The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21
GRANGE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by W. r. Alexander, r r.
D. No. q. OWosso.

COUNTY GRANGE CALENDAR.
Owosso Township: First and third Tuesday
in each month at 80 p. m. Richardson's hall
Owosso.
New Lothrop: Second and fourth Tuesday
afternoon In each month.
Remington: First and third Saturday after
noon In each month.
Hazel Green's First and third Friday Of each
month; Henderson.
Burns: Every Tuesday evening, Knaggs'
Bridge.
Now that the anti-oleo bill has passed
the house all fair means should be en-
ployed to secure favorable action in the
senate
Will some member of Union Grange
please send us their date of meetings2
The staid old Rural New Yorker, one
of the best of the great agricultural
papers which has made no special bid
for grange support, in recent editori-
al, sizes up the Grange in the following
strong and truthful words 'If man
could live up to the principles of the
Grange, or come reasonably near to do
ing SO, he would be pretty close to an
ideal citizen. This excellent organiza-
ton has made progress in quiet, I'M
= assuming way, without buster or bluff.
1t has more to do with the development
of American character than most people
imagine. We often hear of the work
done by various city clubs and societies.
In our opinion the Grange has done
more to develop American manhood and
womanhood than any other social organ
ization in the country
TALKS WITH LECTURERS.
From the American Grange Bulletin:
You are more than the schoolmaster
of your grange if you are a wise lee
turer. You are also less. Your au-
thority is different Do you expect your
members to help make the literary part
of the grange work interesting to all and
especially profitable for personal disci-
pine? The authority of the school
master is not yours; by the power of
your own tact and wisdom you are to
have your own way, and not by the
sanctions of law and the orders of
courts. The power of leadership must
be within you, unless others before you
have taught so effectually that your
right to assign duties is accepted with
out question. And fortunate indeed is
the grange which has learned the saving
habit of obedience. 1t makes for peace
and progress and power. For obedience
is better than sacrifice.
You are fortunate in your office The
lecturer is chosen because his fellow
members believe that he has gifts and
accomplishments above the ordinary.
They place him in intellectual authority
in order that they may follow him into
larger fields of thought. They can not
know what is possible for them; but
they have been. taught to believe that
the literary side of our work has large
possibilities, and somehow they feel that
its promise has never been fulfilled.
The choice of every new lecturer is the
expression of new hope that the goal
of their desire is nearer. You, Worthy
Lecturer, have large opportunity If
you realize its largeness and your own
inability to do all that you are ambitious
to accomplish on that others may expect
of you-if you realize this and are still
determined to do your best, there is
good reason to believe that Your com
paniOns have chosen wisely
But the lecturer must work; he must
read, study, plan; for his duties are not
laid down in constitution or bylaws.
He must study people as well as pro
grams must discover aptitude and
learn dispositions; must adjust his ex
ercises to the persons who are to take
part in them; must take account of
all prejudices and whims; must be all
things unto all men, keeping himself
always fair and liberal, always of a
cheerful ,countenance and teaehable
spirit. Doing all this and more, being
all that.is here implied and more; max
ing himself the willing servant of all
the lecturer will increase in readiness
and resourcefulness, in power to adapt
himself to circumstances, and in skill to
get the most work out Of his workers
with the largest satisfaction and profit
to all
This is no low ideal Of the lecturers
privilege and opportunity. 1t suggests
that the Office be magnifed; that the
officer accept his responsibilities in all
seriousness, that those who have chosen
him as their leader make Of themselves
loyal followers and faithful workers in
the cause of social progress in which
they have enlisted; and it suggests also
that the best work is that in which
there is unity of purpose and method
and the spirit of cooperation which
should characterize all our work and all
our play
Saved t4ar Chiid'S ito