Judge — January 1933 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Judge The Eighteenth Perennial Statement of Condition and Laundry-Bag Audit of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ =) EAVHREE RIVERS, MICH. Dear Fellow Pumper: Unless otherwise specified, a bright new year is dawning. During this new year, unless otherwise specified, your Guild will stress the non-essential possibilities provided for in its broad and elastic charter. To insure a first-class job, the stressing will be done with a stand- ard No. 8 stresser. This stresser was designed by August H. Tuechter, F. P., Cincinnati tool manufac- turer, and is known to the trade as the Tuechter Stresser. Some excellent results may be anticipated Already the Guild’: inant agenda for 1933 is pretty well littered up and two schedules have been shaken out for immediate inattention. These are: (Item 4-B) The perfection, at the suggestion of Harry W. Glensor, F. P., of San Francisco, of an organ- ization to be known as the Hue & Cry Raisers of America. Definite steps toward this end will be taken as soon as key information on the Hue & Cry Industry, investments, payrolls, etc., is delivered. The organiza- tion will be operated as a wholly-owned Guild subsidi- a and protection for the Huers & Cryers will be ranteed. (Item 9-H) The submission, at once, by the Guild’s Engineering & Pon Haus Staff, of a firm bid for the construction of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Water- way. Providing this bid is accepted, the project will be carried to completion by a series of Dredging Bees. Guild members will attend the bees, in bevys, thus turn- ing the project into a social event. And this will be just one more step in our program for international accord. Judging by the character of these items, the new year will be one of unusual industry. Yet 1932, as it passed, could not be catalogued as slouchy, either. During December many Guild members rose to new heights of distinction, al- though only one title was granted, owing to lack’ of space. This went to Lincoln L. Cleaves, F. P., of New York City. Mr. Cleaves pumped the pipe organ in the Bridgton Congregational Church of Bridgton, Maine, back around 1895, re- ceiving twenty-five cents per service. In the summer of 1932, in order to furnish unquestioned proof of his claims to eligi- bility, Mr. Cleaves went to Bridgton with his camera to take a picture of the loft, and the handle that had commanded the sterling efforts of his youth. To his great disappointment he found that, in the meantime, a rich uncle had died, bequeathing a large sum of money to the church. And the deacons, right off, when they had cashed the bequest, Form 3721 Josie 4 VEIN ** Pump, for the Wind is Fleeting” 4 had ripped out the old organ and installed a magnificent, modern electrical instrument. Mr. Cleaves has been made the Guild's Staff Pho- tographer, That’s how things kept up to the end of the year. Stoddard King, F. P., of Spokane, Wash., asked the Guild to campaign studiously for heavier Bruss' - pet on the pedals of foot-pumped melodeons. William D. Vincent, F. P., also of Spokane, recommended that the Guild take over the Grand Coulee (evidently quite a gash in the hillsides out there) which, he s: dates back to the Pliocene Age. He was informed that no action could be taken until he determines just how Pliocene the Grand Coulee is. Frank G. Miner, F. P., arranged for the installation of a Guild booth at the Centennial of Progress Exposi- tion. Samples of Hardunger lace, smoked sausage, stressers and other Guild products will be displayed. And John Masek, F. P., of Apopka, Florida, a fern yrower, started a slip for a special Guild fern, which, he says, will take care of the Guild’s fronded debt. The awarding of silver stars for meritori- ous effort hither and yon continued bri Among the winners were Robert Griffin Per: F, P., of Winnipeg; Don Huse, F. P., Detroit's Limb Expert; and Herbit Dingwall, F. P., and Richard Whitney, F. P., Holder of The Sacred Burma, of New York City. All are credited with doing some indefatigable work afoot afield. Paul D. Williams, F. P., of Kansas City, Mo., also cap- tured one of these coveted honors because he pumped in the Congregational Church in Rootstown, Ohio, and declared in his application that he is some day going back to Rootstown. The intention counts with the Guild as much as the deed. i; ITH the new year this award will undergo a tech- nical readjustment. Previously those members ac- cumulating ten silver stars were granted a gold star, and for every ten gold stars they automatically became local distributors for the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion. From this time on the amassing of the ten gold stars will result in the issuance of another silver star, so the winners can start in all over again. This will elimi- nate the overhanging threat of fiat money, and a neat way is is to get rid of it, too. Anyhow, another it looks like we're off to epoch-making period. The goal lies straight ahead, except for the turns. And, as George Reed, The Old Reliable drayman used to say: “Jest hold ‘em stiddy.” Let courage rise with danger. And let me hear. Alw 5 (Sgd) Gibike Grand Diapason comicbooks.com .