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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, November-December 1942

1942-12-26 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

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impressed and didn't know what was going on but decided it was a special Christmas ceremony. Then he ran off his speech about how he didn't get the lodge stuff done until three years after the war and how much better off he would have been if it had been before the army. And how you should have had it well finished by now etc etc. It isn't that you have to be a good man and live certain high standards to be a mason, but being a mason is the important thing. I don't doubt there is a lot of truth in it being a good heavy drag to be a mason but I don't think it (drag) is anything to be proud of. An influence exerted because you have skill, experience, wisdom, good judgement etc - any or all of them - is right and good. But an influence that is only a drag, or in name or reputation and not merited in its own right is cheap stuff. We are not cheap people and I don't want our family to ever be that. Applying for a job at Iowa is OK. You have been refusing that job for a year and a half at least. You will be doing constructive work well and honestly if you should get a discharge to take it. But influence

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2 impressed and didn't know what was going on but decided it was a special Christmas ceremony. Then he ran off his speech about how he didn't get the lodge stuff done until three years after the war and how much better off he would have been if it had been before the army. And how you should have had it well finished by now etc etc. It isn't that you have to be a good man and live certain high standards to be a mason, but being a mason is the important thing. I don't doubt there is a lot of truth in it being a good heavy drag to be a mason but I don't think it (drag) is anything to be proud of. An influence exerted because you have skill, experience, wisdom, good judgement etc - any or all of them - is right and good. But an influence that is only a drag, or in name or reputation and not merited in its own right is cheap stuff. We are not cheap people and I don't want our family to ever be that. Applying for a job at Iowa is OK. You have been refusing that job for a year and a half at least. You will be doing constructive work well and honestly if you should get a discharge to take it. But influence