Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24

! ]. A. Roden, one of the most
i capable and conscientious fraternal
/ presidents that ever graced the floor
/ of a lodge room, is now in control of
+ Royal Oak lodge. Sons of Saint George.
He has the initiatory work we'll in
hand and lends most impressive
+ emphasis to the important language
+ that has been assigned by the supreme
! lodge for the use of the lodges
/ throughout the jurisdiction. He is ably
assisted by a drill team of officers who
/ will give model initiation under his
/ management to the grand officers, who
/ will assemble in Los Angeles at their
! convention. August l. Brother Roden.
/ while eXcelling in this matter, has the
/ gift of eXtempOraneous Oratory, most
/ useful accomplishment in view of the
+ bauquests and other festivities that
/ will entertain the grand lodge upon its
/ twenty-tirst annual session and its first
+ in Los Angeles.
/ In preparation for the coming of the
grand lodge to Los Angeles, August l,
/ z. Fl. Rydau, prominent member of
/ Royal Oak lodge, furnishes the fol-
/ lowing etfusion to be read before that
august body:
Welcome. sons of England. TO the Egypt of
this land,
Where palms and peppers-CaCtus. toO-grOw
round on every hand
Go to the top of mountains great and view
the landscape DER;
See such a sight as Moses saw some thousand
years before.
sail ou the quiet ocean to CataHnas strand.
And listen to the music of Catalina's band.
Wander round our suburbs where some three
hundred thousand dwell.
Some whose lungs are getting better. others
almost we'll
stand beneath our city blocks eleven stories
high
And gaze upon the eternal blue Of an eternal
sky.
Then chase away to ocean shore and view
the harbor grand,
Where English well as other ships VIII
wait their crews TO land.
EnEIand's trade will increase there, for Eng
land rules the seas.
Wher' cr YOU E0-tO CeylOn's isle-in fact go
where you please
The Union Jack viii be the one to attract
your English eyes,
For Cverywhore-an DER the World-the flag
of England flies.
Welcome. sons of England, your fraternal
message bring
To Euglshmen all round about with philan-
thropic ring:
Receive the greetings of the men who toll
from day to day
To whom you send remittances when they
The thought the text Of brotherhood. that
makes each man a brother,
To teach us all in time Of woe to look out
for one another.
onward! British soldiers. in your philanthropic
work,
And spare no efforts in your toll, no sacred
duty ehirk.
The Panama will open. and Los Angeles a
Rome.
\ hundred thousand Englishmen will make
this place their home
The greatest fighters in the world will here
in love unite.
For the order of Saint George will be the
cause for which to fight
A royal message Indirectly from the
king of England, emperor of India,
defender of the faith, has been recently
received i'm Los Angeles. 1t is to the
Sons of Saint George and reads as
follows:
"Sir-I am directed by Secretary Sir
Edward Gray to inform you that he
duly laid before the king your letter
of the 18th ult., addressed to his
maiesty's secretary of state for the
home department, i'm which you trans
nit a message of coincidence and SYM
pathy from the Royal oak lodge, No
300. Of Los Angeles. on the occasion of
the death of his late majesty King
Edward VII
Il am to request you to convey to
the members of the lodge the Kings
sincere thanks for their kind message,
which his majesty highly appreciates,
his accession to the throne. I am. sir.
your most obedient humble servant.
IF. A. CAMPBELL"
Two new members We're initiated last
Monday evening into Royal oak lodge,
one of them a musical man who enter
tanned the brothers Immediately with
song. The grand presidents address to
the lodge was read and reference was
made by one of the grand officers to
the appearance at the convention Of
Thomas POyser, the venerable secretary
of the grand lodge, who will appear
accompanied by his wife TO take part
i'm the deliberations.
Committees were appointed for the
reception of the grand lodge officers
and their wives Monday evening, Au-
gust /, at the depots, and "A third COM
mittee of past grand lodge officers to
entertain the organization Tuesday
evening and to witness the work Of the
drill team.