Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-29
ELECTION OF pElEoATES ~
COUNTY CAMPS TO TAKE
PLACE SOON.
WILL DETERMINE FUTURE
OF FRArERNAL SOCIETY
Assembly Bulletin Issued Showing I'm.
portanes Of Work Delegated 70 Head
camp-Effort TO Restore Confidence
and Regain Some Of Members Lost
Thru Rate Controversy.

Within the next twenty days, &C.
cording to the Iowa Modern Woodmen
assembly bulletin just issued. the most
terrific fraternal battle of modern times
Will be won or lost for within that
time the Modern Woodmen will elect
the delegates who will represent them
In county camps and from whom will
be selected the state and head camp
delegates. incidentally, it will settle
the policy of the Modern Woodmen's
$4,000 members and have an impor-
tant bearing on every other fraternal
order.
the fraternal idea Of levying assess
ments on the surviving members or the
old line idea that every member must
pay in enough to mature his own life
insurance contract shall prevail. The
issues are Joined and the members will
vote to elect delegates 10 support their
positions at their first meeting in Feb
ruary.
The membership is fighting for prin-
IgnllNS
to repeal the Chicago rate bylaws.
They are fighting to re-enact the old
rates. which We're repealed at Chica co.
They are fighting to curb the present
loose and easy ways of doing business,
to retain the reckless expenditure of
the orders general funds. to check the
various random activities of the man
asement: in short. to overhaul affairs
md acso III; Itch sol ~,
head officers will hereafter be held
strictly accountable to the membership
at any and all times.
The Net Loss.
The effort to enforce the Chicago
rates caused a direct net loss of 253.-
gil members in 1912. and a further d.
November 30. 1913. as against a direct
gain Of 13T.ss4 members In 1910 and
1911: it has stagnated the order and
already kept out approximately $4,000
members who failed TO Join because of
the rate agitation. 1t has depleted the
general fund surplus from 1920 on
hand December 81, 1911, to s247, 4S5.74
November 80. 1913.
The Bulletin Continues:
Yet despite the abnormal and arti-
fetal conditions now prevalent in the
order: despite every argument and
pressure brought to bear to make
higher rates appear necessary: despite
the incubus Of a set OF officials out of
harmony with the officials: despite the
loss Of 2s0.ss5 members since Chicago;
despite the stagnatiot gripping the or
der: despite every adverse circum-
stance, the orderly eleven assessments
have paid all proven claims to Novem-
Der 30 1913. and made net gain OF
s1,O12.203 in the eleven months ending
November 30; there being on that date
sl2.Os9,941.s0 in the orders benefit
fund.
Will Provide Deficiency.
with this favorable rate Of gain UNI
der such adverse conditions, the old
rates with the twelve million dollar
surplus now on hand. will more than
provide for any deficiency that may be
incurred within the next dozen years.
without any danger of a double header
The great task confronting the To-
ledo Head Camp will be to enact a
ledo Head Camp will me TO enact
system of management Of head office
affairs tina, will restore the confidence
of the mem bership: that will re-estab-
Iish the order on the safe and sane
and satisfactory fundamental pr!n-
ciples on which it was founded and
made it's phenomenal growth: and that
viii allav the distrust Of hundreds OF
thousands Of potential Woodmen rem
dered gun-shy OF all fraternal insur-
ance by the head officers attempted
subversion Of Woodmen principles