Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-25
OLDER MASONS DINE
Veteran Association Gives Its
Second Annual Banquet.
TENETS OF ORDER LAUDED
Simon Wolf Praises Work of Ding.
man and Sample.
DIR. PIERCE MAKES ADDRESS
Clergymen Find Their Relief From
Isolation in the Lodge Room,
He Says.
TENETS OF ORDER LAUDED
DR.. PIERCE MAKES ADDRESS

Voicins the highest praise Of the Ma.
sonic order and In the best OF fellowship
nearly hundred members of the Ma
sonic Veteran Association OF the District
sat about the board at the thirty-second
annual dinner OF the association at the
Gordon Hotel last night.
1t was a distinguished Masonic gather.
Ing. The requisite Of membership in the
in Freemasonry.
Among the speakers at the banquet were
Simon Wolf. George c. Ober. grand mas
ter Of the Grand Lodge OF Masons in the
District Of Columbia: Rev. DR.. Ulysses
g. B. Pierce, chaplain Of the United
States Senate. and G. W. Atkinson, for
mer Governor OF West Virginia and at
present an associate justice OF the Court
Of Claims
The dinner was served at small tables
decorated with flowers. An orchestra
furnished music. Before the dinner be-
gan the retiring president. George E.
Corson. indicted into office his successor
James A. Sample, who delivered a short
address and was invested with the badge
Of ofice.
4OoSt 10 Lu6 1I0SlQ00L.
The first toast Of the evening was to
the President Of the United States. All
stool to drink 1t.
President Sample called upon Grand
Master Ober, who brought a message OF
good will from the Grand Lodge. The
insignia of past presidents Of the asso-
citation was awarded to Simon Wolf,
George Corson and George Gibson by the
president.
Mr.. Wolf responded to the toast 1.-THE
Past Presidents" He said he was glad
presidents while they were still alive in
stead of waiting until they had passed
into the great majority.
"A spray to the living is worth more
than wagonload of blossoms to the
dead" he said.
THE Masonic order is the grandest con-
ception of man." continued Mr.. Wolf; 1T
lowship the men who join its ranks.
ON this trestle board of human
achievement men are recognized as men.
They are not considered as Christians or
Jews. but as God-created men.
Masonry is a religion, sacred and
profound. / venerate 1t as 1 venerate no
other. | trust that the generations yet
to come will recognize what the order has
done for Them
Praise for Fellow-Masons.
Mr.. Wolf gave high praise to Harri-
son Dingman and James A. Sample for
service as government officials in the
island OF Porto Rico. Their work, he
said. was an example of what Ameri-
cans are doing in that island.
TT is the garden spot of the world
with its beautiful fields of coffee. it's
groves OF pineapples and grape fruit
and it's wonderful flowers.
Today 100000 children are attend
ing public schools in the island. That
Is sample Of what American citizen
ship and American institutions are
doing for the people.
The man who negotiated for tho
transfer Of Alaska to the United States
was burned in effigy not many years
ago Now. see to what Importance
that huge territory has come. It will
be so in the future of our island pos
sessions"
Letters Of regret because they could
not attend the dinner were from Rab-
bi Simon. Admiral Sch1ey. Representa-
tive Wanger of Pennsylvania and
Rev. DR.. helms.
"The Junior Veterans"
James A. Wetmore, past grandmas-
ter of the grand lodge, responded to
the toast, THE Junior Veterans" He
declared that the veterans association
was the third estate Of Masonry and
that so long as it's members were ac-
tive in Masonic circles Masonry was
safe.
Several humorous poems were reci:ed
by Col. John Tweedale.
The toast. ITO the Cloth in Masonry"
was responded to by Rev. DR.. U. G. B.
Pierce. DR.. Pierce described Masonry
as the great safety valve through
which clergymen could escape from the
isolated pinnacle upon which society
placed them
Like all specialists the minister must,
to certain extent. be lonely said DR..
Pierce. cit is the loneliness of the heart
and spirit of the men who occupy the
frontiers.
The minister who goes to the farthest
frontier is the most lonely, though he live
in a great city. Ministers are held to
arbitrary and artificial standards by So
ciety.
lit is said that we would like to go to
the theater. to drink and to dance If we