	Kena Computer Club
	Hiram's Oasis (703) 938-4990
	The Masonic Remote Bulletin Board



2 B 1 ASK 1	Kena Temple, Fairfax, VA	November, 1993




NEXT MEETING

        The November 18, 1993 meeting will be the annual meeting of the
Computer Club with election of officers for 1994. Bring your computer
questions or problems for our gurus.

BAD NEWS FROM USPS

        We have received aa announcement from the USPS that the special
nonprofit third class letter-size rate will be going up sometime between
November 14, 1993 and early January 1994.  This is due to congressional
legislation that eliminate all subsidized rates, as we know them today, in
six years.  In each of the next six years, special (nonprofit) bulk
third-class letter-size rates will increase 4%.  The special bulk third-class
nonletters and piece/pound rates will not be increasing (magazine). You can
overcome some of the rate increase by complying with the USPS barcode
requirements in mail preparation.  Your mailing list must be CASS certified
and your mailpieces must be tabbed.  Most small mailers will find the
certification and tabbing too much trouble, so they will be the most affected
by the rate increase. For further information see your postmaster or business
mail center at the sectional mail centers.

NEW PROGRAMS
         
        PLUGIN13.ZIP is a Program Manager enhancement, PA561.ZIP, Printer and
font manager and MCICLB.ZIP "More Control" maintains Icon libraries and edits
the WIN.INI file. The above files are for Windows. They are described in full
in the November issue of Computer Shopper Magazine. LIST90B.ZIP is the latest
text listing program from Vern Buerg. List is one of the most used of all
shareware programs. PARTY11.ZIP, Smart -N- Easy Party Planner, keep track of
tickets, seating and other party details. All of the above programs are very
reasonably priced. COPYQ310.ZIP is a very fast disk copying program with many
options.

COMPUSERVE AT CALIFORNIA  GL

        The COMPUSERVE network was represented at the Grand Lodge of
California in October.  About a dozen brothers who are active on the CIS net
set up a booth at Grand Lodge to demonstrate the educational advantages of
the network.. Greetings were received from CIS members from Europe, Australia
and North America. 

FREEMASONRY'S BEST KEPT "SECRET"

     Freemasons have always proclaimed that they are not a secret society,
yet out of millions of Freemasons, all over the world, only a select few
[approx. 4400] are aware of The Philalethes Society. Among the original
"keepers of this secret" were Harold V. B. Voorhis, Rudyard Kipling, Robert
I. Clegg, Louis Black, J. Hugo Tatsch, Charles S. Plumb, Harry L. Haywood and
Charles S. Hunt. The Philalethes Society was founded on October 1, 1928, by a
group of Masonic Students.  It was designed for Freemasons desirous of
seeking and spreading Masonic light.  In 1946 The Philalethes Magazine was
established to publish articles by and for its members.  For many years it
has been voted the best Masonic Publication in the world. The sole purpose of
this Research Society is to act as a clearing house for Masonic knowledge. It
exchanges ideas, researches problems confronting Freemasonry, and passes them
along to the Masonic world. To find out more about Freemasonry's best kept
secret, write to P.O. Box 70, Highland Springs, Virginia, 23075-0070 (Please
reprint this in your Trestleboard)

FROM DC GL PMs NEWSLETTER

        A special called meeting of the DC GL in November will consider
amendments to the Grand Lodge Code which will enable lodges to conduct
business in the Entered Apprentice Degree.  Many Grand Lodges in Europe and
the rest of the world do work in the EA, but no US Grand Lodge does. If
passed, this would make the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia  a real
pioneer.

MORE SHORTS
	
'Lizards generally seem to have lost their tails by the time they reach
middle life. So have most men.' - Samuel Butler.

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to
consume wealth without producing it." -- George Bernard Shaw

"What if Columbus had been told, 'Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've
solved our No. 1 priorities -- war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution
and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred -- and Queen Isabella's own brand
of internal security." -- W.I.E. Gates

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on a ladder of free
speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free
speech except his own." -- Herbert Hoover,  33

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. "I found your
essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not
good and the part that was good was not original." -- Samuel Johnson

"I have been a member of the Masonic fraternity from my early manhood, and
the more I have mingled with the members of this order, and the darker the
shadows gather around me, the dearer the Order becomes." --

There is an interesting feature at the National Holocost Museum in
Washington, D.C. People find themselves in a room with two exits. One is
marked "For those with no prejudice," and the other is marked "For those with
prejudice." EVERYONE who tries to exit the door marked "For those with no
prejudice" finds that it will not open. Only the door marked "For those with
prejudice" will open. The mark of a mature man admits that he is prejudice in
some way or another, and then seeks to overcome those tendencies.

All members of Congress and diapers are alike. THEY BOTH SHOULD BE CHANGED
OFTEN AND  FOR THE SAME REASON!  (Paul Harvey, Good 
