The log cabin Democrat., 1916-09-28
A.O.U. ". OPPOSE STATEWIDE REPEAL ACT NO. 2 IS DENOUNCED Grand Lodge AdjOurns After Ex- tending Terms of Three Grand
 Officers to Six Years.

Little Rock, Sept. 2s.-The eighth biennial session of the Arkansas Grand Lodge A. o. U. w. adjourned at 6:45 o'clock last night. The Grand Lodge adopted an amendment to the constitution and articles of incorpo- ration, providing that the terms of the grand master workman, the grand recorder and the grand medi cal examiner shall be six instead of two years, and that the incumbents, John R. Frazer, H. L. Cross and Dr. J. w. John, respectively, shall hold office until September, 1922.
 Little Rock was selected as the 1918 meeting place, Stuttgart having been withdrawn after it had been placed in nomination.
 The latest revised roll of member ship shows total of 6,117 in 102 lodges, the four largest in member ship being Pine Bluff 533, West End { tLlttle Rock) 521, Paragould 4O6, and Capital (Little Rock) 3OS. The tro- phy cup will be delivered by West End lodge to Pine Bluff.
 Grand Master Frazer announced the following standing committees:
 Law-D. G. Beauchamp of Para gould, J. w. Wade of Little Rock, and C. Floyd Huff of Hot Springs.
 Flnance-H. s. Turner of Little Rock, John M. Weaver of Van Buren. and A. B. Smith of Pine Bluff.
 John k. Frazer and H. L. Cross of Little Rock, and s. S. Faulkner of Helena were elected supreme repre- sentatives.
 Clio Harper of Capitol lodge, pre- sented the following resolution. which was enthusiastically and unan- lmously adopted, heartily endorsed by Supreme Master Workman Mar vls, and copy was ordered sent to every member of the order in the state:
 Whereas, nine months trial has proved the beneficent effect of the statewide prohibition law, and effec- tually demonstrated that the only business it hurts is that of the sa loon, which impoverishes and de- grades; It has tendency to vacate our jails and county farms, has in- creased the earnings of legitimate business, has made labor more effici- ent and dependable, has brought happiness and plenty to homes that had been pauperized by the saloon and its attendant evils, and is lifting our citizenship to a higher plane of self-respect; and,
 Whereas, There is now pending before the people, to be submitted at the November election, Act No. ?, which proposes to repeal not only the statewide act, but all the salutary anti-liquor laws that have been se cured by persistent effort during the last 40 years, substituting therefor law, under the spacious guise of local selfgovernment,' that would agaln deliver the state into the hands of the whiskey ring with all it's per nlclous influences; therefore, be it
 Resolved, That the Grand Lodge o1 Arkansas, Ancient Order of United Workmen, hereby condemn Act No. 2 as wholly vicious and un worthy of support, as a deceitful device of Satan to defeat the will of our best citizens, and to debauch and debase the social fabric, as step backward in the march of progress; and in the name of the 6,,2O0 mem bers of the order and the homes they represent, urge upon all the i'm perative necessity and their frater- nal obligation to vote and work for the triumphant defeat of Act Mo- g."