The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-18
$5O,OOO Expended
 In State Campaign
Judge Gormley Reviews Eagles Fight for Old Age
 Pension Bill in State Recovery Drive

progressive states, after the sign ing of this law, which means so much to the human family.
 Order Has Spent $5O,OOO
 It has cost the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the state of Connec- ticut, approximately $50,000 for it's educational campaign for old age pensions. We have convinced tho citizenship; we have yet to con- vince the political powers of our state. We ask your cooperation. The state of Connecticut has been slow in following the trail blazed by other states through the dark forest of desolate age, but we look forward with confidence to the fu- ture. The foundation in this state has been well laid by the Frater- nal Order of Eagles, and we of Connecticut will come out of that dark forest, into the sunshine of human happiness, because the ex- perimental stage has been passed Old age pensions, with record of economy and justice, stands on it's merits. Alfred I. Dupont, one of Americas outstanding manufac- turers, approved of this legislation in 1929, and for a period of year paid from his personal funds, pen sions to the aged and dependent people of the state of Maryland. So the Fraternal Order of Eagles solicits the cooperation of the citizens of our state in this pro- gram of justice. We deeply ap- preciate the cooperation given to us by labor and fraternal organ nations, and now appeal to the manufacturers of our state, to fol- low the footsteps of Alfred I. Du- pont and others, who indorsed this humane legislation.
 Mothers Day
 We gave America Mothers Day, and we urge every home in our state to celebrate this beautiful tribute to mother on the second Sunday in May. It was on Feb- ruary 7th, 1904, that Frank E. Herring, past grand worthy presi- dent of eur. order, then a profess sor' at the University of Notre Dame, urged Eagles throughout our nation, at the old English opera house in Indianapolis, Ind, to honor mothers love with an- nual exercises, and in 1912, the fraternity enacted law providing for annual Mothers Day services in each aerie. In 1914 it was ap- proved by the congress of the United States, and in 1925, after a careful survey, the War Mothers of America publicly announced Frank E. Herring as the father of Mothers Day, after he spoke at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In 1882 approximately twenty years afterwafds, on the site of the old English opera house in the city of Indianapolis, was placed a bronze tablet. dedicated to the place where the first word was ut- tered in memory of this most sac- red day, by Frank E. Herring, of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and property, has been placed the pro- struction is erected upon this site, this tablet shall remain until the end of time. We are proud of these achievements.
 President a Member
 Last August, at the last grand aerie convention of the Fraternal SAoSA VI L/el6 kCop LCio III SlCNC the president of the United States wrote us in reference to our fra ternity, and the part that we played, after a two year educa- tional campaign, in behalf of stab- ilization of employment. The leaders of our organization ap- peared on several occasions in the city of Washington, and the pro- gram submitted by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in 1880, was &C., cepted and Incorporated in the MIRA program of 1884, which has meant so much to this nation. The president, in his message to our fraternity in 1883, said: "I convey to the members of the order, a message of greeting and best wishes from an absent brother, himself a member of the Buffalo aerie. It is the presidents most sincere wish that those attending this convention may carry with them as they return to their re- spective homes throughout the country, a renewed inspiration for the further promotion of needed public services to their fellow man, their communities and to the na- tion. The president is not unmind- full of the great good already ae- complished by the Eagles through the limitation of national cam paigns for the promotion of pub lie service and he is confident that another great contribution will come as result of the Cleveland convention" n4: H4 s.-
 While this fraternity, as a peace time army, was. carrying on these educational campaigns that meant so much to our, state and our na- ton, we still kept that fraternal obligation to the members by pro- tecting their homes and their families by the payment of sick benefits of seven dollars a week for period ranging from fifty four to ninety days, and paying the dependents one hundred dol- lars funeral benefits on the death Of a member. In most aeries, we have given to- the members and their families. the services of a competent physician. The services of an aerie physician means a