The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-05-20
ANNUAL REPORT
Of THE KNIGHTS
WHAT GRAND CHANCELLOR WAL.
KER RECOMMENDS TO THE
GRAND LODGE.
His Report was Read Yesterday and
is Very Interesting one-Some
important Suggestions Were Made
E the Grand Chancellor.
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The report of Grand Chancel.
lor Clifford Walker, made during the
convention here is most interesting
one, being well prepared and filled
With excellent suggestions for the
guidance of the meDbers of the ord
er and the Representatives to the
Grand Lodge especially.
The grand chancellor sounds a
warning in the beginning against the
placing of new lodges at points not
ready to receive them He says in
the past lodges have been instituted
in places not ready to receive them
and where they were certain to die
and that lodges have also been care
lessly and Improperly instituted and
as result have never done any work
Travelling Deputy Wanted.
The grand chancellor suggests that
there be employed travelling deputy
whose duty it shall be to look after
proposed new lodges and to see that
they are properly instituted and that
the work is put on properly. Such
a deputy should also look after de-
'inquent lodges and put them upon
their feet. If this plan does not meet
with the approval of the Grand Lodge
he suggests that the state be divided
into districts and that there be ap-
pointed for each district u deputy
WHO shall be an eX officio member of
the Grand Lodge so that they could
render the d est service in this con
nection.
! The usual appeal is made for Mum
ford's Orphans home and the sugges.
/ tiCn made that the Knights make vol
untary subscriptions to this home and
! that the subordinate lodges also con
tribute to it as a body.
The proceedings against the so
| called negro Knights of Pythias by
| the Grand Lodge is reviewed and the
decree of the supreme court of Geor-
gia is embodied in the report. AS the
| case has been appealed to the United
| States supreme court, however, the
grand chancellor suggests that moth.
| ing be done to enforce the state law
and the state supreme courts decree
against negro lodges at this time.
Tuberculosis Santarium.
The grand chancellor also recon-
mends that the Georgia Knights insti
tute a sanatarium fer their members
afflicted with tuberculosis at Camp
Yonah SanatOrium in the mountains
of North Georgia, where DR.. w. c.
Bryant has headquarters. Or. Bryant
has offered to let the Knights have
land upon which to erect a canatoria
if they will undertake this task. The
grand chancellor thinks it might be
good idea to have a committee of
brave cautious and true men" to con
slider the proposition and report back
to the next Grand Lodge.
The suggestion made by Rev. Troy
Beatty, of Athens, that the Grand
Lodge provide a travelling shield to
lie carried from one lodge to another
until every lodge in the state has
been visited meets the approval OF
the grand chancellor, who suggests
the naming os committee to carry
the suggestion into effect
The orders Condition.
Upon the state of the order, the
grand chancellor says in part:
Figures compiled by the G. X. r.
anG,a5 of date May IS, 1910, show an
incfeise of membership for the year.
While this increase is not large, we
should congratulate ourselves that
there does not appear a substantial
loss. The effect of the panic was not
deeply felt in the country districts
for a year after it appeared in New
York. The laws as to suspension and
the natural indulgence of the lodges
putting off as long as possible the
suspension of brethren in arrears
explain the heavy suspension during
the year just closing.
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