The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-21
SANFORD THINKS
 OWLS ARE Q. K.

with represen tatives of the Farmer, today, about the secession of the Hart ford county nests, and especially about the Hartford nest, which first seeded
 and then disbanded.
 Certain officers of the Hartford Nest began an inquiry into the manner in
 which the Owls are governed.
 They found supreme control lodged
 in a body known as the Home Nest
 in South Bend. Indiana.
 The Home Nest existed as supreme
 officers of the order because they or
 ganized it, and the constitution pro-
 vided no means of removing them.
 The Supreme Owl has full power, by his own order, to suspend any
 nest and the property of nest so
 suspended then becomes the property
 of the Home Nest
 The Home Nest recented the inquiry
 of the Hartford men into it's methods
 and the Supreme Owl suspended the
 was then immediately begun to ob-
 tain possession of the funds of the
 Hartford Nest which amounted to
 some $1,200. This suit is now pending.
 These facts have been printed in the
 Farmer, and it is to their publication that Organizer Sanford refers in his
 statemenh MT. Sanford, Incidentally says that.
 the Home Nest consists of 13s members, each lof whom is officer. MT. San- ford's statements is as follows: ''As you have seen fit to give con- | siderable space to aspersions upon the Order of Owls. at the instigation of
 certain former members of Hartford Nest, No. 166, perhaps you will allow
 me, as the official representative and organizer of the order in this city,, in the spirit of fair play, to state the case of the trouble in Hartford, from the. Owls side. and also to reply to cer- tain of your strictures about the or der.
 You are aware that in November, 1909, certain eight members of Hart | ford Nest were expelled from the orr
 der, and the chief of these was Carl
 p. ThorugTan, the then president of 1iex T1Cff only be accomplished by the loyal members of the Nest submitting proofs of conspiracy against the supreme body by these people, which was done the revocation of the charter secured,
 the loyal members were assembled,
 passed d unanimous vote of expulsion was at once restored. This action
 was made necessary by the fact that most of the offices were held by sym
 pathizers with these men, Indeed, four of the expelled members were of dcers.
 called his adherents together, and they voted to secede from the order and to start a new one to be called the New body named Hartford Nest, No. 1.
 t.They also appropriated all ths prop erty and funds of the original Nest. No. 166, acting under the clause of the constitution of the Order of Owls, which declares that upon the revoca- ton or suspension of the charter of any Nest all the property and funds of that Nest become the property of the Home Nest, and to which they had previously assented in assuming their obligation, imne ediate1y brought attachment proceedings against the cIlstodians of the property and funds, | for their restitution to Hartford Nest, | No. 166. Order of Owls, which action l is now pending. and win soon be de- c1ded upon it's merits.
 sThiS trial involves several of the points upon which you, through re- cent publication, have seen fit to at l tack the Order of Owls.
 q do not accuse you of intentional | bias or prejudice against the Order of l Owls, but those who are Owls and | have done them an injustice in giving | so much prominence to the claims of | their traducers.
 s.Every secret fraternal organization | is governed by a supreme body. which l has the power to revoke charters for | treason to the order or characterization. Disloya1ty to the order was the charge | against these men, as ann informed. Here IS a great 1EaIeTnity. worklng Ig over the United States, under a. con- stitution which has been pronounced | by many of the greatest legal minds | it includes in it's membership some of l The ablest orofsssionaI men in the ing to endure injustice?
 .According to the Springffeld Re pub1icah of April 1s. the Owls have a Boston has over Soo0 members. in two Nests. Hayerhi11 800, Lowell 900. | springea @ ,so Nest was VI instituted 5,a Apri5 this work go on in the face of the Hartford dissension if the contention Don't you suppose that many other men have made investigations in South Bend, and if these charges had been sustained, would men continue to gather to the Owl Nests?
 ts1Ir. Thorugren offered the organizer of Massachusetts Nest, Boston. the supreme presidency of the New Eng land Order of Owls if he would throw the genuine order over and finance their infant pseudo orga anization. This to South Bend, make a thorough in vestiga tion of Thorugren's charges, would give the New England order S25, 900 and work for it with all his might. If he did not find them gusz tained, the New England order had better keep out of Massachusetts. He spent nearly two weeks in that inves- tigation. is still organizing Nests of Owls, and the so-called New England order keeps out of Massachusetts
 ''This pseudo order had a Nest in which is in good condition Financially. voted to disband.
 ''I assert that no order in existence fnculcates higher prin ncipleS of man. hood, a broader platform of human l brotherhood Ohough in the So-ca1led Rule it uses the word damn) or all LOWS the, 0,SS0DOFuIIIcCG OI641ACII0S Sh great CT degree of home rule, subject to the constitution governing the entire body, than the Order of Owls, and that no order gives it's membership all over the land the opportunities of fraternal affiliation for a smaller per capita tax, viz, 40 cents per year, which is included in the dues.
 stDo members of other organizations even question what the supreme body does with tte contributions it levies on them?
 Supreme officers of nearly or quite all other fraternities receive high sal aries. The Owls officers do not re- ceive any salaries.
 .One other point, as to the mem bershi1 of the Home Nest Since you questioned me upon that point (and confess your question at that time mel, have made inquiry