Fraternity-Testvériség, 1966 (44. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1966-02-01 / 2. szám

FRATERNITY

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(3) “It behooves us ... to be a fraternal benefit society and not just a life insurance organization. Herein lies our strength and our only asset. We have something — something the commercial companies have not . . .

“Many times I have heard it said, ‘The day of the lodge meeting is over.’ Don’t you believe it. The day of meeting in decrepit old

lodge halls is over, but the meeting in the best hotel ballroom in any city is a great drawing card. Have your monthly business meeting in a lodge hall, but have your socials and your initiations in a place where your members are anxious to attend . .

Mr. Probst then described some of his own society’s activities, and said that almost 4,000,000 persons have attended I. O. F. meetings during the last four years.

“Just think, nearly four million people have had contact with the

I. O. F. in happy and pleasurable surroundings . . . Any old line company’s general agent would give a great deal if he could gather his

policyholders together at a dance, dinner or party, and have the opportunity to chat with them and to receive prospects from them. Talk about ‘centers of influence’, brother, we have them built in and ready for use . . .

“To grow, local units must enter into community affairs, give help

to the less fortunate, the handicapped, the blind and so forth, not with

just money alone, but with workers. This makes your society known. It brings recognition of your good works to the community in which

you operate . . .”

(Lou E. Probst — Fraternal Monitor — Nov. 1965)

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

Thomas Jefferson