GENERAL MASONIC NEWS MASONIC EMPLOYMENT BUREAU IN WASHINGTON, D. C. At the annual communication of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, held on the evening of December 20, 1916, the Grand Master, in his address, referred to the Masonic Employment Bureau as follows: "The President of the Bureau reports that during the period referred to (June 1 to November 30), three months of which were the inactive summer months of June, July and August, a total of one hundred and fifty-three applications have been received. Nineteen of these were from persons already employed who wanted to better their condition. To these the Bureau gave little attention, believing that its time should be devoted to looking after the needy and unemployed. Eleven of the applicants had no Masonic connection, or if they had, it could not be traced, and four were persons seeking influence for appointment to government positions. As to these last named, the Bureau declined to take any action. "Of the applicants mentioned, thirtyeight have been placed in positions, and twenty-five have been referred to positions which they could not, or did not, secure. On thirty-six occasions the Bureau has been asked to find employes, showing an appreciation of the service by the employing classes. "The problem before the Grand Lodge is the maintenance of the Bureau after its present funds are exhausted. In its inception the Bureau was planned to be supported by a per capita assessment on the constituent Lodges and Eastern Star Chapters. The Grand Lodge appropriation of a year ago was in the nature of a substitute in order to give the organizers an opportunity to put the proposed Employment Bureau to a practical test. "The officers of the Bureau now claim that results have justified their contention that such an organization could be made a valuable and efficient Masonic activity. They believe that it should be supported by an assessment not to exceed 10 cents a year per capita. 95 "In view of the fact that the Bureau has sufficient funds on hand to carry it along for another six months, by which time it will have been in active operation a full year, and been put to such a practical test as the Grand Lodge. had in mind when it made its appropriation of a thousand dollars, I recommend that consideration of the future of the Bureau be postponed until the May communication. In the meantime. I suggest that the constituent lodges bring up for discussion the question of an assessment, and inform their representatives how they desire them to vote at that time." The committee that reviewed the address, whose report was adopted, approved the Grand Master's recommendation and added: "The committee in this connection recommends that it be suggested to the lodges that they act on the referendum not later than the second communication in March, and that a special committee of five be appointed by the Grand Master to take into consideration the result of the referendum and the question in all its details of the continuance of the Employment Bureau and in what manner, if any, it shall be done, and report at the May communication." A MASONIC EVENT IN NORTH CAROLINA The following notice signed by a committee of Hiram Lodge, No. 40, A. F. & A. M., will sufficiently explain itself. Something of this kind may have occurred somewhere before, but if it has, we have failed to find any record of it: "Hiram Lodge, No. 40, was open in stated communication on the evening of April 17, 1865, when news reached Raleigh that President Lincoln had been assassinated. The city was occupied by Kilpatrick's Division of Sherman's army. The news of Lincoln's death spread and threats to destroy Raleigh were made. An officer of a Maine regiment, who was a Mason, went to the Masonic Hall, called Brother Nichols out and warned him that any sort of gathering might inflame the unruly soldiers, and advised him to close the lodge and send the brethren home. "Brother Nichols says that in the excitement he got the instructions backward, and sent the brethren home. Now he asks us, after a lapse of half a century, to assist him in closing the lodge. "We want you to come and see it done. This will be an event in the Masonic history of North Carolina that in future you will be proud that you attended. Accordingly we have fixed the date so that the brethren attending the Grand Lodge may arrange to be with us. "Fraternally, "WILLIAM C. LYON, "W. T. UELTSCHI, "J. H. BUFFALOe, 'Committee for Hiram Lodge." A MASON IS APPOINTED On December 29, 1916, Governor Withycombe, of Oregon, appointed Brother Wallace McCamant, 33° Hon., a justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon, to succeed Justice Eakin, who resigned on account of continued ill health. No mistake was made when that appointment was made, and as time rolls on that fact will be more and more apparent. NOTICE The Index to Volume XXIV of THE NEW AGE (1916) is now ready and can be obtained from the Secretary General at the price of 50 cents. TO ALL BRETHREN WHO EXPECT TO BE The Secretary General desires to announce to the brethren who intend to come to Washington to witness the inauguration of President Wilson on March 5, that the House of the Temple will be open for inspection every day from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. On Sunday, March 4, it will be open all day and all evening, and in the evening it will be illuminated throughout. A FEIGNÈD FRIEND A feigned friend by proof I find Than he that with a spiteful mind Doth seek my overthrow; For of the one I can beware, With craft the other breeds my care. Such men are like the hidden rocks Against the which each ship that knocks No greater fraud nor more unjust Than false deceit hid under trust. -From William Byrd's Psalms, Songs and Sonnets. CHINA: JOHN R. HYKES, 33° Hon.., Shanghai. COLORADO: RICHARD H. MALONE, 33° Hon.., Denver. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: STIRLING KERR, JR., 33° Hon.., Washington. FLORIDA: OLIN S. WRIGHT, 33° Hon.., Plant City. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: NORMAN E. GEDGE, 33° Hon."., Honolulu. IDAHO: MARSHall William WOOD, 33° Hon.., Boise. KANSAS: HENRY WALLENSTEIN, 33° Hon.., Wichita. NEW MEXICO: RICHARD H. HANNA, 33° Hon.., Santa Fe. MISSOURI: ALEX. G. COCHRAN, 33° Hon.., St. Louis, Mo. NORTH CAROLINA: DAVID P. BYERS, 33° Hon.., Charlotte. The New Age Magazine MARCH CONTENTS 1917 FRONTISPIECE-The Grand East, Temple Room, House of the Temple.. THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION IN MEXICO-M. C. Rolland. CURIOUS EXPERIENCE OF A DRUNKARD-Harry Caldwell. NEVER MIND THE KNOCKS-Fraternal Record... MASONRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AS IT APPEARED TO OUR 98 99 101 103 105 107 109 110 111 111 112 113 115 116 117 117 119 120 FRANCESCO GRISELINI-AUTHOR, DRAMATIST AND FREEMASON-Magus.. 122 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 29TH DEGREE-W. A. McDuffee. 125 "WHATSOEVER THY HAND FINDETH TO DO, DO IT WITH THY MIGHT". Carlyle.... 126 "NO CROSS, NO CROWN"-Savonarola. 126 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. 127 REVIEW OF THE MASONIC "COUNTRY" PRESS-T. W. H. Levelling Influence of Masonry DEATH OF BROTHER JOHN W. MORRIS, 33°. A GREAT LOSS TO MASONRY. GENERAL MASONIC NEWS Coming Reunion Dates... Winter Reunion at McAlester, Okla. A Scottish Rite Jubilee.... Architectural Award League. The American Flag in the State of Washington. The California Bodies of the Rite in San Francisco. Words of Wisdom. A New Masonic Periodical. A Tablet to Buchanan. Freemasonry in Brazil. STAY YOUR HANDS, BRETHREN "BURY YOUR BLUES". The contents of this magazine are protected by copyright and must not be reprinted without permission. Copyright, 1914, by the Supreme Council of the 33d Degree A. and A. Scottish Rite, S. J. U. S. A. Entered at the Washington, D. C., Postoffice, as second-class mail matter. 131 132 133 133 134 136 138 139 139 140 141 141 141 141 142 143 143 143 144 144 144 |