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not violate any Masonic law, we ask your advice. used in financing our new Temple."
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Decision: I wrote the President of the Association that I doubted the wisdom of the Association attempting to hold any sort of a sporting event on the day commonly called Sunday and that such action would bring upon its Association the condemnation of the Grand Lodge. 18. Queston: A member of Polar Star Lodge No. 79 asked as to the attitude of the Grand Lodge and subordinate Lodge.s toward members who had been convicted of bootlegging offenses in the United States District Court. Decision: I informed the member that the violation of any laws of the United States, or any of the constituent States, is a Masonic offense, particularly if it involves moral turpitude; that the Masonic Fraternity has ever insisted upon proper respect for constituted authority.
19. Question: The Secretary of Western Star Lodge No. 15 wrote that at a meeting of Saturday, June 18, 1932', the subject came up as to delinquent members. Notices had been sent to members to appear and show cause why they should not be suspended; only a few came to Lodge. A motion carried that the delinquent dues be remitted, some of those being delinquent voting for the motion. One-third of the Lodge were reported delinquent; only a few were unable to pay. Decision: I wrote the Secretary of this Lodge that the very fact that their Lodge had remitted dues of one-third of its membership, without due investigation, was an act which would be looked upon with disfavor by the Grand Lodge. 20. Question: Cypress Lodge No. 227 failed to hold its annual election in June. Following a discussion in which it was decided to let all officers hold over for the ensuing year, the matter was presented to me. Decision: I wrote them that under no circumstances should a Lodge pass up its annual election of officers and that the necessary dispensation for such election would be issued on request. 21. Decision: Section 74 provides that $1.50 of the amount collected shall be used for the support of the Masonic Home, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge. A standing resolution on page 178 of the Constitution specifies that these funds are to be turned over to the Home weekly as collected. Under ordinary circumstances there would have existed no necessity for a proper construction of this law, but because of the failure of banks many of the remittances sent to the Grand Secretary are returned. The Grand Secretary construed the words "as collected" to mean the time when the proceeds of the checks sent by the