Acacia Triadot - October 1922 - No. 4

mqr mriabnt of i\raria Formerly The 1ournalette

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A small, extra edition of THE TRIAD OF ACACIA, published for the purpose of suggesting to every Acacian his opportunity for service to the Fraternity and to show him how to become a regular subscriber to the TRIAD. T . HAWLEY TAPPING, Editor ANN ARBOR, MICH. L. Armstrong Kern. Associate Editor, Grand Rapids, Mich.

George P. Van Ness, Circulation Manager, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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NEW PRESIDENT MAKES BOW To My Brothers: This first issue of the TRIADOT makes it possible for me to make my bow to all Acacians. It gives me an opportunity to ask you, alumni and actives, that you make the reading of it the occasion for a renewal of your pledge of loyalty to your chapters and to the Fraternity as a whole.

Much depends on the alumni of any college or collegiate organization. They should be the stabilizers. I know that th e new responsibilities that come with graduation preclude th e interest in fraternity affairs that characterize the undergraduate; but if you will recall how helpful the older men were to you in your days in college surely you will not hesitate to help those now in the chapters. See to it that advice is not th e only help you offer; you are now in a position to aid your brethren financially in their laudable undertakings. Dig deep and help!

To the active members, I send a word of congratulation on the start you have made this year. Acacia is a growing organization that stands for high ideals. It will always attract enough good men to keep every chapter going, provided you and your house exemplify its good points.

A great task is laid upon you. Be sure you do it well.

A final word to the chapters seems essential. We are a democratic organization and we believe that what the majority seems to think best is best. Local conditions sometimes make national actions seem irksome. I believe, however, that the good of the fraternity will be best conserved when we all resolve to do gladly that which seems best to those who make our laws.

W. S. DYE, JR., Grand President.

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D======================~o 1921-22 Average Rank Tau Kappa Epsilon -------------------------·---····--··------- 1.224 Acacia ······························-··-·······------------·····-····-······1.200 3 Alpha Tau Omega ·····························-····-·-·····----1.153

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Delta Kappa Epsilon ·······················--··········-···· .968

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Previous Acacia Standings 1913-14 1 1914-15 1 1915-16 2 1916-17 1 1917-18 1 1918-19 1 1919-20 2 1920-21 8

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PENN STATE ACACIA AIDS UNION DRIVE Acacia went over the top 100 per cent in the student campaig n to raise $300,000 for a new Penn State Union. This union is to be the student's share in a $2,000,000 public campaign to enlarge and to beautify the Penn State campus.

The students-fraternity men as well as non-fraternity men-combin ed their efforts in an attempt to raise the funds necessary for th e remod e ling of "O ld Main" into a meet ing-place for the und ergrad uat es which shall be th e equa l of alm ost any student union in the country.

Aside from g ivin g Penn State a stud ents' union, this campaign doubtless will serve another valuable purpose. There are at present more than fifty fraternities among the 3,500 students, and a large percentage of the students are fraternity men. Quite naturally an unpl easant friction has risen between the two la r ge classes, because the non-fraternity men lose much of the social contact enj oyed by their classmates who wear the emblem of some social organization. However, with all working toward a common end, the Penn State Union, which has been called "a monument to the devotion of Penn State students to their institution," and which will provide means of social contact for all, this friction may be very much reduced.

G. JAMES CLARK.

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ACACIANS MEET IN FOURTEENTH CONCLAVE Dye Named Grand President as Brown Retires in Triumph; Name of National Publication Changed

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T. HAWLEY TAPPING,

Grand Editor

Wh en 101 coatless and perspiring Acacians, plus Moth er Haldeman of the Kansas chapter , lined up in front of the Masonic temple in Lawren ce, Kan. , on Sept. 5 for th e official photographer, they presented to the Fraternity's historian the la rgest Grand Conclave group of Acacia's eighteen years.

And wh en, in the legislative hall, they damply voted for a 1923 conclave t o be held, if possibl e, at some northern resort, they paved the way for anoth er record-breaking Grand Conclave photograph.

Th ese two features were not perhaps th e outstanding points of the F ourt eenth annual conclave, but they most certainly give light t o a couple of important item s and lead to a m ore comprehensive discussion of just what happ ened. This st or y of the conclave must b e much shorter than the one t o appear next month in The TRIAD of ACACI A, for the -r:RIADOT is just w hat is says it is, a diminutive of the nati onal m agazme.

The conclave was bigger, first because the alumni had on the fl oor, for th e fir st time in the Frat ernity's history, tw enty-six accredited and voting delegates b esid es four m ore non-voting representatives.

The voting alumni were the chapter advi sers, creat ed by th e Minn esot a conclave two years ago and thi s time, at K an sas, enj oying th eir first convention experienc e. The other g rads were th e r epresentatives of four chartered alumni associations. A nd th ese "old ones" made th em se lves felt without a t the sam e time t aking from a n A cacia Grand Conclave its feature of b eing the legislative body of th e active Frat ernity . Th e concl ave was bigger, t oo, because th e F rat ernity is bigger t oday than it has been before and so se nt m ore visitors to th e t orrid but hospit able K ansas cha pter house.

William s. Dye Maybe because this larger numb er gave a pl easin g feeling of power and strength, the delegat es passe d th at northern r esort legislation t o increase it. So next Septemb er, if all goes well, A cacians, th eir wives and th eir families, and the scores and scores of actives getting rea dy to return to school, w ill pack th eir swimmin g suits a nd hikin g cloth es and hie th em selves to the Fifteenth Acacia concl ave. This conclave, it is hoped, will last about six days, w ith th e mornings devot ed t o business and the aft ernoons and evenings t o fun. It was P resident Harry L. Brown's idea and h e stressed it so strong in hi s repo rt th at th e concl ave committee sw all owed it w hole and th en add ed somethin g.

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Incidentally if the resort conclave idea can't be carried out ~his time, the Ohio State chapter at Columbus will ~ntertain the 1923 ses.swn.

Maybe th e biggest thing the delegates did was to h ear ~ r es id e~ t Brown's proposal about a central fraternity office with a full-time.' paid secretary and then informally and unofficially to express their approval, wait.ing, h ow~v:er, for the chapters back h om e t o give a n opm ~ o n regarding the added expense b~fore adop~mg the project. Such a central .office a_nd officer will perform all of the routm e duties of the present counsellor, s~c:etary and editor, acting under th e superviSion o.f .the elect ed men h olding those posts, but g ivmg to the Frat ernity a unifi ed and full -time direction ~~ich is impossible under th e present cond itions where the respective offi cers mu st at one and the same time earn their "b read and board" by regular jobs.

Then al so the concl ave ch a nged the name of the Fraternity's magazin e, making it The Harry L. Brown TRIAD of A CAC IA. It was th e name w hich appealed t o th e delegates as bein g dis tinctive of the Fraternity, meaningful and capable of inspiring a regard which tradition would make much stronger than tp e sentiment now held toward the m eaningless word Journal.

The delegates took about three h ours off during the Conclave to

111rgrrr IDrum 1llllius Jruisr THE GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT, FREE AN D ACCEPTED MASONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Mr. L ee Newma n, Acacia F raternity, Seattle, Wash.

D ea r Sir and Brother:

New Westminster, B. C., 1st February, 1922.

I have t he Gra nd Master's commands t o express to you a nd the other members of th e J\cacia F:aternity who assi st ed in the conferrin g of th e M. M. degree on the occas.!On o~ his recent vi~it to L afayette lodge, hi s s in cere apprec iation of th e mann er 111 which that m os t Impressive deg r ee was conferred. . . The ceremony of the degr ee as exemplified by yo u a nd your br ethr en is simii~r to the manner in which his own lodge works, and it was th erefo re most ple?-smg to the Grand Master to observe the accuracy, precision and dignity with which the ceremony was conducted. . It is a lso th e Grand ÂĽast er's desi.re (and the desire of all who accompa ni ed him) t o thank yo u fo r hav mg so effectively contributed to the in ter est of his vis it.

With kind regards believe me Yours fraternally, (Si gned) W . A. D e A. WOLF-SMITH, Gra nd Secr etary.

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debate strenuously the question of changing the Fraternity's distinctive membership requirements so as to permit the pledging of men who were not -Masons, and <~;fter the:y: had gotten the whole thing "off their chests," so to speak, acqUl~sced without a murmur to President Brown's ruling that the whole thmg had been out of order because the resolution involved sought to break down the very foundation on which the Fraternity was built.

The conclave machinery, planned carefully along the lines followed by the Interfraternity Conference in its sessions moved with a celerity and ease which made of the Fourteenth conclav~ a revelation to those veteran convention attendants who had been used to tedious and prolonged sessions.

Despite the three-day restriction, the business was transacted and final adjournment taken by 4 o'clock of the final day, an unheard of record. The majority of the work was-accomplished in committee sessions, the real legislation of the conclave being thus passed by adopting committee reports.

An informal resume of the scholarship standing of the Fraternity showed that Acacia still could boast of many campus leaders, but also developed the startling fact that, as a general rule, the chapters were lower in comparative standing than they had been one or two years before.

W. Elmer Ekblaw William S. Dye is the new president of Acacia, being the sole new officer elected by the conclave. Grand President Harry L. Brown had announced at the beginning of the sessions that he could no longer serve as an officer.

The conclave was in reality a triumphal finale for Harry L. Brown after his long service to Acacia and the delegates more than once showed their admiration for his work and his record. Grand President Dye, Grand Counsellor Howard T . Hill and Grand Treasurer Carroll S. Huntington were elected for two years under the provisions of the amendment adopted at the Minneapolis conclave, while Grand Secretary W . Elmer Ekblaw and Grand Editor T. Hawley Tapping were elected for the short terms.

Representatives of four petitioning groups were hard by the delegates, the decision on their admission resting, of course, with the active chapters. The petitioners were local Masonic fraternities at Carnegie Institute of Technology, George Washington university, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical college, and North Carolina university.

Space limitations prevent a .longer discussion of this most interesting conclave at Lawrence. After all, one must attend an Acacia convention to catch its spirit and derive due benefit, for it is not the legislation that counts but the mingling with the brothers from all points of the compass and the singing of your own particular chapter and college songs in the fri endly competition around that final banquet table.

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INTRODUCING THE CIRCULATION BOSS GEORGE PHILIP VAN NESS, Michigan Chapter This bright and shining example of intellectual ~agnificence is none other than a young gentleman by the nam_e ~f G_eorge ~hthp Vat~ Ness_, who henceforth will be addressable by the dtstmgUished title of Ctrculatwn Manager, Acacia TRIAD. "Van"-brotherly affection can tolerate only ab breviation s-brought light to the world and a smile to the universe some twenty-two years ago, March 1 1900, to be exact. Then th e Middle W es t bloomed a~d was radiant with joy, for Chica go was the honored city of his birth.

Vanny grew and matured, until Chicago became too small for him, so his family pulled s takes, rolled up the canvas and migrated to a city where kicking space was not at a premium, Allegan, Mich. The High-Light of the Middle West was then six.

Maturity continued to manifest itself. Also devilment. Finally, in 1918, Allegan High school, waxing wellnigh frantic und er the intellectual s train, propelled Vanny and his diploma out of the front door with the toe of a graduation boot and the propellee in a huff promptly retired to the navy.

Deck-polishing was fine practice for Vanny, but in April. 1921 , Uncle Samuel, poor, harrassed old gentleman, followed the example of Allegan High George P. Van Ness and gave Vanny a white paper, s igned, countersigned and heavily monogramm ed with pages clipped from "Who's Who," and told him to beat it. Vanny did. He beat it for Ann Arbor, with the happy intention of becoming a doctor if the University of Michigan could endure long enough.

During Vanny's freshman year at Michigan he received many shocks. The most notable of these came on May 20, 1922, when Michiga n chapter folded her lovi ng wings about his superstructure, squeezed till his ribs creaked, and beatifically grinned, "Thou art one of us!"

The University of Michigan survived Vanny's freshman year. So did the ex-AIIeganite. In fact, Vanny came through with a smile that is contagious and overwhelming. That is why the Grand Editor selected him to go out after new and expired subscription s. Acacia delinquents are warned to beware lest he find occasion to turn the sweet and exposing anesthesia of his sm il e upon their nonsubscribing g uilt.

WARREN WILLIAMSON.

ANOTHER CUP IN SIGHT FOR KANSAS . The Kan sas chapter of Acacia not only wins scholarship hon ors consistently but athletic honors as well, she having led in the seco nd annual inter-organization track meet this past year. Any organization on the hill may en t er the tourney, but varsity men are not eligible. If Acacia repeats next year, and thus wins for three consecutive years, she will obtain permanent possession of a beautiful thirty-inch cup to add to her grow in g collection.

A great deal of th e success of Acacia in this meet was du e to the work of Em erson Norton, a freshman , who was grad uate d from Manual High school Kansas City, Mo., last year. Norton is an all round athlete and bids fair to be~ come a leader in future Misso uri Valley contests. Out of the eighteen events of the meet, he entered fifteen-all but the half-mile, mile, and two-mile-won s ix first places and placed well toward the front in the others. Norton now holds the school high jump record of six feet, one and three-quarter inches.

JOHN J . KISTLER. Experience Maketh Wisdom Traveler: "Did you find a roll containing $50 und er my pillow?"

Pullman Porter: " Yas, sub ; thank you, suh."-Exchange.

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ARE YOU A COLLEGE ASSET ?

Acacia Should Encourage Campus Enterprises With Eye to Her Duty and Proper Mental Balance

By E. H.

LEI EN DECHER,

Purdue Chapter

In any community, the good citizen is one who not merely conducts his personal business effectively, but who also participates in community enterprises. He possesses riot only a willingness to aid civic development but shows initiative, originating movements to improve the community and give it a place in the sun. ¡ A university is a community in which the students are the citizens.

The meeting of curriculum r equi rements is the personal business of each citizen of a university community. Apart from these personal duties, h owever, lies a series of activities affecting the university community as a whole, which activities Acacia should endeavor to encourage.

Upon these activities and upon their conduct depend the morale of the university body. Out of their successful conduct grows pride in the institution and out of this pride develops the fine loyalties of American students fo r their alma mater. Through these extra-curricular activities, the individual student ceases thinking in terms of self and begins to think in university terms.

A healthy, red-blooded student w ho does not participate in some one or more extra-curricular activities is a university liability, not an asset.

Every campus organization should encourage its members to enter such activities. If it fails to do so, it fai ls in one of its chief functions, th at of fitting its members for effective citizenship-and effective citizenship means thinking in community terms.

The real problem is that of the balance between prescribed university duties and extra-curricular activities. Certainly nothing should be permitted to interfere with the main university purpose, and just as certainly these activities should be so limited as not to overshadow this central aim of university life. In the main, however, the average student, by participation in at least one campus activity, can be of material aid to his particular college group, to the university, and to himself without interfering with his regular academic work. The exceptional man, without impairing his scholastic standing, might undertake even more.

At Purdue students are encouraged to enter into campus activities for their own 'development in team-work, power of organization, and leadership. Out of this we believe come morale and a true university spirit.

Wrong Day, That's ¡ All A starvina tramp stopped at a kitchen in California and asked for food.

"You like~ fish?" asked the Chinese cook.

"Yes," replied the tramp eagerly.

"All lite, come around Fliday."-Mugwump.

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~~~~~~~~~o Perhaps in some Acacia chapter home _or, in SOJ?e Acacian'~ private library there is a complete co llection of the Fraternity s publicatiOns . It IS very doub~fu l , however, for in spite of repea ted pleas fo r ass istance, Keeper of the Archives Lloyd Thatcher had difficu lty in assemb li ng on~ complete as.sor tment ~hen William C. (Dad) Hollands desi red to present h1s chapter, Michigan, w1th a complete bound volume.

The r efore the fo llowing roster of publications is given in orde~ that the Fraternity can iss ue a call for those who have some of the desired Iss ues t o. send them in to the Archives. The Archives shelves show only a very few of th e 1ssues of the Spirits and not a single issue of s everal. No. 2 of Vol. 15 of T he JOURNAL is pract ically exhausted and the same is as nearly true of No. 1 of that volume.

Only a very few books of the History remain. These the Fraternity needs.

Of the others listed, the Archives is ab le to furnish to those desiring them as many copies as they need. The method of obtaining them is described on the back cover of this publication . Maybe Keep er Thatcher would be g lad to work a trade, g iving some of the issues he has a stock of for those he needs. Try him.

The fo llowing is the list, omitting t he Directory published in 1914. The 1921 directory was a part of No. 3 of Vol. 15.

1905-1906---JOURNAL, one issue.

1906-1907-JOURNAL, one issue.

1907-1 908-JOURNAL, one issue.

1908-1909, Vol. 4-J OURNAL, Nos. 1 and 2.

1909-1910, Vol. 5-JOURNAL, Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

1910-1 911 , Vo l. 6---J OURNAL, Nos. I , 2 and 3.

1911-1 912, Vol. 7-J OURNAL, Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

1912, Vol. !-Bulletin, Nos. I , 2, 3 and 4.

1912-1913, Vol. 8-J OURNAL, Nos. 1 and 2.

1913- H istory of Acacia, by Francis W. Shepardson.

1913- 1914, Vol. 9-J OURNAL, Nos. I, 2 and 3.

1914-1915, Vol. 10-J OURNAL, Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

1915-1916, Vol. 11- JOURNAL, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

1916-1917, Vol. 12- JOURNAL, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

1917-1918, Vol. 13-SPIRIT, Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

1918-1919, Vol. 14-SPIRIT, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. JOURNAL, No. I. 1918-Report of War Conference.

1920-192 1, Vol. I S- JOURNAL, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. JOURNALETTE, Nos. 1 and 2.

1921 -1922- JOURNAL, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. J OURNALETTE, No. 3.

RECEIVES SPANISH ROYAL ORDER WILLIAM S. HENDRIX, Texas Chapter . In recogn it ion of his studies in the Spanish language and letters, the honor of K~ 1 g:ht of the Ro):'al Order of Isabel the Catho lic has been confe rr ed upon Prof.

W 111.1am S. :f!e.ndnx of the department of romance languages at Ohio State university. ~his 1~ the second oldest order. of its kind in Spain and is conferred by the .ku:g, 1!1 th1s cas~ Alphonso the Thi r teenth. Only for work of the hi g hes t mer~t IS th ~ s honor given and the instances in wh ich it has been conferred upon foreigners IS very rare. . This is not th e on ly hon o.r rec~ived. by. Prof. Hendrix from foreign celeb ritie. ¥ · Foulch~-Delbos.c, lea?mg h1spamst m. France and pub lis her of the most pro!llment ?pamsh public review there, has wntten to Prof. H endrix for a con tributwn. to h1_s pape_r. Last yea r. P r of. Hendrix was made correspondin g member of the H1sp~mc. Society of Amen ca. He has wr itten var ious articles and books on the Spamsh literature and lan g uage, and is at prese nt devising a m et hod by which Spa.msh can b~ taught throughout Ohio in all the sc hools and colleges on a like basis and outlme.

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ACACIA DIRECTORY Grand Grand Grand Grand Grand

President-WILLIAM S. DYE. ........................... Penn State College, State College, Pa. Counsellor-HOWARD T. HILL ................................................... Box 1, Manhattan, Kan. Treasurer-CARROLL S. HUNTINGTON ....................... 1428 Lunt Ave., Chicago, Ill. Se~retary-W . ELMER EKBL~W ........................ 210 Gazette Bldg., Champaign, III. Edttor-T. HAWLEY TAPPING ................... 521 E. J efferson St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

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D===========================D HERALDING A NEW ERA A youngster has risen on his hind legs and, with a trumpet blast and a wave of the arm, announces the approaching entrance from the wings of a new actor.

The child herald is this issue of the TRIADOT; the new actor, a publication to be known henceforth as the TRIAD. Acacia £ratters, meeting in conclave at Lawrence, Kan., last month, on recommendation of the Grand Editor sounded the knell of the name Acacia JOURNAL and voted to call the national publication the TRIAD. With this change made, it became necessary, of course, to abolish the name JOURNALETTE and substitute therefor another new title. The TRIADOT was suggested by Northwestern, and was adopted by the Grand Editor as being attractive and unique.

So now we are embarked upon a new year with new prospects and under new conditions. Two offices, if such they may be called, are now maintained, the main headquarters in Ann Arbor being th e repository of the Grand Editor and the new Circulation Manager, · the other in Grand Rapids the editorial department, bossed and occupied solely by the Associate Editor. The magazine will continue to be printed in Grand Rapids.

With a new name and new . organization, it follow s quite naturally that the magazine should be made the subject of considerable experimentati on. This present period of transition is just th e time to try out new schemes. Some amount of editorial dignity will be sacrificed for the present, therefore, in order that the TRIAD and TRIADOT may undergo some tests with a view to their betterment. The prospective new cover for the TRIAD is one plan in view; a change of paper stock another; while the size of the magazine beginning with the November issue will be increased from sixty-four to seventy-two pages.

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Meanwhile, criticisms, suggestions, and helpful hints from all Acacians who are interested in a bigger, better, and more readable magazine, would be sincerely welcomed.

NEW GOAL SOUGHT FOR YEAR While the TRIADOT is primarily a word of greeting from the Fraternity to its entire membership, the little magazine must serve also to urge you to support the national publication, the TRIAD of ACACIA, so designated as a result of Grand Conclave action.

So we have allowed George P. Van Ness, the Circulation Manager, to insert his subscription blank and the addressed envelope. Van Ness used the word "Journal" on the envelope so you who did not know about the change in name wou ld understand what it was all about.

There is no reason why more than 1,000 alumni should not be on the magazine's subscription lists this year. You grads are getting to the point now where the "old bank account" looks somewhat more stable than it used to and those of you who aren't in that class are perhaps more lately out of the house and therefore the more anxious to know about what is going on in your Fraternity.

The best way to settle the matter is to boost the Endowment Fund and at the same time assure yourself of the magazine for life. The next best is to fill out the subscription blank as strongly as you can and drop it into your mail box.

ACACIA JUBILEE PLANS Make your plans now to attend the 1923 Grand Conclave of Acacia.

Our new Grand President, William S. Dye of Penn State, is determined that the next conclave shall be conducted as Past Grand Pre ident Harry L. Brown had originally hoped the 1922 conclave would be, as a great Acacia jubilee. The meeting place probably will be some resort in Michigan or Wisconsin, where 500, or even 1,000 Acacians and their families can gather with the active delegates and watch the Fraternity's legislative machinery work, while the whole group at the same time is enjoying itself to the full with sports and dances and other amusements.

Ask your alumni representative who was present for the fir t time this year as your voting delegate on the conclave floor, whether or not an Acacia conclave is worth while. He'll tell you just how much genuine pleasure he had in meeting other Acacians and just how much real Fraternity inspiration he received. And his experience should be as valuable and enjoyable for you .

So plan your vacation next year with the Grand Conclave in mind.

It probably will be the first and second week in September.

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SPEAK UP, YOU GRADS! If your voice is not heard in the deliberations of your chapter and in the debates of the national Fraternity, it is your own fault.

The chapter adviser is your representative in the active chapter and in the Grand Conclave, and now he has the experience of a national convention to assure him of his rights and properly to define his prerogative and his limitations.

It is the hope and the intent of the Fraternity that the chapter adviser of each group will remain in office for many years, for only in this way can his real worth and value be achieved. You will be going back to the chapter house soon for Homecoming. Look up your chapter's adviser and tell him "what's what" in your mind about the active group.

If you are one of those who can't be lucky enough to "get back home" this fall, write the adviser a letter. He will heed your wishes and will be aided by your suggestions and promise of support.

Very often the chapter adviser will be the leader in the chapter's building program. That is his rightful job, for he is the intermediary between the alumni, who will own the house, and the actives, who will live in it. Give your ideas about financing and architecture to him, for he will be more able than any one else to "put across" the best ideas to the actives and to the grads.

Help your representative. He's a loyal Acacian or he wouldn't have the job he has, and he is in a position of trust and responsibility where your aid is necessary.

Founder Marshall Goes Elk Hunting Even august founders stand not always upon their dignity, it seems, and occasionally turn to the wilds for carefree enjoyment just like other folks. This picture of Dr. William J. Marshall of Missoula, Mont., called by some the "Father" of Acacia, has just come to light after months of obscurity, but is published here because it shows one of our oldest-timers in a decidedly new and interesting pose.

The snapshot represents Dr. Marshall near the Continental Divide in the Flathead Forest reserve, Mont., with the carcass of an elk he caught napping. It was taken Oct. 15, 1921.

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CHICAGOANS CUT HIGH JINKS AT PICNIC Lively But Undignified Alumni Partake of Food and Fun, Though Failing to Entice Coppers to Join The old Acacia family album has been enriched by some good snapshots of persons and things at the midsummer picnic at Jackson park, Chicago. At Smith had his camera along; so did Cece Holman, and they got pictures of the races, of the kids, of Ted Haish and his rompers, and some "stills" as well.

That top picture, with everybody sitting down except John Shera, was one of the best features of the picnic. There were so many nice things to eat. Each married couple fed up some of the others, and there wasn't much left in any basket, thanks to Gundy Nelson's visits from group to group. Shera had umpired the ball game, and there was no chance to catch him . sitting down.

The girls all raced and threw baseballs and things. Miss Frieda Becker won the ladies' race and got a pair of earrings, but they don't show in the picture.

Mrs. George Lamb won the baseball throw and Mrs. A. A. Cudner the bag throw.

The movies (upper right) show how P. ]. Richmond jazzed home in front in the single man's race. Rose and Nelson gave the elongated disciple of Isham Jones a good run.

C. S. Clark was chairman of the picnic, so he won the marr ied men's race.

He got his picture right in the middle of the page, with Rose and Giltadeau.

Clark is a fast man, and will be a good treasurer this year.

Rompers A r e Hit of P arty Ted Haish's rompers were the hit of the party. Gee, but Ted looked grand!

Right across the picture from him and his outfit we have with us George Lamb and his birthday cake. He posed the cake in the wrong hand for picture purposes, but that was because the wind was blowing out too many candles the other way.

That long group picture shows 'most every one of the eighty-five people present, and the trick is to pick 'em out. Try and do it. If you are good at puzzles, maybe you can find Bob Teare in the middle of the front row, next to Tommy Tompkins, and work both ways from there.

The other little game, just alongside that group, shows Tompkins trying to make a seven out of a couple of snake-eyes. Morris and Nelson and Meyer split his quarter three ways. Couldn't get the J . P. police in the game, through, for it was too near pay-day.

Those two kid groups at the bottom of the picture were the most fun. The children all posed nicely, but those three on the left were a bit shy of the camera.

Some Mor e Good Men Gone Too bad we couldn't get good pictures of the ball game between the married men and the single men. The single men won- second place-but next year they will be strengthened by the loss of some men who are going to get married this winter.

George Lamb (Nebraska) and John Wood (Northwestern) composed the battery for the winners. Frank Kepke (Illinois) caught for the single men, and among the pichters were Ted Haish (Illinois), Gordon Nelson (Wisconsin) and Bob Evans (Chicago). Features of the game were a home run by Kepke a~d six wild pitches by Haish . The errors were about even, twelve by Shera, ten m favor of the winners and two undecided.

Ice cream, lemonade, K-P service, and so on, were provided by active members of Chicago chapter under the direction of Russ McBride, steward. Sorry we haYe no pictures of that.

L. E. MEYER. An cient H istor y "Shay, offisher, weresh th' corner?"

"You're standing on it." "'S no wonder I couldn 't find it."-Cottonyarns.

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T. Hawley Tapping, Editor, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dear Tap : We the und ersi g ned a lumni of Acacia res_iding at Okmul.gee, Okla., hereby r emit our subscription for the TRIAD of Acac1a. Our record IS 100 per cent and we challenge the other alumn i to beat our record.

Signed, A. W . DUSTON, Kansas Cha pter, CHARLES B. STEELE, Oklahoma Chapter, HUGH MURPHY, Michiga n Chap ter, DR. W. W. STARK, Kansas Chapter.

Mr. T. H. T ap ping, Grand Rapid s, Mich.

D ea r Brother Tapping: Will you kindly let me know if I have paid my Acac ia JO URNAL subsc ription for 1922-1923? If I have not attended to this, I'll be g lad to forward check o n receipt of your lett er, as I am m o re than anxi ous to rece ive the next numb er.

In fact, th e JOURNAL has beco m e indispensable in my yo u ng li fe.

Fraternally yours, 96 Lincoln St., H . C. TH UERK, Rid g way, Pa. Purdue Chapter, ' 19.

MASONRY AND SYRACUSE'S CHANCELLOR The election of Dr. Charles W esley Flint as chancell o r o f Syracuse uni ve r sity to succeed J ames Ro scoe Day has placed at the head of the u niversity a st r o ng represen tative o f the Masonic fraternity. In addition to hi s being a B lue Lodge Maso n, Dr. Flint has tak en the work of the hi g her degrees o f bo th the Scottis h a nd Y ork Rites and is a s well a Shriner.

Prior to his election t o Syracuse, Dr. Flint was president of Cornell college at Mount Vernon, Ia. H e was bo rn at Stoufville, Ont., Nov. 14, 1878, was g raduated fr om the U ni ve rsity of Toro nto in 1900, and has received deg rees from Drew Theologica l sem inary, Columbia unive rsity, W es leya n uni vers it y, and Coe college. H e assumed th e duti es o f chancello r of Syracuse unive r sity o n Jun e 15, 1922.

THE GREAT EVENTS OF LIFE "There are four g rea t eve nts in every co ll ege man' s life," says the H et h H e ll o: "He Graduates; he becom es M a rri ed ; he becomes a Fath er ; he attends Homeco min g."

Unfortunately, two exceedingly imp o rtant ones ha ve been omitted: H e is Born .

H e Dies.

But, a ft er a ll, w hat are eYe n th ese compared with a crisp Fall's r eturn to the old Fra t house. ' Ten Days For That!

Jud ge : "Now, I don 't epec t to see yo u her e again, Rufus." ~ufus: , "Not see m e here aga in , J edge ? Why yo' all ain't go in ' to 1¡es ig n yo' .

JOb, IS you? '-Exchange.

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MICHIGAN AND CORNELL LEAD ALL Ohio Close Behind in Endowment Fund Subscription Race; Renewed Activity Is Expected Only sixty-four alumn i, less than two per cent of the total graduate body of Acacia, are subscribers to the national Endowment Fund.

Michigan and Cornell chapters are on th e top of the heap with six each, while Ohio, at five, presses close behind. Several chapters "boast" of four subscribers.

Changes in the present status of the Endowment Fund activities were suggested to the Grand Conclave at Lawrence last month and there is a probability that some new action may come next year as a result. The raising of the minimum subscription which would entitle an alumnus to receive the national publication for life to $50 instead of the present $15 was among the proposals. For this reason it is expected that many grads will send their subscriptions in this year in order to qualify doubly by their contribution.

Some names may have been left out of this li st inadvertently. In such case prompt notification should be sent to the Circulation Manager in o rd er that changes may be made.

Here is the Endowment Fund roster as it at present stands: Michigan 6-Harry L. Brown, T. Hawley Tapping, Dr. F. G. Dratz, John Harlihy, Dr. William ]. Marshall, John A. Woodward.

Kansas 4-Samuel ]. Lawellin, Dr. Julian Petit, H. E. Samson, Ray G. Tripp.

Nebraska 4-Dr. J . E . Fonda, David Hilton, Roy R. Monbeck, John Westover.

California 3-William R. Keyes, Carl Clayton Leebrick, Leicester H. Williams.

Ohio 5-F. H. Landrum, Dr. G. P. Lawrence, Raymond Marker, Le Roy Reifsnider, ]. Fred Thomas.

Harvard !-Irving W. Maxwell.

Illinois 4-R. S. Kilpatrick, W. H. Parkin, C. Z. Rosecrans, Charles M. Walker.

Franklin 4-Herbert Blogg, William G. Mann, E. R. Quackenbush , R. A. Wahl.

Minnesota l-OlaÂŁ S. Aamodt .

Wisconsin 3-Arthur J. Meyer, F. J . Petura, Daniel ]. Teare.

Missouri 3-Harry E. Ki lm er, Robert McLaughlin, Harry K. Poindexter.

Cornell 6-Jesse B r ad ley, Carl M. Dallenbach, W. W. El lis, Marcus McMaster, Blaine B. Ramey, Leroy A. Wilson.

Purdue 3-Carl Malott, Nicholas Prakken, John W. Shera.

Chicago 2-James Groves, Francis W. Shepardson.

Yale 1-C. W. Hall.

Columbia 3-Irwin Driehaus, Charles Friedgen, Dr. G. Alfred Lawrence.

Iowa State 0.

Iowa !-Glenn Kenderdine.

Penn State !-Tasker Taliesyn.

Washington !-Ulysses Webb.

Northwestern !-Leonard Haried.

Colorado 2-R. V. Billington, George B. Deavenish.

Syracuse 2-A. Abbott Brown, Howard W. Post.

Kansas State 0.

Texas 2-James Hendrix, Malcolm H. Reed.

Oklahoma 0.

Indiana 1-Ray C. Thomas.

Total 64.

HOMECOMING TIME Crisp air that whispers of golden-red woods, country walks, hazel nuts. Leaves that float down in ones and twos and rustle under foot.

The perfume of bonfires. Fall. .

Chattery crowds in gay clothes, football, mums. Memones of ba.nds playing, streamers waving, teams pitting meat and headwork agamst headwork and meat. Referees' whistles, wild cheers. College.

How's a man to keep¡away from the Old Town and the Old Gang this fine Homecoming weather?

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PUBLICATIONS OF ACACIA FRATERNITY TRIAD-Issued four times each year on the 15th day of November, January, March and May. Yearly subscription $1 payable in advance by check, cash or money order to George P. Van Ness, Circulation Manager, Acacia House, Ann Arbor, Mich. Extra copies 35 cents; to be ordered from Keeper of Archives, Acacia House, Ann Arbor, Mich. Life subscription to be obtained through subscription to Acacia Endowment Fund of $15 or more, sent to Wallace Meyer, 20 E. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill., check being made payable to W. Elmer Ekblaw, Grand Secretary, Acacia.

TRIADOT-Issued once each year to every member of the Fraternity free of charge. Extra copies 10 cents; to be ordered from Keeper of Archives, Acacia House, Ann Arbor, Mich.

SONGS OF ACACIA-To be purchased from Grand Secretary W. Elmer Ekblaw, 210 Gazette Bldg., Champaign, Ill., by check or money order for $1.50.

DIRECTORIES OF ACACIA~General Alphabetical and Chapter directories, published as part of May, 1921, JOURNAL, and the Geographical directory published in booklet form, both to be purchased from Keeper of Archives, Acacia House, Ann Arbor, Mich., by cash, check or money order for 35 cents each.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS-To be purchased from Grand Secretary W. Elmer Ekblaw, 210 Gazette Bldg., Champaign, Ill., by cash, check or money order for 25 cents per copy.

Fraternity Pins and Alumni Traveling Cards to be obtained through the secretary of each chapter of the Fraternity.