Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, October 6, 1925, p. 1. NOTE: The item below is abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. .(Undertakers) used to be gloomy, melancholic, mournful, cold and aloof. Now we are: morticians, hopeful, live wires, cheerful, handshakers. "The old time undertaker was as solemn as the doxology and as cheerful as a dirge," said Alfred B. Gawler of Washington, D. C., in an address. "The modern mortician must be efficient and business-like, and from the brink of the grave he must point the way to new life and hope. The melancholy undertaker is a thing of the past." The name of the association is no long "undertakers" but the "National Selected Morticians Association."