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the Elks for the District, who re-
buked Williams for his remarks
after the young Exalted Ruler had
finished.
"You run the subordinate lodges"
Lloyd told Williams, land let the
Grand Lodge run its own business"
In a further bristling and angry
mood. Lloyd also implied that if
the rank and file didn't like the
way the Grand Lodge ran its bust
ness they could leave the ranks of
Elkdom.
"You don't have to be Elks," he
challenged, "you can be "buffa-
loes." Lloyd represents the present
administration of the Elks Grand
Lodge which is currently under
fire in a suit and an injunction in
the U. S. District Court here.
Williams was pointing out the
close relationship between subord-
mate lodges of Elkdom and the
Grand Lodge, after he had outlined
his program for the year.
This program outlined is a big
one," he declared. 1t will require
the hearty support of each and
every one of us, and it will take
much of our time. There is no
other way to progress, no other
way to improvement"
Then came his words which
created the storm and brought
hearty applause from the crowd
which packed the meeting hall of
the Elks' Home.
But all such programs seeking
to improve and build up Elkdom
will be quite useless unless we
of this lodge, along with all other
subordinate lodges, take time out
and watch what is happening in
and to our Grand Lodge" he said.
At this point, Lloyd who had
been chatting with a Daughter Elk
stopped chatting and began to
take notice of what Williams was
saying. The Exalted Ruler con-
tinued:
1--WE ourselves have got to wake
up and see that our policies and
monies are protected. We have to
fight, and fight hard, for rule Of
decency and honesty.
"This means breaking up Grand
Lodge cliques and their steam-roll-
ing tactics which ride high and
mighty over your rights, making
fools of all Of us.
eve must battle against cor
ruption and scandals because they
disrupt the entire Order and make
it difficult for subordinate lodges
to build themselves up-or even to
survive.
"There seems to be a feeling
among some Grand Lodge officers
that they can do anything they
wish, even alter the Constitution
of the Order to suit their fancies,
and without the consent of the
body.
"These officers must be made
to realize that it is their duty to
serve us, not dominate US at their
pleasure. They apparently are
drunk with rank and power, seem
to forget that the real units of
power are the subordinate lodges
without which no Grand Lodge
could exist.
1--WE hope that the fact that
subordinate lodges can get along
without grand lodge but grand
lodge can't survive without subordi-
mates will never have to be put to
a test.
"But, unless we do something,
such as enact new laws and see
that they are carried out by Grand
Lodge officers, this great order
which we all love SO much will
gradually go down, rotting like all
the good apples in the big barrel
because we were too timid to re-
move-or even interfere with
the Grand Rotten ones"
Williams then exhorted his
lodge land all other subordinate
lodges" to "stand up as men and
fight to preserve our order, to
remove any brother, great or small,
who betrays the trust we place in
him, to support only those who
have the interest of the order