The Oklahoma Workman (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 8, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 1, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA WORKMAN.
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In Oklahoma Workman.
GUARANTEED CIRCULATION 7,000.
Published Monthly by Grand Lodge of
Oklahoma A. O. U. W.
W. J. LBATHERMAN, Editor.
Guthrie, Okla.
Subscription prices 50c per year. Free
to all members of the Order
In Oklahoma.
Entered at the postofllee at Guthrie,
Oklahoma, as second class matter,
October 5, 1900.
Come on and join the bunch.
The A. O. U. W. of Oklahoma is do-
ing nicely, thank you.
NEEDS THE MONEY criterion by which the death rate can bo
Everybody needs the money. People gauged, for, while a reduction in the
are money wild, not only the living but average age Indicates that the member-
even the dead are In a hurry for it. The ship is, on the general average, younger,
living beneficiaries of the dead can hardly " Joes not necessarily follow that the
The Order needs more
workers.
boosters and
July certainly was
August a winner.
a hot one, make
Grand Lodge Officers.
Grand Master Workman, S. L. John-
son, Okmulgee, Okla.
Past Grand Master Workman, J. M.
Wells Kingfisher, Okla.
Grand Foreman, J. A. Davidson, Okla-
homa City, Okla.
Grand Overseer, Thad H. Harbour,
Cameron, Okla.
Grand Recorder, W. R. Welch, Guth-
rie, Okla.
Grand Receiver, J. E. Sater, Stllwater,
Okla.
Grand Guide, George L. Wheeler,
Pawnee, Okla.
Grand Inside Watchman, Clause
Wells, Sallisaw, Okla.
Grand Outside Watchman, J. J. Vance,
Poteau, Okla.
Grand Medical Examiner, Dr. E. G.
Sharp, Guthrie, Okla.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
IT. D. Todd, Chairman, Guthrie, Okla.
Alex Ware, Stllwater, Okla.
E. F. Gibbs, Enid, Okla.
LAW COMMITTEE.
Dudley B. Madden, Chairman, Sayre,
Okla.
M. W. Hinch, Kingfisher, Okla.
A. Lowenstein, Ardmore, Okla.
APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.
W. N. Elliott, Chairman, Purcell, Okla.
W. R. Hunter, Pryor Creek, Okla.
I. D. Patterson, Hartshorne, Okla.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
S. L. Johnson, Okmulgee, Okla.
Harry Horner, Enid, Okla.
W. L. Bell, Muskogee, Okla.
H. T. Rakeman, Sapulpa, Okla.
A. T. Whitman, Oklahoma City, Okla.
S. F. Allenbaugh, Payson, Okla.
Harry Donart, Stillwater, Okla.
A. H. Lyons, Hennessey, Okla.
J. P. McLarty, Wilburton, Okla.
PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES.
A11 lodge officers are hereby noti-
fied that all orders for supplies must
be accompanied by the cash, other-
wise the order will be held up until
the money is received. The laws of
the order require this and is further
made necessary by an order from the
board of directors. Below is given a
revised list of supplies ami prices
which can be posted in the report
book for guidance in the future:
Rituals, each $1.00
Semi-annual Password—'book 1.00
Monthly report Book 1.00
Financier's Record - 3.00
Minute Books (Keifer's) 4.00
Lodge Seals 2.50 3 00
Buttons, per dozen 50
Gold Seals, box of 100 _... .75
Financier's Receipt Book 25
Receiver's Receipt Book 25
Recorder's Warrant Book 25
Beneficiary Registers, each 50c-1.00
Financier's Registers, each 50c-1.00
Ode Cards, dozen ...: .25
Officers Bonds, each 05
By-Laws, each 10
Lanterns and Slides 35.00
Medical Examinations free
Application Cards free
Altar Emblems 2.25
Bibles, each 2 50
Gavels, each 20
Ballot Boxes, each 75
All supplies are sent prepaid except
lantern and slides, altar emblems,
gavels and ballot boxes. All orders to
be placed with Grand Recorder.
W. R. WELCH. Guthrie. Okla.
Picnics have been held in several lo-
calities and the A. O. U. W. was much
in evidence.
One hundred lodges should mean one
hundred members every month.
Does your lodge hold regular meetings?
If not why not? Get together and do
business in a business way.
Woodward I.odge was a successful
worker during June and July and prom-
ises much f r August.
The A. O. TI. W. is never found want-
Ingi. It always comes through at the
right time and the right place.
What about the suspended member? Do
you ever ask him to reinstate? His fami-
ly needs the protection if he don't.
Sociability is the cure for backward-
ness. Cultivate the friendship of your
neighbor and ask him to join the order.
He needs it and the order needs him.
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INTEREST—HOW TO GET IT
There are many ways to get Interest
started. One is, ano it seems to be the
main one that is hooked up with humani-
ty, is to loan another man a dollar and
then collect the toll as the months roll
around. This is a very good plan, too, for
the man who is looking after that kind
of interest. Another plan is to associate
yourself with a bunch or earnest worker *,
who are Intent on building Up their
community and making lasting improve-
ments. and then reaping the hardest a
little later on with enhanced values. An-
other plan is to do all the good you nan
whenever or wherever you can to your
fellows and get your reward in words of
praise and in the good will of those to
whom you minister. Rut, the best of any
plan is to be a hale fellow well met and
sociable on every hand, the interest re-
ceived will be the friendship of every
one. rome true, some false.
At this time the great problem con-
fronting us is how to get interest in the
lodge room. There are lots of ways this
can be done, but will have to be worked
out locally in every instance, but the main
thing to do would be to resurrect the
social spirit and mingle freely with each
other and hold aloof from none. When
you go into the lodge room it is not good
policy tn sit down in a corner by your-
self and act as If you don't want to be
disturbed, but mingle with the bunch.
Do away with business meetings at every
lodge session, for they are always more
or less dry. and snend an hour or two
in a free for all discussion of the hap-
penings of your locality and daily top-
ics of interest that occur elsewhere or
that are in the public mind. Give place
to this kind of a meeting once or twice
each month and the members of the lodge
that come to them will readily under-
stand that it is not always a cut-an.l-
dried affair at lodge and they will bo on
band when any business is to lie trans-
acted. The formal business meeting,
meeting after meeting keeps many a
member away that would come occasion-
ally, and it is better to liave them come
wait for the body to give up its animal
heat before they commence to Search
for the coin among his personal effects.
If the deceased be insured the call for
blanks is made by the time thu last
breath leaves the lungs and all because
"they need the money." Not long sin 'e
a member of a certain insurance organi-
zation died in a not far away city at
about six o'clock in the morning and al
noon the office of the company received
a request that blanks be sent at once
as "they needed the money." Another
case of recent occurence in which the
claim was filed within four days after
death was accompanied with the request
to "hurry this claim" for "they need She
money." It is money living. It is money
dead. The shroud is hardly adjurted and
the last rites said before the greed and
grasping for what looks like money is
commenced. A sad spectacle indeed over
the remains of the dead. Of coursi tt is
proper that claim should be made tor
what is due, otherwise it wodld not be
forthcoming but it would be more proper,
out of respect to the deceased, to wait
until the harrowing times of momentary
death rate is correspondingly reduced.
Take these ages for an example, which
lias been used before:
1,000 members age 20
1,000 members age "0
1,000 members age 40
1,000 members age 50
1,000 members age 60
Average age 40 years.
Age 20 deaths per 1,000 5
Age 30 deaths per 1,000 •>
Age 40 deaths per 1,000 7
Age 50 deaths per l.uOO 11
Age 60 deaths per 1,000 23
Average death rate per 1,000, 10.
If average age controlled the death
rate, which in this case is 40 years, it
would be the rate at 40 years of age,
or 7 per 1,000 members. When, as a
matter of fact, as is shown, the average
death rate for five ages cited is 10 per
1,000, or the death rate at age 48. li
this fact is kept in mind, there will be
less trouble. No table of mortality can be
computed on averages. Age governs the
cost. No system of averaging ages can
make an average death rate less than
the death rates for each age, because
people do not die by average ages, but
grief are appeased. It would temper the
case by not making it appear that the by attained ages.-Modern Woodman,
life of a loved one had nothing but a
frnonetary Jv'alue. Rut. "they need the
money," so "hurry it along."
The A. O. U. W. as well as other
Orders receives these requests every
time a member dies and oftn times from
lodges that are nonprogressive. They are
always in a hurry to have a claim mil
FATAL ACCIDENT
Rro, Dyas Gadbois, Recorder of Alva
Lodge No. 16, met with a fatal accident
while celebrating the fourth of July in
ills home town. While mingling with the
crowd on the celebration grounds and
watching the entertainment features of
but never In a liurry to extend the limits t|le flay, a support to which was fastened
of the order. They should look well to t|lp guv v,)pp 0f a large balloon gave way
this feature of fraternal Insurance for. nn.j jn falling caught Bro. Gadbois and
unless they do, the time wi'l come whef\ almost instantly killed him. Alva Lodge
their request will not be lieedel for the anj Order loses a valuable member,
money will not be there to "hurry" to one tilat was always prompt in atten-
them. The Order needs the money as
bad as the other rartv and unless the
living help to fill the depleted ranks the
dead, or their beneficiaries, will have to
wait longer than time ran tell before
they will get their money and it will be
useless cry to ray "hurry this claim,
A SPECIAL EFFORT
The Grand Lodge officers are going to
make a snecial effort during the remain-
ing months of the year to make n de-
cided increase in the membership. Tn
this special work every lodge and every
lodge officer and member is expected to
get down to actual business and do their
level best to make some advancement In
their respective lodges. We, as an nrdei
confine ourselves to a limited field. The
time has come to branch out and cover
a wider range. There are places that
have never been worked and there ire
lodges in which nothing has been done
for years. The Grand Master Workman
is planning to have a general awakening
in every section and not confine h's
labors to any one section but make this
an effort that will reach into every part
of the state. The order needs ynur a°-
ristance along this line, especially at this
time. New members is the life of the
Order and unless they are kent coming
along and filling the ranks that are de-
pleted by suspension and death the Order
will begin to lag behind and this is one
thing you as a member do not want to
see. No one is asking you to give un any
time from your business to solicit mem-
bers but you are asked to lend your
hearty good will and a pleasant word
now and then and to make a modest re-
quest of your friend or neighbor that he
occasionally than not at all, for they are associate himself with you in this great
liable to get the habit of being a regular fraternity, wdiose aim and purpose is to
attendant. Cultivate the social spirit of
the members as much as possible and
make every one that comes to lodge feel
like he is welcome and impress upon him
the importance of keeping his member-
lioln man to live a better life and to pro-
tect those he loves when he Is called
hence.
Now, let's all line up in this work be-
fore us and make it a point that we will
ship In the order and that where there nnj fnp jn nr)r, sunremo test for
is any urgent business on hand that he depends unon what is done during
should make it a point to come and the 1p nrXt few months.
chances are that he will he there and
taking a lively Interest. The interest the
lodge will earn in tills way will lie in-
creased attendance, Increased member-
ship, a stronger and better lodge and a
lodge that Is always busy and doing
something.
dance to lodge business and its affa:rs.
lie will be missed in lodge circles.
HEALTH RULES FOR
EVERY DAY USE
in his book on "The Law of Mental
Medicine," the late Thomas Jay Hud-
son laid down a set of rules which he
recommended to all who would employ
suggestions as a prophylactic, or pre-
ventive of disease. They are sensible,
universally and readily applicable and
easily remembered:
Avoid all suggestions from extraneous
source which are adverse to health.
If such suggestions are forced upon
you, meet them by counter suggestions
affirmative of your own immunity from
the suggested disease.
Allow no conversation at the table ad-
verse to the quality of tbe tood set before
you, especially as to its supposed indl-
gestibility.
Talk hopefjil to the chronic Invalid
fi r his sake and for your own sake when
you leave him. Thank God that you art
immune from his disease.
Think health and talk health on all
suitable occasions, remembering that un-
der the law of suggestion health may
be made contagious as well as disease.
Finally meet the first symptom of dis-
ease with a vigorous and persistent auto-
suggestion of immunity from disease or
of your ability to throw it off. When you
go to bed at night direct your subjective
mind to employ itself during your sleep
in restoring normal conditions, strongly
affirming its abitliy to do so, and when
you rise In the morning assume the at-
titude in mind and body of restored
health and vigor.
-*/r> o r—^— • ■ —1
The Knocker and the Lapser met on
the street and shook hands in harmonious
disgruntlement. "Let's start an order of
our own ideas," said the Lapser. "No,
I'm afraid you would lapse," repiied the
knocker. "Come to think of it I would
not want to be in an order with you
anyhow," retorted the lapser, "you're fi
knocker." Thus fate disillusioned each
of his importance.
One man in 203 is over six feet.
AVERAGE AGE AND DEATH RATE
Officers of fraternal beneficiary socie-
ties who are not of an analytical mind,
and do not trace things to their source,
seem possessed of a belief that the aver-
age age of the certificate holders of a
society bear close relationship to the
death rate. The average age is not a
Do not say "I can't," hut say
wi'l."
FIVE THOUSAND would look pretty
good wouldnt it?
One in each 1,000 couples live to cele-
brate the golden wedding.
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