The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
Children Retrace Route Where
Fathers Toiled in Hunger
and Suffering
Especial Dispatch to The Call

Nevada today and reached Lake Tahoe
tonight.
The grand parlor will convene Mon
day morning and the board of grand
officers meets tomorrow morning.
Grand President Joseph r. Knowland
will arrive from Washington, Past
Grand President Charles M. Belshaw
and First Vice President Daniel A.
Ryan have been at Tahoe several days
and the majority of the grand officers
arrived tonight on the special train
from San Francisco.
Will Extend Usefulness
The grand parlor this year will prob
ably not be marked by any radical
legislation, but the sphere of useful
ness of the order to the state of Cali
fornia will be extended Important
among the resolutions to be introduced,
and one which is sure of adoption, will
be an Endorsement of the Panama-Pa-
cific international exposition to be held
in San Francisco in 1915. Already many
of the San Francisco parlors have pur-
chased. stock in the exposition. The
order of the Native Sons is not consti-
tuted to purchase stock. but the parlors
throughout the state will be encour-
aged to aid the project.
It is possible that Grand President
Knowiand. who represents the third
congressional district in Washington,
will bring hopeful word of congress
proposed action for San Francisco.
Lake Tahoe National Park
The grand parlor will in all proba-
bility recommend the reservation as
public parks of two of California's nat
uraI wonders. Meeting on the shore of
the magnificent Lake Tahoe, the Cali.
fornians will pass upon resolutions
asking the national government to de-
clare Lake Tahoe a national park.
The Humboldt county delegates will
introduce a resolution asking the state
to purchase a grove of noble redwoods
in that county as site for a state
park
Grand Secretary Fred H. Jung will
report that five new parlors have been
installed during the last year and 467
members added to the rolls.
The IL months under Grand Presi-
dent Knowland's regime have been
prosperous ones for the order. The
most interesting legislative point that
came up during Knowland's term was
his ruling that a person born of Mexi-
can parents is white One of the
subordinate parlors raised the ques-
tion of such a native sons eligibility
1t had never been questioned before,
and many persons of Mexican parent
age are members both of the order of
Native Sons and of Native Daughters.
Knowland's ruling must be upheld by
the grand parlor to be final
Amendments to Constitution
There will be introduced at the
grand parlor $50 amendments to the
constitution of the order In nearly
every instance the change proposed is
minor.
The question of reimbursement of
the grizzly bear" magazine as the.
liveliest incident of the session. The
journal has recently published an art
icle touching on political conditions
which has aroused considerable feel
ing. The affair is made the more in
teresting owing to the fact that Grand
berg of Los Angeles is prominently
identif1ed with the publication The
war cloud will probably blow away.
Native Sons Hall
The question of favoring California
contractors in the construction of the
new Native Sons hall in San Francisco
may stir up another ruction in the
grand par1or. In making its prelimf-
nary estimates the Hall association. of
which James D. Phelan is president.
secured an estimate on the steel work
from an eastern contractor. as well as
from California contractors The Cali.
fornia figures were in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. while the eastern esti-
mate was $4,000 less While these
estimates were in no sense contracts.
but were secured primarily to aid the
architects in making their estimates,
San Francisco contractors believed that
the work should be given to California
firms and easterners not invited to bid.
The hall association. however. is
corporation independent of the Native
Son organization. and the grand parlor
holds but $4,000 in stock out of the
total issue of 100000 The principal
owners of stock are prominent Native
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