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Show J Thursday, August 20, 1959 Olct 7mm America has more experts on marriage than any other country and more divorces. LUNT MOTOR Company KANAB, UTAH Imperial Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Dodge Trucks Older cars, 1949 DeSoto one owner, very clean $245. SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS, Kanab, Utah Lone Scout History , It is grqat tosee the old magazine in the field again. And gee, do you know tbatIowe the er nineteen dollars and twenty cents for the August issue?" February 1922 ! ! ! The sequel is soon told. We struggled on a few months longer. The last press-printeissue of ELBEETEE, with a fine nature cover by Weese, and impressive Beer and Ale Sales Add To Tax Monies Comsumption of 225,833 barrels of beer and ale in Utah during 1958 enriched the state and federal tax treasuries by $2,287,000, according to the new edition of the Brewers Almanac, just out This represents an increase of 7.229 barrels in total consumption over the 1957 figures, and a rise of $71,000 in tax revenues. As in 1957, the federal government received the larger share of the tax total: $2,032,000. The state received $255,000. Utah Producers The Almanac, a compilation of facts and figures abJiut the brewing industry, is published annually by the United States Brewers Foundation. Members of the old Foundation, the oldest incorporated trade association in the country, produces 85 per cent of the nations beer and ale. Utah's breweries produced 148,-83barrels of malt beverages in 1958, according to the Almanac figures. features, was dated February, Thereafter, silence. It was a mystery to many until, in ,1928, six years later during the founding of the Elbeetian Legion, Merlin wrote again. I was up to my neck in troub-ble- , he explained. The postal the engravers, the authorities, everyprinter, the subscribers body clamored for my soul. I finally got it all straightened out." He had suffered the bitter disillusionment of many a youthful first encounter with the workaworld. day business s' Still Merlin would not give up. I did start the ELBEETEE in leaflet form with Elmer Fisher for a few months in 1924, he recalled. That too went overboard when I married. In that year the Lone Scouts of America gave up the ghost, becoming the Department of Rural Scouting, BSA. We were all in our Twenties then. Surely we had put youthful things behind us for good? But three years later, in 1927, finding that memory would not die, Charles Merlin began once more to plan. 19-2- June 1927 I ! ! In June, 1927 the ELBEETEE appeared once more, letter size, four pages mimeographted. Merlin waited until November to advance the first proposals for the Present Elbeetian Legion. It was not a new idea. As early PRICED RIGHT as 1920 the editorial board kept in such close contact that Elmer Weese proposed an internal group of letter pals. "Why not organize Kent a sort of invisible brotherhood?" The popularity of the auto- he wrote. It need not be known MANAGER, Call Ml matic dishwasher is due to the outside of Elbeeteeland. A bullefact that most husbands would tin could be issued occasionally and we will all work for the ELBEErather buy than be one. TEE in fine style." Same Idea A day later in the same letter, pms E he added; "Today I received a letter from Chamer (Merlins Li I was delighted to hear you already had plans under way for the invisible brotherhood, or ElBeetian Legion. Funny how' we get ideas so near alike at the . ' x A. same time. This editorial banding, as noted, was not vigorous enough then to save the fated magazine. But the Fast service. Fair settlement of claims. Friendly seed lay 7 years dormant in Char-lepeople who are on your side. Merlins mind. germinating at You cant buy Better protection. Of broader coverageT last in that historic issue of NoOr greater peace of mind. vember, 1927. And you save money, too! Lower rates because Merlins first modest proposal Farmers insures careful drivers. was for fifty members, confined to Oldtime Lone Scouts, each to add fifty words about himself to a chain letter once a year. MenP bership listing began in December, and it w'as long months before the AUTO LIFE FIRE TRUCK original aim of 50 was attained. 1949 Hudson looks like new, runs good, a steal for $75. 7 Carpenter r pen-name- ). s Farmers Auto Insurance OF LOS ANGELES LeRoy P. Judd Phone Midway KANAB, UTAH Lasting Slogans Thur Eternity Well Never ForIt was this slogan, picked get. out of a letter to Merlin from Elmer Weese, inspiring him to .act, which headed the November issue of the new ELBEETEE, and which was to become the motto . Pa 4c of the Legion. There were to be SIGNED, P. E. T. no rules, no officers, and no subHe painted the di earns that a lov con hi read, scriptions or dues beyond purely voluntary, contributions. In time Ol Bold adventure, and mighty deed, this simple statement appeared in -- A of world neath stnilit .. fancy skies,' the masthead of the magazine: Published monthly in the interAnd a God in Heaven, to idolie. ests of the Elbeetian Legion and The dreams he painted weie Irom his heart, Oldtimers of the LSA, so that we may not forget those friendships And those who could read them were set apart that took root in the days of our the vvoild of fait, and the mundane crowds Fiom boyhood. Who could never vision beyond the clouds. During the years of developand ment expansion since, the The dreams he painted can never fade Elbeetian Legion has never In the happy thoughts ol the men he made, claimed any other aim or ambi- tion. He painted the ilieams- vve eairied them tluough; From its modest start in 1927, And all his paintings oi dieams came true moreover, the Legion has never looked back. Publication of the Franklin S. Miller. LSXY1I ELBEETEE has been consistently informal. But it always comes, always reporting on old memories and new members, individual 'turned with the Knickerbockers and Whos Whos were issued. Like movements ajid social affairs; al- of New York, the Moniogheny of all major projects, the demand for Missouri Mules, a comprehensive' history seemed ways Keeping The Old Guard To- Pennsylvania, the of Colorado and to lorm in the air. Eventually the Prospectors ' gether. j others Tribe papers were reissu- Charles Merlin fastened his tenLBT at Merlins Home tacles on this dream, commenting ed The Legion is Editor Merlins in ELBEETEE on a letter from First Convention Franklin S Miller, of Denver, in achievement, woven persona-were reborn In 1928, 192.3 Rallies texture of the his life. through Those in the know may discern twenty-twpersons first met, at Yearbook Start the foot high letters LBT, sym-- a dinner in New York City, as vve are to put out a year 'If occurred Elbeetian embedof his bolic Gatherings steadfastness, " we must not ded in the brickwork at the ent-- sporadically during the Depres book," he wrote, ranee of Charles Merlins home at ston ears. At McKeesport, l'enna let anything mar our plans. It in 1934 came the first fulltlcdged must be a tribute to the spirit of ludson Heights, New Jersery. a thing irom out of our Elbeetian Legion Convention O- the LSA, It took over a year to locate and earnest. As far hearts, at thers sineeio, followed Cleveland, yearly, enroll the first 100 oldtime Lone baik as 1922 the dummy of such a Boston at in Buffalo, Ronanoke, Of immediate Scouts. significance jear book" had been producwas the fact that by no means all Indianapolis and New York ed. only to tall through This time were from the ranks of the elite. By this time, 1910, with a Mcilm i esolved it would be difOne momentus day of that year convention attendanee of 185, ferent Joseph M. Wise, himself an Eagle and a total membership of nearA penod ol discussion ensued, Scout, Elbeetian Number 2 and ly 600, The Legion idea hail m iiiv members contributing their more than taken firm root. now Assistant District Attorney ideas ol w hat such a history should for Queens County, New' York, It was the one alumni group contain As early as 1929 a collecsupplied Charles Merlin with the of several attempts to prosper current address of Samuel Kap- thus. In the year of the Legion's tion was stalled to tinanco the book with several enthusiastic lan, of Brooklyn. beginnings, 1927, an attempt was memlvis lontiibuting substamal to made the activate Omcgamtna sums Membership Grows Walter Collett, "Waco, of Oldtimers an otiort A Silent Booster of immense Fraternity the title of Memory piop.wd in without later years repeated Book, and n was the Editor in capacity, Kaplan had joined the success. Formed during the late duel, (hailes A LSA in 1915, the year of its Wright, who Twenties the Lojie Indian Fiatcr cast final lorm, The F.LBEE several hundred it, about and mty, centering Chicago, T1AN Book ol Memories. copies of LONE SCOUT each week its own journal, has en Meanwhile the activities of the in high school, he personally ad- published dured until the present but even Lemon ded over a hundred new members members brought tinfad became in to the organization; also assisting tually mg sp.nkie and interest to the At about the same tunc Paul Keil, Pauke," in whipping character. Wilson Green, of Manitoba, Or monthly magazine The Anniver together twenty five Lone Scout ganized the Totem Club of Canada saiv iv ie lor 1936, in 48 pages both mimeographed and printed, tribes in the metropolitan area, an effort to replace the LSA an array as the New York City Tribes Con- in of names While it grew rapidly to some 600 presented federation. ol LONE dionglv icminisient members and the magazine, CAN Si OCT, now 12 years in limbo. As an Elbeetian Kaplan continuADI AN YOUTH, was a respect ed his activities, by dint of volu- able replica of LONE SCOUT. Writes From Kanab ewspaper minous eorrespondenee-and Iiot h present lybeca mc'victi m suT rnIIi.fr"v ear Wilbur J. Long, a advertising introducing the the finanual crash in 1929 hiologisi, nature writer and conLegion to well over another hundtributor of eat her years, addressed Now and Then Lawless, red oldtime Lone Scouts by 1940. a postcard to Editor Merlin from W. Kanab As late as 1930 James It was Kaplan who led the first "My job fell out from unPuerto Rican oldtimer, Federico McDougall, assisted editori der me," wrote Long, and I have Davila, into the fold (there are ally by Raymond Lawless, both been moving about, collecting now several score Puerto Rican of San Francisco, was issuing small animals for museums in the doctors, attorneys, engineers, pro- EVERY BOYS MAGAZINE, the East " Nearly a decade after Clayfessors and business men to claim National Amateur Official Organ, ton Smiths work as Forest Ranger membership); which led eventual- Lone Scout Division, with covers on the Kaihab, love of nature had ly to the Elbeetian Convention by Perry Emerson Thompson and brought another old 'Lone Scout held last year in San Juan, and to good material by famous one time and Elbeetian to the Place of the orthe first modern school dedica- Scouts. But the Willow s. on was honas Wm. D. Escuela (lie such, tion, Boyce, ganization, As the years passed the boys, oring the Founder of Scouting in skids. now men, were set to work on the the Western World. As time passed and various at Memory Book, The Rise of Lone It was to be expected of any tempts fell by the wayside this Scouting, the Fall of Lone Scoutalumni group of Lone Scouts common energy was channeled ing, the Renaissance of Lone meanwhile that many features largely into the stronger Elbeetian Seoul mg," was the form originally characteristic of the Golden Years Legion. There was need of support proposed by Collett, of West Virof the LSA would be repeated. In now from every quarter, a new ginia, and essentially followed. a few years appeared a loosely and ambitious project having conic Writers were given different s ' Merlin4 into being. organized Stamp Guild logically carrying out this himself collects first day covers As early as LONE SCOUT days pattern. Chapters were drawn up. and a Camera Guild. Tribes re- - numerous pamphlets, directories When it was decided that bio- 1 o 1 1 ' -- graphics of the members must be included, questionnaires were issued. There developed difficulty i getting them back, with dear photographs. It tool time, and the time became months Writers were chosen to produce these sketches; and it has always gratified me ,to have written . tjt'e biographies of such members as L. L Wood, Perry Emerson Thompson! Elmer Fisher and Cecil H. Brag-do- n. Factual Data Joseph Frasca, of Illinois, compiled a 50 page record of Big Lone Scout Dates, searching an entire file of the old magazine for data. Charles Posselwhite, a Canadian Govcrfinient photographer, made excellent reproductions of covers for printing, as he has V d( for Tpi111 Magadine. It was all gratis. Almost fwthout exception, at one time or another, in this form or that, the of' members came to the aid body of this project. Charles Merlin was the persistent spirit behind it all, su- mg nd encouragmgEnlisting pehapsjhe most competent editor LT)n Churles A "right, then Journalism at Temple University, he insured overall uniformity and mature judgement. Wright, Barton Baker a Rochester attorney, and Harwell scoitT1, i?s a J,neUme bone and now an Ebbee-tian- , produced authoritative ehap- f,coutinS history. Torkel Gundel, magazines final cdi-fobr,uht order to the history of amateur journalism; and Lone Scoutdom s "Hall of Fame, was included, listing 125 outstanding Lone Scouts of yesteryear. Big Break Comes Materia! progress was made, ' ifter tbe tha" sub-lect- tCn y-- ars nltal Proposal before practical steps were taken. Dur-jall that time Charles Merlin (ept his shoulder to the wheel, in "'illy, 1939, Harwell West hfOP1 l 8et the jlb dne. in Chicago type composition house and in the printing establishment of a friend, for littl more than the cost of labor and materials. It was the first break ,n f y Persistently gray. Copies of the first printed section of the book were distributed is samples at the Convention n ('Hrrin-191- 0 -n- d The But it was the following year be- copics ,)f the fT.,lknd ELBEETIAN Book of Memories were mailed out. Dreams Come True The book was received with delight, almost with incredulity by the membership. Here af last was a glamorous narrative of old joys Not only was the title page drawn by that artist of dreams, Perry Emerson Thompson, but the cover of LONE SCOUT s first issue was reproduced, along with the art work of Eliot Pyles and Harry Tombak, Oliver A. St. Pierre and Roland Coe and Harold West. Here was an EIBEETIAN by Elmer Marvin and the familiar headlings Weese, of LONE SCOUI se rials.-Ring- s, pins, badges and medals were shown, and the covers or s of tribe papers great and small even the first brihat historic pioneer, Elgie page cover-drawin- g title-head- Surely BLACK HAWK! no nostalgic old Lone Scout could ask for more. But he was given more: 250 pages of early history and present occupation togelher with pages of traits of men from the length porand breadth of the continent, who shared a common joy, and memories. Dedicated To Merlin The ELBEETIAN Book of Memories was dedicated to Char-le- s Joseph Merlin by the Editors, Hoping it will come somewhere near being the book you have dreamed of so long and that, through eternity, it may keep alive the example of unselfishness and devotion which you have set us. In an Open Letter to Chief Totem, from the Elbeetian Legion printed opposite St. Pierres portrait of W. D. Boyce, occurs the sentence: We hope you may be able to say of us as this book says of you "Well done. Certainly Charles Merlin, in his unswerving loyalty to Mr. Boyces ideals for boys, and to the Elbeetian Legion, has done his best to make these words true. What he has done has been to print, not words but a free and voluntary oath upon the hearts of us all: Thru Eternity Well Never W X' if, Jy- 1 (ijlff! i iiTOUWO! Forget!" EHHUL-'EHLI- L KentuckysFamousSour Mash Bourbon r tfjpl m jJ Men of judgment have a taste for bourbon light Kentucky bourbon. Thats why famous 4VI old style STRAIGHT BOURBON HilLand-Hill-made-froniJKjL original family formula, has been such a favorite for over four generations. I im CO., IDUSYIIU, KT., WJIKBUIU IT- MIICMl IHSTlltK HOOUCTS CO -K PSOOf ' s l 7 I CKmliirhij U'hftAkry J In 1947, during the Elbeetian Legion Reunion at Idaho Springs, Colorado, on the 30th Anniversary of W. D. Boyces induction into the Gros Ventres, Charles Merlin was made a member of the Sioux Nation and given an Indian name which he has never belied, Shining Star. At last the strange and beautiful design of his unselfish life had come full circle. Part four, and concluding issue of Lone Scout History, follows in next weeks special issue which will honor members of the Elbeetian Legion at Kanab in their Annual Convention. 0 |