The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-15
HEAD OFFICIAL
 dF ELkS HERE. TOMORROW \. M.
Walter F. Meier Arrives
 Early m Morning on Way to Westward

A1uneau tomorrow forenoon. He arrives on the Aleutian at 5;30 o'clock in the morning and leaves for the westward at 10 o'clock Owing to the morning hours, it is not expected that a general meeting of the E1ks will be held, in fact he is being communicat- ed with this afternoon by radio, to make his official visit in Ju- neau when he returns southbound.
 This is the first time a Grand Exalted Ruler has even visited Alaska. MT. Meier has been a Juneau visitor before and has many friends in this city.
 Walter F. Meier was born on a farm in Lancaster County, Ne braska, September 12, 1879. He was educated in the public schools of his natal State and was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1903 with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws.
 He went to the State of Wash ington in 1903, and was initiated in Seattle Lodge No. 92, B. P. o. Elks, on October 23, 1919, at once identi- flying himself with it's activities. He delivered the Memorial address for his lodge in December, 1920, and was elected Esteemed Lecturing Knight in March, 1921. The fol- lowing year he was elected Exalted Ruler. and also the Second Vice. President of the Washington State Elks' Association. In 1923, he at tended the Grand Lodge Corven- tion held at Atlanta, Georgia, as the delegate from his lodge. During that year he was also regularly advanced to the office of First Vice. President of the State Asso- citation, and appointed by Grand Exalted Ruler James G. Mcfarland as District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler for the District of Washing ton Northwest.
 State ksresident
 In 1924 he was elected President of the Washington State Elks' As sociation, and organized the move ment resulting in the subsequent erection in Seattle by the Elks of the State of a convalescent home for crippled children, which was donated to, and is now operated by and in conjunction with, the Ortho- pedic Hospital of that city. At the Grand Lodge Convention held at Portland, Oregon, in July, 1925, he was elected Grand Esteemed Lecturing Knight. The following year he was appointed by Grand Exalted Ruler William Hawley Att well as a member of the Grand Forum for a five-year term and served as it's Chief Justice during the year 190-1931. While serving as a member of the Grand Forum, MT. Meier compiled the opinions heretofore rendered by that body from it's organization upon the adoption of the new Constitution by the Grand Lodge in 1907, down to and including those rendered in 1928. This compilation, consisting of 635 pages. was officially adopted by the Grand Lodge at the Miami Convention in 1928. During the year 1931-32, by appointment of Grand Exalted Ruler John R. Coon, he served as Chairman of the Grand Lodge Committee on Judi ciary. MT. Meier is the first Grand Exalted Ruler to be elected from the States lying west of the Da- kotas and north of California.
 Member of Bar
 In civil life, MT. Meier is a member of the Bar in the State of Washington, and during his career he rendered public service for eight consecutive years, first as Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for King County, and then as Corpora tion Counsel of Seattle, to which latter position he was twice elected without opposition. In 1923 he resigned to re-enter upon the pri- vate practice of law. Subsequently, he was elected as member and the Chairman of the Seattle Free holders Charter Revision Commit tee chosen by the people to pro- pose a new charter for the city.
 MT. Meier's education was se- cured with some difficulty. For a short time during the winter months he was enabled to attend, first a country school, and there after the public schools at Crete, Nebraska. He was required to leave school every spring to assist in farming operations, and was not permitted to return to school again until the fall, after the corn was husked and in the crib. He com