. Sieh teneemnernte answers are omitted - TH ETF = fet ye VOLUME VII. SES S/R) Topeka, Kan., Sept. 5.—Perhaps a few words at this time save a great deal of anxiety on the part of our new members and camp recorders may and expense in postage to our society. One-half of the local camp physicians my district, send in insurance made out The answers who examine in applications for complete in every detail. are all filled in and all dates given ard signatures are in the proper places. To these doctors I wish to express my heartfelt thanks. The half of. my. examiners send in blanks of find fifty other examination all completion. . I from to in stages one “ves” written dv and where “no” was tended. When I re- turn an application correction it comes back to me any time between three days and three hiss: 48 where anxiety comes on the part of the applicant and,.the camp _ offi- cers. In about a week or ten days after the medical ex- amination the appli- cant thinks it time her certificate was at hand, and the re- corder, if she is a new one, writes a letter to the Supreme Oracle, the beneficiary recorder, and the Supreme Physician asking why the certificate is not written and sent to her. The Su- preme Oracle has no record of these applications for beneficial membership, hence she refers the letter to the Su- preme Physician for reply. The ben- eficiary recorder, at this time, has no record of this returned-for-correection application, hence she refers her letter Physician for reply. in- for months. the in to the Supreme Of course the Supreme Oracle and ben- eficiary recorder have each answered the letter of the local camp recorder and have also written to the Supreme Physician about it. Then the recorder asks the local camp physician about it, after she receives two or three let- ters in reply to hers. The local camp physician looks up the application in his desk, where it was placed in a busy time and forgotten. The neces- sary corrections are made and the paper is sent to me and approved if under sixty days old, but if over the time limit, it is again returned for a certificate of good health. All this worry and correspondence is caused by the omission of a few important an- swers on the .medical examination blank. Hence to prevent all this un- necessary delay and anxiety, I would suggest that the physician who makes examinations for the Royal Neighbors of America take about two minutes of his valuable time in looking over his paper to see that all questions are answered, and that he has. written “ves” where he means to say “yes,” and “no”: where he means. “no.” — A _ few papers are returned on account of elerical errors or for additional in- Ad e— ASI eS R ar EE OC Need yy WHAT CAUSES DELAY More Care in Filling Blanks Nevssmers i aber ee ep a tn Nac ee Sra OE oe pes Plea © Ste 7 > formation, but these are expected and pardonable errors. .A number of recorders seem to for- get the fact that it is necessary to give the names of the persons about whom they wish they write to me. information, when The following is a copy of a letter received a few days ago: Dear Doctor: I sent you two applications for beneficiary and have not heard anything ment of an assessment died three days afterward. The beneficiaries brought suit, claiming that it had been the custom to accept payment of assess- ments after they were due and making no record of suspensions. * * * The court decided in favor of the lodge, upholding the laws of the order re- garding” suspensions. °*=°.* 0% .. It, “also decided that no subordinate lodge or oticer thereof has the power by custom, directly or indirectly or in any other way, to dispense with the positive re- quirement of the laws of the order.”— nnights of the Globe. ww wR California Neighbors Thankful Whereas, On April 18, 1906, San Francisco was visited by a disastrous : DRILL TEAM OF ROSE LEAF CAMP 1985, PEORIA, ILLINOIS, -The, team that won the. first. prize at Columbia. Park, July 4, 1906, in the competitive drills. left to right: No. 0, Captain W. G. Allsup; No. 1, Mrs. Tillie Clemens; No. 2, Mrs. Anna Struse; No. 3, Miss Emma Melins; Mrs. Martha Kupel; No. 9, Mrs.-Hmma Thirlbar; No, 10, Mrs. Blla Richer; No. 11, Bessie Allsup;. No, 12, Katie Noe. : in regard to them. Royally yours, Did you get them? = 55 * Recorder. The names of applicants are re- corded alphabetically and easy to look up if names are given and name of Letters are cheerfully and promptly answered when names and addresses are given in letter of inquiry. I am not writing this in a spirit of faultfinding, but in the hopes that it will save time, worry, and money to all persons concerned and be of mutual benefit to us. Royally, ELNORA GILSON-\WHITMORE, Supreme Physician. DATE CHANGED AT AKRON town where camp is located. Gaton District Meeting to Be on Oc- tober ll Akron, O.—At our regular meeting August 15 we decided to have the union district meeting October 11 in- stead of September 27. The date was changed for the convenience of the Supreme Oracle and the Board of Managers, who will be able to attend on that date. Now that we expect the Supreme Officers we hope every camp in this district will make an effort to be well represented. JOSEPHINE YEAGER, Recorder. WM Danger in Being Late Some members of fraternal societies —ours among the others—are apt to think that being a few days late in paying their assessments does not mat- ter at all. But it does, though. One of our exchanges reports a decision along this line which has been -made by the Kansas Court of Appeals as fol- lows: re “A member - suspended for non-pay- \. ee earthquake and fire, during which two- thirds of the beautiful city on the Pa- cific was burned over and 300,000 of its people and nine-tenths of the member- ship of the Royal Neighbors of Amer-- ica in San Francisco were rendered | homeless and destitute; and Whereas, lime’ and supreme happiness springs from kindly words and deeds, we hope and trust that each and all will reap the reward of their own good deeds: ‘Therefore, be it : Resolved, That we, the members of Enright Camp 3642, Royal Neighbors of America, through the columns of THe RoyaL NEIGHBOR, extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all the camps and members thereof who so generously responded to our urgent needs. Their substantial aid in the lines of clothing and money has been most welcome and helpful, as well as their many kind and cheering words of sympathy. May the bond of fra- ternal love thus cemented never be broken. We a rower - Mary E. Hart, WILLIAM J. CONNOLLY; MARGARET R. ROCHAMBEAU, WILLIAM: J. BAUER, GERTRUDE A. ONEIL, Committee. we Last week we visited a home where the week before the husband and father had been killed in an accident, leaving a wife and five children, the eldest be- ing but ten years, and the youngest eight weeks old. He also left a mort-,| gage of $1,200 on his home and a cer- tificate in a beneficiary society of $1,000. Tt will help some, and a mighty sight better than empty promises.—Modern Maccabee. ~— . 2 ternal Congress and its several sections Top row, reading from. - We believe the most sub- NUMBER 10. FRATERNITIES’ MEETING It Is Interesting, Entertaining, and Instructive ae _ The annual meeting of the leading =~ fraternalists of the country as they come together in the National Fra- is always fraught with much of inter- est to the active workers in the great cause of fraternalism. There are’ the able addresses of the officers, the re- — :orts of committees and the presenta- tion and discussion of papers which — _ are always able and of more than or- 43 dinary interest. Before the meeting of = aig the congress proper the Press, Medical : and Legal sections and for two consider mat- /— ters of especial in- S terest and impor- tance to their several sections. This year : at Montreal a fourth section, to be known | as the-. Section «of aime the Secretaries, was . organized with the thought that there_ was a field for it. ao meet days Po smany* tb eas beginning to look as if the congress. == oe - proper had been sec- tioned about to its death. So impor- tant have the sev- eral sections become | there is nothing of . any particular live moment left for the congress except the election of officers and determining the place for holding | the next meeting. — To overcome this evident depreciation it has been suggested that the more important papers prepared in the in- terest of the various sections hereafter be presented to the full congress so all oe may be benefited. ; ae ' This year one of the best things | that was presented to the congress was the report of the president, Hon. A. R. Talbot, and the best. legislation was the adoption of the report of the conference committee on the consolida- tion of the National Fraternal Con- gress with the Associated Fraternities. - This report was vigorously opposed = by certain of the older societies, but the proposition to consolidate was carried by a large majority. Mo oh Each year the report of the com- , mittee on statistics and the good of” the order has been looked forward to with especial interest, as it contained , AS in compact form a resume of the year’s work in the fraternal world. Sc This year was no exception, the report showing conditions generally success- ful. Some of the societies that had increased their rates had suffered from heavy lapsation, but in societies not agitated by internal dissensions there had been a large growth and corre- sponding large net increase. The work of this committee along special lines — looking to the sufficiency of the rates — of the National Fraternal Congress table were presented but not read, Mr. Markey making the statement that the — investigation of the statistics of all the — societies which had reported showed — as that the rates of that table were suffi- ciently high. His report showed that the number of members admitted to the several associations during the | year 1905 was 575,066, as compared x io