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...Freemasons aren't busy running the world, what exactly is it that they do? The outer mission is to be of service to the greater community, donating to charities and Masonic youth groups, like the Order of DeMolay for boys and Rainbow Girls, which encourage kids to be good citizens and give them social circles that are supervised by adults and are more positive than hanging out on street corners. The organization is also based on a kind of stoic philosophy, to become the master of your own passions - don't fall prey to your emotions, to anger...
...Roman Catholic Church and its Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz for using the fear of excommunication as a tool for religious bigotry [RELIGION, May 27]. Bruskewitz threatened to excommunicate members of his diocese who belonged to groups deemed "perilous to the Catholic faith," including America's Freemasons, members of the DeMolay and other organizations. The rich history of Freemasonry dates back to colonial America and before. Some of our Founding Fathers, including George Washington, were dedicated Freemasons. Present-day Masonic organizations exist in all 50 states and continue to be in the mainstream of all that is good about America. The unseemly...
...beat humor runs through most of the songs. Some of them don't make much sense, at least when you're sober, like "Public Domain": "Yeah, I ran with the snuff queens in Dallas/Like I ran from Snow White in L.A./Now I've broken all my vows to Demolay." Others, like "Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black" and Willie Nelson's "Pick Up the Tempo," rely less on punch lines than on a gentle self-mocking tone. But Walker gives an authentic ring to the former ("I'm quiet and I'm proud and I'm gathering...
...imposing paunch that leads Walter W. Fuller wherever he goes is a badge of long and dedicated service performed by a man who has eaten as much Kiwanis, Optimist, Lion, Eagle, Elk and DeMolay creamed peas and ham as anyone else in Detroit. Fuller belongs to all those societies and, thanks to honorary memberships, many more. But bald, indefatigably gregarious Walter Fuller, 60, is more than a mere joiner: he is also the fraternal editor of the Detroit News...
Died. Frank Sherman Land, 69, a Kansas City banker, onetime (1954) Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America, founder of DeMolay (the Shrine's youth organization), trustee of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.; of a pulmonary edema; in Kansas City...