The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
COMMANDER:
OF TEMPLARS
GREETED HERE
l.. p. Newly, Head of Order
With 100000 Members,
HOnOred in Bismarck
TELLS OF ACTIVITIES
Order Supporting French
War Orphans and Will Aid
Cause of Education
TELLS OF ACTIVITIES

Leonidas p. Newly Of Knights
town, Ind, grand commander Of the
Knights Tcmplar of the United
States, was guest IN Bismarck to-
day. Bismarck and Mandan Knights
Templars and grand officers of
North Dakota Joined in welcoming
the orders supreme head.
Arriving from Seattle in special
car attached to Northern Pacific
train No. 2 at 9:30 this morning, Mr..
Newly was met by more than so
Knights Tcmplars of Bismarck in
uniform, several past commanders
and grand officers Of the state, and
escorted to the Mckenzie hotel. The
program for today was: Luncheon
at Lewis and Clark hotel, Mandan;
banquet at Masonic temple, Bis
marck, Gas p. IN. with address of
Mr.. Newly to knights Templar;
p. m, address by Mr.. Newly to
meeting at Masonic temple to which
all Master Masons and wives arc in
vtcd.
Mr.. Newly, who was elected head
of the knights Templars at New
Orleans last year, is visiting as
many states in the jurisdiction as
possible, and is particularly going
into the states which are not often
visited by heads of the order. He
is returning from Seattle where
grand officers met to discuss plans
for the conclavc to be held there in
1925.
Supporting Orphans
The Knights Tcmplar is flourish
ing, Mr.. Newly said, there now be-
ing 100000 members in the United
States. His present tour began on
January II in the south.
Among the activities Of the order
he mentioned is the education of 500
French orphans. The French gov
ernment pays the overhead cost of
the organization, a Knights Temp
lar manager is stationed in France,
and the orphans are left as far as
possible with their mothers. They
are being clothed. educated and fed
until they are able to support them
selves. When in France last year
Mr.. Newly said, he found some of
the orphans already were able to
support themselves, and others were
placed on the list in their place.
Another activity of the knights
Templar is the creation of revolv-
ing fund to aid deserving boys and
girls to obtain an education. The
last grand conclave set aside $780,
600 in bonds for this work and made
he said
1--WE say it is revolving fund"
said Mr.. Newly, "because from the
experience of subordinate Masonic
orders in many states in aiding boys
and girls to gair an education, we
are sure that IS percent Of. it will
be paid back after the boys and
girls have completed their education
and are able to earn their own liv.
ing"
The boys and girls will be select
cd through local committees. and no
security will be taken-the loan will
be a debt of homer, he said.
Widely Travelled -
Mr.. Newly, who is an attorney by
profession, has been active in pub
lie affairs for many years, and has
travelled in practically every foreign
country and all over the United
States. He was in the diplomatic
service under President Roosevelt
and has been prominent in Indiana
politics, but now has retired from
active participation, he said. He is
lay member of the Foreign Board
of Education of the Methodist church
and president of the International
College in Rome.
With Mr.. Newly today was Issac
Fl. Hettinger, grand sword bearer
of the grand encampmcnt, Of Kan
sas City, Mo-; Ralph Minehart, grand
commander Of the grand command
cry, state of Pennsylvania; DR..
George Rowles, grand commander
of the state Of Wisconsin, and Mrs.
Rowlcs; John Rupe, past grand COM
mander of the state of Indiana. John
Orchrad Of Dickinson, and Otto Bau-
cr of Mandan, grand lodge officers,
were among those to greet him here.
E. c. Eddy, grard commander of
North Dakota, met Mr.. Newly at
Mandan, and Rev. w. J. Hutchinson,
grand prelate, of Fargo, also was