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Blue Book v037 n02 [1923-06], 1923
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1The Buried Alive Club
3The first of a fascinating series dealing with the adventures of men who explore far places and achieve great things in secret for Uncle Sam.
5By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE
7ONE might live in Washington for years without learning of the Buried Alive Club. Its name is never spoken outside of its walls. Its telephone is an unlisted private number. Its home is in an old-fashioned mansion, facing one of the larger public squares, to all appearances a private dwelling. Among all the clubs of Washington there is none so exclusive; yet its members are men of whom the world outside never hears. They have been everywhere, seen everything, done everything. They are the workers in that vast beehive which we call the Government of the United States.
9Statesmen and politicians live their little hour in the public eye, and then, like the drones of the hive, pass on in one brief burst of glory or succumb to the stings of public wrath or the frosts of popular indifference. But the work of the hive goes on. Administrations come and go, their partisans making a great buzzing sound that deceives the public and even themselves into thinking that they are running the country's affairs. Underneath all the noise and disturbance the real administrators of the Government work on, quietly, steadily, precisely. They ask nothing but to be let alone, seek nothing but the opportunity of serving well, fear nothing but publicity.
11THE Buried Alive Club is the common meeting-place of such of these workers of the hive as have rendered services sufficiently important to their country to entitle them to membership, and one may talk casually to any one of them, confident that he could, if he would, disclose some of the romance that lies back of some Government report. He may be a
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