Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-16

Splendid Address !;
Delivered Today
Before one Of the largest and most
enth,siastic. EtnfhEfingSs SofssWomen
which Gr&ad RogEeehaa s1en-Esr some
time.ssths fotlawfh&.6 AAra4s sttak..mAde
this morning nj the Royal Neighbor
convention by Mrs.-C1ara b. Cliff OF
Bismarck, state Royal Neighbor ~
1T would. indeed be a dun mind
of the far too partial words used in
introducing me-. We~hAve looked for
ward for four years, with great antic-
ipation and pleasure, to this day in
your beautiful city. No one could
look upon this. audience without sim
cere pride IN the Msnhbership, In this,
the largest fraternaf Beneficiary sos
ciety,in the Unitsd7statss ofttkred. en-
tirely by, women: Ibis e disttnGtion
I cannoe>buf tel there are profound
reasons at the bottom or this socfety's
existence. All education is mechani-
cal and lifeless which does not work
out in the soul Of the student the
true, the beautiful and the good. Civ
ilization is not civilization II It does
not produce as it's principal result
mep and women who are unselfish,
sweet and truthful, We have. taken,
h best OF human conceptions and.
made, them the: reason and principle
Of our asoc.ety,,s existence. Faith,
COURAGE modegty, unselflshpess and
endurance. Concentrate all n
thought and Effort, OF the past: and
these 1--WE great principles are b best
and final product. This 'is. why we
have grown so signallX and so sound
~ in 80 brief q time.
II am q great believer in these 30
cteties for more reasons than one. 4
believe in them because ! believe they
tina this country needs to learn now,
needs to understand now, as perhaps.
it never needed it. before-thst in
spite OF differences. of class, II there
be classes, OF. difference in station OF
life-thatt5 insa spite 81 of. differ
encesc Of vacations ~.:Nand- pro-
fessions lin 4 spite -a Of all Z these
things. we all, at last, belong to the
same great famtiy-eisters in truth
tant that this. lesson be taught and
impressed and taught and impressed
again upon the hearts of the Amerf-
can people. I believe in these go
cieties for another reason-because
they give protection to those most in
need Of it.: r.
"I:!belteve. there is more charity
now among us than everS before; I
beliexe theresyjss INSTRUMENTATION
and love for u fellowman; I believe
there As a.Sgreaters dispositions. to aexs
tend q helping hand to those VINO are
down-to. lift them up to higher, and
purerr atmosphere than they have
ever lived IN before. 81 believe this
condition is largely true because this
spirit of fraternity is being taught and
instilled into the hearts of our PEG
pie. The lesson is being learned that
1t Is not wealth. that it is not power,
that it is not high position, that.it Is
not social prestige, that is to deter
mine the status Of humanity in the
future, but it IL the higher and tfuer
Of minds& OF ideals.
Of aspirations, Of hopes that are to
7uplift and to make THIS world better.
The very essence OF all -~fratefna1' So
cieties, Is the spirit of love taught by
Him who died upon the o I
heard a story n time. or read It,
of a mother, a great lady of the land,
who was about to start upon a jour-
ney. She. had three sons. She asked
them to give her before she left them
some token OF their love n affection.