SQUARE & COMPASSES 3

You beginning to get the idea? (Not you, Philistine; maybe someone clicked here by accident and kept reading.)

I am not saying we need more Masons to get us out of the hole we are in. We need more men and women who have virtues and morals; the same attributes found in Masonry and BTW, all the major spiritual frameworks, the fraternal organizations, any gathering that considers the persons on this list as Good men and share the values they display. These virtues are universal and pretty simple.

Here's more Masons. Notice there are some Black guys, some Jews, some foreigners, some who actually do not have the United States best interests at heart? This is not an American thing, nor a Christian thing. You will see farther on that Masonry is world-wide.

Surprised yet?

Musicians and Composers

Roy Acuff

Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong - 1900-1971, American jazz musician

Eddy Arnold

Johann Christian Bach - German composer

William "Count" Basie - American jazz composer & band leader

Irving Berlin - 1888-1989, Russian-born American songwriter

Roy Clark - Country music star

George M. Cohan - 1878-1942, American singer, songwriter & playwright

Nat "King" Cole - 1919-1965, American singer & pianist

Reginald DeKoven -

Edward "Duke" Ellington - 1899-1974, American jazz composer, pianist & bandleader

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert - 1836-1911, English playwright & lyricist

Franz Joseph "Papa" Hayden - 1732-1809, Austrian composer

Burl Ives -

Al Jolson - 1886-1950, American entertainer

Francis Scott Key - 1779-1843, American lawyer & poet

Franz Liszt - 1811-1886, Hungarian pianist & composer

Jakob Ludwig F. Mendelssohn - 1809-1847, German composer, pianist & conductor

Glenn Miller - 1909-1944, American bandleader

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 1756-1791, Austrian composer and dirty old man

Roy Rogers - American singer & actor

Jean Sibelius - 1865-1957, Finnish composer

John Stafford Smith - wrote the music that became the US National Anthem

John Phillip Sousa - 1854-1932, American bandmaster & composer

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan - 1842-1900, English composer of operettas

Mel Tillis -

Paul Whiteman - "King of Jazz", 1891-1967. American jazz musician

Entertainers

Casanova - Italian adventurer, writer and entertainer

Buffalo Bill Cody

Norm Crosby

Grock - Swiss circus clown

Paul Harvey--  Noted radio commentator

Bob Hope

Harry Houdini--  Fascinated with magic and metaphysics

August Ringling--  Master of the circus

Charles Stratton

Enrico Wallenda-- High wire artist

Florenz Ziegfeld - Ziegfeld's Follies