The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-07-27
GRAND CHANCELLOR CRAVFORD'S
ANNUAL ADDRESS TO PYTHiANS
Offers Plan To Pay For Tempe-Comphments
Calanthes-Futue Very Promising.

OFT daring the year. but this is the
c"Nn II the most prosperous years.
From now on turing these times of
1""cs', war nyic, and high cost OF
living there will be a & eat tendency
in our lodges to fall behind and drop
ont What is needed and must be
done by all of US in authority is to
encourage our members in every way
possible not to give up and drop out
of their lodges, but to hold on and
keep up their dues at all hazards.
This is no time for the Stacker and
the knocker; we cannot afford to
cripple the progress of our Order by
adverse criticism. We must all be up
ami a doing and of one accord if we
would keep our Order on the high
wave of prosperity. If we think there
is bad MANAGEMENT and have some
thing to offer that is better CT that
will help conditions, then let us like
men, and like good and brave
Pythians cone forward and urge our
ideas without fear and without malice.
The Department of Organization
has made strenuous efforts to organize
new lodges during the year; and in
measure has been quite successful;
but nothing operates so strongly
against creating new lodges and re-
hahilitating old ones as the scarcity
of money The following new lodges
have been set up during the year:
Zinc odge No. 245, Mascot, Tenn.
Sunshine Lodge No. 246, Providence,
Tenn.
Port Royal Lodge No. 247, Port
Roval Tenn.
ParFer's Pride Lodge No, 24S,
Yuma. Tenn
st. Phillips Lodge No. 249, Sharon,
Tenn.
Much credit and praise are due the
Deputy Grand Chancellors, who have
stood at the head of their districts,
working, advising and striving in
every way to keep the cause of
Pythianism ever alive in their dis
tricts.
| wish here to acknowledge to them
my grateful thanks for their hearty
support and cooperation in our great
work.
Endowment Department.
| am proud to be able to report
that the Endowment Department is
meeting promptly all just claims upon
it, when they come in the proper
: shape. This is record in which
every one Of Us ought to take par
| donable pride. because we hive adj
/ vrr.ieed to the void that we would
nav substantially every obligation
UromDtly TO the widow and orphan,
and not to do so would he a violation
of one of the most sacred OBLIGATIONS
! which we have pledged to perform to
| cur bret hren.
To do this, however, every lodge,
every member and every lodge officer
must strictly see to il that every law
and every regulation pertaining to
the successful carving on of this de
rartment is honestly lived up to by
the members and by the lodges. We
cannot afford to he dishonest with
this DEPARTMENT, for il is the most
) vital part Of or ms tuition. If
} we d. rot nav we cannot
live Hs an institution there
have been several instances brought
to our notice. where ii looks as if
somo of our LODGES and officers have
not been rs honest in their dealings
With the Endowment Department as
!, they ought to have been. We have
/, several lawsuits pending and believe
. have lost one. all because Of bad bust
2 ness methods on the part OF some Of
} ticer of a subordinate lodge. mere
t warn you that the Endowment De
rartment Is one OF the lhleSral
branches OF the Oraer, ana Is yours.
You are part OF ii and when you ron
it by neglecting to see tnat every
1 member comes up to the lull require"
ments OF the law GOVERNING 'nlS oe'
| partment, you not only Cripple lhe VT
| der hut you rob yourselves 10 not
E let those remain IN your SeNeral
lodges who are not paying Inelr EN-
doWment and other lodge uues' lhey
S die as 90 those VINO are PAYING anu
ii they die in the order ana the uc'
partment has to pay them purlai Dehe-
who are loyal ana VINO pay, oeSi"e"
doing the order unIold INJURY
MAY | urge upon every one mere
present to return 10 MS nome anu
D help to make strong the endowment
Department by seeing 10 IL thaI 10 one
remains IN the ioute WIN uoes no'
: nay all OF the opllgatlohs upon nm as
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=, concerning lhls department. llal peaoe
> ana harmony sun prevail AIMING US
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II WIN RAPID slriues IN its "orA Vi l.