The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
The Royal Arcanum.
1t Offers Stronger Inducements
TO New Members Than
Ever Before.
It is Life Insurance at Net Cost


the Royal Arcanum had such
strong argument to present to their
friends and associates as an induce
mcnt to join the Royal Arcanum.
The new plan emOodies the best
modern thought in fra,ernal protec-
ton. 1t allows the new member to
choose the method of securing his
protection best suited TO his personal
convenience.
First of all the Royal Arcanum
mas fraternal record Of over twenty
eight years. 1t has collected and
disbursed nearly one hundred mill
ion dollars. 1t has exemplifed the
principle of fraternity in all the
forms incident to our modern
American life. 1t has visited the
sick, comforted the bereaved, pro-
tected orphan children, alleviated
the distress caused by fire and
flood, developed and cultivated in
Vulnerable friendships, protected
the community from pauperism, and
exercised the most extended intiu
ence in elevating the great middle
class of our people.
Al! this has been done by COM
bination of fraternity and business.
It's business methods started on
haphazard scale of assessments.
From its own experience it has
wrought out a plan for furnishing
protection at actual cost which has
stood the test of scientific analysis
and has proven 10 be correct and
adequate.
No more haphazard assessments,
no more readjustment of rates of
assessment, no more re-rating of
members at their attained ages, no
more questions about the future
cost of protection, and no more
question as to how long the Order
can possibly live. The Order will
continue along the same fraternal
lines as heretofore, but with per-
fected plans, rates scientifically ad.
justed and maximum cost assured.
There will no longer be the neces-
sity for Councils and members to
be continually reaching out and
urg ng reluctant acquaiptances to
Join the Order. The rates will take
care of the claims under normal
conditions, and our workers can
exercise discrimination by intro
ducirg into the Order only the very
best material within the sphere of
their acquaintance.
To preserve the normal condi-
tions, after they have been restored,
it will only be necessary to replace
by new members those who have
passed over or lapsed. The labor
and strength required to work up
class limitations aud make large
growth will be unnecessary. In its
place will be substituted the occa-
sional presentation of the Order 10
a friend who will be socially accep'
table to the Council, who is be-
lever in fraternity, and not merely
a seeker after the cheapest form of
life insurance for the largest amount
he can obtain.
The new Royal Arcanum will ex-
emplify in a still greater degree the
aims and possibilities of a modern
brotherhood. 1t will be composed
of men who are willing to pay the
cost Of their protection, who believe
in fraternity, and desire to practice
it without loading portion of their
own burdens upon others. " Bear
We one another's burdens" will
have new meaning and exempt
lication. Fraternity will resume its
real place in the Order, Each mem
Der will assume his own share of
the common burden, and those who
are strong will have an opportunity