Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
49TH ANNUAL SESSION
OF THE STATE GRANGE
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resented and all officers present.
The meeting was held in the Sailors
and Soldiers Memorial Hall, a build
ing containing two large meeting
rooms, one seating nine hundred and
the other three thousand people, both
of which we occupied at different
times.
The sixth and seventh degrees were
given in Motor Square Garden.
The seventh degree class was COM
posed of 1898 candidates and the
work done by Brother Charles M.
Gardner, high priest of demeter and
his assistants, was most solemn and
impressive.
1t was estimated that at least seven
thousand persons attended that ses-
sion.
The meeting of the priests of deme-
ter was held the next morning and
only those members who have attend
ed this meeting can appreciate the
solemnity and dignity of the meeting
Of this part of our order.
The national body resumed its meet
ing on Saturday evening and many in
teresting problems were discussed, the
most important of which was coop
erative marketing scheme, working on
the plan of the Federal Farm Loan
Board, as outlined by Brother Goss of
Washington State, master of that
State Grange.
1t was so we'll thought of that
committee of seven was appointed to
meet in Washington, D. c., early in
January to further discuss it and take
definite action to put it into active
operation.
The committee consists of Robert
P. Robinson of Delaware; A. S. Goss
of Washington; David Agans of New
Jersey; John A. McSparron of Penn
sylvania; Albert Manning of New
York; J. P. McCullen of Kansas; c.
L. Martin of Vermont.
Obeying the Law
The Grange is, and always has
been, a law abiding organization and
stands for the enforcement of the
law. There is no place in our order
for the man or woman who does not
uphold the laws of our country.
We quite agree with Past Master
Lowell when he says: eve have no
sympathy with the present spirit of
laxity which is sweeping over the ma
ton and we should voice our indig-
nant protest that even a question
should be raised over enforcing any
part of the fundamental law of the
land"
The Grange has always stood for
prohibition and now that the Eigh-
teenth Amendment has been written
into the Constitution of the United
States, our order should use every
endeavor to obey and uphold the law
and see to it that others do the same.
I recommend that we again, as for
years past, declare ourselves for "A {
dry America" s
Our Schools !
Without doubt we are all in accord '
as to the right of every child in our {
State to obtain the very best educa- i
ion possible and to that end we de-
tire that every advantage possible be 4
yiven our children. t
AS to the consolidation Of schools, n
ne believe that is a problem which
must be worked out in each locality
o the satisfaction of its citizens. A
which might be just
he thing for one district, might not
lpply to some other section, but let
is reason together for the best inter- 7
st of all. q
The magnificent gift of one of the :
itizens of our State to our school sys- =
EN- can never be forgotten.
Good Roads n
With the continued increase of the D
Ise of the automobile, has come, of il
curse, the demand for more good
Dads. Il
When we realize that our State has al
uilt more than Lightweight miles of
ood roads during the past year, we IL
now that we are keeping up with
be progress made in other communi- V
les, but we begin to wonder where d
; will end and if we are not burden v
ng those who come after US, with
90 many bonds to pay and cOnse- b.
uently too much of an increase in v
axation. Still the demand continues al
nd 1 suppose we will still go on M
uilding. The increase of the number bt
f accidents to pedestrians, make it al tt
lost obligatory to build a sidewalk vi
longside of every improved road.
The very wonderful gift Of citizen So
{ our State, of a concrete road reach De
lg from one end of our State to the
ther, is a monument to the big pl
eartedness and generosity of this tn
ian. 1 trust that some fitting trib-
te may be arranged by the people of G.
le State to show our appreciation as ti7
as done in a neighboring State, ba
lort time ago, for another of our cit ev
ems.
Two great calamities have overtak- ia
/ us during the past year, namely, de
le death of Warren G.. Harding, Pres az
ent of the United States, who gave
D his life in the service of his cOun- Pc
y and the disaster in Japan. Appal- an
lg as they both were, we have lived ag
rough them and with the help of the
le Who rules over all countries and ou
| nations, will continue to live and
prosper in the years to come. be
The National Grange has endorsed Kc
e disposal of the Muscle Shoals Ms
ant to the highest bidder to be used inc
r fertilizer and nitrates for muni- Pc
N purposes; and is against daylight Ca
wing. It favors the establishment of ia
operative industrial alcohol plants pie
d the changing of certain laws and Ro
gulations to make this possible. Ca
Gravel Hill De De-
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