Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-07

! which dealt with mems idiosyn.
crasies and foibles, and Imperfect
tons. 1t was a fraternal playground,
which sometimes witnessed rough
| play, and performed many surg
cry in character. So the lure of
membership in the ancient and hon
0rable order of haymakers was held
out to the joining merchants, and
they fell for it. The fee was very
modest, and the treasurer spent all
| the funds at each meeting of the
order, but the initiation was impos-
ing, revealing, and never forgotten.
when the two merchants came
to receive their degree, their first
revelation came to them while lock-
ed in a little siX-by eight ante-cham-
! Der, between which and the lodge
room there was a partition only
eight feet high, with a great open
space above, through which could
be heard all that was said among
the haymakers in solemn session.
See Selves MirrOred
1.-THE eligibility and desirability of
the candidates were discussed for an
hour, and [ fear, alas, the candi-
dates heard every word. Their join
ing proclivity was emphasized, and
[ suspect objections were urged that
were not wholly justified. In a bit
of cheating, which must have been
, forgiven ere this, the ministers of
the two churches were impersonat-
ed though the impersonators some
times fall short of clerical terms of
speech. The haymakers, with rare
facility, turned tanners, and did a
wonderful job of it. Manifestations
of restlessnesS in the ante-room were
! ignored and after the alleged pastors
had retired to their homes, the d
gree was given and given without
stint. All went we'll until the next
day, when the two brothers started
out to interview the ministers who
had spoken. 1t was difficult for the
innocent ministers to understand,
but. the two joiners soon came to
understand, and the haymakers lost
two members, the town lost it's new
mercantile establishment within a
week, and two strangers who don
/ ned the cloak of fraternity for com
| mercial gain saw themselves as 9TH
ers appraised them.
AHeTe is dn honest ana righteous
and just fraternal life in America
it embraces millions of our men and
women, and hundred fraternal or
| CARNATIONS extend their influence
into more than third of Ameri-
can homes, and make ours a better
republic for their influence.
Fraternity is inherent in men;
it is manifest in the beasts of the
fields and the birds in the air. 1t
is our obligation to make the most
Of it for human betterment. 1t more
than, enters our daily life and min
listers 10000 daily charities and fra
ternal reliefs. In the lodge room
there is moulded what becomes pub
lie opinion, and contributes to the
moving forces of developing civiliza-
! ton.
Good in All Men
1T matters not what is said of
human selfshness, it matters not
what seemed lack of sympathy and
fellowship is sometimes encounter
ed, every man worth while has in
him the yearning to be worth while,
to do that which gives him title to
the activities of human brotherhood
1t is the business of organized fra
ternaliSm to turn these natural
traits to highest helpfulness. In
every worthy order the principles Of
civil and religious liberty, justice
and equality are taught in lecture
and obligation. A respect for the
rights of others. The very essence
of fraternity, is stressed everywhere,
until the rule of justice is the guar
anty of righteous fraternal relation.
ship.
81 wish somehow we could have
! fraternity among nations, as it is
! taught in America among men. I
dc not mean to employ sign, grip
and password, which afford an ap-
pealing mystery to our relationship,
but the insistent demand for Just
dealing, the respect of right of 9th
ers, and the ideals of brotherhood
recited in the golden rule, and the
righteous fellow relationship which
every man knows his God approves.
| Under such a reign of fraternity,
cruel human warfare will never
come again.
j like the highly purposed fra
ternity, because it is our assurance
against menacing organization. In
the very naturalness of association
men band together for michief, to
exert misguided zeal, to vent I'M
reasoning malice, to undermine our
| institutions. This is not fraternity,
| this conspiracy. This is not asso-
ISOLATED uplift, it is organized de.
struction. This is not brotherhood,
| it is the discord of disloyalty and a
danger to the republic. But so long
as twenty millions Of Americans
are teaching loyalty to the flag, the
| cherishment of our inherited institu-
lions and due regard for constitu-
tionaI authority, and the love of
liberty under the law, we may be
assured the future is secure.
Sound in High Ideals
There is no misunderstanding the
aims and purposes of our loftier
American fraternalism. For the
great brotherhood there is the pa
triotic appraisal of the heritage of
the republic. Here is representative
| democracy, wrought in sacrifice and
toll, amid iiberty's highest aspira-
tions, and no force or violence, no
alien purpose, no social madness
shall be permitted to destroy it.
Il think I know the very soul Of
masonry, out of which the shrine
has come to tighten our burdens and
/ add cheer to our daily lives.
There is both quantity and dual
! ity in the nobility of the shrine. It