Bronze Reporter [Volume: 2, Issue: 5]

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THE BRONZE REPORTER

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Saturday, October 15, 1955

iks Financial Condition Reflected Through Funds

Washington, D, C. ~ The fiacial condition ~of the Improved
aevolent and Protective Order
Elks of the Worid is shown: only by the general fund but
nine other separate funds as

ll, one of which is the ~official |

an~ fund.
\t'the time of the death of.J.
iley Wilson, Elks Grand Exed Ruler. for thirty years (Febiry.19, 1952), the Elks had~ a
ay balance of $165,918, of which
2,633. was credited to the of~al organ fund.
The cash balance of the order
~yches its maximum ~shortly be-e@ the grand lodge convention
August each year. At the 1952
and lodge, the cash balance was
33,493,: of which $48,923 was in: official organ fund.
[he report of Judge Perry B.
eckson of Cleveland,- grand
asurer, at the recent Elks~ conntion in Atlantic City showed
it the Elks~ cash balances have
vendled. from $183,493 in. 1952
$159,936 in 1953; $97,608 in
34 and $73,649 in 1955 and that
1 grand lodge deficits were
3,600 in. 1953, $6,429 in 1954 and
(214 n 1955.
During the same period the ofial organ fund dwindled ftom
3,923 in~ 1952 to $36,449 in 4953,
2.153 in.1954 and $4,886 in 1955.
4~ the $112,504 receipts credited
the general fund in the grand
~ge from August 1, 1954 to
ly 31, 1955, Judge Jackson~s

ort showed. that $2,500 was}

insferred from the official or
-n fund ~to the general fund in

~gust, 1954, and an additional
000 was transferred in: 'Nonher. 1954. *

Other transfers of cash to the
Yeral fund in November were:

nior Elks fund, $500; Athletic4

d,;| $500, Health fund, $500,
rine fund, $1000; Economic
id, $1,000; Education fund,
509 and Civil Liberties fund,

Che official organ fand_ re~ved a total of $21,420 in the
t grand~ledge year. In the same
e $28,686 was paid out of this
i

~n addition to the transfer of
000 to the general fund, the
n of $2,000 was transferred to
ige Jackson for the expenses
the 1954 convention. (The

sum of $15,000 was transferred
to Judge Jackson from the gen
eral fund for the 1954 grand lodge

convention payroll.)

William C. Hueston, grand secretary, who receives a net salary
of $471 a. month from. the general

\fund, also receives ~a net salary

of $82.50 a month from the official organ fund for e iting the
Washington Eagle which \is now

~published once a month.

Mr. Wilson founded the Washe
ington Eagle, a weekly newspaper, in 1914 and continued
publish and edit it until 1930. At
the grand ledge session: in Detroit in 1930, he sold the paper to
the Elks. Since then the paper
has benn published as the Elks~
official organ.

Robert H. Johnson o# Philadelphia, who gets a salary of $800

a month, office expenses of aproximately $15,000 a year. and a
gift of about $5,000 a year, also
receives $100 a month from the
official organ fund for. expenses
as president of the Washington
Eagle. Charles.P. McClane ef
Steelton, Pa. director of the
Shrine Commission and grand
public relations director,. who receives expenses of roughly $175
a month from the general fund,
receives.a monthly salary of
80 from the sein ~ organ
fund.
In January, John c! Minkins,
Providence, R. I, grand re
~pirter, was added to the payroll
a net salary of $49 a month|in

in March, the Rev. Walter V.
Cholmondely, a. Philadelphia
minister was added to the payalso at a net salary of $49 a
month \.

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- Corlig ~Page Says:

~WHEN YOU BUY HOLSUM
YOU HELP YOURSELF ~
AND YOUR RACE~

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~ by Roi A. Marc
~Oh, Mr. Brown - Mr. Brown!~

to attract the attention of Roosevelt ~Money-honey~ Brown who
was standing across the street.

_~Money-Honey, can~t you hear
my calls?~ I finally called. Roosevelt ~~Money-Honey~ Brown~s
head turned instantly.. Greetings, my comfo~table
middle class Boon~, he said as he
approached my car.

~What~s on your mind, friend,
you look as if you had the weight
of the world.on your shoulders,
surely it can~t be that bad - hop

~Ah was jest thinkin about our
race conditions, Daddy-O, an it
jest don~t make any kinda sense.~
~Come |now, mv friend, it
seems to me that we are really
makings some nice strides on the
race relations front.~
~Front, my eye. and _ big
too. Is vou blind - don~t vou read
Mississippi is tres tin us liken we
is dirtv dogs. Them uncul, them

uncouth ignate white southerns
aint follin~ me atall, they is
pushin~ ws! because they don~t

equal
mucn
try |.to

want to. give the Negro
opportunity. It aint so
race prejudice as they
make everybody believe~.
~J read that there are two
Negro doctors on the hospital

staff in some town in Mississippi.
Conditions must be improving.~
~You takes the cake,

Jasper,
them

} shouted~ rather loudly trying.

toe |

word or three. Mr. Brain,- answer

do they eat food cooked

by the ~hated~ Negro woman for
she could put.a little somethin~

racial injustices heaped on her
people.~

many white people who become?|just as inflamed as we whenever
~any human being is abused.~ I
|menaged to squeeze in.

~Mavhe so, Daddy
is so many white folks who is

ihas been mad. ever. since the
Negro learned to step letting that
|same Ww hite man beat him out of
lall his monev. Before that. the
~Negro had been taking what Mr.
Bub-Bub said fer granted fo~ he
didn~t know env better. But now,
Daddy-O, he sit down to figure
with the boss man or he owns
the land ~hisself. It all boils down
to some of the white folks-those
lazee ones - getting mad ever
since the Negro started to. git
some~ sense.~:

-~Thet me out right now - you~re

don~t you know with all

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Generations Of Baking
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me this, if white people is so.
prejudice and afraid or Negroes ~
as they make like they is, why ~

Negroes. It seem like they would |
be afraid to eat a bisquit cooked |

~Money, what you don~t seem
to realize is that there are many ~

-M, but pr

iest down right lazee and they:

going to try to whitewash me, |

es, Talks. {oC

killings and beatings that is goin~ -
on, that theys. got gt have some._
body to handle them cases? You -
is tryin~ to hog up all of this gun- |.
beatin~ session - let me gét in a
in same if she be resentful of the -~