Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1929 — Page 28

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FAMED WRITER CALLS MASONRY FORCtPOWER Albert Pike Pays Tribute to Order and Its Great Accomplishments. Albert Pike, noted Masonic scholar. writer, and authority, and for many years head of the southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, in speaking of Masonry as a "force and e power," said: "If Masonry needed to be justified for imposing political as well as moral duties on its initiates, it would be enough to point to the sad history of the world. It would not even need that she should turn back the pages of history to the chapters written by Tacitus; that she should recite the incredible horrors of despotism under Caligula end Domitan, Caracalla and Cornmodus, Vitellius and Maximim. "She needs only point to the centuries of calamity through which the gay French nation passed; to the long oppression of the feudal ages, of'the selfish Bourbon kings; to those times when the peasants w *re robbed and slaughtered by their own lords and princes, like cheep; when lord claimed the first fruits of the peasant's marriagebed; when the captured city was given up to merciless rape and massacre: when the state prisons groaned with innocent victims, and the church blessed the banners of 'pitiless murderers, and sang Te Deums for the crowning mercy of the Eve of St, Bartholomew. The true Mason is he who labors strenuously to help his order effect Its great purpose. Not that the order can effect them by itself; but that it, too, can help. It is also one of God's instruments. It is a force and a power; and shame upon it. if it did not exert itself, snd if need be. sacrifice its children in the cause of humanity, as Abraham was ready to offer up Isaac on thp altar of sacrifice. FLAN MEMBER DRIVE Committee Will Greet Visitors in Medical Room. James H. Taylor, chairman of the radical assistance committee, has named a reception committee of members for "open house" week, Aug. 12 to 17, to be present in the medical room of the cathedral to receive visitors to explain the purposes of the room and the functions of the medical committee. The assignment is as follows: William S. Tomlin. Chairman; Edmund D Clark. William F Clevenger. Robert I, Egbert. Harry L. Foreman. Charles S. Goar. Jesse L. Jackson. Charles H. Keever. Harvey H. Koons. Thomas B. Noble. Karl R. Ruddell. C. Richard Schaefer. Lacey I. Shuler. Harry A. Van Osdol. Ernest StYL Wales and Prank C. Walker.

MANY GIFTS MADE • BY RITE MEMBERS

Sterling R, Holt Founds Fund to Aid Young Men of Order. Voluntary contributions are becoming an increasingly important factor in the adornment and equipment of the new cathedral, the gifts and memorial committee announces. Among the recent donations is that of Sterling R. Holt, city controller and widely known for years in the business of the city. / In addition to a former gift of SIO,OOO for an echo organ, he has set up a fund of $5,000, to be used to assist worthy young men in advancing through the higher degrees of the order. The fund is to be known as the Sterling R, Holt memorial foundation. Details of its operation have been worked out and its advantages, both to the rite and the applicant, shortly will be available.

Other Gifts Made Other contributions previously announced are as follows: Leon M. Abbott Class—sloo for high back, needlepoint chair. Charles Brossman—slo,as selected. E. O. Burgan—sso, as selected. Mrs. C. S. Croslev—One imported Belgian table, six Belgian chairs, one bronze figure, and two oriental rugs. Henry T. Davis—American flag. Mrs. Robert C. Elliott—Bronze statue of “Mercury” and glass bowl. George W. Farrington—s2o, as selected. * % Marie Felix iWiresi—Oil-painting, "Indiana Beech wiods." W. D. Hamer—Brass candlesticks. Warern O. Hull and James A. Coe —Bound copies of geographic magazine. continuing in future years. Mrs. Mary Poston—American flag and books. 1913 March City Class—Table for ballroom parlors. Dickinson Heads Committee The committee on gifts and memorials includes: Tine P. Dickinson, ex-officio chairman: J. Irving Holcomb, chairman; Arthur R, Baxter. Arthur V. Brown. Hilton U. SAULTER IS CHAIRMAN Trustees Chosen for Three Tears by Lodge of Perfection, Custody of all property, expenditures, signing of contracts, and all corporate matters affecting the Scottish Rite bodies are among the duties of the trustees elected by the lodge of perfection for three-year terms, one being chosen each year. The present trustees are: John T. Saulter. chairman; Ralph K. Smith and Louis G. Buddenbaum. Representing all the bodies by regular election are: Edward D. Moore, treasurer; Fred I. Willis, secretary: Martin T. Ohr. hospitaler: Frank Borns, tyler. Horace Mitchell is director of ritualistic work.

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BEHRENS FIRM IS DECORATOR OF CATHEDRAL Interior of Great Edifice Is Marvelous in Its Beauty. Decorations for the new Scottish Rite cathedral were done by the Henry Behrens Company, 837 Illinois building, inside decorators and furnishers. A description of work imparts to some extent the beauties of interior decorating accomplished by Mr. and Mrs. Behrens. In the tylert room the ceiling is divided into twelve oblong panels, divided by beams of oak, and embellished with a carved enrichment of antique gold. Twelve blue and red panels form the backgrounds, which are covered with hand-paint-ed Gothic ornament in rich colors. The walls are genuine Travertine marble, with a Gothic tracery freize. Background tracery in old purple gives a brocaded velvet effect. In this room the dools are of carved oak finished in cathedral brown. Even the lobby to the new home is done in ornamental plaster, in antique gold, with introductions of rich red, green and blue. Here the frieze is in old antique parchment color, with gold overlay. The auditorium, one of the larg-

est, rooms of the building, is resplendent with Austrian oak carved paneling, on which rests the columns supporting Gothic tracery arches across the ceiling. All woodwork here is a low keynote color, in dark cathedral brown. On the ceiling there is painted tracery in shadow brown tone applied to the panels in alternating motif. A beamed ceiling in Russian oak adorns the ballroom, which is in Elizabethan period style. Handpainted ornaments in variegated colorings, with high lights and shadows, add to the decorative treatment of the panels here. Cornices, beams and carvings are touched up and striped with gold, injected with colored backgrounds. Ivory and amber tones, done by a glazed wash, were used to decorate the banquet room. The room is also treated with ornaments in old blues, yellows, greens and reds and with an ornamental plaster enrichment in old ivory. The banquet walls are blended from a lowamber tone at lower floor level to a light yellow- at the ceiling line. All other rooms throughout have been decorated in keeping with the requirements of the Gothic pattern and are done in artistic manner. All w-alls and ceilings in the entire structure are painted in permanent oil colors. Visitors to Be Welcomed Special attention will be given to the distinguished visitors at the formal dedication of the cathedral Sept. 20. This will be looked after by a group of honorary members of the supreme council, thirty-third degree including Charles C. LaFollette, Fletcher W. Boyd, George M. Spiegel, Leslie D Clancy and Edward B. Raub.

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VOLUNTEER MUSICIANS ASSIST WITH RITUAL Gansepohl is President of Scottish Rite Orchestra, Assisting in the ritualistic and social functions of the Scottish Rite is the volunteer orchestra, all members of the rite. The personnel is , as follow-s: Edward J. Gausepohl. president; William j E. Balch, secretary, and William C. j Mitchell, director: Lawrence I. Mills. Wtl- j liam M. Evans. Arthur C. Grube. Hiram ! E. Stonecipher. F. F. Miller. Edward D. j Campbell. William A. Doeppers. Frank ' Mutz. William R. Mendell. R. B. Dye. ! EUwood Ramsey, Walter Weimer. Cecil j A. C. Earle. Arthur W. Gurley. Harry j R. Jones. Albert O. Evans. Dean H. Craft ! and W. F. Wingenroth. Checker Cabs to Be Used John B. Duboc. general manager j of the Checker Cab Company, an- j nounces that Checker cabs are to ! be the official service for the Scot- j tish Rite. j

ALL INDIANA . IS PROLID OF THIS ■ SYMPHONY AN STONE t* ** a* Eo tbe members of tfte ali amr a Debt of gratitude tor tbe mston. faitlj am) perseverance that bag built tbts monument to jfraterattp. generations pet unborn null upon its imposing grandeur and pap silent tribute to its builders OTe low tmtb others of our com temporaries m expressing our bumble appreciation —Hairier Protfjers

Congratulations to the Scottish Rite Masons To those men whose foresight made possible the building of their new Cathedral, a lasting monument to Masonery; 24 N . Pennsylvania

AUG. 12. 1929