Evening star., 1925-10-19
SUPREME COUNCIL:
OF MAS0NS MEETS
500 Expected at Sessions to
Continue Here Through
out Week.

With more than 200 Masons Of the
32nd and 33rd degree in attendance,
and a total Of 800 expected finally
from 33 States south of the Ma son
and Dixon line and west of the Missis-
sippi River. the supreme Council.
Scottish Rite Freema sonry, Southern
jurisdiction, formally opened it's
biennial session of one week this
morning in the House of the Temple.
Sixteenth and : streets.
Sovereign Grand Comma nder John
II. toWles of Louisville. Ky. present
ell to the council his ailocution, or
annual report of the Scottish Rite
activities FOR the year.
Achievements Praised.
The ailocution of the sovereign
grand comma nder was referred TO d
committee, which highly commended
the achievements oI the order re-
corded
William p. Filmer, grand orator,
eulogized the members who had died
during the interval between the ses
sions. As names of the deceaS Sed We're
called taps by tWo trumpeters of the
Army Music School resounded through
the House of the Temple, and Mrs
Gertrude Lyon of this city sang
Taps from words written by n mem
Der of The Scottish Rite This Was the
fourth biennial session al which Mrs.
Lyon has So memorialized the dead
The trunpeters were II. +. Darcy,
hand leader of the Army Music school
and Philip Kohu.
Greetings from the Supreme coun-
ell Of Poland and the Philippine
Islands We're read and a letter of
n ft.,I Ii.1 Ia III.
from the Washington Cathedral Foun-
datton was presented.
Reports OF the secretary general
HYman w. Whoever, and the trea s.
urer general. Garnett n Morgan of
Nashville, Tenn. were received
The sovereign grand comma nder
presided and rril call showed all the
active members Of tho supreme Coun-
ell. q in number. To he present
Frank Stephens Of Detroit. Mich ac-
tive member of the Supreme Council
Of the North Jurisdiction. was intro.
duced and made a response.
This afternoon the council will
Journey 10 Arlington and Mount Yer
non. 10 honor the Unknown Soldier
and George Washington. the greatest
Mason in the early history Of the
country. A reception is TO he given
tonight at the House of the Temp!e
Crane Chapter. Grand Council and
Grand Comma nder. knights Templar
Men TO BE Honored
one of the factors of interest will
he the election. perhaps tomorrow
afternoon, OF outsta nding Scottish
Rite MasonS to the additional honors
Of knight Comma nder of the Court
of Honor and the Thirty-third De
gree. A few Ma sons of the District
of Columbia will in all proba bility
he included in the list Of those so
honored.
Last year the Supreme Council
raised about $50 Masons TO the
thirty-third degree. and nearly twice
that number to the honor of X G.
{. II, But this year, according to
present Indications. there will prob
ably he much sma Her number
named.
Masons are elevated from the
thirtr-second degree il was explain
10 that Of Knight Comma nder of the
Court of Honor. which they must
hold for at least four years before
becoming eligible for the thirty-third
degree. the highest attainahe in the
Scottish Rite.
Memorial Service for Pike.
House Of the Temple yesterday after
noon for Albert Pike. for whom the
local consistory of the Scottish Rite
! is named and who was sovereign
grand comma nder of the Supreme
Council, Southern Jurisdiction. from
1859 to 1891
The orator of the afternoon was
Francis :. King of Cheyenne, Wvo..
who praised Albert Pike as soldier
lawyer. journalist. poet. philosopher
and one of the greatest Masonic schol-
ars of all times.
III any institution owes To one par
ticular individual its reiuvenatiun. its
success and its perpetuatiOn." declared
! MIR. King. then the Scottish Rite of
! FreemasonrN owes all these to Albert
I Pike
All % active members of the SUI
preme Council are in attendance at
the sessions and there is a generous
representation from the Scottish Rite
hodies from all parts of the territory
comprising the Southern Jurisdiction.
Delegate From Alaska.
II. T. Tripp of Juneau, Alaska, was
on the register this morning as the
representative who had travelled far
thest to he present for the sessions
this week. A special car came from
Okla homa city, hearing a delegation
headed by Frank A. Deer of Guthrie
and William Noble af Oklahoma City.
Charles s Lohinger. ~ formerly of
| Shanghai. China. hut now of Wash
f! ington. represented the order from
; China.
Tomorrow morning there will he
another session of the Supreme Coun-
Gil. The body will call at the White
, House about 1850 for courtesy call
! upon President Coolidge. Election of
Masons to the two high honors may
| take place tomorrow afternoon. X c.
G. II. investiture will take place We'd
nesday night, and the 33rd degree will
be conferred on the newly elected
| members on Friday night. The coun-
ell sessions will close SATURDAY.
L. Whiting Estes ~ chairman of the
reception and entertaining committee.
j. Ga aude KEEPER, vice chairman of
the reception committee. and Carl H.
Claudy, vice chairman of the enter
/ tainment committee. Registration is
In charge Of Nathan WE'LL, Monte
Sanger and William A. Catanach
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