The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
Changed Assessments Do Not
Affect Kansas Workmen.
New Rates Must Be Confirmed
by Kansas A. o. U. W.
CALL TOO LATE.
Recent Returns to w. o. w. Re
lief Fund Not Large.
N. II. Wolff Talks With Sever.
eign Commander Root.

The announcement of a change in the
assessment rates in the A o. u. w
made by the supreme lodge of that or
der this year has led to considera BILE
misunderstanding of the proposition, In
consideration of this misunderstanding
Grand Master r. w. Turner of Mankato
has issued a communication to the vari-
Gus subordinate lodges in the state
which says:
To give light and informa ton upon
the discussion now going on in some To-
calities of the state, concerning the new
rates and plans of assessments proposed
by the supreme lodge, A. o. U. w, L
desire to make the following official
statement:
THE proposed rates, assessments or
pans 90 not go into effect in Kansas.
Ihey, or either of them. cannot go into
effect in Kansas until approved by
two-thtrds vote of the representatives of
the subordinate lodges assembled in
grand lodge session Our grand lodge
will not meet until February, 1905.
The supreme lodge meets before our
session of the grand lodge and may
modify or change the proposed plans.
For this reason it is uncertain whether
the grand lodge of Kansas will ever be
required to act upon the plans as now
submitted.
Our present plans and rates are suffi-
cient to carry on our business and pay
our dues to the supreme lodge. Hence,
our relations with that body will con-
tinue undisturbed.
The only way the proposed plan af-
fects Kansas is to entitle us to a share
of the relief fund after January l, 1904
Our plan and rates remain the same as
al present.
I'VE have from now until February
1905, to study the plans proposed and
Ia ma 70
viding they are not modified in the
meantime by the supreme lodge.
No hasty action should be taken. We
have plenty of time to study the pro-
posed plans and at the next meeting of
the grand lodge, act intelligently, if
called upon to act at all. The A o. U.
w. of this Jurisdiction is thoroughly
democratic in its form of government
and no change of plans can be made
except through representatives in grand
lodge assembled. r. w. TURNER,
Grand Master"
N. H. Wolff, sovereign of the local
camp of the Woodmen of the World, re-
turned this week from Chicago where
he met j. G. Root of Omaha, the SOW
ereign commander of the organization
Sovereign Root was returning from the
east where he had addressed an i'm
mense meeting of Woodmen of the
World at Reading, Pa Commander
ILOOl III SBcdkItlR Ol the IcCClll Cd1l lOI
additional relief funds for flood suf-
ferers in the Mississippi, Missouri and
Kansas river valleys said that while
considerable money was being received
at the national headquarters of the or
ganization to be distributed later among
the people who lost property in the
flood, he believed the response would
have been larger If the call had been
made earlier. Considerable money was
raised and distributed by the head camp
of the WoOdmen of the World immed-
lately after the flood but upon the ex-
hausting of the fund another call was
made. It is to the response to the last
call that Sovereign Root had reference.
State Deputy ]. w. Kaiser of Fort
Scott will be in Topeka Monday evening
to attend the meeting of the local camp
of Woodmen of the World when three
candidates will be initiated.
In the August issue of the Sovereign
Visitor appears a we'll written article
surveying the damage done by the flood
in Topeka and Shawnee county, con-
tributed by N. H. Wolff of this city.
New regalia has been ordered by the
local organization of Maccabees
Rv an inadvertence the State Journal
Incorrectly announced the place of meet
ing of the sovereign grand lodge OF the
I. o. o. F. as Washington instead OF
Baltimore The meeting occurs In
September.