The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-03-17

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| No. 8, X T., Friday.
| Only boys between the ages named
and who are sons of Masons are tC
be admitted to membership first, II
| is declared. After the charter is
closed any boy may become a mem
Der, If he is between Is and 81 years
| old.
! A committee of 10 has been appoint
| ed by the commandary to provide fol
| the proper organization of the DEMO
lay order, and it is hoped; according tc
w. d. Scoble, publicity officer of the
committee. that the first initiatory ser
vices can be held in the Coliseum BY
the middle of May. 1t is believed that
the work would be put on by members
OF the order organized in Indianapolis
Committee Members.
! Members of this committee of 1C
are: John Rupe, chairman; Kari
Wolfe. secretary; Paul Ross, advisor:
Will Blackmore, Tom Tarkleson, Har
/ ry Custer. John Emslie, Frank Hell
land, w. D. Scoble and George Ham
| ilton.
| The order provides that only bows
can take the work, but a Master Ma.
! son will at all times be present "a
supervise, Mr.. Scoble said Friday. II
is the plan of the advisory committee
/ to petition the grand organization for
q charter.
/ John Rupe and John Nicholson hay e
been named as a committee to selecr
! name for the local DeMolay chapter
Origin of Order.
Originating in boys club of doc-
en- members, fathered by Brother
| Frank S. Land, of Kansas City, in
March, 1919, the order of DeMolay
swept over Kansas City so swiftly
that in two years it numbered almost
two thousand members.
In the meanwhile, this far-seeing
brother, from his knowledge of boys
problems, knew that such an organi-
cation to be successful must have
more than a mere organization.
He conceived the idea of ritual
and his idea was utilized by Brother
Frank A. Marshall in the splendid
rituals which are now used.
During this formative period, at
tention of the neighboring cities was
attracted, and with it came a demand
for similar chapters.
The first chapter, known as Kans; L
.
of the world, was instituted April /
1919 in that city, and since that II m,
/ two hundred and ten t210) chap ;er
have been instituted in the eyrftir,
United States, and membership nov
stands at one hundred and ten thou
sand.
Purpose of Order
The purpose of the Order of / De Mo
lay for Boys is to make better. boys
better men and better citizens. Thu
degrees teach reverence, pat riotism
filial love, clean living and God cit
izenship. It's ritualistic worl; is EN-
bodied in two degrees, initia tory ant
De Molay degrees. The fl st incul
eating the cardinal virtues Of the or
der, which are deeply impre ssed upol
the minds through a symbol lie journey
splendidly portrayed; the latter de
gree is historical and spec tacular, af
fording opportunity to thu boys will
dramatic ability to displ ~ their tai
ent.
The order derives its, name from
Jacques DeMolay, the last militar!
grand master of the order of Knight:
Templar, an eminent Iartyr of Free
Masonry, who on the evening of MAY
IS, 1914, as the bells CT the Cathedra
of Notre Dame tolled The hour of sew
! en-, was burned at the stake on an isle
in the Seine river jacques DeMola!
was summoned by o! der of Philip the
Fourth, King of FE.ance, and Pope
Clement the Fifth.
+! The Paris home 81 the Knights TEN
plar was then in the Palace of tn,
Temple The TeYnplars had fixed OF
tbiS Snot thon apof cauor,1 ocra,
and lying without the walls of Paris
, for their palace, idnd here, in 1922, wa!
completed that vast structure, o
which after a Ia pse of many centuries
remnant is y ct beheld.
Seat of Templars.
Here was the chief seat of tina
wonderful brotherhood of Templars
| whose name, for more than 200 years
was the glory and terror of Chris
tendon, and which, as a peaceful al
filiation, still exists. In answer t,
I Philip the iFourth's request, DeMolay
then on the Island of Cyprus, came t,
Paris, and no sooner had he reached
the Palace of the Temple, he was ar
rested upon 127 charges of Grim,
against the prosecuted Templars, al
of them as absurd and impossible a.
they were abominable and infamous
yet each and all sustained by the mos
violent and inflammatory denuncia
ton, and echoed by shouts of tn,
/ ignorant and superstitious denounc
/ ers; and thus were the Templa
! Knights of France committed to tn,
tender CD mercies of the Inquisition
As for Jacques DeMolay, the aget
grand master, he was committed. to
gether with some other dignitaries O,
the fated order, to the dungeons o.
| Chinon.
Allowed Necessities
! The sufferers were deprived Of the
habit of their order, and of the rites
and comforts of the church; only the
bare necessities of life were allowed
/ them and those who refused to plead
were subjected by that terrible maui
sition to every species of torture. In
the dungeons of this fearful fortilace
were those veterans of the cross who
had so often done noble battle fol
/ Christendom upon a foreign soil now
| plunged in dungeons and loaded with
chains. Such was the sombre picture
| in the proud Castle of Chinon. when
1t became the prison for almost seven
years of the grand officers Of the
Temple in France.
On the night of the eighth day OF
August. 1908, in the question chambe,
| OF the castle of Chinon. the grand mas
| ter was subjected IN tho most ov