The Carbon County news., 1930-01-30
Driftwood
From the River of Life
BY E. p. CONwELf
BROTHERLY LOVE

Out in the western part Of this
county, in the region adjacent TO
Luther and Roscoe, there lives great
number of old-timers and the sons
of old-timers, who have inhabited
that section of the world since, or al
most since the days when Carbon
County was first organized. They
have odd, ,old-fashioned ideas of life
and its duties and responsibilities,
and though they are progressing and
enterprising in many ways they cling
to the habits and customs
of a past age and actually practice
some of the principles and virtues
that rendered the old west notable
and historic. s
They are not. saints, that bunch of
men Of which |. write. Rather, be.
| it said, they are sinful LOT. They
chew plug tobacco, use cuss words;
fstay out late al night on occasion and
it is said that some of the worst of
them even drink vile liquor some
times and play draw poker when the
moon is in the proper phase and the
current signnof the Zodiac doesn't m
dicate unfavorable tendencies. I
Adler historians that l am will in
later years write the story Of this
strange people and it will be an epic.
It will be q truthful narrative of a
vanished civilization where the men
lived with, their own wives, taught
their children the lessons of virtue
and honesty, actually practiced some
of the principles Of the Christian re-
ligion and enjoyed the love ard re-
spect of their neighbors.
BY the way, cid you ever join a
lodge? If so, do you remember how,
after the prelimlnaries in the ante
room were over, they led you thru
the inner door into the sacred pre-
cincts. Of course, you remember al
: about it. You recall how they dolled
, you up in hoodwink, long flowing
: robe and other trappings Of glory
and after marching you around the
hall several times to bad music they
= finally led you to the altar, told yor
to kneel, place your hand on the Bible
: and the other on your heart and ere
peat after me-" You were taught ,
: dandy lesson that night and you tool
t a solemn VOW to love your fellow
n man, defend him at the cost Of you
e life almost if such were necessary
: respect and protect the chastity o
e the wives of Che brothers, and eve
Il follow the Golden Rule to the letter
/ Then after they had taken the grot
/ esque bonnet off you, SO you coul
a get some air, you listened to lon!
Il homily on morals and virtue, an
il Charity, and Protection, and Love
" and Truth, and you went went forF
IS from that hall determined that re
it gardIess of what storms arose alou
# the pathway of life you would contir
e ue to love the brothers with dee
and abiding love.
II Just about every man you NEE
l. belongs to q lodge and just abou
!. every lodge gives just about such a
W obligation to it's members. That, dea
l. children, is why your Pa is so pur
n and holy; thot is why human passio
y wears bride and sin, iniquity, hi
man weakness and cussedness dis
ie appeared from the world and brother
d ly love took up the sceptre of goot
le ness and virtue and found eternal er
It thronment in the human heart.
o Why, even women have exclusiv
n. women lodges where I suppose tn
j. members are initiated in about th
s same impressive fashion as are til
IL men and where they vow eternal Low
= and fealty to the sisters. Every III
+ to-date, modern woman belongs to
!. lodge or two or three in order to be
y the running at all. No doubt the
Il take lot of obligations to love an
ic protect the sisters and their familie
s. particularly to never violate the cha'
. tity Of the husbands, and that, SUI
pose is why envy and scandal an
% gossip and Jealousy and such othe
- hydra-headed sins have PRACTICAL
vanished from the world. If moe
ern woman lodge-addict isn't eatin
y or sleepin', attending a club or lode
D.
e.
" Asia. Else we shall, as lowell pul
-e it:
Turn the prov of the Mayflowt
backward ~" ~
n m a., - H.