1933 Proceedings - Grand Lodge of Missouri by Missouri Freemasons

BIOGRAPHICAL

II THAD. B. LANDON Grand Master, 1932-1933

Our eighty-ninth Grand Master, M. \V. Thad. B. Landon, was born on a farm fifteen miles East of Atchison, Kansas, August 18, 1876. He accompanied his parents when four years of age to Washington County, Kansas, and he resided on the farm until he was fifteen. He was educated in the country district school and received the equivalent of a high school education in Quaker Academy, Washington, Kansas. M. W. Brother Landon taught a country district school for four years and in his spare time studied law and stenography. He continued the study of law in a lawyer's office and was admitted to the Bar in Washington County, Kansas, in 1898. In January, 1901, he moved to Topeka, Kansas, becoming private secretary to Judge Cunningham of the Supreme Court of that State. On December 24, 1902, our Grand Master was married to Miss Blanche A. Metz and they have four children: Mary K., Thad. G., John M., and Arthur B. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Our Grand Master located in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 28,1903, for the practice of law. He was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney for the 'Vestern District of Missouri on April 11, 1911, and served in that capacity until January 16, 1914, when he resumed private practice. He was elected Judge of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, at Kansas City, in the fall of 1920 and served a six-year term which expired January 1, 1927. Judge Landon was vice-president and trust officer of the New England National Bank and Trust Company of Kansas City, Missouri, from January 1, 1927, to December 31, 1928. Again he resumed the private practice of law until June 1, 1929, when he became a member of the then firm of Johnson, Lucas & Graves, under the firm name of Johnson, Lucas, Landon & Graves, and is still actively connected with that law firm. He is a member of the Kansas City Bar Association, the Missouri State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. .

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Judge Landon's chief diversion is fishing, and he is said to be an expert. Our Grand Master has freely given of his best to Freemasonry and to public life for many years, and his sterling qualities and outstanding attainments clearly demonstrate the influence which the prin.ciples and teachings of Freemasonry have had upon him. His year of service in the Grand East will long be remembered, and the fruitage thereof will abide. He not only holds a high place in the councils of his brethren, but also is esteemed and regarded as one on whom his brethren with confidence may rely. MASONIC RECORD

Our Grand Master is a member of Temple Lodge No. 299, located at Kansas City, Missouri, having been raised on June 19, 1909. lIe served as 'Vorshipful Master of his Lodge in 1915. He was first appointed in the Grand Lodge Line in 1922, and after the usual advancements was elected M. W. Grand Master in 1932. His other Masonic affiliations include membership in Orient Chapter No. 102, R. A. M., Shekinah Council No. 28, R. & S. M., Oriental Commandery No. 35, K. T., of which he was Eminent Commander in 1921, and Mary Conclave Red Cross of Constantine. M. 'V. Brother Landon is also a member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the Consistory of estern Missouri, of which he was Wise Master of Areiopagus Chapter Rose Croix in 1932 and 1933. He received the thirty-third degree in the Supreme Council A. A. S. R., Southern Jurisdiction, on October 26, 1931. Judge Landon's membership in the A. A. O. N. M. S. is in Ararat Temple, Kansas City, Missouri, of which he was Potentate in 1922.

OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS .

of the

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH ANNUAL COMMUNICATION of the

GRAND LODGE ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS of the

STATE OF MISSOURI Held In KANSAS CITY

SEPTEMBER 26 AND 27 A. D. 1933

ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH ANNUAL COMMUNICATION-FIRST DAY

The One Hundred Thirteenth Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Ac~epted Masons of the State of Missouri convened at Ararat Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., at Eleventh and Central Streets, Kansas City, Missouri, at 9 o'clock A.M., on Tuesday, September 26, 1933. PRESENT Thad. B. Landon, Kansas City, M. W. Grand Master. Frank C. Barnhill, Marshall, R. W. Deputy Grand Master. Duval Smith, St. Joseph, R. W. Senior Grand Warden. James W. Skelly, St. Louis, R. W. Junior Grand Warden. Edmund E. Morris, Kansas City, R. W. Grand Treasurer. Arthur Mather, St. Louis, R. W. Grand Secretary. James R. McLachlan, Kahoka, R. W. G"rand Lecturer. Emmet L. Robison, St. Joseph, R. W. Grand Chaplain. George W. Walker, Cape Girardeau, R. W. Grand Senior Deacon. H. 'L. Reader, Webster Groves, R. W. Grand Junior Deacon. Henry C. Chiles, Lexington, R. W. Grand Senior Steward. Elwyn S. Woods, Springfield, R. W. Grand Junior Steward. Karl M. Vetsburg, St. Louis, R. W. Grand Marshal. Harry S. Truman, Independence, R. W. Grand Marshal. Harris C.â&#x20AC;˘Johnston, Boonville, R. W. Grand Sword Bearer. Forrest C. Donnell, St. Louil;l, R. W. Grand Pursuivant. David W. Parker, Kansas City, R. W. Grand Tiler.

OPENING

Promptly at 9 :00 o'clock A.M. the Most Worshipful Grand Master, Thad. B. Landon, opened the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Missouri in AMPLE FORM in its One Hundred and Thirteenth Annual Communication assisted by the Grand Officers and supported by a large attendance of Representatives. R. 'V. Grand Chaplain Rev. Emmet L. Robison offered the following INVOCATION "Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, in Thy presence we come this morning with a sense of appreciation and thanksgiving to Thee for the benefits of Thy grace evidenced to us during the year that is now coming to a close. We thank Thee for the help and the strength Thou has granted to Thy servants that they may carryon acceptably the work

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committed to their hands. We thank Thee that our people have been saved in so large a measure from any pestilence or any disease that would ravage our homes. We pray that into the home the message has come that Thy presence and Thy grace may sustain and comfort those who are bereaved. l\{ay Thy blessing be upon us as we go into the business of this Grand Lodge. May Thy servant, the Grand Master, be guided as he carries forward in the discharge 0.ÂŁ his duties, and may all the deliberations of this session of this Grand Body honor Thee and be for the good of our brethren in these days of stress, of toil, in these days when the world is seething with dissension and strife, in these days where we are struggling to find our way back to a sane and a safe condition for our livelihood so that we may more than ever practice the principles of this great brotherhood; and that the ties of our fraternity may keep us together and may help us to show an example of fellowship and cooperation and of brotherliness that shall tend to stabilize the unrest and the strife of the world. We thank Thee for what our great Order has done when the world needs such as we stand for. Grant, our Father, that we may exemplify those principles in our daily lives and in our business life and in ever;). relationship with Thee and our brethren. We ask it all in Thy name. Amen. CREDENTIALS

R. VV. Arthur Mather for the Chairman of the Committee on Credentials reported a constitutional number of Lodges represented, and the Grand Lodge thereupon proceeded to the disehaTge of its dutics. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The Proceedings of the year 1932, having been printed and distributed, were approved. INTRODUCTION OF DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

The Committee on Credentials reported the presence of several distinguished visitors. The following were conducted to the altar, introduced to the Grand Lodge, rendered appropriate honors, and assigned to seats in the Grand East: M. W. Brother Archie M. Smith, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska. M. W. Brother Samuel P. Cochran, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas. VV. Brother Major General Amos A. Fries, Past Master of Columbia Lodge No.3, District of Columbia. R. W. Brother Thomas A. Harbaugh, Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter R. A. M. of Missouri. TELEGRAMS

The Grand Secretary read the following telegrams: Fraternal greetings to officers, members and delegates to the Grand Lodge and best wishes for successful and satisfactory session. Deeply regret that I am unable to attend session this year. (Signed) JOSEPH S. McINTYRE, P. G. M.

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It is with considerable regret that I find it impossible to attend the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge .of Missouri. Kindly convey to the brethren assembled my warm fraternal greetings and best wishes for a successful meeting. (Signed) LEWIS E. SMITH, Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of Nebraska.

Please extend to the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge the best wishes of the Grand Commandery Knights rremplar of Missouri. . (Signed) THEO. J. EVERS, Grand Commander. My father, John T. Jenkins, editor of the Kansas City Freemason, was stricken with paralysis Thursday and is seriously ill at his home. (Signed) COOPF..R JENKINS.

The Grand Master instructed the Grand Secretary to make suitable acknowledgement of these telegrams. ADDRESS OF GRAND MASTER

Brethren: The law requires the Grand Master, at the conclusion of his term, to make a report of his transactions throughout the year. 1.

COHRESPONDENCE

'l'he correspondence of the Grand Master is very voluminous. I have answered all correspondence so far as possible upon receipt thereof. I have had many inquiries from members of Lodges upon various topics, and have answered suggesting that matters affecting their particular Lodge should first be considered with their Worshipful Mastel'; and in but few cases this suggestion has been sufficient. I have had some complaints that officers of Lodges do not answer correspondence. In a courteous way, - I have taken up this matter with the officers and requested them to answer promptly all correspondence. 2.

GRAND LODGE BUDGET

I am pleased to report that the Grand Lodge expenditures have not exceeded the total appropriation, but there remains a balance of $433.95. The appropriation to the Welfare Committee was $3,500.00. I authorized an additional sum of $1,000.00, for which I ask approval. FLOOD RELIEF FUND

A fund of $2,915.31, the balance of the Flood Relief Fund, was autho:rized to be disbursed by the Grand Master for relief as he should deem advisable. I have distributed the same to the Relief Association.

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SPECIAL COMMITTEES ApPOINTED

The Grand Lodge at its 1932 Communication required the appointment of certain special committees. The committees so appointed are as follows: The Grand Lodge. provided for the appoi~tment of a COMMITTEE ON FINANCES, MINIMUM DUES AND BONDS

I have appointed one committee for all three topics, as follows: N. D. Jackson, Chairman, Independence. Harry S. Hightower, Joplin. Cecil A. Tolin, St. Louis. COMMITTEE ON MASONIC FUNERALS

Fred O. Wood, Chairman, Hartville. Chas. T. Kornbrodt, Kansas City. M. E. Ewing, Morrisville. TRlAL BY OTHER S'l'ATE JURISDICTIONS

Forrest C. Donnell, Chairman, St. Louis. Henry C. Childs, Lexington. J. M. Fisher, Kansas City. SPECIAL COMMITTEE MASONIC EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS AND MASONIC BOARDS OF R.ELIEF

Edward McGuigan, Chairman, St. Louis. Fred H. Knight, Kansas City. Morris E. Ewing, Morrisville. ONONDAGO CAVE

Previous to the Grand Lodge Communication of 1932, the owner of Onondago Cave at Leesburg, Missouri, offered to transfer the same to the Grand Lodge, provided the Grand Lodge would make some arrangement whereby the owner thereof and his wife would have a living therefrom as long as they lived. . The matter was reported to the last session and the Grand Lodge delegated authority to the Grand Master to appoint a committee to handle the matter. In company with Right Worshipful Charles L. Vvood, of Rolla, Missouri, I visited the cave and there was submitted to me the proposition to transfer the property to the Grand Lodge. After considering the same I came to the conclusion that it would be a liability rather than an asset, and courteously advised the owner thereof we could not accept the proposition.

RELATIONS WITH CONSTITUENT LODGES

My relations and contacts with all constituent lodges have been most pleasant and agreeable. All have been very courteous and replied promptly to all inquiries and have shown an entire spirit of

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cooperation with the exception of one, which I deem advisable to report. Lodge of Love, No. 259, is located at Lancaster, Missouri. Early in the year they had some conflict over the question as to whom should receive the premium for writing insurance on their properties. The Master desired to write it himself; the Secretary desired to write it with some company, or by someone in whom he was interested, resulting in two policies being carried upon the property and the bill for neither being paid. The controversy waxed very warm. Appeals were taken from the action of the Mas,ter at various meetings, complaints made by the Master, and I finally ordered the Master to proceed to write the insurance with some agent who was a Mason but not a member of the Lodge of Love, that both of the other two policies be cancelled, and the matter of payment of the premium be adjusted as the Lodge should .see fit. This was reluctantly done. I endeavored in every way to impress upon the officers the necessity for peace and harmony prevailing in their lodge. I concluded, therefore, to make a visitation and arranged for the same with the Master of the Lodge and the District Deputy Grand Master of that District, for Thursday, May 11. I arrived in Lancaster in the afternoon and called upon the Master, and upon each of the other officers, the Secretary, Treasurer, the Junior Warden and the Senior Warden. I sensed the feeling between the individuals. Thp-y all promised to be at the meeting that evening. However, neither the Senior Vvarden nor the J unior Warden were present, and only six members of the Lodge appeared. It was a stormy night but thirty or forty members of other Lodges, driving from twenty-five to thirty miles, attended the meeting. The Senior and Junior Wardens having advised me that they would be present at the meeting, the next morning I called upon them to meet with me at the hotel and asked them their reasons for nonappearance. They stated it was on account of the storm, but they finally explained that they didn't want to come. And then I advised them that they committed a serious offense; that it would be overlooked and I didn't want any more quarreling in that Lodge. Later on I was advised that neither the Secretary nor the two Wardens had been present since the meeting of May 11. On June 17 I wrote the Secretary, Brother H. C. Burkland, for an explanation and none was received. On June 28 I wrote to Brother Burkland, the Secretary, H. E. Shepherd, Senior 'Varden, and Floyd R. Melvin, Junior Warden, for an explanation. To these letters I have had no reply whatsoever. I was tempted to remove them from office, but found no precedent so far as the two Wardens and the Secretary were concerned. Personally, I care nothing, but it is an affront to the Grand Lodge and I think a reprimand should be visited upon these brethren. Some measure must be taken to rid this Lodge of its dissension.

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MASONIC DISCIPLINE

(1) I ordered Temple Lodge No. 299 to appeal from the judgment and decision of the Lodge in the case of Temple Lodge No. 299 vs. George R. Johnson. (2) I ordered Keystone Lodge No. 243 to appeal from the judgment and decision of the Lodge in the case of Keystone Lodge .No. 243 vs. Ambrose Keaton. (3) At the 1932 Communication, the then Grand Master reported his action suspending P. D. Hodge as Master of Alpha Lodge No. 659. The suspension was made just previous to the annual Communication of 1932 and the entire matter was referred to the incoming Grand Master. \ After investigation, I again removed P. D. Hodge from the office of V\Torshipful Master of Alpha Lodge, caused a notice, together with copy of charges, to be served upon him, requiring his appearance at the 1933 Communication of the Grand Lodge for trial. (4) I ordered Hermon Lodge of Liberal, Missouri, to prefer charges against 1. N. Todd for un-Masonic conduct, and appointed Darius A. Brown, N. D. Jackson and J. M. Fisher as a trial commission to try the same, and there being no one at Liberal, or available in that community, to prosecute the matter, I requested John F. Cell, of Kansas City, Missouri, to assist the officers of the Lodge in the prosecution of the case. The Trial Commission acquitted the accused. Disagreeing with the Commission, I have ordered an appeal. 6.

VISITATIONS

I have been unable to make as many visitations as heretofore made by Grand Masters. I have made the following: 1932 Oct. 14--Laid the cornerstone of the Masonic '1'emple at Harrisondllc, Missouri. Oct. I4--My own Lodge, Temple Lodge No. 299, Kansas City, entertained me loyally and royally. Oct. 19-I attended the district meeting of the 36th Masonic District at Sedalia, Missouri. Practically all the lodges in the district were represented and a very profitable meeting was had and a very instructive and entertaining address was delivered by Dr. Mather, the son of our Grand Secretary. Nov. I-Cecil Daylight Lodge, Kansas City, Missouri. Nov. 5-Attended the meeting of the Masters' and Wardens' Club of Kansas City, Missouri. Nov. 17-Grandview Lodge, Grandview, Missouri. Nov. 21-Clay Lodge, Excelsior Springs, Missouri. At this meeting there was present Brother Morrow, previously the Master of the Lodge, eighty-nine years of age, hale and hearty, and he made a very pleasing and instructive ten-minute talk. It was very gratifying to meet this very distinguished old Mallon and I am sorry to report that his death followed but a short time thereafter. Nov. 29-District meeting, 23d Masonic District, Lexington.

Grand Master Thad. B. Land9n officiating at the laying of the cornerstone of the High School Building at Hannibal. Center: Grand Maliter Landon. Left to right: D. H. Sosey, Palmyra, D. D. G. M.; Garrett Johnson, Han路 nibal; F. T. Hodgdon, Hannibal; S. T. Watson, Hannibal; W. R. Usher, Hannibal; W. H. Blackshaw, Hannibal; B. L. Waldron, Past Grand High Priest; W. H. Hubb, J. E. Whaley.

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Dec. 7-Independence, MissOUl'i, lodges. Dec. 8-Higginsville, Missouri. Dec. l6-Attended Trenton Lodge and laid the cornerstone of the new post office in that city, the weather being 16 degrees below zero ill the morning.

1999 Jan. l3-Joint meeting of Lodges of the Districts surrounding Joplin. Representatives were present from some twenty-five lodges. Installed the officers of Fellowship Lodge No. 345, and Joplin Lodge No. 335. Jan.l4-Springfield, Missouri, joint meeting of the Masonic districts surrounding Springfield. Jan.18-Cape Girardeau, joint meeting of Masonic district surrounding Cape Girardeau. Jan.19-8ikeston, joint meeting of Masonic districts surrounding Sikeston. . Jan.20-Poplar Bluff, district meeting, Masonic districts surrounding Poplar Bluff. Jan. 28-Jefferson City. Laid the cornerstone of the new post office building in Jefferson City, Missouri. Jan. 3D-Conference of Grand Lodge officers, at which all the officers were present and many problems were presented and discussed. On the evening of that date attended the annual dinner of the secretaries of the Lodges of the City of St. Louis; in the evening at 8 o'clock a joint meeting of the 33d and 57th Districts at the Masonic Temple was well attended by the members residing in St. Louis and in St. Louis County. Jan. 31-1 attended the annual meeting of the Masters' and Wardens' Club of St. Louis of the 33d District. It was an evening given over to the election of officers, etc. Feb. 20-1 attended the Grand Masters' Conference of the Grand Masters of the United States in Washington, D. C. I was called upon to make an address upon the question of, "What Control Should Be Exercised Over Non-Masonic Bodies'" Feb. 22-Wednesday evening, upon my return from Washington, D. C., I attended the George Washington Celebration and once more witnessed the John Brent play that was put on by the Masters' and Wardens' Club of St. Louis, to an audience that packed the Scottish Rite Auditorium. March 6-Hebron Lodge, Mexico, Missouri. March 7-Twilight and Acacia'Lodges, Columbia, Missouri. April 24-1 visited the Gt:and Council Royal Select Masters' meeting in Kansas City, Misso:uri. April26-1 visited the Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons assembled in Kansas City, Missouri. . May lO-Hannibal, Missouri; laid the cornerstone of the new high school building, attending a joint meeting of the Lodges in the evening. May ll-Visited Lodge of Love at Lancaster, Missouri. May l2--Kirksville, Missouri. May l3-Attended by invitation the Supreme Council of the Red Cross of Constantine, Columbia, Missouri. May 23-24-Attended the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of Missouri at Trenton, Missouri. June 2-Upon invitation I attended the meeting of Wyandotte Lodge No.3, Kansas City, KanSas. The Grand Lodge of Missouri originally issued dispensation constituting Wyandotte Lodge No.3. June 9-1 attended the seventy-fifth anniversary of Seaman Lodge, at Milan, Missouri. June 13-1 attended the Grand Lodge of Iowa at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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June 14--1 attended the Flag Day celebration at St. Louis, Missouri, given under the auspices of Masonic bodies and other civic organizations of the City of St. Louis. This meeting was held in the Auditorium of Scottish Rite, and was packed to its capacity. June 15-1 visited Maplewood Lodge, St. Louis. June 22-1 visited Trilumina Lodge No. 205, Marshall, Missouri, and accomapnied by F. C. Barnhill, Deputy Grand Master, and other officers appointed, laid the cornerstone for Blosser Hospital for Crippled Children and also the cornerstone of Blosser Home for the Aged, two charitable institutions being erected in the City of Marshall for the purposes as indicated, and as the gift of Mrs. Blosser. June 25-1 attended services at Carrollton, Missouri. July 20-Carthage, Missouri, District meeting of that district, at which all the Lodges therein were represented. July 24-1 visited Montgomery City. July 25-0sceola, Missouri, District meeting held at St. Clair Lodge, this being the lodge of which John H. Lucas, during his lifetime, was a member, and Past Master thereof, and whose son is now a member of the firm with which I am connected. Sept.20-Seventy-fifth anniversary of Bloomfield Lodge No. 153. Sept. 21-Anniversary of Clayton Lodge No. 601. Sept. 22-Portland Lodge No. 242.

DECISIONS

The questions propounded by the various Lodges with references to the laws of the Grand Lodge are very voluminous. Much work of the Grand Master could be saved if the individual officers would take the time to read the Statutes. However, the officers of constituent lodges should not be blamed for asking questions when, in many instances, it takes half a day's time to find the law of the Grand Lodge. The laws of the Grand Lodge are to be found in the Constitution,'By-Laws, Resolutions and Decisions of the Grand Lodge from time to time. There has been no compilation of Laws and Decisions since 1925 and it sometimes is a Chinese puzzle to ascertain just exactly the law upon any particular subject. Shortly after路 the meeting of the Grand Lodge in 1932, I requested R. W. Henry C. Chiles, of Lexington, to make a revision of the laws, whieh he has done, requiring an endless amount of work. I recommend that the incoming Grand Master appoint a committee of three to revise the laws of the Grand Lodge and make a report at the 1934 Communication for action at that time. r further recommend that this revision made by Henry C. Chiles be handed to said Committee.

1. In the Matter of 3.2 Per Cent Beer. April 7,1933, an amendment to the National Prohibition Act 'of the Congress of the United States became effective. This law provided, in substance, that beer, ale, port, wine and similar fermented malt or vinous liquors or fruit juices, containing not more than 3.2 per centum of alcohol by weight was declared to be a nonintoxicating beverage and might be legally sold, manufactured and transported.

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Previously, the National Prohibition Act prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of such liquors containing more than onehalf of one per cent of alcohol by volume. The General Assembly of the State of Missouri also passed an Act, which became effective on April 7, providing, in substance, that beer having an alcoholic content of not less than one-half of one per cent by volume nor exceeding 3.2 per cent by weight was declared to be nonintoxicating beer and that the same might be lawfully manufactured and sold in this state by any holder of a permit issued by the Food and Drug Commissioner of the State of Missouri and authorizing the manufacture and sale and transportation thereof. Letters and telegrams came pouring into the Grand Master from the officers of constituent Lodges, members and Master Masons generally asking to be advised whether, considering the act of the Congress of the United States and the Act of the General Assembly, it would constitute a Masonic offense for a Mason to manufacture and sell beer as a wholesaler, druggist, groceryman, hotel and restaurant keeper, and so forth. I immediately set about to examine carefully the legislation and laws passed by the Grand Lodge. I consulted with many brethren in whom I had confidence and some suggested that I delay any ruling until later on to see the results of the sale of 3.2 percent beer under such newly enacted legislation. However, believing that the brethren who were making inquiry were doing so in good faith and that to delay answer would be cowardly, and never having been accused of cowardice, I concluded to meet the question squarely, immediately, in fairness to all, and without fear or favor. The law of the Grand Lodge at the present time is contained in . sections 198 and 199, and is as follows: SECTION 198. Un-Masonic Oonduct. All Lodges shall enforce the Masonic law in reference to un-Masonic conduct, and more especially against saloon-keeping, selling intoxicating liquor as a beverage by druggists, . habitual drunkenness, gambling, blasphemy, profanity and practices of a kindred character. SECTION 199. No Lodge in this jurisdiction shall receive a petition for the degrees or for affiliation from any person who is engaged in the manu,facture or sale of intoxicatilng liquors, as a beverage, either as a distiller, brewer, brewery agent, wholesale or retail liquor dealer or a salesman or agent for the sale of intoxicating liquors, superintendent or foreman for such manufacturer or dealer, a saloon-keeper, bartender or one who serves intoxicating liquors as a vocation, or of anyone who is engaged in any capacity in the handling, manufacturing, or selling of intoxicating liquor.'! as a beverage, or of one who signs a petition for a dr-amshop license. Nor shall any Freemason recommend or sign any petition or application for a dramshop license. Any Freemason who may, hereafter, begin such business, or do or perform, or be engaged in any of the acts forbidden in thhl section, shall be expelled (and any Lodge receiving a petition of or retaining in membership a person so barred, and which shall fail to expel such person when informed of his ineligibility, shall have its charter suspended or arrested by the Grand Master).

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And also in various decisions made by the Grand Lodge from time to time, too voluminous to mention in this report. I made a study of the legislation of the Grand Lodge throughout the years. A discussion of the liquor question commenced back in 1875, at which time the law provided, in substance, that ail lodges shall enforce the Masonic law in reference to all un-Masonic conduct, and more especially against habitual drunkenness, gambling, and so forth, and also prohibiting Masons from appearing in .public drinking saloons in Masonic clothing. In 1882 a special committee was appointed to study the subject and much legislation was had with referenee to this particular matter, finally resulting in the adoption of the present law heretofore set forth. The law is directed against the handling of intoxicating liquor. April 1, 1933, I called a conference at which were present the Grand Senior Warden, the Grand Junior Warden, Grand Secretary, Grand Treasurer and the appointed officers who were lawyers, and the chairmen of the Jurisprudence and Laws Committee, and Right Worshipful Brother Thomas H. Reynolds. The Deputy Grand Master was confined to his home on account of an automobile accident and was unable to attend. The entire matter was gone over very carefully. I realized, of course, the responsibility for making the ruling was that of the Grand Master. April 3, 1933, I caused to be sent to each of the constituent lodges, the Grand Lodge officers, Past Grand Masters, the following ruling: To The Masters, Wardens and Brethren: Dear Brethren: In re: MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF BEER. The Grand Master has had presented four concrete questions with reference to the handling of 3.2 per cent beer. 1. Would a Mason become amenable to the violation of Masonic Law by manufacturing and selling beer as a wholesaled 2. Would a druggist, a Mason, violate Masonic Law by selling beed 3. Would a groceryman, a Mason, be subject to Masonic discipline for selling beer' 4. Would a hotel keeper or restaurant keeper, who is a Mason, be subject to Masonic discipline if he sells beer to his guests at his tables and in his dining room' These questions have all been asked since the Congress of the United States modified the Volstead Act by declaring that beer containing not to exceed 3.2 per cent of alcohol by weight is a nonintoxicating beverage. This Congressional Act has been approved by the President of the United States. In addition thereto, the Legislature of the State of Missouri has recently enacted a law defining beer having an alcoholic content of not less than one-half of one per cent by volume, nor exceeding 3.2 per cent by weight, "is hereby declared to be nonintoxicating beer and may be lawfully manufactured and sold," etc.; and this Act has been approved by the Governor of the State of Missouri.

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These acts of the Congress and the Legislature of Missouri become effective on the 7th day of April, 1933, and the gist of the enactments of Congress and the Legislature is to legalize the manufacture, transportation and sale of what is commonly known as 3.2 per cent beer, as a nonintoxicating beverage. The Congressional Act as it stands on and after its effective date wiII become the supreme law of the land. The acts of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri recently passed, and which become the law of Missouri on this 7th day of April, 1933, is the law of Missouri in so far as this State is concerned. My answer, confined strictly to the questions as asked, is-NO. I call your attention to Section 229 of the By-Laws of the Grand Lodge, and to subsection B, which are as follows: SECTION 229. Masonic Offenses. Masonic offenses which subject the individual offender to trial and punishment are as follows: (b) Any aet, conduct or neglect of duty tending'to impair the good name of the Masonic Institution or its usefulness, or to cause scandal, or to degrade it in public estimation, or which is in anywise contrary to its principles, obligations or teaching. The Act of the General Assembly of Missouri contains certain drastic regulations witli reference to the manufacture, sale and distribution of 3.2 per cent beer, as follows: Section 13139z1, Section 13139z3, Section 13139z4, Section 13139z7, Section 13139z8 and other sections, which must be rigidly observed; otherwise, the offender will be subject to punishment under the laws of the State of Missouri; and, in addition thereto, a violation of the terms and provisions of the state law by a Mason would also constitute a Masonic offense and subject him to Masonic discipline. Sections 198 and 199 are directed against the saloon and handling of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. If, under the recent law, denominating 3.2 per cent beer as nonintoxicating, the handling thereof takes unto itself the evils of the old saloon, then these sections must be rigidly enforced. Sincerely and Fraternally, (Signed) THAD. B. LANDON.

2. Connected with the same subject as above, I had the following question propounded by New Salem Lodge No. 270: New Salem Lodge owns their building, the lower or first floor being rented to a tenant who operates a restaurant and the second floor being used as their Lodge hall. Question: VV'ould it be a violation of Masonic law if the tenant sold the 3.2 per cent beer as recently provided by the legislative enactment of the General Assembly 1 Answer: No. 3. Another question bearing upon the same proposition, that is, 3.2 per cent beer, was propounded by Pauldingville Lodge, Wright City, Missouri, which owns its entire building, the second floor constituting the Lodge room. One-half of the lower or ground floor is rented to a non-Mason, who conducts a restaurant and confectionery, and since Congress and the General Assembly legalized the sale of 3.2 per cent beer, such tenant intends to sell the same upon the prem-

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ises. There is no written lease with the tenant, he paying rent by the month in advance. Question: The Lodge asks whether they can continue to permit. the tenant to occupy the lower floor under the facts and circumstances above mentioned. Answer: Yes. The Lodge has no Masonic jurisdiction or control over the tenant. If the Lodge does not wish to retain this tenant under the facts and circumstances as stated, the Lodge may take such steps under the laws of Missouri to terminate such tenancy as they see fit. 4. Many of the constituent lodges are in dire financial difficulties on account of building operations. I have had numerous conferences with the officers of various lodges, and the officers of various temple building associations in an endeavor to adjust or assist in adjusting such matters. In many instances corporations have been formed by pro forma decree, the incorporators being members of the Lodge, for the purpose of holding title to properties and erecting buildings for the use of the Lodge. In many instances these corporations have issued bonds and sold the same to members and nonmembers. In many instances I have found that these pro forma corporations usurped the entire direction and control of all the financial matters of the Lodge, to such an extent that a corporation, over which it was thought neither the Lodge nor the Grand Lodge had any jurisdiction whatsoever, controlled and directed all of the activities of the Lodge. It can not be contradicted that these building associations were formed for the specific purpose of holding title to real estate and erecting buildings, and that their life blood was drawn from the Lodge and that they could not function without the Lodge. The articles of association of these corporations authorized the corporation to borrow money, erect buildings, operate the same, to rent and lease the property, and provided that any member of the Lodge can become a member of the corporation by signing the roll of membership. Section 49 of the By-Laws is as follows: SECTION 49. Incorporations. A Lodge in this jurisdiction shall not become incorporated under the laws of the State.

At the Communication of the Grand Lodge of 1929, there was constituted a Building Supervisory Board, the same being an amendment to Section 56 of the By-Laws. At the annual Communication of 1930, an amendment was made to the law with reference to the Building Supervisory Board, as follows: No lodge shall be permitted to erect or become interested in, use or occupy a building or temple, until the plans for the purchase, constru('.tion and financing thereof shall first have been s~bmitted to the Building Supervisory Board and its permission obtained.

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And further providing this section shall not apply to any Masonic temple already erected or purchased, or to any case in which a Lodge making a bona fide lease of quarters privately owned by a person or corporation acting in the usual course of business and "not directly or indirectly acting for or connected with the Lodge or its members." Many schemes and plans are being suggested for refinancing of the various temples. With reference to these matters I rule as follows: (a) The amendment so adopted in 1930 does not affect any building erected on property previous to the adoption of the amendment in 1930. It is not applicable in a case where a Lodge is making a bona fide lease of quarters privately owned by a person or corporation acting in the usual course of business and not directly or indirectly acting for or connected with the Lodge or its members. (b) As previously stated, in many instances building associations, previous to the adoption of the amendment of 1930, have erected temples and borrowed money to erect a temple for the use of the members of a particular Lodge, such associations being organized by the members of the particular Lodge. Default has been made. in the payment of interest and maturing bonds, and neither the Lodge nor the building association have any monies whatsoever to remedy the financial difficulty, except by aid of the Lodge and its membership. Refinancing programs are being proposed by some of these associations. Such refinancing programs, originating since the adoption of this by-law in 1930, and which seek the making of some new arrangements or contract between the association and the Lodge and its members, come squarely within the portion of Section 56 heretofore quoted, and all plans with reference to such refinancing must be submitted to the Building Supervisory Board, and its permission given before any contract or scheme shall be adopted. (c) Since the adoption of the amendment of Section 56 in 1930, no building association proposed to be organized by the members of a particular Lodge, and which is ostensibly organized for the purpose of owning real estate and erecting buildings for the members of a particular Lodge, can be permitted so to organize and proceed with any building program until it shall have the permission of the Building Supervisory Board. (d) At the annual Communication in 1929, the Grand Lodge adopted Section 721h, giving each Lodge authority to provide by-laws for the election or appointment of Trustees of the Lodge, and further providing: "When a Lodge shall fail to make such provision, the Worshipful Master, Senior Warden and Junior Warden of such Lodge, and their respective successors in office, shall be and remain the Trustees of the Lodge. The title to all real and personal property of the Lodge shall be vested in the 1'ruste'es, in trust, however,

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for the use and benefit of such Lodge." (Page 180, Proceedings of 1929.) Since the adoption of this amendment in 1929, there is no necessity whatsoever for the organization of any corporation to hold title and erect buildings, with the possible exception where a Lodge desires to cooperate with another Lodge, Chapter, Commandery or other similar bodies, in the joint erection of a Masonic building. Any building program of any individual Lodge, with title vested in the trustees, is required to be submitted to the Building Supervisory Board before any action is taken thereon. Any Lodge desiring to eooperate with another Lodge, a Chapter~ Commandery, or other like bodies, for the purpose of purchasing real estate, erecting buildings, or creating indebtedness, must also first have the approval of the Supervisory Board. 5. In re: Masonic Standing of Brother Lands of Chula Lodge No. 388. This matter was presented by the Grand Master in 1932. Decision Number 36, page 180 of the Proceedings of 1932. It was again presented to the Grand Master. The facts as now presented are as follows: Brother Lands presented to Chula Lodge his petition for affiliation, accompanied by certificate of good standing from Chillicothe Lodge No. 333, such certificate being less than thirty (30) days old. The petition and certificate were presented at a stated communication of Chula Lodge in June, 1931. A meeting of the Lodge was held on August 6, 1931, which has been declared to be illegal. At a stated communication of Chula Lodge in December, 1931, the petition of Lands, accompanied by certificate of good standing, was reported upon and he was elected to membership. The law requires that the petition for affiliation must be accompanied by a certificate of good standing, and that such certificate of good standing must be so presented within ninety (90) days after it is issued. This petition, together with certificate of good standing, was so presented within the time to Chula Lodge. The applicant had done all that was required of him and the fact that the Lodge delayed action until December, 1931, did not destroy the life or efficiency of the certificate of good standing. He, having been elected to membership upon this certificate and petition, and thereafter Chula Lodge having received a demit from Chillicothe Lodge, Brother Lands became in December, 1931, a member in good standing of Chula Lodge, and if he has paid his dues, and no charges have been filed against him, and no demit or certificate of good standing issued to him, he is now a member in good standing of Chula Lodge. The matter was presented to the Grand Master last year as if the certificate of good standing and application for membership were presented for the first time on August 6, 1931, whereas the facts are that it was presented at a stated communication in June, 1931.

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6. In re: Fenton Lodge No. 281. The Lodge hall of Fenton Lodge was damaged by fire; however, the fire did not render it in such shape that it was not usable. Fenton Lodge used the building in its damaged condition and the legality of the meeting so held was attacked. I ruled that the meeting was legal. 7. Kennett Lodge No. 68 asked permission to confer the Master's degree at Leachville, Arkansas. Permission refused. 8. I have had numerous requests to permit the Lodge hall to be used for various purposes: (a) A Lodge hall that had been used by the alumni association for their annual meeting and banquet; no charges had been made, the banquet being held for no monetary gain to the association; (b) A Lodge desired to rent their lodge room to a garden association for a flower show; (c) A Lodge desired to permit the bankers' association to use the Lodge hall for their annual meeting. All of sueh requests were refused. 9. In 1930 a petitioner was regularly elected to receive the degrees in the Lodge. He received the first and failed to present himself for examination. A few months thereafter he moved away and requested arrangements be made for him to take his second and third degrees within the State of Kansas. Two years have elapsed since he received the first. The Lodge asks what to do under the circumstances and whether a certificate of demission might be issued. Answer: Section 127 of the By-Laws specifically provides that a candidate may be advanced only to the seeond or third degrees when he shall have passed a satisfactory examination in open lodge, ata stated or special communication, upon his proficiency in the next preceding degree, and that his proficiency shall be determined by a majority vote of the Lodge by show of hands. He can not be advanced until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination as to his proficiency in the first degree. It appears that two years have elapsed since he was given the first degree and, therefore, it would be necessary for the candidate to comply with Section 115 and petition the Lodge for advancement, in addition to standing an examination as to his proficiency. If after this is done the Lodge votes favorably to advance, application might be made to the Grand Master requesting the Grand Master of Kansas to have a Lodge within that jurisdiction proceed with the succeeding degrees. Also, the candidate may, upon application, be granted a certificate of demission. 10. The law requires the officers of constituent Lodges to be elected by ballot and by a majority of all ballots necessary for election. At the annual election of officers in a Lodge, the secretary was declared

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elected. At the next meeting it is claimed that it was discovered the secretary did not receive a majority and request was made to hold an election for secretary. I ruled the secretary having been declared elected at the annual election, that the minutes showed his election, and the declaration of the Master of such election, the record could not be impeached, and no new eleetion could be had. 11. An applicant for the degrees was elected to receive the same in Mount Zion Lodge February 6, 1931. Thereafter, the applicant removed to Chiloquin, Oregon, and requested the degrees be conferred upon him by the Lodge at that place. The first two degrees were so conferred in February, 1931. Thereafter, a Lodge at Klamath Falls, Oregon, objected to his advancement and preferred charges against the applicant, alleging, in brief, he secured his election fraudulently in that he failed to advise of his having been previously rejected at Klamath Falls, and failed to disclose the fact upon petitioning Mount Zion Lodge, and that he was tried and expelled under the laws of Oregon, and such expulsion was approved by the Grand Lodge of Oregon. Thereafter, the applicant presented his petition to Mount Zion Lodge for advancement, which shows he had been twice rejected by Klamath Lodge of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Mount Zion Lodge asked for advice as to further proceeding. Assuming that the records of Mount Zion Lodge showed the applicant to be a Fellowcraft, and in good standing, I advised as follows: Referring to Section 115 of the By-Laws, Sections 109 and 125, they distinctly provide what shan be done where one fails to present himself for advancement within one year, and if these proceedings are followed, then the Lodge will have an opportunity to vote upon his advancement. If the petition for advancement is denied and the Lodge wishes to remove this man's name as a Fellowcraft, charges can be filed in Mount Zion Lodge. 12. In re: Monett Lodge No. 129. Monett Lodge suspended sixtyfour (64) members for nonpayment of dues without having given to each of said members the notice to show cause why they should not be suspended, as required by law. The suspension of such members was illegal and in violation of Section 161 of the By-Laws, and I ordered Monett Lodge No. 129 to correct their records and advise each member so attempted to be suspended that the order and record are illegal, null and void, and that they correct their report to the Grand Secretary. 13. A Lodge in connection with the Eastern Star and DeMolay proposed an entertainment at the lodge and to give a prize, dependent upon chance. I ordered such portion of the entertainment be eliminated and requested the District Deputy Grand Master to see that thE.' order was obeyed, which was done. 14. A Lodge desired to hold a meeting on Sunday to be addressed by a minister upon a Masonic topic, the doors being tiled, as the

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sermon was strictly for Masons and no others, and requested dispensation. Dispensation was refused under the authority of Section 206. 15. I refused permission to a Lodge to celebrate St. John's Day on Sunday. 16. I have made three rulings to the effect that an insane Mason can not be suspended for nonpayment of dues. 17. I have three times ruled that a Lodge can not vote collectively upon the matter of suspension of dues; that action upon each individual delinquent member requires individual action, and in one instance where three members were suspended on collective ballot I have declared the same to be illegal, and ordered them to correct their records in accordance with the ruling. 18. Question: Can a Master Mason in good standing of a Lodge in Illinois prefer charges against a member of a Lodge in Missouri to a Lodge in Missouri ~ Answer : Yes. 19. A Lodge asks the following questions: Q~testion: If a Master Mason in good standing should prefer charges against a member, the Grievance Committee investigate and report probable cause, the Junior VIfarden prepare the formal charges, trial is had, all in accordance with the Trial Code, and the member suspended, has the suspended member any recourse in the civil courts ~ Answer: A member of a fraternal organization having by-laws controlling the actions and conduct of its members, and prescribing the means and methods of disciplining a member for violation of its law, is bound thereby; and if the proper proceedings are taken under the laws of the fraternity and the same are followed, the member has no recourse in the civil courts. 20. A Lodge asks the following questions: Quest1:ons: (a) Is a brother delinquent in his dues where no action has been taken as to suspension OJ Answer: Yes, he is delinquent from due date to payment of dues. (b) Is a brother who is delinquent in his dues, but not suspended, in good standing, entitled to all Masonic privileges, such as voting, and entitled to a Masonic funeral ~ Answer: Before suspension for nonpayment of dues, he is in good standing in his own Lodge and with right to attend the same and vote, and entitled to Masonic burial. If delinquent in the payment of his dues, he can not demit or obtain a certificate of good standing. See Sections 165, 166. A delinquent member loses his privilege of visiting any other Lodge as he would not have his receipt for dues for the current year. 21. A Lodge requested. to be advised whether an accused can require a Lodge to pay for a transcript of proceedings on appeal. Answer: Section 262 answers the question, that if the ,Vorshipful

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Master of the Lodge should be satisfied and certify in writing that the accused is unable to pay the. expenses of securing the attendance of witnesses or the expense of transcript, or both, such expense is, at the request of the accused, also paid by the Lodge. 22. Charges were preferred against a member in regular form and copies of the charges, together with notice of the date of trial, were properly served upon him. The accused paid no attention to the matter. After the trial, a lawyer contended that the trial was null and void for the reason that the notice to the members, as required in Section 249 of the Code, was in the regular monthly bulletin and sent out under a one and one-half cent stamp. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement in the civil courts and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Answer: Section 249 provides notice to resident members: "The Secretary of the Lodge shall give written or printed notice to all resident members of the Lodge of the date and place of such trial." I rule that the notice to the membership was sufficient. 23. Hamilton Lodge No. 224, about November 8, 1932, issued to J. Evon Johnson a certificate of good standing for the purpose of affiliating with Cainsville Lodge No. 328. This certificate of good standing was presented to Cainsville Lodge on November 17, 1932, and a vote immediately taken thereon by show of hands, and he was elected. Thereafter, Cainsville Lodge requested a demit of Hamilton Lodge. Cainsville Lodge states it never received same; however, thereafter Hamilton Lodge sent to Cainsville Lodge duplicate demit. I rule that all the proceedings of the Cainsville Lodge and all action taken by it was null and void for the following reasons: (1 ) No petition for affiliation accompanied the certificate; (2 ) No committee was appointed; (3) No report of the committee was made; (4 ) No ballot was spread; (5) The matter was voted upon the same date on which it was presented. For the reasons above stated the request of Cainsville Lodge for a demit was of no validity. I, therefore, advised Hamilton Lodge that their demit was issued without authority and to cancel the same and show no action taken whatever thereupon. I further advised Cainsville Lodge that they should return the demit to Hamilton Lodge for cancellation; that Cainsville Lodge should secure from Johnson his petition for affiliation and attach thereto the certificate of good standing, and proceed thereon in accordance with the statutes; that they appoint an investigating committee, and thereafter have ballots spread upon the petition after the report of the committee had been made and the proper time had elapsed between the receipt of the petition and the balloting thereon. And further, that if the vote of the Lodge upon the petition for

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affiliation was favorable, then and in that event to make proper request of Hamilton Lodge for a demit. I further ruled that since the irregularities in handling the matters were wholly the fault of Cainsville Lodge No. 328, and in fairness to Brother J. Evon Johnson, that the entire matter must be treated as if the petition for affiliation, together with the certificate of good standing, were actually filed and presented on November 17, 1932, so that Brother J. Evon Johnson would not be penalized because of the errors of Cainsville Lodge. 24. One Walter P. Robinson, a member of Hayti Lodge No. 571, was tried for un-Masonic conduct by a jury, in accordance with the statutes. The jury found him guilty and assessed the punishment as follows: A suspension for six months from the time the accused should gain his citizenship, he at the time being incarcerated in the penitentiary upon a pIca of guilty of conspiracy to bribe by the Federal court. The Chairman of the Trial Committee refused to accept or record the verdict. I ruled that he had no authority to set aside the verdict of the jury, but that the same should be received and spread upon the minutes of the Lodge. I immediately ordered an appeal taken from the judgment and decision of the jury to the Grand Lodge, all of which has been done. 8.

BOND, SECRETARY AND TREASURER

Pursuant to by-laws so requiring, I caused a bond of fifty-five thousand ($55,000.00) dollars to be issued upon the Grand Treasurer, placed with the London-Lancastershire Indemnity Company, No. 2451675, and twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) dollars upon the Grand Secretary, the premium being $300.00, and the same have been retained by me as required by law. No bonds of any kind could be secured to protect deposits in banks. It was the practice to keep the funds not immediately usable invested in Government bonds, the same being kept in a safety deposit box, to which the Secretary and Grand Master had access. 9.

MASONIC HOME

There is no right-thinking Mason who does not have a heal't full of love for the Masonic Home, and the work and effort that is put forward by the Directors of the Home. Our first and foremost duty is charity, and in these times the matter of charity is one of the most pressing problems confronting, not alone Masonry, but the Government, the State, County, City, every fraternal organization and individual. We can not hope to cope with all requests for charitable relief, but, in so far as our ability permits, we should meet every call as reasonably as possible.

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The Directors of the Masonic Home are able, capable, conscientious men; the President of the Board and Superintendent of the Home is perfectly capable of meeting the situation as presented. From time to time it has been suggested, and resolutions have been offered to the Grand Lodge, to make the Grand Master and the Deputy Grand Master Directors of the Masonic Horne. I am opposed to any such legislation. The Grand Master has general supervision of all of the activities of the Fraternity while holding such office. He should be free, so as to make any and all suggestions he deems advisable, to any agency, committee and officer of the Grand Lodge. He should at all times represent the Grand Lodge, and not any particular agency or committee of the Grand Lodge. As such representative I shall speak frankly concerning financial transactions between the Grand Lodge and the Masonic Home Board. I have heard it suggested that the Masonic Home is not an adjunct nor agency of the Grand Lodge, and a separate and distinct legal entity, a corporation duly created and organi7.ed under the laws of the State of Missouri; however, the Masonic Home had its birth in a Communication of the Grand Lodge many years ago. A resolution was adopted in the Grand Lodge to establish a Masonic Home and to appoint a Board or Committee for that purpose, and to incorporate. This was done. The Grand Lodge elects the Directors of the corporation. Moreover, the Grand Lodge of Missouri has been contributing from 65 per cent to 70 per cent of the income every year to the Masonic Home. The fixed income of any corporation constitutes its life blood. Every Lodge pays, through the Grand Lodge, $1.50 per member per year for the support of the Masonic Home, and in addition every petitioner for several years has paid $10.00 in addition to his fees at the time of making application to become a member of the Fraternity. This initiation fund, according to report of the Masonic Home August 31, 1932, amounted to $109,177.79. Section 47 of the By-Laws provides that this money shall be set aside and used for the purchase of additional grounds and buildings, for the erection of buildings, maintenance of Home, and the balance to go to the Endowment Fund. Under all these circumstances, I am of the opinion that, in truth and in fact, the Masonic Home of Missouri is the child of the Grand Lodge and of the Masonic Fraternity; at least, the Masonic Home, the corporation, and the Directors of the Masonic Home are the agents of the Grand Lodge. " Section 74 of the By-Laws provides that "every chartered Lodge shall pay annually to the Grand Lodge the sum of $2.10 for each Master Mason reported in the annual returns except those whose dues have been remitted. One dollar and fifty cents of this sum shall

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be used for the support of the Masonic Home, unless otherwise orde1"ed by the Grand Lodge. *' .. ." It will be observed that the reading is this: "One dollar and fifty cents of this sum shall be used for the support of the Masonic Home, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge." I rule that the word" support" means operation and maintenance of the Masonic Home. For several years, the Masonic Home Board has each year transferred from the General Fund to what is known as the Improvement Fund, $15,000 to $20,000-one year $40,000, and last year, $30,000. Over the signature of thc President of the Board, he has stated that "the Boa"rd felt that it was good business to accumulate an Improvement or Building Fund in order that we might fulfill our Masonic obligations and thc express wish of the Grand Lodge," and that such funds could be returned to the General Fund. I rule that, except by express direction of the Grand I_odge, no part or portion of the $1.50 per capita tax can be used for any other purpose than the support of the Masonic Home and, without direction, can not be used towards the erection of buildings. In conncction with the program being submitted for the relief of the constituent Lodges of the State, I am making the recommendation that the Masonic Home Board be dirccted to use the $1.50 per capita tax toward the support and maintenance of the Masonic Home, and also for the relief of indigent and worthy Master Masons, their widows and orphans, without as well as within the Home, and also for the relief of indigent and worthy Masons, their widows and orphans, who, because of physical condition, are not admissible to the Home, subject to the rules and regulations of the Masonic Home Board; and in addition thereto, I am recommcnding that the Grand Lodge request the rctun1 of the propOl'tionate sharc of the income paid by the Grand Lodge through the per capita tax, and which has been transferred to the Improvement Fund, to the General Fund. At the Communication of the Grand Lodge of 1931 the Grand Mastcr recommended that the Grand Lodge adopt a rcsolution declaring it to be the sense of the Grand Lodge that the charter of the Masonic Home of Missouri should be so amended as to permit the Board of Directors of that Home to extend such charity with the funds of the Home, except the principal of the Endowment Fund, as the Board, or a majority of the members thereof, may deem advisable in cases which the Board shall find to be such as are eligible to the Home, except for physical or mental disqualification, or lack of space in the Home for such cases, and that the Board of Directors of the Home bc requested to cause a proper application to be made to the Circuit Court of St. Louis so to amend their charter. It was so stated in the address that, in many instances, a little financial help of say $15.00 to $25.00 a month would enable a rela-

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tive to take care of one of our old brethren, or widows or orphans, and thus leave room in the Home for those who are more needy and who have no one who could, with a little financial assistance, take care of him or her. At that Communication a resolution was adopted authorizing the Grand Master to appoint a Committee to examine the charter of the Masonic Home and the charter of the Grand Lodge. At the 1932 Communication of the Grand Lodge this Committee made a report recommending that the suggestion of Past Grand Master, William R. Gentry, be approved and that the Grand Lodge request the Directors of the Masonic Home to secure such an amendment to their charter as will permit the Home to extend Masonic relief outside of the Masonic Home as well as within the same, such relief at all times subject to such rules and regulations as should be adopted by the said Masonic Home, and that if and when this amendment should be perfected there would be no necessity of continuing the Vvelfare Committee, for the Teason that as and when Grand Lodge funds are available, they may be paid directly over to the Masonic Home, in addition to the present per capita tax and the initiation fee, and pass directly into the hands of the same body now administering the funds of the Welfare Committee. This report of the Committee was adopted by the Grand Lodge. Referring to the Welfare Committee, the resolution creating such Committee is so written that relief can be given outside of the Home only to such indigent Master Masons, their widows and orphans, as are entitled to admission into the Horne j so that there is no provision whereby any of the moneys contributed by the Grand Lodge through its per capita tax can be used for the relief of worthy, deserving Master Masons, their widows and orphans, whose physical condition prevents them from being admitted to the Home. On January 1 of this year, I addressed a communication to the Masonic Home Board, calling attention to the adoption of this resolution and requesting an immediate amendment in accordance with the request of the Grand Lodge, and that as and when the amendment was made there would be no necessity for a continuance of the Welfare Committee. I recommend that this Grand Lodge again request the Masonic Home Board immediately to amend their charter so as to permit the Board to use the funds so coming from the Grand Lodge for the relief of worthy deserving Master Masons, their widows and orphans, whether entitled to admission to the Home or not, either within or without the Home; and, in addition thereto, I recommend that this Grand Lodge request the Masonic Home to return to the General Fund the unexpended balance now in the Improvement Fund, and which came to the Masonic Home as a per capita tax from the constituent lodges. Certainly the moneys that have been

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paid by the constituent lodges for a specific purpose should be used, as far as possible, for that specific purpose and none other; and surely, in these times of distress-and considering the financial condition of the Fraternity-this should be done in order that we may put the constituent lodges on a firm and sound foundation. Certainly, with the income producing lodges in financial distress, any building program would be unthinkable, until the foundation is repaired. However, it does not need an amendment of the charter of the Masonic Home, as and when the Grand Lodge directs how and in what manner the moneys paid to it by the Grand Lodge shall be disbursed. Since the above was written, and on September 21, 1933, I have been furnished with a report of the Masonic Home, sh6wing the condition as of September 1, 1933. There is attached thereto a l'eport of a committee of the Board of Directors, with a suggested amendment to the charter of the Masonic Home. This limits assistance of the Home to persons who are entitled to admission thereto. It does not authorize the Masonic Homc, the corporation, to extend relief to worthy and deserving Master Masons, their widows and orphans, who, because of physical condition, are not entitled to admission thereto. I suggest that the amendment should include the authority to afford :relief to such as are here deserving but not admissible to the Masonic Home; such amendment as just previously suggested does not prevent, however, the Directors of the Masonic Home from using monies contributed by the Grand Lodge in such manner as the Grand Lodge shall direct. I further call attention of the Board to the following: I do not believe there is any provision in the charter as it now ,exists specifically authorizing the Directors to adopt suitable bylaws. Therc is nothing contained in the amendment to that effect.. The law is, as I understand it, insofar as it affects benevolent corporations, that they may set out their by-laws in their articles of association or they may provide therein for the enactment of suitable by-laws and amendment thereto. If the by-laws are set out in the articles of association, then it require an amcndment to th~ charter to change such by-laws. If the articles of association authorize the making of suitable by-laws and amendment thereto, they can so amcnd by-laws without amending their charter. It would seem that the amendment should contain the authority to make and amend suitable by-laws. I further call attention to that portion of the report which sets out the wording of a bequest to the Masonic Home in the form of a proposed will. It first provides for the payment of debts, and second a suggested form of a bequest to the Masonic Home, and then in small type: "Testator may also insert such other provisions in his will as he sees fit."

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I recommend that this portion of the report be amended, and for the following reasons: (a) A layman who should take this suggested form of will and execute the same, extends an invitation for a contest thereof, as wills leaving bequests in sizeable amounts to charitable institutions are the subject of widespread attack by unsatisfied and disgruntled relatives. (b) A layman without knowledge of the law might take this purported form of will, and fail to make proper provision for wife or husband, as they are entitled under the law, and thereby defeat entirely or partially any bequest to the Masonic Home; or fail to mention or provide for children or grandchildren, and thereby die intestate so far as such unmentioned children or grandchildren are concerned. (c) In these times it is practically imperative that a testator shall have the advice and counsel of his lawer before executing any will. I would suggest that it might not be amiss to suggest as follows: That, if anyone desires to make a bequest to the Masonic Home in connection with the distribution of his estate, the wording of such bequest may be in the following form: I give, devise and bequeath unto the Masonic Home of Missouri, a Corporation organized and existing under and in pursuance of the Laws of the State of Missouri, the sum of - - - Dollars"-(or securities of the estate of an equivalent value thereof).

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RELIEF PROGRAM

Before proceeding with a relief program, I shall give you the status of the financial affairs of the Grand Lodge and the per capita tax collected this year; the status of the present membership of the constituent Lodges and the financial affairs of the Masonic Home. Membership of the Fraternity.

As of June 30, 1932, the total membership of all constituent Lodges of the State was 107,318. The total membership as of June 30, 1933, was 101,527, a loss in membership of 5,79l. There were 6,284 members suspended for nonpayment of dues, six members suspended for un-Masonic conduct, and 15 members expelled; a total of 6,305 in all, representing a loss to the Grand Lodge on account thereof of $13,240.50. The dues of 7,001 members were remitted, a loss in revenue to the Grand Lodge of $14,702.10, and also a loss to the constituent Lodges of the dues owing by such members to the Lodge. The reports indicate that in but a few cases the constituent Lodges have attempted to refrain from suspensions and remissions of dues wherever possible.

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Grand Lodge Finances.

There is in the treasury of the Grand Lodge of Missouri after the payment of all salaries, rent and all bills, except a balance of $2,862.00 owing for the reprint of Grand Lodge Proceedings as ordered by the Grand Lodge some years ago, and $2,978.87 owing the Masonic Home, per capita tax, a total of $67,687.71. Deducting these items, there is in the treasury, free money, $62,846.84. In addition thereto, there is in the hands of the treasury, purchased since the last Communication, $15,000 par value United States Government bonds. In addition thereto the Emergency Fund invested in the United States Government bonds amounts to $80,000, so that the Grand Lodge treasury is in good condition. In addition, there is on deposit with the trustees of the Fidelity Savings and Trust Company the sum of $4,778.82, representing 47~ per cent of the deposit with said bank at the time it closed its doors March 3, 1933, which we hope to receive in full when the securities in hands of the trustees have been liquidated. Receipts from Lodges.

There has been received from .the Lodges per capita tax amounting to the total sum of $178,470.42, as against the total receipts for the 1932 year of $202,988.97, a loss of $24,518.55 during this ycar. At the last Communication of the Grand Lodge the amount of delinquent pel' capita tax was $13,352.35. There has been paid thereon, during this year, $3,842.76, leaving a balance owing from the Lodges on account of per capita tax for 1932, $9,509.59. The total delinquent per capita tax for 1932 and 1933 is as follows: 1932 1933

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$ 9,509.59 22,814.99 $32,324.58

making a total of $32,324.58, all of which is owing to the Grand Lodge by the Lodges of the State. The delinquent per capita tax of 1933 exceeds the delinquent per capita tax of 1932 by $9,462.64. Financial Condition of Lodges.

The above reports of the payments of per capita tax by the Lodges does not present the whole picture. The total unpaid dues owing to the. Lodges, in other words the total unpaid income to the Lodges, amounts to the astounding sum of $208,809.56. This clearly indicates that many-and, I may say a majority-of the Lodges, are in dire distress as far as finances are concerned, and that many of the Lodges have paid their per capita tax for 1933 out of their reserve fund and not from the dues collected from their membership, and have carried their members rather than suspend them or remit their dues.

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As the per capita tax is the income and the financial sustenance of the Grand Lodge, so, also, the dues of the membership of the Lodges is the income and the financial life-blood of the Lodges. As heretofore stated in my report, the Grand Lodge has operated under its budget throughout the year. The last payment of $8,000.00 to the Masonic Temple Association of St. Louis will be due and owing October 1, 1933, and when that account is paid and the reprint bill also, and the Grand Lodge of Missouri will be entirely and wholly free of all indebtedness.

Masonic IIome Finances. I just received the report from the Masonic Home Board on September 21, 1933. There was paid to the Masonic Home account Grand Lodge per capita tax for 1933, $132,078; the total receipts of the Masonic Home Board from all sources was $207,536.18, so that the Lodges, through the Grand Lodge on account of per capita tax, paid to the Masonic Home sixty-three (63%) per cent of its entire income. There was a balance on hand in the general fund of the Masonic Home on September 1, 1932, of $172,430.05. That, added to the receipts for the year, makes a total of $379,966.23; the total disbursements were $192,969.79, leaving a balance on hand as of August 1, 1933, of $186,996.44. There was no transfer from the general fund account to the improvement fund, as in previous years. The report of the Masonic Home shows that the balance in the improvement fund on August 31., 1933, is $93,402.41. The initiation fund, that is, the $10.00 paid by each candidate to the Masonic Home, is $123,101.76. The Masonic Home Board received from the Grand Secretary on account of the $10.00 initiation fee the sum of $8,532. By adding to the balance of the general fund $186,996.44, the entire improvement fund, makes funds available of $280,395.85, a sum which is comparable, balance on hand, of many years in the past. It was apparent to all at the 1932 Communication that the financial situation of the Lodges would constitute the serious question throughout the year. There was a large percentage delinquent in the payment of the per capita tax to the Grand Lodge and the constituent Lodges reported large delinquency in dues. A very large loss of membership on account of suspensions for nonpayment of dues was also reported and a larger list of remittance of dues was shown, all of which showed an unhealthy financial condition. I prophesied that the delinquent per capita tax and dues would be much larger for the fiscal year closing July 1, 1933, and I am sorry the prophecy is true.路 I have had numerous communications from various constituent

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Lodges for advice upon what to do with their delinquency of dues, some Lodges reporting that they would be compelled to show as much as seventy (70%) per cent delinquent unless they engaged in wholesale suspensions for nonpayment of dues. I had numerous conferences with various officers of various Lodges, personally and by letter, with reference to their financial problems. Under date of May 4, 1933, I wrote to each of the constituent Lodges with reference to this matter, and urged upon them careful consideration of their list of delinquents, and that where members were delinquent but had in previous years been paying their dues promptly and were interested in Masonry, that they should take the chance of carrying the members and should not suspend them, for the reason that the good members in the past, who were unable to pay because of financial situations, when suspended are lost entirely to the Lodge. I urged upon them that the idea that the Grand Lodge was interested only in its annual returns and the per capita tax was erroneous; that that attitude was not Masonic. I suggested that they carry their members, not suspend and not remit, except where necessary, and that the Grand Lodge would have to adopt some program for the relief of Lodges. The Lodges constitute the foundation of Masonry in Missouri. The financial distress of the Lodges is of the utmost importance to the Grand Lodge. They being the foundation, and the foundation being cracked and in some places torn asunder, it is necessary that the Grand Lodge shall take the proper measures to remedy its foundation. We can not expect that Masonry will thrive and prosper and do good work when they are so financially distressed that they have no way to turn, and relief must come. I realize that any program of relief that is adopted will not be equitable in all instances. Some Lodges have paid their per capita tax in full and have been able to do so because they had some money in the treasury; others are not so fortunate. However, those who are fortunate must be willing to share some of the burden with their unfortunate brother Lodges. I am of the opinion that the program that I recommend, only if adopted as a whole, will give relief, and put the Lodges on a firmer foundation, so that they can live and prosper, and then if they do, the Grand Lodge and all its activities can go forward. Looking back into the past, we can now see the mistakes that have been made by some of the Lodges on account of building programs, extravagant expenditure of monies for entertainment, and so on, which has finally brought them to the brink of bankruptcy. 'Ve only learn, however, from experience. I, therefore, recommend the following program: 1. That the delinquent per capita tax of the Lodges, including the

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years 1932 and 1933, a total sum of $32,324.58, shall be carried as a debt of the Lodges to the Grand Lodge, and that such delinquent Lodges be given one year from September 27, 1933, in which to pay the sum and without interest; provided, however, that previous to said due date and upon satisfactory proof furnished to the Ways and Means Committee of the inability of the Lodges to pay the whole or any part of such delinquent debt, the said Ways and Means Committee is authorized and empowered to extend the time of payment for such period and upon such conditions as said Ways and Means Committee may deem advisable; that the Lodges remit to the Grand Secretary such sums from time to time to be applied upon such indebtedness as may be possible and until the sum has been paid in full; that as and when such payments are received by the Grand Secretary, he shall transfer the same to the Directors of the Masonic Home, without any deductions whatsoever of the 60 cents per member provided for Grand Lodge expenses. In other words, that the entire indebtedness represented by the per capita tax above mentioned shall go as herein provided, when collected, to the Directors of the Masonic Home, the same to be used as ordered and directed by this Grand Lodge and in accordance with the following resolution: Be It Resolved, That the delinquent per capita tax now due and owing by the Lodges, as and when received by the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home, shall be used for the relief of indigent and worthy Mastel' Masons, their widows and orphans, outside of said Home and regardless of whether such applicants for such relief would be entitled to admission to the Masonic Home or not, and under such rules and regulations as the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home may establish.

The Grand Lodge to receive no part or portion of such delinquent per capita tax. 2. That the per capita tax of $2.10 which becomes due and payable June 30, 1934, be reduced by eliminating the sixty (60c) cents which goes to the Grand Lodge for its expenses, leaving the per capita tax due and payable as of the date above mentioned, $1.50 per member, all of which to go to the Directors of the Masonic Home, and that said per capita tax shall be used by the Directors of the Masonic Home as follows: For the support of the Masonic Home, and for the relief of indigent and worthy Master Masons, their widows and orphans, regardless of whether applicants for such relief would be entitled to admission to the Masonic Home or not, outside of said Home, and under such rules and regulations as the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home may establish. I further recommend that the Vi,! ays and Means Committee of the Grand Lodge, commencing with the Communication of 1934, shall be authorized and empowered at each annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, after considering the financial condition of the Lodges,

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the Gl'and Lodge and the Masonic Home, to provide the amount of said per capita tax to be so used outside of the Masonic Home. This means that the Grand Lodge will receive nothing from the Lodges for the expenses of the Grand Lodge until July 1, 1935, a period of practically two years, and that the Grand Lodge will have to exist from the monies now on hand, and out of the principal of its Emergency Fund. 3. I further recommend that the one ($1.00) dollar per member, payable to the George Washington Memorial Association, be discontinued until July 1, 1936. 4. I further recommend that the ten ($10.00) dollars collected from each initiate and transmitted to the Masonic Home be eliminated until January 1, 1936. 5. Section 74 of the By-Laws provides that , 'Every chartered Lodge shall pay annually to the Grand Lodge the sum of two dollars and ten cents ($2.10) for each Master Mason reported in the annual returns, except those whose dues have been remitted; one dollars and :fifty cents ($1.50) of this sum shall be used for the support of the Masonic Home, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge. * * *"

I rule that the $1.50 per member that is paid to the Masonic Home under this Statute can be used only for the support of the Masonic Home, except upon further order of the Grand Lodge. It is beyond dispute that many indigent Masons and worthy of relief can be cared for outside the Home at much less expense than within the Home. This is the experience of many other Masonic Homes in other states. Some years ago a Welfare Committee was constituted by the Grand Lodge, consisting of members of the Masonic Home Board, and monies appropriated to the Welfare Committee to be used for the relief of indigent Masons, and so forth, who were eligible to the Home but could not be accepted into the Home because of the lack .of space. There are other indigent and worthy Masons who,because of their diseased condition or mental condition, can not be accepted into the Home, and under the present reading of the resolution creating the Welfare Committee can not be assisted by the Welfare Committee, or any other funds of the Home. I am of the opinion that all Masonic relief, which is given by the Grand Lodge itself, should be administered by the Masonic Home Board, whether that relief is spent upon the inmates within the Home or outside the Home. I have heard objections to this plan from some angles, particularly that it would lessen the interest of the Lodges and. the officers of Lodges in caring for their own indigent members. It may be in some instances there would be some effort made to shift the responsibility of the Lodge itself upon the Masonic Home Board. However, con-

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sidering the condition of the Lodges and the fact that many of them. have no monies whatever with which to give any relief, and that those who have the money have gone to the extreme in giving relief without calling on the Home, I do not believe that these objections are well taken. The report of the Masonic Home in 1929-August 31, 1929showed that their total receipts were $241,651.16. Of this amount $169,166.91 was received from the Grand Lodge, representing the per capita tax. This constituted seventy (70%) per cent of the total income of the Masonic Home which came from the Lodges and represented by the $1.50 per capita. That year there was transferred to the Improvement Fund $15,000.00. Therefore, of the amount transferred to the Improvement Fund, 70 per cent represented the per capita tax paid by the Lodges, or $10,500.0,0.. The proceedings of 1930, page 130, disclose a total income of the Masonic Home of $241,950.06, of which amount the Lodges paid a per capita tax of $165,049.10; or sixty-eight (68%) per cent of the income was contributed by the Lodges. There was transferred to the Improvement Fund September 1, 1931, $20,000.00. Sixty-eight (68%) per cent of $20,000.00 so transferred, or $13,600.00, was contribu'ted by the Lodges in the State of Missouri. The proceedings for 1931 show that August 31, 1931, the Masonic Home had received' a total income of $242,378.93. Of this amount the Grand Lodge per capita tax was $167,625.06. Sixty-nine (69%) per cent of the income of the Masonic Home was paid by the Grand Lodge, representing the $1.50 per capita tax from the Lodges. On August 31 there was transferred to the Improvement Fund, $40,000.00. Using' the same percentage of sixty-nine (69%) per cent, then 69 per cent of the monies transferred to the Improvement Fund represents the per capita tax paid by the Lodges, or $27,600.00. The report of the Masonic Home for 1932 shows a total income received of $214,052.38, of which amount $140,947.90 had been paid by the cDnstituent Lodges by means of the per capita tax, or sixtyfive (65%) per cent of the total income was paid by the Lodges through the per capita tax. In 1932 there was transferred to the Improvement Fund, $30,000.00. Applying the same ratio, of this amount so transferred, $10,500.00 represents the per capita tax paid by the Lodges. This Improvement Fund, according to the report of the Masonic Home Board, in 1932 totalled $90,098.12. The report of the Masonic Home Board of September 1, 1933, shows a total income for the Masonic Home of $207,536.18, and the Lodges through the Grand Lodge as per capita tax paid to the Masonic Home $132,078.00, the same being sixty-three (63%) per cent plus of the total amount of all receipts of the Masonic Home. No portion of the General Fund is shown to have been transferred this year to the Improvement Fund.

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The report of the Masonic Home Board shows that there is on hand .in the Improvement F;und as of August 1, 1933, a balance of $93,402.41. Considering the financial difficulties of the Lodges the monies paid by the per capita tax by the Lodges should be used, so far as necessary, for Masonic relief and for no other purpose until such time as the cracks in the foundation of the Masonic Fraternity in Missouri shall have been rectified. I, therefore, recommend that the Masonic Home Board be requested and ordered to use the per capita tax in accordance with the recommendation as set forth in subparagraph 2 heretofore set forth. I further recommend that the Directors of the Masonic Home be requested and ordered to return to the General Fund, and to be used in accordance with said subparagraph 2, that proportion of the monies representing per capita' tax of the Lodges, and now included in the Improvement Fund. I further recommend the adoption of the following Resolution: Be It Resolved by the Grand Lodge that, in view of the emergency existing and the financial condition of the Nation, of the State of Missouri, the various cities and counties within the State of Missouri, and of the Lodges throughout the State, and that many worthy and deserving Master Masons, their widows and orphans, can be afforded relief outside of the Home for much less than if admitted to said Home, in order to extend Masonic relief as far as possible to the worthy and deserving, that during this emergency the Directors of the Masonic Home be requested to extend relief as far as is possible outside of said Home, thereby reducing the number that would be obliged to apply to the Home, and inmates thereof.

6. I further recommend the adoption of the following Resolution: Considering the financial distress of the individual Master Masons, and the Lodges, and the general financial conditions, be it Resolved, That this Grand Lodge deem it to be ill-advised for the Masonic Home, or any Lodge, to engage in any building operations until the financial distress of the Lodges and the members thereof shall have been remedied.

If this line of procedure is followed, it will give immediate relief to the Lodges, lessen the burden upon the Lodges, and give to the Masonic Home Board certainly sufficient monies with which to operate the Masonic Home and to give relief that otherwise can not be supplied from any other source. . If this plan is adopted, then there will be no necessity-and, in fact, if it is adopted, there will be no money-to transfer funds from the Grand Lodg~ Treasury to the Masonic Home Board for welfare relief. This plan of procedure is not perfect and has its inequities, but no plan, no program, can be perfect, and not create some inequities' to some of the Lodges.

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This program, if adopted, should be adopted as a whole. It would be unfair and unjust for the Grand Lodge to remit and forgive its portion of the per capita tax owing by Lodges and uncollected, and to relieve the Lodges of the payment of the sixty (60c) cents per capita tax to July 1, 1935, and also take from the Grand Lodge the Permanent Fund, or any portion thereof, for any other than Grand Lodge expenses for the next two years. 11.

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OF RELIEF PROGRAM

As a further financial safeguard to the constituent Lodges, I suggest the following sections to the By-Laws: SECTION 99a. I t shall be the duty of every Lodge to establish a Budget Committee to consist of nve members-the Master, Secretary and Treasurer, and two members appointed by the Master, immediately upon installation. It shall be the duty of said Budget Committee to budget all expenses of said Lodge for the ensuing year. It shall include among the liabilities of the Lodge the per capita tax owing by the Lodge to the Grand Lodge. Such budget shall be reported at the second regular Communication after the installation of the Master to the Lodge, and if adopted, no expenditures shall exceed such budget so made, except in an emergency, and with the consent of the Master and Wardens and upon a vote of twothirds of the members present at any stated meeting, the said budget may be exceeded. . SECTION 99b. It shall be the duty of the Master of every Lodge where a Building Association has been created by the members of the Lodge for the purpose of holding title to the building in which such Lodge 'meets, and the properties of the Lodge, immediately after installation and before the budget, as required in Section 99a, to request of the officers of said Building Association a detailed statement of its assets and properties, its receipts and expenditures for the previous year, and a budget for the ensuing year; and until such report is made by Buch Building Association to the Lodge, and has been furnished to Buch Lodge, no monies shall be voted out of the treasury of the Lodge to pay to such Building Association. . After such report and budget shall have been received by the Master of the Lodge and a budget has been made covering the expenses of the IJodge by the Budget Committee, then and thereafter the Budget Committee is authorized and empowered to make such suitable contracts for payment of monies to the Building Association as may be necessary and in accordance with the financial condition of the Lodge, such contract so made to become effective when approved by the Lodge. If the Budget Committee of the Lodge and the Building Association can not agree upon a contract, then and in that event the entire matter shall be submitted to the Ways and Means Committee of the Grand Lodge, which shall have full power and authority to adjust all matters and disputes between the Lodge and the Building Association, and the report of said Ways and Means Committee of the Grand Lodge shall be final and conclusive between the Lodge and the Building Association. This By-Law shall not be held or construed to invalidate any existing contract or agreement heretofore entered into 路and at such time in good standing, or to require annual renewal of existing contracts by a Lodge or Lodges and a Building Association heretofore organized and composed of Lodges and other Masonic or kindred organizations for the maintenance of. their Temple and/or the payment of any indebtedness thereon.

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The above recommendations for additional legislation are prompted by the fact that many Lodges do not budget their expenses at 'all, and certainly this would seem to be necessary. I further recommend the following: SECTION 27-h-1. It shall be the duty of the Grand Master immediately after installation to appoint said Ways and Means Committee, which shall be composed of five members, one of whom shall serve for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years; and thereafter, upon the expiration of the terms of such members, their successors shall be appointed for a term of three years. The Grand Master shall fill all vacancies in said committee. The said Ways and Means Committee shall have the following additional powers and路 duties: (1) It shall immediately upon appointment, by and with the advice of the Grand Master and of the Treasurer, budget the entire expenses of the Grand Lodge, and no appropriation or expenditure shall exceed such budget except in an emergency and upon the unanimous vote of the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master and the Grand Wardens. If, after such budget is made, it shall appear that the finances of the Grand Lodge will not be sufficient to meet the appropriations so made, or if an emergency shall thereafter arise requiring additional funds, then and in that event it shall be the duty of said Ways and Means Committee to reform said budget, to the end that no expenditure shall exceed such budget. (2) The said Ways and Means Committee shall upon the request of the ,Grand Master, or a Lodge, examine into the financial condition of such Lodge and make an adjustment of all disputes between the Lodge and Building Association. It shall be authorized to examine into the financial conditions and affairs of the Lodges upon such request made by the Grand Master or a Lodge, or Master, and may defer or waive in whole or in part any sums due the Grand Lodge from such Lodge, on proof of the inability of the Lodge to pay, or extend the time of payment, of any sums owing to the Grand Lodge by such Lodge. Said Committee may impose such conditions as it may deem to be advisable and for the best interests of the Grand Lodge and such Lodge. (3) It shall have the authority, by and with the advice and consent of the Grand Master, to consolidate Lodges, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable and for the best interests of Masonry; and such Committee is authorized to adjust all financial problems affecting the Grand Lodge and such Lodges as said Committee may deem advisable in order to effect a consolidation. As and when consolidation of Lodges shall have been made by said Committee, it shall make full report to the Grand Secretary, and such further action shall be taken ~s is now provided by law when Lodges consolidate, by agreement of their members.

In my opinion, the Grand Lodge should have some permanent committee for the purpose of handling the financial affairs of the Grand Lodge between sessions. I, therefore, recommend the adoption of this amendment, extending the power and duties of the present Ways and Means Committee. In addition thereto, there is no provision of the laws whereby Lodges can be consolidated except upon the vote of the Lodge. It seems to me that some power should be vested in the Committee to compel consolidation and make such arrangements for consolidation where it is deemed advisable for the best interests of the Lodges concerned.

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This proposed legislation is new and may be adopted at this Communication. 12.

CONCLUSION

I desire to express my appreciation and thanks to the officers of the constituent Lodges who have been extremely courteous, and exhibited that friendly spirit which should prevail within the Fraternity. I want especially to express my appreciation for the .cooperation and helpfulness of the District Deputy Grand Masters throughout the State. They have answered every call and attended to every duty requested of them. This year has. been a particularly trying one upon the District Deputies within the larger cities, and more particularly in St. Louis. I have had several conferences with the officers of Lodges, together with the District Deputies, involving serious difficulties and problems; but, around the table and after a fair and frank discussion of the matters, many troublesome situations have been adjusted to the satisfaction of all, without which conference I am satisfied the air would have been surcharged with accusations which would have been of no benefit to the Fraternity. I also express my appreciation of the assistance of the Grand Lodge officers and committees. Without them, the work of the Grand Lodge could not proceed. Again, may I express my appreciation for the great honor conferred upon me in being permitted to serve this Grand Jurisdiction as its Grand Master for the year. May I express the hope and conviction that the Fraternity may soon emerge from the trials and tribulations of the past to the sunlight of better days. Fraternally submitted,

L,~ Grand Master.

REPORT OF THE GRAND SECRETARY

R. W. Brother Arthur Mather, Grand Secretary, presented his Report covering official action in the office of the Grand Secretary for the period September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933, which was received and ordered路 printed in the Proceedings. DUPLICATE CHARTERS

Duplicate Charters were issued to the following Lodges: Cass Lodge 路No. 147, charter destroyed by fire; duplicate issued October 28, 1932.

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Glenwood Lodge No. 427, charter destroyed by fire;. duplicate issued November 2, 1932. Western Star Lodge No. 15, charter destroyed by fire; duplicate issu0d February 8, 1933. Havana Lodge No. 21, charter destroyed by fire; duplicate charter issued May 10, 1933. Lock Springs Lodge No. 488, charter destroyed by fire; duplicate issued May 19, 1933. PROCEEDINGS DISTRIBUTED

The 1932 Proceedings were printed and distributed as soon as possible after the Grand Lodge Session. COMMISSIONS TO D. D. G. M.'S

By order of M. \V. Thad. B. Landon, Grand Master, commissions were issued to the sixty District Deputy Grand Masters by him appointed in the fifty-nine Masonic Districts; the thirty-third district having two District Deputy Grand Masters. CHANGES IN D. D. G. M.'S

R. W. Brother Paul Higbee, of the second district, having died, W. Brother Doctor Willis J. Bray was appointed to fill the vacancy on October 17, 1932. R. W. Brother J. O. Wilson, or the thirtieth district, having died, W. Brother William E. Lange was appointed to fill the vacancy on January 11, 1933. REPORTS OF DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS

Blanks for these reports were sent to the sixty District Deputy Grand Masters, and their reports have been turned over to the Committee on Reports of District Deputy Grand Masters. COMMISSIONS TO GRAND REPRESENTATIVES

M. W. Grand Master Landon, appointed the following as Grand Representative of Missouri near their respective Grand Lodge: Tennessee, Robert Virgil Hope, 710 Columbian Mutual Tower, Memphis, Tenn. BLANKS FOR ANNUAL RETURNS

Two copies were mailed June 15, 1933, with accompanying circular giving full directions to Secretaries. STATISTICAL

Number of Chartered Lodges in this Jurisdiction as of June 30, 1933 .. 647 Clear Creek No. 418, ceased to eXist, due to consolidation with Shawnee No. 653, on February 24, 1933........................ 1 Actual Number of Lodges Number of Lodges making return Number of Non-Reporting Lodges

646 630 16

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Membership as of June, 1932 YEAR

107,318

1,979

1933

Initiated Passed Raised Affiliated Reinstated Total

859 932 827 389 763

Gross Membership, 630 reporting Lodges, as of June 30, 1933 . ])emitted 797 Suspended IT. M. C. . :................ 6 Suspended N. P. D. . 6,284 Expelled 15 Died 1,601 Total . 1933 Membership, 630 reporting Lodges 1933 Membership, 6 Lodges reported after 9/15/1933 1932 Membership, 10 remaining Lodges unreported

109,297

8,703

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100,594 343 590

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101,527 5,791

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Total Membership as of June 30, 1933 Net Loss Per Capita Tax on 100,594 M. M.'s from 630 reporting Lodges ~ '" .<\.rrears $1,716.75 Arrears, 9 Lodges paid balance due on 1932 per capita $1,067.70 'rotal arrears received

$211,247.40

2,784.4:5

Overpaid, 1932

$214,031.85 69.20

Dues remitted

$213,962.65 14,702.10

Balance due

$199,260.55 20,821.63

Credits

$178,438.92 31.30

Total per capita received to September 15, 1933

$178,470.42

LODGES CONSOLIDATED

Clear Creek Lodge No. 418, located at Lincoln, Missouri, Benton County, voted to consolidate with Shawnee Lodge No. 653, located at Warsaw, Missouri, in Benton County, on February 24, 1933. Auxvasse Lodge No. 357, of Auxasse, Missouri, Callaway County, \'oted to consolidate with Fulton Lodge No. 48, located at Fulton, Missouri, Callaway County, on June 26, 1933.

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COURTESIES RECEIVED AND GRANTED

By direction of M. W. Grand Master Landon, 19 requests have been made to sister Grand Jurisdictions to confer degrees for Missouri Lodges and 16 requests have been received to confer degrees for sister Grand Jurisdictions. TRANSPORTATION AND HOTELS

Circular letters were mailed out as usual to all Lodges with the information that railroads in the State had agreed to sell round-trip tickets at reduced rates on the certificate plan. Also, list of leading hotels and locations and rates was given. Copies of this circular may be found at Grand Lodge. SPECIAL DISPENSATIONS LAYING CORNERSTONES

Frank C. Barnhill, High School, Kingsville, Missouri, February 22, 1933. . Emsley C. James, Baptist Church, Gower, Missouri, September 17, 1932. Frank C. Barnhill, New Masonic Temple, Mount Zion, No. 527, August 23, 1933. DEDICATIONS

Curtis F. Smith, New Hall, Grant City Lodge No. 66, Grant City, July 11, 1932. W. 1. Mayfield, New Hall, Linn Creek Lodge No. 152, Linn Creek, Missouri, August 31, 1932. H. M. Jayne, New Hall, Glenwood Lodge No. 427, Glenwood, Missouri, December 3, 1932. Arthur Mather, New Hall, Cass Lodge No. 147, Harrisonville, Missouri, December 30, 1932. C. B. Waddell, New Hall, Concordia Lodge No. 464, Concordia, Missouri, January 9, 1933. H. K. Hopkins, New Hall, Helena Lodge No. 117, Helena, Missouri, January 9, 1933. H. S. Truman, New Hall, Buckner Lodge No. 501, Buckner, Missouri, February 6, 1933. Dr. Harold L. Reader, New Hall, Meramec Lodge No, 313, Eureka, Missouri, March 11, 1933. Thomas D. Williams, New Hall, Clarksdale Lodge No. 559, Clarksdale, Missouri, April 5, 1933. Thomas D. Williams, New Hall, Pattonsburg Lodge No. 65, Pattonsburg, Missouri, April 6, 1933. Harry K. Hopkins, New Hall, Rushville Lodge No. 283, Rushville, Missouri, April 24, 1933. Jewell E. Windle, New Hall, Ozark Lodge No. 297, Fair Grove, Missouri, May 18, 1933. Thomas D. Williams, New IIan, Lock Springs Lodge No. 488, Lock Springs, Missouri, May 30, 1933. L. O. Wicecarver, New Hall, Bernie Lodge No. 573, Bernie, Missouri, June 30, 1933. Curtis F. Smith, New Hall, Havana Lodge No. 21, McFall, Missouri, July 22, 1933.

1933

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Cypress (227), JUly 20, 1932 Belgrade (632), Nov. 19, 1932 Lafayette (437), Nov. 17, 1932 Hayti (571), Jan. 5, 1933 Riddick (361), Jan. 15, 1933 Moscow (558), Dee. 21, 1932 Forest City (244), Jan. 6, 1933 North Star (157), Jan. 12, 1933 Braymer (135), May 9, 1933 Ravanna (258), Aug. 2, 1933

Claflin (229), Feb. 4, 1933 Hinton (445), Feb. 4, 1933 Agricola (343), Regular Communication Portland (242), Feb. 4, 1933 Ingomar (536), Feb. 3, 1933 Puxico (596), Feb. 24, 1933 Florida (23), March 11, 1933 Joppa (411), March 24, 1933 Marion (616), July 25, 1933

INS'l'ALLATION OF OFFICERS

Pyramid No. 180, January 14, 1933, in the Hall of Pomegranate Lodge. West Gate No. 445, December 20, 1932, in the J. E. McKinney Hall of the Masonic 'remple of St. Louis. Mount Moriah No. 40, December 29, 1932, in Alhambra Grotto Hall. Beacon No.3, January 12, 1933, in Commandery Hall of the Masonic Temple of St. Louis. MEET IN OTHER HALLS

Fenton Lodge No. 281, to meet in the Hall of Gardenville Lodge No. 655, until further notice. MASONIC HOME OF MISSOURI

W arrant No. 132 for $3,578.00 was issued to the Masonic Home on July 25, 1933, representing $992.12* balance due Masonic Home to September 15, 1932, and $2,585.87% back dues collected between September 16, 1932, to and including June 30, 1933. RECAPITULATION

Back dues to June 30, 1933 . Pro-rata of 1933 per capita tax paid to September 15, 1933 Total paid to the Masonic Home on THIS ACCOUNT from September 16, 1932 to September 15, 1933 .

3,578.00 124,500.00

$128,078.00

Leaving a balance of $2,978.87 due Masonic Home. SPECIAL INITIA'fION FUND

Total amount reported from October 15, 1920, to September 15, 1932 *Total amount received and paid to the Masonic Home of Missouri, from .September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933 Total amount received and paid to the Masonic Home of Missouri on THIS ACCOUNT from October 15, 1920, to September 15, 1933, inclusive

$496,496.00 8,630.00

$505,126.00

GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL FUND

Cash balance in bank, September 16, 1932

1,478.08

â&#x20AC;˘ For amountB paid by individual Lodges, see Grand Secretary's Tabular Statement, 1933 Proceedings.

1933

PROCEEDINGS OF THE RECEIPTS

* Amount received from September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933 Interest on bank deposits

849.00 .54

2,327.62

Total PAYMENTS

Check paid to J. Claude Keiper, January 14, 1933 $1,500.00 Bank service charges 3.00 Government tax on one check .02

1,503.02

September 15, 1933-Balance in bank to credit on ACCOUNT

THIS ••••••.•••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••••

Total amount paid to J. Claude Keiper, Secretary-Treasurer of the George Washington Masonic National Mem0rial Association, Incorporated

824.60 156,167.01

THE DR. WILLIAM F. KUHN LIBRARY FUND

Inaugurated by donation of $500.00 by Brother Marcus A. Loevy at Grand Lodge Session, O<;-tober 17, 1922. This Fund since exchange of Bond was made July 18, 1929, consists of: One $500.00 United States Treasury 33-8 per cent bond, he~d in .Grand Lodge safe deposit box, Kansas City, 500.00 MIssourI $ Total library fund as reported September 15, 1932 .. Interest on bond $16.87 Interest on saving account as follows: :pecember, 1932 2.24 June, 1933 2.10 Total fund, September 15, 1933

651.013

21.~1

672.27

GRAND LODGE PROPERTY

Fully described in report of Auditor of Accounts of Grand Lodge. GRAND LODGE FINANCES

September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933. Cash in grand depository, September 16, 1932

$ 91,285.88

RECEIPTS

Paid on back per capita tax Paid on 1933 per capita tax Sale of dues receipts Sale of manuals, by-laws, proceedings

. .

4,631.23 177,459.42

182,090.65

932.59 428.00

1,360.59

• For amounts paid by individual Lodges, see Grand Secretary's Tabular Statement, 1933 Proceedings.

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

Refupd on 1932 pay roll, J. W. Skelly ........ " " " " " A. A. Johnson . ..... " " " " " Karl Muschany ..... " " " " " E. S. Haynes ....... R. Gentry ...... " " " " "" Wm. H. H. Blackledge .. ~ . " " " "

5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 15.00 5.00

Refund by First National Bank of St. Louis, 1932 pay roll account .

40.00

185.63

185.63 3,148.75 384.38

Interest on Permanent Fund U. S. Gov. Bonds Interest on General Fund U. S. Gov. Bonds Interest on daily balance Fidelity Savings Trust Company, Kansas City, Missouri Interest on daily balance Wood & Huston Bank, Marshall, Missouri .

319.07 86.91

Total Receipts to September 15, 1933

3,939.11 $278.901.86

ANAL YSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS

Total of Vouchers Nos. 1 to 153, inclusive .... Government tax on checks and collection charges on three checks . *Pay roll, 1932 . Proceedings 1932 . Salaries and allowances: Grand Master, Grand Secretary, Grand Treasurer, Grand Lecturer, Grand Lodge Office Account . Maintenance, Grand Lodge offices . Masonic Temple Association St. Louis, Mo. " Masonic Relief Association, United States and Canada . t Committee on Welfare . Past Grand Master's jewel . Expenses, Grand Lodge Session 1932 . Reporter, Grand Lodge Session 1932 . Telephone, Jefferson 4877 . Bonds, Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer Contingent fund, funerals, etc . Perkins Audit Company . Expenses, George Washington Memorial and Grand Masters' conferences . :j:Grand Lodge Officers' conferences . Expense Grand Lodge Officers, Order Grand Master . Printing, postage, stationery and incidentals Reprint old proceedings . Total budget appropriation for 1932-1933 (exclusive of pay roll) was . Actual disbursements . Unexpended balanceยง

* $1,000.00

$206,931.98 3.35

$206,935.33 23,314.37

2,165.00 12,783.44 1,800.00 8,.000.00 268.28 4,500.00 200.00 500.00 75.00 199.33 300.00 399.04 150.00 200.00 300.24 124.20 1,959.76 2,500.00

36,424.29

$ 36,840.00 35,324.05 $

1,515.95

overpaid by order of Grand Master.

t $100.24 represents item included which was carried over from last year.

*Out Difference of $14.33-adjustments in 1932 pay roll bank account. of which Grand Lodge ordered $1,000.00 paid to Welfare Committee, and ยง

$100.24 was paid to complete Officers' Conference Appropriation for 1932.

1933

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

Masonic Home pro rata 1933 per capita tax .. Masonic Home per capita tax, back dues . Dues receipts 1933 . Purchase of U. S. Government Bonds .....• Government tax and collection charges on three checks . St. Louis Board of Relief $2,500.00 Kansas City Board of Relief 250.00 Pay Roll Refund

$124,500.00 3,578.00 1,119.96 15,059.73 3.35 2,750.00 185.63 $147,196..67

September 15, 1933, total disbursements

$206,935.33

CASH BALANCE, September 15, 1933, General Fund

$ 71,966.iJ3

Total receipts to September 15, 1933 . Total disbursements to September 15,1933 ...........•

278,901.86 206,935.33

RECAPITULATION

$ 71,966.53 Cash Balance September 15, 1933, Fidelity Savings Trust (restricted)................ Ca~h Balance September 15, 1933, Union National Bank, Kansas City Cash Balance September 15, 1933, Wood & .Huston Bank, Marshall..................

$ 4,778.82 65,416.84 1,770.87

Total cash balance, Grand Secretary's Cash Book, Sep· tember 15, 1933 Fraternally submitted,

$ 71,966.53

REPORT OF GRAND TREASURER

R. W. Brother E. E. Morris, Grand Treasurer, presented bis report covering the period from September 15, 1932, to September 15, 1933, which was received as follows, together with report of Auditor, and both ordered printed in the Proceedings: 1932 Sept. 15

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15 15 16 16 26 3 3

Balance cash on hand in Fidelity Savings Trust Company, Kansas City, Missouri .. Balance Cash on hand in Commerce Trust Company, Kansas City, Missouri ...... Balance Cash on hand in Wood and Huston Bank, Marshall, Missouri ............ 30.25 537 Arthur Mather, Grand Sec'y $ 312.60 538 " " " " 539 1,309.90 " " " 540 19.36 " " " 541 891.47 " "

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70,943.03 10,000.00 10,000.00

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542 543 544 545 546 547 548

549 550 551 552 553 554 路556

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574 575 576 577

578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595

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39.75 998.73 36.60 64.00 27.30 124.33 106.85 41.00 575.62 123.94 275.13 323.76 111.85

150.00 100.00 64.05 28.00 26.15 998.75 26.00 66.00 2,500.00 7.50 77.75 220.50 1,202.00 810.03 50.75 1,963.50 8.55 4,376.40 36.58 22.36 4,041.30 17.16 3,267.50 5,896.80 45.34 22.44 3,987.90 1,470.00 6.96 20.79 3,801.00 5,874.45 26.62 38.29 8,748.20 5.04 720.60 23.67 3,510.60 20.76 4,457.75

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18

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638 639

640 641

642 643 644

645 646

647

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650 651 652

653

Transfer, Mileage and Per Diem account . $ 185,63 Arthur Mather, Grand Sec'y 37.88

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7,068.50 22.55 4,827.90 33.92 6,627.00 21.09 4,405.10 26.59 5,737.20 13.49 2,635.10 33.64 7,222.40 12,266.20 56.71 35.55 8,364.00 35.04 7,649.70 5,618.55 25.18 17,617.88 94.02 129.90 17,661.00 27.09 5,373.70 10.09 1,760.40 9.41 1,569.80 6.06 873.50 2.29 292.23 2.16 319.35 2.28 489.70 87.70 323.40 16.93 107.30 304.20 2:~9.70

89.10 192.80 315.05 30.06 270.90 271.90 446.40 225.70 1,261.06 30.39

1933 1932 Oct. 27

Nov. 28 Dec. 27 1933 Jan. 28 Feb. 27 Mar. 27 April 26 May 27 June 20 1932 Sept. 26

Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. July

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

26 28 27 26 27 11

Interest on bank balance, Wood & Huston Rank, Marshall, Missouri .. $

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18.75 12.78 12.50 12.50 12.50 11.55 10.92 4.62 2.34

88.90 60.59 49.39 42.41 41.23 22.86 2.14 $278,901.86

DISBURSEMENTS

1932 Check No. Sept. 21 1 Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Mo., mileage and per diem alc $20,000.00 " 24 2 Arthur Mather, Gr. Sec'y, expo 103.09 Gr. Masters' Conference .... " 30 3 Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Mo., add'l mileage and per diem alc 3,500.00 " 30 4 Arthur Mather, Gr. Sec 'y, expo Grand Lodge Session . 500.00 " 30 5 Masonic Temple Assn., maintenance . 150.00 . 333.34 " 30 6 Arthur Mather, salary . 150.00 " 30 7 F. Berger, salary . 125.00 8 M. Gibear, salary " 30 . 200.00 " 30 9 Barr and Dunn, P. G. jewel " 30 10 A. D. Niederluecke, reporter G. L. Session . 75.00 " 30 11 J. R. McLachlan, salary, Gr. Lecturer . 300.00 10.00 " 30 12 tT. R. McLachlan, expenses Oct. 22 13 Anderson-Bramwell Co., Bond Gr. Sec. and Gr. Treas. 300.00 49.88 " 25 14 S. W. Bell Tel Co., service .... " 25 15 Perkins and Co., auditing, 1932 150.00 " 25 16 Mendle Ptg. Co., ale reprint of proceedings 2,500.00 " 25 17 Spalding Sta. Co., ptg., sta. and supplies . 215.65 " 25 18 Corcoran-Harding Rep. Co., alc 10.00 appeal and Gr. Com .

1933

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25

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35 36 37 38

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45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52

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Bishop Letter Shop, steno. service, Juris. Com. Bartha Brockwiller, steno. service, Juris. Com. . . Arthur Mather, salary . J. R. McLachlan, salary . Masonic Temple Assn., maintenance . F. Berger, salary . . M. Gibear, salary Masonic Temple Assn., annual donation . T. W. Cotton, alc Welfare Committee . Fidelity Savings Tr. Co., rent safe deposit box . J. R. McLachlin, expenses . S. W. Bell Tel. Co., service . Spalding Sta. Co., 1933 dues, receipts . Arthur Mather, salary . J. R. McLachlan, salary . Masonic Temple Assn., maintenance . F. Berger, salary . . M. Gibear, salary J. R. McLachlan, expenses . T. W. Cotton, Chm. ale Welfare Comm . A. Linxwiler, alc Masonic Home Visiting Com. . . W. F. Woodruff, Chairman alc Appeals and G. Com . Spalding Sta. Co., balance .due on 1933 receipt cards . Thad. B. Landon, exp., G. M . Masonic Temple Assn., maintenance . Arthur Mather, salary . J. R. McLachlan, salary . F. Berger, salary . M. Gibear, salary . R. L. Bohle, salary . J. R. McLachlan, expenses . B. E. Bigger, alc Temple Assoc. Meeting .

40.00 2.50 333.34 300.00 150.00 150.00 125.00 8,000.00 1,000.00 8.25 99.92 17.36 204.74 333.34 300.00 150.00 150.00 125.00 74.75

1,000.00 26.45 11.41 915.22 119.08 150.00 333.34 300.00 150.00 62.50 37.50 70.43 18.34

S. W. Bell TeL Co. service .... 33.29 St. Louis Masonic Bd. of Relief, Gr. Master's Emergency Fund 1,000.00 Arthur Mather, office expo 129.54 Arthur Mather, alc C. H. Briggs funeral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.55 Thad. B. Landon, Gr. Master's expenses 25.00 Mendle Ptg. Co., 1932 proceedings 2,165.00 E. E. Morris, Gr. Treas., bought $10.000 par value U. S. bonds 10.052.43

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

Masonic Temple Assn., maintenance . $' 150.00 333.33 31 59 Arthur Mather, salary . " 31 300.00 J. R. McLachlan, salary . " 31 60 150.00 F. Berger, salary . " 31 61 75.00 R. L. Bohle, salary . " 31 62 63 Arthur Mather, Gr. Mas., Con" 197.15 ference St. Louis Jan. 30 .... 64 Not in " 31 Mather, exp., Gr. S. W. " 31 65 Arthur 29.00 J efr. City cornerstone . " 31 66 Spalding Sta. Co., sta. and sup. 150.23 366.50 Co., sta. and supplies. " 31 67 Mendle Ptg.and Hoag Co., badges " 31 68 Whitehead Gr. L. session . 298.59 Whiting Studios, portrait " 31 69 Sid.P. G. M. Gentry . 34.50 Feb. 1 70 B. E. Bigger, exp., St. L. Mas. Temple Assn. meeting . 16.10 W. Cotton, chairman, Welfare " 1 71 T. Com . 1,000.00 125.04 7 72 Thad. B. Landon, G. M. expo ale " 91.75 9 73 J. R. McLachlan, expenses G. L. " Ptg. Co., P. G. Master " 9 74 Journal 30.61 C. H. Briggs memorial . Mather, expo George " 9 75 Arthur Washington memorial . 100.00 Taylor Jr. and Son, sta. " 9 76 Henry and supplies . 83.75 25.19 9 77 Henderson-Ames Co., office sup . " 500.00 78 St. Louis Masonic board of relief " 10 250.00 79 K. C. Masonic board of relief .â&#x20AC;˘ " 10 28 80 Masonic Temple Assn., mainte" 150.00 nance . 333.33 28 81 Arthur Mather, salary . " 28 82 J. R. McLachlan, salary 300.00 . " 28 83 F. Berger, salary 150.00 . " 28 84 R.. L. Bohle, salary 75.00 . " 18 85 E. E. Morris, Gr. Treas., bought " $5,000.00 par value U. S. bonds . 5,007.30 1 86 Thad. B. Landon, exp., G. M. Mar. 100.00 Conference, Washington .... 1 87 F. C. Barnhill, Cornerstone lay" 10.85 ing, Kingsville . Home Board Balance " 20 88 Masonic 500.00 alc Welfare Com . 31 89 Masonic Temple Assn., mainte" 150.00 nance . 333.33 31 90 Arthur Mather, salary . " 31 300.00 J. R. McLachlan, salary . " 31 91 100.09 J. R. McLachlan, expenses . " 31 92 150.00 93 F. Berger, salary . " 31 94 75.00 R. L. Bohle, salary . " 36.10 31 95, S. W. Bell. Tel. Co., service . " 75.70 . 5 96 .T. R. McLachlan, exp~nses April 100.87 . 5 97 Spalding Sta. Co., supplies " 5 98 J. Claude Keiper, G. M. Con" 50.00 ference, Washington D. C. ..

Jan.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

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1933

1933 31 31 31 31 1 3

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GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

137 138 139 140 141 142

Arthur Mather, salary $ 333.33 J. R. McLachlan, salary . 300.00 F. Berger, salary . 150.00 R. L. Bohle, salary . 75.00 105.34 Thad. B. Landon, expenses . Masonic Home of Missouri, per capita tax . 35,000.00 12 143 Masonic Home of Missouri, per capita tax . 9,500.00 31 144 Masonic Temple Assn. of St. L., 150.00 maintenance . 333.33 . 31 145 Arthur Mather, salary 31 146 J. R. McLachlan, salary . 300.00 31 147 }'. Berger, salary . 150.00 . 31 148 R. L. Bohle, salary 75.00 6 149 Frank C. Barnhill, alc Cornerstone laying, West Plains .. 31.50 6 150 J. R. McLachlan, expenses .... 37.60 6 151 Spalding Sta. Co., stationery and supplies . 223.66 6 152 Mendle Ptg. Co., stationery and supplies . 251.25 Federal check tax paid Fidelity Savings Tr. Co., K. C . 1.70 Federal check tax paid Union .42 National Bank, K. C . Federal check tax paid Wood & Huston Bank, Marshall .88

Cash on hand in Fidelity Savings Trust Company, Kansas City (restricted) Cash on Bank, Cash on Bank,

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hand in Union & National Kansas City hand in Wood & Huston Marshall

$ 4,778.82

$206,435.33

$ 4,778.82

65,916.84 1,770.87

67,687,71

T.otal .'

72,466.53 $278,901.86

Addenda: The $4,778.82 referred to above as being in the Fidelity Savings Trust Company in Kansas City is 47lh per cent of the balance which was In said bank at the time of the bank moratorium which affected all banks in the United States on March 3, 1933. Because of a large amount of frozl~n assets, believed good, the said Fidelity Savings Trust Company did not reopen at the close of the holiday but went into voluntary liquidation, under direction of three liquidating trustees acting for the depositors, and serving without pay. The recovery of the amount referred to above will be slow, but those most direetly concerned with this liquidation believe at this time that there are ample assets with which to pay the entire restricted balance referred to above. In the meantime the amount in question will receive 3 per cent annual interest as long as the liquidation continues or on whatever balances from time to time remain unpaid. It is confidently believe at this time that there will be no ultimate loss.

Respectfully submitted,

E. MORRIS, Grand Treasurer.

EDMUND

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1933

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

REPORT, GRAND LODGE, A. F. & A. M. OF MISSOURI

, September 23, 1933. To the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of Missouri: Gentlemen: Conforming with your instructions, we have examined and checked the book records of the Grand Secretary and the Grand Treasurer of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Missouri for the period from September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933; also, the Masonic Home Initiation Fee Fund, the George Washington Memorial Fund, and the William F. Kuhn Library Fund for the same period, and respectfully present the following report: GENERAL FUND, PER GRAND SECRETARY'S ROOKS

Balance, September 16, 1932 .•.••...

Receipts Per capita tax 1933 •............. Back dues ......•............... Sale of Manuals $376.00 Sale of dues receipts 932.59 Sale of By-Laws................ 50.50 Sale of 1932 Proceedings 1.50

$ 91,285.88 $177,459.42 4,631.23

1,360.59

Interest on daily bank balances .. $405.98 Interest on temporary investments, G'eneral Fund 384.38

790.36

Interest on Government Bonds in Permanent Fund . Refunds, pay roll .

3,148.75 225.63

187,615.98 $278,901.86

Disbursements Per cheques issued .. Government Bonds purchased for temporary investment ...•.... Federal tax on cheques .....•.... Exchange on cheques .

$191,872.25 15,059.73 3.00 .35

Balance in banks, September 15, 1933 ••...•...•....••.••...•

206,935.33 $ 71,966.53

GRAND TREASURER'S BOOKS

Balance in Banks, September 16, 1932 Receipts forwarded by Grand Secretary deposited in banks September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933 . Interest on daily bank balances .

$ 90,943.03 $187,552.85 405.98

187,958.83 $278,901.86

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

Deduct: Cheques issued by Grand Secretary cleared by banks September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933 ...................â&#x20AC;˘........... Tax and exchanges on cheques .

$206,431.98 3.35

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Balance in Banks, September 15, 1933 ..... Consisting of: Balance in Fidelity Savings Trust Company, Kansas City, Mo. (in liquidation) Balance in Union National Bank, Kansas City, Mo. . . Balance in Wood & Huston Bank, Marshall, Mo .

$206,435.33 $ 72,466.53

4,778.82 65,916.84 1,770.87

$ 72,466.53

RECONCILIATION

Balance per Grand Treasurer's Books, September 15, 1933 . Deduct: Cheque No. 153 outstanding .

$ 72,466.53 500.00

Balance per Grand Secretary's books, September 15, 1933 .

$ 71,966.53

BONDS

On September 20, 1933, in company with Mr. E. E. Morris, Grand Treasurer, A. F. & A. M., of Missouri, and Mr. Henri L. Warren, representing the Grand Master, we counted and examined the following securities in the Grand Lodge safe deposit box of the Union National Bank of Kansas City, Missouri. All interest income accruing from these securities was accounted for. PERMANENT FUND

7 Fourth Liberty Loan 4% % Bonds $1,000.00 each $ 7,000.00 1 J!'ourth Liberty Loan 4% % Bond 5,000.00 1 Fourth Liberty Loan 4% % Bond 10,000.00 1 United States Treasury 4% Bond 1 United States Treasury 4% Bond

$22,000.00

$ 5,000.00 1,000.00

6,000.00

3 United States Treasury 4% % Bonds $5,000.00 each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $15,000.00 1 United States Treasury 4% % Bond 10,000.00

25,000.00

2 United States Treasury 3%% Bonds $10,000.00 each . $20,000.00 5,000.00 1 Unite'd States Treasury 3% % Bond . 2 United States Treasury 3% % Bonds $1,000.00 each . 2,000.00

27,000.00 $80,000.00

1933

PROCEEDINGS OF 'l'HE GENERAL FUND

Date Jan. 30, 1933 Feb. 28, 1933

Par 1 United States Treasury Bond 3lh% ....................... $10,000.00 5 United States Treasury Bonds 5,000.00 3lh% .......................

Cost $10,052.43 5,007.30

$15,000.00 $15,059.73 These b'onds were purchased as a temporary investment for the General Fund. WILLIAM F. KUHN LIBRARY FUND

1 United States Treasury Bond 3%% $500.00 There had been no change in the bonds in the Permanent or the William F. Kuhn Library Fund since our examination of September 17, 1932. MASONIC HOME INITIATION FUND

The Grand Secretary received from the Masonic Lodges of Missouri, September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933, the sum of $8,630.00, and paid this amount to the Masonic Home semimonthly, as evidenced by cancelled cheques for a like sum. The following is a summary of this account: Balance in Bank, September 16, 1932 ..

Receipts Received from Masonic Lodges ..... Deposi ted from Petty Cash Fund to cover bank charges .

.30

$ 8,630.00

1.14

8,631.14 $ 8,631.44

Disbursements Payments to Masonic Home $ 8,630.00 Bank Service Charges $1.00 Federal Tax on Cheques ............44 1.44 Balance, September 15, 1933

8,631.44 $

.00

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$ 1,478.08

Balance in Bank, September 16, 1932

Receipts Received from Masonic Lodges $1.00 per Initiate . Interest on Daily Balances .

849.00 .54

849.54 $ 2,327.62

Disbursements Remittanee to J. Claude Keiper, Treasurer, George Washington Memorial :Fund, January 14, 1933 . Bank service charges .........â&#x20AC;˘.... $3.00 Federal tax on cheques .02 Balance, September 15, 193:3, First National Bank in St. Louis, Missouri .

$ 1,500.00 3.02

1,503.02

----$

824.60

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Balance, September 16, 1932

Receipts Interest on bond .................. Interest on savings account ........ Balance, September 15, 1933

651.06

$ 16.87 4.34

......

Consisting of: Cash in Savings Account, First National Bank in St. Louis, Missouri United States Treasury Bond No. 7451a ........................

21.21

----$

672.27

34.38

172.27

500.00

MILEAGE AND PER DIEM COMMITTEE

Balance in Bank, September ] 6, 1933 Deposits . Interests on daily balances .

$23,500.00 1.51

23,501.51 $23,535.89

Disburse1nents Pay roll cheques issued . Federal tax on cheques . Refund to General Fund July 20, 1933, to close account .

$23,338.70 11.56 185.63

23,535.89

Balance, September 15, 1933

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The various items in the foregoing report have been taken from the books and records of the Grand Secretary and the Grand Treasurer, and reflect the recorded cash transactions of the Grand Lodge of Missouri from September 16, 1932, to September 15, 1933, and the securities on hand in the above stated funds as at September 15, 1933. Respectfully submitted, PERKINS

COMPANY,

Certified Public Accountants. APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES

The Grand Secretary called attention to the list of Committees which had been appointed to serve during the 1933 Communication. They are as follows: Jurisprudence-Henri L. Warren, Chairman; Charles F. Ballak, Grover C. Sparks, C. Lew Gallant, W. E. Bailey. Appeals and Grievances-William F. Woodruff, Chairman; A. H. Mann, O. H. Swearingen, Richard O. Rumer, Allen L. Oliver. Ways and Means-James A. Kinder, Chairman; George C. Marquis, Eli S. Haynes, Solon Cameron, Edmund E. Morris, Douglas Robert. Credentials-Alfred D. Ludlow, Chairman; Charles C. Christy, W. A. Webb, Julius R. Edwards, H. F. Woerther, Thomas A. Harbaugh. Pay Roll-Walter R. Shrodes, Chairman; Duncan C. Mellier, Henry C. Elberg, E. L. Harrison, J. H. Barnes.

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Chartered Lodges-Frank L. Magoon, Chairman. Lodges U. D.-Samuel Wilcox, Chairman; Theodore C. Teel, Warren H. May, Earl F. Cheesman, J. W. Adams. Welfare-To W. Cotton, Chairman'; William A. Clark, R. R. Kreeger, William S. Campbell, Arch A. Johnson. Reports of D. D. G. M.'s-Leo H. Johnson, Chairman; Taylor B. Wyrick, J. Renick Jones, E. L. Harrison, Thomas J. Wornall, Jr. Masonic Boards of Relief-Daniel R. Ward, Chairman; Ramsey Skinner, Frank G. Ade. Ritual--Anthony F. Ittner, Chairman; John Pickard, Henry C. Chiles, Charles T. Kornbrodt, James A. Kinder. Masonic Home (Visiting Committee)-Albert Linxwiler, Chairman; -Albert S. Dexheimer. Correspondence~路Ray V. Denslow, Chairman. N ecrology-J ohn Pickard, Chairman. Auditing-Perkins Audit Company. Grand Master's Address-Ray V. Denslow, Chairman; all Past Grand Masters. Unfinished Business--J. A. Jaycox, Chairman. Transportation and Hotels-Herbert S. Jones, Chairman; Sam A. Gilliland. Masonic Service Association of Missouri--Thad. R. Smith, Chairman. Recognition of Foreign Grand Lodges-Arthur Mather, Chairman; James R. McLachlan, Percy B. Eversden, William M. Campbell, Henry C. Chiles. Masonic Temple Association of St. Louis-Byrne E. Bigger, Chairman; Edward McGuigan, John Wohradsky,Jr. George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association-Bert S. Lee, Chairman. . Library-William B. Massey; Chairman; A. S. Dexheimer. Printing of Proceedings-John Pickard, Chairman; Julius G. Garrell, Van F. Boor, Bert S. Lee, R. R. Kreeger. Masonic Publications-William R. Gentry, Chairman; Byrne E. Bigger, Ray V. Denslow. Charter of Masonic Home-Thad. B. Landon, Chairman; Grover C. James, C. Lew Gallant, Thomas H. Reynolds, Walter A. Higbee. Building Supervisory Board-Guy C. Million, Chairman; F. William Kuehl, C. A. Tolin. Boards 01 Relief-Special-Edward McGuigan, Chairman; :Pred H. Knight, Morris E. Ewing. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GRAND MASTER'S ADDRESS

The l路cport of the Committee on Grand Master's Address was presented by M. W. Brother Ray V. Denslow, Chairman, and on motion was adopted, and is as follows: To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Brethren: The Grand Lodge has listened with interest to the splendid and most instructive report of the Grand Master. His address is the story of a year of sincere endeavor on the part of one who has been entrusted with the carrying out of the policies of the Fraternity in Missouri. Only time can prove the wisdom and result of his work. He has been fearless when need be and sympathetic when occasion demanded. He has served our Fraternity as Grand Master during one of the most trying periods of our Nation's history. He has in all ways displayed wise and sagacious leadership. We congratulate Grand Master Landon 'on his administration

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and express to him the thanks of the members of the Grand Lodge and the Masonic Fraternity in Missouri. We make the following reference to Committees: To the committee on Ways and Means is referred the Grand Lodge Budget, Hurricane and Flood Relief. The Section relating to relationships with subordinate Lodges is approved and referred to the incoming Grand Master for such action as he may deem proper. The Sectio~ dealing with Decisions and Revision of Law and proposed legislation in aid of relief program is referred to the Committee 路:m Jurisprudence. The Section dealing with the Masonic Home and Relief Program is referred to a special committee of seven members, to be appointed by the Grand Master. We approve his action in all other matters and. commend him for his. efforts to secure harmony, dignity and business management in the Lodges throughout Missouri. Fraternally submitted, RAY V. DENSLOW, Ohairman. R. R. KREEGER BYRNE E. BIGGER JULIUS C. GARRELL BERT S. LEE ANTHONY F. I'Pl'NER ARCH A. JOHNSON WILLIAM W. MARTIN

ORESTES MITCHELL J OliN PICKARD T. W. COTTON VAN FREMONT BOOR

CALLED FROM LABOR

The M. W. Grand Lodge was CALLED FROM LABOR to refreshment at 12 :30 o'clock P.M., to reconvene at 1 :30 o'clock P.M. of the same day.

FIRST DAY, AFTERNOON SESSION CALLED TO LABOR

At 1 :30 o'clock P.M. the M. W. Grand l!odge was CALLED TO LABOR by M. W. Grand Master Thad. B. Landon, the Grand Officers being in their respective stations as at the morning session. APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEE ON RELIEF PROGRAM

The Grand Master announced the Special Committee on Relief Program as follows: Willis J. Bray, Chairman, Vel W. Lamkin, C. B. Waddell, Kipp C. Johnson, Robert Y. Goggin, Thomas B. Williams and L. J. Graue, and requested these brethren to retire and if possible be prepared to report at 3 :30 P.M. this afternoon. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY

M. W. Brother John Pickard, P. G. M., Chairman, presented the report of the Committee on Necrology which was adopted. It follows:

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To the M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Brethren: The Committee on Necrology begs leave to present its report. . During the Masonic year just closed our Grand Jurisdiction has been bereaved by the passing into the Celestial Lodge of 1,530 good men and true who were members of our constituent Lodges. Their memory is on perpetual record. Among these were two of our honored District Deputy Grand Masters. R. W. Brother Paul Higbee, of the Second Masonic District, died in October, 1932. R. W. Brother .I. O. Wilson, of the Thirtieth District, in January, 1933. Both of these brethren have left a record befitting their high calling and their life's work is now an open book to all men. All of our Past Grand Masters are still with us and there has been no break in the Grand Lodge line, for which we return thanks to the Grand . Architect of the Universe for His continued mercies. The following Grand Jurisdictions have been bereaved of the eminent brethren whose names are hereto appended. Missouri pays tribute to the high standing and worth of these distinguished brethren whose services to the Craft have been of inestimable value. Arkansas: G. A. Warren, Past Grand Master, died December 26, 1932. Edgar Allen McCulloch, Past Grand Master, died January 23, 1933. M. W. Magee, Past Grand Master, died February 19, 1933. Storm Onus Whaley, Past Grand Master, died June 16, 1933. Colorado: Horace T. Delong, Past Grand Master, died June 8, 1933. Connecticut: Joseph Ruths, Grand Treasurer, died December 11, 1932. Sherwood H. Raymond, Grand Treasurer, died February 14, 1933. Andrew .I. Hallock, Past Grand Master, died September 3, 19'33. Florida: Appelles S. York, Past Grand Master, died December 5, 1932. Louis Conrad Massey, Past Grand Master, died March 20, 1933. Illinois: William Hadsell Zarley, died June 23, 1933. Kentucky: John Grubbs Orndorff, Past Grand Master, died February 22, 1933. Kansas: Perry Milo Hoisington, Past Grand Master, died March 21, 1933. William Frank March, Past Grand Master, died May 24, 1933. Louisiana: Brittian B. Purser, Past Grand Master, died August 23, 1933. Michigan: William H. Gallagher, Grand Chaplain, died April 11, 1933. Minnesota: .Tames Moore McConnell, Past Grand Master, died April 29, 1933. William R. Smith, Past Grand Master, died May 17, 1933. Thomas Morris, Past Grand Master, died April 12, 1933. Mississippi: Louis Armand Benoist, Past Grand Master, died November 17, 1932. Emmet Nicholson Thomas, Past Grand Master, died D~路 cember 15, 1932. Nebraska: Frank C. Bullard, Past Grand Master, died January 31, 1933. Edwin B. Johnston, Grand Master, died February 11, 1933. Charles Edwin Burnham, Past Grand Master, died May 29, 1933. Nevada: Alexander O. Perry, Past Grand Master" died December 17, 1933. Oklahoma: Phillip Dodridge Brewer, Past Grand Master, died August 28, 1932. Oregon: Lot Livermore Pearce, Past Grand Master, died July 1, 1933. Saskatchewan: John Hawkins Anderson, Past Grand Master, died May 17, 1933. Harold Jagger, Past Grand Master, died September 25, 1932. Wellington Bartley Willoughby, Past Grand Master, died August 1, 1932. Tennessee: Thomas .I. Bonner, Past Grand Master, died November 30, 1932. Charles Comstock, Past Grand Master, died June 8, 1933. Vermont: Henry Herbert Ross, Past Grand Master, died August 8,

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1933. Charles Wesley Lynch, Past Grand Master, died September 9, 1932. Wisconsin: Spencer Milton Marsh, Past Grand Master, died October 11, 1932. Charles Hendrickson Anderson, Past Grand Master, died October 5, 1932. David Harlowe, Past Grand Master, died December 13, 1932. Jacob S. Block, Past Grand Master, died November 21, 1932. Wyoming: William H. Dickinson, Past Grand Master, died October 30, 1932. Francis Stocker King, Past Grand Master, died September 18, 1933. Fraternally submitted, J OIIN PICKARD, Chairman, Committee on Necrology. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

M. W. Brother Bert S. Lee, Chairman, presented his report, which was adopted, as follows: To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A.. F. and A.. M. of Missou,ri: Brethren: I herewith submit my annual report as chairman of the committee of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association. The twenty-third annual meeting of the Association was held in Alexandria, Virginia, on February 21 and 22, 1933. There were present the representatives of forty-five Grand Lodges. Missouri was represented by the Grand Master, the Grand Secretary and two Past Grand Masters, officers of the Association. During the past year work has been confined to the finishing and furnishing of the auditorium, the installation of heating, ventilating and electrical equipment, and work on Memorial Hall and approaches. There was expended out of the treasury approximately $294,000. No contract is let unless the money is in the hands of the Treasurer to take care of the bills, which has been and will be the continued policy of the officers and directors. , From funds received the Bxecutive Committee have been able to do quite a lot of work on Memorial Hall since the meeting in February and our hope is to be able to complete that work this year. Fraternally submitted, BERT S. LEE, Chairman. REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FINANCES, ETC.

\\T. Brother N. D. Jackson, Chairman, presented the report of the Committee, which was adopted, and is as follows: To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Brethren: Your Committee on Finances recommends the adoption vf the new legislation as suggested in the address of the Grand Master to l)e known as Sections 27 H-I, 99A and 99B. N. D. JACKSON, Chairman, C. A. TOLIN, HARRY S. HIGHTOWER. REPORT OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE

R. W. Brother William B. Massey, Chairman, presented the report of the Library Committee, which was adopted, and is as follows:

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TQthe Most Worshipful Grand Loqge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Brethren: Your Committee begs leave to report that the Lending Department of our Library is still used extensively by various members of the Craft throughout the State. Our list of borrowers numbers around one hundred and these brethren from time to time avail themselves of the privileges of the Library as evidenced by correspondence between them and the office of the Grand Lodge. By reason of the continued depression your Committee has thought it best to "mark time," but sincerely trusts that the near future will enable us to make further developments in this important branch of our work. The Committee is under continued obligation to the Grand Secretary for his deep interest in our work and efforts to disseminate Masonic knowledge among the brethren. He is always ready to supply information when requested and never fails in extending every courtesy. Fraternally submitted, W. B. MASSEY, Chairman. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON REOOGNITION OF FOREIGN GRAND LODGES

R. W. Brother Arthur Mather, Chairman, reporting for the Committee on Recognition of Foreign Grand Lodges, stated that no business had been before the Committee during the year. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF ST. LOUIS

M. W. Brother Byrne E. Bigger, Chairman, presented the report of the Masonic Temple Association Committee, which was adopted, and is as follows: To the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Your members appointed by the Grand Master to represent the Grand Lodge in the Masonic Temple Association of St. Louis beg to submit the following report: In our report last year we stated that the outstanding bonded indebtedness on June 1, 1932,. was $430,000. On December 1, 1932, in addition to the interest the Association discharged $30,000 of bonds, and on June 1, 1933, paid off $10,000 additional bonds, so that at this time the outstanding bonded indebtedness is $390,000. This prepayment of bonds has left the Association with all bonds due in 1933, 1934 and 1935 paid, and $6,000 of the $13,000 bonds due December 1, 1936, also have been paid. The Association is looking forward to the payment of $20,000 in bonds on December 1, 1933, and are particularly anxious to make this payment, because this year will see the last payment made by the Grand Lodge on its original subscription and also the last payment of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. At the meeting of the Board of Directors held on September 20, it was voted to give the member organizations a 10 per cent reduction on their per capita as of July 1, 1933, and extending to June 30, 1934. This was done for' the purpose of relieving the member bodies of as much strain as possible during these strenuous times. The reason the 10 per cent reduction was limited to one year was because the income will vary from year to year and they can meet the problem of each year as it presents itself.

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So your representatives are glad to report to the Grand Lodge that the finances of the Association are in excellent shape, that the Association is using its very best endeavors to meet the problems that these times are presenting to it, and that the member bodies of the Association are standing steadfast in their loyalty. Respectfully submitted, BYRNE E. BIGGER, Chairman, EDWARD MCGUIGAN, JOHN WOHRADSKY, JR.

REPORT OF GRAND LECTURER

To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A.. F. and A.. M. of Missouri: Brethren: The condition of the Craft throughout this jurisdiction is very much the same as it was last year and the year preceding, and the causes are too evident to necessitate any explanation. There has been a woeful lack of candidates in all of our Lodges. This applies to the city as well as the country Lodges, and while this condition exists, it is not within reason to expect a general attendance and the degree of interest that is f6undin normal times. I have heretofore expressed myself in my reports that a reasonable amount of work is necessary to maintain interest in lodge work and when that work is done in an intelligent and impressive manner, there will be no complaints of lack of attendance. Since my last report, several Lodges have consolidated with other Lodges and from my own knowledge, and from the reports of my deputies, there are more to follow. These Lodges are small in numbers and since good roads have been established and a larger and better Lodge is easily accessible, they conclude that is better for them and for the good of Freemasonry in general to make the move. All interest in Freemasonry is not lost. I have been surprised, as well as pleased, to have so many present at the meetings which I held in every part of the State. There were exceptions, of course, but in most instances there were conflicting engagements, inclement weather, or some valid reason for this delinquency. I visited and held Lodges of Instruction at the following places:路 Fulton, California, Clarence, Shelbina, Versailles, Eldon, Olean, LaPlata, Monroe City, Linneus, Meadville, Brookfield, Plattsburg, Kirksville, Palmyra, Bosworth, Bogard, Hardin, Marshall, Malta Bend, Boonville, St. Louis, Troy, Liberty, Weston, Agency, St. Joseph, Fairfax, Maitland, New Hampton, Ridgeway, Bethany, King City, Darlington, Hamilton, Chillicothe, St. Charles, Warrenton, Wright City, Clarksville, Mountain Grove, Ava, Rolla, Mountain View, Thayer, West Plains, Caruthersville, Charleston, Cape Girardeau, Farmington, Ironton, Flat River, Louisiana, McKittrick, Wellsville, Jonesburg, Moberly, Jefferson City, Wright City, Laredo, Halt, Gallatin, Marysville, Salisbury, Kansas City, Buckner, Pleasant Hill, Onxel, Clinton, Columbia, Caledonia, Van Buren, Poplar Bluff, Mexico, Butler, Nevada, Carthage, Joplin, Neosho, Pacific, Monett, Aurora, Republic, Marshfield, Springfield, Ozark, Warrensburg, Lebanon, Waynesville, Monroe, Bolivar and Dadeville. Every district but one in the State was visited and some of them several times. A date. was set to visit the missing one, but it conflicted with some local events and it was passed by. At each of these places I came in contact with my deputies who had prepared for my coming and extended to me all the courtesies and assistance in their power to render. Death, once more, invaded路 our ranks and took from our midst Brother J. 0, Brown of the'Twentieth District. His death occurred soon after the meeting of the Grand Lodge. He was a man of influence in his county and was a faithful and efficient worker in Freemasonry.

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His passing was a severe loss to Freemasonry in the community in which he lived. In the preparation of this, my twenty-eighth annual report, my thoughts reverted to the brethren with whom I was associated when my first report was written. There were then fifty-six districts and deputies. Of that number seven of them were afterwards exalted to the office of Grand Master, thirty-one of them have passed away and four are still in active service. In reviewing the list of all these brethren and others who through all these years have served with me, and recounting the many scenes of association, many pleasant recollections were recalled to my memory. The reports of my deputies were generally full of gloom at the condition of affairs, but they were also hopeful for the future. Signs of revival were noted in a number of their reports. Some repor,ts failed to reach me. I presume that this was caused by reason of their reports not being published last year. Very few of them were very active on account of the lack of work in their Lodges and no demand was made for their services. They did what they thought best and I am grateful for what路 they did. The following is a summary of their reports to me. ABSTItACT OF REPORTS OF THE DISTRICT LEC'l'URERS

Brother Homer G. McDaniel of the First District-visited all the Lodges in Clark County and gave instruction in each. He reports all of them in fairly good condition, with the exception of Gothic Lodge in Alexandria. This Lodge is located on the Mississippi River and the jurisdiction is rather limited. Their meetings have been very irregular and it appears that it is only a question of time before they will disband or 'unite with some other Lodge. By agreement with Brother H. M. Jayne, the D. D. G. M., he has taken care of the west end of the district. Brother C. S. Crawford of the Second District-reports that the condition of the Lodges in the district is very satisfactory. The officers are proficient in their respective duties, although there has been a dearth of work. The situation is not very encouraging in some of the smaller Lodges, with no work on hand for some time, and so many of the brethren are delinquent in their dues, that their financial condition will permit of few of their usual social activities. The Kirksville Lodges had as their guests in May delegations from Moberly and Ottumwa, Iowa, Lodges as well as representatives from adjacent Lodges. Degrees were conferred by each team to the enjoyment of all present: Brother E. M. Wilson of the }'ourth District-reports that the financial depression has hit many of the Lodges and they are having a strenuous time to make both ends meet. He assisted in the work in five Lodges during the year but one was outside the district. A Lodge of Instruction was held at Laredo by the Grand Lecturer at which he was present and rendered assistance. Brother Hendrix Newman of the Fifth District-reports as follows: There have been no serious problems or difficulties in the area during the year and the Fraternity has not suffered many losses in membership. There have been a few suspensions for nonpayment of dues, but there were also some additions through initiation and affiliation that leaves our number in this district about the same as last year. I have visited every Lodge in the fifth district at least. once during the year and some of the Lodges several times. On these visitations I tried to be of service to the Lodges in instructing them in the ritual, and in counseling with them on matters pertaining to their work, and in short have done all I could for the upbuilding .of our cause. A good spirit exists in all the Lodges of the district and as soon as the depression is over there will be some work to do. I anticipate an interesting season just ahead.

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Brother Curtis F. Smith of the Sixth District-visited and assisted in work with the following Lodges: Berlin, Darlington, Gentryville, McFall, King City and Stanberry. He was present and assisted the路 Grand Lectui'er at King City and Darlington. He reports a number of suspensions for nonpayment of dues. Notwithstanding the financial dIstress, he reports the condition of the Lodges as to their proficiency in the discharge of their various duties as fairly satisfactory generally. Brother Frank R. Elton of the Eighth District-reports Lodges of Instruction were held by the Grand Lecturer at Fairfax and Maitland which were very well attended. He also held weekly meetings at Tarkio during the months of January and February. Not much interest has been manifested by the brethren and some Lodges had difficulty in maintaining their regular meetings. However, there are signs of an awakening. Some work is in prospect and it is to be hoped that all the Lodges will soon be in normal condition. Brother Frank A. Miller of the Ninth District-visited every Lodge one or more times and gave instruction and assisted in the work. Regular weekly meetings were held at St. Joseph during the first three months of the year with an average attendance of 50, which is a good indication that Freemasonry is alive in that city. His activities were not confined to his own district, but a number of other Lodges received instruction from him. A special team of brethren froni the St. Joseph Lodges was organized, and numerous visitations were made to the Lodges, far and ncar, conferring degrees and exemplifying the work. These visitations were very inspiring to the brethren, as well as instructive, and were thoroughly enjoyed by those in attendance. Conditions are growing better and the brethren generally, are hopeful for the future. Brother Emsley C. James of the Eleventh District-visited with and instructed ten of the eleven Lodges under his supervision. He was also with the Grand Lecturer at Cameron. He reports that the Lodges at Liberty, Cameron and Excelsior Springs are doing good work and the officers are proficient. Hemple, Lathrop and Holt Lodges meet very irregularly and not much interest is taken. Brother Luther E. Wi~hoit of the Fourteenth District-held Lodges . of Instruction at Macon, LaPlata, Clarence, Shelbina and Elmer. He was also present and assisted the Grand Lecturer in his meetings in the district. I deeply appreciate the kind words spoken of these meetings and the favorable expression of my labors. The District Association meeting held at Shelbyville last fall was well attended and another meeting is planned for this fall. About half of the Lodges had work and most of it was done at the beginning of winter. The brethren are hopeful that as conditions improve there will be a general revival among the Lodges. Brother Warren H. May of the Sixteenth District-was present and assisted the Grand Lecturer at meetings at Louisiana and Clarksville. 'l'here were representatives from most of the Lodges in attendance and all derived some benefit from the instruction. He visited all the Lodges, except Pike Lodge, and reports them in very good condition. There has been very little degree work in any of the Lodges but meetings have been very regular. Brother George E. Chipman of the Seventeenth District-visited and gave instruction in three of his Lodges and reports them in fairly good condition. Monroe Lodge was more fortunate than any others-in having considerable degree work, and they are in a healthy condition. A change of business early in the year prevented him from further activities and will necessitate his retirement from future official duties, which we very much regret. Brother Otto Hale of the Twentieth District-says that instruction

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was given in various Lodges and the ritualistic work is very creditably given in almost every Lodge. The District Association is given credit â&#x20AC;˘ for maintaining interest in the work and in several instances for the orderly arrangement of the halls. Brother John W. Adams of the Twenty-Fourth District-visited each Lodge in his charge; some of them several times. Taken as a whole, the interest, particularly of the officers, is good, and in seventy-nve per cent of the Lodges the regular line of officers can confer the degrees very impressively. F~ight Lodges of Instruction, in addition to the ones conducted by the Grand Lecturer, were held as follows: One each at Sweet Springs, Nelson and Blackburn; two at Miami and three at Marshall. All were well attended by the officers, who cooperated with him to make the meetings prontable and instructive. Brother Louis J. Graue of the Twenty-Seventh District-visited every Lodge in the District, observed carefully the attitude of the officers, and found them in almost every instance interested in the work. Tn addition to meetings held by the Grand Lecturer at Fulton and Mexico, special instructions were given at Hebron, Central and Portland Lodges, and to many individual officers and members on request. The Lodges have come through the depression in very good condition, and with new life added, they look to the future with renewed hope. Brother William E. Lange of the Thirtieth District-visited all theÂˇ Lodges and reports a good attendance at all the meetings but one. None of the Lodges had work, and there was consequently no incentive for any great exertion on the part of the brethren, except a personal prid~, and that was very noticeably observed by the work of the officers generally. With the exception of the one Lodge, all others are ready for any work they may be called upon to perform. Brother W. D. Rogers of the Thirty-First District-reports very little "ork done in any of his Lodges. A Lodge of Instruction was held at Clarksburg of two days' duration; good attendance and considerab1e interest was manifested. The Lodges generally have some good workers and are doing their best to keep themselves in such a condition as to be ready for any work that may come their way. Brother R. A. Breuer of the Thirty-Second District-:-visited several of his Lodges, made inquiries generally as to conditions and found the proficiency of the Craft fairly good. There has been a small decrease in membership, but the interest, good fellowship, and enthusiasm among the brethren still maintain, notwithstanding the uncertainty of events in many lines of endeavor. The principles and tenents of Freemasonry, once lodged in the repositary of faithful breasts, form a background of character and stamina that sustain all human efforts. Brother John V. Horn of the Thirty-Third District-has doubtless made a record as to average attendance, which his successors may fin.} it difficult to equal or excel. Thirty meetings were held with a total attendance of 6,131 and an average of a fraction over 204. Every Lodge in the District (46) received a full evening of instruction in work of their own choosing. Special classes for all parts of the work, with competent instruction, were organized, thus affording everyone the opportunity of perfecting himself in what he was particularly .interested. Under the leadership of R. W. Brother Theodore C. Teel, a class for instructors was organized, meeting weekly to teach. the work as adopted by the Granu Lodge. By so doing they have developed 18 competent instructors to assist in any part of the work. During the year a number of lectures were given by well informed brethren on various Masonic topics, which were very instructive and well received. The splendid attendance of tho line officers of Pomegranate Lodge No. 95 (averaging a little less than seven) earned for them the gratitude of R. W. Brother Horn and he presented them with a suitably engraved gavel as a reward for their meritorious achievement.

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Brother James F. Blair of the Thirty-Fourth District reports as follows: "The interest in Masonry in this district among the members of the several Lodges is apparently increasing. I regret to report that only three Lodges of the 13 lodges in the district reported work in degrees during the past year. I find most of the Lodges are inclined to be more careful in selecting candidates for the degrees than for sometime past. This inclination has a tendency toward a healthful condition for the next few years. Most of the Lodges in this district are anxious to improve in the work and several individual members are making special effort to attain proficiency." Brother Thornton Jennings of the 'l'hirty-Seventh District-reports Lodges of Instruction with the Lodges at Clinton, Windsor and St. Clair. Good attendance and the interest taken was very gratifying. An increased number of petitions received during the latter part of the year in several of our Lodges indicates a return to normal conditions. The District Association is credited with' holding the interest of the brethren and it is confidently hoped that the association will soon embrace all the Lodges in the district. Brother Charles E. Pyle of the Fortieth District-visited a number of his Lodges and had very good attendance at each of them. Instruction was given with Shekinah and Joachim. He was also present and assisted the Grand Lecturer at Caledonia. The condition of the Lodges are as good as could be expected under present conditions. Brother M. E. Ewing of the Forty-First District reports as follows: , 'Interest in the Masonic ritual is very good in this district considering the times and the fact that it is a rural section. I attended a two-day School of Instruction held by the Grand Lecturer in Bolivar Lodge No. 195. During this meeting eight of the 11 Lodges in the district were represented. I later attended meetings in Bolivar and Pleasant Hope to assist in some degree work. The interest and attendance in both was the best I had ever seen in these two Lodges. I also attended meetings in Pleasant Lodge and Fair Play Lodge. Both fair meetings. Been some work throughout the district but not very much. Interest in ritualistic work has been really better than in the past few years." Brother John C. Senate of the Forty-Third District-held only one IJodge of Instruction and that was at Golden. This Lodge has been the most active Lodge in the district and they evince a keen interest in all phases of the work. .He was present and assisted the Grand Lecturer at Nevada when representatives from other Lodges were present. Brother Carl A. Swenson of the Forty-Sixth District says that some of the Lodges are showing considerable interest while others are receding in their work. The losses in membership, the consequent loss of revenue and scarcity of petitions have a depressing effect upon the members. He visited seven of the Lodges, some of them several times, and conferred with various members of other Lodges and all agree that with a revival of business, the Lodges will benefit by the change and regain their usual stride. Brother J. Clyde Akers of the Forty-Eighth District-says that COllsidering the prevailing conditions, Lodge interest is holding up better than could be expected. He visited all but one of his Lodges and gave instruction at all times. While none of the Lodges were very active, he feels that when conditions warrant it, the Lodges will revive and become more active and useful than ever. Brother J. A.' Kinder of the Forty-Ninth District-reports a marked loss of interest in the ritual. He visited only four of the Lodges ann gave instruction to two of them. Only nine were raised in the District and seven of them were in St. Mark's. He feels that the lack of candidates contributed to the falling off in attendance and the general la~k of interest.

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Brother G. A. Sample of the Fiftieth District-visited and instructed in the following Lodges: Chaffee, Illmo, Dexter, Morley and Sikeston, and was present and assisted the Grand Lecturer at Charleston. There has been very little degree worK done and the district shows considerable loss of membership for N. P. D. He says that according to report of the Secretary, Puxico Lodge has only six members in good standing. Most other Lodges are meeting regularly, with a small average attendance, but their general condition is very good and they are ready for any activities that may come their way. Brother Buell P. Parks of the Fifty-First District-says there have been few visits made due to the fact of inactivity in some of the Lodges. Kennett and Steele are- outstanding in their work and Malden is not far behind. Visits were made to Senath, Kennett, Malden, Hayti, Steele and Caruthersville and at these places the faithful few seem to be keeping the fraternal fires burning. The economic situation here in the cotton section seems to be much brighter and the prospects for the Lodges arc more encouraging. Brother C. E. Armstrong of the Fifty-Third District-visited eight of the 12 Lodges in his charge and assisted them in their work. Very little interest is manifested among the brethren. About half of the Lodges are meeting regularly and doing some work. The decrease in membership is not quite as bad as the last two years. Brother G. J. Vaughan of the Fifty-Fourth District-visited all of his Lodges and held Schools of Instruction at each place, viz: Clever, Crane, Billings, Galena, Branson and Hollister. The Masonic work throughout the district is progressing as well as could be expected. Brother W. A. Phipps of the Fifty-Sixth District says: "It has been a very dull year in Freemasonry. Very little work was done. The Lodges, however, met regularly and in many of them, if no work occupied their time, they engaged in drill practice. The result has been considerable improvement in the ritual. Others of the Lodges, that they might retain a spirit of fraternity, had social meetings, some open and some in tiled Lodge, with interesting and instructive programs." Brother Udell Thomson of the Fifty-Seventh District-conducted 28 meetings for instruction with a total attendance of 2,891. This district embraces St. IJouis County and has 14 Lodges within its confines. The average attendance at these meetings was a little over one hundred, which is a very good indication of the faithfulness of the brethren. At these meetings, every part of the work received due attention and at some of the meetings instructive talks were given by well-informed brethren which were very much appreciated by the brethren. Brother E. F. Starling of the Fifty-Eighth District-says that the meetings held by the Grand Lecturer at Eldon, Olean and Versailles were very well attended and much good accomplished. He visited every Lodge in the district and gave instruction in the most of them. There has been very little work done and there is no great change in their condition from last year. A few members in most of the Lodges are using their best endeavors to maintain their usual standard, but a few of them are not exerting themselves as they should. Brother John S. Carmical of the Fifty-Ninth District-reports very little work done during the past year. The District Lodge of Instruction was held one night each week for six consecutive weeks. The attendance was exceptionally good, ranging from 40 to 108. He visited every Lodge in his care and found them anxious to improve in the ritual. A District Association has been organized and this has been a contributing influence in maintaining the interest and spirit of Freemasonry throughout the district. Fraternally submitted, J. R. McLACHLAN, Grand Lectv"rer.

Adopted.

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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WELFARE

To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A.. F. and A.. M. of Missouri: The Welfare Committee has held monthly meetings, beginning with the month of November, 1932, and each month during the year up to and including the meeting held on Monday of this week. At these meetings they have considered all the applications coming direct to the Welfare Committee from the Lodges, or members of the Lodges, and also applications referred to the committee by the Masonic Home Board. Where it was possible, special investigation has been made with reference to the condition and requirements of the applicant for the relief asked for through the Lodge. Some of the applicants lived in other jurisdictions and investigation has been carried on through the Masonic Boards of Relief, and in other cases by members of the Masonic fraternity who have been requested to make investigation and report to the Committee. Where the applications have come for relief for persons living in the State of Missouri, investigation has frequently been made by the District Deputy in the District. However, in the main we have been compelled to rely upon the statements by the local Lodge with reference to the necessity of relief being furnished to the applicant. It has been the policy of the Committee to require the local Lodge, where it was financially able, to furnish an equal amount of relief appropriated by the Welfare Committee. Where the Lodge was unable to do this, it has been asked to make some contribution in connection with the relief furnished by the Committee. Many of the Lodges have responded cheerfully and have contributed to the extent of their ability. However, many Lodges' throughout the State, because of financial conditions and their inability to collect uries from their members, have not been able to render any assistance. During the year the Committee has appropriated relief in 97 application cases to 131 persons. These applications have come from 76 Lodges, which shows that a number of the applications have come from the same Lodge. At some time or other during the year, some Lodges have had at least three cases before the Committee. The relief furnished may be summarized as follows: 16 cases to husband and wife; 51 cases to indigent members of Lodges; 26 cases to indigent v,'idows of members of Lodges; six cases to widows to assist in caring for themselves and children in their own borne, furnishing assistance to 21 children; one case where children were taken care of by a person not a relative. At the present time, contributions are being made to four widowsone to a widow in California to assist her in caring for her two ehBdren; one to a widow in Tennessee to assist her in caring for her five children; one to a widow in Missouri to assist her in caring for five chlldren; one to another widow in Missouri to assist her in caring for five children. The Committee, on account of lack of funds, found it necessary, beginning early in the summer, to cut down the appropriations in order to be able to render some assistance to all those who were in need of relief. The investigation made in the cases assisted by the Committee convinced the Committee that unless some assistance was given, the applicant would likely suffer need of food and shelter. This is especially true with reference to some of the old couples that were unable to care for themselves and have no relatives to assist them. It is particularly true with reference to the widows ,vho are caring for the children above referred to. These widows are to be commended for their effort to keep their families together on the small allowances that have been made by this Committee. The total amount contributed for relief for eleven months, beginning

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with the month of November, 1932, and ending with the month of September, 1933, was $7,975.23. We attach hereto a report showing sources from which funds have been received and disbursements made; also statement showing the name of the Lodge and the person to whom contributions were made. In the receipts will be found contributions from several Lodges. These were made direct to the Committee to assist in caring for the applicant. It has been the policy of the Committee to send the contribution to the Lodge and to have the Lodge add their contribution and make the remittance direct to the member. We attach hereto also a copy of the Report of Auditor covering the period from September 23, 1932, to September 20, 1933. This covers the month of October for 1932 which was set out in the report of the Committee at the last Grand Lodge session so that the report of the Committee for this year covers only eleven months. The contributions made by the Committee in June exhausted all the funds at its disposal and in order to make appropriations for those who were in dire need for July, August and September, the Committee requested the Masonic Home Board to make a loan for this purpose and funds to the extent of $1,675 were loaned by the Masonic Home Board from the Improvement Fund to enable the Committee to make its appropriations for these months. There was no other source from which the funds could be secured, and even if those to whom the contributions were being made were eligible to admission to the Home, they could not be admitted because of the crowded condition of the Home. We recommend that the amount borrowed from the Improvement Fund of the Masonic Home be reimbursed by this Grand Lodge. The Committee at its meeting held on Monday considered the Tequests from the various Lodges for relief for the month of October and found that it would require approximately the sum of $600 to meet the requirements of these applicants, but as no funds were available for that purpose the Committee did not make the appropriation. The Committee recommends that the new Welfare Committee to be appointed by the incoming Grand Master pay these appropriations out of the funds appropriated for its use. The failure of these applicants to receive the regular monthly allowance in the early part of October will work a very great hardship on many of them, especially many of the old people and the widows who are caring for their children. Based upon experience of the past year and the present list of applicants, your Committee believes that in order to meet the demands and requirements for the next year it will require at least a fund of $7,500. SUMMARY OF FUNDS RECEIVED AND DISBURSED

$ 942.66 4,500.00 800.00

Balance on hand October 1, 1932 . . Heceived from Grand Lodge during the year Received from Albert S. Dexheimer _ Received from Rose Hill Lodge No. 550, account Mrs. Adele P. E. Ketchum . Received from Samaritan Lodge No. 424, account . Mrs. Ivan Rouse Received from Pythagoras Lodge No. 383, account . Michael Tribble Received from Waynesville Lodge No. 375, account Bucher children . Interest on daily balances . Borrowed from Improvement Fund of Masonic Home . Checks issued in 1932 returned .

89.50 12.00 12.00 40.00 3.39

1,675.00 11.00 8,085.55

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Disb1trSements Federal tax Postage' and telegrams Printing and stationery Paid for relief Balance on hand September 20, 1933

14.66 26.00 4.50 7,975.23

8,020.39 $

65.16

LIST OF PAYMENTS MADE TO LODGES TO ASSIST IN CARING FOR APPJ,ICATIONS FOR CHARITY

Name of Lodge Person Assisted Tota~ for Year Pine No. 314 C. F. Franken $ 97.50 Mrs. W. A. HendcrHon........ 90.00 Composite No. 369 Samaritan No. 424 Mrs. Ivan Rouse... . . . . . . . . . . . 152.00 Edgar Harper and Wife.. . . . . . 65.00 Cardwell No. 231 Twilight No. 114 W. C. Botts.................. 55.00 Mrs. Finis Williams. . . . . . . . . . . 97.50 Callao No. 38 }<'airfax No. 483 George W. Brooks............ 42.50 Puxico No. 596 R,obert A. Smock 250.00 Trowell No. 440 Mrs. F. A. Meyer............. 97.50 Mrs. A. J. Mathis............. 97.50 Callao No. 38 Unity No. 495 Lewis Children............... 355.00 Pythagoras No. 383 Michael H. Tribble........... 44.00 Arlington No. 346 Squire E. Bryant............. 97.50 ]<Jast Prairie No. 384 James A. Smotherman. . . . .. . .. 140.00 Ralls No. 33 A. H. Fike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.00 Naphtali No. 25 George E. Dennis.............. 67.50 Wheeling No. 434 r. C. Carter.................. 30.00 Centralia No. 59 Tohn F. Betz........... . . . . . . 60.00 Charles T. Schoonover........ 97.50 Norwood No. 622 Salisbury No. 208 .Joshua T. Bu~ton. . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.00 King Hill No. 376 Marion McVey............... 152.50 Eureka O. E. S No. 90 Martha L. Ramsey. . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00 Rural No. 316 Baxter Brown and Wife. . . . . . . 130.00 Rural No. 316 Victor H. Merriman.......... 165.00 Adele P. E. Ketchum.......... 111.00 Rose Hill No. 550 Gate City No. 522 Albert L. and Susie E .â&#x20AC;˘Tohnston 280.00 H. L. Henderson and Wife. . . . . 110.00 Missouri No.1 Mrs. J. A. Griggs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.00 Barnesville No. 353 Twilight No. 114 Virgil G. Hawkins.......... .. 110.00 Wellston No. 613 '" .. , 2\{rs. Verne Jane Rutledge.. ... 37.50 Webster Groves No. 84 Leopold H. DuPaul........... 30.00 ,Jacob Andrew Cary. . . . . . . . .. . 45.00 Osage No. 303 Henry Spillman 110.00 Rocheport No. 67 Adelphi No. 355 Robert W. Mitchell........... 40.00 Mrs. Mary E. Howard......... 127.50 Moberly No. 344 Puxico No. 596 W. C. Clark and Wife......... 125.00 ]'our Mile No. 212 Claud Smith................. 30.00 Novinger No. 583 William W. Tippett... . . . . . . . . 80.00 J. l\f. Collins................. 64.23 Clarksville No. 17 Henderson No. 477 George Wilkerson............ 180.00 Four Mile No. 212 J. F. Lasswell and Wife. . . . . .. 250.00 Jefferson No. 43 John E. Gorman and Wife..... 152.50 Naphtali No. 25 William Francis Hall......... 20.00 Mount Moriah No. 40 George O. R. ReineckeI' and Wife...................... 40.00 Missouri No. 1. Mrs. Clara Boltz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 William N. Jacks and WHe.... 210.00 R.ushville No. 230

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Name of Lodge

Person Assisted

Total for Year

Hinton No. 455 Walter W. Berry. . .. . . . . . .. . . . Twilight No. 114 William F. and Robert K. Cory Zeredatha No. 189 Mrs. Richard A. Baird. . . . . . . . . Erwin No. 121. C. H. Prior................... Sampson No. 298 Ellick Stockton............... Gate City Chapter No. 381.Mrs. Allie Ellis............... Mount Moriah No. 40 Mrs. Clara Mendelar.......... Solomon No. 271 Horace D 'Esting Hussey and Wife . George Washington No.9 .. Mary E. Lihou . Cass No. 147 Mrs. Emma B. Martin . Memphis No. 16 John Rice Hudson . Memphis No. 16 William, Robert and Betty Moore Benjamin Franklin No. 642 . Joseph Wolf................. Adair No. 366 James A. Medlin............. Jackson No. 82 Orilla J. Luyster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ralls No. 33 George W. Wybrant.......... Waynesville No. 375 Mrs. Myrtle Bucher........... Sheldon No. 371. Julian Watson................ Missouri No. 1. Robert Noeninger............ Kirksville No. 105 Mrs. Mary E. Aydelotte....... Weatherby No. 235 William S. and Mary Smith.... Richmond No. 57 James Webb................. Troy No. 34 Thomas Nathan Dyer......... Fulton No. 48 Mrs. Eliza Helen Bartley. . . . . . Joplin No. 335 William Van Buren White..... Wilderness No. 374 John C. Simpson.............. Farmington No. 132 Sarah Rebecca Fleming....... Lock Springs No. 488 Samuel Wehner.............. Rural No. 316 Walter E. Allen.............. Aurora No. 267 Mrs. Marie H. Anderson. . . . . . . Agency No. 10 Francis M. Womack '" Valley No. 413 A. C. Hendry................. Valley No. 413 J. A. Goforth................. Wilderness No. 374 John C. Simpson and Wife..... Forsythe No. 453 Stiffler Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Polar Star No. 79 Hugo S. Seivers and Wife..... Friend No. 352 John David Inman............ Wilderness No. 374 Oscar L. Simpson............. Green City No. 159 John W. Muncy.............. Maitland No. 112 Francis M. Coyle............. Troy No. 34 J. Fillmore Storey............ Polar Star No. 79 John and Anna Williams. . . . . . Benevolence No. 170 ". Catherine Clyde Brown....... Crescent No. 368 Anna S. Hall................. Zeredatha No. 189 Mrs. William B. Polk, Sr....... St. John's No. 28 George W. Payne............. Ingomar No. 536 H. A. Uterman and Wife...... Eldorado No. 318 Mrs. Luella Buckley.......... Barbee No. 217 J. E. Godlove................ Pauldingville No. 11. William E. Bryan............ Canopy No. 284 ..... , Asa V. Massey...............

100.00 70.00 60.00 30.00 75.00 100.00 35.00 100.00 46.00 225.00 30.00 60.00 108.00 77.50 25.00 72.00 40.00 70.00 10.00 67.50 35.00 60.00 70.00 8.00 35.00 35.00 70.00 60.00 75.00 30.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 37.50 22.50 40.00 40.00 15.00 10.00 20.00 15.00 5.00 10.00 10.00

CAMPBELL, Treasurer, COTTON, Chairman, ARCH A. JOHNSON, R. R. KREEGER, W. A. CLARK.

W. S. T. W.

Report adopted.

165.00 300.00 55.00 110.00 80.00 90.00 30.00

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REPORT OF AUDITOR September 23, 1933. Mr. T. W. Cotton, Chairman, Committee on Welfare, Grand Lodge of Missouri, A. F. & A. M., St. Louis, Missouri. Dear Sir: Conforming with instructions received, we have examined and checked the monthly statements and other records presented to us of Mr. W. S. Campbell, Treasurer of the Committee on Welfare, for the period from September 23, 1932, to September 20, 1933, and submit tho following summary of cash receipts and disbursements for that period: Balance, September 23, 1932.

$1,728.66

. RECEIPTS

Received from Grand Lodge . Refunds . Donation-A. L. Dexheimer . Interest on bank balances . Loan from Improvement Fund-Ma-路 sonic Home .

$4,500.00 153.50 800.00 3.39 1,675.00

7,131.89 $8,860.55

DISBURSEMENTS

Cheques issued for relief Cheques issued for stationery Cheques issued for post~ge Cheques issued for telegrams Federal tax on cheques

$8,735.23 . . $ 4.50 . 40.50 .50 . 60.16 . 14.66

Balance in Telegrapher's National Bank, September 20, 1933 .

8,795.39 $

65.16

We examined all cheques issued, traced receipts into the bank account, and verified the balance in bank at September 20, 1933, by reconciling a certificate obtained direct from the depositary with the balance shown on the Treasurer's records. Respectfully submitted, PERKINS

COMPANY,

Certified Public Accountants. REPORT OF JURISPRUDENCE COMMITTEE

Section 1. Unfinished matters coming over from last year. R. W. Brother W. E. Bailey reported first on Masonic trials and after a discussion thereon the Grand Lodge ordered Section 261lh of the By-Laws amended by striking therefrom the concluding sentence, reading as follows: In trials ordered by the Most Worshipful Grand Master, by the Grand Lodge or any committee of the Grand Lodge with the approval of the Grand Lodge, such Grand Master, Grand Lodge or committee may designate that the trial is to be had by Commission.

(See full Jurisprudence Report on page 103.)

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R. W. Brother W. E. Bailey next read Section 2-Residence of District Deputies and District Deputy Lecturers, and recommended that the amendment be not adopted. The Grand Lodge concurred in the recommendation. (See full Jurisprudence Report on page 104.) R. VV'. Brother W. E.Bailey then read Section 3 regarding Grand Master Denslow's decision No. 46 and. recommended that the Grand Lodge approve the decision. The Grand Lodge concurred in the recommendation. (See full Jurisprudence Report on page 104.) R. 'V. Brother 'V~ E. Bailey reported on a request from Brothers Edv,rard McGuigan and John Lehr as found on page 186 of the Proceedings of 1932 and recommended that this request be referred to the Revision Committee. The Grand Lodge concurred in the recommendation. (See full Jurisprudence Report on page 105.) RESOLUTION

The Grand Secretary read the following resolution: Be it resolved, by the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Missouri that Waverly Lodge No. 61 be transferred from the jurisdiction of the Twentieth District to the Twenty-'l'hird District. Fraternally submitted, HENRY C. CHILES, WADDELL, McLACHLAN, OTTO HALE.

C. B. .T. R.

The foregoing resolution was ordered to be referred to the Committee on Chartered Lodges. REPORT

COMMITTEE ON CHARTERED LODGES

R. W. Brother Frank L. Magoon, chainnan, presented the report of the Commiftee on Chartered Lodges, which was adopted and is as follows: To the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Brethren: Your Committee has no desire to bring statistics to this body. Convincing figures in plenty will be found in the address of the Grand Master and in the annual report of the Grand Secretary. We take it that it is the function of this Committee to bring to the attention of this Grand Body the state of affairs which exists in the Chartered Lodges constituting this Grand Lodge. Vve do desire to inform you, if we may, as to the state of health of these Lodges, as reflected in the reports submitted. Frankly, this state of health is not encouraging. Two phases of the aggregate report give us pause and food for serious thought and reflection. These are, namely: (1) The large amount of dues remitted; and (2) the large number of suspensions for nonpayment of dues. If the major cause for these excess figures is to be found in the economic depression in which we find ourselves, time and the improvement of these

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conditions may better this state of affairs. If, however, a loss of vital interest in the welfare of our Fraternity is the underlying cause, then, indeed, the state of the organization is such as to give us food for serious thought. The important matter of dues outstanding is another thing that calls for serious consideration. We regret to report that yearly the aggregate sum of this item is mounting. Concerning the subject of dues remitted: Our law specifically provides that dues shall be remitted only for inability to pay, and upon proper application in person or in writing; or upon a statement of facts made by a brother. From the returns of some of our large Lodges, it is evident that the secretary has secured all of the dues that he could conveniently collect, and then a blanket motion has prevailed to remit the dues of the large number remaining. This seems to be a clear violation of both the letter and the spirit of the law. Unusual conditions may sometimes justify unusual measures, but this seems to be going entirely too far. To those of us whose Masonic life has been largely passed under other conditions, the fact that we arc now passing through a period which requires a readjustment comes with somewhat of a shock. To us who have long been taught that the rules of procedure in our organization were to be held as unchangeable as the ancient laws of the Medes and Persians, the fact that on the first day of August of this year of our Lord, 1933, when the report from every Lodge in the State, together with a check in full for all per capita tax should have been in the office of the Grand Secretary, there were 155 Lodges which had not complied with the hitherto rigid requirements of this Grand Lodge, seems unbelievable. This in the face of the fact that our efficient Grand Secretary had exhausted every means at his command to secure the compliance of every Lodge with the requirements of this Grand Body. Such an unheard-of situation, had it occurred in by-gone days, would have caused the chairman of the Committee on Chartered Lodges to have come before you with a scathing arraignment of the Lodges and particularly the secretaries of Lodges who would have dared to defy the inexorable rules of this august institution. But we need not remind this assemblage that we are passing through unprecedented times, and that, for instance, some Grand Jurisdictions with larger memberships than our own, have found it necessary to forego the convening of the annual Grand Lodge session in order to continue a semblance of existence, we may well console ourselves that it is as well with us as it is. H was the custom of this Committee, back in the so-called good old days, to commend certain secretaries as being good collectors of dues and to criticize others as being poor collectors. Under present conditions aJl of our secretaries are confronted by two specific groups, namely, large numbers of our members who are unemployed and without funds, and a still larger number who may have funds, but have lost all interest in the institution. This latter condition, it seems to us, is the more serious of the two. Your Committee recommends as at least an attempt to correct this unfortunate situation, that each representative in attendance on his Grand Lodge session, resolve to return to his home and to his Lodge, with a determination to do missionary work among his lukewarm brethren, to. the end that the large number who have lost interest, may be revived and their interest renewed. In our report last year, your Committee recommended that the fine provided by law for Lodges failing to report at the proper time, be remitted. This recommendation was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means for its consideration. Again we suggest that probably this

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is no time for punitive measures in the matter, and we therefore recommend that similar action be taken at this time. RE: TRANSFER OF WAVERLY LODGE NO.

Our Committee has had before it the resolution concerning the transfer of Waverly Lodge No. 61 and recommends that this be approved. Fraternally submitted, FRANK L. MAGOON, Chairman. BOARDS OF RELIEF AND EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

Worshipful Brother Edward McGuigan, on behalf of the Special Committee on Boards of Relief and Employment Bureau, introduced a series of resolutions concerning these auxiliary institutions, which were ordered referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence. REPORT OF OOMMITTEE ON APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES

The report of the Committee on Appeals and Grievances was presented by its chairman, R. W. Brother William ]'. Woodruff, same as read, adopted section by section, and as a whole, and is as follows: In re: E. H. Golden. Petition for Restoration. Petitioner was a member of Corinthian Lodge No. 265, located at Warrensburg, Missouri. He was expelled for un-Masonic conduct by this Grand Lodge September 26, 1928, which gives us jurisdiction to entertain the petition for restoration. Your Committee has not received the recommendation of a Lodge or the officers of a Lodge and feels that the information accompanying the petition is insufficient to justify favorable action. While it is not necessary to have the recommendation of a Lodge, it is very desirable under the circumstances in this case. The Committee has evidence that weighs heavily against the suitability of applicant for restored membership in Masonry. We recommend that the petition be denied.

Keystone Lodge No. 243

V8.

Ambrose Keeton.

Charges were preferred on May 9, 1933, by Keystone Lodge No. 243 against one of its members, Brother Ambrose Keeton. The charge WD,S that he had violated the National Prohibition Act, had been arrested on August 16, 1930, for the possession of intoxicating liquor, had pled guilty in the United States District Court on March 5, 1931, and was convicted and fined $450.00. Another count in the charge, that he had been convicted on a plea of guilty of selling intoxicating liquor on August 28, 1927, was dismissed because committed more than five years before the charge was filed. The trial in the Lodge was before a lodge jury. Upon the first abovementioned specification the accused was found guilty and his punishment fixed at reprimand in open Lodge. 'rhe case is here upon appeal of the Lodge by order of the Grand Master. The uniform decisions of this Grand Lodge require that under such facts, the verdict of the jury fixing punishment at reprimand be disregarded and that the punishment be fixed at expulsion. The appropriate time for leniency is on application for restoration.

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We, therefore, recommend that the verdict of guilty be affirmed and that this Grand Lodge disregard that portion of the verdict of the jury assessing punishment at reprimand and upon the record transmitted pronounce as its judgment that accused be and he hereby is expelled from all the rights and privileges of Freemasonry.

Sullivan Lodge No. 69 VB. William R. Flynn. On January 21, 1933, complaint was filed by the Lodge against accused charging un-Masonic conduct in this, that he on April 6, 1932, arraigned before United States District Judge Davis and upon a plea of guilty to a charge of violation of the National Prohibition Act of October 28, 1919, was fined the sum of $300.00, and that defaulting in payment of the fine was committed to the Audrain County jail. We have followed the language of the charge as filed. A jury trial was had in the Lodge, resulting in a verdict of not guilty. The Lodge has appealed without being ordered to do so by the Grand Master. A duly certified copy of the judgment of the United States District Court accompanies the papers transmitted to us. In keeping with the uniform practice of the Grand Lodge in similar cases, we do recommend that the Lodge verdict of not guilty be disregarded and that upon the record transmitted this Grand Lodge pronounce as its judgment that accused be and he hereby is expelled from all the rights and privileges of Freemasonry. Temple Lodge No. 299 VB. George R. Johnson. Accused is charged with un-Masonic conduct in that he entered a plea of guilty in the circuit court of Jackson County, Missouri, to a charge of embezzlement, on account of which he was sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of two years. After due and proper notice, trial was had before a jury, who found accused guilty as charged and assessed his punishment at suspension for two years. Appeal was taken by the Junior Warden of Temple Lodge upon t.he ground that the punishment assessed was not commensurate with the offense, the appeal ha.ving been ordered by the Grand Master. Under the repeated rulings of this Grand Lodge, the record as presented discloses that the punishment assessed is inadequate and that the offense of which accused was found guilty is one for which expulsion is proper punishment. We, therefore, recommend that the verdict of guilty be affirmed and that this Grand Lodge disregard that portion of the verdict of the jury assessing punishment at suspension for two years and upon the record transmitted pronounce as its judgment that accused be and he hereby is expelled from all the rights and privileges of Freemasonry. Hayti Lodge No. 571 vs. W. P. Robertson. Accused was charged with un-Masonic conduct in that while high sheriff of Pemiscot County, Missouri, and while under oath of office to enforce the law, he knowingly allowed intoxicating liquors to be made and sold in his county without reporting such acts to the government authorities, as a result of which charges were filed against him in the federal court to which he entered a plea of guilty upon which he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. Accused entered a plea of guilty to the Lodge charge. He was serving sentence at the time of trial but was represented at the trial by Worshipful Brother O. B. Davis. His plea was for leniency to an erring brother. The lodge jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed his

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punishment at "six months suspension from the time he would regain his citi7.enship." On oider of the Grand Master thc verdict was received as l'cturncd and an- appeal therefrom was taken by the Lodge. Both parties were represented before your Committee. This is another case involving imprisonment because of the commission of an offense against the laws of our country which accused admitted by plea of guilty, and for which under the repeated rulings of this Grand Lodge the punishment should be expulsion. Your Committee recommends that the portion of the verdict of the jury :fixing the punishment of accused at suspension for a term of six months after he regains his citizenship be disregarded and that upon the record transmitted this Grand Lodge pronounce its judgment that accused be and he hereby is expelled from all the rights and privileges of Freemasonry. J. C. Heston, a member of Alpha Lodge No. 659 (North Kansa.8 City), Complainant, VS. P. D. Hodge, Worshipful Master (in 1932) of Alpha Lodge No. 659, Accused.

The complaint on which this case is based was filed with the Grand Master, Most vVorshipful Brother Ray V. Denslow, in September, 1932, just a few days before the 1932 Annual CommunicatIOn of the Grand Lodge, which began on September 27. 'rhe Grand Master suspended the accused from the office of Master of his Lodge and notified him to appear at the 1933 Communication of the Grand Lodge to answer the complaint. Our by-laws provided that a Master can not be tried by his Lodge but must be tried by the Grand Lodge. The essence of the charge (which is signed by the complainant and concurred in by the Secretary, Senior and Junior Wardens and two Past Masters of the Lodge) is that the accused struck complainant a violent blow in the anteroom of the Lodge hall on September 15, 1932, while a meeting of Alpha Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star was being held in the hall. The accused admits that he struck the blow, but claims that this was done when he was incensed beyond endurance by a remark of complainant offensive in substance and in the manner in which it was made. Complainant denies he made the offensive remark. There was a full hearing of all parties before the Committee Monday, September 25, 1933. Complainant and accused were present and testified and eight additional witnesses were heard. These were principally officers and Past Masters of the Lodge. A transcript of the testimony has been prepared and will be filed with the report of the Committee. The evidence disclosed that feeling had existed between these two brothers for a number of years over the fact that the wife of accused had failed of election to office in the Eastern Star chapter. Accused attributed this failure to the influence of complainant. About the first of September, 1932, the office of Associate Conductress in the Eastern Star chapter had become vacant. A special election was held and the wife of accused was one of those voted on to fill the vacancy but f~ilcd of election. The morning following the election accused went to the home of complainant, reaching there about 7 0 'clock A.M., for the purpose of attempting to compromise the difference between him and complainant with respect to the desire of aecused that his wife be elected to office in the Eastern Star chapter. This meeting was not cordial, but did not result in violenee, nor was any compromise effected. The husband of the lady who had been Associate Conductress of the Eastern star chapter had been Sentinel of the Chapter, and as they were moving from the jurisdiction, there was a vacancy in the office of Sentinel. Complainant had been appointed to fill the vacancy and was being installed on this evening of September 15. During the installation accused was acting

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Sentinel. When complainant was conducted to his station in the anteroom after installation, accused protested again to complainant over what accused felt was the dominating influence of complainant in Eastern Star chapter matters. One word brought on another until the blow was struck by accused. Your Committee feels that the conduct of complainant in this matter is not commendable, as he has not displayed the spirit of broad-minded tolerance with human frailties which is due from one Master Mason to another. The accused is guilty of the same breach of proper attitude and conduct, and in addition he was the aggressor in keeping the bad feeling alive, and the Committee docs not feel that he is free from responsibility for provoking the insulting mark (if made) which he claims is justification for his conduct in striking a brother Master Mason. Upon reflection accused obviously felt that he had been too much the aggressor, because on the very day following the occurrence he prepared, signed and mailed a letter of apology to complainant, stating in the letter, "I know I broke a Masonic law and am very, very sorry for it." Unfortunately, this letter was not delivered to complainant, because, after consulting with other brother Masons, accused went to the post offiee and withdrew the letter so it could not be delivered. After accused was suspended from the offiee of Master he remailed the letter and it was delivered to complainant, who says that he would have withdrawn the complaint but for the faet that a rumor came to him of statements that had been made by accused which caused eomplainant to feel that the apology was not sincere. The Committee feels that some cool heads among officers and Past Masters of the Lodge might very well have intervened at this point and corrected the misunderstanding. However, this was not done. In addition to belief that aceused was the aggressor in keeping the bad feeling alive, the Committee has been compelled to take into eonsideration the faet that he was, at the time, Master of his Lodge and as sueh eharged with the responsibility and duty of allaying bitterness and promoting harmony. To this important duty as Master he was unfaithful. The recommendation of the Committee is that the action of Grand Master Denslow in suspending accused from the office of Master of Alpha Lodge No. 659 be approved and sustained; that the aeeused be, and he hereby is, suspended from all the rights and privileges of Freemasonry from this date to March 31, 1934 (a period of approximately six months), and that at the end of such period he be restored to all of the rights and privileges of Freemasonry and shall thereafter have the rank of Past Master. Respectfully submitted, W. F. WOODRUFI<', Ohairman, ALLEN L. OLIVER, RICHARD O. RUMER, O. H. SWEARINGEN.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LODGES U. D. Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Missouri: We, your Committee on Lodges Under Dispensation, beg leave to report as follows: There are at this time no Lodges Under Dispensation in this Grand .T urisdiction. SAM WILCOX, Ohairman, 'l'HEODORE C. TEEL, WARREN H. MAY, EARL F. CHEESMAN, .T. W. ADAMS.

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REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON REFUSAL OF MASONIC FUNERALS

R. W. Brother Fred O. Wood, chairman, presented the report of the Committee, which was adopted and is as follows: To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Ancient, llree and Accepted Masons of Missouri: Brethren: Your Committee on Refusal of Masonic Funerals, begs leavo to report as follows: It is the opinion of this Committee that every Freemason in good standing at the time of his death is entitled to a Masonic funeral, and, if such is requested by the family of the deceased, it is obligatory. Unless a man is not in good standing there is absolutely no ground upon which to refuse a Masonic funeral. If a Lodge is not ashamed of claiming a man as one of its own while he is living, it should not deny him when dead. Even if a member becomes a drunkard, or a criminal, and the Lodge keeps him in good standing until his death, to refuse a Masonic funeral would be un-Masonic. . However, it is a fact that a man may be in good standing financially, but not morally, at the time of his death, and it may concern matters over which the Lodge had no chance to act. For instance, if a member of a Lodge is killed which engaged in robbery, kidnapping, adultery or other notorious crimes, to conduct a Masonic funeral would be a discredit to Freemasonry. In all such cases, where there is a preponderance of evidence as to the guilt, and where the Lodge had no chance to take action, a Masonic funeral should be refused, even if requested by the family. The Worshipful Master, with the advice of the Secretary, who is路 usually better路 acquainted with conditions than anyone else in the Lodge, should not hesitate to say " No" when such circumstances require it. Therefore, when a Masonic funeral is requested by the family of the deceased, there is only the question of good standing to be considered, and the Secretary is in position to furnish that information. It is also our opinion that Masonic funerals should not be urged by Lodge officers. The family selects a minister to conduct the religious services, and it should be left entirely optional with them as to the Masonic funeral. It is proper and fitting for them to call and offer assistance, but a Masonic funeral should not be urged, especially when the deceased is unknown to the active members of the Lodge. Such funerals will not be well attended, and it would be better for all concerned if they were not held under Masonic auspices. Lodge officers who lack experience should consult their District Deputy Grand Master in all matters where there is any question or doubt. To preserve unsullied the reputation of the Masonic institution ought to be our constant care, and it might be said in this connection that Masonic funerals are not always conducted with the dignity and intelligence our institution deserves. Fraternally submitted, FRED O. WOOD, Chairman, CHARLES T. KORNBRODT, M. E. EWING. REPORT OF MASONIC HOME VISITING COMMITTEE

R. W. Brother Albert Linxwiler, chairman, presented the report of the Committee, which was adopted and is as follows:

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To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Your Committee appointed by the Most Worshipful Grand. Master to visit the Masonic Home begs leave to submit the following report: The visit was made by the chairman on the 23d of September, 1933, at which time a thorough inspection of the Home was made. The Home family consists of 158 men, 147 women, 72 boys and ,75 girls-a total of 452, four more than the total of last year; and in addition five men and 10 women had been admitted but had not arrived. The crowded condition of the Home is even worse than at the time of the Committee's report last year, and while the Home Board and the superintendent seem to be doing everything possible to care for our old people and children, the task grows greater and greater each year, and unless something can be done to hasten construction work on our ground at Kirkwood we do not see how it will be possible to take care of any more of our unfortunate people. In spite of the crowded conditions and the fact that the buildings are old and naturally hard to care for, your Committee found everything in a neat and clean condition. The kitchen equipment, although very old and most of it obsolete, was clean and sanitary, the food excellent and well prepared. Since the Committee 'svisit last year a competent dietitian has been employed and a system of scientific feeding has been installed. This is a valuable improvement and not only reduces the cost of feeding ,but gives a well-balanced diet for both the children and the old people. Your Committee again wishes to call your attention 'to the recommendation of the Committee in the report of last year especially regarding the refrigerating system in the diet kitchen, the kitchen equipment in the main kitchens and the equipment necessary for the operating room of the hospital, and earnestly recommends that these matters be attended to at an early date.. The Home Board and the superintendent are doing a wonderful work in the face of almost unsurmountable difficulties and arc certainly entitled to the earnest cooperation and active support of every Mason in Missouri. Respectfully submitted, A. LINXWILER, Chairman. REPORT OF BOARD OF DmECTORS OF MASONIC HOME

R. W. Brother 'V. 'V. Martin presented the report of the Masonic Home Board which was ordered printed in the Proceedings. (See page 205.) REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON TRIAL BY OTHER STATES

R. W. Brother Forrest C. Donnell, chairman, requested, on behalf of this Committee, that it be continued until the next Annual Communication, further time being required for study of the questions involved. The request was granted. REPORT OF BUILDING SUPERVISORY BOARD NO. 1

R. W. Brother F. C. Donnell, chairman of this board in 1930 and 1931, read the following Report No.1: Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Mis.'wuri: Brethren: At the HOth Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of the State of Missouri, which Communication was held

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in 1930, there was adopted an amendment to the Grand Lodge By-Laws by which amendment there was created a Board, to be known as thÂť Building Supervisory Board, which Board was to consist of three members of the Grand Lodge who were to be appointed by the Grand Master. The Grand Master appointed the undersigned as the first three members of said Board. The following is a report of the work done by the Board during the period ftom the appointment of said members up until October, 1932: 1. MONTGOMERY LODGE No. 246 Under date of November 18, 1931, the Board authorized the purchase of said Lodge of certain real estate, furniture, fixtures and equipment at the price of $7,250. 2. LINN CREEK LODGE No. 152 Under date of January 13, 1932, the Board conditionally approved the erection of a temple in Camdenton in accordance with previously submitted plans and correspondence. 3. BUCKNER LODGE No. 501 The Board approved the purchase, by said Lodge, of a building for the use of the Lodge, the necessary expenses involved to be approximately $2,200. 4. BERNIE LODGE No. 573 The Board granted permission for the construction of a proposed building for said Lodge, the same to cost not to exceed $2,500, on the understanding that the Lodge then had on hand available for said building, and would use in connection with the construction thereof, not less than $1,700 cash, and that the Lodge already had arrangements made by which the balance which would be owing for construction of the building would be borrowed. Papers concerning the matters brought to, but undisposed of by, said Board as so constituted have been delivered to Brother Guy C. Million, the present chairman of the Building Supervisory Board. Dated as of this 23d day of September, 1933. Fraternally yours, F. WILLIAM KUEHL, C. A. TOLIN, Adopted. F. C. DONNELL.

R. 'V. Brother Guy C. Million read Report No.2. the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: Brethren: The Building Supervisory Board submits the following report for 1932 and 1933: November 21, 1932. On the recommendation of Brother Arch A. J ohnson, Past Grand Master, permitted the borrowing of funds, to purchase a bank building by Ozark Lodge No. 297 at Fairgrove, the cost not to exceed $1,000. The Lodge had been using the upper part of the building at a rental of $75 a year. The following building projects and investments were permitted: November 23, 1932. Building project of Meramec Lodge No. 313 of St. Louis County, the necessary fund of $2,000 being available. November 23, 1932. Investment of $1,200 by Cass Lodge No. 147 at Harrisonville, in the Harrisonville Masonic Temple, Incorporated. April 20, 1933. Investment of $650 by McGee Lodge No. 146 at College Mound, to build in connection with a dry goods and grocery store, providing funds in closed fund at Macon City should become available. 1'0

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April 28, 1933. Investment by Griswold Lodge No. 178 at Bellflower of $550 for alterations and changes on building donated to the Lodge for Masonic purposes. â&#x20AC;˘ May 23, 1933. Investment of $6,400 by Mount Zion Lodge No. 327 at West Plains, in the West Plains Masonic 'fernpIe Association. February 23, 1933. Was advised by the Most Worshipful Grand Master that the ball of Fenton Lodge No. 281 had been partially destroyed by fire, that title to said property was vested in tbe Grand Lodge and requested the Board to take such action as might be necessary to conserve the property. April 12, 1933, at the Masonic Temple in St. Louis, a conference was held with Brother W. H. Stein, Worsbipful Master, and several brethren of Fenton Lodge. At this meeting the Board consented to the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $500 for the purpose of conserving and protecting the property until such time as the Grand Lodge might return title to the Lodge. The Board also suggested to the brethren that upon receipt of check from the insurance company in payment of loss, that same be endorsed over to the Grand Lodge. In order that the brethren of Fenton Lodge may be in a position to rebuild their lodge hall, tbe Board recommends that title to this property, now vested in the Grand Lodge, together with the insurance money endorsed over to the Grand Lodge, be returned to Fenton Lodge. Respoctfully submitted, GUY C. MILLION, Chairman, F. WILLIA}~ KUEllL, Adopted. C. A. TOLIN. CALLED FROM LABOR

At 5 :25 o'clock P.M:. the Grand Lodge was CALLED FROM LABOR until 8 o'clock P.M. this evening.

FIRST DAY, EVENING SESSION CALLED TO LABOR

At8 :00 o'clock P.M. the M. W. Grand Lodge was CALLED TO LABOR by the M. W. Grand Master. Prayer was offered by R. VV. Reverend Brother Emmet L. Robison, Grand Chaplain. The Grand Master introduced M. "V. Brother Archie M. Smith, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, in felicitous terms, who then addressed the Grand Lodge as follows: ADDRESS OF M. W. ARCHIE M. SMITH It gives me great pleasure to be with you brethren today.

One regret has been expressed to me a number of times during the day, and that is that our Grand Secretary, who also bears my name, is not with us; in fact, one of the brethren told me that it seemed to bim that the Grand Lodge of Missouri could not meet unless our Grand Secretary is in attendance with you. I shall be glad to communicate the greetings that the brethren of Missouri have asked me to carry to him, and also the inquiries that have come to me today from many brethren in regard to our Grand Secretary. He could not be present on account of the great amount of work that he has in his office, due partly to interfering

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business during the past week, and also on account of the condition of his wife's health, which has not been very good for the past two months, and has given him considerable concern. So he asked my consent if he could remain away, and I assured him that under the circumstances he was reasonable in his request, although I miss the pleasure of his company on this occasion. I am interested in the Missouri Grand Lodge because of the part that you, through your Grand Lodge officers, had in our seventy-fifth anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, which was observed two years ago, or a year ago last June. On that occasion M. W. Brother Denslow was with us and delivered an address. Also your Grand Treasurer was with us at that time. I inadvertently this evening referred to your Grand Treasurer by the name of Ed. Harris instead of Ed. Morris, and I was corrected on this by one of the brethren. He said his name could not be Ed. Harris. I remember Brother Denslow's address that was delivered to us on the occasion of his visit at Omaha and our seventy-fifth anniversary. Of course, the states of Missouri and Iowa and Illinois were represented; that is, the jurisdictions of those three States were represented at this anniversary, because the first three lodges in Nebraska were chartered, one from the Grand Lodge of Missouri, one from the Grand Lodge of Iowa, and one from the Grand Lodge of Illinois. On that occasion M. W. Brother Denslow made a very interesting address in connection partly with the experience of the journeyings of Lewis and Clark on their way up to Missouri, the first lodge in Nebraska having been located on the banks of the Missouri River. And I may say that M. W. Brother Denslow entertained us with this appropriate address to which I listened in such a way that I afterwards read that address with the same interest that I listened to it when he delivered it, and I enjoyed that history of the pioneer development of the country very much. The remainder of my two minutes this evening I shall devote in telling something of the two hundredth anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, which was observed at Boston in June of this year. I went as a delegate from Nebraska, and there were present at that anniversary grand masters from a number of the states of the United States, grand masters from some Canadian Provinces, representatives from Brazil, Australia, England and Scotland. The sessions lasted four days, the first event on the program being a worship service in the old North Church of Boston, this being the church from the belfry of whieh were hung the lanterns which sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride to warn the farmers around Lexington and Concord of the approach of the British soldiers whether by land or by sea. This church was built in 1723, ten years before the first lodge was chartered in Massachusetts. The service was conducted by the Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and he took occasion to say that services had been held in that church continuously every Sunday since the church was built in 1723, except for a period of about fourteen months during the Revolutionary War, when it was closed by the British soldiers, because of the fact that this church was used as a meeting place on the part of the patriots and others who were taking steps to resist the aggression of Great Britain, and these meetings that were held there in connection with the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, participated in largely by members of our Fraternity. And the Grand Chaplain went on to tell of the many members of the }'raternity who had had a part in the events leading up to the trouble with the mother country. The old South Church in Boston also was closed for about the same length of time during the Revolutionary War because of the fact that it

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too was used as a meeting place for the patriots who were endeavoring to take steps to resist the British aggression. Paul Revere was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. It was my privilege to be taken to the depository where Union Lodge of Dorchester, being one of the oldest in Boston, was keeping its charter. It was issued in 1793 and signed by Paul Revere as Grand Master. It was my privilege to see in the museum in the Masonic Temple of Boston a good many Masonic trophies, and among them a number of documents bearing the signature of Paul Revere, either as the Grand Master or as a subordinate Grand Lodge officer. There were other Masonic trophies, all of which were examined with great interest and enthusiasm by the brethren who were there for that occasion. The next important event on the program of this four-day observance was the play depicting a Masonic lodge of England of the Eighteenth Century, which was put on by the Masonic brethren of Boston, and was a very good picture of the Fraternity as it existed in Great Britain during the Eighteenth Century. The Grand Lodge also sent the brethren out to see the Masonic Home at Shrewsbury and Masonic Hospital of that State. The Grand Lodge also provided sight-seeing excursions for the brethren that took us over the trail followed by Paul Revere, showing us the various locations along the way, the place where he started on the episode, there was a .place where they were intercepted by the British patrol, Paul Revere being captured and taken back to town, and the other two of his companions making their escape, then going on to complete the journey on which Paul Revere started out. Well, it is told that Paul Revere alone carried out this plan of his. As I say, Paul Revere was arrested or captured by the British soldiers and did not complete the journey. But Paul Revere must be given credit for the plan. It was his plan that was put into execution, and although fate did not permit him to complete the journey, he called to his assistance these two men, one of whom did complete the journey and delivered the message in time, so that the farmers, the patriots of those two communities, were enabled to take care of their own stores of ammunition and prepare for the British advance. We were taken to the concrete bridge where the stand was made against the British soldiers. The Masons of Boston and of Massachusetts look back upon the life and public services and Masonic services of Paul Revere as a heritage. They also look back upon the life and services of George Washington and of Lafayette, both of them Masons, as a heritage of the Fraternity. We know that a great many of the Masons, and a great many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a great many of those who h:a.d an active part in the Revolutionary War, and in the events leading up to it on the part of the colonies, were Masons. The letter of greeting from the Mayor of the City of Boston, who, by the way, was a Catholic, this letter of greeting to the brethren of Massachusetts on the occasion of this two hundredth anniversary, was published in one of the Fraternity magazines, and calls attention to the fact that many of the Fraternity had this important part in the events which brought about our indepellâ&#x20AC;˘ dence. Certainly a remarkable recognition on the part of those who are not members of our Fraternity. The Lodge to which the first charter was issued in Massachusetts was St. John's Lodge No. 1. St. John's Lodge banqueted all of the brethren one evening following the conferring of the third degree upon an actual candidate, and the Grand Master of Massachusetts, as well as the W 01'shipful Master of St. John's Lodge, called attention to the distinction permitted this candidate by reason of the fact that this degree was conferred upon him on a momentous occasion. The Grand Master of Massachusetts wore as a hat one of the hats used by the generals in the time of the Revolutionary War; I forget the name, a three-pointed affair-'

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you know to what I refer, and the insignia and paraphernalia worn by the Grand Master was quite suggestive of Revolutionary War times. On the fourth evening of this anniversary there was a mass meeting in the Boston arena, which holds ten to twelve thousand people, and this arena was entirely filled with members of the Masonic fraternity, so that you may get some idea, not only of the great interest that the Masons of Bost.on were taking in this two hundredth anniversary, but also of the number of Masons that there are in Boston. There are forty lodges m metropolitan Boston. I forget the total membership of the Boston lodges. I endeavored to get a verification of the story which has come to some of us that the Boston Tea Party bad its origin in a Masonic meeting It has been my desire to see the secretary's record that referred to this Boston Tea Party, and I understood that such a record was in existence, but I was unable to get to see the secretary's record. The story was told to me authentically that the Boston 'rea Party did have it origin in n Masonic meeting of the St. Andrew's Lodge. The record, as I was told, shows that the meeting was opened in regular form, and that certain business was transacted, but the record does not show that the Lodge was closed in ample form. It is merely a recital, after the entry of some items on business, that the lodge adjourned for more important business elsewhere, and that is the story as given to me with reference to the Boston Tea Party. From this lodge meeting, after making this entry, the brethren went to the harbor and dumped the tea in the harbor. There was an observance two or three years ago at Philadelphia of what Philadelphia. claimed was the two hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Freemasonry in America. The grand Lodge of Massachusetts claims that the charter issued to St. John's Lodge No. 1 was the first charter of a regularly constituted Lodge of Free Masons on this side of the Atlantic. In answer to this the Grand Lodge of Philadelphia, I was told, claims that the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was doing business under Benjamin Franklin as its Grand Master prior to the time this charter was issued to Massachusetts. The answer of Massachusetts to it is that the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was not a duly constituted Grand Lodge; that, therefore, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, the same Grand Lodge No. 1 of Massachusetts, was the first duly constituted Lodge in America. As a memento of the occasion of the banquet given by St. John's Lodge, the brethren were presented with an exact reproduction of the Boston Gazette, which was published the week prior to the issuance of its charter to St. John's Lodge, and also a facsimile copy of the petition which was sent to the Grand Master of England by which this first charter was issued, and also a facsimile of its original charter. These, I may say, brethren, I value very highly as souvenirs of the occasion. 'rhe feeling of fraternalism among the brethren on that anniversary was very deep. It was manifested on every occasion. The brethren of Boston a.nd the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts left nothing undone to entertain the delegates who were there, taking us on these occasions, showing us all the points of interest in historical Boston, as well as in the immediate surrounding country, taking us to their Masonic Home and their infirmary, and entertaining us at these banquets, with this religious service in the old North Church, with this program in the Arcade. They did their utmost to entertain the delegates and their wives who were there. The Grand Master urged in the last meeting that when such delegates return to their respective jurisdictions, each should carry to the brethren of his jurisdiction a happy felicitation and the fraternal greetings of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. And, as I understand, no brothel' from the Grand Lodge of Missouri, no one bere this evening was present at that two hundredth anniversary than myself, I am going

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to go outside of my jurisdiction and extend to you, or bring to you, these greetings from the Grand Master of Massachusetts on behalf of all the brethren who were there assembled, these greetings from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts to you brethren of the Grand Lodge of Missouri. On my return from Boston I came through the eastern part of New York and came down the west bank of the Hudson, stayed overnight right in the vicinity of West Point, where Major-General Fries tells me he attended the Academy some thirty years ago, or thirty-five years ago, and was a graduate of West Point Military Academy. I recall my stay there that night because of the fact, Major General, that you were thp-re in your early days. I also visited other shrines made historical by their associations with our Most Eminent Brother, General George Washington, which are Valley Forge, and his home at Mount Vernon, and the Memorial at Alexandria in the Temple Building, and the Lodge at Alexandria where Washington was at the same time the Master of his Lodge and the President of the United States. When one views these places, these scenes where Washington spent some of his life, where these important events occurred, especially Valley Forge, one can not help but have feelings of emotion over the sacrifices that were made by George Washington and these other Revolutionary patriots. It was also my privilege to visit the headquarters of General Washington across the river from Tarrytown, New York-Major General Fries has visited that plaee-the headquarters where Washington was at the time that he signed the death warrant for the execution of Major Andre. Very interesting places, all of them. In the Temple at Alexandria my attention was called to the three pedestals, those of the Master and the two Wardens, in use in that Lodge now which were there in the Lodge at the time that Washington was the Master. There were eleven chairs in that room that are still used by the brethren. The Master's chair used by him is still there, but enclosed in a glass case; that is, what remains there after the souvenir hunters had pulled away some of the upholstering. It is used now only on special occasions. Brethren, I have taken your time briefly to tell you of the deep interest that I had in visiting these places, these places, many of them, that have so much of Masonic interest to all. I thank you for this opportunity of appearing before you and of visiting your Grand Lodge on this my first visit, and I appreciate the courtesies that have been extended to me by the brethren on this occasion. (Loud applause.)

M. W. GRAND :MASTER LANDON: We appreciate the fact that you have taken the time to visit us here in Missouri, Most "\V- orshipful Sir, and appreciate the message that you have given to us, and may I . ask you to carry back to the State of Nebraska the kindliest feelings of felicitation of the Grand Lodge of the State of Missouri. Brethren, it is my very great pleasure to have with us tonight a very personal friend of mine, a man with whom I have worked for the last ten years very closely in the erection and building up of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children. Now, this brother of ours from the State of Texas is the youngest practicing lawyer in that great State. He graduated from the Law School in Dallas in June, I think it was, of this year-is that true, Brother Cochran' BROTHER COCHRAN: Last year. M. W. GRAND MASTER 'LANDON: And was admitted to the bar

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and the Supreme Court of Texas about a year ago. He has been Past Grand Master of the State of Texas, and Past Grand Presiding Officer of every Masonic body within the State of Texas, and nationally known. He is known also, as I stated, as the father and the protector and the guiding spirit today of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children. He is here visiting us, and also to make a report as the representative of the Grand Lodge of Missouri to the London Peace Jubilee in July of this year. Most Worshipful Brother Sam P. Cochran. (Loud applause.) ADDRESS OF M. W. BROTHER SAM P. COCHRAN

Most Worshipful Grand Master, Most Worshipful Brother Smith, Worshipful Past Grand Masters and Officers, a;nd Worshipful Brother General Fries: Brethren: It is a great pleasure and privilege and satisfaction to me to attend your session today and have the privilege of reporting to you regarding my trip to England, and my attendance on the ceremonies there at which I was privileged to represent the Grand Master and the Grand Lodge of Missouri, so far as their regulations pertaining to the occasion would permit. _I have reduced this to writing in order to make it specific and put into it just the things I want to present to you. To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Missouri: Your Grand Master, Most Worshipful Brother Thad. B. Landon, having honored me by appointment as your representative to the meetings and ceremonies of the United Grand Lodge of England on the occasion of the dedication of the Masonic Peace Memorial at London on July 19, 1933, I promptly accepted the tendered appointment in connection with similar designation by Most. Worshipful Brother Wallace Hughston, Grand Master of Masons in Texas. I was greatly pleased and very highly complimented by this appointment at the hands of your Most Worshipful Gr-and Master and made arrangements to attend the ceremonies. Upon reporting to the Right Worshipful Grand Secretary, Sir Colville Smith, at London, he very courteously informed me that the regulations for the occasion did not permit proxy representation from foreign countries, and that they could not therefore recognize me as your accredited delegate; that this matter had been fully explained to your Grand Master by letter, but that they were very much pleased to have a representative of the Grand Lodge of Missouri present during their celebration, and would call upon me at a proper time for a statement on behalf of your Grand Lodge. The week of July 17 to 22, inclusive, was set apart by the United Grand Lodge of England as a special period for Masonic celebrations, and a program of events for the several days was carefully arranged. On Tuesday, July 18, a special communication of the United Grand Lodge of England was held in the Royal Albert Hall. It was estimated that there were about eight thousand Masons present, the meeting, of course, being within tiled doors. In all of the ceremonies incident to this meeting strict ritualistic form was observed and the arrangement for the seating of those in attendance was unique and impressive. Unofficial brethren wearing collars and aprons bordered in blue filled the galleries and some of the back rows of the main floor. Brethren of the grades of Grand Deacon and Grand Steward and past officers of those ranks were seated

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en bloc in the main body of the auditorium, wearing collars and aprons bordered or decorated with red; while all those of higher grade or official rank wore black with ornamentation of gold braid, including military cuffs. The sight was most impressive, giving a keen realization of the dignity of the occasion and of the very high esteem and appreciation in which Masonry is held in Great Britain. H. R. H., the Duke of Connaught, uncle of the reigning sovereign, King George V, has been Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge for more than a quarter of a century, and even at his advanced age, he is still hale and hearty, and presided on this occasion and at the dedication on the following day with great dignity and becoming courtesy. The Grand Lodge opened "in due and ancient form," and the representatives of foreign Grand Jurisdictions were then admitted in groups. Those from America (which term was generally used when referring to the United States) were conducted by the Grand Master of Ceremonies, with trumpets blowing a fanfare, escorted to the East and introduced as a body to the Grand Master, who received them with a few words of cordial welcome, and then each individual of the group was presented personally to the Grand Master, who shook hands with him and said a few pleasant words of greeting. The visitors were then seated on the platform where they could see and hear all that took place. After the presentation of delegates the proceedings consisted mainly of speeches from a representative of each delegation, when Brother Curtis Chipman, Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge -1f Massachusetts, spoke on behalf of his own Grand Lodge and other American Grand Lodges. Speeches of welcome were made by several of the officers of the United Grand Lodge, and the Most Worshipful Grand Mastel' then announced the el~ction of Prince George, fourth son of King George V, to the rank of Senior Grand Warden; and he was duly invested and seated in his chair. The Grand Master announced that in honor of the occasion he had conferred Masonic dignities upon a number of distinguished brethren of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose names and titles were read and duly published. Among the notables present were H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; H. R. H., the Duke of York, next in line of succession to the Prince of Wales; and H. R. H., Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of the Most Worshipful Grand Master, each of whom holds the rank of Provincial Grand Master. Very interesting ceremonies and addresses took place and ~n due course the United Grand Lodge was closed in splendid form, and the members of the royal family shook hands with the foreign delegates as they passed by. On Wednesday, .ruly 19, 1933, the new Masonic building of the United Grand Lodge of England was formally dedicated in full ritualistic form and with impressive ceremonies and incidents. Field Marshal, H. R. H., the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Most Worshipful Grand Master, presided, and it was a remarkable event in view of his age, and bis splendid physical eondition, alertness of mind and dignity of carriage added greatly to the impressiveness of the event. The ceremony of dedication was performed in much the same manner, and with practically the same detail of service, as used in our own and other American Grand Lodges, and was carried out with an exactitude of ritualism and splendid attention to details by the acting officers which made the whole event not only a notable one in English and even world Masonic history, but an occasion on which all of those in attendance were proud to be present as spectators. I file with this report the following documents: The Illustrated Lon.<J,on News of July 22, 1933 (magazine); The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated Magazine of July 22, 1933;

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A pamphlet, "The Ceremony of Dedication of the Masonic Peace Memorial' , . A pamphlet, "Order of Procedure at the Special Grand Lodge held in connection with Dedication of. the Masonic Peace Memorial, July 18, 1933 "; A pamphlet, "The Grand Lodge Library and Museum"; A pamphlet, "Masonic Peace Memorial" (full description of build路 ing) ; Invitation to reception and dinner to guests of United Grand Lodge of England, July 17, 1933; A model or replica of the Great Tower over the en trance to the Masonic Peace Memorial (Grand Lodge building). All of these documents will furnish to those who are sufficiently interested to examine and peruse them full details respecting the great Grand Lodge building, which the Most Worshipful Grand Master declared was specifically intended to be "a perpetual memorial of honour to the many brethren who fell during the war, and of gratitude to all who assisted to secure its victorious termination, combining with it the headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England, which should be a home worthy of its great traditions." On the following day, July 20, the visiting delegates were conducted through the Grand Lodge building, which they found to be Masonical1y practical and artistically beautiful in all of its arrangements and ~p颅 pointments, and a splendid tribute to those brethren of the Craft who had in charge the duty of arranging, furnishing and equipping the great temple auditorium and the various apartments of the building. rrhe visitors, with many local brethren in attendance, were then conducted to one of the large rooms, where the Pro-Grand Master, Lord Ampthill, presided, and the representatives of all foreign Grand Lodges were welcomed and requested to present any resolutions, memorials, credentials or remarks they might wish to offer on behalf of the respective Grand Lodges represented by them. In due course the Pro-Grand Master called upon me to respond on behalf of the Most WorshipfUl Grand Lodge of the State of Missouri; when I presented the credential of authority issued to me by your Most Worshipful Grand Master, with the statement that the Grand Lodge of Missouri was proud to be represented on this great hk torical occasion, though such representation could not be acknowledged in fun official measure, the delegate being only a proxy for the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Missouri; but that the Grand Lodge of that State (one of the great Grand Lodges of America), felt an especial pride in the accomplishments of their British brethren and had commissioned me to express their congratulations to the United Grand Lodge of England on the successful completion of its great purpose as demonstrated in the erection and present dedication of the Masonic Peace Memorial, with the felicitations and cordial good wishes of the Grand Lodge of Missouri for the continued and harmonious labors of the United Grand Lodge in behalf of the peace of the world and the advancement of enlightenment and universal brotherhood among mankind. The ProGrand Master replied that he was pleased on behalf of the United Grand Lodge to receive this expression of Masonic good will and brotherhood from the Grand Lodge of Missouri and to reciprocate the sentiments thereby expressed. The next day was taken up by a visit of the delegates to the Masonic schools maintained by the Fraternity in the vicinity of London, where great work is being done in that line along plans somewhat similar to our institutions of like purpose in this country, and which institutions in England are covering a vast field of benevolence and accomplishing great results.

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During this memorial week the representatives of foreign Grand Lodges were the guests of the United Grand Lodge of England and were delightfully entertained, there being on each day an official luncheon or dinner, and sometimes both, by some branch of the Fraternity or an official representative, on one occasion a splendid dinner being given by the Lord Mayor of London, and on another day the foreign delegates being invited to a lawn party at Buckingham Palace given by the King and Queen, who were present on the grounds. Altogether, the whole occasion pertaining to the dedication of the great Masonic Peace Memorial by the United Grand Lodge of England was a most notable one in Masonic history, and a most delightful one to those who were invited and permitted to participate therein. On this visit to England I was accompanied by Brother James C. Jones, 33 0 , of Dallas, Texas, Past Master, who received all the courtesies and considerations which could properly be bestowed upon one who was a visitor without official designation, and who was graciously permitted to attend the especial Grand Lodge session on July 18 and the dedication and other ceremonies on July 19 and 20. I very cordially appreciate the honor done me by appointment as representative of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Missouri, which I was proud to represent, and I especially appreciate the personal compliment implied by my appointment by your Most Worshipful Grand Master, whom I am delighted to count as one of my sincere and most highly esteemed friends. Fraternally submitted, SAM P. COOHRANE.

M. VV. BROTHER COCHRAN: Most Worshipful Grand Master, I have the pleasure of presenting to you a model or replica of the great tower on the great building of the Grand Lodge of England as it stands, with the entrance to this wonderful building which cost one million pounds or five million dollars, built right in the heart of the City of London. (Loud applause.) M. W. GRAND MASTER LANDON: Most Worshipful Brother Cochran, I am very sure that I may speak for the brethren here present, and the Grand Lodge, our great appreciation of your kindness in attending this celebration in London, and the honor that you have conferred upon this Grand Lodge in attending the same, and extending the best wishes of the Grand Lodge of Missouri to the brethren in London. Thank you very much, and we appreciate your attendance with us today. BROTHER COCHRAN: Thank you. M. "V. GRAND MASTER LANDON: Also these mementos that you brought with you to put in the archives of the Grand Lodge, I want every brother to see this replica, and these documents will be perused at leisure, I am sure, by the brethren. I will pass them over to the Grand Secretary so that they may be seen and preserved. Now, brethren, it is my pleasure to present to you a former Missourian, a soldier, a citizen and a Mason. Major General Amos A. Fries, I am happy to extend to you the platform so that you may speak to the brethren of Missouri. .

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MAJOR GENERAL AMOS A. FRIES: Most Vvorshipful Grand Master, members of the Grand Lodge of the State of Missouri, and visiting eminent brethren in Missouri from other jurisdictions: First, Most Worshipful Grand Master, let me express to you and this Grand Lodge my very great appreciation of having the privilege of being with you today, hearing your discussions and appreciating your deep interest in the welfare of your brethren who are distressed and still worthy Master Masons. And may I also congratulate you on showing a little of that sternness that we had in the third degree. We need a little more than that in American character. I have written this address. You know the old saying is, you like to see a man with a written address, you know that he is going to quit sometime. (Laughter.) THE MASON'S DUTY AS A CITIZEN Most WorshipfuZ Grand Master and Brethren of the GrOlnd Lodge of Missouri: It is with deep and reverent pride that I address this Worshipful Grand Lodge of Missouri. It was just 58 years ago this summer that my father with wife and two children, of whom I was the younger, settled on a little farm in Holt County, Missouri, a hundred miles north of this city. My father was born in the great city of New York, but when nine years old his parents moved into the forests of southwest Wisconsin. Until he came to Missouri, 19 years later, he had spent all of his youth and early manhood in the woods. TIe knew the never ending toil that it took to hew a home out of unbroken timber. To him the prairie of northwest Missouri was as the promised land to Moses and his :flock. Resisting all the contrary arguments of his Uncle George Fries, who lived close to Oregon City in the woods that then lined the bluffs which separate the lowlands of the muddy Missou路ri from the prairies, my father moved in August, 1875, onto a 40-acre tract of prairie land 12 miles north of Oregon City. It is to that little home on the prairie, treeless and almost brushless, with no other house in sight, that my memory turns to those earliest scenes which naught but death can erase from memory's book of life. My father prospered and in a very few short years moved a mile and a half away to a larger farm, where he continued to add additional acres until thirteen years had rolled by. As I stated at first, there were two children of us when my parents left Wisconsin and settled on the rich prairie land of northwest Missouri. Three more children came to bless the household, though the third child, a daughter, passed away in her seventh year and rests in the Old United Brethren churchyard just a quarter of a mile from that first forty acres. And thus it was that the first great sorrow came into my life, as well as many lasting joys, on the farm lands that were my boyhood home. My older sister is only 13 months older than 1. We were inseparable companions, more especially so that my mother was not well for the first three or four years on the prairie, and my father had to be away much, working for wages or hauling wood from the bluffs ten miles distant or from along the Nodaway River bottom about half that distance away in the other direction. Literally my sister and I "roamed the d'aisied fields together." Two dogs, one very small and the other a fair-sized

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Shepherd, were our only companions. They must have been our guardian angels. I well remember when I was only a little more than three years old and we were, I judge, three hundreds yards away from the little home and the sick mother, a great band of cattle-several hundred-were driven toward us. And now, after the lapse of more than half a century, I can see those cattle spread a few yards to right and to left to go around two urchins and two small dogs that stood still, and in wide-eyed amazement, but without fear or worry, watch a veritable sea of cattle flow all around them and, finally getting clear, move on to the market or to a new feeding ground. I recall two horsemen tending the cattle slouching leisurely in their saddles as unconcerned, apparently, as we. Perhaps all that seems rather too detailed for two children of three and four years, but then there were few things to distract memory in those days. No other children, no houses, no roads, no- travelers, just mama and papa and two little dogs to think about. "Ho,w dear to. my heart are the scenes of my childhood," sang the poet. He must have been born and must have lived his childhood in the silence of the prairies. He never could have ''VTitten those moving words if he had been born and had passed his early years amid the throbbing, roaring city, with its million distractions to blur memory and too often to dim the sensitiveness that God ordained should be the guide to better things for all human beings. And it was there that I first learned about Masons and Masonry. At seventeen, just after the close of the Civil War, my father who, to his sorrow, was too young to get into the war, though he tried to run away from home and enlist, went to Michigan where some of his mother's relatives lived, and began life in the lumber camps of that famous lumbering center three score and ten years ago. And there an all-wise Providence saw fit to direct my father's footsteps among Masons. Men were men in those days in Michigan's dense wood8. Perhaps they were roughly clad, sometimes perhaps rough of speech, but good men and true who feared naught save dishonor. Into the mysteries and truths, but above all into the fadeless truths of Masonry, my. father's thoughts were guided. Like his teachers, most probably, my father had little schooling. He could read and write but that 'was enough. Rapidly he went through the degrees to the Royal Arch where he stopped, never to go farther. But what a world of beauty, what a world of philosophy, what a world of true companionship, yes, what a world of science, was opened up to that young man who after his ninth year had never been fifty miles from his own rude fireside until he went into the woods of Michigan and saw there the great lights of Masonry. Masonry truly became the guide of his life. Fiery of temper, strong of mind and body, as agile and quick on his feet as the tiger itself, fearing neitTlCr man nor devil with a fearlessness inconceivable almost to me, he needed Masonry to temper his being as steel needs hammering to temper and purify its fiber. He lived his Masonry, he practiced it, and he never let go unheeded the sign of danger, or dire need. His book on Chapter Masonry was his daily companion, as it became the greatest wonder in all my early life with its symbolic pictures and letters. He talked to me of Masonry, of what it meant to him, of what he learned in it of philosophy, of scien~e, of understanding of the great truths of life and the hereafter. Often have I pondered at the depth of his understanding. Often have I wondered how he got his marvelous conception of things which I think became clear to me with all my tremendous advantages of education in science, art and literature only after far more years had greyed my hair than was the case with him.

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As a ten-year,old boy at a farmer's house, where the whole family had gone one Sunday, he got into a discussion with his best friend, Mr. Garrett, as to the size of the universe. Mr. Garrett was contending ably and vigorously that there was an end to space, that it couldn't be any other way because there was an end to everything. And just then, when my father should have been. squelched, he shot back the question which has kept my mind straight on that subject all these years, notwithstanding world-renowned fakers like Albert Einstein, "If there be an end to space, what is just beyond the end" ~ And that answer came from a farmer with little schooling, with few books and, perhaps fortunately, with little contact with modern professors. Nothing in all human wisdom could have done that for him except the truths of Masonry deeply imbedded in his soul. And thus at 17, when I began more or less to make my way in life and.to be away from home a good deal, I knew Masonry better, unfortunately, than an all too great a number of Master Masons ever know Masonry. That is, I knew the great universal truths of Masonry, but without the slightest idea of any of the meaning of Masonic symbols or an inkling of a single secret of Masonry. Rigidly unto death, my father guarded those secrets enjoined upon all Master Masons everywhere. At 38 my father broke down physically from overwork, doing the job of three men while threshing wheat in a blistering August week. In 1888, we went west to Oregon, and later to Los Angeles where, at the age of 81 my father passed to the Great Beyond at peace with the world, leaving the world better for his having lived in it. I would to God that we could say that of every Master Mason who passes out of this life. Do you wonder I came back to Old Missouri, before this Worshipful Grand Lodge, to say these things with such solemn pleasure as nothing else in life has ever given me~ Do you wonder, also, that I feel an intense obligation to this Nation of ours which has made it possible for me to rise from a barefoot farmer's boy on the treeless prairies of Missouri to the high position of Major. General in the United States Army and chief of one of its great services' Do you wonder that I feel an intense obligation to do all in my power to see that this Nation shall continue in the future as it has during the past 144 years since the Constitution went into effect ~ The basic principle in our Government is the basic principle of Masonry--equality of opportunity. As every Entered Apprentice Mason is told when on the first step in. Masonry, the whole road to Master of his Lodge is open to him. But he must do the work. No one can or will push him up; indeed, no one could if he wished. Equality of opportunity does not mean that all men are equal in brain capacity, in physical vigor, or in that insatiable thirst for knowledge that has animated the greatest men of all time, but within the limits of physical and mental fitness every man in Masonry has the same chance to rise in the Lodge, and the Masons of the Revolution wrote, so far as human wisdom could do so, that principle into our Constitution, and 144 years of intense development and progress beyond that of all previous human history has shown no better way than our forefathers planned for us. And who were those men of the ReVOlution who did that marvelous piece of work~ They were Master Masons-almost all of them. No other work in any way comparable to the great work of bringing this Nation into being ever had such an unanimity of thought and training as the soldiers, the statesmen, the farmers and the business men of the Revolutionary War period and the years immediately following, which ushered into being not only a new nation, but a new era for man-the average man-an era of equality of opportunity never dreamed anywhere prior to that time outside a Masonic lodge.

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And how was that great work accomplished f Did they "let George do it, " to use a common phrase ~ Well, yes, they chose George Washington to lead them, but they went along, and many there were who preceded him. He was Master elected for a definite period and for a definite piece of work, first as commander-in-chief until liberty was won, and then later as first president until the new nation had passed the rocks and whirlpools of political passion that always beset a new venture in government. Then other Masons, as Jefferson, as Madison, as that incomparable jurist, John Marshall, caught the torch of freedom which George tossed to them and carried it onward. N ow, where was the work of those Masons that planned the Revolutionary War, that planned the Declaration of Independence, that wrote the Constitution of the United States itself, carried on ~ Was it in some church; was it in some c1uo; was it in some special hall or building that could be hired for the purpose~ Not at all. The work was done in the Lodges. Unquestionably much of it, perhaps the greater portion of it, was done in open lodge. It was perfectly natural that it should be so. In the Lodge they were riot only among friends, they were among brother Masons who had taken the same vows, had traveled the same road, who had been found worthy and well qualified, and who, above all, had been vouched for by brother Masons as men in whom they could pin their faith and to whom they could trust all the secrets of a Master Mason. They all knew that governments made their lives happy or unhappy. Then, why should they not, in their Masonic lodges, work on designs drawns on their trestle board that would found and perpetuate a government that would insure to them and their children, and their children's children, all the rights and benefits which they so earnestly. sought in the Lodge. These things I speak of, for we are in troublous times. Where shall we turn for guidance~ Whom can we trusU Where can we work on our designs free from cowans and eavesdroppers ~ Where, indeed, than in the open lodge, under the seal of all the secrecy the Master may enjoin ~ A dozen years ago, when I made a similar statement in a Lodge, I was confronted with a half score of brethren who said, "Oh, you can't do that. That would be bringing politics into the Lodge-a thing forbidden everywhere." But the science of government is NOT politics. Politics is the effort to elect somebody to office by some political organization or similar body not animated by that great cardinal principle of Masonic elections of who best can work and best agree. And I am delighted that in the dozen years since that time Masons are beginning to consider in open lodges questions of government, of civic welfare, of the attitude of certain groups toward our Government and its institutions, and to inquire who are directing movements which, if successful, must injure if not entirely destroy our great and good government. And here I come to the subject of my address, THE MASON'S DUTY AS A CITIZEN. First, last, and always, the true Mason is 'an active Mason. In the building of King Solomon's Temple every man was a diligent worker, from Illustrious King Solomon down to the newest entered apprentice. Each carried on his appointed task. Each strove to improve his work that he might reach the sublime degree of a Master Mason, and the Master Mason strove to ever better his work that he might become an overseer or even perhaps an assistant to the master designer, Hiram Abiff. And so I come before you tonight as one who, having traveled in aU

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directions, has important information that each of you, himself a King Solomon under American freedom, should have on which to base your judgment, and for your guidance in further work for the good of the Nation. In the momentous year 1776, which gave to the world our Declaration of Independence, there appeared a dark cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, that is destined to become, or rather I should say has already become, the blackest, foulest cloud that ever darkened the noonday of man's freedom. It was in that year that Adam Weishaupt, of Germany, wrote out the six principles of what we today call Communism. Those six principles were, and still are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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private property. all rights of inheritance. the family (state to rear children in barracks). marriage. religion. the distinction between town and country.

Carrying out that program is the abolition of Christian civilization, and that is just what Communism proposes to do to this fair land of ours, whenever, and if, it can become strong enough to do so. Can it be done~ No; and, sadly, yes. No, if only Masons will awaken to the danger ere it is too late. Yes, if our Nation allows the poison of this two-faced monster of Communism to be pumped into our schools, our churches, our law-making bodies, and into every home only a few years longer. It is worth ~oting that the above six objectives of the Communists were rewritten and published in 1848 by Karl Marx, who defined Communism for the first time, to my knowledge, as the "dictatorship of the proletariat." Here is Marx's 'definition of the prOletariat, as taken verbatim from his Manifesto, now published by the Communist party: "The slum proletariat,* * * is formed by the putrefaction of the lowest strata of the old society, * * * The proletarian has no property; his relation to wife and children is utterly different from the family relations of bourgeois life; modern industrial labor, * * * has despoiled him of his national characteristics. Law, morality, and religion have become for him so many bourgeois prejudices, * * *. Proletarians have nothing of their own to safeguard; it is their business to destroy all preexistent private proprietary securities and private property safeguards. The proletariat, the lowest stratum of extant society can not raise itself, without disrupting the whole superstructure comprising the strata which make up that society. "Abolition of the family! Even the extreme radicals hold up their hands in horror when they speak of this shameful Com1nunist proposal. At worst, communists can only be charged with wanting to replace a hypocritical and concealed community of women by an official and frankly acknowledged community." There, in 150 words, is Communism, its degradation, its infamy, its Godlessness, its horror. And that is the hellish foundation of the Russian government we are now asked to recognize. In 1917, Leon Trotsky (Leon Braunstein) going from the East side of New York and joining Lenin (an'alias, his right name being Ulianoff) from Switzerland, in company with a few hundred renegades from all lands from all over the world, poured into Russia and by sheer human slaughter without mercy, or regard to age, sex or color, seized the government of Russia from Kerensky (who had forced the abdication ef the Czar) and set up the Communist government now in control.

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Since November 7, 1917, when the Communists seized control, more horrors, more murders, more tortures have ravished Russia than in all other recorded history in all the world. It is exceedingly important that the American people understand that the Communists did not overthrow the Czar. That, as said above, was done by Kerensky and those who, like him, believed in a government based on that of the United States-that is, a representative republic where the rulers are elected by a vote of the people, and who hold office only so long as the majority of the people want them to do so. And, more important still, a government where the powers of the rulers are defined and limited by law. The Soviet government of Russia is an unlimited dictatorship. The people have no more say in who the dictator shall be, or what he.shall do, than have the sheep on the farm as to who the owner of the farm shall be. The dictator not only can tell the people what they shall do, but as be controls the production and distribution of food, can and does say who shall and who shall not eat, and therefore who shall live and who shall starve to death, and he does that very thing today. A moment ago I spoke of Communism as a two-faced serpent. One face of that serpent is the face of the pacifist that pretends to shrink at the sight of a rifle, or a young man drilling under arms, or at the sight of a battleship, or a military airplane OF THE UNITED STATES-but a face that lights up like the rays of the morning sun if the rifle, the bo~'s drilling, the battleship or airplane belong to foreigners, but most joyous of all if they belong to that beast among nations-Soviet Russia. The other face of the serpent of Communism is hideous as Dante '( "Inferno," the face of the destroyer of womankind, of starved little children, of millions of men and women slaughtered without mercy, torn limb from limb, buried alive, or yet left to die as they are eaten alive by ants attracted by sugar strewn over their helpless bodies. A horrible picture! You shudder, and thousands there be who will rise up and say, "It is impossible that such things can occur in this Twentieth Century of the Christian era." A secret society, called the "Illuminati," was organized in Europe, particularly in Germany and France, by the Communists, shortly after Adam Weishaupt published his principles of Communism in 1776. The Communists who organized it claimed the Illuminati was a Masonic organization..The athetistic, communistic, revolutionary activities of the Illuminati, under路 the name of Masonry, brought great discredit on Masonry, not alone in Europe, where Masonry has never fully recovered from its evil influence, but in the United States during the early part of the Nineteenth Century, particularly some twenty-five years after the death of Washington. Even today we hear it charged very frequently that the Illuminati is and was Masonic. And that carries the lesson that all Masons should guard with the most zealous care against the starting of spurious bodies claiming to be Masonic, and insist in our courts of law and elsewhel.路e that the name Mason should be used only by members in good standing of the Masonic grand jurisdictions now fully organized in every state and in every colony of the United States. N ow, every good American must be unalterably opposed to Communism, for Communism is the beastly opposite of everything for which the United States Government stands. Particularly should Masons be fiercely, ceaselessly and unremittingly active against Communism, for its teachings and practices are the complete destruction of every ideal of Masonry. Just note again the six principles of Communism: 1. Abolition of private property. 2. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

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of the family (state to rear children in barracks). of marriage. of religion. of distinction between town and country.

Of course, whenever one attacks the Communist, his sympathizers or his dupes for their vile teachings, they yell, "You are violating the right of 'free speech.' " And, sad to say, many a good man has agreed that free speech covers the right to teach immorality, to condemn our form of government, the right to teach murder, assassination or the overthrow of our Government by force and violence. But the Supreme Court has consistently held that the right of free speech does not include the right to say anything that corrupts good morals, or that incites to riot, bloodshed, or the disturbance of the peace. Those are not the exact words of the Supreme Court, but it is plainly what they meant. There are three and one-quarter millions of Masons in this country. The Nation's destiny is in their hands. If they will diligently seek light on all these fundamental Masonic questions concerning our Government, and having received light will then act to preserve the home, and to keep the Holy Bible as their guide and faith on every altar, whether in the lodge room or the home, America will be safe. But Masons must become active. They must go forth, north, east, south and west in search of the murderers, and when found, must take them without the walls and execute them as their crimes warrant. This admonition must be taken both literally and metaphorically. Criminals must not be mollycoddled. All Communists and their knowing friends fight the death sentence. Why~ So when the Communist revolution is started they can set those criminals free to murder, rape, burn and pillage, in order to destroy all free men and cower all others into the condition of sheep in the fold-incapable or unwilling to fight for their own honor or that of their mothers, sisters, wives or daughters. In the words of Patrick Henry, "Forbid it, Almighty God! "

M. VV. GRAND MASTER LANDON: Brother Fries, may I express to you the appreciation and the thanks of the Grand Lodge of Missouri for the message you have brought to us this evening. It certainly is instructive and appreciated. Thank you very much. CALLED FROM LABOR

At 10 :05 o'clock P.M. the M. W. Grand Lodge was CALLED FROM LABOR until 9 :00 o'clock A.M. Wednesday morning, September 27, 1933. Prayer was offered by R. VV. Reverend Brother Emmet L. Robison, Grand Chaplain.

SECOND DAY, MORNING SESSION CALLED TO LABOR

At 9 o'clock A.M. the M. W. Grand Lodge was CALLED TO LABOR by M. W. Grand Master, Thad. B. Landon, the Grand Officers being in their respective stations as on the preceding day. Prayer was offered by R. W. Rev. Brother Emmet L. Robison, Grand Chaplain.

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R. W. Brother James A. Kinder, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, requested authority to pay the mileage路 and per diem of Roy A. Green, 'V. M. of Blodgett Lodge No. 594 for attendance at the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge in 1931. The same was granted. REQUEST OF JOHN J. WOOD

The Grand Secretary presented the request of Brother John J. Wood, formerly a member of Monsarrat Lodge No. 379, located at Brushy Fork Church, "Rome Post Office," in the Grand Jurisdiction of Kentucky, a Past Master of that Lodge and now a member of Hebron Lodge No. 354, located at Mexico, Missouri, desiring to be recognized as a Past Master in this jurisdiction, under our law. The Grand Lodge granted this request. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MASONIC BOARDS OF RELIEF

To the M. W. Grand Lodge, .A. F. and .A. M. of Missouri: Your Committee on Masonic Boards of Relief are in receipt of the various reports submitted by the relief boards of Kansas City, St. Louis, St. Joseph, and Springfield, Missouri, and we have carefully analyzed each report. These reports cover the high spots only and there are no records available to check detail. We feel that the various boards have done splendid work this year in view of present economic conditions and limited finances. Copy of all reports are appended and in view of the fact that the Grand Master has appointed a special committee on Boards of Relief who will make a full report, we, your Committee, will make no further comment at this time. Fraternally submitted, D. R. WARD, FRANK

Adopted.

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Committee on Boards of Relief. W. BROTHER LOUIS TISCH

M. W. Brother 'Villiam R. Gentry, P. G.. M., called attention to the serious sickness of ,V. Brother Louis Tisch, for many years the honored secretary of Pride of the West Lodge No. 179, and moved that a suitable message in appreciation of his long and faithful service as a Mason and as a member of this Grand Lodge be sent him, with a fervent hope for his speedy recovery. The Grand Lodge so ordered and M. W. Brother Gentry was designated to communicate the following letter to him: Worshipful Brother Louis Tisch, 2424 N orthland Avenue, Overland Station, St. Louis, Missouri. At the one hundred and thirteenth Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri, on motion duly made and seconded,

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the Grand Lodge unanimously agreed to send the following message to you: The Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri, sends cordial fraternal greetings to Worshipful Brother Louis Tisch; expresses itR appreciation of his long and faithful service to Freemasonry; and wishes him speedy recovery from his present illness.

Grand Secretary. GRAND MASTER'S SPECIAL RELIEF PROGRAM

M. VV. Grand Master Landon called the Committee on Jurisprudence at this time to present that portion of their report as to the legal proposition included in his address on the Masonic Home in connection with the Emergency Relief Program. In response thereto R. W. Brother C. Lew Gallant read that portion of the committee's report on the Emergency Program of the 1\1:. ""V. Grand Master as set forth on pages 22 to 37 of his annual address, and moved the adoption of that portion of the report. The motion was duly seconded, and that portion of the report was adopted. (See Jurisprudence Report, page 105.) REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE GRAND MASTER'S RELIEF PROGRAM

R. \V. Brother vVillis J. Bray, chairman, read the following report: To the M. W.Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: We, your Special Committee, appointed to consider the Grand Master's Relief Program, submit the following report: 1. Concerning Recommendation No.1, page 51 of the Grand Master's address, we offer the following resolution: Be It Rcsol'ved, That the delinquent per capita tax now due and owing by the Lodges, as and when received by the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home, shall be used for the relief of indigent worthy Master Masons, their widows and orphans, outside of said Home, and regardless of whether such applicants for such relief would be entitled to admission to the Masonic Home or not, and under such rules and regulations as the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home may establish. 2. Concerning Recommendation 2, we offer the following resolution: Be It Resolved, That the per capita tax of $2.10 which becomes due and payable June 30, 1934, be reduced by eliminating the sixty cents (60c) which goes to the Grand Lodge for its expenses, leaving the per capita tax due and payable as of the above date mentioned $1.50 per member, all of which to go to the Directors of the Masonic Home, and that said per capita tax shall be used by the Directors of the Masonic

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Home for the support of the Masonic Home and for the relief of indigent worthy Master Masons, their widows and orphans, regardless of whether applicants for such relief would be entitled to admission to the Masonic Home or not, outside the said Home, and under such rules or regulations as the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home may establish. 3. Concerning Recommendation 3, we offer the following resolution: Be It Resolved, That the One Dollar ($1.00) per member payable to the George Washington Memorial Association be discontinued until July 1, 1935. 4. Concerning Recommendation 4, we offer the following resolution: Be It Resolved, That the Ten Dollars ($10.00) collected from each initiate and transmitted to the Masonic Home be eliminated until January 1, 1935. 5. Concerning Recommendation 5 of the Grand Master's address, on page 31, we offer the following resolution: Be It Resolved, That the Welfare Committee be discontinued and the functions of that Committee be performed by the Masonic Home Board. Fraternally submitted, WILLIS J. BRAY, Chairman, For the Entire Committee.

R. W. Brother Forrest C. Donnell offered the following resolution, amending Proposition No.1, as follows: Be It Resolved, That the Lodges be and are hereby granted one year additional time, without interest, in which to pay the delinquent pCI' capita tax now due and owing by said Lodges; that said delinquent per capita tax shall be payable to the Welfare Committee as and when received by the Grand Secretary, and as and when received by said Welfare Committee shall be used for the relief of indigent worthy Master Masons, their widows and orphans, outside of the Masonic Home, and regardless of whether such applicants for such relief would be entitled to admission to the Masonic Home or not.

R. W. Brother Forrest C. Donnell offered the following resolution, amending Proposition No.5, as follows: Be It Resolved, That the Welfare Committee be discontinued and the functions of that committee be performed by the Masonic Home Board, that action be and is hereby deferred until the next Annual Communica,tion and that the Special Committee by which the adoption of said 'resolution was recommended be and is continued for said year for further consideration of said resolution and report thereon.

Both these resolutions were carried and the report of the Special Committee on Grand Master's relief program as amended was then adopted. M. W. Grand Master Landon then declared that under the motion the fifth portion of the report of the Special Committee is continued until the next Annual Communication and the committee itself is continued until the next Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge. NOTE. M. W. Grand Master Landon declared that the above Emergency Relief legislation goes into effect immediately upon the adjournment of the present Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge.

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REPRESENTATIVE OF WELLSVILLE LODGE NO. 194

It appearing that some confusion had occurred in the making out of the credentials of the representative of Wellsville Lodge No. 194, the Grand Lodge authorized correction of the same and mileage and per diem allowed. RESOLUTION OF THANKS

R. W. Brother James VV. Skelly offered the following which was adopted by a rising vote. Resolved, That the thanks of this Grand Lodge be tendered to the brethren of Kansas City and Jackson County, and to Ararat Temple, Brother Arthur .J. Kelly, its recorder, and his office assistants, and to all the employees about the Temple, for the courtesies which have been extended during this Annual Communication. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RITUAL

M. Vi. Brother Anthony F. Ittner, chairman, on behalf of the Committee on Ritual, reported as follows: I desire to move that the Committee on Ritual be granted a year's extension for final report on the matters submitted to it last year.

Motion duly seconded and carried. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MASONIC PUBLICATIONS

M. W. Brother "\Villiam R. Gentry, chairman, on behalf of the Committee on Masonic Publications, requested that the Committee be continued until the Ilext Annual Communication. The request was granted. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MASONIC' SERVICE To the Most Worshipful Gmnd Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri: The activities of the Association during the year have centered around the securing and compiling of historical matter and an attempt to secure photographs of Masonic buildings, individuals and events for permanent file. Deeming such information to be of importance the Association hopes that the Grand Lodge may at some future time utilize these incidents in the preparation of a Grand Lodge history. The Association has not, during the year, released any publications because of the lack of funds for such work. The Committee discussed associational matters with the Grand Master and other members of the Grand Lodge but no definite objective was planned. While the work would appear somewhat curtailed the Committee would respectfully call attention to the fact that the Grand Lodge has not been to any expense by reason of its efforts. Fraternally submitted, THAD. R. SMITH, Chairman.

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R. W. Brother Grover C. Sparks submitted Section 3 of the report of the Committee on Jurisprudence and on motion this part of the report was adopted. (See page 105, Jurisprudence Committee report.) R. W. Brother C. Lew Gallant read that section of the report of the Committee on Jurisprudence relative to a resolution introduced to repeal Section 160 of the Grand Lodge By-Laws which provides for Life Memberships. The Jurisprudence Committee recommended that it be not adopted and the Grand Lodge concurred in the Committee's recommendation. (See page 106, Committee report.) R. 짜l. Brother C. Lew Gallant then read the Jurisprudence Committee's report referring to proposed alteration of Section 74 of the Grand Lodge By-Laws concer~ing the Ways and Means Committee and recommended that it be not adopted. The Grand Lodge concurred in the Committee's recommendation. (See Jurisprudence report, page 107.) R. \V. Brother C. L. Gallant read the proposed. amendment to By-Laws concerning the Annual Returns and recommended the adoption of that portion of the Jurisprudence Committee's report. The Grand Lodge adopted the amendment. (See Jurisprudence report, page 105.) R. W. Brother W. E. Bailey read the proposed amendment to Section 27-N of the .Grand Lodge By-Laws concerning the Ritual Committee and recommended that the same be adopted. The Grand Lodge concurred in the Committee's recommendation and adopted the amendment. (See page 106 of Jurisprudence report.) R. VV. Brother 'N. E. Bailey read the proposed amendment relative to the removal of officers from the State and recommended its adoption. The Grand Lodge adopted the amendment. (See Jurisprudence report, page 106.) R. W. Brother C. Lew Gallant read that section of the Jurisprudence Committee's report covering legislation introduced this year which should be acted upon at this session, and moved the adoption of the new Section 99A to the Grand Lodge By-Laws. The Grand Lodge adopted the new Section 99A. (See Jurisprudence report, page 107.) R. VV. Brother C. Lew Gallant then moved the adoption of that portion of the Jurisprudence Committee's report referring to the new Section 99B of the Grand Lodge By-Laws (report of Building Associations), and the Grand Lodge then adopted the new Section 99B. (See Jurisprudence report, page 107.) R. VY. Brother Grover C. Sparks read that portion of the Juris-

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prudence Committee's report covering Section 27 H-I, Ways and Means' Committee, and moved the adoption of that section. The Grand Lodge adopted the section. (See Jurisprudence report, page 108.) R. W. Brother Grover C. Sparks read the resolution proposed by the Special Committee on Boards of Relief and Employment Bureau 'relative to Section 27-J, Article IV of the Grand Lodge By-Law!'> and moved the adoption thereof. The Grand Lodge adopted this Section 27-J to the By-Laws. (See Jurisprudence report, page 109.) FULL REPORT OF JURISPRUDENCE COMMITTEE SECTION 1. UNFINISHED MATTERS COMING OVER FROM LAST YEAR.

1. Masonic Trials. There was introduced in 1931 (see pages 133-134 of Proceedings of 1931) an amendment to Section 261lh of the Grand Lodge By-Laws, which section relates to subject of trial by Commission, by adding thereto: "Provided, that In any case in which a Masonic trial is to be had, the Grand Master may, in his discretion, require that the trial shall be had by a Commission to be appointed by him." It was also proposed in 1931 (see pages 120-121 of Proceedings of 1931) to amend Section 261lh of the By-Laws by striking therefrom the concluding sentence reading as follows: , 'In trials ordered by the Most Worshipful Grand Master, by the Grand Lodge or any committee of the Grand Lodge with the approval of the Grand Lodge, such Grand Master, Grand Lodge or committee may designate that the trial is to be had by Commission." The Grand Lodge acted on the first of the above amendments but passed over until this year its action upon the second amendment. The report of the Jurisprudence Committee for the year 1932 is as follows: "It will be noted that the proposed amendment first above quoted would have the effect of enabling the Grand Master, in any case in which a Masonic trial is to be had, to require in his discretion, that the trial shall be had by a Trial Commission to be appointed by him. It will be noted that the effect of the second proposed amendment above quoted would be to withdraw from the Grand Master, the Grand Lodge and the committees of the Grand Lodge, the, power now existing respectively in the Grand Master, Grand Lodge or any such committee, to designate that any trials ordered by the Grand Master, Grand Lodge or such committee with the approval of the Grand Lodge, shall be had by Commission. , 'This Committee has considered both proposed amendments above set forth and reports to the Grand Lodge, that in view of the fact that trial by Commission has been in effect so short a time in Missouri, we deem it not advisable to make, at this time, either of the changes proposed by the above quoted amendments. We are of the opinion that it would be advisable to utilize trial by Commission in the form now prescribed in Section 261lh for an additional time in order that the Grand Lodge may profit by broader experience before undertaking to determine the wisdom of either of the courses suggested by such proposed amendments. It is, therefore, our recommendation that neither of the amendments be adopted."

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The Committee this year concurs in the report of the Committee of last year. We, therefore, recommend that while such amendment is in proper form and may be acted upon by the Grand Lodge at this session that it do not pass. The Grand Lodge ordered the above portion of the report of the Committee on Jurisprudence amended as follows: Section 2611;2, by striking therefrom the following: "In trials ordered by the Most Worshipful Grand Master, by the Grand Lodge or any committee of the Grand Lodge with the approval of the Grand Lodge, such Grand Master, Grand Lodge or committee may designate that the trial is to be had by Commission." And then adopted Section 261 1h as thus amended.

2. Residence of District Deputies and District Deputy Lect1~rers. The Jurisprudence Committee for the 132 Communication reported as follows: "Fourth: It was proposed in 1931 (see pages 135 and 136, Proceedings of 1931) to amend Sections 22 and 24 of the By-Laws in such manner as to make it possible that a District Deputy Grand Master may be either a resident of the district for which he is appointed or of a district which adjoins that for which he is appointed. The present law is that a District Deputy Grand Master must be a resident of the district for which he is appointed. It was also proposed in 1931 (see page 136, Proceedings of 1931) to amend Section 24 of the By-Laws so as to make it possible that a District Lecturer might reside either in the district for which he should be appointed or in a district adjoining the same. Under the present law a District Lecturer is required to be a resident of the district for which he is appointed. "On the whole we are not convinced that it is advisable that either a District Deputy Grand Master or a District Lecturer who resides in one district shall be appointed over an adjoining district. It appears to the Committee that it would be not advisable to authorize the appointment of such officers in districts other than that of their residence unless some general condition be first found to demand such a change in the law. So far as we now know, there is no district within the state jn which it is not practicable to secure an able and efficient District Deputy Grand Master and District Lecturer from among the brethren who reside in such district. "The amendments are in proper form but the Committee is not convinced of the need for them or that they will produce any substantial benefit to the Craft; and unless those favoring these amendments submitted to the Grand Lodge show a general need of or benefit to he derived from the same, we recommend that the amendments be not adopted. " We concur in the report of last year's Jurisprudence Committee and the recommendation that the amendments be not adopted. 3. The Grand Master at the 1932 Communication reported his decision No. 46 as follows: "46. Question: Ivanhoe Lodge No. 446 received a bill for $505.00 from the Kansas City Board of Relief, being for assessment on initiates reported in 1928. They submit the question as to whether they can be compelled to pay for 1928 in as much as no assessment was made during that year. . " Decision: It is my opinion that these assessments are not cumulative, but I wrote the Lodge that it was my suggestion that they should take a generous attitude in the matter, and that their Lodge cooperate with the other Lodges in Kansas City so that they might come to a proper understanding of the relief situation."

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The Jurisprudence Committee last year, without comment, recommended the approval of the Decision. On motion of the Most Worshipful Past Grand Master Boor, the consideration was deferred until this year '8 session of the Grand Lodge. The Committee this year feels that the decision of the Most Worshipful Brother Ray Denslow was legally correct and recommends that the Grand Lodge approve the same. 4. On page 186 of the Proceedings of 1932 appears a request from Edward McGuigan and John Lehr to call attention to apparent inconsistencies in decisions of former years on the By-Laws. Inasmuch as a complete revision of the By-Laws has been recommended by Most Worshipful Grand Master, we suggest that this request be referred t.o the Revision Committee. SECTION 2. REPORT OF JURISPRUDENCE CO:M:MITTER ON EMERGENCY PROGRAM SE'I' FORTH IN MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND MASTER'S ADDRESS.

Your Jurisprudence Committee met at Kansas City, September 25, 1933, and spent practically the entire day on the emergency program of the Most Worshipful Grand Master as .set forth on pages 22 to 37 of his annual address. The Committee "ras informed by the chairman of the Committee on the Grand Master's Address, that the relief program would be referred to it and accordingly has given it thorough consideration. Right Worshipful Brother Thomas H. Reynolds appeared before the Committee in behalf of the Masonic Home Board. The Committee has also conferred with the Special Committee provided in the report of the Committee on the Grand Master's Address. The Special Committee has indicated that all matters of finances and policy will be covered in its report to the Grand Lodge. Accordingly, we report here only such matters as are legal questions for the Jurisprudence Committee. The Committee has examined the resolutions offered and the amendments to the By-La.ws, together with the rulings of the Grand Master, as to the status of the Masonic Home Board and the Grand Lodge of Missouri, and respectfully reports as follows: 1. We concur in the ruling of Most Worshipful Grand Master set forth on page 24 of his Annual Address to the effect that the word "support" as used in said Section 74 of the By-Laws means" operation and, maintenance of the Masonic Home," and also the ruling as set forth on page 24 that "except by express direction of the Grand Lodge, no part or portion of the $1.50 per capita tax can be used for any other purpose than the support of the Masonic Home, and without directions can not be used toward the erection of buildings." SECTION

3. THE GRAND MASTER'S DECISIONS.

We recommend the approval of the Decisions of Most Worshipful Grand Master set forth in his report, pages 11 to 22, inclusive, embracing Decisions numbered 1 to 24, both inclusive. SECTION 4. AMENDMENTS TO BY-I1AWS INTRODUCED A'l' 1932 COMMUNICATION AND REQUlRRD UNDER THE BY-LAWS TO LAY OVER FOR ACTION UN'I'lL THE 1933 COMMUNICATION.

1. Annual Returns. An amendment was introduced in the form of a resolution, reading- as follows: Be It Resolved, That Section 75 of the By-Laws of the Grand Lodge be amended by striking out the language: "Such returns shall contain a list of officers and members of the Lodge" and substituting in lieu thereof the following language:

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, 'Such returns shall contain a list of officers and, if and when requested in writing by the Grand Secretary, a list of the members of the Lodge"; so that said section as amended shall read: "SECTION 75. Annual Returns. The fiscal year of a Lodge shall close on the 30th day of June and every Chartered Lodge in this J urisdiction shall forward its annual returns on or before August 1st to the Grand Secretary. Such returns shall contain a list of officers and, if and when requested in 路writing by the Grand Secretary, a list of the members of the Lodge; a list of those who have been initiated, passed, raised and admitted; a list of deaths, demissions, suspensions, expulsions, rejections and restorations, with respective dates opposite each name; such returns shall be in duplicate, signed by the Master, and attested by the Secretary, under the seal of the Lodge, and forwarded to the Grand Secretary, with the dues, at the time specified above. Failure to make such returns shall subject a Lodge to a fine of Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each period of thirty days or a fraction thereof such reo turns are withheld." The Committee reports that the amendment is in due form and recom路 mends that it be. adopted. 2. Ritual路 Committee. There was proposed by the Ritual Committee at the 1932 Communication an amendment to Article IV, Section 27-N, by the addition of certain language set out on page 195 of the Proceedings of 1932, the effect of which additionallanguage is that Section 27-N, when amended, shall read as follows: "ARTICLE IV, SECTION 27-N. Ritual. , 'A Committee on Ritual to whom shall be referred all proposed changes in the Ritual. "Said Committee shall constitute a Board of Custodians whose further duty it shall be to conserve and preserve the work and lectures .of the Three Degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry and to act as final arbiter in the decision of all disputes concerning the Ritual arising in this Grand Jurisdiction. Said Committee shall consist of five members and the terms of the members constituting said Committee for the first year shall expire in one, two, three, four and nve years, respectively, and each member appointed to serve on said Committee after the expiration of the first year shall be appointed to serve for a term of five years. The Committee shall meet not to exceed three times each year, at such times and places as the Grand Master shall designate and shall confer with reference to the work and duties of the Committee." The Committee reports that such amendment is in proper form and recommends that it be adopted. 3. Removal of Officers fTom State. 'rhere was proposed by Most Worshipful Grand Master Denslow, an amendment to Section 93 by striking out the words "the permanent removal from the State" and adding between the words "disability" and "resignation" the word "or," so that said section as amended shall read: , 'SECTION 93. In the event of the death, disability, or resignation of any officer of a Lodge, such office ipso facto becomes vacant; provided, that in case of a vacancy so arising in the office of Master, the Senior and Junior Wardens shall, in succession, assume his prerogatives and duties for all purposes, except the installation of officers, until the 'Vacancy in the office of Master shall be filled as provided in Section 95." The Committee finds that the amendment is in proper form and recommends that it be adopted. A resolution proposed by Most Worshipful Grand Master Denslow was introduced to repeal Section 160, which provides for life membership, as follows: Resolved, That Section 160 of the By-Laws be repealed.

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A few of the Lodges in Missouri apparently have abused the right to issue life memberships and financial distress has resulted. However, in many of the 660 Lodges of the State, members who have paid dues for thirty years, or similar periods, have been promised under the ByLaws a life membership. They have looked forward to this, and some members have struggled to keep their dues paid for just a year or two longer so that they eould realize the goal of life membership. In most instances the Lodges are able to carry out the By-Laws in this respect.. We do not feel that the instances where life membership apparently have been abused are sufficient for the Grand Lodge to prohibit further life memberships. It is good for the Lodges, who know their own individual 'problems, to pass upon such matters and use their discretion. They may amend their By-Laws to repeal life membership provisions, if they sec fit. In the event that the Lodge has so many life memberships that it can not hope to repeal the By-Law, the financial distress of the Lodge will immediately bring it within the control of the Grand Lodge, and if the proposals now pending for the creation of a Permanent Ways and Means Committee are adopted, this Committee could require such Lodge 1.0 amend its By-Laws. The Committee finds that the resolution is in proper form and recommends that it be not adopted.

Ways and Means Committee. It was proposed to amend Section 74 of the By-Laws by adding

thereto the words "but that no monies may be paid out without the consent and approval of the committee on Ways and Means." This is the section which applies to the $1.50 which goes to路 the Masonic Home. Inasmuch as this subject is receiving consideration of other committees of the Grand Lodge and a comprehensive plan has been proposed, we recommend that this amendment dealing with only one phase of the subject be not adopted. SECTION 5. LEGISLATION INTRODUCED THIS YEAR WHICH CAN :BE ACTED UPON AT THIS SESSION OF THE GRAND LODGE. 1. New section, 99a, to the By-Laws: , 'SECTION 99A. It shall be the duty of every Lodge to establish n Budget Committee, to consist of five members-the Master, Secretary and Treasurer, and two members appointed by the Master immediately upon installation. "It shall be the duty of said Budget Committee to budget all expenses of said Lodge for the ensuing year. It shall include among the liabilities of the Lodge the per capita tax owing by the Lodge to the Grand Lodge. Such budget shall be reported at the second regular Communication after the installation of the Master, and if a.dopted, no expenditures shall exceed such budget so made, except in an emergency, and with the consent of the Master and Wardens and upon a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any stated meeting." This section is in proper form and is new legislation and may be acted upon at this session of the Grand Lodge, and we recommend its adoption. 2. Section 99b of the By-Laws, Report of Building Associations: " SECTION 99B. It shall be the duty of the Master of every Lodge where a Building Association has been created by the members of the Lodge for the purpose of holding title to the building in which such Lodge meets, and the properties of the Lodge, immediately after installation, and before the budget as required in Section 99a, to request of the officers of said Building Association a detailed statement of its assets and properties, its receipts and expenditures for the previous year, and a budget for the ensuing year ; and until such report is made by su~h

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Building Association to the Lodge, and has been furnished to such Lodge, no monies shall be voted out of the treasury of the Lodge to pay to such Building Association. "After such report and budget shall have been received by the Master of the Lodge路 and a budget has been made covering the expenses of the Lodge by the Budget Committee, then and thereafter the Budget Committee is authorized and empowered to make such suitable contract for payment of monies to the Building Association as may be necessary and in accordance with the financial condition of the Lodge, such contract so made to become effective when approved by the Lodge. , 'If the Budget Committee of the Lodge and the Building Association can not agree upon a contract, then and in that event the entire matter shall be submitted to the Ways and Means Committee of the Grand Lodge, which shall have full power and authority to adjust all matters and disputes between the Lodge and the Building Association, and the report of said Ways and Means Committee of the Grand Lodge shall be final and conclusive between the Lodge and the Building Association. "This By-Law shall not be held or construed to invalidate any existing contract or agreement heretofore entered into and at such time in good standing, or to require annual renewal of existing contracts by a Lodge or Lodges and a Building Association heretofore organized and composed of Lodges and other Masonic or kindred organizations for the maintenance of their Temple and/or the payment of any indebtedness thereon.' , This section is in proper form, is new legislation and may be acted upon at this session of the Grand Lodge, and we recommend its adoption. 3. Section 27-H-1. Ways and Means Committee. "Section 27-H-1. It shall be the duty of the Grand Master immediately after installation, to appoint said Ways and Means Committee, which shall be composed of five members, one of whom shall serve for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years; and thereafter, upon the expiration of the terms of such members, their successors shall be appointed for a term of three years. The Grand Mastel' shall fill all vacancies in said Committee. "The said Ways and Means Committee shall have the following additional powers and duties. "(1) It shall immediately upon appointment, by and with the advice of the Grand Master and the Grand Treasurer, budget the entire expenses of the Grand Lodge, and no appropriation or expenditure shall exceed such budget except in an emergency and upon the unanimous vote of the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master and the Grand Wardens. If, after such budget is made, it shall appear that the finances of the Grand Lodge will not be sufficient to meet the appropriations so made, or if an emergency shall thereafter arise requiring additional funds, then and in that event it shall be the duty of said Ways and Means Committee to reform said budget, to the end that no expenditure shall exceed such budget. "(2) The said Ways and Means Committee shall upon the request of the Grand Master, or a constituent Lodge, examine into the financial condition of such constituent Lodge and make an adjustment of all disputes between the constituent Lodges and Building Associations. It shall be authorized to examine into the financial conditions and affairs of the constituent Lodges upon such request made by the Grand Master or a constituent Lodge, or Master, and may defer, or waive, in whole or in part, any sums due the Grand Lodge from such constituent Lodge, on proof of the inability of the constituent Lodge to pay, or extend the time of payment, of any sums owing to the Grand Lodge by such constituent Lodge. Said Committee may impose such conditions as it may

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deem to be advisable and for the best interests of the Grand Lodge and such constituent Lodge. "(3) It shall have the authority, by and with the advice and consent of the Grand Master, to consolidate Lodges, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable and for the best interests of Masonry; and such Committee is authorized to adjust all financial problems affecting the Grand Lodge and such constituent Lodges as said Committee may deem advisable in order to effect a consolidation. As and when consolidation of Lodges shall have been made by said Committee, it shall make full report to the Grand Secretary, and such further action shall be taken as is now provided by law when Lodges consolidate by agreement of their members." This section is in proper form, is new legislation and may be acted upon at this session of the Grand Lodge, and we recommend its adoption. The following resolution is proposed by the Special Committee on Boards of Relief and Employment Bureau: Be It Resolved, By the Grand Lodge, that there be added to and made a part of Section 27-J, Article IV, of the Grand Lodge By-Laws the following: "It shall be composed of five members, who shall be appointed by the Grand Master, and shall hold office for the following terms: two of said committee for a term of three (3) years; two for a term of two (2) years, and one for a term of one (1) year. Upon the expiration of their several terms of ofiice, as herein set out, their successors shall be appointed by the Grand Master and shall each hold office for a term of three (3) years. "At each Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge hereafter, the Committee of Masonic Boards of Relief shall make a report of its business transacted the preceding year. , 'This Committee shall, and is hereby authorized to receive detailed reports monthly from all Masonic Boards of Relief and shall, from time to time, issue rules and regulations for the operation of the affairs of said Boards of Relief. "This Committee shall also be authorized to receive from all Masonic Employment Bureaus in this Grand Jurisdiction monthly reports, giving detailed information as to the business of said Bureaus and shall issue rules and regulations for the government of said Bureaus. "This Committee shall be further authorized to make any and vJl adjustments with reference to matters that may be in controversy between Masonic Boards of Relief and Lodges in this jurisdiction, and to make and enforce any rules and regulations that it may see fit in order to carry into effect these adjustments, and shall at all times maintain a general supervision over the affairs of Masonic Boards of Relief and Masonic Employment Bureaus in this jurisdiction with reference to their transactions with Masonic Lodges of this Grand Jurisdiction. The Committee shall also be empowered to make adjustments and to enforce its rules and regulations between Masonic Employment Bureaus and the various I~odges that may be connected therewith." This is new legislation, is in proper form and may be enacted at this session of the Grand Lodge, and we recommend its adoption. Respectfully and fraternally submitted, HENRI L. WARREN, Chairman. WALTER E. BAILEY CHARLES F. BALLAK C. LEW GALLANT

GROVER

C. SPARKS

R. \V. Brother Henri L. Warren, chairman of the Committee on Juripnldence : "I move the adoption of the whole report of the Jurisprudence Committee, with the exception of Section 1 in reference to Masonic trials,

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and that part of the report we move the adoption of as amended by the Grand Lodge overruling the Jurisprudence Committee on that subject. "

The motion was duly seconded, and said report as a whole was adopted. CALLED FROM LABOR

At 12 :45 P.M. the Grand Lodge was CALLED FROM LABOR until 1 :30 P.M. on September 27, 1933.

SECOND DAY, AFTERNOON SESSION CALLED TO LABOR

At 1 :30 P.M. the W. M. Grand Lodge was CALLED TO LABOR by the M. W. Grand Master, Thad. B. Landon. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON REPORTS OF DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS

R. W. Brother Leo H. Johnson, chairman, read the report of the Committee on District Deputy Grand Masters' Reports, the same was adopted and is as follows: Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A.. F. and ..A.. M. of Missouri: Notwithstanding the mandates of Masonic Law, a considerable number of our worthy brethren, whose honored privilege it is to represent the Most Worshipful Grand Master of this Most Worshipful Grand Lodge in various districts of Missouri, continue to file their annual reports as and when it pleases their convenience. Indifference and neglect are fetters that bind, both creatures and institutions. Freemasonry has constantly builded--â&#x201A;Źver onward and ever upward. Every conceivable means has been used to stay her advance. Kingly decrees, dictatorial pronouncements, and autocratic whimperings have blended to stifle the growth and weaken the strength of Freemasonry. But to no avail. The more deadly the assault, the more stead)' the determination of the Craft, the more willing the sacrifice. Freemasonry has advanced toward the east, toward the rising sun. If she ever fails, it will be from destructive forces within-and not from without. It will be from indifference and neglect. This committee should not and does not presume to advise the more learned of the Craft who occupy these places of greater responsibility, of their duty in this respect; nor does this committee desire the Craft to understand that a condition prevails of sufficient importance to deserve their particular concern. Such is not the case. Our suggestion is directed only to that group of worthy brethren who have been guilty of sufficient indifference and neglect as to preclude the timely filing of their District Deputy reports. Our consequent assumption, that these same influences have precluded a finer quality of service with less sacrificial effort on their part, may be an unfair one. However, this committee sincerely believes that the welfare of the subordinate lodges of this Grand Jurisdiction rests in great measure upon the zeal, determination and rugged faith of our District Deputy Grand Masters. Theirs is, and properly should be a work of loyalty; a work of devotion, a work inspired by an unselfish love for the ideals of our fraternity.

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The reports this year disclose as a whole, we sincerely believe, an improved condition in the fraternity at large. While we have suffered a marked decrease in numbers, approximating and probably exceeding 5 per cent of the whole, the general quality of our membership is improved. During the past few years we have lost some who desired to remain bound to the fraternity but could not; and we have -10i:!t many who could remain bound but would not-those unwilling to make the small sacrifice necessary to maintain their membership. We deeply regret the loss of the former but the loss of this latter group has not injured, but rather has improved the quality of our membership. These- reports show a marked increase in social activities throughout the subordinate lodges of the state and an appreciable increase in the attendance at stated Communications. One or two of the smaller Lodges record an average attendance throughout the year of more than 50 per cent of the membership, and quite a considerable number of Lodges have had an average attendance ranging from 20 -to 50 per cent of their membership. In fact, it would seem from the reports filed thus far that our District Deputy Grand Masters returned to their labors last year determined to revive dormant fires in many a brother's heart. That this has been accomplished no one can deny. And this committee takes pleasure in advising the Craft that these honored representatives of the Most Worshipful Grand Master during the past year, have carried on the district affairs of the fraternity in a commendable way. This Committee does suggest that the fraternity as a whole can register its growth and its interest in no better way than in the quantity and quality of the attendance at stated Communications. The splendid spirit which results from the presence of a large number of brethren, will bring great benefit to the Craft as a whole. We regret that some of the District Deputies have permitted minor matters to interfere with their visitations to their subordinate Lodges. In some districts only half of the Lodges have been visited by the District Deputies and in others, less than half of the total and from the reports filed by September 15, in others none. By investigation we find that such indifference and neglect on the part of a District Deputy are usually reflected in the condition of the subordinate Lodges within his jurisdiction. In other districts of the state, we find from two to four visitations, official and unofficial, made to every subordinate Lodge. Such work is good work, just such work as we are authorized to approve. This Committee does not desire to criticize. Rather it heartily approves the fine personnel and most excellent work of these District Deputies. But we do particularly commend those who have been willing to lay down their personal business affairs and casting aside all obstacles have made an official visit to each subordinate Lodge within their jurisdiction at least once during the year. And in a corresponding degree for your further inspiration we commend those District Deputies who have visited their several Lodges from two to four times during the year. _ It may be that in 1934 the constant and efficient c1forts of our District Deputy Grand Masters on the firing liues, will beat back this wave of indifference and neglect, which at times has swept within and seriously threatened the substantial progress of our institution. In place of ingifference and neglect, let us build renewed confidence and inspire greater consecration. Respectfully _submitted, LEO H. JOHNSON, Chairman. TA.YLOR B. WYRICK J. RENICK JONES THOMAS J. WORNALL, JR.

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ELECTION OF GRAND OFFICERS

M. W. Grand Master Landon announced the appointment of the following brethren to act as Tellers: N. D. Jackson, A. J. Michener, Albert Linxwiler, Morris E. Ewing, Harry Hightower, Fred H. Knight, Eugene Altheimer, Dewey Hinds, Scott Walker, Morris Pritchett, Carroll Baley, E. F. Hanna, Louis Graue, Carl SwerulOn, Kipp C. Johnson and L. J. Limes.

The following were elected: W. BROTHER FRANK C. DARNHILL . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . • . . . . Grand Master R. W. BROTHER DUVAL Sl\UTII .••••..•..•.•••••.. Deputy Grand Master R. W. BROTHER JAMES W. SKELLy . . . . . . . . . . . • • . • Senior Grand TVarden R. W. BROTIIERGEORGE W. WALKER J1~nior Grand Warden R. W. DROTHER EDMUND E. MORRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . Grand Treasurer R. W. BROTHERARTlIUR MATHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • Grand Secretary M.

ELECTION OF BOARD OF DmECTORS FOR MASONIC HOME

There were nominated to serve as Directors of the Masonic Home for the next three years: Brothers Tolman ,V. Cotton,William A. Clark, Joseph S. McIntyre, Thomas H. Reynolds. On motion of M. W. Brother Bert S. Lee, the Grand Secretary was directed to cast a unanimous ballot for these brethren and they were duly elected as the, Directors of the Masonic Home. M. W. BROTHER JULIUS C. GARRELL

M. W. Grand Master Landon, noting the presence of M. W. Brother Julius C. Garrell, P. G. M., requested him to come to the platform, stating to the Grand Lodge that M. W. Brother Garrell had been sitting in the midst of the audience all through the session and that he desired to ask him, in the presence of the Grand Lodge, why he was proposing to make his future home in California, then introducing him to his brethren. Replying thereto M. W. Brother Garrell said: "Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren: This morning our Most Worshipful Grand Master said he was human and that he was not infallible. Well, as I see it, the only mistake that he has made not only today but all through his year of office is his habit of calling on me to address the brethren, when the Grand Lodge is in session or at any other Masonic gathering." M. 'V. GRAND MASTER : ",VeIl, I don't agree with you." M. VV. BROTHER GARRELL: "Brethren, I am here in attendance for the thirty-second time at the Annual Communication of this Grand Lodge. It has been my great pleasure and privilege to be present these many times and if my resources will hold out I hope to be with you for many more years to come. (Applause.) "Now the Grand Master asked me to tell you why I am going away. As I have told my brethren down in St. Louis, I am going away for the good of St. Louis." (Laughter.) M. Vv~. GRAND MASTER LANDON: "Why not locate here~"

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M. ,V. BROTHER GARRELL: "I want to extend an invitation to all the brethren of this Grand Lodge, whenever any of them are out in the State of California, to hunt me up and I will try to make it pleasant for those who come-only I just want to say that I hope that you will not all come at once. I thank you." (Laughter and applause.) M. W. GRAND MASTER LANDON: "Brother Garrell, just a minute. I think I may say that it comes from the heart of every representative here and every member of the Grand Lodge that we wish you an abundance of happiness and prosperity and that all the good things may accompany our brother as he makes his home in the Golden State, and we want him back at every Communication." (Applause.) A VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: "As a token of respect to Most Worshipful Brother Garrell, let us all'stand up!" (The brethren responded with enthusiasm which showed unmistakably the affection and esteem in which M. W. Brother Garrell is held by the Craft in the Grand Jurisdiction of Missouri.) REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

R. W. Brother James A. Kinder, chairman, read the report of the Committee on Ways and Means which was adopted. To the Grand Lodge, .A. F. and .Aâ&#x20AC;˘.M. of Miss01!-ri: Your Committee on Ways and Means desires to call attention to the careful manner in which Grand Lodge officers and committees have handled our finances during the year. Although it became necessary during the year for the Grand Master to order an additional one thousand dollars paid to the Welfare Committee, yet the total expenditures were kept well under the appropriation authorized one year ago. Before the Grand Master issued the order to pay over the one thousand dollars to the Welfare Committee, he took the matter up with the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. We now recommend the approval of this payment by the Grand Master. Recognizing the necessity of continued strict economy in all our affairs, our Grand Secretary, Grand Lecturer and Grand Treasurer have again, as they did last year, voluntarily instructed this committee to l'ecommend sharp reductions in the salaries provided for them under our law. We recommend the following appropriations: Pay Roll, 1933 Com $ 18,484.80 Printing Proceedings 1,600.00 Salary, Grand Master................................. 1,000.00 Expense, Grand Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00 Maintenance, G. L. Offices............................. 1,800.00 . Masonic Temple Assn. (last installment). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,000.00 Exp., G. L. Officers, order G. Moo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00 Salary, Grand Secretary............................... 4,000.00 '" , " 2,700.00 Office Help (Grand Sec'y office) Printing, postage and sta.............................. 3,000.00 Salary, Grand Lecturer........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,600.00 Expense, Grand Lecturer.............................. 800.00

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Salary, Grand Treasurer . 400.00 Assistant Tilers, this session G. h . 30.00 Mas. Relief Assn., U. S. and Canada . 268.28 Welfare CommUtee, by order G. L. to rcfund loan from Masonic I-Iome . 1,675.00 P. G. M. 's jeweL , . 175.00 . Telephone, Jefferson 4877 200.00 Bonds, G. Sec 'y and G. Treas . 300.00 Reporter . 150.00 Committee on Building Supervisory . 44.73 500.1)0 Expense, G. L. Session , . Contingent G. L. expense; funerals, etc . 500.00 Pcrkins Audit Company . 150.00 Expense, George Washington Mem. and G. M. Conference . 200.00 Grand Lodge Officers' conferences . 300.00 Reprint old proceedings, bal. acct . 2,862.00 Masonic Home Board (from per cap. at $1.50) . 127,478.37 Total

$182,018.68 PROPOSED AMENDMENT

R. W. Brother James A. Kinder read the following recommendation as an amendment to Section 74 of the Grand Lodge By-Laws, and moved its reference to the Jurisprudence Committee and that it be laid over until the next Annual Communication. The motion was adopted. We further recommend the following amendmcnt to Section 74, Grand Lodge By-Laws, to be referred to the Jurisprudence Committee and laid over until next Annual Communication: Amend Scction 74 of the Grand Lodge By-Laws by striking out said section and inserting the following section in lieu thereof. "SECTION 74. Annual Dues. Every Chartered Lodge shall pay allnually to the Grand Lodge the sum of Two Dollars ($2.00) for each Master Mason reported in the Annual Returns, except those whose dues have been remitted. One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) of this sum shall be used for the support of the Masonic Home, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge. If any Lodge shall collect from a suspended member dues, for the non-payment of which he shall have been suspended, such Lodge shall pay to the Grand Lodge the sum of $2.00 for each year's dues so collected, if not previously accounted for." Fraternally submitted, J. A. KINDER, Chairman, E. E. MORRIS, GEORGE C. MARQUIS, SOLON CAMERON.

SPECIAL INITIATION FUND AND GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL FUND-RULING

Grand Master Landon declared that the legislation enacted at this' session of the Grand Lodge affecting the $10.00 special initiation fee for the Masonic Home and the $1.00 fee for the George Washington Memorial, goes into effect immediately upon adjournment of this Grand Lodge, providing, however, that petitions received prior to September 27, 1933, arc subject to payment of the $10.00 and the $1.00 fees.

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REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON BOARDS OF RELIEF AND EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS

W. Brother Edward McGuigan reported as follows: The Special Committee appointed by M. W. Brother Thad. B. Landon, Grand Master, presented its report which was read and adopted. The long detailed report is not printed, only the first paragraph and the two minor recommendations referred to which are herewith presented. They were adopted and are as follows:

To the Grand Lodge, A. P. and A. M. of Missouri: Your Special Committee on Boards of Relief and Employment Bureaus fraternally reports results of its investigations; the report will present facts and conditions as they appear to your Committee, with our comments, comparisons and analysis; practically all conclusions alld recommendations determined by your Committee, are assembled in the form of new legislation, amendments to the Grand Lodge Code or Resolutions; while they are part of this report, the code requires they be referred to the Jurisprudence Committee for consideration and report; a few minor recommendations will not require this. We recommend and move that all work sheets and correspondence of this Committee be made a permanent file in the Grand Secretary's office as a starting point for any future investigation. We recommend and move that two copies of the reports of the several Boards of Relief and Employment Bureaus be sent to the Grand Secretary on or before August 1st, covering the Masonic fiscal year ending June 30th, one copy of such report to be retained as a permanent file. The amendment to the By-Laws, Section 27-J, Article IV, as propos~d by the Jurisprudence Com'mittee, has our full and unqualified approval. EDWARD MCGUIGAN, Chairman, FRED H. KNIGHT, MORRIS E. EWING.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PAY ROLL

W. Brother Walter R. Shrodes, chairman, read the report of the Committee on Pay Roll, which was adopted as follows: To the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missou,ri: Your Committee on Pay Roll, at this session of the Grarid Lodge, begs to report allowances paid for Mileage and Per Diem, which have been distributed as follows: Grand Officers $ 424.00 Past Grand Masters . 392.70 District Deputy Grand Masters . 1,140.80 District Lecturers . 515.00 Chairman of Committees . 133.00 Committee on Jurisprudence . 156.30 Committee on Appeals and Grievances . 143.50 Committee on Credentials . 176.30 Special Committees . 130.60 Chartered Lodges . 15,272.GO Total

$18,484.80 Respectfully submitted, WALTER R.

SHRODES,

Chairman.

NOTE-The itemized report of the Committee in full is in the archives of the Grand Secretary's office.

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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS

The following report of the Committee on Credentials was presented by its chairman, R. W. Brother Alfred D. Ludlow, and adopted. To the Grand Lodge, Lt. F. and Lt. M. of Missouri: Your Committee on Credentials submits the following report: At the present session of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, there are represented 530 subordinate Lodges and there are present: 17 Grand Lodge Officers; 14 Past Grand Masters; 48 Grand Representatives; 43 District Deputy Grand Masters; 47 District Lecturers; 446 Past Mastel's; 500 Worshipful Masters; 106 Senior Wardens; 66 Junior Wardens; 29 Chairmen of Committees; and 4 Distinguished Visitors. Attendance, 1,12l. The itemized list of attendance is on file in the Grand Secretary's office. Fraternally submitted, AI,I!'RED D. LUDLOW, Chairman, CHARLES M. CHRISTn~, WALTER A. WEBB, rrI-IOMAS A. IIARBAUGII, JULIUS R. EDWARDS, H. F. WOERTHER. COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF BY-LAWS

R. W. Brother Henri L. "\Varren, chairman of the Jurisprudence Committee, moved that a committee be appointed for a Revision of the By-Laws in accordance with the recommendation of M. VV'. Grand Master Landon in his annual address. The motion was duly seconded and adopted. COMMITTEE ON UNFINISHED BUSINESS

In the absence of the chairman of the comIJ1ittee, M. A. Ji'. Ittner reported as follows:

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"I am very happy to say that all the business has been completely transacted except the installation of officers."

Report adopted. APPOINTMENTS

The Grand Secretary read the following list of appointments made by the M. W. Grand Master-eleet: Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand

LecturC'l路 Chaplain Chaplain Senior Deacon .Junior Deacon Senior Steward Junior Steward Marshal. Marshal. Sword Bearer Pursui.vant Orator Tiler

J AMES R. MoLACHLAN, Kahoka L. ROBISON, St. Joseph .sAMUEL THURMAN, St. Louis HAROLD L. READER, Webster Groves HENRY C. CHILES, Lexington '" ELWYN S. WOODS, Springfield KARL M. VETSBVRG, St. Louis IIARltY S. TRUMAN, Independence HARltIS C. JOIINSTON, Boonville FORREST C. DONNELl" St. Louis GltOVER C. SPARKS, Savannah :l'HOMAS B. MATHER, Jefferson City ')'ROMAS NEEDHAM, St. Louis ,l路jMME:r

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INSTALLATION

The hour for installation having arrived, M. W. Brother Bert S. Lee was presented as the Installing Officer, and M. W. Brother R. R. Kreeger as Grand Marshal. The following Grand Officers were then duly installed for the ensuing year: FRANK C. BARNHILL, Marshall DUVAL SMITH, St. Joseph JAMES W. SKELLY, St. Louis GEORGE W. WALKER, Cape Girardeau EDMUND E. MORRIS, Kansas City ARTHUR MATHER, St. Louis JAMES R. McLACHLAN, Kahoka EMMET L. ROBISON, St. Joseph SAMUEL THURMAN, St. Louis HAROLD L. READER, Webster Groves HENRY C. CHILES, Lexington ELWYN S. WOODS, Springfield KARL M. VETSHURG, St. Louis HARRY S. TRUMAN, Independence HARRIS C. JOHNSTON, Boonville FORREST C. DONNELL, St. Louis GROVER C. SPARKS, Savannah THOMAS B. MATHER, Jefferson City THOMAS NEEDHAM, St. Louis

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PRESENTATION TO GRAND MASTER AND PAST GRAND MASTER

Vv. Brother Immanuel Wittrup, Past Master Trilumina Lodge No. 205, Marshall, Missouri, then addressed Grand Master F. C. Barnhill as follows: Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren of the Grand Lodge: There is an old saying that he who wears the spurs must earn them, and I know that you who have been intimately associated in the Masonie fraternity with Brother Barnhill will agree with me that no mistake lIas been made when you elevated him to the high and honorable station of Most Worshipful Grand Master. No one is more worthy, better qualified, and who by earnest and sincere work in the fraternity has earned a better right to have that honor conferred upon him, than has my friend and compaion, F. C. Barnhill. (Loud applause.) Brother Barnhill not only knows me, but loves me, and he practices the teachings and the precepts of the Masonic Lodge in his daily intercourse with his fellow men both in and out of the Lodge. He stands high in his home community. We in Marshall' acclaim him among our foremost leaders in business, religion and civic affairs. (Applause.) He has an abiding interest in all the affairs of the various Masonic bodies in Marshall and in Saline County. He attends our meetings regularly, and he is always glad to help and assist in the degree work or in any manner that it is possible to help along the cause of Masonry in our own community. For the past twenty years there has not been a Worshipful Master of Trilumina Lodge, the High Priest of Saline Chapter, or the Commander of Missouri Commandery No. 36, but who has leaned heavily on Brother Barnhill for support, for advice and for counsel. Whenever we ran up against troubles and problems we always decided to go and see "Clint" about

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them. Then, when as it sometimes happens, one of our brethren found himself temporarily embarrassed for the want of a little ready cash, ~le would go and talk to "Clint" about it, and, of course, "Clint" being a banker and a good Mason always gave him what money he wanted, that is, most always-most always, but sometimes it just happens that at the particular time when you have decided to float another loan, the money market has suddenly become tight. You know 'it has a way of becoming very tight just at the very time when you need ready cash the worst kind. It is very inconvenient, but, of course, Brother Barnhill is not to blame, he is sorry, of course, but he can't help that-the money market has become tight. Now, Clint-you see I am still calling him "Clint' '-he hasn't got his hat yet. As you will be traveling to and fro over the State of Missouri, and possibly in other jurisdictions as well, in your official capacity as Most Worshipful Grand Master, as you will be honored, feasted and dined on many occasions, I want to leave this admonition with you: take good care of yourself, and if by chance you should hear a story that you believe would be unbecoming the dignity of the Most Worthy Grand Master to tell in public, I ask you to confide it to me, and I will see that it gets proper publicity. And one thing more, whenever the cigars are passed around, I ask you to take the ~umber you arc entitled to, whether it be one or a dozen, and bring them home to "yours truly," as you have been doing for several years past. In this connection I would just like to explain to the Grand Lodge that I enjoy the friendship of two bankers in Marshall, F. C. Barnhill and Will C. Gordon. There is this difference between them, however. Whenever Brother Barnhill has been away to some Masonic doings over the State, to enjoy the high life of Masonry, and I come up to the Wood & Houston Bank the next morning, he usually hands me one or two cigars, sometimes they are good and sometimes they are not so good. This year I think you will give him all good cigars, because I get them, he hands me the cigars. On the other hand, Will Gordon tries to mooch all the cigars off of me he can, but they have just this one virtue in common, in either case the cigars cost them not a cent. I was very much gratified when the Worshipful Master of Trilumina Lodge No. 205 appointed me to extend greetings to you, Brother Barnhill, and to this Grand Lodge from Trilumina Lodge No. 205, and to tell you how very much we appreciate and how we rejoice in the great honor that has come to one of our brethren. And it is with a real genuine pleasure that I present to you this silk hat from Trilumina Lodge No. 205. We know you will wear this hat with becoming dignity and pleasure to' yourself, and great honor to the Fraternity. I may say this, that we had ordered a wonderfully fine leather case in which to carry this hat around. The case diu not arrive in time for us to bring it with us from Marshall this morning. It will be here directly, I suppose. We present you these little gifts as a slight token of the very high esteem in which we hold you, and the love and affection we have for you; and with it goes our prayer that you may receive wisdom from on High to guide the destiny of this great body of Masons safely through all the difficulties of the coming year, and our most sincere and best wishes for a happy, satisfactory and successful term as Most Worshipful Grand Master of Missouri. (Loud applause.) Most Worshipful Grand Master of Missouri, Trilumina Lodge No. 205 salutes you! M. W. GRA.ND MA.STER FRANK C. BARNHILL: Brother Wittrup, I recalled as I listened to you, an incident that occurred here in Kansas City some months ago on the occasion ofa banquet that was tendered to Dr. Jabez N. Jackson on an occasion when he was appointed city health

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physician. Some of his former medical students in Kansas City tendered him a banquet one Saturday evening. After he had listened to those fellows "spread it on," at the conclusion of the banquet, with utter disregard of truth, he finally arose and said in substance something like this: He said, in his earlier career in Kansas City, when he had given lectures to the medical students, a number of whom were honoring him that evening with a banquet, that while he gave those lectures he endeavored to instill into their systems the virtue of truth as a thing worthy of imitation, but that he was sorely disappointed, and that all these former students of his had developed into a big bunch of liars. Now~ Brother Wittrup, during my Masonic career I did have a little of something to do with lecturing you, and you well know that one of the first lessons we have is in regard to the importance of truth, but Brother Wittrup has utterly departed from that early training. Brother Wittrup, seriously, I wish to thank you, and through you the members of my home Lodge at Marshall, for the gift of this silk hat. I appreciate it, not only for its intrinsic value, because this would have cost me about $15 in cash had you not given it to me; I appreciate it all the more coming, as it does, with the love and esteem of my brethren at home, which I assure you I value more than the hat itself. A silk hat is a necessary adjunct of the Grand Master's office, and I shall wear it at the few times when dignity is required, but on most occasipns I shall lay it aside. R. W. ARTHUR MATHER, Gra路n<J, Secretary: Most Worshipful Grand Master, a moment ago you said that a silk hat was a necessary adjunct. Another necessary adjunct of the Grand Master's office is an Apron. This is the Apron which we hope you will wear, not only during your year of office as Grand Master, but as long as Providence permits you to labor in the Terrestrial Grand Lodge. When, in the natural order of things, you pass within the Portal of the Undissolving Lodge on High may you then be arrayed in clothing resplendent with the Glories of Eternityl BROTHER BERT S. LEE: Now, Most Worshipful Grand Master, one of the very pleasant duties that was assigned to me eleven years ago was the appointing of a certain man in line in this Grand Lodge. I performed that duty with much pleasure. After the regular appointments had been made,I had the opportunity, on account of a little change in our line, to make another appointment, and I looked over this stage to find a friend of mine, one whom I could trust, one whom I knew had the ability, not only to proceed through the line, but preside over this body, and" Clint," I selected you for that honor. It has proven a great pleasure to me, and I return to you the gavel of authority, and ask you to assume your duty as Grand Master of Masons in Missouri. (Loud applause.) M. W. FR.ANK C. BARNHILL: Most Worshipful Brother Lee, Most Worshipful Brother Landon, and Brethren of the Grand Lodge, I believe this is the time when the incoming Grand Master is expected 'to deliver his inaugural address, which in times past has, in some instances, been of considerable length. But I hasten to give you the good news, that you are not going to hear a long address at this time. I shall be brief in what I have to say, for I know you are eager for adjournment, and more eager to get those per diem checks into your hands. It is appropriate, and I am much pleased that I should have been installed on this occasion by Most Worshipful Brother Lee, who appointed me in line some ten years ago.

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Brethren, while I am grateful for the high honor and confidence expressed by your action in selecting me as your Grand Master for the coming year, I am also deeply conscious of the great responsibility that goes with it. I can not but feel that I am unequal to the responsibility in succeeding to the position which has been so ably held by such a worthy line of predecessors, and which has been held with such distinction and ability during the past year by Most Worshipful Brother Landon. I fully realize my shortcomings and limited ability for an undertaking of this kind. I know I shall make mistakes, but relying on your patience and forbearance, and relying on the support and assistance of the Past Grand Masters, the Grand Lodge Officers, the District Deputies, and indeed all of you, we shall endeavor to carry forward the work of Freemasonry in this jurisdiction to the best of our ability. What may be lacking in qualification, I trust may be partially made up by our zeal for Freemasonry and the love of the brethren. It is not our plan to attempt anything radical or sensational with t11e view of attracting attention, or making a record-but rather do we hope that our efforts may be directed towards promoting harmony and good will among the brethren, and furthering a better appreciation of the ideals and purposes of our fraternity, to the end that the Craft in Missouri may be better citizens and better Masons. If we may be successful in that direction, even in small measure, and at the same time gain the friendship and good will of the brethren, I shall count myself happy, and trust that the interest of the Craft may be promoted thereby. Brethren, again I thank you for this high honor, and now as you are about to return to your respective communities, to take up your places of regular endeavor, in Lodge, community and home, may I express the hope that you may have true fraternal spirit in your Lodges; increased success and prosperity in your various vocations; unselfish service to your community and, above all, happiness and contentment in your homes. M. W. BROTHER RAY V. DENSLOW (glancing at microphone): Brethren, this is not going to be a broadcast, but it is one of those little tasks that comes to me on this occasion; I have tried to be as inconspicuous in this Grand Lodge as possible at this time. With the permission of the Grand Master, I should like to address the former" Kingfish" of this Grand Lodge. (Past Grand Master Landon arises.) Brethren, just a year ago this week I presented to the incoming Grand Master, at that time Most Worshipful Brother Thad. B. Landon, a fine new apron, which had been donated through the courtesy of the Ways and Means Committee, for his use as Grand Master. At that time I gave some instructions about its use, but, brethren, he failed to employ those instructions, and every time I viewed the Grand Master I found his apron on one way, his collar on in another, and sometimes he did not even wear a hat. It seemed to make little difference to the Grand Master whether he was in a blacksmith snop or sitting on a log talking to a brother Mason. He realized the infallibility of the Grand Officers, as well as Past Grand Masters, and to prove my contention I have a copy of an order which he issued during the year addressed to the officers of the Grand Lodge (reads): , 'Some have asked how they shall dress at the Grand Lodge session in Kansas City. I am making no rule or order. Since you have swallowtails and no other opportunity to wear them except at Grand Lodge sessions, it would probably do them good to dust them out of the closet and wear them, at least in the forenoon session and during installation.:' And, brethren, here are the Grand Lodge officers duly clothed and properly dusted off, necessitating a good cleaning which they have probably not had since last session. Our Grand Master realized the fallibility

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of his office, but, Brother Landon, you have passed through a dozen years of fallibility; now you shall enter that great organization known as the "Past Grand Masters," an organization which constitutes the only infallible membership of our organization. (Laughter.) Notwithstanding the economy program, the Ways and Means Committee have saved sufficient funds to present to our retiring Grand Master a little evidence of their affection. I am sure that in this instance neither the Grand Master nor any member of the Grand Lodge will move another postponement of the duty which I am now to perform. I think, Brother Landon, that the quality of this jewel is just the same as the jewels which have been presented in former years, notwithstanding the depression, and if you will step over here to this side I am going to pin the jewel upon your lapel (does so), and I want you to understand that this jewel is not given to you in appreciation of your ritualistic work, but in recognition of your wise jUdgment and sound discretion on matters legal and fraternal. (Loud applause.) Brethren, some may tell you that it is possible to go along over a dozen years and not know the character or ability of the Grand Officers, but I tell you that I know every officer in this Grand Lodge and I know what we may expect out of them; I knew Thad. Landon almost a quarter of a century ago and I knew then, and know now, what we could expect out of him. The only thing I would fear if I got up in front of him (and was guilty) would be his judgment; I certainly would want to take a change of venue. I have known him a good many years. I have worked with him through all this .line. I have the utmost confidence in him,. and I know, brethren, that when the years roll by and the results of his administration are seen that they will measure up fully with the administration of any of the former Grand Masters. M. W. BROTHER LANDON: Most Worshipful Brother Denslow, I appreciate what Ray has said, and I hope I am worthy of the comments that he has made. You know I like to work, and sometimes I regret that I have got to quit this job because there are so many things that might be done, but I am perfectly willing to quit and become one of the infallibles again. I appreciate to the full the courtesies that have been extended me throughout the State in the various lodges, the officers, the Lodges, the District Deputies and the Past Grand Masters and the members of the various committees that have been appointed. You know that committees are a very important portion of the Grand Lodge. Without the committees working and carrying on the transactions, there would be no end, and it absolutely would be impossible for this Grand Lodge in a couple of days to function. I have appreciated the year. I have had many happy times, conversations and talks with brethren throughout the State, in my own community, in their own communities, in their homes and their路 place of business, on the street, in the blacksmith shops, and farms. I was raised on a farm as a young fellow in years gone by, and inured to the hardships and trials and tribulations of a country fellow who didn't have anything, didn't expect anything, and who is trying to get along. I can appreciate their feelings. I know that the matters that I have had presented in the year past, in my contact with life throughout the year, has been of great benefit to me, and I hope that my year, my effort and my work has been of benefit to the Fraternity in the State of Missouri. And I can assure you, brethren, that even though I pass to the rank of a Past Grand Master, I do not hesitate, if I see something I think ought to be done in the future in this Grand Lodge, to suggest it and fight for it, if necessary. (Applause.)

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May I say to you, Most Worshipful Grand Master, that you may be free to call upon me at any time, and if I can assist you I will only be glad to do so, and I congratulate you on your preferment, and I hope for you a happy and a prosperous and contented year. I thank you. (Loud applause.) STANDING COMMITTEES

Jurisprudence-Henri L. Warren, Chairman; C. Lew Gallant, Richard O. Rumer, Sam Wilcox. A ppeals and Grievances-William F . Woodruff, Chairman; J Oh11 R. Baker, Ray Bond, Allen L. Oliver, James H. Scarborough. Ways and Means-James A. Kinder, one year, Chairman; George C. Marquis, three years; Edmund E. Morris, three years; Solon Cameron, two years; Oscar W. Arcularius, two years. Credentials-Theodore C. Teel, Chairman; Henry W. Woerther, Charles M. Christie, Julius R. Edwards, Thomas A. Harbaugh. Pay Roll-'\iValter R. Shrodes, Chairman; Henry C. Elberg, Wilbert A. Wells, John H. Hoopes, E. L. Harrison. Chartered Lodges-Eugene J. Altheimer, Chairman; J. Earl Tobler, Shelby H. Wilson. Lodges U. D.-John W. Adams, Chairman; W. H. May, Earl F. Cheesman, J. P. Hurtt, Thomas 'V. Hoskins. Welfare-Tolman W. Cotton, Chairman; William A. Clark, Robert R. Kreeger, Arch A. Johnson, William S. Campbell. Reports of D. D. G. M.'s-Leo H. Johnson, Chairman; J. Renick Jones, Thomas J. Wornall, W. L. Eshelman. Masonic Boards of Relief-Edward McGuigan, three years, Chairman; Fred H. Knight, one year; Morris E. Ewing, two years; Albert Linxwiler, William A. Piner. Ritual-Anthony F. Ittner, five years, Chairman; John Pickard, four years; Henry C. Chiles, three years; Charles T. Kornbrodt, two years; James A. Kinder, one year. Masonic Home (Visiting Committee)-Albert Linxwiler, Chairman; Harry Hightower. Correspondence-Ray V. Denslow,路Chairman. N ecrology-John Pickard, Chairman. Auditing-Perkins Audit Company. Gmnd Master's Address-Thad. B. Landon, Chairman; all Past Grand :Masters. Unfinished Bttsiness-Frederick M. Smith, Chairman. Tmnsportation and Hotels-William F. Miller, Chairman. SPECIAL COMMITTEES

Masonic Service Association of Missouri-Thad. R. Smith, Chairman. Recognition of Foreign Grand Lodges-Arthur Mather, Chairman; J. R. McLachlan, Henry C. Chiles, Byrne E. Bigger, Buel P. Parks.

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Masonic Temple Association of St. Louis-Byrne E. Bigger, Chairman; Edward McGuigan, John Wohradsky, Jr. George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association-Bert S. Lee, Chairman. Library-'Yilliam B. Massey, Chairman; Julius C. Garrell, Jr., \Villiam P. Mason. Printing of Proceedings-Arthur Mather, James A. Kinder. Masonic Publications-William R. Gentry, Chairman; Ray V. Denslow, Byrne E. Bigger. Charter of Masonic Home-Thad. B. Landon, Chairman; Grover C. James, C. Lew Gallant, Walter A. Higbee, Thomas H. Reynolds. Building Supervisory Board-Guy C. Million, Chairman; F. William Kuehl, Cecil A. Tolin. Special Committee on Grand Master's Relief Program-Willis J. Bray, Chairman; Robert Y. Goggin, Del 'V. Lamkin, L. J. Graue, Kipp C. Johnson, C. B. Waddell, Thomas B. Williams. LIVING PAST GRAND MASTERS OF THIS JURISDICTION Name and Location Year of Service Robert R. Kreeger, 3404 Morrell Avenue, Kansas City 1908-09 Arch A. Johnson, Landers Building, Springfield 1911-12 Van Fremont Boor, 1201 Commerce Building, Kansas City 1913-14 Tolman W. Cotton, Van Buren 1914-15 William A. Clark, Jefferson City 1917-18 Julius C. Garrell, 251 Twenty-Fourth Street, Santa Monica, Calif.. 1919-20 Bert S. Lee, 1224 Washington, Springfield 1922-23 Joseph S. McIntyre, 3637 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis 1923-24 1924-25 Orestes Mitchell, Corby Building, St. Joseph William W. Martin, 5351 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis 1925-26 John Pickard, Columbia 1926-27 Antho~y F. Ittner, 1530 Telephone Building, St. Louis 1927-28 Byrne E. Bigger, Courthouse, Hannibal 1928-29 William R. Gentry, 717 Louderman Building, St. Louis 1930-31 Ray V. Denslow, Trenton 1931-32 Thad. B. Landon, 1902 Power and Light Building, Kansas City 1932-33

PRINTING PROOEEDINGS

On motion, the Grand Secretary was directed to print and distribute the necessary number of Proceedings of this session of the Grand Lodge. Carried. MINUTES APPROVED

Motion made by R. W. Brother James W. Skelly that the Minutes, as reported, be published in the Proceedings, was carried. BENEDICTION

H.. W. Grand Chaplain Emmet L. Robison, after invDking Divine Blessing, pronounced the Benediction.

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CLOSING

The M. VV.Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Missouri, rested from its labors and was closed in AMPLE FORM, at 4 :10 o'clock P.M., this day, the 27th day of September, 1933, no further business appearing, to meet again at St. Louis, the last Tuesday, viz., the 25th day of Septembel', 1934.

Secretary. DISTRICT DEPUTY G. M.'S 1933-1934 District 1. H. M. Jayne, Memphis 2. Willis J. Bray, Kirksville 3. Walter E. Singley, Green City 4. Lynn J. Limes, Trenton 5: Hendrix Newman, Bethany 6. Curtis E. Smith, Darlington 7. Del W. Lamkin, Maryville 8. Frank R. Elton, Tarkio 9. Cyril A. Carpenter, St. Joseph 10. Thomas D. Williams, Maysville 11. Bmsley C. James, Hemple 12. John M. Gallatin, Chillicothe 13. Forrest L. Madden, Meadville 14. Luther E. Wilhoit, Macon 15. Donald H. Sosey, Palmyra 16. Warren H. May, Louisiana 17. Charles S. Hicks, Monroe City 18. William F. Wigginton, Moberly 19. T. H. Edwards, Salisbury 20. Otto Hale, Carrollton 21. J. P. Tucker, Parkville 22. Darius A. Brown, Kansas City 23. C. B. Waddell, Lexington 24. John W. Adams, Marshall 25. S. L. Jewett, Boonville 26. Eli J. Haynes, Columbia 27. Louis J. Graue, Mexico 28. P. A. Thomas, Montgomery City 29. W. P. Smith, Troy 30. William E. Lange, Wright City 31. Col. A. Linxwiler, J e1Ierson City 32. R. A. Breuer, Hermann 33A. A. J. Michener, St. Louis

DISTRICT LECTURERS 1933-1934 Homer G. McDaniels, Wayland Charles S. Crawford, Kirksville Walter E. Singley, Green City E. M. Wilson, Laredo Hendrix Newman, Bethany Curtis F. Smith, Darlington George Houchins, Ravenwood Frank R. Elton, Tarkio Frank A. Miller, St. Joseph Thomas D. Williams, Maysville Emsley C. James, Hemple John M. Gallatin, Chillicothe Forrest L. Madden, Meadville Luther E. Wilhoit, Macon Donald H. Sosey, Palmyra Warren H. May, Louisiana Charles S. Hicks, Monroe City William F. Wigginton, Moberly T. H. Edwards, Salisbury Otto Hale, Carrollton H. C. Noland, Parkville Harry P. Hovey, Kansas City C. B. Waddell, Lexington John W. Adams, Marshall S. L. Jewett, Boonville R. N. Hall, Columbia Louis J. Graue, Mexico P. A. Thomas, Montgomery City W. P. Smith, Troy William E. Lange, Wright City W. D. Rogers, Jefferson City H. A. Breuer, Hermann

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Charles G. Duggan, St. Louis 33B. Dr. Frank Magoon, St. Louis James F. Blair, Belton 34. James F. Blair, Belton D. O. Bradley, Butler 35. D. O. Bradley, Butler Jolly P. Hurtt, Sedalia 36. Jolly P. Hurtt, Sedalia Thornton Jennings, Clinton 37. Thornton Jennings, Clinton Winan 1. Mayfield, Lebanon 38. Winan 1. Mayfield, Lebanon Edmund J. Koch, Rolla 39. Charles L. Woods, Rolla Cllarles E. Pyle, De Soto 40. H. H. Balsiger, Crystal City M. E. Ewing, Morrisville 41. M. E. Ewing, Morrisville, Thomas W. Snodgrass, Eldo42. Thomas W. Snodgrass, Eldorado rado Springs Springs .â&#x20AC;˘J ohn C. Senate, IJamar 43. D. V. Morris, Nevada Harry S. Hightower, Reeds 44. Ray Bond, Joplin E. F. Hannah, Springfield 45. Jewell E. Windle, Springfield C. A. Swenson, Mountain Grove 46. C. A. Swenson, Mountain Grove J. N. Sparks, Grandin 47. J. N. Sparks, Grandin J. Clyde Akers, Farmington 48. J. Clyde Akers, Farmington J. A. Kinder, Cape Girardeau 49. J. A. Kinder, Cape Girardeau G. A. Sample, Chaffee 50. G. A. Sample, Chaffee B. P. Parks, Hornersville 51. G. C. Bishop, Caruthersville Kipp C. Johnson, Poplar Bluff 52. Kipp C. Johnson, Poplar Bluff C. E. Armstrong, West Plains 53. C. E. Armstrong, West Plains G. J. Vaughn, Ozark 54. G. J. Vaughan, Ozark 55. W. N. Marbut, Mt. Vernon W. N. Marbut, Mt. Vernon W. A. Phipps, Neosho 56. W. A. Phipps, Neosho 57. Fay G. Fulkerson, Webster Groveljl Louis Mottert, Eureka E. F. Starling, Olean 58. E. F. Starling, Olean John S. Carmical, Independence 59. N. D. Jackson, Independence

AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS ADOPTED (1) SEC'l'ION 2611h, by striking therefrom the following: "In trials ordered by the Most Worshipful Grand Master, by the Grand Lodge or any Committee of the Grand Lodge with the approval of the Grand Lodge, such Grand Master, Grand Lodge or Committee may designate that the trial is to be had by Commission." (2) "SIWTION 75. Annual Returns. The fiscal year of a Lodge shall close on the 30th day of June and every Chartered Lodge in this J urisdiction shall forward its annual returns on or before August 1 to the Grand Secretary. Such returns shall contain a list of Officers and, if and when requested in writing by the Grand Secretary, a list of the Members of the Lodge; a list of those who have been initiated, passed, raised and admitted; a list of deaths, demissions, suspensions, expulsions, rejections and restorations, with respective dates opposite each name; such returns shall be in duplicate, signed by the Master, and attested by the Secretary, under the seal of the Lodge, and forwarded to the Grand Secretary, with the dues, at the time specified above. Failure to make such returns shall subject a Lodge to a fine of ten dollars ($10.00) for each period of thirty days or a fraction thereof such returns .are withheld. " (3) "ARTICLE IV, SECTION 27-N, Ritual. " A Committee on Ritual to whom shall be referred all proposed changes in the Ritual.

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, 'Said Committee shall constitute a Board of Custodians whose further duty it shall be to conserve and preserve the work and lectures of the Three Degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry and to act as final arbiter in the decision of all disputes concerning the Ritual arising. in this Grand Jurisdiction. Said Committee shall consist of five members and the terms of the members constituting said Committee for the first year shall expire in one, two, three, four and five years, respectively, and each member appointed to serve on said Committee after the expiration of the first year shall be appointed to serve for a term of five years. The Committee shall meet not to exceed three times each year, at such times and places as the Grand Master shall designate and shall confer with reference to the work and duties of the Committee." (4) "SECTION 93. In the event of the death, disability, or resignation of any officer of a Lodge, such office ipso facto becomes vacant; provided, that in case of a vacancy so arising in the office of Master, the Senior and Junior Wardens shall, in succession, assume his prerogatives and duties for all purposes, except the installation of officers, until the vacancy in the office of Master shall be filled as provided in Section 95." (5) New SECTION 99a of the By-Laws: "SECTION 99a. It shall be the duty of every Lodge to establish a Budget Committee, to consist of five members, the Master, Secretary and Treasurer, and two members appointed by the Master immediately upon installation. "It shall be the duty of said Budget Committee to budget all expenses of said Lodge for the ensuing year. It shall include among the liabilities of the Lodge the per capita tax owing by the Lodge to the Grand Lodge. Such budget shall be reported at the second regular Communication after the installation of the M~ster, and if adopted, no expenditures shall exceed such budget so made, except in an emergency, and with the consent of the Master and Wardens and upon a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any stated meeting. (6) New SECTION 99b of the By-Laws, Report of Building Associations: SECTION 99b. It shall be the duty of the Master of every Lodge where a Building Association has been created by the members of the Lodge for the purpose of holding title to the building in which such Lodge meets, and the properties of the Lodge, immediately after installation, and before the budget as required in Section 99a, to request of the officers of said Building Association a detailed statement of its assets and properties, its receipts and expenditures for the previous year, and a budget for the ensuing year; and until such report is made by such Building Association to the Lodge, and bas been furnished to such Lodge, no monies shall be voted out of the treasury of the Lodge to pay to such Building Association. "After such Report and Budget shall have been received by the Master of the Lodge and a budget has been made covering the expenses of the Lodge by the Budget Committee then and thereafter the Budget Committee is authorized and empowered to make such suitable contract for payment of monies to the Building Association as may be necessary and in accordance with the financial condition of the Lodge such contract so made to become effective when approved by the Lodge. "If the Budget Committee of the Lodge and the Building Association cannot agree upon a contract, then and in that event the entire matter shall be submitted to the Ways and Means Committee of the Grand Lodge, which shall have full power and authority to adjust all matters and disputes between the Lodge and the Building Association, and the report of

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said Ways and Means Committee of the Grand Lodge shall be final and conclusive between the Lodge and the Building Association. "This By-Law shall not be held or construed to invalidate any existing contract or agreement heretofore entered into and at such time in good standing, or to require annual renewal of existing contracts by a Lodge or Lodges and a Building Association heretofore organized and composed of Lodges and other Masonic or kindred organizations for the maintenance of their Temple and/or the payment of any indebtedness thereon.' , (7) SECTION 27H-1. Ways and Means Committee. "SECTION 27H-1. It shall be the duty of路 the Grand Master immediately after installation, to appoint said Ways and Means Committee, which shall be composed of five members, one of whom shall serve for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years; and thereafter, upon the expiration of the terms of such members, their successors shall be appointed for a term of three years. The Grand路 Master shall fill all vacancies in said Committee. "The said Ways and Means Committee shall have the following additional powers and duties: "(1) It shall immediately upon appointment, by and with the advice of the Grand Master and the Grand Treasurer, budget the entire expenses of the Grand Lodge, and no appropriation or expenditure shall exceed such budget except in an emergency and upon the unanimous vote of the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master and the Grand Wardens. If, after such 1 udget is made, it shall appear that the finances of the Grand Lodge will not be sufficient to meet the appropriations so made, or if an emergency shall thereafter arise requiring additional funds, then and in that event it shall be the duty of said Ways .and Means Committee to reform said budget, to the end that no expenditur1:l shall exceed such budget. "(2) The said Ways and Means Committee shall, upon the request of the Grand Master,or a constituent Lodge, examine into the financial condition of such constituent IJodge and make an adjustment of all disputes between the constituent Lodges and Building Associations. It shall be authorized to examine into the financial conditions and affairs of the constituent Lodges upon such request made by the Grand Master or a constituent Lodge, or Master, and may defer, or waive in whole or in part, any sums due the Grand Lodge from such constituent Lodge, on proof of the inability of the constituent Lodge to pay, or extend. the time of payment, of any sums owing to the Grand Lodge by such constituent Lodge. Said Committee may impose such conditions as it may deem to be advisable and for the best interests of the Grand Lodge and such constituent Lodge. "(3) It shall have the authority by and with the advice and consent of the Grand Master, to consolidate Lodges, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable and for the best interests of Masonry; and such Committee is authorized to adjust all financial problems affecting the Grand Lodge and such constituent Lodges as said Committee may deem advisable in order to effect a consolidation. As and when consolidation of Lodges shall have been made by said Committee, 路it shall make full r~port to the Grand Secretary, and such further action shall be taken as is now provided by law when Lodges consolidate by agreement of their members." (8) Be It Resolved by the Grand Lodge that there be added to and made a part of SECTION 27-J, ARTICLE IV, of the Grand Lodge By-Laws the following:

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"It shall be composed of five members, who shall be appointed by the Grand Master, and shall hold office for the following terms; two of said Committee for a term of three (3) years; two for a term of two (2) years, and one for a term of one (1) year. Upon the expiration of their several terms of office, as herein set out, their successors shall be appointed by the Grand Master and shall each hold office for a term of three (3) years. "At each Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge hereafter, the Committee of Masonic Boards at Relief shall make a report of its business transacted the preceding year. "This Committee shall, and is hereby, authorized to receive detailed reports monthly from all Masonic Boards of Relief and shall, from time to time, issue rules and regulations for the operation of the affairs of said Boards of Relief. "This Committee shall also be authorized to receive from all Masonic Employment Bureaus in this Grand Jurisdiction monthly reports, giving detailed information as to the business of said Bureaus and shall issue Rules and regulations for the government of said Bureaus. "'rhis Committee shall be further authorized to make any and all adjustments with reference to matters that may be in controversy between Masonic Boards of Relief and Lodges in this jurisdiction, and to make and enforce any rules and regulations that it may see fit in order to carry into effect these adjustments, and shall at all times maintain a general supervision over the affairs of Masonic Boards of Relief and Masonic Employment Bureaus in this jurisdiction with reference to their transactions with Masonic Lodges of this Grand Jurisdiction. The Committee shall also be empowered to make adjustments and to enforce its rules and regulations between Masonic Employment Bureaus and the various Lodges that may be connected therewith."

AMENDMENTS, WHICH LIB OVER UNTIL 1934 COMMUNICATION, TO BY-LAWS (1) Recommendation No.5, set forth in Grand Master Landon's Relief Program, and amended by R. W. Brother Forrest C. Donnell as follows: "Be It Resolved, That the Welfare Committee be discontinued and the functions of that Committee be performed by the Masonic Home Board, that action be and is hereby deferred until the next Annual Communication and that the Special Committee by which the adoption of said resolution was recommended be and is hereby continued for said year for further consideration of said resolution and report thereon." (2) Amend SECTION 74 of the Grand Lodge By-I.Jaws by striking out said Section and inserting the following Section in lieu thereof; "SECTION 74. Annual Dues: Every Chartered Lodge shall pay annually to the Grand Lodge the sum of two dollars ($2.00) for each Master Mason reported in the annual returns, except those whose dues have been remitted. One dollar and" fifty cents ($1.50) of this sum shall be used for the support of the Masonic Home, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge. If any Lodge shall collect from a suspended member dues, for the nonpayment of which he shall have been suspended, such lodge shall pay to the Grand Lodge the sum of $2.00 for each year's dues so collected, if not previously accounted for."

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

129

NUMERICAL LIST OF LODGES-1933 I-Missouri 2-Meridian 3-Beacon 4--Howard 5-United 6-Ark 7-0 'Sullivan 8. 9-Geo. Washington IO-Agency ll-Pauldingville 12-Tyro ] 3-Rising Sun 14--Eolia 15-Western Star 16-Memphis 17-Clarksville 18-Palmyra 19-Paris Union 20-St. Louis 2I-Havana 22-Wellington 23-Florida 24-Wyaconda 25-Naphtali 26-Ava 27-Evergreen 28-St. John '8 29-Windsor 30-Huntsville 3I-Liberty 32-Humphreys 33-Ralls 34-Troy 35-Mercer 36-Cooper 37-Hemple 38-Callao 39-DeWitt 40-Mt. Moriah 4I-Bismarck 42-Middle Grove 43-Jefferson 44-Fair Play 45-Bonhomme 46-Wen tzville 47-Fayette 48-Fulton 49-Holt

50-Xenia 51-Livingston 52-Wakanda 53-Weston 54-Index 55-Arrow Rock 56-Tipton 57-Richmond 58-Monticello 59-Centralia 60-New Bloomfield 6I-Waverly 62-Vincil 63-Cambridge 64-Monroe 65-Pattonsburg 66-Grant City 67-Rocheport 68-Kennett 6D-Sullivan 70-Armstrong 7l-Savannah 72-Gorin 73-Eureka 74-Warren 75-Silex 76-Independence 77-Lebanon 78-St. Joseph 79-Polar Star 80-Bridgeton 8I-Central 82-Jackson 83-Laclede 84--Webster Groves 85-Mjami 86-Brookfield 87-Washington 88-Defiance 8D-Friendship 90-Russellville 9I-Madison 92-Perseverance 93-St. Mark's 94--Vienna 95-Pomegranate 96-St. Andrews 97-Bethany 98-Webster

99-Mt. Vernon IOO-Ash Grove IOI-Bogard 102-Bloomington 103-West View I04--Heroine I05-Kirksville 106-Gallatin I07-Greenvple 108-Altamont 109-Stanberry 110-Marcus 11 I-Trenton 112-Maitland Il3-Plattsburg 114--Twilight 1I5-Laddonia 116-Barnes 117-Helena 118-Kingston lID-DeSoto 120-Compass 121-Erwin 122-Triplett 123-Hermann 124-Union Star 125-Gentryville 126-Seaman 127-Athens 128-Lorraine 129-Monett 130-Hume 131-Potosi 132-Farmington ] 33-Star of the West J34-01ean 135-Braymer 136-Phoenix 137-Delphian 138-Lincoln 13D-Oregon 140. 141-Amsterdam 142-Pleasant Grove 143-Iron dale 144--Modern 145-Latimer 146-McGee 147-Cas8

l30

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

148-Purdy 149-Lexington 150-Birming 15l-Milton 152-Linn Creek 153-Bloomfield 154-Ionic 155-Spring Hill l56-Ashland 157-North Star 15S-Mountain Grove 159-Green City 160-Pleasant 161-Clifton Hill l62-Whitesville 163-0ccidental 164-Joachim 165. 166-Portageville 167-Revere 168-Colony 169-Camden Point 170-Benevolence 171-Hartford 172-Censer 173-Gray Summi t 174-Sturgeon 175. 176-Point Pleasant 177-'l'exas 178-Griswold 179-Pride of the West 180-Pyramid lSI-Novelty 182-Pilot Knob 183-California 184-Morley 185-Chamois 186. 187-Hermon 188-Hannibal 189-Zeredatha H)O-Putnam 191-Wilson 192-Frankford 193-Angerona 194-Wellsville 195-Bolivar 196-Quitman 197-Carthage 198-Allensville 199-New Hope

200-Sonora 201-Ravenwood 202-Westville 203-Brumley 204-Rowley 205-Trilumina 206-Somerset 207-Clay 208-Salisbury 209-Poplar Bluff 2l0-Unionville 211-Hickory Hill 2l2-Four Mile 213-Rolla 2l4-Forest City 215-Hornersville 216-Hale City 217-Barbee 218-Good Hope 219-Albert Pike 220-Kansas City 221-Mystic Tie 222-La Belle 223-Ray 224-Hamilton 225-Salem 226-SaIine 227-Cypress 228-Shclbina 229-Claflin 230-St. James 231-Cardwell 232-Polo 233-Bucklin 234-St. Francois 235-Weatherby 236-Sedalia 237-La Plata 238-Rush ville 239-Hopewell 240. 24l-Palestine 242-Portland 243-Keystone 244-Middle Fabius 245-Knobnoster 246-l\fontgomery 247-Neosho 248. 249-Carroll 250-Glensted 25l-Hope

1933 252-Alanthus 253-Larcdo 254-Butler 255-Alton 256-Shekinah 257-Lodge of Light 258-Ravanna 259-Lodge of Love 260-Mechanicsville 261-Florence 262-Holden 263-Summit 264-Kirbyville 265-Corinthian 266-Social 267-Aurora 268-Lodge of 'l'ruth 2m)-Brotherhood 270-N ew Salem 271-Solomon 272-Granite 273-St. Clair 274-Cold Spring 275-Bunker 276-Grand River 277-Wm. D. Muir 278-Essex 279-Hogle 's Creek 280. 281-Fenton 282-Cosmos 283-Stockton 284-Canopy 285-Earl 286-Urich 287-Craft 288-Hermi tage 289-Graham 290-Fairmount 291-Edina 292-Lamar 293-Sarcoxie 294-Mound City 295-Moniteau 296-Sparta 297-0zark . 298-Sampson 299-Temple 300-Doric 30l-White Hall 302-Lick Creek 303-0sage

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

304--Signal 305-Cecile Daylight 306-Ashlar 307-New London 308-Parrott 309'" 310-Sikeston 311-Kearney 312-Cuba 313-Meramec 314-Pine 315-Jerusalem 316-Rural 317-0sborn BIS-Eldorado 319-Paulville 320-Versailles 321-Jonathan 322-Hardin 323-Cornerstone 324-McDonald 325-Dockery 326-Linn 327-Mt. Zion 328-Cai nsville 329-Kennedy 330-Paul Revere 331-Charity 332-Excello 333-Chillicothe 334--Breckenridge 335-Joplin 336-Hallsville 337-Blue Springs 338-Herculaneuni 339-Fidelity 340-Westport 341-Rockville 342-Circle 343-Agricola 344--Moberly 345-Fellowship 346-Arlington 347-America 348-Wadesburg 349-Pollock 350-Tyrian 351-Mosaic 352-Friend 353-Barnesville 354-Hebron 355-Adelphi

356-Aneient Landmark 357. 358-Northwest 359-Garrett 360-Tuscan 361-Riddick 362-Hiram 363-Fraternal 364-Higginsville 365-Bayou 366-Adair 367-Barry 368-Crescent Hill 3G9-Composite 370-Williamstown 371-Sheldon 372-Nonpareil 373-Belle 374-Wilderness 375-Waynesville 376-King Hill 377-Ancient Craft 378-Berlin 379-Billings 3S0-Queen City 3RI-Ionia 3R2-Mt. Ararat 383-Pythagoras 384-East Prairie 385-Richland 386-Dayton 387-Woodside 3SS-Chula 3S9-Arcana 390-Marionville 391-Raytown 392-Ch ristian 393-Beehive 394-Lucerne 395. 396-WesternLight 397-G'ower 398-Jasper 39D-Pike 400-Decatur 401-Carterville 402-Malta 403-:-Lowry City 404-Rosendale 405-Everton 406-Malden

131

407-Charleston 408-Montrose 409-Louisville 410-Iberia 411-Joppa 412-Appleton City 413-Valley 414-Greensburg 415-Hunnewell 416-Cache 417-Whitewater 418. 419-Star 420-Itaska 421-Urbana 422-Gate of the Temple 423-'Galt 424---':'Samaritan 425-Green Ridge 426-Rothville 427-Glenwood 428. 429-New Madrid 430-Winona 431. , 432-Competition 433-~1ack's Creek 434-Wheeling 435-Rockbridge 436-Gothic 437-Lafayette 438-Temperance 439-Mt. Olive 440-Trowel 441-Excelsior 442-Burlington 443-Anchor 444-Ada 445-West Gate 446-Ivanhoe 447-.racoby 448-Schell City 449. 450-Belton 451-=-Raymore 452-Verona 453-Forsyth 454-Continental 455-Hinton 456-Wallace 457-Jonesburg

132 458-Melville 459-Hazelwood 460-Lambskin 461-Caruthersville 462-Santa Fe 463-Clifton 464-Concordia 465-G"aynor Ci ty 466-Southwest 467-Pleasant Hope 468-Red Oak 469-Plato 470-Nodaway 471-Mineral 472-Pickering 473-Nineveh 474-Guilford 475-Golden 476-Mt. Hope 477-Henderson 478-Racine 479-Rich Hill 480-Jewel 481-Marceline 482-Clinton ville 483-Fai rfax 484-Kirkwood 485-Coldwater 486-Cairo 487-Chilhowee 488-Lock Spring 489-Lakeville 490-Montevallo 49 I-Vandalia 492-Daggett 493-Vernon 494-Lewistown 495-Unity 496-Robert Burns 497-Equality 498-Pee Dee 499~Harmony

500-Jameson SOl-Buckner 502-Philadelphia 503-Prairie Home 504-Platte City 505-Euclid 506-Lathrop S07-Clearmont 508-Saxton 509-Van Buren

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 510-New Hampton 511-Skidmore 512-Webb City 513-Senath 514-Granby 515--Galena 516-Milford 517-Seligman 5I8-0riental SI9-Crane 520-Clifton Heights 521-Lockwood 522-Gate City 523-Stinson 524-Spickard svi lIe 525-Cunningham 526-Wayne 527-Higbee 528-Conway 529-Apollo 530. 531-Lane 's Prairie 532-Dexter 533-Comfort 534-Columbia 535-Blackwell 536-Ingomar 537-Bethel 538-Stella 539-Dawn 540-Winigan 541-Jacksonville 542-Ferguson 543-Mansfield 544-Algabil 545-Zalma 546-0rient 547-South Gate 548-Clinton 549-Carl Junction 550-Rose Hill 551-Pendleton 552-Calhoun 553-Clarksburg 554-Foster 555-Summersville 556-Prairie 557-Blairstown 558-.:....Moscow 559-Clarksdale 560-Nelson 561-Cowgill

1933 562-Deepwatel' 563-York 564-Jamesport 565-Tebbetts 566-Maplewood 567-Miller 568-Naylor 569-Marlborough 570-Republic 571-Hayti 572-Rutledge 573-Bernie 574-La Monte 575-Easter 576-0live Branch 577-Ewing 578-Forest Park 579-Grandin 580-Houston 581-TIlmo 582-Koshkonong 583-Novinger 584-Red Bird 585-Shamrock 586-Criterion 587-Branson 588-St. Francisville 589-Grovespring 590-Advance 591-Barnett 592-La Hussell 593-Union 594-Blodgett 595-Cole Camp 596-Puxico 597-Bosworth 598-Leadwood 599-Elvins 600-Cosby 601-Clayton 602-Acacia 6째03-Morehouse G04-Strasburg (iOS-Walker 606-Craig 607-Eminence 608-Strafford 609-'Varrenton 610-Clark 611-Centertown 612-Mokane 613-Wellston

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

614--~It. VVashington 6I5-Chaffee 616-Marion 617-Swope Park Gl8-Grandview 619. 620-Willard 621-Anderson 622-Norwood 623, . 624-0wensville 625-Sheffield 626-Magnolia 627-VVallace Park 628-Mendon 629-Valley Park 630-East Gate G3I-Tower Grove

632-Belgrade 633-Archie 634-Steele 635-Greeptop 636. 637-Mountain View 638-Triangle 639-Mizpah 640-.T ennings 641-Trinity 642-Benj. Franklin 643-Northeast 644-Grain Valley 645-Clever 646-Shaveh 647-Noel 648-Elmer

133

649-University 650-Parma 651-Cleveland 652-Pilgrim 653-Shawnee 654--Commonweal th 655-Gardenville 656-Country Club 657-Prog-ress 658-Purity 659-Alpha 660-Holliday 66I-Theodore Roosevelt 662-Clarence 66B-Rockhill 664--Aldrich

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF LODGES-LOCATIONS-DISTRICTS A No.

602 444 366 355 590 10 343 252 219 664 544 198 659 108 255 347 141 443 377 356 621 193 529 412 389 633 6 346

Name of Lodge

Acacia Ada Adair Adelphi Advance Agency Agricola Alanthus Albert Pike Aldrich Algabil Allensville Alpha Altamont. Alton.路 America Amsterdam Anchor Ancient Craft Ancient Landmark Anderson Angerona Apollo Appleton City Arcana Archie Ark Arlington

Location of Lodge

Columbia Orrick Kirksville Edgerton Advance Agency Petersburg Alanthus Grove Kansas Citv Aldrich " St. Louis Allendale N. Kansas City Altamont Alton St. Louis Amsterdam St. Louis King City Harrisburg Anderson Missouri City St. Louis Appleton City Harris Archie Ne路wark Dixon

County

Boone Ray Adair Platte Stoddard Buchanan Henry Gentry .Jackson ,Polk VVorth Clay Daviess Oregon Bates Gentry Boone McDonald Clay St. Clair Sullivan Cass Knox Pulaski

District

26 23 . . . . . . .. 2 21 50 9 37 6 22 41 33-B 6 22 10 53 , 33-B 35 33-B 6 26 56 11 33-B 37 3 34 2 39

134 No.

70 55 100 156 306 127 267 26

1933

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Name of Lodge

Armstrong Arrow Rock Asll Grove Ashland Ashlar Athens Aurora Ava

Location of Lodge

Armstrong Arrow Rock Ash Grove Ashland. : Commerce Albany St. Louis Ava

County

District

Howard Saline Greene Boone Scott Gentry

25 24 45 26 50 6

Douglas

33-A

217 591 116 353 367 365 3 393 632 373 450 170 642 378 573 97 537 379 150 41 535 557 594 153 102 337 101 195 45 597 587 135 334 80 86 269 203 233 501 275

Barbee Sweet Springs Saline Barnett Barnett Morgan Barnes Cabool. 'l'exas Barnesville Ellington Reynolds Barry Washhurn Barry Bayou Bakersfield Ozark Beacon St. Louis Beehive Lawson ,Ray Belgrade Belgrade Washington Belle Belle Maries Belton ,Belton Cass Utica Livingston Benevolence Benjamin Franklin St. Louis Berlin Berlin Gentry Bernie Bernie Stoddard Bethany Bethany Harrison Bethel : ..Bethel ,Shelby Billings Billings Christian Bil'ming Faucett. Buchanan Bismarck Bismarck St. Francois Blackwell Blackwell St. Francois Blairstown Blairstown Henry Blodgett Blodgett Scott Bloomfield Bloomfield Stoddard Bloomington Bevier Macon Blue Springs Blue Springs ......â&#x20AC;˘Tackson Bogard Bogard Carroll Bolivar Bolivar Polk Bonhomme Ballwin St. Louis Bosworth Bosworth Carroll Branson Branson Taney Braymer Braymer Caldwell Breckenridge Breckenridge Caldwell Bridgeton ,st. John's Station. St. Louis Brookfield Brookfield Linn Brotherhood St. Joseph .Buchanan Brumley Brumley Miller Bucklin Bucklin Linn Buckner Buckner Jackson Bunker Bunker Reynolds

24 58 .46 .47 55 53 33-A. 23 .40 39 34 12 33-B 6 51 5 14 54 9 .48 40 37 50 50 14 59 20 41 57 20 54 12 12 57 13 9 38 13 59 .47

1933 No.

442 254

135

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI Name of Lodge

Burlington Butler

Location of Lodge

Burlington Jet .Butler

County

District

Nodaway Bates

7 35

416 328 486 552 183 38 63 169 284 231 549 249 401 197 461 147 305 172 611 81 59 615 185 331 407 487 333 392 388 342 229 662 610 553 559 17 207 601 507 651 645 463 520 161 548 482

Cache Cainsville Cairo Calhoun California Callao Cambridge Camden Point Canopy Cardwell Carl Junction Carroll Carterville Carthage Caruthersville Cass Cecile-Daylight. Censer "Centertown CentraL Centralia Chaffee Chamois Charity Charleston Chilhowee Chillicothe Christian Chula Circle Claflin Clarence Clark Clarksburg Clarksdale Clarksville Clay Clayton Clearmont Cleveland Clever Clifton Clifton Heights Clifton Hill Clinton Clintonville

St. Louis Harrison Cainsville Cairo Randolph Calhoun Henry California Moniteau Callao Macon Slater Saline Camden Point Platte Aurora Lawrence Cardwell Dunklin ,Carl Junction Jasper Norborne Carroll Carterville J asper Carthage Jasper Caruthersville Pemiscot Harrisonville Cass Kansas City .Jackson Macon Macon Centertown Cole Molino Audrain Centralia Boone Chaffee Scott Chamois Osage .: St. Joseph Buchanan Charleston Mississippi Chilhowee Johnson Chillicothe Livingston Oak Grove Jackson Chula Livingston Roscoe St. Clair 路Protem Taney Clarence 路Shelby ,Clark Randolph Clarksburg Moniteau Clarksdale De Kalb Clarksville 路Pike Excelsior Springs ..Clay Clayton St. Louis Clearmont Nodaway Cleveland Cass 路Christian Clever Thayer Oregon St. I ..ouis Clifton Hill Randolph Clinton Henry EI Dorado Springs. Cedar

33-D

18 37 31 14 24 21 55 51 44 20 .44 .44 51 34 22 14 31 27 26 50 31 9 50 36 12 59 12 37 54 14 18 31 10 16 11 57 ;.. 7 34 54 53 33-A 18 37 42

136 No.

274 485 595 168 534 533 654 120 432 369 464 454 528 36 265 323 600 282 656 561 287 606 519 368 586 312 525 227

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Name of Lodge

Cold Spring Cold Water Cole Camp Colony Columbia Comfort Commonwealth Compass Competition Composite Concordia Continental Conway Cooper Corinthian Cornerstone Cosby Cosmos Country Club Cowgill Craft. Craig Crane , Crescent Hill Criterion Cuba Cunningham Cypress

Location of Lodge

County

1933 District

Leeton Johnson 36 Drexel Cass 34 Cole Camp Benton 36 Colony Knox 2 Franklin 32 Pacific Wheaton Barry 55 St. Louis 33-A Parkville Platte ; 21 Competition Laclede 38 Doniphan Ripley 52 Concordia Lafayette 23 Stewartsville De Kalb 10 Conway Laclede 38 Boonville Cooper 25 Warrensburg J ohnson 36 St. Louis .' 33-B Cosby Andrew 9 St. Louis 33-B Kansas City «T ackson 22 Cowgill Caldwell 12 Canton Lewis , 15 Craig Holt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 Crane Stone '" 54 Adrian Bates 35 Alba .............•Tasper 44 Cuba , Crawford 39 Sumner Chariton 19 Laclede Linn 13

D 492 539 386 400 562 88 137 119 39 532 325 300

Daggett Dawn Dayton Decatur Deepwater Defiance Delphian De Soto DeWitt Dexter Dockery Doric

McKittrick IJudlow Dayton Pierce City Deepwater Sheridan Birch Tree De Soto DeWitt Dexter Meadville Elkland

285 630 384 575 291

EarL East Gate East Prairie Easter Edina

Coffey Kansas City East Prairie St. Clair Edina

Montgomery Livingston Cass Lawrence Henry Worth Shannon Jefferson Carroll Stoddard '" Linn Webster

28 12 34 55 37 6 47 .40 20 50 13 .45

Daviess .Jackson Mississippi Franklin Knox

10 22 50 32 2

1933 No.

137

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI Name of Lodge

Location of Lodge

318 648 599 607 14 497 121 278 505 73 27 405 577 332 441

Eldorado Elmer Elvins Eminence Eolia Equality Erwin Essex Euclid Eureka Evergreen Everton Ewing Excello Excelsior

Luray Elmer Flat River Bminence Eolia Newburg St. Louis Essex .st. Louis Brunswick N eY.,- Haven Everton Ewing Excello Jackson

483 290 44 132 47 345 281 542 339 261 23 214 578 453 554 212 192 363 352 89 48

Fairfax Fairmount Fair Play Farmington Fayette Fellowship Fenton Ferguson Fidelity Florence Florida Forest City Forest Park Forsyth Foster Four Mile Frankford FraternaL Friend Friendship Fulton

:B'airfax Wyaconda Fair Play Farmington Fayette J oplin Fenton Ferguson Parley New Florenec Florida; Forest City St. Louis Forsyth ,Foster Campbell Frankford Robertsville Ozark Chillicothe Fulton

County

District

Clark Macon St. Francois Shannon ,Pike Phelps

1 14 .48 47 16 39 33-A 50 33-A 19 32 42 15 14 .49

Stoddard Chariton Franklin Dade Lewis Macon : Cape Girardeau

•••••••••

••••

Atchison 8 Clark 1 Polk 41 St. Francois 48 Howard 25 oJasper 44 St. Louis 57 St. Louis 57 Platte 21 Montgomery 28 ,Monroe 17 Holt . . . . . . . . . .. 8 33-B Taney 54 Bates 35 Dunklin 51 Pike 16 Franklin 32 Christian 54 Livingston 12 Callaway : 27 0

••••

••

515 Galena 106 Gallatin 423 Galt .655 Gardenville 359 Garrett 522 Gate City 422 Gate 0'£ the Temple 465 Gaynor City 125 Gentryville

Galena Gallatin Galt Gardenville Arcola Kansas City Springfield .Parnell Gentryville

Stone Daviess Grundy St. Louis Dade .Jackson Greene oNodaway Gentry

54 10' 4 57 42 22 45 7 6

138 No.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Name of Lodge

Location of Lodge

County

9 George Washington .. St. Louis 250 Glensted Glensted Morgan 427 Glenwood Glenwood Schuyler 475 Golden Golden City Barton 218 Good Hope St. Louis , ..' 72 Gorin Gorin Scotland 436 Gothic ,Alexandria Clark 397 Gower Gower Clinton 289 Graham Graham Nodaway 644 Grain Valley Grain Valley ......â&#x20AC;˘r ackson 514 Granby Granby ,Newton 579 Grandin Grandin Carter 276 Grand River .Freeman Cass 618 Grandviev\; Grandview J ackson 272 Granite Sedalia Pettis Grant City Worth 66 Grant City 173 Gray Summit Gray Summit Franklin 159 Green City Green City Sullivan 425 Green Ridge Green Ridge Pettis 414 Greensburg Greensburg Knox 635 Greentop Greentop Schuyler 107 Greenville Greenville Wayne 178 Griswold Bellflower Montgomery 589 Grovespring Grovespring Wright 474 Guilford Guilford Nodaway

1933 District

33-B 58 1 43 33-B 1 1 11 7 59 56 .47 34 59 36 6 32 3 36 2 1 52 28 46 7

216 Hale City 336 Hallsville 224 Hamilton 188 HannibaL 322 Hardin 499 Harmony 171 Hartford 21 Havana.; 571 Hayti. 459 Hazelwood 354 Hebron 117 Helena 37 Hemple 477 Henderson 338 Herculaneum 123 Hermann 288 Hermitage 187 Hermon 104 Heroine 211 Hickory Hill. 527 Higbee 364 Higginsville 455 Hinton

Hale Hallsville Hamilton Hannibal. Hardin St. Louis Hartford.' McFall Hayti. Seymour Mexico Rochester Hemple Rogersville Herculaneum Hermann Hermitage Liberal Kansas City Eugene Higbee Higginsville Hinton

Carroll Boone Caldwell Marion Ray

20 26 12 15 20 33-B Putnam 3 Gentry .. . . . . . . . . . .. 6 Pemiscot 51 Webster .45 Audrain 27 Andrew 9 ,Clinton 11 Webster 45 .Jefferson .40 Gasconade : 32 Hickory 41 Barton 43 .Jackson 22 Cole 31 Randolph 18 Lafayette 23 Boone 26

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

No.

Name of Lodge

362 279 262 .660 49 251 239 215 580 4 130 32 415 30

Hiram Hogle's Creek Holden Holliday Holt Hope Hopewell Hornersville Houston Howard Hume Humphreys Hunnewell Huntsville

Kahoka Wheatland Holden Holliday Holt Washington Lesterville Hornersville Gant. New Franklin Hume Humphreys Hunnewell Huntsville

Location of Lodge

COUI)ty

410 581 76 54 536 381 154 143 420 446

Iberia !lImo Independence Index Ingomar Ionia Ionic Irondale Haska Ivanhoe

Iberia Illmo Independence Garden City Willow Springs Eldon Desloge Irondale : St. Louis Kansas City

82 541 447 500 564 398 43 640 315 480 164 321 457 335 411

J acksoIi Jacksonville Jacoby Jameson Jamesport. Jasper Jefferson Jennings Jerusalem Jewel Joachim Jonathan Jonesburg Joplin Joppa

Linneus Linn J acksonville Randolph ; Darlington Gentry Jameson Daviess Jamesport Daviess Jasper Jasper Jefferson City Cole Jennings St. Louis Jerico Springs Cedar Pleasant Hill Cass Hillsboro .........â&#x20AC;˘r efferson Denver Worth Jonesburg Montgomery J oplin ~r asper Hartville Wright

220 311 329

Kansas City Kearney Kennedy

Kansas City Kearney Elmo

139 District

Clark .Hickory J ohnson Monroe Clay Franklin Reynolds Dunklin Audrain Howard Bates Sullivan Shelby Randolph

1 .41 36 17 11 32 47 51 27 25 35 3

Miller Scott Jackson Cass Howell Miller St. Francois Washington

38 50 59 34 53 58 48 .40' 33-A 22

1<.1:

J ackson

13 18 6 10 10 44 31 57 42 34 40 6 28 44 .46

,Jackson Clay N odaway

22 11 7

140 No.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Name of Lodge

Location of Lodge

68 243 376 118 264 105 484 245 582

Kennett Keystone King Hill Kingston Kirbyville Kirksville Kirkwood Knobnoster Koshkonong

Kennett St. Louis St. Joseph Kingston Hollister ,Kirksville Kirkwood Knobnoster ,Koshkonong

222 83 115 437 489 292 460 574 531 237 253 592 506 145 598 77 494 149 31 302 138 326 152 51 521 488 257 259 268 128 409 403 394

La Belle Laclede Laddonia Lafayette Lakeville Lamar Lambskin La Monte Lane's Prairie LaPlata Laredo La Russell Lathrop Latimer Leadwood Lebanon Lewistown Lexington Liberty Lick Creek Lincoln Linn Linn Creek Livingston Lockwood Lock Spring Lodge of Light Lodge of IJove Lodge of Truth Lorraine Louisville Lowry City Lucerne

La Belle Lebanon Laddonia Corder Bell City IJamar St. Louis La Monte Vichy LaPlata Laredo La Russell Lathrop Licking Leadwood Steelville Lewistown Lexington Liberty Perry Fillmore Linn Camdenton Glasgow Lock,vood Lock Spring Eagleville Lancaster Atlanta Ridgeway Louisville Lowry City Lucerne

433 91 626

Mack's Creek Madison Magnolia

Mack's Creek Madison St. Louis

County

Dunklin Buchanan Caldwell Taney Adair St. Louis J ohnson Oregon

. 1933 District

51 33-A 9 12 54 2 57 36 53

Lewis Laclede Audrain Lafayette Stoddard Barton Pettis Maries Macon Grundy Jasper Clinton Texas St. Francois Crawford Lewis Lafayette Clay Ralls Andrew Osage Camden Howard Dade Daviess Harrison Schuyler Macon ,Harrison Lincoln St. Clair Putnam

15 38 27 23 50 43 33-B 36 39 14 4 44 11 39 48 39 15 23 11 15 9 31 ;.38 25 42 10 5 1 14 5 29 37 3

Camden Monroe

38 17 33-A

1933 No.

112 406 402 543 566 481 110 616 390 569 324 146 260 458 16 628 313 35 2 85 244 42 516 567 151 471 1 639 344 144 612 129 295 64 490 246 58 408 603 184 351 558 294 614 158 637 382 476 439 40 99

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI Name of Lodge

Location of Lodge

County

141 District

Maitland Maitland Holt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 Malden Malden Dunklin 51 Malta Malta Bend Saline 24 Mansfield Mansfield Wright 46 Maplewood Maplewood St. Louis 57 Marceline Marceline Linn 13 Marcus Fredericktown Madison .48 Marion Mercer Mercer 4 Marionville ..' Marionville Lawrence 55 Marlborough (.rackson Co.) .Tackson 59 Independence .Tackson 59 McDonald McGee College Mound Macon 14 Mechanicsville Howell St. Charles 30 Melville Dadeville Dade 42 Memphis Memphis Scotland 1 Mendon Mendon Chariton 19, Meramec Eureka St. Louis 57 Mercer Princeton Mercer 4 Meridian St. Louis 33-B Miami Miami Saline 24 Downing Schuyler 1 Middle Fabius Middle Grove Middle Grove Monroe 17 Milford Milford Barton .43 Miller Miller Lawrence 55 Milton Milton Randolph 18 MineraL Oronogo .Tasper 44 Missouri. St. Louis 33-A . Mizpah St. Louis .. ~ 33-B Moberly Moberly Randolph 13 Modern ,Humansville Polk 41 Mokane Mokane Callaway 27 Monett Monett Barry 55 Moniteau ...........â&#x20AC;˘J amestown Moniteau 31 Monroe ' Monroe City ,Monroe 17 Montevallo Montevallo Vernon 43 Montgomery Montgomery City .. Montgomery ' 28 Monticello Monticello Lewis 15 Montrose Montrose Henry 37 Morehouse Morehouse N ew Madrid 50 Morley Morley Scott ..' 50 Mosaic Belleview Iron .48 Moscow Moscow Mills Lincoln 29 Mound City Mound City Holt .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 Mount Washington Mt. Washington .Tackson 59 Mountain Grove Mountain Grove Wright .46 Mountain View Mountain View Howell 53 Mt. Ararat Topaz Douglas .46 Mt. Hope Odessa Lafayette 23 Mt. Olive Rogersville, R. 3 Webster .45 Mt. Moriah St. Louis 33-A Mt. Vernon Mt. Vernon Lawrence 55

142 No.

327 221

PROCEEDINUS OF THE Name of Lodge

Mt. Zion Mystic Tie

Location of Lodge

West Plains Oak U,idge

County

Howell Cape Girardeau

1933 District

53 .49

25 568 560 247 60 510 199 307 429 270 473. 470 647 372 643 157 358 622 181 583

Naphtali. Naylor Nelson Neosho New Bloomfield New Hampton New Hope New London New Madrid New Salem Nineyeh Nodaway NoeL Nonpareil. Northeast North Star Northwest Norwood Novelty Novinger

St. Louis Naylor Nelson Neosho New Bloomfield N ew Hampton Elsberry New London New Madrid Winfield ' Olney Maryville Noel. East Lynne Kansas City Rockport Tarkio Norwood Novelty Novinger

Ripley Saline N ewton ,Callaway Harrison Lincoln Ralls New Madrid Lincoln Lincoln Nodaway McDonald Cass Jackson Atchison Atchison Wright Knox Adair

33-B 52 ; .. 24 56 27 5 29 15 51 29 29 7 56 34 22 8 8 .46 2 2

o 163 134 576 139 546 518 303 317 7 624 297

OccidentaL Olean Olive Branch Oregon Orient OrientaL Osage Osborn 0 'Sullivan Owensville Ozark

St. Louis Olean St. Louis Oregon Kansas City Blackburn Nevada Osborn Walnut Grove Owensville Fair Grove

Miller Holt J ackson Saline .v ernon Dc Kalb Greene Gasconade Greene

33-.'\. 58 33-A . . . . .. 8 22 24 43 10 45 32 45

241 18 19 650 308 65 11 330

Palestine Palmyra Paris Union Parma Parrott Pattonsburg Pauldingville Paul Revere

St. Charles Palmyra Paris Parma Maysville Pattonsburg W right City St. Louis

St. Charles Marion Monroe New Madrid De Kalb Daviess Warren

30 15 17 " .51 10 10 30 33-A

1933 No.

319 498 551 92 502 136 472 399 652 182 314 469 504 113 160 142 467 176 79 349 232 95 209 166 242 131 556 503 179 657 148 658 190 596 180 383

GHAND LODGE OF MISSOUHI Name of Lodge

Location of Lodge

. Paulville Brashear Pee Dee Musselfork Pendleton Doe Hun Perseverance Louisiana Philadelphia Philadelphia Phoenix Bowling Green Pickering Pickering Pike Curryville Pilgrim 路St. Louis Pilot Knob Richville Pine Bardley Plato : .. Plato Platte City Platte City Plattsburg Plattsburg Pleasant Morrisville Pleasant Grove Otterville Pleasant Hope Pleasant Hope Point Pleasant. Conran Polar Star St. Louis Pollock Pollock Polo Polo Pomegranate St. Louis Poplar Bluff Poplar Bluff Portageville Portageville Portland Readsville Potosi. Potosi Prairie Gilman City Prairie Home Prairie Home Pride of the West St. Louis Progress St. Louis Purdy Purdy Purity St. Louis Putnam Newtown Puxico Puxico Pyramid St. Louis Pythagoras Cassville

County

143 District

Adair . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 Chariton 19 St. Francois 48 Pike 16 Marion 15 Pike 16 N odaway 7 Pike 16 33-B Douglas .46 Ripley 52 'l'exas 46 Platte 21 Clinton 11 Polk 41 Cooper .25 Polk .41 New Madrid 51 33-B Sullivan 3 Caldwell 12 33-A Butler 52 New Madrid 51 Callaway 27 Washington .40 Harrison 5 Cooper 25 33-B 33-B Barry 55 33-A Sullivan 路3 Stoddard 50 33-A Barry 55

Q 380 196

Queen City Quitman

Schuyler ........... 1 N odaway 7

478 33 258 201 223 451

Hacine Halls Havanna Ravenwood Hay Raymore

Seneca Center Havanna Havcnwood Camden Raymore

Newton Halls ' Mercer Nodaway Ray Cass

56 15 4 7 23 34

144 No.

391 584 468 570 167 479 385 57 361 13 496 67 435 663 341 213 550 404 426 204 316 238 90 572

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Name of Lodge

Raytown Red Bird Red Oak Republic Revere Rich Hill Richland Richmond Riddick Rising Sun Robert Burns Rocheport Rockbridge Rockhill Rockville Rolla.: Rose Hill Rosendale Rothville Rowley RuraL Rushville Russellville Rutledge

Location of Lodge

Raytown Red Bird Red Oak Republic Revere Rich Hill Richland Richmond Buffalo Barry Gainesville Rocheport Rockbridge Kansas City Rockville Rolla St. Louis Rosendale Rothville Dearborn Kansas City Rushville Russellville Rutledge

County

Jackson Gasconade Lawrence Greene Clark Bates Pulaski Ray Dallas Platte .ozark Boone Ozark J ackson Bates Phelps Andrew Chariton Platte Jackson Buchanan Cole Scotland

1933 District

59 32 55 .45 1 35 38 23 41 21路 53 26 53 22 35 39 33-A 9 19 21 22 9 31 1

S 225 226 208 424 298 462 293 71 508 448 126 236 517 513 585 646 653 625 256 228 371 304 310

Salem Saline Salisbury Samaritan Sampson Santa Fe Sarcoxie Savannah Saxton Schell City Seaman Sedalia Seligman Senath Shamrock Shaveh Shawnee Sheffield Shekinah Shelbina Sheldon Signal Sikeston

Salem St. Mary's Salisbury Bonne Terre Lutie Santa Fe Sarcoxie Savannah Saxton Schell City Milan Sedalia Seligman Senath Shamrock St. I.Jouis Warsaw Kansas City Festus Shelbina Sheldon Mindenmines Sikeston

Dent 39 Ste. Genevieve 48 Chariton 19 St. Francois 48 Ozark 53 Monroe 17 J aspel' .44 Andrew 9 Buchanan 9 Vernon .43 Sullivan . . . . . . . .. 3 Pettis 36 Barry 55 Dunklin 51 Callaway 27 33-A Benton 36 J ackson 22 Jefferson 40 Shelby 14 Vernon .43 Barton 43 Scott 50

1933 No.

75 511 266 271 206 200 547 466 296 524 155 96 273 588 234 230 28 78 20 93 109 419 133 634 538 523 283 608 604 174 69 555 263 617

GHAND LODGE OF MISSOUHI Name of Lodge

Silex Skidmore SociaL Solomon Somerset Sonora South Gate Southwest Sparta Spickardsville Spring Hill St. Andrews St. Clair St. Francisville St. Francois St. James St. John's St. Joseph St. Louis St. Mark's Stanberry Star Star of the West Steele Stella Stinson Stockton Strafford Strasburg Sturgeon Sullivan Summersville Summit Swope Park

Location of Lodge

Silex : Skidmore Martinsburg Springfield Powel'syi!le Watson Kansas City 80uthwest City Sparta Spickard Spring Hill : Shelbyville Osceola V'-ayland Libertyville St.â&#x20AC;˘J ames Hannibal St. Joseph St. Louis ('ape Girardeau Stanberry Taberville .I ronton Steele Stella Stinson ,Stockton Strafford Strasburg Sturgeon Sullivan Summersville Lee's Summit Kansas City

County

Lincoln Nodaway Audrain Greene Putnam Atchison ,Jackson McDonald Christian Grundy Livingston ,Shelby ,St. Clair Clark St. Francois Phelps Marion Buchanan Cape Girardeau Gentry St. Clair Iron Pemiscot Newton Lawrence ,Cedar Greene Cass Boone Franklin Texas Jackson J ackson

145 District

29 7 27 .45 3 8 22 56 54 4 12 14 37 1 .48 39 15 9 33-B .49 6 37 .48 51 56 55 42 45 34 26 32 46 59 22

T 565 438 299 177 661 56 631 III 638 205 641 122 440

Tebbetts Tebbetts Temperance Smithville Temple .Kansas City Texas Houston Theodore Roosevelt .. St. Louis Tipton Tipton Tower Grove St. Louis Trenton Trenton Triangle St. Louis Trilumina Marshall Trinity St. Louis Triplett Triplett TroweL Marble Hill

Callaway Clay J ackson Texas Moniteau Grundy Saline Chariton Bollinger

27 11 22 46 33-A 31 33-B 4 33-A 24 33-A 19 .49

146 No.

34 360 114 350 12

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Name of Lodge

Troy Tuscan Twilight Tyrian Tyro

Location of Lodge

Troy: St. Louis Columbia Johnstown Caledonia

1933

County

District

Lincoln Boone Bates Washington

29 33-A 26 35 .40

Franklin De Kalb Putnam Greene Vernon St. Louis Dallas Henry Andrew St. Louis Carter Audrain Vernon Lawrence Morgan Maries Clinton

32 10 3 .45 43 57 41 37 9 57 .47 27 43 55 58 39 11

593 124 210 5 495 649 421 286 413 629 509 491 493 452 320 94 62

Union Union Star Unionville United Unity University Urbana Urich Valley Valley Park Van Buren V.andalia Vernon Verona Versailles Vienna Vincil

Union Union Star Unionville Springfield Richards University City Urbana Urich Bolckow Valley Park Van Buren Vandalia Bronaugh Verona Versailles Vienna Cameron

W 348 52 605 456 627 74 609 87 61 526 375 235 512 98 84 22 613 194 46 445 103 396

Wadesburg Wakanda ' Walker Wallace Wallace Parlc Warren Warrenton Washington Waverly Wayne Waynesville Weatherby Webb City Webster Webster Groves Wellington Wellston WeIIsville Wentzville West Gate West View Western Light

Creighton Cass Carrollton Carroll , Walker Vernon Bunceton .......â&#x20AC;˘. Cooper Wallace Buchanan Keytesville Chariton Warrenton Warren Greenfield Dade Waverly Lafayette Piedmont. Wayne Waynesville Pulaski Weatherby De Kalb Webb City Jasper Marshfield Webster Webster Groves St. Louis De Kalb Buchanan W ellston ' St. Louis Wellsville Montgomery Wentzville St. Charles St. Louis Millersville Cape Girardeau Louisburg Dallas

34 20 .43 25 9 19 30 .42 23 52 38 10 44 45 57 9 57 28 30 33-B .49 .41

1933

GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI

147

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Name of Lodge

Location of Lodge

15 Western Star 53 Weston 340 Westport 202 Westville 434 Wheeling 301 White Hall 417 Whitewater 162 Whitesville 374 Wilderness 620 Willard 370 Williamstown 191 Wilson 29 Windsor 540 430 277 387 24

Winigan Winona Wm. D. Muir Woodside Wyaconda

Winston Weston Kansas City Westville Wheeling Barnard Whitewater Whitesville Wilderness Willard '. Williamstown Pocahontas Windsor

Winigan Winona Pilot Grove Thomasville La Grange

County

District

Daviess Platte Jackson Chariton Livingston Nodaway Cape Girardeau Andrew ,Oregon Greene Lewis Cape Girardeau Henry

10 21 22 19 12 7 49 9 53 45 15 49 37

Sullivan Shannon Cooper Oregon Lewis

3 47 25 53 15

Nodaway

x 50

Xenia

Hopkins Y

563

york

Kansas City

,Jackson

545 189

Zalma Zeredatha

Zalma .â&#x20AC;˘......... Bollinger St. Joseph Buchanan

49 9

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... 1... 1 71 14112 ... 1 1... • . 1 ... 12 12 12 3... 28: 12 3 '" 1 1.. 1 1... 1 2 2 2... .. .... 1 2. , .1 1.. 1... 2 , .. '1" .\ .. 1 111 211 " ... 4 ... 2 141 171 161 51 91 521261 131

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THIRD DISTRICT-WALTER E. SINGLEY, D. D. G. M., Green City, Mo.

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FIFTH DISTRICT-HENDRIX NEWMAN, D. D. G. M., Bethany, Mo. Bethany. 97 1 212 .. 1 1 Lorraine. 128 '" ... ,... 1/ 1 Lodge of Light. 257 Cainesville, 328..... 3 3 2 3... t Hatfield. 395...... .. .,. . New Hampton, 510. "'1 1 111 Prairie. 556 1 ··1 TOTAL........ 41 61 51 51 21

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Savannah, 71...... 3 2 /1 11 10 3 4 1 1J~ $ Helena, 117........ 1 1 1... .. 1. •. . 2 .. .. " Lincoln, 138........ 1 1 11..... 1 1.. . .. " 55 58 Whitesville, 162..... 1 1 1\.. 2 1 2 9 .. 43 Rosendale, 404 ..... , 1 1 1. . 1 2 1 1. . . . . 55 Valley, 413 ........•.. 1..... '1" ... 3... 1 3 .. Cosby, 600......... 1 1 .•........ 64 Agency, 10......... . .. 2 2 2 . 103 Wellington, 22..... ... 2 2. . . . .. 3. . . . . . 66 542 St. Joseph, 78...... 3 3 415 3 17 5 6 59 1.. 1 Birming, 150....... 1 1 1. . 4 1. . . 12..... . 65 792 Zeredatha, 189..... 3 5 7 1 4 33 41 6 33.... 1 Rushville, 238...... 3 2 1. . .,. ... 5 ., .. " 74 250 Brotherhood, 269... 3 4 31 3/". 4 2 4 1 ...... Charity, 331....... 6 8 81 4 5 10 5 18 27 .. 979 226 King Hill, 376...... 8 8 81"1 2 3 21 2 31 ... '1 1 Saxton, 508........ 1 1 1... . . 4 .. . 1 .. " 44 Wallace Park, 627. "" ... 1 1 ..... 1 • • • • • . • • • . . • . . • • • • " 311 TOTAL 351 401 401161 161 961 251 531 1801 11 .. 1 4 3,6481$

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Kingston, 118 ...... Braymer, 135 ....... Hamilton, 224 ...... Polo, 232 ........... Breckenridge, 334 .. Cowgill, 561. ....... Friendship, 89 ..... Spring Hill, 155 ..... Benevolence, 170 ... Chillicothe, 333 ..... Chula, 388 ...•..... Wheeling, 434 ...... Dawn, 539 ......... TOTAL ........

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GRAND SECRETARY'S TABULAR STATEMENT-Continued FOURTEENTH DISTRICT-W. C. HEWITT, D. D. G. M., Shelbyville, Mo. "t:l

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SEVENTEENTH DISrRICT-GEORGE E. CHIPMAN, D. D. G. M., Monroe City, Mo.

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10.00 $

1.00

130.00 58.80 .....•.. 388.75 20.00 2.00 174301 .. : .. :::::::: 71.40 None 41.00[ 22.00 -:-----::N,.,.-;:-o-=ne::7.:-----:::-:-:-::7:;:--::-::-=1 540.801$ 22.00 718.751$ 30.001$ 3.00

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT-WILLIAM F. WIGGINTON, D. D. G. M., Moberly, Mo. Huntsville. 30 ..... , 11 11 11"·.. Milton, 151........ . .. 1. .. ... .. § Clifton Hill, 161 \ .. Moberly, 344....... 4 2 2 4 3 Cairo, 486... . . . . . . . 1 1 2... . . Higbee, 527........ ... "'1 1 .. ,... Jacksonville, 541... 2 2 11" 1 Clark, 610........ 3 3 2..... TOTAL ........ 111 91 91 41 41

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7 1 41 1

··

1741$

365.401$ ..... IS .... IS

365.40 $

1.... .. ..6::1 .. ~::~: ~:~~l ::::.:/-. i:1:~::~ .. .

i,i :: .. 8 5 8 1 1 .,. . . .. .. .. .. 731 153.30 .•.. ··1 ..... 1 153.30 125 262.50 262.50 8 1 1 .. .. 59 123.90 2.10. . •. . 126.00 2 ... 2 6 .. 64 2 1 1 .. 134.40. . . . .. ..... 134.40 291 111 17[ 121 .. 1.. 1 1 1,0821$ 2.272.201$ 8.401$ .... 1$ 2,280.601$

§ Not received.

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14.70

350.70 $ ....... $

7:~:;: : :4:6:7:.~~

'1:::: ... 2.10 151.20 .......• 16.80 245.70 . 4.20 121.80 . 4.2Q. 85.001 45.20 60.90 $ 1.706.901$ 512.80

385.001$

5.4:~~1

10.00 $

1.00

..... ::::::: :::::: 2.705.15 40.00 4.00 100.00 10.00 1.00 425.00 •...... . ••... 90.00 20.00 2.00 3.00 162.00 30.00 $ 3,921.151$ 110.001$ 11.00

GRA~D SECRETARY'S TABULAR STATEMENT-Continued

NINETEENTH DISTRICT-BLAIR MILLER, D. D. G. M., Keytesville, Mo.

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Eureka, 73 1 1114 12165 8 . tWarren. 74 :.\... .. .. .. \ .. Triplett. 122....... 1 1 1.. 1 4 . Westville. 202 ,... 4,.. 2 .. Salisbury, 208...... 5 10!1 2 1 .. Rothville, 426...... 1/ 2 1 .. ,. 2 1, .. PeeDee.498 "'1'" . , ••• Ii 4 1121 . Cunningham. 525... 11 1... 11/... 1 21 .. Mendon, 628....... 11 11 11.. 1....... 1 5 . TOTAL........ 41 61 4191 2/ 321 141 111 271 .. 1.. 1..

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~ ...5.3.7:~~1'$...1.0:~~ $ $.::::: $.... ... 64.00 10.00 64 134.40 2.10\. . . . . 136.50 8.40 100.00 28.10 50 105.00. . . . .. ..... 105.00 8.40 96.60 ......•. 40.00 855.00 199 417.90........... 417.90 21.00 39'6.90 None 10.00 411 86.10 86.10....... 86.10 . 40.00 21'1 44.10 ...•....... \ 44.10 ' 2.10 39.90 2.10 35.00 10.00 61 128.101 .. . 128.101 23.10 105.00i . 94.50. . . . . . . 94.501 . 44j 92.401 2.10 1 None 10.00 5891$ l,236.901S 4.201$ .... 1$ 1,241.101$ 67.20 $ 1,143.701$ 30.20 $ 1,571.501$ 50.001$

I.....

1.00 1.00 . . 1.00 . 1.00 1.00 5.00

TWENTIETH DISTRICT-OTTO HALE, D. D. G. M., Carrollton, Mo. De Witt. 39 ........ Wakanda. 52 .•..... Bogard. 101 ........ Hale City. 216 ...... Carroll. 249 ........ Bosworth. 597 ...... Hardin. 322 ........ Waverly, 6l.. ..... TOTAL ........

31 5 3

2 2 .,. 16 2 4 6 3 2 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 1 3 ... . . . 1 4 .. ... 1 .. .... 4 4 •.. 1 2 ... 191151 21 351 141 14/ 41 ..

1 :1 ~I~~ ... ... ... .. ... 1 ... 3 4 1 2 2 171 181

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6 10 6 9 4 7

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4.20 105.00 $ 50 $ 105.00 33.60 294 617.40 $ 4.20 ..... $ 621.60 12.60 118 247.80 ...... ..... 247.80 126.00 ...... ..... 6.30 60 126.00 2.10 170.10 80 168.00 2. 10 1 . . . . . 6.30 147.00 142.801 4.20 ..... 68 ....... 102 214.20 214.201 ...... I ..... 8.40 62 130.20 130.201 ...... 1 • . • . . 1 8341$ 1,751.401$ 10.501$ .... 1$ 1.761.901$ 73.60

100.80 $ ....... $ 107.001$ 20.001$ 2.00 None 40.00 4.00 588.00 ........ 235.20 ........ '°:00 ••• ':00 119.70 ........ 1 168.00 ........ 108.00 1.00 140.70 25.00 30.00 3.00 555.001·· .. ... . ..... 150.00\ 64.20 121.80 ........ 174.00 20.00 2.00 $ 1,624.201$ 64.20 s 1.221.601$ 150.001$ 15.00

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. 10.001

TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT-J. P. TUCKER, D. D. G. M., Parkville, Mo.

RisingSun. Weston. 53......... Compass. 120 Camden Point. 169.. Rowley. 204 Fidelity. 339 Adelphi, 355 Platte City. 504 TOTAL... .. ...

"'1"'111,"1 \ 1 ...... 1.. 1 1 1 1"j 2 21 1 31 J ••• 1.. ·1·· .. , ·1·· .1. 1.. '1 1.. 1 1 ! .. I 71 51 3/ 41 11 141

21 21

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i$ 214.20,S 1021S 214.20,$ ..... 1$ 245.70; 116 243.601 2.101· : 941 197.401 4.201 ·1 201.60i 90.30 84.00 6.301 . 401 157.50 751 157.50 I .. 138.60 138.601 .. 661 102.90 48 100.80! 2.10 .. 205.80 191.10! 14.70 . 911 632 1$ 1.327.201$ 29.401$ ., .. 1$ 1.356.601$

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT-DARIUS A. BROWN, D. D. G. M., Care

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Heroine. 104 13/12 ' 16 1 2 1 4 91 4 1~ 181 Albert Pike. 219 .•.. ' 1 1 2i 51 2 69 5 o .. ,. .. Kansas City. 220.... 61 8 1 8\2' 1 103 4 16 24.. Temple. 299........ 11 21 1 1121 209! 16 34 77 1 1 1 Cecile-Daylight, 305. 111"3.11"'3.1'2' '1'2' 48...... 6134 1' '8', 2 Rural. 316......... 10 14..... . Westport. 340...... 5 5 5 11 7 93 8 16 97...... Ivanhoe. 446 22 28 2643 14 184 39 54 355 .. 2' .. Gate City. 522 ,.. 4 4 4 1 18 1921 4 16 116.. .. .. Orient. 546......... 2 4 527: 221 270 3 3 6 .. South Gate. 547.... . 5 8 11 2' 21 19 3 15 64...... York. 563.......... 2 2 ' 2 11' 13 33 7 10 45..... . Swope Park. 617.... 6 6 611 2 23 5 5 48.. .. Sheffield. 625....... 4 4 3 4 371 87 2 7 87 .. : : East Gate. 630. . . . .. 10 7 1 111 51 38 128 15, 17 188 . . . '1' .. Northeast. 643 ..... , 61 5 \ 6,.. 6 48 31 5 67...... Country Club. 656 .. , 5 4 6, .. 1 10 27113'1 4 14 ... Rockhill. 663....... 7 10: 10 1/ 31 3... 2 11...... Alpha. 659........ 1 21 2......... 1... TOTAL 1021115,12719812121157411401232112791 11 31 1

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IS . 207. 90 1$ $ 275.00\$ 241.50 . 150.00 10.001 1.00 201.60 . 2.00 455.501 20.00; None 20.001 2.00 86.10 •..... ,. 100.001 49.10 145.001 ·1 .. 130. 20 1 . 268.001" '1' .. 200.00 .......••...• 100.80 . 244.00 . . 40.00 151.10 $ 1.108.101$ 200.20 $ 1.737.501$ 50.001$ 5.00

House, Kansas City, Mo.

. $2.450.001$ 130.001S 13.00 1.007/$2.114.70$ 8.40$.·.·1$2.123.10$ 18.90 8 2.104.20 ,S .. 779.10 435 913.50 10.50.. . . . 924.00 144.90 475.501 10.001 1.00 1.824.00 50.00 5.00 1.797.60 . 9581 2.011.80 2.10..... 2,013.90 216.30 2.986.20, . 2.313.601 30.00 1.00 1,616 3.393.60 42.00 10.50 3.425.10 438.90 361.00 10.001 1.00 228.901··· . 122 256.20 ...... ..... 256.20 27.30 1.159.20 . 604 1.268.40 25.20. . . . . 1,293.60 134.40 20.00'1 2.00 1,025.601 240.00 50.00 5.00 2.150.401· . 1.110 2.331.001 14.70 2.345.70 195.30 8.960.00 220.00 22.00 3.419 7.1.9.90' 29.40 7.209.30 386.40 3,985.801 2.837.10 833.00 40.00 4.00 1.428' 2.998.80 37.80 ,. 3,036.60 403.20 1,633.40 1.000.00 942 1.978.20 46.20..... 2.024.40 567.00 ... 00 .. "11.457.40 2.550.00 280.00 I 32.00 1.410.00 50.00 5.00 1,755.60 . 853 1.791.30 4.20..... 1.795.50 39.90 435.50 40.001 4.00 . 1.096.20 .. , 542 1.138.20 27.30.... . 1.165.50 69.30 975.00 20.001 2.00 436.80: 254.10 350 735.00 4.20.. .•• 739.201 48.30 350.00 40.001 4.00 883.70 ........ 470 987.00 29.40.. . . . 1,016.40 182.70 1.362.00 100.00[ 10.00 2.047.50 1.067 2.240.701 79.80 4.20 2.316.30 , 268.80 3.000.00 60.001 6.00 865.20 . 454 953.40 12. 60 1 ..... 966.001 100.80 533,40 ....•... 815.00 50.00'/ 5.00 271 569.10 21.001.. . . . 590.10/' 56.70 86.00 80.00 8.00 247.80 . 118 247.80 6.301..... 254.10 6.30 768.00 10.00 1.00 312.90 .. 149 312.901 ...... I •.• 001 312.901.00 .... 15,915/$33.421.501$401.101814.701$33.807;90,$3305.40 $22.906.401$7.596.10 830.174.201$1290.001$131.00 1

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GRAND SECRETARY'S TABULAR STA'rEMENT-Continued TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT-C. B. WADDELL, D. D. G. M., Lexington, Mo.

Lexington, 149 Higginsville, 364... tLafayette, 437 Concordia, 464..... Mount Hope. 476 I-' Richmond, 57...... ~ Ray, 223 §King Hiram. 309 BeeHive, 393.. Ada, 444.......... TOTAL........

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11 .. '... 51.... .

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1 11 81

71 1 5 ... 3 51 10 6

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1531$ 130

321.3 0 i$· .... \$ 273.00 I •.. . ..

135 228

283.501 478.80/

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.. .. .. 7 . 11 ....•. .. .. .. 21'" 2 12 . 1 ... 4.. .. .. .. I.. 391 111 171 401 .. 1.. ! .. 3 3

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:::::: 1.::::: .. "1'2'8:io l .... 283.50

.... ::::~I ::::::\ ::::: .....7.7::~ 8.40. . . . .

6.30 10.50 21.00

487.20

306.60IS

::::~~:cicil 2:.:::: 273.001 466.20

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568.00 $ 622.00 290.00 245.00 818.00 170.00

••...6.5:~~ :::::::: 2.25 4.20 140. 70 450.00 180.60 . 2.10 81.90 $ 1,530.201$ 286.30 $ 3,165.251$

...

69 144.901 ...... , ..... 144.90 87 182.70........... 182.70 9001$ 1,890.001$ 8.401$ .... 1$ 1,898.401$

14.70 $ 10.50

$ . . ...•.

20.00

2.00

10.00 10.00 40.001$

1.00 1.00 4.00

TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT-JOHN W. ADAMS, D. D. G. M., Marshall, Mo.

.. .. Arrow Rock. 55 ..... 1 1 ... 26 ... 3 10 .. .. .. Cambridge, 63 ...... .. .. 7 ... 4 1 . .,1,,1 ... 1 Miami, 85 .......... . . . 8 .. .. .. 733 Trilumina. 205 ..... .... .. .. .. 7 Barbee, 217 ........ .. .. .. 2 Malta, 402 ........ 5 ... 1 2 2,,\ ... .. .. .. Oriental, 518 ....... .. .... .. .. .. Nelson, 560 ........ .. ·1 .. ·1·.,1 ..... 2 TOTAL ........ 41 51 51 41 ... 1 571 51 171 181 .. 1. ·1 .. t Not reported. § Defunct. • Credit $2.10.

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6.30 $ 52.50 $ 25 $ 28.001$ ...... $ ..... 46. 20 1$ ....... S 62.601$ .... ·1$ ••. 54.60 399.00 20.00 218 457.80 ...... . .... 457.80 2.00 405.30 • 2.10 14.70 147.00 70 147.00 ...... . .... 154.001 ....... . ..... 14.70 840.00 30.00 3.00 516.60 ........ 253 531.30 531.30 ...... , ..... 14.70 289.80 .......• . ..... 304.50 145 304.50 ...... . .... \ 184.00 10.00 10.50 147.00 ......•• 75 157.50 ......•.... 157.50 1.00 71.80 155.50 ....... . ..... 121.80 . ...... 58 50.001 121. 80 1 ······1 ..... 4.20 75.00 ....... . ..... 46 1 96.60 ...... 1 ..... 1 96.60 92.401··· .. · .. 8901$ 1,869.001$ ..... 1$ " .. 1$ 1,869.001$ 119.70 $ 1.679.601$ 71.80 $ 2,000.501$ 60.001$ 6.00

132··T·······

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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT-GUY C. MILLION, D. D. G. M., Boonville, Mo. Cooper, 36. 11 21 21 1 / 71 5 2 3...... 195i$ 409.50 $ ...•. 1$ $ 409.50 $ 14.70 $ 394.801$ '" $ 294.00 $ Pleasant Grove, 142 1 1.. ·1 1 .. , 8 ." ' " .. 69 144.901 I 144.90 16.80 103.101 25.00 371.50 Wm. D. Muir, 277. . . 31 11 111 1 51. .. 3 .. 70 147.001' .. . . . 6.30 140.70 10.50 130.201. . . . . . . . 14.00 Wal.l8:ce, 456 ,... .. .1 ·1· [. . . 3 .. " 69 144.90 1 144.90 ; 40.001 104.90 400.00. PraIrIe Home, 503... 2 i 1 31 1 4 2 3 .. .... 43 90.30 90.30 8.40 81.90 .... . . . • 115.00 Howard,4 .....•.... "'1"'1 ... 1" \ 7\ ... 1 20...... 101 212.10 212.10 14.70 197.40........ 120.00 Fayette, 47 , 1 1 11' . 11 31.. . 3 132 277.201 , , 277.20 6.30 270.90 540.90 Livingston, 51...... 4 2 1 1... 151' . . 1 .. " 60 126.00. . . . .. 126.00 31.50 94.50 ......•• 39.00 g 02::-.."..90:-7-=-.....,....,,__ 1-:_A_r_m-=st,..,r_o_n _ ::::,:-7_0....:,._._ . ._._.,...:...,..... 1_._..~ ..__.-'-.·_·-'-.1.....:,...,..·,--I_1:-'---..__.,.:-_2.;-."-22,,..:.-' _=-=4:-::9~1::--::-__1__ 0_2.-::-9~01:-.,....'_'_._ • •...!..,,--.__ • -:'•__.-'7--:-::: 2-::-::.10 -::---=-.,....10__0.....,.8:-::0-'.._.__ -::- . -::-''__'_' f 190.00. 1 TOTAL 111 71 81 41 91 501 71 121 511 .. 1. ·1.. 7881$ 1,654.801 $ 1$ 6.301$ 1,648.501$ 105.00 $ 1,413.601$ 129.90 $ 2,084.40\$ 1

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10.00 $ 1.00 . 30.00 3.00 . . . . .. • ....• 30.00 3.00 ...... 10.00 1.00 40.00 4.00 . . . . .. . ..... 120.001$ 12.00

TWENTY·SIXTH DISTRICT-E.LI S. HAYNES, D. D. G. M., Columbia, Mo.

Centralia, 59.... . .. 1 Rocheport, 67...... ... Twilight, 114....... 12 Ashland, 156....... 1 Sturgeon, 174...... 1 Hal~ville, 336...... AnCIent Land1

CJl mark, 356 ~Hinton,455

Acacia,602 TOTAL ........

1 11 .. 1 5 41 1 5 19 . 1 .. '1 .. 1.. . 3 ... 2 3 .. .. .. 3 8 11 4 14 2 4 13..... . 1 11·· 1 21'" 1.... .. .. 1 .. '11 ,.. 4 1 3 8.... .. ... . 3 1............. 1 • • • 1·· .•• .... .,. ... ., .. • . 1 18 '1" 1 ., .. 1' "1 1"" 21 2 11 . . 1.. . 1 1'1 ..... 1 ,..2 1 3 319 6 12 6 3 381 1 16j 111 141121 16[ 61[ 111 221 83[ .. 1 . . 1 1

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32.00 $ ...... $ ..... None •..........•. 79.00 110.00 11.00 None 10.00 1.00 430.00 10.00 1.00 52.50 •.........•..

481 100.801........ .. . 100.80 37.80 35.70...... 35.70 2.10 17 33. 60 1 . . . . . . . . 739.20 ...•.... 358 751.80 12.60 ..... 1 764.40 25.20 4.30 $ 9691$ 2,034.90[$ 33.601$ .. , .1$ 2,068.501$ 128.10 $ 1,936.10[$

21.00 ...... 5:00 10.00 1.00 Nonel 10.00 1.00 619.501$ 150.001$ 15.00

.. • .. 1

195.301$ 10.501$ .... $ 75.60 ..... 365.40 8.40. . . . . 138.60 2.10. . . . . 294.00 ..••.. 1 77.70

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205.80 $ 75.60 373.80 140.70 294.00 77.70

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197.40[$ 69.30\ 344.401 132.201 285.60\ 71.40

. . 4.30 .. .

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TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT-LOUIS J. GRAUE, D. D. G. M., Mexico, Mo.

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Central, 81 ·1 .. ·1 1[ Laddonia, 115 , .1 1.. \.. • Social, 266......... 11 .. ·• Hebron, 354........ 2 2 1 3 2 Vandalia, 491. I .. • Houston, 580 \ .. \ 1 Fulton, 48 ........•... New Bloomfield, 60.. 3 3 2 1... Portland, 242 '1" .. , Auxvasse, 357 , Tebbetts, 565 1•••••••••• Shamrock, 585..... . •. 1 • . Mokane, 612....... 11 1 2 1... TOTAL........ 71 61 51 61 31

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34 1$ I·.. 11 71.401$· .. ·· $ $ 71.40 $ 1....... 21.... . . 5,..... 48 100.80[ 100.80 3 • .. 1 I.. .... 50. 105.001.. .. .. 105.00 121... 5, I.... 1 3101 651.001 4.20 655.20 111·.. 41.......... 102 214.201...... 214.20 1 \.... .. .. .. 271 56.701 2.10 58.80 8 ..• 3 " 218 457.80\' 457.80 3 3 3 5...... 921 193.20 .. , .. . 193.20 2 2 .. 34 71.401··········· 71.40 1 1. ,.. .. 281 58.80 1 58.80 1. .. .. .. 43\ 90.301 \. . . . . 90. 30 1 1. . .. .. .. 28 58. 80 58.80. 2 ... 1 2.... 87 182.70........... 182.70 451 51 201 141 .. 1.. 1 1 1,1011$ 2,312.101$ 6.301$ .... 1$ 2,318.401$

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8.40 6.30 29.40 4.20 8.40 6.30

93 $ 36 174 66 140 37

1 ...

135.00 $ $ ...•. 71. 40 IS .. 45.00 96.60 . 425.00 20.00 2.00 98.70 i .. 2.00 999.60 20.00 630.00! .....•.. 236.00 0 191.1 55.00 56.70 . 788.00 441.00 .. 2.00 167.65 20.00 186.90 . 45.50 71.40 * 4.20 30.00 56.70 .. 100.00 . 90.30 ......•. 58.80 . 28.001 .. · .. 140.00 40.00 3.00 178.50 .. $ 2,228.101· .. $ 3,194.751$ 100.001$ 9.00 $

4.20 6.30 25.20 23.10 2.10 16.80 6.30 4.20 2.10

1' ...... ...... 4.20 94.50

GRAND SECRETARY'S TABULAR STATEMENT-Continued TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT-PAULA. THOMAS, D. D. G. M., Montgomery City, Mo. ~

NAME AND NUMBER OF LODGE

Griswold, 178 Wellsville, 194 ...... Montgomery, 246 ... Florence, 261 Jonesburg, 457 ..••. Daggett. 492 ...•... TOTAL ........

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2.10 $ 128.10 $ ....... $ 175.00 $ 62 $ 130.201$ ••••• $ .... $ 130.20 $ 346.50 289.80 ........ 424.40 56.70 165 346.501 ...... 2.10 ..... 228.90 4.20 224.70 282.00 226.80 108 130.20 130.20 ....... 160.00 60 126.001 4.20 147.00 113.40 ....... None 33.60 70 147.00 ...... .... 153.30 ....... 75 157.50 ...... ..... 157.50 4.20 227.50 540;$ 1,134.001$ 6.301$ .... 1$ 1,140.301$ 100.80 $ 1,039.50; $ ....... $ 1,268.901$

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TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT-W. P. SMITH, D. D. G. M., Troy, Mo. Troy. 34 I I· .. "11 Silex, 75 ....•........ '1" New Hope, 199..... ... 1 2 1... New Salem. 270 ..... "'1 2 2 ..... Louisville, 409...... .. 1 Nineveh, 473 "11 Moscow. 558....... 1... 1 .. ;, TOTAL 1 41 41 3i 21

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3 2. .. .. 2 .. . 1.. .. .. .. .. 2 1 3 .. 10 1... 1.. 2. .. •.. 6 .. " .. " .. 5... 1.......... 221 31 51 101 .. 1.. 1..

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123 $ . 258.30 $ 2.10 260.40 $ 35 73.50. . . ..... 73.50 67 140.70 140.70 85 178.50 ..•....•... 1 178.50 43 90.30. . . . .. 90.30 50 105.00. .. . .. 105.00 83 174.30 1 . 174.30 4861$ 1,020.601$ 2.101$ 1$ 1.022.701$

I.....

229.401$ 24.70 $ 154.50 88.00 69.301 •....•.. 100.00 140.701 .. · .. · .. 465.00 157.501· .. ··· .. 25.00 86.10 . 105.50\. .50 .....•.. 163.80 $ 788.50 1$ 188.50 $ 1,232.501

6.30 $ 4.20 21.00 4.20 10.50 46.20

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THmTIETH DISTRICT-WILLIAM E. LANGE, D. D. G. M., Wright City, Mo.

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Wentzville, 46 ....•.•. 2 ... 1........ Palestine, 241...... ... 1 1 1... 4 1 1 15...... Mechanicsville, 260.. .. . 1 11.... . 1 1. ". .. .... Pauldingville, 11 •....•. 1.•. \ , .. \... •.• .. .•.• Warrenton, 609.... 11 001.. 2.... 1 1 3 .. .. .. TOTAL... ..... 11 21 21 11 21 71 21 41 181 .. 1.. 1..

30 $ 174 78 61 66 4091$

63.001$ ..... $ .... $ 365.40........... 163.801" . ..... 128.10 •.... 138.60 4.20..... 858.901$ 4.201$ .... IS

63.00 $ 4.20 366.40 8.40 163.80 2.10 128.10 •••••.. 142.80....... 863.101$ 14.70

68.80/$ 367.00 161.701" 128.10 142.80 848.401$

96.00 $ ...... $ ..... .. $ 780.00 10.00 1.00 .. 64.60 .......•...•. .. 46.50 ...........•. . 76.00 10.00 1.00 .. $ 1,061.001$ 20.001$ 2.00 ..

THIRTY-FIRST DISTRICT-ALBERT LINXWILER, D. D. G. M., Jefferson City, Mo.

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Jefferson, 43 .....•. 11 18 12 141 2 Russellville, 90 •..•• Hickory Hill, 211. ... 1 1 1.. '2 2 Centertown, 611. .•• ... 1 1 .. I". Tipton, 56 ...•.... 2 California, 183 ..... Moniteau, 295 ...•.. 2 2 31.. Clarksburg, 553 .•.. 1 1 Chamois, 185 .•...•. '00 1". 1 Linn, 326 ....•..•.. ... 111 ....... TOTAL ........ 15[ 171 191 91 51 301

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THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT-R. A. BREUER, D. D. G. M., Hermann, Mo. Evergreen, 27 ••••.. 1 ... 1 11·· . Sullivan, 69 .••..•.. 2 2 3 Gray Summit, 173 ... 2 2 1 .,. Hope, 251 ...••...•. 1 2 1 ... Fraternal, 363 •..•.. 1 1 Columbia, 534 ...••. 1 1 Easter, 575 •........ 2 2 21 2 2 Union, 693 ......... ... Hermann, 123 .•..•. 1 1 1 .. 1 Red Bird, 684 .•.• r • 2 "2 "il'2 Owensville, 624 ...•. TOTAL ........ 111 131 141121 71

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24.00 $ ...... $ ..... 149.10 $ ....... $ 85.00 20.00 2.00 369.60 ........ None ...... 2.00 147.00 ........ 60.00 20.00 2.00 298.20 ........ 72.00 153.30 None 10.00 203.70 1.00 None 20.00 2.00 78.00 87.90 184.80 ........ 376.00 ...... ..... 80.00 10.00 197.40 1.00 73.00 28.20 60.00 490.00 20.00 241.60 2.00 $ 2,082.601$ 116.10 $ 1,269.001$ 100.001$ 12.00 $

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GRAND SECRETARY'S TABULAR STATEMEKT-Continued THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT (A)-EUGENE J. ALTHEIMER, D. D. G. M., St. Louis, Mo.

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41 611 3 136 7 12 1 2 127 4 4 8 2 393 3 31" 1 25 6 6 1 61 . ...... , 8 2 6' 81 1 7 20 3 4 41 1 ... 2 4 3 311. . . 23 6 6 4 1 1 6 61 6 6 5 9 88 1 1 11 1 1 45 1" 2 2 1 4 2 1 1

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$ 1,165.901$ ••. · •• • 3,120.60 ..•••••• 2,839.20 ••.•..•. 1,083.60 . 1,165.50 .. 585.90 .. 661.50 . 1,457.40 .. 795.90 .•.•.... 399.00 . 2,081.10 . 879.90 . 766.50 . 1,190.70 .. 1,228.50 ...•.... 987.00 . 543.90 . 646.80 . 598.50 . 224.701 50.4'0

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300.00 636.50 1,300.00 . 700.00 842.00 101.001 440.00 348.00

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1.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 4.00 2.00 1.00 1.00

156.00 40.00 4.00 928.00 30.00 3.00 128.001 20.00 2.00 . $16,570.251$ 680.001$ 68.00 50.40

THIRTY-THmD DISTRICT (B)-A. J. MICHENER, D. D. G. M., St. Louis, Mo.

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Cole Camp, 595 ..... 21 2 50 $ 105.00 $ 44.10 $ 60.90 $ ....... $ 115.001$ ...... $ ..... " Shawnee, 653 •...... 3 4 1 12 .. .. 1 101 212.10 ...... . .... 212.10 323.75 10.00 1.00 6.30 205.80 ....... Knobnoster, 245 .... 46 ....... 96.60 ........... 175.00 ....... 96.60 96.60 ........ " Holden, 262 .•...... .. .. 8 4 2 12 182 . ...... 6.30 380.10 ........ 383.50 4.201' . . . . 386.40 382.20 " 1 Corinthian, 265 ..... 9 1 6 .. .. 18.90 209 420.00 ........ 850.00 ...... ...... 438.90 438.901 ........... \ Cold Spring, 274 ••. ... .... .. .. .. 65 136.50 ...... ..... 136.50 ...... 241.00 10.00 1.00 136.50 '" §Pittsville, 428 ..•.. ... , . .... .. ....... ........ ....... ..... . / " Chilhowee. 487 ..•.. ........ ·1 ..... .. . 104 69 1 2. '" 144.90 218.40 ...... • .... , 218.40 43.30 30.20 545.00 ...... ...... Sedalia, 236 ..•..... .. 441 5 .. 3 11 50.40 1,800.00 875.70 ....... 50.00 5.00 Granite, 272 ........ ... '" 1'2 ... 3 6 59 .. .. " 384 6.30 806.40 ...... ..... 806.40 800.10 ........ 350.00 ....... ..... Green Ridge, 425 .... . . .... 59 ... .. ... ...... 225.00 123.90 ...... ...... •..... . .•.. / 123.90 123.90 " I.. · .... Lamonte, 674 ...•.. 1 1 1 .. 1 . . . 1.... ... 45 94.50 I ...... ..... 94.50 ...... 94.50 ........ 146.00 20.00 2.00 11 11 .. .. TOTAL ........ 71 91 121431 11 1321 151 291 991· .1··1 1 1,6861$ 3.540.601$ 4.201$ .... 1$ 3.544.801$ 277.20 $ 3,237.401$ 30.20 5; 5,154.251$ 90.001$ 9.00

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186.70 $ 10.00 $ 1.00 6.30 $ 50.00\$ 107.50 111.00 30.00 3.00 6.30 184.80 ........ • •.•..... 1 • • • • • • . • 155.00 23.~0 123.90 .. 4.20 149.10 .. None 10.00 1.00 400.00 20.00 2.00 6.30 191.10 .. 486.00 20.00 2.00 6.30 303.30· 3.00 75.00 134.40 . 135.00 40.00 4.00 4.20 123.90 . 56.70 $ 1,260.501$ 107.50 $ l,548.70/S 130.001$ 13.00

GRAND SECRETARY'S TABULAR STATEMENT-Continued THmTY-NINTH DISTRICT-CHARLES L. WOODS, D. D. G. M., Rolla, Mo.

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2.10 $ 222. 60 1$ Belle, 373.......... 1 20 . 107 $ 224. 70 1$ ... "1$ .... $ 224. 70 1$ .. $ 455.50 $ ..... '1$ ..... Lebanon, 77....... 1 2. .. 1 1 6 1 1 32..... . 12.60 164 344.40 2.10. . . . . 346.50 333.90 .. 29.00 10.00 1.00 2.10 129 Cuba, 312.......... 3 2 1 1 1 '" 4 8 " 270.90. . • 270.90 268.80 ......•. 105.00 3.00 12.60 194 Salem, 225......... . .. 1 6 1 13 . 407.40. .. 407.40 394.80 . 1.064.41 10.00 1.00 51 107.10 , 107.10 . Lane's Prairie, 531. . . .. 1 1 .. , ... 7 " 107.10 .. None . 454 953.40 2.10. . . . . 955.50 . . .. , .... . 955.50 1,121.00 50.00 5.00 I-' Rolla, 213.. 5\ 4 4121 \ , 2 3 .. 102 214.20. . . . .. ..... 214.20 •...... 150.00 64.20 76.00 10.00 1.00 ~ St. James, 230..... 1 1 11 1 1 15..... . 342.00 20.00 2.00 138.60 .•..•... 611 128.10 10.50..... 138.60 ....... Equality, 497 ·1· . 51· ,. 12 . 77 161.70........... 161.70 2.10 159.60 . 90.00 10.00 1.00 Arlington, 346..... 3 3 312 I, 11'" 3 1 .. 262.50 .. Latimer, 145....... 8 7 5 1 ... 1 7. . . 3 6 " 277.20 14.70 132 277.20 ...... / ..... 1 362.88/ 60.00 6.00 77 161.70........... 161.70 4.20 Vienna. 94 2 2 2 .. 11221 2 . 157.50 . 304.50 20.00 2.00 TOTAL ........ 231 221 161101 81 24\ 61 17\ 1161 .. 1.. 1.. 1.5481$ 3.250.801$ 14.701$ '" .\$ 3.265.501$ 50.40 $ 2.195.40\$1.019.70 $ 3.950.291$ 190.001$ 22.00

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FORTIETH DISTRICT-H. H. BALSIGER, D. D. G. M., Crystal City, Mo. De Soto, 119 ....... Joachim, 164 ....... Shekinah. 256 .•.... Herculaneum, 338 .. Tyro, 12 .......•... Potosi, 131 .....•... Irondale, 143 ....•.. Belgrade, 632 ...... Blackwell, 535 ...... TOTAL ........

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268 $ 562.80 $ .. · .. 1$ .... $ 562.80 $ 89 186.90 .. .... I ..... 186.90 207 434.70 .. .. ··1 ..... 434.70 136.50 65 136.50 . ..... .... 61 128.10 ...... ..... 128.10 103 216.30 ..... 214.30 2.00 85 178.50, ..... 178.50 30 63.001 ...... ..... 63.00 51 107.101 ...... ..... 107.10 9591$ 2,013.901$ ..... 1$ 2.001$ 2.011.901$

. ......

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14.70 $ 548.101$····· •. $ 400.00 $ .... 2.10 72.00 ............ 184.801··· .. ·· . None ............ 14.70 420.00 ........ 23.10 113.40 ....... 37.00 20.00 2.00 126.00 ....... 2.10 260.75 10.00 1.00 10.00 4.20 210.10 ....... 1.00 305.00/ 4.20 174.30 400.00 30.00 3.00 2.10 8.35 63.001 ....... 52.551 4.20 102.901 ........ 27.001 ....... ..... 8.35 $ 1.564.751$ 70.00\$ 7.00 71.40 $ 1.932.151$

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FORTY-FmST DISTRIOT-M. E. EWING, D. D. G. M., Morrisville, Mo.

t Riddick, 361...... Western Light, 396. . Urbana, 421....... Hogle's Creek, 279.. Hermitage, 288 Fair Play, 44. . . . . .. Modern, 144

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BolIvar, 19<>........ Pleasant Hope, 467.. 1 1 Aldrich, 664 '" .. , TOTAL .... , .. . 41 41

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1.. '" 51 31 21

, ,. 10 , 1 .,. 6 7..... . 5 ... 2. • .. .. .. ., 2 ., . 1 4 .. .. ., 2 1 3...... .. 1 1 1 .. 4 3 .. 1 1 3 9 . 4 . .. 4 .. .. .. 211 61 161 34\ .. 1.. 1..

8 ........ 1$ • .. ··1$ 1$ .... · .. · $ ...... $ .•....... $ •...•.• $ ........ $ ...... $ ..... 73.50 ......•. 36 1 75.60.. .... 75.60 2.10 65.00 20.00 2.00 54 113.40 113.40 113.40 . 69.00 170.10 . None 82 172.20 172.20 2.10 163.80 . 81 170.10 4.20 174.30 10.50 150.00 77.70 67.00 .. 39 81.90 81.90 4.20 100 210.00 ..... 210.00 4.20 315.00 205.80 . 26.26 63.00 .....•.. 31 65.101........... 65.10 2.10 331.801 . 1,483.50 ,. • . . . 340.20 8.40 10.00' 1.00 162 340.20 50 105.00. . . . .. 105.00 2.10 133.25 10.00 1.00 102. 90 86.10 . 52.00 45 94.50. . . . .. 94.50 8.40 . $ 2,361.01\$ 40.001$ 4.00 6801$ 1,428.001$ 4.201$·· .. 1$ 1,432.201$ 44.10 $ 1.388.10\$

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FORTY-SEOOND DISTRIOT-M. D. GWINN, D. D. G. M., Eldorado Springs, Mo. Stockton, 283 ...... Jerusalem, 315 ..... Clintonville, 482 ..•. Washington, 87 ... , Garrett, 359 ....... Everton, 405 .•..... Melville, 458 ....... Lockwood, 521. .... TOTAL ........

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102 $ 214.20 1 214.20 $ ...... $ 214. 20 1$ ..•.... $ 212.0T '" ... $ ..... 98.70 ...... 98.70 ....•.. , 108.00 •...... 47 98.70 ........... 165.90 14.70 151.20 ........ 103.50 •...... 79 165.90 ........... 285.60 6.30 ......... \ 279.30 2.10 ..... 550.00 20.00 135 283.50 84.00 ........ 43 90.30 90.30 6.30 1.00 \ ..... 126.001 10.00 ..... 180.00 111.30 2.10 •...... 53 111.30 ........... * .80 110.001 105.00 199.50 10.00 109.20 ...... I ..... 109.20 4.20 ......... 1.00 52 77.70 ....... 50.00 ....... ..... 77.70 ..... ..... 37 77.701 .. ·· .... 548/$ 1,150.801$ 2.101$ .... 1$ 1,152.901$ 33.60 $ 735.801$ 384.30 $ 1,528.001$ 40.001$ 2.00

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FORTY-THmD DISTRIOT-D. V. MORRIS, D. D. G. M., Nevada, Mo. Osage, 303 ..•...... Sheldon, 371 .•...... Schell City, 448 •...• Montevalo, 490 ..... Vernon, 493 ........ Unity. 495 ...•..... Walker. 605 ........ tHermon, 187 ...... Lamar, 292 .....•.. Signal, 304 ......... Golden, 475 ..... , .. Milford, 516 ........ TOTAL ........ t Not received.

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8 3 2 4 .. 141 211 91 251

Credit $0.80.

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3 341

1 61 101

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260 $ 80 42 38 26 58 45

546.00 $ 8.40 $ 4.20 $ 168.00 2.10 88.20 79.80 54.60 121.80 10.50 94.50

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550.20 $ 170.10 88.20 79.80 54.60 132.30 94.50

210.00 81.90 98.70 16.80, ..... 39) 126.00 132.30 60 ::::: 37 77.70 ... 77.70 7851$ 1,648.501$ 44.101$ 4.201$ 1,688.401$

6:~~

2.10 10.50 2.10 4.20 6.30 14.70 8.40 16.80 6.30 71.40

548.10 $ ....... $ 159.60 ........ 86.10 ........ 79.80 50.40 126.00 79.80 .......

........ ........ ........

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993.351$ None None 40.00 22.50 50.00 20.00

20.00 $

2.00

10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00

1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00

None 10.00 1.00 201.60 None 81.90 ........ 132.30 10.00 20.00 2.00 31.50 10.00 1.00 71.40 1,617.001$ ....... $ 1,167.351$ 100.001$ 10.00

........ ........

GRAND SECRETARY'S TABULAR STATEMENT-Continued FORTY-FOURTH DISTRIOT-RAY BOND, D. D. G. M., Joplin, Mo.

Carthage, 197...... 21 Sarcoxie, 293 .. , ... ... Joplin, 336......... 3

211161 1 1. 4 6 6

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21 42

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Carterville, 401..... 1 1 11' . I 1 1 . Mineral, 471. 6 1 .. .. Webb City, 612 1 1 1 ..... 63 1 7 66 .. Carl Junction, 649.. 1 1 1.. 2 6 4 5 . .... Criterion, 686, ..•. , 1 '\... .. 4 1 .. ~ LarusseIl, 592...... ... . .. 1... I.. ... .... 2 2 3 .. .. .. TOTAL ........ 101 121 121151 171 1811 181 441 1691 .. 1 11 2

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75.001$ 20.001$ 2861$ 698.601$ 8.401$ .. "1$ 606. 90 1$ 44.10 $ 562.80 $....... $ 96 201.60. . . . .. ..... 201.60 •...... 201.60 337.00 ....... 1,131.90 . 6731 1;203.30 16.80. . . . . 1,220.10 88.20 1,230.001 30.00 4.20. . . . . 1,308.30 102.90 621 1,304.10 1,206.40 690.00 10.00 ,., 142.80 . 226.00 691 144.90, ..... 144.90 2.10 466.50 10.00 249.90 , •...... 1191 249.90 2.10. . . . . 262.00 2.10 52 109.20. . . ... 109.20 10.60 •.. ,..... 98.70 208.00 .. ,.... . 230 483.00. . . . .. 483.00 111.30 150.00 221.70 None 136.50 . 36.00 10.00 681 142.80 4.201' . . . . 147.00 10.50 491 102.90 .. , . .. ..... 102.90 8.40 94.60 .•...... 260.00 I 10.00 231 48.30........... 48.30 ....... 48.30 . Nonel 2,1851$ 4,588.501$ 35.701$ .... 1$ 4,624.201$ 380.10 $ 3,923.70 I $ 320.40 S 3,526.501$ 90.001$

1.....

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FORTY-FIFTH DISTRIOT-JEWELL E. WINDLE, D. D. G. M., Springfield, Mo.

.. 1 .. .. .. .. .. . .. " .... ... ... .... .. . . .." 46 3 10 29 .. .. . 26 .. .. 3 .. .. .. 6 2 1 9 .. .. .. 7 .. ., .. 71 3 2 .. .. 3! ... ... 2 .. .. .. 2 .. .. .. 2 .... .. .. . . 2 1

4 3' 2110 17 United, 5 .......... O'Sullivan, 7 ....... 2 3 Ash Grove, 100 ..... ... i 1 Solomon, 271 ....... 4 3 3 4 26 1 Ozark, 297 ......... 2 2 31 .. Gate of the ... Temple, 422 ...... 2 Republic, 670 ...... , 2 .. 12 1 1 Strafford, 608 ...... Willard, 620 ........ .. ·1· .. 4 Webster, 98 ...... .. ·1 .. · ... / 21 2 Doric, 300 .......... I! 2 2 ..... 1 Mount Olive, 439 .... ".1"""1 Hazelwood, 459 ...•. 21 ..... Henderson, 477 .... ' 2 1 · .. 11 ... TOTAL ........ 241 231 221201 651

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831i$ 1,745.10 7 1 163.80 '.35: .:::: ' 78\ 174 2.10 ..... 365.40 568 1,192.80 16.80 ..... 81.90 · .... ·1 391 ·· .. ·1 .. · .. · .. · , 831 1,745.10 79 165.90 ::::: 41 86.10 • 58 8.40 ..... 121.80 101 212.10 4.20 •.... 41' 86.10 •••••• ! 71.40 341 163.80 .......... 781 151.20 2.90 ..... 1 721 1 3.0251$ 6,352.501$ 99.501$ .... 1$

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1,780.80 $ 142.80 $ 1,638.001$······ . $ 16.80 163.80 147.00 ........ 134.40 367.60 233.10 ........ 1,209.60 105.00 126.00 978.601 81.90 14.70 67.20 ........

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440.00:$ Nonel None 300.00 105.00

40.00 $ 20.00 20.00 40.00 30.00

4.00 2.00 2.00 4.00 3.00

......... ........ ......... ....... . .....

1,749.30 96.60 1,662.70 ........ 2,696.00 10.00 1.00 191.10 ...... 10.00 191.10 ....... 108.00 1.00 86.10 12.60 73.50 ....... 40.00 10.00 1.00 4.20 126.00 ....... 130.20 None ...... ...... . 216.30 14.70 201.60 253.00 ...... ...... 86.10 6.30 79.80 ....... None 10.00 1.00 8.40 71.40 None 10.00 1.00 63.00 ....... 12.60 350.00 30.00 163.80 3.00 51.20\ 100.00 154.10 4.20 149.90 ...•.... 32.00 20.00 2.00 6,452.001$ 573.30 S 5,652.701$ 226.00 $ 4,323.001$ 250.001$ 25.00

. . . ....... .

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FORTY-SIXTH DISTRICT-CARL A. SWENSON, D. D. G. M., Mountain Grove, Mo. Ava.26 11 J I.. I Pilot Knob, 182 '" .. Mt. Ararat, 382 '" Barnes. 116........ '" ···1 1 '" Texas, 177......... 2 2 21 2 '" Plato, 469 '" •.. .. Summersville, 655... 2 2 2..... Mountain Grove, 158 71 6 61 2 6 Joppa, 411 J 2 '" Mansfield, 543...... 1 1 11 1

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127\$ 23 371 80 J 1661 681 68 1651 50J 581

266.7°\.$ 18 \$ 48.30........ '" 77.70 1 168.00 325.50........... 142.80........... 142.80 ...... 1 . . . . . 346.50 12.60 105.00 121.80

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4.20 8841$ 1,856.401$ 16.801$

266.70$...... 48.30 10.60 77.70 8.40 168.00 4.20 326.50 14.70 142.80 142.80 2.10 359.10 18.90 105.00 2.10 121.80

115.60 1$ 1,873.201$

2.10 63.00

N o.n e !$ 1.0.. 0.0.j$ 1.. 0.0. 38 OO None .. 6 11 623·.07DO·· • '1'0'.0'0'" .. '1'.0'O·

266.70$....... 37.80 69.30 163.80 310.80 .. 142.80 140.70 340.20 102.90 121.80

None 178.201 250.001 295.001 175.841

. 2.00

....113·.40 :::::::: .. · ..72:001 .. ·10:00 8 1.810.2018 ....... $ 1,334.79;8 60.001$

1.00 6.00

20.00 .. .. 10.00

1.00

~ TOTAL ........ 141 121 121 81 81 301 71 181 921 .. j .. 1 2 ~==================================================================================

FORTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT-J. N. SPARKS, D. D. G. M., Grandin, Mo. Van Buren, 509.... Grandin, 579"..... Hopewell, 239

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.. 2 .. i ... i .. i :::: :: :: Delphian, 137 ...•.. '" .. 1 10... 2 3...... Winona, 430....... ... ... ... .. ... 1 ... 3 .. .. .. Eminence, 607...... 3 2 2..... 1 1.......... TOTAL........ 71 71 71 51 31 651 11 81 181 .. 1.. 1..

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101 1$ 83 72

212.10/$ 2.101$ 1$ 174.30 24.00..... 151.20 "......

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214.20 $ 198.30 151.20

6.30 73.50 23.10

207.90,$ 124.80/ 56.10

72:001' .

. .. 72.00

.. '. 11'00' .: '.' ....:.: "11'48'00".7600' .• '2'8'. 4' 00 .•.• '10'0:20 1 2 66 10 119.70: ........ 53 111.30........... 111.30 2.10 82.00\ 27.20 801 168.00........... 168.00 2.10 165.90 ........ 5401$ 1,134.00!$ 30.301$ .... 1$ 1.164.301$ 136.50 $ 828.401$ 199.40

Nonel$ None 132.00 381.66 36.00 142.00 3l;l9.97 1,061.631$

10.00 $ 10.00

1.00 1.00

20.00 40.001$

2.00 4.00

GRAND SECRETARY'S TABULAR STATEMENT-Continued FORTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT-JOHN J. BOWMAN, D. D. G. M., Bonne Terre, Mo. '0

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Star of the West, 133. Mosaic, 351 ..•..... Marcus, 110 ..•..... Bismarck, 41 ....... Farmington, 132 ... Ionic, 154 ..•....... St. Francois, 234 .... Samaritan, 424 .... Pendleton, 551. ••.. Leadwood, 598 ...... Elvins, 599 ......... Saline, 226 ........ TOTAL ........

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FORTY-NINTH DISTRICT-JAMES A. KINDER, D. D. G. M., Cape Girardeau, Mo. Trowel, 440 ........ ... / ... 1... 1 11 11 1 2 . ,. 1 Zalma, 545 ....•.••. .. 5.. 51 .. 4 ~ .. 2 4 St. Marks, 93 ...... West View, 103 .•... 2 ... 2 Wilson, 191. ....... 4 ... . ,. Mystic Tie, 221 ..... 2 ... 2 11 1 ... J . . I... Whitewater, 417 .... 4 1 ... ~1··il"il·21"4 1 1 Excelsior, 441 ...... 6 TOTAL ........ 101 91 91 81 10i 421 41 111

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121 $ 258.30 $ 53 117.60 111.30 6.30 ..... 376 4.20 ..... 793.80 789.60 58 121.80 121.80 •..... 1 • • • • . 61 128.10 74 155.40 155.40 ...... . .... 54 113.40 ...... . .... 113.40 121 1 8.40 1 • • • • • 262.50 254.10 9181$ 1,927.8018 23.101$ .. , .1$ 1,950.901$

25'.'"1' '·'°1'····' 128·'°1· ·1·····

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46.20 4.20 8.40 4.20 8.40 12.60 88.20

254. 10 1$ ....... $ 117.60 ........ 747.60 ........ 117.60, ........

119.70/"" ......

151.20 ........ 105.00 ........ 249.90 ........ $ 1,862.701$ ....... $

'1$ .....

208.001$ ..... 100.00 ....... . ..... 217.00 50.00· 5.00 150.001 ....... ...... None ....... ...... 10.00 1.00 195.001 10.00 1.00 89.00 Nonel 10.00 1.00 959.001$ 80.001$ 8.00

FIFTIETH DISTRICT-G.A. SAMPLE, D. D. G. M., Chaffee, Mo. EastPrairie,384 Charleston, 407..... Morley, 184........ Ashlar, 306 Sikeston, 310....... IlImo, 581. Blodgett, 594

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157.50$ 384.30 144.90 126.00 310.80 270.90 71.40

8.40 14.70 29.40 56.70

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149.10;$ .. $ 369.601 .. 115. 50 69.30 •....... 310.80, .. 239.401 .. 33.60, 37.80 1

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::::: Essex, 278......... ... 111.. 2 31 .. · 1 111" 381 79.80 4.20..... 84.00 6.30 77.70 10.00 1.00 Lakeville, 489.. .... 1 1 31 .. 11 3 , ...... 4,.. 331 69.30 23.101..... 92.40 6.30 86.10, . Dexter, 532........ 21 2 21 2 5 21 10 117 245.70 10.50. . . . . 256.20 256.20' . Advance, 590 ....... 2 2 2 .. 21 3 1 ... 1 7.. 49 102.90 4.20 1 107.10 6.30 100.801 .. "9'4'.5' O· t Puxico, 596 .....•... I.. ·1 .. \ I \.. 1 .... 1 •• 4'5. 11: .. "9'4'.5'0'/ .•........ './ '11 "9'4'.5'011'. . ' ' •. '...•. .. "2'1'6:001 :::::::: :::::: Morehouse, 603..... 1 11 ... 1.. , .. 1 • • • • i.,. TOTAL ........ 131 111 12;121 451 1011 91 111 78! .. 1.. 12 1.1831$ 2,484.301$ 96.601$ .... 1$ 2.580.901$ 212.10 S 2,331.001S 37.80 $ 1,296.131$ 60.001$ 5.00

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Southwest, 466 1 • • • 1 . . ·1·· 11 3... 1 1 .. Anderson, 621...... 31 21 21.. 2 8 '" 10 .. Noel, 647.......... ... ... 1\..... 1 9 .. Neosho, 247 214 63 61 .... 1 4 23 .. Racine, 478 '111' .. I .. 7... 4 .. Granby, 614........ 2 2 21 3 ... 8 .. .. ~ Stella, 638......... ... .. '" 4 1. . .. " .. . . ~ tFarview, 619 j 1.. ·1 .. 1 I .. · .. TOTAL........ 71 91 111 61 91 311 11 101 431 .. 1.. 1..

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FIFTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT-CHARLES L. KELL, D. D. G. M., Webster Groves, Mo. Bonhomme, 45 ..... · .. 1.. · ... 1.. 1 11 3 ... 1 .... .. I.. 110($ 231.00/ $ 2.101 $ .... $ 233.10 $ 6.30 $ 227.801$ * 1.00 $ 3' 3 Bridgeton, 80 ...... 44 4 .. .. I .. 264 2 1 558.60 92.40 554.40 4.20\ ..... '66. 1........ 31 31 3 Webster Groves, 84 .. 4 337 12 11 8 .. .. .. 767 1,610.70 707.70 903.00 ........ 3 1,610. 70 1 . . . . . . . . . . . Fenton, 281. ...••.. 1 ., . '" 1 2 .. .. 137 287.70 2.10 286.60 ........ 287.70 ...... I ..... Meramcc, 313 ...... 1 1 47 98.70 ........... 4 ... ... 2 .. .. . . 98.70 90.30 .......• 8.40 Kirkwood, 484 ...... 2 2 31 9 1 .... 308 646.80 ...... . .... 646.80 646.80, ........ 4 .. .. .. 3 3 Ferguson, 542 ...... 1 1 11 .. '" 36 3 2 3 .. .. .. 150 315.00 ...... ..... 315.00 75.60 . ........ \ 239.40 Maplewood, 566 ..... 3 3 4 .. 8 3 6 6 .. .. .. 399 837.90 ...... . .... 837.90 16.80 821.10 ........ Clayton, 601. ...... 7 10 10 3 2 1 4 '" 328 688.80 ...... ..... 18 .. .. 2 688.80 2.10 686.70 ........ Wellston, 613 ....... 4 4 '6 4 '" 66 576 1,209.60 ...... . .... 1,209.60 138.60 1,073.00 6 5 21 .. .. .. * 2.00 Valley Park, 629 .... 1 .... 126.00 ...... ..... 126.00 . ...... .. .. 60 126.00 . ....... 1 '" Jennings, 640 ...... 183 4.20 4 .. 384.30 8.40 2.10 390.60 386.40 ........ 2 4 '" 5 .. .. .. University, 649 ..... · .. 1 1 346 726.601 ...... ..... 726.60 4 .. .. .. 63.00 663.60 . ....... 1 3~ .. ~\ 51 7 .. .. .. 122 256.201 ...... ..... Gardenville, 655 .... 2 256.20 6.30 249.90 . ....... 11 2 2.. TOTAL ........ 301 371 42126.1 91 5351 451 361 821· .1 .. 1 2 3,7971$ 7,973.701$ 14.701$ 2.101$ 7,986.301 $1123.50 $ 6,626.40/$ 239.40 $ t Consolidated. * Credit $1.00. * Credit $2.00.

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FIFTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT-E. F. STARLING, D. D. G. M., Olean, Mo. Glensted, 250...... Versailles, 320 Barnett, 591. Olean, 134...

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$ 115.50 $ 1,714.10 $ 419.50 $ 4,154.36 $ 30.00 $ 3.00 109.20 1,831.95 253.35 1,100.00 120.00 12.00 134.40 1,710.45 1,317.51 50.00 6.00 92.40 2,424.00 130.00 13.00 117.60 1,707.30 . ...... 14.70 669.90 23.10 1,412.50 30.00 3.00 80.00 8.00 . 88.20 1,028.30 240.10 1,639.50 56.70 2,943.70 20.00, 2.00 827.40 1,096.20 67.20 1,306.50 153.00 3,862.49 70.001 6.00 201.60 325.50 7,855.57 340.00 35.00 7,171.50/ 119.70 1,611.43 70.00 7.00 326.87 2,948.75 75.60 1,711.00\ 397.40 3,040.25 70.001 9.00 266.70 1,989.40 284.90 2,014.00 130.00 13.00 40.00 4.00 1,031.00 46.20 1,295.70 . ...... 84.00 1,881.15 97.15 2,748.50 100.00 10.00 214.20 2,948.60 749.50 3,320.50 140.00 12.00 200.00 1,172.05 10.00 1.00 119.70 862.60 50.40 540.80 22.00 718.75 30.00 3.00 1,706.90 512.80 ~,921.15 110.00 11.00 60.90 67.20 1,143.70 50.00 5.00 30.20 1,571.50 1,624.20 64.20 1,221.50 150.00 15.00 73.50 50.00 5.00 1,108.10 200.20 1,737.50 48.30 . 3,305.40 22,906.40 7,596.10 30,174.20 1,290.00 131.00 1,530.20 286.30 3,165.25 40.00 4.00 81.90 1,679.60 71.80 2,000.50 119.70 60.001 6.00 1,413.60 105.00 129.90 2,084.40 120.00 12.00 1,936.10 4.30 619.50 150.00 15.00 128.10 2,228.10 ....... 3,194.75 100.00 9.00 94.50 1,268.90· 1,039.50 . ...... 100.80 788.50 188.50 1,232.50 46.20 1,061.00 848.40 ....... 20.00 2.00 14.70

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Albert Linxwiler, 31.. 15'\17 1 191 9 61 301 71 18 62 .... 3 1,270 2,667.001 12.60 2.10 2,677.50 63.00 2,377.001 237. 60 1 4,426.15 110700.. 00001 1182:00~ R. A. Breuer, 32. . . . . 11 13 14 12 71 43 61 13 30 1.... 1,084 2,276.401 12.60. • . . 2,289.00 90.30 2,082.60 116.10 1,259.00 E. J. Altheimer, 33A.. 62 77 94 31 4511,141 65 222 601 2 1 2 13,015 27,331.60 105.40 .•.. 27,436.90 2,396.10 24,990.40 50.40 16,570.25 680.00 68.00 A. J. Michener, 33B ... 921104108 23 38 702 63 144 394 .. 610 12,056 25.317.60 69.30 2.10 25,384.80 1,474.20 22,560.30 1,350.30 23,016.00 900.00 91.00 James F. Blair, 34 ..• , 5 3 3 4 11 34 12 16 87..... . 768 1,612.80 18.90. . . . 1,631.70 71.40 1,306.40 253.90 1,791.70 50.00 5.00 LutherR.Twyman, 35. 9 9 14 6 12 30 91 20 52...... 638 1,339.80 25.20.... 1,365.00 63.00 1,034.28 267.72 1,807.95 120.00 12.00 James A. Logan, 36.. 7 9 12 4311 132 15 29 99.... 1 1,686 3,540.60 4.20. . . . 3,544.80 277.20 3,237.40 30.20 5,154.26 90.00 9.00 Thornton Jennings, 37. 111131 8 5 5 69 7 16 76..... . 1,045 2,194.50 16.80 4.20 2,207.10 144.90 1,916.90 145.30 2,668.80 80.00 7.00 WinanI.Mayfield,38 .. 13 17 16 4 2 27 2 16 28...... 675 1,417.50 4.20.... 1,421.70 56.70 1,260.50 107.50 1,548.70 130.00 13.00 Chas. L. Woods, 39 ... 23 22 16 10 8 241 61 17 116...... 1,548 3,250.80 14.70.... 3,265.50 50.40 2,195.40 1,019. 70 1 3,950.29 190.00 22.00 H. H. Balsiger, 40... 7 6 6 41 1 34 51 11 47.... 1 959 2,013.90 ..... ·1 2.00 2,011.90 71.40 1,932.15 8.35 1,564.75 70.00 7.00 M. E. Ewing, 41..... 4 4 5 3 2 21 6 16 34..... . 680 1,428.00 4.20. . . . 1,432.20 44.10 1,388.10 / 2,361.01 40.00 4.00 M. D. Gwinn, 42..... 4 8 8 2 2 16 7 9 44.... 1 548 1,150.80 2.10. . . . 1,152.90 33.60 735.80 384.30 1,628.00 40.00 2.00 D. V. Morris, 43..... 11 14 21 91 26 34 6 10 74.... 2 786 1,648.50 44.10 4.20 1,688.40 71.40 1,617.00 ...... ·1 1,167.35 100.00 10.00 Ray Bond, 44. . . . . . .. 10 12 12 15 17 181 181 44 159.. 11 2 2,185 4,588.50 35.70. . . . 4,624.20 380.10 3,923.70 320.40 3,526.50 90.00 9.00 JewellE. Windle, 45 ... 24 23 22 201 65 273 22 63 152.... 1 3,025 6,352.50 99.50.... 6,452.00 573.30 5,652.70 226.00 4,323.00 250.00 25.00 Carl A. Swenson, 46 .. , 14 12 12 81 8 30 7 18 92.... 2 884 1,856.401 16.80.... 1,873.20 63.00 1,810.20 1,334.79 60.00 6.00 J. N. Sparks, 47.... 71 7 7 5 3 65 1\ 8 18...... 540 1,134.00 30.30.... 1,164.30 136.50 828.40 199.40 1,061.63 40.00 4.00 John J. Bowman, 48., 13 13 15 9 11 119 7 18 47.. 1 1 1,354 2,843.401 23.10.... 2,866.50 249.90 2,085.80 530.80 4,152.15 320.00 11.00 James A. Kinder, 49 .. 10 9 9 81101' 42 4 11 44...... 918 1,927.801 23.10.... 1,950.90 88.20 1,862.70 959.001 80.00 8.00 ~ G. A. Sample, 50..... 13 11 12 12 45 101 9 11 78.... 2 1,183 2,484.30 96.60.... 2,580.90 212.10 2,331.00 37.80 1,296.13 60.00 5.00 -..:I Grover C. Bishop, 51 .. 27 23 20 3j 251 52 10 20 101...... 995 2,089.50 48.30.... 2,137.80 109.20 2,008.70 19.90 2,145.00 250.00 26.00 Kipp C. Johnson, 52.. 7 8 8 101 11 46 5 20 41 .... 2 720 1,512.001 23.10.... 1,535.10 96.60 1,411.80 26.70 1,242.15 70.00 7.00 52 5 7 46.... 1 762 1,600.201 ,126.00 .... 1,726.20 109.20 1,579.41 37.59 681.15 50.00 6.00 C. E. Armstrong, 53.. 6 7 7 3160 G. J. Vaughan, 54 .... 13 13 13 10... 32 8 13 65...... 626 1,314.601...... 8.40 1,306.201 67.20 959.50 280.60 1,655.84 110.00 12.00 W. N. Marbut, 55.... 22 24 24 14 29 93 10 35 146.... 1 1,225 2,572.501 33.60 .... , 2,606.10 195.30 2,340.80 70.00 4,237.50 210.00 22.00 W. A. Phipps, 56.... 71 9 11 61 9 31 1 101 43 ' . . . . . . 603 1,266.30 18.90. . . . 1,285.201' 65.10 1,057.20 162.90 906.35 80.00 5.00 Chas. L. Kell, 57..... 30 37 42 261 9 535 451 36 82.... 2 3,797 7,973.70 14.70 2.10/ 7,986.30 1,123.50 6,626.401 239.40 7,800.50 270.00 28.00 E. F. Starling, 58.... 4 4 ' 1 2'1 1 26 7 7 56.... 1 460 966.00\ 2.10. • . . 968.10 54.60 913.50.. . .. . . 1,746.45/ 40.00 4.00 N. D. Jackson, 59.... 26 26 1 33 16 14 68 101 24 126.... 1 1,740 3,654.00 35.70.... 3,689.70 142.80 2,615.30 933.70 2,656.60 200.00 20.00 1 2 Total. " 859193218271389176317,001179811,60116,2841 6115146 100,5941211,247.40 11,716.75169.201212,894.95114,702.10 177,402.72120,821.631205,395.0 18,630.001849.00 Credits $9.90. Total credits, $31.50. Payments made on 1932 per capita by lodges owing balances due on same: 101.20 6 Mt. Washington No. 614 400.00 1 Grand River No. 276 101.70 43.20 7 Anderson No. 621 2 Graham No. 289 102.90 40.00 8 Guilford No. 474 3 Melville No. 458 56.70 9 Deepwater No. 562 163.80 4 Chilhowee No. 487 58.20 5 Lathrop No. 506

1,067.70 Total 1932 P. C. paid 178,470.42 Total cash received as of 9115133

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS FIRST DISTRICT-H. M. JAYNE, D. D. G. M., Memphis, Mo. County Lodge Clark Revere .. . Fairmont ........... Eldorado ........... Hiram ........... Gothic ........... St. Francisville. .. Scot,1,and Me~phis......... ....... Gorm. . . . . . . . . . .. ........ Rutledge. . . . . . . .. Schuyler Middle Fabius .. Lodge of Love Queen City.. . . . .. Glenwood Greentop

No. Location 167IRevere 290 Wyaconda 318 Luray 362 Kahoka 436 Alexandria 588 Wayland 16 Memphis ........•. 72 Gorin 572 Rutledge " 244 Downing " 259 Lancaster 380 Queen City 427 Glenwood 635IGreentop

Master M. F. Wood H. E. Sherwood Ed. J. Zinnert Orvey C. Buck H. R. Carver H. Hagerman Joe Creek Rolie E. Dorsey Geo. C. McDonald J. S. Buchanan H. P. york John J. Miller J. L. Houston Leo G. Bookout.

Secretary O. W. Harlan M. L. Kurtz Albert L. Stevens H. B. Montgomery J. P. Foley GUY G. Wiggins Ralph 1. Ladd J. W. Pulliam J. A. Bailey.. . . . . . .. J. B. Bridges H. C. Burkland G. Lee Laur W. B. McGolderick W. L. young

Time of Meeting 3rd Thursday 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Fridays Friday on or before full moon 1st and 2nd Thursdays 1st Friday 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Fridays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Sat. on or b. f. moon and 2 weeks after '2nd and 4th Mondays

SECOND DISTRICT-WILLIS J. BRAY, D. D. G. M., Kirksville, Mo. Adair

Kirksville ........... Paulville ........... Adair .......... Novinger Knox Ark Colony .. . ........... Novelty ....... , Edina ........... Greensburg

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105IKirksville 319IBrashear 366 Kirksville 683INOVinger 6 Newark 168 Colony 181INoyelty ..........• 291 Edma 414 Grpensburg

C. O. Martin G. V. Burnett Luther F. Teter Marion D. Jones A. H. Marquette R. E. Moffett Not reported L. J. Edmonston Floyd B. Jones

G. C. Chambers F. R. Moore Chas. F. Link C. R. Truitt R. G. Hayden H. N. Killen

1st and 3rd Tuesdays Monday on or before full moon 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Every Wednesday night Saturday on or before full moon Saturday on or before full moon

W. T. Sharp L. A. Corbin

2nd Friday 2nd and 4th Saturdays

THIRD DISTRIC'T-WALTER E. SINGLEY, D. D. G. M., Green City, Mo. Putnam. . . . . . .. Hartford ......... Somerset Unionville Lucerne Sullivan Humphreys Seaman Green City Putnam Pollock Arcana Winigan

. . . . . . . . . . .

171IHartford 206IPowersville 210IUnionville 394ILucerne 32IHumphreys 136IMilan 159 Green City 190 Newtown 349IPollock 389/Harris 540 Winigan

Mont E. Smith J. O. Pauley Fon E. Wilson Tom Jones R. L. Boehner A. D. Campbell Bruce H. McCully Ferrill Tucker C. C. Anspach Cecil Clem Jesse Bunch

Zora Smith L. J. Fordyce

On or before first full moon each month 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Mondays A. F. Lowry Thursday on or before full moon W. E. Cook 2nd and 4th Fridays Chas. E. Smith ....•. 1st and 3rd Mondays J. M. Border 1st and 3rd Thursdays Joe. W. Moore Saturday on or before full moon Otis Reinhard 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Roy C. Tanning 1st Wednesday Howard F. Baker Saturday on or before full moon

J. U. Brown

FOURTH DISTRICT-LYNN J. LIMES, D. D. G. M., Trenton, Mo. Grundy "

Trenton Laredo

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. ll1ITrenton . 253 Laredo

•......•. GaIt. ........•.... 423!Galt

......... Spickardsville Mercer. . . . . . . .. Mercer " Ravanna Marion

. 524jSpickard . 35lPrinceton . 258IRavanna . 616 Mercer

Clyde C. Evans Joseph S. Kelso V. E. Russell Pettman Gersed E. E. Stacy Orin Callaway Herbert Evans

A. O. Ginn Emmett M. Wilson .. A. R. McKay R. B. Kennedy W. A. Mabe Ch~:les Saylors AblJah A. Alley

1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Wednesday before full moon 2nd and 4th Tuesdays

FIFTH DISTRICT-HENDRIX NEWMAN, D. D. G. M., Bethany, Mo. Har,~ison. .

. . . .. ........ ........ ........ ........ ........

Betha!1y.......... Lorrame. . . . . . . .. Lodge of Light Cainsville Ne,,:, ~ampton Prall·le

97 128 257 328 510 556

Bethany .........•. Ridgeway Eagleville Cainsville New Hampton Gilman City

James W. Shumard Carey A. Brock E. O. Martin Mark Sobotka H. E. Campbell. Emmett D. Woltz

Chas. T. Bridges John A. Dale F. Y. Cramer J. W. Hoskins R. L. Grun Ira L. Noble

2nd and 4th Tuesdays Mon. on or b. f. m. and 2 wks. thereafter 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued SIXTH DISTRICT-eURTIS F. SMITH, D. D. G. M., Darlington, Mo. County

Lodge Havana Stanberry Gentryville Athens Alanthus Ancient Craft Berlin ......... Jacoby Worth Grant City .. . Defiance .......... Allensville .......... Jonathan Ge~try

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No.1 Location Master Secretary 21IMcFall F. B. Plowman R. T. Kidney 109 Stanberry Barton Hockensmith .. S. A. Goodding 125 IGentryville Charlie Francis ,I<'. M. Gist.......... 127lAlbany Harry A. Smith J. Gavin Whiteley 252IAlanthusGrove H. B. Kleeney ,L. W. Morris 377IKing City , J. A. Ringold Leon Mayer 378IBerlin ......•...... L. C. Loest J. B. Owens. Jr 447IDarlington Otto Cobb Fred Minkner 66jGrant City Ira Esterkyn E. S. Campbell 88 Sheridan O. H. Davidson...... Orlo H. Bond 198 Allendale , Not reported 321IDenver E. G. House C. M. Craven

Time of Meeting 1st Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Saturdays Sat. on or b. f. moon and 2 weeks after 2nd and 4th Fridays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 1st and 2nd Fridays 1st and 3rd Mondays Monday on or b. f. m. and 2 weeks after . 2nd and 4th Wednesdays

SEVENTH DISTRICT-UEL W. LAMKIN, D. D. G. M., Maryville,'Mo. Nod,~way

. . Xenia Quitman . Ravenwood . Graham . WhiteHall . Kennedy .. Burlington . Gaynor City . Nodaway . Skidmore ........• Pickering . Guilford . Clearmont .

60/Hopkins Galen M. Gordon 196 Quitman , H. G. Palmer 201iRavenwood Arch Spoonemore 289iGraham W. B. Gix 301IBarnard A. L. Strader 329IElmo J. W. Hall 442 IBurlington Jet Wm. M. Spargur 466Iparnell J. S. Matteson 470 Maryville ........•• Geo. W. Sauceman 611 Skidmore ......•.•. V. V. Goslee 472 \Pickerin g Romaine Garten 474 Guilford .........•• L. D. McClanahan 507IClearmont O. O. Gregory

Fred J. yeomans J. J. McDonald J. J. Smith F. E. McNeal. Paul D. Stalling T. W. McClaren Geo. A. yates W. C. Timmerman .. L. P. Colvin Enos D. French J. L. Clayton Alex. H. Wilson , Ira B. Newlon

1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays

EIGHTH DISTRICT-FRANK R. ELTON, D. D. G. M., Tarkio, Mo. Atchison ..

North Star Sonora Northwest. Fairfax Holt Maitland Oregon . . . . . . . . . .. Forest City . . . . . . . . . .. Mound City ........... Craig •••••••••

157IRockPort 200 Watson 358ITarkio 483IFairfax 112IMaitland 139loregon 214 Forest City 294 Mount City . 606ICraig

J. H. Hedgerett. Henry Hudson J. Lee Craigmile Earl S. Davis · Homer Henry Thos. 1. Kreek , Thomas J. Norman Fred Binder Gus O. Beris

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J. E. Welch A. W. Landen J. R. McNulty .. W. A. Groesbeck Lafe Dawson Silas W. Skelton O. E. Emery H. R. Feil Wayne A. Sharp. Jr 0

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2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st Saturday and 3rd Monday 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays

NINTH DISTRICT-eYRIL A. CARPENTER, D. Do G. Mo, St. Joseph, Mo. Andrew;

Buchanan

. Savannah Helena Lincoln Whitesville Rosendale Valley Cosby Agency . Wellington St. Joseph Birming Zeredatha Rushville .. Brotherhood Charity King Hill. Saxton Wallace Park 0

. 71 Savannah . 117 Rochester . 1381 Fillmore 162 Whitesville . 404 Rosendale . 413lBolckow . 600ICosby . 10 IAgency . 22IDeKalb . 781St. Joseph. . 150 Faucett . 1891St. Joseph 238IRUShville . 269 St. Joseph ...•.... . 331 St. Joseph .. . 3761St. Joseph . 508ISaxton ..•.. . 627IWallace 0

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E. F. Harrington.... W. W. Smith E. W. Davis L. E. Sherman Orval E. Adams M. E. Fuller A. SchwaHn E. D. Riley Loyd Sprake Edw. Baker H. M. yates Edward M. Flack S. G. Hiner W. F. Wilson Wm. P. Hahn L. W. McCoun Wm. K. Crafton James Crockett

W. W. Hall E. M. Jones Muriel Wardlow C. O. Morris M. H. Lewellan McF'. Price.......... Willis Durant O. H. Smith N. A. West W. L. Mulvania Chas. S. Mays Geo. L. Markley J. H. DeBerry B. T. Andrews Wm. A. Piner Jesse Moore Milton Edwards Lauren C. Cox 0

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1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd Monday and 4th Saturday 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Sat. on or b. f. m. & wk. from fol. Thurs. 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st Saturday 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 4th Saturday 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Fridays 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd Saturday

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued TENTH DISTRICT-THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, D. D. G. M., Maysville, Mo. County DeKalb "

Lodge Union Star . Weatherby . Parrott ......... Osborn ....... , Continental...... ......... Clarksdale. . . . . . .. Daviess Western Star..... " Pattonsburg. . . . .. Gallatin Altamont EarL Lock Spring Jameson ......... Jamesport.......

No. I Location 124JUnion Star 235IWeatherby 3081Maysville 317IOsborn 454 Stewartsville 5591 Clarksdale 15 Winston 65 Pattonsburg 106jGallatin 108IAltamont 285 Coffey 4881LoCk Spring 500 Jameson 564IJamesport

Master Chas. M. Smith R. F. Cope Wm. H. Miller J. A. Lawson Leonard G. Ehlers D. M. Barrow E. C. Creekmore Robert Morris Roy E. Troxel. Chas. C. Curtis Herbert F. Handy R. V. Wickizer Chas. S. Greenwood W. K. Dinwiddie

Secretary John W. Miller C. R. McClure Richard F. Brant Raymond Brand Roy W. Kibbey J. H. Mann Wm. V. West Paul W. Eastman Wm. 0. Tague Ben H. Kuhns W. GUY Welden R. M. Hicks J. E. Robison Leslie Langford

Time of Meeting 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 2nd Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Mondays

ELEVENTH DISTRICT-EMSLEY C. JAMES, D. D. G. M., Hemple, Mo. Clay

Liberty .... , '" Holt ............ Angerona

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....... ,. . . . . . . . .. ......... .........

. 31ILiberty . 49IHolt . 193iMissouri City 2071Excelsior Springs .. 311 Kearney .. 438 Smithville , 37 Hemple . 62 Cameron " . 113 Plattsburg . 397 Gower . 506 Lathrop

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Vincil Plattsburg Gower Lathrop

Wert Thompson E. E. Clause John F. Wheeler Max: Meloy Sam. T. Kelly, Jr David W. Hill. · Earl A. Riche Wylie A. Shewey D. R. Wilson Michael Quigley R. H. Robinson

Edgar Archer Roy E. Powell R. E. Hicklin W. A. Craven John N. Shouss A. 0. Lowman James R. Vaughn Fred E. Luce " R. W. Hayward..... H. T. Bowlin 0. M. Robison

2nd and 4th Mondays 3rd Friday 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st Thursday 1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Mondays

TWELFTH DISTRICT-JOHN M. GALLATIN, D. D. G. M., Chillicothe, Mo. Caldwell. .. . ....... , ........ ........ ........ Livingston "

Kingston Braymer Hamilton Polo , Breckenridge Cowgill Friendship. . . . . . . Spring Hill. . . . . .. Benevolence Chillicothe Chula Wheeling. . . . . . . .. Dawn

1181 Kingston 135IBraymer 224 Hamilton 232IpolO 334 Breckenridge 561ICOWgill 89 Chillicothe 155 Spring Hill 170 Utica 333IChillicothe 388IChula 434 Wheeling 539ILudlow

M. E. Feltis , Geo. M. Reisch R. J. Bram , Ezra Cox A. B. Greenwood Cowgill Hawse Len W. Brown, David H. Curtis Frank Rockhold Don Chapman Link C. Benson Roy Warren Ralph Alley

J. P. Jones , D. Irving Farrar J. E. Deems Chas. N. Jones Jesse L. Walker Robert R. Rone Ralph B. Winans , T. W. Wrightman A. J. Stamper F. W. Cornue Omar J. Owen H. J. Barnes Jorh R. Crank

1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Saturdays Saturday on or before full moon 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Fridays

THmTEENTH DISTRICT-FORREST L. MADDEN, D. D. G. M., Meadville, Mo. Linn ..... '" ... Jackson Brookfield Cypress Bucklin Dockery Marceline

. . . . . .

82ILinneus 86 Brookfield 227ILaclede 233IBucklin 325 Meadville 481:Marceline

A. C. Jones LeRoy Crane L. W. Dowell Garrett Newkirk Fay Deem Chas. W. Rogers

R. C. Perkins J. T. Clevenger, Jr F. W. Burke C. A. Larson Chris. A. Martens Wm. E. Parks

2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Every Tuesday 2nd and 4th Tuesdays

FOURTEENTH DISTRIOT-LUTHER E. WILHOIT, D. D. G. M., Macon, Mo. Macon Callao............ .. . Bloomington .......... McGee .......... Censer .......... La Plata .......... Lodge of Truth .......... Excello .......... Elmer , Shelby St. Andrews...... .. . Shelbina .......... Hunnewell .......... Bethel .......... Clarence

38ICallao 102'Bevier 1461College Mound 172IMacon 2371La Plata 268IAtlanta 332IExcello 648 Elmer 96 Shelbyville 22~lshelbina

410 Hunnewell. 537\Bethel 662 Clarence

Ralph T. Bennett E. F. Hannebaum Wm. A. Green B. B. Stock Pearl Drum M. S. Meisner C,' A. Stanfield Paul Bailey , S. P. Engle N. W. Blackford L. H. Sherry Harry C. Bair Wm. B. Brewington

E. M. Mayhew D. M. Williams Lewis M. Brockman. F. J. Pimpell , R. H. Wright A. C. Dearing Charley S. King C. 1. Murry J. M. Miller Rob. L. Thomas R. F. Lyell Sam Ziegler W. H. Burnett

1st and 3rd Fridays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Fr!days 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued FIFTEENTH DISTRICT-DONALD H. SOSEY, D. D. G. M., Palmyra, Mo. County Lewis · .......... .......... · · .......... Marion. . . . . . . .. .. . ......... ......... Ralls ,. : ·

Lodge Wyaconda Monticello Labelle Craft Williamstown Lewistown Ewing Palmyra St. J ohn·s Hannibal Philadelphia Ralls Lick Creek New London

Pike ..

Eolia Clarksville Perseverance Phoenix Frankford Pike

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NO.1 Location 241"La Grange 58 Monticello 222ILaBelle 287 Canton 370 Williamstown 494\Lewistown 577IEwing 18IPalmyra 28 IHannibaI. 1l\8IHannibal 502IPhiladelphia 33'Center ...•........ 302lPerry " 3071New London

Master Secretary Wm. R. Lake Leslie Edwards Not reported A. L. Boone Geo. S. Redding Wm. E. Schultz A. Clyde Stork G. R. Breidenstein. . .. J. S. Smith......... N. H. Burnett E. F. Arnold Lon Fitchner John Terpening Wm. F. Menge , D. H. Sosey Wm. R. Usher Wm. H. Blackshaw .. A. K. Cameron , Julius Brown H. A. Fagan Thos. J. Bleigh B. E. Lowe G. C. Layne Gordon Kerr W. D. Morris D. N. Foutes , G. D. Harris

Time of Meeting 1st and 3rd Thursdays '" . 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and. 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st Thursday 2nd and 4th Saturdays Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Fridays

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT-WARREN H. MAY, D. D. G. M., Louisiana, Mo. · . . . . . . . . .. ....•...... · . . . . . . . . .. ...........

. 14IEolia . 17 Clarksville . 92ILouisiana . 1361Bowling Green . 192 Frankford . 399ICurryviIIe ,

T. J. Brown E. G. Pledge R. B. Hunter F. A. Emmerson,Jr C. P. Pritchett Robt. K. Rose

Wharton Schoaler K. C. Patton W. H. yager H. M. Strother R. G. Teague J. H. Sisson

Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st Thursday after full moon

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT-CHARLES S. mCKS, D. D. G. M., Monroe City, Mo. Monroe Paris Union .. . Florida ......... Middle Grove ......... Monroe ......... Madison ......... Santa Fe ......... Holliday

. . . . . . .

19lparis 23 Florida 42 Middle Grove 64IMonroe 91IMadison 4621Santa Fe 660IHolIiday

J. L. Krummel. Chas. A. Miller E. H. Engle E. L. Knight J. A. PowelL Marion Rouse J. L. Ensor

, J. L. Gwynn Dan P. Violette F. H. Newman Geo. E. Chipman C. O. ·Farris 1. N. Bailey T. E. Sparks

2nd and 4th Mondays Saturday on or before full moon 1st Friday 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd Wednesday Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Tuesdays

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT-WILLIAM F. WIGGINTON, D. D. G. M., Moberly, Mo. Randolph ....•.. " ....... •...... ....... ...•... ....... .......

Huntsville Milton Clifton Hill Moberly Cairo Higbee Jacksonville Clark

. 30'IHuntsville ...•..... . 151 Milton . 1611Clifton Hill . 3441 Moberly . 4861'cairo . 527 Higbee . 541 Jacksonville . 610IClark

F. R. Lyon ........•. E. G. Patton Not reported R. Hansel. H. H. Wright. W. Edwards Herman Kidd M. Brockman

D. S. Eubank Arthur Haak John W. Tate Uel L. Dameron Erwin Hawkins E. H. Dennis F. L. Ornburn

1st and 8rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays , , . 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays

NINETEENTH DISTRICT-T. H. EDWARDS, D. D. G. M., Salisbury, Mo. Chariton

. Eureka Warren Triplett Westville Salisbury Rothville Pee Dee Cunningham Mendon

. . . . . . . . .

73IBrunswick 741 Keytesville 122/Tri P lett 202 Westville 2081 Salisbury 426 Rothville 498;Musselfork 5251 Sumner 628IMendon

C. A. LaHue Not reported Leo D. Gross Adam Rhody Ola O. Cantlon C. J. Hogan A. E. Lain M. M. Lewis Chas. Westrun

A. J. Clayton R. P. Price W. O. Hainds John Mode Lee Clair J. L. Prather A. Stobaugh S. L. Leipard

1st and 3rd Tuesdays . 1st and 3rd Thursdays 3rd Saturday 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st Thursday 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Mondays

TWENTIETH DISTRICT-OTTO HALE, D. D. G. M., Carrollton, Mo. Carroll

Ray

De Witt.......... Wakanda......... Bogard Hale City Carroll ......... Bosworth Hardin. . . . . . . . . ..

391De Witt. 52/CarrOlIton 101 Bogard 216IHale 2491Norborne 597 Bosworth 3221 Hardin

Carl H. Bollsen J. A. Williams Cecil W. Campbell. .. L. H. Thomas Wallace Lawman D. W. Minnis Glenn A. Frock R. L. Bartlett C. W. Green R. E. Parrish Mac Wilhelm Clinton Simpson O. Earl Gibson C. C. Grimes

1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT-J. P. TUCKER, D. D. G. M., Parkville, Mo. County Platte .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ........ " ..........

Lodge Rising Sun. . . . . . . Weston Compass Camden Point Rowley

No.' Location 13lBarry 53 Weston 120lparkville 169 Camden Point 204 Dearborn Fidelit~ 3~9 Farley AdelphI.......... 305, Edgerton Platte City 504 Platte City

Master J. H. Reineke A. Doyle Davis Chas. H. Hook A. J. Hillix John N. Tays Arthur Jewett E. R. Slewey E:. J. Ketteman

Secretary L. D. Williams Earl W. Foley J. W. Fleming W. K. Bywaters Wm. H. Sims Sam Ray W. H. MIzner Arthur Ham

Time of Meeting Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd Monday 3rd Tuesday 2nd Wednesday 2nd Wednesday 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Mondays

TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT-DARIUS A BROWN, D. D. G. M., Kansas City, Mo. Jackson "

Heroine Albert Pike Kansas City Temple Cecile-Daylight Rural. . . . . . . . . . .. Westport Ivanhoe ........ Gate City ........ Orient South Gate Yorlc Swope Park Sheffield East Gate Northeast .. '" Country Club Rockhill Alpha

1041Kansas City 2191Kansas City 220jKansas City 299 Kansas City 305 Kansas City , .. 3161Kansas City , 340 Kansas City 446 Kansas City 5221Kansas City. . . . . .. 546 Kansas City , 5471Kansas City 5631Kansas City 6171Kansas City 6251Kansas City 630lKansas City ,. 6431Kansas City 656 Kansas City 663 Kansas City 6591N. Kansas City

A. L. Louis H. P. Sagand A. H. Mignery L. V. Knapp O. B. Housinger J. W. Schlaegel H. S. Jones A. D. Ludlow N. D. McCann S. C. Hoyt Chas. G. Seaton Geo. W. Paddock Geo. M. Spainhower H. C. Elberg f:<~rank A. Lewis A. H. Mann A. P. Gottschammer. " Fred H. Knight Fred H. Brown F. M. Huffman J. J. Cockrell Thos. M. Pratt Benj. H. Kolbe I. F. Strycker L. V. Burns L. Verne Hosie Gilbert R. Vest Len. F. Owens Fred A. Dobler E. W. Berry E. C. Schmitt Geo. R. Hodge H. W. Brown M. H. DeVault. Nathan Estrin J. Weinsaft L. R. Schmidt Peter Grasmick

2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays. 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd ThursdaYs 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Mondays

TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT-C. B. WADDELL, D. D. G. M., Lexington, Mo. Lafayette

Lexington Higginsville Lafayette Concordia Mount Hope Waverly

~;ty:::::::: ~::: ~~c:.~~~.~ Bee Hive Ada

. . . . . .

149ILeXington 364 Higginsville 437\COrder.: 464 Concordm 476 Odessa 61IWaverly 57 Richmond 223ICamden 393ILawson 44410rrick

: .

Geo. A. McKean H. E. Gladish Not reported H. E. Martens r. 1. Husman :E. E. Brown F. A. Blackwell Wm. O':KeaI. A. R. Lebold ? A. Hord

W. R. Eckie J. A. Simpson E"ra C. Johnston C. D. Newhard J. A. Allison R. B. Hughes U. H. Hoffman r. E. Manso S. D. Brady

3rd Tuesday 2nd and 4th Mondays '.' . 2nd and 4th MondayS 2nd and 4th Fridays 2nd Thursday 3rd Wednesday 1st and 2nd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays Every Thursday

TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT-JOHN W. ADAMS, D. D. G. M., Marshall, Mo. Saline. . . . . . . . .. Arrow Rock

" :::::::::: ~i~~i~~~~: ::::::: .......... Trilumina . .......... .......... .......... ..........

Barbee Malta Oriental Nelson

. . . .

551Arrow Rock 63 Slater 85lMiami 205IMarshall 217 Sweet Sprmgs 4021Malta Bend 518IBlackburn 560 Nelson

W. H. Hogge Jesse Haynie H. O. Kelley Shelby Wilson H. A. HQuse E. H. Wilson J. F. Martin, Jr J. R. Thornton

B. C. Bradshaw B. F. Pledge F. M. Burruss Ge.o. H. Fuller Will C. Pelot J. G. Nye Shelby F. Pape R. B. Finley

Thursday on or before full moon 1st Tuesday Friday on or before full moon 1st Thu~sdll,y Last Friday 1st Tuesday Tuesday on or before full moon 2nd and 4th Tuesdays

TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT-S. L. JEWETT, D. D. G. M., Boonville, Mo. Co~per

Howard

. Cooper Pleasant Grove Wm. D. Muir Wallace Prairie Home . Howard Fayette . Livingston ArmstronR"

. . . . . . . . .

36IBoonville 142Iotterville 277 Pilot Grove , 456 Bunceton 503\Prairie Home 4 New Franklin 47IFayette 51IGlasgow 70IArmstrong

/wm. T. French W. S. Poage C. T. Babbit. H. L. Shirley T. R. Howard Mert Wood Kring G. Todd N. L. Swearingen C. E. Dryar

Clarence L. Hurt A. N. Howlett. P. E. Hays A. Blomquist F. L. Schilb Frank .N. McCulley .. Roy Roberts R. W. Raines Levi Markham

2nd and 4th Fridays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Every Thursday 1st Thursday

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRIC'rS-Continued TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT-ELI S. HAYNES, D. D. G. M., Columbia, Mo. County Boone " " . . . . . . . . .. .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........

Location No.1 Lodge Centralia . 69ICentralia Rocheport . 67jROChe p ort Twilight . 114 Columbia Ashland . 156 Ashland Sturgeon . 174 Sturgeon Hallsville . 336/Hallsville Ancient Landmark 356 Harrisburg Hinton . 455 Hinton Acacia . 602IColumbia

Master A. M. Sames J. P. Huntington W. E. Lane Ross Glascock W. J. Toalson Byron Toalson Parsh Tisdel. E. M. Woodworth C. A. Carmichael.

Secretary J. C. Hunt R. M. Campbell, Sr J. F. Oliver A. F. Martens A. E. Boothe F. L. Faucett E. S. Watson Tilford Goslin R. R. Wrill:ht

Time of Meeting 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st Thurs. on or b. f. m. and 3 wks. later 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st Friday 1st Friday Sat. on or b. f. moon and 2 weeks later 2nd Saturday 1st and 2nd Tuesdays

TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT-LOUIS J. GRAUE, D. D. G. M., Mexico, Mo. Audrain "

Central. . , Laddonia . ........ Social •........... Hebron . Vandalia . Houston . Call~way Fulton . New Bloomfield . Portland . Auxvasse . Tebbetts . Shamrock . Mokane '

81IMolino .J. A. Cawthorn 115 Laddonia W. H. McCoy 266 Martinsburg Wm. P. Moser 354JMexico : Sam. G. Emmons 491I'vandalia J. M. McConnell 580 Gant E. J. Sims 48 Fulton J. R. Westbrook 60,New Bloomfield Geo. P. Sanders 242IReadsville A. D. Bridges 357 Auxvasse .........• C. H. Hock 565ITebbetts R. J. Huffmaster 585 Shamrock C. L. McCubbin 612IMokane .........•. C. W. Hafner

C. W. Ellis A. R. Hancock R. W. Moser B. C. Denton A. L. Motley H. W. Groves Wm. L. Meng Wade F. Enloe J. C. Garrett G. P. Batterton S. T. Huffmaster J. S. Lail T. F. Hafner .. ,

2nd Saturday Friday on or before full moon 2nd Friday 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Fridays 3rd Friday 1st and 3rd Fridays 2nd and 4th Mondays Saturday on or before full moon 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Saturdays Thursday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Thursdays

TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT-P. A. THOMAS, D. D. G. M., Montgomery City, Mo. Montgomery " "

Griswold Wellsville ...•..... Montgomery .... Florence .... Jonesburg .... Daggett.

178IBellflower 194 Wellsville 246 I Montgomery City 2611New Florence 457 Jonesburg 492 McKittrick

J. W. Dyke I. W. Hardesty L. D. Gust R. W. Ellis Geo. Schlauker B. McKissick

J. B. F. R. Hugh Chas. J. N. Wm.

Moseley Barton N. Cason Cardwell Lavender A. Bezold

2nd Monday 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd Mondays 3rd Monday Sat. on or b. f. moon and 2 weeks after

TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT-W.. P. SMITH, D. D. G. M., Troy, Mo.

Lin.~oln: : : : : : : : : §il~~: :::::::::::: ........ , New Hope ......• ' ......... New Salem .....•. ......... Louisville . ........ ' Nineveh . Moscow .........•

34 Tro y ......•....... 75 Silex 199 Elsberry 270 l Winfield 409,Louisville 473IOlney 558 Moscow Mills

J. Roy Clayton Leon F. Gooch H. E. Powell E. M. Schields S. Buford W. Penington Lewis Martin

Andy J. BlaIr E. C. Teague H. K. Cunningham H. H. Arnhold H. Higginbotham , D. G. Hazzard F. Karrenbrock

2nd and 4th Mondays Friday on or before full moon ,2nd Thursday , 1st and 2nd Saturdays 3rd Saturday 1st Saturday Sat. on or b. f. m. and 2nd Wed. after

THmTIETH DISTRICT-WILLIAM E. LANGE, D. D. G. M., Wright City, Mo. St. Charles Wentzville .. . Palestine ...... Mechanicsville Warren Pauldingville .. Warrenton

461 Wentzville 24l1St. Charles 260/HowelI. 11 Wright City 609IWarrenton

F. H. Giesmann , W. F. Achelpohl L. M. McCormick P. D. Feix R. H. Redeker

W. R. Dalton E. R. Engholm R. L. Fulkerson .. , .. C. H. Feix L. Hutcherson

1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Fridays

THmTY-FIRST DISTRICT-A. LINXWILER, D. D. G. M., Jefferson City, Mo. Cole .. •.......... ............. ............. Mo~~teau

....... ....... .......

O~~ge

..........

Jefferson......... 431Jefferson City Russellville....... 90 Russellville Hickory Hill 211 Eugene Centertown 611JCentertown Tip~on.: 56jTiP ton CalIforma.. . . . . .. 183 California Moniteau 295IJamestown Clarksburg 553IClarksburg C~amois l85/Chamois Lmn............. 326 Linn

V. D. Allison L. A. B. Leslie W. M. Scriviner J. H. Son H. H. Hudson Geo. R. Stegner J. P. Seitz Earl Donley Geo. E. Moad R. B. McDaniel.....

R. L. Gwinn W. B. Thompson.... J. E. Dooley K. 1. Mahan J. A. Conn R. L. Fulks S. R. Johnson F. B. Clark P. J. Paulsmeyer E. Campbell

1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd Friday 1st Friday 1st Monday 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Fridays Sat. on or b. f. m. md 2nd Tues. after 1st and 3rd Mondays 4th Friday Sat. on or b. f. moon and 2 weeks after

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued THmTY-SECOND DISTRICT-R. A. BREUER, D. D. G. M., Hermann, Mo. County Franklin "

Lodge , Evergreen........ Sullivan. . . . . . . . . . Gray Summit Hope Fraternal. Columbia Easter ...•....... ....... Union Gasconade Hermann " Red Bird " Owensville

No. I Location Master 271New Haven Wm. H. Koch 69 Sullivan Wm. S. Juergens 173 Gray Summit L. Hausemann 251 Washington E. L. Schroeder 363 Robertsville ......•. L. H. Bruns 634 Pacific E. A. Roemer 576 St. Clair A. Stahlman 593!Union F. R. Beinke 123\Hermann A. R. Howard 684 Red Bird J. A. Licklider 62410wensville J. H. Hansen

Secretary E. E. Murphy J. H. Mueller Aug. J. Holthaus W. A. Pfautsch J. Wm. Shannon L. M. Roemer R. C. Murphy , Paul W. Vitt L. R. Wentzel C. G. Sewell A. F. Berger

Time of Meeting 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays Sat. on or b. f. m. and on St. John's Day 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd Wednesday 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Mondays Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Thursdays

THmTY-THIRD (A) DISTRICT-A. J. MICHENER, D. D. G. M., St. Louis, Mo. St. Lo,;tis City

· .. ...

Missouri Beacon Mount Moriah Pomegranate Erwin Occidental. Pyramid Keystone Aurora Paul Revere Tuscan Itaska Euclid Clifton Heights Rose Hill Olive Branch Magnolia

: :: ... · .. ... · ..

~~:~?t~l~ :: .. :: Shaveh . Commonwealth . Purity , Theo. Roosevelt .

... · .. · .. ... · .. ... · .. ... ... · ..

. . . . . . , . . .. . . , . . . .

liSt. Louis 31St. Louis 40 St. Louis 95 St. Louis 1211St. Louis 163jSt. Louis 180 St. Lou!s 243 j St. LOUIS 2671St. Louis 3aOISt. Louis 3601St. Louis 4201St. Louis 5051St. Louis 5201St. Louis 550/St. Louis 576 St. Lou!s 626 St. LOuIs 6381St. Louis 641iSt. Louis 6461St. Louis 654 St. Louis 6581St. Louis 661 St.. Louis

L. F. Koellner J. Wohradsky, Jr 1st and 3rd Thursdays J. W. Frederiksen F. L. Magoon 2nd and 4th Thursdays Geo. L. McGauley , H. A. Borgmann 1st and 3rd Saturdays E. C. Ludwig E. E. Vetter 1st and 3rd Saturdays Harry Dehne A.A.Blankenmeister .. 2nd and 4th Fridays J. B. Peyton C. L. Alexander 1st and 3rd Mondays E. C. Otto R. S. Lorimie.r 2nd and 4th Fridays J. C. Henn Chas. W. Spell's 1st and 3rd Wednesdays GUY R. Moult R. A. Tubbesing 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Wm. J. Albus , .C. R. Niccum 2nd and 4th Fridays W. Browne Wm. C. Hilmer 1st and 3rd Tuesdays " E. E. Pearcy G. E. Black 1st and 3rd Mondays L. N. Kuykendall Merle E. Campbell 1st and 3rd Mondays T. Needham Wm. H. Haley 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Damon A. Holmes C. C. Jackson 2nd and 4th Tuesdays O. H. Kox:tjohn Emilio V. Corte 2nd and 4th Tuesdays L. H. Brinkmann , J. H. Leathers 2nd and 4th Wednesdays C. C. Langcneckert. .. , H. G. Diller 1st and 3rd Saturdays C. F. Schneider Wm. P. Morgan 2nd and 4th Thursdays F. A. Rolle H. W. Williams 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Wm. V. Kopfstein Duval O'Neal. 1st and 3rd Thursdays H. J. Casey J. Heines 1st and 3rd Mondays E. L. Doelling R. W. MacDonald 2nd and 4th Mondays

THmTY-THmD (B) DISTRICT-DR. FRANK MAGOON, D. D. G. M., St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis City " ... .. , ... ... ·" · .. · .. · ., ... .,. · .. ... ... ... · .. ... · .. ... .,. ...

Meridian......... Geo. Washington.. St. Louis......... Naphtali. Polar Star , Pride of the West. Good Hope Cosmos Cornerstone...... America :. Cache Anchor West Gate. . . . . . .. Lambskin Harmony Apollo Algabil ForestPark Tower Grove Mizpah Benj. Franklin Pilgrim Progress

21St. Louis City A. C. Yehlen 9 St. Louis City Geo. A. Schwebel 20 St. Lou!s C!ty E. Rosenthal 25 St. LOU15Clty O. B. Ferguson 791St. Louis City Walter J. Simon 179 St. Louis City F. A. Borgsteadt 21818t. Louis City .....• H. A. Bagley........ 282 St. Louis City B. P. Manheimer 323 St. Louis City J. H. Schweich, Jr 347 St. Louis City J. Burle 4161St. Louis City Chas. W. Meyer 443 St. Louis City R. V. Wilson 445 St. Louis City Wm. B. Adams 4601St. Louis City .....• J. A. Keithly 4991St. Louis City W. E. Punt 529 St.LOUisCity J. M. Jones 544 St. Louis City E. M. Benish 578St.LouisCity J. R. Davis 631 St. Louis City .....• Chas. W. Arnott 639 St. Louis City A. H. DeVan 6421St. Louis City H. P. Rosecan 652 St. Louis City Geo. L. Gaston 6571St. Louis City F. Wm. Johanpeter ..

A. V. Schopp Wm. L. Reynolds H. A. Steiner P. E. Eckardt J. L. Kohner Louis Tisch R. L. Dixon..... . . .. Sam Broadbent. Wm. R. Schmitt F. Wm. Kuehl. Joe. W. Schuette R. H. Caffall Ed. McGuigan B. C. Burroughs N. B. Topping George Ruths W. J. H. Perkins Wm. C. Rese A. M. Jacobs W. H. Voss Morris Popper Theo. C. Teel. F. J. Mahner

2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th, Wednesdays 2nd and 4th Fridays 2nd and 4th Mondays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays

THmTY-FOURTH DISTRICT-JAMES F. BLAIR, D. D. G. M., Belton, Mo. Cass "

Index

Cass

Grand River . · Wadesburg . · Nonpareil. . ............ Dayton . " Belton ..........•. ............ Raymore . ............ JeweL . · Coldwater . " Strasburg . ........ Archie . Cleveland . ·

54;Garden City Chas. E. Rearick 147 Harrisonville ....•• Leslie P. Moore 276 Freeman Leon R. Mitchell 348 Creighton W. W. Dough, Sr 372 East Lynne .....•. Wm. H. Schader 386 Dayton ..........•. H. R. Wagner 450jBelton ...........•. Jessie L. Keeney 451 Raymore E.L. Stoutzenberger 480 Pleasant HilL F. L. Seevers 485jDrexel. Homer Beatz 604 . Strasburg Wm. Beckman 633 1Archie E. M. Goodrich 651lCleveland W. A. Moore

G. C. Kimberlin Wm. P. McGool. D. S. Wilson F. C. Blossom Hial H. Miller S. W. Wagner Carl G. Ryden W. D. Chaffin Ross Thomas Chas. A. MitchelL J. W. Seaton T. M. York, Jr G. W. Coble

1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Fridays Saturday on or before full moon Friday on or before full moon Saturday on or before full moon Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd Friday 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st Monday 2nd Tuesday . 2nd Tuesday

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued THmTY-FIFTH DISTRICT-D. O. BRADLEY, D. D. G. M., Butler, Mo. County Lodge Bates Hume " Amsterdam. . . • . .. · Butler ........... Rockville ........... Tyrian · Crescent Hill. . . . .. ........... Rich Hill · Foster

NO.1 Location 130 Hume 141 Amsterdam 254 Butler 341 Rockville 350 Johnstown 368 Adrian 479 Rich Hill 554 Foster. . . . . . . . . . ..

Master W. A. Bewley Jesse Kipper Sanford L. Rook J. V. Bradley J. P. Herman F. L. Cowgill Ward J. Moore Earl R. Craig

Secretary Time of Meeting J. R. Quinn 1st and 3rd Thursdays E. A. Smiser 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Luther R. Twyman. .. 1st and 3rd Saturdays S. H. Bothwell .....•. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays R. E. Gilliland ......• Saturday on or before full moon Glenn C. Blow 2nd and 4th Mondays H. D. Philbrick 2nd and 4th Mondays O. D. Jennings Every Friday

THmTY-SIXTH DISTRICT-JOLLY P. HURTT, D. D. G. M., Sedalia, Mo. Benton " Johnson " "

Cole Camp Shawnee .......•.. Knobnoster Holden Corinthian Cold Spring Chilhowee Pettis Sedalia........... · Granite •......... Green Ridge .......... Lamonte

5951cole Camp 653 Warsaw 245 Knobnoster 262 Holden 265IwarrensbUrg 274 Leeton 487 Chilhowee 236 ISedalia ........•... 272Isedalia 425 Green Ridge 574 Lamonte

Wm. E. Rider O. V. Singleton Chas. F. Covey M. H. Ellis Paul R. Utt F. E. Feuel L. G. Hackler Jess Brown Robert Ramsey L. H. Wadleigh F. L. Schenk

E. H. Preuitt J. A. Logan 0. F. Elliott J. T. Glass, Jr H. E. Allee E. S. Courtney W. H. Tempel. W. J. Kennely Sid B. Kennon Geo. T. Murphy Oliver G. Agee

1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Mondays Thursday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st Friday 3rd Friday 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd Friday

THIRTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT-THORNTON JENNINGS, D. D. G. M., Clinton, Mo.

H~~ry::::::::::;Y:kC::.~r:

29jWindsor : . 286IUrich

.......... ... , .......... .......... .......... .......... St. Clair "

Agricola Montrose Clinton Calhoun Blairstown Deepwater St. Clair Circle Lowry City Appleton City Star

. , . .

Camden

Linn Creek Mack's Creek. . . .. Laclede........ Competition Conway Waynesville Richland BruJ?ley. IberIa

. . . . . .

343lPetersburg 408IMontrose 5481 Clinton 552 Calhoun 557 Blairstown 562 Deepwater 27310sceola 342IRoscoe 403 Lowry City 4121Appleton City 419iTaberville

o ••••••

.F. L. Douglas Frank N. Erwin J. A. Ross ...•.. '.' Wm. J. Loyd W. C. England F. T. Peterson L. H. Fisher R. A. Lasswell R. S. Leasure C. M. Pasley T. A. Hatfield M. D. Sagaser F. G. Bowman

O. F. Weiss ..•...... R. E.McDonald Paul Beaty Chas. P. Gardner C. C. Canan M. R. Munday C. F. Chitwood W. S. Scott Geo. W. Davies C. A. Weinlig Lee E. Waite T. A. Kolosick J. E. Harper

1st and 3rd 'fuesdays 1st and 3rd Fridays Wed. on or b. f. moon and 2 weeks after 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 4th Friday Thursday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Fridays Saturday on or before full moon Friday on or before full moon

THmTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT-WINAN I. MAYFIELD, D. D. G. M., Lebanon, Mo. . . . . . . .. Laclede •........ " ........ Pulaski. " M~~ler

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162Icamdenton 433 Mack's Creek 83 Lebanon 432Icompetition 528 Conway 375 Waynesville 385IRichland ...•...... 203IBrumley 410 Iberia

J. E. Foster Noel C. Brown W. 1. Mayfield O. Van Staven E. H. Harris oj. L. Mitchell H. B. Warren A. M. Phillips Chas. L. Brown

H. B. Claiborne H. L. Harmon Chas. L. Smith F. E. Dougan V. M. Wills A. C. Decker Oren Simpson C. H. Wright F. L. Adams

2nd Thursday 1st Saturday 1st Wednesday Saturday on or before full moon 2nd Thursday 2nd Saturday 2nd Wednesday Saturday on or before full moon 1st Friday

THmTY-NINTH DISTRICT-CHARLES L ..WOODS, D. D. G. Mo, Rolla, Mo. Crawford Lebanon " Cuba Dent. . . . . . . . . .. Salem .Maries. . . . . . . .. Vienna " Belle . . . . . . . .. Lane's Prairie Phelps Rolla " St. James .......... Equality Pulaski. Arlington Texas. . . . . . . . .. Latimer

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77 \Steelville 312 Cuba 225 Salem 94 Vienna 373 Belle 531 Vichy 213 Rolla 2301St. James 497INewburg . 346IDixon . 145ILicking

Ben. J. Hiller Geo. K. Walker W. C. Whitmire Clay Bullock A. J. Wofford Geo. Snodgrass. . . . . .. W. C. Campbell. Willis Key H. J. Houston R. S. McClelland Eddie McPherson 0

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T. H. Roberts Chas. F. Wilmesher. Rex Miner L. O. Nichols T. J. Tynes R. M. Copeland J. M. Ellis Wm. J. Moreland A. B. Cottle D. R. Stevens Geo. C. Martin

1st Saturday 2nd Saturday 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st Saturday 2nd and 4th Saturdays Saturday before full moon 1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 3rd Thursday 2nd and 4th Thursdays

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued FORTIETH DISTRICT-H. H. BALSIGER, D. D. G. M., Crystal City, Mo. County Lodge No.1 Location Master Secretary Jefferson De Soto 1191De Sooo J. A. Grant ,.. D. L. Rouggly .. . ' Joachim. . . . . . . . .. 164 Hillsboro Ross Harrison , E. M. Williams ....... ' Shekinah 256IFestus Joe Bennett. J. E. Jennings " •...... ' Herculaneum. . . .. 338 Herculaneum Wm. A. Cochran., Joe. W. Cassiedy Wash!~gton '. Tyro.,' 12 Caledonia., '" .' Robt. Wilcox Iva Queen .... ' PotOSI. 131 IPotosi. Walter L. Hill Geo. Carr .... ' Irondale 143IIrondale L. W. Robinson , Chas. H. McKinney .. .... , Belgrade ' 632 Belgrade. . . . . . . . .. M. E. Wiley , E. R. Breckenridge St. Francois ' Blackwell 535 Blackwell J. Perry Welch. . . . . .. Howard E. Brown

Time of Meeting 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st Saturday 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays Saturday on or before full moon !<'riday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Saturdays 3rd Saturday 1st Saturday

FORTY-FmST DISTRICT-M. E. EWING, D. D. G. M., Morrisville, Mo. Dallas Riddick ....••..... .. . .....•... Western Light . .......... Urbana , Hi~~ory Hogle:s Creek . ........ Hermitage . Polk ,Fair Play . .............. Modern , .............. Pleasant . .............. Bolivar . Pleasant Hope. ' .. .. . .............. Aldrich .

361 396 421 279 288 44 144 160 195 467 664

Buffalo Not reported .................................•........................... Louisburg Chas. L. Carter R. S. Lindsey Saturday on or before full moon Urbana , Thos. V. Warren .. , .. E. A. Reser 4th Saturday Wheatland L. F. Stevens J. M. Murphy .., Saturday on or before full moon Hermitage Mont J. Losure E. 1. Miller Saturday on or before full moon Fair Play H. Cunningham W. L. Trullinger Thursday on or before full moon Humansville , .. Geo. Thayer Chas. D. Tharp 2nd Friday and 2 weeks after Morrisville. . . . . . .. Chas. L. Hamilton .. " M. E. Ewing Friday on or before full moon Bolivar J. C. Pike J. W. Gravely , .. , Wednesday on or before full moon Pleasant Hope Walter L. Bass F. P. Slagle Thursday on or before full moon Aldrich , ,C. K. Moiser , .. J. S. Toalson 1st Tuesday

FORTY-SECOND DISTRICT-THOMAS W. SNODGRASS, D. D. G. M., Eldorado Springs, Mo. Cedar " Stockton , .. . Jerusalem .•...... ........•.. Clintonville . Dade Washington . .. . .....•..•.. Garrett . ............. Everton . .......... '" Melville . .. . , Lockwood .

283\Stockton .....•..•• 315 Jerico Springs 482 EldoradoSprings 87 Greenfield 359 Arcola. . . . . . . . . . .. 405 Everton 458 Dadeville 521 Lockwood

O. E. Fleener... . . . .. E. Arnold L. E. Knowlton R. M. George W. D. yates H. Carl Jerome R. P. Myers ~ W. E. Evans

[". M. Babbs........ Guy Farmer F. W. Elliott R. H. Merrill T. R. Owens L. A. Newkirk A. C. Blakemore W. Henry Davis

1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 4th Tuesday Thursday on or before full moon 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Thurs. on or b. f. m. and 2 weeks after 2nd and 4th Thursdays

FORTY-THmD DISTRICT-D. V. MORRIS, D. D. G. M., Nevada, Mo. Vernon ....•.... .. . ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... Barton ..

Osage Sheldon. . . . . . . . .. Schell City Montevalo Vernon Unity " Walker Hermon Lamar. . . . . . . . . .. 3ignal ...........• Golden Milford

303INevada 371 Sheldon 448 Schell City 490jMontevalo 493IBrOnaUgh 495 Richards 605 Walker 187ILiberal 292 Lamar 304 Mindenmines 475 1Golden City 516IMilford

L. A. Johnson R. B. Kabler C. W. Blakley J. W. Faith T. D. Combs J. W. ClaypooL..... G. C. Phillips Not reported F. Daetwyler " D. L. Rodgers....... S. R. Hastings Chris. Dale ·

D. V. Morris W. G. Jones C. P. Fink Carr E. Pierce S. P. Linn C. H. Newland 3. R. Harvey J. W. Hagny Ray Goff Arthur Farr J. C. Thomas

2nd Friday 1st and 3rd Thursdays Thursday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 3rd Saturday and 2 weeks after ~ : . 2nd and 4th FrIdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 3rd Saturday

FORTY-FOURTH DISTRICT-RAY BOND, D. D. G. M., Joplin, Mo. J~per

. Carthage Sarcoxie Joplin Fellowship Jasper Carterville Mineral Webb City Carl Junction Criterion Larussell

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197ICarthage 293 Sarcoxie 335 Joplin 345 Joplin 398 Jasper 401 Carterville 471 Oronogo 512 Webb City 549 Carl Junction 586 Alba ...•.......... 592 Larussell

Carl J. Jones W. A. Morrison W. F. Gray D. F. Hinds D. M. Johnson C. A. Ropp Chester Smith M. Pritchett Harold Foster Wm. G. Fox Jasper Meadow

W. B. Pingree 2nd and 4th Thursdays Henry Sabert 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Sherman A. Smith 1st and 3rd Fridays Frank G. Ade 2nd and 4th Fridays C. E. Brown 1st and 3rd Tuesdays C. W. Keith 1st and 3rd Fridays Leslie Whitfield 1st and 3rd Thursdays J. C. Bailey :. 2nd and 4th Thursdays J. B. Coons 2nd and 4th Wednesdays D. A. Carlyle 1st and 3rd Mondays C. M. Gillock 1st and 3rd Fridays

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued FORTY-FIFTH DISTRICT-JEWELL E. WINDLE, D. D. G. M., Springfield, Mo. Lodge County No. I Location Master Secretary Greene . United . 5ISpringfield R. J. Brooks Merritt F. Smith O'Sullivan . 7 WalnutGrOve J. E. Hines J. S. McLemore Ash Grove . 100 Ash Grove Carl F. Short Joe H. Turk Solomon . 271 Springfield Balda B. Jones V. F. Anderson Ozark , . 297 IFair Grove J. M. Gardner C. E. Klingner Gate of the Temple, 422ISpringfield Chas. L. Chalender E. W. Clark .......... Republic . 570jRe p ublic , C. E. O'Neal. D. T. McAllister Strafford . 608 Strafford John A. Bass D. C. Yarbrough Willard ' 620: Willard E. L. Cunningham... Phonso Fortner...... Webster . Webster . 98IMarshfield r. B. Watters P. V. Rathbun Doric . 300IElkland Paul King G. F. Price Mount Olive . 439 IRogersville, R. R. 3 .. Otto Brock W. F. Atkinson Hazelwood . 459ISeymour Knute Jacobson R. E. Chaffin Henderson . 4771 Rogersville. . . . . . .. H. D. Pickel , E. R. McCarmack

Time of Meeting 3rd Monday 2nd Tuesday 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd Monday 2nd Thursday 3rd Thursday 2nd Thursday 1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd Friday Saturday before fuIl moon Friday before full moon Thurs. on or b. f. m. and 2 weeks after 3rd Thursday

FORTY-SIXTH DISTRICT-C. A. SWENSON, D. D. G. Mo, Mountain Grove, Mo. Douglas

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Ava . 26IAva Pilot Knob . 182IRichvilIe Mt. Ararat . 382 Topaz Barnes . 116 Cabool. Texas . 177 Houston Plato . 469IPlato Summersville . 555 Summersville Mountain Grove . 158 Mountain Grove Joppa . 411IHartville Mansfield . 543IMansfield Grovespring . 589IGrovespring Norwood . 622 Norwood 0

Chas. N. Alsup ,C. Cearley W. H. Murrell J. E. Stubbs Owen Craven Oley F. Scott R. W. Wall J. G. Hovis R. F. Adams Wayne Tarbutton Not reported 'VI. J. Huffman

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F. E. Reynolds Lee RusseIl E. Barnes A. E. Wood W. H. Farris R. E. Daniels Lee BelL J. H. Hicks C. G. Newton Chas. A. Stephens 0

1st and 3rd Wednesdays Saturday on or befo.re full moon Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd Saturday Saturday before full moon 3rd Saturday 2nd and 4th Fridays Fri. on or b. f. moon and 2 weeks after 2nd Wednesday

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Oscar Freeman

l!'t and 2nd Thursdays

FORTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT-J. N. SPARKS, D. D. G. M., Grandin, Mo. Cal·ler lvanBuren .. . Grandin Reynolds ......• , Hopewell .. .. ' Bunker ....... ' Barnesville Sha~non D~lphian. . . . . . . .. ........ Wmona ........ Eminence

509iVanBuren 579/Grandin 239JLesterville 275IBunker 353IEllington 137 Birch Tree 430 Winona 607 I Eminence

J. M. Cavender A. W. Bedell C. R. Burroughs J. A. Hulsey A. F. Bugg V. C. Oldham J. Talmage Loyd Carl Ross

R. J. J. C. J. C. J. J.

L. Coleman M. McGhee C. McHenry C. Wilkins B. Wadsow O. Lemons T. Lloyd V. Thompson

Saturday on or before full moon 2nd Saturday Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Saturdays 4th Saturday , 3rd Saturday Thursday on or before full moon 1st Saturday

FORTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT-J. CLYDE AKERS, D. D. G. M., Farmington, Mo. Iron Star of the West .. .............. Mosaic . .Madison Marcus . St. Francois ' Bismarck . .. . ' Farmington . ..... Ionic . St. Francois . Samaritan . Pendleton . Leadwood . ,Elvins . Saint Genevieve. Saline .

13311ronton 351JBelieview 1l0/Fredericktown 41 Bismarck 132!Farmington 154IDeSIOge 234 Libertyville 4241Bonne Terre 5511Doe Run 598,Leadwood 5991Flat River 2261St. Mary's

K L. Barnhouse H. B. McCall E. C. Andrews , T. Tensley J. W. Bray , J. Gilbert Brewen Ben Crawford Wm. A. Dinwiddie H. Kassabaum G. Thompson John Sevening Sherman Cole

F. H. Comfort J. C. McCall E. B. Graham W. F. Bone J. Clyde Akers J. L. Blunt P. A. Cashion H. C. Thompson Blondy R. Hunt W. G. Mason E. A. Counts John F. Bartels

2nd and 4th Fridays Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st Thursday 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays Every Tuesday : 1st Saturday on or before full moon

. l'rowel Zalma Cape G~:ardeau. St. Mark's West View Wilson Mystic Tie Whitewater Excelsior Perry ,

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440lMarble Hill 545IZalma 93 Cape Girardeau 103 Millersville 191 Pocahontas 221 Oak Ridge 417 Whitewater 441IJackson

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Cieo. W. Bidewell. , Virgil Payne H. R. Boeller........ Wilber Hahs P. W. Barber , Roy Drum , H. B. Venable Hy. J. Wagner

E. J. Taylor Wm. Allison W. Glenn McCain Geo. W. Miller H. R. Stevenson J. R. Jenkins J. M. Slagle H. M. James

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FORTY-NINTH DISTRICT-JAMES A. KINDER, D. D. G. M., Cape Girardeau,' Mo. Boll~,nger

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, 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Saturday on or before full moon 1st and 3rd Saturdays Sat. on or b. f. m. and 2 weeks after 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays

LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued FIFTIETH DISTRICT-G. A. SAMPLE, D. D. G. M., Chaffee, Mo. No.1 Lodge Location , East Prairie . 3841East Prairie Charleston . 407 Charleston Scott Morley . 184 I Morley Ashlar.'.....•.... 306Icommerce .. . .. . Sikeston . 310 Sikeston .......... '" IlImo . 581 IlImo Blodgett . 594IBlodgett .. . Chaffee . 615 Chaffee .. . Stoddard , Bloomfield . 163 Bloomfield .. . Essex . 278 Essex ....... ' Lakeville . 489 Bell City Dexter . 632 Dexter Advance . 690 Advance Puxico . 596 Puxico New Madrid Morehouse . 603 Morehouse County

Miss~sippi

Master Secretary Chas. F. Watson , Wm. W. Bledso " R. L. Oliver , J. A. Boone J. A. Sikes R. H. Leslie H. H. Blackledge H. M. Zaricor J. Boyd Scillian A. A. Harrison Ben HilL F. M. Craig Geo. Buchanan Geo. W. Pearman ,Wm. J. Ferguson.... M. H. Stubblefield J. M. Carbin , F. A. Brannock W. T. Arnold L. E. Estes H. M. Poe W. G. Pyle J. Will Smitl1 Wm. C. Harris , Clarence C. Croy E. H. Zimmer J. C. Rhodes , C. A. Wilkerson C. H. Pease ' F. W. Leming

Time of Meeting Every Thursday 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Fridays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays ,1st' and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 3rd Saturday 1st and 3rd Tuesdays , 1st and 3rd Thursdays 4th Friday 2nd and 4th Tuesdays

FIFTY-FIRST DISTRICT-GROVER a.BISHOP, D. D. G. M., Carnthersville, Mo. Dunklin .......• Kennett.......... Four Mile Hornersville Cardwell , Malden Senath New Madrid ...• Portageville , Point Pleasant New Madrid Parma ...•....... Pemiscot Caruthersville , Hayti. Steele Stoddard Bernie

68IKennett 212 Campbell 215 Hornersville 231 Cardwell 406 Malden 513\Senath 166IPortageville 176 Conran 429iNew Madrid 650 Parma 461 Caruthersville 671 Hayti. 634 Steele 573IBernie

Elmer Hicklin M. F. Simer R. L. Brown R. D. Whiteaker Wm. H. Mizell S. W. Killian W. H. Lockard P. A. Fitzgerald Wm. H. Clingingsmith. L. O. Wicecarver L. B.Motsinger L. B. DeHart J. H. King : , A. L. Carnahan , L. F. Lufont Geo. Newman Raymond Lloyd Chas. M. Barnes H. H. Norman Wm. B. Morgan S. R. Castleberry J. W. McCloskey Oscar T. Martin H. B. Bryant Gus Wade H. Ballentine H. J. Standfield M. M. Winer

2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd }'ridays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays Sat. on or b. f. m. and 2nd Thurs. after 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays ,1st and 3rd Tuesdays , 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays

FIFTY-SECOND DISTRICT-KIPP C. JOHNSON, D. D. G. M., Poplar Bluff, Mo. Butler

Poplar Bluff

. 209 Poplar Bluff 314 Bardley 369 Doniphan .......... Naylor .....•...•• 568 Naylor .. W~rne Greenville . 107 Greenville Wayne . 526 Piedmont

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J. H. Maize......... J. J. Ollar Ralph L. york F. Drew L. L. Polk C. W. Leeper 0

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Art H. Harwell..... Clyde Turner R. C. Hoefer W. E. Koehler A. G. Templeton O. R. Sutton

2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st Saturday after full moon 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays

FIFTY-THIRD DISTRICT-C. E. ARMSTRONG, D. D. G. Mo, West Plains, Mo. . 3271West Plains ......• . 536/Willow Springs . 637 Mountain View . 255IAlton . 374 Wilderness . 387 Thomasville. . . . . .. . 463 Thayer . 582\Koshkonon g . 298 Lutie . 365IBakersfield . 435 Rockbridge . 496 Gainesville

Howell

" Mt. Zion .......... Ingomar ....... " Mountain View Oregon Alton .. . " Wilderness ......... Woodside .•....... Clifton ......... Koshkonong Ozark Sampson .. . Bayou Rockbridge . . . . . . . . . . Robert Burns •••••••

Chas. H. Smith E. D. Abbott F. N. LeBaron J. R. Trimble R. T. Simpson E. F. Pierce S. W. Wooldridge C. W. Pease J. W. Jones Frank Swain Otto Enloe B. F. Breeding

Eugene N. Laird 1st and 3rd Fridays J. S. Whitten....... 1st Friday Frank Todd 2nd and 4th Tuesdays Geo. C. Martin -Saturday on or before J. P. Simpson Saturday on or before John Griffith Saturday on or before ,A. A. Taber........ 2nd and 4th Tuesdays , Chas. Thoman 2nd Wednesday P. U. Duggins 2nd Saturday A. W. Morris Saturday on or before F. B. Morris _2nd Saturday E. W. Ebrite 1st Friday

full moon full moon full moon

full moon

FIFTY-FOURTH DISTRICT-G. J. VAUGHAN, D. D. G. M., Ozark, Mo. Chr~~t.ian

Sp~rta

....... Friend ....... Billings ....... Clever Taney Claflin .. . . . . . . . . .. Kirbyville .........'. Forsyth .......... Branson Stone , ' Galena .. . Crane

. 296 Sparta . 352 Ozark 379 Billings. . . . . . . . . .. . 645 Clever . 229 Protem . 264 Hollister . 453jForsyth •.......... . 587 Branson ,. 515 Galena . 519 Crane

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L. R. Sweringen D. W. Shelton Fred W. Rauch Clyde M. Kerr W. T. Holt J. C. Ellison........ A. H. Blunk H. W. King B. F. Hembree H. D. Wilson

Ralph Marley Geo. T. Breazeale Colmore Gray G. W. Estes V. R. Rozell C. E. Jennings H. M. Blunk S. P. Winch Troy Stone D. A. Holderman

Last Friday on or before full moon Saturday on or before full moon 2nd Thursday Friday on or before full moon Saturday on or before full moon 1st Thursday 1st Saturday 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Saturdays , 2nd and 4th Tuesdays

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o o LODGE DIRECTORY BY DISTRICTS-Continued FIFTY-FIFTH DISTRICT-W. N. MARBUT, D. D. G. Mo, Mt. Vernon, Mo. County Barry .......... '" .......... .......... .......... Lawrence "

Lodge Monett Purdy............ Barry Pythagoras Seligman Comfort Mount Vernon.... Canopy Marionville .Decatur · Verona · Red Oak · Stinson · Miller

No.1 Location 129IMonett 148 Purdy 367 Washburn 383ICassville 517!Seligman 533Iwheaton 99 Mt. Vernon 284IAurora 390IMarionville 400IPierceCity 452IVerona 4681Red Oak 523 Stinson 567IMilIer

Master F. E. Williams Cleo Rogers Chas. Svia A. J. Bower W. M. Wardlow J. S. McQueen Hal D. Fossett. R. G. Elsey C. V. Willard John Smerdon J. C. Alderson Not reported W. Miller Homer Akins

Secretary F. M. Shriver C. E. Williams J. L. Sage W. T. Priest. J. L. Wilhelm O. L. Burger Leon Pugh W. H. Lloyd I. O. McCullah E. T. Ecroyd E. young

L. E. yingst Chas. Henry

Time of Meeting 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Saturdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays . Sat. on or b. f. m. and 2 weeks after 1st and 31'd Wednesdays

FIFTY-SIXTH DISTRICT-W. A. PHIPPS, D. Do G. M., Neosho, Mo. McDonald "

Southwest. Anderson ....... NoeL Newton Neosho Racine " · Granby ........ Stella

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466iSouthwestCity 621\Anderson 647 NoeL 247INeosho 478 Seneca 514IGranby 538IStella

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J. J. Roll J. H. Dalton E. T. Rousselot Claud C. Mace K. L. Prater F. Kritz J. Speak

W. F. Stevenson H. Eppard B. F. St. Clair J. D. Stout C. J. Lawson W. H. Williams N. Jessee

1st and 3rd Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Tue1'days

FIFTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT-FAY G. FULKERSON, D. D. G. M., Webster Groves, Mo. St. Louis

Bonhomme Bridgeton Webster Groves Fenton Meramec Kirkwood Ferguson Maplewood Clayton Wellston Valley Park Jennings University Gardenville

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45,Ballwin C. J. Seibel. 80ISt. John's Station .. S. Horn 84 Webster Groves Kenneth W. Howe 281IFenton Wm. H. Stein 3l3,Eureka ..........•. V. E. Mottert. 484jKirkwood H. G. Crain 5421 Ferguson .........• J. A. Shackelford 566 Maplewood G. F. Tuerkisch 601 Clayton S. C. Harvey 613 Wellston , M. J. Erwin 629 Valley Park ......•. M. Adams 640 Jennings R. M. Wasser 649 University C. B. Kentnor 655IGardenville ......•• F. Kitzlemeyer

H. F. Woerther Walter Reinemer , Geo. A. Shepardson .. Geo. F. Fuchs J. F. Howell H. Schroeder Harry A. Magoon J. W. Menaugh E. P. Clark, Jr C. A. Tolin , Chas. C. Scholl Geo. E. Kohlmeyer A. A. NaIl Florian Wolz

1st and 3rd Saturdays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays 2nd and 4th Mondays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Thursdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd Saturdays

FIFTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT-E. F. STARLING, D. D. G. M., Olean, Mo. MOl;~an

Glensted Versailles Barnett Miller .........• Olean .........• Ionia

250IGlensted 320IVersailles 591IBarnett l34,Olean 381 Eldon

M. E. D. H. H.

A. Lammert E. Archer G. Berry C. Roark W. Schroeder

G. E. Moore W. B. Todd J. D. Bradshaw Wm. H. Crum J. H. Rea

Saturday on or before full moon 2nd and 4th Mondays Saturday on or before full moon 3rd Saturday 2nd and 4th Mondays

FIFTY-NINTH DISTRICT-N. D. JACKSON, D. D. G. M., Independence, Mo. Jackson

. 76IIndependence . Independence C. H. Koehler Summit . 263 Lee's Summit V. C. White McDonald . 324IIndependence Chas. R. Layland Blue Springs . 3371Blue Springs W. A. Hire Raytown . 391IRaytown O. S. Widener Christian , . 39210ak Grove J. A. Williams Buckner . 50lIBuckner T. H. Lentz Marlborough . 56918009Woodland,K.C.J. G. Barger Mt. Washington . 6l4:Mt. Washington F. H. Frisby Grandview . 618IGrandview Wm. E. Gray Grain Valley . 644 Grain Valley J. C. Hader

F. F. Livesay , .. J. G. Boyd W. Lee Whitmire Walter Kirby G. W. Cassell Robt. E. Livesay J. Ahrens J. C. Hagood Gregg B. Christy M. V. Long C. N. Houston

2nd and 4th Mondays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1st and 3rd Fridays 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 1st and 3rd Mondays 2nd and 4th Fridays 1st and 3rd Thursdays 2nd and 4th Saturdays

LIST OF ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE GRAND LODGE A. F. & A. M. MISSOURI FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, APRIL 23, 1821 Date Election Grand Master D. Grand Master Grand S. Warden Grand J. Warden Grand Treasurer Grand Secretary April, 1821 Thos. F. Riddick .. * James Kennerly * William Bates ·. * Archibald Gamble .. * William Renshaw * Oct., 1821 ..•. Nath'l B. Tucker .. * Thompson Douglass * Edward Bates • William Bates ·· * Archibald Gamble .. * William Renshaw * Oct., 1822 ..•. Nath'IB. Tucker .. * Thompson Douglass. Edward Bates * Wm. G. Pettus • Archibald Gamble .. • William Renshaw'" Oct., 1823 N ath'l B. Tucker .. * Geo. H. C. Melody ... - Edward Bates • Wm. G. Pettus • Archibald Gamble .. - T. Douglas" Oct., 1824 Nath'l B. Tucker ..• Geo. H. C. Melody ..• - Wm. G. Pettus - Thornt. Grimsley • Archibald Gamble .. - T. Douglas" Oct., 1825 Edward Bates • Geo. H. C. Melody - Wm. G. Pettus - Thornt. Grimsley • Archibald Gamble .. • John D. Daggett" Oct., 1826 ..•. Edward Bates • Hardage Lane - Martin Ruggles - John F. Ryland • Rich. T. McKinney.- John D. Daggett· Oct., 1827 Edward Bates ....• Hardage Lane • Martin Ruggles - H. R. Gamble • Thornton Grimsley.· John D. Daggett * Oct., 1828 Hardage Lane • Geo. H. C. Melody .. • H. R. Gamble - Adam L. Mills - Thornton Grimsley.· John D. Daggett * Oct., 1829 Hardage Lane * Fred L. HiIlon ......• H. R. Gamble - Adam L. Mills ......• Bernard Pratte • John D. Daggett * Oct., 1830 Hardage Lane * Geo. H. C. Melody .. • Sinclair Kirtley • Adam L. Mills " Thomas Andrews • Fred L. Hillon * Dec., 1831 Edward Bates * Geo. H. C. Melody ..• Oliver Parker " Augustus Jones • Thomas Andrews • Fred L. Hillon * Oct., 1832 H. R. Gamble * Geo. H. C. Melody .. " M. J. Noyes - Augustus Jones " Thomas Andrews " Fred L. Billon* Dec., 1833 Sinclair Kirtley • A. B. Chambers " John Wilson " G. A. Tuttle " Geo. H. C. Melody .. • John Garnett * Nov., 1834 § A. B. Chambers * Sinclair Kirtley * Oliver Parker • S. W. B. Carnegy * Geo. H. C. MelodY .. * Thos. W. Conyers'" Oct., 1835tt .. A. B. Chambers * Sinclair Kirtley * Oliver Parker - S. W. B. Carnegy ...• Geo. H. C. Melody .. • Thos. W. Conyers '" Oct., 1836 S. W. B. Carnegy. * John D. Daggett '" Edward Searcey .. " Granville Snell " Geo. H. C. Melody .. '" Richard B. Dallam '" Oct., 1837 S. W. B. Carnegy. '" John D. Daggett '" A. B. Chambers ...• Thomas Andrews • Geo. H. C. Melody .. • Richard B. Dallam * Oct., 1838 S. W. B. Carnegy.* John D. Daggett • A. B. Chambers ... * Alex. T. Douglass * Geo. H. C. MelodY .. " Richard B. Dallam* Oct., 1839 P. H. McBride • A. B. Chambers • Alex. T. Douglass. * Wm. C. Vance • Geo. H. C. Melody .. '" Richard B. Dallam '" Oct., 1840 P. H. McBride • Joseph Foster • Alex. T. Douglass.* John Orrick • Geo. H. C. Melody .. * Richard B. DalIam* Oct., 1841 P. H. McBride * Joab Bernard * Joseph Foster * C. H. Bowers Geo. H. C. Melody .. '" Richard B. Dallam· Oct., 1842 P. H. McBride * J oab Bernard * Joseph Foster - C. H. Bowers John Simonds • Richard B. Dallam· Oct., 1843 P. H. McBride • Joseph .Foster '" J. W. S. MitcheIl .. • E. S. Ruggles '" Fred L. Billon '" Richard B. Dallam* Oct., 1844 J. W. S. Mitchell..* Fred L. Hillon * E. S. Ruggles • J. L. F. Jacoby * John S. Watson '" Richard B. Dallam* Oct., 1845 J. W. S. Mitchell .. * John D. Taylor '" E. S. Ruggles * J. L. F. Jacoby " John S. Watson * Fred L. HiIlon* Oct., 1846 John Ralls .,* John D. Taylor * E. S. Ruggles " J. L. F. Jacoby " John S. Watson '" Fred L. Hillon* Oct., 1847 Joseph Foster * E. S. Ruggles * J. L. F. Jacoby " Cyrus Osborn • John S. Watson • J. W. S. Mitchell* May, 1848 Joseph Foster * E. S. Ruggles '" Cyrus Osborn .....• Joseph Megguire * John S. Watson * J. W. S. Mitchell>l< May, 1849 ..•. John F. Ryland * E. S. Ruggles * Joseph Megguire .. 'l! P. Draper * John M. Reed * C. D. W. Johnson'" May, 1850 John F. Ryland * B. W. Grover '" P. Draper * S. F. Currie * J. T. Johnson * C. D. W. Johnson* May, 1851. B. W. Grover * E. S. Ruggles * S. F. Currie * J. H. Turner * J. T. Johnson * C. D. W. Johnson· May, 1852 B. W. Grover * S. F. Currie * J. H. Turner .....• S. H. Saunders * J. T. Johnson " A. O'Sullivan* June, 1853 Wilson Brown * L. S. Cornwell • J. W. Chenoweth.* R. C. HiII * Joseph Foster • A. O'Sullivan* May, 1854 L. S. Cornwell * D. P. Wallingford .. • James H. Britton. * " Joseph Foster '" A. O'Sullivan * May, 1865 L. S. CornweIl * ** J. W. Chenoweth. * H. E. Van OrsdeIl .. • John D. Daggett * A. O'Sullivan* May, 1866 Benjamin Sharp .. * W. A. Cunningham .. S. H. Saunders * Marcus Boyd • John D. Daggett • A. O'Sullivan * May, 1867 S. H. Saunders * P. Draper * Marcus Boyd * John F. Houston • John D. Daggett • A. O'Sullivan· May, 1858 S. H. Saunders * Marcus Boyd .......• John F. Houston .. * John Decker * John D. Daggett • A. O'Sullivan* May, 1859 Marcus Boyd * M. H. McFarland • W. R. Penick * John Decker * John D. Daggett • A. O'Sullivan" May, 1860 M. H. McFarland.* W. R. Penick * John Decker • Samuel M. Hayes * John D. Daggett • A. O'Sullivan. May, 1861 Wm. R. Penick '" John Decker * Geo. Whitcomb • A. L. McGregor * John D. Daggett * A. O'Sullivan '"

May, May, May, May, May, Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct., Oct.,

1862 .... 1863 .•.. 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 ..•. 1869 1870 1871 1872 .•.. 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 .•.. 1879 1880 ..•• 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891. 1892 1893 ...• 1894 1895 1896· 1897 1898 1899 1900 ...• 1901. 1902 1903 ...•

Geo. Whitcomb * John H. Turner • Wm. N. Loker • Samuel Russell ..... • John D. Daggett. .. • A. O'Sullivan * John H. Turner >11 Wm. N. Loker • John D. Vincil • A. L. McGregor ....• John D. Daggett • A. O'Sullivan* John F. Houston ..• John D. Vincil • A. L. McGregor .. * Martin Collins * Wm. N. Loker * A. O'Sullivan· John F. Houston .. * John D. Vinci!. * Martin Collins * R. E. Anderson * Wm. N. Loker * A. O'Sullivan* John D. Vincil * W. E. Dunscomb • R. E. Anderson * A. L. McGregor * Wm. N. Loker * A. O'Sullivan*t W. E. Dunscomb ..• C. A. Rowley * T. E. Garrett * Wm. D. Muir * Wm. N. Loker * G. Frank Gouley *~ John D. Vincil .... * R. E. Anderson * Wm. D. Muir * Alex. M. Dockery * Wm. N. Loker ....•. • G. Frank Gouley* William D. Muir ..• T. E. Garrett * A. M. Dockery * Sam H. Owens * Wm. N. Loker * G. Frank Gouley* Thos. E. Garrett .. * R. E. Anderson * Sam H. Owens * John E. Ryland * Wm. N. Loker * G. Frank Gouley* Thos. E. Garrett .. * R. E. Anderson * Sam H. Owens * John E. Ryland * Wm. N. Loker * G. Frank Gouley* Samuel H. Owens.* J. E. Ryland .....•. * John W. Luke * Jas. E. Cadle * Wm. N. Loker • G. Frank Gouley* R. E. Anderson * John W. Luke * Jas. E. Cadle * Xenophon Ryland * Wm. N. Loker " G. Frank Gouley" John W. Luke * Xenophon Ryland * Jas. E. Cadle * Thos. C. Ready " Wm. N. Loker " G. Frank Gouley* James E. Cadle * Xenophon Ryland .. * Thos. C. Ready * Noah M. Givan • Wm. N. Loker '" G. Frank Gouley* Xen. Ryland * Thos. C. Ready * Noah M. Givan * M. G. Hubble Wm. N. Loker • G. Frank GouleY**1I T. C. Ready * Noah M. Givan .....• Jos. S. Browne * W. R. Stubblefield .. • Wm. N. Loker " John D. Vincil* Noah M. Givan * Joseph S. Browne .. * W. R. Stubblefield· Jas. E. Carter * John W. Luke * John D. Vinci!· J os. S. Browne * W. R. Stubblefield .. • J as. E. Carter ~" Alex. M. Dockery * John W. Luke * John D. VinciI· W. R. Stubblefield .• Alex. M. Dockery * Chas. C. Woods • Lee A. Hall '" John W. Luke "'II John D. Vinci! '" Alex. M. Dockery. '" Chas. C. Woods * Lee A. Hall * Robt. F. Stevenson. * John W. Luke " John D. Vinci! '" Chas. C. Woods * Lee A. Hall * Robt. F. Stevenson * James·W. Boyd * Samuel M. Kennard * John D. VinciI'" Lee A. Hall ......• Robt. F. Stevenson .• James W. Boyd " Geo. R. Hunt • Samuel M. Kennard * John D. Vinci!* Robt. F. Stevenson" James W. Boyd * George R. Hunt * Wm. M. Williams * Samuel M. Kennard· John D. Vinci!'" James W. BoYd * George R. Hunt. • Wm. M. Williams. * James P. Wood * Samuel M. Kennard * John D. VinciI'" Geo. R. Hunt * W. M. Williams * James P. Wood * *~ Samuel M. Kennard * John D. Vinci!· Wm. M. Williams. * James P. Wood * Theodore Brace * Geo. E. Walker * Samuel M. Kennard'" John D. Vinci!'" James P. Wood 'Il Theodore Brace ....• Geo. E. Walker * B. H. Ingram • Samuel M. Kennard" John D. VinciI· Theodore Brace " Geo. E. Walker * B. H. Ingram '" John R. Parson • Samuel M. Kennard· John D. Vinci! * Geo. E. Walker * B. H. Ingram '" John R. Parson " Harry Keene * Samuel M. Kennard· John D. Vinci!* B. H. Ingram " John R. Parson • Harry Keene " J. B. Thomas * Samuel M. Kennard· John D. VinciI* John R. Parson * Harry Keene • J. B. Thomas * A. M. Hough * Samuel M. Kennard'" John D. Vinci! * Harry Keene .....• J. B. Thomas * A. M. Hough '" D. A. Jamison • Samuel M. Kennard * John D. VinciI* J. B. Thomas * A. M. Hough " D. A. Jamison * F. J. Tygard * Samuel M. Kennard * John D. Vincil* A. M. Hough .....• D. A. Jamison " F. J. Tygard * E. F. Allen * Samuel M. Kennard" John D. Vincil· D. A. Jamison " F. J. Tygard * E. F. Allen " C. H. Briggs * Samuel M. Kennard * John D. Vincil* F. J. Tygard * E. F. Allen * C. H. Briggs * Campbell Wells * Samuel M. Kennard * John D. Vincil* E. F. Allen * C. H. Briggs * Campbell Wells * Joseph C. Finagin .. • Samuel M. Kennard· John D. VinciI· C. H. Briggs * Campbell Wells '" Joseph C. Finagin * John C. Yocum * Samuel M. Kennard· John D. VinciI· Campbell Wells Il< Joseph C. Finagin .. * John C. Yocum * Wm. F. Kuhn • Samuel M. Kennard * John D. Vincil* Joseph C. Finagin* John C. yocum • Wm. F. Kuhn * Leroy B. Valliant * Samuel M. Kennard * John D. Vincil* John C. Yocum .•. * Wm. F. Kuhn * Leroy B. Valliant. * A. S. Houston * Samuel M. Kennard· John D. Vincil* Wm. F. Kuhn * Leroy B. Valliant ...• A. S. Houston * D. M. Wilson " John R. Parson " John D. VinciI"

LIST OF ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE GRAND LODGE A. F. & A. M. MISSOURI FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, APRIL 23, 1821 Date Election Sept., 1904 Sept., 1906 Sept., 1906 Sept., 1907 Sept., 1908 Sept., 1909 Sept., 1910 ..•• Sept., 1911. Sept., 1912 Oct., 1913 Sept., 1914 Sept., 1915 Sept., 1916 Sept., 1917 Sept., 1918 Sept., 1919 Sept., 1920 Sept., 1921 Oct., 1922 Oct., 1923 Oct., 1924 Oct., 1926 Oct., 1926 Oct., 1927 Sept., 1928 Sept., 1929 Oct., 1930 Sept., 1931. Sept., 1932 Sept., 1933

Grand Master D. Grand Master Grand S. Warden Grand J. Warden Grand Treasurer Grand Secretary Leroy B. Valliant.* A. S. Houston .•...• * D. M. Wilson * Howard Watson * John R. Parson .... * John D. Vincil*l1l1 A. S. Houston * D. M. Wilson * John T. Short R. R. Kreeger Alphonso C. Stewart* John R. ParsonU* D. M. Wilson * John T. Short • R. R. Kreeger ...•. William A. Hall * Alphonso C. Stewart * John R. Parson· John T. Short * R. R. Kreeger William A. Hall * Clay C. Bigger .....• Alphonso C. Stewart. John R. Parson * R. R. Kreeger William A. Hall * Clay C. Bigger * Arch A. Johnson Alphonso C. Stewart· John R. Parson.' Wm. A. Hall * Clay C. Bigger * Arch A. Johnson Jacob Lampert .....• Alphonso C. Stewart. John R. Parson· Clay C. Bigger * Arch A. Johnson Jacob Lampert * Van Fremont Boor .. Alphonso C. Stewart. John R. Parson* Arch A. Johnson Jacob Lampert * Van Fremont Boor. Chesley A. Mosman .• Alphonso C. Stewart* John R. Parson· Jacob Lampert • Van Fremont Boor .. Chesley A. Mosman* Tolman W. Cotton ... Alphonso C. Stewart* John R. Parson· Van Fremont Boor. Chesley A. Mosman .• Tolman W. Cotton. Frank R. Jesse .....• Alphonso C. Stewart. John R. Parson. Tolman W. Cotton. Frank R. Jesse ...•• Edward Higbee * Wm. A. Clark Alphonso C. Stewart. John R. Parson * Frank R. Jesse * Edward Higbee ....• * Wm. A. Clark John W. Bingham .. * Alph. C. Stewart *** John R. Parson * Edward Higbee * Wm. A. Clark John W. Bingham * Julius C. Garrell Wm. A. Hall * John R. Parson* Wm. A. Clark John W. Bingham ..• Julius C. Garrell Wm. F. Johnson * Wm. A. Hall * John R. Parson* • John W. Bingham* Julius C. Garrell Wm. F. Johnson ..• O. A. Lucas * Wm. A. Hall .......• John R. Parson'* Julius C. Garrell ... Wm. F. Johnson O. A. Lucas Bert S. Lee Wm. A. Hall. John R. Parson* Wm. F. Johnson .. * O. A. Lucas Bert S. Lee J08. S. McIntyre Wm. A. Hall John R. Parsontt* O. A. Lucas • Bert S. Lee .......•• Jos. S. McIntyre Orestes Mitchell Wm. A. Hall * Frank R. Jesse* Bert S. Lee Joseph S. McIntyre .. Orestes Mitchell W. W. Martin Wm. A. Hall * Frank R. Jesse* Joseph S. McIntyre Orestes Mitchell ; W. W. Martin John Pickard Wm. A. Hall • Frank R. Jesse· Orestes Mitchell W. W. Martin John Pickard A. F. Ittner Wm. A. Hall ·ttt Frank R. Jesse· W. W. Martin John Pickard A. F. Ittner ;. B. E. Bigger E. E. Morris Frank R. Jesse* John Pickard A. F. Ittner .......•. B. E. Bigger ......• S. R. Freet. ........• E. E. Morris Frank R. Jesse.·tt Anthony F. Ittner. B. E. Bigger S. R. Freet .......• Wm. R. Gentry, Sr E. E. Morris Arthur Mather ttt Byrne E. Bigger S. R. Freet * Wm. R. Gentry, Sr. Ray V. Denslow E. E. Morris Arthur Mather S. R. Freet., • Wm. R. Gentry Ray V. Denslow Thad B. Landon E. E. Morris Arthur Mather Wm. R. Gentry Ray V. Denslow Thad B. Landon ..• Frank C. Barnhill E. E. Morris., Arthur Mather Ray V. Denslow Thad B. Landon '. . Frank C. Barnhill .. Duval Smith E. E. Morris Arthur Mather Thad B. Landon Frank C. Barnhill ..• Duval Smith Jas. W. Skelly E. E. Morris Arthur Mather F. C. Barnhill Duval Smith Jas. W. Skelly Geo. W" Walker E. E. Morris Arthur Mather

*Deceased. §Was not installed. *tDied August 11, 1866, while in office. *tAppointed August 13, 1866, by John D. Vincil, Grand Master. """IIDied April 11, 1877, while in office. ~~l1Died October 12, 1904, while in office. *uDied April 22, 1916, while in office.

*IIJohn W. Luke served, by appointment, as tt*Resigned May 20. 1921, account ill health. Grand Secretary, from April 11, 1877, to *tttDied November 7, 1924, while in office. October 11, 1877, and died October, 1888. ·**Appointed October 22, 1904, by Leroy B. ~Died within week after his installation. Valliant, Grand Master. ttThere was no Communication in 1835, **ttDied August 29, 1927, while in office. owing to the anti-Masonic excitement. ttt Appointed September I, 1927, by John **Withdrawn from Masonry. Pickard, Grand Master. U*Appointed October 22, 1904, by Leroy B. Valliant, Grand Master. OFFICERS OF THE ORGANIZATION, FEBRUARY 22, 1821 EDWARD BATES, Worshipful Master JAMES KENNERLY, Senior Warden WILLIAM BATES, Junior Warden ABRAM BECK, Secretary JOSEPH V. GARNIER, Treasurer

Report

Masonic Home of Missouri FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1932, to SEPTEMBER 1, 1933 MASONIC HOME OF MISSOURI, LOCATED AT ST. LOUIS OFFICERS W. 'N. Martin, President Robt. R. Kreeger, Vice-President V.,. S. Campbell, Treasurer Clarence L. Alexander, Secretary : Dr. Solon Cameron, Home Physician Mrs. W"ilmoth Waller, Matron of Children Mrs. Luella McCue, Matron of Old People

St. Louis; Mo. Kansas City, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS T. W. Cotton W. A. Clark Jos. S. McIntyre Thos. H. Reynolds

Van Buren, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Kansas City,

W. S. Campbell Orestes Mitchell F. H. Wielandy Byrne E. Bigger Ray V. Denslow

St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Hannibal, Trenton,

Arch A. Johnson R. R. Kreege.r W. W. Martll1 James R. McLachlan .. \

Springfield, Kansas Ci~y, St. LoUIs, Kahoka,

Mo. } Mo. Mo. Mo.

Term expires 1933

MO.] M"o. Mo.

Term expires 1934

Mo. Mo. Mo. } Mo. Mo.

Term expires 1935

Mo.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Thad B. Landon, Grand Master l!'rank C. Barnhill, Deputy Grand Master Duval Smith, Grand Senior "Warden James W. Skelly, Grand Junior Warden

Kansas City, Marshall, St. Joseph, St. Louis,

Mo. Mo. Mo. Mo.

ADVISORY BOARD Mrs. Ella Jean Flanders Mrs. Alta L. Tate Mrs. Ethel C. Stansbury

Excelsior Springs, Mo. Kirkwood, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. 205

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President's Letter To the Most lVo1'shipful Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Missouri:

Brethren: Pursuant to the Constitution and By-laws of the Masonic Home of Missouri, I herewith submit as President of its Board of Directors, the Forty-Eighth Annual Report an"d request your careful consideration. At the Annual Session of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Missouri, held on September 27, 28, and 29, 1932, in St. Louis, Missouri, the following brethren were elected directors for a term of three years: Arch A. Johnson R. R. Kreeger .. , W. W. Martin James R. McLachlan

Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis, Kahoka,

Mo. Mo. Mo. Mo.

At the Board Meeting held in St. Louis, September 28, 1932, the following officers were elected: W. W. Martin, President R. R. Kreeger, Vice-President ,V. S. Campbell, Treasurer C. L. Alexander, Secretary

St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Louis, St. Louis,

Mo. Mo. Mo. Mo,

At the Board Meeting held in St. Louis, January 4, 1933, the following officers were elected: Dr. Solon Cameron, Home Physician Mrs. Wilmoth Waller, Matron of Children Mrs. Luella McCue, Matron of Old Folks

St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo.

The standing committees for the past year have been as follows: Trustees of the Endowment Fund-W. 'V. Martin, R. R. Kreeger, VV. S. Campbell. Executive Committee-R. R. Kreeger, Chairman; A. A. Johnson, Vice-Chairman; T. 'V. Cotton, J. S. McIntyre, W. S. Campbell, T. H. Reynolds, F. H. vViclandy. 206

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Finance Committee-To W. Cotton, Chairman; Orestes Mitchell, Ray V. Denslow. House Committee-W. S. Campbell, Chairman; J. S. McIntyre, F. H. Wielandy. Legal Committee-A. A. Johnson, Chairman; J. S. McIntyre, Ores'tes Mitchell, T. H. Reynolds,W. S. Campbell, Byrne E. Bigger. Administration Committee-Orestes Mitchell, Chairman; F. H. 'Vielandy, Byrne E. Bigger, J. R. McLachlan. Hosiptal Committee-To W. CottonLChairman; W. A. Clark. Medical Staff: Dr. Dr. D r. Dr.

Rudolph Buhman Frank Moore Thomas A .. Hopkins D. L. Harns

St. Louis, St. Louis, St. Lou~s, St. LOUIS,

Mo. } Mo. . Mo. Mo.

. Term expIres 1933

Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr.

Francis Reader E. Lee Myers J. B. 'Vright A. H. Conrad

St. Lou~s, St. LOUIS, Trenton, St. Louis,

Mo. } Mo. Mo. Mo.

Term

Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr.

Louis H. Behrens W. A. Bliss Solon Cameron W. A. Clark

St. Louis, Mo. } St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. Jefferson City, Mo.

expIre~

J 934

. 935 Term expIres 1

OFFICIAL BONDS W. W. Martin, President, $100,000.00; W. S. Campbell, Treasurer, $100,000.00; Clarence L. Alexander, Secretary, $100,000.00; Mrs. Wilmoth Waller, Matron, $2,000.00. Trustees of the Endowment Fund: Vil. ,V. Martin, $100,000.00; R. R. Kreeger, $100,000.00; Wm. S. Campbell, $100,000.00. APPLICATIONS

During the past year 173 applications for admission to the Home were considered, and the following dispositions ,,,'ere made of them: Admitted to the Home 71 Withdrawn by the Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 Died while the application was being investigated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9 Referred to Grand Lodge Welfare Committee 39 Referred to 0.. E. S. Welfare Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Rejected because of ineligibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6 Continued for further investigation 36

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEMBER STATISTICS Men

Women

Boys

Girls

Members in the Home September 1, 1932 ..160 Admitted during the past year 29

143 27

189

170

Discharged during the year. . . . . . . . . .. . .. 4 Deaths during the year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 27

158

145

75 451

Total membership September 1, 1933 Net increase during the year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Admitted during the past year, but who have not yet arrived. . . .. 18 CONDITIONS IN THE HOME

For the past several years every room in the Home has been taken, but in order to care for the adult applications who were destitute and couid not be provided for elsewhere, we have admitted them and provided a bed in one of the wards in our hospital. At the present time, we have ten women and twelve men living in the hospital waiting for a room. We also have five men and twelve women admitted to the Home who expect to come in the immediate future. We are being criticized for the crowded condition of the Home; especially for sleeping three children in a room built for one and for the crowded condition of the smaller children, but at this time we do not know any way to remedy this condition. The only thing that will bring relief is a building program. Where applicants were destitute and without relatives able to help we felt that it was our immediate obligation. During the past year we have admitted older and more helpless people than ever before. This has added greatly to the problem of management and also to the expense of care. The demands on the Home have been very great and will continue until there is a decided improvement in conditions. Each year many applications are received for applicants who are not destitute; they have either money or property and could continue to live for several months, or even years, in the home environment. This adds to the problems of the Board and if by chance they should be admitted, it at least delays the admission of someone who is destitute and needs immediate care. WAITING LIST

1'he waiting list of the Home has grown from month to month for the past three or four years. Counting the applicants being cared for by the Welfare Committee and those carried over by our Board for lack of room and for other reasons, give us a waiting list of well over a hundred.

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SALARIES AND WAGES

A careful investigation has been made of salaries and wages paid by the Home. A comparison has also been made with similar institutions in the City of St. Louis to ascertain if our salaries and wages are out of line. This investigation showed that salaries and wages paid by the Home were only average. Notwithstanding this fact, we have made many reductions during the year. The problem of caring路 for the many helpless in the Home, however, and the necessity of opening up new departments in the children's division has necessitated a larger outlay for wages than last year. The President has again voluntarily taken a ten per cent cut. GIFTS

The Masonic Home is deeply grateful to the many friends and organizations who year after year remember the Home. In spite of the times, many checks have come for our Christmas Fund and for magazines; books for the library and many other useful gifts have been received. There are Masons in St. Louis and Lodges throughout the state who never fail to send a substantial check each year. MASONIC HOME PLEASURES

The St. Louis Christmas Committee has again provided many pleasures for the Home. While the name is "Christmas Committee," they actually function the entire year. They supply a turkey dinner at Christmas, toys and gifts for the children and cash for the old people; Friday night parties and picture shows and a varicty of entertainment during the entire year. Each Lodge in the City and County contributes to the work of this committee. EDUCATION

It is the policy of the Homc to provide the best cducation possible for each boy and girl in the Home. Vve try to ascertain what they want to do and thcn help them do it. Vole do not stop when they finish school but help until they get a job and are self-supporting. Vve make every effort to get every boy and girl in the Home to finish High School. If for any reason this is not possible, then we select a trade school or a vocational high school. This coming year we will have five girls and one young man in Washington University. This is madc possible by the Advisory Board and by Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. fl'hey are paying the tuition for five and the other won a four-year scholarship on the grades made in High School. The money for books and incidental expenses has been provided by individuals and organizations. 路Vve have one girl in a School of Nursing and one boy in trade

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school. Two girls have just completed business college and we are trying now to secure positions for them.. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR

On account of the crowded condition of the Home and the necessity of opening up new departments, we have found it necessary to call upon the Advisory Board for more equipment, furniture and other supplies than usual. They 路have gladly met every demand and have spent a great deal of money in meeting the needs of the Home. As stated in the report last year, they are not only making arrangements to equip any new buildings that the Masons may build, but they are also raising funds with which to build the first building for girls on our new grounds. Mrs. Flanders, the President of the Advisory Board, has been abs路ent the entire year on account of illness, but she has been able to correspond with us during the past six months and we ate very happy to report that all of the news that we receive concerning her complete and full recovery is exceedingly hopeful. We are very grateful for her advice and help and we are also grateful to the other mem-路 bel'S .of the Advisory Board for their untiring services during the year. The spirit of cooperation has been excellent and the Masonic Home is deeply grateful for the service that they have rendered. ENDOWMENT FUND

We reported last year the gift of Henry C. Grenner in the amount of $'253,675.00 (market value) as the largest single gift that the Home had ever received. His wife, Mrs. Gussie L. Grenner, deceased, also left her entire residuary estate to the St. Louis Union Trust Company as Trustee, with direction to pay the net income to the Masonic Home of Missouri; the trust to continue in perpetuity. During the year, we have received $7,951.71 income from this estate. The par value of the estate is about $231,500.00 and the estimated annual income is $8,760.00. . As we have reported many times, most of the estates that are left to the Masonic Home do not come to us in cash but are already invested in stocks and bonds and for this reason we have a wide variety of investments. During this year some of the bonds have gone in default and some have been in default for years. We felt it advisable to charge these securities down to a fair market value and for that reason the Endowment Fund will show a less amount than last year. Since the Gussie L. Grenner estate is left to the St. Louis Union Trust Company for the benefit of the Masonic Home, we are not listing it in the Endowment Fund. We again repeat that only the income of the Endowment Fund is available. We are not permitted to touch the principal and the Trustees are placing every safeguard around this fund to protect the principal amount and to see to its proper investment.

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,Ve are again expressing thc hope that this fund will grow to such proportions that by the time a building program is launched the increased expenses occasioned thereby will be met by the increased income of this fund. ESTIMATE VALUE OF ASSETS

Endowment Fund cash and securities '.' $1,085,174.32 Home Grounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,000.00 Improvements 775,000.00 Furnishings 165,000.00 $2,225,174.32 INSURANCE

Fire Tornado $895,700.00 On all buildings and contents $896,660.00 Steam Boiler Insurance. . . . . . . . . . .. 20,000.00 Contingent LiabilityCompensation. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 20,000.00-$40,000.00 General Liability-Compensation... 25,000.00- 50,000.00 1,000.00 Electrical Machinery.............. MRS.. MARY HUTHMAKER MEMORIAL

This consists of an eighty-acre tract of ground located at Kirkwood, Missouri, and St. Louis County, to be used for a children's home. This property no doubt will be improved as soon as business conditions improve. MASONIC INFIRMARY

The following gives an account of the work donc during the year: Total patients in hospital at beginning of year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Total patients admitted during the year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 Total patients treated during the year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . 640 Total patients discharged during the year. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 532 Total patients in hospital at end of the year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Total patients' days in hospital. 32,936 91 Average patients per day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total number of out-patients' treatments given during the year 26,998 CONOLUSION

Since the constitution of the Home in 1886 many wonderful changes have been recorded in the Masonic History of Missouri, but none are more wonderful than the record of this Home and the fact that 2,157 Masons or their families have been helped, sheltered and cared for ina time of need.

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Weare deeply grateful to Almighty God for His continued kindness through another year. Fraternally submitted, \V. \V. MARTIN. REOPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE MASONIC HOME OF MISSOURI FHOM SEPTEMBER 1, 1932, TO AUGUST 31, 1933 GENEHAL FUND September 1, 1932, Balance on hand

$172,430.0G

RECEIPTS Grand Lodge Per Capita 'fax ..... $132,078.00 Grand Chapter O. E. S., Per Capita 'l'ax............ 17,509.50 Interest on Daily Balances Interest on Endowment Bonds Interest on Real Estate Loans Interest on General Fund Securities Received from Members of the Home Family Pensions Rent of Farms, etc Sale of Cemetery Lots Miscellaneous Income Profit on Sale of General Fund Securities Total Receipts

. . .

] 30.48 37,457.99 11,476.35

4,444.84

$149,587.50

53,509.66

. . . . .

2,920.51 951.00 8.00 120.00 109.78

329.73

. DISBURSEMENTS

Provisions $ 65,821.32 Dry Goods and Clothing . 7,684.10 r... aundry . 9,360.68 8,554.27 lee, Light and Water . Fuel : . 8,905.79 _ Salaries . 15,860.75 Wages . 45,320.25 Directors, Grand Lodge Officers and Advisory Board attending Board Meetings .. 1,875.40 Hospital Supplies . 3,077.10 1,522.15 Carfare for Members of the Home Family . 477.49 Telephone . Legal and Auditing . 892.80 2,036.10 Annuities Paid . 3,106.19 Insurance . 387.33 Repairs and Maintenance . 9,359.78 Supplies ' .. Taxes and Other Expenses on Farms Foreclosed. 1,756.38 Taxes and Other Expenses on Estates of Members of the Home Family . 1,297.65 Printing, Stationery and Postage . 940.76

$207,536.18 $379,966.23

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Miscellaneous Expenses, Allowance for Steward's Car, Barber, Hauling Ashes, Newspapers, etc Ta..""I:: on Checks and Bank Collection Charges

. .

August 31, 1933, Balance on Hand

4,623.14 110.36

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$192,969.79 $186,996.44

INITIATION FUND September 1, 1932, Balance on Hand Receipts from Grand Secretary Interest on Daily Balances Interest on Securities Profit on Sale of Bonds

$109,177.79

. $

. . .

8,532.00 39.14 4,574.70 778.37

13,924.21

Less Tax on Checks

$123,102.00 .24

August 31, 1933, Balance on Hand

$123,101. 76

IMPROVEMENT FUND September 1, 1932, Balance on Hand Interest on Daily Balances Interest on Securities

$ 90,098.12 $

22.94 3,281.53

3,304.47 $ 93,402.59

Less Tax on Checks

.18

August 31, 1933, Balance on Hand

$ 93,402.41

TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT GENERAL FUND Balance August 31, 1932. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $203,494.85 Received from Secretary Interest on Treasurer's Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,543.25 Profit on Bonds Sold......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329.73

$171,662.12 $208,367.83

Disbursements

$380,029.95 193,679.85

Balance August 31, 1933. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$186,350.10

INITIA TION FUND Balance August 31, 1932 'Received from Secretary Interest on Treasurer's Funds Profit on Bonds Sold

. . .

Disbursements

$123,102.00 .24

Balance August 31, 1933

$123,101.76

$109,177.79 $

8,532.00 4,613.84 778.37

$ 13,924.21

IMPROVEMENT FUND Balance August 31, 1932. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interest on Treasurer's Funds $

3,304.47

$ 90,098.12 $ 3,304.47

Disbursements

$ 93,402.59 .18

Balance August 31, 1933. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

$ 93,402.41

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REPORT OF AUDITOR

PERKINS & COMPANY Certified Public Accountants SUI'l'E 851-854 408 PINE S'f. SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI

September 21, 1933. To the Board of Directors, Masonic Home of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri. Gentlemen: In accordance with instructions received, we have examined the accounts and records of the Secretary, Mr. Clarence L. Alexander, for the fiscal year ended August 31, 1933, covering the General, Initiation, Improvement and Endowments Funds. We have also checked the statement of the Treasurer, Mr. W. S. Campbell, for the General, Initiation and Improvement Funds, and have verified the Fund Balances as at August 31, 1933, by obtaining certificates direct from the depositories as.to cash balances and by examining the securities constituting a part of these funds. We have shown the securities listed in the General, Initiation and Improvement Funds 'at cost; none of these securities are in default of interest payment. We submit the following summary of assets c6mprising the General, Initiation and Improvement Funds at the close of the fiscal year ended August 31, 1933: GENERAL FUND Cash in Telegraphers ' National Bank .. : $ Cash in Savings Trust Company, Payroll Account (Bank Closed Jan. 14, 1933. In Liquidation.) . Cash in Mercantile-Commerce National Bank, Payroll Account . Cash in First National Bank, President's Account Cash in Mississippi Valley Trust Company. . . .. Cash in Mercantile-Commerce National Bank, Savings Account .. ~ . . Cash in President's Cash Drawer . Cash in Matron's Cash Fund . Securities (At Cost) in Safe Deposit Box Accrued Interest on Securities at Time Purchased '.' Due from Endowment Fund

28,141.24 941.95 1,472.74 467.89 18,665.79 40,544.27 60.41 110.66 96,091.86 471.25 2_8_._38_ $186,996.44

INITIATION FUND Cash in Telegraphers' National Bank $ 8,447.79 Securities (at cost)......................... 114,193.49 Accrued Interest on Securities at Time of Purchase ... :........................ 460.48

$123,101.76

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Cash in Telegraphers ' National Bank Securities (at cost) Loan to Welfare Committee, Grand Lodge of Missouri

7,113.41 85,114.00

1,175.00

$ 93,402.41

We have also examined the securities in the Endowment Fund and have obtained a certificate direct from the depository as to the cash balance in this fund. The securities shown in the Endowment Fund are stated at the values placed thereon by the Trustees of the Endowment Fund at the date of receipt of the securities by the Home. In the case of bonds not in default and in the case of bonds in default, they are carried at market or at an appraisal value believed to be market by the Trustees of the Endowment Fund. The following is a summary of the Endowment Fund Assets as at August 31, 1933 : ENDOWMENT FUND Real Estate Loans $ 374,007.00 42,700.00 Real Estate Owned (Farms at Appraised Value) . Federal Land Bank Bonds . 197,585.00 United States Liberty Bonds . 16,500.00 J oint Stock Land Bank Bonds . 5,280.00 Joint Stock Land Bank Bonds In Default( Market Value) .. 15,820.00 94,691.75 Municipal and Other Bonds '" . 18,999.62 Municipal Bonds in Temporary Default . 4,600.00 Rice Estate Notes Receivable Secured by Deeds of Trust. .. 950.00 Rice Estate Securities in Default (Par $6,000.00) Market .. Comstock Estate Securities . 54,092.51 4,401.00 Comstock Estate Bonds in Default (Par $14,895.00) Market. Erdhaus Estate. Securities . 500.00 George B. Mills Estate Securities . 10,500.00 Oscar H. Elbrecht Estate Securities . 530.00 . 850.00 Oscar H. Elbrecht Estate Bonds in Default IIy. C. Grenner Estate Securities . 219,255.00 Hy. C. Grenner Estate Bonds in Default . 15,780.00 Cash in First National Bank . 8,160.82 Total $1,085,202.70 Less: Due General Fund (Interest on Daily Balances Adjusted Annually) ..... , ... : . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.38 $1,085,174.32

Respectfully submitted, PERKINS & Co., Ce1路tified Public Accountants.

GIFTS TO THE ENDOWMENT FUND AS FOLLOWS Knights Templar Fund $ 35,114.00 James L. Kirkendall.................................... 13,150.00 W. S. Smith Fund.............. 11,730.00 T. W. Higgins Fund............... 5,000.00 James W. Harris Fund................ 1,665.74 Masonic Home Certificate Fund... .. .. 1,117.60

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Ferdinand Herrold Fund ..........................â&#x20AC;˘..... $ 500.00 1,000.00 John B. Creshaw Fund " . Jacob F. Gamlich Fund . 1,000.00 Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons Fund . 3,000.00 2,500.00 GI'and Chapter Royal and Selected Masters Fund . 'f. W. Cotton Fund . 1,000.00 . Orville A. and Maria Haynes Fund 1,000.00 A. M. IIough Fund . 5,000.00 Jacob Lampert Fund . 30,000.00 500.00 . Mrs. E. Wurz Fund 500.00 Adolph Gluck Fund . Parralle Massengale Fund . 806.GO Mrs. lJillie L. Fletcher Fund . 1,000.00 500.00 Frederick A. Logan Fund . Robert Elliott Black Fund . 1,000.00 932.83 Nathan Schloss Fund . 2,067.91 A. P. Christianson Fund . . 51,096.35 Rice Estate Hugh Hartshorn Fund . 2,327.'15 . 1,000.00 Wm. PaInprin Fund 500.00 Morgena Peterson Fund . 1,000.00 Otto E. and Mrs. Grant Howard Fund . . 128,740.03 General Fund 1,000.00 Julius C. Garrell Fund . 7,107.50 War Relief Loyal Service Fund . 500.00 James W. Boyd Fund . 500.00 Ararat Temple, Kansas City, Fund . 3,000.00 Mrs. Willie A. Woods Fund . Grotto and Shrine Fund . 17,056.95 1,800.00 Morris and Ella Leftwich Fund . 1,000.00 . Mrs. May Lynch Fund 1,000.00 A. P. Fletcher Fund ' . 1,442.48 Frank Beecher Fund . 1,000.00 ; . A. M. Dockery Fund 500.00 Edward H. Meier Fund , . Wm. n. Potter Estate Fund . 13,305.50 J. C. Jacquith Estate Fund . 19,122.G1 Initiation Fund . 246,700.00 ' . Nicholas R. Wall Fund 500.00 584.70 Abraham Palan Fund . Bonds from a Friend of the Home Sold for . 52,218.75 550.36 Maggie Nicholson Fund . 500.00 Louisa Yott Fund . 500.00 Gustav Bischoff Fund . 550.00 W. L. 'famme Fund . 7,665.32 Erdhaus Estate-secured and unsecured . 2,000.00 Henry T. Kilpatrick Fund . 500.00 . Wm. A. IIall Fund 1,000.00 Henry Siegfried . 500.00 Edward Meyer . 9,548.75 Charles V. B. Slade . Robert F. Stevenson . 14,992.13 1,105.14 . Glen Marquis 1,000.00 Frank L. Schofield . 528.00 D. M. Wilson . 3,405.09 Mary E. Clapp . 7,500.00 Samuel Rife . 2,500.00 E. C. Robinson .

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B. S. Schwartz Brocket A. Dickson George F. Bergfeld Sarah B. Coffman Samuel A. Gluck Charles Reilly Wellston Lodge No. 613 Richard Sinclair Kar I Backrow ' Robert Lungstrass June Lee Cotton St. Joseph Chapter No. 198, O. E. S Marcus A. Loevy Sam Plan W. J. Scherck Myrtle Lodge No. 338 Ludwig Katany Charles E. I\:oken Phillip Stremmel, Jr Roor Fletcher Alphonso Whipple A. Bolin Fund M. A. Covey Fund William F. Kier Fund John T. Short Fund '" Paul Keiser Fund .John Olivers Fund J. M~ Darrow Fund , , rr. W. Pritchett Fund ' Annie Martin Fund Comstock Estate Comstock Estate (Doubtful Value) Julia C. Norton Fund J. M. Darro,v Estate Wm. Latham, Jr., Estate John M. Woodson Estate Sol E. Waggoner Estate Jacob C. C. Waldeck Estate Adam Herold Estate J ames Vinyard Estate Geo. B. Mills Estate, Stocks and Bonds J'ohn Rehrs Estate Wm. Russell Estate-Cash Wm. Russell }<jstate- -Bonds and Other Seeurities Joseph Kronacher Estate William A. Raming Estate Fred Herkert Estate Oscar H. Elbrecht Estate-Cash Oscar H. Elbrecht Estate-Stocks and Bonds Edward F. W. Kaiser Estate Henry W. Huning Estate Dr. Louis F. Bode Estate Fred Segelke Estate Charles Gietner Estate William B. Archer Estate James Ward-Nixon Memorial Henry C. Grenner Estate-Market Value, Stocks, Bonds and Cash

217 692.83 $ . 1,000.00 . 500.00 . 465.89 . 200.00 . 100.00 . 100.00 . 200.00 . 100.00 . 286.00 . 250.00 . 450.00 . 70.00 . 100.00 . 46.00 . 310.95 . 200.00 . 300.00 137.40 . . 400.00 . 100.00 . 400.00 25.00 . . 10,000.00 200.00 . . 2,000.00 . 371.36 . 5,000.00 . 1,000.00 . 259.98 . 115,569.31 2,500.00 . . 1,000.00 . 5,000.00 1,000.00 . 5,467.91 . 1,000.00 . 500.00 . . 211.08 933.24 . . 11,600.00 250.00 . . 1,901.39 4,392.00 . 431.05 . 1,000.00 . . 2,000.00 285.00 . 2,780.00 . . 25,000.00 . 100.00 300.00 . 214.47 . 1,000.00 . . 5,000.00 . 1,000.00 . 253,675.00

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ADDITIONS TO ENDOWMENT FUND THE PAST YEAR Berthold Linder Estate $ 200.00 365.67 Charles H. Sehureman Estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Charles A. Brown Estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ernest Breunemann..................................... 100.00 314.28 A. S. Hudson Estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myrtle Kipp Estate..................................... 707.16

THE MASONIC WORLD

II A REVIEW BY RAY

DENSLOW,

P. G. M.

This review is different. It might be termed a topical review, but it is hardly that. The material included is taken from proceedings of many grand lodges, the Masonic press, and private correspondence. It is not of a type which appeals to other reviewers, but it is written for the membership in Missouri who 'would like to know what is happening in the Masonic world without reading several hundred pages. We apologize to our reviewer friends for lack of specific attention to them and their work; we assure them of our appreciation of the part they play in enlightening the craft of their respective jurisdictions, but the edict has gone forth in Missouri "to eliminate and condense" and being halfway law-abiding we are endeavoring to comply. The reviewer has not felt it to be his duty to criticize or to commend; we offer the facts as we have 路found them so that our readers may judge as to whether the Grand Lodge of Missouri is retrogressing or advancing in Masonic thought and ideals. The next decade is a vital one in the history of Freemasonry; it will be well for our membership to keep informed, that we may exercise proper judgment and select for ourselves competent leaders. MASONRY IN OTHER COUNTRIES

CHIN A. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts has lodges in a number of foreign countries. The District Deputy Grand Master for China, in reporting, had grave apprehension of the political condition in the Far East and viewed with great concern the imminent danger of collapse on the part of the so-called central Government. The country is split up into seven semi-independent spheres of influences, and no less than three personal or official capitals are in evidence, dominated by the several military leaders. Communists are in full control of much of central China, bandits roam everywhere, and 219

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guerilla warfare rages in Manchuria. Floods, famine and poverty are taking their toll. Notwithstanding this condition, lodges are holding their regular meetings and the district shows a net gain in membership. Brethren at Chengtu asked for dispensation, but Massachu路 setts refuses to charter additional lodges at the present time. CHILE. The Deputy Grand Master of Chile reported to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts that their lodges had survived the revolution and that the new government, composed of three individuals, was in power. Eugenio Motte, former Grand Master of Chile and the Grand Representative of Massachusetts near the Grand Lodge of Chile, is one of the three. Business depression which drives English-speaking Masons away from the country is depleting the number of members. BRAZIL. A Committee on Foreign Recognition of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, consisting of some well-known Massachusetts Masons, recommended the termination of relations with the Grand Orient . of Brazil, which it found to be French in origin and spirit and Scottish Rite in other details. RIO DE JANEIRO. The Grand Lodge of Rio de .J aneiro was recogni7.ed by Massachusetts. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands held its annual communication in January, 1932; it is the only Grand Jurisdiction in all Asia. It has many problems to solve that are foreign to other jurisdictions. Prior to its organization in December, 1912, by three California lodges, a Mason making a world tour from East to West would have to girdle over half the globe before he reached the first Sovereign Grand Masonic Body, the Grand Lodge of Egypt. Orientals, Filipinos, and Chinese constitute an overwhelming majority of the Philippine Gran.d Lodge. It has a Chinese situation; China being open territory, one American and several European Grand Lodges have established lodges there. For eighteen years, the Philippine Islands refrained from issuing dispensations there, but in 1930, the Grand Master 0 f Massachusetts, having refused a dispensation to a group in Shanghai, Grand Master Carmona issued dispensation for Amity Lodge No. 106. Grand Master Herbert D. Dean, of Massachusetts, addressed a letter to the Philippine Grand Lodge, stating:

, , Acting by authority and in behalf of the Grand Masters of England and Ireland, as well as Massachusetts, I hope that you will realize that we do not wish to interfere in any way with the policies or acts of :;l Grand Jurisdiction with which we are at present in friendly relations. China is an open territory in which you have the indisputable right to establish lodges as well as the other Grand Jurisdictions now represented in that country. The question of establishing lodges with the intent of forming, in what appears to be the near future, a Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Chinese Republic, necessarily brings to the minds of those Grand Jurisdictions which have been established in China for nearly seventy years, a question as to the effect that step will have upon the lodges under

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their control, as well as its effects upon the welfare of Masonry in genera-I. In the midst of such changing and disturbing conditions as exist in China today, a deep knowledge of the fundamentals of Masonry, and experience in handling its affairs, are necessary to keep pure and sound those principles to which we must adhere, if Masonry is to endure. Existing lodges are finding difficulty to prevent innovations into the body of Masonry. Cool and experienced heads are needed at the helm. More moral character and enthusiasm are needed to direct properly a movement with such farreaching possibilities. We thoroughly believe that the interests of all WOUld be best conserved, should each unit which you create be given time to prove their skill and stability in functioning, as a part of an organization of four and one-half million men, before additional lodges arc chartered. "We are all-England, Ireland, the Philippines and Massachusettsinterested in seeing only the highest type of Masonry exist in China. If it is your pleasure to have our cooperation in accomplishing this result, you may rest assured that the experience we have gained during our man~' years of contact with Masonry in China, is at your disposal. We earnestly hope that you will take this letter in the friendly spirit in which it is meant and that nothing may occur to prevent our pleasant relations con-' tinuing for many years to come."

This jurisdiction has 6,339 members in its 104 lodges. Your correspondent has received no proceedings from the National Grand Lodge of France, which is the jurisdiction recognized by the Grand Lodge of Missouri. In fact, we are more familiar with the workings of other grand bodies which held forth in the same jurisdiction. The Grand Lodge of France, Universal Freemasonry, has changed its name to "Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Grand Lodge of France." It is to be regretted that Masonry in France has had to become anticlerical in order to continue its very existence. American jurisdictions have been prone to condemn many foreign Grand Lodges by reason of such tendencies, but our own opinion is that we should be more considerate of these jurisdictions, and we would be if we knew the depressing circumstances and unfortunate conditions under which they labor. GERll:rANY. Recent news dispatches from Germany report Masonic conditions as very discouraging. Hitler is endeavoring to subjugate the fraternity because of its internationalistic character. The information that he is attempting to Christianize them means nothing, for the Grand Lodges of Germany have always been of a sectarian character. At the present time we have no Masonic relations with any German Grand Lodge, nor have we had since the Vvorld "Val', although we have continued to carry names of a number of Grand Lodges on our list as those to be accorded recognition. A personal letter from a friend who visited Germany recently suggests that we avoid all references to Masonry in our correspondence with German brethren until we are fully acquainted with the conditions there. The only great Mason who might have helped, lost his life endeavoring to put the Fatherland on its feet, leaving little time to devote to Freemasonry; this was Brother

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Gustav Streseman. In 1930, eight lodges attempted to organize the symbolic Grand Lodge at Hamburg. Its Constitution and requirements were those of English-speaking bodies; it was charged that its establishment was due to Scottish Rite invasion from outside Germany. In reply to this charge, it was necessary that none of the Old Prussian or Humanitarian lodges acknowledge world-wide Masonry. Our readers should know that an order was issued by Hitler to Fascist bodies requesting them to procure the names, addresses and photographs of Masonic officers, charging they were unpatriotic. Grand Master Broese immediately sent him his photograph and an open letter inviting him to examine the lodge archives and learn that Masons were just as patriotic as any members of his oVv'n party, that it was unnecessary to get what he wanted by indirect means. Ossian Lang, of New York, probably the most reliable of. foreign reviewers, expresses his belief that Hitler was backed by an overwhelming majority of German peo.pIe, that his support has been obtained by promises made for the redemption of Gennany and combined with threats of dire punishment. GR.EECE. This jurisdiction reports 58 lodges, with approximately 4,000 members. Dr. Philotas Papageorges, State Counselor, succeeded as Grand Master the late Brother Demetre Papoulias, a member of the Academy and Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Athens, who died in July, 1932. BULGARIA. Headquarters for this jurisdiction are in Sofia. This is a comparatively new Grand Lodge, having held its Fourteenth Annual Communication in 1932. General Petr Hidileff is Grand Master of this jurisdiction, which has 12 lodges and 545 members. A new Masonic Temple has recently been completed in Sofia. It observed the Bicentenary of the birth of George Washington, the principal address being delivered by Brother Henry W. Shoemaker, United States Minister to Bulgaria. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. There appear to be two Grand Lodges in this jurisdiction, but they appear to be on the best of terms, having united on June 11, 1932, in a program commemorating the Bicentenary of Brother Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The celebration took place in a garden surrounding the building which, one hundred fifty years ago, was the home of the great composer. The two Grand Lodges are the National Grand Lodge (Narodni) and Lessing Zu Den Drei Ringen. Another organization has attempted to invade the jurisdiction, calling itself "Grand Orient of Czechoslovakia." It is said to be composed of irregular lodges and, according to the brethren there, complicates the situation needlessly and gives rise to much contention. The National Grand Lodge was founded February 25, 1923, having received a charter from the Grand Lodge of J ugo-Slavia. One new lodge has been chartered and two others are under dispensation; the rituals follow very elosely those in use in English and American lodges. It is in

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fraternal relations ,,,ith seventy-four Grand Lodges. The Lessing Grand Lodge, which held its Twelfth Annual Communication in 1932, has 24 lodges and 1,351 members. The event of the session was its being held in a place surrounded by snow-clad mountain peaks, two enormous pine trees formed the pillars at the entrance, the bare stump of a tree served as an altar, and a stream of sunshine reflected by the snow flooded the lodge room. Two new lodges have been added. Permission to receive higher degrees of Freemasonry can be granted to a member only after his lodge shall have given their consent, after having found him qualified to take advanced work. JUGO-SLAVIA. This Grand Jurisdiction is in its fourteenth year and has its headquarters in Belgrade, South Slavia; it has 23 lodges and 900 members. Their officers are elected for life. TURKEY. Headquarters of this jurisdiction seems to be in Istanbul; it has 21 lodges and 1,800 members. Mim Kemal Bey is Grand Master, and Dr. Mehemmed Ali Hackmet is Grand Secretary. The Grand Lodge has the approval of President Kemal of that country, although the Minister of Justice is continuing his attacks on Freemasonry, probably due to his rejection in 1931. PALESTINE. There has been recently formed in this country a socalled National Grand Lodge of Palestine. Apparently it is not regarded as having been formed in accordance with the usual requirements and we know of no jurisdiction which, thus far, has extended recognition. Missouri, a few years ago, had inquiries from brethren of that region asking for a dispensation, which was denied, it never having been the policy of this jurisdiction, in recent years, to extend our territorial sovereignty. RUMANIA. The generally recogni7.ed Grand Lodge of this jurisdiction is the Grand Orient of Rumania, whose headquarters are in Bucharest. Recently, Masonic exploiters attempted to establish the National Grand Lodge of Rumania. The Grand Orient has 18 lodges and 907 members; it is made up of members of Czech and Slovak nationality who have taken up residence in Rumania. h'ALY. There exists no organized Masonry in Italy today. There are probably hundreds of members of the fraternity, but the violent attacks of Mussolini, the Roman Catholic Church, and others have necessitated their concealing their membership in order to protect their lives. A few years ago there were two juriSdictions claiming sovereignty in Italy. Missouri recognized the National Grand Lodge, whose Grand Master was Palermi, who is said to have turned out to be a traitor to the fraternity. Missouri probably erred in recognizing the National Grand Lodge, when we should have recognized the Grand Orient of Italy, whose Grand Master was Torrigiani, and who, though persecuted and placed in prison, held to the tenets of Freemasonry until his death. Some of our Italian brethren attempted to set up

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headquarters in London, not realizing that they were invading another jurisdiction. No one knows what the future will bring forth in Italy. SYRIA. New York has established a lodge in Beirut, Syria, and during their annual communication, received a cablegram from SyrioAmerican Lodge No.1. HOLLAND. There are 143 lodges in this jurisdiction, '65 being in Holland, 23 in East India, 4 in Vvest India, and 51 in South Africa; it has 7,851 members, and its headquarters are at The Hague. The Grand Master recently visited South Africa and was gratified at the conditions which prevail there as a result of the influence of Masonry. NORWAY. This jurisdiction has 10,143 members. The economic crisis has resulted in a decrease of candidates but does not prevent a net gain for the year. There is another Grand Lodge in Norway, known as Polar Star, but the majority of jurisdictions recognize the National Grand Lodge of Norway. It is understood that the latter Grand Lodge recogni~es the regularity of the brethren of Polar Star and permits intervisitation. POLAND. Brethren of this jurisdiction recently held their Ninth Annual Communication at Warsaw. Hipolit Gliwic, a former Minister of State, is Grand Secretary. The Grand Master is Dr. W olfke, a Professor in the Polytechnical School at Vvarsaw. The country, being dominantly Roman Catholic, makes progress slow and there are probably no more than 11 lodges in the jurisdiction. SWITZERLAND. The Grand Lodge Alpina has its headquarters at Nyon; it is an old lodge, having recently observed its Eightieth Anniversary. It has 41 lodges and 4,976 members. It has recently been the subject of unceasing attacks from the outside; it was decided that local lodges and individual brethren handle these attacks through the newspapers, signing the full name of the writer. The proceedings appear to have been held in French, German, and Italian language, showing the peculiar make-up of nationalities. SPAIN. The Grand Lodge of Spain is not strong numerically, having only 50 lodges and 1,800 members, but apparently wields considerable influence in the New Republic. Ossian Lang is authority for the statement that the President of the Republic, the Premier, five Secretaries and over one hundred members of Congress, are identified with the Fraternity. Headquarters for the organization appear to center around Barcelona, where both the Grand Master and Grand Secretary are located. Spain offers a fertile field for Masonic endeavor. SWEDEN. The Grand Lodge of Sweden is in its One Hundred Fifty-third year; its headquarters are in Stockholm; it has 51 lodges and 23,291 members, showing a slight gain. During the year, this Grand Lodge had the pleasure of entertaining a delegation from the

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United Grand Lodge of England, headed by the pro Grand Master, Lord Ampthill. The King of Sweden is the head of the Order. On April 10, 1932, Prince Gustav Adolf, the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, was advanced to the higher degrees. Admiral Lindman's seventieth birthday was officially celebrated; he is Chancellor of the Grand Lodge and the third officer of the official line. This jurisdiction maintains a splendid Masonic Home for Children. VIENNA. Dr. Richard Schlesinger of Vienna is the Grand Master of this jurisdiction, which has 26 lodges and 1,860 members; it recently held its Fourteenth Annual Communication. ' FINLAND. The Grand Lodge of Finland is in its ninth year; it was organized from lodges which were constituted by the Grand Lodge of New York. The jurisdiction is small, as is the country, having 5 lodges and 311 members. Anti-Masonry was particularly prominent during its early history, but the Grand Lodge appears to be much the stronger by reason of these assaults. Its headquarters are in Helsinki. SCANDINAVIAN MASONRY. The committee from the Grand Lodge of New Jersey recognizes all the Scandinavian Grand Lodges, consisting of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. They say of these Grand Lodges: "The three Scandinavian Grand Lodges follow what is known as the Swedish system of Masonry. In Swedcn and Denmark the Grand Mastership is vested by election in the king of the respective nations. Norway from the beginning has had a commoner at the head of Grand Lodge. "The first Masonic lodge in Norway came into existence in 1749. After Norway united with Sweden, the lodges therc came under the jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge of Sweden. The present Grand Lodge of Norway wag declared independent May 10, 1891, with seven lodges and 2,500 membcrs. There are now 20 lodges with morc than 10,000 members. "The Grand Lodge of Sweden has 49 lodges and some 23,000 members. No annual communication is held, Boards and Commissions taking care of tIlC necessary business and the final decision in all matters is vested in the Grand Master, His Majesty the King, Gustav V, who is elected Grand Master for life. , 'The Danish National Grand Lodge, or National Grand Lodge of Denmark, is the only regular Masonic Grand Lodge in the country. The first lodge, Zorobabel, was warranted in 1745 by the mother Grand Lodge of England. The National Grand Lodge was founded November 16, 1858. The present official head is H. R. H. Prince Harald Christian Frederick."

ENGLAND. We have referred elsewhere to the visit of Lord Ampthill to the Grand Lodge of Sweden. He said of his visit: "The Baron de Silverhjelm, who was at that time Swedish Minister at the Court of St. James, attended a meeting of the Grand Lodge of England in order to bring a letter from the National Grand Lodge of Sweden. That letter, '''hich was signed by the Grand Master, Prince Charles of Sweden, The Duke of Sudermania, stated that it long and ardently had been the object of the Grand Lodge of Sweden 'to contact an intimate, sincere and permanent tie' with the Grand Lodge of England. The proposal, thus made, was accepted with reciprocal cordiality by our Grand

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Lodge, and the Prince of Wales, who was at that time Grand Master of England, wrote a personal reply to Prince Charles of Sweden in accordance with the unanimous vote of our Grand Lodge. , 'The friendly intercourse thus established was renewed in a signal manner in 1813, when another Swedish Ambassador, M. W. Bro. Count de Lagardje, attended at the Grand Assembly of the Union, and declared himself satisfied that there was no essential difference between the objects and principles of English Freemasonry and those of Sweden. , 'The next remarkable point of contact was the initiation of our former Grand Master, the late King Edward VII, at Stockholm, by King Oscar II of Sweden."

The visit coincided with the Tercentenary of Gustavus Adolphus, and Lord Ampthill called attention to the official sword of the Grand Lodge which was once worn by King Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Lutzen; this sword has been carried by Grand Masters for over two hundred years and is the Grand Master's emblem of authority. Lord Ampthill brought ba~k with him a silver cup, given him by the Grand Lodge of Sweden through the King of Sweden, to be presented to the Grand Lodge of England. The most notable event of England's Masonic year was the recent dedication of the Masonic Peace Memorial by His noyal Highness The Duke of Connaught and Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England. The project was begun on June 27, 1919. The plan was to erect a memorial to the ~emory of those gallant brethren who assisted in securing a victorious termination of the conflict. The memorial had as its particular aspect the furnishing of a central home for Freemasons of the British Empire. Two thousand of the brethren assembled in the new Temple auditorium and in other rooms in the building, the proceedings being relayed by wireless. Prince George acted as Senior Grand Vvarden in the ceremonies, and the Lord Mayor .of London as Senior Grand Deacon. The Grand Lodge was opened by Deputy Grand Master, Lord Cornwallis, and the roll call of visitors showed a large percentage of British royalty. The Grand Master sent the following telegram . to King George: "Six thousand Freemasons assembled at the dedication of their Peace Memorial Building in London desire to express their loyal devotion to Your Majesty's Throne and Person. It is their earnest prayer that Almighty God may bless your life. with health and happiness."

King George replied, expressing his affection at such a loyal message and expressing the hope that the Hall might stand forever "As a monument to that public spirit and comradeship which unites Freemasons." The new building is the most outstanding memorial erected in recent years; it covers two and one-quarter acres and has a frontage on Great Queen Street of four hundred fifty feet; at the entrance a stately tower rises to a height of one hundred sixty feet. SCOTLAND. The Grand Lodge of Scotland is presided over by the Right Honourable the Lord Belhaven and Stenton, who bears the titlr

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of "Most 'Yorshipful Grand Master Mason." It would appear from the proceedings that the jurisdiction has 1,381 lodges, although no statistics are given. In addition to lodges existing in Scotland, this jurisdiction has lodges in the following countries: Arabia, Barbados, Bermuda, British East Africa, British Guiana, Cape Colony, Chili, Dutch Guiana, Cape of Good Hope, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Fiji Islands, Honduras, Hong Kong and South China, India, Jamaica,. Japan, Korea, Mesopotamia, Natal, Newfoundland, New Zealand, North China, Nyasaland, Persia, Peru, Philippine Islands, Panama, Rhodesia, Siam, Tanganyika, Java, Sumatra, the Transvaal, Trinidad, Turkey, West Africa, V,T estern Australia, Gibraltar, Morocco. Malta, v..Test India. The Duke of Connaught, Prince of 'Yales, Lord Donoughmore, Grand Master of Ireland, and Lord Ampthill are the only honorary members of the Grand Lodge. A District Deputy Grand Master of the 'Yestern Mediterranean, now a resident of Fiji, reported to the Grand Lodge that Fiji had lodge property which many of the Edinburgh brethren would be proud to have, a Masonic Temple having been erected there by a brother who recently passed away, who not only built the Temple, but provided for its maintenance. It was reported that an .agreement had been arranged between the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland, Scotland, Massachusetts, and the Philippine Islands whereby an Advisory Council was formed to handle the Masonic situation in Northern China. Brother Dr. Sir Tumulji Bhicaji Nariman has recently been installed Grand Master of the Scottish Grand Lodge in India. . IRELAND. The Grand Lodge of Ireland held its Two Hundred Seventh Annual Communication in Dublin last December. The jurisdictions of Ireland, Scotland, and England held a most distinguished gathering last year in Freemason's Hall, at which time a new lodge was established by a traveling warrant in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in England. This was done with the consent of the United Grand Lodge of England. This same regiment once held a warrant of a Grand Lodge of Ireland; The Earl of Donoughmore, representing the Grand Lodge of Irelan,d, presided. The Earl of Malmesbury, and other officers, represented the United Grand Lodge of England, and Scotland was represented by its Grand Secretary and associate officers. The Irish Grand Master expressed his pleasure at having been permitted to preside at a meeting of his own Grand Lodge on English soil, believing that it was a remarkable incident. The brethren on the Island of Malta, which is under the Irish Constitution, reported difficulty with their building project because of economic conditions; Irish brethren came to their rescue. A new Temple has recently been completed in Belfast. One of its lodges recently celebrated its Bicentenary. PORTO RICO. The Grand Lodge of Porto Rico is in its forty-eighth year; it has 53 lodges and 3,800 members; recently it has shown small

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loss due to earthquakes, floods and general depression. The Grand Master, Rodolfo Ramirez Pabon, attended the dedication of the Washington Memorial at Alexandria. The Grand Lodge publicly observed 째the Bicentenary of 'Yashington's birth. A new temple was dedicated in San Juan in 1931. The reviewer has recently received a copy of "Las Fuentes del Derecho Masonico," issued by Brother Jose Ginorio, who is doing much in a literary way for that jurisdiction. CUBA. Cuba is at present undergoing a revolution and it is uncertain as to what effect this will have on the fraternity. The Grand Lodge is seventy-four years old and has its headquarters in Havana. The last report shows 197 lodges and 11,786 members, including a large net loss. Dr. Del Rio, Grand Master, is an attorney and during his year issued a public declaration defending the institution against the unjust charge that it took part in political party strife. It is but natural that in a revolution, where thousands are engaged, some few of the brethren were detained by civil authorities. The Grand Lodge was represented at the 'Yashington dedication by Past Grand Master Sanudo and Brother Fred Reinhardt. COLOMBIA. There appear to be no less than three Grand Lodges occupying this jurisdiction-one at Barranquilla, 011e at Bogota, and one at Cartagena. The first named appears to be the larger. Freemasonry in Colombia has had a varied and disturbed existence. Closed in 1885 by the activity of the Clerical Party, lodges in 1909, by reason of a change in political government, began to revive and in the cities where liberal views were to be found, the fraternity spread rapidly; in this year three independent Grand Lodges were established and symbolic Masonry was separated from the Scottish Rite. The Supreme Council, particularly the one at Cartagena, attempted to regain this lost power. By agoreement of these Grand Lodges, they have limited their jurisdiction. All indications are that conditions in this eountry are favorable for the propagation of the fraternity. BRAZIL; Masonic conditions in Brazil are considerably disturbed. The Craft has been divided into a number of Orients and Lodges, all clamoring for recognition from American jurisdictions. Among these Grand Lodges are noted Grand Lodges of the States of Sao Paulo. Bahia; Rio de Janeiro, Parahyba, and Amazonas. We quote the following interesting item from the New York proceedings concerning the Grand Lodge of Bahia: "One of the constituent lodges, founded in 1841, had among its founders a Canon of the Roman Catholic Church, R. Antonio J oaquim Das Mercez, who was Worshipful Master from December 20, 1841, to April 3, 1845. During the period of his mastership the communications of the lodge were attended by anywhere from forty to seventy priests, all of whom were Masons. The brethren of his'lodge exproessed the admiration for him and had a life-sized portrait painted of him which is now hanging

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in the Grand Master's office. The old painting has been a storm-center of discussion on many occasions. But there it is and the fact still stands that the distinguished Canon saw in Masonry a means to advance moral and religious influence."

ECUADOR. The Grand Lodge of Ecuador recently held its Thirteenth Annual Communication at Guayaquil, which is its headquarters. It has 8 lodges and almost 500 members. Dr. Garcia Moreno is Grand Master. PERU. Lima; the capital, appears to be headquarters for this jurisdiction. It has 25 lodges, with an average of about 20 members to n lodge. The cornerstone of a new Masonic Temple was laid on June 29, 1932, in the City of Lima. CHILE. Little information has been secured concerning Chile, whose headquarters are at Santiago. ARGENTINE. The' Grand Lodge of Argentine has been in existence since 1857. It has been recognized by the United Grand Lodge of England, which has an agreement permitting an English District Grand Lodge to function with headquarters at Buenos Aires. Fiftysix lodges work under authority of the Grand Lodge of Argentine and there are at least fourteen English lodges in the City of Buenos Aires. BOLIVIA. There has recently been formed in Bolivia (1929) a Grand Lodge..This Grand Lodge appears to have been made up of lodges established by Chile and is being recognized by a number of American Grand Lodges. PANAMA. This Grand Lodge has jurisdiction over Panama, with the exception of the Canal Zone, in which lodges have been chartered by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. The jurisdiction is small, having only 9 lodges and 371 members, but has recently dedicated a Masonic Cemetery. The plot has been marked off by a concrete border inlaid with white mosaics, showing in black a circle with square and compass. GUATEMALA. The Grand Lodge' of Guatemala was established October 20, 1903. Dr. Octavio Cortes is the present Grand Master. It holds quarterly communications and is in fraternal relation with thirty-six American Grand Lodges. COSTA Rrco. Grand Master Jorge Tristan attended the Bicentenary of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and is well known to American Masons. This Grand Lodge is located at San Jose and is in its thirty-third year; it has 7 lodges and less than 400 members. This is the former Grand Lodge Esperanza, originally organized in 1871. SALVADOR. This is another of the smaller jurisdictions with limited territory, having 5 lodges and 136 members. It appears to be

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carrying out Masonic work, although somewhat limited in its possibilities. VENEZUELA. The Grand Lodge of Venezuela was founded in 1824 and reorganized in 1828; it has 31 lodges, but a very small membership. PARAGUAY. The Grand Lodge of the Republic of Paraguay has recently been making request for recognition by American Grand Lodges. REPUBLIC OF MEXICO. The York Grand Lodge of Mexico, recognized by all jurisdictions in the United States, with the exception of Maryland, has lodges in the States of Mexico, Hidalgo, Puebla, Guanajuato, Jalisco, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Neuvo Leon, Chihuahua, Sonora, Veracruz, Coahuila, Yucatan. The last report shows 867 members in its 15 lodges. It has friendly relations with the Valle de Mexico, which is under the aegis of the Scottish Rite, but does not enter into fraternal relations. The Grand Lodge of Hamburg, Germany, maintains a lodge in the City of Mexico, which meets in the York Grand Lodge Temple. The most路 recent lodge chartered by the York Grand Lodge is at Merida, Yucatan; the Grand Lodge of that State (La Orient Peninsula) has permitted the York Grand Lodge to establish a lodge there made up of brethren speaking the English language. Several Grand Lodges have recently received requests from the Grand Lodge of the Pacific (Del Pacifico), located at Guaymas, Mexico, and claiming jurisdiction over the States of Sonora, Sinaloa and Lower California. Another Grand Lodge, known as De Estado Restauracion, located at Villa Hermosa in the State of Tabasco, organized in 1923, is asking recognition. The third Grand Lodge, Occidental Mexicano, located at Guadalajara, J alisco, with jurisdiction over the States of Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and part of Michoacan. VV' e understand that the York Grand Lodge permits intervisitations with the Grand Lodge Del Pacifico. Some of the Mexican Grand Lodges are chartering lodges in California, according to report of a California committee; one of these is the Supreme Gran Oriente del Rito Nacional Mexicano, which apparently initiates only Mexican citizens resident in California. It has women's lodges, or Logias de Adopcion.

CORNERSTONES DONOR HONORED BY CORNERSTONE DEPOSIT

Grand Master Henry B. Morley on Friday, May 20, 1932, laid the cornerstone for a new Masonic temple in the City of Vernon, B. C. The orator of the day outlined the history and symbolism of the laying of cornerstones, referred to the difficulties under which the lodge at Vernon had labored in an effort to procure its temple, and added

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the interesting fact that among the contents of the box deposited in the cornerstone were the Masonic certificates of a brother whose bequest formed the nucleus of the building fund of the temple. HISTORIC WILLIAMSBURG

Virginia has many historical sites, but none more interesting than historic Williamsburg. Williamsburg was the first capital of Virginia and in recent years has been undergoing extensive restoration. On July 16, 1931, Grand Master Showalter reports the holding of an emergent communication in the City of "lVilliamsburg for the purpose of laying the cornerstone of the new lodge building of Williamsburg Lodge No.6, erected on the site of the original Masonic hall in which. the lodge met before the Revolutionary 'Val'. At that time the lodge was known as 'Villiamsburg Lodge, or perhaps more properly "The Lodge at Williamsburg." The Grand Lodge of Virginia, on October 28, 1786, gave it the number "6." The new building is on the exact site of the building in which representatives of thirteen lodges in Virginia assembled in 1777 and 1778 and formed the present Grand Lodge of Virginia. The inscription on the cornerstone gives the dates "17731931." Hon.Ashton Dovell, a member of the Virginia legislature, member of Williamsburg Lodge No.6 and Grand Orator, delivered an appropriate address. He said in part: "The true Mason labors for the benefit of those who are to come after him, and for the advancement and progress of his race. "The man who deserves to live should strive and yearn to survive hia funeral. We want to leave behind us something that \vill outlast our day and generation. "We want our children to fare better than has been our lot. We waut the world to be a better place for them to live in. "It is in this spirit we have come to the marking of a great day in Masonic history in Virginia. We stand here with uncovered heads on sacred soil, to lay the cornerstone of the restoration of the first Masonic Grand Lodge of the Virginia colony; we care not so much that it be a thing of beauty. Over us hangs the canopy of heaven, around us, nature in all her splendor, but we do desire that this building be a fitting memorial to the sterling effort of the pioneers in the movement for the freedom of this nation. "It is the dead that govern; the living only obey. The history of the world has been written in the lives of a few great men. History is not made in the clanging marts of trade, but in some cloistered retreat, like this memorial will become-scenes that ere long may be enacted which shall write new names large on the scroll of history."

FEDERAL BUILDINGS

Foundation stones for U. S. court and postoffice buildings were laid by the Grand Lodge of Tennessee at Knoxville and Chattanooga. The Grand Master of Delaware laid the cornerstone of a new postoffice building in Georgetown on June 4, 1932. Congressman Robert G. Houston, of Delaware, delivered an appropriate address.

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Grand Master Livingston, of Maryland, laid the cornerstone of a new postoffice building at Westminster, Md., November 30,1932. The speaker of the occasion, Brother A. N. Ward, said: "It seems to me that this cornerstone laying is one of the signs by which and in which we shall conquer our economic depression, both local and national. There is enough building to be done in this country, necessary and not unnecessary, that if done now would conquer the depression. Weare dealing with an economic situation and not a political one. The men we send to Congress are not economists, as a rule, no matter how. high a type of men we send there. The time has come for us to eschew politics as far as possible and let the country go to work along sound lines in building our recovery from the ground up. We have enough laws on our statute book to last us for some time to come. We are well forti.fied with a good Constitution-the Fathers of the Republic saw to that. Solutions for our economic troubles must be .sound and based upon tIle everlasting laws of economics. The law of supply and demand sits upon a throne which it has never abdicated and never will. The law of supply and demand has a solution, namely, supply and demand. Each relates itself to the other as absolutely as the law of gravitation relates itself to the earth. There must be a supply and there must be a demand. Sometimes it is easier to create the demand than the supply, but often it is easier to create the supply than the demand. We have reached a period in the history of this economic situation, not a panic but a depression and not confined to this country but to the whole world, when we must see that demand is equal to the supply. And we can only create the demand by going to work along souJid lines in making use of the supply which a bountiful Providence has always provided for the路 needs of human beings. It is not a question of oversupply, but a question of proper distribution. There can be no oversupply until all the rightful demands of the human race have been supplied. "I wish to repeat, by way of emphasis, that the problem before us i8 not one of politics but of econQmics. 'If a man will not work he shall not eat,' is a statement of Scripture. It is equally true that if a nation will not work it shall not eat, and this can be applied to the whole world of which the United States of America is but a part. I have read also in the same Scriptures, from which I have quoted, that 'this is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith.' It is by faith in our fellowmen and in Government and in the future that we are to go forward to n successful solution of our temporary financial difficulties. If everybody that needed to build-to build something, I care not what, if it be built upon a sound need which must include tomorrow as well as yesterday and today-then prosperity would not be 'only around the corner' but here right 'now in our midst. For example, if all the pigpens and the chicken coops of Carroll County that needed repairs or needed to be built were to be built and repaired, all the carpenters of three counties would be gainfully employed for two or three years. If all the people of Westminster whose houses needed painting or paper on the walls or necessary devices to reduce the burden of women in the kitchen, 路01' cement sidewalks, or a thousand other things that need to be done, including a new sewerage system, would go forth in the faith that' sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof' and that tomorrow is an assured event in which we shall all 'live and move and have our being,' we would go a long way towards restoring prosperity and bring back values at least to normal. " 'In hoc signe vinces.' 'In this sign we shall conquer.' When the sound of the hammer and the saw and the buzz of whirring machinery are heard again in the land, then we shall know that happy days have come again. If prosperity shall return, we-the people--must create it.

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It will not come simply by legislation. Legislation may help, if it is wise

legislation, but legislation may hinder if it is unwise. The Government cannot do it alone. 'Pork Barrel' legislation is contrary to the everlasting laws of economics upon which hangs the structure of the universe. "Recently we went through a Great War, such a war as the world had not known before. Two hundred billions of dollars were spent in the prosecution of that war-ten million men were killed or wounded in that struggle. Values soared sky high under the stimulus of the abnormal conditions. Abnormal conditions produced an abnormal prosperity. And always in past, present and future abnormal prosperity has been and will be followed by abnormal depression. We must learn not to go to war if we are to build that temple of mankind which is the dream of Almighty God and the only hope for the future of mankind. Let the laying of this cornerstone put us in mind of the things that each one of us ought to do, bearing his part and doing his sha.re, in the overcoming of this depression." CAPITAL CORNERSTONE CEREMONIES REENACTED

To the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia was given the honor of carrying out the most interesting historical event of the year, in reenacting the ceremonies of the laying of the cornerstone of the United States capitol building. A special communication of the Grand Lodge was held on September 17, 1932, as a part of its commemoration of the Bicentennial anniversary of George Washington; the ceremony commemorated the One Hundred Thirty-Ninth Anniversary of the laying of the original stone, which ev~nt occurred September 18, 1793, under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Maryland and was participated in by the then President of the United States, George. Washington, Past Master of Alexandria Lodge No. 22. The officers of the Grand Lodge 路of the District of Columbia were dressed in Colonial costume. 1'he parade was under the direction of Major General Amos A. Fries of the United States Army; the first division was led by the United States Marine Band. All patriotic and civic organizations were represented. Through the courtesy and with the approval of the Commission in charge of the capitol building, permission was granted for the actual laying of the stone next to the original cornerstone, part of the structure having been removed for that purpose The stone bears the following inscription: LAID MASONICALLY SEPTEMBER 17, 1932 IN COMMEMORA'I.'ION OF THE LAYING OF THE ORIGINAL CORNERSTONE BY GEORGE WASHINGTON

The only newspaper account of the original ceremony is contained in the uColumbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette" of September 23, 1793. The article was as foHows: "On Wednesday, one of the grandest Masonic processions took place, for the purpose of laying the cornerstone of the Capitol of the United States, which, perhaps, was ever exhibited on the like important occasion. About ten 0 'clock, Lodge No.9 was visited by that congregation so graceful to the Craft, Lodge No. 22, of Virginia, with all their officers and

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regalia; and directly afterwards appeared on the southern banks of the grand river Potomac, one of the finest companies of Volunteer Artillery that has been lately seen, parading to receive the President of the United States, who shortly came in sight with his suite, to whom the artillery paid their military honors, and his Excellency and suite crossed the river and was received in Maryland by the officers and brethren of No. 22, Virginia, and No.9, Maryland, whom the President headed, preceded by a band of music; the rear brought up by the Alexandria Volunteer Artillery, with grand solemnity of march, proceeded to the President's Square, in the city of Washington, where they were met and saluted by No. 15, of the city of Washington, in all their elegant badges and clothing, headed by Brother Joseph Clark, Rt. Wor. G. M. p. t., and conducted to a large lodge prepared for the purpose of their reception. After a short space of time, by the vigilance of Brother Clotworthy Stephenson, Grand Marshal p. t., the brotherhood and other bodies were disposed in a second order of procession, which took place amidst a brilliant crowd of spectators of both sexes, according to the following arrangement, viz: TIlE SURVEYING DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF GEORGETOWN VIRGINIA ARTILLERY COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY 0]0' WASHINGTON, AND THEIR ATTENDANTS STONECUTTERS-MECHANICS MASONS OF THE !<'IRST DEGREE BIBLES, ETC., ON GRAND CUSHIONS DEACONS, WITH STAl"FS OF OFFICE MASONS OF THE SECOND DEGREE STEWARDS, WITH WANDS MASONS OF THE THIRD DEGREE WARDENS, WITH TRUNCHEONS SECRETARIES, WITH TOOLS OF OFFICE PAST MASTERS, WITH 'l'HEIR REGALIA TREASURERS, WITH THEIR JEWELS BAND OF MUSIC LODGE NO. 22, VIRGINIA, DISPOSED IN THEIR OWN ORDER CORN, WINE, AND OIL GRAND MASTF..R. PRO TEM., BROTHER GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND WORSHIPFUL MASTER 01<' NO. 22, OF VIRGINIA GRAND SWORD BEARER

"The procession marched two abreast, in the greatest solemn dignity, with music playing, drums beating, colors flying, and spectators rejoicing, from the President's Square to the Capitol, in the City of Washington, where the Grand Marshal ordered a halt, and directed each file in the procession to incline two steps, one to the right and one to the left, and face each other, which formed a hollow oblong square, through which the Grand Sword Bearer led the van; followed by the Grand Master pro tem. on the left, the President of the United States in the center, and the Worshipful Master of No. 22, Virginia, on the right; all the other ordcrs that composed the procession advanced in the reverse of their order of march from the President's Square to the southeast corner of the Capitol, and the artillery filed off to a destined ground to display their maneuvers and discharge their cannon. The Presid~nt of the United States, the Grand Master p1'O lem., and the Worshipful Master of No. 22, taking thcir stand to the east of a large stone, and all the Craft forming a circle westward, stood a short time in solemn order. "The artillery discharged a volley. The Grand Marshal delivered the Commissioners a large silver plate, with an inscription thereon, which the Commissioners ordered to be read, and was as follows:

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" 'This southeast cornerstone of the Capitol of the United States of America in the City of Washington, was laid on the 18th day of September, 1793, in the thirteenth year of American Independence, in the first year of the second term of the presidency of George Washington, whose virtues in the civil administration of his country have been as conspicuous and beneficial as his military valor and prudence have been useful in establishing her liberties, and in the year of Masonry 5793, by the President of the United States, in concert with the Grand Lodge of Maryland, several lodges under its jurisdiction, and Lodge No. 22, from Alexandria, Virginia. Thomas if ohnson, David Steuart and Daniel Carroll, Commissioners. •Joseph Clark, R. W. G. M. pro tem., and James Hoban and Stephen Hallate, architects. Colin Williamson, Master Mason.' "'1'he artillery discharged a volley. The plate was then delivered to the President, who, attended by the Grand Master pro tem. and three Most Worshipful Masters, descended to the cavazion trench and deposited the plate, and laid it on the cornerstone of the Capitol of the United States of America, on which were deposited, corn, wine and oil, when the whole congregation joined in reverential prayer, which was succeeded by Masonic chanting honors, and a volley from the artillery. "The President of the United States, and his attendant brethren, ascended from the cavazio~ to the east of the cornerstone, and there the Grand Master pro tem., elevated on a triple rostrum, delivered an oration fitting the occasion which was received with brotherly love and commendation. At intervals during the delivery of the oration, several volleys were discharged by the artillery. The ceremony ended in prayer, Masonic chanting honors, and a 15-volley from the artillery. "The whole company retired to an extensive booth, where an ox of five hundred pounds weight was barbecued, of which the company generally partook, with every abundance of other recreation. The festival concluded with fifteen successive volleys from the artillery, whose military discipline and maneuvers merit every commendation. Before dark the whole company departed with joyful hopes of the production of their labor."

S. PUBLIC BUILDINGS

One of the most unusual Masonic ceremonies was the simultaneous laying of cornerstones of the new Department of Labor building and the new Interstate Commerce Commission building in Washington, D. C. For this purpose a special communication of the Grand Lodge was held on. December 15, 1932, the Grand Master announcing that pursuant to notification received from Hon. William N. Doak, Secretary of Labor, and from Hon. Ferry K. Heath, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, he had called the special communication for the purpose above mentioned. The ceremony proper was conducted at the Department of Labor building and was transmitted o'ver a loud-speaking system to the Interstate Commerce Commission building, where the visual portion of the ceremony was performed by officers deputized for that purpose. The Grand Master alluded to the unusual· character of the occasion, offering as a precedent the laying by the Grand Lodge of England of the cornestone of the Freemason's Hospital in May, 1932, that ceremony being conducted at Olympia, London, and the stone actually laid at Ravenscourt Park. The program included music by the United States Marine Band, remarks by William N. Doak, Secretary of Labor, William Green, president of the

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American Federation of Labor, and Hon. Herbert C. Hoover, President of the United States. The President and Mrs. Hoover, Secretary Doak and Mr. ,Villiam Green accepted invitations to spread some of the cement. GRANDMASTER REFUSES TO LAY CORNERSTONE

Grand Master Green, of Mississippi,declined to lay the cornerstone of the postoffice at Columbus, Miss., because of the refusal of the postal authorities in charge to permit the year of Masonry and the name of the Grand l\faster to be cut into the stone. BOULDER CITY HAS CORNERSTONE LAYING

The erection of an immense dam at Boulder City, Nevada, resultecl in increased Masonic interest, resulting in the erection of a new Masonic temple, the cornerstone of which was laid on April 23, 1932. rrhe address of Grand Orator Elwood H. Beemer is worthy of repetition: "With political policies, with social schemes, and with all of the various devices for the promotion of human welfare, Masonry can have little or nothing to do. Its business is to make men, and to equip and inspire them to go forth and do a man's work in the world, not for self only, but for other men. How beautifully is all this symbolized in this cornerstone which you have laid today. Here in the northeast corner of this building it will stand, and as it now stands, one face shall be ever to the east and the other to the north. In the physical world, light comes from the east. At daybreak, the dawn begins to redden the east j then comes the rising sun, scattering the mists of damp and darkness, calling life to wake from sleep, bidding all nature and men to spring forth in newness of life. So, in the moral and intellectual world, it is from the east that has come the light of truth and knowledge, those great principles concerning God, humanity and nature, which, like the course of an empire pursuing a westerly course, has carried civilization in its train. The north, on the other hand, is the place of darkness, since it is that point in the elliptic farthest removed from the sun at its meridian height. And, as in the physical world, so in the moral world. It was from the north that the barbarian hosts came down like a thick cloud to eclipse and destroy civil路 ization which the toil and sacrifice of men had won. Symbolically, the north is always the place of darkness. And thus it is that Masonry ever stands, with its one face to the light, ready to catch and to hold whatsoever beams of light shall fall upon it j and also with its other face to the north, ever ready to send out into the darkness of the world the light which we have received. , 'Masonry of today is a great institution, but just where it came from, just when the transition from operative to speculative Masonry took place, . who is responsible for its wonderful ritual and its impressive lessons, who gave form to its really wonderful early laws and constitutions, we do not presume to say. However, there is enough upon which authorities agree to make us certain that Masonry has played a real part in the events of the past two hundred )Tears. , 'You say that in our lectures we are told that Masonry goes back to the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary; in fact, the first printed constitutions trace Masonry, in fancy at least, to the Garden of Eden.

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, 'Imagination is a wonderful gift and plays a great part in a matter of fact world, yet we do not believe that our greatness as a fraternity will be lessened a particle by recognizing certain limitations of time and place. " The evidences are indisputable that the ancients, long before the dawn of the Christian era, were builders, and master builders at that. Go to the ruins of Egypt, and gaze on the pyramids; traverse the deserts and witness the remains of Babylon; visit Jerusalem and Damascus; and who will dare to say t];1at the craftsman and artists were not present in the early dawn of the world 's history~ But that these men had any connection in fact or history with the order of which we are members no well-informed Mason would for one moment attempt to assert. Those who lifted the loads and bore the burdens were slaves, whose lives were as nothing in the sight of the ruler. That there must have been organization of some sort necessarily follows, for without it there would have been no achievement which would have endured to this day. "With the development of the Christian church and the era of cathedral building, there was every opportunity for them to leave lasting memorials of their hand and brain. They were a privileged group. In a day when there was little freedom of action, these men were free to travel, free from taxation, and free from serfdom; they were free men as well as freemasons. Theirs was not the printed page; their story was wrought in marble, in bronze, in fresco, and high-vaulted ceilings. Let us hope that this wonderful work will escape the terrible ravages of time. "It is fairly well authenticated that these cathedral builders or architect freemasons were distinct from the craft or operative masons, though just how they were differentiated from each other is not entirely clear. Yet it is probable that the one group, the freemasons, included the architects and sculptors; these usually were designated as masters. In the other group, we find the rough masons or craftsmen, who for the purpose of protection formed themselves into guilds and were somewhat limited in their sphere of operations. The freemasons, being more or less under the influence of the church, were commissioned to plan and direct the work of cathedral building. "We ask, then: What has Masonry done to justify itself in the years that have gone ~ "If we go back to the days of Operative Masonry, whether the so-callcd Freemasons or the Guild Masons, no one who has any knowledge of their 1Y0nderful forJ;l1 and beauty would hesitate to say that Operative Masonry has justified itself in the eyes of the world for all time; but what shall we say of Speculative Masonry~ It has held up before its members in the ~arly days professions of religious faith and duty which for breadth of vision and tolerance are little short of marvelous. Masonry has presented standards of civil relations that will stand the severest tests. "It has taught the best conceptions of personal character and conduct. Its whole aim has been to impress upon its members the duties they owe to God, to country, to their fellows, and to themselves. , 'Masonry has, from its carliest days, taught the lessons of charity and benevolence; not alone the giving of aid to the needy, but in the larger meaning of good will toward all men. "It has emphasized friendship and brotherly love. Those who otherwise might never have known or much less appreciated each other, have, through their Masonic affiliation, found the full meaning of true friendship, and have tasted the sweet refreshment of real brotherly love. "In other simple days, Masonry furnished the only center of union provided for the greatest crowning of the human soul, companionship and fellowship, and this comradeship has been under the influences which were uplifting and heartening. "Masonry has almost universally promoted a fine democracy among all its members. While the Master of the Lodge enjoys large powers, he is

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elevated to such power through the voice of the Brethren, and after his term of service he returns again to the ranks. Race, nationality, social distinction, wealth, creed, party affiliation-these have no place in Masonry, and may we not hope that some time, and that right soon, what we see in every Masonic Lodge-namely, friendship, brotherly love, democracy-will reign supreme throughout the world. "As Masonry stands, so shall stand this Masonic Temple here to be erected, with its face both to the light and to the dark. May it ever be a place where men shall come to know the truth, the truth which shall make men free; and there shall it also be a place where they shall catch the inspiration which shall send them forth to labor for the glory of God and for the good of their fellowmen. In this hope we say: 'May this Masonic Temple flourish.' "

MASONIC PERSONALITIES

Gem'ge H. Dern, Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Roosevelt, served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Utah in 1913. He is at present listed as a member of its committee on jurisprudence and a member of the Board of Custodians. Arthur C. Wherry, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Utah in 1919, has been recently honored by election as president of the American Dental Association. Bishop Charles L. Mead, a member of St. John's Lodge No.1, New ,J ersey, and resident bishop of the Kansas City area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which area Kansas is a part, has been appointed Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Kansas. The Bishop delivered a scholarly and instructive Masonic address. He said: "The influence of Masonry in the early days of the American Republic was very pronounced. Throughout the Colonial period, the most radical form of infidelity prevailed. Few professional men of that period were believers. The leading statesmen were either atheists or deists. In the first senior class of Yale, the members were known more familiarly by names of famous French infidels, and it is reported that only four or five of the .students were members of the church. Princeton was no better. William and Mary's was called a hotbed of infidelity. Bowdoin College is reported to have had only one student who was willing to avow himself a Christian. While the tide of infidelity was sv,reeping through the RevO)lutionary period of our nation's history, the antidote was found in the Masonic Lodge wJ.ich insisted upon the individual belief of God, the immortality of the soul, and stayed the tide of infidelity which threatened to engulf the nation. * * * "Masonry has been, through its history, closely allied with religion. Much criticism has been brought against it by some because they believe that Masons make Masonry their religion. While it respects every honest ereed, it requires adherence to none. Although religious in spirit, it is not a religion in a sense that it selects for no man his mode of worship, designates no particular church in which he must offer his devotion, insists upon no form of altar upon which he must make his oblations, institutes no liturgy for his form of prayer, but leaves each member to choose the religious tenets of his faith according to the dictates of his own conscience. "It recognizes revealed religion, through its charter, the Holy Bible. "It is the handmaid of religion, going forth with the same Book, with the same God, and on the common commission of good will to men; there-

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fore, the Jew, the Christian, the Mohammedan, all believers in the one Father of men, can enter the lodge under the broad banner of brotherly love without any fear of theological controversy."

Fay Hempstead was unable to be present at the annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, but was reelected Grand Secretary for the fifty-second time. Reports from brethren in Arkansas are to the effect that Brother Hempstead is failing physically. At the Two Hundredth Anniversary celebration of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island, Gov. Norman S. Case was officially received, accompanied by a patrol from Overseas Lodge. The Governor is a Past Master of Corinthian Lodge No. 27 of that jurisdiction. He addressed the Grand Lodge briefly. Grand Master Tapster, of Nebraska, reported having visited Lincoln Lodge No. 19 for the purpose of presenting a jewel to Past Grand Master Henry H. Wilson. Among the visitors was Gen. John J. Pershing, U. S. A., retired, and a member of Lincoln Lodge No. 19. It was a coincidence that the Master of the Lodge was one who had served in the trenches during the 'Vorld War under General Pershing. Francis E. White, Grand Secretary Emeritus of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, attended the annual communication in June, 1932. Brother 'Vhite attended the fourteenth annual communication of his Grand Lodge, and assisted in celebrating the seventy-fi fth; he served as Grand Secretary for more than fifty years. During the communication Brother 'White addressed the Grand Lodge on reminiscences. Hon. Sol Bloom, Congressman from New York and Associate Director of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, was unanimously elected an honorary member of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia in recognition of his services to the Masonic Fraternity during the past year. Bishop James E. F1'eeman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C., is Chaplain of Temple-Noyes Lodge No. 32. Bishop Freeman has been heard ,on many occasions at Masonic functions and as an orator has few peers in the United States. Through the efforts of Major-General and Brother James G. Harbord, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, the Grand Lodge of New York has been enabled to secure a moving picture outfit for the Masonic Home. Brother Harboard is a member of Council Grove. Lodge No. 36, Kansas. The Grand Lodge of New York carries on its rolls some very distinguished names. One of these is Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, who has served the Grand Lodge as Grand Chaplain for several years. Brother Cadman's talks are frequently heard over the radio. The D. D. G. M. of the second Manhattan District is Ferdinand Pecora, whose recent financial investigations brought his name prominently into the limelight. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is listed as the Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Georgia near the Grand Lodge of New York. Brother Bainbridge Colby, promiJ).ent during the Wood-

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row Wilson administration is Missouri's representative in New York. Brother Robert ll. Robinson, Grand Representative of Ecuador, is president of the University of the City of New York. Oscar Elwood Anderson, a graduate of the University of Missouri, has just completed a year's service as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Wyoming. Marshall A. Malone, Grand Master of the York Grand Lodge of Mexico, while a native of Louisiana, was employed from 1914-17 with the Pickering Lumber Company of Kansas City, Mo. John E. Erickson, Past Master and Governor of the State of Montana, addressed the Grand Lodge at their annual communication in August, 1932. Wm. M. Brucker, Past Master and Governor of Michigan, was a guest of the Grand Lodge May 24, 1932, and during the course of his remarks he said: "My brothers, there is no office in Michigan in a civil respect, that perhaps, surpasses that of the governorship; but in my humble judgment there is no higher station or occupation than that of receiving and communicating to those back home the impression of the Grand Lodge and of Masonry. In the walks of life, day by day, it gives to the citizens of our state that quality, that fabric, that fiber, that money cannot buy, that nothing can create, that nothing under the sun can furnish equal to the impressions that have been gained in the life of a worthwhile brother."

King Solomon's Lodge No. 14 of New Hampshire, on October 5, 1931, celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of the raising of Grand Secretary Han'Y M. Cheney. A large company of brethren gathered from every section of the state to testify as to their love and esteem for Brother Cheney. Mahlon F. Manville, Grand Master of Oklahoma, was born November 4, 路1871, at Shelbyville, Shelby County, Mo.; he has been a resident of Oklahoma since 1897. 1Villiam P. Freeman, Past Grand Master, is Missouri's representative near the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma. Brother Freeman was for many years representative from Miller County, Mo., in our State Legislature. During the introduction of Grand Representatives, Brother Freeman responded following cries of "Missouri." Brother Cad H. Claudy, Executive Secretary of the Masonic Service Association of the United States, addressing the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, said: , 'I had the pleasure last month of seeing Brother Franklin D. Roosevelt raise his son, Elliott, to the sublime degree of Master Mason, in Architect Lodge, in the City of New York. As you can imagine, it was a pretty stupendOUS occasion for Architect Lodge, which has approximately fOllr hundred members. Each member of Architect Lodge had two tickets. Four hundred more tickets were reserved for the Grand Lodge offl.cers and distinguished guests. They used the Grand Lodge Hall, approximately this size as far as floor space is concerned, but it only holds about twelve 0'" thirteen hundred and they would not crowd it. The great temple at

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Sixth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street was filled at five 0 'clock in the afternoon by what appeared to the visitor to be a regiment of police. This raising was to take place only two days after the attempted assassination in Miami, and authorities were concerned lest some fanatic enter the building and attempt to harm the President. You had to show your admission card and your good standing card to half a dozen policemen. Then you got into the elevator, the only one they allowed to run, which took you up six stories. You were again examined, after which you were allowed to walk down three flights of stairs. I suppose they figured that if you had to run away, if they discovered a gun upon you in three flights even a policeman could catch you. You were again examined by more police and a couple of tilers and' finally wended your way into the lodge room. "The Grand Master of Masons of the State of New York and the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt came in after the first section. Brother Roosevelt had not been able to arrive in time to see the entire degree. When he entered the hall, of. course, the whole assembly rose and there was long and tumultuous applause. His son, Elliott, was the third of four candidates to be raised. Most Worshipful Charles H. Johnson, who spoke to you here yesterday, made the address after the conclusion of the second section. As usual, Brother Johnson made a distinguished success of his speech. "But the great talk that evening was by the Brother who is now Pre~i足 dent of the United States. He said he was proud of the fact that he was Right Worshipful Franklin D. Roosevelt, since he is the representative of the Grand Lodge of Georgia near the Grand Lodge of New York. He said he appeared in the capacity of 'Right Worshipful' and' President-Elect, ' adding these words, 'But, most important, after the fact that I appear as the father of my SOll, is that I am here as a Brother Master Mason.' " Now, brethren, we have had thirteen Masonic Presidents before this. He is the fourteenth-not the twelfth-as has been erroneously stated time and again in the press. Brother William Boyden, Librarian of the Supreme Council, has recently proved th.at both Madison and .J efferson were Masons."

DEATHS

Leon M. Abbott, GrandMaster of Massachusetts 1917-18-19, died at Bropkline, Mass., October 10, 1932. His death was sudden ; funeral services were conducted by Rev. Frederick VV-. Hamilton, Grand Secretary. He was one of the outstanding Masons of the United States and at the time of his death was Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the 33 0 A. A. S. R., Northern Jurisdiction. In 1922 and 1929 he served as Chairman of the delegation to the International Conference of Supreme Councils. Dudley ll. Ferrell, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts 192324-25, died September 15, 1932. He was a native of Ohio. He entered the ministry in 1902 as a Presbyterian, later affiliating with the Unitarian Church and held pastorates in many cities of Massachusetts and Montreal, Canada; he was pastor of the Second Church in Boston (Unitarian) at the time of his decease. Of particular interest to Missourians is the reference to the death of Rev. Brother C. Wallace Petty, Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. lIe was a Past Master of Justus Lodge No.

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735, Pittsburgh, and his last public word was an address before the Grand Lodge on "A Code of Economy." He was a brother of Rev. A. Ray Petty, who was Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Missouri and whose death occurred in 1931. Oregon lost two Past Grand Masters, both of whom were former Missourians. 路William Henry Hobson was born in Jackson County, Mo., March 14, 1847, and crossed the plains to California before he was a year old. He attended a school taught by Professor Milton Wright, father of the well-known Wright brothers. He was twice a member of the State Senate and for many years was mayor of the town of Stayton. He was Grand Master of Oregon in 1897. The other death was that of David Patterson Mason, who was born at Jonesburg, Mo., August 15, 1846, and who crossed the plains to Oregon by wagon train when nineteen years of age. He was Grand Master in 1884, Grand High Priest in 1890, and Grand Commander in 189l. Colorado notes the death of Richard J. TJ!oodward, Senior Grand Steward of the Grand Lodge, who was born in Ashton, Mo., January 29, 1870. Past Grand Master Frank路 G. Mirick died November 21, 1931; he was born January 8, 1866, near Fayette, Mo., and was educated in the schools of this State. There are few people who do not know of the soul-inspiring music written by John Philip Sousa. W'"hile press dispatches carried news of his death, they failed to mention the Masonic services carried out py brethren of his lodge. The proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia give us the following: "John Philip Sousa, a member of Hiram Lodge No. 10, F. A. A. M., of the District of Columbia, died on March 6, 1932, at Reading, Pennsylvania, shortly after attending a banquet given in his honor in that city. "Brother Sousa had a remarkable career and his influence on martial music surpassed that of any other composer and band leader. He is known the world over as 'The March King.' For Jrears he was the lead~r of the United States Marine Band, located in this city, later organizing his own band, which gave concerts throughout the United States and abroad. "During the World War, he was commissioned and given charge of the training of musicians for military service. This he did with outstanding ability and success, having under his leadership at one time over seventeen hundred bandsmen at the Great Lakes, Illinois, Naval Training Station. , , The press of the entire world, upon his death, carried articles extolling his musical genius and recounting the affection in which he was held, not only by musicians, but by the rank and :file of the people of the United States and other countries. Resolutions of regret and appreciation were adopted by Congress, as well as 9Y many musical and other organizations. "His funeral was held at the Marine Barracks, conducted by the Chief Chaplain of the Navy, and the Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, which he attended while living in Washington. Music was furnished by the Marine Band and by the Gridiron Quartette. Present were the personal representative of the President, delegations from the United States Senate and House of Representatives, high officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and representatives of musical, civic and fraternal organizations. I I The simple burial services of the Masonic Lodge were conducted at

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Congressional Cemetery by Hiram Lodge No. 10, F. A. A. M., Paul H. Moreland, Master. "Brother Sousa received his degrees in Hiram Lodge as follows: Entered Apprentice, July 15, 1881; Fellow Craft, September 2, 1881; Master Mason, November 18, 1881. On May 21, 1927, he was constituted a Life Member. "He was also a member of Eureka Chapter No.4, R. A. M., Columbia Commandery No.2, K. '1'., and Almas Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., all of the District of Columbia."

Admiral George lV. Baird, ,who recently died, left to the Masonic Home of the District of Columbia a special fund of almost $20,OOO.OO~ the income from which is to be used exclusively for maintenance and support of the infirmary. The proceedings of the Grand Lodge of New York record the death of R. "V. Brother Harry Clay Walker on November 2, 1932. He was born at Binghamton, March 18, 1873. He held many positions of trust in his native state and, in 1918, was elected Lieutenant-Governor. He had just succeeded the late Perry W. \Veidner, of California, as Grand Master of Knights Templar of the United States of America, when his death came. Missourians may recall his visit to the annual conclave of Knights Templar at Cape Girardeau in 1926. Another distinguished New York Mason, well known to Missouri Masons, was H on. Jerome L. Cheney, judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Judge Cheney served as Judge Advocate of the Grand Lodge, a position of considerable importance in that jurisdiction. He also served as executive head of the Grand Chapter, Grand Council, and Grand Commandery. News dispatches in August, 1932, contained an account of the death of Domizio TOTrigiana, former Grand Master of Italian Freemasonry. He died at the age of seventy in his villa in Tuscany, where he had retir.ed after a five-year confinement as a political prisoner on the Lipari Islands. Ossian Lang, of New York, who knew him personally, said of him: "He was a genuine Mason and a gentleman, cultured, genial, ringing true. Under his inspiring leadership the Italian Craft approached neal'cr to an ideal type than it ever did before or since. Until he became Grand Master, the Grand Orient over which he presided had been predominantly political and took an active part in affairs expressly excluded from the lodges by the fundamental law of the Craft. With him entered a new spirit, but before it could permeate the organization, the government closed the lodges. Then followed a period of extreme trial for him.' He was assailed by partisans of a rival Italian Grand Lodge, the Grand Master of which published attacks at home and abroad, Among the inner circle of the Grand Orient also were some who deserted him because he would not resort to political action to deter the government from action against the lodges. "Some day, when the real story can be told from documents and letters not now accessible, we shall find that what Domizio Torrigiana suffered to sustain genuine Freemasonry entitles him ever to be remembered as a martyr to whom death must have come as a welcome release from this world's trials."

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President Paul Doumer, of France, made a Mason in 1897, was assassinated May 6, 1932, by a Russian. He was the son of a railway section boss. The Grand Lodge of Louisiana reported the death of Governor O. H. Simpson, a Past Grand Junior vVarden, who died November 17, 1932. He served his State as Lieutenant-Governor and Governor, was present at the dedication of the Masonic Temple in February, 1927, delivering a very appropriate address. EXTRANEOUS SOCIETIES

Grand Master Kinkel of Kansas, speaking of extraneous societies, said: "Study clubs, Past Master's Associations and similar organizations are unauthorized and purely voluntary and, when not conducted strictly in accord with a true Masonic spirit, pI'ove themselves to be hindrances rather than of benefit to any lodge."

The Grand Master of Oregon discontinued support of a Masoliic Club at the University following an investigation which showed that the club was not serving the purpose for 'which it was created. Co-Masonry is not confined to the United States alone. The Board of General Purposes of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, in a notice to lodges, says: " Attention of brethren is drawn to the fact that a spurious and clandestine Masonic organization, known as Co-Masonry, is operating in the territory. This body professes to work the three degrees of Craft Masonry, to admit women, confer signs and secrets and endeavours in different ways to copy the practices of Freemasonry, and from time to time members of the Craft are invited to attend the meetings. Brethren must not attend any meetings of this Co-Masonic body, as by doing f:O they will be violating their obligations and will render themselves liable to Masonic discipline."

The Grand Master of California, following a severe criticism by last year's Grand Master, received promises from the Order of Sciots assuring him him that every effort would be made to correct improper conditions existing \vithin the Order and to remove all grounds for criticism. The Grand Matron of the Eastern Star in Florida submitted a telegram to the Grand Master expressing the desire of that society "To go hand in hand with the great Masonic Fraternity in giving to the world brotherly love, relief and truth," Speaking on the subject of Extraneous Societies, the Grand Master of Western Australia has the following to say in reference to the rules of that jurisdiction and the Grand Lodge of England: "Under the rules of the Order only the wives, daughters, and sisters of Freemasons al'e eligible for membership, and only a Master Mason ean occupy the Chair. The Grand Lodge of England has always been opposed to it, and issued the following edict in September, 1921:

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" 'No Freemason is entitled to attend any non-Masonic meeting nt which Masonry by direct implication is introduced, or to participate in any ceremony which is quasi-Masonic, or is held under some pseud/)Masonic and unauthorized auspices. The secretary or any member of a lodge who gives to anyone outside, and particularly to a non-Mason, inf'Jrmation on Masonic matters known to him because of his Masonic connection, commits a breach of discipline which, when proved, will be severely dealt with.' "In Ireland, in 1922, the Grand Lodge passed this resolution: " 'That no member of any lodge under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Ireland shall be a member of or attend any meeting of any body or society which requires Freemasonry as a basis of or qualification for membership, except of such bodies as are included in the Calendar publisllCd annually by the authority of Grand Lodge. If any lodge or member of a lodge shall give any information as to the standing of a member in reply to an inquiry from any such nonrecognized body, it shall be deemed un-Masonic conduct, and may be dealt with accordingly.' "On July 16, 1928, at a Conference of the six Grand I.Jodges of Australia, the following resolution was carried unanimously: " 'That this Conference recommends to the Grand Lodges of Australh: " '(a) That no Freemason be permitted to attend any meeting of, or be a member of, the Order of the Eastern Star. " , (b) That no meeting of the Order of Eastern Star be permitted in any lodge room.' , 'The recommendation of Conference was adopted by this Grand Lodge at the Quarterly Communication, held on February 28, 1921. "So far we have had no trouble with this body, but as I do not wish any brother to err through lack of knowledge, and believing that' prevention is better than cure,' I sound this warning to all brethren throughout the State, and I desire that every Worshipful Master should have this portion of my address read in open Lodge."

The Grand Master of New Brunswick, in his address, refers to the Eastern Star: " Another matter which has caused me serious concern during my tenure of office is the attitude which we, as members of the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick, should take in regard to an organization known as the Order of the Eastern Star, which admits Masons to its membership. It is not, however, and never can be a truly Masonic body because of the admission of women to its membership."

After referring to the traditions of the English Grand Lodge and quoting the report of the Grand Master of Western Australia, he makes this recommendation: "Speaking personally, therefore, I feel strongly that this Grand Lodge of New Brunswick should place itself on record as disapproving of members of this Grand Jurisdiction devoting to the Order of the Eastern Star any of that time and energy which might more properly be given to furthering the work of their own lodges, to which certainly they owe their undivided allegiance."

In Alabama, the proceedings of 1932 record that the brethren of th" Grand Lodge assembled in the Grand Lodge Hall "for the purpose of receiving a visit from the Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star and her staff of officers."

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The Grand Master of Ontario, Canada, speaking of such societies, said: "One would have thought that there was no room for doubt as to the attitude of our Grand Lodge towards the Order of the Eastern Star after the pronouncement by M. W. Brother Ponton in 1923 and the clear and concise statement of our position by M. W. Brother Rowland in 1927. In the face of the views of these distinguished brethren which were endorsed and approved by Grand Lodge, I received an application, evidently sponsored by a member of the Craft, that a chapter of this Order be granted the privilege of holding its meetings in a Masonic lodge room. To this request I replied with a prompt and most emphatic' No.' While I have no criticism to make regarding the aims 'and objects of this Order and wish it every success in the good work it is endeavoring to accomplish, I do most earnestly protest against any member of the Craft countenancing or in any way encouraging the belief, that some appear to entertain, that the Order of the Eastern Star has any claims upon, is in any way related to or is entitled to any preferential treatment from the Grand Lodge or the constituent lodges of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada in the Province of Ontario. "My attention was called to another case where the Master of a lodge obtained a dispensation to change the date of the regular meeting of his lodge without disclosing the reason for making the request. It afterwards transpired that some of his officers had intimated to him that they could not attend upon the regular meeting night as they wished to take part in a special meeting of the Eastern Star to be held upon that date. I caused a reprimand to be administered to all members of the lodge implicated in securing the dispensation and in so doing felt that if I committed an error it was on the side of leniency. In fairness to the officers of the Eastern Star I might add that I have no reason to believe that they were aware at the time they arranged their meeting that the date would conflict with that of the regular meeting of the lodge in question. I have also directed the Grand Secretary to issue no more dispensations for altering the date of the regular meetings unless the applicant discloses a good and sufficient reason for making the request. , 'If after these repeated warnings Freemasons persist in openly or tacitly recognizing this Order as being directly or indirectly connected with our organization or having any claims upon their time or attention prejudicial to the duty they owe their lodge there will, in my opinion, be no course open to our Grand Lodge but to adopt some more drastic means of discipling the offenders."

The Grand Lodge went on record by approving the remarks of a very prominent brother: "If we should permit our great organization to become identified with, responsible for, or in any way allied to other organizations, however worthy their objects, we should soon find ourselves straying away from the true paths and purposes of Freemasonry. Serious embarrassment might easily result should we become sponsor for or officially related to any enterprise or project outside the legitimate scope of our work."

The Minnesota Acacia Park Cemetery Association of St. Paul drew the attention of the Grand Master because of improper use of Masonic emblems in their advertising. The St. Paul Daily News contained a news item with the heading, "To Confer Masonic Degrees on DeMolay," resulting in the attention of officials of that organization

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being called to such objectionable advertising and the Grand Lodge approved the position taken by the Grand Master. In Wyoming we read in the Grand Master's address: "There are some lodges in the state that are furnishing the local chapter of the Eastern Star with free use of their hall. Some of these lodges are having difficulty balancing their budgets, and one or two of them are considerably in debt, but they continue to furnish a hall rent free to another organization."

Michigan offers us a new society under the name "Kha Ble Tu Fraternity," which, according to the Grand Master, is a group of young Masons at the Michigan State College. HISTORICAL

Nova Scotia appears to be taking the.1ead among the Canadian Provinces in the matter of Masonic History. They are fortunate in having as Grand Historian, R. W. Brother R. V. Harris. He has written the "History 0 f Freemasonry in the Maritime Provinces" and the "History of Freemasonry in Newfoundland." In addition to these interesting volumes he has written at least seven plays which are Masonic in character and which have been presented to the Masonic bodies of that jurisdiction. Brother Charles S. Plumb, Grand Historian of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, has compiled and printed a history of American Union Lodge No.1, at Marietta, Ohio; this is Ohio's oldest lodge. The Grand Lodge of that jurisdiction erected a monument to the memory of John Snow, one of the earliest of their Grand Masters; an appropriation was made at the last communication for repairs to the monument. He is buried at Worthington, a suburb of Columbus. The old Masonic Temple still stands there and is said to be the oldest west of the Allegheny Mountains, having been erected in 1820. A new lodge has been instituted in Massachusetts, under the name of "Moses Michael Hays"; it is named in honor of a distinguished Jewish brother of a century ago. The Grand Lodge Librarian has unearthed a number of interesting books and items, including letters of Henry Clay, Chester A. Arthur, James Buchanan, James A. Garfield, U. S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Admiral Farragut, General Sherman, General Custer, and Lewis Casso The Cass letter was written in 1812, at a time when he was a colonel in the regular army and a major-general of Volunteers. Cass 'was made a Mason in American Union Lodge No.1 in 1803; served Ohio as Grand Master in 1810, and Michigan in the same capacity in 1826. Among other items is a pamphlet written by M. L. vVeems containing a dedication to Governor Bloomfield of New .Jersey, dated 1802, and signed by "Affectionate Countryman and Masonic Brother, M. L. \Veems." This is the "Parson" Weems who wrote the first biography of George Wash-

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ington. In this celebrated librarJT is to be found a pitcher of massive capacity made about the year 1787; it bears the word "Corn" in large letters, beneath which is the legend "Benjamin Emmons, Born in Boston, May 10th, 1762." It is barely possible that this is a relative of Missouri's Benjamin Emmons. Among the aprons in the museum are two diminutive ones which were worn by General Tom Thumb, whose real name was Charles S. Stratton. He held membership in lodge, chapter, council, commandery, and Scottish Rite in Bridgeport, Conn., and our Missouri records inform us that he was at one time a visitor to St. Louis lodges. Grand Master G. Haven Stephens and Deputy Grand Master Zarley of Illinois, attended the anniversary ceremonies of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska. The Grand Master found it a very interesting occa'sion and said of it: "As the father (n of tIle first lodge in this jurisdiction, we have a right to be proud of our child who has grown from this humble beginning to a strong, healthy Grand Lodge."

Brother Albert K. Wilson, Historian of the Grand Lodge of Kansas, is preparing a history of that jurisdiction. He has accumulated a mass of material and informs us that the frontispiece of the history will be a likeness of "M. W. Richard R. Rees, the most distinguished craftsman in our jurisdiction and our first Grand Master." Missouri is particularly interested in Brother Rees because of his activity in the Grand Lodge of Missouri. It is expected that the history will be . issued before the close of the year. The Grand Lodge of Colorado has erected a monument to mark the site of the first Masonic building in Colorado. They first secured the title to the lot and later Brother Cottinham, one of their Past Masters, presented the Grand Lodge with two concrete blocks weighing ~ore than eleven tons. The two concrete blocks have been placed on a concrete foundation. On the upper block is a bronze plate containing this inscription: "On this site there was erected in the month of June, A. D. 1859, the first Masonic Building in the State of Colorado. , 'The act of preemption as shown by the Gregory Mining District records: " 'Know all men by these presents that we, Wm. M. Slaughter, John Hughs, and .Joseph Casto, a building committee appointed by the Free and Accepted Masons, do this day pre-empt one block for the purpose of erecting a Masonic Temple, June 12th, 1859. " 'Wm. M. Slaughter, John Hughs, Joseph Casto.' , 'Erected by the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Colorado, A. D. 1932-A. L. 5932."

It is interesting to know that following the discovery of gold in Colorado, in May, 1859, several thousand men rushed to the Gregory Diggings searching for the precious metal. On June 20, 1859, an

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informal tiled meeting of more than two hundred Masons was held in what was probably the first Masonic Temple erected in the vast territory between the Missouri River and the Pacific Coast. The Committee on Masonic History in California have labored for four years securing history and interviews, photographs of buildings, lodge records, and other documents and papers involving California Masons and Masonry. Many lodges are keeping scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and matter relating to the activities of their members, lodge and community. The proceedings contain a number of interesting items concerning early day California Masons. A special communication of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island was held February 21, 1932, in Newport. The Grand Lodge proceeded to Touro Synagogue, where historical addresses were delivered in the presence of the Grand Lodge, the Governor of the State, and others. The Grand Lodge returned to the Old Colony House, where the Overseas Lodge patron formed an escort to Brother Norman S. Case, Governor of Rhode Island; the Governor is a Past Master of Corinthian Lodge No.7; he addressed the Grand Lodge briefly. Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge No.4, of England, presented to the Granq Lodge of Maryland a patent issued under the seal of the Grand Lodge of England on June 2, 1783, appointing Henry Harford to be Provincial Grand Master for the Province of Maryland in North America. The patent is signed by the Earl of Effingham and other officers of the Grand Lodge. The document had disappeared for one hundred and forty-eight years, but was recently purchased at public sale in London. At the time of its issue the Provincial Grand Lodges of the newly formed United States of America were breaking away from the control of the Grand Lodge. It is reasonably certain that Harford never exercised authority as Provincial Grand Master, but notwithstanding, the document is a valuable one. The Grand Lodge of Maryland acknowledged the gift by returning a handsome and unique plaque of silver, containing a reproduction of the seal of the Grand Lodge of Maryland. A commission has been appointed to arrange for the Centennial of the Grand Lodge of T~xas; it will occur in 1937. A recOlnmendation to erect a memorial building appealed strongly to the committee, but in view of present economic conditions that has been deferred. In the museum of the Grand Lodge of Texas are the jewels from Lahneck Lodge. This lodge was instituted July 4, 1922, at Coblenz, Germany, under dispensation granted by the Grand Lodge of Texas. The lodge was made np of members of the Army of Occupation on the Rhine" and was set to work by Brother John P. Griebel, a Past Master ,of Independence, Mo., in the presence of John H. Cowles, Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, and other Masonic dignitaries. It ceased work when the Army of Occupation was ordered to return to the United States in 1923. On June 7, 1932, the Grand Lodge of Nebraska dedicated a monu-

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ment at Bellevue to commemorate the establishment of Freemasonry in Nebraska. The monument was the gift of Wm. S. Heller, Past Master of Nebraska Lodge No.1. Bellevue is only a few miles from Omaha and was the first settlement in Nebraska, established there by Presbyterian missionaries, and later headquarters of the John Jacob Astor Trading Company. It is of note that Peter A. Sarpy, a clerk under John P. Cabanne and manager of the American Fur Company post at Bellevue, was the first person to receive the degrees of Masonry in Nebraska Lodge No.1. 'Vest Virginia proceedings of 1932 contain a history of Freemasonry in West Virginia, and a lengthy article on the custodians of the ritual. Ossian Lang, well-known writer and historian of the Grand Lodge of New York, contributes an article on "Early Anglo-Saxon Guilds and Fraternities," in the 1933 proceedings of the Grand Lodge of New York. This Grand Lodge has recently purchased the headquarters of George V{ashington at Tappan and have made of it a Masonic Shrine. More than ten thousand visitors registered during the last year. RITUAL

The Grand Master of Wisconsin decided that when the conferring of a degree was commenced it should be finished at that communication, but that there were emergency cases, such as the sudden illness of the candidate, in which the Master, as his discretion, might postpone the conferring of the second or third sections; that the Master was not responsible to anyone except the 'Grand Lodge for the abuse of such authority. He does not believe the ritual to be the ultimate end and purpose of Freemasonry, that the obligation of the lodge and its officers to a candidate does not end with his signing the rules, for he is just then in a position where the entire field of Masonic lore and literature may be opened up to him. 'rhe Grand Lodge of Oregon refused to adopt the report of the committee which believed that the monitorial section of the degrees should be shortened. The committee had particularly recommended the shortening of the third section of the lecture of the first degree. In discussing the state of the Order, the Grand Master of Arkansas says: "I am of the opinion that the question of ritualistic instruction which troubled the Grand Lodge for many years is now upon a most satisfactory basis-one which should be continued. But I am also of the opinion that we need instruction in other ways. Masonry is not simply a matter of lip service. You can initiate, pass and raise all the men you want, but if you do not do something more than merely confer degrees, if you do not make Masons and not simply members, you will never be able to hold the interest of your brethren."

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Lecturer believed it would create greater pride in New Mexico work if the jurisdiction had its own monitor, and prepared one for that jurisdiction. The ritual committee approved the recommendation and recommended that permission be obtained from the Grand Lodge of Missouri to use the material contained in our monitor. This approval was readily given. In New Zealand, the delivery of the various charges and the ritual are restricted to the Master, Past Masters, and officers of the lodge, and of the last named, preferably to the senior officers only. This Grand Lodge believes it is to the interest of Freemasonry that Past Masters be not overlooked when they are capable and willing to carry out these portions of the ceremonies. The Committee on Work of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky has surveyed the conference of degrees in one hundred fifty lodges, finding the work essentially different in nearly all of them; some employing the phraseology of other secret societies. It recommended that the Committee on Work be dismissed and their duties taken up by a committee of nine ritualists, one in each congressional district; each committeeman is to be a competent ritualist, versed in the standards of the Grand Lodge. It was finally decided that the whole matter be referred to a special committee, who will present a plan at the next communication. The Grand Master of California believes that the ritual might be materially shortened without injury to the work, particularly certain portions of the lectures. The Grand Master of Nebraska, speaking of the ritual, said: "In order to safeguard both the esoteric and exoteric work of the Grand Jurisdiction for posterity, I recommend that a committee, composed of three Past Grand Masters, be appointed to be known as the Committee for the Preservation of the Ritual. At the present time, the esoteric and exoteric work of our Jurisdiction, as approved by the Grand Lodge, is in the hands of our Grand Custodian. He is the sole arbiter. Being human, he is subject to the exigencies of life, and for that reason, I believe this Grand Lodge should look to the preservation of the work."

In some jurisdictions attempts have been made to present parodies on the three degrees; in all instances this practice has been disapproved. The Grand Master of the District of Columbia said: "Our degrees are too solemn and intended to teach lessons of too great importance to permit anything which would detract from these qualities in the slightest measure. I believe we should ever be on the alert to prevent unseemly and inappropriate conduct, not only in connection with the conferring of the degrees, but in all meetings of our Masonic bodies. The entertainment presented to our brethren should be in thorough keeping with the dignity of Freemasonry."

A story of the genealogy of West Virginia ritual appears in their proceedings. \Ve gather that the Vvest Virginia ritual was taken directly from that of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, established by the

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Baltimore Convention in 1843, and brought to Virginia by that eminent Mason, John Dove. The Grand Lodge of New York is on record as opposing public installations. In 1930, Grand Master Dutton expressed his opinion that these were not in keeping with the traditions and practices of the Fraternity, that instructions received at installation are peculiar to official duties of officers and have no concern for those outside the Fraternity. The present Grand Master recommended that all installations be only behind tiled doors. DUAL MEMBERSHIP

A special committee on Dual Members in Iowa reported, following an exhaustive research, that many things might be said in favor of dual membership and perhaps as many more against it. The committee's report is so thorough and the discussion one which is occupying the attention of so many Grand Lodges that we are quoting it practi(-ally in full: "Dual Membership is not new to some of the Grand Jurisdictions in the United States, for we find Virginia has practiced it since the organization of that jurisdiction in 1778; also Massachusetts has claimed it for many years. However, it has been only during the past ten years that it has caught the fancy of the brethren, and now the most available statistics show eighteen Grand Jurisdictions that permit, while twenty-four do -not, with about four jurisdictions that are considering it. We might say that in none of them is it practiced to any degree, because we find that in that great and large Jurisdiction of New York only one thousand brethren had availed themselves of this privilege. I I Perhaps it would be best, before entering into a discussion 'with yOIl on this important subject, to define Dual Membership. "Dual Membership is where a Grand Jurisdiction permits a brother to actively belong to two lodges in the same jurisdiction, or to belong to a lodge in one jurisdiction and to another lodge in another jurisdiction. "By this is meant, that a brother may belong to a lodge in Mason City, and also in Des Moines, or he can be a member of a lodge in Sioux City, and at the same time be a member of a lodge in Peking, China. I I With the purpose in mind to acquaint the brethren of this Grand Lodge with the facts and reasons which prompt a decision for or against Dual Membel'ship, we are assuming the privilege of stating some of the reasons on both sides of the question, and then will give you the benefit of our own conclusion. "To the brother, ,vho for business or pleasure, is living in a foreign land, the dearest tie of friendship is his Masonic Fraternity. The first place he goes is to Masonic Lodge, and there he enjoys the fraternal greeting, the genial hospitality, and the warmth of good fellowship. He participates in lodge activities the best he may and at last comes the inevitable invitation to join the lodge. He knows he has accepted their hospitality and their kindnesses and路 he has no way to repay them. His home lodge has been wonderful to him, but he cannot join the lodge of his residence without demitting from his home lodge. The result is, he does not accept of their courtesies any more, refuses to go to lodge, loses his interest and becomes only_ an affiliated Mason back home. If Dual Membership was permitted he could be a member of both lodges, thereby becoming an active Mason, encouraged and buoyed up to be a

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real asset to tIle fraternity. To give the sojourner in a foreign land the full benefit of his fraternal ties is one of the principal reasons for Dual Membership. "It has been said that to permit Dual Membership would encourage the forming of new lodges by creating an incentive for unaffiliated members to become actively engaged in the work. It would assist w~ak and dormant lodges by allowing brethren within their local jurisdiction with business and executive ability to join and assist in successfully carrying on the business and the conferring of degrees. "Some of the adherents to Dual Membership advance the theory that it would extend the universality of Masonry by granting him the privilege and opportunity to' better fraternize with his brethren, so that we would have a practical demonstration of spreading that 'cement of brotherly love and affection' which should unite the whole world into one 'sacred band of friends and brothers.' If this could be done we would all hail that 'great and glorious day' and wish it to speedily come. "In other words, if Dual Membership should be permitted, it would allow a brother to retain his membership in 'his Iowa lodge, while residing in another jurisdiction, and if he desired he could join the lodge of his residence, there to be honored by election to office, giving him the privilege of assisting and encouraging the brethren of the lodge of his residence, and which lodge would, in all probability, profit by the experience and fraternal interest of the brother who has been educated in the Craft. It would also retain the Masonic interest of the brother, to the end that it would extend the universality of Masonry, and if we could do this, it would be a forward and constructive step which would redound great benefit to the Fraternity. , 'Having now reviewed to some extent the reason for the adoption of Dual Membership, may we pr'esent some of the reasons why it should not be permitted. "First. To permit Dual Membership in Iowa would be to remove one of the ancient landmarks of the Fraternity, because single Masonic membership has been an institution since the adoption of the' Ancient Constitutions. ' "To destroy this ancient landmark of single Masonic Membership would make one wonder to whom a brother, who has adopted Dual Membership, would owe his allegiance. No person can serve two masters, and if the brother's interest is in one lodge, naturally his interest in the other will wane. "Let a question arise between the two lodges of his membership, will he have the right to vote in both lodges, and if the right to vote, can he vote one way in one lodge, and the other way in the other lodge' "Where would the brother show his allegiance, if he was a member of a lodge in this Grand Jurisdiction and if he had joined a lodge in another Grand Jurisdiction, ~nd fraternal relationship would be severed between the two Grand Jurisdictions, and how would we determine his Masonic status1 . , , Second. Would the brother holding membership in two lodges within this Grand Jurisdiction, be allowed to hold office in each of these lodges, and if allowed to hold office in both lodges in which he was a member, which lodge would he represent in Grand Lodge, and to how many votes, as a representative to Grand Lodge, would he be entitled' If an officer in two lodges, and a question arose between the two lodges, what would be his duty~ "Third. If a member adopted Dual Membership and committed a Masonic offense which of the two lodges has the jurisdiction of the brother for Masonic trial and punishment~ "If a brother committed an offense under the Masonic law of one jurisdiction and that same offense is not a Masonic offense in the jurisdic-

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tion of his other membership, what is the result~ We wonder if he would still be a Mason in good standing ~ "It is a universal Masonic law that a Master of a lodge cannot be tried for a Masonic offense by his lodge, but must be tried by the Grand Lodge. If a brother who is a member of an Iowa lodge, and at the same time is a member of a lodge in another Grand Jurisdiction and its Worshipful Master, what would be his Masonic status if he was expelled by the lodge in which he was not Worshipful Master, and by the expulsion he was expelled from both lodges, would it not be virtually one lodge trying and expelling a Master, which would be in violation of our Masonic law~

"Fourth. Masons are proud of the fact that its greatest attribute is Charity. If a brother who has adopted Dual Membership is so unfortunate as to need Masonic assistance, which of the two lodges has the responsibility to meet the obligations of a Mason, and if one lodge refused to furnish help, aid and assistance, is the other lodge compelled to assume the entire burden ~ "If a brother has membeI'ship in lodges of different Grand Jurisdictions, which of the two Grand Jurisdictions should furnish him assistance in the time of need ~ If the Grand Jurisdiction of his residence refused, what is the duty of the lodge in the other Grand Jurisdiction ~ "Fifth. It is a well-known fact that some Grand Jurisdictions have what is known as a life membership. What would become of a brother's life membership in one Grand Jurisdiction when he is suspended for nonpayment of dues in another Grand J urisdiction ~ "Sixth. To permit Dual Membership would require a revision of a large part of our Masonic law as the same might apply to our own Grand Jurisdiction, and at the same time it would have to be so revised as to be consistent with the laws of other Grand Jurisdictions in the matter of jurisdiction over our brother who has adopted the Dual Membership. To so revise the law that it will meet all of the conditions which have been suggested as reasons for not permitting Dual Membership would be almost a supreme task. " Seventh. Masonry has frowned on anything that has a tendency to produce an inequality among men. That all men are equal has always been accepted as one of the greatest teachings of the l<'raternity. Certainly no one would desire that anything be adopted that might place one man above another, or give him greater opportunity for influence. Dual Membership gives a man of means an opportunity to join more than one lodge, thereby increasing his influence, and we know this is true, because in looking up the experiences of some of the other Grand Jurisdictions we find when~ plural membership is allowed they have had men who belonged to as many as seventeen lodges. "And now that we have, in our humble way, presented the outstanding points which have come to us in the study of this most vital question, it leaves us with a thought that it is a most important one, and one that goes to the very foundation of our Fraternity. For many decades the brethren of this Grand Jurisdiction have enjoyed, with our present form of membership, peace and harmony everywhere. There is nothing in the single Masonic membership that causes a misunderstanding or a strained relationship, but on the contrary, a steadfast adherence to the Ancient Landmarks of our great l<'raternity. "It is the conclusion of your committee that to adopt Dual Membership . would open the way for discontent among the brethren, for misunderstandings between Grand JuriSdictions, and that the benefits to be received would not warrant its adoption."

In Illinois, Alexander H. Bell, well-known chairman of the Comtee on Jurisprudence, pas?ed upon the decision of the Grand Master

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wherein he had been asked whether one could belong to more than one lodge at a time. The Grand Master decided that he could not, the committee approving the decision. In Arkansas, a committee was appointed two years ago to consider dual membership, and the committee reported it could see no benefit in dual membership, but feared it would result in needless confusion. A committee of the Grand Lodge of Mexico made an intensive study of dual and plural membership. The committee finds that single membership is the relationship existing between the fraternity and a brother which restricts a member to active membership in one lodge. This has been termed an "American custom" because it is peculiar to this country. It is probably an outgrowth of a constitution which existed during the Revolution when we severed political connections with England. Mackey, in his jurisprudence, expresses doubt of the expediency of a Mason being an active member of more than one lodge, although knowing of no landmark or regulation which forbids. The committee found the following lodges recognizing only single membership: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, 'Vest Virginia. Dual membership permits a brother to have actual membership in two lodges at the same time, either within one jurisdiction, or in one lodge in one jurisdiction and one lodge in another jurisdiction. This situation exists in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has been in effect in Virginia for many years. Plural membership consents to a member assuming active membership in two or more lodges at the same time. A committee from the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin found some distinct benefits. (1) That a member could assist in forming a new lodge without severing his membership, resulting in more new lodges. (2) A member may remove to any city or state without breaking the home ties. (3) Hope for advancement which might stimulate Masonic enthusiasm. (4) Strengthening of weak or dormant lodges. Among the objections, they find: (1) Possible confusion as to demission, suspension and expulsion, unless proper records are kept. (2) Additional work in the Grand Secretary's office and the difficulty of computing net membership. A committee of the Grand Lodge of W cst Virginia adds an additional objection: They believe that membership in two jurisdictions would tend to break down the ritual in those respects in which the language might differ. The West Virginia committee postponed action until its next communication. The Grand Master of New Jersey proposes dual membership, although his jurisdiction refused, in 1929, to adopt it. The matter is to be considered by a special committee who will report next year.

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LIFE MEMBERSHIP

The Grand Lodge of North Dakota adopted an amendment providing for life membership. It specifics that any lodge may make any member who has rendered distinguished and meritorious service to Masonry an honorary life member, providing he has been a member of the Order in good standing for thirty years or more and shall have attained the age of seventy years, provided, however that by special dispensation from the Grand Master all said limitations may be waived. The Grand Secretary issues an honorary life membership certificate on the payment of a fee of $1.00. Grand Master Kinkel of Kansas believes that a lodge which adopts the plan of selling life membership, regardless of age, is making a serious mistake, citing numerous instances where lodges have sold so many memberships that their revenues have been seriously impaired. He finds many other ill effects upon investigation; he especially opposes the policy of some lodges of voting life membership to every Past Master, and adds, "A brother who has been honored by being promoted to serve as Master of his lodge should be, and no doubt is, more than willing to pay his dues, especially when he recognizes that he, being relieved of this duty, places that much more of a burden upon other members of his lodge." The Grand Lodge of Oregon employed the assistance of an actuary of a large insurance company to work out a method of life membership. The average dues charged by lodges throughout the State was used as the basis of determining the amount to be charged; no lodge was required to accept the plan. The minimum cost ranged from $100.00 to $150.00, depending upon the age of the member. Such monies were to be placed in the hands of the Grand Secretary as a trust fund; these funds are invested under the direction of the Grand Lodge and a distribution is made of the interest. Grand Master Gaylord of California made a recommendation similar to that of Oregon. The committee did not agree with the Grand Master's recommendation, believing that the lodges should be charged with the investing and managing of life membership funds and that Grand Lodge action should only be taken when the funds are diverted for improper uses. The Grand Master of New York says: "The life-blood of many of our lodges is being sapped by the excessive proportion of non-dues-paying life members on their rolls. One lodge of 852 members reports 471 life members. In the jurisdiction there are 22,637 life members, representing a withdrawal from the dues paid into the lodges of the State of more than $200,000.00, almost a quarter of n million dollars that the rest of us have to make up."

He continues: "To pay dues to a Masonic lodge is, I contend, a privilege; it is an opportunity for service that a Mason should not shun, but rather should embrace with eagerness. That fact is so fundamental that a Mason should

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as soon be excused from attending lodge, or from conforming to ritualistic forms in the work of the lodge, as from paying dues. The Mason has always, beginning with Operative Masonry, paid dues in some form to his lodge, and it is in violation of every theory of membership in a Masonic lodge that a man should be excused from any obligation so ancient and so bound into the symbolism and tradition of Masonry as that of paying dues. "In some quarters there is a disposition to establish paid life memberships upon an actuarial basis, assuring sufficient income from a lump sum paid in advance by the member to cover the annual dues, or else from a life-membership fund established in the lodge. Whatever the merits or demerits of this plan may be, it does not enter urgently into our immediate problem. Our urgent problem is to place such limitations upon the granting of life memberships as shall not strangle the lodge or affect its capacity to fulfill its obligations to Grand Lodge activities. Our love and devotion to brothers who have spent twenty-five, thirty, or even fifty years in our lodge are not involved j I yield to no one the honor and respect which is due their long service. But when the welfare of the Craft as a whole is affected, it is for us to regulate our affairs as to keep the Fraternity a going concern."

CHARITY AND RELIEF

The Grand Lodge of Ireland, through its Board of General Purposes, has ruled that no brother who has received charity from a lodge can hold office in the lodge or vote on any question before the lodge until he shall have repaid the amount of the charity so given. The Grand Master of Illinois makes a pcrtinent suggestion in refel'cnce to Masonic charity and relief: "Masonry in its inception, had for its fundamental principle~ a personal responsibility. A member, becoming sick or in need, made an appeal and his brother in Masonry, recognizing the call as a personal one, hastened to relieve his wants. But as time went on our membership drifted away from the principle and took the more modern way of 'letting George do it.' When calls came the lodge hired someone to sit up with the sick brother or a check was sent to relieve his distress. In that way we have wandered away from the real, personal obligations which we all accepted and which say, 'I will aid and assist' and' I will ever go on foot and out of my way to assist,' and our institution has been greatly weakened in the good it could do. We must return to this fundamental and, recognizing our individual responsibility, we will find that a great many of our financial problems will be solved and Masonry will take upon itself a new awakening. "Brethren of the Grand Lodge, I can upon all of you to carry this thought back to your lodge membership and rebuild your Masonic activities along the line of a personal Masonry. True, it is not an insurance order nor can any specific demand be made on your monies, but every brother accepts a responsibility when he takes his obligation and ways should be found, through sufficient sums paid in dues, that when reverses come and calls are made we can discharge them fully. In this way, and only in this way, can we hope to hold the torch of Masonry high and' our fraternity maintain the place in our civilizatrion which it rightly deserves. ' ,

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is reasonable probability of the petitioner having in mind ultimate membership in the Home. He said: , , This is such an unworthy motive that I hesitate to mention it. During the past few years some applications reflect this very motive. Some lodges seem not to understand the situation or refuse to heed the admonition. ' ,

The Grand Master of Arkansas has given out charity, charging the item to his contingent fund. He says: , 'There has been a growing tendency in recent years to develop organized Masonic charity. , , 'In the ancient craft, relief was a tenet inculcated. But the duty of assisting a brother Mason or one's fellow man was a personal duty, an obligation resting upon each individual member-not upon the craft as an institution. "As the years have gone on, enthusiastic and well-meaning brethren have recognized the opportunity to perform a fraternal and a civic service by instituting a program of organized benevolence, est~blishing homes for the aged, homes for the orphan, Boards of Relief, and what not. These have been established by individual lodges, by communities, and by Grand Jurisdictions; they were found to do a tremendous amount of good, and in the prosperous years, with growing incomes, the work was expanded far beyond the original plan. "My opinion, however, is that organized charity in Masonry is a Frankenstein, which, unless properly controlled, threatens to destroy its master. "Concentration and centralization of benevolent work has had a great vogue all over this country; it was a fine idea from the standpoint of the giver, because it spread the cost of maintaining charities over a large number of persons; it also resulted in relieving the contributor of any responsibility personally in the distribution of his benevolences, and one's assistance of his fellow man became a mechanical thing; when his personal contacts ceased, his interest waned, and the recognition of man's responsibility to his less fortunate fellows also ceased. "Individual Masons approached by brethren in distress pass them on to the officers of lodges; these in turn, embarrassed because their treasury has not the funds with which to meet demands, pass the case on to the Grand Lodge or appeal to other lodges for help. Brethren have ceased to think of charity as a tenet of the individual Mason's profession, have ceased to remember that it is their personal obligation' to support, etc. * * *' Organized charity defeats its own purpose because it encourages brethren to evade the responsibility, and leave the burden to be carried by others. "The word 'charity' is derived from the Latin 'Caritas' meaning' the heart.' It is and should ever be a thing of the individual heart; the responsibility should not be thrust upon the Fraternity as an organization; it should ever rest upon the heart and conscience of each individual Mason. ' "There is a crying need for the dissemination throughout our jurisdiction of proper information as to a Mason's duty, and an understanding of what the fraternity itself may be expected to do. , 'Moreover, we find everywhere brethren who have' the idea that Freemasonry is only a benevolent insurance order; they think that having paid the fees for the degrees, and having entered upon the payment of duesin most instances very small 'amounts-they and their families are forever afterwards guaranteed against the danger of financial embarrassment. If they need a loan, they seek to borrow from the Fraternity; brethren on their death bed tell those who are to survive them that they need not

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worry; in spite of the fact that they may have made no provision for their future, they need not worry for 'the Masons will take care of them.' Widows and children are wholly unable to understand, in fact, are often highly indignant, because the expected support is not forthcoming."

MASONIC HOMES

Grand Master Gaylord, of California, is of the opinion that it is only a question of time until his jurisdiction will be obliged to depart from its present plan of maintenance; he believed the ideal source of revenue to be an adequate endowment fund. In twenty years California increased its endowment from $17,000.00 to over $700,000.00. He says: "I believe that sooner or later we shall find it advisable to require that at least a portion of the expenses be borne by the lodge upon whose application the admission is granted. A merited criticism of our Masonic charity is that it has become too mechanical, and that the donor is too far remov:ed from the recipient. Ideal Masonic charity is still that in which each brother directly contributes to the need, temporary or permanent, of another brother or his dependents. When we rely upon a per capita tax, we increase once more the distance between donor and beneficiary, and to that extent we lose still more the spirit of Masonic brotherhood and charity. The inevitable result of the per capita system is a lack of feeling of responsibility upon the part of the lodge, and a tendency upon the part of the lodge to seek to shift responsibility to the state-wide charity fund, and to scrutinize applications less closely than if the immediate expense were imposed upon the treasury of the lodge."

Grand Master Showalter of Virginia doubts the advisability of enlarging the Masonic Homes of his State, but believes that such obligations be taken care of through the Masonic Relief Foundation, and offers the following recommendation as to the handling of present conditions: , 'In view of the increasing costs of the Masonic Home, brought about by an increase in the number of children to be cared for, and in view of the fact that several children can be taken care of in their home environment, as economically as one in the Home, it is my opinion that some arrangements should be made to care for as many children as possible ill their home environment. This would cut down the cost of this phase of our work more than any other one thing we can do and is the policy adopted and practiced by most all other Grand Jurisdictions. Therefore, I trust you will see fit to be governed by the report of the Board of Governors of the Masonic Home, and arrange for a Mother's Aid Plan, by which the children ean be taken care of by their mothers at home, and expenses of same paid out of whatever fund appears to be most practica 1. This system praeticed by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania today in ca,ing for a little over one hundred children as compared to two hundred fifty-five in our Home and yet they have approximately five. times the Masonic population of Virginia."

Interested brethren in Massachusetts presented the Masonic Home with a complete motion picture machine and sound equipment. The booth, installation and architect services were supplied without cost and pictures are being shown weekly through the courtesy of the New

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England Film Board of Trade. Grand Master Curtis Chipman offered a suggestion: , 'The time seems opportune, in view of the heavy charges against Grand Lodge relief funds, to urge upon Masters of Lodges the importance of scrutinizing with more than usual care any applications that may be made for admission to the Home and Hospital. The responsibility of children to care for their aged parents is so obvious that it seems hardly necessary to mention it, yet more than one application to the Home has been made which being investigated discloses the unhappy fact that parents are urged to seek admission to the Home because the son's wife, or daughter's husband, did not find them congenial or did not wish to assume the responsibility or inconvenience of their care. In certain other instances, sons and daughters themselves, having families of their own, feel they cannot undertake the care of their aged parents, and so petition the fraternity to do so. These examples illustrate what I mean when I urge that Masters fully satisfy themselves that they are not asking the fraternity to assume a responsibility that properly belongs to children or relatives. " Another aspect of the general subject of relief leads me to urge upon Masters of Lodges the careful examination of candidates with particuhr reference to their reasons for applying for membership. It may be that as so-called profane they have been misled as to the real purpose of the Fraternity, and regard it as a potential refuge from the vicissitudes of life and that comfort and support are assured them in their declining years. "Particularly should applications from those past middle life be examined with great care, and every precaution taken to insure that in all probability the candidate will not shortly become a dependent on the lodge's charity. "It is better that during this period of uncertain business conditions, at least, there should be no candidates at all rather than to accept those who are likely to become liabilities rather than assets. Applications for reinstatement after a term of non-affiliation should also be viewed with a critical eye, and accepted only after great deliberation."

The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, already the possessor of a large Masonic Home endowment fund, received additional bequests during the year. One coming from James D. McKee and his mother, Mrs. Virginia McKee, amounted to more than one-quarter million dollars. Brother McKee was the first to fly a seaplane across North America and was Master of a lodge in Pittsburgh in 1919. An additional bequest was that of George M. McCandless of Pittsburgh, who left $50,000.00 endowment fund and $30,000.00 to his lodgc, chaptcr and commandery. Out of the ordinary is the report of the trustees of the benevolent fund of the Grand Lodge of Colorado. It operates a Home with seven hundred sixty-six acres, most of which has to be irrigatcd. The Grand Lodge paid all of the bills in 1931, but out of the proceeds for the crop year, the committee reports that it has paid all expenses in 1932 without the necessity of calling on the Grand Lodge for operating expense. Discharged employces of the Masonic Home of Kentucky filed charges against the management of the Home and the matter came

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up for an extensive airing at the annual communication. The investigation proved to be an expensive proceeding, resulting in a complete exoneration of all employees. The Grand Lodge of Maryland is the most recent to enter the Masonic Home field and their proceedings contain a report of the dedication, on October 22, 1932, together with a picture of the main building; it is located near Cockeysville, Md., and much of the credit for its erection is due to former Grand Master Warren S. Seipp. The site contains three hundred thirty-eight acres and it is expected that the farm will furnish a source of revenue. The Grand Lodge of Washington, finding maintenance of the Home becoming burdensome, is considering the making of a charge of $5.00 per month against each lodge for each member said lodge has in the Home; consideration is to be had on the proposal at the next communication. A special committee investigating the legal title of the Masonic and Eastern Star Home of the District of Columbia found that the Grand Lodge had no legal control over the Home, although since its construction they have been supplying funds and sending indigent brethren to the Home. The committee recommended that the Grand Lodge "must be placed in a position with regard to the Home which is compatible with its place and dignity in its Masonic eonstruction; that if the fraternity is to engage in a joint enterprise that the enterprise must be under the direct control of the Grand Lodge and the Grand Body of the other society; that if the fraternity is to continue participation, the charter must be changed so as to inject the Grand Lodge directly into the control and management of its affairs and directly into the proprietary rights in its assets." As a result of this rearrangement, the per capita cost for maintenance has decreased from $78.89 per month in 1929 to $47.92 in 1932. The Grand Master said of the situation: "Our investment at the Home is well over the half-million mark and our annual outlay, counting a reasonable return on our investment, is approximately one hundred thousand donars. We shall always have brethren who honestly question whether results justify this large outlay for our small jurisdiction. Everyone well informed knows that institutional charities of this kind are the most costly. 'rhe offset, of course, is in the fact that it gives our people something tangible to visualize and sho,ver their affections upon.. A large portion of our frequent misunderstanding about the Home is due, in my judgment, to a lack of advance planning of a fixed policy and program. The IIome has far outgrown what was visualized for it by those who only, a few years ago sacrificed and gave so much for it. The responsibility is now ours to pass on to posterity something of which they can be as justly appreciative. , 'In its present location and set-up, it serves our most pressing needs reasonably well, yet we cannot expect either location or organization to improve against our increased needs. I know of no other jurisdictions having similar institutions which do not operate them in at least a partially self-supporting way, or which makes the mistake of raising children in comparative idleness. It is a mistaken policy, or lack of policy,

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and cannot possibly lead to the best results. Only during the last year, we escaped by a narrow margin a rezoning of the Home location to an industrial zone. It is inevitable that this, or something equally undesirable, will come in the not far distant future and we should plan to meet it. It has long been my idea that we should be looking and planning for an increased usefulness and new location for a Masonic Home, one of sufficient size and. location that will enable us to make it partially selfsupporting and give those of our guests who are able something to do. I think this should be done quietly and unhurriedly by the Grand Lodge. It cannot and should not be done without mature but persistent application to the problem involved. I see no reason why intelligent application to such a purpose should in any way disturb our devotion to our present Home nor any reason why, when matters have developed to a satisfactory point, our present Home cannot be moved and merged into it, with such changes and reorganization as will be mutually agreeable, and our interest in the present property disposed of to advantage."

The Eastern Star has withdrawn from the operation of the Michigan Masonic Home. It resulted in changing the requirements for admission. Past Master Carton, in speaking on this subject, said: "The law, as it now exists, gives the right to the Board to formulate the rules and regulations for the government and operation of the Home subject always to the action of the Grand Lodge in the matter. Now, the Grand Lodge did some years ago adopt rules for the admission of inmates into the Home, and these rules today are a part of the law of this Grand Lodge. Among those rules for admission is that members of the Eastern Star may be admitted. Now, since that time the Eastern Star has withdrawn, as I understand, and they are not cooperating with the Board. If that is the case, those rules for admission ought to be amended by the Masonic Home Board; they should prepare that proposed amendment to the rules for admission and bring it here, and offer it for adoption. That is the procedure which should take place if they want any other amendment to the rules for admission; the Masonic Home Board, that has had the practical experience in operating that home, should formulate those proposed amendments and bring them here and submit them to this Grand Lodge for adoption. I do not think it would do a bit of good to adopt this report. It is full of suggestions as to the difficulties they have encountered. There is no doubt about it. There is not any doubt but that the members of the Masonic Home Board have got to stand with their feet braced every day to keep from being imposed upon in the matter, not only in outside relief, but in admission to the Home, and the remedy for that lies in the backbone and in the sound discretion of the members of that board. Now, so far as these amendments are concerned for the admission to the Home, they should be prepared by the Masonic Home Board and brought here. You do not have to invoke the sixty-day rule on those. That sixty-day rule only applies to amendments of. the regulations and by-laws and the penal code. But the Masonic Home Board should have their amendments here in proper form to be adopted by this Grand Lodge. There is no other way, that I can see, that it can be done. I think that very many things that Brother Durand says in Ids report, or in the paper which he has written, are true, everyone of them, and those objections arise, but the remedy for those conditions, so far as the rules for admission are concerned, is in formulating a proposed amendment to the rules to be ratified and adopted by the Grand Lodge, and bring them here, and have that amendment adopted by this body. So far as the details of admitting brothers from Masonic lodges over the state, and the length of time that they shall be members in good standing,

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that is a matter which rests in the sound discretion of the board, under the law, which gives them the absolute control of the matter."

The Grand Lodge of West Virginia found it necessary to appoint a special committee on Masonic Home, and, from their report, it was apparently an unpleasant duty. Details of the investigation were not printed, but their report, unanimously adopted, directed the removal of the superintendent of the Home. Grand Master Wilson, addressing the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, said: "The Masonic Home, at Manchester, is the gift of Masons of New Hampshire to the members of the fraternity and their wives or widows who need its shelter. We sometimes speak of it as our particular charity. I do not like to think of it as a charitable institution but rather as a home conceived and maintained in love for those of our brethren ann their families who have needed it. "Its affairs are now in excellent condition. At the present time the Home has forty-two guests, and I am sure that if everyone of you would visit the Home, you would be satisfied that all the money, as well as all the care and labor, expended in its erection and maintenance have been well spent. "I am not, however, altogether satisfied with the present method of the Home's government. By this I do not mean to criticize in any way the past or present manageinent by the trustees. What I mean to convey to you is that I think the Home should' be in some way more closely related to Grand Lodge than it is at present. During the years that I have been a Grand Officer I have heard brief references to the Home in every Grand Master's address. All have been commendatory, and all have urged members of the fraternity to visit it and to become more closely acquainted with it. Further than this, we hear very little in Grand Lodge concerning the Home. It is true that an annual report of its finances is made to Grand Lodge by the Board of Trustees. Beyond that, the members路 generally hear and know little about the Home. As I have traveled about the state during the past year, I have had many inquiries concerning it, but frankness compels me to say that I have been unable to give the brethren much particular and definite information. Although the Grand Master is, by virtue of his office, a member of the Board of Trustees, there has been only one meeting of the trustees since the last session of the Grand Lodge. That meeting was devoted almost wholly to a discussion of applications for admission. "I am persuaded that if the government of the Home was more closely related to Grand Lodge and more particular and detailed information given to Grand Lodge every year a deeper and more general interest among all the members of the fraternity would result. I hope this Grand Lodge wi'll understand that I am not criticizing the present management. A government of the Home more closely related to the Grand Lodge might not result in better management of the Home itself, but I am confident it would result in a decided benefit to our members generally, which in time would result in increased gifts to the Home by will and otherwise."

The Grand Lodge proceedings of Louisiana contain a complete historical review of the Masonic Home for children, located at Alexandria in 1924. The history makes the following statement: "Some members were opposed to a Home and Institution of this type, preferring to make a monthly allowance or pension to each child. This

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same division of sentiment exists in many of our Grand Lodges, so that quite a number have no Home and are doing very little for the children in an altruistic way. The majority of our Grand Lodges advocate and believe in the Home, contending that the child will receive better care and training and will be afforded a much greater opportunity to achieve success in life and that a Masonic Home does not experience the objections which arise in connection with many State and other institutions of a similar character." FINANCIAL

The Grand Lodge of Washington has a Committee on Lodge Finance, whose purpose is to counsel with the builders of proposed temples, although its powers are purely advisory. The Grand Master is convinced that no lodge should embark upon a building scheme until the entire plan is laid before the Grand Lodge committee. He answers an objection thus: , 'If it be agreed that such plan interferes with rights of constituent lodges, let it also be remembered that the foolishness of any individual lodge brings reproach upon the body of Masonry even more than it does upon the lodge. Many tragic wrecks of lodges and much bitterness within the lodge would have been avoided had a disinterested, high-minded committee passed upon the plans in advance. I therefore recommend legislation which will so provide."

The committee made an investigation of two hundred twenty lodges and found their prine-ipal troubles to be (1) too high rents; (2) noncollectable dues; (3) dues too low; (4) complaints of too high Grand Lodge dues; (5) scarcity of petitions; (6) excessive interest rate; (7) lack of business cooperation within the lodge; (8) small membership. Another group of lodges have financial troubles owing to building temples in former years; their troubles are listed (1) too ambitious building plan; (2) initial indebtedness incurred out of proportion to membership; (3) excessive interest rate; (4) high taxes on lodge property; (5) falling off, or total failure of income by way of rents of space designed in building for rental. Another group of lodges report bank failures, defaulting officials, and too many life members. The Grand Master of the District of Columbia deplores the partnerships which exist between the Grand Lodge and subordinate bodies. It appears that the Temple Association is the owner of .an auditorium and that in many instances entertainments have been put on which are very undesirable advertisements. He believes that the entire building should be handled by the Grand Lodge and operated through the Grand Secretary's office. While the building is 100 per cent occupied, the income is insufficient to pay maintenance. When the First National Bank of Idaho, the largest and oldest financial institution in that State, failed to open its doors, the Grand Master found it necessary to abandon plans for holding the annual communication at the place originally designated. More than

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$22,000.00 were on deposit in the bank, prompting the Grand Master to send out a notice stating: "There being no funds available for expenses, we shall incur none. No one will receive mileage or expenses; those attending must pay their own expenses or look elsewhere for it. Many, under these circumstances, can not attend, which fact we very seriously regret. We cannot expect unreasonable sacrifices at times like these, but those who can come are asked to do so. You will be interested to learn that the relief funds of the Grand Lodge are all invested in bonds and are in no way affected by the closing of the bank."

One of the lodges which held $2,200.00 in Liberty bonds, offered to loan the Grand Lodge the money, the Grand Lodge to pay the same rate of interest the bonds were carrying; the proposition was accepted. The Grand Lodge of Wisconsin is seriously considering the arrangement of its finances by placing them under control of a business manager. Past Grand Master Lamb made a statement as to the financial structure of the Grand Lodge. He said that in the beginning the Grand Lodge was not, and is not now, a financial or business organization. It was and is a fraternal society, established to exemplify brotherly love, relief and truth. Whatever of finances and business is now carried on has been developed gradually and not because the Grand Lodge was organized to carryon such activities. In the beginning they had no money or other form of property; it was not contemplated that it would acquire property except through taxation necessary to carryon its fraternal purposes; this taxation produced money and nothing else and the mere receiving of monies due, paying them over to the Grand Treasurer and paying them out by order of the Grand Lodge, sufficed. It was soon recognized by the State that civil la\vs governing property of fraternal societies were essential and, in 1850, a law was passed authorizing fraternal societies to hold property. The property has been handled by trustees, but the business of looking after it has developed to such an extent that it interferes with the time of the trustees. He believes a general manager to supervise and direct the functioning of the various departments would conserve the time of the Grand Master and prevent the annual shifting of supervision, as it now exists. , 'Business, not fraternity, should test Grand I~odge allowance of expenditures other than charity. An audit should not be formal or perfunctory. It should be an audit that goes into the authority f.or incurring the debt as well as the rightness of the claim."

Ohio's Grand Master said: , 'There is a business side to Freemasonry which must not be lost sight of. Every lodge, however small, has certain :financial requirements which must be met, and so also does this Grand Lodge have certain :financial responsibilities which are mandatory upon it; so that the duty of this Grand Lodge is first to insure so far as possible a safe :financial status to

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each of the subordinate lodges, and then to protect itself in its own fixed and anticipated obligations. I am firnily and clearly of the opinion that any less effective" legislation wou)d nave involved and imperiled our whole Masonic financial structure."

The Grand Lodge of Tennessee invested $80,000.00 in bonds of the Scottish Rite Temple in Nashville. It appears as if this were a trust fund and that interest payments have not been forthcoming. A special committee of three were appointed to investigate the formation of a bondholders' committee authorized to protect and preserve the rights of the Grand Lodge. Financial irresponsibility is not confined entirely to the United States as we may judge from reading the report of the Grand Master of South Australia: , 'The responsibility of financing building schemes, although in reality the responsibility of the whole of the members of the lodge, has fallen on the shoulders of those sanguine and optimistic brethren who, when propounding the scheme (as they are now prepared to admit) allowed their zeal and ambition to run away with their proper judgment and clear discernment. "The question of financing Masonic Halls and Lodge Rooms is a matter of gr_ave concern to many lodges, and is giving the thoughtful brethren much food for serious consideration. To such an extent are the funds of the lodge being used to meet the interest and other charges accruing on the building itself that the very existence of the lodge is being threatened by the difficulty experienced in paying the dues which is a part of the contract on which they hold their warrant."

Nine lodges were unable to meet their Grand Lodge dues, eight of which were involved in building projects. The Grand Master said: "The payment of Grand Lodge dues is the first demand on the subscriptions of the members, and on no consideration should they be used for bolstering up building schemes or paying interest accounts until the cla.ims as set out by constitutions are satisfied."

Illinois has a financial research committee investigating lodge budgets and standard forms. The committee informed the Grand Lodge that lodges must make more drastic reductions in their operating expenses if they expected to improve conditions. It recommends that lodges reduce the number of meeting nights per month, saving in rentals, eliminate the item of gifts and certain salaried positions. It believes that there is a general misunderstanding of Masonic policy in the matter of stimulating fellowship by entertainment and refreshment. It was recommended that all lodges adopt the budget plan. This plan provides that a month prior to the annual meeting a budget committee shall be appointed to prepare the budget; at the meeting the budget is submitted to the lodge for ratification. Quarterly or m.onthly, the budget committee presents a report to the lodge showing how closely the budget is being followed. The committee on J urisprudcnce of the Grand Lodge of Illinois approved the decision of the Grand Master that lodge funds could only be disbursed for Masonie

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purposes. Brother Darrah, discussing the loaning of money to subordinate lodges, expresses his belief that no Grand Lodge should go into the general lending business, for if loans could be obtained from the Grand Lodge every lodge in the jurisdiction would immediately want to construct a Masonic Temple and would expect the Grand lodge to finance it. He believes there is another side to the matter, for if Grand Lodges are going to flatly refuse to help their constituents in time of need, then the public is going to say that surely there cannot be very much in Freemasonry since they do not believe in it themselves. Those interested in financial statistics will find considerable satisfaction in reading the financial report of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. It would appear that the resources of that Grand Lodge amount to almost twenty million dollars. Oregon operates its business affairs through a Board of Trustees, which meets monthly. The Grand Master supervises finances and general policy; the Junior Past Grand Master, the Masonic Home; the Senior Grand Vvarden, educational societies; the Junior Grand Warden, boards of relief and employment bureaus; the Deputy Grand Master, law. Grand Master Gaylord, of California, finds no specific limitation on the manner in which lodge funds shall be invested in Temple Association securities, and recommends that such appropriations be definitely prohibited, unless approved by the Grand Lodge committee. California is having trouble with widows' and orphans' funds, which appear to be sponsored by a substantial portion of California lodges. The Grand Master found that some of these funds had only nominal reserve and depend upon immediate assessment to pay benefits; others for a substantial surplus which requires investment, and neither the local nor Grand Lodge exercises control over these funds. He believes that such a situation holds inherent possibilities for future friction. The Grand Master of Alabama upon taking office, found the treasury empty, with an ind~btedness of approximately $40,000.00, no appreciable income for nine months and the expenses of the Grand Lodge a!ld Masonic Home in the offing. This situation was brought about by loose business methods. The Grand Ma.<.:;ter borrowed $40,000.00, executing a mortgage on the real estate of the Grand Lodge as security. During the communication of the .Grand Lodge a letter was read from the expelled former Grand Secretary asking the forgiveness of the Grand Lodge; the Grand Lodge voted .forgiveness, but did not see fit to reinstate him. EDUCATIONAL

The Committee on Masonic Education and Research of the Grand Lodge of Sa.c;;katchewan prepared a course of study for lodges, includ-

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ing a review of the degrees, symbolism, historical and legendary traditions, world peace, the working tools, Masonic duties, etc. Student loans are receiving consideration of the Grand Lodge of Oregon. Vie learn that they are not functioning as was originally intended. Loans have been made to seniors with the expectation that they would be repaid in monthly payments, commencing after graduation, and the money would become a revolving fund. This is not the history of the loan. Payments are irregular and many loans have become outlawed. The Grand Master expresses his belief that Masonry in Oregon "is overloaded with student loan funds." The Grand Lodge of New Mexico has secured the services of Brother H. L. Haywood in carrying out an educational and lodge service program. Booklets have been issued on lodge finance, Masonic books, lodge methods, absentees, the function of the Grand Lodge, and a history of Masonry in New Mexico. Florida believes in education through the public schools. The Grand Master, in his address, said: "Education has ever been the peculiar care of Masonry. Our Constitution provides that the Master and Wardens of each particular lodge shall constitute a standing committee on Education. If this concern for educational facilities was ever so narrow as to be confined to children of Masons, that time is past, because the only hope for education of the children of today, whether the parentage be Masonic or profane, lies in our system of public schools. I know many of the Craft are inclined to view with alarm any effort on the part of the Fraternity to influence legislation. I yield to no man in my determination to keep l'reemasonry free from the breath of partisan politics, but I say frankly that if the occasion arises where the existence and advancement of our public schools is threatened, I shall feel no qualms in leading as many of the Craft as will follow me to the hustings in its defense. Our present system of public schools is our only guaranty of equality of opportunity. It is the priceless heritage handed down to us by our fathers, and its continuance is worthy of any sacrifice that we may be called upon to make."

Washington's correspondent has this to say on the subject of Masonic education: , 'Masonic education cannot be pumped into the man who does not really want it, or whose capacity is so limited that he cannot use it. The desire for knowledge for the sake of knowledge is the stimulUS that makes the educated man in the end. Self-education is the only Kind that is truly worth the effort and is the only kind that makes the educated man in the end. A mere cataloging of the results of Masonic research can never make a real Mason. The preparation for Masonry must be in the heart before it can result in the right kind of Masons. This preparation need not be confined to the most intellectual among men, but may also be in the man of humble beginning. Spirituality is not limited to the highly educated. It is born in the heart's desire to make the man 'better and therefore wiser and happier.' "

Minnesota has organized "The Lodge System of Masonic Education." It appears to be simple, practicable, cheap, and is under the immediate authority and direction of the Master of the lodge; it

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follows the system used in New York and the District of Columbia. The lodge carries out the plan; it guarantees that every candidate is instructed in Masonic fundamentals, and is capable of easy expansion to meet the need for Masonic information. The candidate is to be taught that he is not merely joining a lodge, but a fraternity of almost four million members, that we have a history stretching back over many centuries, an intricate system of laws, traditions, purposes, ideals, obligations, rights, privileges and duties. In such a fraternity he cannot make himself at home, with credit to himself and honor to the fraternity, if he is not properly educated in these respects. The candidate is required to listen to twenty fundamental subjects. New York believes in the value of Masonic literature. The Grand Master said: "Show me a disgruntled Mason, show me a chronic fault-finder, a man who wonders if Masonry is worth while, and I will show you a Mason who does not know anything about Masonry, who never reads a Masonic book or magazine, but to whom Masonry begins and ends and has its entire being in 'the perfect performance of the ritual. I say to you Masters that you can do your lodges no finer service than by making them reading lodges, Masonically intelligent lodges. Let a lodge be made up of men who know what Masonry is about, where it came from and where it is going, who see in Masonry not just another club but an abode of brotherly love and human sympathies-show me such a lodge and I will show you a lodge in which the Master's time is not taken up with adjusting personal differences among the brethren, but who has time to carryon the legitimate enterprises of his station."

LOTTERIES

Grand Master Milloy of North Dakota deplored the Shrine lottery schemes, considering them unmasonic and contrary to the statutory law of the State and the United States. He says: "Lately there has been a tendency to veil thinly these activities by pretending to sell an article for the money taken and 'give away' the , chance.' All of such projects are on the border line if not within the statutes forbidding such acts. The intent of the law on the subject is plain to everyone. It should not be within the province of Masonic organizations or those made up of Masons to try and devise methods for questionable evasions of law. We should always take a stand wholly within the boundaries of being lawful and, with the moral standards that we profess, we should never by our example set up to the world in any way an exception that borders on the line of criminal wrong-doing."

The Committee on Jurisprudence approved his recommendation, saying: "The Grand Lodge reiterates its power and authority over bodies of Masons and organizations composed entirely of Masons and it is the sense of this Grand Lodge that no such body should countenance any lottery or other unlawful scheme for the purpose of raising money."

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The Shrine lottery occurred in the State of California and the Grand Master of that jurisdiction utilized eighteen pages in describ~ ing his experience. The substance of his story is that representatives of the Shrine assured him that the method of distribution of prizes would be based upon rigid rules of merit and that it would contain no clement violative of either the letter or spirit of the law relating to the lottery or games of chance. How We Nobles carried out their agreement is learned in a paragrap.h of his address: "I am informed on the authority of a Noble who was present at the drawing that a normal procedure for a lottery drawing was pursued, the certificates being dumped in a pile on the floor and a disinterested person drawing the winning numbers in' succession. It is practically self-evident that this or some similar procedure was followed. There is no pretense that the prize winners were designated upon any basis of superior merit for services rendered or that the winner of the $50,000.00 prize performed any greater service than thousands of other ticket purchasers who received nothing. It is generaly claimed (and correctly, so far as I can ascertain) that no representative or Noble from California was present at the drawing, thus apparently endeavoring to shift responsibility to Nobles from other jurisdictions. * * * "It is unfortunate that the Shriners, as an organization which possesses such tremendous possibilities for fellowship and effective civic and moral service, and whose rolls are honored by the names of some of our most respected citizens and most illustrious Masons, should permit itself to be discredited and its legitimate influence prostituted by the irresponsible acts of a comparatively small percentage of its members who are not Masons in fact, and who should never have been made Masons in name. It is unfortunate that there are repeated instances in which these same irresponsible Masons and Shriners by their public acts reflect disrepute upon their organization. It is equally unfortunate that to the man upon the street the name 'Shriner' is the equivalent of 'High Mason' and that to those not versed in our fraternity Shrinedom represents the pinnacle of Masonry. It is even more unfortunate that legitimate Masonry must suffer, both in reputation and in fact, from this condition, and because the Shrine tolerates conduct which is, and men who are, a disgrace to Masonry and to the Shrine itself. It is a condition which cannot continue indefinitely and the day will come, if it is not at hand, when Masonry must pay the price for its own complaisance and condonation; mere words will not change facts, nor will they restore' tarnished prestige to our fraternity; the influence of Masonry depends as much upon the. respect with which it is regarded as upon the principles which it professes or practices."

A committee on policy virtually whitewashed the matter by adopting a resolution expressing to the Grand Master "its unreserved _ moral support." The Grand Correspondent of Utah refers "to the astonishing and humiliating report of the committee on policy and general purposes," as evidence of the necessity of some action. The Grand Master of Arkansas decided that a lottery, even for charity, was illegal and un-Masonic and that tickets received to be sold should be returned or disregarded, or preferably placed in the hands of the prosecuting attorney.

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Kentucky did not participate in the lottery, according to their Grand Master. Believing that timely admonition was never amiss, he called attention to the fact that whether it be a raffle, lottery, 01' punch board, it was gambling and a violation of the laws of the State. He said in conclusion: "We must never forget that we are not judged as Masons, but Masonry as an institution is ever being judged by our deeds as Masons. "

The Grand Master of the District of Columbia notes the failure of the Shrine to heed the admonition of the Grand Master of California, but wrote him assuring him that the Shriners of the District of Columbia would have nothing whatever to do with路 the distribution of prizes. Vermont had an unfortunate condition, referred to in our last proceedings, which proved embarrassing to the Grand Master of that jurisdiction. He knew nothing of the lottery scheme until letters began pouring in from Grand Masters and Grand Secretaries calling attention to the situation. He took prompt action and the organization carrying out the lottery convened at once and voted to do all they had been instructed to do by the Grand Master. "\iYhile that Grand Lodge had no specific legislation, he did not think it necessary since our obligations require us to abide by the la\vs of the land, which should be sufficient legislation. The Grand Master of Wyoming wrote the Potentate of the Temple in his jurisdiction requesting him to withdraw the lottery portion of the ticket sale; he did not comply until later on, when he informed the Grand Master that he did not consider it a lottery and questioning as to whether Shrine was Masonry. The Grand Master said that, , 'I agree that it is not, to the best of my knowledge; that is nothing Masonic about the Shrine, however, membership in a Masonic lodge is. requisite to membership in the Shrine, and even though the Grand Lodge gives no official recognition to it, most persons think of the Shrine as a Masonic affiliation. Whatever is done by any of these organizations reflects on Masonry and on the lodges subordinate to the Grand Lodge. I believe we have a right to demand that no organization which bases its membership on Masonry shall do those things that brings discredit on our lodges, nor shall they invite Masons to violate Masonic law."

The Grand Master of Connecticut 'in discussing the lottery situation, said: "One of the fundamental troubles in this country of ours today and a thing that is threatening the stability of our civilization is the thoughtless and growing tendency of so many of us to drift away from the old standard of thrift and honesty. We say, 'Oh, well, everyone is doing it,' and with this excuse allow ourselves to engage in, or at least not to oppose, questionable practices. A lottery scheme of any kind is inherently dighonest. It is wrong in theory and practice and is a violation of law. It may be arranged so that perhaps technically it may be within the law. but when so arranged it only constitutes a studied evasion of the law and is decidedly questionable practice."

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ADDRESSES

Harvey F. Ake, Grand Master of Ohio, gave advice to his Ohio brethren which might be equally appropriate in Missouri: , 'Open lodge at the appointed time. Conduct the business of the lodge in a dignified, orderly manner, then close. The brethren who care to visit may do so with more freedom and less disturbance after lodge than in i.t. Those who want to go home may go. "Past Masters shou)d be frequently seen (in the lodge), but not too often heard. , 'The quickest and surest way to ruin a good lodge is to continue the same brethren in office from year to year. The best talent is frequently on the sidelines. , 'If your lodg'e officers persist and insist on banking lodge funds with their own, put them under bond. You and they will be embarrassed sooner or later. The bond will protect against financial loss. "If you have any improvement upon the ritualistic work, submit it to the Committee on Ritual. But until the approval of that committee is had, follow your, ritual literally and strictly. "The Grand Lodge will give permission to smoke in lodge to all brethren who smoke in their church. All others must refrain. "The little things as well as the big ones make Freemasonry different. 'rhe big things force recognition and obedience. Neglect of the little ones will bring your lodge to the level of just another meeting. "Every Mason worthy of the name is proud of his apron. He is never properly clothed and should not be permitted to sit in lodge unless he is wearing it. , , Are you a Freemason or just a member of the lodge ~ , ,

The Grand Lodge of Wisconsin conducts a speakers' forum and orators throughout the State compete, the winner delivering his address before the Grand Lodge. The contest this year was won by David E. Beatty who spoke on "The Philosophy of Krause." We quote the following extracts: "In undertaking a study of Masonry the subject resolves itself into several very distinct and definite classifications, among which are its Origin, History, Tradition, Symbolism, Jurisprudence, Ritual and Philosophy: And of all these branches of Masonic learning, probably the most interesting though the most neglected is its philosophy. * * * "The maintenance of society, however, and the promotion of its welfare depends on much besides law. Even in its original and humble rule of preserving the peace, law was by no means first in importance. "Ancient religions and their moral teachings held men in check long before law was established. And thus beginning as one, religion, morals and law have slowly differentiated into three controlling and regulating agencies which today help maintain the social order. "Religion governs men so far as it is a regulating agency, by supernatural sanctions. . "Morality by the sanction of private conscience, fortified by public opinion. "Law by the sanction of force of organized society. "Each is able to employ its sanction systematically in maintaining society, but to do so it must be wielded by an organization. "Accordingly, we find the church giving force to religion and the state assuming and putting itself behind the law.

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"But what and where is the organization that gives system and effeetivness to the force of morality' * * * "Masonry, therefore, in its usefulness to society under the philosophical interpretation of Krause serves as an agency to reach that peak of social perfection for which the world is striving and which will be the salvation of our present state of Civilization, and where we also as individual members of the Fraternity, may, through a study and assimilation of its teachings, attain that personal perfection of character which will at last entitle us to be fitted as living stones in that house not built by hands, eternal in the heavens."

Grand Master Showalter of Virginia urged respect for law and the preservation of Masonic ideals: " Another matter that I would like to commend for your consideration is one that I am sure will appeal to the Masonic heart and conscience of every Mason under the sound of my voice-and this I would term as an appeal to the Masons in the State to safeguard our moral relationship a little more carefully. We should be intensely jealous of the fundamental teachings of Masonry, when it comes to their practical applications, and also consider the fact that we arc living through a period of time that an institution cannot be maintained on account of its antiquity or history, but will be measured by its present-day accomplishments. That we have a great many of our members who ruthlessly violate the laws of the country in which we live and in many other ways violate the teachings of Masonry, is a fact that no one can deny. We might as well learn that the best thing to do in a matter of this kind is to find the facts, fix the facts and face the facts. While a Masonic trial is not a pleasant thing, and criticism is not always easy, let us not forget that we have promised to extend to each other a word of warning and kindly advice when the occasion presents itself, but to permit decaying, infectious material to remain in an institution of human beings, is like the orchardist who permits the San Jose scale and dead limbs to remain among the fruit trees."

Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, addressing the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, spoke on "Economy in Government." "Today in Massachusetts and the United States everyone, every CItIzen, feels the weight of government on his shoulders, whether it be in the cities, whether it be in the States, or whether it be in the nation. The one phrase that we hear on every hand is 'Economy in Government.' We must cut down. What does that mean ~ It means, of course, simply this: We can, of course, trim our service. We can, of course, reduce salaries of our employes in the government. We can, perhaps, cut out some of our repairs, but to make any major economies in government we have got to give up something. It is just the same as in our homes. To effect real economy we have got to give up something. If we give up something, If we give up something, we have got to suffer for what we give up. We c'annot expect the government to carryon that service for us any longer. Either we have got to go without it or we have got to perform it in some way ourselves. Over the past ten years we have become more and more dependent upon our government. That perhaps is natural. We have had prosperous times for the last ten years and we have demanded more of our government without thinking of the cost. But now the shoe is on the other foot. "We also must remember, if we give upa service, we are going to throw somebody who has performed that service for us, out of a job, and when we throw him out of a job, we will make it very difficult for him

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to get another job, because he may have been performing that government service for a great many years and be incapable of taking on a new -job at this time. Just to show you what I mean, we may have a hospital that you want to use. We may have some other service I路 may want to use. I am perfectly willing for the government to give up your service, but I do not want the government to give up my service, and you feel that same way about what the government is doing for you. 'Give it up. It is not going to hurt me, but it is going to hurt you.' Everybody wants economy in government to come in a way that is not going to affect his own personal interest. That is what we have got to think about.' ,

Herbert H. Hines, Grand Chaplain of Vermont, at one time an officer in the United States Army, addressed the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts on "American Problems." One paragraph concerned our relationship with foreign countries: , 'One of our problems is the question of war debts. Some of us think that these war debts ought to be paid. The nations of Europe have not yet told us that they cannot pay them. Some of those twenty nations told us that they will not pay. It is hard to think that the nations of Europe have learned the lessons of the Great War when they cannot pay for the last war and are still paying from four to eight times that amount in preparation for the next war. This is not the first time we have been caught in a diplomatic game with other people who are more expert in these forms of argument. At the present time the United States is being called Shylock alld similar names, because we have not yet exposed our own hands, or told of our own conditions. Weare not able to pay Europe's debts. It is no worse to starve to death in Europe than in the United States. It is no worse for men to be unemployed in Europe than in the United States. It is not a question of sentimentality, of revoking good will, or of advocating isolation. All that was thrown into the discard years ago by the interrelatedness of our modern industry and the facts of our common life. We do not care which terms of payment are used~ but we believe it can be worked out reasonably for mutual good."

Benjamin C. Parker addressed the Grand Lodge of Manitoba on what Masonry could do to better conditions in the world today: "But let me return to the metaphor of the rivers, lakes and streams. What of Masonry, then, in the light of this metaphor. Does it not appear that, in the final analysis, Masonry is a matter of individual concern, and responsibility, and that Masonry, in the mass, is only the sum total Df the contributions of the individual Mason. I believe it is. It has been said that you cannot know a nation, you can only know citizens of that nation; but you form your idea of the nation from its citizens. You cannot know a church; you can only know members of that church, but you form your idea of the teachings of that church, its purity, its beneficent influence, from your knowledge of its members. Even so, the world at large, cannot know Masonry. It can only know Masons, and through them, form its concept of the craft, and its teachings, its purposes and its effects. I do not suggest that Masonic conduct should be actuated by the sole desire to appear well before those who are not privileged to enjoy its rich gifts of moral and philosophic teaching, the brotherly love and affection that flows from Mason to Mason, but I do say that this is of importance in affording us a gauge, by whieh we can measure our success. To the profane, we may say' Not by our creed, shall ye judge us, but by the work of our hands,' and as they pronounce our work good,

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so shall we know the joy that comes from a life well lived, a task well done. So shall we be assured that the dignity, honor and reputation ()f the institution shall be firmly established, and the world at large convinced of its good effects. So shall men of good report be drawn to it, and its ranks be continually augmented by the flower of our country '8 manhood. So shall the living stream of Masonry wax strong and ever stronger, until, as a mighty river, it shall sweep away the barriers of misunderstanding, pride and prejudice that stand between man and man, between nation and nation, and because of its influence, the world become a kinder, sweeter place, wherein our sons and our sons' sons may live at peace, and designs upon the trestle board of the Great Architect of the Universe be given physical form in a bright and happy world of friends and brothers."

Grand Orator vValter C. Lindley of Illinois received a standing vote of thanks for, his annual oration. It was a practical talk concerning our everyday relations: "The traditional conscientious thought of Masonry, its concern for the good of all mankind within and without its ranks, must be one of the safeguards of the future. To it and related leadership we must look to solve our civic, social and commercial problems; problems which legislation cannot solve and which partisan policies cannot reach but which can be solved when Masonic principles are applied. to the affairs of everyday life. , 'My own experience has largely to do with the administration of justice. There we think of the bench and bar as the responsible p.arties. But there is a third partner in the process-the voting public. The people elect the judges or the executive who appoints them; they constitute the juries called to mete out justice. Despite this basic responsibility the mental attitude of a large proportion of the American people towards law is fundamentally the greatest obstacle in the way of an effective and efficient administration of justice, both civil and criminal. In their point of view respecting the relation between the State and the individual, myriads of our citizens are positively unmoral; they are too often utterly devoid of any sense of personal obligation as functioning units in the organism we call the State; and when they function they seem governed by motives and reasons which, by the most liberal standards, cannot be dignified by the name 'principles.' The voting public not only admits no duty upon itself to insist upon standards of high honor in those who have a responsible part in public affairs but actually shows its contempt for virtue by discharging the obligation of suffrage in a manner which no high-minded, or thinking person, who has left some respect for his own character, has the audacity to defend, unless, of course, he has discarded as unsound the very foundations of our economic and political system. The public attitude towards the administration of justice is no less reprehensible, no less a handicap to its efficient administration, than is the conduct of the voter at the ballot box an obstacle in the way of political government upon a high plane. Indeed, a citizen cannot at the polls manifest his contempt for honor in the路 canaidate for public office, without throwing the machinery of justice out of gear. Yet, the voters do so somewhere in every election in this great country; and the men and women who do so go home from the polls to join the unthinking denunciation of the courts and of the lawyers because a criminal has escaped, or justice moves too slowly to suit in a particular instance. (, In 1914, in one of the lal'ge states of the southwest, a citizen became a candidate for governor in the primaries of his party. He had served in at l~ast one penitentiary for train robbery; he had for many years

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been a robber and made a living at that business. Having served his sentence, he decided to abandon a career of crime and embark upon that of public office. Notwithstanding the notoriety of his prison record, he entered the campaign w.ith unblushing zest and enthusiasm, seeking a 'vindication' at the polls. He received only a partial 'vindication' for he was not nominated; but with six in the race and a total vote of nearly one hundred thirty-two thousand, he was only fourteen thousand votes behind the winning candidate; and of the six, he was third. "In another state, out of a total of three hundred eighteen thousand votes, one candidate received approximately twenty-eight per cent, or eighty-eight thousand votes, for nomination to the office of United States senator. This man was, at the time he ran, under indictment for a serious offense against the laws of his country. Whether guilty or innocent, the fact was that the machinery of justice had been set in motion and the officers of the law and at least twelve men had concluded that there was reasonable ground to believe that he was guilty of a grave public offense. Without investigation, before the legal machinery could move to a completion, without any real knowledge of or even a desire to know the facts, over eighty-eight thousand voting citizens sought to exclude inquiry, and to foreclose, to obstruct, the due processes of the criminal law, by a vote of 'vindication.' When a large section of the public thus flouts decency, defies the efforts of the regularly constituted authorities to punish offenders, is it any wonde.r that respect for the law wanes and that difficulties in the way of its cnforcement accumulate apace~ Codes of ethics for lawyers and judges do not reach this fundamentally dangerous popular attitude.' ,

His conclusion was: "Whatever may be your views as to what our constitution should be, whether or not you regard these tcndencies I have pointed out to be the breaking down of the bulwark essential to our stability, you will all agree that it is the unquestioned duty of all Masons to use our influence, in and out of season, to induce respectable industrious men to give more time and attention to public interests. This is a platform on which we all can stand. It cannot but result in bringing into active cooperation the dormant energies which may be directed to better government I This is not a party question-it is above, beyond, greater and more vital than any party policy! ' ,

J. vVallace Woodford, Grand Master of Delaware, concluded his address with a splendid statement as to the future of Masonry: "The future of Masonry is in the hands of its followers. We have nothing to fear from the outside; our problems are internal. The principles espoused by Masonry, so potent in the past, are needed in the world of today. Some may scoff at idealism, but it is still the moving force in the life of the individual and society's anchor of stability. To teach such principles to our fellowman and hold before him such ideals is a task worthwhile.. To imbue men with the desire to translate these principles and ideals into action is a supreme accomplishment. In these disturbing days, when there is so much skepticism and misgivings, may we take to our hearts the admonition of the apostle: 'Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering.' "The progress of Masonry in the days ahead will be measured to 3 large extent by the type of leadership which it can command. Men fall in love with Masonry because of its fellowship and the inspiration that comes from the contemplation of great and noble truths. Frequent COlltact with Masonry is essential if its influence is to be dominant in the

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life of the individual. We do not need elaborate programs of entertainment to attract our membership to lodge meetings, but we must give them something worthwhile. To do this requires initiative and planning on the part of the Worshipful Master and his officers, bearing in mind that the strength and effectiveness of the lodge do not rest upon numbers alone, but depend upon opening the doors of heart and mind that the principles of Masonry may find lodgment there."

Grand Master John M. Kinkel of Kansas believes that the benefit of Masonry to the individual lies in his interest in, loyalty to, and sense of appreciation of Masonic obligations: , , No Masonic lodge, as such, may attempt to exert any direct influence outside of the confines of its lodge room. If such attempt were made in relation to any public, politic, economic, or religious question, there would at once be aroused such a storm of protest from its own members that such effort would necessarily fail. There are almost as many different opinions upon all of these questions as there are individual members of the Order. We do not attempt to unduly influence nor do we require obedience from any member that would in any way conflict with any duty to God, country, or neighbor. "At first glance this might appear to be an inherent weakness. Yet, in studying the history of the past, it becomes prima facie evidence of its strength and permanence. "Within the confines of the lodge room, Masonry is supreme. There its law controls. There it has opportunity to inculcate the principles of brotherly love, relief and truth into the minds and hearts of men and to aid them in building a character so strong that they will play such a part in life's struggle as will reflect honor and glory upon the Craft. "This sort of quiet, potent influence is a most valuable asset and should be husbanded and protected by every member and guarded with a zealous care. "Unfortunately, it must be said that now and then some misinformed brother falls, and fails to maintain his obligations and even injects his misdeeds into the body of the lodge. The sound, sober judgment of the brethren, however, will finally prevail and such intrusion be resented and rejected by them and the Craft move on with a renewed energy, resulting from the effort put forth by it to relieve itself from the influences of hurtful, un-Masonic acts and deeds. "So it is a comforting thought to believe that as Masonry continues in its established and oeaten path, just so long will it continue exerting its beneficent influence in the lives of men. It is for this reason that we decry innovations, of which more will be said."

Lord Bledisloe, addressing the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, spoke on the majesty of Truth: "We acknowledge as the grand principles on which our Order is based, Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth, and during such a period as that through which this country, in common with the whole world, is passing, special opportunities are afforded us of demonstrating, as regards the first two, that we are prepared not merely to profess them, but to practice them with unselfish liberality, so far as our reSOUl'ces and opportunities permit. But what of the third ~ Are we equally convinced of the importance and paramount need of Truth as a dominant factor in our lives and Masonic outlook, if our structure, individual and communal, is to achieve such a degree of symmetry and perfection as to be worthy of the Great Architect of the Universe and of our human destiny' As Craftsmen, while with the word of Truth open before us, we handle rev-

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erentIy the Square, the Level, and the Plumb Rule, we acclaim the Supreme Being as the Grand Geometrician. Being Himself a faultless pattern and exemplar of accuracy and orderly precision, he demands of us complete honesty, sincerity, rectitude and uprightness in all our dealings with our fellow men. It is this quality of Truth and Sincerity which seems sadly lacking in the world today and largely responsible for the suspicions and enmities which destroy harmony among the nations, and among people of various classes which compose them. Is there not a tendency in international relationships, as well as in domestic intercourse, to say one thing and mean another, to entertain mental reservations, to substitute subtle diplomacy for perfect frankness, and to fail in placing all our cards upon the table in seeking agreement between discordant views ~ The' war to end war' has not yet brought peace upon earth and that sense of security and confidence which makes for material well-being and human contentment. The world seems distraught and its ordered progress temporarily arrested. What is the remedy, and has Masonry any part which it ean usefully play in applying iU Surely we can at least hold aloft the banner of Truth, observing it strictly in all that we . do and say and think, in our fraternal relationships with one another, in our daily intercourse with those outside our ranks, and in our obligations to the Government and the community at large. By so doing we may make our Craft a conspicuous Lighthouse of Truth which will radiate afar that Divine attribute, piercing with its penetrating radiance the dark shadows of human discontents and misunderstandings, and thus laying a sound foundation upon which a new and better world edifice can hereafter be raised. If the predominant wish of our hearts is to see Light-especially the undimmed light of Truth-and ever to see it more. abundantIy, it should be our aim in our conduct and in our influence to carry it not only into our homes but into the busy haunts of men. Equipped as we are with the working tools of enlightened Craftsmen, namely, the Square with its reminder of equity and square dealing, the Level with its appeal to unflagging morality and justice, and the Plumb Rule with its insistence upon uprightness in thought, word and deed, we arc, or should be, specially qualified to spread the gospel of Truth as the one sure basis of a stable edifice of human relationships, whether of the local community, the nation, or the world. Let us at least tighten up our moral fibre, and doggedly decline to allow expediency or alleged necessity, to take the place of strict integrity and conscientious rectitude, even though it prove to our temporary material disadvantage. If fashion or decadent custom appears to condone our entry into solemn obligations with mental reservations, let us courageously prefer to be unfashionahle and adhere to older and better precedents. By so doing we shall help in maintaining at a high level the ethical standard of the whole community.' ,

One of the outstanding adresses delivered by Grand Masters in 1932 was that of Robert B. Gaylord of California. He advocated a Public School Week for the purpose of counteracting the atheistic propaganda of the Soviet government. lIe condemned the improper use of lodge rosters for political or commercial purposes. He was opposed to the reduction of initiation fees during the present stringency, believing it would cheapen the fraternity and not result to the advantage of any particular lodge; his experience showed him that a reduction in fees tended to lower the standard of membership and ultimately reduce the number of petitioners. He had the following to say in correspondence with the National Masonic Research Society:

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"The National Masonic Research Society, publisher of 'The Builder' and 'The Masonic Who's Who,' and publisher of books dealing with Masonic subjects, complained that one of our lodges had failed to pay a bill of $10.97 which was of more than three years' standing, and in ~n effort to obtain payment of which the Society had previously corresponded with the Grand Secretary of California. Feeling that the Grand Master of this jurisdiction has more important duties than the collection of $10.00 claims, and knowing the business and moral integrity of the lodge 'with which the Society stated it had corresponded, I replied as follows: " 'This acknowledges yours of 26th ult., enclosing correspondence file connected with a stated indebtedness of $10.97 on the part of - - - lodge. " 'You suggest that you do not care to bother the Grand Secretary or to make a collection agency of him. To be frank, I do not feel that the Grand Master should be used for that purpose on an item of this size; nor can I convince myself that your motives in calling the matter to my attention are other than a desire on your part _to avoid losing the amount. If it were a matter of disciplining the lodge, it should be presented through the usual channels of your own Grand Master. " 'Except for the coincidence that (a personal reason) and for that reason I am interested in the reasons behind the correspondence, I would not be disposed to give it attention, as it is a purely business transaction.' "Investigation disclosed that the claim covered books ordered by a member of the lodge, and although he happened to be chairman of the educational committee, the books were billed to him personally and no :J.ttempt had been made to collect from the lodge until efforts to collect personally from the brother failed. , 'It ultimately developed that while the books were sold to the brother personally, the lodge some two years ago had issued a check to him to cover the amount, and for the purpose of paying the bill. "Notwithstanding my feeling that the Grand Master should not be called 'upon to act as a collecting agent for claims of this size, and particularly under these circumstances, nevertheless, it appearing that the brother had misappropriated funds of the lodge, I instructed the taking of proper disciplinary action; there being a marked distinction between his failure to pay a bill and his misappropriation of lodge funds whi~h were entrusted to him for the purpose of payment."

He had some interesting remarks to make on the subject of commercial activities of lodges, the Masonic Home, and the Shrine lottery. John Maxwell, Grand Orator of Texas, believes that the goal of Freemasonry is the discovery of Truth and the establishment of social justice among the peoples of the earth: "Many men arc of many minds as to what is social 'justice, but when we find the truth, then we shall know. "It is an evident fact that the mass of folks cannot all know what is wisest in government and society. They have neither the time nor the means to devote to its study. The problem of earning a livelihood lies heavy on their shoulders. The hard facts of economic needs are continuously present wlth them. , 'We have preached incessantly through the years the doctrine of equality; we have expended our wealth in a program of popular education; we have championed and promulgated a regime of universal sufferage, and with all these we have neglected the basic need, that is, a wise and righteous leadership. , 'Some who have gained an inkling of the truth, have become frightened at the cry of the rabble and retired into their private sanctuaries,

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there to enjoy the intellectual pleasures of philosophic meditation. Others have dedicated their talents and wisdom to the enhancement of personal interest in business or profession, and have ignored the cry of the populace for a Washington or a Lincoln. "In this state of affairs the people suffer. They are restless and ill at ease. They'seek a way out and have no leader. They endure, but have no hope. False leaders have arisen. The demagogue and the unscrupulous have asserted themselves. They appeal to ignorance, passion and prejudice and by that means lift themselves into power. They either do not know, or do not care for the truth. A just and righteous social order is not their aim. Personal profit and power is the sole purpose of their efforts. Naught care they that havoc and ruin may be in the distance, so long as they are at the helm. The ship may wreck, but they 'are the master. "The story of the exodus of Israel from Egypt to Canaan is an epoch of the experiences of every people. It is Pilgrim's Progress from the abode of Despair to the Celestial City, from Darkness, and Doubt to Light and Faith. Under the guidance of Moses they lifted the burdens of the brickyards of Egypt from their backs, and, led by Joshua, they sounded the trumpets of victory around the walls ofJericho. The Revolutionary soldiers marched from the tragic days of Valley Forge to the triumphant hour of Yorktown. "But when Moses was on Sinai, seeking the truth for his people, Aaron surrendered to the cry of the rabble, and builded for them a calf of gold. While Washington suffered with the troops at Valley Forge, treason entered the camp to disrupt the hope of the struggling colonies. "Thus has the story run in the struggle of the race for righteousness and justice. "It is not different now. In the years that have passed, we have overlooked our first need. We have struggled for power as a nation. We have been absorbed in the amazing drama of scientific and industrial progress. We erected the expanding structure of our prospertity on :l foundation of gold. We deified the intellect and forgot the soul. We builded for ourselves an industrial Frankenstein. We delighted in its perfection and glorified in its power, but we dreamed not of its danger. True to its nature, it turned upon us. There was no pity in it. * * * "One of the tenets of Freemasonry is that some must govern and some must serve. This is the nature of human society. The complexities of modern life emphasize this necessity. By specialization we have limited the individual's activities to a very small sphere. Economic pressure requires that one's best efforts shall be applied to the thing at hand. We, therefore, commit to those selected the duty of leadership in establishing law and justice. By that act, however, one is not absolved from his own obligation. He is bound by every sense of duty and personal need to give intellect and courageous support to right action and promptly to condemn the wrong. " Another teaching of our Craft is that he who occupies the place of authority shall be just and wise; that he shall consider only the common good and that his every act shall be free from personal gain. The type of leadership will determine the progress of the nation for weal or for woe. The failure in which we now find ourselves is largely a failure of leadership. "Pamphleteers and dreamers throughout the world are offering remedies. Some propose that we create a new monetary system; others say to abandon the naval and military establishments of the nations, and still others arc advocating all sorts and kinds of conferences, national and international, there to resolve the world out of its misery. None of these things alone will avail. Change the monetary system and there will be those who will control the most of it; abolish armaments, and fear and

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jealousy between the nations will persist. Resolutions and statutes wm not change human character nor defeat the operation of natural laws."

Elwood E. Beemer, Grand Orator of Nevada, addressed his Grand Lodge on the ideals of Freemasonry and its requirements for membership: I I The very high standard of character exhibited by eminent Masons, maintained by eminent Masons and upheld by the rank and file of Masonry is not due and should not be attributed to the influence which Masonry exercises on the men who join it. A lmost every other institution asks you to look at its finished product for an illustration of its ideal. You go to a school and the school bids you look at the graduate as he goes forth into the wo:rld, and judge from that finished product of the school what the ideal of the school is, the ideal toward which the school has been working. You go to a church and the church asks you to look at the perfected saint, who has spent a lifetime before the holy altar, and iR just about ready to be taken from hence to the hereafter, with a character wrought into form and beauty by years of prayer and worship. In that saintly soul at the end of a holy life you may see the ideal of that chur,~h. It is so with all institutions which attempt to reform people. They all ask you to see their ideal in the final result, in their graduating class. I 'Masonry is the reverse of this. Masonry is no reformatory institution; Masonry is no school; Masonry does not undertake to create character; Masonry reverses the whole process and erects her ideal at the door you enter instead of at the door by which you depart. She asks that a man who enters Masonry shall be as good as any Mason is ever required to be. , 'Masonry is an organization which does not so much seek to reform and elevate, but seeks rather to band together those who are upright and worthy of association. Hence, the requirement that he who would enter must be a man typical of all the noblest characteristics of the human race. In the :first place, the rule is that he must be a man. Women arc excluded. 'l'here has been some dispute as to whether the man or the woman is the nobler specimen of the race. My views on that subject depend entirely upon the place where I express those views. The farther I get away from home, the more certain I am that man is the nobler. I am more or less shy to express that view exc~pt in the recesses of a Masonic lodge, far from home, and then I have no doubt of the proposition. Speaking seriously, there has been an underlying idea in the human family in all ages that the male is the superior animaL It was, to illustrate, always the male lamb which was taken for the sacrifice. " Not only does Masonry require the applicant to be a man, but he must be a man of full age. No uncertain boyhood will do. Masonry demands a man whose character has been settled. It is seeking the best of the race at its best estate. I ' Another requirement, as you well know, is that the applicant shall be free-born; and, my brethren, the underlying idea is that he must be well-born. rrhe son of no slave, a free-born man! There is something in being well-born. We cannot get it out of our heads that there is as much in the breed of people as there is in the breed of horses. The older we get the stronger that idea comes to us. When we have seen the physical resemblance go down from father to son; when we have seen from mother to daughter beauty and grace alike descend; when we have seen from sire to son intellectual ability, upright living and courage undismayed descend, we can no longer doubt that there is something in being well-born. When we get old enough to have seen the thing at work, from father to son and on down to grandson, we know what heredity means. Nothing in this world can persuade us that there is not a good deal in heredity.

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, 'Masonry first looks for the ideal man to let him in, and insists tlwt he must be a man of full age, free-born and sound in all his limbs and members. This insistence on physical perfection is not that Masonry cares for a finger or a toe or a leg or what not, but a man sound in all his limbs and members is typical in his physique of the perfeetion of character which Masonry expects in the one who seeks to come in. It was a lamb unblemished that was always offered as an acceptable sacrifice, and it is the man unspotted physically, a perfect man, which Masonry requires to come in. "We notice that Masonry does not simply ask that those who are at the highest and are about to depart from Masonry shall be men free-born and perfect in all their limbs and members, but it makes these requirements of those who are coming in. This is because Masonry erects her ideal at her portaL"

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pardon of all our reviewer friends who are expecting particular and specific comment on the work of their jurisdictions. The Grand Lodge of Missouri has seen fit to limit the space accorded thl~ reviewer, necessitating a discussion of only those points which have confronted the Fraternity during the past year. Weare purposely omitting considerable material which we feel would interest our readers, and particularly those of other jurisidictions. Brother Louis Block of Iowa commends the statements of Grand Master Gentry in reference to the Eastern Star, Sunday picnics, and commercialism in Freemasonry. British Columbia, through its reviewer, does not agree with Grand Master Gentry in his appointment of lawyers to head trial commissions because it was his opinion that lawyers were more familiar with technical rules and procedure. The reviewer says, "As a rule, in our opinion, lawyers are among the poorest exponents of Masonic law." He adds: "Altogether the address, although somewhat lengthy, is one of the best we have had the privilege of reading this year." Virginia's reviewer notes the Virginia ancestry of Grand Master Gentry. In speaking of Grand Master Gentry's address, Oregon's reviewer recognizes that while enemies have been made in attempting to do his duty, that Brother Gentry has followed the example of Hiram the Master; "that he is the Prophet Nathan, and has without fear said to him who would steal from our craft its integrity and honor-'thou are the man!' 'The wicked worketh a deceitful work, but to him thatsoweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.' " Reviewer Warner of Colorado refrains from criticism or approval, believing that the information which he has given will not be helped by giving his own opinion, that his duty was to advise the Colorado Craft as to what other Grand Lodge'S were doing and nothing morc, that in the formative stage of Masonry such discussions were interesting and valuable, but today not worthy the existence. Review Whited, of California, has a lot to say about Missouri:

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"Here is another Grand Lodge that has to cut expenses-all of them have to do it now, for that matter, as well as all of us individuals. Well, you will agree that Grand Lodges have to cut expenses, if you did. But it is interesting to see what they do to cut down expenditures; how wild they get sometimes. Take Missouri, for instance. Grand Master Gentry takes a crack at the Foreign Correspondence report and recommends that they refuse to print excerpts from other books; goes on to rub it in hy saying, 'I recommend that this committee be requested to so abbreviate this report as to leave out everything but correspondence.' What he meant by 'correspoJ1.dence,' he alone knows. The interesting matter that appeals to us is the fact that Grand Master Gentry ought to know that there are in other states some men who can and do write things that are far more valuable at times than "ihat Corona H. Briggs could or did writeor what J. Edward Allen could or did write. It's our business to give to our readers what we know to be most forceful, interesting, useful, inspiring and generally valuable to Masonry and to those who pay the bills. The Grand Lodge has a perfect right to tell any of us how many pages the maximum that it can print of our work will be; but when it presumes to tell us what to leave out, it is meddling into something which is supposed to be handled by one chosen by the Grand Lodge because he knows how. Reminds us of the time when the farmer was driving a mule hitched to a buggy; the mule did a mean piece of kicking, kicked the dashboard off the buggy, and eventually got both hind feet into the buggy, whereupon the farmer is said to have remarked, 'If you dang fool are going to get into this buggy, I think it is time for me to get out.' "It may be said in passing that the same Grand Master who fusses about the correspondence report being too long, uses forty-five pages of six-point type for his official address. If he wants us to tell him how to make that shorter - - - - - - ! And then, about cutting down expenses in the Grand Lodge of Missouri-let's see! They paid out $18,990.40 in mileage and per diem for this one session. The Grand Master not only gets his expenses of $1,500, but a salary of a thousand, .as well. The Grand Secretary gets a salary of five thousand, which is somewhat more than the average man is getting these days for a year's work; and the Grand Lecturer $4,200.00.. They pay the Foreign Correspondent $750.00 for writing the report limited to 150 pages, which he richly deserves but which is twice as much as goes for the work in North Carolina. The attendance of representatives at the George Washington Memorial meeting and the Grand Master's conference cost them $400. And so on. All of which suggests that Grand Master Gentry might have looked around him for other things to take a kick at, .rather than 'excerpts in the Foreign Correspondence report.' We give it to him for one other thing-he started the Annual Communication Tuesday morning, September 29, 1931, at ten 0 'clock, and closed it on the following day, so that delegates drew mileage for only two days instead of the usual three - - . And that was nothing short of cold-blooded, hardboiled premeditation, too; for the World's Series baseball games were being played in St. Louis those three days, and the boys wanted to Bee them. The local committee was flooded with requests from delegates to get tickets in advance."

Ely P. Hubbell (now deceased) refers to the gift made the Grand Lodge of Missouri by one whose family was not connected with the Fraternity. He says: "The gift is subject to certain strings. Florida's experience in CO))nection with bequests with reservations attached has not been wholly satisfactory.' ,

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Reviewer Patten of 路Vi ashington, speaking of Grand Master Gentry, said: , 'He evidently has some difficulty with so-called Masonic papers which were run for private profit. Here is something which has sent chills down the spines of many a Grand Master and can only be avoided by strict prohibition. " .

Reviewer Fly, of Texas, finds a distant tendency to write and pressent reviews topically. He says: "Some are producing topical reviews of a very high order. Candidly, we must confess we are rather tempted to such an undertaking ourselves, but somehow we so far doubted our ability to make the grade in such an art and accordingly continue as reviewer."

He says of Grand Master Gentry: "His culture and vigorous style of composition is most attractive. Dignified and authoritative, it comports in highest measure with the exalted office of Grand Master. But for the high regard, he himself impels in us for his opinions, we would feel inclined to quote at large from this splendid address. However, in his advocacy of economy in the matter of reducing the size of their printed proceedings, he advises as to the writing of reviews: 'Let the Committee tell us in a very few pages about actual correspondence on important subjects.' Our disappointment is great, in that the Grand Master did not more full amplify at this point by defining' actual correspondence on important subjects.' "

Past Grand Master Crites writes a topical review for Nebraska. It is crammed full of good material and, to our notion, far better than any other type of review. Past Grand Master Hepner, of Montana, reads with interest the address of Grand Master Gentry. He refers to the Grand Master's admission that he was a poor record keeper. Our friend Sol "hastened to look up his biography and found that he is a lawyer, hence we do not wonder at his admission. He is guilty as charged." Grand Chaplain Gallagher, of Michigan, reviewing Missouri, said: , 'Frontispiece, a portrait of Grand Master Gentry. Evidently an attractive personality. Sketch of life covers four pages. More evidence of attractive personality. Elected Grand Master when 71. Raised to the sublime degree when 31. In early years, a teacher of German, Frencli and Spanish; blooming later as a lawyer. 'fhe Grand Master's address is literature. Much of it is worth quoting. His tribute to Past Grand Master Briggs, Fraternal Correspondent, has the merit of frankness, to say the least."

Reviewer Cheney, of New Hampshire, presents his twenty-sixth report. He says of the Grand Master's address: "It contained many topics, much discussion, to which we cannot allude. It was a document of the superlative kind, from a man who is a Masonic

student and devotee-a choice leader of men."

The Grand Master of Idaho acknowledges the pleasure he had in attending a special communication of the Grand Lodge of Missouri.

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So far as we recall, this is the only instance in which Grand Masters have made any comment as to the Missouri invitation. MISCELLANEOUS

One of the most unique Masonic events in Arkansas was the conferring of the degrees upon the father of the Grand Master. Unknown to Grand Master Smith, his father petitioned, the matter was kept secret and at a specially arranged meeting the Grand Master was asked to preside, but not until the candidate was admitted did he learn that the man upon whom he was to confer the degrees was his own father. The Grand Master wore the apron which had been his grandfathers. Difficulty being had by committees in making themselves heard, a microphone and loud speaker was installed during the annual COlllmunication of the Kentuky Grand Lodge. A member of a Kentucky lodge who was serving a term in the Atlanta penitentiary was being carried on the records as a member in good standing, notwithstanding the section of the Constitution which automatically suspends brethren when imprisoned, The Grand Master of Kentucky came in conflict with an Association known as the Round Table of Masonic Lodges of Jefferson County. "This proved to be a Past Master Association which had begun to think itself larger than the Grand Lodge; it even went so far as to call a mass meeting for the night preceding the Grand Lodge, to which delegates of the Grand Lodge were to be invited. The Grand Lodge found the action of the Association, "A flagrant case of insubordination on the part of the members of an organization which has no Masonic standing and recommend that the aforesaid Blue Lodges Round Table be dissolved, forbidden, and interdicted, and all lodges and Masons owing allegiance to this Grand Body, be, and are hereby, forbidden further membership or association with the said Association."

The Grand Lodge of Maryland dedicated, during the year, a monument to the memory of Warren S. Seipp. To those who know Warren Seipp, the words of the orator will particularly appeal: "His was a rare and an arresting personality. Intense, vivid, buoyant and strong, he knew nothing of fear and little of doubt. Whatever he set his hand to do he did with his might, and pressed on to his chosen goal relentlessly and surely. Measured by the number of his days his life was short, measured by worthy deeds well done, by wide and loving service, and by the indelible impression he made on the hearts and minds of the thousands ,vho knew him, it was full, rounded and complete."

Maryland has always been known as a jurisdiction with an ad vitam Grand Master. The recent Grand Master declined to stand for reelection, expressing his belief that "a term not exceeding three years as Grand Master would be the best for Masonry in Maryland." Grand Master Bogley, of the District of Col~mbia, believes that

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there should be a Grand Lodge organization of a group of brethern specifically charged "with the duty of co-ordinating our efforts and directing them toward fixed purposes and policies. In Masonry there is a need of continuity of endeavor with definite objects in view. Each Grand Master comes into office with an ambition to accomplish certain objectives, all of them good perhaps, but they are more or less personal with him. They are his ideas of what will best meet the needs of the Fraternity and promote its welfare, but they do not, and possibly cannot, represent what should be the contribution of his own talents and abilities toward the furthering of a permanent and carefully studied purpose to be followed, if need be, over a course of :rears."

An echo of the bonus army is to be found in the relief reports of the District of Columbia: "When the' Bonus Army' visited our City last summer we anticipated a grand rush for relief, but we are happy to say that only seven applied for assistance, and two of this number were found unworthy; the others were given aid by the Board, or the Lodge as authorized. The attendance of some few of the delegates at our regular meetings has not been all that is desired. However, a large majority of the lodge's representatives are regular in their attendance, and faithful to their duties, showing much interest in the work, and displaying a willingness to aid the officers whenever as occasion arises."

November 15, 1932, was observed as the Thirteenth Annual Memorial Service of Armistice Day by the United Grand Lodge of Queensland. It was a beautiful tribute which caused the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island to present a specially engraved certificate to M. 'V. Brother Moses Morris of Montana, who had served as Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island for more than fifty years. The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Montana wears a signet ring which has come down to them from pioneer days; it is made from a nugget of purest gold and transmitted from Grand Master to Grand Master. . Freemasons of the Grand Lodge of Victoria, Australia, joined in a special Cathedral Spires Service in February, marking the completion of the spires of St. Paul's Cathedral, upon which Operative Masons had been at work for several ycars. The Grand Master of Massachusetts, while visiting the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, presented Henry Price medals to Grand Master Kilpatrick and Brother Carl H. Claudy, of the Masonic Service Association, for meritorious service. The Grand Master of Tasmania tells his Grand Lodge that Psalm 133 is the most appropriate passage for the opening of the lodge, emphasizing the great note of unity among brethren. An interesting story of Masonry in Alaska appears in the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Washington: it was written by the Grand Historian, Brother George A. Custer.

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New York celebrated a "Go to Church Sunday"; for the benefit of the brethren of the Jewish faith, a Friday night was selected. Reports indicate that sixty thousand brethren responded to the call. The Master of Justice Lodge No. 753 presented to the Grand Lodge the celebrated traveling trowel, which, for the past twenty-eight years, has gone from lodge to lodge throughout the United States. This relic was once in Missouri, at which time three Missouri lodges and one in Illinois held joint communieation, dipping the trowel in the . waters of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. The Distriet of Columbia Board of Relief reported that brethren from Seotland invariably presented life certificates as credentials. These brethren were not paying dues to lodges, nor supporting the fraternity in any way and the Board has taken the stand that holders of such certificates are ineligible and unworthy of consideration by the Board. The National Sojourners Association filed with the Grand Lodge of Ohio a statement of its objects and purposes. It appears to be an organiy.ation of commissioned officers of the uniformed forces of the United States of Ameriea, organized for the promotion of good fellowship and supporting the patriotic aims and activities in Masonry. Missouri has a chapter of this organization. The Grand Lodge of Washington, in addition to the usual Grand Oilleers, has a Grand Historian, a Grand Standard Bearer, and a Grand Bible Bearer. The Grand Master of California believes no member should be suspended who has not been personally interviewed by a committee and the situation presented to him in a fraternal spirit, and he is not to be suspended if路they are convinced he is financially unable to pay. The Grand Master of Massachusetts made a similar request of lodges, believing that the true Masonic spirit of helpfulness and sympathy in distress should be displayed as an encouragement to hope for better days. The Grand Master of South Dakota, while at Sioux Falls, signed five hundred Past Master certificates, and during the year signed over nine hundred. l'he Grand Lodge of Victoria, Australia, prohibits the conferring of the Master Mason degree by anyone except a Past Master. The Grand Master of Arizona proposed legislation which would prevent the circularization by lodges concerning any legislation proposed or pending before the Grand Lodge without first securing the approval of the Grand Master, and a committee reporting on the recommendation, said: "Every lodge by complying with the requirements of the Constitution is entitled to be represented in this Grand Lodge by its Master or other representative and if has anything to present it would always be assured of courteous and careful consideration. Our Annual Communications are the proper and only suitable times and places for the consideration of any matter deserving of attention."

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The Grand Master of Tennessee arrested the charter of one of the lodges; because of the low standard of ideals shown and the conduct of other of its members the lodge had lost the respect of the community. Illinois' correspondent (Darrah) thinks it is remarkable how Freemasonry is always seeking some new fad to put into practice; he places the prese"ntation of Bibles in this class; he wisely adds: "If the fraternity ";ants to curry favor with religious people, the be!:!t way to accomplish :it would be' an improvement in the personal conduct . of the members of the Craft."

Utah's Grand Master says: "We must never be soill advised a8 to abrogate that old custom-by this time worth nearly the force of a landmark--of forbidding the 80licitati9n of the profane."

The Grand Master of Manitoba said: , 'A Masonic lodge is not often a gathering of saints, but it furnishes us with a good groundwork for the very best in human aspirations. Above all things, it is a place for tolerance."

Those who may be interested in the outcome of the Masonic Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Arizona will be interested in the Grand Master's statement: , , After a year's trial we are forced to the conclusion that we are maintaining an institution for other than our own membership. While we are philanthropically incline~, the expense is too much of a burden."

Tennessee's Grand Master recommended that mileage and per diem be cut to 5 cents per mile and $5.00 per day and路 that many of the standing committee be abolished or consolidated. These recommendations were approved. A new Research Lodge has been chartered in Oregon, in the City of Portland; it has thirty-one members. The Grand Master of Alberta opposes questionable publicity, especially forms of entertainment which tend to bring ridicule to the fraternity. The Grand Lodge of Mississippi recommended that mileage be reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents per mile and per diem remain at $3.00 per day; that no funds of the Grand Lodge be expended for the purpose of defraying expenses of any Grand Officer or representative to any National Association or meeting. In order to reduce expenses certain committees are to be appointed from representatives present at the annual communication and who draw mileage in another capacity. The Grand Lodge of Illinois has stricken from its code a requirement that a petitioner for the Masonic degrees be a citizen of the United States. California declined to confer degrees as a courtesy upon a candi-

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date elected to membership twelve years ago in an Eastern jurisdiction. The candidate was paralyzed from the waist down and could not even remotely conform to the physical requirements of the degrees. The Grand Master of 'V~shington, in beginning his address, took occasion to explain to the brethren in attendance how the business of the Grand Lodge of Washington was transacted. He decided that a Mason did not lose his membership by reason of joining a so~called clandestine Scottish Rite, since, officially, Freemasonry knows nothing beyond the first three degrees. 'Vorshipful Brother a~d Rev. Mark Matthews delivered a splendid oration on "Why and What." Degree teams in Califonua will be subject to certain restrictions. Degrees conferred by a degree team shall be at the request of the Master and not at the solicitation of the team; it should be an exceptional event and only efficient teams shall be permitted to act. It is an indispensable condition that the work shall be conducted in a dignified manner. The newly elected Grand Master of Kentucky, speaking of the depression, said: "What we are going through with now is history repeating itself. We had four years of war, and prosperity, and we shall have four years of depression and hardship. It is the inevitable result of sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. When the change does come it will not be made by any measurement of time, but within the twinkling of an eye."

District Deputy Grand Masters came in for an investigation by the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. They found that eighteen jurisdictions do not use the system; in one jurisdiction appointment of Deputies . is made by others than the Grand Master; in some jurisdictions, lodges nominate and the Grand Master confirms; in most jurisdictions, the term of office is for one year; in twelve jurisdictions Deputies act as Grand Lecturers. Michigan has discontinued this system. The Grand Master of Virginia refused to permit a lodge to solicit funds for the purpose of celebrating the birth of George Washington, to lay a Church cornerstone on Sunday, and to place a wreath on the grave of Mary Vlashington. Oregon is to consider the advisability of electing the Grand Master one year in advance of the time he is installed. The committee will report on this next year. The Grand Master of Massachusetts, speaking of some entertainment features, said: "The tone of such entertainments as are offered must be definitely raised to a far higher level and I am confident my brethren will see the propriety of my comment and that there will be no occasion to speak of this again."

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preservation of charters, use of chemical fire extinguishers, adequate water supply, inspection of flues, care in the disposal of cigar stubs, and proper insurance. An Orator in the Grand Lodge of South Carolina gives us a brief picture of the average American Grand Lodge: "The Grand Master puts on his stovepipe hat, literally and sometimes :figuratively as well, and reads his report. What docs it include ~ Dispensations, decisions, nine-tenths of which are unnecessary, discipline, necrology, with fulsome eulogy of dead brethren, a great deal of it undeserved, accompanied with the world's worst poetry. I have heard more bad poetry in Masonry, and especially in Grand Lodge, than in all other places put together. If that sort of poetry is read over my body, I'll haunt the man who does it. Then the Grand Master goes on to the State of the Craft, statistics, new lodges established, and so on, and :finally he winds up with a grand burst of eloquence. After that the distinguished visitors are introduced and they arise and strut. I have seen some who could sit down and strut. They extend compliments, and say usually nothing net. The address of the Grand Master of Georgia tonight was a refreshing change from the usual address of a distinguished visitor at Grand Lodge. "Then the committees report-on ritual, :finance, appeals, etc. The Superintendent of the Home asks for a little more money; new officers are elected, appear to be very much surprised and get up and make the same identical speech that they have been making for the last hundred and :fifty years: 'With the help of you brethren and your cooperation I will endeavor to discharge the duties of my office to the best of my ability. ' Meanwhile the Past Grand Masters, like a row of hungry buzzards, sit all ready (unlike buzzards in this respect) to pounce on anything new and alive; and everybody has a grand time fraternizing and eating big meals at the expense of somebody else."

The Jurisprudence Committee of the Grand Lodge of \Vyoming passed upon a resolution which would compute the percentage of Grand Officers in accordance with the age of the lodge, its membership, and the character of the work done. It would have considered as eligibles Past Masters who had continued in the service of the Craft after completing the terms of their office and who had attended the sessions of the Grand Lodge at their own expense. The committee believe that its general purpose would seem to run in opposition and contravention of Masonic usages and customs, and the Code in the matter of usurping the prerogatives of the Grand Master in making appointments to Grand Lodge offices. Its operation would be absolutely impractical and unworkable, and that Grand Lodge preferment cannot depend upon geographical locations or a routine of subordinate lodges, and finally ,vould create discord in the Grand Lodge. The Grand Lodge agreed. The Grand 'Master of \Visconsin does not favor the Grand Master's conference. He found no suggestion or recommendation to Grand Lodge proposed by the conference, nor any plan for united action; he found no place in the Masonic system for such an organization but could see no objection to informal meetings for social acquaintance

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and intercourse; he doubted if the benefits were in proportion to the efforts and expense. A commission of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas has located the graves of all deceased Past Grand Masters except one who was lost in the Galveston flood. The expenditure for markers has been approved. The Grand Master of Ohio attended Memorial Services of Marion Lodge No. 70. After the conferring of a degree, which took place at 4 a. m. (480 members ,yere in attendance) the brethren went to the tomb of former President vVarren G. Harding, where wreaths were deposited. An invasion of jurisdiction by a subordinate lodge came in for condemnation by the Grand Master of Virginia. In addressing a letter to the lodge, he said: "Your lodge is located in a City to which many young men are attracted on account of the educational advantages; you should, therefore, be doubly careful not to receive any petition until you are thoroughly satisfied that the applicant resides within your jurisdiction. I wish you to think of the embarrassment and humiliation of a man who, having been raised, finds himself illegally made and an outcast."

Kansas, a few )rears ago, severed fraternal relation with the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire. The matter should not have been permitted to go as far as it did, but we are gratified to learn that things have been adjusted. The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire sent Harold H. Hart of their jurisdiction to the annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Kansas in order to show their desire for a renewal of relations. The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire is to be congratulated on their efforts to effect a reconciliation, and let us hope that no other jurisdictions hereafter may sever relationship without a reasonable attempt to maintain fellowship. Nebraska has a committee on the Promotion of World Peace. In the report this year we read: "I am opposed to the United States becoming a member of the W'orld Court to enforce its decrees. The Court must have sufficient power to compel any nation, or group of nations, to abide by the verdict of the Court. .J apan 's invasion of China is an illustration of the helplessness of this Court and in this instance, although the United States was not a member of the Court, the powers composing that body expected the United States to put the necessary pressure on Japan to enforce compliance with their dictates. The last few years have proved that the United States will stand the brunt of the cost of the Great War, especially if we are a member. Let us keep ourselves free from foreign political entanglements.' ,

Grand Master Morley of British Columbia, speaking of his visit to Pennsylvania, said: "From our arrival until our departure, we had the feeling that we were surrounded and enveloped in a great spirit of friendliness and brother-

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hood. We learned, as we had not before realized, that the true American people harbor neither distrust nor antagonism toward the British Empire, but on the contrary they desire and merit our friendship and regard."

The Grand Master of Virginia approved the consolidation of two Masonic publications, one of which appeared to be under the domination of the Grand Lodge; he urged support of the official publication. The Grand Master of Massachusetts, telling of the George W ashington Memorial dedication, said: "Our Grand Master marched, as planned, in the position of honor to which Massachusetts was entitled, the first Grand Lodge to follow the Grand Lodge of Virginia, under whose auspices the dedication ceremonies were conducted."

Grand Master Gaylord, of California, found a number of instances where official lodge rosters were used as mailing lists. It is his belief that rosters are not maintained for such purposes. A committee finds that it is physically impossible to prevent improper use of even legitimate lodge rosters. The committee believes an effective manner of dealing with the case is to omit all details other than names. Secretaries are to be prohibited from permitting the use of mailing lists and addresses for other than lodge purposes. Trial commission comes in for praise at the hands of the Grand Master of Nebraska, who regards it: , 'As one of the best pieces of legislation ever enacted by this Grand Lodge. It so far excels trial by lodge that I wonder why we sanctioned the old form so long. We avoid a great deal of dissension among the brethren that formerly arose from a Masonic trial; the new system avoids the possibility of friends of the accused packing the lodge room on the night of trial, who, in their desire to express their interest in a brother in trouble, lose sight of their obligation to preserve the reputation of the fraternity unsullied."

The Grand Lodge of Louisiana once engaged in the erection of a Grand Lodge Hall; the annual deficit from operation is at the present time $25,000.00. Lodges which meet in the building insist that the rent charged will force them to surrender charters. The Grand Master has advocated disposal of the building, and adds: "The moment the Grand- Lodge entered the commercial field, that moment it was compelled to divide its activities between fraternalism and commercialism. They axe like ice and oil. They do not blend. One is cold and repelling, the other is smooth and soothing. With cold business precision our commercial activities are daily smothering our fraternal activities. We have now reached the point where we must arbitrate on a financial rather than on a fraternal basis. Our commercial obligations demand that we be indifferent to want and misery. Our fraternal obligations say we should relieve distress. There is no happy medium between them. One must prevaiL"

The Grand Lodge of Michigan has refused to permit the Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem to occupy Masonic buildings, believing

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that "the Grand Lodge has gone as far as it should in permitting various bodies, outside of the lodge itself, to occupy the lodge room." Lodges with 'less than fifty members are found to be in distress financially and otherwise in Texas, where there are more than tWD hundred lodges with a membership of less than fifty. The Grand Master believes that it is due to the low dues charged per year and that the distress is not caused altogether from the present financial condition. He advocates consolidation and a survey of the 'situation through a permanent committee. The Grand Lodge of New York has had a special committee on Audit of Lodge Records, and suggests the foll01ving principles as standard practice: . (1) That the Secretary's minute book contain an itemized record of all monies received and disbursed; (2) the Treasurer should receipt for all monies on the Secretary's minutes; (3) each lodge should have a Board of Trustees, finance and audit committee; (4) no member of a lodge to serve on more than one of these three committees; (5) all warrants should carry the signature of the Master and Secretary."

Masonry has too much law, according to Reviewer Darrah of Illinois, who finds that we have departed considerably from Anderson's original Constitutions and the ancient landmarks. Between the Grand Master and the Jurisprudence Committee many decisions are given not originally contemplated, even the Grand Lodge session is not free from nUmerous suggestioi1s. There is a mania to tinker with the laws and give them modern construction; such a p~ocedure tends to keep Masonry in a state of unrest. The Grand Master of Arizona recommended that the Grand Lodge resume its membership in the Masonic Service Association of the , United States, and a gpecial committee approved the recommendation. The Grand Master of Utah said of the Assoeiation: "Vvere we in a better financial condition I would be in favor of our rejoining the Association, and I feel we should at least offer to the enthusiastic students and workers who operate it our very best wishes for their prosperity and continued success."

The Grand Lodge of Nevada, through its Finance committee, approved the recommendation of the Grand Master that the Grand Lodge resume membership in the National Masonic Service Association. A special committee on Revision of Burial Service was appointed at the 1931 communication of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, and reported having completed its labors. The new form is now permissible within that jurisdiction. In Utah the matter of giving Masonic burial to a deceased member whose conduct in life had reflected discredit upon the Fraternity was discussed and it was left within the power of the Master to determine what should be done under such circumstances.

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New Mexico is tinkering with the funeral service. It was left to the judgment of the Ritual Committee who had prepared two services, one for the grave and one for the home. â&#x20AC;˘ Maryland, having considered the funeral services of many jurisdictions, was not convinced of the desirability in a change of the form now in use in Maryland. A few lodges in Connecticut do not like the funeral service and seldom use it, believing it too gloomy and lacking in comfort and hope. A new committee ,viII revise and rewrite the service. A funeral service prepared by the Master of one of the local lodges in 'Vashington has been compiled, printed and circulated throughout the jurisdiction. By resolution, it is made permissible until 1933, at which time the matter of its final disposition as an optional service will be brought to the attention of the Grand Lodge. Nevada has adopted a new burial service which has been printed in booklet form and distributed. Most of the material has been taken from a digest of Masonic burial services published by the Masonic' Service Association.

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OF GRAND LODGES

The following Foreign Grand Lodges are recognized as regular by the Grand Lodge of Missouri: Alberta; British Columbia; Canada; Chili (at Santiago); Cuba (Island of) Denmark; Germany: Eclectic Union, National, Royal York of Prussia, Saxony, Three Globes, Zur Eintracht, Zur Sonne; England; France (Nat. and Ind. G. L. of); Ireland; Manitoba; Mexico (York G. L. of); Netherlands; New Brunswick; New South Wales; New Zealand; Norway; Nova Scotia; Panama; Philippine Islands; Porto Rico; Prince Edward Island; Quebec; Queensland; Roumania; San Salvador; Saskatchewan; Scotland; South Australia; Sweden; Tasmania; Victoria; Western Australia. LIST OF GRAND SECRETARIES AND THEm ADDRESSES Alabama, Guy T. Smith, Montgomery. Arizona, Harry A. Drachman, Tucson. Arkansas, Fay Hempstead, Little Rock. Calif.ornia, John Whicher, San Francisco. Colorado, William W. Cooper, Denver. Connecticut, Win t h I' 0 P Buck, Hartford. Delaware, John F. Robinson, Wilmington. District of Columbia, J. Claude Keiper, Washington. Florida, Wilbur P. Webster, Jacksonville. Georgia, Frank F. Baker, Macon. Idaho, Curtis F. Pike, Boise. Illinois, R. C. Davenport, Harrisburg. Indiana, William H. Swintz, Indianapolis. Iowa, C. C. Hunt, Cedar Rapids. Kansas, Elmer F. Strain, Topeka. Kentucky, Fred W. Hardwick, Louisville. Louisiana, L. E. Thomas, New Orleans. Maine, Convers K Leach, Portland. Maryland, Harry C. Mueller, Baltimore. Massach:usetts, F. 路VV. Hamilton, Boston. Michigan, J.Jou B. Winsor, Grand Rapids. Minnesota, John Fishel, St. Paul.

Mississippi, Edward L. Faucette, Meridian. Missouri, Arthur Mather,St. Louis. Montana, Luther T. Hauberg, . Helena. Nebraska, Lewis E. Smith, Omaha. Nevada, V. M. Henderson, Carson City. New Hampshire, Harry M. Cheney, Concord. New Jersey, Isaac Cherry, Trenton. New Mexico, Alpheus A. Keen, Albuquerque. New York, Charles H. Johnson, New York City. . North Carolina, .J. H. Anderson, Raleigh. North Dakota, W. L. Stockwell, Fargo. Ohio, Harry S. Johnson, Cincinnati. Oklahoma, C. A. Sturgeon, Guthrie. Oregon, D. R. Cheney, Portland. Pennsylvania, John A. Perry, Philadelphia. Rhode Island, H. L. McAuslan, Providence. South Carolina, O. Frank Hart, Columbia. South Dakota, George A. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls. Tennessee, T. E. D{)ss, Nashville. Texas, W. B. Pearson, Waco. Utah, Sam H. Goodwin, Salt Lake City. Vermont, Archie S. Harriman, Burlington. Virginia, James M. Clift, Richmond.

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Washington, Horace W. Tyler, Tac·oma. West Virginia, George S. Laidley, Charleston. Wisconsin, William F. Weiler, Mil· waukee. Wyoming, J. M. Lowndes, Casper. Alberta, J. H. W. S. Kcmmis, Calgary. British Columbia, W. A. DeWolf Smith, New Westminster. Canada, William M. Logan, Hamilton, Onto Chili, Rodolfo C. Oliveira, Santiago. Cuba, Jose F. Castellanos, Havana. Denmark, Peter O. Rosenorn, Copenhagen. Eclectic Union, C. l\{ a n go I d, Frankfort-on-Main. England, Sir P. Colville Smith, London. France ( Nat. and Ind. G. L. of), G. F. Beaumont, Paris. Germany (National) , Karl Langenbucher, Berlin. Ireland, Henry C. Shellard, Dublin. Manitoba, James A. Ovas, Winnipeg. Mexico (York G. L. <If), A. Percival Hughes, Mexico City. Netherlands, A. F. L. Faubel, The Hague. New Brunswick, John Twining Hartt, St. John. New South Wales, David Cunningham, Sydney. New Zealand, George Barclay, Christ Church.

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Norway, Eivind Lowig-Hansen, Oslo. . Nova Scotia, James C. Jones, Halifax. Panama, Jose Oller, Panama City. Philippine Islands, Newton. C. Comfort, Manila. Porto Rico, Jose G. Ginorio, San Juan. Prince Edward Island, Ernest Kemp, Charlottetown. Quebec, W. W. Will i a m son, Montreal. Queensland, Leslie P. Marks, Brisbane. Roumania, Corneliu Mihalesco, Bukarest. R,oyal York of Prussia, August Horneffer, Berlin. San Salvador, Tomas Soley, San Salvador, C. A. Saskatchewan, W. B. Tate, Regina. Saxony, Rudolph Got t s c h a II, Dresden. • Scotland, . Thomas G. Winning, Bdinburgh. South Australia, Charles R. J. Glover, Adelaide. Sweden, Yngve G. Wisen, Stockholm. Tasmania, W. H. Strutt, Hobart. Three Globes, Emil Friess, Berlin. Victoria, William Stewart, Melbourne. Western Australia, A. E. Jenson, Perth. Zur Eintracht, Willy Tetzlaff, Giessen. Zur Sonne, Christian 'Vorrlein, Baden-Raden.

GRAND REPRESENTATIVES TO AND FROM THE GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI TO MISSOURI. GRAND LODGE FROM MISSOURI Grand Representative Post Office Grand Representative Post Office William A. Clark Jefferson City........... . Alabama H. G. Earnest Anniston Byrne E. Bigger .. ; , Hannibal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Arizona. . . . . . . . . . .. James S. Cromb Clifton James A. Boone Charleston , .. , ' •.......... Arkansas. . . . . . . . . .. M. W. Greeson ' Prescott Frank G. Ade Joplin , British Columbia William Astley Vancouver William S. Campbell St. Louis ' Canada Donald Sutherland Princeton E. L. Robison St. Joseph , Colorado Carl J. Bradfield Pueblo T. E. Starke , Hannibal. Connecticut Leonard J. Nickerson , , West Cornwall James H. Scarborough Warrensburg Cuba ............• Calixto Fajardo , Havana B. C. Bradshaw Arrow Rock Delaware ' Weldon C. Waples Newark Albert Linxwiler , Jefferson City ' District of Columbia Leonard P. Steuart Washington Ray V. Denslow Trenton ...•........................• England ...........................................•............ Julius C. GarrelL St. Louis Florida Richard B. Lovett Tampa W. W. Martin St. Louis , ' Georgia William Bordley Clarke , Savannah Carl A. Swenson Mountain Grove Idaho Clarence D. Purkhiser ...•.. Caldwell DuVal Smith St. Joseph ' Illinois George A. Stadler , Decatur Nat D. Jackson Independence , Indiana Herbert A. Graham Indianapolis Walter Williams Columbia ' , Ireland William Hamilton , Dublin Chas. L. Woods , Rolla , Kansas D. A. Meredith , Kansas City F. C. Barnhill Marshall Kentucky Sam K. Veach Carlisle John Pickard Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Louisiana. . . . . . . . . .. Lee E. Thomas............. Shreveport James A. Kinder , Cape Girardeau , Maine William A. Small Portland Arthur S. Metzger , ' .. ,. Malden , Manitoba Alexander B. Callin Russell James W. Skelly St. Louis , Maryland. . . . . . . . . .• B. F. Lucas ......•......... Baltimore Arthur Mather •............ , St. Louis ...•....•................ Massachusetts ........• Robt. D. Webster Jamaica Plain Orestes Mitchell , St. Joseph.............. . Michigan , Neil W. Murray Detroit Arch A. Johnson Springfield Minnesota ..•........ Albert T. Pray , .. Minneapolis William F. Wigginton Moberly , ' Mississippi. , John Foggo Dixon Natchez Curtis J. Neal. Cape Girardeau , Montana W. M. Montgomery Anaconda E. E. Morris Kansas City Nebraska Orville A. Andrews Lincoln Morris E. Ewing , Morrisville Nevada Nealy H. Chapin Ely GUY C. Million Boonville , New Brunswick John Twining Hartt St. John Henry C. Chiles Lexington ,. ' ....•.. New Hampshire Oscar Earle Jewell Warner Leander J. Eads Hamilton ," New Jersey W. S. Casselman Camden B. C. Hunt Columbia New South Wales James T. Smiles Sydney Athol J. Michener St. Louis , New york........... Bainbridge Colby,.......... New York

GRAND REPRESENTATIVES TO AND FROM THE GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI-(Continued) TO 'MISSOURI GRAND LODGE FROM MISSOURI Grand Representative Post Office Grand Representative Post Office Benjamin Wolf Webster Groves " New Zealand William Waring De Castro Wellington George W. Walker Cape Girardeau North Carolina Walter E. Moore ......•..... Webster F. L. Magoon St. Louis North Dakota Harry Lord Cando William R. Gentry St. Louis................. . Nova Scotia Israel Edward Sanford , Halifax Fred O. Wood Kansas City Ohio James W. Morgan Jackson Thad R. Smith Palmyra Oklahoma William P. Freeman McAlester Thad B. Landon Kansas City Oregon ,H. Beckwith Portland Bert S. Lee .............•... Springfield Panama Julio Icaza Panama City Anthony F. Ittner..... . . . .. St. Louis , Philippine Islands Amos G. Bellis Manila W. B. Massey Bonne Terre............ .. Prince Edward Island C. C. Carlton Souris George C. Marquis Independence ................•........ Quebec T. 'A. Howard Aylmer Forrest C. Donnell St. Louis Queensland ...•....... Samuel James Cossart Brisbane T. W. Cotton Van Buren Rhode Island Henry S. See Providence ............................................................... Porto Rico ........•.. Charles O. Lord San Juan Eugene J. Altheimer St. Louis Roumania ••..•...... Dr. Leo Salzman Bucharest Maj. W. S. MacAaron .....•• Boonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Saskatchewan J. Orville Clark ..•......... , Govan Andrew J. O'Reilly St. Louis , .....•...... Scotland John B. Peden Edinburgh Theodore C. Teel. St. Louis , South Australia William James Host , Adelaide JoseIlh D. Stewart. Chillicothe South Carolina George T. Bryan Greenville James B. Wright Trenton South Dakota John K. Kutnewsky Redfield Solon Cameron St. Louis :.. . Tasmania. . . . . . . . . .. Herbert Hays Hobart ...•..•........................................................ Tennessee Robert V. Hope Memphis Thomas H. Reynolds Kansas City Texas G. R. Montgomery Fort Worth A. B. Frey ................• St. Louis Utah Sidney Watson Badcon Ogden J. R. McLachlan Kahoka , .........•.. Vermont Seymour C. Hard.. . . . . . . . .. Arlington R. R. Kreeger Kansas City .. ' Victoria.•.........• Baron Marks Melbourne O. H. Swearingen Kansas City ..............•.......... Virginia George W. Wright Marion Van F. Boor : Kansas City ......................• Washington John I. Preissner ...•........ Yakima .................................................... , Western Australia A. C. Munro Perth C. Lew Gallant St. Louis West Virginia P. P. Lester Fort Gay Joseph S. McIntyre St. Louis Wisconsin Charles E. George Weyauwega York Grand Lodge of Mexico, Herbert Van Fleet " Carthage F. & A. M " Marcus A. Loevy Mexico City

INDEX Address of Sam P. Cochran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Address of Amos A. Fries 0-... Address of Grand Master.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bond, Secretary and Treasurer.......................... Conclusion

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: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 11, Flood Relief Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Grand . Lod~e .B~dget. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6 MasonIC DIscIplIne..................................... 8 ]l,1:asonic Home...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Onondago Cave....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Proposed Legislation in Aid of Relief Programs. . . . . . . . . . .. 35,37 Relations With Constituent Lodges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Relief Program........................................ . 27, 35 Special Committees Appointed.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Visitations 8, 11 Address of Archie M. Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 81,86 Amendment, Proposed to Section 74........... 114 Amendments to By-Laws Adopted 125, 128 Amendments Which Lie Over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Appointments 116 Approval of Minutes for 1932 Proceedings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . .

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Benediction Biography of Grand Master Blodgett Lodge No. 594 Boards of Relief and Employment Bureaus (Resolutions Introduced by E. McGuigan) Called to Labor First Day, Afternoon Session First Day, Evening Session Second Day, Morning Session Second Day, Afternoon Session Called From Labor First Day, Morning Session First Day, Afternoon Session First Day, Evening Session Second Day, Morning Session Closing : Cochran, Sam P. (Address of) Committees Appointment of During 1933 Communication Appointment of on Relief Program Credentials (First Day, Morning Session) Election of Board of Directors for Masonic Home Election of Grand Officers Garrell, Julius C Green, Roy A.....................

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Initiation Fund, Special Ruling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installation Introduction of Distinguished Guests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Invocation Jurisprudence Minutes

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Legislation, Relief Program (Date of Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 List of . Committees, Standing................................... 122 122,123 Committees, SpeciaL District Deputy Grand Masters 124, 125 District Lecturers 124, 125 Elected Officers of Grand Lodge 202, 204 Grand Lodge Officers Present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand Representatives to and From Grand Lodge of Missouri. 297, 298 Grand Secretaries and Their Addresses 295,296 Living Past Grand Masters of Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Lodges, Alphabetically, Also Location and District 133, 147 Lodges, Numerically 129, 133 178, 201 IJodge 'Directory by Districts Mason's Duty as a Citizen (Address of A. A. Fries) Minutes Approved

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Picture Laying of Cornerstone of High School Building at Hannibal, Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Present 3 Presentation to Grand Master and Past Grand Master 117, 122 Printing Proceedings....................................... 123 Recapitulation of Tabular Statement 176, 177 Recognition of Grand IJodges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Relief Program Legislation (Date of Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Relief Program Resolutions F. C. Donnell to Amend Proposition No. 1. ..... , . . . . . . . . .. 100 F. C. Donnell to Amend Proposition No.5. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 100 Relief Program, Special Grand Master's.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Report of Auditor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 55 Building Supervisory Board No. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,80 Building Supervisory Board No.2........ 80,81 Committee on Appeals and Grievances................ 74,77 Committee on Chartered Lodges...... 72,74 Committee on Credentials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Committee on District Deputy Grand Masters Reports 110, 111 Committee on George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association 59 Committee on Grand Master.'s Address , . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 56,57 Committee on Jurisprudence, Section 1, Unfinished Matters Coming Over From Last Year, Minutes.. .. 71,72 Committee on Jurisprudence (Complete) 103, 110 Committee on Library.................................. 59,60 Committee on Lodges U. D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Committee on Masonic Boards of Relief.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Committee on Masonic Publications.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

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101 Committee on Masonic Service . Committee on Masonic Temple Association of St. Louis, Missouri. ............................•... o. 60,61 Committee on Necrology 00' ••..•..... 0• . • .• 57; 59 Committee on Pay Roll 0. 0• • . . . . . • . • . . . • . • • . • . • . • • • 115 Committee on Recognition of Foreign Grand Lodges .... 60 Committee on Ritual 0•••. 0. 0. . • . . • • • • • • . 101 Committee on Unfinished Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Committee on Ways and Means 000 •.•.•.•.•••.•••• 113, 114 Committee on Welfare 00•.•. 0 0.••..• , . . • • • • • .• 67,70 Committee on Welfare, Auditor's Report 71 Report of Correspondent 219, 294 A Review 219 Addresses 272, 282 Boulder City Has Cornerstone Laying 236,238 Capitol Cornerstone Ceremonies Reenacted...... . . . . . . . . . . 233 Charity and Relief 0.•••...•.••....• 0••. 257,259 Cornerstones 0.•.•..•••...•••... 0•••••. 230, 231 Deaths . 0.•..••• 00••....•.....•.•.•...•...•..•..• 0...• 241, 244 Dual Membership 0•••...•.••...• 0•.•..••.••. 252, 255 Educational 0 00..• 0. 0.• 00 00• 0• 0000..• 000. 00.. 267,269 Extraneous Societies 0 00.•.• 0•. 0•. 0..........•..... 244, 247 Federal Buildings 000. 0•.. 0.•.••..•••••.•.•.•. 231, 233 Financial 0.'••••..••.••.•. 0•..••....••... 264,267 Grand Master Refuses to Lay Cornerstone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Historical : 247, 250 Life Memberships " 256, 257 Lotteries .. 0.• 00..••.••.....••.•• 00..•.....•.•.•• 0•••• 269,272 Masonic Homes 00 ••...•.•..••.• 0.. 0000 •••. 259,264 Masonic Personalities 0.......••......•....... 0••• 0••.•• 238, 241 Masonry in Other Countries .. 0..•• 0.......•.•...• 0.•• 0• 0219,230 Miscellaneous .. 0.•.•. 0.•••.•.• 0..•......•.•.. 0.•••.••. 285, 294 Review 00••.•......•".........•..........••..•.• 282, 285 Ritual . 0.••• 0•.••.• 0.•. 0•• 0.•...•..........•.• 0••.••.. 250,252 U. S. Public Buildings 0...• 0•. 235,236 Williamsburg, Historic .. 0.........•. 0.. 0•.....•.•.•..•• 231,233 Report of Grand Lecturer 0...•..•....... 0•... 0• 61, 66 Grand Secretary 00. 0•..........•. : 0• 0••••. 0. • 37, 44 Grand Treasurer ' 44, 51 Report of Masonic Home, Board of Directors, Minutes. . . . . . . . . . 79 Masonic Home of Missouri. 0..•••••.. 205,218 Masonic Home, Auditor's Report. 0• 0•• 0.•• 0....•..•••.••. 214,215 Masonic Home, Gifts to Endowment Fund 0.. 215, 218 Masonic Home, Secretary 0•• 0••......•... 0••..•....•. 212,213 Masonic Home, Treasurer 0..•....•.•. 0. . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 213 Masonic Home, Visiting CQmmittee 0000••.......•.•• 00..• 0 78, 79 Report of Special Committee on Boards of Relief and Employment Bureaus 0" 0•.•..... , ..•.. 0...••.•..•.• 0 115 Special Committee on Fi:q.ances ..... 0. 0.•......... 000•. 0• 59 Special Committee on Grand Master's Relief Program 99, 100 Special Committee on Refusal of Masonic Funerals . 78 Special Committee on Trial by Other States ..• 79 Resolution of Thanks ... 0•........ 0• 0.....•.•....•.•....• 0•. 101 Resolution Re Waverly Lodge .. 0.•. 00 •... 0•• 0•.•••....•..... 0 72 Revision of By-Laws 0.. 0.............••........••. 0•. 116 Ruling, Special Initiation Fund and George Washington Memorial Fund .. 0. 0.••• 0000••••...•...•...•...• : ••.••• 114 0

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Tabular Statement of Grand Secretary 148, 175 Telegrams 4, 5 Tisch, Louis ...........................•.................. 98,99 Washington, George, Memorial Fund Ruling.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vVaverly Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wellsville Lodge No. 194. . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W:ood, John J., Request of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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