The Acacia Journal - November 1920 - Vol. 15, No. 1 & Minutes of the 13th Conclave

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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conclave. Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 20-25, 1920.

Vol. XV November, 1920 No. 1

T. HAWLEY TAPPING, • • • · Editor

GRAN.D PRESIDENT HARRY L. BROWN

Recalled to th e highe st office in th e gift of Acacia afte r a t wo years' absence from th e Grand Council. Th e Grand President was born in Barry County, Michigan, on March 2 1, 1889, h e didn't long :emain a farmer, moving to the Cit y of Grand Rap1d.s when s ix m o nth s old. He g radu a t e d from th e U111versity o f Michigan in 1912 with th e degr ee of B E. E., and s ince th a t time has been engaged a lm os t co ntinu o u s l y in t ec hnical journalism on "Electric Tr ac ti o n ," "E lect ri ca l World," a nd now on "E lec tri c R a ilw ay Journ a l ," of which publication he is western ed it or. He se rved for n ea rly two years in the Wo rld War as a Li e ut e n a nt a nd Captain in th e Signal Co rps . As a re s ult of hi s observation and work in th e war, h e is co-au thor with a brother officer of a co ll ege textbook ''Rad io Engineering Principles," now w id e ly u se d and th e fir s t to bring th e t eac hin gs of th e war t o th e colleges.

He was the first Gra nd Co un se llor of Acacia, being appointed to th a t office at th e San Franci s co Conclave in 1915 So we ll was hi s work done that h e was e lec t e d G·rand President at the Purdue Conclav e th e following yea r. Then came the war and in May o f 1918, he called th e War Conference to e le c t hi s successor. His election at Minneapolis brings him ba ck to th e task he l eft in 19 18 to e nter th e nation's se rvi ce.

He is a n a lu mnus o f th e Michigan Chapter and an ac ti ve member of the Chicago A lumni Association. His addr ess is 1570 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinoi s.

GRAND SECRETARY W . ELMER EKBLAW

Th e m a n who is s tri v ing to bring the active chapt e rs o f Acac ia close r to th e a lumni-or vice ve rsa.

Wa lt e r Ekb law, as h e was known b e for e h e be ca me old e n o u g h t o change it , was born a t Rantoul, Illinoi s, March 10, 1882. He e nt e r e d th e University of Illinoi s in the fall of 1907 a nd was graduated in 1910. In 1913 h e j o ined the Crocker Land A r ctic Exp edit ion , which t oo k him north for e xploration and r esea r c h in G r ee nland for seve r a l years. During the l ast c a mpai g n . h e w as ca mp a ign secretary to William B. McKin ley. McKin l ey w as e lec ted U. S. Senator from Illin o is !

Ekb law was initi a t e d into Acacia in the f a ll of th e year h e e nter e d th e University. He was secret a ry of the TI!in o is C h a pt e r in 1908, and gained a r ep utation with the Gran d Officers for e ffici e nc y. H e wa s d e l ega t e of hi s c h ap t e r to th e 1911 Conclave a t Co lum bia, Missouri, a nd the 1912 Conclave in Chicago. A t thi s Conclave he el e ct e d Grand Vice-Presid e nt a nd up on hi s r e turn to America from Green land, h e was e lec t e d Grand President at the Wa r Co nf e r e n c e in Chicago. At th e Illinois Conc lave in 1919 h e was c ho se n Grand S ec r e tary and Grand Ed itor . His address i s 60 1 No rth Wi lli s Avenue, C h a mp aig n , Illin o is

Greetings from Grand President

BY HARRY L . BROWN

A ft er a r ecess of n ea rly thr ee yea r s, it g i ves m e p leas u re t o be ab l e t o g r ee t aga in th e m e mb e r s o f Acac ia as c hi ef exec uti ve . I fin d thi s pl eas ur e b eca u se th a t w hil e Acacia i s o n th e thr es h o ld of a wo nd erf ul d eve lop m e nt pe ri od, is abo ut t o b u d int o th e fl owe r in co ll ege fra t e rn a li s m fo r w hi c h we h ave a ll l abo r ed th ese s ix t ee n yea r s, it is n eve rt he less in a ve r y t en d e r s t age a n d I m ay be in s trum e nt a l in brin g in g it n ea r e r t o full bl oo m. T h e prim a r y esse nti a liti es t o thi s e nd , are cl ose a tt e nti o n t o de t a il duti es a n d v is io n o n th e p a rt of th e n a ti o n a l o ffi ce r s, a n d th e loya l co - opera ti o n of th e m e mb e r s hip. I b espea k thi s l oya lt y fo r th e G r a nd Co un c il.

Th e o utl oo k for t h e p r ese nt yea r o f ac ti v iti es o f Ac a c ia is ind eed m os t p r o mi s in g a n d r eass urin g. H av ing e m e r ge d int ac t th o u g h b ad ly s h a tt ered, in o ur fra t e rnit y f un c ti o nin g, fr o m th e wa r p e r io d w ith it s num ero u s tri a l s a nd it s di so r ga ni z in g influ e n ce o n a ll n o n- esse nti a l soc ia l b od ies, we n ow e nt e r th e a ft e r- wa r r eo r ga ni za ti o n a nd r e ju ve n a t io n wor k. Fo r th ese a r e t h e prim a r y t as k s f aced n ow b y th e n ew G r a n d Co un cil. A nd it see m s t o m e th a t th e p r os p ec t s fo r b e in g a bl e t o wo rk o ut th ese t as k s a r e p a rti c ul a rl y good fo r th e fo ll ow in g seve r a l r easo n s : Thr ee o f th e m embe r s of th e G r a n d Co un c il h ave ·h ad t wo yea r s o r m o r e pr ior expe ri e n ce in thi s wo rk , w hil e th e n ew m e m bers a r e o ut sta n d in g m e n w h o bring n ew v iewpo int s a nd r e n ewe d int eres t a nd e nthu s iasm t o th e Co un c il. T h e co ntinu a n ce of B r o th e r E kbl aw as G r a n d Sec r e t a r y h as avo ided a n y int e r r upti o n t o th e wo rk of th a t i mpo rt an t office w ith it s p e r p l ex in g maze of de t a il. Thi s is in deed for tun a t e fo r h is wor k is so esse nt ia ll y int e rm es h ed w ith th e s m oo th run n in g of th e c h ap t e r m ac hin e r y. A n d I be li eve Bro th e r E k b law w ill keep up th e wo rk of hi s o ffi ce thi s year as it h as n eve r bee n do n e b efore . He i s eq ui ppe d t o do so a n d h as a spec ia l r easo n fo r wa ntin g t o I h ave h ad grea t co nfid e n ce i n hi s a•b ilit y T h e m a nn e r in w h ic h h e i s go in g after th e sec r e t a r y's wo rk thi s yea r b ege t s co n fi d e n ce a n ew a n d I ur ge th e mos t si n cere co -o p e r a ti o n w ith him in hi s l abor io u s dut ies .

T h e o utl oo k i s f urth er m a d e b ri g ht by th e f ac t th a t a ll m e m be r s of th e Co un c il a r e fo rtun a t el y loca t ed w ithin easy r eac h of eac h o th er so th a t seve r a l m ee tin gs durin g th e yea r w ill b e fin a n c ia ll y p r ac ti cab l e . 3

GRAND COUNSELLOR HOWARD T. HILL

The most "fraternitied" man on the Grand Council. Howard T. Hill was born in Ames, Iowa, on May 18, 1889. He holds the degre e of Bachelor of Science from the Iowa State College at Ames, getting it in 1910. With this as a r easo n he started out on his career as a Chautauqua expe rt, functioning as a le c tur e r and a busin ess agent at var ious times. He attended Harvar d Law School one year and then switched to th e University of Chicago Law Departm en t to get his d eg re e in 1917.

He then jump ed into th e World War and was commissioned an E nsign in the U S. Naval Re se rv es

For four yea r s h e was a teacher in the public speaking d epart ment of th e University of Kansas, and it was by th e Kansas Chapter of Acacia that h e was initiat e d. He also hold s shingles in Phi Alpha Delta l aw fraternity, Delta Sigma Rho d e bating frat e rnity and Phi Alpha Tau dramatic fraternity. He is now teaching public speaking at th e Kansas State Ag ri cu ltur a l ·College at Manhattan, Kansas. His address is Box One, Manhattan

GRAND TREASURER CARROLL S . HUNTINGTON

Bids fair to riv a l Harry Kilmer in continued and lo ya l se rvic e on th e Grand Counc il.

The Grand Treasurer, b efo re being el ec ted to his present office, was graduated from the Onawa, Iowa, High School in 1906, and from the University of Illinoi s in 1911. At Illinois h e ea rn ed the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and h as b een proving it ever since He is now with the Link-Belt Company of Chicago as engineer in cha r ge of th e d epa rtm e nt handling sand and gravel, washing and screening, e le vat i ng and conveying m ac hin e ry. He is an a lumnu s of th e Illinois Chapter and an act ive member o f the Chicago Alumni Association.

He was first e lected Grand Tr eas urer in 1917 and was r e n amed to that post s ucce ss iv e ly in 1918, 1919 and now in 1920. His address is 1428 Lunt avenue, Ch icago, Illinois.

GRAND EDITOR T. HAWLEY TAPPING

A "neophyte" on the Grand Counci l who, by reason of hi s " job," is to speak more often than neophytes ordinarily should.

The Grand Editor was born in Peoria, Illinois, on August 13, 1889 He e nt ered Michigan University in 1907, but for soo k Ann Arbo r long e nough to qualify as an alumnus of Iowa State University with an A. B. in 1911. After two years as City Editor of the Peoria Transcript h e entered M ichigan again, graduat in g in 1916 with a L. L. B.

He once aga in became a City Editor, but left that desk in 1917 for the army, where he served successively as a Li e ut e n a nt and Captain of Infantry. He is now a n Associate Agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Lif e In s uran ce Company in Peoria Illinois and hi s address is 123 Crescent ave nu e. ' '

He is an alumnus of th e Michigan Chapter and 1s Secretary -Tr easurer of th e Peoria Alumni Association of Acacia. It was while th e del ega te of this chapter at Minneapolis that he was elected to the office of Grand Editor. He is a lso a member of the National Executive Counci l of Sigma Delta Chi journalistic frat e rnity. '

In m y pa s t exper ien ce, I ha ve seen tim es when a personal meeting of all m e mb e r s of th e Grand Council would have been of in es tim ab le va lue in bringing abo ut better harm o ny , und ers t a nding and co-operation for th e good of th e frat e rnity, but it was impossible from the s t andpoint of expe n se, with the r es ult that the accomplishment probably had not th e same d eg r ee of wisdom th a t might h ave ob t a in ed, for the Grand President was forced to ac t on num ero u s import a nt occasions practically without counsel.

The c h ap t e rs are n ea rl y a ll in good financial condition a nd th e r e is a wea lth of mat e rial at all th e uni ve r s iti es from which t o se lec t the fin es t for n ew members. From th e limited knowl edge I h ave of the work d o n e by the las t Grand Conclave, m os t of it was of a cons tru ctiv e co mmend ab le natur e and should be concurred in by the chapters and a lumni One act of wisdom was the e lec tion of separate m e n t o th e offices of sec r eta ry and editor . Furthermore, th e se l ec tion of Brother Tapping for th e position of Grand Editor was a very hap py cho ice and I believe th e Journal will now begin to tak e o n so m e of the c h a r ac t eris ti cs of content a nd regularity for which I ha ve been s tri ving since 19 15.

Anot h e r very important r easo n for my feeling th a t progress thi s year will go far, is that th e Grand Counselor is aga in to r es um e th e personal in spec ti o n of chapters which had t o be di scon tinu e d during the war to curta il expenses a nd conserve our r eso urc es. If I recall Brother Hill correctly as an ac tiv e m e mb e r from the days when I was acting in th e capacity which he is now to und e rtak e, not having see n him s in ce that tim e, we h ave in him a lovable fellow w ho w ill be ab le t o adv ise and counsel with active memb e r s and chapter advisors, in vestiga t e and deal firmly but fairly without offending in th e many problems th a t wi ll come t o his attention as he visits th e chapters. Certainly the re-establishment of th e chapter visitation by th e G rand Counse lor and th e r eappea r ance of th e J o urn a l in an impr oved formboth of far-reaching imp or t a nc e in unif y ing the fraternity and prese r v in g its customs and tr adi ti o n s and th e co ntinuit y of it s ac ti v iti essho uld h ave a s igna l effec t in placing th e ac tive chapters again on the hig-h p la n e in n ear l y every respect th a t th ey occupied ju s t before th e war, a nd in r ev iv in g th e lame nt ab ly poor int eres t on the part o f the alumni.

In conclusion, permit m e to say th a t while I sincerely appreciate the high h ono r of being se lec t ed for th e c hi ef office of Acac ia anci am not unmindful of the co nfid ence in me you h ave s ig nifi ed by recalling me to office, it wa s on ly w ith greate st he s itation that I accepted. An office of this kind means a very real sacr ifi ce t o th e h o ld e r if he consc ien ti ous t o his duties , and it was on ly a n unf ai lin g d eep int erest in the welfare and progress of Acac ia th a t prevented m e from refusing the office w h en it appeare d th a t I could be of r ea l h elp. So I ask a ll members of the fraternity t o share with me and the o th e r members of the G r and Council in sac rificin g for Acacia by h elping in full measure in any way you can, pa rti c ul ar l y w h en asked t o do somet hin g, for nothing wor th while comes easy and if we a ll en t e r w h o le- h ea rt ed l y into the sp irit of Acac ia , we will win.

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONCLAVE

THIRTEENTH CONCLAVE OF THE ACACIA FRATERNITY

AT MIN NEA POLIS AT THE

U nive r sity of M i nn eso t a a nd a t th e Sco tt is h Rit e C a th e d ra l

(E DIT O R'S NO T E: Ove r 750 p ages of cl ose l y t ype writt e n r e porte r ' s n o t es t o ld th e pr ocee din gs of this Co n clave. T o p ri n t a ll th a t in th e ] o urn a l wo uld h ave m a d e e v e n a Co n g r essm an as h a m e d of hi s f r a n k in g privil eges. S o th e E dit o r h as b ee n f o r ce d t o s las h ri g ht a nd l ef t. If y our d e l ega t e' s p e t speec h h as b ee n c ut o u t, th e E dit o r is so rr y If th e p r ocee din gs so und '"sketc h y" it is th e fa u l t of th e blu e p e n ci l. Ma n y im por t a nt di scussions h ave b ee n o mi t t ed : O nl y th e m os t imp o rt a nt r e port s, ad dr esses a nd d eba t es h ave b ee n includ e d . Th e Ed it o r w o uld h ave li ked t o includ e it a ll , fo r th e de leg a tes n o t o nl y sa id mu ch but th ey did mu c h .) D==========================D

Program for Monday Afternoon, Sept. 20, 1920 at Cathedral

INVOCATION

R r:v. STANLEY B. R onER1'S

L e t u s pr ay . A lmi g hty a nd E t e rn a l Go d , w e co m e int o Thy pr ese n ce thi s afte rn oo n as kin g fo r Thy g uidan ce a nd fo r Th y w isdo m ; fo r T h y h e lp as we p r osec ut e th e bu s in ess o f th e h o ur. Th o u g r a nt , O ur Fa th er, th a t in a ll o ur r e la ti o n s in li fe w e m ay s h ow th a t esse nti a l p rin c ipl e of bro th e rh ood a nd kindn ess that s h a ll br i n g t o u s th e ir r ewa rd as fr o m day to day we ex pr e s s o ur se l ves a l o n g th e lin e o f o ur fr a t e rn a l br o th e rh oo d a nd brin g bl ess in g t o m a nkind a nd r e fl ec t Th y b less in g t o o ur se l ves . We a s k fo r Th y gu i da n ce in a ll th e a ff a ir s of t h is a ft e rn oo n 's wo rk. G r a nt Thy b less in g t o r es t up o n u s a nd up o n o ur loved o n es a n d br in g u s a t las t t o s t a y w ith Th ee, a nd we w ill g ive T h ee th e p r a i se fo r eve r. A m e n

E . T. COMSTOC K (M inn eapo li s) : B r o th e r G r a nd Preside nt , th e Sco tti s h Rit e Bo di es h ave t e nd e r e d u s th e u se o f thi s ca th ed r a l fo r thi s wee k fo r th e Co ncl ave . In be half o f th e S co tti s h Rit e Bod ies w h o h o ld th e i r m ee tin gs in thi s r oo m I ex t e nd t o yo u as th e pres idin g o ffi ce r , B r o th e r G r oves , th e gave l of a uth or it y . T a k e it a nd u se it for th e gove rnm e nt o f thi s co ncla ve.

Gra nd Pres. G R OVES ( Ri po n ) : Co n s ideri n g th e co ncl ave t ha t was h e l d in C hi cago so m e tim e ago as a spec ia l, r a th e r th a n as a

THE ACAC I A J O URN A L

r eg ul a r co ncl ave, we n ow co m e t o th e Thirt ee nth A nnu a l o f Acac ia a nd it w ill n o w be in o rd e r befo r e we pr oceed t o th e bu s m ess of t h e t o h ea r a r e p o rt fr o m th e co mmitt ee o n cr e d e nti a l s. vVe w ill h ea r f r o m Bro. Ki rk of th e Illin o is C h ap t e r .

E. H . COMSTOCK (M inn ea p o li s) fo r B r o . K i r k: G r a nd P r esid e nt G r oves, I h ave c h ec k e d u p th e c r e d e nti a ls o f th ose P.r ese nt. Th e c r e d e nt ia l s a r e i n, a nd t wo c h a pt e r s h ave n o r e pr ese nt a ti ve h e r e a t p r ese nt. I und e r s t a n d th ey a r e co min g. Th a t i s th e Co lo r a d o C h ap t e r a nd th e O kl a h o m a C h a pt e r. T h e o th e r de lega t es a r e sea t e d , a nd th ey w ill b e sea t ed w h e n th ey a p pea r.

G r and P r es . G R OVES: I s th e r e a n y di sc u ss io n o n th a t ? A ll th ose in favo r say aye. T h ose op p ose d n o . ( It was un a nim o u s) . It is so o rd ered. Th e n ex t it e m und e r th e o rd e r o f bu s in ess as o utlin e d by o ur co n s tituti o n is th e r ead in g of th e m inut es o f th e p r eced in g co n c lave . It h as been s u gges t e d th a t th e o rd e r of bu s in ess a t thi s p lace b e c h a n ged a n d th a t in o r de r th a t we m ig ht ge t ac qu a int e d w ith eac h o th e r a n d kn ow th e co nditi o n s und e r w hi c h we a r e a ll wo rkin g a n d t o n o ti fy thi s body so th a t we mi g ht pr ocee d w ith bu s in ess it wo uld be we ll t o t a k e u p a t thi s po int th e r epor t , n o t of th e g r a nd officers as yo u mi g ht thi n k , b ut th e r epor t o f th e var io u s de lega t es a n d find o ut w h a t th e ir c h ap t e r n eeds a nd w h o a r e h ere a n d w h a t we h ave t o wo rk w ith . I say th a t th a t h as b ee n s u g g es t ed t o m e . W h a t is yo ur pl eas u re? B r o th e r G r a nd Sec r e t ary, d o yo u wis h t o s p ea k t o t h is p oi nt ?

\N E L ME R EKB L A W , Gra nd Sec r e t a r y (C h a m pa ig n ): B r o th e r G r a n d P r es ide nt , I fee l th a t we ca nn o t t oo soo n ge t acq u a int ed w ith o n e a n o th e r. T h e r e is o n e p h ys ica l r easo n w h y th e mi n ut es of th e p rece din g m ee tin g ca nn o t b e r ea d a t thi s tim e . vVe h ad th e m se t u p in th e lin o t ype a nd loc k ed in th e fo rm s w h e n th e pr ess m e n w e nt o n a s trik e a n d I h ave n o thin g b ut th e ac tu a l pr oofs o f th e J o urn a l w hi c h

I h a d h oped t o h ave r eady fo r th e co ncl ave h e r e. I w ill m ove th a t th e or d e r of bu s in ess b e so c h a n ged a nd t ha t th e r e p o rt s of th e d e lega t es b e h ea r d as th e fir s t o rd e r of bu s in ess.

T . J. PEYCKE (M inn eso t a) : Br o th e r G r a nd P r es ide nt , I w ill s e co nd th e mo ti o n

G R A ND P R ES I DE N T : I s th e r e a n y di sc u ss io n ? Jn s t o n e thin g I wa nt t o say in r eg-a rd t o th e de lega t es , a nd th a t is , I r eg r e t ve r y mu c h t o h ave r ea d in r epo rt s o f o ur fo rm e r G r a n d Co un se ll o r th a t in o n e o r t wo cases it was fo u nd th a t th e de lega t e f r o m so m e c h a pt e r did n o t r e p o rt th e tru e co nditi o n s of th e ir c h ap t e r t o th e co ncl ave. B r e thr e n , I h ope th a t no s u c h publi s h e d s t a t e m e nt s w ill ap p ea r af t e r thi s c o ncl ave h as bee n fini s h e d . A r e yo u r eady fo r th e qu es ti o n ?

Th ose in favo r say aye . Th ose oppose d say no. ( Th e vo t e was unanim o u s). It is so o rd e r e d. I s th ere a n y o bj ec ti o n t o t a king th e c h a pt e r s in chr on olog ical o r de r or se qu en ce? If n o t we w ill h ea r f r om th e m o th e r ch a pter, Michig a n.

REPORT OF MICHIGAN CHAPTER

BY GLENN C. F oRRESTER, Del ega t e

GRAND SEC. EKBLA 'vV: I think it is a matt e r well worth the attention of th e d el ega t es in ·this reg a rd so th a t they can se nd to the k eepe r of th e arc hiv es at Michigan, one, two o r three copies of their chapter publicati o ns for the files o f the archives so th a t they might n o t be lo s t , and I wished particularly t o find out how thin gs are going o n th ere on th a t account.

G. C. FORRESTER (M ichig a n): We followed the ritual abso. .It isn't s h o rt e n ed a t all , I d o n ' t think. I hav e seen other chapters which 111trodu ce d m o r e o f that m o re or l ess r o ugh s tuff, which I don't think is th e ide a of that sec ti o n at a ll, so I think this rough form of o ur s e liminate s any tend e ncy to distract the candidate's mind.

C. E. MOORE (Co lumbia): You u se th e r o ugh hou se in a preiniti a tory cerem ony?

G. E. FORR ESTE R (M ichigan): Yes. Well, I think the ritu a l as- it stands-the id ea of th e ritual i s t o convey certain le sso n s to Acacia, and I think that a r o ugh initiation at the tim e of the ceremony distracts from that. It concentrates th e candidate's mind o n hi s own thoughts w hi ch are di scomforting rather than on th e ritual itself .

G r a nd Sec. EKBLA \ N : May I s ugge s t that we take that up aga in w h e n Brother Co m s to c k i s h e r e? He is one of the men who wrote our present ritu a l , h e and G r oves and Shepardson , and h e ha s so me ve ry definite id eas, I think o n th a t matter.

C. E. MOORE (Col um bia): I was as king Brother Forrester what th e id ea o f thi s was. This i s some thing recent

G . C. FORRESTER (Michiga n): N o, it is n't. I don't kn ow ju s t h ow old it i s . Probably Brother Tapping can t e ll u s . H e is a Michiga n alumnus.

T. H. TAPPING (Peor ia): I kn ow th a t that was in the initi ati o n when I we nt in in 1914 o r 1915 , th e rough s tuff t o come firs t and t o concen tr a t e o n th e so lem nity of the who le initi a t o r y ceremony , but I think that ca n be discussed a t th e tim e of th e discussion on the ritual. I know th a t o n e of th e things that is a n impr ove m e nt abo ut th e M ichi ga n sys t e m of initiation, esse ntially different from th e re s t of th em, and th a t is th e fo rm a l part of it. That was s tart ed in th e fall of 19 15 w h en we fo und that o ur initiati o n s were co min g abo ut once a m o nth and on a Saturday w h en s ome of them could not get away and a very few of th e alumni were co ming back to th e chapters for the initi a t ory ce r e m o ni es . For that r easo n the sys t e m was changed from th a t first o utlin ed, and was adop t ed, of having a ll excep t the final section given at different tim es by th e c h ap t er, of co ur se, and then a final forma l initi a ti o n cere m o n y w hi c h a la r ge number of th e alumni a l ways a tt e nd ed, a nd w hi c h was ve r y impr ess ive o n th e freshm e n , being fo ll owed by a n initiatory banquet and being marked by th e complete initiation of one m a n a nd th e final initi a ti o n of a ll th e men in the cla ss, making it very impre ss ive on the whole cla ss It proved a big event, I think, in the chapter lif e.

KIRK ( Illin o is) : I wa nt t o as k y ou thi s q u es ti o n . Yo u sp ok e a b o ut t he exce ll en t s up e r v is io n by yo ur c h a pt er adv iso r. D oes th e c h ap t e r welco m e s u c h s u perv is io n f r o m him , o r do th ey s t a nd a l oof fro m him ? I s h e a m a n w h o is in a p os iti o n t o r e pr ese nt th e Grand Co un c i l in spea kin g t o yo u ?

G. C. F O RR ES T E R (M i c hi ga n ) : Yes .

B . L. K IR K ( Illi no is) : O r i s hi s w o rk co nfin e d m e r ely t o s up e rvis ing acco untin g a nd s u c h ma tt e r s as th a t ?

G . C. FO RR ESTE R (M ic hi ga n ) : We ll , I think th a t h e is r e li a bl e, wo ul d be r e li a bl e o n a n y p h ase of f r a t e rnit y li fe He i s a m e m be r of th e Kansas C h ap t e r . He h as so rt of r eo r ga ni zed th e D e tr o it a lumni body. He h as a l so p ut th e a lum n i bo d y a t A nn A r bo r , w hi c h includ es a ll of o ur a lumni , o n a fi r me r fin a n c ia l foo tin g a n d d e fin ed th e r e l a ti o n s be t wee n th e ac ti ve c h a pt e r a n d a lumni assoc i a ti o n.

K IR K ( Illin o i s) : Has h e eve r g ive n yo u a n y t a lk s a t a n y tim e in r ega r d t o th e r e la ti ons w ith th e G r a nd Ch a pt e r o r t o th e fr a t e rnit y a t l a r ge?

G. C. F O RRE S T E R (M i c hi ga n ) : \i\Te ll , n o, h e h as n ' t t a lk e d in r ega rd t o o ur r e l a ti o n s w ith th e G r a nd C h a pt e r , b ut h e h as g ive n u a good dea l of adv i ce a nd m a d e, I think , ve r y va lu a bl e s u gges ti o n s as t o o r ga ni za ti o n o n o u r fr a t e rnit y li fe it se lf , th e pr o bl e m s o f th e f r a t e rnit y as a w h o l e, b ut h e h as n eve r t a k e n it up o n him se lf t o t a lk fr o m th e s t a nd po int of th e g r a nd body .

G r a n d P r es . G R OVES : Ve r y goo d . Ju s t a few r e m ar k s fr o m th e Gra nd P r es ide nt. ·wh a t h e spea k s o f a s a f o rm a l initi a tion in on e of th e repo rt s is ca ll ed a s in g l e initi a ti o n a nd in so m e pl aces th e cl asse s I wa nt t o co mm e nd . Durin g th e tim e I w as a cti ve in C hi cago w e m a d e it a p o int t o g r o up o ur initi a ti o n s in s u c h a w a y th a t w e go t , n o t on l y th e ac ti ve m e n o f th e c h ap t e r pr ese nt , but a lso r e pr ese nt a ti ves w h o mi g ht be in th e c it y f r o m a n y o th e r c h a pt e r a nd a c h a n ce t o l oo k ove r th e m e n th a t a pp ea r ed in th e initi a ti o n h a ll durin g th e s umm e r q u a rt e r in C hi cago, a n d I fo und th a t 13 ch a pt e r s h a d r e pr ese nt a ti ves p r ese nt a t th at initi a ti o n , a n d yo u ca n im ag in e th e m e n w h o we r e int e r es t ed a n d th a t th ey we r e dul y im p r esse d w ith th e o r ga ni za ti o n. I wa nt t o co m me nd th a t p r act ice t o o th e r c h a pt e r s . Th e int e r- c h a pt e r

r e l a ti o n s a n d v is it a t io n w ith o th e r c h a pt e r s i s a l so a n ex c e ll e nt thing , a nd I wa nt t o co mm e n d M i c hi ga n f o r th e w ay in whi c h it h as be e n ca rri ed o ut an d th e l a r ge num be r o f c h a pt e r s whi c h th ey h ave g otten in t o u c h w ith pe r so n a ll y . I co n s id er th a t a n imp o rtant thin g. I furth e r wan t t o co mm e nd M ic hi ga n C h a pt e r f o r th e o b se r va n ce of Mo th e r' s

D ay . If yo u will r eca ll yo ur m aso ni c o b l ig a ti o n a nd yo ur A ca c ia l eg is l a ti o n yo u w ill co m e t o r ea li ze m o r e th a n eve r b e f o r e th a t M o th e r 's

D ay i s a n im po rt a nt thi ng in th e lif e o f a n Acac i a m a n . I a m a l so g l a d t o kn ow th a t th e c h ap t e r adv iso r is a n ass is t a n ce.

N ow, th e r e is o n e thin g w hi c h I mu s t c riti c ize. It m ay b e th a t , f r o m th e r epo rt of Br o th e r T app in g a nd B r o th e r Fo rr es t e r , th e a ddition a l pa rt t o th e r itu a l h as wo rk e d o ut fa irl y we ll , but I wa rn yo u d e l e gat es th a t as a rul e ad diti o n a l th in gs t o th e ritual a r e d a n ge r o u s thin gs .

Yo u s h o uld think ca r e full y befo r e y o u m a k e s u c h a dditi o n s; n o t but

what in some cases th ey may be good, but it has too much of a tendency to get too far away from home ."

REPORT O F KANSAS CHAPTER

BY H . L. WASHINGTON, D e legate Followed by Ir1formal Di sc ussion by Demolay.

C. R. OBERST (O hio): Brother Grand President we had a number of men trying to form an inter-mas o nic frat e rnit;. The plan was to take two members-to elect two m e mbers from each fraternity -:-on t.he and to form thi s inter -masonic fraternity, and Acac ia thr s plan and decided that it would not do Acacia any good-m fa c t , do them harm-and that there should be no organization that on the campus in Ohio, and as a result the plan s are not gomg through, and I believe that any chapter of Acacia at any o f the schools, any of the universitie s, where we a re repre se nt ed can, through the mflu e nce of th e faculty and the committee on privileges, can meet this situation when it arises I ju s t mention this as a matt e r that might help out at this time.

Grand Pres. G ROVES: I want to commend Kansas Chapter for having a House Mother. Where do you get your requirements for that ?-from the University?

H. L. WASHINGTON (Ka nsas): Yes, s i r.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Is that also true at Kansas City?

KANSAS STATE MEMBER: Yes, sir.

Grand Pres GROVES: So far as I can see Kansas do es n't need to be scared about changing eligibility They may lose one or two good men. During the war we gave chapters permission to take m e n temporarily living in the house during the war period, and one of th e Acacia m e n had a kid brother (pa rdon th e expression) who came to the sc h oo l and 'became mor e famous than hi s elder brother. He was taken into the chapter to live during the war. He was 21 la s t July. He graduated in June. Is he ;m Acacia man?

H. L. WASHINGTON (Ka nsas): Not yet.

Grand Pres . GROVES: I s h e any k i nd of a fraternity man?

H. L. WASHINGTON (Ka n sas): No.

Grand Pres. GROVES: He may some day b e an Acacia man, if it i s as an alumni. It was good to ha ve a man like th a t. He was prominent on the ca mpus , and if we shou ld lower th e age limit , or something of that kind , it might be possible t o pick up a few of th ose men; but anybody that happ e ned to be at th e l ast conclave would be convinced that that is one subject on which I ha ve very grave doubts that Acacia sqould embark upon. We had better sacrifice a few of tho se good men than change our standing. My impr ess ion is that Kansas does n o t have a very ser iou s argument along that lin e. a nd I commend them for th e ir sc holar s hip r ecorc1 as I will a number of other chapters of Acacia. We were told in our welcome address th a t a colt became a hor se without any real commendation. I so m et im es

feel that Acacia is almost on the same basis: that they hold high scholarship because they are men of high purposes, and they should be, not criticized for doing it but commended for doing it. I commend here her reading of the constitution and by-laws in open meetings.

REPORT OF NEBRASKA CHAPTER

BY H. L. HuBBELL, Delegate.

I wish to add that we have a House Mother that we will put up against any other House Mother in the Fraternity. We have no fraternity in Nebraska that can touch our credit, and o ur men can go to any store in Lincoln and simply say that th ey are Acacia men and get credit for anything.

W. 0. TEUFEL (Pe nn): Brother Grand President, I desire to ask about this Hou se Mother; in ju st what capacity she looks after the hou se.

H. L. HUBBELL ( Nebraska): She acts as matron. She sort of supervises the work and the help and sometimes supervi ses a part of th e order. She comes over to several dinners a week, and is, of course, at all our parties, and sees that th e hous ·e manager keeps the house clean and ha s a sort of general supervision over tl te condition of the hou se . She doe s not stay at the house because we have no suitable provision for her.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Are there any other questions now? It may be a little bit irregular for the pres i dent to assume the discussion of thes e various chapters, but s ince I ha ve some information here I am vo lunt eering it. I had the plea s ur e of vis itin g the Nebraska Chapter about a year ago. School was not in session They were just beginning to come around and look for sc hool to begin , and I was certainly agreeably s urpri sed at what happened before the day got very old; at least before the night was very old. I think I probably sent notice so me 12 hour s prior to arriving that I would be in Nebraska and they had gotten pos sess ion of their house, wh ich I b e li eve th ey had t emporarily given up during the war, and they got a goodly number together and showed a real social fraternity spir it, for which I comm e nded them then and do now. They do not own th eir house, and I fee l very keenly that the Nebraska Chapter should own their own house as soon as possible. I think that they o u ght to have a house, not only in Nebraska, but other chapters, and I think probably that Nebraska has the possibiliti es of taking advantage of the first opportunity that may ari se there so they can say that th ey own their own home.

They do not use the accounting system, and I am not s ur e that that can be commended . I personally feel that the present system we have is not sufficiently difficult to act as an excuse for not using it. The delegate evident ly thought so, because he said so in his report. I rem e mber that so metime ago we had a system that was much more intricate than this, and the committee that co mpil ed the report said that any college man ought to get busy and learn how if he didn't a lr eady know how to make such a report. This is much more simp le, and I think for the sake of uniformity a little ext ra effort might be used so that we could a ll follow that thing.

Some time ago, Nebraska was criticized for not properly supervising ple.dges, but our present. delegate assures us that they are properly supe:vised at the present tnne. You may observe that I have been readmg some back records. I have always been interested in the promen. who have houses because I am not sure but what they form JUSt as In:portant an element as the regular professions. I mean the regular social Greek. The Greek question which will be discussed sooner or la!er I warrant you is primarily a housing question of where a man can hve. I am not sure but that it is worthy of your attention to fin? out what we are going to do with the professional man who has his own house. I commend the Mother's Day, credit system and the masonic team work particularly. Remember that your ritual says that you are going to advance your interest in masonry. I think that Acacia can well take time for a masonic team. The anti-Greek legislation is something that is bound to occur from time to time. It has been successfully handled in Texas and Wisconsin, and the InterFraternity Conference at the present time is making strenuous effort to repeal some of the legislation in the southern states where Acacia is not represented. They appealed to me as president for help along this line in appointing a committee. I wrote to the Inter-Fraternity officers to remind them of what had taken place before, and they were very enthusiastic and thought that the masonic influence might discourage further action, or even repeal what now exists, so from that s tandpoint I think Acacia is lo s ing nothing from the Inter-Fraternity Conference at the present time because it makes the idea very plain and open, and what I said to them could •be published as well as not.

The chapter publication is an important one and should be carefully guarded. At one time the papers were made in a form to be kept on file. Later on there were letters issued in mimeograph form that were anywhere from half a page in size to four pages in size it would be rather difficu lt to file them. Some of our chapters are puttmg out printed matter on rather odd sizes which make it almost impossible to file all together, but we ought to make special efforts that and see that they are filed. There are a number of other pomts which will come up from time to time for which each chapter should be commended or criticized.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: Brother Groves I would like to say that after attendance at six conclaves Brother Hubbell's report is the most refreshing report I have ever heard. I enjoyed hearing it reacl. It is now five o'clock.

"THE LOVERS"

Stuckey, Skinner, Neighbors, Oberst

Monday Evening, September 20, 1920.

Business Session

Grand Pres . G R OVES : N ow, unl ess I h ea r so me o bj ec tion , ·we w ill declare th a t thi s even in g sess ion s h a ll be d evo ted to h ea ring reports from th e delegates . If I h ea r no o'b j e cti o ns I will call for the n ex t delegate t o r epor t.

E. H. \ 1\TE L CH (Califo rni a) : Brother G r a nd President, after hearin g so m e of th ese o th e r r epor t s I h ave put down a couple of not es h ere of things th a t we h ave done, and o n e of th e m is th e fac t that we have aimed t o h ave friends who a r e r eprese nt a tiv e of a ll the Greek Frat e rniti es t o ca ll a t th e h o u se a nd ha ve th e m over for lun c he s and dinners. We h ave a custom th e r e of giv in g exc hang e dinn e r s , which u s u a ll y co n sis t s of tw o d i nners. A few from each h o u se go eac h time, so in that way we ge t th e ent ir e frat e rnity. There is a lot of antifraternity leg is la ti o n in a nd a r o und Ca li fo rni a. There is a b ill pending now in the s t ate l egis la tur e which will abo li s h fr a t e rnities in general fr o m Ca li fo rni a sc h oo ls . This, of course, we a re a ll very mu c h interes t ed in th e sa m e as a ll fraternities in Ca lif o rni a . It is n o t ye t dec id ed in r egar d to the se plans, but so methin g w ill be brough t u p at th e InterFraternity Co nf e r e n ce

REPORT OF CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

R EAD BY E. H . WELCH, Delegate .

Grand Pres. G R OVES : T h e exchange dinners I want to comm e nd. It h as been tri ed in other pla ces and I think it is we ll wor th while, and I co mm e nd Ca li fornia for working that out. It co uld we ll be ca rri ed o ut in o ther chapters.

I think as a who le Ca li fornia C h ap t er can be commended fo r their representation on th e coas t in th e way th a t th ey ha ve . I think yo u a r e k eep in g tr ac k of yo ur n o t es so th at proper n o te s ca n b e made and not ha ve it r epor t ed abo ut thi s conclave as was r epo rted abo ut o n e of o ur former conclaves that th ey didn ' t h ave very much m e mory of what went o n. That i s why I am roaming a r o und a littl e bit a t th e clo se of th ese reports.

G r a nd Pres. GROVES : If there is n o thing fur th er we wi ll proceed t o th e n ex t chapter.

REPORT OF OHIO CHAPTER

BY C. R. OBERST, Delegate.

Gra nd Pres. GROVES : I am g lad t o know th a t the faculty of O hi o s tat e r ea ll y offers to th e fra t erni t y their influen ce . If some of yo u w ill r ead so me of B roth e r Shepardso n 's works along th e lin e of what fraterni ti es r ea lly do fo r fres hm e n you probab ly wo uld see th e work of th e s u pervis io n o f t h e c hapters as t o fr es hm e n in a b e tt e r li gh t than yo u do at th e present tim e . I think h e h as h andled that s ubj ec t ve r y nice l y. Some of th e ea rl y numbers h a ndl e that s ubj ec t very we ll and po int o ut why fraterni ti es are ju s tifi ed a long th a t line.

The Chal?ter is an excellent thing and I hope that the :est of you work It _out, and the idea of passing the word and grip Is :"'orth wl:ule. I particularly found that out when I went through the1r .a lumni and later through Indiana to install a chapter and found that 1t. was necessary to get the delegates together and pass the word and gnp around to make sure that they were all giving them the same way .. Brother. Brown emphasized that when he visited the chapters and took 1t upon himself to collect the word and grip and see what they had, and you would be surprised to see what some of the Acacia men had when they were called upon to give the word and grip.

REPORT OF HARVARD CHAPTER

Bv WM. P. CooK, Delegate.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I happened to be one of the men who vis ited Harvard Chapter this summer. I was very glad indeed of the opportunity to really see what the eastern chapters are doing as I represent the Middle West. I found out from various statements that things there were different, and that is as true as can be , compared with the west, and Brother Cook will agree with me because he comes from th e good o ld state of Iowa and knows the middle west. I think, however, that Harvard could stand some criticism on not having a table. They have usually had enough men to carry on a "fairly good chapter and keep things pretty active and I think we shou ld like to see a little more push on the part of the Harvard men. Now, that may refer to the alumni men, or t o the active men, or to a ll of them put together. I believe that it would be possible for them to maintain a ta ble. I remember the time when that was brought up by the Chicago Chapter-! could almost say the Chicago Acacia Club, because that was before they had a house, and while it was better than none, it was a place where they could meet. Comradeship is around the table in the chapter house and I should like to see Harvard make that advance. A very few of the real Harvard college men that are noted on the membership roll at Harvard is one thing that makes Harvard different from other institutions. The men who make for Harvard are those who go there and encourage the work of their institution from other institutions and in a great many instances do represent Greek letter men, so you can readily see why Harvard favors taking Greek letter men . I suppose it would be practically impossible to select a membership among the Harvard college men when over half of them are masons to begin with and most of them belong to the local club which dominates the local institution. You will recall that a bout 90 % of the present membership are graduated from other schools and only 16 % came from Harvard College. The masonic degree team is to be commended and I understand that they put on the work ve:y admirably. Since they have no Pan - Hellenic I cannot insist Uf>On them taking part in it, but all chapters should make an effort to be actively connected with local Pan-Hellenic .

One other thing I want to say in favor of Harvard, is that for the most part she has loyally upheld the rulings of the Grand Fraternity. The occasions are very exceptional.

G r a nd Sec . E KBL A W : Br o th e r G r a nd Pr es ide nt , I wo uld lik e to as k th e H a r va rd d e lega t e w h e th e r th e r e was eve r t a lk in yo ur c h a pt e r of s t ayi n g away f r o m Acac ia a nd es t ab li s hin g yo ur ow n b e c a u se of the l egi s lati o n l as t fa ll ?

W. R. COOK (Ha r va r d) : I ca nn o t t e ll y o u a g r ea t de a l a b o ut m os t o f th a t ag it a ti o n l as t fa ll b eca u se I did n o t e nt e r until F ebru a r y my se lf.

As I h ave b ee n info rm e d th e a ttitud e of th e c h a pt e r was s imply thi s : Th ey co rr espo n de d-th ey p r ac ti ca ll y se nt o ut t o all th e ir a lumni a n o ti ce o f thi s leg is l a ti o n a nd as k e d th e a lumni w hat th ey a d v ise d the c h ap t e r t o d o Th ey t o ld th e m w h a t th e s itu a ti o n was, and tol d th e m th a t th ey h a d co n s ult ed s u c h m en as D ea n Po und a nd o th e r s, w h o t o ld th e m th a t th e leg is la ti o n was un co n s tituti o n a l, a nd as k ed th e m w h e th e r we s h o ul d s impl y obey th a t ruli ng w hi c h we co n s id e r e d w r o n g o r w h e the r th ey s h o uld t a k e i n G r ee k s a n d fi g ht it o ut b efo r e th e G r a nd Co un c il. T h e a lumni a lm os t un a nim o u s ly sa id " T a k e in th e G r ee k s " b eca u se t h e y co n s ide r e d th a t th e p r opos iti o n was wrong, a nd th ey th o u g ht th a t th e p o li cy was w r o n g , a n d th ey th o u g ht th a t th e po li cy was wr o n g, but th ey h a d a n idea th a t th a t was a m a tt e r th a t e a c h c hapt e r s h o uld be ab le t o ad ju s t fo r it se lf . Th e n th e qu es ti o n was o nl y w h e th e r we s h o ul d t a k e in th e G r e e k s a n d r un th e ri s k o f b e in g ki c k e d o ut o f th e f r a t e rnit y, a nd I d o n ' t think th a t th e r e was a n y d isc u ss io n o f sece din g a t a ll-th e r e was n o di sc u ssio n af t e r I was th e r e a nd I d o n't th i nk th a t th e r e was a n y b e fore th a t. It was m o r e a qu es ti o n of w h e th e r th ey s h o uld go o n a nd run th e ri s k o f ge ttin g th e ir h ea d s c ut o ff.

G r a n d P r es . G R OVES: Br e thr e n , a r e yo u n ow r ea d y t o h ea r th e repo rt f r o m Illin o is?

REPORT OF ILL.INOIS CHAPTER

B Y D. J. K ADYK, D e leg a t e

G r a nd P r es. G R OVE S : In yo ur ex p e ri e n ce , Br o th e r E kbl aw, w o uld yo u sa y th a t as a ge n e r a l r ul e 40 m e n we r e t oo m a n y?

G r a nd Sec . EKB L A W : Yes , and I think th e r e was co n s id e r a bl e fee lin g in th e f r a t e rnit y th a t th e r e was a lar ge r c h a pter th a n th ey a d op t e d a n d th e se ni o r s a nd juni o r s d es ir e d th a t n o m o r e initi a ti o n s s h o ul d b e m ade las t yea r; but th e yo un ge r m e n in th e fr a t e rnit y w h o r ea li ze d th a t a n ab und a n ce of m a t e ri a l w as go in g t o g o by w e r e a n x io u s t o ge t in a goo d m a n w h e n t·h ey co uld , beca u se th ey fe lt that thi s yea r th e c h ap t e r wo uld be d e pl e t e d a nd want e d t o a nticip a t e the co n d iti o n s th a t wo ul d fo ll o w w h e n th e r e w a s a l ac k o f ni ce m a t e ri a l , a nd th ey w is h e d t o t a k e in th e goo d m e n. Th e r e was a p a rti c ul a r ab un da n ce of exce pti o n a ll y fin e m e n in Illin o is las t yea r. We co uld h ave h a d a c h a pt e r o f SO m e mb e r s o f s hrin e r s al o n e o r hi g h d egr ee m aso n s Th ey turn e d dow n n um e r o u s m e n th a t wo uld h ave b ee n t a k e n und e r a ll co nditi o n s b eca u se th ey h a d s u c h a wea lth of goo d m a t e rial. Th e G r a nd P r es . G R OVES : I think yo u w ill fin d th a t th e ge n e r a l impr ess io n of f r a t e rnit y m e n i s th a t it is n o t b es t t o m a k e th e f ra t e rnity so l a r ge th a t it w ill be unwi e ld y . I kn ow in Illin o is th ey h a d a r a th e r l a r ge m e m be r s hip d urin g thi s l as t ye ar. It m ay be t e mp o r a rily ju s tifi a bl e a s in th e cas e m e nti o n ed, but I think th e ge n e r a l t e nd e n cy is n o t t o

have your chapter quite so large and I think that wou ld be a good thing to keep in mind. Those of us who have been in Illinois know that they are well housed. At one time they were more or less criticized for taking on very questionable financial obligations, but I am glad to say that they are gradually meeting it and sooner or later it will be taken care of. They are to be commended for it. They are like the frog that got in . the milk can; they proceeded to kick until they churned butter enough to sit on (Laughter.)

During the conclave last year, the Illinois Chapter put on a demonstration of the initiation and you people who are interested in revising the ritual would do well to see the present ritual demonstrated by the team. You would ' probably fee l like it didn't need very much reviSIOn.

You have a chapter house at Illinois that stands first in scholarship and demands special mention at this time. With 600 masons in the school, however, it seems quite feasible that there sho uld be a large !ield for selection , which is commendable when it is possible."

Adjournment.

DURING A RECESS

Left to right-Groves, Alsin, Welch, Neighbors, Stuckey,,Moore, Ekblaw, Forrester, Oberst, Linkert, Hill, Teufel.

Sc ott is h R i t e C ath e d ral , Tues day Morning , Se pte mb e r 21 , 1920

Grand Pres. GROVES: The Conclave will be in order this morning. I have a request that we should do something to check up a little bit on the National Grip and \Vord because I find it is tim e We have been told by our Grand Counsellor that there is quite a little difference in the way the thing is handl ed. Then the question comes, if there is a difference who is right? Now, I don't know ju s t how far the variation goes. There are some chapters h e re that have had exactly the same instructions that I have had and others have it different, and I think in order to clear that up a little bit I will ask one or two men to act as a committee and tomorrow morning, probably, ·we can have a little more definition along that line . Brother Link ert, you work among the delegates a little bit on that. You know the delegates . Pass around and get the grips of the various members and make some kind of a declaration. I don 't know of any other way to handle that s ituation .

Upon the roll being called the delegates from Franklin and Kansas were absent .

Grand Pres. GROVES: Wisconsin reports a new delegate this morning, Brother Jenks taking the place of Brother Bakken.

REPORT OF FRANKLIN CHAPTER.

BY]. D. STUCI<J<:Y, Delegate.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Now, in the little while I had to visit the Franklin chapter hou se some of the men were still around there. The alumni were there and I had a chance to find out some information that wonld be worth while. So far as actual availability is concerned our delegate ha s ju s t said that they did not own the house b ecause it would be impos s ible to live there They own a place where they could build a house if they had some money, and it would be a most admirable thing to carry out; but at the same time it is simply an investment, and a good one at that. I hope soon that in a p lace like Philadelphia we will have a house for the men to go to and come to , for th e re was a good bunch came and went during the war period and Franklin Chapter se rved well in that capacity in keeping th eir house open. They are to be commended for that. The Masonic oppo s ition in this chapter has been rather unfortunate It is being overcome to some extent. I am glad to know that, and gradually I think it will grow out so you will not have that opposition, and they can get evidently probably some support from Missouri . I am g lad to know that the new members are instructed in the constitut ion and by-laws , and in times past some of our best support from the Grand Officers has come from Franklin Chapter, particu larly the Grand Editor in securing subscriptions and material for the Journal. That part of it is to be commended. At one time I think that Franklin Chapter had tw ice as many subscriptions to the Journal as any other fraternity. I want to a k about the membership during the pa s t year. Is it not true that a number of a lumn i men were initiated as members of Franklin Chapter; that is, men that had no connection with the school whatever?

J. D. STUCKEY (Franklin) : I think t hree men .

Grand Pres. GROVES : Was it only three?

]. D. STUCKEY (Franklin) : That is my remembrance.

Grand Pres. GROVES : I got the information from somewhere that it was about six.

J. D. STUCKEY: No. I am not sure about that.

Grand Pres. GROVES ·: Well, I am not sure. Anyhow there were a number of men not connected with the institution.

]. D. STUCKEY: Yes. They had been former re s idents.

Grand Pres. GROVES: According to our present con stitution and bylaws they are not eligible to membership . Did they really render any service?

]. D. (Franklin) : One has been very active, financially and otherw1se, and the others have ·been of assistance in giving u s advice, and if anything ever developed in the property we are sure of more assistance.

Grand Pres. GROVES: There will be no objection to changing this orcier a little bit and taking the next chapter, because Bro. Peycke may want to look over his report a little bit. So the next chapter is vVisconsin . We will hear your r eport, Bro. Jenks .

REPORT OF WISCONSIN CHAPTER

BY FRANK }ENKS, Delegate.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Let me put in a little bit of information here. Sometime ago we esta blished a questionnaire which should be used by the various chapters. It has been in use quite a bit. Most of that was used, however, before the initiation, and he was examined in open meeting before initiation. A great many of the chapters carried it out. Some had it longer and some shorter, and it was quite successful. Some of the men worked very conscientiously the week before the examination getting ready to pass I think that Brother Ekblaw's idea could be carried out by explaining what we have done heretofore. Now, that probably has not been carried out last year in places where it had been formerly before the war, so that if we can go back and p ick up what we had and tell it it would answer what you have in mind and would be a good thing. Probably a committee could be appointed to take that up where it was left off and save some time .

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I wi sh to go into it a little bit further. I have nothing in mind at all except I think that we are fall ing short. It has been brought up in past conclaves about the lack of our continuity. If we should revive the traveling counsellor, as most of the delegates favor , why wouldn ' t it be a good policy to make one of his duties the que stioning of each chapter or the examining of each chapter on the fact s that would be brought out on thi s catechi sm . Mrs. Ekblaw is a Gamma Phi Beta. They have a member that comes around and every member has to stand an examination. It lasts two days, and part of that is given over to the alumni chapter. They mus t be there as far as they can and take and stand part of the examination and renew the old histories and traditions and time . Now , why in Acacia cannot we do the same thing if we have a traveling counsellor? I will leave that thought with you now , because I have heard it time and time again in the conclave that a delegate will come here and doesn ' t know

the things that happened at the beginning of the year from which he comes and knows nothing about the past history of Acacia; yet he comes here legislating permanently on what we have done. Now, that is a criticism of our fraternity policy which I think should be changed if we adopt the traveling counse1lor again.

G. C. FORRESTER (Michigan) : I would like to tell a little story that I am not particularly proud of concerning my chapter that brings ont this point quite forcibly. A year ago last summer Dr. Marshall came out from Montana. He came up to the house and rang the bell, and when the man that met him at the door came he introduced himself as Dr. Marshall, and this man didn't connect the name with the founder at all, and in introducing himself he referred to his picture on the wall of our living room and said that was hi s picture. Still the man didn't know who the doctor was. It certainly caused the chapter a lot of embarrassment, and it seems to me that such things would be remedied by a thorough examination . We have one which we believe is altogether inadequate, and I think this is the one that Bro . Grove s refers to which has been in use for some time .

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I would like to advise the delegates here that these chapters each have the names of the charter members hanging up on the wall where all the initiates may see them. How many of you delegates have that in your chapter s ? Every chapter has it where they can see it and yet I will warrant that not a s ingle one of the delegates could name the charter members , of th e ir own chapter I couldn't do it. I could once, but I couldn't do it now .

Grand Pres. GROVES: I can.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: Brother Groves says that he can . Wouldn't that be a good thing to put right into the catechi sm?

R. R. BRANDENTHALER (Washington): In regard to this examination, we started a custom this las t year after the first four or five were initiated and had an examination. Three of the men did not pass and we held them over until the next quarter and had no trouble at all . That was carried on the year previous to the examination and it worked out very fine with us.

Grand Pres. GROVES : An incident happened a little different from what it was in Michigan . I know one member that was initiated in a chapter who had plenty of zeal to start out with, and not long after an alumm came to the house that he had never met and in several cases he was able to go to the door and meet them and call them by name. It was some surpri se to the old men who had not been able to be there for sometime. In the first place they had the pictures displayed where they could find them. He knew who the man was, what he was doing and what he looked like frorn his picture so he didn''t have to have an introduction. I hope that will be extended . I would be glad to ass ign that to the Grand Counsellor, or a committee, or whatever your disposition of it is to be later on.

The alumni activity at Wisconsin is particularly to be commended. They have a method whereby they keep in touch with their alumni for most everything they want, and if you don ' t know how to do it, find out from this chapter and a few other s I wi ll mention later on. It gets results.

campus activity is very good. I had an opportunity of vlS!ting W1sconsm Chapter at a t1me when I could see them at their best and also at their worst. There was no call whatever for genera l or general improvement. The men were there to do it and they did it. If they continue as I saw them we would have no criticism whatever from that angle.

Grand Pres. GROVES .: Is there anything else before we proceed with the report from Minnesota?

(Report of Minnesota, Tracy J. Peyck, Delegate.)

(Report of Missouri Chapter, by W . E. Crowe, Delegate.)

REPORT OF CORNELL CHAPTER.

BY R. B. MIHALKO, Delegate.

Grand Pres. GROVES: In connection with the chapter house I note that Cornell has moved out of their original house and offered it for sale, and I am told that their equity in the house will be fraternity history, so if the transaction is only completed probab ly Cornell won't own any house. They are renting one for next year which seems to be adequate, and they have an offer which I think would be ample to run the tab le without any outside men.

The growth has been phenomenal because heretofore they have had a too small chapter and this year they have a large chapter, and they have so surprised some of their alumni they don't know what t?; think of their Acacia chapter. Their alumni is back of them for anythmg they want. Now, some of you other chapters please take that home to yourselves that the alumni is back of the chapter because they have shown that they could do something for the chapter itself and make it a large chapter, so if you want to get support you know how to gain it.

T HE LEGISLATIVE H A LL OF AC A CIA

Teufel, Coy, Alsin, Moore, Buzzard, Linkert, Mihalko, Crowe, Jenks, Peycke, Stuckey, Kadyk. Cook.

22 THE ACACIA JOURNAL

THE "HOMECOMER" WHO DIDN'T GO HOME

To Purdue goes the honor of being the first to umake" the Journal with an original illu s tration. The Editor is cur ious to know who will be next.

REPORT OF PURDU E CHAPTER.

BY H. W. LINKER'!', Delegate.

Grand Sec. EKBI;A W: I never miss an opportunity to commend the work that Purdue has done and is doing. I cannot believe that year after year Purdue has any higher class of men than the others in the fraternity and in our chapters, but I do believe that they have an organization over ' at Purdue that contains the -ideals of Acacia that no other chapter has had \i\Thenever you drop into Purdue, no matter what you ask of them or apply to them for, they measure up immediately. I have never seen anything like it. It appears in every branch of activity . You can count on Purdue every time . Now, why is that? They have the right kind of an organization working out there and they are perpetuating it there. And Purdue is not the only one that has improved within the last two or three years. Wisconsin has done something, but always Purdue measures up. I don't believe it is because in Indiana they raise a better breed of men than they do in Caiifornia or I ew York or Illinois, but because they have the right kind of organization out there , and I believe that every delegate could well talk to Purdue about the matter of the organization of the a lumni and about the matter of the question of their finances and their activities, because I can't see why it is that Purdue shou ld come rolling along every time and get across with every activity when the rest of us have such a dickens of a time, because Purdue is not a bigger schoo l than any other.

Grand Pres. GROVES: The comments I have to make on Purdue are very brief because they are on the same lines as have been stated . They have a good house and know how to use it. They have organized alumni support. The chapter activities are good. Their separate account with the Grand Fraternity should be estab lished at once and kept up to go with the re.:;t of the big things. The chapter books are good and the card index is most commendable and their co- operation with the Grand Fraternity has been necessarily of the best. I think there is a grand examp l e of a continuous plan of work. I think that is the secret of Purdue that each man hands it on to the other and gives him the spirit of work that keeps things going. We have time for one more chapter if we hurry along. Chicago Chapter.

REPORT OF CHICAGO CHAPTER

BY R. C . BuzzARD, Delegate

Grand Treas. HUNTINGTON (Acting President): I believe that luncheon is about ready so I will entertain a motion to adjourn and we will meet here again at tvvo o'clock.

Tuesday Afternoon Ses sion, 1:30 o 'clock, Se ptember 21 , 1920

Upo n th e roll being called of th e attending delegat es the following members were absent: Kansas, Cornell, Colorado, Oklahoma and Peoria.

Grand Pres. GROVES: At the close of the session at noon we had had th e rep ort from the Chicago Chapter delegate . I don't know whether you had asked such questions a s you desired or not.

Grand Pres . GROVES: During this past year Chicago is to be comm ended for getting a goodly bunch of active young men, but they were really tak en up with knifing the others . Th ey really established a chapter of Acac ia, but it took time to find out how they were running thing s, how th ey were paying expenses, and everything like that. At the present time, h oweve r , th e outlook seems to be pretty good; that some of our old time traditions can be esta bli sh e d and that they can get back on to a working basis, and it is hoped that soo ner or later we can get enough funds together to estabiish a hot1se at that place As I suggested before, during the summer organization in Chicago 13 chapters were repre se nted during tht s umm er school and a d e legat e on his way to California s topped at Chicago and stopped to dinner, and h e didn't know that the conclave was b e ing held in California because ther e were so many repres e ntatives there at Chicago, and now they have got a house they are better yet. If they don't have one yo u can si mply say that Chicago ha sn't measured up to her opportunitie s. I feel perfectly free to criticize Chicago all I please because I am part of it. If there is anything you want to hand out to us, let's have it. Are we ready for the next chapter?

REPORT OF YALE CHAPTER

BY R. 0 HARPOLE, Delegate

I would like to state that we have a system in Yale whereby no perso n s, except those in sc ientific sc h ools, can live in fraternity homes and th e refore the so-call ed Greek question wiU not frighten us becau se we are after a different typ e of man. Even the m en who come to Yale who are members of other Greek fraternities take no active part in the fraternity life there in school. It is a situation entirely different from what you have in the middle we t. Those men come there and see the life carried on, not in homes as in the west, but the meetings are held in the school. There are centers of abo ut o ne meeting night in, the week. It isn 't the ordinary frat ern ity lif e . Our aims and ideals if we can go forward in lif e will more r ep re se nt the lif e in Acacia than any other mat erial in Ya le can possibly represent it. It is our hope and tru st that we shall be freed from thi s antiGreek legislation.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Are you r ea dy for the next chapt e r?

REPORT OF COLUMBIA CHAPTER

BY R. C . MooRE, Delegate

Grand Pres. GROVES : I have had th e pleasure of visiting Columbia r ece ntly, although I s h o uld have liked to have been there during the schoo'l year. There are a few things rather outstanding here. In the first place, for a numb er of years they did not have any hou se whatever. Yes, they had a

house, but no table It seems that th ey had th e idea that if th ey had a proper they might have a table and a good chapter. The attitude they are takmg IS commendable and we h ope that soo ner or later that will be realized . The building fund I think will be forthcoming . I think there is plenty of money in New York City to establish a home if a home is available, and I think ihat sooner or lat er we sha ll have a home there to be proud of and it will function as it should . The chapter should be commended for keeping the house open ·during the war , largely through the efforts of the a l umni , and se rved the purpose during the war per iod

Columbia Chapter i s particularly to be commended this pa s t year on the fact that , although it might hav e been convenient to take in some Greek Letter men, since we passed a by-law vvhich th ey said was uncon s titutional they would live by it anyhow, and I commend them for that. They are going to comply vvith the law and then try to get it rectified. Idea1s at Columbia probably are somewhat diff e rent from the other chapters, but I think v.:e can explain it by saying that in Columbia the emphasis is put on the Masonic work whi l e in others it i s the Masonic fraternity work. This is a Masonic fraternity . ·which one are you going to emphasize? They usually emphasize fraternity Now the question is which one are you to empha s ize? I think there is one of our greatest difficulties.

(Re p or t of Iowa Sta t e C h a pt er b y W. M. Al s in , D e l e g ate )

REPORT OF lOW A CHAPTER.

Bv F. H. Cov, D el ega te.

R. G BUZZARD (Chicago) : Th e Chicago Chapter ha s the officers conduct th e initiation once a year, and that bring s th e relation s hip very clo se between the lodges and the fraternity.

Grand Pres. GROV£S: That is one more chapter in which I had the hon o r of being entertain ed. They have carried on a very active chapter in view of th e fact that they have no house . I have often wondered why as strong a chapter as Iowa ha s n ' t had a house, and why the Iowa State Chapter s hould outstrip them. I think that i s clue to getting the alumni back of them. I am glad to know , however, that rec'ent ly a bui l ding fund has been on foot. I hope it will continue to move until it produce s re s u lts. I am glad to know that you have kept up your relations with the Pan-Hellenic. I am sorry that you hav en 't a r ea l alumni association and hop e that you will have one very soon. You have no co-operation with the chapter advisor.

(Report of Penn State Chapter, by VI. 0. Teufel, Delegate.)

REPORT OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER

Bv

R. R. BRANDENTHALER, Delegate

H. B. HUBBELL (Neb ra s ka): Do you take Greek Letter men?

Grand Pres. GROVES : Sometime past we had the pl eas ure of visitin g vVashington Chapter. However, that was before our r eo rganization for the pre ent year, and I know some thing of th e conditions at the univ ers ity and I know somet hing of the past hi s t ory If the memory of our present delegate on ly goes over a few yea rs the question will have to be answered in the affirmative. If you will read th e rep o rt of the two grand counsellors who visited your chapter you wi ll find they both sa id some very seve re things about initiating men who were n ot Ma s?ns; I hope that day is pc:st. The d el egate we h ad at the conclave last year cl!cln t go back b ecau se h e h1ml self happ ened to be one of the victims.

REPORT OF SYRACUSE CHAPTER

BY R. G. SPR AGUE, Delegat e

Grand P r es . GROVES : I r ece ntly vis ited Syracuse Chapter and hav e been in touch with th e men there f o r so m etim e . For a long time it was mor e o r les s emba rra ssed because it wa s a small chapter and had a sca rcit y o£ material. Syracuse is sometimes c h arac t e ri zed as a poor man 's univ ersity a nd so m e of th e m en who we r e Maso n s could n o t take advantage of Acac ia to liv e in th e Acacia h o u se. The r eco rd o f this chapter during th e war pe riod was. v er y good ind eed Most of th e m en went to th e war except one or two w h o I beli eve we r e o n some kind of re se rve, and one broth er, L o ui e Lind sey, who was on the faculty. The monthly r eports wer e se nt in throughout th e war period, t elling h ow conditions were going in ke'ep ing the h o u se open by th e a iel of o ut s ide people and th e chapter was con sid er ed active throughout the war p e ri od , eve n if th ere were o nly tw o memb e r s pr ese nt. The way th e house was fin a n ce d for a long time was that B r o th er Lindsey bought th e h o u se and so ld it t o th e chapter, becau se he would t ake th eir not e if so m ebody else wouldn't, although I am n ot sure the y wouldn't take it, and when h e f ound that was t oo small he sold th e h ou se a nd bought a n ew o ne . A t th e pr ese nt time they are going into a h o u se that n eeds n o pledges w hat eve r. The y have had an aw ful growth during th e past year, so that th ere is no anxiety about thi s chapter for this c om in g ye ar.

Let us h ea r from the ne x t r epor t.

REPORT OF KANSAS CHAPTER

BY J. W. SKIN NE R, D e legate

Grand Pres. GROVES : I h a d the pleasure o f being at the headquarters all la s t summ er of th e Kansa s Chapter, which is s upp osed to be on e of our la r ge chapt e r s, but o n e complete within it se lf. The past his tory of thi s chapter is very good. A n exce ll ent practice is carried on at this h o u se a nd it doe sn't tak e ve r y long to find a more or less r efining influence th at all of u s mu st accord to the wives and sis t ers and sweethearts and m o thers Th e fin a ncial condition th ere ha s alway s b ee n very good and th e ir co-operati on with th e gra nd fraternity ha s always b ee n ve r y cordial. I don ' t kn o w a s we hav e any r ea l criticism that we can offer about this chapt e r. A t th e same time the y hav en ' t b ee n th e larg es t chapter and haven ' t accompli shed the mos t things, but th ey belong to one of our recently organized c hapt er s

R. G. SPRAGUE (Syrac u se) : I would l ik e to know if the se chapt e r s that have hou se matr on s o r h o u se mothers-do they liv e in the house or n ot?

DE WITT NEIGHBORS (Texas): La s t year we had a lady that came o n e of our dinners. School opened a week before I got up th e re and s h e was living in the h ouse. Th er e was a n o tic ea bl e impro ve ment in the m en that week. It made it like a hom e

Grand Pres. GROVES: That is ju st what it says, a hou se mother. Let u s h ea r from the n ext chapt er, the Texa s Chapter.

REPORT OF THE TE X AS CHAPTER

BY DEVVITT NEIGHBORS, Delegate

Our bigge st probl em in T exas is our isolation We are seve ral hundred mil es from any chapter of Acac ia , and si n ce the J ournal did n ot come out last year we don't get an opportunity o f knowing what th e other chapters are d oing. \Ve are very deeply indebted to th e members of the Illin ois Chapter for many s ugg est ion s and also t o th e Michigan Chapter, but th e r e are those two .c; ource s : we have been cut off from communication, and we certainly f ee l the need of so me kind of trav eling repr ese ntative who can h elp u s o ut by telling us what other chapters of Acac ia are doing on any . particular lin e .

Grand Pres. GROVES: It h as b ee n sometime si n ce I hav e been to the U niv ers ity of Texas, but I know th eir situation. I know th ey are so lid, and I hope as time goes on th a t we can r eall y impr ov e what seems t o be an iso la tion in the Te xas Chapter. Th e prospects hav e always seemed to be very good. The T ex as Chapt e r ha s. a v e ry fine record and had befor e th ey were really in s talled as a chapt er , and I se e no r ea so n f o r r egretting that we have a chapter at that place. In other words, I think that w e started in a localit y where th ey wou ld h elp to incr eas e th e m ember ship in the number of chapters wher e th ey ·belong. I am glad to note that they are making som e effort toward s getting a house and I h ope that th ey will soo n be able to take care of that situation . I am also glad to kn ow that their Maso nic relations are very good. Really th e Masonic relati ons y ou hav e there or what you have carried out, that would be anti-legislation at one time, and a good man y m embers of Ac ac ia are reall y wearing p ins that indicate higher degrees in Masonry . I am also glad to kn ow that the scholarship is high, and I know of n othing that I really want to cricitise the chapt er about, exce pt in a general way probably the y hav e bee n a little bit s low in making progress. Now, if they can p ep up a little bit and come al ong with so me of the thing s that have been sugg es ted at the conclave I can r ecomm end them very highly. I s there anything further before I ca ll for another rep o rt? Th e Oklahoma Chapter is not h ere to report. However , we h ope that late r on we will have some report conc e rning that. I as sur e you th e re must be some r easo n or the delegate would be h e re.

G rand Pres . GROVES : I s th e re anything further befor e we h ea r from the next chapt e r? We will h ea r from Indiana .

REPORT OF INDIANA CHAPTER

BY R. C . H ATF IELD, D e l ega t e

R. C. HATFIELD (Indiana ) : I first want to tell yo u we are g lad to be h e r e Th e Acacia frat e rnity sp irit ha s been up on us now for th e past f our yea r s and a half but th e fraternity of Acac ia has b ee n away during that time. In co nsid e ring my report I will a sk you to bear in mind that we h ave been Acac ians only s inc e May 22 nd of thi s yea r and we had on ly three weeks lef t o f the college year. During thi s tim e w e have been very bu sy w ith activities and the personal affairs o f the frat ernit y . We are not h ere so much to sp ea k as t o li s t en a nd learn, and I can assure yo u that B r ot h er Qui nn and I hav e had our eyes and ea r s ope n and have tak en a good man y

not es. I ha ve three pages. One lab eled "q u es ti on s," another labe led "s uggestions," and th e o th e r the outstanding rem ar k s of th e fraternity.

Grand Pres . GROVES : Last sp ring when it was found that conditions warranted a chap t e r a t Indi a n a we tried t o get o ur vice-president to hustle along and inv es t iga te th e situation, a n d h e wrote me th a t h e could do n o thing and would lik e me t o tr y m y hand; I told Brother Huntington that he was half way clown th e r e and a n Acac ian a n d to go clown and see whether they n eeded a ch apte r o r n o t. He told me he would try, and soon after he wrote me an exte n sive lette r , telling m e what h e had found down th e re and that they we r e to have a c h ap t er there Now, Indiana ha s been wor king all thi s year, and th ey were so ca r ef ul a bo ut se nding in a petition and h av ing it turned d ow n that they waited until they were entirel y r eady for it. I think t h at we have no regrets whatever for es tablishing a ch apte r th e r e at Indi;.ma through their past r eco rd s and we hope th a t we shall hav e non e fr om th e yea r s to come

There a r e so me int e r es tin g thin gs about th e ceremony that I will not try t o go int o a t thi s tim e, but to speak bri efly, th e initi ation ceremony and the get-togeth er of the men a t that place was a foundation in hi st o r y. If you ca lle d a r oll of th e c hapt ers yo u wou ld be surp ri se d h ow many re spond ed a nd h ow lar ge a r oo m it t oo k to accommodate th e Acac ia m en as well as the newly initi ated m en.

I think the statement s hav e been very we ll made a s to t h e co n cliti on s at thi s school. I h ave found a very few things t o cri ti c i ze and a number o f thin gs to comme nd a nd a numb er of thing s to h e lp a long with so as to r earrange their loca l o rg a ni za ti o n s into Acac ian practice s and traditions. I think they wi ll acco mpli sh those things ju s t as fa st as the y can , s howing the r ig ht sp irit , and I think that th e lo n ge r we know th e In dia na Chapter the proude r we may be that we have a n Indiana Chapter.

Gra n d P r es. GROVES: The r epo rt of th e grand president will be g iv en n ext in order. l o, I believe I will change that and h ave th e rei)o rt of th e Gra n d Co un ci l Committee. Brother Secretary will yo u r ead that report?

Grand Sec. EKBLA vV: This is the r epo rt of the G ran d Council.

SOME MALE V AMPS

Coy, Skinner, Neighbors, Oberst, Alsin

1Rrport of <iraub C!!ouuril I

"Grand Council meeting held at Minneapolis September 21st, 1920, at which Brothers Grand President Groves and Grand Treasurer Huntington and Grand Secretary Ekblaw were present. Matters were discussed as follows:

1. The BUDGET. It was unanimous ly agreed to retain the fees and dues as prescribed at the preceeding conclave, except in the matter of the per capita du es, which were raised $10 per year in two installments of $5.00 each. The f ees and dues are as follows consequently: Charter Fee $50, Charter Initiation $20, Initiations $10, Per Capita Dues $10 per y ea r in two installments of $5.00 each.

The estimated rec e ipts for the ensuing year are as follows: Initiations $2750, Per Capita Tax $3750, Pins $550, Journals $100, ong Books $60, Interest $50, a total of $7260 estimated receipts.

- The es timated expenditures are as follows: The Vice-Presid ent traveling expenses and salary $500, traveling expenses $1000. Grand Secretary Salary $1000, expenses $200. President, no salary and $50 expenses; Editor $300' salary, $75 expenses. The Trea s ur e r, no salary and $15 expenses; Journal $4000; Endowment $25'; Conclave $4000, total of $11,275 as the estimated disbursements for the e nsuing year.

Th e second it em is in the natur e of recomm e ndations, and they are as follows: First , the d evelop m ent of National Organization and Unification as the chief aim for the ensuing year in th e Na ti onal Organization and in the various chapters.

Second: Dual chapter r ep re se ntation at the conclave

Third: R e-es tablishment of chapter inspection by the Grand Vice - President.

Fourth: Incr eased tenure of office of grand officers, with alternations.

In exp lanation I wish to say that th e officers will alternate. The increased t e nure of offic e will be th e increas e of from one to two years in tenure of office, with half of the officers elected one year and one-half the next.

Fifth: More frequent m ee tings of the Grand Council without chapter ref e rendum vote as at present provided.

Sixth: Adherence to th e Uniform Sy s tem of Accounting.

Seventh: Clo se a dh e r e nce to th e Ritual.

Eighth: Inclusion of Catechism within the Ritual.

Ninth: Compilation of Chapter Directory and prep a ration of National Directory.

Tenth: Adoption of F e bruary 1st as the beginning of the fiscal year in Acacia instead of May 1s t as at the pr ese nt tim e for the c hapt e rs and the conclave period for the National.

Eleventh: Application of the War Fund to th e En dowment Fund. These are all r eco mmendation s , a nd they are resp ec tfully submitted.

Grand Sec. EKBLAW: Mr . President, I move that the report be received and placed on file for future consideration.

C. R. OBERST (Ohio) : I will seco nd it

Br et hr e n:

Th e report o_f yo ur Grand President h as b ee n r e duc e d to the bri efes t posSible_ form. and will be presented primarily as a li s t of r eco mm endations for your cons1derahon. Our l as t co ncl ave was characterized as a more or l ess unit e d effort toward r eorga ni za tion of chapter lif e and r eco nstruction of Acacia tradiition s an d id ea ls. Th e pa s t year has be e n d e vot e d to th e accomplishment of these purposes. Th is conCla ve should b e la rg e ly d evote d to the adjustment of chapters for r e- es t a bli s hing nati o n a l organization.

1: The Grand Conclave must r es um e it s usual delegated authorit y, and our basic l aws a nd r eg ulation s must be r es pect e d and o b eye d.

2: Our chapter growth during th e past yea r h as b ee n commendable, yet conservative. Our twin b aby chapters of Oklahoma and Indian a were established only afte r cons ider a bl e and prol o nged inv es tig a tion and deliberation. The sa me care s hould be exe rci se d in further chapter ex p a n s ion. Furth e r still, some of our chapters mu s t m eas ure up to our standards or cease to ex is t.

3: More attention s h o uld be g iv e n to our Alumni Chapt ers, and more effecti ve means a d opted to in crease th e number and activities of s uch organizations.

4 : One o f th e pr e r e qui s ites in chapter social life is th e Chapter Home . Abo ut one-half of our chapters n ow own th ei r ow n h o m es, and some of these arc inadequ ate. In some cases no building fund ex is ts for securing hom es. This it em shouid com m and th e attention of eve ry chapter not adequately pro v id ed wit h a hom e

5: There is urgent n ee d for improv e m e nt in chapter official s. Better continuity s hould be es t ab lished with apprentice officials, who can thus be pr e p a r e d to assume any office which may become vacant

6: Chapter m emo ri a l s should b e provid e d for all service men . This should be of a permanen t n atu r e, with proper notation s for tho se who p a id the s upr e me price for the cause of humanity.

7 : Our constitution a nd by-laws are somewhat inadequat e, both in their observance a nd in their provisions. They s hould b e so amended as to provide (1) for dual r epresen t a tion at conclaves; (2) incr ease d activity of the Grand Council; ( 3) long er tenure a nd alteration in office for the grand officers, an d ( 4) a thorough sys t e m of chapter instructi o n and in spect ion by comp ete nt officers.

8: Our ritu a l should be mastered a nd accurately followed in our initiation. The va lu e of a n y ritual d epe nds upon it s permanence and not upon its fl ex ibility No basic changes s hould be mad e a t thi s time.

9: The f r ate rnit y publi catio n s s hould b e re s um ed in th e form of a journ a l which shou ld r eac h a ll ac tive chapter m e n a nd as m a ny of th e alumni as pay a subscr ipti on fee. A s m a ll bulletin s hould be iss u ed and se nt to all Acacia men, giv in g exact a nd essen ti a l information concerning l eg is l a tion and the act iviti e s of the c h apte rs itnd of the Grand Fr a t e rnity. Eac h c h apte r s h o uld is s u e a bulletin once or twice annually, d evoted to fraternity an d chapter n ews , a nd sent to chapte r a lumni , t o other ch a pt ers a nd to p a s t an d p r ese n t grand officers. Mor e interest s h o uld b e t aken in other publicati ons which a dv ance th e cause of M asonry.

10: Int e r-fraternity r e l a tions s hould be impro ved, particularly in some of the c h apters w h ere m e mb e r s hip in Pan-Hellenic s hould be taken up. C lo se r rel ations shou ld also b e maintain e d b etw ee n th e various c h apte r s of our own fraternity.

11: O ur c h apte r a dvi so r system s hould be continued a nd ex t e nd e d for b et ter se rvi ce to the fr a t e rnity and to th e var iou s chapters. Th e recently published plan of th e int er -fr a t erni ty conference s hould b e consu l t e d and l arge ly adopted.

12: Ou r newly e l ecte d m e mb e r s s hould b e g iv e n a more thorough tr a ining in th e essent ia l facts a nd traditions of Masonry an d o f Acac ia A committee should be appoin t e d to prepare s uit ab le pl a n s a nd m ate rial s for s u c h trainin g

Having se r ved this fraternity as a m embe r of th e Grand Co un c il since our e ntry int o the World War, yo ur G rand President now asks to be re l iev e d of s ucb 1 a nd exten d s fraternal goo d w is h es to tho se who h ave labor e d w ith him and to those who s h a ll t ake up the wo rk.

These a r e submitte d as r eco mm endat io n s to be acted upon furth e r What is your pleasure?

R. G . BUZZARD (C hi cago) : I mo ve that th e r epo rt be accepted and placed on file for f urth er reference.

E. H. ·wEL CH (C alifornia) : I seco nd the m o tion .

GR AND PRES.: Those in favo r will say aye . Contrary, no . It is so o rd e r ed.

Grand P r es . G R OVES : Th e n ex t business in orde r is the r e port of th e Gra nd Sec r e tary. Brother Ekblaw.

"YE HOSTS"

This bunch was o n the job every minute at Minneapolis

1Rrport of tqr

To the Thirteenth Annual Conclave, Greeting.

The year that has passed since our l ast ·Grand Conclave h as been characterized by chapter reorganization throughout our fraternity. To rehabilitate themselves after the war, the chapters have been forced to adhere a lm ost so lely to loc al reconstruction. and to devote themselves almost exclusively to their own chapter affairs. This r econstruction and reorganization have been successfu ll y accomplished in most of the chapters, though some have yet much progress to make before they are firmly and safe l y re-established.

In this period of reconstruction, the feeling of national strength and purpose and unity, which Acacia had so carefully fostered and achieved, was temporarily subordinated to chapte r concern. From Harvard to California, the Acac ians, amo s t a ll new to the obligations, the traditions , the ideals of their fraternity, labored under exceptionally difficult conditions to regain the proud position for their chapters which they had held before the war.

- Needless to say, national affai r s were relegated to the background, until the chapter business was firmly r e-estab li shed . As a consequence, the Grand Counci l has found it difficult to maintain the close touch with the chapters, which in ordinary and normal times is so eminent l y necessary and desirable. Your G r and Secretary never despaired of the Fraternity's regaining its national strength, and his faith was well repaid by the numerous l etters that began to pour in during the closing months of this year. They were conclusive evidence that finally the old spirit of Acacia was awakening to its former vigor and activity.

Not all the chapters were too engrossed with local matters to give some thought to national affa ir s, but a lmo st without exception, national interest was merely sporadic The correspondence with the chapters dealt a lmo st entirely with local problems, and local difficulties. The major activ ity of each chapter was naturally and necessarily engaged in self -pr eservation and self-renewal.

NATIONAL REORGANIZATION

The deplo:able inadequacy of our scheme of reorganization was never so apparent as during this last year. Our constitution and by-laws must be r ev ised so that definite continuity in administ ration and purpose and ideals and traditions be possible; so that cooperation between chapters, between chapters and the grand council, and beween the chapters and th e various members, be effective ly and persistently achieved; and that the support of our l arge alumnus body be enlisted in our behalf

With your permission, I wish to restate my zealous r ecommendation to your Grand Conclave last yea-r, when, after my term of office as Grand President, I wa s acute ly conscious of the need of national reorganization. To that Conclave I spoke as follows:

"I would en l arge the Grand Counc il to include the present Executive Board and a Senat e to be composed of the Chapter Advisor of each chapter and the various District Advisors. The Chapter Advisors would be chosen by the chapter-active members and alumni-and app rov ed by the Grand Conclave. They shou ld hold office as long as they served satisfactor ily to the chapter and the Fraternity. In the Conclave they should have equa l franchise with the regular delegates. The regular delegates from each chapter shou ld be the Venerable Deanelect, who would presumably return to his chapter to impart to it the enthusi.asm, inspiration, and l essons of the Conclave. The expenses of the Chapter Advisor! should be reimbursed by the Grand Treasury; of the chapter delegates . by the chapter The expenses of the District Advisor shou ld be bo.rne .proportwnately by the chapters of his district . . By this increased representation 111 the Conclave

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the activ e chapter would be fully and wisely informed of national affairs; and the return of the Chapter Advisor to successive Conclaves would promote continuity, and prevent repetition of discussion and legis l ation.

REVISION OF CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

"Such radical reorganization naturally necessitates a complete revision of the constitution and by-laws, but such revision is sore l y need e d if Acacia is to bt reconstruct e d on a more substantia l and enduring foundation. A complete codihcation of th e l aws enacted, framed by previous Grand Conc l aves, and revised to conform to th e needs and id ea l s of reconstruction is essentia l to our progress.

"To tamp e r with our organic l aw is p e rilous and fraught with sinister possibil iti es, unl ess th e r ev is ion be accompanied with conscientious regard for the good of th e whole Fraternity, cordial veneration for the ideals and achievements of the past, and k ee n and Broad vision for the future. With the de e pe s t sense of responsi.bility only may we launc h ourselves upon this important work.

"In thi s fundament a l r eo rganization, great care must be taken to prescribe d e finite l y what constitutes Acacia, what constitutes an Acacian, and what the status of eve ry member of every chapter, active, a lumnu s, .or honorary , s h a ll be. It is my sincere b e lief that once a man takes upon hims e lf the so le mn oath of ou r brotherhood, he remains an Acacian forever. Though h e be suspended or expelled from th e privileges and rights of ou r Frat e rnity, he still wi ll be an Acacian. Whethe r this c o nc e pt be right or wrong, I know from carefu l perusal of the pages of our publication that many of our most devoted members have not been clear in their definiti o n of m e mbership. I firmly believe that once we are agreed upon th ese fundamental d e finitions, many of our mooted questions will answer themselves, many of our prob l ems so lv e themselves. The l ong-debated and still impending questions of alumni and facu lty and honorary m e mbership, of dual membership , of Acacia c lassification, and chapter administration dep e nd in the main upon these definitions."

At your Conclave l ast year a permanent committee on Constitution and ByLaws was appointed to consist of Brother B. L. Kirk as chairman, and former Grand President s Brother Ge o r ge E. Fra zier a nd Brot h er Francis W. Shep a rdson During the pa s t y ea r this committee has been great ly hindered in its work by the disorganization of the Frat e rnity; I would recomm e nd that this committee be r e tained as a p e rman e nt committee on jurisprud e nc e, with additional members. Our organic l aw ne eds thorough revision and codification; but whatever re vision is made mu s t be done thoughtful l y, carefu ll y, and conscient iously by men who have the Fraternity at heart and who a re w e ll schoo l ed in its histor y, its traditions, and its ideals.

GRAND OFFICERS

I would further recomm e nd that the tenure of office of your Grand Council be extended to two years, and that there be alternation of election, so that certain of your Grand Officers be retained ea ch year. I shou ld advise that the G rand Pr es ident, and the G r and Treasur e r be el ected one year, and the Grand VicePresident, the Grand S ec r e tary, and the Grand Editor the next. I would further advise that they take office on February first, so that an experienced Grand Counci l be functioning at the beginning of the schoo l year when the chapters need th e most and the best help and advice.

ALUMNI SUPPORT

The matter of alumn i support can not b e too vehemen tly urged. If a ll our many a lumni were giving only a li ttle of th e ir tim e and thought and money to our fraternity, how pow e rfu l we shou ld be! How best to arouse the a l umni to a stronger sense of l oya l support, and h ow best to wake the c hapter s to the streng th which they may expect from their alumni is one of the important prob l ems which this Conclave should so lve. Every chapter shou ld have its a lumnu s organizat ion.

ADDITIONS TO DISTRICTS

Incidentally, Oklahoma shou ld be added to District No 5, and Indiana to Distr ict No. 3 . (See page 43, Report of The War Conference, h e ld in Chicago, Illinoi s, May 31, 1918.)

TRADITIONS AND INSIGNIA

During the war period and the time of reconstruction following our Fr aternity and customs have suffered woefully. An almost total 'loss of our old trad1ttons, and an utter disregard for or indifference to the finer sentiment of fraternalism inculcated by the ritual our Fraternity, characterizes this period, and w_e take pr?mpt steps to renew and to preserve the intangible bnt e?sc':t1a l feelm?" of chivalrous fraternalism that is our ideal. By slight, but s1gmficant, observances of certain fraternity customs and anniversaries we can read1ly promote chapter ambit ion to safeguard our hi storic landm arks.

At a Grand Counci l meeting held at the Illinoi s Chapter House in the time of former Grand Presi.dent Shepardson's effective le ade r sh ip of the fraternity, he suggested that the vanous chapte rs of the fraternity more carefully observe our Founders' Days. He stated that in his op inion, National Founders' Day should be made an anniversary of national import to every Acacian, and that it should be made a home anniversary in every Acacian's home so that the families and the friends might become imbued with our true Acacia on that anniversary the alumni and faculty members of a chapter residing near the chapter should entertain the active men in their homes. Each chapte r 's Founders' Day should be celebrated a t the chapter hou se, and none but Acacians be gathered together at that time within the chapter home to renew interest and enthus iasm in the chapter and in the Fraternity as a whole

Nothing doe s so much to inculcate a warm an d tender fraternal feeling as the singing of our fraternity songs, and your G1·and Secretary would r ecommend that every chapt e r inaugurate the custom of s ingin g at the dinn er table in eve ry chapter home. Our Fraternity has need of more songs; those that we have are splendid and lend themselves exceeding well t o our anniversaries and our gatherings; but the present membership should be urged to comp.ose new songs. Our supply of song books is limited to l ess than one hundr ed, and I would respectfully urge that this Conclave authorize the publication of a new series:

In order further to develop a fraternal sentiment, your Grand Secretary believes that the time is imminent when the fraternity should adopt new colors which would yield themselves more effectively to fraternity purposes. He has repeatedly suggested that some shade of red be adopte d so that it could be used in effective decoration at dinners, banquets, parties, and other ev e nts on our calendars. This color would be in conformity with the corner stones of our pins. We should adopt a flower suitab l e for decorative purposes throughout as much of the year as possible, which would harmonize with our colors. All these should be embodied in our ritu a listic work so that they become a part of the happy memories of every Acacian's active service in his fraternity.

A still further incentive to unified tradition in the chapters and in the Fraternity would be the adopt ion of stationery, uniform in color, design, and decoration. I would sugges t three types of stationery for chapter use:

1. A plain business stationery with the name ''Acacia Fraternity," and the name of the c h apter with the address at the top of the l et t er h ead and in the corner of the envelope;

2. A personal busin .ess form with the crest in the center of the page;

3. A purely personal stationery with the pin in th e corner of the page.

Our insignia merits our closest attention. Our pin has become so well standardized that most of the members are r eluctant to wear any but the regular pin with pearl s and garnets; this is as it be. Yo':lr Grand. Secretary does not favor the adoption of any copy or of our pm m ap.Y for any pu:pose-such as a sisters' pin. He cons1der that a rec ogmtwn pm or desirable to be worn by the a lumm , to whom the wearmg of the regular pm IS sometimes impracticable. This rosette or pin should be modest and unobtrusive, and should be worn in the coat l apel.

Your Grand Council will probably b e called upon to r eaward the contract for the manufacture of the pins this year. Your Grand knows f_ull well that the pin situation has been yery this. year, . but th1s b ee n due 111 lar ge measure to unavoidable and unmt entwna l d1fficult1es over wh1ch no one has had control, and for which no one is to blame.

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PUBLICATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Much to th e di sappoin tm ent of you r Grand Secretary, The Journal has no t appeared this year. The r easons for thi s ha ve been many an d unavoidable, but at this time an iss u e of Th e Journal for r eco rd purposes is in pr ess and s hould be re ady for de livery at this Conclave. This Journ a l is in th e nature of a year book, and will includ e the proceedings of o ur last Conclave and the reports from the various c h apte r s thi s year.

The publication of several issues of Th e Journ a l involves the h eav ies t expe nse th at th e fraternity ha s to bear, and this f ac t must always be considered in provisions which look to th e issue of seve r a l numbers.

The Frat erni t y publications s hould serve two purposes; both of these purpo ses are of paramount, and perhaps equa l, importanc e Th e first of the se purposes is the maintenance of a record of all the import a nt occurrences within the Fr ate rnity and all the matter r e l evant to its hi s tory and its development. The second purpose is service as a medium of exc h ange between the Grand Council and the chapters, a nd between the var iou s chapters, so that a spirit of cooperation and nation a l unity be fostered and maintained. Whether or not th ese two purp oses can best be se rv ed by one publication or by two, this Conclave should decide.

If th e funds of th e frat ernity warrant, a manua l for the u se of th e various chapter officers should be compo sed and published. Only by such a manual of duti es and obligations and c u stoms can we expec t to create a uniform procedure and conduct of c hapt e r a ffairs throughout th e fraternity.

Another v ital need which is of more p-ressing imp o rtance th an anything else at this time, is th e comp il at ion and publication of a frat ern ity dir e ctory, which shall include a d irectory of the members in each chapter, an alphabetical directory of a ll th e members in the Fraternity, and a geographical dir ecto ry of all the m e mber s. This directory must be begun within the chapters for the ensuing year. Every c h apte r sho ul-d make it an it em of primary business to compile this rec or d b efo r e th e first of January, so th a t the national directory m ay be publish e d b efo r e th e e nd o f the yea r-th e soone r the better.

A lim it ed number of our constitution and by -l aws-i ss u e 1915-is still availabl e, but a t the c l ose of thi s Conclave th ey will probably all h ave b ee n distribut e d. At the very ea rli es t possible moment after th e re v is ion a nd codification of the constitution and by- l aws, and the adopt ion by th e r e f e r end um vote of the chapters of any l eg is lati o n which may be enacted a t this Conclave, a new iss ue of the constitution and by-laws s hould come from the press.

Th ese are th e most impoTtant s ug ges ti ons r ega rding publication s, but your Grand Secretary would r espectfu ll y insist that every chapter assume th e duty this coming year of gathering togeth e r all The Journal s of past issues, an d all the numb ers of past c h ap t er publications, th at ca n possibly be obtained; so that the fil es of th ese publications may be comp.Jete. This is a r ea l need; eve ry chaplter a ppoint so m e ac ti ve, conscie ntiou s m embe r to this work. It is a labor that will r equi r e much tim e a nd much thought and much correspondence with th e alumni.

Your Grand Secretary would further recommend th a t eve ry c h ap ter deve lop a oo rre spon d ence wit h eve ry other c h ap t e r, for the exc h a n ge of id eas, fo •r the dev e lopm e nt of a st r o ng er national feeling, and for a broader und ers tanding of the diff ere nt conditions at the various chapters.

THE WAR FUND AND ENDOWMENT FUND

Most of th e chapters h ave failed utterly in th e prosecution of their War Fund Drive. Only Purdue, Columbia, and Ohio State have thus far succeeded in rai s ing th ei r quotas. Your Oo ncla ve la s t year r eco mmend e d that this War Fund Driv e s h o uld be continued until every chapter ha s. rais e d its quota. Your Grand S ec r e tary r ecommen d s that th e proceeds of thi s War Fund Drive be no w diverted to th e Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund h as langui s hed these many years, and th e total sum has not yet r eac hed two thousand dollars This is a deplorable defici e ncy , and one which we sho uld seek to correct as nearly as possible . W ·ith a considerable surplus in -our tr easury this yea r , would it not be wise to appropriate part of our savings to th e Endowment Fund?

UNIFORM ACCOUNTING

In the matter of unifo r m accoun t ing the chapters differ widely. Some of the chapter u tterly disregard the ru l ing of the past Grand Conclaves which have provided for a uniform system of accounting True, the system is somewha t cumbersome and is not always easi ly hand l ed by new men. Your Grand Secretary, however, maintains that it is a workab l e system and that the financial affairs of the Fra t ernity wou l d be materia ll y bettered by a strict adherence to t h e system which we have. ·

Brother Landrum of Ohio State has worked fait h fu ll y t h is year in making such r evisio n s as he consi·ders advisable, and your Grand Secretary hopes tha t this Conclave will adopt the revisions which Brother Landrum suggests, and recommends that your Grand Council put the new system into effect at t he beginning of the fiscal year.

CHANGES IN THE FISCAL YEAR

Your Grand Secretary be li eves t h at it is inexpedient to co ll ect the per capita dues for the first semester: on December 1st, . and for t h e second semester on May 1s t. He be li eves that the Fraternity wou ld be served best by changing these dates to Febru<1.ry 1st and Ju l y 1st, and I wou ld respectfu ll y r ecommend tha t th is Conclave consider this change.

The Grand Secretary's ledger s h ows t h e fo ll owi n g summa r y of chap t e r accounts with the Grand Secre t a r y:

These balances will not agree in many cases, with the chapter. statements, because none of the chapters have furnished the Grand Secretary w1th the Jata necessary for him to make an accurate statement, and h e has been force to

compile his accounts from direct and indirect sources. The balances are correct, as far as his data permit.

A statement of the reeipts and expenditures for last year follows: Receipts from all Sources I nit

E xpe nditures on Warrants

$7170.75

($4605.87 paid for pins)

$14387.51

$17548.57

O utsta n ding B ills

894.34

CHAPT ER A.D V I SO R

I am firmly convinced that the system of Chapter Advisors is fundamentally sound. Those chapters which have been blessed with a capable Advisor have best weathered the storm of war and reconstruction . It is a system that will benefit our fraternity if continued, and I would respectfully insist that this Conclav e e ndor se the movem e nt to extend the field of Advisor activity.

DI STR I CT COUNS EL LOR

Not only has the Chapter Advisor justified his continuance, but the District Coun se llor h as amply warranted a prolonged trial of the plan inaugurated at the War Conference in Chicago, to divide the Fraternity into districts with a Counsellor over eac h. Brother Lawrence , District Counsellor for the Eastern District, has thoroughly demonstrated the value of a conscientious and capable District Counsellor.

CO N CLU S I O N

In conclu s iOn your Grand Secr e tary wishes to state that he has felt more keenly than any of the chapters, the difficulties through which the chapters and our Fraternity has passed since the war; he realizes better and more fully than any of the chapters, he believes, how disorganized the Fraternity has been and how closely the va rious chapters have attended to their own affairs, without normal consideration o£ national affairs; he appreciates all the help that he has received from the various chapter officers and correspondents who have tried to aid him. He has no criticism to make of any of the chapters or of any of their officers , because he feels th a t their delinqu e ncies and negligences have been due to the inherent difficulties of reconstruction, and not to their lack of interest or to their lack of loyalty

His final word is one of hope that this Conclave will accomplish the n ecessa ry and much' desired program of reconstruction· which he has in mind, and which he believes will suffice to place the Fraternity on a sound substantial basis, and of earest exhortation to all the delegates that th ey think and talk and act for Acacia. I greet you all fraternally,

W. ELMER EKBLA W .

Scottish Rite Cathedral, Wednesday morning, Sept. 22, 1920

Grand Pres. GROVES: At the session today we will have a number of Irregular things to begin with.

REPORT OF OKLAHOMA CHAPTER

BY L. E. BEATTIE, Delegate

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I would like to call attention to the excellence of Brother Beattie's report. He was not an alternate delegate, but he was so well prepared on the affairs of his Fraternity, without going to the house, he came here and made this report. It is a singular thing that a lay member in the fraternity can give a report like that.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Are there any other questions? The history of the Oklahoma Chapter goes back quite a bit. Brother Beattie did not go into that very much. The club was organized quite a while ago, and for two or three years our Past Grand Vice-President, Brother Fay, who was killed a little over a year ago in an accident, a member of the Kansas ChapBrother Fay visited this club twice and reported favorably for having a chapter. Vvhen the war situation came a long Brother Woodward was just ready to visit. He decided there would be no use to visit them then because the war situation was already on and would not warrant a chapter, but he would v:ait till after the war. After the war they again renewed their petition and · asked to have someone visit, and Brother Bakken went down and visited the situation and looked it over and reported the same way that Brother Fay reported twice. Then, the question was whether or not we should go ahead and establish a chapter. Brother Kent wrote me it would be impossible for him to do anything with the situation and asked me if I could do anything, and rather than hold it over for another year I took a week's time and went to Norman and established a chapter there. I had a few things in my mind when I got down there that I proposed to examine very carefully and to make the best of before I allowed them to get by my hands. One of them was the dormitory system. I went there decided that if this proposed chapter was going to live in a dormitory I would refuse to install it, and so the first half day or so I put in with interviews getting hold of the situation as to what they intended to do . I was assured, however, that the dormitory system was such it wou ld be overcrowded with the sons of Masons and Masons, and would have a large waiting list and there was no intention · whatever, in the people promoting the dormitory, to make it a home for the Acacians when they should erect that, that Acacia supposed to be a chapter and not a club. Now, the man that had that knowledge I considered one of our prominent Acacia men in Oklahoma, he is going to do things for the chapter, and considerable of my conferences were with these men and one Doctor Melrose, and they assured me that the only thing they proposed to do with the dormitory was to give them charge of it if they wanted to take it, or if they couldn't get a house, it was a question of trying to accommodate them and not expecting them to live with them. Then we proceeded with the installation. The local chapter lived in the house for a considerable time, they did not own a house, but I found every indication that it was possible for them to own a house, in fact, I am not sure but they are better prepared today, right now, than some of our chap-

ters, because of the sentiment that ha s grown up in connection with their location of the organization, and it is only a question of time, probably waiting for a more opportune time, that they will have a home. But I am not disappointed in that.

L. E. BEATTIE (Oklahoma) : I think you are right.

Grand Pres. GROVES: The statement is made that they have no building fund on hand . However, the delegate has stated that they have a number of offers of money and there was a number of men anxious to sig n the n otes and to start the building fund. Now it is s imply a question of whether or not they should start in then or wait for better time s I think that part will be taken care of without any paricular difficulty . The scholastic standing ha s always been high, and I shaH be disappointed if you don't win that cup.

Th ere was another thing very favorable for this chapter, and that was that they had three honorary m en in their local club. I talked with these three honorary men, one of them was Mr. Mulgrove who is a business man in town and a very prominent Mason and a m ember of the board of the University, and after I had talked with him a while I found out that he had influence enough to do anything that was sq uar e, and that he wanted to do, any reasonable arrangement, so I considered that he was a man that was really wort h while and would add considerable to the guidance of a new chapter. Then, I talked with th e next man, who was Professor DeBarr of the chemistry departm en t; he went there when the chemistry department was in the old building and built a department to suit himself and is one of the prominent m embe rs of the University at the present time-he is also the vice-president. He placed him self and hi s automobile at the service of the proposed new chapter, and he s tayed with u s until we got on the train and star ted hom e, and whatever he agreed to do, he did. He was asked how old he was, and he said, substract fifty years and h e would be twelve years old. If the boys proposed doing anything, going on hikes or some thing of that kind, he said if they went on hikes he wanted to go too and that he would not give them any advantage over him, so that that type of man , and as number two, I decided would be a guiding hand in the new chapter. Now, the third man was more o f the type of the quiet business man, a level headed man for .business, and a man of local standing, so he had done something and could do something for the chapter. Now, the result was-he was not conn ected with the university-he could only be made an honorary man, so he was made one. The other two insi sted that they be made active members of the club and th ey were; so that is the situation so far as honorary members are concerned there, and at the time of the in s tallation I told the men that I considered the type of men they had at the club could make a chapter of Aca·cia because I thought th ey were capable of it and they were a superior class of men. I further told them I thought the three men they had at the h ead of it could take an inferior chapter and an inferior type of men and make them into a chapter of Acacia, and I meant it, so I think from that standpoi nt the chapter is to be commended. Their scholastic activity is very good. I think Professor DeBarr could very well be considered a s your Chapter Advisor, and he would make an excellent one; and there are several Masons in the school to carry on the chapter and I see

n_o reason why this chapte.r should come to the next Conclave with any critictsm unless they have fatled to take advantage of the opportunities which they have .

Now, disposes of the active chapter report s except Colorado. The Grand Connell have been on the work ever since they have been here and kept the Western Union working backwards and forwards to find out where we are and to relieve the Colorado situation. We are anxious to get a man here, if l:e get here Saturday morning, and we are going to keep at the sttuahon. We want htm to stay and he is go ina- to know what he is going to do next. I will ask whether or not you want fo take a recess at this point and how long it shall be? ·

G . C . FORRESTER (Michigan) : I sugges t we fini sh the reports . Grand Pres. GROVES: We have two alumni reports. Brother Lawrence will take a littl e time with us because he is its Councellor.

DR. G. A. LAWRENCE (New York) : My report is very brief, Brother Grand President.

Grand Pres GROVES : Very well, we will hear your report, Brother Lawrence.

R E PORT O F NEW YORK ALU M N I

BY DR. G. A . LAWRENCE, Delegate

Th e New York Alumni Association of Acacia Fraternity extends greetings to our Grand Officers and Delegates in Grand Conclave assembled, and espec ially to those four new chapters, and reports another year of harmonious and constructive activity for Acac ia .

Monthly meetings h ave been h e ld throughout the year, with the exception of the summer months. A lmo s t 100 active members are on our rolls and our dues , increased to $2 per year, at our annual m eeting, from $1 a year formerly, are ample to pay all current expenses and have a s mall r ese r ve in the tr eas ury.

Every encouragement and aid h as been ex tend e d to the Columbia Chapter and their members are always invited to our social meetings.

At our first meeting la st fall, which was a banquet held at the Columbia University Club rooms, 60 Acacians were present, including the nine newly-initiat e d memb e rs and the three other active members of the Co lumbia Chapter. Two of the meetings were well attended d ances at Earl Hall, Columbia University, to which all Acacians and their l a di es in New York and vicinity were invited , including the active members of Co lumbia Chapter. One meeting was a picnic party by chartered yac ht to the Palisades of the Hudson riv e r. Members of Columbia Chapter accompanied us on this excu rsion also

Owing to the sa l e of the house occupied by Columbia Chapter, l eav ing them w ithout quarters, the New York A lumni Association has tak en an active part in aiding them to so lv e the difficult problem of suitable quarters by purchase or rental, and severa l committees have been appointed and progress made toward that end .

The New York A lumni Assoc iat ion ha s been officially li s t ed in the New York telephone directory under the h eading Acacia Fraternity Alumni Association a t the address of the ve r y efficient sec r e tary , Brother R. A. Fife, 70 Fifth avenue, and he has been indefatigible in getting in touch with the Acacians coming to New York City, notifying them of our meetings and ass isting th em in every possible way. At our ann u a l e lection Brother Fife was very deservedly elected president!: of the Association for th e ens uing year.

We especia ll y urge all chapters whose members contemplate coming to New York City, either t empora rily or for a longer period, to n ot ify . our Secretary, Brother Duane R. Dills 248 Madison avenue, and eve ry effo rt will be made to assist them, and it is desired that they affiliate themselves with us.

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I wish especially to refer to the very delightful visit of our Grand President and Mrs. Groves during the month of August, and although many Acacians were away, a goodly number, with two active members of Columbia Chapter, gathered for a dinner and social evening in his honor at the Columbia University Club.

As a suggestion, we believe that the official delegate from an alumnus chapter should be accorded a vote in Grand Conclave. Delegates from such chapters are without exception, men of wide experience and mature judgment and can we1l be entrusted with the franchise, and will, without doubt, use it wisely. We recommend that an amendment to this effect be made to our By-Laws at this Grand Conclave. We furthermore recommend that a standing committee in jurisprudence, consisting of not less than five members be provided for in our Constitution. Only men of the most mature judgment, of wide experiences in Fraternity matters and who have been actively and constructively interested in Acacia for many years, should be selected as members of this important committee

Finally, brethren, we extend a most cordial and fraternal invitation to all Acacians to visit us without fail should they come to New York City, and we assure them a most cordial reception.

Respectfully submitted,

G. ALFRED LAWRENCE.

Grand Pres. GROVES : The New York Alumni Association has been organized for quite a while and been busy for quite a while. One of the commendable things I can say for them was they were quite active throughout the vnr and most of them were associated with orne kind of war service. While they were mostly located in New York City, they took charge of the active chapter, to keep it open throughout the year and accommodated the men who would go and come, and made quite a clearing house for the Acacia men during the war period, and lots of the men around the table have information about it, and I have heard of a lot of people who have had an opportunity to visit the house. It was kept open during the war period. Their Masonic relations are first class. The New York Alumni Association is more closely allied with New York than the Chicago Association is with Illinois, because more of them come from New York than do from Illinois. It would be very difficult to tell, for instance, which chapter has the most men at the Chicago Alumni Association, being on the corner of the State, they come from all the states. The assistance rendered the Acacia men as they go and come is greater than would be usual in a city like New York where they have-well, I think they increased remarkably. They had an employment bureau organized so men could get assistance in that way.

REPORT OF PEORIA CHAPTER

BY T. H. TAPPING, Delegate

Were my report to be other than very short, the Peoria Alumni Association, the newest chapter of the fraternity, would be guilty of egotism.

We do claim, however, to have made good progress since we were granted onr charter on May 17, 1920.

The Association was launched in a dinner at the Peoria University C lub in January of this year. So enthusiastic were those who attended that dinner, over the chances of meeting as a chartered body, that steps were taken that evening to pave the way for a petition. That petition was prepared, signed by twelve alumni of Illinois, Michigan and Nebraska chapters, and sent forward to the Grand Counc il. The charter was the result.

Since that time we have held three meetings and each one has been l arger than the other.

!here is no initiation fee, but the annual dues are $3. We have levied one spectal. assessment of $4, '!lnd that has been paid by every one of the members taken mto the chapter pnor to September 1st. We owe nothing to the Grand Fraternity.

In regard to our prospects for new members. We have taken in 9 since organization in spite of the fact that we thought our normal growth would be about four per year. There is every reason to believe that there are other Acacians already in our territory, and these we intend to find. Each year we wiiJ get from two to three graduates , so that. our normal growth should be about half a dozen each year. Removals from Peoria will mean that we will lose also but we should nevertheless enjoy a steady growth. ' '

In regard to chapter life. We meet on the second Saturday of each month with four of those meetings designated as social and business sessions and one' that in January, as the annual meeting. The other sessions are purely and generaiJy consist of a dinner. We have voted for and hope to make permanent a system which will take us once each year on a " pilgrimage" to one of the active chapters. We hope to go to IIJinois on October 9th.

Our chapter publication, the TILLER ROPE, has made its first appearance. We hope to enlarge it. It is intended primarily as a medium of communication between our chapter and the rest of the fraternity. It wiiJ also serve as a permanent record of our activities. We it this early in our chapter ltf_e because we wanted to mtroduce ourselves to the Fraternity, and also to express concretely our firm belief that comprehensive chapter publications are the ideal medium for chapter and fraternity cohesion.

RespectfuiJy submitted,

T. HAWLEY TAPPING.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I am very glad, indeed, that we can have an organization in one of our smaller cities, and I think, if you have a free, open field down there, you can show them what you can accomplish in a small town. In my opinion, the organization and the work of a chapter in a city like this depends entirely on the "pep" of the members. I think it is just as possible for us to have a dozen organizations as it is to have this one at Peoria, provided we have members who want to put themselves into it. I think that the field of work is almost · unlimited. The men who go to school and keep in touch with the various chapters, can tell the chapters there, and so forth. I think that shows the right spirit, and I think the very fact that Acacia men are organized shows that. If there is anything that needs to be talked over or advice that needs to come up, I think you will find as years go by, this Conclave will appreciate all the advice and deliberation that come from a lot of men than if one man reads it. I have had communications from some of the men who have frankly expressed themselves on certain things. It came from one man. Now, if it came from Peoria, it would come from several men, and if it comes from the chapter I shall give it more attention because it will be worth more than one man's alone. I say that advisedly because I have built a great many air-castles in my time and had them punctured by somebody who came along with one good question. Brother Huntington, can you tell us anything about the Chicago Illinois Association?

Grand Treas. HUNTINGTON: The Chicago Alumni is still functioning, although I don't see any delegate here. I tried to get in touch with president and secretary for several weeks before the Conclave, but I thmk they must be out of the city. I also tried to get hold of several of the members and they were out of the city, and during the summer months it

is not a very active body. It is the plan of that association to meet the first Saturday night in every month, which they do during nine months of the year. During the summ er m onth s they do not meet. At a purely soc ial evening, it is usually a dinner, and after the dinner they have various conversations. They established a custom last year of inviting the Venerable Dean of neighb o ring chapters to tell us about their chapters , and we ask him questions and he asks us questions and we get to know one another. The \T:enerable Dean u sually brought along one or two men to back him up, and we got acquainted with them, and we enjoyed meeting each other. We ent ertain ed la st yea r the Vene rable Dean of Wisconsin, Michigan, Purdue, and the Chicago chapter. We make a spec ial effort on that night to get out everyone from that chapter represented in the school. The Chicago Alumni Association has the names, at the present time, o f about one hundred active m en in the city of Chicago. We try to get into communication with the various chapters, and hav e done so quite succe ssf ully so far to get the name of every Acacia man that is in the fraternity of Chicago, and we have a list of those men and telephone numb e rs of both their· residences and business addresses, so that if anybody comes and wants to get in touch with any of the Acacia men, in that vicinity, he can easily find them thr o ugh the sec retary. Well, I beli eve that about covers the situation, Brother Groves.

Grand Pres. GROVES: You have failed to state that at the Chicago chapters there was this same file of the name s and telephone addresses, and so forth, of all of the Chicago Alumni, so anybody can call up the active chapters and get the name s and addresses of anybody they wanted to find out in the city.

THREE SONS OF lOW A

Coy, Alsin and Hill

Wednesday Afternoon Session , September 22, 1920,2 o'clo ck

Grand Pres. GROVES : The auditing committee asks that the itemized account of the Grcrnd Secretary be handed in at once. It has been suggested, before we take up the reports of committees, that we take up the of the Northwestern situation by the delegates who are here, the obJect being to get some information concerning the situation before the delegates and before the . committee, and give them a chance to talk it over with each other and with the committee, and take up the report of the committee for their action a little later on. Do I hear any objections to such a plan as that? Do you approve of that, Brother Grand Secretary?

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: Yes sir. -

Grand Pres. GROVES: Any objection? I believe we have three men present, one of them a member of the former Northwestern Chapter, two of them belonging to the petitioning bodies, and we will turn the matter over to them and let them present their reports in such way as they see fit.

PETITION OF NORTHWESTERN CHAPTER

MR. FRANCIS HIGBEE CASE (Evanston): Mr Grand PresidentGrand Pres . GROVES: Brother Bain.

MR. FRANCIS H. CASE (Evanston): My name is Case. Grand Pres. GROVES: I beg your pardon . vVould you prefer to have Brother Bain speak first? It doesn't matter to me. I would be glad to have you present that any way you want to

MR. FRAN-CIS H. CASE: Brothers of the Acacia Fraternity: I assume that you all understand just exactly what we are after. On the tab l es you have found a little printed statement of our petition to the Acacia Fraternity . I might just supplement that with a few words. Some years ago, there was a chapter of Acacia at Northwestern; just how or why that chapter lapsed the present Northwestern Masonic Club does not know, because none of the men in the Northwestern Masonic Club now were in the University at that time But because we have a good many Masons on the campus at Northwestern and at the several schools at the University, and seeing the need, we organized the Northwestern Masonic Club, and because we realized the benefits that accrue to a group when they get the true fraternal spirit, we thought it best and we desire to petition this body for a chapter, whether that be a reinstatement of the old chapter or granting a new one, according to the decision of your body, that is entire ly up to you. But in earnest of our desire to have this petition granted, we have gone ahead to make our organization a permanent one. We have1 leased a house in Evanston two blocks from the campus, one that has been used as a house for fraternity purpos es, on or near the university campus at Evanston. There has been some suggestions that the failure ·of the Chapter to flourish heretofore was due to the fact that the charter came into the possession of the professional schools of the university where there wasn't so good an opportunity to become a very prominent organization, so that the securing of 'a house and other things was in our constitution. We make a specific provision that the home of the Northwestern Club, and the charter which will be granted, would be at Evanston, and further, that all members of the Masonic Club shall live at the club house unless excused by a majo-rity vote of the active members; and further, that all officers must live at the house unless excused by unanimous vote; thus, in every way trying to bind it to the University of the Evanston campus, where a majority of the college men are, of course. The professional schools are to be grouped on a new site on the north shore, not so far from the Evanston campus as they have been heretofore so that the Masons in the professional schools may live at the house where that not be possible before. In the printed petitlion, you will fin-d that

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there are figures relative to the number of Masons in the school. The registration for this year started Monday and we are in hopes to have definite figures for this year but so far we haven't received any' r eport from them. We have made arrangements to get the exact number of Masons also. That information may be secured befor e you take up this matt e r, definitely, but we are not certain as to that. At least , the campus is overcrowded and the enrollment is larger than last year. In re ga rd to some of the things we have done t·o insure our permanency ils that every man signs a note to this Northwestern Masonic Club in consideration of similar promises by others. He promises to pay to the Northwestern Masonic Club, or its assigns, the sum of One Hundred Dollars in several or ten equal annual installments, the first payment being in October a nd the other payments on th e first day of October of each succeeding year, with inter es t at eight percent for any d elay , That means that any man that comes in pledges himself to give a hundr ed dollars toward the building fund. That is, h e comes in binding himself in that way in addition t o th e other ob li gat ions he will have, a nd we think that is o ne of the greatest arguments we have for permanency. Th e r e are some reason.s why we feel a chapter at Northwestern would be particularly desirable. Chicago would ha ve tw o chapters of the fr a ternity , located in the same city, and would have oppo rtunities t o do someth in g. They would brin g hon o r to the Acacia frat e rnity and promotion of Maso nry in general. Champaign is not so far away, and we hope that co rdial relations may be estab li shed with all of the fr ate rnities of Acacia and all th e chapters. But right th e re in that group it seems to m e we might do some thin g to bring honor to the Acacia fraternity in general. And, while we don't know just exac tly what the old chapter may have done at Northwestern, I am sure if you could meet the group of men vve have down there and see some of the men at our annual opening last spring, and see the d e termin a tion that eve r y man ha s, you would know that this thing is going through just as a Northwestern Club, because we b el ieve the int e rests of Masonry r e quire s a good stro ng organization and hope that we might have the backing that Acacia Frat e rnity would mean If there are any questions to be asked, we w:ould lik e to a n swer 'th em, a,nd any information we can supply in any way I will be glad to furnish it. We are p e titioners in every sense of the word, and if you see fit to grant our petition we will do our best to follow all the standards that Acacia sta.nds for.

Grand Pres . GROVES: Have any other members of the delegation anything?

L. A. BAIN (Northwestern): I came up here as one of the Acacians, one of the r em nants of the old chapter which was established at Northwestern, more in a position to answer qu es tions relative to these petitioning bodies of a fraternity. I have followed that quite closely right from the s tartoff. I have bee n much interested in seeing this chapter started again and to see it succeed in accomplishing what it set out to do. I can assure you that I would not be up here and would not have followed to any great extent the old mo v,e ment if it had not been that I felt positive that a chapter r:ould be maintained up there at Evanston. These men are a fine body of men that are petitioning, seriously minded , and doing everything they can to qualify for the privilege of working under a charter. They have a chapter house out there, a very nice one, or at least not a chapter house, you might call it more of a club house, which is a very nice one. They have signed these notes as Brother Case s aid, and are making an effort in every possible direction to qualify. You possibly wonder why it was that the chapter, as originally instituted, failed. There is really only one reason that I can conceive of and that is that we did not have a chapter house. No chapter can succeed without a chapter house. We s tarted at the wrong encl. We started out at the law school and dental school. Most of the members were made up from the law and dental schools, and we had no chapter house. We had

the best of intentions, and so forti1 but we could not succeed and could not stick together close enough without' a house. Now, starting out at the other end out there at Evanston, we have overcome that difficulty and there i.s no _under the sun why the men out there should not be in a positi •)n to mamtam a house. The possibilities, as far as Acacia material is concerned is unlimit ed . They have about 1 25 Masons out there on the campus, ali good men very few, if any, who are connected up with any Greek l ett er fratermty. In the dental school there is. about forty-five to sixty-five-! assume that fifty would be a very mode st average of Masons. They are formed together in what is known as the Tr owel Club and have been in existence for about six or seve n years . Their total me:nbership in the dental school is ·something like about five hundred members, I think. In th e law sc ho ol they have an enrollment of a:bout two hundred and fifty. There are about twenty-five Masons there. Of course, these men , when the school is in its new quarters down there on the north s ide, they can very well associate with a chapter house out in Evanston, in view of the fact that it is a very s hort distance, compartively speaking, between the new site and Evanston. Of course, at the present time the member ship of this Northwestern Masonic Club is made up of men out in Evanston. It is rather more practical to start out that way, at leas t. There is pos itive harmony and not the slightest difference, j ea lousy or anything of that kind that can arise out there at the school of liberal arts and the different sc hools situated out at Evanston, and as I ha ve sa id , these men have lea sed a house out there and are bound together strongly. There is no reason why they could n ot succeed, at all, and with s uch unlimited possibilities in the way of the number of Masons, th ere is no reason why there sho uld 1be a lack of member s out there, or any reason why they could not fill man y times ·over a chapter hou se. They are in position to profit by the experience of the former members of the chapter, as originally started, and I think it would be a wonderful thing to have a chapter in s tituted out there. The Chicago Chapter would be over there on the south side of the city; the s ite of the university and chapter over on the north side for the Northwestern University, and th ey can associate in such a way as to be of mutual benefit to th e fraternity as a whole, and I very s incerely endorse their movement in every way. I would not have had anything to do with their work unless I f elt that there was not the slightest bit of possibility that th ey could not go ahead and make a great success of any chapter that might be in sti tuted out there. As to the matter of whether it would be a re-establishment, or an original charter granted to them, that is a question that naturally would be up to the grand council. We do not believe that the charter ever has been revoked , but that que stion has to be decided by the council, so I might close by saying that I believe th eir efforts are certainly worthy of your very serious consideration.

Grand Pres. GROY.ES: I s there anything further from this delegation?

L. A. BAIN (Evanston) : I am here to answer questions to u s t o show them just as far as we can.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Is there any other m e mber of your club that wants to speak? How about you, Mr. New?

ARTHUR N. NEW (Evanston): Grand President and memb ers of the Acacia Conclave: I don't believe that I could go into the details any

further than Brother Case has, but I wish to thank the Conclave for allowing us to present our petition. I thank you. ·

WM. R. COOK (Harvard): I would l ike to ask for some information. Previous to the past year, do you have any idea a·bout the number of Masons you had in college?

FRANCIS H. CASE (Evanston): We tried to get that information but there seemed to be no way to get any reliable information. During this registration now we are making arrangements when the men go through there, to register and have them fill out a little card, with regard to the various activities with which they are affiliated, but there was nothing done like that before. We could have an estimate, but it would be based on what we know from last year. ·

W. E. JENKS (Wisconsin) : You have no way of telling what the pros pect would be for the purchase of a fraternity house by the fraternity itself?

FRANCIS H. CASE (Evanston): Well, we intend to take care of that by these building fund notes . We have something like two thousand dollars now pledged, and we have several friend s who, immediately on this being known, have signified their willingness to help us on that because there are some Masons on the faculty, and some of the members of the local lodge are going to back u s on that proposition, and they will either make pledges or become honorary member s. W eJ did not feel free to ask them for anything like that.

Grand Pre s . GROVES: ow, I think it has been proper to have this delegation here present tile facts. The committee will have charge of this presentation on the floor 'and the point of view of all, and anything you wish to talk over with them so that they can be guided somewhat in their deliberations. I again extend an invitation to Brother Bain, as an Acacia man, to be with us from now on, but unle ss I hear objections we will cease hearing report of that committee. Now, the other business, as I understand it, would be to take up reports of committees, or rather any order of business these people see fit to ask for can be taken up, and any time you want to vote to do anything you are the people who can do so. If I hear of no objections, however, we will call for the report of such committees that are ready to report and proceed in that manner.

H. \V. LINKERT (Purdue) : Brother Grand President, you appointed me yesterday to examine the delegates with the grip and word I went through the entire examination and found there was no two of them alike. One or two of them had it the same as the Grand Pre sident and myself have, and I think it ought to be uniform from now on. I think it mighty important that all the chapters have it the same way throughout.

Grand Pres. GROVES: We might take that up before I declare that reces s . When I went to Oklahoma to install a chapter it was necessary to instruct a large number of men . I went up to about eight delegates and asked them to give me the grip and word in order that they might assist in passing the word . After a series of interview s we finally agreed on the grip and word as near as we knew how Now, at Indiana we had about fifty Acacia men, and those men- I called up a number of theJ men and asked for the grip and word, and found out again there was considerable

of_ a discrepancy, and found that our trav eling counsellors f ound th e same thmg. A number of us are agr eed on what the grip and word should be , a?d I a?ked Br?ther Linkert to find out . Now, you kn ow h ow he cops rd e recl rt was nght. It acc o rds exactly with my instructions, which does not date back so awfu l far , pr obably 1911 or 191 2, and some of th ese o th er men seem to agr ee . Now, if I hear of no obj ection s to that, I am g oing t o d eclare that is what we are going to us e as the u nif o rm w ord, becau se I don ' t knovv of any o ther way to get at it.

Grand Sec . EKBLA W: That part of the ritual was Brother Sh epardson's special h obby at th e Missouri Conclave. I wish B r other C oms tock was her e to spe ak of that we called the conv ention and we t ook that up . Brothers Shepardson, K oc k and Comstock, I thought wa s the third member, but he said he was n ot. I don't r ec all who it was - Wilson-Brother Shepard so n devoted the mo s t of the year toward th e work on that ritual. He is very emphatic about th e way that word should be given.

Grand Pres. GROVES: It was my conver sa tion with Brother Shepards on that led me t o s tat e that I th ought I was right. That is th e only way I know ho w to leave that. You know how it was given, if you don't, you can confer with Brother Linkert more , and if I hear n o obje c ti on we will leave it that way, and when you get home to yo ur chapter it is up to yo u. If th e re is no objection n ow we will declare it that way. We w ill be at ease f o r five minute s .

Th e convention to ok; a rec ess of five minut es

Grand Pres. GROVES: We will h ea r the r epo rt of the publication committees.

REPORT OF PUBLICATION COMMITTEE

BY T. H . T AP PI NG, C h airm,an

To Brother Grand Pt es id e nt a nd D e l ega t es:

Your committee o n Publication s b egs l eave to r epo rt and r eco min e nd as follows:

1. Th a t th e bud get s hall provide for $4,000 f o r th e publication of Frat e rnit y periodicals.

2. That th e office o f Grand Editor be m a d e di s tinct from that of Grand Sec!"etary a nd th a t the so le duties of thi s Grand Ed itor b e the e diting and publi s hing of Fr ate rnit y periodicals.

3. That a magazine of th e typ e of Th e J ourn a l be published four tim es eac h yea r and that it be th e offic ia l publication of Acac ia.

4. Th at th e nam e of this offic ial publication b e " Th e Cosmos o f Acac ia" in o rd e r th a t th e n ame be di st in c ti ve a nd individua l.

5. Th at th e iss u es of th e offic ia l publication s h a ll appear in F e bru a r y, May, Oc t ober a n d December, the October numb e r b e ing d evo t ed entir el y to th e proceedings o f the yea r' s Grand Co ncl ave.

6. That the offic ia l publication be se nt without charge to all active m e mb e r s an d to a lumni s ub sc rib e r s, such s ub sc ription s being a t th e rat e of one d ollar per year.

7. Th a t a sma ll e r publi cat io n of e ig ht to tw e lve pa ges be iss u e d twi ce eac h yea r a nd se nt to ev e ry m e mb e r , active and alumni, o n th e ro ll s of th e Fr a t e rnit :y; suc h publication to b e iss u ed in July a nd N of eac h year a nd to co n t a m matt er of ge n e ral int e re s t t o t he Grand Fraterntty.

8. The Co n c lave r eco mm e nd s that eac h c hapt e r of th e Fraternit y, ac ti ve a nd al umni , i ssue at leas t twi ce each y ear a ch a p te r publication of a ttr ac ti ve appearance

and adaptable to' permanent binding and which shall be a medittm for effective cnmmunication with the alumni.

9. That this Grand Conclave reaffirm th e action of the 1919 Grand Conclave in r ecomme nding the publication of a general Acacia Directory, of a new edition of the Const itution and By-Laws, of a manual of the duties of the officers of Acacia and of the ritual if the proposed changes are adopted and the Conclave deems it necessary.

R espectf ully submitted,

T. HAWLEY TAPPING, Chairman, Peoria A lumni.

DAVID KADYK, Illinois . F. H. COY, Iowa

Grand Sec EKBLA W: Brother Grand President, I would like to have the floor to mak e a talk that I hav e planned to make, and started to make ever since the conclave b egan and long before that. It has always been my argument that th e editorship and secreta ry s hip of Acacia should be connected and s hould be maintained that way, because I believe the greatest effic iency in tho se two offices comes when the proper men have it, ann that the proper way to have it is to have them combined Last year, I was the in sistent on e o n having that put there, and I realize mo st fully that one ot the worst things abo ut it is that: I failed utt e rly in the office of grand editor. I wish to say that I came t o this Conclave prepared to accept the criticism that accrues to the Grand Editor with an open mind and open heart, and be r ea dy to take it all, and on the score of the Grand Secretaryship, I should be prepared to defend all that the Grand Secretary did as far as it is poss ibl e for a person who is not devoting all of hi s tim e to a project to carry it through. Now, in the Grand Editorship I failed s ignally and that clears the boards on that score, and the reason s for that, while some may be extenuating, m os t of them are inher ent in my situation last year and caused by the difficulties that we had, occasioned by s ickn ess and matters like that. Now, the situation is n ot-1 take what reprimand s or rebukes should be given in that r egard, but I w ish to emphasize thi s fact, that until we get a closer coordination between the chapter and the grand officers we are going to have thi s same kind of troll'ble. When you go back into the hi s tory of Acacia, when the Journal was published continually, it was always difficult to get it out. It was clone by the Grand Secretary and the Grand Editor combined. Brother Kilmer grew up with the Fraternity .. Th ere were few chapters and they were sma ll , and he built up the editorship and secretaryship, and he knew eve ry problem as they came along. Since that time you wilf find we have had difficulty with the Journal and difficulty with the Grand Secretaryship Brother Jenkins and Brother Groves have be en criticized and I have been criticized with m o re or less bitterness, and so have all editors . Brother Mann and Brother Shepardson were criticized bitterly. Brother Shepardson took the sec retaryship of the Fraternity under protest with th e idea of getting out the Journal, and he would not accept it for a long time, but he says I will do it as a labor of love for the Fraternity as I have already se rved so lo ng, and h e attempted to gather t oget h er material and to get the mailing list and fiEd so m e thing worthy of the publishing and Brother Groves will agree with me that it was months before it came out from Brother Shepardson. It was only a few pages and everybody was clamoring, why can't we get the Journal, and he wrote to me, "I can not imagine what evi l

spirit prompted me to take the editorship of the Journal." Now, the difficulty is not inherent within the men or the chapters . It is inherent in ou r lack of proper organizat ion. As surely as you change officers continua ll y and don't have a longer tenure you will have the same difficulty, and the men who took this position of editor or secr e tary, or the two combined , must earn their living at something el se. They wi ll have to do the work outside the regula r working hours, and it is going to be a burden, as Kilmer said, "It is a job,'"' but Kilmer was in office seven years and he grew up from a small thing, about half the arne s ize as we are now, and he knew t h e probl ems that confronted him . So I make this p lea, when you legis late on the new constitution here, that you provide for more continuity of labor and of the ideais in your Fraternity, and closer co-operation between the chapters and the grand officers. Any of you who wi ll take the recortls of his chapter last year will find there was not very close co-operation between the individua l chapter s and the national organization, and that is a plea I would like to make at this Conclave, that this coming year be a year of work toward greater national unity, and that can only come by co-operation of the chapter s with the organization. Of all the prob lems that have come before me--l want to make the statement that I don't criticize any individual, nor I don't criticize anybody in any chapter except in some particular ca s es, but I would say that the whole situation is summed up in our loose organizatio n . Grand Pres. GROVES: Are we ready for the r eport of some other committee at this time?

E H WELCH (California): The committee on A lumni A ss ociations h as its report. It is very brief and contain s nothing1 that w ill nece s sitate t h e changing of the Constitution and By-Laws or anything else that has been pas sed by the Fraternity.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

To Brother Grand President and Delegates: Your committe e begs leave to report that it hearti ly concords w ith the action of the 1916 Conclave and in a ddition recommends:

1. That in as much as the keynote of this Conclave has b e en "continuity, " Alumni A s sociation s b e inaugurated by active Chapters in accordance with the manner h e reinaft e r stated.

2. Though such Associations be inaugurated by active chapters, their maintenance be entirely independent of active chapter support.

3. That s u ch Ass ociati o ns co-o per a te with a ctive Chapters to fo s ter Acacia traditions.

4 . That active chapters inform the A lumn i Associations of a l umni memb e rs within th e precincts of the latter.

5. That such Alumni Associations be organized at the following places, a ss isted by active chapters as enumerated:

a At Indi a napo lis by Purdue , Chicago, Michigan.

b. At Kan s as City by Kansas St a te and Kansas Umv e rs1ty.

c. At Minneapoli s and St. Pau l by Minnesot a and Wisconsin

d At Seattle by Washington

e At D e nver by Coiorado

f. At Philade l phia by Penn State and Franklin

g At Washington, D. C., by Penn State, F,ranklm and Columbia.

h. At San Francisco by California .

1 At Los Angeles by California . j. At Omaha by Nebraska.

k. Some city in the south by Oklahoma and Te xas.

6. That the committee on Alumni Associations be m ade a perm a nent one. Re spec tfully submitted, W 0. TEUFEL, Penn State. R. 0. HARPOLE, Yale. E H. WELCH, California, Chairman.

September 22, 1920.

Scottish Rite Cathedral, Thurs day Morning , Sept. 23, 1920

Grand Pres. GROVES : The Conclave will pl ease come to order. Is there any information you want before we adjourn for further work by the committe es? I s uppo se that the committee s can meet in this room, in some of th e various corners of it, and we will meet here at 1 :30. You are at leisure n ow until that hour.

Adjourned .

THE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY

Ek b law and G r oves

Scottish Rith Cathedral, Thursday Afternoon, Sept. 23, 1920

Grand Pres. GROVES: The Conclave will ·be in order. Un less I hear from the delegates we wi ll proceed with the report of the comtmttee on th.e Endowment Fund. If you have anyth ing else in mind, p lease make a motion to that effect. Brother Lawrence?

DR. G A. LAWRENCE (New York): I wou l d like. to exp lain tha t the chairman of this committee is Brother C. W . Hall, of Ya le Chapter, who has acted very efficient ly for a number of years. Unfortunately he could not be present at our Conclave and therefore se n t on the report and reques t ed me as a n other member of the committ ee to r ead it.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ENDOWMENT FUND

BY DR G. A . L A New York, Chairman

On behalf of the Endowment Committee, I submit the fo ll owing report:

Total number of pledges received to date, 129; tota l amount of pledges, $2028 .00; tota l amount paid in cas h , $ 1223.00. Of this amount of cash, p l ease find enclosed draft and bank bo ok for $285.47. The amount of payments p lus accrued interest of cash on hand. A ll other cash h as been remitted to the Grand Treasurer from time to time. This statement does not include inte r est or amounts received from any other sources except moneys pledged and paid d irect to the chairman of the Endowment Committee .

The unforseen conditions aris ing from the war have made it almost imp ossible to make satisfactory progress wit h this fund It is evident the fund mus t either increase much more rapidly or e l se remain practica ll y use l ess for the purpose for which it was intended. A l most one - ha l f of the amou n t p ledged, and almost one-half of the cash pa id in has come from the contrib u tion of our Brot h er Dr. G. Alfred Lawrence of the Co l umbia Chapte r

A new directory wi ll probab l y be fo .rthcoming, and t h en a new canvass shou ld be undertaken. A considerab le portion of the money now pledged wi ll not be paid. Some of the Brothers are deceased, and others it seems impossib l e to reach by mail.

By way of farewe ll to this wo r k, as it passes to other and, I trust, more capab l e hands, I want to thank the Brolt:hers who have labored with me in years to make this fund what it is. I wish to thank Brother Lawrence for hts contributions and his untiring work as a member of the committee, to Br•other Harry F. Brown , and Grand President ]. H. Groves for t h eir advice and co u nse l.

In addition to the above amount ·OUr Grand Treasurer has received in intereSit and annual appropriations from the genera l fund the sum of $630.35, making the total amount in the Endowment Fund as of date of Sept, 20th, 1920, $ 1853.35.

Respectfu ll y submitted,

THE ENDOWMENT FUND COMM I TTEE, By

C. W HALL, Chairman

Now, · Brethren, that is a very poor stat ement. The number of contributors is very small. The larges t numb er is nine and only about one-half of th e amount h as been paid in that has b ee n pl edge d , and I hope that whoever may b ecome thi s committee in f ollowing yea r s will hav e much greater succe ss; not on ly in r eceiv ing a large r number of pledges, but in having them paid a s th ey sh o uld hav e been. There is a littl e ove r $1200 paid in on these pledge s, and $600 contributed b y th e Grand Treasurer , and that is all we have after seve ral years o f st renuou s effort. This is respectfully submitted. what is your pl eas ure?

Grand Pres. GROViES: It mi g ht b e in order for me t o suppl em ent the report in th_i s way before I entertain a m otion , that th e history of thi s endowment fund goes back quite a bit. I believe that Brother Kilmer, as secretary, reported year after yea r that there was a certain am o unt in thi s endowment fund a nd a tim e or two r eco mm ended th a t a small amount be added to make it up to a certain sum. Now, thi s wa s carried a long with a word. of .encouragement by Bro th er' Kilmer for s eve ral yea r s. I b elieve that it was at the San Franci sco Conclave in 1 91 5 that a committee was appointed to tak e charge of the work, and i t1 s tart e d moving along, and at that tim e it received considerable imp et u s, and the Na tional Tr eas ur e r submitt ed so much money every year from year t o year, and the committee mad e a canva ss an d se cured mo st o f the pl edg es r epo rted at thi s time. Since the initi a l mo ve ment n o t a great deal h as b ee n added t o it excep t to collect the mon ey pledged, and during the war period it was n o t th o ught advi sable

to.push the matt er n oth in g stre nuous ha s b ee n done along that line. l thmk that the comm1ttee s h ould be retained a nd the executive officers should fill in th e vacancies that occur in the co mmitte e o r any changes that see m to b e adv1sable, and they s h o uld be en co ura o·ed to continue the work. It might be fea s ible that a r ecomme nd a tion or might be offered to th e effect that it is now time to make a further canvass to increas e the amount.

H. L. HUBBELL ( eb ra ska) : Brother Grand President, I rise for informati on. Ju s t what w ill be done with the endowme nt fund? A r e an y plans?

Grand Pres. GROVES: Th e plan of the m en who h a ve fost ered thb ha s been that it might be u sed at various time s and in various place s t o encourage chapters to sec ure hom es. I think that I shall have something to say about the Acacian Chapter Homes a littl e lat e r during the conclave, and at that tim e we s h a ll point o ut the possibilities of using an endowment fund along that lin e. There are a great many o ther things, th o ugh, that it might be used for. I think th a t some of thi s material we ca n find in the proceedings o f th e 1915 Conclave.

- DR. G. A. LAWRENCE (New York): I will move that this report be r ece ived and placed on fil e; th at this committee be co ntinued as a standing committee; th a t Brother Driehaus be continued and th a t two o ther m embers be appointed o n th e committee by the Grand President .

Grand Pres . GROVES : Th ose in f avo r say aye . Those oppo sed no. (There were n o n egative votes.) It is so ordered

H W. LINKER'T (P urdu e) : The c ommittee on Catechism Instruction is read y to report.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CATECHISM

Bv H. W. LINKERT, Chairman

In formulating th e f o llowing Cat h ec hi sm of Instruction a nd Examination of Pledges and Members o f Acac ia, th e Comm it te e has in mind th a t this Ca t ec hi s m is merely a foundation for a more permanent one t o be adop t ed p e rm a n en tly a t a date later, after the present one has bee n tri ed out thoroughly and its d e fe c ts have been ascertained and cor r ecte d.

It is the recommendation of the committee th a t copies of this Catechism be imm ed iate l y made by th e Grand Secretary and one copy be se nt to eac h c h ap t e r of Acacia for use. The s u ggeste d for m of publication is an inexpensive mimeographed sheet or clipp e d series of s h eets

It is recommended that each c h apte r g ive this Catechism a th oroug h trial in o r der that it may be ' improved and finally adopted as a perm a n e nt means of in structing p l edges and members in matters pertaining to Acacia a nd in genera l matter pe r ta inin g to the various Universi ti es or Co Jl eges in which the c hapters are located.

CATECHISM OF INSTRUCTIONS AND EXAMINATION FOR PLEDGES AND MEMBERS OF THE ACACIA FRATERNITY.

The purpose of this Catechism is t o in c ulc ate w ithin prospect.ive members of Acacia and strenot h en w ithin the members the custo m s and 1deals of the Acacia Fraternity an"'d to acq u a int them of facts w hi c h th ey s h o uld be familiar with.

According to the Co n st it uti on and By-Laws it is that candidate sha ll after the pledging ceremony and before h1 s mitl at!O n b e m str u cted in the history and traditions of the Acacia Fraternity and sha JI , before he I S m -

T HE AC A C I A JOURN A L

iti atrd p ass a sa ti s fac t o r y exa min a ti o n. Thi s exa min a ti o n as t o th e pro fic ie nc y o f a ca n d id ate fo r a dv a n ce m e nt s h a ll b e h e ld in a n o p e n fr a t e rnit y m ee tin g e ith e r s t a t e d o r soecia l a nd a m a j o rit y o f th ose p r ese nt s h a ll b e r e quir e d t o d ec id e . The n ecessary In for m at io n ca ll e d fo r in S ec ti o n 6, o f th e B y -L aws i s includ e d in this Catec hi s m.

T he exa min a ti o n is di v id e d int o tw o pa rt s, th e fir s t co ve rin g qu es tion s a nd answe r s conce r n in g th e G r a nd Fr a t e rnit y a nd th e seco nd cove r in g qu es ti o n s a nd answers r ega rd in g th e l oca l c h ap t ers No t o nl y p le d ges , it mu s t b e und e r s t oo d, but a l so a ll m e mb e r s w ill be h e ld r espo n s ib l e for th e f o ll ow in g inf or m a ti o n :

GRAND FRATERNITY

It m u s t b e b o rn e in mind th at th e Acac ia Fr ate rnity 1s a Gr a nd Fr a t e rnit y a nd as s u c h s h o uld be g ive n th e c losest a tt e nti o n

P le d ge Q u est ion :-vV h a t is th e n a m e of th e Fr a t e rnit y; A n swe r:-The A ca ci a Fr a t e rnit y.

P le d ge Qu est io n :-V/ h a t a r e th e p ur poses o f th e Fr a t e rnit y ? A n swe r:-Th e p ur poses of th e Fr a t e rnit y a r e b es t ex pr esse d in th e pr e ambl e of th e Co n s ti tu ti on w hi c h say: "We, S tud e nt s, F ac ult y, a nd A lu mni of va ri o u s · U ni ve r s i t ies a n d Co ll eges,' ' e t c.

P l edge a r e e li g ibl e t o M e m be r s hip ? A n swe r:-S ee S e cti o n 2, A rticl e II o f t h e Co n s tituti o n a nd By -La ws.

P ledge Ques ti on: - VI/ h e r e a nd w h e n was th e Acacia Fr a ternit y found ed ? A nswe r:-Th e U ni ve r s it y of M ic hi gan, M ay 12, 1904

P le d ge Qu es ti o n :- Give a bri e f h is t o r y of th e fo undin g o f th e Acac ia Fr a t e rnit y Answe r :-See fir s t thr ee p ages o f Ac a c ia by Fr a n cis W . Sh e pa rd so n , 19 13 E diti o n

P le d ge Q u es ti o n :- Descr ibe th e Fr a t e rn i t y P in . A n swe r :-S e e S ec ti o n 31 o f B y -L a w s in Co n s t itu t io n a nd By- L aws .

P le d ge Q ues ti o n :- Desc rib e t h e Acac ia p l e d ge p in. A n swe r:-S ee S ec ti o n 30 of By- L aws in Co n s tituti o n a nd B y -L a w s .

P le d ge Q u est io n :- W h at is th e n ame of th e Acac ia Fr a t e rnit y p ubli ca ti o n ? A nswe r :-Th e Acac ia J o urn a l.

P l e d ge Qu es ti o n :-\iV h a t is th e Aca ci a Fr a ternit y W hi st l e? A n swe r:-S ee S e ction 32 o f th e By- L aws in th e Co n s tituti o n a nd B y -L aw s.

P l e d ge Qu es t io n:- W h at a r e th e Acac ia Fr a t e rnit y c ol o r s? A n s w e r :-Old G o ld a nd B lac k.

P l e d ge Qu es ti o n :-Wh a t is th e G r a nd Co n c lave? A n s w er :-S ee S ec ti o n 1, A rticl e III of C o n s tituti o n a nd B y -L aws.

P l e d ge Qu est io n :- W h o co mp oses th e G r a nd Co nc 1ave ? A n s w e r:-Th e G r a nd O ffi ce r s, o n e ac ti ve m e m be r as d e l ega t e fr o m e a c h c h a pt e r a nd o n e d e lega t e fr o m eac h A lumni Ass oci a ti o n The las t ha ve th e pri v il eges o f th e fl o or , but h ave no v ot e .

Pl e d ge Q u est io n :-W h a t is th e pur pose o f th e G r a nd C onclav e? A n s w e r :-The G r a nd Co n c lave is th e s upr e m e l egis la tiv e bod y of th e A c ac ia Fr a t e rnit y.

Pl e d ge Qu es ti o n :- W h a t is th e G rand Co un ci l ? A n swe r:-S ee S e ction 1, A rti c le IV o f Co n s tituti o n a nd B y -L a w s.

Pl e d ge Qu est io n :- \iV h a t a r e th e p owe r s a nd duti es o f th e Grand C ouncil? A nswe r :-Summ a ri ze A rticl e I V of th e C o n s t i tution and B yL a w s.

Pl e d ge Qu es tion :-\V h o a r e th e pr es e nt G r a nd Offic e r s ? A n swe r:-S ee lat e st e di t io n o f th e Ac a c ia J ou rn a l.

P le d ge Qu es ti o n :- W h e r e a r e th e p r ese nt G r a nd O ffic e r s loc a t e d? A nswer :S ce lat es t e diti o n o f th e Acac ia Journal.

Pl e d ge Qu es tion:-H ow d oes th e G r a nd Fr a t e rnit y obtain it s r eve nu e ? A n s w e r :Fr o m initiation f ees , p e r capit a ta x, r eve nu e from pin s, Journal , S o n g B oo k s a nd int e r es t upon a cc ru e d moni e s .

Pl edge Qu es tion:-What are th e Gra nd Fr atern it y Fees? Answer:-See Section 8 of th e By-Laws in the Constitution a nd By-L aws

Pledge Qu es tion:- yYhat are th e names of a ll th e Chapt e r s of th e Acac ia Fr a t e rmt y and w h e r e lo ca t e d ? A n swe r:-S ee l atest ed iti on of th e Acacia Journ a l.

Pledge Question :-H ave you studie d th e Co n sti tution a nd By-Laws of th e Acacia Fr a t e rnity ?

Pledge Question :-Have you r ead th e Gra nd Fr atern ity Publications?

Pledge Question:-Are you familiar w ith Masonic lit era tur e ?

LOC AL CH APTER

Th e following qu estio n s ap p ea r without a n swe rs for th ey ap ply only to lo ca l conditions. This li st of qu es tion s are given as a s u ggested outline to b e incr ease a t o su it the l oca l s ituation . The qu es tion s as outlined are considered very imp or tant however, by the co mmitt ee .

Pl e dg e Question- W h en w as the Local C h a pt e r founded?

Pledge Qut>stion :-Who are the Charter M embers?

Pl edge Question :- Give bri e f hi s tor y of origin of Chapter?

Pfedge Question :- G ive hi s tor y of th e building program or propo se d building Program.

Pledge Question:-What a r e th e names and ad dr esses of th e Honorary Members?

Pledge Question:--What are th e n a m es and a ddr esses of the Fa c ult y Members?

Pledge Question:- What a r e th e n a m es in full a nd classes of a ll ac tiv e m embe rs cf the Lo ca l C hapt e r ?

Pledge Q u est i on :-- W h o a r e the officers of th e C h apte r?

Pledge Question :-Ho w are the chapter finances h a ndl ed?

Pledge Question:--vVhat is th e name of th e C h ap t e r publication?

R espe ctfully submitted,

H W. LINK E RT , Chairman. AUGUST NEUBAUER.

L. T. BEATTIE.

Grand P r es . GROVES: I am inf o rmed that th e phot og rapher IS r eady . He is do w n in the lar ge r oo m , so if you m en hav e made n ot es an d hav e in mind the particular thing s you would lik e to ask question s about we will take th em up as soo n a s we r eturn fr om h av ing the picture m ade. I would lik e to get so me good work d on e this afternoon as w e hav e had a vacation thi s forenoon. So pl ease return at once.

Th e m e mb e r s r easse mbl ed after s itting f o r th e photograph.

G rand Pres. G RO VES : May I s ugge st that th e id ea is not to get thb thin g completed so quickly but rather to ha ve it progressive th a t it may grow into so m e thing desirable. Here is a place where we can grow without hurtin g us a n y o r d es tro y ing any of th e tra d iti on s . Eventually we will come t o a more or less s tabliz ed exa minati on probably, so I think that perhaps it is almost clone what yo u s u gges t. They hav e gon e ove r so me of th ese thin gs, and n ow it is a question of what we will finally do; whether or not w.e wi ll includ e so mething in th e ritual or in a hand book. A t leas t we are on the way of accomplishing so mething when we get through.

FRANK JENKS (W isconsin): I m ove that the report as read be adopt ed and th a t it supercede all prior catechisms ad op t ed by thi s body and "be published in a separate mem o randum t o be distributed to the chapters in order to get thi s properly b efo r e the body for di scu ss ion.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Th ose in f avo r say aye. Contrary, no. It is s o orde r ed. Brother Sullivan, we w ill h ea r yo ur r eport on Externa l Relation s .

REPORT ON EXTERNAL RELATIONS

BY K. C. S u LLIV AN, C hairm,an.

To th e Thirte e nth Annu a l Co nclav e of the Acacia Fraternity : Your committee on External R e lation s b e gs leave to submit the fo ll owing report:

It is th e und e r s tanding of the committee on Externa l Relations that its duty s uo q-e z!uE2 .t o rpns p;;>Jp pu-e ;;>:> u;;> ngu! ;;>JCl!Ssod pu-e dn S! D e M o l ay , a pion ee r Masonic organization, and M aso nic organizations and clubs , which exist in many sc hool s, m ay in the future have upon Acacia.

1. D e Molay--'De Mol ay, an or ga ni za tion for th e so ns of Master Masons and th e ir chum s b e tw ee n th e ages of 16 a nd 2 1 yea r s, was started dur ing the fa ll of 1919 at Kansas City, Mis s o uri, und e r the au sp ices of th e R ite Bod ies of that city. Thi s organization soo n proved to b e of wonderful b e nefit to the y6ung bo ys in Kansas City who b e long e d to it Masonic bodi es in different sectin s of the co un t ry h ea rd of th e work bein g done in Kansas City with the resu lt that at the present tim e th e r e h as b ee n a t l eas t e ight active chapters of D e Molay established, Kansas City, M iss o uri , Ka n sas City, Kansas, K i rksville, Missouri, Tr e nton, Mi sso uri, Columbia, Missouri, Omaha, Nebraska, Lincoln, N e braska, and Lawr e nc e, Kansas, and p e tition s h ave been r ece ived from many other places desiring ch a pt e r s to be in s t a ll ed , including Buffalo, N. Y , Chicago, Illinois, and others. At th e pr ese nt time th e m e mber s hip of the mother chapter is better than 1000.

The organiz?.tion is composed of boy s betw ee n th e ages of 16 and 21 who are th e so n s of Master Masons and th e ir chum s. Th e ritua l istic work is v e ry compl ete a nd impr ess ive. It consists of two degr ees a nd any Master Mason is we lcom e d a t all m ee tings .

Th e governing body of D e Mol ay is composed of prominent Masons , m os t of w h om are affi li ate d with th e Sco tti s h Rit e Bodi es of Kansas City. A G i Cochran, 33 de gree Inspector Ge n e ral of Mi sso uri , is h ea d of the order. The or ga ni za ti o n is thorou g hl y es t a b l is hed a nd th e re is no doubt but that its growth in th e futur e will b e mor e r ap id th a n in the past.

Du e t o th e fact that c hapt ers of D e Mo l ay ha ve be e n establis h ed in University communitie s, Acacia is n a tur a ll y int e r este d in what e ff ec t it may have upon her future pr ospe rit y and growth. At the University of Missouri a house has been obtained for th e members of D e Mo l ay who a r e in th e Univ e rsity . At present tw e nt y -t wo m e mb e r s li ve in th e h o u se but t ake their m ea ls outside. Th e re are abo ut fifty De Molays attending th e University and t h e loca l chapter at Co l umbia is r ece iving p et iti ons from other stu d en t s very rapidly . It looks at pres e nt as if it w ill b e a very influ e nti a l organization at the Univ e rsity of Missouri Mis s ouri C h ap t e r of Acacia ha s e ncoura ge d the forming of this organ iza tion at Mi s sou ri for it f ee ls th a t by so doing it is prom ot ing r ea l hum a n se r vice . There is the clo ses t co-operation b e tw ee n th e two or ga ni za tions and a t present it l ooks as if De Molay at the Un iv e r si t y of Mi sso uri will be of great value to Acacia. However, yo ur committ ee sees the possibility that th e sa m e conditions may not exis t at ot h e r University centers where D e Molay has b ee n or m ay b e established, th erefo r e your co mmitt ee recommends th at a p e rman e nt committee b e appointed to s tud y th e d e v e lopm e nt of De Mo l ay a nd it s po ss ible effect upon and relation with Acac ia as will b e ref e rr e d to later. Your committee a l so recomm e nds tha t ;

o.f Acacia at Lincoln, Nebraska, Lawrence, Kansas, and Columbia, M1ssoun, 111 touch w1th th.e sponsors of De Molay at those places and carefully study 1ts effect upon Acac1a and report from time to time to the above named committee, providing it is appointed.

2. So Called Chapters of Acacia- Your committee has been reminded of the fact that at least two so-called Chapters of Acacia exist one at the Missouri School of at Kirksville, Missouri, and some' such a chapter at Los Cal1forn1a. Th1s Mis.souri of Oestopathy, is not recogas a first class educatiOnal .mstttutton and 1s not considered by your committee as a proper place to establtsh a chapter of Acacia. Your committee therefore, in order to prevent confusion and possible embarrassment to members of Acacia recommend that the name of our organization together with its emblems be copyrighted and thereby prevent such organizations as now exist at the Missouri School of Oestopathy and at Los Angeles from using our name or any of the emblems of our Fraternity.

3. Masonic Clubs- Your committee is of the opinion that the desirability of having some kind of a general Masonic Club in a University or College where an Acacia exists, depends upon local conditions. In so far as such clubs may affect Acacia your committee thinks it advisable to keep a close watch on them . Therefore your committee strongly recommends that a permanent committee as referred to above be appointed whose duty it shall, be to study all outside organizations that might in any way have an influence on the welfare of Acacia. - Respectfully submitted,

K. C. SULLIVAN, Missouri, Chairman.

E. H. WELCH, California. LESTER H QUINN, Indiana.

H. L. .HUBBELL (Nebraska): I move that the report of the committee be accepted and the committee be appointed.

'I'. J. PEYCKE (Minnesota) : Second by Minnesota .

H. T. HILL (Kansas): Brother Grand President, a few of us were discussing that the other night, this De Molay, and we made these suggestions. This organization being sponsored by the Scottish Rite bodies, they, of course, it will be assumed, are truly in favor of doing anything they can to promote the Masonic fraternity. We wondered if it would be possible to get at the sponsors of that, the governing body, and suggest to them that they make it a requirement or understanding that this organization is not to be a field from which they are to organize a fraternity, and one of the reasons why we made that suggestion was this : Among those fellows are a lot of fellows 16 and 17 and so on. A good many states are against High School fraternities. That has nothing to do with High School fraternities except this, a good many are against organizations among kids of that age. I wondered 1f 1t would be possible to have some discussion with the sponsors of De Molay , along that line to see if they didn't think it a good idea to have the young fellows understand that they would not use that organization as a source of a fraternity of any kind

The question was called for and put and carried.

Grand Pres. GROVES : Are you ready for the report on rituals?

V/M. R. COOK (Harvard): May I ask a question? Does anyone have an idea where we can get hold of the sponsors of this original De Molay?

Grand Pres. GROVES: I think Brother Sullivan can give you that.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard): Are they located in Kansas City?

MR. SULLIVA : All excep t a member whose home is in St. Louis.

Grand Sec . EKBLA W: Now, the matter of the se pin s, whether we shall have a s ister pin in addition to the other pin.

Grand Pres. GROVES : I will entertain any motion concerning the insignia.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I wish to go into the hi s tory of the pins just a little for the information of the del ega tes perhaps . I d o n't know whether it is fortunate or unf o rtunate that I have been at several conclaves and know so me of these thing s, but Brother Comstock will bear me out that the matter of the pins was discussed thoroughly at the Conclave of 1912 at which the matter of the s ister pin was brought up and thr es hed out very th oro ughly on the floor. The fraternity at that time was about evenly divid ed and the di sc uss ion waxed pretty hot. There was one division you might say in favor of a sister's pin because they believed that no one but a man that had been initiated into Acacia, and had taken the obligation. should wear the official pin of Acacia, and that no woman should wear the pin at all, and there was the other faction that took the ground or the point of view that it would be better and they stated that a sister's pin was desirable for the reaso n that no woman should wear the Acacia pin and that they should have a s ister 's pin. The other division took the point of view that there s h o uld be but one Acacia pin and that that should be the sign throughout the fraternity so th e r e would be no confu s ion as to what constitued the Acacia pin. Now, that is the history. Well, you know how it was accepted becau se we have the standard pin. In the second place the scholarship pin is a new introduction, but we have had the same kind of things in days before. The argument ha s bee n brought up that it tend s to promote some higher standard that we would like to develop in our fraternity and that it would be an incentiv e to a certain group of activities; but the argument advanced that is advanced is that that would form differences within Acacia. There would be one group entitled to wear a certain Acacia in signia that the other was not, and consequently it would tend to cause a division within the fraternity. This was brought out once in athletics, so I wonder if it would be a very desirable thing . It would be for the fellow that had it, but it might not be for the fellow that wanted it and failed to get it or for the fraternity as a whole. There are a number of suggestions regarding the pin that I think ought to come before the committee, so I think it o ught to be referred back to the Insignia committee because certain things ought to be considered. I would like to make some suggestions to the committee myself.

MR. SULLIVAN (Missouri): I agree with Brother Ekblaw. I have noticed th a t members of Acacia are sometimes members of sometimes one and sometimes more organizations, and I know of so me men who have more keys than they know what to do with, so I cannot see where it would be of much benefit. '

Grand Pres. GROVES : There is no motion before the house.

DE WITT NEIGHBORS (Texas): I will suggest that the id ea of the key is to gain better scholarship and that a house cup would serve much better.

J. W. SKINNER (Kansas State): We have one man each year chosen by the fraternity who has done the most for the fraternity. There wouldn't be any question then as to whether the man has earned it or not. I think we have got enough pins. It is a hard matter at the present time to keep track of all the pins.

Grand Pres. GROVES : Well, there is no motion before the house, Brother Skinner.

J. W. SKINNER (Kansas State) : Kansas State moves that any change .in regard to th : scholarship pin in Acacia be not estal;>lished.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I didn ' t ask you to make that unless you want it done.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I will ask that this be referrel back to the committee for further consideration and discussion.

Grand Pres. GROVES : I shall rule that there is nothing before the house except a question for information.

Grand Pre s . GROVES: Now, may we have the report on the next conclave?

T. J. PEYCKE (Minnesota) : I think that the committee on the next conclave can report now as well as at any other time. The committee received invitations from California and Kansas to hold the next conclave there, and the committee recommends that the next conclave be held at Kan sas. I don ' t know that any further information can be g iven at this time or not, except it might be said that the Kansas Chapter had a conclave in 1907 and California in 1915.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Do you wi s h to specify any time?

T. ]. PEYCKE (Minne s ota): The committee did not consider that. The matter is in the hands of the Grand Council, anyway, as I understand it , subject to change. The reason we did not consider this matter of time , was because the member from Kansas did not feel that he was ready to set the time.

Grand Pres. GROVES. Do you wish to make your report in such a way that it-

T. ]. PEYCKE (Minnesota): I will move that the next conclave be held at Kan sas and that the date be left in the hands of the Grand Council.

R. R. BRANDENTHALER (Wa shington): Wa shington seconds it.

E. H. WELCH (California): California wants to remind you again of our convenience in this matter. It wa s very hard for us to get a delegate at this time, so when the Grand Council finally decides, please keep us in mind.

Kansas University Chapter will b e the host to the 1921 Conclave of the Fraternity .

Under the l ea d e rship of its Venerable Dean , Everett L. Bradley, the chapter is alr e ady making preparations for th e e nt e rtaining of that Conclave. The experience of th e Minnesota Chapt er in finding many alumni and actives, not themselves conn e ct e d officially with the Conclave, on hand for the sessions, has prompted Kansas to make plans for ev e n a larger numb er of this type of visitors. And th ey will be mad e to feel that they are an important part of the Conclave .

On this page is a picture of the V. D ., Bradley. While he is notable for that office, he is even mor e famous b ec aus e of his participation on Uncle Sam's team in th e 1920 Olympics at Antwerp.

On th e opposite page are two pictures of scenes in the Kansas Chapter House, scenes which wi!'l b e familiar ones in September of 1921 to those who attend the Conclave.

Everett L. Bradley

THE ACACIA JOURNAL

AT THE CHAPTER HOUSE

Chapter Room

East Room

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

BY B. L. KIRK, Ill inois Alumni, Chairman

B. L. K IR K ( Illinoi s): Brothers, Grand President and officers and delegat es of th e Thirt eent h A nn a l Conclave of th e Acacia Fr a ternity:

Your committee appo int e d at the last conclave to act as a permanent committee o n const ituti o n and by-laws, beg l eave to mak e th e following report:

Having m a de a thor oug h inv es tigation we are confident that our pr esen t constitut ion is in need of many c han ges, so m e more or less radical. Our Frat e rnity needs a basic law w hi c h w ill ass ur e a cl ose r unity in our national organization a nd o n e that w ill provide greater continuity of id eas. Th e question is whether this c h a n ge s h ou ld be imm e di ate or rath er a growth from what we hav e, a nd w h e th e r we s h o uld a dvan ce by the process of evolution in our const i tution or by a modified form of revolution. As a gener al thing slow and s t eady development of g:-owt h i s more conducive of h a rmon y a nd strength.

You r co mmitt ee take it that its duty is to a ct in an advisory capac it y as to making co n st itu t io n a l changes and in submitting s ug ges tion s to the conclave for the purpose of gett in g th e id eas of the various memb e rs of the conclave which themselves r e fl ect th e id eas of th e va riou s chapters. We b e li eve th a t soo n e r or l ate r a n ent ir e n ew co n s tituti o n s h ou ld be submitted embo d y ing th e best of th e present one a nd including many n ew ideas, a nd th a t it s h o uld change a lmo s t e ntirely so m e phases of our present o r ga ni zat io n. Such a co n s titution can not b e dr aw n up without th o rou g h st ud y, and it s h o uld n ot b e submitted until our Fraternity is prepared for it This year ha s be e n a reaction from th e war p erio d Many changes are see n in th e personnel of our Frat e rnity a nd many wj.d e l y diff er in g id eas ex is t at present so that it is diffi cu lt t o get the views of ' th e vanous c h ap t ers and members

NO COMPLETE R E VISION.

Your· committee, therefore, think s th a t thi s at l eas t i s not th e proper time to subm it an en tir el y revised cons tituti o n , but we would lik e to sub mit ce rt a in gest ions. Some of them h ave been hand e d to u s b y the various m e mb e r s of the Fraternity and members'of the Gra nd Co uncil , a nd we s hould lik e to h ave 'th e opinion of thi s body fr eely expresse d and th e ir direction freely g ive n so that as soo n as possible an ent ir e l y n ew constitution can be submit t e d which will b e a b as ic l aw suffic ie nt l y representative of the best th ough t of Acacia . It is our op ini o n that a t present th e aut h or it y in o ur Fraternity is n o t sufficie ntl y ce ntrali ze d. We b eli eve that the Grand Co ncl ave s h o uld be a m ee tin g of repr ese nt a tive s w hi c h express a greater co ntinuit y of ideas from yea r t o year, but whi c h when it ha s d elib e r a t ed w ill l eave in th e h a nd s of a body h av ing greater centralized pow e r s th e exec uti o n of th e ir deliberations .

F o r thi s reason we s h o uld lik e to h ave thi s G r a nd ·Conclave pass up o n certain questions. fi r st: s h ou ld we hav e more a uth or it y vested in the Grand President? seco nd : s h o uld the G rand Counc il ha ve greater powers and greater freedom of m eet in g; third: s h ou ld th e office o f Chapter Advisor b e a more d e finit e a nd permanent one; fourth: s h o uld th e Grand Conclave h ave greater r ep r ese nt a tion b y including c h apter adv iso r s a nd ac tiv e m e n ; fifth: should t e nur e of office of our gra nd officers f o ll ow a n a lt e rn a ti o n in office so that not a ll grand officers will b e r e- e l ecte d at th e sa m e yea r; s ixth: s hould th e Acac ia year be chang e d to fo ll ow th e fisca l yea r?

We s ubmit that a g r ea t man y of th e Col lege Fr a t e rniti es throughout th e U nited States, b ase d on expe ri e nc e, h ave found that it is very advantageous in th e o r ga niz a ti o n o f their Frat e rnity to fol low so m ew hat the plan which h as b ee n found mo s t sat isfac tory in business a nd co rpor a tion organizations. Th e b as is of this plan is to ha ve th e individu a l unit s to se l ec t from their numb e r a s m a ll e r body that w ill h ave th e ·direction or supervision of th ei r affairs. Th ey in turn se lec t the main officers fr o m their number and th ese officers are r ep r ese nt a ti ves for th em for th e purp ose of di sc har g ing th eir duti es.

WANTS TWO DELEGATES .

We would subm it for your approval with the hope that you will discuss thoroughly a plan by which the Grand Conclave of Acacia Fraternity shall be composed of Chapter Advisors from each chapter and one active member from each chapter, these to meet in the Grand ·Council for the purposes of suggesting, getting ideas, and performing other functions of a Conclave. They should elect at this meeting a certain number of men in whom they have confidence and who would correspond to a Board of Directors in a corporation or business enterprise . The members of the Board of Directors should be elected for three years, expiring at different times so that not all would be elected at the same time They should have advisory power over the officers of the Fraternity and should compose a body that should have authority to recall any officer from his office. The officers of the Fraternity should be selected from th is body and be answerable to it for the discharge of their duties but they should have more extended power than at present. The officers should be permitted to call meetings in a less cumbersome manner than at present They should have authority over the chapter advisors who s hould in turn be their representatives in the local chapters. They should have authority to demand reports at any time and through chapter advisors exert disciplinary power to promote the interest of the Fraternity .

This is a suggestion of the plan which may be worked out in a great many ways The important part is the establishment of continuity in our Fraternity by representation of chapter advisors, and it is our opinion that they should be selected by local chapters w ith the approval of somebody in authority to approve, and that their tenure of office should be until resignation or until the body having authority shall see fit to remove them when in the opinion of that body it should be best to have someone else.

E. H. WELCH (California): Brother Grand Pre s ident, California moves that we adjourn.

J. D. STUCKEY (Franklin) : Franklin seconds the motion.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Brethren, you have heard the motion that we now adjourn. All those in favor of th is motion will say aye. Those opposed , no. It is carried.

Adjourned.

SOME PROFESSIONAL POSERS

Hatfield, H ill , Anderson, Kneale, Beattie, Neighbors, Quin n , S ull ivan

Scottish Rite Cathedral, Friday Morning, Sept. 24, 1920

Grand Pres . GROVES : The Conclave is in order this morning. By way of remark s I might say that during the war period we held a war conference in the city of Chicago. We met at ten o'clock, and at about 6 :30 we adjourned, and we covered more or less of the busines s that comes before a conclave within that time. We have six days here , and I am not sure but we could stay here six days more. I am quite convinced that if we get bu sy and work like men of education and dispatch s hould work that by one o' cloc k Saturday we shall be ready to adjourn; have your lunch; have a little time to relax, look around, and report to the banquet at s ix o'clock.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): I will proceed where I left off. At the time that the \ 1\far Council was called in Chicago it was f elt that as a war measur e it wou l d be a good thing to have the chapters advisors, so c hapter advisors were appo int ed by the Grand President in a great many of the chapt e r s. It ha s be en suggested that their work in m os t instanc es, and by far the great majority of the in stances, ha s been very satisfactory and ha s been a help to the chapter and was an important part of this constitution . The amendments to thi s constitution submitted bear on the work of the chapter advisor , and so we have this first: Article IV, Sec. 1, "Each chapter shall elect a chapter advisor, such election however , to be s ubject to the approval of the Grand Council.'"'

Section 2 : The tenure of office of the ohapter advisor shall extend from the time the chapter so se lecting him shall receive notice of his approval by th e Grand Council, and until notification has been received by that chapter that his successor ha s been approved by the Grand Council. Once properly in office, the chapter advisor shall continue in office until he resig ns or until r eli eved from it _by the Grand Council."

Section 3 provides that he shall be a r eprese ntative of the Grand Counci l. He s hall have power to supervise all matter s of th e fraternity; audit th e ir books; call for reports at any time; give advice on matters and things to the fraternity and have disciplinary power. My s ugges tion is that we tak e up each section at a time, Mr. Grand President. I will move the adoption of the amendment t o the constitution as read.

BY THE REPORTER: There was no motion made, s ir, by Mr. Kirk.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): I will move the adoption of the amendment to the constitution as read.

J. W. SKIN JE R (Kansas): I wi ll seco nd that.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I don ' t wish to argue a s in gle thing. I would like to bring some of the th in gs out that prompted this proposition, and that is that we get so me more connection with our alumni. Now, wouldn't it be well-! don't know that it would be but I will put thi s que s tion. to you with the idea that we want better correlation with our alumni-wouldn't it be well to say that he is going to have some of that? I want to inform all of you delegates, not because it is my per ona l opin ion but becau se we are trying to achieve certain ends, are you go in g to neglect that and pass that and have it come up at another time, or do you wi s h to di sc us s it? I have always considered it of vita l importance to build up our a lumni the same as the

other have. If we want it, why n ot do it now and put it in the very place It s hould be? I may be too ins istent, but I would like to have it considered.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Will you state what would be advisable to put in there ?

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I should say that he should be the offic ial repre se ntative o f th e alumni in hi s chapter. That is just off-hand, but I want so me repre se ntative who has some connection betw een the chapters and the chapter alumni.

Recess of 10 minute s.

DR. G. A. LAWRENCE (Ne w York): Brother Grand Presidfnt, a s proposer of the substitute motion I ask th e consent of the seco nd Brother Cook, to add the following words to that section: "And to encoui:age relations between the alumni and the Grand Fraternity through his Acacian chapter." That was in order to cover th e sugg es tion of the Grand Secretary.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard): I accept that.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Now that the substitute motion is before the hou se, the one that Brother Lawrence made , which omits thos e words at the latter part concerning disciplining and includes in it the s tatement of encouraging the relation s between the alumni and the chapter. Now, as I understand it, we are discussing this question and we can proce ed to vote at any time you are ready. (The question was called for. ) The que s tion is called for. Now, we are voting on the sub s titute.

DR. G. A. LAWRENCE (New York): That is the only one before th e h o us e, Brother Grand President.

Grand Pres. GROVES: If there is no objection we will proceed with the roll call.

Upon roll call the vote was as follow s : Aye, 23; Nay, 2 (Kansas and Nebraska). Present but not voting, 1 (Columbia) ; absent, 1 (Colorado).

Grand Pres. GROVES: The substitute motion is carried.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): Now, the idea is thi s, and I want a very full and thorough discussion, and very brief, as to whether or not you want a senate in Acacia. Now, frankly, that is going to take away a great deal of the authority of the conclave as you have it now , for this rea so n: The senate will have the power to select the officers instead of yourselves. I think that the se nate in thi s way would be composed of m en who would hold office somew hat continuously. They are not given a vote in thi s body. They don't hav e anything to do with initiating leg islati on. All they have is the power to se lect officers for the grand fraternity, and to select them from their own number, and being continuous in power for three years, as they are educated, th ey would make a sc hool of instruction for the m en who later on would become officers of the grand fraternity. They will hav e the veto power of what you pass. At present you ha':e veto power .. The veto 12ower then would be given to this senate, and I thmk that , that IS the o nl y r eason f o r having thi s senate, except that also th ey will. ha.ve of the grand officers, and if for any reaso n a grand officer fa1is 111 the d1 s-

charge of hi s duty they are in a position to revoke it if they find it necess ary, and I trust that they will not find it necessary, but it is just a restriction. So I will mov e th e adoption of the sec tion.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard): I will sec ond that motion. Harvard seconds it .

WM. R. COOK (Harvard) : I would like to ask for information. Would the grand officers be elected from the senate?

DE WITT NEIGHBORS (Texas): They should be selected from the se nate.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): That is within your power to change afterwards.

Grand Pres. GROVES: The se nate is chosen by this b ody.

Grand Treas. HUNTINGTON: Thi s se nate also has th e power, as I unders tand it, at any time of removing any of the grand officers and substituting n ew ones if it is found n ecess ary?

T. H. TAPPING (Peo ria ): It see m s to me that while thi s se nate gives m ore power to the alumni, and for that r eason o rdinarily I ought to be in favor of it, I can hardly say that it appeals to me very strongly. It looks to me too much as if you are building up an autocratic body, and even a cumbersome body. You are making leg islation more difficult and uncertain. The conclave may me et and pass legislation and have it s entire work nullified by the senate. The difficulty of calling t ogether a senate seems to be very great. A senate which would repres ent the fraternity would r eprese nt th e national as far as geography is concerned and it would· be very difficult to call it tog et h er . I doubt if you could find eleven strong men, sufficiently st r ong for the senate, who could get t ogeth e r as easily as th e present grand council gets tog et h e r. It seems to me you offer a very good opportunity for an autocratic body, a small party government within yo ur fraternity. The proposition offered might prove s ucce ssf ul in Sigma Chi. In Sigma Chi, which is an ordinary fraternity, it must of n ecess ity be composed of younger men than those in an Acacia n conclave. It see ms to me further that by your dual representation yo u have furnished that s tabili z ing influence, a repre se ntation by the alumni, which thi s senate is merely offered to give. I think we can very well discuss it further.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard): These repres entatives are sent her e to legi slate, but we are not sent h e re with full power to change th e constitution, and no matter what our personal idea is we have to submit that to the chapter, and I think that one of our purposes is to s ubmit the se id eas to our chapter, because finally the people are going to change the con stitution and not this body.

T. ]. PEYCKE (Minnesota): That is the wrong theory. I think the theory is that no matter should be submitted for referendum unles s twothird s o f thi s body are in favor of it. We are simply leaving it to the referendum of th e chapters. Now, there are two bodies that have to pass upon a constitutional amendment, and I would be sorry to see this body simply a rubber stamp in thi s matter.

Grand Pres. GROVES: You can vote on thi s at any time you get r eady

The question >vas called for.

Gnmd Pres. GROVES: The question is called for and we will proto the roll call. Brother Secretary, call the roll.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W : This is Article 3, Sect ion 2?

The Grand Secretary, upol'l ca ll ing the roll of the delegates, announced the following result: 20 Nays, 5 Ayes (Harvard, Illinois, Franklin, Wisconsin, Texas), 1 absent (Colorado).

Grand Pres. GROVES : The motion is lost.

THE HTRIUMVIRATE"

Groves, Ekb law and H u ntington

Scottish Rite Cathedral, Friday Afternoon, Sept. 24, 1920

Grand Pres. GROVES: I think w e will proceed to work. Now, when we adjourned, th e re seemed to be before us an amendment to the Constitution and I think that the committee on constitution wishes to re-state what was placed before u s awhile ago.

B. L. KIRK ( Illinois): I think this committee ha s my idea that th e Conclave see m to express h ereo n the way in which they wanted that worded: " The l egis lative power of the Acacia fraternity shall be vested in th e Grand Conclave, eac h Chapter being entitled to two votes, one to be cast by an active memb e r , preferably the Venerable Deanelect , one by th e Chapter advisor or some alumnus appointed by him." I m ove it.

Grand Pres. GROVES: And the motion i s that we adopt it. And it provides now that one of these delegates s hall be an active man and th e other s hall be th e other man ; and I think it is already understood now we have a n interpretation, that thi s alumnus does not nece ssar ily have to be located at the chapter; preferably so, but not nece ssa rily so; he might b e living somewhere else , but s till pretty active in alumni affairs. That would be particularly true at the state college where we have a small number of people li v ing and directly connected with the institution; but they might have a place, like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, where you h ave a great many alumni.

D. J. KADYK ( Illinois) : Illinois would li}<:e to ask for information. D oes that wording mean in case the advisor cannot attend the Conclave, do es that mean the chapter advisor shall appoint a man to take his place? ·

B L. KIRK (Illinois) : All I had ther e' is this, that it might occur two or three days before a conclave that the adviser could not go; they are busy men; the y would not make good advisers if th ey weren't; and it would be too late to have a meeting; and he ought to be in a po s ition to appoint a man; he is in a to get somebody else.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I think _ that .may well be le ft to him. To my mind, as it now stands, becau s.e there are delegates at this Concla ve who were not elected by th e ir chapters, but who ha ve proper credentials. (Roll call on this section.)

Grand Sec. EKBLA W : Aye, 24; No, 1 (Harvard); Absent, 1 (Colorado).

B L. KIRK (Illinois): Article IV, Section 4 t o b e amended by striking out all that part after the words "Grand President", and inserting "or by any two of the other" and so forth, giving three days notice over their signature to th e other members , so that it will read: "All meetings of the Grand Council except that held at the time of the Grand Conclave shall be at the call of the Grand President or by any two of the other of its members upon their giving seven days notice over their, signature to the other members." I move the adoption of this amendment.

The motion was seconded.

Grand Pres: GROVES: Now, any point of information? The pomt to be is just this. Shall the Grand Council be required to get permiSSIOn of the chapters every time they meet, shall they have a free hand to meet as often as you want to, or will you limit them? Those three alternatives might be added there.

H. vV. LINKERT (Purdue): I think this matter should be left to the discretion of the Grand Council. They won't meet any oftener than they have to, so I see no reason at all why it should be discussed. I call for the question.

Grand Sec. EKBLAW: 25 votes Aye; one absent (Colorado).

Grand Pres. GROVES: It is carried.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): Article V, Section 1 (A). "The Grand Officers shall be elected to cover a space of time including two conclaves, provided that not more than t>hree officers shall be elected at any one conclave." That is the article. It gives a longer term of office for your officers, and provides for the continuity of the officers. I move the adoption of the amendment.

J. D STUCKEY (Franklin): Franklin seconds the motion.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Call the roll, Brother Grand Secretary.

The Grand Secretary upon calling the roll of delegates, announced the following result:

Aye, nineteen; No, six (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Yale, Columbia, Washington); Absent, one (Colorado).

Grand Pres. GROVES: It is carried.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I wonder if it would not come within the present activity to determine when the offices of the grand officers should begin. I am very much in favor of a change of the grand officers, of beginning their term of office at some certain time beyond the conclave, because when the books are dumped over from one secretary to the other, there is no chance for continuity in the work. You are going to become rushed and get in new workers, and with a new secretary, you won't be able to get supplies or pins or anything until he gets familiar with the work. And I wonder if this is not the time, or if it should come in the By-Laws, or where.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois) : Article 5, section 3, to be amended by adding the following: "He shall have authority to require a report from any chapter, chapter adviser or grand officer at any time, which is an additional duty or power." I move the adoption of this amendment.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I will say that once or twice to my knowledge there has been some difficulty between the Grand President and some of the other officers because they refused to tell him how they were getting along; in other . words, to get some kind of report of the progress of the work. J\re you ready to vote on that? (Cries of "Yes".) Brother Grand Secretary, call the roll.

The Grand Secretary, upon calling the roll of delegates, announced the following result:

Ayes, 25; one absent.

Grand Pres. GROVES: It is carried.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): Here is a section that can very well go in in place where section five of article four is omitted, so I am changing that order: "In case any grand officer shall fail to perform his duty, such grand officer may be removed from office by a majority vote of the Grand Council, and his successor be appointed by that body." I move that that be inserted where section five , article four has been omitted.

J. D. STUCKEY (Franklin): Franklin seconds the motion.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Are you ready to vote? Call the roll, Brother Secretary.

The Grand Secretary, upon calling the roll of delegates, announced the following result:

Ayes, 25; one absent.

Grand Pres. GROVES: It is so ordered.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): Article five, section eighteen, a new section: "Members of general, national, social , college fraternities shall not be eligible for membership in Acacia. This section shall be in no way retroactive." I move the adoption.

H. L. HUBBELL (Nebraska): Nebraska seconds.

Grand Pres. GROVES : Nebraska seconds. Discussion?

WM. R. COOK (Harvard) : Mr. Grand President-

Grand Pres. GROVES: Just a moment. In years gone by most of us know that this article has taken up a good deal of time at these Conclaves. I •have talked to the people interested on both sides of the question, and I have come to the conclusion I would like to try this plan: Simply turn it over to one side and let them present their views on one side, and then let the other side present theirs, and then vote on it.

W. E. JENKS (Wisconsin): I move that argument on this be limited to fifteen minutes on each side of the question.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard) : I do not arise-

Grand Pres. GROVES: Is there a second to this motion?

J. D. STUCKEY (Franklin) : Franklin seconds.

Grand Pres. GROVES: That motion is in order all right, isn't it?

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): Yes, but I don't think it is necessary. Nobody would want to take more than their time.

Grand Pres. GROVES: All right.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard): I simply want to make a request at this time Brother Lawrence, who was asked to prepare a written report, be allowed to read it. It will not take longer than fifteen minutes, will it?

DR. G. A. LAWRENCE (New York): No, Brother Cook, it will not take that amount of time.

q-rand GROVES:. Very good. Now, let' s vo t e o n th e motion, 1t. be llm1te<;l. 1n favor say aye, contrary no. Th e m o ti on 1s earned. It wlll b e hm1t e d to fifteen minute s.

R. 0. Hf\RPOLE (l;'a le). : Since Bro th er L aw r e nc e was requested to prepare th1s report, th1 s w lll not be co unt ed as time of rh e n ega ti ve will it ? '

Grand Pres. GROVES: Oh yes, as far as I kn ow . Un less I h ear o ther instructions I will ask Brother L aw ren ce to discuss the qu es ti o n

DR. G. A. LAWR ENCE ( New York) : Thi s is not a discussion it is s imply a s tat e ment of o ur point of view, and it i s o nly pre se nt ed with that in mind. It is not presen t e d in r ega rd to influ e ncing any man in regard to hi s vote. It is s imply a statement of fact as we see it, a nd we don't want you t o consider it as in any way whatsoever controlling your vo t e. It was made a t th e reque s t of our Grand President , who visi t ed u s this s umm e r , and asked me i f I wo uld not pr ese nt th e view o f our eas t ern members on what see ms to b e, to our minds, a very important question on o ur national po li cy.

SPECIAL REPORT BY G. ALFRED LAWRENCE

Brethren, our Grand President, during a r ecent visit t o New York, requested me to present th e v iews of Acac ia n s belonging t o C h apte r s opposing th e exclu s ion of members of social Greek - let t e r fr ate rniti es from consideration for m emb e r ship in Acacia Fraternity.

Our a ttitud e, in brief, is to continue in operation the provisions of o ur cons tituti o n as to membership as th ey ex is t ed prior to the last grand concl ave, to cease bringing up and agitat in g this question at any gra nd con cl ave, and drop the subject for all time. Let eac h c hapt e r decide for it self whom th ey s hall se lect as their fellow members in Acacia, r est ri c ted n at ionall y on l y b y th e provisions originally set forth in Sect ion 2 of o ur constit uti on by th e founders of Acacia Frat ern it y.

The fundamenta l p on t at issue. as we see it is whether the a ims and idea ls of Acac ia are to be our present a nd future policy as so decidedly an d specifically set forth in the preamble of our constitut ion and under which we h ave passed through a period of unusual prosperity as a univ ers ity frat e rnity , or w h eth e r we intend to make a radical d epartu r e from suc h a po li cy and e nter into a much narrower and m o r e r est ri c ted fie ld of univ ers ity activ it y.

In other wo rd s, whether we are t o in c lud e a ll univ e r s it y Masons or only certai n c l asses of Masons as material for Acacia.

The preamble of our const itution definite ly spec ifi es "s tud e nt s, faculty .and al umni of va ri o u s unj vers iti es a nd colleges who are Master Masons and believe in the principles of Freemasonry," as those w h o sha ll bind themselves to get h er as a university enti t y in orde r t o c ultiv ate and exten d the p rincipl es of Freemasonry in various co ll eges and uni vers iti es. This does n ot spec ify , and we beli eve wise ly that on ly ce rt a in classes of s tud ent s, faculty a nd a lumni that do not belong to ot h er uni versity organizations a r e e li g ibl e for conside r a ti o n fo.r membership in Acacia, a nd to make any s u c h as '!- par.t of. our tution and th us s till furt h e r li mit o ur field o f act tvit y m univ e r s it y lif e with the result{ng greater strugg l e t o secure p rop e r materia l by which a h ea lthy existence can be maintained, we believe to be not o nly a r ad ica l departure from the fundamenta l aim of ou r fraternity, but a most un wise co_ur se of procedure. In other words , Acacia is definitely and primari ly se t forth m the preamble of o ur c<;mstitution as a University Masonic Fraternity for the a d vanceme nt a nd extensiO n of Masonry, its principles and id ea l s, in various co ll eges .a nd universities: A ? Y attempt to narrow this fie l d by arbitrarily of um vers tty Masons, if nefinite l y a d opted by us as o ur natwnal policy, we believe would r e -

sult in the withdrawa l of the who l e-hearted support of the Masonic Fraternity, if not actual antagonism of the latter; and any course tending to bring about such a result should not be entertained for a moment. In orde r to have the united support of Ma s om·y, we must definitely place ourse lves on record as a one hundred per cent university Masonic movement.

ALLUDES TO MASONRY.

Furthermore , our ritual abounds in Masonic references, and we pledge ourselves to uphold the ideals of Masonry in our opening exercises, in our pledging ceremony, and !n our initiation; in our obligations we recognize the fourfold Masonic tie now binding us in brotherly love and mutual helpfulness one to another.

Even Baird's Manual and Banta's Greek Exchange classify us as a Masonic Collegiate Fraternity, and our membership in the Inter-fraternity Conference is ba s ed upon our status as a university Masonic fraternity. We are in no sense a Greek-letter fraternity-differing in name and in our field of activity; nor a r e we un·der any obligation to adopt or carry out any of the po li cies or rules that they may adopt for their own guidance. The very, name Acacia has a deep Masonic significance, and is in no sense of any Greek-letter import.

By our constitution as originally drafted we restrict ourselves, for prospective candidates, to members of the Masonic order, whereas all general Greek-letter fraternities include for their material the entire student body and members of the faculty in residence at the co ll ege or u niversity having previous Greekletter affiliation with some other Greek- letter fraternity in the same class as itself.

To adopt as the policy of Acacia the exclusion of University men who, prior to reaching the age of twenty-one years, may have j oined some Greek -l etter fraternity, would not on l y restrict our field of university Masonic acivity to much narrower limits, but place us in the anomalous position of catering to certain classes of university Masons, and absolutely rejecting other and equa ll y desirable classes of university Masons. Such an attitude is, in itself, un-Masonic, and will unquestionably withdraw from us the united support of Masonry outside of university centers.

By t hus excluding certain university Masons from consi-deration for membership, we are not taking fu ll advantage of our opportunities, and only covering a part of the fie ld; thus leaving an opening for some other Masonic fraternity to enter the field and possibly become an active competitor in an already crowded field and pos s ibly even supplant us.

SHOULD HAVE EVERYONE.

The scope of our activity should comprise the en tire Masonic membership of the center in which a Chapter Acacia exists, to secure as large a number of desirable men w ith Masonic affi li ations as possible to ai -d us in carrying on our work, and to finally heartily co-operate with all other university organizations of whatsoever character in const ru ctive educationa l work. If the Pan-Hellenic at a university center is composed of only certain Greek-letter chapters having requirements that are not in conformity with our present constitutional requirements, chapters of Acacia should not consider themselves under any obligations to be• come members of the same. There is, however, no objection to Acacia entering the Pan-Hellenic at any particular university if lo ca l requirements are not in conflict with our own standards and the chapter finds such membership advantageous. Furthermore, to exclude a Mason from membership in Acacia for the reason that he may be a member of a certain class of Greek-letter fraternities, and we lcom e a man who may chance to belong to some other class of Greekletter fraternities, is illogical and un-Masonic, as all other Greek-letter fraternities, of whatsoever character have the same primary objects and aims.

To say that a man cannot be a member of and loyal to two or more organizations at one and the same time, is a lso un-Masonic, and a serious reflection upon the social capacity of university men. By the very terms of our constitution, a prospective candidate for Acacia must, as a prerequisite, be a lo yal and active member of the Masonic fraternity, and most university men are loyal and active members of many organizations, and ren der' constructive service to them all.

!he hou sing proposition need not enter into this question at all, as a prospectl_ve cand1date cay be g1ven to distinctly understand that if the chapter Acacia reqmres res1dcnce m the chapter house he must agree to dwell therein unless spccificall:>: excused said chapter. Many chapters have a sufficiently large membership so that 1t IS not essential, and in some cases it is not even possible for all members to live in the chapter house.

The constitution of any national organization having units scattered over a vast territory, as is the case in Acacia, and with the whole world as our field of from this very fact be. broad and general in character, thus leaving mdividual umts or chapters great latitude in solving the often difficult problems ansmg from local conditions. This is especially so in the case of Acacia where membership is limited to students over twenty-one years of age and pre-Masonic requirements are fundamental.

Certain chapters of Acacia cannot exist unless they can take advantage of the entire Masonic material in their particular center, and any anti - Greek legislation would force them to surrender their charter issued and received in gogd faith, cherished by many years of constructive activity for Acacia; and it would be fundamentally wrong to pass national legislation· with the certain knowledge that such restrictive legislation would destroy an integral part of the fraternity itself.

For one group or one section of our organization to pass national legislation that would destroy a chapter or chapters of another group or section, is also fundamentally unfraternal and un-Masonic. J\ contractual relation exists between each chapter and our national organization, and the primary object of the latter is the protection and strengthening of each and every unit, and the promulgation of wise legislation that will be of distinct benefit to every unit

E ACH CH APTER SHOULD DE CIDE .

The principle of the greatest good to the greatest numbers has no application here, as legislation that will destroy one or more units cannot but be harmful to the remaining units as a broken chain with one or more links destroyed is not as strong as the united whole Let each chapter therefore judge and select the Masons in their center to whom they desire to extend the privileges of membership in Acacia, guided by local conditions. This will tend to individuality in our chapters, and a healthy rivalry, with the result of uniting us all into a zealous and harmonious whole.

Let us be guided by the familiar Biblical, quotations, "A house divided within itself cannot stand," and put our household in order, by dropping for all time class legislation which is so contrary to the spirit of the times. We know such legislation will absolutely destroy one or more units of our organization and hamper the activities and usefulness of still other units. A firm and steadfast adherence to the high and noble principles so beautifully and definitely expressed in the preamble of our constitution, will clear away the mists, and Acacia, as a one hundred per cent university Masonic movement, with no entangling alliances, will merit and receive the esteem and co-operation of all other worthy university organizations of whatsoever kind, and go forward to still more brilliant future of great accomplishments as added luster to our past record, to which we may look back with so much pride.

In conclusion, Brethren, the following questions must be squarely answered by us at this Grand Conclave:

(1) Do we intend to change the fundamental policy of our fraternity?

(2) Do we intend to voluntarily abandon an integral part of our past field of Masonic activity in university centers, and thus leave a large and fertile field to be filled by some other university Masonic organizations?

(3) Do we intend to .alienate all Masons of Greek-letter affiliations?

( 4) Do we intend to pass national legislation over the protest of certain chapters where we know such legislation will force some chapters to surre!lder their charters, and handicap other chapters in carrying on to their greatest ad, vantage?

(5) Shall we continue our former policy which assu r es the united s upport of Masonry, or s h a ll we excl ud e certain cl asses of Masons with the r es ult of having only partial support of-and possibly the actual antagonism of Masonry?

Only by answering all of these questions in the affirmative, will anti-Greek legisl a tion be ju stifie d

If, on the contrary, we answer any one or all of th ese qu es tions in the negati ve, anti-Greek l eg is lation will be unju s tifiabl e, and we will continue to carry out the broad, lib era l policy so lucidly set forth in our constitution by the founders of our b elov ed fraternity, and und e r which we ha ve made such marked progress in the past , and which gives promise of a brilliant future of great achievement for univ ersi t y Masonry in th e years to come.

Grand Pre s . GROVES: I wish to say I think that probably in the history of this legis l a tion, this is one of the mo s t complete and dignified s tatem e nts we ha ve ever had before a Conclave. I consider it worth while t o put it thi s way rather than the way we have it her etofore. Now , rhis will not preclude the discussion by th e other people who are inter es ted in this, and I s ug ges t that those people who are in favor of having thi s go to vote at once, discuss it right away. Do you wish the fl oo r, Brother Cook?

\VM. R. COOK (Harvard): I do not know as I can add much to the report. It seems to rri e that th e question h ere today i s a question of what kind of fraternity we want. Do we want a Greek fraternity or something bigger? If we want a Greek fraternity, why pass this legislation? If we want something bigger, th ere are many Greeks throughout th e country. There ar e many Greeks in your own univ ers ity whom eve ry man will admit it would be an honor to belong to your fraternity. I want to say th at while I have met these Broth.e rs h ere, and I think there never was a Conclave which had a better dass of men r ep r ese nt th e m, that I don ' t think that Harvard has a thing to be ashamed of. W •e have had a number of Greeks in Harvard in the past. I speak only of Harvard, and I think th a t th e men w hich we have in Harvard Fraternity ar e on a par i.n their ability and anything e l se as are the men)bers of the Acacia Fraternity . Now, I do not think that th e schools who are in favor of Greeks should try to force the schoo l s who are not in favor of Greeks to take them. I think that is enti r e ly wrong, but I think that the people who do not want Greeks should try to look at this probl e m and see whether they think it is better for the Fraternity as a whole, and for those chapters that can be a better fraternity with Greeks to take them, or whe th e r it is better to requir e all of the fraternities , all of the chapters to ex clud e Greeks and hav e some weak sisters, saying nothing probably , that some of th e chapters would b e forced to surrender their charter. It seems to m e that is the question we hav e to face. I did not join a Greek fraternity. I did not have a chance to. I don'·t think I would hav e if I had had a chance. Th e re is something about the policy of the Greek fraternity that I can not sort of approve of , generally. They are n o t a ll that way, but if we come down to the same policy as th e Greek fraternity, what is the difference betwe e n our Fraternity and th e Greeks? The only diff ere nc e I can see is th e fact that w e tak e only Masons. That is a strong r ecommenda tion for our Fraternity, I will admit, but it seems to me that I can not, as was suggested by Broth e r Lawr ence, better carry out the true Masonic spirit if we t e ll a good Brother Mason you are a Greek, th e r e fore, yo u are not good e nough for u s. There are many Greeks who ar e good enough for u s. I don't think you should take a Greek into a Chapter if you don't think h e is go in g to be primarily an Acacia n, but a grea t many Greeks taker, into chapt e rs in the past-in fact, I should say practically all of them-ha ve been primarily Aca cians. I have talk ed to a number of the Greeks during the past yea r, who are members of H ·arvard . and the thing they look to as the greatest thin g to belong to is th e Acacia Fraternity. The Greek fraternity is a childish family they belonged to in their younger days Tru e, they go and call on their fraternity to show they appreciat e it , but the Acacia Fraternity i s th e one the y look to as th e big thing in coll ege lif e. I think it is possible to continue that attitude. I r eg ret one thing which was brought up during the discussion, and

which was in the questionnaire. I wish to say there have been times in the past when chapters , in the middle west, have been embarrassed by meJ?bers of .the Acacia Fraternity showing their allegiance, when they visited their fratermty, pnmanly a Greek fraternity, to which they belonged. I don't thmk they have been Harvard men; if they are, I think they deserve a vote of censure, and no matter what chapter they belong to, and I want to ask you, were you ever embarrassed by men of the Acacia Fraternity who were Greeks? We have been. I could cite you several instances, and I am not gomg to call names. I might cite this one sample, that the first year I was in Harvard Fraternity we took ,n a man who had spent about three years at Harvard University He had not shown up at the Acacia Fraternity house. He had not worn an Acacia ·pin or Masonic pin, not because he was not inter· ested, not because he didn ' t think it was a good organization; and wh e n we found out he was an Acacian, he affiliated with Harvard Chapter. Isn't that an embarrassing circumstance? There are a numb e r of others. This man did not know that there was an Acacia Fraternity at Harvard. We have repeated samples of the same thing, and you will ha ve embarrassing circumstnces always, because there are a whole lor of men who will be int e rested more than others, but I don't think it is necessary to suppose that this embarrassment will come from the Greeks. I ask you to consider this proposition on a broad basis. I don't think the Greek proposition has harmed a fraternity in the past. If it had I would vote for this amendment. As it is, I will carry out my instructions and vote against it.

C. E. MOORE (Columbia): I think I agree with Harvard and with some of the other universities. We are tired of hearing about this Greek question. We would like to see it settled one way or the other for all time. I came to the Conclave this year, expecting to be present at the funeral of the Greek question. No doubt I will be. I should very much prefer to see it killed and buried, than to see the strangle hold which was placed on it last year with -just the votes necessary to keep it alive but with the death rattle in its throat. There is no need for me to add anything to what the gentleman from Harvard has said, as I think that expresses my sentiments almost identically.

R. 0. HARPOLE (Yale) : I can cover our situation in a very short while. Our sentiments are exactly the sentiments of Harvard and Columbia. I set forth the situation the other day at Yale the best I could. I would say t>hat Yale, according to the sentiment of the alumni-! haven't heard from all the alumni-do not hold the view that if this old legislation is passed that Yale will be killed .

H. W. LINKERT (Purdue): Brother Grand President , I believe all th e members here have made up their minds on this amendment. All the delegates are familiar with the history of the chapters represented. I can not see any reason why we should discuss the question any further and I call for the question.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I could give still further time, but if you make that motion that we proceed to vote then I would have to put the question.

The question was called for.

The Grand Secretary, upon calling the roll of delegates , announced the following result: Ayes, 21; Noes, 4 (Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Washington); One absent (Colorado).

Grand Pres. GROVES: It is carried.

B. L. KIRK (Illinois): Now , to amend section thirty-three to read -this was referred to rather hastily the other day. "The Grand Coun-

c il s h a ll a uth o ri ze th e p ubli ca ti o n o f th e j o urnal-s mall j-of the Frat e rnity , at s u c h tim e o r tim es as it m ay dir ec t Th e n a me o f the offici a l j o urn a l , s m a ll j , s h a ll b e th e Cos m os o f A ca c ia , a nd s uffi c ie nt numb e r

o f c op ies s h a ll b e print e d a nd s upplied t o a ll c h a pt e r s in o rd e r t o furni s h

o n e co p y t o eac h ac ti ve m e mb e r fo r w h o m th e annu a l or s e mi-annu a l

p e r ca pit a t ax h as b ee n p a id , a s s h o wn b y th e ir a nnu a l r e p o rt , and to s u p pl y alumni m e mb e r s a t o n e d o llar a ye ar ", a nd t o am e nd th e secti o n of th e B y-L aws wh e r e th e w o rd J o urn a l o r th e w o rd s The J o urn a l occ ur t o r ea d- th ose a r e caps-t o r ea d j o urnal a nd s m a ll j I mo v e it s adop ti o n .

J D S TU CKEY ( Fr a nklin ) : Franklin seco nd s

G r a nd P r es . G R OVES: I wo uld lik e t o as k thi s qu es ti o n . W hen th e w o rd j o urn a l i s print e d w ith a s m a ll l e tt e r , th e G rand Co un c il s h a ll a uth o ri ze th e publi cati o n o f a j o urnal , w h a t d oes j o urnal m ea n in th a t se n se? vV h y co uldn ' t th ey p ubli s h a d a y-b oo k ? ( Laught e r.)

vVe ll , yo u h ave thi s b efo r e yo u , w h a t is yo ur p le a s ur e?

vVM. R. COO K (Ha r va rd ): May I h a v e th e fl oo r with o ut a n s w e rin g th a t qu es ti o n , G r a n d P r es id e nt ? Pe r so n a ll y . I a m op p ose d t o this am e ndm e nt. I d o n ' t kn ow abo ut th e s m a ll e r pu b li ca ti o n It m a y be a g oo d thin g . I a m n o t go in g t o ex pr ess an op inio n on that. I am o pp osed t o c h a n g in g th e n a m e of th e publi ca ti o n It ma y b e part of m y H a r va rd tr a inin g, but I r es p ec t o ld thin gs. Th a t i s th e way I fee l r ega rding th e J o urn a l, a nd I think th a t w o uld b e th e a ttitud e o f a ve r y la r g e p e r ce nt age o f th e a lumni . I c a n ' t s e e a n y thing wrong with th e n a m e J o urn a l m yse lf Cos m os is a littl e diff e r e nt , but I d o n ' t kn ow as we n ee d a nythin g uniqu e in th e nam e o f our publi c ati o n. Th e thin g th a t m a k es o ur publi ca ti o n is n o t th e f a ct that it i s g o ing t o b e a Cos m os o r J o urn a l, but the f ac t th a t it i s Acac ia, and I think as l ong as we h a v e th e titl e of o ur o ffi c ia l publi ca ti o n a lr ea dy th e Ac a c ia J o urn a l , a nd it h as bee n publi s h e d so fo r seve r a l yea r s , it s h o uld c o ntinue so unl ess th ere i s so m e ve r y good r easo n fo r c h a ngin g it If ther e is an y, I wo ul d be g la d t o h ea r it , but I h ave n ' t a s y et.

DR. G. A . L AW R E N CE ( N ew Yo rk ) : I wa nt e d to talk a long exac tl y th ose lin es . I a m th oro u g hl y in s ympathy with Har va rd in r e g a rd t o th a t m a tt e r. Cos m os is n o t di s tin c ti ve o f A ca c ia o r a n y thing e lse. T h a t ha s b ee n u se d fo r p opul a r m ag a z in es fr o m time imm e m o ri a l. Furth e rm o r e, as th e Br o th e r fr o m H a r va rd s tat es, w e hav e had the J o urn a l es t a bli s h e d fo r s ix t ee n yea r s . Th e o ld m e mb e r s o f the Frat e rnit y kn ow o ur p u b li ca ti o n a s th e J o urn a l. If w e call e d it th e Acac ian , it wo ul d b e mu c h m o r e appr o pri a t e. I see n o M aso nic o r Acac ia s ignifi ca n ce in th e wo r d Cos m os , and I think it s h o u ld b e co ntinu e d as th e J o m·na l.

WM. R. COO K ( H a r v ard ) : P ri va t e ly m y o pinion is th a t we h a d b e tt e r k ee p it as it is . I lik e t h e s u gges tion that Br o th e r L aw r e n c e g ives, th a t if w e w a nt t o c h a n ge th e nam e, n o thin g wo uld sa ti s fy the int eres t s o f thi s in s tituti o n b e tt e r than t o call it the A ca c ian.

G r a nd P r es. G R OVES : A ny furth e r di sc u ss io n ?

T . H. T APP IN G (Peo ri a ): Mr. P r es id e nt , I will a dmit th a t th e n a m e m a y not b e id e al , but I d o cl a im th a t a nything s o co mm o n and

m ea ningl ess as J o urn a l ca n ve r y we ll be s uppl a nt e d b y so m e o th e r n a m e . J o urn a l m ea n s a b so lut e ly n o thin O'. It is cl a im e d it h as a ce rt a in m ea ning . A n y thin g b eco m es 0 c h e r is h e d af t e r it ex is t s fo r a a nd. o ur J o urn a l w ill ex is t mu c h l o n ge r th a n th e fo urt ee n yea r s 1t h as ex 1s t e d so fa r , so w h a t may b e es t a bli s h e d as a tr a diti o n n ow w ill be a tr a diti o n in a ve r y s h o rt tim e, a nd will b e a mu c h b e tt e r tr aditi o n th a n t o h ave so m e thin g as m ea nin g less as J o urn a l. Th ere a r e fo urt ee n fr a t e rniti es th a t h ave a so - c all e d J o urn a l. Th e r e a r e m a n y fr a t e rniti es t o wh o m th e ir p a rti c ul a r nam e fo r th e ir publi ca ti o n h as b eco m e a ve r y d ea r tr a diti o n , b eca u se th e n a m e is a b so lut e ly di s tin c t. Th ey m ay h ave th e ir ow n s ig nifi ca n ce t o a fr a t e rnity o r a so r o rit y, but th ey a r e p a rti c ul a r a nd s ig nifi ca nt. J o urn a l is m eanin g less, but as th e P r es id e nt sa id , yo u mi g ht as w e ll ca ll it th e Acac ia d ay b oo k. It mea n s n o th i n g, a nd Cos m os o r a n y o th e r n a m e y o u ad o pt will b eco m e so m e thin g of me anin g

B. L. KIRK ( Illin o i s) : I r ea li ze h o w a ve ry g r ea t n a m e co uld b e full o f m ea ning. J o hn S mith is a v er y goo d n a m e, but th e r e is o nly o n e J o hn S mith. T o a ll Acac ia n s th e r e wo uld b e o nl y o n e Ac a c ia J o urn a l, a nd I m ove it r e m ai n as J o urn a l.

C. E . MOO R E (Co lumb ia) : I think th e r e i s as mu c h a rgum e nt in favo r of th e c h a n ge o f th e n a m e o f th e J o urn a l as th e r e i s in th e a r g um e nt o f th e f ac t th a t it ca u ses u s so mu c h tr o ubl e w h e n we beg in t o loo k u p th e Co n s tituti o n a nd B y- L a w s co n ce rnin g th e n a m e . It t oo k quit e a few minut es o f tim e h e r e. I b e li e v e in a dh e rin g t o o l d c u s t o m s, a nd I kn ow it is d ea r t o th e h e art s o f a lumni m e mb e r s, b ut we a r e in a p e ri od o f r eco n s tru c ti o n n ow, a n d I d o n ' t think we s h o uld s t a n d o n se ntim e nt a t a ll in o ur vo tin g. If yo u think th e nam e is n o t suffi c ie nt , a lth o u g h we h ave r ega rd fo r th e fee ling of th e o ld e r a lumni m e mb e r s, I see n o r easo n w h y th a t s h o uld s t a nd in th e w ay o f o ur vo t e

G r a n d Sec EKB L A W : I a m n o t p arti c ul a rl y im p r esse d w ith a n y o n e of th e n a m es . I would lik e t o see so m e thin g di s tin c ti ve ly Ac a c ia n. I b e li eve a nam e th a t wo uld b e th a t , a nd wo uld b e kn o wn as th a t n o m a tt e r w h e r e, wo uld b e wo rth w hil e . I t a lk e d t o o n e of th e br o th e r s a n d h e sa id h e th o u g ht th e S a nd s o f Acac ia w o uld be a goo d n a m e. B r o th e r S h e p a rd so n didn ' t lik e Cos m os a t a ll. It is so m e thin g th a t ca n b e b r o u g ht up h e r e, w h e th e r o r n o t yo u w a nt a di s tin c ti ve n a m e. I h ave h ea rd so mu c h o bj ec ti o n I d o n ' t kn ow w h a t t o think abo ut it. I a m a s ti c kl e r fo r d eve lo pm e nt s w h e n eve r yo u ca n d eve lo p o n e, b ut so m e tim e it w ill h ave t o be c h a n ge d

DR. G A. L AW R E N CE ( N e w Yo rk ): I think a good n a m e wo ul d b e th e Py th ago ri a n . We s p ea k o f Py tha go r as, wh y n o t ca ll it th e Py th ago ri a n. It i s a littl e lo n ge r th a n Cos m os, b ut it m ea n s somethin g t o Acac ia n s .

T . H. TAPP IN G (Peo ri a) : I s t a t ed I w a nt e d a n e w n a m e , a n d that h as bee n m y id ea a ll thr o u g h thi s Co n c lave. If thi s Co n clave ca n n o t find a n a m e th a t th ey lik e a t thi s tim e, mak e so m e pr ovis ion fo r findin g a nam e, but I think th ey o u g ht t o t a k e so m e d e finit e s t a n d agai n s t co ntinuin g a n a m e so co mm o n as J o urn a l. It m ea n s

nothing. This is something that is peculiar to Acac ians I will accept that substitute.

MR. , CANNON (Pennsylvania State): Can a new name be copyrighted?

B. L. KIRK ( Illinoi s) : It can be.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I think that ought to be in this motion that the new nam e be copyrighted.

B. L. KIRK ( Illinois) : That would be separate legislation.

R. G. BUZZARD (Chicago): It seems to me the name Pythagorian would call attention t o a certain matter which we do not want attention called to , and some of our men might get too many ideas.

C. E. MOORE (Co lumbia) : \tVith reference to that , I wi s h to state that Columbia already require s its pledgees to read everything they can find on th e lif e and hi s tory of Pythagoras.

B . L. KIRK ( Illinois): \tVe ha ve a sec tion to amend the By-Laws and a substitute for it.

The previous question was called for.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Are you ready to vote? The question is called for. This is voting on section thirty - three of the By-Laws.

DR. G. A. LAWRENCE ( New York): Will you read it just as it is now, Brother Kirk ?

B. L. KIRK ( Illinois): Brother Tapping has the substitution. I think he has put in Pythagorian. vVill you read it?

T. H. TAPPING (Peo ria) : To amend section 33 to read: "The Grand Conclave shall authorize the publication of a journal of the Fraternity at s uch time or tim es of the year as it may direct. The name of th e official publication shall be The Pythagorian.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I think the President will state that he is ju s t as much in favor of an antiquity in the name of our publication as he is in the builder of these chairs. If there is no objection to taking this vote, we will call the roll.

The Grand Secretary, upon calling the roll of delegates , announced the following r es ult : Ayes, 15; 10 No ( Nebraska, California, Ohio, Harvard , Minnesota, vVisconsin, Missouri, Cornell, Iowa, Texas); one absent.

Grand Pres GROVES : The motion is lost. Is there any further report?

\tVM . R. COOK ( Harvard): Delegates expenses. Grand Pres. GROVES: Very good; read it.

By Wm . R. Cook, Chairman.

To the Grand Conclave of the Acacia Frat e rnity:

Th is committee finds the d e leg ates' expe nses listed below to be in acco

with Section 13 of the By-Laws and recommends their payment in acco rdance with Section 14 of the By-Laws:

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WILLIAM R. COOK, ·Chairman. HOWARD T. HILL, B. L. KIRK. Committee.

Scottish Rite Cathedral, Friday Evening, Sept. 24, 1920

G r a nd Pres . G ROVES: The Co ncla ve w ill please be in o rd e r.

Grand Sec. EKB L A W: I would lik e to r ead, while we ha ve thi s littl e m o m e nt h e r e, a li s t of institutions which h ave written to u s r egarding chap t ers at th ei r institutions. The V i ce -President is n o t h e r e and ca n n o t r eport. He i s authorized by l e tt er to r ead thi s correspondence. University of P itt sb ur g h , Uni ve r s ity of Mississippi, Florida, Ohio University a t A th e n s, University of South Ca rolin a, Kansas City Schoo l of L aw, Va nd erbi lt Uni ve r si ty , A l aba m a, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Agr ic ultur a l Co ll ege, University of C in c innati , Uni ve r s ity of Georg i a, A labama, Kansas State, Springfield, Mass., and so m e co llege at-I ca n ' t read that , I don't kn ow th e n ame of th e college-Mississippi Agricultural Co ll ege, University of N o rth Ca r o lina , William A. Moore of Virginia, Trinity Co ll ege, Mo rr e ll Univers it y of Wyoming, and · Allegheny College.

DR. G. A L AWRE N CE ( N ew York) : The Committee on Insig ni a and Ritual s is r eady to r ep o rt. It is a very bri e f report.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Very well, th e n , we will h ear your report.

DR. G . A . L AW REN CE ( New York) : Th e Co mmittee o n In s ig nia recommends th e a d o ption of a badge in the form of a button. Well. I will r ead the r e p or t.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON INSIGNIA AND RITUAL.

By G. Alfred Lawrence, Chairman.

The comm itt ee o n In s ig ni a a nd Ritual r eco mm e nd s (1) th e adop tion of a badge in the fo rm of a button consisting of the c r es t of th e frat e rnity in gold or si lv er. (2) That uniform s t a t ionery be adopted for fraternity purp oses, containing the fraternity cres t in go l d or s il ver. (3) Th a t the fraternity co lors s till continue the offic ia l black and go ld as at present a nd that a f rate rnit y flower be adopted to be determined up on by a specia l co mmitt ee to be appointed by the incoming Grand Presiden t . ( 4) The committee d o not app r ove of a n hon or or sc hol a r s hip key fo r the r eason t h a t there are no w a l rea d y m a n y sc h o la r s hip soc ieties and Acacia is n o t distinctively an h ono r socie ty or fraternity. (5) The committee docs not approve of a so - ca ll e d ''sister" pin differing fr o m our pr ese nt official pin as being unn ecessa r y a nd conf u s in g.

R espec t fu ll y s ubmitt ed,

G. A LFRED LAWRENCE, Chairman.

WILLIAM M.

A LSIN , I owa State.

HARRY L. HUBBELL, Nebraska.

G r and Sec. EKB L A W: I wish t o say that I fee l when we get a lon g t oward th e tail e nd of th e Co n c lave we do so m e thing s without co nsidera ti o n a t a ll th at h ave co n s id e r ab l e b ear ing on th e Fraternity. These m a tt e r s h ave been before th e Fraternity for t e n yea r s, and we l eg is lat e o n th e m in a hurr y and th e thing is brought up aga in. I believe we h ave fallen int o th e sa m e e rr or we h ave previously. I purposely ins is t e d a t th e G rand Co ncl ave's m ee tin gs th a t we h ave a Co ncla ve of a week in o rd e r t o d e lib e rat e o n so m e of the se thin gs th a t ought t o be se ttl e d , and I hat e to see a Co nclave dismiss a r epo rt as imp o rtant as thi s i s, and be am u sed a t th e fact th a t it ha s done so

DR. LAWRENCE ( New York): There is someth in g really then, that was done quickly. There was some good things m that report and they were adopted .

G. C. FORRESTER (Michigan) : I would like to call the attention of the Conclave, at this time , to th e fact that there are in the Archives of Michigan, a number of val u ab le papers and documents The Archives are not fireproof, and I wou ld like to have th e Conclave cons i der getting some kind of a firep r oof safe o r so me firepro of receptacle to take care of these.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard) : I mov e, in accordance with th e suggestion of the delegate from Mich igan, that the Grand Counci l be instructed to make such provision s as they deem necessary for the protection of the Arch ives of thi s Fraternity agains t fire. They can decide what is the best form to handle it .

R. R. BRANDENTHALER (Was hi ng t o n ) : Washing t on seconds that.

Grand Pres. GROVES : Those in favor say aye; contrary, no. The motion is carried.

Meeting adjourned until Saturday morning, September 25, 1920, at 9 :00 o'clock A. M.

Scottish Rite Cathedral, Saturday Morning, Sept. 25, 1920

R. G. BUZZARD (Chicago): The Committee on Chapters respectfu ll y submit th e fo ll owing report.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CHAPTERS.

By R. G. Buzzard, Chairman.

Your committee on chapters respectfu ll y submits the following r epo rt:

1. The conditions at the majority of th e chapte r s appears to be excellent and the Fraternity as a who l e is to be congratulated on the m a t e rial progress made since th e last meeting of the Conc lave.

2. Your committee fee l s that congratu lations are due Harvard Chapter because of the progress they hav e b een ab l e to make in spite of the adverse conditions predicted by former delegates. We hope that th e day is not far distant when they can maintain their own tab le a nd thus be enabled more completely to li ve up to the spirit an d ideals of Acacia.

3. Minnesota cha·pter is deserving of criticism due to their financial cond itions, particular l y in the matt er of th e ir debt to the Grand Fraternity; a condition which the Chapter Advisor shou ld have prevented .

4. Th e Yale delegate r epor ts there i s no chance for al um ni support of a house unl ess members of national social co ll ege fraternities are initiat ed, and if conditions are as officially r epor-ted you r comm ittee be l ieves that Ya l e University doe s not furnish an adequate field for Acac ia.

5. In order that there may be no interruption in th e growth of the true fraternity spir it at Co lumbia Chap t e r we wou l d urg e that they exten d th emse lves in their e ff orts to secure a hou se and ma intain a tab l e.

6. We would urge upon Iowa th e necessity for immedi ate organization of their alumni and formulation of plans for financing a n adequate home.

7. 'vVe would ex•tend a word of caution to Washington Chapter on the danger of too large an act iv e membership. The strength and fraternal spirit of a chapter dep e nds on the quality of th e m e mb ers hip rather than in the number of members. Too large a membership m ea n s too little individual responsibility.

This matter is of concern to many of the chapters.

8. Your committee recommends that conditions at Colorado warrant a prompt inv est igation by the Grand Council and that s uch action be taken as they deem advisable after such inves•tigation .

9. We would Oklahoma and Indiana on th e progress they have made as the baby chapters and on th e ir appreciation of the true Acacia spirit.

10. Your committee r eco mm en ds that the petition of the Northwestern University Masonic Club take such a course as the Grand Council shall deem necessary.

11. C hicago Chapter is d ese rving of severe criticism for failing to extend to Illinois Chapter the courtesy of expressing an opinion on an initia<te formerly subject to consideration by Illinoi s Chapter.

Th e attention of all chapters is called to the fact that the above is covered by a by-law.

ROBERT G. BUZZARD (Chicago) Chairman.

L. H. BARNES, (Purdue)

HARRY L. HUBBEL1L (Nebraska)

E. H. COMSTOCK (Minneso·ta)

R. G. BUZZARD (Chicago): I move this report be adopted by sections.

FRANK JENKS CWisconsin): Wisconsin gives a second.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Is there any discussion? (Question was called for.) · All those in favor say Aye; Opposed, No. The motion is carried. We will proceed with Section one The question is called for.

R. G. BUZZARD (Chicago): I move this section be adopted as read .

The motion was seconded and carried.

Section 2 was thereupon read.

R. G. BUZZARD (Chicago): I move this section be adopted as read.

The motion was seconded and carried.

Section 3 was thereupon read.

R. G. BUZZARD (Chicago): I make the same motion.

H. L. HUBBELL (Nebraska): Nebraska seconds .

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: That is one of the sections upon which I would like to speak, because of this one fact, that if Minnesota is to be singled out for criticism, there are others that should be included. Minnesota is not more delinquent than some of the others who came up at the last scratch with the money. Minnesota could have clone the same thing if she had not had this Conclave on hand, and I think she is justified in holding the money back as she has, she was going to have all these expenses; some other chapters have been more easy, because they have been more surreptitious in the way they have held the money back, and if we state that a few chapters are deserving of criticism, instead of singling out Minnesota, that can be reasonably

excused, I should be_in favor of _it, but I don't believe in giving a whack to one chapter that 1s really domg hard work, and not do the same by the rest of them .

Grand Pres. GROVES: The Chair feels that that section should be a more general one, without naming any one .

_DR G. A. LAVVRENCE ( New York): vVe can simply defeat this sectwn, and that will omit it entirely.

qnnd Sec. EKBLAvV: I don't wish to omit it entirely, if I can help 1t. I wanted to call it to the attention of this Conclave and those who read the minutes. · ..... '

FRANK JENKS (W iscons in) : I move that that section be amended to read that all chapters who are in arrears with the Grand fraternity are open to censure.

D. J. KADYK ( Illinois): I second the motion.

Grand Pres . GROVES: All in favor say Aye. Tho se who are opposed, No. Motion is carried. Now , those who are in favor of the amended report say Aye . Those opposed, No. The motion as amended, is carried.

Section 4 was then read.

FRANK JENKS (W isconsin): I move the section be adopted as read.

H. L. HUBBELL ( Nebraska): Nebraska seconds the motion.

DR. G. A. LAvVRENCE ( New York): I hope this amendment will be los t, because I don't think , even if we f ee l that way, I don't think we ought to have it on our records that we disapprove of the Yale University as being a suitable field for Acacia. Even if we do feel that way, it ought to be omitted from our records, and I hope it will be lost

\ iVM . R. COOK (Harvard): I agree with you, Brother Lawrence, on that situation. The report of the committee will be in the minutes . I think it is improper for us to approve of such a recommendation. I realize that it will have no effect as it stands that way .

R. 0. HARPOLE (Yale): I don't know how the rest of the Brothers of the Chapter feel in regard to this if it is passed. I personally feel that it is an indirect request for the surrender of the Chapter.

FRANK JENKS (W isconsin): It seems to me we 'have already shown there is a good many obstacles in the way of the success of a chapter at Yale. If this is adopted, it will be another more or less direct blow. The other was not intended as a blow at the chapter, and I don't think this is. At the same time I don't think this would make any difference in the ability of that chapter to go on with their work, and if ther e is a chance of them going on with their work, they s hould be given that chance and try to work o ut their salvation if they cap.

Ganci Sec. EKB LA vV: I would like to ask Yale, and that comes from facts brought out at a former conclave. Now, Sheffie1d is united with Yale isn't it and comes under the same management?

R. o: HARPOLE (Ya le): The fraternity has not been worked out yet in full. They are carried on this year the same as they were

las t . So f a r as th e h o u se is co n ce rn e d. Th e D. K. E .'s c a n s a y the s ame thin g , s in ce th ey d o n o t m a int a in a h o u se in Y al e . Th e r e i s no h o u se fo r D KE at Ya l e.

G r a nd Sec . E K B L A W : N ow , Sh e ffi e ld is united with Yale, is it n o t ?

R. 0. HA RP O L E (Ya l e ): Yes, s ir.

G r a n d Sec EK B L A W : A nd th e r e is a rather lar ge under-gradu a t e body in S h effie ld ; th a t wo uld e nl a r ge yo ur fi e ld of se lec ti o n . Ca nnot yo u c h oose f r om S h effie l d as we ll as Ya le Co ll ege , it se lf ?

R. 0 . H A R PO L E (Ya le) : Yes, we ca n d o th a t n ow .

Gra nd P r es. G R OVES : S up gosv w e vo t e ( Th e que s ti o n was ca ll e d fo r. ) Th ose in favor say Aye . Th ose o pp ose d , N o . It is los t.

Sec ti o n 5 was r ead; a n d up o n m o ti o n , dul y seco nd e d b y Wi sco n s in, w as p ut befo r e th e h o u se f o r di s cu ss io n

C. E. MOO R E (Co lumbi a) : I wo nd e r if thi s a rticl e w as go tt e n up in th e li g ht of in ves ti ga ti o n of co nditi o n s a t Co lumbia, or i s it s im p ly a con diti o n th a t is d es ir e d ?

G r a n d P r es . G R OVES: I s th e r e a n y di sc u ss io n ? If y ou w ill a ll ow m e t o t a lk o n th a t , I mi g ht say a t so m e tim e it loo k e d a s th o ugh it mi g ht be poss i b l e that th e C hi cago C h a pt e r mi g ht n o t h ave a h o u s e b eca u se of th e fac t th a t th ey co uld n o t g e t o n e t o li ve in. It see m s th a t th ey h a d t o g ive up th e h o u se th ey we r e in a nd co ul d n o t ge t a h o u se t o put th e ir f urnitur e in . Th e f a c t r e m a in e d th ey did not ha v e o n e, a nd it wo uld n o t b e th e ir fa ult th a t th ey we r e n o t co mpl y in g w ith th e b y -l aw; but I s up pose th a t if it ca m e t o th e wo r s t , th ey wo uld bu y a h o u se in o rd e r t o co mply with th e b y -l aw. N ow, I think pr o b a bly if it were p h ys ica ll y p oss ibl e, Co lumbi a wo uld d o th e s am e thin g, a nd I wo uld h a t e t o see Co lumbi a h ave t o bu y a n y thin g th a t th ey co uld g e t . A ft e r .m y v is it th e r e and info rm a ti o n th a t I h ave co n ce rning co nditi o n s th e r e, I wo uld be in favo r o f ca rrying th e m until th e pr o p e r h o u se co uld b e go tt e n , r a th e r th an t o fo r ce th e m t o so m e thin g th ey d o n o t wa nt , b eca u se th ose thin gs th a t ar e n o t s uit a bl e a r e di s tin c tl y n o t s ui ta bl e. N ow, th e co mmitt ee h a d n o thin g t o d o with th e framing o f th a t p a rt of it . I think th ey tri e d t o exp r ess th e se ntim e nt o f wh a t th ey wa nt e d li ve d up t o.

C. E M O O R E (Co lumbi a ): .lYI :Y id e a wa s, I did n o t fe e l th a t it was ri g ht fo r th e co ncl ave t o c nttCi ze C olumbia on n o t ha v ing a hou se, a nd n o t m a int a inin g a t a bl e, unl ess th ey kn e w ·co nditi o n s th e re, and th ey don't.

G r a nd Pr es . G R OV ES: Y o u a nd I b o th rep o rt e d on this conclave . We t o ld th e m t o d o th e b es t that th ey co uld. Of cours e y o u c ould n o t g ive eve r y thing. Do yo u w a nt t o vo t e on thi s ? Tho se in fav o r s ay A ye. On e Aye C o ntrar y , No Th e m o ti o n is lo s t.

• S e cti o n 6 w as th e r e upon r ea d, and up o n m o tion s ec o nd e d by Mi c higa n , w as ad o pt e d.

Secti o n 7 wa s read

Gr a nd Pr es. GROVES: Th e Chair wo uld lik e t o m a k e ju s t o n e w o rd of e xpl a nation . So m e on e a s k e d me i f we c o uldn ' t h a v e m o re

informa ti o n a b o ut w h a t co n s titut ed th e un w ritt en law of th e fraternity. I a m n o t s ur e but someo n e co uld do that this even ing a t th e banquet. N ow, I don't know as th e r e is a nythin g in th e cons tituti on o r by-laws to prevent yo u from h av in g fifty members if you wan t t o; but the general practice h as been, and th e best exper ience h as been, that we should not try t o cond u c t c h ap t e r s with fift y m e mb e r s if we can poss ibl y d o it a n y o th er way. O ur former g r a nd president Frazier is ve r y th a t t oo l a r ge a c hapt er is a detriment, a nd he says that after considerable exper ience in different h o u ses, a n d h e kind of grew up with a fraternity, li ved a t fra t e rnity h o u ses, a nd kn ows so mething about the se thin gs; and I ca n see very r ea dil y h ow it wo uld be very necessary for o n e c h apte r , where th ey a large numb er of old memb e r s com ing back-indeed so m e of th e freshmen co min g in theret o t a k e th e m in ; but as soo n as we ca n find s u c h co nditi o n s, say a t \tVashington, unl ess it i s a question of takin g in additional f r es hm e n , which wo uld guarantee th e co nditi on of th e chapter for so m e tim e, I don't think we o u g ht t o d o it . If yo u s h ow t o m e th a t thi s numb e r of men who are going t o m a ke up th ese fift y men are se ni o r s, th en I s h a ll discourage it most e mphatic a lly . But if th ey were freshmen or sop h omores, so th ey wo uld s ta y with th e c hapt e r , th e n we co uld probably say th ey were in sc h oo l, a nd that th ey were t a ken w hil e th ey co uld be received . N ow, please get th a t distinction. I think when a com mitt ee passes on a thing lik e that , that th ey ha ve gone int o th ose things a nd have th e m in mind , and th ey are n o t tr y ing t o see w h o m they can personally ce n s ur e But th ey are trying t o ge t at a principle. It mi g ht be well t o indi ca t e so m e o th er c hapter s, unl ess th e particular cond iti o n s at \ iVas hingt o n would warrant th e ir bein g m en ti o n ed m ore than so m ebody else. The principl e of th e thing i s a ll right.

Grand Pres. GROVES: A ll in f avo r say Aye. Co ntr a r y, No. The motion is l os t .

Sec ti o n 8 was th en r ead . It was moved by th e C hairm a n of th e comm ittee th.at th e sec tion be a dopt ed as r ead. Motion was

FRANK JENKS (W i sco n s in): I m ove t o amend th e report of th e co mmitt ee t o r ead as fo ll ows : Ina sm u c h as th ere h as been co n s iderab le adverse c riti c is m of th e Co lo r ado C h ap t e r , and it being desired by thi s G r a nd Conclave th a t no inju s ti ce be d o n e, therefore , we recommend th a t a member of th e G r a nd Co un c il go a nd v i s it th e Co lorado chap t e r , in o rd e r th a t co nditi o n s m ay be fully se t fo rth a t th e n ex t Conclave .

A. J. KILLGORE (Co lo rad o) : I seco nd th e m o ti o n.

Those in favor of passing th e m o ti on as amended, say Aye. Co ntrary, No. It is so car ri ed .

Section 9 was r ea d by th e Chairman of the Com mitt ee, w h o moved it s adop ti on. Mo ti on was seconded b y W isco n s in Th e m ot ion was put and carried. O kl aho ma vo ting n o.

Gra nd Pres. G R OVES: I se nt wo rd t o the var io us c hapt ers th a t th ey s h o uld se nd th e ir word of cong ratul a ti o n and caution t o th e baby c h ap t e r s.

Sec ti o n 10 was r ead b y t he c h a irm a n of th e co mmitt ee, w h o m ove d it s a d op ti o n. T h e mo ti o n was seco nd e d .

G r a n d P r es. G R OVES : Befo r e we vo t e o n th a t , I wo uld lik e t o say th q. t th e r e tirin g office r s w ill ce rt a inl y m a k e a n effo rt t o ass is t th e in co min g G r a nd Co u nc il in a n y way th ey ca n , kn ow in g w h a t th e s i t u a ti o n is, a nd ur g in g th e m t o co n fe r with th e m e n h av in g thin gs in c h a r ge a n d ge ttin g in loca l a d v ice, a nd th a t so m e vo t e of ex pr ess ion or a uth or i za ti o n be r efe r red t o th e c h a pt er.

Sec ti o n 11 was r ead by th e c h a irm a n of th e co mmitt ee, wh o m ove d th e a d op ti on of it as r ea d , seco n ded b y O kl a h oma.

G r a n d Sec. EKB L A \ lV: I do n ' t think th a t C hi cago i s d eserv in g of seve r e c riti c ism th e r e aga in . T h e r eco mm e nd a ti o n th a t was m ade by th e las t co n clave was n o t p u b li s h e d a nd se nt t o C hi cago in th e fi r s t p lace. Th e m a n w h om th ey e lec t ed t o m e m be r s hip in th e C hi cago c h apte r was a n ex tr e m e ly wo rth y m a n excep t fo r th e fac t th a t in Illi no is h e d i d n o t be li eve th e fr a t e rniti es w e r e d e m oc r a ti c, a nd d id no t w is h t o beco m e a m e m ber a t Illin o is

G r a n d Pres. G R OVES : A ll in favo r say aye; con tr a r y, n o It i s los t .

R. G. BU Z ZA R D (C hi cago): Th a t is th e co m p le ti on of th e r epo rt unl ess we a r e i n s tru c t ed t o co n si d e r so m e of th e t h in gs th a t yo u m e nti o n e d befo r e.

G r a n d Pres . G R OVES: If th e r e is n o f urth e r ac ti o n th e Co mmitt ee's wo rk w ill s t a nd co mpl e t e d .

G. C. FO RR ES T E R (M ic hi ga n ): In v iew o f th e fee lin g of N o rthwes t e rn th a t thi s b ody s h ows, in ce n s urin g any o n e c h a pt e r , I wo uld move th a t thi s Co n clave r eco mm e nd th a t th e G r a nd Co un c il t a k e n o ac ti o n i n s u b mittin g th e c h a rt e r t o a r efe r e ndum vo t e o f th e C hapt e r s fo r a t l eas t one yea r

H . L. H U BBE LL ( N eb r as k a) : I seco nd th e m o ti o n .

G. C. FO RR ES T E R (Mic hi ga n ) : I w is h t o inclu de in thi s r eco mm e n da ti o n th a t th e G r a nd Co un c il t a k e n o ac ti o n s u c h as r efe rrin g o r s u bm itting a vo t e o n th e c h a rt e r of N o rth wes t e rn t o th e C h apt e r s w ith in o n e yea r . In ves ti ga ti o n s h o uld b e m a d e, but I d o n ' t think thi s ma t te r s h o uld be vo t e d o n until a ft e r th e n ext Co ncl ave.

G r a n d T r eas. H U N TI NGTO N: I think w e ar e h av in g co n s i de r a bl e di sc u ss ion. I b e li eve we adop t ed a r eso luti o n a minut e ago th a t w e s h o uld leave th e case o f th e N or th wes t e rn C h a pt e r t o th e G r a nd Co unc il. N ow, we s t a rt in a nd t e ll th e Gra n d Co un c il w h a t we s h o uld d o with N o rth wes t e rn C h a pt e r.

G r a nd Sec . EKB L A \ lV: I ag r ee w ith Br o th e r H untin g t o n. We le ft it t o th e di sc r e ti o n o f th e G r a nd Co un c il , n ow we a r e t a kin g it o ut

G r a n d P r es. G R OVES : T h ose in favor sa y a ye ; c o ntr a r y, n o. I d ecla r e th a t los t.

F R A N K J E N KS (W isco n s in ) : T h e Co mmitt ee o t1. R es oluti o n s a re rea d y t o r epo rt , Bro th e r G r a nd P r es ide nt

G r a n d P r es G R OVES: vVe w ill li s t e n t o th e r e p o rt o f th e Co mmitt ee on R eso luti o n s .

REPORT OF COMM I TTEE ON RESOLUTIONS .

By F ra n k J e n ks, Cha i rm an .

T o th e G r a nd President a nd the Members of th e Grand Co ncl ave of th e Acac ia Fr ate rnit y:

Your co mmitt ee on Resolutions r es p ectf ull y s ubmit the following report for yo ur consideration.

We suggest th e p assage of the following r eso lution s :

1. R eso lve d th a t th e G r a nd O ffi ce r s and the visit i ng d e lega ti o n s and oth e r

visitors her e m e t as •th e Thirt ee nth ·Grand Co ncla ve of th e Acac ia Frat e rnit y do hereby exp r ess their most h ear t y an d si n cere th an k s a nd ap pr ec ia ti o n to th e Minn eso ta Chapte r of the Acacia Fraternity a nd es p ec ially to Brothers Comstock a nd Peycke for th e ir untiring effor t s a nd v e r y exce ll e nt arrangements for th e tr ansactin g of business, for our comfort a nd for th e ente rt a inm en t and good fellowship w hich ha s pr eva il e d at thi s Grand Co nclav e. Be it r eso lv e d that a copy of t his r eso lution b e sp r ead o n th e minut es of th e m ee ting and th a t a copy th e r eof b e tran s mitt ed by the Grano S e cr e tar y to the S ec r e tar y of the Minnesota Chapter and Brothers Comstock a nd Peycke.

2. Be it r eso lv e d that th e Acacia Fraternity in Grand Co ncl ave assemb le d , h e r eby, expresses it s ve ry h ea rty appreciation of th e exce ll e nt work exe mplifi ed b y Minneapolis L o d ge No. 19, and for the o pp o r-tunity exte nd ed u s of witnessing this work.

- 3. Be it r eso lve d that th e Acac ia Frat e rnity in Grand Conclave assembled, h e r eby ex pr esses its ve ry h ea rty appr ec ia ti o n of th e excellent work exemp lifi e d by Khurum Lodg e, and for th e opportunity ex t e nded us of witnessing thi s work.

4. R eso lve d that it is th e se ntim e nt o f thi s Co ncla ve th a t th e chapters of Acacia Fr a t ern ity not now owning th e ir ·C h a pt e r Homes should imm e diat e ly adopt and vigorously pro sec ut e so m e p la n along th e lin es of tho se already successfully u se d by the various c h ap t e r s of th e Frat e rnity to th e e nd that they m ay, in th e ve r y near futur e, ow n th e ir own Chapter Home.

5. Resolved that th e Grand Afficers of the Frat e rnity do a nd they are hereby dir ected t o co ntinu e th e collection of th e War Fund to it s completion in a mo st virgorous manner, and th a t sa·id funds , as th ey are collected, s h a ll be app li ed t o and form a part of th e en dowm e nt fund.

6. Resolved that it is a sincere d es ir e of th e Acac ia Frat e rnity in Grand Conclave asse mbl e d that the officers of the se v e ra l chapters of th e Acac ia Fr a t e rnit y should be m os t th o r o u g hl y grounded in th e duti es of th e seve ral officers of th e Fraternity and th e hi s t o ry and tr a dition s ·th e r eo f ; th a t th ey co mmit the ritu a l t o memory so th a t ref e rence to th e ritua l during the formal me e tings of the ch ap t e r s h a ll b e unn ecessary.

7. Be it further r eso lved tha:t s ub s titut e or und e r- s tudy officers b e c ho se n o r appointed for eac h office r in the local chapter and that said s ubstitut e officer should become fully conversant with th e duti es and ritual of said officer, and may be called upon to p e rform or assist in the p e rform a n ce of the duti es of such officer. Whereas a larg e numb er of th e m e mb e r s of th e Acacia Fraternity h ave lo st their liv es in th e se r v ic e of the co untry during th e Great vVorld War, which h as ju s t e nd ed; a nd whereas a numb e r of th e chapters h a v e not , as yet, e rect e d m e morial s to suc h m e mber s. Now, th e r efo re, be It h e r e b y

Resolved th a t eac h chapter of th e Fraternity, ha v ing lost s uch a m e mb e r , s h a ll e r ect a su it a bl e m e m o ri a l f o r such m e mb e r at the Chap•ter H'ous e.

It is r espec tfull y s u gges t e d that thi s m e mori a l t a ke the form of an en lar ged portrait o f th e memb e r or m e mbe r s, togeth e r with a bron ze t a bl e t or copper plate suitably e n g ra ve d with n ames, war r eco rd s o f s uch m e mb e rs and such other facts as the c h apte r sha ll see fit to plac e upon such tabl e t.

8. Whe r eas the re v is ion of th e cons,titution and by-laws is a work of s uch import a n ce and m agn itude as to r e nd e r it _inadvisable to di s po se of it h as til y, a nd whereas there is now a p e rm a n ent committee on conshtutwn and by- laws cons isting of Brothers Kirk, Fra ze r and Shepardson. Now therefor e, b e it th at th e com mitt ee a bov e nam ed b e continued as th e p e rm a n e nt committee on

CONCLAVE HOSTS

Minnesota Chapter of 1919-1920

Swart

For one whole week the beautiful Minnesota Chapter House was the "home" of the Conclave delegates and visitors. The house is a wonderful o ld mansion of a type admirably fitted for fraternity uses. Its big, spacious rooms and its imposing exterior make it one of the really handsome fraternity houses of the Minnesota campus.

Thcough the court esy of the Kappa Sigma and Xi Psi Phi fraternities, the Minnesota men were able to furnish accommodations for every v isitor at the Conclave .

Professor Comsto·ck was one of. the principal reasons why the Conclave program was a s ucc ess. He was indefatigible in his lab ors for the comfort and amusement of the Conclave visitors. He is a former grand officer of the fraternity.

Elting H. Comstock

co n s tituti o n and by - l aws th e n ext m ee tin g of •the Grand Co nclave a nd that a copy of th e proposed r e p ort b e published in the last iss u e of the official publicat ion of the Acac ia Fratern ity published prior t o sa id Grand Conclave

9. Resolv e d th a t it is th e opinion of thi s c onclave that the practice of h aving a c h ap t e r m ot h e r or matron l i v in g in th e chapter hou se is conducive of great good to the fraternity, and that we st r o n g l y urge upon th e seve ral chapters th e advisab ilit y of h av in g a c h apte r mother l iv ing in th e hou se, s u c h c h a pt e r mother preferably to be a near relative of a Mason.

10. R eso lve d th a t it is th e o pinion of thi s conclave that th e Grand Counc il s h oul d h o ld m eet in gs quarterly in o rd er th a t th e affairs of th e Fraternity shall be promptly and effi ciently ca rried o n

11. R eso l ve d that th e Acacia Fr a t e rnity in Grand Co ncl ave a sse mbl e d wish es to ex pr ess it s mo s t s in ce r e and h ea rty appreciation a nd th a nks to the C i ty of Minn ea polis an d th e U ni ve r s it y of Minnesota for th e h earl1:y w e lcom e and entert a inm e nt g ive n us while in th e c it y of Minneapolis .

12 Resolved that it is d es ir a b le t o h ave committees a ppoint e d b e fore the rep o rt s o f Grand Officers a nd C h a pt e r s so th a t m e mb e rs of the comrriitt ee may h ave m o r e time to work on th e ir r e p o rt s a nd m ay b e able to take not es on those m a tt ers in sa id r epo rt s especia ll y p e rtaining t o th e ir r e port s.

13 R eso lve d th a• t th e Scottish Rite Bod ies of Minneapo l is be mo s t h ea rtily th anke d for th e ir v e ry ge n e r o u s action in placing th e ir temple a t our dispo sa l durin g o ur co n c lave an d es p ec ia ll y to D avi d Kn o wlton for hi s e ver r ea dy res pon se to our eve r y requ es t and th e mo s t r e markabl e mann e r in which he has a5s is t e d u s

14 Re so lve d th a t th e ex p e n ses of thos e m e mb e r s of th e p e rm a n el1' t committ ee o n co n st itution and b y -l aws a ttendin g the n ex t m ee ting of th e Grand Conc lave b e paid out of t h e General Fund s of th e Fra•t e rnity , and th a. t they be notifi e d by th e G r a nd Secretary o f th e ir ap p oi ntm e nt

15. R eso l ved th a t the th a nk s of thi s G r a nd Co n c la ve b e given to our official s t e n og r ap h e r , R ic h a rd A Mab ey, th e office force of the sec r etary of th e Scotti s h Rit e T e mp le, t h e Ma so n s who ha ve s o generously given th e ir time and the u se of th e ir a ut os in s howin g u s th e man y b ea utiful plac es in a nd around Minn ea polis, and th e m a n y oth e r s who h ave so h a rm o ni o u s l y and compet e ntly worked for the great s u ccess o f t hi s G r and Conclave.

R es p ec tfully s ubmitt e d,

FR ANK J ENK S , ]. W. SKINNER , DE WITT NEIGHBORS.

FRANK JENKS (W isco n s in): I move its adoption.

DR. G. A. LAWRENCE ( New York) : I second that .

G rand Pres. GROVES: I s there any discuss ion on th is. It is u nanimously carr ied. I be lieve we are ready to h ear from the Committee on Unif o rm Accounting, if that Committee is ready to report .

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CHAPTER FINANCES AND UNIFORM ACCOUNTING.

By C. R. Ober s t , O h io , Cha irman .

To th e Grand Council and C h a pt ers of Acacia: The committee on Chapter Finan ces and Uniform Accounting recommends: 1. That th e sys t e m of uniform accounting pr e par e d by Brother Landrum c hairm a n of th e acco unting committ ee at th e 1919 Conclave and attached be approv e d with the following alteration:

Th a t th e voucher check a ttached h ereto b e used in p r e f e r e nce to the one submitted by him.

2. That the system go into effect Feb. 1, 1921, the beginning of the proposed fiscal year.

3. That this committee be cont inu e d as a standing committee and Brother Landrum b e placed as chairman of the same.

4 . . Th.at each chap•ter adopt the budget sys t e m , taking in to consideration the followmg 1tems tog e ther with suc h other matters as may come to their attention, food supplies, heat , light , telephones, insur ance and taxes, publications and relation s, social, new equipmen•t and r ep lacem e nt , and r eserve for depree1at10n .

5. That in view of the fact that th e lif e of fraternity furniture and fixtures is less than 10 years, each chapter set aside an amount eac h year equal to 10 % of the value of th e same. This may b e accomplished in e ith er of two ways; by setting aside a fixed percentage of th e money collected for room and bo a rd or by a special monthly assessment.

6. That a ll chapters make a n earnes• t effo rt to es tabli s h a building fund if th ey have not already done so and that the s igning of building fund notes be made compulsory rath e r than voluntary. It is suggested that the initiates sign these notes b efo re th e ceremony of initiation takes plac e.

7. That a monthly statement of the chapter finances be posted on the house bull e tin board.

8. That each chapter carry a sepa rate acco unt with the Grand Fraternity and _ that same be paid promptly when incurred.

9 . That each chapter pay particular attention to all Grand Fr ate rnity correspondence and that a separate file of th e same be k ep t and brought to the conclave by the del ega t e for reference .

10. That the Venerable Dean appoint an auditing committee of thr ee or more members, of which th e chapter advisor be the chairman, and the Venerable D ean one member, which s hall examine th e report to the chapter upon the accounts of th e chapter at th e first meeting of alternate months.

C. R. OBERST (O hio): Tha.t is all the reports that the Committ ee has, and it establishes basic rules for its use , which I think would be inad v isable to take up at this tim e. It can be placed on file with the Secretary and comtulted there. This Committee appointed by this Conclave further recommends that th e system go into effect February 21, 1921, at the beginning of the proposed fiscal year, and that this Committee be continued as a standing Committee. The voucher check we have submitted is one in which the check itself and the account attached to the voucher check can be detached , and the check can be returned. These are on a stub and can be checked over at any time that the Chapter cares to. I move that it be received and adopted.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Unles s there is objection, I will have the roll called .

The Grand Secretary, upon calling the roll of delegat es, announced the following result: Ayes, 23; No, 3; one absent.

(Franklin, Purdue and Kan sas State voted no).

Grand Pres. GROVES: Th e motion is carried.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W : I have some suggestions I would like to make from the point of view of the Grand Secretary's office t o the delegate s, which they will take down and take home to their chapter officers.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Is there any objection to hearing that at this time? The Grand President has some a lso.

THE ACACIA JOURNAL

Grand Sec EKBLA \ N: This would be a good time. Some of the del ega tes are absent, and ought t o b e taking these notes.

Grand Pres. GROVES : That is why I suggested a few minutes recess might get them all back here.

Grand Sec . EKBLA W: The fir st is on accounts and correspondence. One: All money s hould be sent in to the Grand Secretary and not to th e Grand Treasur e r. Two: Adhere to a uniform accounting syste m. Do not send in money on postoffice mon ey orders. They permit but one e ndor seme nt, and the way you have to h a ndl e th at is to hav e th e money or·der cashed and then write a personal check to th e Grand Treasurer, wh ich pr ecl udes th e possibility of his knowing at a!! who it comes from unl ess you writ e a s p ec ial l e tt e r stating who it is from and what it is for. It is the loo sest m et hod we hav e of sending in mon ey , Three : Keep a di st inct account with th e Grand S ec r e t a ry. Fourth: Keep a distinct file of a ll Acacia checks sen t to th e Grand Secretary. Five: Bring all checks for money sent to the Grand S ec retary to th e Conclave. Correspondence: All co rr esponde nce conc e rning monies and orders for supplies should be kept in the hand s of one man. It w ill just t ake a littl e tim e to explain that. This year, some of th e chapters h ave sent in some of th e ir checks through their secretary, some through their tr easurer , and some throu g h th e ir Veneab l e D ea n, so I have had thr ee or four men sen ding in th e checks. Second: Keep a special file for all correspondence with th e Grand Officers. Third: Make a carbon copy of every lett er sent to th e Grand Counci l. Fourth: Bring corres;Jondence with the Grand Council to th e Conclave. Fifth: Acknowle dge receipt of all supplies, forms, etc. Sixth: Send copies of all chapter publications to the Grand Secretary and Grand Officers. Now, in th e matt e r of pins. One more r eco mm e ndation I wish to make in regard to correspondence, and that is that the various corresponding secretaries keep in touch with the other chapters. Write a letter of information or ·inquiry. Get it out in mimeograph or typ ew riting, or some form. Develop an inter-chapter correspondence .

Now, the matt e r of pins. First: No pin should be ordered except through the Grand Secreta r y. Now. a f ew of the chapters have known of the regular procedure, but they have not known the r eason for that procedure thi s past year. As you know, we get a rakeoff in the national trea s ury from every pin that is ord e r e d, and th e r e is no way of keeping track of this unless it goes through the Chapter Secretary. If you order your pins from the officia l jeweler without sending a r epo rt to th e Grand Secretary, the j ewe l e r can not give the rak eo ff , an d right along that line I wi s h to add a recomm e ndation that a ll pins and Acac ia insignia, that bear the nam e, or c r es t , or stamp of Acacia, go through the same channel. Second: The pins s hould be o rd ered on regular forms provided for that purpose, and you s hould follow the proper procedure in that. Send the pink form to your j e weler, so he can start working on the pin; se nd the white form to the Grand Secretary, so h e can make the authorization for iss uing the pin to you; and third, keep th e blue form in your own file so you have the record in that matter. Third: All pins s hould b e accompanied by check. All pin orders, I m ea n. A ll pin orders should b e accompanied by check. Fourth: Orders for r epa irs of pins a nd complaints concerning pins should either be transmitted through th e Grand Secretary , or he should ' b e notified of them. Now, in the mat" ter of m e mb e r s hip r eco rds. Fir st : Two m e mb e rship r ecor ds should be fully filled out by every candidate for initi a tion prior to initiation as far as it is his duty to do so. I say that because th e re are certain things that th e Secretary must till in, and th e sec r e tary upon r ece ipt, th e Chapter Secretary upon rec e ipt of these membership r eco rd s should ex amine and complete th ese r eco rds. Th ey should be se nt in a t once.

One copy should be sent in to the Grand Secretary , and one should be kept in the chapter fil es. Now, third; a nd h e r e is a very important thing to which you can not take too great care, a nd that is that you should number these m e mbership r ecor d s properly. You will notice in the upp e r right hand corner of the membership re co rds th at we have nnmb e r , and th e n chapter, and then chapter numb e r. Now, it was the old, original idea, Brother Groves t e lls me, that all these shou ld ha ve one consecutive number in th e archives. but that has b ee n found impracti ca bl e be ca us e they are kept by chapters If, then, we should

hav e th e chapter number with the n ame of the c hapt er filled in at the h ead of every one, we s hould be far along the way toward a n accurate record, by which we can ref e r to the chapters, or the c h apte r can refer to th e Grand Secretary, whenever there be any doubt a bout the name or th e r eco rd of a man. Some of the c hapt e rs do not fill in a si ngle thing, and I h a c! no way of knowing how I shou l d ask for information abo ut so me of the se men , especia,lly when their names were written so unintelligibly that I couldn't t e ll what the names were, and I wish you could see some of the s ignatur es-you can't possibly mak e them ont.

Some of the chapters h ave numb e red them from the start and kept it up. Then, I wish to say this further, that the secretary s hould fill out hi s portion, th at littl e low er l eft h a ncl portion, ju st as carefully as he can, with th e elate of the initiation, the elat e the r eco rd was mad e, and when it was r eceive d and filed by th e secretary of th at chapter. Those things s hould be filled in , and only about one-third of th e chapters are m a king this r eco rd on the last five lines , and I imagine there is a good rea so n for it- that is , they feel that it is a good reason. The photograph is something about which I am he s itant to say anything. Some of you people so often d e lay e d the r e mittanc e memb e rship record that I have almost come to the conclusion that it would b e b e tter to hav e the photograph in the chapter r ecords than to have it in th e national archives. Now, that is a qu es tion upon which I s u spec t ther e wi ll b e a great diff e renc e of opinion, but you sfop to think about getting th at photograph, and some of these men require d ays and weeks, it is so mething you might h esita t e about, but I am d isposed to say that is not esse ntial.

If possible, I m a ke this last suggestion regarding th e m embe r s hip records, that they be fi l le d in by typewriting where they m ay be us e d , except where the signatures come. I think that is important. It may be impracticabl e at times . Th ese are all th e recommendations I wish to take th e time of the Co n c lave with. Th e r e a re hun dreds of them that a p e rson cou l d give. Oh, ther e is one other thing. This one thing, that th e n ew sec retary mu s t ask of a ll of you, and I think you had better mak e this note a nd ask your sec r eta ry to do so, a nd that is, send in to th e national sec r eta ry a list of the ritual s which yo u have in your pos sess ion, with th e ir number; how many, a nd what is the serial numb e r. That is a very important thing now , bec a us e so me of them are not being t a k e n care of as th ey should be. That is a noth e r s ugg es tion, th e n, to guard your rituals secretly. Som e of the chapters are not doing it .

FRANK JENKS CVV iscon s in): I will move that we adjourn until 12:15.

H. H. BAKKEN (W i sco nsin): I will second the motion. The motion was put and carried, and the Conclave recessed until 12:15.

Scottish Rite Cathedral, Saturda y Afternoon , Sept. 25 , 1920

Grand Pres. GROVES : I think you are ready to proce ed here and try to fini s h up in a dignified way. There are some more amendments by the Constitution Committee, but we will not th e m up now. I think we had better take up th e Budget Commrttee .

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AUDITING AND BUDGET

B y R. B. M iha lko , C o rn e ll, Ch a irm a n . .

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To the Grand President a nd Members of the Grand Conclave of th e Acacia Fraternity:

Your committee on auclirting and budg e t r espec tfull y submit the following r eport:

After ca r ef ul exam ination of the books of Grand S ec r e tary W. Elmer Ekblaw and Grand Treasurer Carroll G. Huntington we found them to be accura t e and complete in all det a il s, so far as cou ld be ascertained from the ve ry incomplete r epo rts submitted by th e various d e legate s.

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Vve f e e l that a word of co mmendation a nd approval is du e our Brothers Ekblaw and Huntington in app r ec iat io n o f th e exce ll e nt mann e r in which they have executed th e ir offices. The book s s ho w neat and business- l ik e entries, all of w hi c h are eas il y und e r s tand ab le Incessant work a nd untiring effo rt s tand out as c h a r acter ist ic of th ei r keen se n se of love a nd l oya lty to the Acacia Frat e rnity,

As r ega rd s th e indi v idual chapters th e c ommitt ee ea rn es tly r eco mmend s th a t ali c h ap t e r s a dopt th e uniform sys t e m of acco untin g. Th e r eports of th e delegat es indicate that s u c h is not n ow the practice-confusion an d inaccurate r epo rt s thu s resulting.

The co mmitt ee further r eco mm e nd s that a co mpl ete itemi ze d s t a t e m e nt of ali it ems embraced b y any payment acco mp a ny eac h remittan ce to th e Grand S ecret a r y. A ll checks a r e t o be m ade payable to th e G r a nd Tr eas ur e r and se nt dir ec tly from th e c ha pte r to th e Grand Sec r eta r y.

Respectfully su bmitt e d ,

R. B . MIHALK O, Corne ll. ROBERT C. HATFIELD, Indi a na. A uditing Co mmitt ee.

1. B url ge t :

Retain f ees and du es as pr esc ribed at preceding co n c la ve:

C h a rt e r F ee ...

C h a rt e r I nit .

.. $ 50 .0 0

.. 20 .00

Initi a tion s . 10 00

P e r Ca pita Dues..... .

. . . . . 10.00 per year in two in s t a llment s of $5.00 eac h

Est imat es: R ece ipt s.

$2750 .00 Initiations

3750 00 P. C. T ax

550 .0 0 Pins

100 00 J o urn a l 60.00 Song Book s 50 .0 0 Int e rest

$7260.00'

Exp e nditur es . Sal a ry

V ice - P r es. Tra ve l Expense and Salary $ 500 00 S ec r eta r y- Sa la ry 1000.00 Pr es

II. R eco mm e ndations:

Your committ ee r eco mm e nd s that in co nsider a tion of th e fact that the Grand Fr a t e rnity is not d er iving sufficient r eve nu e from the sale of pin s to members , that th e price be incr ease d to $ 11.00 .

Your co mmitt ee further r eco mm e nd s that the War Fund b e abo l ished and the mon e y th e r eo f be appli e d to th e E ndowm e nt Fund. Re s pectfully s ubmitt ed , R. B. MILHAKO, Cornell. ROBERT C. HATFIELD, Indiana. Auditing Committetl .

- Gra nd P r es G R OVES : N ow I s h a ll e nt e rtain di sc u ss io n o n any p a rti c ul a r pa rt o f thi s th a t s h o uld r ece i ve a tt e nti o n o r o bj ec ti on.

G t:a nd Sec . E K B L A W : B r o th e r G ran d P r es id en t , I i m ag in e t h a t th ese It e m s of r eceip t s a n d expe nditur es es tim a t e d w ill wa rr a nt so m e di sc u ss io n f r o m th e G r a n d Secre t a r y a nd Tr e a s ur er's office, beca u se th ey a r e th e m os t intim a t e ly co n ce rn e d a nd kn ow bes t as t o th e fac t s. N ow, thi s m ay s t ar tl e yo u , ge ntl e m en, but I w ill m a k e th e m o ti o n at th e p r o p e r tim e th a t five th o u sa nd do ll a r s o f th e ba l a n ce lef t ove r thi s ye ar b e a pp li e d t o th e e nd ow m e nt fund and be pa id so it can n o t be s qu ande r e d thi s year o r s u ccess ive yea r s. We h ave acc umul a t ed a s ur p lu s o f a b o ut t e n th o u sa n d d o ll a r s thi s yea r , a nd I be li eve t hi s c o ncl ave s h o uld legis la t e th a t $5, 00 0 an d th a t it be pl ace d in th e e nd ow m e nt f un d as a pa rt of th e s inkin g f und of thi s f r a t ern it y. A s eco nd it e m I w i s h t o pr ese nt is th e r eco mm e nd a ti o n o f th is co mmitt ee, a nd I wa nt t o im p r ess th a t fo r c ibl y u po n yo u , that thi s wa r fund , w h ic h was pr ov id ed fo r durin g th e wa r , a nd w hi c h was pa id i n f ull a n d fa r ove r th e f ull a m o unt , th e f ull qu o t a of so m e of t h e c h ap t e r s, s h o uld co ntinu e until eve ry c h a pt e r h as pa id it s f ull qu o ta t o th e e nd ow m en t f und. We m a k e th a t as an e nd ow m e nt f un d co ntributi o n fr o m th e va ri o u s c h ap t e r s . P u r du e r a ise d m o r e th a n t wo do ll a r s a m a n ; Co lumbi a h as co m e c lea r ac r oss a nd a littl e be tt e r , a n d O h io h as r a ised it s qu o t a exac tl y. Th ose thr ee c h a pt ers, ge ntl e m e n , fee l th a t th ey h ave co ntri b ut e d m o r e th a n a n y o th e r. It is my fir m be l ief th a t eve r y c h a pt e r s h o uld co ntri b ut e th e qu o t a th a t was du e o n th e wa r f und dri ve a t th e las t co ncl ave, t a kin g th e num ber of ac ti ve m e n in th e c h ap t er a t th a t tim e as a b as is It m ay be t e n yea r s b efo r e yo u wi ll be in a pos i t io n t o d o it , but s till d o th a t . I think th a t is fa ir e n o u g h in v iew of th e fac t th a t P ur d u e, Co lum b ia an d O hi o h ave d o n e it.

N ow, t a kin g up th e c h a rt er fee, it see m s t o m e that th a t i s a tim e w h e n a pe titi o nin g b o d y o u g ht t o b e m a d e t o fee l th at th ey ca n ' t ge t some thi ng fo r n o thin g. Me mb e r s hi p in Acac ia is ce rt a i n ly wor th somethin g a nd it i s wo rth p ay in g for; a n d, as O kl a h o m a a nd In d ia n a ca n t es ti fy, it i s a co n s id e r a bl e of a t o m ee t th ese h eavy pay m e nt s T h a t i s o n e a r g um e nt in favo r of g r a ntin g- a n ew c h a rt e r t o th e N o rthwes t e rn b un c h ; th ey w ill app r ec ia t e it m o r e th a n if th ey co m e un der t he o ld s y s t e m. Th ese o th e r bun c h es h ave ha d t o do it ; w h y s h o ul d n ' t th ey?

C h a rt e r i n iti a ti o n is $20 Yo u wo uld n o t ch a n ge th a t. Initi at ion is $ 10, a n d I b e li eve yo u wo n ' t think th a t is t oo mu c h ; b ut yo u h a v e go t t o leg is la t e, kn ow in g th a t th e p e r cap it a du es a r e go in g t o be $ 10 per yea r in t wo in s t a ll me nt s; poss i b l y th e fir s t-th e o th e r is p ayab le-we ll , we h ave c h a n ge d th e fi sca l yea r; it h as bee n Dece mb er a nd May; we a r e c h a n g in g- t o Feb ru a r y 1s t. Ma k e a n o t e o f th a t , as t o w h e n th at s h o ul d be d u e . I think th a t is a thin g we o u g ht t o c h a n ge, do n 't yo u ? N ow, th e es tim a t es o f rece ip t s; we h ave t we nt y-seve n hun dred f r o m in iti a ti o n s, w h ic h w ill p r obab l y n o t be in crease d thi s yea r i n v ie w of th e f ac t th a t we h ave h a d th e wa rnin g n o t t o t a k e in so m a n y m e m bers. T h e p e r cap it a t ax w ill p r obab ly n o t be a n y h eav ie r th a n it was b efo r e. We are go in g- t o in c r ease it o n e- fo urth ove r w h a t it was las t year, so it m ay s t ay u p t o abo ut w h a t it was, or pe rh aps be tt e r . A n d we have

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t wo n ew c h ap t e r s t o h e lp o ut Vve h ave es tim a t e d ab o ut $ 55 00 t o pin s , a nd we will t a k e in a b o ut 800 m o r e. It see m s t o m e it is n o t t oo mu ch

t o p ay fo r f r a t e rnit y pin s, th e way it is n ow; $ 11 , it s e e m s t o m e, w o uld b e a r easo n ab le a m o unt to pay fo r th e fr a t e rnit y pin s. Th a t i s so m e thing yo u o u g ht t o t a k e ac ti o n o n n o w. T h e o th er it e m s o f mine ar e of mino r imp o rt a n ce. I s h a ll n o t g o int o th e m a tt e r o f ex p e nditure s, b eca u se th e G r a nd Co un c il t a lk e d th ose ove r am o ng th e m se l v e s and w ith th e o th e r m e n , and we th o u g ht th a t was a co n se r va ti v e es timat e. Th e r e a r e t wo thin gs in o ur r eco mm e ndati o n s t o w hi c h I wi s h t o c all pa rti c ul a r a tt e nti o n , o n acco unt o f th e ir n o t h av in g r ece ive d th e att e nti o n that th ey s h o uld. Th e fir s t i s th e co mpil a ti o n o f th e c h a pt e r direct o r y a nd th e n a ti o n a l dir ec t o r y . N ow, put t ha t dow n , th a t yo u compile a nd r ev ise th e law s o r dir ec t o r y o f yo ur t o t a l m e mb e r s hip. Th e seco nd o n e i s th e r e t e nti o n of th e pe rm a n e nt co mmitt ee o n co n s tituti o n a nd by -l aws as a co mmitt ee o n juri s prud e n ce. I will b e gl a d t o an swe r any q u es ti o n th a t co m es w ithin m y prov in ce as G r a nd Sec r e tar y durin g th e p as t yea r .

F R A N K J E NK S ("\iV isco n s in ) : Fo r th e pur pose o f g e tting that b e fo r e th e co ncl ave, I m ove th a t th e r epo rt of th e B udg e t Co mmitt ee b e a m e nd e d so as t o m a k e th e p ri ces of p in it se lf $ 10 .50-it i s $12 .50 at th e pr ese nt tim e, is n ' t it ?

G r a nd Sec . EKB L A Vv : It is $ 10.2j n ow, B r o th e r J e nk s .

F R A NK J E NK S CVV isco n s in ) : \ Ne ll , I wo uld c h a ng e that th e n t o r ead $ 12 in s t ea d o f $ 12.50 .

G r a nd Sec . E K B L A Vv : My o pi n io n is th a t $ 12. 50 is th e bett e r pnce. Yo u ca n eas ily h a ndl e it in mu l tipl es th e n ; fo ur pin s would b e $ 100.

G rand P r es. G R OVES : E ig ht.

. G r a nd Sec . . E K B L A \ N : Yes, e ig ht . I w as thinking in term s of t we nt y - fi ve.

G ra n d P r es G R OVES : H ow d o y o u w a nt t o s tate your motion?

F R A N K J E NK S ("W isco n s in ) : I will m a k e it $ 12.50

Gra n d P r es G R OVES: A r e we r ea d y t o vo te o n it ? ( Th e que sti o n w as c all e d f o r. ) A ll in fa vo r say Aye. Co ntrary , No . ( Ther e was o n e n ega ti ve vo t e ) It is ca rri e d N ow, w h a t is yo ur pl e a s ure co n ce rnin g th e r es t of th e r epo rt ? A r e y o u r e ad y t o a d o pt th e r e port as am e n de d ?

G rand Pr es . G R O V ES: I s th e r e a ny di sc u ss io n no w? A r e y o u r eady t o vo t e o n th a t b ud ge t as r ea d w ith thi s o n e m o difi ca ti o n ab o ut the pri ce o f th e p in s? Th ose in favo .r say Aye . Co ntrary , N o .

A d o pt ed

G ra nd P r es. G R OVES : N ow, d o yo u wi s h t o t a k e up th e l e ngth o f th e n e xt co n c lave, a nd m a k e so m e s u gges ti o n s a b o ut it ?

F R A N K J E N KS ("W isco n s in ): I m ove that th e tim e o f h o ldin g a nd l e n g th o f tim e b e l e ft t o th e di sc r e ti o n of th e g r a nd co uncil.

C. E . MOO R E (Co lumbi a ) : Co lumbi a !3eco nd s .

T h e m o ti o n was carri ed.

G . C. FORRESTER (M ichigan ) : The committee on Constitution and By-Laws agrees to re - write th e statement in reaa:rd to the amendment of art!cle section thr ee . I wish to insert th e w 0 ords, provided he shall r eacttve one year, and after the word college in th e fourth line of sectwn tl:ree so that the sect ion will read, "any student who shall have been an actlve member of any chapter for four years, or U)u On severino- his connection with tht' university or college, provided he shall remain one yetir, may become an alumnus member of such chapter, or, if he so elects, remain an active member by paying the regular clues, but the sa id member, re - entering or continuing in the sa me institution, shall again become acttve unle ss excused by the chapter." I move that thi s be adopted.

J. D. STUCKEY (Fra nklin): Franklin secon d s the motion.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Well, unless there is objection, we will consider that. I s there any di-sc ussion on that? Are you ready for the question? (Cries of yes.) Grand Secretary Ekblaw, call the roll.

The Grand Secretary, upon calling th e roll of delegate s, announced the following re s ult: Ayes, 25; one absent.

Grand Pres. GROVES : I declare that passed.

G. C. FORRESTER (Michigan) : We wish to amend article three, sect i.on two, by adding at the end of that section the following sentence: "The e officers shall take over the work of their offices February first. " I move that thi s amendment be adopted.

WM. R. COOK (Harvard): Ju s t one criticism I have to that. Can the ConclaYe in s tall the officers when they do not take office until Fehruary first?

Grand Pres . GROVES: I should say that we did not get to talk that oveF with Brother Kirk. \Ne had to l eave that open. We thought it would have to be brought up later on.

G. C. FORRESTER ( lVIichigan): I was going t o s ugg es t, if it wasn't possihte to aHow the retiring Grand Officers to in s tall the new o n es?

Grand Pres. GROVES: I think if a Grand Council meeting is ca lled at the end of the fi sca l year they can do that. That would be the installation ceremony out of the Conclave proceeding .

G. C. FORRESTER (Michigan): That would require two more amendments , th en?

Grand Sec. EKBLA 'vV: I never felt the need of anything so much in the work of the Fraternity as I do the time of changing th e tim e of taking oveF the officers. The old officers turn over th e books and rec o rds without any particular p-lan to the new man without hi.m knowing what is to be done or what ha s been done, and the new men are at a lo ss, and this hiatu s comes at a time when your chapters need your supplies and things wor s e than at any other time. It comes when you are taking in new member s, and you can't get a s quare start with the world until the new officer gets acquainted with his dutie s . I felt last year I was at a complete disadvantage in helping you get your start. If the Grand ?fficers are going out of of-fice Februarv fir s t, and we have a Grand Counctl of old fellows to turn over, it bring ; it up to date . The chapters are already going, so th ey ca n go along alone. I would like you to ex plain that to your chapters, what the

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object of that change is The retiring officers are only too willing to dump the .s tuff over on the other fellow , but it is awful hard on the chapters and the Fraternity as a whole

G C. FORRESTER (Michigan) : "The legi s lative power of the Acacia Fraternity shall be vested in the Grand Conclave, each chapter being r ep r esen t ed by two representative s with one vote each, one active and on e alumnus member. Thi s body s hall also have sole power of electing the grand offi ce r s . The se officers s hall take over the work of the office and be in s talled by the r e tiring Grand Council, February 1st." I move that this amendment be adopted.

W. E. JE NKS (Wisconsin) : Wisconsin seconds it.

Grand Pr es. GROVES: All tho se in favor of the motion say aye; contrary, no. It i2 carried. Oh, that is a con s titutional amendment, so we have got t o h ave a r o ll ca ll o n that. Call the roll, Brother Secretary.

Th e Grand Secretary, upon calling the roll of d elegates, announced the following re s ult: Ayes, 26. The first time in the Conclave.

Grand Pres. GROVES: It is carried.

G C. FORRESTER (M ichigan) : It is prop ose d to amend article thre e of section five , article ten , by striking out th e words "and in sta llati o n ," so that it s hall read , "election of officers." The f o llowing shall the order of busines s the Grand Conclav e. There are nin e section s, and th e n sec tion ten: "Election of officers and installation " Further conferring upon the G rand Council that a uthority, the authority of installing officers after the Grand Council. I move that this be clone.

D.]. KADAK (Illinois): Illin o is seconds the motion.

The Grand S ec retary , upon calling the roll of delegate s, announced the foll ow ing re su lt: Ayes, 26; no nays.

Grand Pres. GROVES: It is so ordered.

C. E. MOORE (Columbia): Columbia move s that $5,000 of the s urplu s money n ovv on hand be placed in th e endowment fund.

R. G. BUZZARD ( Chicago ) : Chicago seconds the motion.

Grand Pr es . GROVES : I will say that the money might be u se d for some c hapt er to h e lp out so me building fund or som e thing of that kind, who might u se it for two o r thr ee years, and then give it to somebody else. Or part of it might be taken out.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: W e have only one sinking fund, and that is o ur end owment fund. We have to create a new fund. It is carefully sa:feguarded, and yo u could not put it in a b e tter place. I would not suggest that it b e put th ere if I did n o t think it was safeguarded, because that $5,000 co me s with considerable effort and a lo t of planning.

Grand Tr eas. HUNTINGTON: Can this m o n ey be drawn from the end ow m ent fund for anything except sp ecific purposes? ·

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I don ' t b e li ev e it can, and J don't want it to I think it ought to s tay in th e endowment fund. It is a s inking fund f o r our Fraternity budget, and with it we can get on our fe et. \Ve can loan it to individual chapters.

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Grand Pres. GRO VES : Th ose in favor say aye; contra:y, n o . It is so ordered

CANAN OF PURDUE: B r o th er · Ek bl aw made a ve ry wise suggest io n a whtl e ago that h as b ee n on th e mind of so m e o f the a;umni, a nd I b e li eve it s h o uld be brought to th e a tt e nti o n o f th e va ri o u s chapters at this tim e. I h ave n o r esoluti o n to o ff e r but a suggestio n s hould be m a d e. I believe the tim e h as a rri ve d when the a lumni s h o uld take a mor e active int e re s t in the Acac ia Fr a t e rnit y . I believe each yea r a t th e Co ncl ave s h ou ld find a g r eate r numb e r of th e a lumni c o ming h ere a r;d taking int e r es t , a nd , as Acac ia Fraternity is growing, I b e li e v e th e alumni arc go ing to want t o t ake a g r ea t e r int e r es t, and I think t h e re o ught to b e so m e way of tying th e m up with a i ittl e m oney, n o t th a t th ey a r e t o h ave any say in the Conclave, but we o ught to h ave so m e assess m e nt mad e on u s Now, yo u b elo ng to yo ur blu e lodg es, a nd eac h a nd eve ry yea r yo u are ca ll e d up o n to pay a ce rt a in fee, in your. Blu e Lodge, or Co n s ist o r y, o r Shrine. Y o u know what h appe n s if yo u get b e hind with tho se due s I beli eve if the c h ap t e r s would tak e thi s m a tt e r hom e and thor o ughly di sc u ss it n ex t year, so m e d efi nite act ion co uld b e t ake n and t h at m a tt e r pl ace d in th e constitution, so th at th e a lumni , in th e futur e , would be r equir e d to pay two or thr ee doll a r s a year as a lumni du es, a nd m a k e th a t a n annual affa ir. Place it in th e constitution, and w h eii you pledge a m a n to Acacia Fraternity, inf o rm him h e is go in g to be obligated to pay a ce rt a in amount for a lumni du es eac h yea r af ter h e graduates, th e sa me as you t e ll him h e is expected t o pay a cer t a in amount on n otes for a new home. Now, w h y s houldn't they pay th ese du es? Fir s t , th ey come to the Grand Co ncl ave if they h ave th e tim e and en jo y th e privileges of yo ur ho s pit al ity to them. The y are continually coming back and e nj oying th e privil eges of the h ouse, an d w h y s h o uld not th ey ke e p up th e o rg a ni za tion that is making this po ss ibl e for them? A nd yo u know as we ll as I d o, if you put a littl e money into a th i ng you wi ll t ake some int e r es t in that matt e r. We hav e talk e d over, a m ong the various a lumni that h ave b ee n h e r e, a nd e v e r y o n e see m e d to be in accord with getting so m e d efi nit e l eg is l at io n o n this m at t e r. If it would be a t a ll possible, I wo uld like to see one of th e m e mb e r s of so m e ac ti ve c h a pt e r m ake a r eso luti o n to that effect, so you will h ave so m e thin g d efi nit e w hi c h you will be able to car r y h ac k to the va ri o u s chapters and p ut up for th e ir co n s id e r ation, and n ex t yea r yo u can do with that s u gges ti o n or resolution as you lik e, a nd I believ e yo u will find th e alumni, thr o u g h o ut th e Un it e d States, backing yo u t o a g r ea t e r extent than yo u think. I hav e h a d th e privilege for thr ee years to ge t around to a f ew of tl:J e c hapt e rs and m ee t a great numb e r of th e a lumni on my trips around Indian a a nd other s t ates of th e Union, a nd I find a majority of th ose men a r e int e r este d in th e Fr a ternit y a nd th ey h ave got a chance to s how it at Purdue. Yo u will find th e alumni are back of th a t chapter in eve r y thing th ey a r e doin g, and I kn ow th a t bunch wo uld b e glad t o p ay so m e thing eac h yea r , a nd I believe th ey will a ll . d o it if th ey a r e given a c h a n ce . Ther ef or e, l would lik e to m a k e that s ugg es t10n .

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: I will make the s ug ges tion that so me m emb e r mov e that th e committee on Juri sp rud en ce, a s it is t o be co n st itut ed h e r eafter, hav e their attention brought to leg islati on for developing th e active allegiance of th e alumni. Vve can not d o it here.

R. G. BUZ Z AR D (C hicag o) : Chicago Chapter mak es such a m oti on .

D. ]. KADYK ( Illino is ): Illinoi s will seco nd th e m o ti on .

The m o tion was carried unanim ousl y .

Grand P re s . GROVES: Th e ne x t it em of business is the elect ion o f office r s. I s th e r e a m et h od prescribed for the e lec tion of officers?

G rand Sec. EKBLA W: Pop ular ballot.

Grand P re s . GRO VES: Are th ey to b e n ominated verbally?

vV. E . JE NKS (W isco nsin ) : · What ha s been the c u sto m in the past?

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Grand _Pres. HUNTINGTON: They have been nominated by secret ballot.

W. E. JE. TKS (Wiscon s in): I move that the s ame procedure be followed.

D. J. KADYK (Illinoi s ): Illinois seconds the motion. The motion was carried.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Grand rres . GROVES : I will entertain nominations, if you wish to make them, f o r the offic e of President. If you don't wi sh to make nominati o ns you may proceed to vote, a s you are not compelled to nominate anybody from the floor but you can vote a s yo u wi sh.

G. C. FORRESTER (Michigan ) : I would like to name for this offic e Harry L. Brown of Chicago. I am sorry the Conclave, as a whole, is n o t better acquainted with him than they are. I don't think all of the member s have m et Br o ther Brown, as he ha s not been present at this Conclave. I have a lo t to say about him. I know that he would not refuse the office. I know h e d oes n o t se e k it , however It seem s that at this time in this office we ne ed someone with experience and w ith the proper energy and interest t o push the rec o n struction work of this Fraternity. Brother Brown has had four y ear s experience on the Grand Council as Counsel. I believe he ha s served as Grand Coun sellor and also Grand Pre s ident. He is familiar with the idea s of r econ struction that have been advanced here, particularly th e ideas adv a nced by the committee on Constitution and By - Law s If you r emember , Brother Kirk , in giving hi s report , made the statement that the idea s he wa s pre senting wer e not nece s sari ly his ideas, and I know that Brother Brown worked with Brother Kirk la s t Sunday afternoon in getting this r eport s ub stantially as w e got it at the Conclave, getting it into shape. So he is familiar with the ideas that hav e been pr esented by this committee in th e recon s truction work. I am sure there are a number present who know Brother Brown and know h ow efficient he was in h is office, and I s hould l ike to have an expression of opinion, if that is proper at thi s time, on Brother Brown.

Vv. E. CROvVE (Missouri) : Brother Grand President: I would like to place before .thi s body the name of Dr. Tom Tickard, of Missour i, for Grand President. I have some h es itancy in naming anybody to thi s office who is not pres ent and whom a great many of the delegates do not know. It w o u ld be much better to choose our cand idates and officers from men whom vve have s een and whom we know, ·but that is not alway s possib le, and tmle ss we have a rule that we will not elect anybody unless we know him and have s een him we can n ot elect anybody whom we do not all of us know. He is a Mason of the 33 r d Degree and is r ecognized in Missouri as one of the mo st skill e d . Ma sons that we have. He is thorough ly acknowledged ·by all the member s of Ma sonry. Furthermore, he has had most of the offices in the variou s lodge s in t h e state. That means that he is acquainted with the affa!rs as an executive and knows how to handle them He has been affiliat ed with the Mi ssouri Chapter for a number of years, and it has always be e n hi s practi(:e whc:;n he is in town to attend our weekly meetings, and I know of no other man in a similar position to manifest so much interest in

the affairs of the fraternity. I think it is almost unusual for a man of his age to chapter ':"eekly. He is thoroughly in accord with the principles of the Acacia Fraternity and has done all he can to extend the efforts of the Acacia Fratemity.

Another thing, he is centrally located. That is not essential at all but it might be an advantage. He could visit a number of the chapters in' the Central West, and of course he would be at the next Conclave. I s imply present his name and leave it to your consideration. Sho,1ld he be nominated, though he is not seeking the office whatsoever-he knows nothing of this action-it was his purpose all the time to attend this meeting until he found it conflicted with the meeting of the Grand Lodge in Missouri and because of his official connection vvith that body it was necessary to attend the Grand Lodge at this time ; otherwise he would have been here out of his own interest for the Acacia Fraternity.

\V .i'vi. I. COOK (Harvard): Grand President, I rise to nominate a man whom I perhaps know no more of than the re s t of you, with the exc eption of the men of Minnesota Chapter; a man whom I have watched working in the intere s ts of Acacia for the pa s t week. I refer to Brother Comstock who has been in charge of the committee for this conclave. I don't have much to say about Brother Com s tock. You have watched him work. You know he is a worker . You know he is an interested Acacian. He has had some experience a s a grand officer; one year a s Grand Trea s urer and one year as Grand Vice - President. I wish you would con sider him. As to location I think most of u s fully agree, since he is located in Minneapolis he is located so mewhere near the center of the United States. I think he will make a very efficient officer fr om what I have seen him doing.

C. R. MOORE (Columbia): Brother Grand Pre s ident,! wish to second, although it is not nece ss ary, the nomination of the member fr om 1'v1 ichigan. VIe know Brother Brown in Columbia. \¥ e respect, revere and love him, and I think that I, being a 'vVestern man and he being an Eastern man, that is a s trong recommendation. Harry L. Brown has been a grand officer before, and so ha s the last nominee. The objection to one would be an objection to the other. I wi sh to heartily second the nomination of Harry L. Brown.

R. B. MIHALKO, the delegate from Cornell, nominated as his choice for the office of Grand President the pre sent incumbent. Prof. Groves, the Grand President, however, informed the delegates that he did not desire his name presented to th e conclave.

K.. C. SULLIVAN ( Missouri): You all know what Harry Kilmer did for th e o-rancl fraternity, and that he ha s been one of the be st grand fraternity we have ever had. I want to say that Dr. Tickarcl, of Missouri, ha s d o ne a great deal more for Missouri than Brother Kilmer has ever done , and I have strong reasons to believe that if he is elected he would do as much as he did before.

Grand Pres. GROVES : The vote will be by ballot. I would like to say thi s, that since my name ha s been included in that list, that I most heartily recommend mo st anyone that has been nominated except myself. I want to put this clown a s a tendency that we ought to work for; If a man is sufficiently successful in a smaller office it is well to ask him to go ahead

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a n d t a k e th e leade r s hip o f th e fr a t e rnit y, and h e o ught t o tak e it. He o u g ht n o t to be expec t e d to s ta y t oo lon g bec au se w e ought t o hav e a li s t of m e n

th a t a r e s u ffic ientl y qualifi ed, so m e o f th ose wh o ha ve alr ea d y b ee n n o min ate d , o fami li a r wi t h thin g s th a t th ey ca n b e call ed up o n f o r an y work we n eed. I th ink th a t s h o uld be th e ge n eral p oli cy of thi s frat ernity , s o yo u w ill b eh ave yo ur se l ves ac co r d in g ly in co nn ec ti o n w ith th e pr ese nt incumb ent , a n d I think I h ave a lr ead y ex pr essed m y attitu de al on g tha t lin e, so pl ea se r es p ect my w is h es .

G r a nd P r es GR OVES : I w ill appoint a s t ell e r s t o co unt th e ball o t

B r oth er s E H. We lch , o f Ca li fo rni a; C R. O ber s t , o f O hi o, a n d D J Kady k , o f Illin ois .

Th e de l ega t es t h e r eu pon pr oceed t o c a s t th e ir b a ll o t s f o r the offic e o f p r e side nt

G r a nd P r es . G R OVES : wh e n th e office o f V ic e- P r es id ent wa s e s ta bli s h ed a lo ng s e ri e s of r eso lut io n s we r e ado pt ed, a n d af t er a ll it w as lef t in th e h a n d s of th e G r a nd Co un c il an d th ey a ppoint e d H a rr y L . B r o wn

A t th e n ex t el ec ti on it w as f o un d that a form e r g rand offic e r c oul d p e rform th a t dut y, and a t th a t co ncl ave B ro th e r Woo d wa rd was e l ec t e d. Th ey b o th se r ved in th at capa ci ty a n d hav e p ubli s h ed r ep o rt s on fil e . Th e thing w e ha v e b efo r e u s n o w is t o elec t a v ice -p r es id ent w ho w ill p e rf o rm hi s dut y

Yo u will li s t en t o th e r epo rt o f yo ur t e ll e r s .

E H WBLCH (C alif o rni a ) : B r o th er B r ow n re ce iv e d 14 vot e s, Ha rr y L. B r ow n ; B r o th er Ti c kar d 3; B r oth e r Co ms t ock 6; B r o th er G r oves 3 T o t a l v o t es ca s t 2 6. Th a t m a k es a m a j o rit y for Broth er B r ow n o f 14 to 1 2

G r a i1d Pres . GR OVES : I w ill d ecl a r e B roth e r B r own elec t ed as

G r a n d P r es ide nt f o r th e c o min g yea r .

R. G . BUZZA RD ( Chi c a go) : B r o th er G rand P r esid ent , I w ill m ov e tha t thi s v o t e be m ade un a nim ou s .

C. R. OBE R ST ( O hi o) : Oh io seco n ds th e m o ti o n .

G r a nd Pr e s G R OV E S: A ll in fa vo r o f th e moti o n made by th e d el egate fr om C hi c2go , seco nd ed by th e de lega t e fr o m O hi o, wiil sa y aye. C o nt rcu:Y n o. It is unanim o us I r eg r et ve r y mu ch that B r o th e r B r o wn is n ot p r esen t a t t hi s tim e. He a s s ur ed m e that if it w a s po ss ibl e to g e t h e r e h e w o u l d be he r e. H e h as se r ved v e r y effi cie ntl y in yea r s gon e by a n d durin g th e p a st ye:u h e h a s b ee n of c on ide rabl e h elp t o m e o n chapt er matt er s . W e r e h e h e r e I s h o uld a sk him t o b e in s t a ll e d a t thi s tim e a nd tak e char ge of th e f ur t h e r e lect ion o f offi ce r s a nd to gi ve a ny adv ic e h e mi g ht h ave t o g ive . I w is h h e co ul d b e h e r e now an d tak e char ge o f thi s affair all the r e s t o f th e way thr ou g h . A s h e is n o t h e r e th e pr ese nt in c umb ent will a s k yo u t o m ake n o min a ti on s co n ce rnin g th e g r a nd v ice - p r e s id ent.

FR A NK J E NK S (W isco n s in ) : Br o th e r G rand P r es.id e nt, Wi sc on s in w o uld lik e t o put in n o min a ti o n th e nam e o f Ca rl T. Bo r sac k. I a m so rr y th a t h e is n ot h e r e fo r I am s ur e th a t you w o ul d all b e impr ess e d with hi s p r es en ce a nd hi s p e r so nalit y. He is a m a n o f gr ea t vigor , a c tiv e to th e po int , a good m ixe r , d iplomatic, f o r cef ul , a nd o n e wh o m I kn ow that wo ul d a p pea l to yo u a s th e p r op e r m a n f o r thi s p os iti o n . I think h e co ul d go int o a c hapt e r and g ive th e m all th e r epriman d s th ey n ee d e d a nd co me out of c h ap t e r a bette r f ri en d than h e wa s wh en h e w ent in . He i.s th a t kind of a m a n . He w ill , I kn ow, accep t th e p os iti on and th e r e f o r e I kn o w th a t h e

will devote the time n ecessa r y to do it . I have kn ow n him for a number of years. I have known of the work he ha s clone During the war period he carried the Wisconsin chapter-did all the work practically that was done, outside of what I did, which was n o t a great deal, and he showed a gr eat deal of efficiency during that time.

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WITT NEIGHBORS (Texas): I vvouldlike to nominate Brother I-I. T. Hill of Kansas. He don't know h ow hi s time will be arranged, but he can make some exp lanation.

R. C. HATFIELD (Indiana) : You all know that we of Indiana are very stro ng for Purdue men. It is through their constructive criticisms and help that we are as far along as we are at the present time. Everyone of those m en are m en who get behind and push . They usually act with a great deal of vigor. l wish to nominate Brother J oe Cannon for the position of vice-president. Judging from th e advice that he has given u s and from the fact as I understand it that he has visited a number of the chapters already we consider that h e would make a very fine and effic ient traveling counsellor.

_ Grand Pres. GROVES: Are you ready to close the n om ination s a nd vole?

R. R. BRANDENTHALER (Washington): Brother Grand President, vVashington moves that th e nominations be cl osed .

R. C. HATFIELD (Indiana) : Indiana seconds th e motion.

Grand Pres. GROVES: A ll in favor of that motion say aye. Contrary, no. The motion is carried.

Grand P r es . GROVES: You will li sten to the r eport of your tellers on the vote for vice-president.

C. R. OBERST (O hio ) : Brother Grand President, the report of the tellers is: Brother Forsythe, 13; Brother Hill, 9; Brother Cannon, 4. That means that there is no majority vote. A re-v ote will hav e t o be taken.

H. T. HILL (Kansas) : Brother Grand if possible I would lik e to withdraw in favor of Brother Forsythe.

Grand Pres. GROVES: We will now listen t o the r epo rt of the tellers on the second ballot for vice-president.

C. R. OBERST (O hi o): For syt he , 11; Hill, 1 3; Cannon, 2. This means that Hill is 13 and th e other two candidates 1 3. No majorit y vote.

Grand Pres. GROVES: Then we will proceed to ballot o nc e more for vice-president. · Th e delegates will vote again.

Grand Pres. GROVES: You will li sten to th e r ep or t of your tellers.

E. H. WELCH (Ca lifornia ) : Forsythe, 11; Hill, H; Cannon, 1. 26 voted.

Grand Pres. GROVES : I shall hav e to declare Brother Hill elected to thi s office according to yo ur in st ructi on s . Pretty soon we will try to install Brother Hill and then we will make him talk.

H. T. HILL (Ka nsa s): I am going to re s ign.

Grand Pres. GROVES: The next is Grand Treasurer.

R. R. RRANDENTHALER (Was hington ): Brother Grand President, I think thGt B rother H untington ha s filled this office quite as well : 4S . any man would be able to do it under the cond_itions of la s t yea r. I thmk we haven't any other man to propose t o tak e h1 s place. Therefore I n ominate him as Grand Trea surer.

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E. H. WELCH (California) : Cahfomia J:no.ves th at the nominations be closed.

R C. HATFIELD (I ndi a na ): Indiana se conds it.

WM. R. COOK (Harva rd ) : Brother Grand President, I mov e that the secretary be in structed to cast the unanim ou s ballot for Brot}1er Huntington.

E. H. \ iVELCH (Ca li fornia) : Califoraia seconds the motion.

Grand P r es. GROVES: All in favor of the moti on say aye. Contrary, no. It is carr ied.

Grand S ec . EKBLA W: T11e Grand Secretary casts the unanim o us ballot of this condave for Brother Carl S. Huntington as Grand Treasurer, and I wish to say that no better choice has eve r been mad e in this fraternity. He has fitTed the office carefully and wei! and con scientiously eve r s ince he as sum ed it, and I have no doubt that in the coming yea r h e will be o ne of the pillars of the Grand Cmmcil and of the whol·e frateraity (Applause.)

G rand Pre s . GROVES: I s h aft clec!are B rother Huntington duly elected a s Gra n d Treas ur er. 'vVe will n ext ask for nominations for Grand Secretary.

H. \ V. LINKERT (P urdue ) : I wish to nominate Brother Ekblaw for this office of Grand Some of the delegates ca m e h e r e to the Co ncl ave vv ith th e idea in their mind that they had a lot of criticism to mak e again s t Brothe r Ekb 1aw as secre tary, but when they got h ere I think the y found that their cr iti cis m didn't have any foru1dation at all. Ther e was nothing to criticize. The Grand Secretary was right in all cases. We know he has worked under very adverse conditions and has done the be s t that he po ss ibly could do, and in addition to th a t I think it is not advi sa ble to make a ny change in this important o ffi ce at thi s time , be cause we are ju st go ing from one period t o another and I think we should retain as many of th e old officer s as possible.

C. E MOORE (Co lumbia ) : I move that the n om inati ons b e clo sed, Brother Grand President.

R C. HATFIELD (Indiana). Indiana seco nd that motion.

G rand Pres. GROVES: You will proceed to ballot.

E. H. Vv' ELCH ( California): Brother Grand President, California m oves that the Secretary ca st the unanim ous vote-

Grand Sec EKBLA Vv: I might s.urrender my chair.

Grand Pres. GROVES: 'vVill you change your motion a little?

E. H. WELCH (California): I move that the Grand Treasurer cast th e unanimous ballot for B rother Ekblaw for Grand Secretary.

R R. BRANDENTHALER (Was hington ) : Washington s.econds it.

G ran d Pre s . GROVES: A ll in favor of that m o ti on say aye. Contrary, no. It is carried.

Grand Tr eas. HUNTINGTON: I cast the unanimous ballot for W. Elmer Ekblaw as Grand Secretary. .

Grand Pres. GROVES: I shall declare Brother Ekblaw duly elected as Grand S ecretary.

Grand Sec. EKBLA W: Brother Grand President and Brethren, I wish to express my keen and cordia1 appreciation of th e way in which you hav e accepted-! sh ou ld say, perhaps, accepted the evidence of the books and of th e r eco rds of th e work. For thi s office of Grand Secretary I was

not prepared to take more than an undue amount of cnt1c1 sm that might devolve upon me, but for the office of Grand Editor I was ready to get down on my knees and tak e a battl e if the Fraternity had so ordered. Grand Pres. GROVES: The next is Grand Editor.

C. R. OBERST (Ohio) : Brother Grand President, I would like to present the name of a man who, like several of the other member s who have been nominated thi s afternoon, has been unable to be pre se nt at thi s Conclave. I know he would hav e liked to have be en here , and he made treirtendou s efforts to get here. I am now spe aking of Brother F. I-I. Landrum, who has worked so faithfully to as s is t in our Uniform Accounting. He is a man vv'ho has spe nt untiring efforts to the putting forward of Acacia, bo th nationally and in the Ohio Chapter f o r a number of years. I know that if any task is given to him he will not leave it until he is s ure that it will meet the entire sati s faction of those who place him in it. I therefore take great pleasure in pres enting hi s name.

C. E. MOORE (Columbia)": Grand President, I wish to place in nomination the name of a man who ha s been pres ent at this Conclave; who conducted him se lf throughout the Conclave in a bu s ines s like mann e r; who is well prepared to take th e work that we would hav e to put upon him as Grand Editor. The man that I wish to place in nomination is Brother T H. Tapping , who repre se nt e d the Peoria Alumni, and who certainly seems to b e wide awake and to be the moving spirit of our alumni association, Brother Tapping .

D. J. KADYK (Illinois): I ri se to second the nomination of Brother Tapping. I served on the committee of publication with him, and while we were discussing the things that came before that committee I found that he had a very thorongh knowledge of printing and of conducting magazine s, of the different stocks and papers to be u se d and such things, and uch news and reports that shall go into the Acacian publications. I therefore r ecommend him highly for this office of Grand Editor .

R. C HATFIELD (Indiana) : I move that the nominations be clo sed.

H. H. BAKKEN (Wisconsin): I would like to pre se nt the name of \i\Tilliam E. Dripps, a Wisconsin man. He is a very good man and I think he would give satisfaction. I am sure he would do well.

W. E. JE NKS (W iscon s in) : I rise t o second the nomination of Brother Dripp s . He has bee n in journali s tic work for a number of years, and is at prese nt in that work, and could, it see ms to me , carry on th e of the Grand Editor a great deal more efficiently than what the ordmary person coctld, because of the fact that that is his work and he is engaged in it right along. It wouldn't break into his regular work. is a very enthusisatic Acacian, of course, and he has made a very enviable record bo th m hi s college and in his frat e rnity.

]. D. STUCKEY (Franklin) : I move that the nominat! o n s be cl osed

W. E . CROWE (Missouri) : Missouri seconds the motiOn.

Grand Pres. GROVES: All in favor of the motio n say aye. Contrary, no. It is carried. You will l isten to the report of your tell er

E. H. WELCH (California): Brother Linkert r eceived 1 vote, Brother Tapping l 'i', and Brother Dripps 8.

Grand Pres. GROVES: I declare Brother Tapping elected to thi s office. The officers, then, who have been dec:lar ecl elected are: Brother

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Br o wn fo r pr es id e nt , Br o th e r Hill f o r v ice -pr es id e nt , Brother Huntington f o r tr eas ur er, B roth e r E kblaw f o r sec r etary and Broth e r Tapping f or edit o r. Tb e n ex t it em o f bu s in ess is th e in s t a llati on o f th e offic e r s. B r oth e r

B r ow n is n o t pr ese nt. I think t h a t m os t o f u s a r e f amiliar w ith th e ce r em o ny th a t us u a ll y acco mp a ni es thi s offi ce. I shoul d lik e t o hav e yo u mov e and seco nd th a t B r o th e r B r o wn shall b e dul y qualifi e d and in stall e d in thi s offic e w ithou t th a t ce r em on y. How shall we mak e that m o ti on , Ekbla w?

G r a n d Sec E K B L A vV : He w ill hav e t o t a k e his offi ce, but his installati on o u g ht t o be by som e m emb er o f th e Gr a nd Co uncil.

G r a nd P r es . GR OVE S: I ca n a s k B roth e r Hunting to n to in s t a ll him .

Gr a n d Tr ea s . HUN TI NGT ON: I c an in s t a ll him n ex t wee k.

G r a nd P r es. GR OVES: Sh a ll we leave thi s dut y t o B r oth e r H untin gt on ? \ iV ill yo u so vo t e? (C ri es o f yes . ) Th a t B r oth er Huntingt o n in st a ll Br ot h e r Brow n and n o tif y th e r etirin g p r es id ent. Th ose in fa vo r s a y a ye . C ontra r y, n o. It is unanim ou s.

G r a n d Sec . E KB L A W: It m ay b e int e r es ting t o the d elegates t o kn ow th a t th er e a r e spec ia l pin s f o r th e G r a nd O ffic e r s an d that th ey hardl y eve r h ave th em a t th e Co ncl ave .

Gr a nd P r es. G R OVE S : It ma y be furth er int er es tin g t o kno w th a t th e Gr a n d Prcs ici ent' s pin h as bee n los t.

G r a nd Tr eas . HUN TI NG T ON: Harr y B r o wn h as go t it .

G r a nd P r es G R OVE S : W ill yo u pl ease tak e it away fr o m him and gi ve i t ba ck to m e ?

G rand Tr ea s . H UN TI NG TO N : I w ill d o that.

Gr a nd V ic e P r es id ent Hill th er e u po n in stall ed by t h e G ran d P r es id ent , P r of. G rov es, w ho turn ed th e ga v el ove r t o him in th e a b se n ce o f th e inc omin g pr es id ent a mid st gr eat appl a u se.

G r a nd V ic e- P r es id ent t h en t oo k th e g avel and a ss um e d th e s tation o f pr es id in g offi ce r f o r th e bal a n ce o f th e Concla ve, a nd in stall ed th e Grand Tr eas ur e r a n d G r a nd Sec r et a r y in office .

D . ]. KA DYK ( Illin o is) : B r o th e r G rand V ice -P r es id ent, in vi ew of th e f a ct th a t a ll t h e wo rk ha s b ee n d o n e, I m ove that w e adj o urn.

G r a n d V ice -P r es ide nt : Befo r e th a t is d o n e I hav e thi s s u gg es ti on. lt ha s bee n s u gges t ed t o m e by B r o th e r G r ov es that it is p oss ible th e r e ma y b e on e or two d elega t es in th e Co ncl a v e wh o d o n o t int end t o r eturn dir ectly t o th e ir ch ap t er to b e a c ti ve ly a ssoc ia t e d w ith it. May I , th en , on behalf o f t h e offi ce of G r a n d P r es ide nt , ma k e thi s su ggest io n v e r y firml y a nd v ery f o rmall y th a t i f th er e ar e an y su ch pr ese nt that y o u s hall r e turn imm e diately t o yo ur ch a pt e r ev e r y b it o f pa p er that h as w ritin g on it and worth whil e f o r th e ir inf o r ma ti o n , a nd a lso that yo u put it in such f o rm th a t it c an b e r ea d il y h a ndl ed in th e m ee tin g a n d r ead a nd di sc u sse d an d that you leav e o ut n o thin g of importan ce, and furth e r than that that you writ e a lin e of th e thin gs that hap pe n ed h er e, a pe r so nal lett e r of th e thin g yo u h a v e learned of fr a t e rnit y int e r es t whi c h m ay n ot ha ve b ee n h ad in th e m eetings .

D ]. K A DYK ( Illin o is): I m ove we adj o urn.

FRANK J E NK S ( vV i sco n s in) : I seco nd th e m o ti o n.

G rand Vice -Pr es id e nt : I d eclar e thi s Concl av e adj o urn ed .

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