Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-12
GRAND LODGE OPENS
IOWA KNIGHTS OF pYTHIAs
HOLDING ANNUAL SESSION
At DAVENPORT.
About $500 PythIans and Rathbone
Sisters In Automatically Parade
Of tho Uniform Rank-Address by
Grand Chancellor r. 8. Waud.

Grano chancellor 7. 3. Waud.
With 1900 Iowa members Of the
Knights of Pythias and Rathbone Sis
ters in attendance the thirty-sixth an
nual grand lodge Of the order con.
vened yesterday morning in Daven-
port. Addresses Of welcome were
made by Mayor Harry Phillips and
William o. Schmidt, Grand Chancellor
r. s. Waud responded on behalf of
the grand lodge.
Tuesday evening the first public In
Btallation of officers of the Rathbone
Sisters was held. The exercises were
beautiful and impressive, and evoked
enthusiastic applause from hundreds
Of visitors present.
Ottumwa company No. participat-
I'D in the big parade of the Uniform
Rank yesterday afternoon.
Grand Chancellor Talks.
Following is given an address made
by Grand Chancellor T. S. Waud be-
fore the grand lodge:
~ expect to pass through this life
but once. If there Is any kindness, or
any good thing I can do my fellow
beings, let me do it.
Brothers, let us have a heart to
heart talk on 'Pythian Sociability or
Recognition Let us be genuinely and
fraternally serious for few moments,
and ask ourselves: Are we always
consistent with the friendship we teach
in castle halls? Do we not too often
fail in the practice of friendship by
being SO cold and distant as Alaska
glaciers when we meet out brother
knights?' Friendship is sociability. 1t
is also more than that, but never mind
the other qualities now.
My message is this: Be sociable.
In other words, speak to him for friend
ships sake, he may need a good warm
word of cheer. 1t will do you good
any way to pour out social spirit to
brother and the more you give of
that spirit the more you will have r.
give. 1t comes from spring whic
runs to overlooking when in use-a
spring which dries up only when the
heart does not dip from its fount.
Speak to me when you meet me, but
not in stiff-necked, high-collared,
far-off- to-the-north-pole style.
Be More Friendly.
Just say: Brother, my name is
Smith. Glad to meet YOU
Keep the frost out of your words;
fill them with sunbeams Ice is not
more destructive to budding fruit than
frost to budding friendship.
If you see K. of P. badge or but
ton, speak to the wearer He may be
a stranger in strange land. Make
him feel that he has friend close by
Or, If it is not convenient to speak,
then smile, nod, or give some other
friendly recognition.
when you meet a knight remem-
Der he is your brother. Don't look to
see how he is dressed before you
speak. Don't estimate him by the cut
of his coat or the softness of his hands.
Seek his heart if you want to test the
royalty of his manhood. Speak to him
because he is your brother.
Fraternity is too often but a mere
name. The world has to much So
called Pythian and other fraternity
which is as cold as an iceberg, as dis
tant as the north pole and as mum
and non-sociable as a clam, when fra
ternal brothers meet in the highways
and byways of life.
Make Pythianism SociabIe.
"Strivc to make Pythianism soci-
abel = to make it warm, sparkling
and fragrant everywhere Garry a
Pvthian atmosphere, freighted with
h the aroma of violets and spices
'endship.
IN we say of a man that he
God deal Of heart we mean
is 'summery.'
a brother is visiting your
fraternal greeting be SO
he will feel at home: let
It you are glad to see him.
n cordially-bid him a
ne.
password is being taken
III business to see that
Announces the name of
other, and the name
his lodge, so that the
altered on the records
time, make it your
that the lodge is de,
extend the visiting
ne Don't wait for an
to him, take his hand
Q.
Visiting Brother.
1ges are as frigid as