The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-12
.PYTHIAN HOME
COMING SESSION
NUMBER or GRAND OFFICERS
WERE PRESENT SPLENDID
AFFAIR AT CASTLE HALL OF
KNIGHTS or PYTHIAs-ATT.
WOOD ON FRATERNALlsM.

The castle hall of the Knights of
Pythias last night was the scene of
q gathering of knights and their
friends which was a little bit unusual.
It was the occasion Of the Pythian
homecoming session, to which all
knights had been requested to att
tend, whether affiliated with Fargo
lodge. No. 2, or not, and there were
present two sitting grand chancellors
and several past grand chance1lors.
The grand chanceIIorS present were
the guests of honor. Grand Chancel-
Tor Atwood of the domain Of Mime
sofa made the principal address of the
evening on FTaternalism is the Great
Thought of the Twentieth Century.
Grand Chancellor Dinnie of the do
main of North Dakota came down
from Grand Forks earlier in the day.
The proceedings were entirely in
formal and were presided over by
Chancellor Commander William G.
Green of Fargo No. 2, and he was
quite at home at the duties. They
were preceded by a supper served at
tables arranged in the for moi a tri-
angle, the distinguished guests having.
seats at the apex, Grand Chancellors
Atwood and Dipnie facing each other.
Grace was said by the Rev. J.. M.
Walters.
Preceding the address of the even
ing, appropriate remarks and the very
cordial expression of ~felicitations were
made by Grand Chancellor Dinnie, G..
W. Wolbert, grand keeper of records
and seal; Past Grand Chancellor
Henry, who emphasized Friendship"
in the first of the trio of notices of
the order of the knights of Pythias;
Grand Prelate Ergo of the Lisbon
lodge, and Past Chancellor Commander
j. p. Hardy of the local lodge, whose
remarks were in his usual humorous
vein, but amid it all he thrust home
some good points to set the knights
thinking about their shortcomings.
Atwood on ~FraternaIism.
The distinguished head OF the order
eral soutbursts of applause which
seemed to touch the blind optimist
very closely. After an appropriate
preface, in which he expressed his
deep appreciation of the honor ac-
corded to him on this very happy oc-
casion in the Fargo castle hall, he
cited what had been the great thoughts
of the different ages which had gone
before, and said that "Fraternalism
is the great. thought of this twentieth
century" He felt that it could not be
denied that 1t was the dominating
thought of the age. AS in Greece art
was the dominant thought, power and
conquest the great thought of Rome,
martyrdom the thought of the early
ages, chivalry of the middle ages. re-
form eliminating in the historic u
Gil OF Trent, the thought Of the six
teenth century, liberty, 7crystalizing in
to the declaration of independence the
thought of the eighteenth century,
commerce the dominating principle of
the nineteenth century, so is frater-
nalism, brotherhood, the dominating
and moving thought of the twentieth
century.
"~Fraternalisn1, ] am positive, is the
best thought of all,'' said Mr.. Att
wood. Answering the question of the
first murderer, Am / my brothers
keeper with an emphatic yes" To-
day hundreds of fraternal riders are
out reaching for the young men of the
land, all teaching the same prin-
ciples Of brotherhood, and striving to
bind them together. to assail the cita-
del of selfishness and bring to reign
upon earth the golden rule.
In beautiful and impressive language
and with an earnestness which aroused
the closest attention Of his hearers,
the speaker gave a synopsis OF the
story of Damon and Pythias, which
is the foundation of the order of
knights of Pythias, and the growth
of the Knights of Pytiiias from it's Or
S|dIlI8LlOH III 1op4 Dy IiatOSu men W
its present great membership of $780,
900 members was graphically de-
scribed. He was loudly a~pplauded
when he said that a father could not
| make a mistake If when his sons att
tain their majority he presented
them with"a blank application and the
amount of the initiation fee to make
them members of the knights of Pyth-
las, or he might use it as a Christ
rooq prasent Rounds .of ringing ap-
plause followed the close of the adj