Lodge Installation

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 6

Lodge Installation

"Listening-in" to a Ceremony STATION 1YA will carry out the first broadeast of a lodge installation meeting on Thursday, March 13. The relay will take place from the Manchester Unity Hall, the lodge concerned being the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows. An interesting ceremony will attach to the installation of officers, and listeners who are not Oddfellows and

therefore have not had the privilege of attending a lodge meeting will have the opportunity of hearing all that takes place. At 8 o’clock the M.C. will enter the lodge room, and going up to the Deputy Grand Master’s pedestal, will knock and say: "Brethren, be upstanding to receive the District Grand Master." A procession will then enter and formal proceedings will take place, culminating in the ceremony attached to the installation of the Grand Master. The installation of the Deputy

Grand .Master then follows. Both officers will briefly reply, and the outgoing Grand Master will also reply. The presentation of medals and shields won during the ‘year will then take place, After the ceremony dancing will ensue till 11.30 pm... . The ‘broadcast will no doubt serve to bring before many people the advantages of joining such a friendly society as the Manchester Unity. All right-thinking people will agree that it is a duty incumbent upon them all to. make some provision against the claims, which are incidental to sickness and old age. Having decided to meet the demands which occur in most lives through incapacity from the causes named, they should endeavour

to seek out the most effective means of meeting those claims. Lodges of the Manchester Unity are to be found plentifully scattered throughout the English-speaking world, and candidates for membership, of either sex, are accepted from the ages of sixteen to forty-five years; the conditions of membership being a good name and good health. It will therefore. be apparent that its membership is universal, since neither nationality, creed, nor politics affect it. While re-

ligion is revered in the lodge room it is not a matter for discussion. Discussion upon matters of a poiltical nature is also forbidden. The consideration of the amelioration of ‘the condition of common humanity is the theme which permeates the atmosphere of the lodge room. The financial benefits which are paid to members are large, and continue throughout life. The sickness benefit is the most important, ministering as it does to the wants of the member during the whole period of his incapacity, and that too on a very liberal scale.