottered and bread lines formed we felt chaos instead of the\nleadership.\nundergirding faith of our fathers inside ourselves.\nThe neglect extended to our churches. In the earlier days\nThe effect of this neglect was not limited to economic life.\nthe church was not only the most important influence in the\nIt extended to our homes. Our forefathers perpetuated their faith\ncommunity, but on the skyline it was the biggest thing in sight.\nin their daily home life. To entirely too many Americans today\nIt was a hub. Community life revolved around it. Not to be in\na home is a place to sleep and sometimes eat. We go to any length\nit and of it was to be suspect. We, too, worship at the biggest\nto provide our children with sound bodies and minds, then abro\nthing in town, but it isn't a church. Far more than half of us belong\nThe cry of \"wolf, wolf\" has turned out to be a false alarm\nto no church at all. And, of those who do, most of them go to\nSO often we just don't respond any more, even when the cry dies\nchurch only twice a year, Christmas and Easter.\non a sob of desperate reality.\nAbout the time we abandoned the institution of the hickory\nIn our twilight state of spiritual faith this skepticism, com-\nswitch for our children, we abandoned the equally wholesome idea\nbined with recent economic disillusionment, distrust of the present,\nthat our preachers could and should verbally step on our immoral\nand uncertainty about the future, makes us vulnerable not only to\ntoes. It used to be that a sermon or a private talk which did that\ndomestic panaceas and alien cure-alls, but to subversive propa-\nsent us off to repent. Now we just go into a sulk and take a swing\nganda.\nat our church with an economic club by closing the purse strings.\nThere is in the \"preaching\" of the athiest and the radical a\nNo wonder we sometimes hear \"the echo of our own voices.\"\nfanatical zeal, an injected idealism, which has undoubted power\nThe wonder is that more preachers don't bend to the storm.\nto win converts. There is in it also adroit recognition that the\nAs an overall result of our neglect, and of our own change\naverage mind cannot grasp abstractions; that it is moved more\nin attitude, the most astute observers of our times, not only\nby emotion than logic; that its instinct is to settle problems by\nshibboleth rather than solution. When we hear it repeated from\nclergymen but business and political leaders as well, are telling\nus that \"\nSO many sources, some of it for the first time from our own school\nWe are worse off today than ever before because\nthe spiritual aspirations of humanity are in eclipse,\" that \" His\nchildren, the effect is that we are less shocked by radical proposals\nuntil liberty-destroying ideas, which on first utterance startled\ntory shows no such wholesale abandonment of respect for spiritual\nvalues as prevails today\nus, gradually take on the illusion of allure to a constantly increasing\nand that \"\nA society of a\ndeteriorating morality will perish as surely as there is a law that\nnumber of people.\nlifts the tides\nAll these are forces of erosion which, with other forces, work\nto widen and make even more dangerous old cleavages which\nDoes that scare us? It does not. Long experience with pressure\nindustrial America thus far has done more to widen than to bridge.\ngroups, and the extravagant statements of our politicians have\nSome of them are superficial; but others are deep and they are\nmade us so-what-ers.\ncaused by ancient animosities and motives which have festered\nWe have been warned before-warned that if one nominee\nbeneath the surface SO long they are ready to break through and\nwas elected \"grass would grow on Fifth Avenue,\" and heard the\nresolve themselves into cult form, or into a power unit.\ncry that \"our country is in peril\" when another nominee arose.\nIf we don't win this war, we won't have to worry about that.\nsame thing-the same decline, the same spread of materialism-\nBut if we win, as we must, those dangers are going to be on top\ntook place all over the world. As a matter of fact it had its\nof us before we know it. And, because they are rooted in man's\ninception in Europe about four centuries ago, long before America\ninhumanity to man, unless we have the God-given wisdom to\nwas settled.\nhandle them as a process of democracy's evolution under the\nAbout that time the rennaissance and the distant but glitter-\ndoctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man,\ning promise of the entry of the golden age turned man's attention\nwe'll then do just as much damage to ourselves and to democracy\nto himself and his undeveloped powers. This utopian promise\nas the axis powers would do now if they could.\nand the subsequent advances of science and invention dwindled\nhis dreams of a universe with God at the center to a world in\nThis is a time for us to remember that it was man's inhumanity\nwhich he was the center, and the power theory was born.\nto man-man's refusal to answer Cain's question and face the\nForce-minded philosophers nurtured it for four centuries.\nanswer-and nothing else, that led to the disintegration of the\n400-year-old Roman Empire. We are in our 322nd year. Are we\nMight-craving dictators flowered it in four years. As the lightning\nheaded for disintegration in another 78 years?\nprecedes the thunder, that thought preceded and cleared the way\nfor a chaos which threatens to shatter the world at our feet.\nThat is up to us. But whatever we do, we'll do with our\nFor all that we have witnessed in the Europe of our era is\neyes open. For the greatest preachers of our day are telling us that\nbut the cumulative effect of the march of time and the practical\nWhen a nation loses its moral sense, its decay is inevitable\";\napplication of that thought carried to its logical conclusion.\nthat\nIt is chiefly moral deficiencies which endanger modern\nEverywhere that has been done it has closed, first closed, the\nnations\"; that \"\nAtheism will undermine the foundations of\nchurches then broke the back of moral integrity, destroyed free-\ncivilization\"; and that\n\"\nWhen you knock away the founda-\ndom, and deified brute force.\ntions of Christianity you knock away the props of civilization\nThat was the storm which was in the making a hundred\nThese are recent utterances, but they all refere to ancient\nyears ago when this church was founded, and America stood at the\ntruths; the same truth that Washington was talking about when\nthreshold of her building era. Even then there were prophets who\nhe said \"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that\ncould see it coming. Heine was one of them. Here is his prophecy:\nnational morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.\"\n\"Christianity has occasionally calmed the brutal lust for battle,\nNow, is this decline in spiritual vitality something which\nbut it cannot destroy its savage joy. Where once that restraining\nis peculiar to or the result of democracy? Indeed, it is not. The\ntalisman, the Cross of Christ is broken\nthe\nold\nstone\ngods\nwill\nWe must believe inside ourselves that we Americans possess\nrise from unremembered ruins and Thor will leap to life at last\nthe capacity to make the adequate response and realize the reward,\nand bring down his gigantic hammer on the gothic cathedrals\nand know that working together we shall find the way-and we\nThis is no mere fantasy\nwill.\nthe thought always precedes the act\nas the lightning the thunder-never doubt it, the hour will come.\"\nWe can know that we possess that capacity because, no\nmatter how low the flame of faith may be burning, it still is\nburning, for the basic teachings of Jesus are a part of us.\nINDEED, the hour has come. It is an hour of double jeopardy,\nWe possess it because the acquisitive instinct which gives\nfrom without and from within. It presents the challenge of a\nus wings to lift ourselves to the peaks of achievement carries with\ncocked gun. It calls for thinking which seeks a way to respond,\nit a protective instince which will blaze in defiance of those who\ninstead of a reason not to. It demands that precedent be laid aside,\ntamper with that which is ours, once we see it as ours in the\nfor nothing like it ever faced us before.\nsense that it immediately touches us.\nWe possess it because there is an inherited something in\nIt can be an hour of doom for our way of life. It also can be\nour national blood stream which no other nation in the world\nthe hour that precedes a new dawn, for adequately responded to,\npossesses; a presently dormant something which wisely activated\nit can produce a flowering of democracy such as we have never\ncan stand America on her feet-united, dynamic, invincible-in\nknown; a full flowering, not just a material one as heretofore,\nany just cause. And that's all we need to lick any menace from\nbut a spiritual and social flowering as well.\nwithout or from within.\nThat is the reward. To realize it, we must rise up to it. For\nThese qualities, this capacity to adequately respond, are\ndemocracy is a spirit. It resides in us-in our will. It can't reside\nnot limited to any one group. They bridge cleavages and differ-\nanywhere else. It can't exist, except as we will it to. It can't\nences. They are just as common to labor and capital as they are\nflower, except as we do. It can't develop, except as we do. If we\nto agriculturalists and churchmen, and they are equally common\nare materialistic, it will be. If we are spiritual minded and socially\nto those of all creeds and denominations.\nconscious, it will be. It's phenomena-the things and rights and\nThe rewards for such an adequate response go SO far beyond\nprivileges it yields, and the government and society and morality\nthe removal of the axis menace, which must be the first objective\nnow, that someday this menace may almost seem a blessing in\nit produces-are but the verities of our aspirations, or of our\ndisguise.\nneglectfulness; and they are as limitless as our dreams, or as little.\nFor, without it now, we would not have the white heat of\nis as dangerous as a cocked gun that the church can have even a\nemergency which is required to weld us together, and we would\nchance to get the support it should have had long ago, that the\nnot possess the urge to do the deep searching inside ourselves to\nministers can have even a chance to receive both the freedom and\nthrow out everything less important than the survival of the\nthe inspiration of congregational expectancy many of them have\nnation itself.\nnot had for a long time.\nThat is why we can do things today, both social and political,\nAnd it is because we find ourselves in common trouble that\nwhich only suggested yesterday would have brought the Temple\nwe will find a way out together; each of us, and each group,\nof Status Quo down on our heads. We can do them today because\ndrawing new strength from the others and finding new under-\nwe now know that if we don't the temple will fall down tomor\nstanding and appreciation of the others.\nrow-or either the dictators or ancient animosities will knock it\nThereby we will restore the values which materialism left\ndown.\nto take care of themselves, but didn't. Thereby we will acquire\nthe social consciousness and faith founded moral stamina which\nThat we have not done many of the things we should have\nlifted our realistic forefathers up to meet freedom's emergencies\ndone - that we have not developed the spiritual and social possi-\nbilities of democracy along with its material possibilities - is not\nand give us America in the first place. And thereby democracy will\nbecause the problems and the needs were not seen before. It is\nflower - fully flower.\nbecause the door to new visions was shut and locked by pre-\nBut none of this is going to just happen, any more than it\njust happened that Americans everywhere suddenly started buying\nconceptions, by the we`ve-alwaysdone-ithis-wa complex, by the\nwar bonds and stamps by the millions.\n\"unconscious arrogance of conscious power,\" by the unproductive\nIf it happens, and for the sake of mankind it must happen,\ninstinct to maintain a status quo when we get on a pedestal and\nit will be because of what we as laymen do about it, what the\nfeel safe.\nchurches as institutions do about it, and particularly what country\nIn short, it is because we at last are willing to admit there\nchurch communities like this one do about it, for they are the very\nare problems and face their dangers; because we feel the challenge\nroot-beds of our way of life.\nof a new social frontier, that democracy will get even a chance to\nIt is going to require of us a lot more than lip service. It is\nfully flower before forces within driving in opposite directions\ngoing to require a rededication of our lives and all that we have\ndestroy it.\nto the wholly unquestioning and completely selfless faith of our\nIt is because we at long last realize that spiritual instability\nfathers, and the projection of that faith into the future through\nour children and their children.\nThat simple story places responsibility. It puts it up to us as\nindividuals to see to it that the \"reflection of our aggregate will\"\nIt is going to require that our churches be strong and bold\nis a good one. We must vote. We must let our light shine. We\nsources of courage and inspiration to all of us at a time when\nother institutions are confused and weak. Indeed, here is oppor\nmust learn to cooperate and work together, both as individuals\nand as groups, if we want a way of life we'll continue to like - if\ntunity; the only good which might come from the ill wind that is\nblistering the earth.\nwe want democracy to fully flower.\nThat means that we must not blame the physician for the\nIt will require that they stimulatingly challenge men with the\ndare of the unknown future of a democratic America as opposed\ndisease and let the patient die. It means that we must not amputate\nto the known future which will result from totalitarianism.\nand have a crippled democracy which represents less than liberated\nmankind at its best. It means that we have got to answer Cain's\nIt will require that they instill in men's minds fresh confidence\nin the ideology of democracy as expressed in human freedom and\nquestion - \"Am I my brother's keeper?\" - with an emphatic\nindividuality, and as a guarantee against pagan subjugation.\n\"Yes,\" and then do something about it, both as individuals and\nAnd, above everything else, it is going to require - if we\nas groups.\nwant to win converts from the passing parade - that we get down\nIn that way, we, this church, this community, can create a\nto earth and relate man's self-interest directly to the churches. Not\npattern and set an example which can be projected to help a\nby exhortation and not by ponderous themes. But by the simple\nthousand other churches and communities.\nforce of simple facts.\nAnd in that way we and it, as churchmen and as citizens, can\nFor it is a simple story. This America of ours is a direct\nbe strong enough and courageous enough to help project into the\nproduct of democracy. Democracy, which is but the reflection\ninstitutions and groupings of our democracy the teachings of\nof our aggregate will, resulted from the liberation of the spirit\nJesus. Until we do that we are no more capable of defending and\nand will of mankind from the subjugation of a totalitarian world.\nperpetuating a free America than our practical forefathers would\nThe liberation was a direct result of the teachings of Jesus.\nhave been capable of giving it to us in the first place had their\nThese teachings, therefore, are the undergirding of America. She\nlives not been illuminated and directed by an inner light. It is the\ncannot survive unless they live in our hearts, and without them\nthe way of life we like and want will perish. And the church is\nonly way we can make real in our lives and in our nation the\nthe place to learn about them.\ncreeds we profess with our lips. It is another way of saying \"Thy\nKingdom Come.\"\nLet us, therefore, now together rededicate ourselves and our\nlives; let us solemnly together pledge ourselves and all that we\nperception to realize that Democracy is a spirit which resides\nhave to victory - to victory over menaces within as well as\nonly within us and reflects only our will, our aspirations, our\nthose without - let us go forward together in freedom's holy\nfears; for the wisdom to understand that all force can do is\ncause. Now, together:\nto hold evil in check long enough for moral ideas to take root;\nfor the tolerance to view the rest of mankind enemies in war,\nIn the Name of God, Amen: Inspired by the invincible\nin peace friends, and, in the hour of victory, to hate the evil,\nspirit of the men of faith who gave us America and a formula\nfor keeping it, we, the members of the congregation of the\nnot the people, and thereby to conclude a lasting peace with\nCedar Bayou Methodist Church, joined by our friends of\nmalice toward none; and for the worthiness to accept the\ndescent of God's mantle of grace to the end that this nation,\nmany creeds and in the unifying presence of a just God\nwho presides over the destinies of nations, do now pause in\nunder God, shall have a new birth.\nthis desperate hour of world travail to pledge our lives, our\nTo these ends we consecrate our lives, and dedicate to\nfortunes, and our sacred honor to the effective defense and\nthe greater Glory of God and the advancement of Christian\nFaith the unifying instrumentalities¹ which Divine Provi-\nperpetuation of those ethical imperatives without which the\ncivilization we have known cannot exist.\ndence this day has placed at our disposal as community-wide\nWe appeal to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for\nsymbols of willing service to God and country.\nWe, therefore, raise these twin flags of faith and freedom\nour strength, and for the faith-inspired stamina of spirit which\nalone sustains beyond physical endurance and renders men\nto heaven's blue sky as visual reminders to make real in our\ninvincible and their machines effective; for the sense to realize\ndaily living the creeds we profess with our lips, and we sound\nthat a house divided against itself will fall, and for justifica-\nthe universal language of these bells in the majestic voice of\ntion of the flaming spirit of righteous indignation aggressively\nthe carillon to ring forth, with the cumulative power of\nexercised in freedom's holy cause.\nechoing tradition and daily repetition, the stimulating realities\nFor the rectitude of our intentions we define freedom as\nof the Word of God to the heart of man. Amen.\nPastor's note: The flags and carillon Mr. Smith here dedicates are centennial centennial gifts. gift. As The the flags- flags\nan expression in political terms of the teachings of Christ, for\nwere 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\nit is through freedom thus conceived that we see the good and\nSpangled 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\ncountryside.\naspire to reach it; and we beseech the Great Teacher for the\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nIn this day of turmoil, the human soul seeks peace to a greater extent perhaps\nWASHINGTON\nthan at any time in the last 2,000 years. That peace, which can only come about\nDear Mr. Wilson:\nthrough a definite faith in Almighty God, may best be exemplified through regular\nattendance in His House of Worship.\nyour of the devoted congregation on the happy occasion of the hundredth anniversary\nMy hearty congratulations to you and cordial greetings to the members of\nthe future, Congratulations to the end to that your in the future, as in the past, your church may continue as\nchurch May the record of the past be a challenge to\nthe old founding of the Cedar Bayou Methodist Church. one We still need the spirit of\na beacon of light to guide all men to a better appreciation of citizenship, civilization\nsacrifices Texas pioneers, which is another word for missionary zeal. I am sure the\nand christianity.\nto made by the founders of your church will inspire their spiritual descendants\ncarry on without faltering in doing the will of the Master.\n(signed) W. LEE O'DANIEL, United States Senator.\n(signed) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.\nDear Mr. Wilson:\nDear Mr. Wilson:\nPlease accept my congratulations on the occasion of your centennial and my\nI consider it a privilege and an honor to be given this opportunity to add my\nbest wishes for continued service at a time when it is needed more than ever before.\nsentiments the church of appreciation and gratitude for the forthright and active taken by\n(telegram) HAROLD H. BURTON, United States Senator.\nfreedom congregations of Cedar Bayou in support of the world-wide part struggle for\nin which we are now engaged.\nof It was in the small towns and country cross-roads of this Nation that the\nthroughout spirit democracy first took root. There it has been nurtured and strengthened\nDear Mr. Wilson:\nviction in our history. To them, today, we look for unwavering faith and firm con-\nthe promise of freedom for the dignity of man.\nCongratulate and congregation on the wisdom and faith with wheih, and\nin this hour of great you trial, your call attention to the underlying truths of life\ninspiration to all people of faith in this country and as a model for their serve emulation. as\nYour dedication to the cause of Freedom and humanity should an\nreligion, as they have been you nurtured by your parish for 100 years. Happy Cause.\" to join\nwith you in the eloquent and moving prayer \"Together in Freedom's Holy deter\nWith kindest regards and best wishes in your undertaking, I am,\nmination to persist until victory is achieved. We all must have recourse to that evil\nYou should do much by this significant celebration to promote courage and faith\n(signed) PAUL V. McNutt, Administrator,\nin the essential and universal values of the human spirit if we are to defeat the\nU. S. Federal Security Agency\npowers of aggression and rebuild the world when peace shall be won. Warmest good\nDear Mr. Wilson:\nwishes to you and your people.\nPlease extend my congratulations and best wishes to all in the\n(telegram) FRANK E. GANNETT, publisher.\nchurch's centennial celebration of your church. I hope this important participating milestone in your\nhistory is a forerunner of many future years of useful service.\nDear Reverend Wilson:\n(telegram) ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.\nIt gives me a deal of personal pleasure to greet you and all the centennial members\nof\nDear Mr. Wilson:\nyour community as great you gather to celebrate in such fitting manner the\nanniversary of your church.\npledge symbolic with of which you are commemorating this occasion. anniversary anniversary be\nCongratulations to your church on its hundredth and the splendid\nI wish sincerely that it might be possible for me to be present with you to\nshare the inspiring events have planned for this occasion.\nthe permanence of spiritual values in the life of May our your country.\nYou that church you \"is still the biggest thing in sight,\" the center can of\nyour say life. your That is exactly as it should be, for, in my opinion, nothing all the\n(telegram) F. H. LAGUARDIA, Mayor, New York.\never be community more of us than the spiritual life. From it alone come tangible\nDear Friend:\nway in which find the road that will lead to enduring peace. I believe evil that\ngood things we important have and, to particularly any in these dark days, it offers us a very that it\nis a return to the we simple can faith of our fathers that will root out the forces of\nField and Camp Wallace have been invited to participate chaplains in the centennial men service.\nI am glad the churches of all creeds and the and of Ellington\nare now corrupting the whole world.\ncreed, consecrate ourselves-all us, we our have and all that we are-to the establishment\nLet each of whatever station in life, our religious belief, or our political of\na universal recognition of the principles contained in the Golden Rule, \"Do unto\nothers as ye would that they should do unto you.\"\nAgain, I want to thank you for the privilege of having some part in your\nmemorial celebration, even though I could not be present, and I extend to you all\nmy best wishes.\n(signed) THOS. J. WATSON\n(of International Business Machines,\nand publisher of \"THINK\").\nMy Dear Terry:\nPlease accept and extend to the noble citizenry of Cedar Bayou my hearty\ncongratulations upon the completion of one hundred years history as a Methodist\nchurch. The strength of America has ever stemmed from such communities and\nall of you.\nchurches and our hope in the future lies there. May the blessings of God be upon\n(signed) A. FRANK SMITH,\nResident Bishop of the Methodist Church,\nHouston Area.\nMy Dear Reverend Wilson:\ntudes of individuals is the Church Only the Church can indoctrinate our people\nThe only institution that can do anything immediately about changing atti-\nwith the required spiritual attitude for success of our objectives.\nlittle community churches set in a grove of hackberry trees, and with the fields of\nI lived in an interior cross-roads community for yeas. The picture of the two\nwaiving grain in the background, and paticularly that picture when the grain was\ndrenched and the churches freshly washed, has lingered as one of the most peaceful\nas hopeful byproducts of the present emergency is the One return of the of things the community that I envision house\nand comforting scenes in my memory of my life\nof worship.\n(signed) COLONEL IKE ASHBURN, Director,\nOffice of Civilian Defense, Harris County, Texas.\nDear Reverend Wilson:\nOur country was founded upon our faith and trust in God and with His\nblessings and indulgence it has prospered and grown into the foremost nation of the\nworld Today We need all the moral and spiritual sustenance our devout faith\ncan give us, and without it, despite our growing material power, we shall be unable\nto prevail. But because our obedience to the Heavenly Father has always been sincere\nand deep-seated we are confident of the future\nThe work the Churches of\nAmerica are doing among both our soldiery and civilian population in this day of\nperil is marvelous and I feel that through the Church we are sturdily and carefully\nlaying the foundation for a new and finer America that will rise out of the heroism\nand sacrifice of the present and stand as a promise to all mankind of the coming\nKingdom of God. You and all who will be gathered with you in the ceremonies have\nmy best wishes and prayers for the noble and constructive work you are doing.\n(signed) C. A. PICKETT, Mayor of Houston.\n887-9-m\nLORD, Clifford L. Director\nNEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION\nCooperstown, New York\nJune 2, 1942\nLetter to Mr. Early, saying that as the President is a long time\nmember of the New York State Historical Association he may be interested in the now\nmagazine which he enulosed. To the Study. Ackd. June 8, 1942.\nSEE - PPF - 1532\nVST\nFRAZIER, Mr. J. L.- - Editor\nTHE INLAND PRINTER\nChicago, Illinois\nMay 29, 1942.\nNote to Mr. Early saying he was sending the President a copy of\nthe Magazine INLAND PRINTER, containing an adaptation of the Treasury Department's\nstandard Savings Bond poster. Ack.-5/8/42.\nmef\nSee P.P.F. 9-I\nP.P.J\n9-m\ntim\nJune 9, 1942\nGentlemen:\nppt\nThis will acknowledge the re-\nceipt of the copy of CONDITIONS OF PEACE\nqm\nwhich you were good enough to send to the\nPresident. I know that he would want me\nto express his appreciation of your kind\n+\nthought.\nq.B\nVery sincerely yours,\nB\nGRACE G. TULLY\nThe Macmillan Company,\n60 Fifth Avenue,\nNew York,\nNew York.\nmtl\nJune 11, 1942\nP.P.7. q-m\nVE.\nMy dear Major Miranda:\nI have received your gracious letter of\nApril twentieth, transmitting for the President a\ncopy of your book, \"Temas Cubanos\", end for me\ncopies of \"Temas Cubanos\" and \"Reminiscencies\nCubanas\".\nx159-a a\nIt has given me pleasure to place the\ncopy of \"Temas Cubanos\" before the President,\nxpr79-B\nwho desires that I convey to you an expression\nof his thanks and appreciation for your cour-\nteous thought of him. I also desire to express\nmy appreciation of your kindness in presenting\nthese interesting works to me.\nWith cordial regards, I em\nVery sincerely yours,\nEDWIN M. WATSON\nSecretary to the President\nX\nHonorable Luis Rodolfo Miranda,\nUnder Secretary of State,\nHavana, Cuba.\nEAK\nPERSONAL.\nEL subsecretario\nLa Habana, Abril 28 de 1942.\nRed DE ESTADO may 29,1942\nMajor General Edwin M. Watson,\nCare of The White House,\nWashington, D. C.-\nStudy\nVE.\nMy dear Major General and comrade of days long past:\nI am greatly pleased to enclose you here-\nwith a copy of each of my books \"Reminiscencias Cuba-\nnas\" and \"Temas Cubanos\", with the request that you kindly\naccept them not only in remembrance of the time when it\nwas my priviledge to meet you in Brussels, while I was\nthere as Cuban Minister, but also of the days when, side\nby side both the Cubans and the Americans, we fought to-\ngether for \"Cuba Libre\" at Santiago.\nI am also taking the liberty of enclosing\nyou another copy of \"Temas Cubanos\", with the request\nthat you be kind enough to hand it, with my best wishes\nand highest consideration, to His Excellency The Presi-\ndent, to whom I have already had the honor of presenting\na copy of \"Reminiscencias Cubanas\" especially bound for\nhim.\nColonel and Mrs. Albert L. Loustalot, have\nafforded me the pleasure of remembering you and Colonel\nRowan, the man of the Message to Garcia, and you will see\nin my books the references I make to this american patriot.\nWhile thanking you in advance, I have the ho-\nnor to be, my dear Major General,\nYours most sincerely,\nLuis Rodolfo Miranda,\nUnder Secretary of State.-\nFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO\nHE SECRETARY OF STATE\nWASHINGTON. D.C.\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nWASHINGTON\nJune 10. 1942\nIn reply refer to\nPR\nVE.\nMy dear General Watson:\nReferring to your memorandum of June 2, 1942, I\nsuggest a reply somewhat as follows to Major Luis\nRodolfo Miranda:\n\"My dear Major Miranda:\n\"I have received your gracious letter of\nApril 28, 1942, transmitting for the President\na copy of your book Temas Cubanos and for me\ncopies of Temas Cubanos and Reminiscencias\nCubanas.\n\"It has given me pleasure to place the\ncopy of Temas Cubanos before the President,\nwho desires that I convey to you an expression\nof his thanks and appreciation for your cour-\nteous thought of him. I also desire to express\nmy appreciation of your kindness in presenting\nthese interesting works to me.\n\"With cordial regards, I am,\n\"Very sincerely yours,\n\"Edwin M. Watson\nSecretary to the President\".\nYour\nFORDEFENSE\nMajor General Edwin M. Watson,\nBUY\nUNITED\nSecretary to the President,\nSTATES\nSAVINGS\nBONDS\nJAND STAMPS\nThe White House.\n12\n-2-\nYour file is returned herewith.\nSincerely yours,\nVE.\nG. Chief of Protocol\nEnclosures:\nYour file.\n12\n-2-\nYour file is returned herewith.\nSincerely yours,\nAVE.\n- 4000 NK,\nGEORGET SUMMERLIN\nChief of Protocol\nautority\nPossible you be good enough to maggest un\nEnclosures: agains to the attached letter\nTrue Use Your file. of State of Cuba, sending\nensugrephed books to the Prestums and to se,\nFith Many Limoks,\nS.B.S.\nState, Cuber. Forwards book \"Seals autographed to the\nLts L-28-2 NO Gen. Watson from Luis Mirends, Under Secretary of\nPresident, und *Reminiscencias Cubtoms* and \"Tems Cubenos\" autographed\nto General Nameon.\nJune 2, 1942.\n+\nAVE.\nMEMORANDUM FOR MR. SUMMERLIN: +20\nDear Summy:\nIn\nWould you be good enough to suggest an\nappropriate acknowledgment to the attached letter\nfrom the Under Secretary of State of Cuba, sending\nautographed books to the President and to me.\nWith many thanks,\nE.M.W.\nLtr 4-28-42 to Gen. Watson from Luis Rodolfo Miranda, Under Secretary of\nState, Havana, Cuba. Forwards book \"Temas Cubanos\" autographed to the\nPresident; and \"Reminiscencias Cubanas\" and \"Temas Cubanos\" autographed\nto General Watson.\n3ms note 08 the\nCOMMONWEALTH\nbook\nWar SUPPLIES PROCUREMENTS\nCABLE ADDRESS\naustimpro, WASHINGTON\nTELEPHONE\n1700 MASSACHUSETTS AVE.\nMICHIGAN 9000\nJune 9th, 1942.\nWASHINGTON, D. C.\nMiss Grace Tulley,\nc/o The White House,\nWashington, D. C.\npp.m\nDear Miss Tulley:-\nIn connection with Lend Lease War Supplies Procure-\nment, this Mission has produced a manual for the use of procurement\nstaff in the Mission and in the Australian Departments concerned\nas a guide to procedures and the manual also sets forth the form\nof the organization of this Mission in its several divisions.\nI have had a copy of the manual specially bound in\nthe hope that the President would accept it for inclusion with his\npapers and, at the suggestion of my friend Mr. Oscar Cox, I am\nsending it to you direct for the appropriate action.\nI remain, dear Miss Tulley\nYours sincerely,\nhhmapy L. R. Macgregor,\nto\nDIRECTOR GENERAL.\nLRM/MD\nJune 13, 1942\nMy dear Mr. Macgregor:\nI have received your letter of\nJune ninth. Many thanks, in the President's\nbehalf, for the copy of the manual. He is\nespecially pleased to have it and appreciates\nyour friendly thought of him.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nL. R. Macgregor, Esq.,\nCommonwealth of Australia,\nWar Supplies Procurement,\n1700 Massachusetts Avenue,\nWashington, D. C.\nms\na\nMiraculous Medal\nFOR\nFEAT\nFOR\nUS\nCOMMISSIONER COMMENTE SIN FRAY SUN us way WHO AND HAVE OIL WECOUSE\nyour Birthday\nP.P7\n9-m\nR P.P.7\nE\n9.8\nms\nSpoon given to Eben\n\"HAIL, HOLY QUEEN, MOTHER\nOF MERCY! OUR LIFE, OUR\nSWEETNESS AND OUR HOPE.\"\nThis Miràculous Medal of Mary\nWill make your Birthday bright,\nand quard you with loving kindness\nThroughout each day and night,\nand humbly these greetings follow\nTo wish you a happy day,\nmay the grace of Her Son be with you\nas you follow His Sacred Way!\nX\n9.8\nms\nSpoon given to Eben\nP.P 7\n9-m -\nx P.f.7\nE\n9.8\nms\nSpoon given to Eben\nBB - This Came\nin as is - S.T.\nsays T.A.\nhe 3m 1\nP.P7\nMy dear Mr. McKinney:\n9-m\nThis will acknowledge the receipt\nof the souvenir which you sent to the Presi-\ndent. You may be sure that your courtesy is\nappreciated.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nR P.P.7\nE\n9.8\nX\nCharles R. McKinney, Esq.,\n606 East 5th Street,\nLos Angeles,\nCalifornia.\nms\nSpoon given to Eben\nJune 18, 1942\nP.P7\nMy dear Mr. McKinney:\n9-m\nThis will acknowledge the receipt\nof the souvenir which you sent to the Presi-\ndent. You may be sure that your courtesy is\nappreciated.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nR P.P.7\nE\n9.8\nX\nCharles R. McKinney, Esq.,\n6061 East 5th Street,\nLos Angeles,\nCalifornia.\nms\nSpoon given to Eben\nNEWELL, Mr. David M. - Editor\nFIELD AND STREAM\nNew York, N. Y.\nJune 11, 1942.\n1062\nLetter to the President saying he was forwarding the July issue of\nField and Stream - - Sent to the Study. Ack.-6/17/42.\nmilleys\nYour Dates\nSee P.P.F. 9 - F\nmef\nhas to the been received PPF.\nYou\nmay 18 that Ln\nthe augy of the 9-m WATER\n- No agreement.\nVery yours,\n12. H.\nSecretary\nRichard\nin\n-\nYear\nJune 19, 1942\nP.P.7.\nq-m\nMy dear Mr. Muffley:\nYour letter of June eleventh\nhas been received and will be brought\nto the attention of the President. You\nmay be sure that your courtesy in sending\nXP.P.7.9-B\nthe copy of the book, VICTORY THROUGH AIR\nPOWER, is appreciated.\nVery sincerely yours,\nM. H. MCINTYRE\nSecretary to the President\nx\nRichard B. Muffley, Esq.,\nToms River,\nNew Jersey.\nmtl\nThe Riverview Hotel and Restaurant\nMODERN ROOMS\nOPEN\nMost with\nALL YEAR\nHOTEL\nprivate Bath\nRIVERVIEW\nPhone: 399\nTOMS RIVER\nGOOD acter FOOD\nS\nN.J.\nPresident Franklin tranklin D. Roosevelt:\nJune 11 1942\nas commander-in-chief\nof our anny and navy l respectfully wish & call\nthis book, Victory Through air Power, & your\nattention.\nl realize that de Seversky is a salesman for\na special line of goods. an the same time be is an\nauthority in his field and he states as concrete facts\ncertain things which, if true, are a very severe indictment\nof our present air command. His charges should not go\nunanswered. of he is wrong we should the told why -\nand if he is right we should act to remedy The atuation,\nnamely we should establish a separate air command air\nwhich, under able leadership, can fully develop\npower without The apparently Sampering jealousies of the\nany and Havy.\nVery truly yours,\nRechard B. muffly\nJune 19, 1942\np.p.7.\nq-m\nMy dear Mr. Mobley:\nThis will acknowledge the\nreceipt of the books, WHAT ABOUT THE\nXP.P.7.9-B\nAIRSHIP? and THE STORY OF THE AIRSHIP.\nYou may be sure that the President will\nappreciate your courtesy in sending\nthem to him.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE O. TULLY\nx\nRobert I. Mobley, Esq.,\nSenior Guard,\nUnited States Army Air Force,\nP. 0. Box 3055,\nHollywood,\nCalifornia.\nmtl\n(Copied from flyleaf of book \"WHAT ABOUT THE AIRSHIP?\", by\nCommander C. E. Rosendahl.)\nJune 7th 1942\nTo President Franklin D. Roosevelt,\nThe White House,\nWashington, District of Columbia.\nMr. President:\nYour great interest taken recently in Lighter\nThan Air Craft. Mr. President it is with much pleasure\nthat I present to you this book containing valuable data\non Airships by Americas greatest authority on Airships.\nRespectfully\n/s/ Robert Irwin Mobley\nRobert Irwin Mobley\nSenior Guard\nU. S. Army Air Force\n1.80\n60\nPresident Franklin D. Roosealt.\nMr President,\nCalif., under the Act of March 3, 1879.\nThe Los Angeles Examiner 18 Not\nResponsible for Unsolicited Manuscripts\nor Photographs. None will be returned\nunless sender incloses return postage.\nMAIL RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.\nCalifornia, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.\nDaily & Sunday: EMMIG wk. $ .30 3 mos, $ 15.60 3.90\nmo. 1.30 yr. 1.30 1 yr.\nyΓ. 1 yr. 7.20 mos.\nmos. 3.60 mo.\n405, which d beleive will be of erery much\nKindly read Pages 404 and\nRates eisewhere somewhat higher Decause\nSunday only:\nof additional postage, quoted on request.\nMEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS\nThe Associated Press is exclusively entitled\nto the use for publication of all news and\ndispatches credited to it or not otherwise\ncredited in this paper and also the local\nnews published therem.\nATE rights of publication of special din-\npatches are al a reserved.\nenterest to you. Respectfully\nalso Mr President. read. Senior guard ll. Air Force\nRobert d. Mobby\nPages 69 to 96 Inclusive\nNaz\nE\nOn the\nAtlantic\nneutral reg\nmarines to\nofficial N:\n26 new vict\nweek and\nhave been\npacks on\nto South A\nThe Nav\nanother S\nmerchant\ndoed in the\nvivors hav\neast coast\nThe cast\ntacks anno\n105 person\nSome 880's\nsurvived th\nLosses r\ncluded 10\nish, three\nian, one P\nand one и\nThe ener\noff the Un\nbrought th\nwhile in warmer climes nine more\nboosted to 68 the number of Ca-\nribbean sinkings, three more in\nthe Gulf of Mexico made that to.\ntal 16 and two more off South\nAmerica raised that to 14.\nAt least one submarine got a\ntaste of its own medicine during\nthe week's sea warfare when the\nAmerican merchant vessel Atenas\nsunk it in the Gulf of Mexico and\noutraced a second undersea raid-\nsel.\noff 10 nev\nto swell to\narea since\nOne sink\nand Dirigebles and am glad to pass on to you Mr. Presi-\ndent. Kindly read paragraphs marked in red.\nRespectfully\n/s/\nRobert I. Mobley\nRobert I. Mobley\nSenior Guard\nU. S. Air Force\nFormerly\n8th Balloon Co.\n8th Airship Co. U. S. Army\nand\nSEAL\nmuci use ACC 01 магсп 3, 1879.\nThe Los Angeles Examiner 18 Not\nResponsible for Unsolicited Manuscripts\nPhotographs. None will be returned\nunless sender incloses return postage.\nMAIL RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.\nCalifornia. Utah, Arizona and Nevada.\nDaily & Sunday: wk. $ .30 3 mos. $ 15.60 3.90\nmo. 1.30 yr.\nSunday only: 1 yr. 7.20 mos. 60 1.80\nmos. 3.60 1 mo.\nyΓ.\nTHIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS\nRates eisewhere somewhat higher Decause\nof additional postage, quoted on request.\nMEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS\nThe Associated Press is exclusively entitled\nto the use for publication of all news\ndispatches credited to it or not otherwise\ncredited in this paper and also the local\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt.\nnews published therein.\nATE rights of publication of special dis-\npatches are al a reserved.\nor\nNazi\nE\nOn the b\nAtlantic V\nneutral reg\nmarines tot\nofficial Na\n26 new victi\nweek and i\nhave been S\npacks on th\nto South A\nThe Navy\nanother sr\nmerchant V\ndoed in the\nvivors have\neast coast I\nThe casu\ntacks anno\n105 persons\nSome 880 se\nsurvived th\nLosses re\ncluded 10 U\nish, three N\nian, one Pa\nand one un\nThe enem\noff 10 newl\noff the Unit\nsel.\nto swell to 1\narea since\nOne sinkir\nbrought the\nwhile in warmer cumes nine more\nboosted to 68 the number of Ca.\nribbean sinkings, three more in\nthe Gulf of Mexico made that to.\ntal 16 and two more off South\nAmerica raised that to 14.\nAt least one submarine got a\ntaste of its own medicine during\nthe week's sea warfare when the\nAmerican merchant vessel Atenas\nsunk it in the Gulf of Mexico and\noutraced a second undersea raid-\nand Dirigebles and am glad to pass on to you Mr. Presi-\ndent. Kindly read paragraphs marked in red.\nRespectfully\n/s/\nRobert I. Mobley\nRobert I. Mobley\nSenior Guard\nU. S. Air Force\nFormerly\n8th Balloon Co.\n8th Airship Co. U. S. Army\nS\nNazi Sub Victims Off\nok THE STORY OF THE AIRSHIP,\nEast Coast Total 253\nBy Associated Press\nOn the bottom of the Western\ner to reach port only slightly\nAtlantic vessels of Allied and\ndamaged, according to a descrip-\nneutral registry, downed by sub-\ntion of the encounter in Latri-\nmarines totaled 253 yesterday by\nbuna, San Jose (Costa Rica)\nofficial Navy announcement as\nnewspaper.\nelt,\n26 new victims were reported last\nweek and including yesterday to\nhave been sunk by undersea wolf\nFORDEFENSE\na.\npacks on the prowl from Canada\nto South America.\nThe Navy announced yesterday\nWAR\nanother small United States\nmerchant vessel had been torpe-\nBUY\naken in Blimps and\ndoed in the Caribbean area. Sur-\nvivors have been landed at an\nUNITED\nI am very glad to send\neast coast port.\nThe casualty list for the at.\nSTATES\n5\ntacks announced last week was\nSAVINGS\nenclosed here in this\n105 persons dead and 44 missing.\nSome 880 seamen and passengers\nBONDS\nsurvived the sinkings.\nAND STAMPS\nirch of data on Blimps\nLosses reported last week in-\ncluded 10 U.S. ships, seven Brit-\nish, three Norwegian, one Brazil-\nass on to you Mr. Presi-\nian, one Panamanian, one Dutch\nand one unidentified Allied ves-\narked in red.\nsel.\nThe enemy submersibles picked\nVOL. XXXIX, TUESDAY, JUNE No. 180\noff 10 newly announced victims\ntfully\noff the United States east coast\nLos Angeles Examiner\nto swell to 120 their total for that\narea since Pearl Harbor.\nDaily and Sunday. Reg. U. S. Pat. Office\nI. Mobley\nExaminer Bldg., Broadway at 11 St.\nOne sinking in Canadian waters\nPublished by Hearst Publications, Inc.\nEntered as second-class matter December\nbrought the war total there to 34,\n12. 1903, at the post office at Los Angeles,\nwhile in warmer climes nine more\nCalif., under the Act of March 3. 1879.\nI. Mobley\nThe Los Angeles Examiner 18 Not\nboosted to 68 the number of Ca-\nResponsible for Unsolicited Manuscripts\nGuard\nor Photographs. None will be returned\nribbean sinkings, three more in\nunless sender incloses return postage.\nAir Force\nthe Gulf of Mexico made that to-\nMAIL RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE\nCalifornia. Utah, Arizona and Nevada.\ntal 16 and two more off South\nDaily & Sunday: 1 wk. $ 30 3 mos. $ 3.90\n1\nmo. 1.30 1 yr. 15.60\nAmerica raised that to 14.\nSunday only:\n1 yr. 7.20 3 mos, 1.80\n6 mos. 3.60 I mo.\n60\nAt least one submarine got a\nRates eisewhere somewhat higher Decause\ntaste of its own medicine during\nof additional postage, quoted on request.\nMEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS\nthe week's sea warfare when the\nThe Associated Press is exclusively entitled\nto the use for publication of all news and\nAmerican merchant vessel Atenas\ndispatches credited to it or not otherwise\nsunk it in the Gulf of Mexico and\ncredited in this paper and also the local\nnews published therem.\noutraced a second undersea raid-\nATE rights of publication of special din-\npatches are al D reserved.\n(Copied from fly leaf of book THE STORY OF THE AIRSHIP,\nby Hugh Allen.)\nTo President Franklin D. Roosevelt,\nThe White House,\nWashington, District of Columbia.\nMr. President:\nYour great interest taken in Blimps and\nDirigebles in last few months, I am very glad to send\nyou this valuable data which is enclosed here in this\nbook. Have spent months in search of data on Blimps\nand Dirigebles and am glad to pass on to you Mr. Presi-\ndent. Kindly read paragraphs marked in red.\nRespectfully\n/s/\nRobert I. Mobley\nRobert I. Mobley\nSenior Guard\nU. S. Air Force\nFormerly\n8th Balloon Co.\n8th Airship Co. U. S. Army\n2 Subs Blow Vessel\npo\nsix\nApart in Gulf; 36 Die\nwh\nset\nde:\npree\nSurvivors had no time to don\nany\npo\nArtillery Battle\nn\nNEW ORLEANS, May 23.-(P)\nling\n-Thirty-six men were killed on\nlifebelts. Two life rafts were\npr\nlife\nMay 19 in the Gulf of Mexico\nfloated and many survivors clung\nse\nesi.\nWaged in Libya\nb1\nse\nlled\npl\nCAIRO, May 23. The\nfor\nwhen two or more submarines,\nto wreckage until rescued. Sur-\nsk\nwa-\nattacking from opposite sides,\nblew apart a medium-sized\nvivors were picked up 15 hours\nar-\nBritish Middle East general\nWe\nthe\nheadquarters communique said\na\nrival\nlater by fishing boats.\n1\nUnited States cargo vessel, sink-\nre-\ntoday:\npas\ncific\ning it in three minutes.\nOne submarine surfaced to sur-\nand\nAn enemy battery was en-\n$50\neady\nThis loss of life was the\nvey the scene, but did not molest\n1\nd to\ngaged and dispersed in the south-\ncall\nforce\nheaviest in a single attack since\nsurvivors, or question them. The\nmy-\nern sector. Otherwise, there was\nA\nto\nAxis submarines began ranging\nfirst torpedo destroyed the radio\nr\nУ\nacts\nnothing to report except the\nagr\nroom making a call for aid im-\nc\nthe Gulf a few weeks ago.\nusual patrol activity.\ntice\ntact\nThe ship was armed but could\npossible. Although six lookouts\nI\nwas\nstrike no counter blows because\nwere on duty, none saw the sub-\norce\nthe submarines attacked it with-\nmarine or torpedoes which came\nNew\nout warning and the first tor-\nin about 12 feet below the sur-\npedo killed five of the six-man\nface.\nenclosing a\nvent\ngun crew. The other was blown\nJapanese Sentence\nti\n-6/18/42.\noverboard and was rescued along\nli\ndn't\nwith seven passengers and 18\n2 Dutch to Death\nsh\nor\nSmith\n(De\ncrewmen. Thirty members of the crew\nve\nand a passenger are missing and\nSouth Carolina, sitting\nps\nTOKYO, May 23 (From Japa-\nbelieved dead. All were believed\nby, approved these senti-\nperson.\ny-\nnese Broadcasts) W\n1\nments emphatically.\nair servi\nId\nkilled either by the explosions or\nNetherlands police sergeants at\nSenator Vandenberg (Republi-\n3. The rem\nW.\nbeing trapped in their bunks and\nSoerabaja, Java, were condemned\nI\nof\ngating abou\ndrowned. The ship was blacked\nout and proceeding at 12 knots\nto death yesterday by a court-\nty\n(Continued on Page 7, Cols. 3-4)\nin commerci\nmarital on charges of disseminat-\nin\nfurther no\n3\nat 2 a. m. (CWT) when hit by\nthree torpedoes, which blew open\ning unfounded rumors against\nSub Reported\nowned and\nput\nthe decks and destroyed two life-\nJapanese, a Domei dispatch\nbut will\nof\nBatavia, N. E. I., reporte\nper\nin California Gulf\navailable f\nb ats.\nmissions.\nNew SC\naced\nMAZATLAN, Mexico, May 14.\nthe airlin\nrity,\n-(P)-Six shark fishermen re-\ning prepa\n9-m\nof\nported today they had seen a\nnautics I\nand\nsubmarine running on the sur-\nnounced\n0 in-\nface 12 miles off this Pacific\n\"Air t\ne\nto\nCoast port yesterday, but said\ncient\nit submerged before they could\n(Continu\ndistinguish identifying marks on\nIf you\nquer,\nStart usir\nen to\nthe coning tower.\nV\nas\nand\nThe\nM\nsup-\nr are\nThree full pages of startling\nare\nNina Wilcox Putnam reveal 1\nIs. 6-7)\nWAR NEWS\nFRIDAY, MAY 15, 1942\nLEET\n6000-Ton 'Mother' Subs Hinted\nFLO\nMORE\nNEW YORK, May 14.-(P)-\nThere has been talk for years\nmendous increase in striking\nGermany may be using huge sub-\nof great, cargo-carrying sub-\npower. The largest known un-\n'S\nmarines, three times the size of\nmarines under construction in\ndersea warcraft was the 2700-ton\nher Deutschland of World War I,\nthe Reich, but no definite infor-\nFrench Surcouf, recently sunk.\nPress\nto supply her U-boat nests along\nmation.\nInstead of spending two-thirds\nA F\nnique govern-\nthe Atlantic Coast.\nIf Germany has such vessels\nOne line from the diary of\nof their time going and coming\nPORT,\ntion of three\nand is prepared to use them in\nof pers\nGerman soldier in Africa, re-\nfrom bases in Germany and OC-\nany number she may introduce\nthe be\nFrench colon-\nceived here tonight, contained an\ncupied France, the time of a U.\na new and important factor into\na\nPa\nbors, Vichy's\noffhand reference which opens up\nthe war.\nboat's operations would be lim-\nafter i\na whole field of speculation.\nited only by the necessity of rest\nength now in-\nFor months last year it was\nsubma\nPicked up by the British on a\nfor its crew.\nnot clear how Germany, even\ncoast.\nips, 11 cruis-\nLibyan battlefield, the diary of\nVessels half as large as battle\nwith her known aerial transport\nThe\narriers, 50 de-\nGerman Sergeant Ball contained\ncruisers might keep a submarine\nand surface ship activity, could\nibmarines.\nan entry referring to the work\nfleet operating far from home\nquent\nequip and enlarge her Libyan\nawake\nof traitors and spies in tip-\nbases almost indefinitely.\nFrench fleet\narmy at the rate she was mov-\ncoast.\nping the British to German ac-\nFree French\ning. Sergeant Ball's submarine,\ntivity, mine-field locations, and\nGIRLS BELL CAPTAINS\nbeach\nand many others like them, could\nvantag\nBoris Elia-\nthe like. And there was this\nbe the answer.\nSEATTLE, May 14.-(P)-If a\ntressed\nit the Free\nphrase, dated September 5, 1941:\nAnd now, with her 1000 and\nguest barges up to the desk at\nbriskly\naken over 100\n\"The same thing happened\n1500-ton undersea warcraft oper-\nthe Olympic, Seattle's leading ho-\nNava\nin Bardia harbor. As soon as\nnumber of\nating in packs outside America's\ntel, with an abrupt, \"Say, boy,\"\nthe shi\nthe 6000-ton supply-carrying\nharbors, such mother craft,\nhe may be in for a shock-an at-\nrships-15 of\nU-boat came in, the Tommies\ncarrying oil, ammunition and\ntractively coiffured shock. The\nsurviv\nbombarded the harbor.\"\nsupplies, would give her a tre-\nhotel has put girls on job as\ncoasta\nSouth Pacific.\nbell captains.\nothers\ntores!\nlost.\n\"Bullets for Japs, 25 cents a dozen!\" Buy\nhop\nday. United Stat\nSavings Stamps every pay\nat all Owl Drug Store\nGOLDSNITH, Paul J.\n1267\nNew York, N. Y.\nMay 30, 1942.\nLetter to the President enclosing a drawing of a map of Shangri-La.\nSuggests it as good propaganda material. Ack.-6/18/42.\nThe\nSee P.P.F. 9 - G\nmef\nP.P.F\n9-m.\nthe TULLY\nNegy\nof\nPATHS\nto\nИ.ЦЕКОННСЕ\nJune 19, 1942\nP.P.7.\nq-m\nMy dear Mr. Morris:\nThe inscribed copy of your\nbook which you forwarded to the Pres-\nXP.P.7.9-B\nident has been received. You may be\nassured that your courtesy in sending\nit is appreciated.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE 0. TULLY\nx\nCharles Morris, Esq.,\nUniversity of Chicago,\nChicago,\nIllinois.\nmtl\n(Copy of his book, PATHS OF LIFE)\nГИТЕК-ОНЫСЕ CONNUMICATION\nCHASE. Ernest Dudley,\nprt P.l. 7\nJune 18, 1942\nq-m m\nGentlement\nThe President has asked me to\nX pp.7\nthank you ever 80 much for those delicious\nq.c\ncherries. He was glad indeed to receive\nthem and is more than grateful for your\nfriendly thought of him.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE 0. TULLY\nt'\nMountain View Chamber of Commerce,\nMountain View,\nmtl\nCalifornia.\nCheenies\n12\nack\nTHE white house\n6-18-42\nWASHINGTON\nsmtl\nNr Wagner\nthank for\n. +PP79-P\n1 xrr79-w\ndelicious Do cherries\nol-\nis\nGGT.\nCheeries tast\nB\nms\nИТЕКОНЫЕ COMMUNICATION\nCHASE, Ernest Dudley,\nWateria Tuey\nYes even to with mill\npr.7. q-m\nJune 20, 1942\nMy dear Mrs. McDonnell:\nThe President thanks you ever so\nmuch for the water color done by your grand--\n+PP7.9-P\nfather. He has noted with a great deal of\ninterest all that you say in your letter and\nxrr79-w\ndeeply appreciates your friendly thought in\nwanting him to have this painting for his col-\nlection.\nThe President asks me to convey his\nbest wishes to you.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nMrs. Austin McDonnell,\nBox 254,\nB\nWarrenton,\nVirginia.\nms\nCHASE, Ernest Dudley,\nBroton Mass.\nack + brief letter\n(brief to he attached to\n24/0\nns\nwater Color for Pres. to see)\nreturn to me 9.5,T.\nfor there a all dred\nordade by very ground your 1\nX\nof years his ago: during while visa\nUnited States\nw the service of the\ndde was call\nRich and Brown Harver, horner\nDirector Gus tarres\nfaree born at Warreen ton\nVirginia ice 1804; see\ntered the cee\n1826 of was\nThereof kerea in 1867. 140\nserviced aboard Mee\nИ.ЦЕКОННСЕ\nCHASE, Ernest Dudley,\nMade\nWarrentors, Virginia\n26 may 1942\nAck 6/20/12\nMy clear Uu. President\nms\nlaw sees didg you a\nUnder separate are cover,\ning us closas\nfor there a all dred\nGrade by very groud. -\nX P.P.7.9-\nX\nof years his ago during while area\nUnited States\nwe the service of the\ndda was call\nRich and Brown Harner horner\nDirector Guotavus\nfaree born at Warrenton\nVirginia ice 1804; see\n1826 of was retired\ntered the vary in\nin 1867. He\naboard Mee\nГИТЕКОНЫСЕ\nthe Brace dy wine The\nI.frigates \"Wace,dorise\"\nsloop. of war John be\nadaws due\nwas assigned to The\nDelaware of visited\nJaw going sall\nBrazil for personal reasons,\nThis Cable ction of paint\nimage- - of while ale\ngrau afather use\nvery\nhis this /prece of bacor while ding\nthe Service However,\nbefore disfashing of Them\npso asure to be are\nit gives que the qreatest\nthe bouour of presenting\nour to you in the\nhope that you may\nagrees it a pss eat La =\noring your reader do\nГИТЕКОНЫСЕ\nof our early usual his tary are + in\nwhich, law teld you\ndeeply interes ted\nlians\nwith the every possible good wish ha= =\nJd. B. THE Dounall\nSiencerely yours\n(Nus. Quotine\nBut 254\nWarren tore Virginia\nCHASE, Ernest Dudley,\nBoston, Mass.\n6-13-42 (Ack. 6-18-42.)\n1\np.p.7.\nq-m\nJune 28, 1942\nMy dear Edith:\nThis little note is to acknowledge\nthe receipt of your letter of June thirteenth\nXP.P.7.9-P\nand the potato to which you refer.\nThe President much appreciates your\nkind thought of him and asks me to send you\nhis best wishes.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE 0. TULLY\nX\nEdith Marek,\n319 Dodge Street,\nKewaunee,\nWisconsin.\npl\nИЛЕКОНЫСЕ\n-42.)\nEdith marek ate cover one of his\nack Thoom\n319 odge st\nHewaunel Wis.\nRotalo away\nJune 3, 1942\npeartrenist,\nackd 6/22/420\nof am a daughter of a store\npl\nbr\nkeeper and asd was sacking\npicks of potatoes, & spotted this\npotatoe in form of a V.\nW shen pototoes start\ngrowing like this of hope\nour this means vistory for\nour country & am\nyears old and\nhoping to hear from you\nsoon.\na young amerise\nEdith marek\n1°\n10\nand\nГИТЕК-ОННСЕ\nCHASE, Ernest Dudley,\nBoston, Mass.\n6-13-42 (Ack. 6-18-42.)\nWrites he is sending the President under separate cover one of his\nWorld War Battle Maps. (Series B)\n- 80, LIMIT\nSee P.P.F.9-C\nto We\nbr\nThe\nhave\nbeen\nP.P.7\n100%\n5\nMod\nthe\nS\nAMERICA 9-m\nThe Le to\nof your nade sets ase W native\nnow\nto\nyou.\nVary sincerely years,\nORACE 9. TULLY\n19. V. Roger\n1127 S. Street,\nTalsa,\nOklahoma.\nms\n1°\nгосяцов\nTo\nГИТЕКОНЫСЕ\n7\nJune 18, 1942\nprm\nqm\nMy dear Mr. Mason:\nYour letter of June eleventh has\nbeen received and I want to thank you, in\nthe President's behalf, for the friendly\nthought which prompted you to send him the\nframed copy of OUR AMERICAN CREED.\npr79-c\nThe President is sorry indeed to\nlearn of your illness and asks me to convey\nhis sincere good wishes to you.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\n+\nB. F. Mason, Esq.,\n1147 S. Quaker Street,\nTulsa,\nOklahoma.\nms\n10\nTulsa, Oklahoma,\nJune 11, 1942.\nfile\nOUR CREED\nTo A GREAT AMERICAN, OUR PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF\nThe Whitehouse,\nWashington, D C\nack\nDear Mr. President:\nbut\nIt is with pleasure, admiration and respect that the writer is sending you a\nframed copy of \"Our American Creed\", which he hopes you will like.\nThe writing of this article was inspired by your tenacious and earnest efforts\nover the past several years to awaken the American people, as well as all other\npeoples of the Western Hemisphere, to the danger facing them in the treacherous\nmarch of aggression over the world. You have succeeded in awakening the sleep-\ning giant and since America knows no such word as Defeat, we will be largely\nresponsible for the winning of this war and the restoration of liberty to other\noppressed peoples, in keeping with our American traditions of freedom, Liberty\nand justice.\nThe writer was a member of 9th Co., Machine Gun Officers Training School,\nAugusta, Ga., lacking only a few weeks in finishing the course at the end of\nWorld War No. 1, thinking as did most every one else, that this would end all\nwar, so did not continue to be commissioned in the Reserve.\nDuring the past seventeen years, the writer has been with one of the leading\nOil Companies, first as Office Manager, and later as Traveling Auditor, however\nin December 1941, he suffered an accident, causing infection to one foot,\nnecessitating first the amputation of the foot, and later the leg above the\nknee. At present the writer is learning to walk again and make necessary ad-\njustments to a new life. In two months, the writer hopes to be back to normal,\nthen would like to again serve his country, surely there will be some capacity\nin which he might serve and at the same time release a more able bodied man\nneeded elsewhere.\nMay you continue to enjoy good health, your spirit remain high, so that you\nmay continue to carry on in the future, as ably as in the past.\nB.H.Maron Ver respectfully,\nB. F. Mason,\n1147 S. Quaker St.,\nTulsa, Oklahoma.\nГИТЕКОНЫСЕ\nOUR AMERICAN CREED\nWE MUST wake up, AMERICANS: The crisis confronting us is grave. War, not of our choosing,\nwas forced upon us by the brutal acts of aggression of the Axis coalition. DEMOCRACY and our\nAMERICAN WAY of life is threatened, liberty which we cherish and hold dear is at stake. We are\nmeeting this challenge with faith and confidence by throwing the mighty resources of our nation into the\nconflict. With our loyal Allies we must, we can and we will knock the axe out of the Axis, with the\ndemocratic axe. We will not be defeated and we will stop only at victory.\nWE MUST eliminate politics, politicians and incompetents from electoral and appointive positions.\nWE MUST have statesmen of character and vision to guide us successfully thru a long and bloody war.\nWe are faced with the greatest danger in our history. WE MUST rally around our COMMANDER-IN-\nCHIEF in protecting the integrity and security of the country. WE MUST tolerate no further delay to\nour National Defense. Waste, Graft and Strikes must be stopped. Neither industry or labor should receive\nexcessive profits at the expense of our Government or armed forces. WE MUST take all profit out of war.\nWE MUST be a serious as well as united people, with a patriotic duty to perform, realizing the great\nresponsibilities surrounding us and be ready to meet them with courage and grim determination. WE\nWILL NOT be slaves to the Axis tyrants, WE WILL NOT be controlled, neither will we be conquered.\nWE WILL fight to the finish, work harder, sacrifice and give whole-heartedly, that we may remain free.\nImmigration to our land must be open only for those worthy and who really want to become AMERICANS,\nby casting off all allegiance to any foreign power. In this hour of peril, we must think only of our\nCOUNTRY and its preservation.\nWE MUST be alert to the danger ahead. WE MUST gear our economy, simplify and coordinate all\nour efforts to secure maximum production of all essentials necessary for total defense, in an all-out war\nagainst a ruthless and treacherous foe. Nothing must stop us. WE WILL NOT turn back. While millions\nof our armed men are protecting the fighting front, all other red-blooded AMERICANS must watch care-\nfully and protect the home front. WE MUST NOT FAIL. WE WILL NOT BE FOUND WANTING.\nWE MUST throw off the yoke of complacency. WE MUST protect AMERICANISM for AMERICA\nand AMERICANS, all other isms must go. WE MUST take immediate and drastic measures against\ntraitors in our midst, whether they be native born or aliens, who are intent on giving aid to our enemies\nor attempting to destroy us from within. If our laws are not adequate, let's have new ones, CONGRESS\nis in session. Our national safety demands swift action. WE MUST get tough in order to prevent other\nPEARL HARBORS.\nWE MUST keep OLD GLORY flying, that AMERICA, the light of the world, may forever stand as\na beacon of LIBERTY, JUSTICE and HOPE, that all nations and all peoples throughout the world may\nhave FREEDOM, PEACE and HAPPINESS. RIGHT MUST TRIUMPH OVER MIGHT. We are the land\nof the free and home of the brave, to keep it so, let's place our trust in the living GOD, that our just and\nrighteous cause may prevail. GIVE US VICTORY, OR GIVE US DEATH.\nBENJAMIN F. MASON.\nCOPYRIGHT 1942\nBENJAMIN F. MASON\nTiome of Sunnyvate\nOUR AMERICAN CREED\nWE MUST wake up, AMERICANS: The crisis confronting us is grave. War, not of our choosing,\nwas forced upon us by the brutal acts of aggression of the Axis coalition. DEMOCRACY and our\nAMERICAN WAY of life is threatened, liberty which we cherish and hold dear is at stake. We are\nmeeting this challenge with faith and confidence by throwing the mighty resources of our nation into the\nconflict. With our loyal Allies we must, we can and we will knock the axe out of the Axis, with the\ndemocratic axe. We will not be defeated and we will stop only at victory.\nWE MUST eliminate politics, politicians and incompetents from electoral and appointive positions.\nWE MUST have statesmen of character and vision to guide us successfully thru a long and bloody war.\nWe are faced with the greatest danger in our history. WE MUST rally around our COMMANDER-IN-\nCHIEF in protecting the integrity and security of the country. WE MUST tolerate no further delay to\nour National Defense. Waste, Graft and Strikes must be stopped. Neither industry or labor should receive\nexcessive profits at the expense of our Government or armed forces. WE MUST take all profit out of war.\nWE MUST be a serious as well as united people, with a patriotic duty to perform, realizing the great\nresponsibilities surrounding us and be ready to meet them with courage and grim determination. WE\nWILL NOT be slaves to the Axis tyrants, WE WILL NOT be controlled, neither will we be conquered.\nWE WILL fight to the finish, work harder, sacrifice and give whole-heartedly, that we may remain free.\nImmigration to our land must be open only for those worthy and who really want to become AMERICANS,\nby casting off all allegiance to any foreign power. In this hour of peril, we must think only of our\nCOUNTRY and its preservation.\nWE MUST be alert to the danger ahead. WE MUST gear our economy, simplify and coordinate all\nour efforts to secure maximum production of all essentials necessary for total defense, in an all-out war\nagainst a ruthless and treacherous foe. Nothing must stop us. WE WILL NOT turn back. While millions\nof our armed men are protecting the fighting front, all other red-blooded AMERICANS must watch care-\nfully and protect the home front. WE MUST NOT FAIL. WE WILL NOT BE FOUND WANTING.\nWE MUST throw off the yoke of complacency. WE MUST protect AMERICANISM for AMERICA\nand AMERICANS, all other isms must go. WE MUST take immediate and drastic measures against\ntraitors in our midst, whether they be native born or aliens, who are intent on giving aid to our enemies\nor attempting to destroy us from within. If our laws are not adequate, let's have new ones, CONGRESS\nis in session. Our national safety demands swift action. WE MUST get tough in order to prevent other\nPEARL HARBORS.\nWE MUST keep OLD GLORY flying, that AMERICA, the light of the world, may forever stand as\na beacon of LIBERTY, JUSTICE and HOPE, that all nations and all peoples throughout the world may\nhave FREEDOM, PEACE and HAPPINESS. RIGHT MUST TRIUMPH OVER MIGHT. We are the land\nof the free and home of the brave, to keep it so, let's place our trust in the living GOD, that our just and\nrighteous cause may prevail. GIVE US VICTORY, OR GIVE US DEATH.\nBENJAMIN F. MASON.\nCOPYRIGHT 1942\nBENJAMIN F. MASON\nПоте of Sunnyvale\nMAS\nP.P.7.\n7\n9-m\nJune 25, 1942\nSerie B\nMy dear Dr. Magill:\nThe President has received your recent\nletter and asks no to thank you for your courtesy\nby\nin sending him the bust of General MacArthur\nXP.P.7.9-B\nwhich you enclosed. He vants you to know, too,\nX4771\nthat he 1a grateful for your kind Father's Day\ngreetings.\nX1400\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE a TULLY\nx\nDr. Thomas B. Magill,\n306 Physicians and Surgeons Building,\nSeventh and Francis Streets,\nSt. Joseph,\nMissouri.\ncd\nSERIES B\naverage winter\ntemperature is\n⑉\nU.S.\nfifty degrees.\n\"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase\"\nTHOMAS B. magill, D. D.S.\n306 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS BUILDING\nseventh AND FRANCIS streets\nST. JOSEPH, MO.\nJUNE 1942\nHONERABLE FRANKLIN D.ROOSEVELT,\nPRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,\nWASHINGTON D.C.\nDEAR MR.PRESIDENT:FATHERS DAY GREETINGS AND ENCLOSED A FEEBLE\nATTEMPT AT SCULPTURE. POSIBIY YOU CAN FIND A VIEEWPOINT WHICH\nWILL CALL TO MEMORY A GREAT SOLDIER. A SOLDIER AND MAN OF MULTIPLE\nABILITIES. LONG MAY HE LIVE.\nAGAIN GREETINGS FROM A \"DROP IN THE BUCKET\"\nOF\nMIDWEST.\nGLAD YOU, MR. ROOSEVELT; ARE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.\nactid\n'P.S.\nSINCERELY\n( From the past home of\ncongressman Duncan.)\nHimes B Magill. THOMAS B .MAGILL 6/25/2\n5 156\nMountain V10W Chamber V4\nMountain View,\ncb\nCalifornia.\nperature is\nseventy\ndegrees;\naverage winter\ntemperature is\nU.S. MI\nfifty degrees.\n\"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase\"\nRAILWAY EXPRESS INCORPORATED AGENCY\nFOR Franklin D. Roosevelt\nAND No.\nSTREET White House\nFROM B. Thomas B. Mag\nSTREET ADDRESS Francis A\nST. JOSEPH,\nAPT. No\nCITY Washington\nAM 1912\nRAILWASS\nQ.C.\nAGENC\nSTATE\nCITY STATE AND\nVALUE $\nDATE OF SHIPMENT.\n(772-A)\nPRINTED IN U.S.A.\n3-40\nSTEPHEN K EARLY\nSECY WHITE HOUSE\nA FATHERS DAY REMEMBRANCE IS DUE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FRIDAY\nBY EXPRESS STOP IF POSSIBLE WILL YOU GIVE IT YOUR PERSONAL\nATTENTION IN ORDER THAT THE PRESIDENT TO WHOM IT IS\nADDRESSED SHALL RECEIVE IT BEFORE HIS LEAVE ON THE WEEKEND\nDR THOMAS B MCGILL.\nMountain V10W Chamoer\nMountain View, x\ncb\nCalifornia.\nB\nperature is\nseventy\ndegrees;\naverage winter\ntemperature is\nU.S. NAVY\nfifty degrees.\n\"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase\"\nUlfe White House\nJUN 19 8 30 AM 1942\nWA18 42 NT\nSTJOSEPH MO JUN 18 1942\nSTEPHEN K EARLY\nSECY WHITE HOUSE\nA FATHERS DAY REMEMBRANCE IS DUE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FRIDAY\nBY EXPRESS STOP IF POSSIBLE WILL YOU GIVE IT YOUR PERSONAL\nATTENTION IN ORDER THAT THE PRESIDENT TO WHOM IT IS\nADDRESSED SHALL RECEIVE IT BEFORE HIS LEAVE ON THE WEEKEND\nDR THOMAS B MCGILL.\nE. B. Erichsen, Esq.,\nMountain View Chamber of Commerce,\nMountain View, x\nCalifornia.\ncb\nperature is\nseventy\ndegrees;\naverage winter\ntemperature is\nfifty degrees.\nU.S. NAVY\n\"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase\"\nView Chamber Commer E\nFirst\nJune 23, 1942\nM\n3\nMy dear Mr. Krichsen:\nThe President was delighted to receive\nthose fine cherries to which you refer in your\nletter of June twelfth and he wants you and the\nmembers of your Chamber to know how much he\nappreciates your friendly thought of him.\nThe President also asks if you will\nnot be good enough to extend his thanks to Mr.\nNick Kadjevich, on whose ranch the cherries\nxpp.7\nwere grown.\nqid\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nE. B. Erichsen, Esq.,\nMountain View Chamber of Commerce,\nMountain View, x\nCalifornia.\ncb\nperature is\nseventy\ndegrees;\naverage winter\ntemperature is\nfifty degrees.\nU.S. NAVY\n15A\n-\n\"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase\"\nNountain View Chamber of\nMOUNTAIN VIEW CALIFORNIA\n»\nCOMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING\n»\nJune 12, 1942.\nMountain View\nack Chank A 44 tend 01 6-23 ad\nCommerce thank\nlies between\ntwo trunk high-\nThe Honorable F. D. Roosevelt\nPresident of United States\nways, El Camino\nWhite House\nReal and Bay-\nshore, which\nWashington, D. C.\nlead to\nSan Francisco,\nConcerning this them\n99ti\nHonorable Sir:\na distance of\nthirty-six miles.\nThe Mountain View Chamber of Commerce deems\nit a privilege to present you with a box of Santa\nFifty-six trains\ndaily, also\nClara Valley grown cherries, which was expressed\nauto busses at\ntwenty-minute\nto you today.\nintervals\nstop at\nIt may be of interest to you to know that\nMountain View.\nthese cherries were grown on the ranch of a nat-\nMountain View\nuralized citizen, who is intensely patriotic, having\nis the nearest\nto the greatest\nlost a brother and five nephews when Jugoslavia was\ntonnage\nof fruit,\noverrun. His name and address is Nick Kadjevich,\nvegetables,\nflora and dairy\nPortland Avenue, Mountain View California.\nproducts of\nany city in the\nbeautiful and\nworld famous\nVery sincerely,\nSanta Clara\nValley.\nEBErichoen\nE.B Erichsen, Secretary\nMountain View Chamber\nThe climatic\ncondition is\nideal;\naverage\nsummer tem-\nperature is\nseventy\ndegrees;\naverage winter\ntemperature is\nfifty degrees.\nU.S. NAVY\n\"Home of Sunnyvale Airbase\"\nS\nThe 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\nconclusively 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-\ncisco 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\nfrom 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\ndirigible 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\nand strategical location in connection with military and commercial operation of airships.\nA VIEW OF THE SUNNYVALE AIR BASE SHOWING A PORTION OF THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS AND THE AIRSHIP HANGAR IN THE BACKGROUND.\nU.S.NAVY\non\nC\nyou. on\nTHIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE TYPE OF AIRSHIP THAT THE SUNNYVALE AIR BASE IS DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE.\nS. Eben:\nThese are the cherries\nyou. which came in Tuesday. Sent to\nEllis\n2\nP.P.7.\nq-m\nMy dear Mr. Mellor:\nThe President has asked me to send\nti\nyou this little note of thanks for the souve-\nXP.P.7.9-C 7.9.C\nHe\nnir cigarette case which you left at this of-\nAc\nfice yesterday. He more than appreciates your\nfriendly thought of him and wants me to convey\nV\nSE\nhis good wishes to you.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nX\nW. Bancroft Mellor, Esq.,\n92 Hope Street,\nStamford,\nms\nConnecticut.\nLetter was re-sent, 6-24-42, to Darien, Conn.\nJune 19, 1942\nP.P.7.\nq-m\nMy dear Mr. Mellor:\nThe President has asked me to send\nti\nyou this little note of thanks for the souve-\nHe\nXP.P.7.9-C\nAc\nnir cigarette case which you left at this of-\nfice yesterday. He more than appreciates your\nfriendly thought of him and wants me to convey\nSE\nhis good wishes to you.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nX\nW. Bancroft Mellor, Esq.,\n92 Hope Street,\nStamford,\nConnecticut.\nms\nLetter was re-sent, 6-24-42, to Darien, Conn.\nTO AVOID\n£,$300\nTHE WHITE\nOFFICIA\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJune 18, 1942\nMEMORANDUM FOR MRS. EBEN:\nI am attaching hereto a cigarette\ncase which was brought in by Mr. W. Bancroft\nMellor, 92 Hope Street, Stamford, Conn., and\ne\nwhich is a gift to the President.\nr-\nces\nAt the request of Mr. Early's office\ner\nI accepted the same, inasmuch as Mr. Early was\nons.\notherwise engaged.\nHe\n: your smoking\nAc\nMr. Mellor claims he is an old friend\nhere it will\nof the President and that this cigarette case,\nse it.\nwhich is waterproof, is one of the first of his\nnew patent.\nnia will cost\nse to sell them\nSI\njust enough over\nS SO you can see\nnDd\non.\ncase of use I am,\nW. D. Simmons\n'S,\nfr mular\nPRIVATE USE TO AVOID\nOF TAGE, $300\nTHE WHITE house\nWASHINGTON\nfill\nJune 18, 1942\nMEMORANDUM FOR MRS. EBEN:\n10,\nI am attaching hereto a cigarette\ncase which was brought in by Mr. W. Bancroft\nMellor, 92 Hope Street, Stamford, Conn., and\nwhich is a gift to the President.\neel\ne\nAt the request of Mr. Early's office\nI accepted the same, inasmuch as Mr. Early was\nHY\nr-\nces\notherwise engaged.\ner\niditions.\nMrl Mellor claims he is an old friend\nof the President and that this cigarette case,\nwhich is waterproof, is one of the first of his\n18 of your smoking\nnew patent.\ning where it will\n11 use it.\nnsignia will cost\nropose to sell them\nor just enough over\ncosts so you can see\nW. D. Simmons\nsition.\nthe case of use I am,\nyours,\neroft mular\n12\nThank and Act\nthe City\nY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID\nMENT OF POSTAGE, $300.\nreturn Q.9.T. & me please\nEsq.,\nweek\ne\nHY\nr-\nces\ner\nconditions.\nwing of your smoking\nshing where it will\nwill use it.\ninsignia will cost\n: propose to sell them\n85 or just enough over\n1g costs so you can see\nposition.\nd the case of use I am,\nLy yours,\nneroft mular\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nPENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID\nPAYMENT OF POSTAGE, $300\nOFFICIAL BUSINESS\n530PM JUN20 D.C.8\n7842\nW. Bancroft Mellor, Esq.,\nCHECKED\n92 Hope Street,\nStamford,\nConnecticut.\nacisimed Baknown REASON For address address address.\nno is -\nRemund\ne\nr-\nces\ner\nthis\ncondition under all weather conditions.\nHe en\nAckd.\nI left it for you knowing of your smoking\npropensities and love for fishing where it will\ncome in most handily if you will use it.\nThe cases without any insignia will cost\nSEE\nme to manufacture $.74 and I propose to sell them\nto the Post Exchanges for $.85 or just enough over\nto cover delivery and packing costs SO you can see\nit is not a money making proposition.\nTrusting you will find the case of use I am,\nwith kindest regards,\nCordially yours,\nMBaneroft mular\nUN 23\nGRD\n9 AM\n1942\nComple\nso\nEST\nwho AFT to to\nK\nSACTAJAS SNOT.IRA aun IIT Ualil aun TO asod\nsayin\nto have a means of having a cigarette in proper\nthis\ncondition under all weather conditions.\nHe en\nAckd.\nI left it for you knowing of your smoking\npropensities and love for fishing where it will\ncome in most handily if you will use it.\nThe cases without any insignia will cost\nme to manufacture $.74 and I propose to sell them\nto the Post Exchanges for $.85 or just enough over\nto cover delivery and packing costs SO you can see\nit is not a money making proposition.\nTrusting you will find the case of use I am,\nwith kindest regards,\nCordially yours,\nMBaneroft Mellon\nW. BANCROFT MELLOR\nDARIEN, CONNECTICUT\nJune 24, 1942.\nHon. Franklin D. Roosevelt,\nPresident of the United States,\nThe White House, Washington, D.C.\nJune\nDear Mr. Roosevelt:\nOn Thursday of last week, June 18th. I\nas a\ntook the liberty of leaving with Mr. Simmons\nwho I was informed was an assistant of your\nsayd\nSecretary, Mr. Early, the first cigarette case\nfor\nwe ran from a mold I have had made for the pur-\n1.tt\npose of enabling the men in the various services\nsayir\nthis\nto have a means of having a cigarette in proper\ncondition under all weather conditions.\nHe en\nckd.\nI left it for you knowing of your smoking\npropensities and love for fishing where it will\ncome in most handily if you will use it.\nThe cases without any insignia will cost\nme to manufacture $.74 and I propose to sell them\nto the Post Exchanges for $.85 or just enough over\nto cover delivery and packing costs so you can see\nit is not a money making proposition.\nTrusting you will find the case of use I am,\nwith kindest regards,\nCordially yours,\nMBaneroft mellor\nP87-9-M\nMURRAY, Mrs. Doris Mae\nFall River, Mass.\nJune 12, 1942\nLetter to the President, stating that she has written a book en-\ntitled \"One Thing After Another\". She desires to present the manuscript to the President\nas a gift and that the President donate the proceeds to replacing those two blimps that\nwere destroyed at Lakehurst. - Memorandum for the Secretary of the Treasury,6/18/42,\nsaying \"What should I do about this? FDR\" - Attached is memo to John L. McCrea 6/16/42\nfor consideration and acknowledgment who says it should to to whoever takes care of book\nLetters. Memorandum from Henry Morgenthau, Jr. June 24, 1942 for the President,\nsaying that the Government should not accept this as it would start a flood of offers of\nthis kind - the government would have to have the book published and bear the expense.\nHe encloses draft of letter for reply to Mrs. Murray to be signed by Mr. McIntyre.\nAckd. June 27, 1942.\nSEE - 240\nVSr\n887-9-m\nMURPHY, James R.\nOFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION\nWashington, DC\nJune 26, 1942\nSays that before they left London, Ambassador\nJohn G. Winant, handed him a box and letter for the President from a Polish officer ser-\nving with the British Air Corps. The Spitfire Plane model was made up of parts taken from\na German plane which the Polish crew shot down. Letter is signed Geranski Stefan, or\nGeremski Stefon.\nCorrespondence and Model sent to Hyde Park Library, Series \"B\"\nvsr\npf7\nTHE\nJune 27, 1942\n9-m\nMy dear Commander Hassenstab:\nThe President and Mrs. Roosevelt have\nasked me to thank you for your courtesy in for-\nvarding to them the framed service flag, to which\nyou refer in your letter of June nineteenth.\nThey want you and the members of your Post to\nknow that they much appreciate your kind thought\nof them.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nX\nW. F. Hassenstab, Esq.,\nB\nPost Commander,\nThe American Legion,\nMelvin Daskam Post 38,\nRedwood Falls,\nMinnesota. +64\ncd\nasknow the error\nTHE AMERICAN LEGION\nackyl\nMELVIN DASKAM POST 38\nREDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA\n6/270\nJune 19, 1942\nHonorable Franklin D. Roosevelt\nWhite House\nWashington, D. C.\nMy dear Mr. President:\nThe Melvin Daskam Post of the American Legion request\nthe privilege of presenting to you and to Mrs. Roosevelt the\nenclosed service flag which was designed and executed by Legion-\naire Richard Quehl, Order of the Purple Heart, of Redwood Falls.\nWhile we recognize that no official service flag for\nthis war has been designated, we hope in the event that some\ndesign becomes official you will continue to keep this one for\nthe inspiration and the symbolism of its design. You will\nnotice the colors of our country are enclosed in an unbroken\ncircle, signifying the unity of the American people. The gold\nchevron of the design we prefer to recognize as the chevron of service\nand the rainbow at the top, the symbol of God's covenant to man,\nwe take as a harbinger of victory.\nSincerely yours,\nMelvin Daskam Post No. 38\nDepartment of Minnesota\nAmerican Legion, Redwood Falls\nBy: W.F. Hassenstab\nPost Commander\nLW. Nassinger\nL.W. Hassinger\nAdjutant\nWASHINGTON\nJune 18, 1942\nplt 9-m\nTrue\nMEMORANDUM FOR\nHONORABLE GEORGE 7. SUMMERLIN:\nX 20\nIn\nWill you not be good enough to\nhave an appropriate note sent to McLaren\nand McCaul, Limited, expressing the Pres-\nident's thanks for the poster.\nPlease return the poster to this\noffice when it has served its purpose.\nGRACE 0. TULLY\nXPP7\nq-p\nTo the President, from\nMcLaren & McCall Limited,\n224 Bloor Street West,\nToronto, Canada.\nPoster - \"The Atlantic Charter\" - to go to Print Case when\nreturned from State Dept.\nX#\n443-C\nmtl\nconfat Lea\nDUI\nUNITED\nSTATES\nDEFENSE\nBONDS\nAND\nSTAMPS\nMMUNICATIONS TO\nARY OF STATE\nSHINGTON, D.C.\nBut\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nWASHINGTON\nIn reply refer to\nPR\nJune 24. 1942\nMy dear Miss Tully:\nIn compliance with your memorandum of June 18,\n1942, I am returning herewith the poster sent to the\nPresident by McLaren and McCaul Limited, of Toronto,\nOntario, Canada.\nThe appropriate American consular officer has been\nrequested to convey to the senders an expression of the\nPresident's thanks and appreciation.\nSincerely yours,\nJohnson Chief of Protocol\nEnclosure:\nPoster.\nMiss Grace G. Tully,\nFORVICTORY\nThe White House.\nBUY\nUNITED\nSTATES\nDEFENSE\nBONDS\nAND\nSTAMPS\nP.C.7 m\nJune 12, 1942\nGentlemen:\nMany thanks in the President's\nbehalf for those fine lobsters received on\nJune second and June ninth. He wants you\nto know that he more than appreciates your\nX\nGL 9\nkindness as he is indeed very fond of\nlobsters.\nVery sincerely yours,\nGRACE G. TULLY\nMatinicus Lobster Company,\nX\nTillson Avenue,\ncap\nRockland,\nMaine.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nand\nwashington\n6-12-42\ncap\n12\nYou magner\n0\n20 thank for\nJune 2 and June\nlobsters rec'd\n9th It is they\nkind\nsend las Pre. is\nvery foud\nlobsters - S.T.\nRB- Aludy\nPuting the my M\nviruie hoth\nP.P.7.\nJune 24, 1942.\nq-M\nDear Murrow:\nI am sorry for the long delay in\nwriting to thank you for that very lovely\ncigarette box which you sent to me. I am\nparticularly glad to have it because the\ndesign of the sloop is more Dutch than it is\nEnglish. I feel certain that the man at the\ntiller looks like a Roosevelt.\nWith my grateful appreciation for\nyour thought of me, and with every best wish\nAlways sincerely,\n(Sgd) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT\nx\nEd Murrow, Esq.,\nColumbia Broadcasting System, X 256\nLondon, England.\nCOLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.\n817 EARLE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C.\nMETROPOLITAN 3200\nJune 2\n1942\nMiss Tully, dear:\nBefore Ed Murrow left for England he left this\nwith Will to bring to me So I could Rend it\nto the President.\nAee the jokes I' I've ever hard about husbands\nCarrying letters about for ye are and forgetting\nare Dorts of errands must be true for Will\nGroug ht this down this week-end.\nto Dee that it gets to the President with more\nIn any event I hope you el be kind enough\nLondon and be said it reminded him So much\nspeed. Mr. Murrow found it in a Shop in\nof the Presidens that he Couldn + resist\nSending t if him.\nSincerely Aun gillis = X\nPS 1- How about lunch some\nday not too far away\nPs-2- - How about my farm ?\nImiss I seeing you all\nvery much."
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