Arkansas State press., 1945-03-09
EDITORIALS. 50.
THE FRATERNAL ORDER AND FRATERNALlSM
]. ALEXANDER COWAN
Grand Chancellor Order Of Knights of Pythias

Grand Chancellor Order Of Knights Of Pythias
Is fraternasm and the fratenal spirit we have SO
LONG known it in our lodge system thing Of the past and
il no longer needed The is decsvey NO. We are
told that our younger people do not for the lodge mat
NAV be partly true and that makes the need the greater
The men and women who have had this association and
faterna tie long for it. The truth is that so long as friend
shin warns the breast of there will be that yearnlng
for this desire is inherent in whatever his stage OF
civilization or economic status written in Eivne letters
The lodge has done wonderful work and capable OF
doing bigger job No other agency except the Christian
church has done more and inspire to
amass and accumulate. This consequence OF
the monthly and annual associations The lodge has stood
first in ceentiny the ties of friendship and brotherhood
The men of all ranks meet common level It has serv-
ed in large to break down denominationalsm
and chickering's That of unity carried over into
the churches Men learned become considerable
tolerant, and respectful of his FLOW mans opinions
Such meetings without stressng the point have gone
far in developing consciousness that feeling pride
and spirit of Will you contradict this statement?
Even than in the church. regard their moral
obligations to the community his brother and his family
In the lodge also many got their first knowledge of
business principles, parliamentary usages and the like.
The lodge has been training camp 1t to men
the idea and possibility of life insurance.
You may well ask the question that if our fraterna
orders have meant much hat caused their back set
Several conditions enter into it First is easily that
because of their popularity too many orders sprang with
quite duplication of program drawing the same con-
sttuency Without celebrating too many churches in small
communities falling far short of their detectives give the
Then they began to vie against the other
to who could offer the most the least quarterly
monthly premium Some of the strictly fratena orders got
into the game for instance the Masons and Pthans They
all adjudged to be in the field of insurance by the
State and forced adequate rate basis Members
who had been in the orders from to thirty vars
their attained could pay the premium Assessments
levied to the Flat Rate members but that fail
ed As climax to already desperate situation the
world wide depression fell upon Everybody was hit
without regard for creed color previous condition
Waterman, what of the night? Banks insurance COM
panes farms, homes. and all institutions hit hard
many thousands went to the wall some never to recover
Men lost faith and hope up in despair but the
Of will power and and iron held on One deplor
able fact Of lost faith and hope only in that
which labeled Negro Shall we stop here? Surely
not Let us be this much like the white man The word
failure is not in his lexicon He does know defeat and
laughs disappointment in the face He is like the proverbia
Irshman Faith and be eddus he splits in his hand and
takes hold This true of any race that is WORTHY
Of place in the sum-