The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-03-18

Queen of the Deserts-Favorite Of Sutans." In
side the tent painted banners posters and
photographs of circus performers and freaks.
This side show tent is the luncheon meeting
place of the "P T Barnum Top No. 1 of the Circus
Fans of America" zach state and large city
has its Tent" or Top" named for some famous
circus man.
If you missed out on the Juvenile joy just men
toned, perhaps you used to pump pipe organ.
If so, your name be spread on the roll Of
the Guild of Former Organ Jumpers an associa-
ton composed of those who, by their pledged
statements. pumped pipe organ in a church or
chapel at time in their youth. Its prin-
cipal aim is serious-"to perpetuate the men,
cries of our decadent but honorable profession
and to save fer posterity some permanent evil
dence of the important part the pumper played
in the musical and ecclesiastical progress of the
ages" II has other aims-"to encourage the
singing of the old hymns at Sunday night gath
erings" and ito prove that every successful man
did not earn his first dollar selling newspapers
but its primary purpose is to achieve belated
recognition.
The guild was launched in 1920 under the
favorable auspices of natural divinity-"Aeolus,
the Greek God and Keeper of the Withstand
with the slogan, Pump for the Wind Is Fleet
ing" The first meeting was held in New York
city in 1928 Officers, named after the stops on
the organ, were elected. And the roster Of
members now holds the names of some of Amer
ica's foremost citizens.
VIII Hays, the car of the movies. did his
pumping on a pipe organ in Sullivan. Ind. his
birthplace He received 10 cents for his efforts
and the dime was paid him at the conclusion
of the morning church service His mother then
led him by the hand to his Sunday school class,
where he placed the money in the usual col
lection.
James Couzens, United States senator from
Michigan, pumped in the Presbyterian church at
pumped conscientiously for two years. AT the
end of that time he collected the $40 he had
coming, and this was part of the original
money he invested in stock of the Ford Motor
company, which eventually made him one of the
nations richest men.
The late julius Rosenwald, chairman of the
board Of directors Of Sears Roebuck & Co., was
also pumper. He labored in the Presbyterian
church at Springfield. IL. and gladly accepted
the Decent weekly stipend which was turned
quarterly.
The official anthem is as follows:
Oh. the pipe-organ pumper climbed up to his
His REFER his ear NUTS his rubbers he dofred,
And he bent Ger the handle for tunes loud
In those wonderful days of yore.
CHORUS
Oh, Doppelgedickel, Gerohrgedeckt,
Gerohrgedckt, Gerohrgedeckt
Oh, Goppelgedcke, Gerohrgedeckt,
Gerohrgedeckt Ge-Doo.
No wedding or service or funeral hymn
Could click unless he shaved away with vim,
The life OF the churches revolved around him
In those wonderful days Of yore.
CHORUS
The choir and organst few rage
When the bellows went fat tremulous
gauge,
But the best Of his ticks brought increase
In those wonderful days of yore
CHORUS
So now we are gathered to render him praise
For the laoors he wrought in his Juvenile days.
To dust of his menry our voices raise.
Oh, those wonderful days Of yore!
CHORUS
But If in your youth you didn't turn an hon.
est penny by pumping an organ, perhaps You
did il in printing office as helper to the print
er-publisher Of the home town paper. If that
was far enough back, you probably pulled" a
George Washington hand press. bit of back
breaking labor necessary in the old days If the
newspaper-reading public was to be kept in
formed on the affairs Of the community. you
did this, then you're eligible for membership in
the Ancient and Honorable Order Of G. Wash
Pullers. society founded at the suggestion Of
Harry c. Webster, old Missouri print which
carries on its membership rolls the name of
number of men who have risen high in the field
of Journalism and who are proud TO say that
they got their start in newspaper work at the
lever of an old G. Wash
Then there's the Cub Reporters association,
composed Of who as young journalists
sought the adventure which is popularity sup
posed TO be found in newspaper work. found it,
perhaps, and now in the midst of busy middle
age look back fondly upon the time when they
toiled under the lash Of Simon Legree city
editor" and dreamed the dream Of all cub re-
porrers-that Of "scooping the world a big
story"
Anyone who has been the victim Of horseplay
hazing, kidding and razzing even torture by
the old-time hard-boiIed, demon city editor is
eligible for membership. In the Cos quick hang