The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

U
ent were Grand Master Alexander
Clark, Deputy Grand Master w. B.
Ousley, Junior Grand Warden P. A.
Hubbard, Grand Treasurer Willis n.
Brent, Grand Secretary G. w. Guy
and Grand Master Of Ceremonies
George w. Dupee. John Lange, jr.,
who has since achieved fame and for
tune as the manager and developer
of Blind Boone, the musical genius,
was at that time Grand Marshal of
the Grand Lodge and but for the fact
that his business kept him so much
from home would doubtless have risen
to the top honors of the institution.
| The report of the committee on Gre
| dentials showed twenty-eight lodges
represented, some of them by the old
proxy system which the grand officers
had learned to handle quite WELL Hub
bard, Dickson, Dupee, Brent, Lange
and H. H. Jones were the big men
on the floor and everything had to
80 by them before it was o. K.
In the Grand Masters annual ad-
dress he reported the formation of
eight new lodges among which were
Braxton at Hannibal, Ricketts, at
Fayette, Ward at Salisbury and West
ern Star at Moberly.
In the list of ten recommendations
coming from the Grand East were:
| Q) To set the annual communications
for later month; CD to create a
beneficiary fund for Masonic widows
and orphans; CD to suspend mem
bers for non-payment of dues; (S) to
exempt aged members from payment
Orient of France for fraternal kind
ness.
The Grand Master in his decisions,
thought lodge had the right to fine
it's members for failure to attend the
meetings. a doctrine which has not
stood so well as another decision
that the daughter of a master MasoI
still holds her rights to benefits ever
though she weds a profane.
Several lodges were officially Wis
tied during the year, the Grand Master
sometimes staying over day or tive
for the purpose of instructing in thu
ritual. OF Rome Lodge, No. 25, Kan
sas City, he said Il inspected thei
work, found it good square Ancien
, Craft Masonry" OF WilkeTson Lodge
No. 26, st. Joseph, he reported; 9TH,
brethren seemed deeply imbued witt
the spirit of love that they ha,
learned so well from that high-minde,
Christian minister, John Miller Wi
kerson. In contrast some very &C
verse notes were made against othe
lodges inspected some of which hav
not improved even unto this day. .
The Grand Master did not delive
himself so clearly under the subject
Compact and Anti-Compact." Thi
was a big subject at that time, ful
of ways and by-ways, so that we d
| not wonder that it was quite mystify
ing even to the learned Brother Clark
One thing is evident from the record
| and that is that our Grand Maste
r found words all too weak in express
{ ing his contempt for our now belove
4 brother, w. T, Boyd, of Ohio, VIII
( differed from him on the question o
: Grand Lodge independence. SPEAKING
5 of Brother Boyd he said This boas
S ing, this gloating has its only signif
Z canoe in that spanielism which lappe
e water at the feet of White Masons c
J. Ohio, seeking recognition at the el
r pense of repudiating the Fifteent
r Amendment to the Federal Constitl
e ton of the United States by refusin
g the brethren of Cleveland the rigI
e to celebrate that grand, auspiciou
!. event"
|. We do not know Just what reaso
d Brother Boyd who was Grand Mastt
/, of Ohio, advanced in denying to IN
Cleveland brethren the right TO eel
/. brate, but we dare offer the opinio
= that his reason was based upon SON
J. tangible grounds. Brother Boy
I. along with many other distinguis he
Negro Masons contended for Mason