The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19


lest gamers of these plums. If. as
was often the case, either of these
grand officers cleaned more than five
or six the surplusage was given out
to trusted friends. In this way it fire.
quently happened that one grand Off
Ger practically cast from 80 to 40 votes.
The attendance was n~oticeably re
duced at Kansas City, the result of
the stringent times, but the meeting
was enthusiastic and reports of each
department encouraging.
The Grand Master, lin his annual ad.
dress. stated that discordant notes in
some parts of the Jurisdiction were
marring the hitherto reign of har-
mony.
Most of the unharmonious affairs o!
the Missouri Grand Lodge have come
to it from outside the borders of the
state. There was the Iowa trouble
which hung on an on until it wore it.
self out. Then after a brief spell of
quiet the Omaha lodges vigorously
took up the task of supplying the red
fire, and their supply lasted through
several years.
One of these cases was appealed to
the Grand Lodge at the present sit,
ting and was the source of unprece.
dented i'll feeling among the adherents
of either side. Indeed, upon the even.
ing of the third day the session was
continued during the whole night, Sc
virulent were the contentious of the
friends of one V. B. Walker, who had
been expelled from Excelsior lodge
No. 10.
Happily these affairs have grown
more and more infrequent as the years
have passed and ever those of long
ago might have been averted by the
use of a little more backbone upon the
part of those entrusted with the eXecu-
tive powers of the organization.
There came cup at this all night SEES
sion, also a contention over the sal
airy and expense account of the Grand
Lecturer. For some uneXplainable rea,
son this grand officer was never con.
sidered in his true light of usefulness
by the members of the fraternity. 1t
was always the open season when any.
one say fit to take a shot at the Grand
Lecturer.
The Grand Master always excused
himself from visiting the lodges on
the plea that he did not wish TO bur
den them with the expense. Indeed
he put that argument on so strong un.
til the lodges evidentl %ythought no one
else should visit them, unless he did
so gratis. The Grand Lecturer usual
ly limited mildly to the lodges that he
had TO pay car fare and other travel
ing expenses but in most cases they
apparently thought he was joking and
the matter was passed over. The
rand Lecturer made note of the lodges
Indifference, brought the bill to the
Grand Lodge and it always made a
big fuss. Only a few men had the
temerity to accept this otherwise hon.
orable office.
Upon the present occasion it was
occupied by Brother George W. Du,
pee, m of the stalwart Masons OF
luc Olu SudIu WIN ndu COlub WIN the
body through all its phases of devel
opment, and who at this very day is
one of its most useful as well as dis
tinguished votaries. No one ever ques-
toned his integrity or honor as a mar
and Mason, 1t seems that the in
surgents just picked him u as an
object upon which to express their
disapproval of the big expense account
of the Grand Lodge.
Prince Hall lodge No, ! of st. Louis
announced the death of Brother VIM.
H. Gilbert, who had the unusual dis
tinction of having been made a Mason
in England sixty years previously and
had been a member of Prince Hall
for thirty-six years.
AT the election of officers Brother
Pelham was compelled to defeat both
Yates and Chinn for the office OF
Grand Master.
Harry r. Graham received the well
earned honor Of being chosen Deputy
Grand Master and the next meeting
was voted to Moberly.
ST. JOSEPH, MO.