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partment held a meeting at the Cosmos
Club Monday evening for the purpose
OF adopting bylaws and electing officers
for the ensuing year.
The following officers were elected: !:
President George S. Pope. bureau Of
mines; president pro tenn. r NJ. Riefkin.
bureau of mines: secretary. H. L. kays
general land office; treasurer. George
w. Evans. Secretary's office; doorkeeper,
Fred Ohm, geological survey.
Eight vice presidents were elected to
represent each Of the bureaus Of the de-
partment. viz: F. J. Woodman. pension
office: H. s. Carr, land office; H. r.
Evans. bureau Of education; f. M. A1ten.
geological survey; Alex Scott, patent
office: E. ]. Ayers, Secretary's Office. H.
B. McChesney, reclamation service;
William Musser. Indian office; Monte
Sanger, Government Hospital for the In
sane; H. NJ. Cooper, bureau Of mines.
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second master Of the suard, c. r Bal
dus: sentinel, B. A Snyder. and picket.
D. J. Mclrney. The installing officer was
State Commander D. w. Gall. Refresh
ments were served. Columbia Hive, No.
8. being the guests of the evening with
the friends OF its members. Prior to the
installation program was successfully
presented by the commander, Thomas L.
Smith. The new commander, II. Ed
ward Clark, and the deputy supreme
commander. D. w. Gall. were presented
by Mr.. Smith, who acted as toa stmaster,
during the refreshments. Both made ap-
propriate remarks on the good resulting
from membership in fraternal orders and
zach cited their personal experience as
evidence OF benefits received from such
membership.
At National Tent, No. /. last Monday
night the state deputy supreme COM
mander announced, that tomorrow he
would be just fifteen years acting un-
der commission from the supreme
commander, during all of which time he
had been continuously employed in the
District of Columbia. good part OF
the time. the state of Virginia had been
about 5000 members. No serious fric-
tion has arisen, he said, over his en-
tire jurisdiction.
Nearly s1.000.0o0 has been paid to
the widows and orphans of deceased
members in his jurisdiction, he said.
and in the District of Columbia nearly
100000 has been paid. During his
term. also. he has been continuously
the representative to the Supreme Tent
Reviews. which is the legislative body
or the order. At first he was elected
in the legislative district of Virginia
and District Of Columbia
Past Commander Harry Lee installed
the following officers for District Tent.
No. 8. Thursday: Commander. Sidney
haas; lieutenant commander. Z. c.
keel; record keeper. John NJ. c. Cox:
sergeant. S. W. Gorden: chaplain. F. L
Nickols: masterat-arms. W. E. Eoons:
sentinel, A. J. Andrews and picket,
Z. F. Smith. Five candidates were in
ltiated as starter for the winning OF
the District banner.
The same night State Deputy D. w
Gall installed the following officers for
georgetown Tent. No. s: Commander.
NJ. w. Michael: lieutenant commander,
j. N. Lowe; record keeper, John l..
Neeb; chaplain, w. D. Tennison; SER
geant G. w. Shoemaker: master-at-
arms. Ed Elliott; first master of the
guard. w. w Burch: second master of
the guard, A c. Degenherdt: senti-
mel. u. F. Ffnnucane. and picket, Cecil
Smith. After the installation a banquet
was served in the West Washington
Hotel at which fifty covers were
master. being introduced by w D. Ten
nison, chairman of the banquet COM
mittee.
Responses to toasts were made by d.
w. Gall, ]. n. Lowe, ]. NJ. C. Cox and
others. Commander Sidney Haas of Dis
trict Tent. No. s, with a committee of
three from that tent. presented the
District banner. which had been won
by Georgetown Tent. 1t was ac-
cepted by Frank Wisner on behalf of
Georgetown Tent in pleasing ad-
dress. Several members made short
talks.
Wednesday night D. W. Gall, state
manager for the Maccabees. was in
stalled as vice chancellor Of Mount
Vernon Lodge. No. 5, Knights of
Pythias.
Tuesday night Brightwood Tent. No.
5, and Brightwood Hive. No. 5, will
hold a Joint installation in the Mac
cabee Hail. Brightwood.
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MASONIC

LODGES.
Today-Lebanon. No. Z. 8 pm. religious
services. Masonic and Eastern Star
Monday No. 10. r. G. stans-
bury. No. -.
Tuesday.Federai: No: !; Acacia. No
aosns NI1e %ssoe,.ioH SH seaoo, Of
Instruction.
Thursday-The New Jerusalem. No. Q.
George G. Whiting. No. 22. E. a. y,
Frtday-Columbia, No. 2. Lebanon, NO.
I, 6 pm. and 7:3O. F. G.
ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS:
Monday--Nount Vernon. No. 3. Hiram
No 10. grand visitation. Anacosda.
Tuesday-Mount Horee. No. 7, P: N; and
NJ. T., NJ. Potomac, No. 3. grand VS.
wednesday-Mo Mount Pleasant. No. ID.
Thursday-Washington. No. 2. grand
visitation.
rriday-Eur.ka. No. T. special; grand
visitation. School Of Instruction.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR COMMUNICATES
Tuesday-De Molay Mounted, No. 4, busi-
ness.
wednesday-washineten. No; !.
Friday-Columbia, No. 2, Red Cross.
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH
RITE
Tuesday-Evangelist Chapter. Rose Cruix,
business. Robert de Bruce Council Of
Kadosh. 2ist degree.
EASTERN STAR CHAPTERS.
Monday-Tempie, No. IS, and Columbia,
No 10.
Tuesday-Electa No. 2: Bethlehem, No.
=; Friendship. No. II. and Fidelity.
No. 70.
wednesday-Naomi. No. 8, and Brook
land. No. IL.
Thursday-Grand Chapter, at Scottish
Rite Cathedral, at pm.
Friday-Martha. No. 4: Ascension, q. D.
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KNIGE1SSii4S KNIGSE{1FSSi4S

At the meeting Of the Dramatic Club
last Sunday afternoon it was decided
to change the title Of the organization,
and henceforth it will be known as
"The Damon Dramatic Club"
Additional officers were elected, and
the official personnel is now as fol-
lows: President, Willett E. Dentinger;
vice president, T. o. Pulizzi; secretary.
Jerome Williams; treasurer, William A.
Kimmel; examiner, George McComas:
guard. H. NJ. Vanderoort.
The first entertainment will be given
by the club April 19 in the form Of
vaudeville performance. At later date
the club will undertake to present a
modern play entitled "Friendship Re-
gained"
a set of bylaws was adopted. The
next meeting will mark the beginning
of active operations :,
Monday evening Century Lodge. No.
30. was visited by Grand Master-at-
arms ]. B. Dickman, Past Grand Chan
cellor Mark Stearman, Grand Vice
Chancellor w. A Kimmel and Grand
Keeper of Records and Seal Henry ].
Gasson, who acted as installing off,
GERS. j. B. Dickman acted as deputy
grand chancellor.
The following officers were installed,
with appropriate ceremonies: Chancel-
lor chancellor, Willett E. Dentinger;
vice chancellor. Joseph Stein; prelate.
Sam S. Price; master-at-arms. T. o.
Klath; keeper of records and seal,
c. ]. Brantly: master of finance. w. A.
H. Turner: master OF exchecquer, Max
outer guard, ]. w. Thompson. Jesse
w. Tull was confirmed a past chanceI-
lor.
The bylaws committee referred its
was taken. Owing to volume of busi-
ness many matters were held until the
next meeting.
At the request of Syracusians Lodge,
No. 10. the knights rank paraphernalia
of Century Lodge, No. 80, was loaned
to confer the rank of knight on a class
of candidates Friday evening.
Lodge, No. II. last Monday evening, the
Chancellor commander, Charles ].
Peckham; vice chancellor. Clarence
Arrick; .prelate. James McCauley:
master at arms. ]. w. Robbins; master
of exchequer, Edward j.: Newcomb;
master of finance, Frank J. Henning;
keeper of records and seal. Denny F.
Brown; inner guard. Walter Robinson;
resentative of relief bureau, Denny F.
Brown; lodge representatives, John r.
Haskins. o. A. Booth, William Minnis,
L. ]. Newcomb and J. NJ. McCauley;
lodge trustees, James McCauley, j. w.
Robbins and o. A. Booth; orphans
trustees. P. J. Cooksey. A. G. Greaves
and O. A. Booth, and representative to
Hall Association. J. r. Haskins.
Melick, assisted by Grand Lecturer J.
NJ. Kline and Past Chancellor o. A.
Booth.
The lodge has three candidates for
first degree, and is reported in good
financial condition.
The installation of the newly-elected
officers of Webster Lodge. No. 7, which
was to have taken place last Tuesday,
had to be postponed until next Tuesday
evening, when Grand Lecturer Klein
will be in charge, assisted by Grand
Prelate Ellis.
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fmPR0VE1 ORDER
u!%KEQ MEN

osage Tribe. No. 6. met at Society
Temple Monday night, and the officers
Of the tribe were installed by the great
senior sycamore, John I. Bunch. as
sisted by the great prophet. DR.. W.
Whitman, and M. Kubatz.
1t was announced that Past Sachem
Roy F. Altgate had left for Henderson,
N. Y. The tribe extended wishes OF
good luck to him in his new home.
Visitors during thss evening were as
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The Maccabees.

National Tent, No. /. held its in
stallation service Monday night, with
a large attendance of members. The
following officers were installed by the
state commander. who had been es-
pecially invited for the purpose: Past
commander, John Camden Gall; COM
mander. George H. Sisemore: lieutenant
commander, John F. Sidell; record
keeper, George E Buffum; finance
keeper, D. B. Gusdorf; chaplain, Joseph
F. Moore; sergeant, Herman Glanz-
man: physician. DR.. J: S. Arnold; !;
master of the guard, w. E. Norris: sec
ond master of the guard, w. E. Olin-
ger: sentinel. A. F. Shambaugh; {;
picket, E. f. Anderson. The command
Entertainments. V. Gusack, chair
man; A. H. Simmons, w. IL. Norris,
j. f. Sidell and Adolph Kress. Widows
and orphans-.A: j. ,Schippert, chair
F. Shambaugh and G: E. Buffum
Adolph Kress was appointed musician.
The ceremony of presenting the past
commanders jewel to John Camden
mander, father of the recipient.
The same night, Anacostia Tent.
No. Z, had the following officers in
stalled by Past Commander j. NJ. Eng
land: Past commander. Herman Will
l.
tenant commander, r. J. Provost; rec
ord keeper. r. A Estep; chaplain, J.
NJ. England: sergeant, Martin L.
Burch; physician. Thomas D. Mudd;
master-at-arms, Louis N. Burch; first
master of the guard, E. A Parker; sec
ond master of the guard, c. Consie
White; sentinel. Edward Flarity;
picket, A A. Provost
Fried oysters and coffee were served,
and many expressions of hopefuIness
for the future of the tent were made
by the members.
W. H. Aoamson. past commander Of Mt.
Vernon Tent, No. 4, installed the .ol-
lowing officers for that tent Tuesday
night, for the ensuing term: Command
er, c. l. Griffith; lieutenant commander
j. T. Frisholtz: record keeper, 1. c.
Foster; finance keeper. Frank Harmon;
chaplain, Z. H. Sturges; sergeant. ]. H
Kaldabach: physician, DR.. c. L Griffith;
C. NJ King; first master
of the guard, ]. G. Buck; second master
of the guard; George w. Griffith: senti-
mel, Peter s. Butcher, and picket, c. G.
the new hall. the members celebrated the
occasion by entertaining their friends
with a feast.
Tuesday night also the state command
er installed the officers of Metropolitan
Tent, No. IL. as follows: Past command
er. T. L. Smith: commander, D. E.
Clark; lieutenant commander. J. NJ
Buckley; record keeper. C. D. Holland;
chaplain. l. T. Warren; sergeant, J. B.
Woodfield; physician, DR.. B. H. Smart;
DR.. S. j. Cockerell;
first master Of the guard. ]. J. Smith;
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knights of Maccabees.

At the installation Of officers Of Met
ropolitan Tent, No. IL, Knights of
the Maccabees Of the World, Tuesday
evening. the following musical pro-
gram was rendered prior to the install
lation exercises: Piano duet, Miss Jes-
sic Howard and Ralph Howard: solo,
Harold r. Smith; fancy dancing and
singing. Miss Teresa Scheaffer. ac-
companist, Mrs. A. G. Cullen; solo. Dis
trict Commander Thomas L. Smith
piano solo, Miss Crookshanks; solo,
Miss Ruth Money, and piano selections,
Mrs. A. G. Cullen. The program was
followed by addresses by Commander
E. Edward Clarke and State Command
er D. w. Gall. The latter installed the
newly elected officers.
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WDfEL@6

LODGES.
Monday-Cnion, No. IL, and Langdcn, No.
25. degree. Covenant. No. 13. install
lation. Beacon. No. IS. business.
Tnesday-Amity. No. 27, and Washing
ton, No. 8, degree. Golden Rule, No
q, business.
Observation-Disclosures. No. Z; Harmony,
No: o. and Federal City, No. 20, degree.
Friendship. No. 12, business.
Thursday-Columbia, No. 10. and Excel
sior. No. II. degree. Salem. No. ~
griday-OentraI. No. 1. Metropolis, No.
10, and Phoenix, No. 2S, business.
ENCAMPMENTS.
Tuesday-Fred D. Stuart, No. z. install
lation.
Wednesday-Columbian, No. l. installa-
tion.
Friday-Slasenenu, No. 4, installation.
REBEKAH LODGES.
Monday-Esther, No. 8, installation.
Frtday-Miriam, No. 9, business.
PATRIARCHS MILITANT.
saturday-Canton Washington. No. =
Social session.
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The installation of the newly-elected
officers of Webster Lodge, No Z, which
was to have taken place last Tuesday.
had to be postponed until next Tuesday
evening, when Grand Lecturer Klein
will be in charge, assisted by Grand
Prelate Ellis.
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Logan Tribe, No. 8, met Thursday
night at Red Mems Hall, corner Wis
consin avenue and N street northwest,
and it's officers were installed.
Past Great Sachem Wilson, the Oldest
past great sachem. presented the tribe
with a Red Mems pin, to be given to
the member bringing in the most can
didates in the next six months.
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RED Wing Tribe, No. 20, met Monday
night at Painters Hall. Great Sachem
Gartrell, assisted by Past Great Sachem
King S. Altman, installed the officers
Of the tribe.
The chief of records, E. R. Boyer. was
rennrted very sick
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Grand Master Frank E. Rapp, assist
ed by the regular grand officers and
Past Grand F. N. Davis of Langdon
Lodge. No. 20. as marshal, installed the
officers of Washington Lodge Tuesday
evening. There was a large attend
ance, and refreshments were served
after the exercises.
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'tSO:THEY KILLED JOE HILL !. =
New York Call:

New York Call: :. -. ,e.. ,&a.'~~- !
SO they killed Joe Hill. No !, one
knows Just why they did It. But they
walked him up out Of a sound sleep
before SUNRISE. They let; him shave
and battle. They let him pick out
the grub he wanted for: breakfast.
Then they dressed him in his death
suit, took him to q chair, tied him
In, bound his eyes, gave: the signal,
five rifles cracked and four bullets
entered his heart.
They had the elementary. human
ity to give a rifle with q blank cart
ridge to one Of the firing squad. No
one knows who had the lucky, gun,
50 each Of the five can have a clear
conscience in the belief that maybe
it was not his bullet that killed Joe.
But, aside from that, there is not
an incident OF; the case that does not
show cold-blooded, calculated saw
agery. Whether Hill was, guilty or
not Is tmmaterial. His case, at the
very best, looked rather flimsy. But
it was. no more 'flimsy than the case
that was made against him.
:. There is more than, a reasonable
doubt that he was with a married
woman one night; that he was shot,
and that: he:threw hi: life away just
because he wanted to shield another
mans wife. He lived like an artist
ana he wanted to die like an artist.
Poor. melodramatic Joe Hill. The
whole story is pitiful; a versemonger,
q writer Of :doggerel, posing. as an
other Francois Villon.. Member of
an outcast band. Made the goat
for the savage hatred Of a commu-
nifty.
The case against Hill was practic-
ally faxed up. There was no more
substance to the case than there was
to the case against the rcloakmakers.
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But they had to have a victim; they
were after the I. w. w. Everything
was done to make. execution certain.
Hills friends filled the city, and said
that they would mako their presence
felt If Joe died. The authorities were
put on their mettle. They dared not
pardon him; II they had it would
have meant. they believed, the end Of
their authority. H.. .-t%.
The intervention of the president,
the Intervention of Sweden, came too
late to make 1t appear otherwise than
that the I. W. w. had succeeded in
obfuscating the minds of more people
than was thought possible.
So Joe Hill was doomed. His poor,
maundering, jingling,i 5rhyme-mak-
ing career was to be closed, and. like
rat in trap. they killed him.
The state Of Utah may feel easier.
Governor Spry' may feel that, it was
right to take man out of bed and
shoot him.. when one word Of his
could hay saved the life of a. fellow
man. The people who want to make
soldiers out of their sons may feel
easy, now that they see what soldiers
must do TO, earn their pay. But the
mass of the people are horror strick-
en- that this should be part Of the
routine OF the business Of governing
the people.
Poor Joe; Hill living stood for little
in the; world. Bat his executioners
stand for the blind hatred of Capital
ism for the workers; his murderers
stand for the ruthless crushing out Of
the things that they think stand in
their way. Living, Joe was; nothing.
Few needed him. Dead, he is the
victim Of the cruel, heart-breaking,
soul crushing system. Dead, he is a
million times more vital than he ever
was living. Dead, he is a., Cause. the
Cause of those who fight Capitalism.
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THICKNESS OF BL GOD
By Jane Burr

(Written for Woman's Sphere.)
When was .clamoring whelp-
A frail little image of man:
I reached, and they gave me their
help
And taught me the love of the clan !;
For blood is thick
And water is thin,
And the best for q man
Is a mans own kin!
Then back in the seed-time I came,
AS gay as rilleting stream.
And their lovingness mellowed my
: name
SO I gave them the heart Of my
l.. dream;
And one said THE foor. and 1.-THE
'o~ dolt!'' ~--,-s-.,4 -,
And one said It'll teach him his
placed"
And, one: said "1'll break him-the
And one said. 1.-The shame-the
disgrace!"
I stumbled outside with a groan-
On fire with their merciless hurt,
And I found an. old beggar alone,
And crept to his side in the dirt;
And for fear that my senses would
. break, -
Out there in the cold and the dim
I answered the throb and the ache
And whispered my dreaming to
him.
And his crippled old arms caught me
=, tight
In the clasp of a true brotherhood,
For there, in the blackness of night,
The stranger-the wretch-under-
, stood. g.
So blood isn't thick,
If water is thin;
And the worst for man
Is mans own kin!
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EMPLOYERS NOTION
OF BEST UNION MEN

TIE antagonistic employers say the
best element in a trades union are the
RENDERS that never attend the meet
ing regularly. We know that those
gentlemen comprise the worst ele-
ment within our ranks. They try to
play both ends: against the middle.
they tell us they have sickness at
home or offer some nimsy excuse for
not attending meetings and tell the
employers. they stay away on account
Of the clique that has control of the
offices, not allowing them. to ex-
press their opinions on questions
under: discussion or the president
uses gag law and gets away with: it
because he haszcontrol Of the me M
bers who support him right or wrong.
When they do: attend q. meeting it
Is only for the purpose of saving a
fine for not doing 80, or when the
boss tells them to be sure and at
tend because something Of import
ance to him is coming up for decision.
on the latter occasion, If the question
goes the way the boss wants it, they
are down to work bright and early
the next morning to tell the boss how
hard they had to work to put it over,
and how they outgeneraled the oppo-
sition. If the question goes opposite
to the way the boss wanted it.. they
tell him is wat the clique that done
it, the radicals put It over. despite
their protests and vote. When the
truth Is they never took the floor or
tried to speak on the question at any
time during the entire discussion, and
when the vote was taken the chances
are 10 to one that they ducked, not
having the sand to 90 on record one
way or the other. II /. { .ss: s. !. IA. s ~
Yes, this is the character Of men
the ,antasonistic employer calls the
union men. ,.;;Ss >.:s4 N Vt
May the good Lord deliversus from
them. HI. is.sss >S
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IDLENESS IS HEAVIEST OF
BURDENS BORNE BY LABOR

land o. ours as many as five million
wege-workers are sometimes unem-
ployed?
Even in one year of prosperity, so
the Census tells us. over two million
men were unemployed from two to
four months i'm the year.
And the statistics of one state in
form US that sometimes one out of
every three workers beg for a chance
to work and beg In vain.
And this burden that labors bears
is the strangest thing In all this
world.
|. That strong, brawny men. capa Bile
Of producing more wealth than they
themselves receive, should be denied
the opportunity to produce that
wealth!
Was ever there anything before in
the world like this?
That shoeless bakers capable Of
lessly idle before hungry shoe-makers
capable of producing shoes! -.
That breadless sweat-shop workers
capable of producing: clothes should
stand idle and helpless before their
ragged comrades capable Of produc-
ing food!
I ask you was there ever anything
before in the world like this?
Yet there is no means known to
this human society of ours whereby
these workers can labor to feed and
clothe each other.
: They must stand and wait. They
know not how long, but long enough
until the industrial machine begins
it's work again.
They are the :cogs" in that machine,
able to work only when the ma
chine works, forced into idleness, i'm
reversing idleness. when the ma
cchine ceases work.
For in this day of ours these men
have no fields or homes or tools of
their own.
They are dependents, the subjects
Of a system which asks them not
when it will work or when, it will
not work.
And so we see that labor bears not
only the burden of creating wealth
by work. it bears also that more dis
tressing burden Of creating dearth by
idleness.-Iron City Trades Journal,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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I'VE ARE ALL FOOLS.

From the Manchester Guardian
(Eng.) we learn that q wounded Of
ficer wrote that a day before q great
attack a curious thing happened.
Yes; very curious indeed. In fact,
one of the curious incidents of the
war. And, we might add, one, of the
GERS story has it that a board was
hoisted in the German trenches bear
ing. the inscriptions:
1.-The English Are Fools"
At first, according to the officer. It
was thought that the. Germans were
striving merely to annoy" the Tom:
mics. so no attention was paid to the
board. A few minutes later, the
board reappeared again with this in
scription: ...
1.-THE French Are Fools" .H
This, like the first, was ignored.
Then, as a climax, came a third line:.
WE Are Fools" 49,.
Every soldier was Immediately In,
,terested. The board then carried q
final inscription: i
why Not All Go Homer"
.Inere are some LnlnKlnS SOlQlerS IN
Europe. That, is seems to us, is ap-
parent. They are fighting because
they are: forced to obey the commands
of their. tyrannical rulers. but the
beginnings of Intelligent revolt seem
to be finding places in which to grow
Some day, the soldiers will come to
the point where they will see the folly
Of war. The. absurdity OF II. all will:
drive them to an appreciation Of their:
fellow man, even though the other.
fellow may come rom another coun-
try. And when that consciousness
becomes general; the rulers will be
left to do the sfe hting, while the SOL
diers will gracefully retire TO the
noble and soul building pursuits Of
peace. rs .., # s53 &: s =:s M.
III God speed thai. day! Il may be ia
the distant future, but let US not fail
to spread the message that may bring
sit nearer. There % great work tcsf be
done. 8rtnstn or der out Of this ter
zriibis cha;oss not = die-pat