Beneficiary, General, Protective, Funeral Benefit and Local Assessments for the Month of November, 1914. To all Members of Subordinate Lodges: OFFICE OF THE GRAND LODGE, B. OF L. F. AND E. SIRS AND BROTHERS-You are hereby notified that Beneficiary Assessment for the payment of death and disability claims, General Fund Assessment, Protective Fund Assessment, Funeral Benefit and Local Assessment, are now payable and must be paid to the Financial Secretary of your lodge on or before November 1, 1914, in the following amounts, viz.: $0.25 25 Local Lodge Assessment in such an amount as may be determined by your lodge, but in no case to be less than twenty-five cents ($0.25). Any member failing or declining to make payment, as above provided, will be subject to expulsion from the order as per Section 8, Article 19 of the Constitution, said expulsion taking effect November 2, 1914. W. S. CARTER, President. Yours fraternally, A. H. HAWLEY, General Secretary and Treasurer. Notice to Financial Secretaries. OFFICE OF THe Grand Lodge, B. of L. F. and E. To Financial Secretaries of Subordinate Lodges: осомот ORGANIZED $0 25 25 You will collect from all members Local Lodge Assessment in such an amount as may be determined by your lodge-in no case to be less than twenty-five cents ($0.25). All Grand Lodge Assessments to be forwarded on the forms furnished by the Grand Lodge, same to reach the General Secretary and Treasurer not later than the 20th of November, 1914. FIREMEN DEC. 1, 1873 GRAND LODGE Every member whose application for Beneficiary Certificate is approved by the General Medical Examiner during the month of October will be liable for double the above amount for Beneficiary Assessment for the month of November, according to class of certificate. Yours fraternally, W. S. CARTER, President. A. H. HAWLEY, General Secretary and Treasurer. Notice. Communications intended for publication in the Ladies' Department of the Magazine should in all cases be addressed to the Editress, Agnes G. Strong, 527 Greene Street, Boone, Iowa. Matter for the Grand President should be addressed to Mrs. Maude E. Moore, 15 Market Place, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, and that for the Grand Secretary and Treasurer to Mrs. Mary E. DuBois, 711 Story Street, Boone, Iowa. Message From Grand President. We are all settled down once more, Vacation is over and the mornings and evenings have a whisper of fall days. We once more take up our lodge work with vim, and I wonder which lodge will add the greatest number of members to its roster? I am sure many members now have ideas culled during their vacations which they are longing to put before their lodges. We all realize that in every relation of life the idea of helpfulness comes into play. In our lodge work it should be doubly so. Sometimes we spoil all the good we might and could do by thinking so often of the short-comings of others. We seem to get the idea that we are not in need of good counsel; that we are capable of standing alone, doing our work without advice or help and wonder how it is that others cannot see just as we see, forgetting that friendship like love is destroyed by absence. A quotation comes to me as I write "If I knew you, and you knew me, and I think it is worth quoting: "Tis seldom we would disagree. But although we have clasped hands Both sometimes fail to understand That each intends to do what's right And treat each other 'honor bright," How little to complain there'd be Then let no doubting thoughts abide If I knew you, and you knew me, If from good faith on either side Confidence to each other giveLiving ourselves let others live, When face to face we each shall see That I'll know you and you'll know me." Just carry the thought of those few lines into your lodge work and into your lives and good will come from it. If women start out with determination they usually win. It is nothing to get what we want without opposition. It is hard work that makes us appreciate most things. It is no use blaming one person more than another for our failures. Just let us look to ourselves and we will, no doubt, find the cause. Again, do not feel hard against one that made a success of what you failed in. Do not think they had a better chance. No doubt, it was their determination to make good that caused others to give the helping hand you failed to see stretched out to you. We want the aim of our Society to be the building up of character-to cultivate sisterhood-and it is only by a firm adherence to this aim that we can hope to attain the present purpose of our organization and this aim can never be real ized except by a reliance upon individual find out the cause of the trouble. You character. We are continually told that the secret of such development is only found in the true and faithful performance of duty. Be may not have realized it, but the fact remains the Editress is a member of the Ladies' Society-your sister, and entitled to some little consideration. sure your local correspondents have done their work as they should and have sent the results to the proper person. Bear in mind we are all "poor mortals," and pretty much alike. The sister who never made a mistake is the proper one to call the Editress down, and when such a one does nothing will be said. It seems almost a tragedy in this hour, when nations are at war against nations, when the burdens laid upon the heart of the honored President of the United States are greater than man can bear, when his soul is heavy and his brain is weary trying to adjust matters and bring about peace, that he should be called upon to give up the inspiration of his life. In the death of Mrs. Wilson, not only is the immediate family sorely smitten and greatly bereaved, but to all womanhood it is a loss. She was a noble women, "her price was far above rubies." All the nations of the world extend to President Wilson and his family sincere sympathy and pray that they all may endure in the strength of that God Whose they are and Whom they serve. at the front door of life where fine The test of womanhood is found not courtesies bow us into favor but at the rear where the humble and menial duties are performed by those whom we hire to to do for ourselves. do the things we cannot and do not like Lily Lodge, of Pt. Jervis, N. Y. into the We are glad to welcome No. 59, Easter "Big Ten" column this month and regretfully part with No. 151, Missouri Lodge, St. Louis, Mo. The Big Ten. Below is given the membership of the ten largest lodges of the Ladies' Society of the B. of L. F. and E., as reported September 1, 1914: 157 1 No. 3, Hazel, Peoria, Ill.. 2 No. 125, Charity, Jackson, Mich. 130 3 No. 38, Hyacinthe, Fort Wayne, Ind. 123 4 No. 10, Helpmate, Elkhart, Ind. 119 5 No. 60, Pride, Harrisburg, Pa... 118 6 No. 142, Empire, Buffalo, N. Y... 111 7 No. 81, E Pluribus Unum, Logansport, Ind. 108 8 No. 36, Autumn Leaf, Sayre, Pa. 104 9 No. 113, Fort Orange, Albany, N. Y. 10 No. 59, Easter Lily, Pt. Jervis, N. Y. ༄ཎྜ ཙ ཚ 91 80 True Heroism President Wilson yesterday to the warring nations for Faithful to Duty in His Deepest peace was written as he sat by the bedside of his dying wife. Grief. The death of Mrs. Wilson, wife of President Wilson, came as a shock to the general public who knew nothing of the seriousness of her illness. With this country just emerging from the possibilities of war with Mexico, when every eye was turned on the president, trusting that he might in some manner avert the European crisis, the country heard with pride and confidence his offer to act as mediator and sanctioned his appeal to Americans to act with calmness under the extraordinary circumstances. Yet they knew not that his offer to the powers was written at the bedside of his dying wife, and that his appeal for calmness was penned at a time when his every nerve must have been upon the rack. Such is true heroism, and the sympathy of the nation goes out to him not only because of his personal loss but because of that delicate refinement which prompted him to hide his own grief that the public might not think it put forward as an excuse at a time of severe trial. The Chicago Record-Herald of August 6th paid the following beautiful tribute to a president who in the darkest hour of his life could with a breaking heart still remember his duty to the world: "HIS GRIEF WE KNEW NOT." "The eyes of all thinking Americansthe eyes of all humane men and women throughout the world-have been fixed on Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, in the hope that he might be able to do something to ward off or end the greatest calamity that has befallen the human race. "We knew he could do little or nothing. Yet we hoped he could do something. We have seen him doing all he could. Yet some of us have thrust upon him advice, even cries and clamor, to do this or that. "The grief he had we knew not. Knowing it, the hearts of all his people go out in sympathy to Woodrow Wilson-to the president who hid his private grief lest it might seem to hinder him in his public duty-to Woodrow Wilson the man!" Calgary Canadian Grand Union was The Calgary Canadian Grand Union Meeting has been accurately and splendidly mentioned in another article in the Ladies' Society Department of this issue of the Magazine, but I want to emphasize the splendid time we, as guests, enjoyed, from August 3d to 8th inclusive. The very air was full of cordiality and hospitality. When the train pulled into the station at Calgary, and your foot placed on Canadian soil, you realized you were amongst friends, that you were welcome to their hearts, their homes, to the best they had,-yes, to all they had. In many days' travel you dare not hope to come upon those who would give you a more sincere or heartier welcome than that extended by the brothers and sisters of the B. of L. F. and E. in Calgary to all guests and visitors. It stands unequalled and was indeed a delight. We shall always think of this meeting in the superlative degree. The committee on arrangements was in the C. P. R. depot where, at a hospitable ter, we were given hearty greetings and looking, specially-erected reception counguides, also programs covering the full six days. The executive committee of arrangements consisted of: Chairman, William Crowe; vice chairman, R. M. Piper; secretary, B. G. Tower; treasurer, S. H. Preece, and D. Craig, C. Condie and W. McLaughlin, and the reception committee of S. H. Preece, Mrs. T. P. Ingham and Mrs. A. C. Killens. These committees have our heartiest appreciation for the efforts they put forth to make our stay in their city so pleasant, for their most cordial welcome, the splendid accommodations, comfortable meeting place, delightful excursions, and trolley rides, which afforded us the privilege of seeing their beautiful city, the excursion to Field, B. C., and to Banff, Alberta, where the glorious works of nature were enjoyed to our hearts content, "If any of us have found fault with and their genuine hospitality. With him, what must now be our shame when these committees be this comforting we learn that Woodrow Wilson's appeal thought-they will ever be remembered "Absorbed in contemplation of a world calamity-fearful lest it might somehow hurt us—we knew not, or have forgotten if we knew, what might be the griefs of Woodrow Wilson the president. "He hid that private grief as long as it could be hidden. With his high sense of public duty he avoided exposing that grief lest it might seem that he put it forward as an excuse for not doing more for humanity at large. by what they have done, and it was well was in the home, washing dishes. We done. aren't afraid to enter the kitchen, in addition to doing our work in the organization, and we haven't washed the dishes for the last time yet." On Monday evening, August 3d, a hearty reception was given in Sherman's Auditorium, where Mayor Sinnott tendered the freedom of the city, and a welcome to the Province was voiced by T. M. Tweedie, M.P.P. On Tuesday morning, August 4th, we arose early and prepared to start for the excursion to Buffalo Lake, a distance of 130 miles from Calgary. Mirror is the With the shadow of a big strike hang- name of the new town situated near Bufing over the Brotherhood, the attendance falo Lake. Mirror has a population of was not so large as had been anticipated. five hundred and expects to be the juncThe auditorium was gaily decorated with tion of Bigger Calgary branch of the a huge banner bidding welcome in foot- Grand Trunk Pacific, also Brazeau high characters, and the Stars and branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific Ry. Stripes and the Union Jack were very Co. It is in the finest mixed farming much in evidence. The platform was a section of Alberta nd has bright prosstudy in flowers and palms, with colored pects of the oil industry starting there, lights in lodge colors twinkling above, the also a large packing plant. The brass setting being appropriate and attractive. band met the excursion train and played With felicitous speeches and sweet songs while all were at dinner. It also played the evening passed pleasantly. Bro. W. during the ball game between the Huxley Crowe was in the chair and delivered the and Mirror teams and the bucking conaddress of welcome and, while it is not test. The Kilties band which had come possible to mention all speakers and en- with the excursionists also helped matertainers, yet each one deserves special terially to make the day a most enjoyable mention. Brother Wark, Vice President one. Buffalo Lake is a most beautiful of the B. of L. F. and E, strongly denied body of water, twenty-six miles long and the oft-repeated statement that the twelve miles wide-a great camping, fishChurch and labor unions could not work ing, boating and shooting spot. There in harmony. He also paid a glowing are also an abundance of ducks and chicktribute to the progress of Calgary. He ens. Boys wishing good hunting will said he was in Calgary some years ago and he was astonished at its growth-skyscrapers now rising where there was nothing but roofed shacks before. "And I see that it is not only a land flowing with milk and honey but with oil," he declared. He also said that the Brotherhood now has 91,108 members. He held that trades unionism sought to uplift the individual, that it aimed to make men moral and sober, and if it only accomplished the saving of one man it had justified its existence. T. M. Tweedie, M.P.P., followed with an eloquent eulogy of trades unions, singling out the railroadmen as a shining example of the power of organized labor in improving the moral standing of communities. He referred to the Western Joint Concerted Wage Movement, and said that he trusted the managers' committee would be moved to view the demands of the railroadmen in a reasonable light. find their Mecca at this place. After the games of the afternoon, and supper had been served, dancing was enjoyed until train time, when the brass band piloted the large crowd of excursionists to the train, where the mayor of the little town made a short address. The entertainment was provided by the town of Mirror, and the excursion train was furnished by G. T. P. Ry. This day will be remembered by those permitted to go as one of the redletter days of their lives. On Wednesday morning, August 5th, the work of the Union Meeting was taken up, and Sister Norah L. Marshall, President of Sunny Alberta Lodge, delivered the following address: "We, your sisters of Sunny Alberta Lodge, greet you and welcome you most heartily to our fair city in the foothills. We are all meeting here at a time when our brothers are sorely perplexed and on the verge of serious trouble with their employers, so we must be careful to reOur own Grand President Sister Moore member them with our prayers, our supgave a splendid address on the growth of port and encouragement. Let us help the Ladies' Society. She said that its them to stand firm in their defense of the membership now numbered about 11,000. rights secured by our Brotherhood in past "We are not a suffragette organization," years, and so show them that their sis she said. "We are not canvassing for ters are always careful for their welfare. votes, although we should not refuse them My sisters, Calgary and Sunny Alberta if they were given us. We were told welcome you and trust your visit among when we started that a woman's place us may be profitable as well as enjoyable, |