The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-05

win the Grand Orient, and in several
instances severed fraternal relations
altogether. Thus the Nemesis of os.
tracism which surely overtakes every
white man or body of men that feels
manifests any real sense of fair
ness n sympathy toward black men
In his annual address Grand Mas
ter Pelham reported that he had visit.
ed Kansas City for the purpos of in
~Vest1gating the Sixth street propertv
onerea Tor sale to the Masons for a
temple He did not like the location
OF the site, but it was otherwise most
acceptable and he might have bought
II mad not the owner in the midst of
the negotiations increased the nrice
Iar beyond reason. That ended the
Yates proposition and il was recon-.
mended that a committee be appoint
ed with discretionary powers" to in
vest the amount of money collected
IN some available realty more as an
investment than as a location for the
permanent seat for the Grand Lodge.
BY this time the brethren were grow.
ing very tired and lukewarm toward
tne ldea anyhow, and a great deal of
failure and dissatisfaction had been
experienced in collecting the funds in
he lodges. 1t appears, also that tbe
Grand Master himself was weary of
the project and would fain find a wav
TO let 1t rest, at least for a while. If
llnHIIX went the ~ IS IL
library, over which so much ado had
been made a few years before. or
the value of the TemhpIe idea there
can be no doubt. and it may have been
a misfortune that the plan could not
be put through If the officials of
the Grand Lodge were sincere at the
time 1t seems from this distance that
there was no actual reason for their
failure to carry out the movement for
winch money had been raised and
upon which so much time and energy
mad been expended. Without a Ma
eTmple, of course, a Masonic
library would be as much in the way
a ~dlctagraph at a ladies' sewing cir
Gle.
Past Grand Master Alexander Clark
had been appointed minister to the
Republic of Liberia and in that for
e1gn land had died a few months prior
this meeting of the Grand Lodge,
which he had for several years
presided with distinction. The Grand
Master paid a somewhat formal trib.
ute to him in his annual address, call
ing him Mr.. Clark in one place and
summed up his personal virtues in
seven lines.
The controversy between the Wood
faction and the Walker faction of the
Eastern Star work had gone SO far
TO threaten discord among the Ma
OF the Jurisdiction, as it had
among their wives, and the Grand
appointed a committee to in
Vestigate the merits of each side and
TO the Grand Lodge. Brother
D.. M. Wood, leader of one side and
a very forceful member of the Grand
Lodge, was present and took such
good care of his interests before the
committee and the Grand Lodge that
he easily won the decision and the
other side was ~discredited. Led by
the intrepid Walker, however, it con-
tinued to operate with even more
acerbity and the merry war went on,
little effected by the decree of the
Grand Lodge.
The day of the elections was I'M
eVentful except in the contest for the
office of Grand Secretary. Brothers
William Cross and M. o. Ricketts, both
entered the lists against A. r. Chinn,
whom n of the speakers had de-
dominated Alexander the Great" and
who showed his worthiness of that
title by driving his bristIing phalanx