The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-05
Editorial Department

Editorial Department.
Welcome Woodmen.
On Wednesday and Thursday Denison will throw open its
hospitabe doors the Woodmen of the World and will
show them what good fellowship and good time
really
This day of ORDERS before where they
popular never before have they aoushed
tied growth No live up the Of fraternity
without being the join fraternity
with good motives without having his spirit of manhood and
brothery love strengthened thereby
We had political friend who seeking nomna
ton in letter he said g" think my chances pretty good
have joined and here he mentioned half dozen secret
cieties About month later heard from him again.
postal, brief and to the point, it said, "Confound it, the
other fellow has joined them all, too"
We do believe that either of these towers of
strength the raternes they joined They became
bers for what they might do for their fellows but what
their fellows might do for them
The Woodmen order insurance order and naturally
that of its prime interests but the who simply
the with the intention his heart to live
pledges which he makes should withdraw and take his
in purely commercial organization in which he
have perure himself by making promises he has
desire will fulfill One should be careful also that
lodge membership does not restrict ones field OF usefulness
his eowman The of the odgeroom may increase
your obligations men, but it wse,lessens ones
duty regard anyone else. One should do all possible
for human being in distress Kindness and generosity
charity should be bounded church
lodge condition. Their universally what marks the
quality of these attributes If you do service fellow
lodgean with the thought that were distress the favor
would be returned your action would be nged with selfish
that would deract from its merit theoretically be-
lieve but fraternity and that fraternity mankind
Practically however, find that the fraternity does good 1t
awakens of duty to atleast portion Of the
community gives the hand practice in the happy Of
evng and teaches the detect and the heart
sympathze with the sueng of Others The fraternity is
the supreme civilization it is rather
corrective its evils Were every live
cordg the golden rule there would be need of ORDERS
camps or lodges chapters or tribes.
But sit condition theory which confronts us and
the condition such that the lodge good and helpful
stituton.
The Woodmen order exclusive it takes in the
rich and poor the abore the mechanic the farmer and the
professional man. and in this respect levels the artificial
barriers of and prejudice and makes the stand upon
his merits without the help pe place In the lodge
the best that shows itself and learns to
love and admire whom might otherwise live life
time without knowing
Until the grand universal fraternity of mankind shall hold
its universal sway the lesser aternes merit praise and
support and among them welcome the Woodmen of the
World of the grand young orders of America. order
that doing and has done much the hour of suffering
and that eevating its members in thought and deed
and that is important in that great preparatory
school through which mankind is going.