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Lodge of Perfection Notes
Removal of Member to
Florida.
MEETINGS THIS WEEK.
Blur Lodge*.
Monday—D a w s ο η, visitation ;
Stansburv, business; Joppe, E. A.
Tuesday—F e d e r a 1, visitation ;
Acacia, visitation; Gompers,
social.
Wednesday—Harmony, business:
Harding, business; Chevy Chase,
M. M.: Justice, business.
Friday—Mount Pleasant, special,
and Barristers, visitation.
Royal Arch.
Monday—Mount Vernon, R. Α.;
Anacostia. P. M.
Tuesday—Mount Horeb. business;
Potomac, business; Woodridge.
R. A.
Wednesday—Washington Naval.
P. and M. E.
Commanderiez.
Tuesday—DeMolay. business.
Wednesday—Washington, busi
ness.
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Mithras Lodge of Perfection, Scot
tish Rite Masons, held a business
meeting last Tuesday evening at the
Cathedral. James A. Wetmore, who is
moving to Coral Gables, Fla.. was ten
dered a reception and resolutions were
adopted expressing regret.
Robert de Bruce Council. Knights
Kadosh, held a special meeting the
same evening to confer the twenty
first degree. The council next Tues
day will confer the thirtieth degree.
Junior Warden Harold S. Huggins,
general chairman, announces plans
have been completed for the ladies'
night by King David Lodge Thanks
giving night at the Masonic Temple,
Twelfth and Monroe streets northeast.
President Charles Ε. B. Holland an
nounces the next meeting of the Fel
lowcraft Club of King David Lodge
Will be held tomorrow at the lodge.
Federal Lodge will hold its grand
Visitation Tuesday evening.
The Pellowcraft Club invites all
members of Pentalpha Lodge to be
present December 3 for the annual
election and installation of officers.
After the close of its meeting on No
vember 26, members of Stansbury
Lodge will visit Silver Spring (Md.)
Lodge.
Petworth Lodge will hold a Thanks
giving party and ladies' night Novem
ber 29.
The convocation of Mount Horeb
Chapter. R. A. M., Tuesday evening
will be of especial interest to past high
priests. Several line officers of the
Grand Chapter will be present.
The members of Temple Chapter. O.
Ε S., will be the guests of Gompers
Lodge at 9 p.m. November 27.
Master Maurice A. Goldberg of
Samuel Gompers Lodge announces a
stated communication Tuesday at Ma
sonic Temple at 7:30 p.m. After a
short business meeting the members
will retire to the banquet hall, when
the lodge will entertain the member!
of Temple Chapter, O. E. S., with an
entertainment and refreshments.
The religious services at the Masonic
end Eastern Star Home will be con
ducted today at 3 o'clock by William
R. Singleton Lodge. Rev. William C.
White will preach the sermon.
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EASTERN STAR
The Past Matrons and Past Patrons'
Association of Areme Chapter held
Its annual banquet last Monday at
Mrs. K's Toll House Tavern. A busi
ness meeting was held. Miss Irene
Katherine Schmidt, president, pre
sided. Prizes were presented for
high scores in games.
The Thirty-two Troupers pre
sented a miscellaneous program in
Martha Chapter at the close of Its
business session.
The Tuesday Night Card Club of
Chevy Chase Chapter will meet No
vember 27 at the home of Mrs. John
Colb, 5432 Connecticut avenue.
The Saturday Night Card Club will
meet December 1 at the home of Mrs.
James Tate, 111 W. Thornapple street,
Friendship Chapter at its next
meeting Tuesday will have grand visi
tation.
Matron Helen H. Hogan of Miriam
Chapter announces at the meeting
tomorrow night there will be initia
tion. the degree work being performed
by an advance line of officers.
Matron Anne Parker of La Fayette
Lodge announces the meeting Wed
nesday will be grand visitation.
The officers of the chapter gave a
dinner at, Collier's Inn November 24
In honor of the matron and patron.
Bethlehem Chapter will present at
St. Stephen's parish hall the Lebanon
Players in a musical production, "A
Governor Returns," December 4 at
8:15 p.m. Dancing will follow. There
Will be initiation November 27.
Matron Minnie M. Neil announces
at its meeting Wednesday night
Brookland Chapter will be entertained
by the men with its annual "men's
night." Thanksgiving evening the
chapter members will be the guests
of King David Lodge at its "ladies'
night."
Brookland Chapter's Star Point So
ciety met November 17 at Mrs. Agnes
Miller's home.
Miriam Lewis, matron of Temple
Chapter, has designated the meeting
of November 26 as appointive officers'
night. The star points, marshals,
chaplains, organists warders and
sentinels of all chapters in the juris
diction have beer, invited. Enter
tainment and dancing.
The Association of Matrons and
Patrons of 1933 will hold a business
and social meeting at Takoma
Masonic Temple December I At
8 p.m.
Areme Chapter met Wednesday
after which a program consisting of
several numbers by the Jacobson trio,
readings by Miss Bruer and piano se
lections by Miss Whitaker from In
diana was given. Refreshments and
dancing followed.
The Auxiliary Home Board met in
Northeast Masonic Temple with its
president, Mrs. Leila Cook, presiding.
Distinguished guests were the grand
matron, grand patron. Past Grand
Matron Julia N. Streater, president of
the home.
Hope Chapter will meet Wednesday
in the Masonic Temple at 8 p.m. Due
to the serious illness of Matron Ruth
Baujan "men's night" has been called
off and there will be only the regular
business meeting.
Cathedral Chapter will hold its an
DAILY SHORT STORY
HIS MOTHER
Nate Determined He Never Would Tolerate Another
Woman in His Dead Mother's Place.
BY MARGUERITE TINSLEY.
Nate dug his
bare brown
toes Into the
leaf mold and
squirmed uneasily
in his sheltered
lookout under the
low boughs of the
mountain pine. It
was getting hot In
here and the sun
was fully three
hours high In the
bright blue sky.
But curiosity—and
some other emo- '
tion — seemed to
keep him chained
to the spot.
He was watching
a strange woman
do strange things
to the cabin which
had always been
"home" to Nate.
Now — of course—
It could be home
no longer. Not with
that woman Pop
had brought home
last night, living tl
Nates loyalty ana Doyisn sense 01
the fitness of things had been terribly
affronted yesterday, when Pop had
come downstairs clad In the store
suit he'd bought for Maw's funeral a
year ago, and announced to Nate that
he—Pop—was going to Valleyburg and
marry Mattie Boone, the woman who
kept the boarding house.
True, Pop had explained hesitantly,
he'd known Mattie ever since he and
Maw and Mattie had gone to school
together; she was a wonderful cook,
said Pop—and he felt that he and
Nate needed a woman around the
place.
Well, reflected Nate bitterly—Pop
could have this woman around the
place if he wanted her! Nate was
going to be loyal to his own Maw—
poor little Maw, who'd been sickly
ever since Nate could remember, but
gentle and kind and uncomplaining.
Last night, when Pop and his bride
had come from town, Nate had
crouched in the loft and listening to
their voices. Pop's happy and excited
as (under Mattie's direction) he car
ried in bundle after bundle from the
wagon, two new mattresses and boxes
and boxes of home-canned fruit and
vegetables which Mattie had brought
along. Nate knew what was in the
bundles because Mattie had called out
the contents of each box and bundle
and suitcase as Pop brought them in.
Nate had buried his head in the
straw tick and ragged bed clothes
which composed his bed in the loft
to shut out the happy commotion be
low. He'd thought with dogged devo
tion about Maw—whom he couldn't
remember without thinking "Poor
Maw"—and determined that he, at
least, wasn't going to accept this new
woman.
Early in the morning, before Pop
and his bride wakened, Nate crept
from the loft, went to the barn and
patted the horses "Good-by," called
his mongrel dog and started off. In
a knotted bandana he had a faded
shirt, three marbles, a dried rose from
Maw's funeral flowers. All the things
he owned in the world besides Rags,
the dog!
He had started out determinedly
enough, but after a half-hour's walk
down the trail he had circled back
to his old "lair," under the scrub pine.
Nate came back to see what "that
woman" would do on her Hrst day in
Nate's home.
Bright and early
Pop and she began
carrying things
out of the cabin.
Mattie sorted them
carefully.
Maw's few piti
ful clothes she ei
ther washed or
aired, handling
them gently and
(Nate felt) regret
fully. Nate swal
lowed convulsively
and tried to keep
on resenting Mat
tie's presence. But
his distrust and
resentment were
oozing away as his
Interest in Mettle's
cleanup campaign
mounted.
She had Pop shut
up the chickens
and the pigs, after
mending the barn
yard fence. She
had him rake the
up some beds for
nowers ana vegeiaoies. inm sue
went In the cabin and came out with
some sandwiches. She called, "Na
thaniel! . . . Nate?" And Pop laughed
and said he guessed the boy was bash
ful, but would be in bye and bye.
Nate dug his toes further into the
dirt and resisted the urge to answer
their summons. It really wasn't the
call of food so much as the desire to
help Pop plant those seeds and little
plants he'd seen Mattie bring out
from her seemingly inexhaustible
dowry. Nate had always dreamed
of having a garden by their cabin.
All afternoon he watched the little
slim figure of Mattie and the tall, lank
figure of Pop performing Herculean
tasks of cleaning up the cabin. By
late afternoon the clothes were all
gathered in, the windows washed and
white curtains hung. Nate watched
like a homesick prodigal from afar,
but he was still determined that he
wouldn't go back.
He was going to be faithful to his
own "poor little Maw." He'd sleep
here tonight, and in the morning
he'd be on his way, never to return.
Where was Rags? . .. Why! there he
was, down by the cabin door. The
rascal had returned home after a day
of scouting in the timber!
Nate whistled soltly, but for once
Rags didn't come. He just lay there
and watched the cabin door, waiting
for his supper. Nate had never felt
so alone. There was something else
tantalizing him. too. . . . Gradually
he realized what it was. The odor of
cooking from the cabin!
Not cooking such as Nate had
known, but savory smells of roast ham.
fresh bread, pumpkin pie. Nate be
gan to cry into his folded arms. All
his resentment and hatred were gone,
in their place a great longing.
When Pop and Mattie called him
at supper time, Nate got up and ap
proached the cabin—on dragging feet
at first and then with quickening
step. He picked up an armload of
wood as he passed the woodpile and
took it to the wood box behind the
freshly blackened cook stove, before
he looked shyly at Mattie and said:
"Hello—Ma!"
(Copyright. 1934.)
Tomorrow — "Tribute." by Everett
8chiinkert. reveals the destitution left in
the wake of a strong-arm group, who
demanded a weekly sum for protection
and drove a poor tailor to robbery.
NOW ... IT COULD BE HOME NO
LONOER.
ierf! I yard and spade
nual dance, following a short business
session, Wednesday evening.
Gavel Chapter met Tuesday night
and paid honor to the past matrons
of the chapter. Badges of service and
flowers were presented to each past
matron.
At the meeting December 4 will be
the annual election of officers.
Mrs. Sophie R. Cahill, matron of
Fidelity Chapter, announces at the
meeting December 6 officers will be
elected. A banquet, for the members
of the chapter only, will be given at
6:30 p.m. ,
The Home Board will meet at a
luncheon served by Mrs. Sladen. Mrs.
Totten and Mrs. Merritt December 4,
at the home of Mrs. Sladen. 120 Elev
enth street southeast, at 12:30 p.m.
The matron will entertain her offi
cers and committee chairmen with a
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dinner December 8 at one of the cafes.
The matron will also entertain the
Officers' Society at the same place
that evening. Mrs. Florence Berry
man and Karl Berryman will entertain
their mother, Mrs. Pronie Berryman,
December 10 at 8 p.m. at 1105 Six
teenth street with a going-away party.
Mrs. Fronie Berryman will visit her
son in Hollywood. Calif.
Grand visitations this week are Co
lumbia Chapter, November 26, 8:30
p.m.; Friendship Chapter, November
27, 8:30 p.m.,; La Fayette Lodge Chap
ter, November 28, 8:30 p.m., and Joppa
Lodge Chapter, November 30, 8:15
p.m.
UNCHARTERED SHOALS
FOUND BY WIRE DRAGS
SAN FRANCISCO (/Ρ).—More than
a score of uncharted shoals, many of
which constituted a danger to ship
ping, have been found and platted by
the United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey through the use of wire drags,
now employed for the first time on the
Pacific Coast.
Drags up to 10,000 feet in length are
towed between two launches. At in
tervals of about 500 feet there are
supporting buoys. Pinnacle rocks and
other obstructions to shipping to a
depth of 90 feet are recorded by the
action of the wires.
BEEF CANNERIES
IN SOUTH RUSHED
Federal Processing of Fat
tened Drought Cattle
in Full Sway.
ATLANTA, Oft. UP).—A cow in the
can is worth two on the hoof!
That, in effect, la the view of the
Federal Emergency Relief Administra
tion.
And so it has set up canneries
throughout Southern States to pre
serve the meat of Western cattle
saved from drought-parched ranges
and fattened on Dixie's green pas
tures.
There will be many hungry mouths
to feed in the homes of the coun
try's destitute this Winter. This the
administration knew when it started
rounding up thousands of starving
cattle in the West last Summer.
And now after three months of
grazing, the cows, for the most part,
are sleek and ready for dinner ta
bles. Pasture lands, which the Gov
ernment rented on a basis of 50
cents a month or more per cow.
have (lone their duty well. But now
frost is in the air and soon the ver
dant meadows and hillsides will af
ford but mtager grazing.
And so with the first tinge of
Fall a great round-up, the likes
which the Southeast had never seen,
was started in States extending from
Virginia to Louisiana.
As the cattle are driven in from
the grasslands they are concentrated
at central points, slaughtered in
municipal abattoirs and shipped to
the relief canneries.
There they become stew beef or
hamburger Just about as expeditiously
as the short order cook In your
favorite restaurant .fixes your "two
eggs over light."
Experts employed by the relief ad
ministration have supervision over
the canning, but the actual work is
done by persons from the ranks of the
unemployed. Thus the administra
tors feel they have served the dual
purpose of giving work to idle hands
and preparing Winter food for the
needy.
Georgia, typical of other Southern
States in the relief canning projects,
has nine plants which employ about
6,000 people. An average plant has
the capacity for canning about 150
head of cattle dally. All told. Georgia
has 103,000 relief cows—which means
the canneries are running full blast
to finish processing them by cold
weather.
The products of canneries in each
State will be distributed exclusively
to the destitute In that particular
State.
U. S. RACE ΜΕ
STARTLESBRIIONS
"Flying Hotel's" Speed in
Melbourne Contest Amazes
England.
LONDON Of).—The British pubUc,
painfully aware since wartime of the
value of fleet, long-distance planes,
greeted with astonishment the per
formance Λ the huge American-built
Douglas ship in the recent Londton
to-Melbourne air race.
The fact that the Dutch pilots,
Parmentier and Moll, were able to
win second place with their big "fly
ing hotel" in a race against the world's
aircraft, "fell like a bomb," as one
British observer put it, in the midst
of the country's everyday commercial
and military aviation.
It took some of the frosting off Eng
land's jubilation over the victory
scored by Scott and Black in their
specially built Comet, which literally
was burned out in its one glorious
dash. «
That America or any other country
was producing such machines had not
been known to the English public.
The fastest British commercial craft
can develop only about half the speed
that the Douglas attained for long
itretches of the journey to Australia,
and there is not a ship in the Royal
Air Force that could overhaul It at
top speed.
While the air marathon was in
progress, British newspapers care
fully abstained from mentioning the
fact that the intrepid "Plying Dutch
men" were using an American plane.
It was called simply "the flying ho
tel." But when the race had ended,
the aviation editors came out in the
open and really began "viewing with
alarm."
U. S. Proptu Noted.
"It has suddenly and vividly been
brought home that British standard
airplane development, both commer
cial and military, has been standing
still, while America has been going
ahead," said one writer.
"In view of what that beautiful
and supremely efficient Douglas did,
it perhaps is fortunate for the repu
tation of British lines that no stand
ard British commercial planes were
entered," echoed another.
Failure of British designers to
adopt the variable pitch propeller and
other gadgets making for high flying
speed and low landing speed, has been
the object of much criticism since the
I Douglas blazed its path across the
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