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...Focus. The average Mason comes close to being the average U.S. male-a hearty fellow with an inner loneliness which he cannot quite define. He is anxious to share in good works. U.S. Masonry supports some 4,500 of its aged brethren and their wives in 30 homes, also supports homes for some 1,400 orphaned and needy children...
...Reason, and Masonry's doctrine of fraternity, equality and enlightenment had a wide appeal. Frederick the Great became a member. Russian aristocrats took it up. English traders distributed charters for new lodges overseas. George Washington and Paul Revere were ardent brethren. So was Benjamin Franklin, deist and moralizer, who helped initiate Voltaire into the rites...
Tree of Learning. The root stock of Masonry is the so-called Blue Lodge (see chart), which includes the first three degrees and is as far as the great majority of brethren ever progress. Degrees, for all their impressive titles, are simply grades in Masonry's school. In the Blue Lodge the brethren learn all they need to know to be good Masons, including the legend of Hiram Abif...
...expensive year. The Imperial Potentate is expected to spend his year in office visiting temples. Lloyd plans to get around to more than 100 of the 160, including a temple in Honolulu to which he will go in September on a chartered ship, accompanied by 600 of his brethren (if the Honolulu dock strike is over). The Shrine puts up $12,000 for his year's expenses, but tips, entertaining and other odds & ends will probably leave him some $50,000 out of pocket by the end of his year. The job of Imperial Potentate is not only...
Pleased and proud at having contributed a man so well-qualified on all counts, the nobles of Al Malaikah Temple blew into Chicago last weekend. With them they brought 20,000 Harold Lloydish hornrimmed spectacles for their brethren to wear. Chicago citizens blinked. In hotels and bars, along the streets, everywhere, middle-aged men in red fezzes all began to present the same face. The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine began to assume a familiar native character-"quiet, normal, boyish, clean, sympathetic, not impossible to romance...