The broad ax., 1914-08-22

Court has cost the Order less than
$1I 800, and not a cent more. The
quarterly circular will give the facts.
Now if the Supreme Court has cost the
Order $ll 800 and there is only $4,000
in the treasury, that accounts for only
$3l, 500. What has become of the other
money! We know that when Grand
Master Houston went out of Office one
half of the debt on the Odd Fellows
uesq psq B!qdIspBEqd u! sIs4IsnbpBeH
paid-see the 18th B. NJ. G. Report,
page l06,-so that when Grand Master
Edward Morris took the oath Of Office
the Order owed his wife, Mrs. Morris,
only $4,000 on the mortgage which
she held on the Headquarters Building
of the Grand United Order of Odd Eel
lows. That amount has been paid
which accounts for that much; but that
sum together with the S1l,50O which
the Supreme Court has cost, and the
$4,000 now in the treasury amount to
considerably less than $4,000. WHAT
HAS BECOME OF THE ONE HUN
DRIED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS BESIDES This Morris ad-
ministration is Just three and one-half
years old. 1t does not legitimately cost
Thirty-five thousand dollars (s35,OOO)
a year to run the Office of the Grand
Secretary and to pay the Grand Mas
ter, the Grand Secretary and the Grand
Treasurer their salaries. We demand to
be told, "Who got the money!"
If much of the money has been spent
on the Odd Fellows Journal it was a
clear violation of the law, because Law
CXIX, section Is, page 1O7 of the
General Laws, edition 1911, says, 1.-THE
Subcommittee of Management shall
not appropriate to the Journal or its
editor and manager any money to de-
fray the expenses of said Journal; the
entire expenses of said Journal shall
be betrayed from the receipts of said
paper"
If in the teeth Of that plain provision
of the law any amount has been appro-
priated for that paper the Sub-Com-
mittee of Management should be re-
buked for thus unlawfully using the
ORDERS money. The Odd Fellows
Journal is the poorest excuse for paper
that comes from the Colored press of the
country. 1t is a disgrace to the great
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows.
The sheet is so lacking in every re-
spect which would make it a newspaper
that half of the secretaries Of lodges
never take the wrapper from it when it
reaches them. It is openly stated by
permanent secretaries that they never
the paper because there is moth
ing in it worth reading. The one gen
eral complaint made by the members
throughout the country is that they are
forced to pay for a paper such as the
Odd Fellows Journal which never Of
feTs them any value for the money
they ray. Any enterprising grocer or
merchant distributes each week at your
ioOr hand bills advertising his goods
that will contain more interesting read
ing matter than can be found in the
Odd Fellows Journal. 1t is utterly and
worthless as a newspaper,
and is a sad reflection on the Order to be {
issued as the official organ of this great
Fraternity.
IL the oney has not been spent on !
this little sheet then what has become
Of it, The members of the Grand
United Order of Odd Fellows all over
this land are demanding TO be told
what has become of the more than one
hundred thousand dollars which has
been handled by the Morris admins /
tratiOn independent of what has been /
accounted for in this article. Every /
r'hrre the question is asked. "wHO I
GOT THE MONEY!