News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-07-22
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Conducted by CHARLES M. GARDNER,
Editor of the National Grange, West
field, Mass)
WAYS OF CREATING INTEREST
Plan to Form an Association of Past
Masters of Subordinate Oranges
Has Been Devised.

Has Been Devised.
An interesting plan for keeping the
old workers in Grange interested
even after they retire from active
leadership, has been devised in one oil
the New England states, that might
work as well in other orders as in
the Grange.
The plan is the formation ora as
ISOLATION Of past masters of subordi
nate Oranges, within a given zone
which association shall devote it's en-
ergies to getting behind every worthy
! Grange undertaking and helping push
it through to success Regular meet
! ings of the association are provided
! for, specific avenues of work outlined
and definite assignments of members
made. The project is novel and its
/ possibilities are numberless
Such an association means keeping
In active service a host of trained
workers, possessing a large expert
! ence, many of whom might otherwise
have dropped out of activity when
responsibility rolled off their Shout
ders. While such an association must
of necessity have discreet direction to
avoid complications, there clearly
exist ample channels for it's efforts
to take, without in the least conflicting
with anybody or anything else. The
problem of how to keep past masters
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tive in the work which they no longer
lead, is an old one that has long en-
gagged the earnest study of the most
thoughtful Patrons in the country.
1t is hoped that this plan will help
answer the question and patrons in all
parts of the country are watching the
new association with deep interest.
During the first three months of
this year 220 Oranges have been or
ganized in the United States. Dur
ing the same months last year, 1862
new Oranges were organized; dur
ing the same months of 1912, the num-
Der was 179; and for 1911 it was 1856.
Illuminating indeed are these compare
tive figures for they indicate the ris-
ing tide of Grange interest and ex-
tension on every side. This is indeed
great growing fraternity and there
by does the work of extending the bor-
ders of the. order become easier as its
enlarged service reveals it's increasing
possibilities of usefulness.
1t is also to be borne in mind that
during these same three months new
State Grange has been organized, with
a wonderful Grange start made in the
great agricultural state of North Da-
kota, where there is every indication
that a growth of the order is to fol-
low that will rival that experienced in
the most successful states. Further
more, this same period, since January
l, has witnessed the initiation of thou
sands of new members into hundreds
Of established Oranges, all bringing
further strength, influence and pres
tige to the order. The three months
ending March 81, marked the period
of greatest growth and the most gen.
uine prosperity that the Order of Pa
u Ouo VI lluobdhul Hdo tNSI hlO Ii.
How this remarkable growth is re-
garded within the order, and by those
with working out the des-
tinies of its future, is well expressed
in recent editorial comment in the
National Grange Monthly, the official
organ of the order, which said
1T is we'll for the patrons every
where to know these facts and to think
often about them. The greatest men,
ace to the best thought, always, is the
tendency to narrowness-we are all
prone to form our judgment of things
rom too narrow viewpoint; thel eby
frequently reaching conclusions that
are entirely without warrant in the
acts. One of the greatest dangers in
he Grange is that the members will |
it from purely the local view
point: And if for local reasons their |
OWN particular Grange work lags, or |
'ails to enter into the large possibili- |
les of service, then they will estimate |
he whole order accordingly and lose |
heir interest and enthusiasm in like |
ylOpOl tiOh' IL OH IhC uloNOuAooON |
patrons therefore-those where the |
home Grange work drags bit or does
lot seem to lay hold satisfactorily |
lpon the energies of the community
S this larger view of the Grange COM |
nended, as a great growing, prosper
,us, progressive fraternity, constantly
ldding to itself new force and strength,
wen as constantly using that strength
o advance all the worthy ideals to
which the order stands irrevocably