The Oklahoma Workman (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 1, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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Send Medical Examinations to Dr. A. L. SHARE, Grind Med. Ex. liiffbher, Okla.
AJLiG 16 1905
Stud ill Reports and Correjpondenct^tojW. R. WELCH, Gratd Rec. Guthrie, Ok!a.
Tenth Volume.
AUGUST, 1905.
N
GRAND MASTERS LETTER.
Beginning with September 1st. only
five months remains before the next
meeting of the Grand Lodge and the
representation in the next Grand
Lodge will be based on the membership
reported in good standing in December.
During the past six months the Or-
f der has shown a healthy growth in
/ every old Lodge putting forth ef-
fort; but fully two-thirds of the old
.Lodges have reported no increase dur-
ing the past six months, but rather a
slight decrease. With this condition ex-
sisting it makes it hard work on the
part of the one-third active Lodges
to show a gain in membership in the
jurisdiction. It is true the past six
months have not been favorable for
Lodge work jiiigust is not a good
month; but we look for a good in-
crease even in August, and with the
beginning of September the season for
Lodge work opens up and for the
following five mouths a big new mem-
bership should be secured in old Lod-
ges and a number of new lodges or-
ganized. The deputies in the field
have spent the past seven months in
working in the old Lodges; but we
expect them to devote a goodly por-
tion of their time during the next
live months in the organization of new
Lodges and depending upon the loy-
alty of the membership in the old Lod-
ges to look after the increase of new
membership in the old lodges. In
June letter in Workman we stated
that order should show an increase
of not less than 500 members in Sep-
tember, yet we notice that the editor
of the Bulletin, the official organ of
the Supreme Lodge, rather intimaten
that we are asking too much, for in
the July number of Bulletin he states
"that we were not modest in the num-
ber of new members asked for in
September." We certainly thought
in June that 500 new members in Sep-
tember was a very modest number of
new members to ask for and expect
to secure in September, and we still
tnink so. Five new members in each
of the old lodges will make over 500
and enough new lodges will be organ-
ized during September to make the
number run over 500, should old lod
ges furnish 5 new members each. If
the membership in the old 16dges will
but firmly resolve that their lodge
must show a gain of 5 new members
in September over a thousand new
members will join the order in Sep-
tember. In our March call for eacn
old lodge to furnish 10 new members
only a few of the old lodges respond-
ed. The Grand Lodge proposes to
reward the old lodges furnishing ten
or more new members in September
and to this end makes the following
proposition to all of the old lodgt_.
good only for the month of Septenroei;,
and we hope to see every old lodge in
the jurisdiction respond with not less
than ten members initiated in Septem-
ber.
PROPOSITION.
The initiation fee in old lodges dur-
ing September to be $5.50. Of this sum
$1.00 to be paid local medical examiner
and 50c sent with medical examina-
tion to Grand Medical Examiner. Th«
balance (S4.(Klt to be paid by applicant
at time he was initiated and to be for-
warded to Grand Recorder along with
medical examination and application
card. At Grand Recorder's office $1 will
be retained out of the $4 to pay for be-
neficiary certificate, and also the
amount of one classified assessment
and the balance remaining will be sent
back to brother whose name appears
first on application card as recom-
mending the applicant for membership.
In addition to the above, the old lodge
reporting 10 or more new members in-
initiated in September will receive as a
reward the sum of $30.00 from the
Grand Lodge. This can be used hv
local lodge to pay for an entertainment
or in any manner local lodge may deem
proper.
SPECIAL PRIZES FON SEPTEMux^i.
The Grand Lodge will pay the fol
lowing prizes for September.
First prize $25.00
Second prize $i-r> r
Third prize $10.00
to be awarded old lodges showing toe
greatest increase in the number of
new members initiated in Sent ; and
to brothers whose names appear first
on application cards filed with Grand
Recorder as having recommended the
ki catcai.
i ti in i/ci yji 111: v> iiicniiiri n 111 i i. -
lated in September.
To Brother recommending largest
number $25.00.
To Brother recommending 2nd.
largest number $15.00.
To Brother recommending 3rd. larg-
est number, $10.00.
Provided; tnat no old lodges shall
be entitled to special prizes offered, not
initiating over ten new members in
September and no brother to special
prize offered not recommending ten
or more new members initiated in
September. Reinstated members do not
count as new members. In the or-
ganization of new lodges in September
a charter fee of $5.00 to be collected
and 15 members to be minimum num-
ber to be given a charter. In the or-
ganization of a new lodge the deputy
shall send to Grand Lodge Recorder
$3.50 on first 15 charter members to
pay for charter and lodge supplies and
be permitted to retain $3.50 on all char-
ter members, secured over 15 for his
srvices, $1.50 of the $5.00 charter fee
going to pay local and Grand Medical
Examiner. In addition to the above
the Grand Lodge will pay deputy $30.00
for every new lodge he organises dur-
ing the month of September.
Now Brothers the above proposition
only holds good for September. It is
made with a view to arouse the old
lodges to action in September for once
aroused we have no doubt that love
for the Order and a renewed interest
taken by old members when once har-
nessed up again will result in a big
growth in local lodges during the re-
mainder of the year. The Septem-
ber proposition is simply intended to
cut the rust that seems to have gath-
ered on many of th working boxes otthe
Order and to get all parts of machine
in motion again, at the same time.
The $30.00 to be given by Grand
Lodge to local lodges securing ten or
more new members is intended as an
advance investment to assist local lod-
ges in the matter of expense in getting
local lodge work started up and stimu-
lated eo renewed activity and the mat-
ter of paying to brothers the remain-
der of the $5.50 left after taking out
Medical Examiner's fees, one classified
assessment and $1.00 for a Beneficiary
certificate is to stimulate them to ac-
tion by offering them a small induce-
ment to work. The sum the brothers
receive out of the initiation should go
into local lodge treasury; but local
lodges securing ten or more new mem-
bers in September will be compensated
for the loss by the $30.00 they recive
from Grand Lodffe. Some time asro
Number 8
in Workman we said something about
taking up lodge charters when lodges
were in no sense living up to require-
ments of constitution, and a failure
of local lodges to respond to our Sep-
tember proposition may cause us to
talk some more along this same line
and to cause invistigations to be made
to ascertain why it is that a body of
men holding a charter in the grandest
fraternal beneficiary order doing busi-
ness in Oklahoma and Indian Territory
prize their membership so lightly as
not to take sufficient interest in same
to protect the Order by protecting their
charter for only by local Lodges living
up lairly close to requirements of con
stitution, can the order at large be
protected and grow and its members
be protected as they should be in the
Ancient Order of United Workman.
Lax business methods might be toler-
ated in a non-beneficial Order! '
when the members carry from 1,000
to $2,000 life insurance policies in the.
Order the case is quite different and
business methods must be observed in
carying for the payment of these poli-
cies. The responsibility for the ob-
servance of the constitution and laws
of the Order, by the local lodges is
upon the Grand Lodge officers and the
membership of the Order at large have
a right to expect Grand Lodge officers
to do their duty and while we possess
tiie patience of Job (we mean Bro.
Job Smith) as one of the Grand Lodg-i
officers we must not be recreant to
the trust placed in our keeping.
Hoping that the brothers throughout
every other Grand Jurisdition will each
and every one of them do something
to inrease the growth of the Order
in September, if nothing more than
to be the means for that month, and
there is not a brother in the juris-
the month and learncmfwyq yqqqfl
diction that can't do this much, and
attend the local lodge meetings dur-
ing the month and learn signs and
new semi-annual pass word, and pro-
bably some brothers might learn per-
manent pass word also; for we really
fear some may have forgotten it. See
that your loal lodge wins the $30.00
offered Grand Lodge for ten new mem-
bers and if possible one o: the special
Grand Lodge prizes, and you yourself
one of the Grand Lodge special prizes.
Norman lodge has intimated to me that
it will not likely initiate more than
50 new members in September and
your Grand Master does not hope to
write over 100 applications during
month. Purcell and Sapulpa lodges
have been taking in so many new mem-
bers of late, there is no guessing as
to what they may do in September, but
of one thing we feel certain they will
add enough new members to get the
$30.00 offered by Grand Lodge and not
be tail enders in the number of new
mebmers, secured during the onth.
The Lodges winning prizes will be puu-
lished in October Workman and we
hope to see every lodge in the Juris-
diction in the list and you brother have
but to fill up with the same hope to
see it come to pass.
Yours in C. H. P.
JOHN S. ALLAN.
Grand^Recorder's Letter.
Guthrie, Okla. Aug. S, iiJuu.
brothers: On another page ol Lhe
Vvorivmuu for August you wui and an
exceedingly goou otter trorn Uie Grand
Master to the lodges and a plan tor
wording aunug tne month ol bept. it is
desireu mat ail lodges ol Lhe jurisu.c-
non wilt take horn of the won*, and
ntaive an apparent eltort to secure
a pornon ot tnis prize money iroui tne
uiana i_,odge. n will not require
uui a litue time, prividing you your-
selves win map out a pian to woriv
in ,>our viciuny, to procure Uie nec-
cussary ten members, and 1L is your
duty to see tnat tne membership ot
tno applicants is completed at once
and reported to tne urami .Recorder
ana tne $ou.U0 will ue yours, to be uis-
posea oi as you see tit. orotneis, u
you have tne interest ot iour local
loUge at heart, as well as tne ordei
in uKianoma and indian territory,
you win personally enueavor to secure
ujc oi two applications during tne
inonui oi jaeptewuer, not oniy inceras-
mg tne strengtn oi your lodge, uut
leuuiug your am in tne extension ol Uie
order.
our membership report to the Su-
preme Lodge tor May exceeded Uie o,-
500 rnariv, but untortunateiy, owing to
Lhe heavy suspension oi members on
tne June reports, we had Lo report a
decrease ot nearly 30 members lor that
month. Now, it you are interested in
seeing tne order grow, yon uiu&i not
only loon, out lor some suspended
urotker ,jut new members besides and
n you want your louge to nave y^-00
turned into its treasury uy the Grand
.Lodge remember inai ail ii tak.es is
just TEN rneniuers during the tnirty
days ot September.
Application cards, literature, examin-
ation blanks, can be procured irom
tne Grand Recorder, simply by deposit
mg one cent witn Uncle Sam lor n
postal card, and he will see to its
prompt delivery.
Yours Fraternally,
W. R. WELCH, O. KJbCUKuiiR.
Dates of Grand Master Work-
man for August,
^ During the month of August the
Grand Master expects to visit the fol-
lowing lodges on toliowin'g dates and
letters sent to Grand Master's office
will not be answered until his return
home.
August 11th at Chelsa.
August 15th at Vinita
August loth at Muskogee
August 17th at Wagoner.
AugusL lstk at Pryor Creek.
August loth at Adair.
AugusL 21th at Krebs.
August 22d. at Hartshorne.
August 23d at Poteau.
August 24th at Jensen.
August 25tli at Shalisaw.
August 2lith at Spiro.
"The A. O. U. W. Is a safer proposi-
tion today than any one of the great
big top-heavy old-line life Insurance
companies," said an experienced life
insurance man recently. And this Is
true; for its mortuary rates are just
as adequate; its expenses lower; its
management more economical, and
there are no enormous assets for the
"frenzied financiers" to manipulate.—
Colorado Record.
FRATERNALISM is more and more
each year destroying the ca uses of
pauperism and crime.
The present generation of men may
well feel that it is especially blessed In
being able, without a penny of capital
to place to his own account, cashable
at death $1,000 or $2,000 upon which
he pays but a nominal fee. To bor-
row even $1,000 at six per cent Inter-
est would cost $5.00 every month or
$(i0 per year. And at the end of fifty
or seventy-live years the $1,000 would
still remain the property of the money-
lender, while in the fraternal insurance
plan the amount of the certificate be-
comes his own when his family is in
greatest need of it. It is a wonderful
plan in some ways, and one which was
not enjoyed a hundred years ago.
When you have a working Lodge
you have a contented one.
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