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7Ae Keynote of
TA Slogan of
The Neighbor of
Woodcraft la:
"We Serve!"
the Century:
For Humanity and
Democracy!
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.THE . OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL, . PORTL AND. SUNDAY , MORNING. MARCH 24, 1918.
; teigljbors of" Woodcraft
This announcement will b published tbe fourth Sunday of every month by the Neighbor of Woodcraft
..Publlretlon Offlc. Woodcraft Bid., Tenth at Taylor. Phone Main 250-857-870-80. A-2857
OBAND OFFICERS, TEHM l17-lai
(rand Guardian Carrie 1'. Van l)rdall. Portland, Oregon
"Part Grand Ouardlan , Kanaaa (.ooff nough, Denter. Colorado
'Grand AdrtHcr Amanda H. findlina, lener. Colorado
irand Clerk . John L. Wrvgtit. Portland, Oregon
-Grand Hanker t Bertha Mumner-leacli, Portland, Oregon
Grand Uaflclan Huth WiUon, Tacoma, Washington
Ownd Attendant Mary V. bteen, Nez Perce, Idaho
-Graiui luuer Mentiuel Nettie Henfro, LeadTille, Colorado
Grand Outer ttentiiiel ,. Came N. Parker, Gladstone, Oregon
Chairman Hoard of Manager. Annie P. Hawkiiu, Toledo, Oregon
'(.rami Manager ......Cora O. Wilaon, Han Kranciaco, California
Grand ilauagitT Anna . Nardall, Helena, Montana
,OeaaU Manager Mary J. Hunt, Halida, Colorado
.Wrmtd Manager , Minnie timer, ixw Angelex, California
Otmid liauager. Ennui C. McCallum, Spokane. Washington
, Grud i'lij.itiau If. i (.riimn, ladville, Colorado
'Grand Physician William Kuykendall, Kugaiie, Oregon
ORDER TAKES PRIDE
i
GROWTH
DURING
STATE INSURANCE
THE "spectre" of state insurance, according to the public press, is haunt
ing the commercial insurance companies; and in the various states, the
Insurance Federation proposes to fight this "spectre" by filling all the state
legislatures with "prominent (old line) insurance men''; or to be more ac
curate, with insurance agents. That is the plan in Oregon, and we have a
fine list of anxious insurance men offered as candidates.
There is no doubt that the old line insurance agents can do more in the
legislatures as legislators than they can do as lobbyists; or. at least, a little
more.
But the legislative program is a mere expedient; and the clever leaders
back of the movement should recognize that it is only an expedient. To
pack the state legislatures with commercial insurance agents may stave off
legislation for one, or two, or three sessions. But, it will not kill the state
insurance idea, which is growing in a pretty rich sub-soil, and which will
come up again ana again, tne roots growing more vigorous with each sweep
" l,,c legislative styme, wieiuea oy mese agents as state legisla
PAST TWO DECADES
Fraternal Insurance Society
Makes Enviable Record Since
Its Establishment.
THREE "HOME" ORDERS
OPERATE IN OREGON
the growth above grouncj.
legislators against
Twenty-one years afro. April 1. 1897,
to be exact, the Neighbors of Wood
craft, nee the Women of Woodcraft, was
organized, and began the business of
furnishing life insurance "at cost" on
a cooperative plan.
Three of the founders of the order
are residents of Oregon and grand of
ficers : Mrs. C. C. "Van Orsdall, grand
guardian ; J. L. Wright, grand clerk ;
and Mrs. Annie V. Hawkins, chairman
of the grand board of managers.
Mrs. Van Orsdall was elected grand
guardian and editor of the official pa
per, the Pacific Echo, at the organisa
tion meeting, and opened her office In
Pendleton, where she resided at that
time. Her office force consisted of her
self and her office equipment consisted
of a little Blickensdorfer typewriter and
a home-made pine table.
The grand clerk's office was opened
in a railed off comer of the furniture
store of J. L. Wright in Leadvtlle, Col. ;
and had a bit more equipment than the
grand guardian's office a real desk, for
one thing," and a real typewriter for
another.
Headqsarters Removed
In 1905 the grand circle session au
thorized the removal of the headquar
ters of the order to Portland. A site
100 x 100 at the corner of Tenth and
Taylor streets was purchased at a cost
of $20,000, and a three-story building 60
x 100 was erected; and the order be
came an Oregon corporation, and dedi
cated its official home in the spring of
1906. The headquarters building cost
approximately $73,000.
Later, when the publishing company
which had the contract for the publica
tion of the official paper decided to re
move to Portland, an addition of a two
story building 40 x 100 was erected at
an expense of $12,000 to house the estab
lishment of the Portland Printing
House company, which moved from
Leadville, and also became an Oregon
corporation.
In the twenty-one years of its exist
ence the Neighbors of Woodcraft has
collected, handled and disbursed under
the direct management of its grand of
ficers over $12,000,000, and none of it
ever went astray. Over $6,000,000 of this
went to pay death losses in the insur
ance department.
It has, in
Portland, almost $3,000,000 worth of gilt-
edge securities, drawing better than an
average of five per cent, all purchased
upon the judgment of its grand officers,
and these officers are justly proud of
the record, that, in all this big Invest
ment, there was never a default of a
cent of interest, nor the loss of a cent
of capital.
Very few private corporations doing
a like volume of business, can boast so
fine a record.
Mall Volume Immense
Barring possibly one department store
the Neighbors of Woodcraft makes the
largest postage expenditures of any bus
iness In the city of Portland, and Its
volume of outgoing first class mail
day in and day out every working day
Neighbors of Woodcraft, United Ar
tisans and In i ted Workmen incor
porated here. .' '
Oregon has three "home" orders ; that
is, orders incorporated In the state, and
with their head offices in the state : The
Neighbors of Woodcraft, the United
Artisans, and the. Ancient Order of
United Workmen.
These three orders have a total bene
fit membership in Oregon alone, of 6ver
20,000.
The Insurance in force on the Oregon
certificates of these three Oregon orders
as shown by the insurance commission
er's report, December 31, 1916 (the 1917
report not yet in) was:
Neighbors of Woodcraft $ 8,541,800
United Artisans 12,491,700
United Workmen ... 3,093,350
ON WOODCRAFT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
WAR SAVINGS PROGRAM
If the Insurance Federation and the insurance nniiHMnn. r.oii h.n
structtve vision, and could, by any chance, approximate constructive statesman
ship, this expedient would be cast aside, and there would be taken into considera
tion, in the formulation of the insurance program, some fundamental factors
which, apparently are being overlooked because of the panic of fear engendered
by the mere mention of state insurance.
The Insurance Federation leaders, if they were gifted with a little bit of
vision, would realize, for instance, that almost the most fatal move that could
be made would be to pack the state legislatures with the agents of the Insurance
truBt. for the avowed purpose of preventing the electorate from securing some
thing a portion of them think they want. .
Such amateurish political maneuvering, in the present state of the public
mind, will only stiffen the purpose of that portion of the electorate who are now
in favor of state insurance; and crystaljire the opinion of that other and larger
portion cf the electorate, who are looking toward state insurance as the lesser
of two evils with which they are confronted: Old-line monopoly, through the de
struction of all voluntary cooperative forms of Insurance, or state insurance.
Recently the secretary of the Insurance Federation of Oregon sought an inter
view with me to talk over the proposition of lining up the Neighbors of Wood
craft, through me all of them voters, of course against state Insurance. He
tried to show me that fraternal orders should
him some pointed questions ; .and I pointed out to him some simple facts for
Instance :
The law governing fraternal benefit orders is so constructed, and will be so
enforced by the insurance departments, that life insurance upon a cooperative
basis, through fraternal beaeflt orders, will be eliminated if the programists
have their way.
Fraternal benefit orders will be forced to an old-line basis, and eventually
out of business.
With this condition Just a little way ahead of us I asked the secretary of
the Insurance Federation for Oregon what he thought several million fraternal
ists would do. if given a choice between old-line monopoly and state insurance.
I told him frankly that If the program, back of which is the Insurance Com
missioners Convention and the old-line insurance trust, went through, thus de
stroying the cooperative life protection of millions upon millions of the common
men and women in the states of the nation, every member of every fraternal
benefit order, who had intelligence enough to keep out of tha home for the feeble
minded, would surely vote for state insurance. That for these millions of people,
with their system of life protection destroyed by the insurance departments and
the insurance laws, it was "Hobson's choice."
I told him that personally I would line up and fight state Insurance In Oregon,
provided the Insurance Federation for. Oregon, of which he was the spokesman,
wonld give me a written pledge that the Insurance Federation and all of Us
friends and satellites would nse their Influence and votes to amend the present
law governing fraternal benefit orders In three particulars.
It is needless to add that the amiable secretary Immediately commenced
to hedge. The Insurance Federation, he said, couldn't "take sides" ; that it
would have to tell the fraternalista what it had told the "board" and "non
board" factions, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera; don't you ese?
1 saw, and told him I did : That the Insurance Federation, composed of old
line agents and a few camouflage fraternalists. were not interenteri in fr3t0ri
life Insurance," or fraternal benefit orders, or any of our problems. All it wanted I in tne year 18 ea8llv tne largest in the
was our votes to pull the old-line companies' chesnuts out of the fire I city.
If state Insurance comes In Oregon It will not be beeauae nf rh i Although what the law calls a "be-
leagoe," or any of the reasons the Insurance Federation Is talking about, but
becaase of the copper riveted cinch the Insurance trust holds upon every man,
woman and child whom Insurance touches In the state; the copper riveted cinch
which was triple-plated by the Insurance code adopted by the 1917 session of
the Oregon legislature; and to he reinforced with a few more rivets In 1119.
The workmen's compensation law Is insidiously attacked, in all the countless
ways politicians have, at every meeting of every state s legislature. In the inter
est of old-line indemnity companies.
In Oregon and California fraternal orders are permitted, under absurd re
strictions to write Juvenile Insurance upon premiums no lower than old-line, but
lr Washington, Idaho and Montana they are forbidden by the departments to
compete with the Metropolitan, the Prudential and other old-line industrials until
the legislatures amend the statutes, and in these states, as in Oregon, it is pro
posed to pack the legislatures with old-line agents as legislators by the Insurance
Federations to hold the monopoly sacred to. the old-line interests, hence the
statutes will not be amended.
But why enumerate? These are a few samples of the abuses and evils which
are bringing state insurance as a "spectre" to haunt the Insurance Federation.
Read the list of Insurance Federation candidates published in the Portland
papers. Read the unblushing avowal of the Insurance Federation's purpose
to pack the 1919 legislature In the, interests of the insurance trust's monopoly.
Then answer if you can: What is there left for the common people by the
insurance trust's program, but state insurance?
Insurance Is an economle necessity. It must be provided in some form upon
a basis within reach of the masses. If fraternal benefit orders and other coi
operative forms of Insurance are eliminated, state Insurance Is the only answer.
We hear a lot about the iniquities which hide behind the term "non-partisan."
The Insurance trust is "non-partisan." The Insurance Federation is "non
partisan." Every legislative alignment by any form of big business, or special
privilege. Is "non-partisan." .Every monopoly in the nation as well as the
late of Oregon is strictly "non-partisan." All they want is votes and they care
not a pinch of snuff whether those votes bear the Republican, Democratic, Socialist,
wr-nny wner poiitic&i orana so long as these votes are cast for what these
special Interests are seeking.
The great American public is a long-eared, patient donkey up to a certain
point. It does a lot of braying and submits to a lot of leading, but when it
gets in the proper frame of mind it can kick over a lot of political furniture
. The 7,0s members of fraternal benefit Orders la Oregon do not want state
lasnraace.
They want the privilege of conducting their business of life insurance upon
a cooperative basis,, under a liberal law, through their fraternal benefit orders.
- They want friends of fraternal life protection In the 1919 legislature of Oregon
They want a square deal, without any gingerbread or taffy as a substitute.
Fraternal Insurance Is the poor man's, the poor woman's, form of life protection.
It servts the common people of Oregon as neither state nor old-line Insurance
can serve them.
These 67,000 men and women who carry fraternal insurance In Oregon are
eitlsens. voters and taxpayers. They have the right, and they should exercise
It to ask every candidate who solicits their vote as candidate for the legislature :
5 Where do you stand on fraternal life protection?
Where are you going to stand upon any question affecting fraternal life
protection ?
Will you vote to repeal Sections 23a and 23b, and amend Section 23 of the
(rwini taw .
$24,126,850
Death claims paid to the beneficiaries
of Oregon members during 1916 were :
Neighbors of Woodcrof t, $52,450 ; United
Artisans, $93,099.50; United Workmen.
$103,512.09; or a total of $249,061.59.
These three "home" orders have ap
proximately one-third of the fraternal
benefit membership held in the state,
and paid over one-fourth of the total
benefits paid in the state in 1916.
Considering them as Oregon business
corporations they rank well up in im
portance and volume of financial show
ing amongst the financial Institutions of
the state, and are worthy of considera
tion in calculating the assets of the
state.
Meeting Dates Set
For District Circles
The annual meetings of the District
Circles, Neighbors of Woodcraft, will be
held in Oregon this year as follows :
District No. 10, Pendleton. Oregon.
District No. 11, Portland, Oregon.
District No. 12, Eugene, Oregon.
District No. 21, McMinnville. Oregon.
The District Circle meeting of District
No. 20, which comprises Southwestern
Washington, will be held in Olympia,
Wash., and the District Circle meeting
of District No. 9, which comprises
Northwestern Washington, will be held
in Seattle.
The dates of these meetings, which
are fixed by the Grand Guardian, have
not yet been determined, but the sched
ule is now being worked out to enable
Mrs. Van Orsdall to be present at each
meeting.
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Funds Left for Care and Protec
tion of Children Carefully
Administered.
EUGENE MEMBER HEADS
COMMITTEE ON LAWS
A member from a circle in another
state became sick and helpless in Port-
its safety deposit box in land- Her case was brought to the at
tention oi unna oanKer leacn, ana jsit
was immediately supplied from the re
lief fund for her assistance. Her con
dition grew worse until she required the
constant attendance of a nurse, and fur
ther sums were advanced from time to
time as needad. The neighbor died in
good standing, and the advances made
to the member, while living was re
turned to tbe relief fund when the death
claim was paid.
The Neighbors of Woodcraft have no
brand on this especial kind of fraternal
service. It Is a part of the system that
distinguishes fraternalism and coopera
tion from commercialism. It is a part
of the creed of every one of over 400
fraternal benefit societies in the Unit
ed States. It is a part of the service
given their members and humanity by
every one of them.
If any candidate sldestens. or confine himself tn
eralities he should be marked "doubtful," and passed on.
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NEIGHBOR DIS ABROAD
IN COUNTRY'S SERVICE
j Ada circle. No. 166 of Boise, Idaho, has
paid for a $100 bond, with a neat surplus
for future government issues. This cir
cle Is making a record in the sale of
United States Thrift Stamps. One pa
' triotic member purchased $100 worth,
par value, recently.
f i m ii i n ,
t Legislative Council to Meet
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The Woman's Legislative Council for
Washington will meet in 'Tacoma,
Wash.. April 9, 10 and 11. Neighbors
Ttoee McCroekey of Palouse, Agnes Fus-
seu or saiiara. and Margaret Laumer
pf Spokane, representing the Neighbors
i wooacraxi, wiu auena tnia meeting.
PORTLAND CIRCLES IN
RED CROSS AUXILIARY
The Portland circles through their of
ficers' association recently organized a
Red Cross auxiliary, which has been
duly recognized by the National Ameri
can Red Cross.
The Neighbors of Woodcraft Red
Cross auxiliary meets every Monday at
the Neighbors of Woodcraft building at
Tenth and Taylor and works from 10
a. m. to 4 p. m. serving a luncheon at
noon.
The officers of the Red Cross auxili
ary are : Mrs. Alice Rathbun of Multno
mah circle, president ; Mrs. Jennie Blu
menthal of Multnomah circle, treasurer;
and Mrs. Gertrude Hall of Astra circle,
secretary.
nevolent" corporation It is a large tax
payer to the city, county and state, and
it is the "soucre of a payroll running
close to $4000 per month, all of which
is spent In the city of Portland.
When the United States entered the
world war the Neighbors of Woodcraft
promptly came to the front, the fisst
fraternal benefit order to offer its serv
ices to the government.
Grand Guardian Van Orsdall In Sep
tember brought the possibilities of serv
ice of the fraternal benefit orders of
the nation to the attention of the treas
ury department in the following letter,
addressed to Secretary McAdoo :
Chicago, 111., September 25, 1917.
Honorable W. G. McAdoo, Secretary ef
the Treasury, Washington. D. C.
Dear sir En route to Washington to
attend the meeting In re plans for the
the second Liberty Loan, called by Mrs.
McAdoo, I note in the dispatches your
appointment of a committee to encour
age the purchase of the new War Sav
ings Certificates, and I take the liberty
of calling your attention to the follow
ing facts :
Extent of Fraternal lasnraace
There are 250 fraternal Insurance so
clties in the United States which have
a combined membership of 8,000,000 men
and women.
To this actual membership'' add the
wives or husbands not members, easily
6.000,00 more, and their sons and
daughters, easily another 6,000.000, and
you have already mobilized 20,000,000 in
dividuals who can be reached, influenced
and made better than probable pur
chasers of these War Savings Certifi
cates. The frateVnal insurance orders are or
ganized : they can reach their millions
of members and the relatives of these
members with all the tremendous- in
fluence of. their effective organizations,
through their supreme officers.
Their members are the class of people
which you especially desire to reach;
their sons and husbands are in the army
and nayy ; they will be peculiarly sus
ceptible to the patriotic Appeal through
their supreme officers.
, They will not be largely or very ef
fectively reached through the banks or
other outside influences.
If you desire I will be pleased to have
furnished you the names and addresses
of the executive officers of the 250
fraternal societies in the nation. Two
of these orders alone the Woodmen of
the World ,and the Modern- Woodmen of
America having over 1,000,000 mem
bers each.
I pledge in advance the cooperation
of my own small society. We have re
cently established a thrift and savings
department, which we will gladly devote
exclusively to the work of introducing
these War Savings Certificates, if we can
be of service i to the Nation.
My address 'will be the Hotel Congress
in Washington, the 27th and 28th, and
I would especially appreciate being fur
nished any information in regard to
these War Savings Certificates and the
planned methods of floating same.
very respectfully yours,
C. C. VAN ORSDALL,
Grand Guardian, Women of Woodcraft.
Subsequently the National Fraternal
congress composed of the leading fra
ternal benefit, orders moved to outline
a uniform plan of cooperation with the
government in financing; and floating
government loans, and many Individual
orders followed the lead of the Neigh
bors of Woodcraft.
FRATERNAL POLICIES
IN OREGON OVER 66,000
The volume of life insurance carried
in the state of Oregon by fraternal bene
fit orders is worth more than a mo
ment's consideration. Here are some
figures gathered from the insurance
commissioner's report for 1916: Number
pf orders represented, 35 ; number of
benefit members, 66,745 ; amount of in
surance In force on Oregon certificates,
Decftnber 31, 1916. $93,869,173 ; amount
collected from Oregon members, $1,242,
435 ; amount of death claims paid Ore
gon beneficiaries, $853,544.
The 66,745 benefit members in the
state are practically all voters. If 'they
should ask for a square deal of frater
nal benefit, protection from the legisla
ture, ought the legislators pay any at
tention to their demand?
Will the aspirants for legislative of
fice at the coming election consider these
members of fraternal benefit orders of
sufficient. Importance, to offer their leg
islative service to constructive legisla
tion touching the -interests of fraternal
life protection?
Thousands of men and women are
painstakingly, and at some sacrifice,
keeping their-certificates in force to pro
tect little children in case of their
death.
If they die while these little ones
are still minors the courts appoint
guardians . to receive the Insurance
money. With the courts, as a rule, it
is merely a routine matter : whoever ap
plies is appointed, after filing a bond.
Fraternal orders after checking to see
that technicalities have been complied
with, pay over the money to the guard
ian : and that usually ends the matter,
so far as the courts, the fraternal order
or the deceased member Is concerned.
Minor's Interests Safegnarded
The money may be wisely handled
and expended wholly for the benefit of
the minor, or it may not. The minor
may get some of the benefits or none of
the benefit. It all depends upon the
guardian and the court. But' nowhere is
there any efficient check or control to
guarantee that the money, provided at
some sacrifice by the father or mother,
shall reach the beneficiary.
The Neighbors of Woodcraft, at its
recent session made provision to cover
this matter, by giving the members
power to designate "manner of pay
ment," and now a mother or a father
of minor children may personally indi
cate how the benefits payable shall be
expended.
Payment may be made In Installment
to a guardian for specific purposes in
dicated, with the order acting as check
and agent to see that expenditures are
made in accordance with deceased mem
ber s indicated desire ; or payment may
be- made for specified purposes in be
half of the minor beneficiary directly
by the order, without expense of guard
ianship under the supervision of the
executive committee.
Or payment may be made when minor
beneficiary reaches majority, or toward
education on attaining a certain age.
A member can control manner of pay
ment even in case of adult beneficiary
in same manner.
How Plan Operates
The Neighbors of Woodcraft plan is
different from any previously offered in
that the claim goes through all the rou
tine and is definitely closed so far as
the benefit fund is concerned.
The administration of the installment
payments Is handled through the thrift
and savings department, and 4 per cent
Interest is paid on deferred installments.
This extension of service to the mem
ber in carrying out the wishes and
purposes of the member, continues the
service of the order to the member
without expense or cost, even long after
that member's death and is protected
and safeguarded, as are all promises of
the neighbors of Woodcraft.
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Alberta S. Mc.Murphey of Eugene,
Or., chairman of the committee on
laws of the Grand Circle, Neigh
bors of Woodcraft.
WHEN CIRCLES MEET
BAZAAR IS1LANNED
FOR NEXT NOVEMBER
Officers' Association Takes Time
by Forelock in .Waking Its
Arrangements.
RECEIVES HELP F
FRATERNAL -SOCIETY
Neighbors of Woodcraft Prompt
ly Volunteer for Service to?i
Promote Campaign.
Mount Hood circle No. 151 meets
every Tuesday evening In the Women
of Woodcraft building, 394 Taylor street
Elizabeth Routledge, clerk.
Astra circle No. 152 meets every
Thursday evening in the Women of the
Woodcraft building. 394 Taylor street ;
Catherine Stltes. clerk.
Oregon circle. No. 171, meets every
Wednesday evening in the Woodmen of
the World building. 336 Russell street;
Bertie B. Britzenhoff. clerk.
St Johns circle. No. 541, meets every
second and fourth Tuesday evenings,
Bickner hall ; Effa Beam, clerk.
Monta villa circle. No: 400, meets the
first and third Wednesdays in Grabel's
hall, Montavllla. Or. ; Lenora Jones,
clerk.
Sacajewe circle. No. 590. meets every
Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Roth,
1108 East Main street; May Fuchs,
clerk.
Mount Scott circle, No. 595. meets the
second and fourth Fridays in the I. O.
O. F. hall. Lents, Or.; Laura Allen,
clerk.
Royal circle. No. .528. meets the sec
ond, third and fourth Wednesdays in
the Woodmen of World building. 128
Eleventh street ; Margaret Wertheimer,
clerk.
Multnomah circle. No. 744. meets every
Friday In the Woodmen of World build
ing. 128 Eleventh street; Ora Allen,
clerk.
The- business men have their chamber
of commerce, commercial and ad men's
clubs, as a sort of clearing houses for
ideas and movements to push the prog
ress of the city.
The circles of the Neighbors of Wood
craft have their officers' association.
The present officers of the Portland
Neighbors of Woodcraft officers' asso-
claion are: Mrs. Elizabeth Wise of. Mult
nomah circle. No. 744, president ; Mra
tsiizabeth Koth of Sacajawea circle. No
590, vice president ; Mrs. Lenor Jones
of Montaville circle. No. 400. treasurer
Mra Alice Snyder of Oregon circle No.
171, secretary ; Mrs. Jennie Blumenthal
of Multnomah circle. No. 744. musician :
and Meadames Shoel. Vilas and Bishop
of Royal circle No. 528, Montavllla circle
No. 400, and Astra circle No. 152 re
spectlvely, trustees.
Porpone of Aisorlatloa
The purpose of the Officers' assocla-
ion is to promote harmony, efficiency
and cooperation amongst all the circles
in Portland, so as to bring the greatest
good for all through the coordination of
effort One of the results Is greater
uniformity in floor work. The assocta
ion is the "Fraternal Clearing House"
through which the circles can work for
any common purpose, not especially pro
vided for In each circle or for which
each circle Is not a large enough unit
One of the results in this direction
has been the organization of the Red
Cross auxiliary.
The association is preparing for a
bazaar, scheduled for Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday, the 12th. 13th
and 14th of November. That might look
a long ways ahead, but that is char
acteristic of Woodcraft; it "Is always
looking ahead.
The first evening of the bazaar will
be devoted to patriotic purposes, work
and plans that- will aid tn our great
common cause.
The second evening will be devoted
to the juvenile department It will be
"children's night." and the little folks
tfl'emselves will be in full charge.
A grand ball will be the principal fea
ture of the third night
Each Circle Represented
Each circle In Portland will have its
own miscellaneous booth, and it will
be full and complete a miniature ba
zaar conducted by that circle. The
neighbors in charge for each circle are
as follows: Multnomah circle, Mra Ora
Allen ; Astra circle, Mrs. Gertrude Hall ;
Royal circle, Mrs. Gracia Sundeleaf;
Oregon circle. Mrs. Alice Snyder ; Mount
Hood circle Mra McGrath ; while Mount
Scott. Sacajawea. Montavllla and Myr
cla are Joining forces with Mra Ward.
Mra Jones, Mra Roth and Mrs. Scott in
charge.
A part of the funds raised will go to
the Woodcraft home.
DISTRICT CIRCLE TEAM NO. 21 NEIGHBORS OF WOODCRAFT
When the treasury department of tha
United States announced Its war loan
through the issuance of the Thrtft.
Stamps and War Havings Certificates,
the Neighbors of Woodcraft promptly
volunteered for service tn dlng that
loan. The grand guardian placed the
organization at the service of tha gov
ernment, it was the first fraternal ben
efit society to do so, and It Is to data'
the only one that has organised a 4e- -partment
devoted entirely to that eerv-
ice. j .
The offer of services by the Neigh
bors of WoodcrRft was promptly c--:
ceped by the treasury department -of
the United States, and was duly Ap- -.
pointed a special agent for the sale of
War Savings Stamps.
Their Bales In Oregon alone of Thrift -Stamps
between January 15 and Mareh
11 was 6.345. and in the nine etatea,of
the Jurisdiction. 50,000.
Sales fthow Isrrtste ?
This was the net result of the order's
efforts for seven weeks. The amount of
money loaned to the government
through purchase of the War Havings
Stamps sold through the Neighbors of
Woodcraft's organized efforts Increase
each week. , ;
These efforts of the Neighbors' 6t ;
Woodcraft are not a drive, a sporadic eJT-. "
fort, an overburdening for one week, fol
lowed by exhaustion for several weeks,
but a constant effort continued week
after week, and kept continuous because
no overstrain is put on anybody at any
time, leaving each at full working, or
contributing capacity all the time.
Such conservation will have produced
vastly much more during the year than,,
would drives or spurts from time to'
time. . n
Their plans were formed in January.
Under date of January 25 F. A. Van
derllp. chairman of the national war
savings committee. wrote Mra Van
Orsdall : "The plan adopted by your
order Is so good that we snail featuYe
it In our bullenttn and send it out .to
all of our state directors for transmis
sion to the county chairmen." t
War Sating! Committee Pleased -jfe.?
Later, Grand tluardian Van Orsdall
received a letter from the sub commit
tee of the war savings committee, read
ing -as follows: .-
"Tour letter to Mr. Vanderllp, and ac
knowledged by him. has been referred,
to the section on war savings societies. -
"We are delighted with the service
which the Neighbors of Woodcraft are i
giving the government May we sug
gest that you Instruct some person
in each circle to organise a War Sav
ings society of the Neighbors of Wood- .
craft for affiliation with the national
War Savings committee? m'
To this end the Neighbors of Wood
craft have prepared for the organisation
In its every circle of a Woodcraft War
Savings Society. ' "
No measure so far adopted by the
government for financing the war has -such
great possibiliies or can be so far
reaching as this, either new or after the
war Is over.
It will enable millions to loan directly
to the government at Interest com
pounded quarterly, who otherwise would
be only able to stand on the side and
watch the more opulent take all tha
loans. .
Opportsalty for All to Users
Billions of dollars have been bor
rowed by the government on Interest-
bearing bonds, and billions more will e
required. The bond issues have been,
popular, so far as Is to be possible,
with the smallest item fixed ' at .
$50. The number of people who can
buy and hold these is relatively small as
compared with the whole number nt
patriotic people, men, wo en and chil
dren, who would like to help, would Ilka
to feel that they have been enabled -Ao
do what It is within their power to do
The War Stamp Savings loan enables
everybody, big and little, to come in
alike. Every man. woman and child
who has or can save 25 cents can pac- -tlclpate,
and become a direct creditor or
stockholder tn the government and re
tain and hold that position all during;
the war and afterwards.
The value tn both moral effect and
financial strength of the direct partici
pation of every Utile fellow In tha gov
ernment by lending It financial aid can- -
not.be overestimated. ...
TRILLIUM CIRCLE, 266r -
ELECTS ITS OFFICERS
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Left to right Mina. L. Olmstead, captain; Jehanna Damatalla, Cleo Kenn on, Louanna Brawn, Marie Leist, Vca U. SmlLb, Zoe Oljosted iniian Zvrlck-
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The destinies of Trillium circle Na
22S of Wlnlock. Wash., will be directed
during 1918 by the following- officers:
Past guardian neighbor, Hattle Wall :
guardian neighbor, Laura J. Harklns;
adviser. I. N. Wall; magician, Daisy I.
Smith ; clerk, Mary Coleman ; banker,
Lena M. Rhodes ; attendant, Eva M
Seaman ; captain of guards, Susan .
Bums: Inner sentinel, Charlotte Reddyi
outer sentinel, Laura Chiistensen; man
agers. Nellie Roundtree, Adra Becker
and Mary Roundtree; musician. Mary
Chrlstensen.
PENDLETON MEMBER -IS
SERIOUSLY ILL
Mrs. Margaret Cronin of Pendleton,
Oregon, a member of Daphne Circle No.
2, and recently appointed by Grand
Guardian Van Orsdall as a member of .
the Woodcraft Home Council forDls
trlct No. IS. is reported seriously 11L--
Neighbor Cronin is a charter member
of tbe Neighbors of Woodcraft and has
been an active and enthusiastic worker
since 1897. She was a Grand Delegate
to the recent session of the Grand Cir
cle -and has scores of friends all over
the nine Pacific states. .
BELLE BENNETT HEADS ;
CIRCLE 84 AT MEDFORD
The officers in charge of Circle No.
84, Medford. Or., for 1918. are: Guardian
neighbor. Belle Bennett; past guasoian
neighbor, J. H. Bellinger; advisor, E3v
Blden; magician. Hattle Biden; clerk;
Elizabeth Soliss; banker. Martin. Me
Dvnough; attendant. Barbara Koonts )
tnner sentlneL Sergenla Oatman; outer
senile I, Clem Parker; captain of - the
gas Is. Delia Parker; musician. Jennie
Be Hinge c managers. Prudence) Pratl.
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