The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-19

living; to give honorable burial to our
sacred dead; to place permanent to-
ken to our esteem upon his grave; to
so impress the grand doctrine OF the
brotherhood of man upon our member
ship as to make it an important fac
tor in our daily lives; to encourage
broad, charitable views; to make us
more intelligent citizens, truer friends,
greater sons, more thoughtful broth
ers, more considerate husbands and
more reasonable fathers.
1t is not for the advancement OF
the interests of any denominational
dogma. 1t is not a recruiting office
for the saloon or an asylum for that
class of men who are too lazy of body
and mind to make an honorable eff
fort in their own behalf in the battle
of life. 1t is for mutual benefit when
misfortune assails us. 1t is for sub
stantial aid to our loved ones when we
are gone. 1t is for the entertainment
| of our families and friends in social
sessions, and thus more firmly weld
the fraternal bonds which SO pleas
antly unite us, and finally it IS to
build a progressive and permanent
| institution which shall prove wall
ant knight" in the defense of home
and country through the coming ages.
at is for fraternal benefits upon
fraternal principles. 1t is for business
benefits upon sound, conservative
business principles. 1t is for social
benefits upon the highest social prin-
ciples known to the moral law 1t is
happy intermiigling of fraternal, So
cial and business relations, each stand
ing upon it's own merits, each having
| it's own individuality, each being re-
sponsible for it's own department.
While one, yet three-a finite trinity,
the trinity of human life, fraternal,
social and financial.
Teachings of Woodcraft.
You can readily see from the fore
going that the teachings" of Wood
craft are noble, pure, man-making
and elevating morally and mentally.
When rightly interpreted it is a pow
erful school of the most practical
moral philosophy among men. Its
great principles of Love, Honor, Re
mambrance, Generosity, Peace, Tenn
perance, Protection, Devotion to Deity
and a real fraternal regard for each
other .as enunciated by its magnificent
ritualism places the order on an ele-
walton separate and apart from all in
not the creeds of men, it interferes
with no mans religious scruples; it's
outstretched arms embraces all ma
tions of Caucasian race (it is distinct
ly white man order'O, it's heart is
large and warm enough to be keenly
sensitive to every human need, and
earth's children may find peace, pro-
tetcion and fraternity exemplified as
no where else. Among the first les
sons taught the stranger with the "for
est is fealty to the flag, patriotismM
devotion of the highest interest of his
home, community, state and nation,
that a clean, upright and Industrious
citizen is a fundamental element in
the progress and prosperity of any
nation and that each individual citi-
zen has his own individual part to
perform-hence the secrade serious
ness of democratic citizenship. All,
the wonderous inspiring beauties, up
! lifting aspiration and noble impulses
found in the forest! Would that all
men of the race might enter our gates
and breathe the healthful, balmy, red
client atmosphere permeated with the
donations of bud and bloom, walk be-
side the waters of the inviting dell
and be inspired by the majority of the
grand old wood.
Brief History.
| Perfected Woodcraft-the Wood