The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-10-21
ND. PYTH|ANS
ASKING FOR
FAIR PL \
BY A. w. LLOYD,
Grand Chancellor.

The proclamation issued by Sit
preme Chancellor Green is very mis-
leading as to the facts, when he says,
because the acts OF the Supreme
Lodge were contrary to the will of the
Grand Chancellor OF the Jurisdiction
OF Missouri" where he should have
said contrary to the will of the Grand
Lodge of the Jurisdiction of Missouri.
The truth of the matter is, the Grand
Lodge of Missouri, in regular session
assembled. two years in succession,
1920 and 1921, refused to make further
payments into the Pythian Temple
tax fund, except upon the following
conditions: The $4,000 collected from
the loyal lodges as voluntary payments
for the tax to be placed in the bank IN
escrow, subject to the drafts of the
Supreme Lodge, as follows: A certain
percentage of the money TO be paid
when the Supreme Lodge had let the
contract for the temple building, and
the balance when the work of con-
struction had commenced This prop
osition was submitted to the Supreme
Chancellor in 1920, and l wrote him
urging him to fairly consider the mat
ter, but received only such eyasive
replies as, THE Supreme Lodge did
not authorize the Grand Lodge oil
Missouri to submit such a PROPOSE
ton" etc.
We had hoped that the matter would
have been placed before the Supreme
Lodge at its 1921 session in Topeka,
Kans, but, not only did the Supreme
Chancellor fail and refuse to submit
the matter TO the Supreme Lodge for
its official action, but he arbitrarily
refused the duly elected representa-
tives from Missouri admission to the
supreme session, and this, too, in
spite of the fact that we had paid
every dollar of our representative tax
and had never been declared sus-
pended. This action of the Supreme
Chancellor forced me, as Grand Chan |
justice, and the Supreme Lodge was
forced to admit the Missouri delega-
ton and pay the cost of the litigation.
We in Missouri have in the past,
are now, and always will be, loyal to
the principles of the Order, but we
refuse to subscribe to the doctrine |
that the King can do no wrong" and, |
like slaves, tremble at the command of
the man who should be the fairest of |
the fair in all matters OF business or
brotherly love- In all my years of |
service as Grand Chancellor, the only
money that we have been unable to |,
satisfactorily account for is the money |
paid into this Pythian Temple tax
1und, for which we were promised |
dividend, but from which we have re-
eeived nothing for II years.
However, our real friends under |
stand our position for right, and it |
IS our desire to inform each reader |
that Missouri is unwilling to paw
money where it is unwsely managed |
or wasted, but will gladly cooperate
IN any cause where the management
will work for the good of the Institu-
ton as a whole.
When we consider that So, 100 of our
hard-earned money has not brought
one cent of income in II years, we
pause to wonder why?
Missouri paid $4,000 for a temple
some years later than the Supreme
building was purchased in Chicago; |
yet we have saved in profits over Sl4,- |
900, or one-half of the purchase price,
and the Chicago property, which cost
S4S. 600, has not returned to the sew
eral Grand Jurisdictions, whose loyal
members paid the purchase price, one
penny of interest. Does this seem
either fair of good business manage
ment?
Missouri thinks it is not. Missouri
as ks no favors or sympathy, but we
as k, yes, demand good business meth
DDS in handling our cash.
In the interest of the Order and the
Race, | am
Yours truly,
A, w. LLOYD,
Grand Chanceiior