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GEORGIA WOODCRAFT COMING FOR GREAT LOG ROLLING
.+ By A. 0. WILLIAMS. :
Cordele Camp No. 106 was charter
ed oNvember 8, 1906 with fifteen char
ter members. Its present membership
is two hundred and twenty-five. Dur
ing the first five years of its existence
it had a slow growth owing to the city
being small and the order of Wood
craft hardly known.,
In February, 1910, the present clerk,
E. R. Overby, took charge of the books
and clerk’s duties and has held the
same position ever since. He has had
a steady increase fespite ‘the depressed
condition of the country in general.
When he took charge of the clerk’s
duties in February, 1910, there were
only twenty-six members with a total
insurance of $36,000, and today its
membership is two hundred and twen
ty-five with a total of $336,500 in force,
ranging from $5OO to §3,000. No poli
cy is for more than $3,000.
During the past six years we have
only lost four members, paying their
beneficiaries $6,000 besides erecting
a beautiful stone or granite monument
to their memory in addition to the face
of their policies. No Woodman is
placed in an unmarked grave.
Cordele Camp No. 106 is a member
of the uniform rank company of Geor
gia, 29 Regiment, having for their cap
tain J. H. McCormick.
This rank was chartered February
25, 1913, and is numeered among the
best in_the state.
The present officers are: :
F.M. Lawrence, Past Consul.
A. 0. Williams, Consul Commander.
A. J. Smith, Adviser Lieutenant.
A. P. Hammett, Banker.
E. R. Overby, Clerk.
J. A. Riley, Escort.
B. S. Ambrose, Watchman.
W. M. Gary, Sentry.
Dr. A. J. Whelchel, Dr. T. E. Brad
ley, Physicians.
M. N. Johnson, Manager.
Rev. J. Moore Walker, Manager.
Joe Espy, Jr., Manager. ;
J. Jordon Jones, Sovereign Delegate.
The camp meets every Tuesday
night and all visiting sovereigns are
cordially invited.
By A. O. WILLIAMS.
The Woodmen of the World gs an
organization brought to life June 6,
1890, in Omaha, Neb., by Joseph Cullen
Root. The purpose of this organization
is to band white 'men together by fra
ternal ties for the protection of each
other’s families, and realizing that on
ly a small per cent are able to save
sufficient during life to leave their
loved ones in comfortable circum
stance, furnishes fraternal life in sur
ance at its lowest cost consistent with
absolute reliability.
It has brown to be the leading fra
ternal beneficiary organigation in the
United States and is the strongest
financially. .
A member of our society is never
laid away in a pauper’s grave. He is
buried with beautiful ritualistic cere
monies. His grave is marked by the
erection of a beautiful stone or granite
monument, which is assured him in
addition to the full payment of every
dollar that his certificate calls for to
his beneficiaries.
The first camp organized in this
state was over twenty years ago but
the growth of the oscer in this state
was comparatively slow up to a few
years since, when it received an im
petus from its present state manager
after he assumed charge of his office
and had time to organize an efficient
field force.
Eight years ago the Jurisdiction of
Georgia was organized. The first
head camp convenition was held in At
lanta. The head camp of a Jurisdic
tion is a representative body of dele
gates from the various local camps. It
has no jurisdiction pver the field or or
ganization department, neither has
any of its officials any authority or
prerogative in this department. The
organization work is solely under the
management of the state manager who
is appointed by the Sovereign Com
mander of the order.
The head camp convention, which
meets in biennial sessions, is princi
pally a social affair, its principal work
is the election of ity own officers and
delegates to the Sovere:gn Camp Con
vention, the supreme legislative body
of the order.
When this jurisditcion was organiz
ed nine years since, ihere were only
8,000 members in the state. Two years
ago there were about 18,000 members
in the state. During the past two
years ending May 1,1916, the order had
26,116, gaining 257 during the month
increased to a total membership of
of April. Even during the strenuous
times the order Mas had a steady
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steady growth in spite of the business
depression. 4
The order is paying out in this state
about 250,000 per year and it has se
cured many hundred monuments to the
sagred members of its citizens; some
where every Sunday within our bor
ders the Woodmen of the World are
by their unique and very impressive
unveiling ceremonies, honoring some
one of Georgia’s fallen sons.
The order has invested in Georgia
state, county, municipal, road, water
works and school bonds nearly a half
million dollars. By this we readily see
and frankly acknowledge that the
Woodmen of the World is in reality “a
citizen” of Georgia, and a most appre
ciable one, and is one of “our” great
institutions of which every loyal, pa
triotic “cracker” should be proud, and
unstinted in his praise.
The Woodmen of the World is a
perfectly blended combination of
“Brotherhood” and “Business.” It is
not a “little” life insurance company
with a lodge system, but a great fra
ternity which features and empha
sizes the great moral principle of
“practical protection” to. one’s family
—a sacred fund provided against “the
rainy day,” and we call it life insur
ance for the lack of a better term. It
is not in the speculative insurance
business, but it is a grand cooperative
system operated in strick keeping with
the scientific laws of conservative
business administration, and its in
surance is a “sacred” legacy one pro
vides for those he loves best, and
has for its basic support the authori
ative injunctions of God’s Holy Word.
Woodcraft with the strength and ge
nius of the giants that sprang fully
matured from the head of the gods
has snatched pure protection from
the miserly clutches of mercenary
greed, stripped from its virgin form
the tinseled apparel ofvavariciousnes's
and graft and put thereon the holy
vestments of usefulness and honor.
It provides a safe, sound and unques
tionable protection at the lowest pos
sible cost consistent with sound bus
iness judgment and common sense.
You can pay more than the W. 0. W.
premiums, but you can’t get better
protection at any price. The combi
nation of “fraternity” with “insur
ance” was the culminating expression
bt Brotherhood. Perfected Woodcraft |
is a unique, real fraternity that has
entered the field of humanity’s practi
cal fraternal need and is valiantly and
successfully fighting the good fight ofi
the brotherhood of man in the defense
and protection of the poor man’s |
home. It places the cost of adequatei
protection within the reach of the;
common people—the toilers, ‘thereby,
its benefits are placed where needed{l
most, hence, its ’constant effort is toi
strengthen and improve the founda-i
tion of society—the working people, |
thereby making secure the beautiful
and classic superstructure of our so-}
cial system and civilization. ;
Object of Woodcraft. |
“Woodcraft is to enoble its mem
bership; to minister to the afflicted;
to relieve distress; to seek employ-1
ment for those without it;. to cast a
sheltering arm about the defenseless
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Sstate Manager W. O. W.
Newton Phillips, of Atlanta, Ga.,
State Manager of Georgia for the
Woodmen of the World, to which posi
tion he was promoted about seven
years ago, and under whose manage
ment Woodcraft has made rapid prog
ress in Georgia. He is now serving
his . third term as president. of the
South Georgia Log Rolling Association,
W. 0. W., a powerful adjunct of the
order in this state. Organizer and
general manager of Greater Atlanta
Degree Camp and chairman of its ex
ecutive committee. He is one of the
oldest members and a constant boos
ter for Woodcraft.
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living; to give honorable burial to our
sacred dead; to place a permanent to
ken to our esteem upon his grave; to
so impress the grand doctrine of the
brotherhood of man upon our member
ship as to make it an important fac
tor in our daily lives; to encourage
broad, charitable views; to make us
more intelligent citizens, truer friends,
greater sons, more thoughtful broth
ers, more considerate husbands and
more reasonable fathers.
It is not for the advancement of
the interests of any dqnominational
dogma. It is not a recruiting office
for the saloon or an asylum for that
class of men who are too lazy of body
‘and mind to make an honorable ef
fort in their own behalf in the battle
of life. It is for mutual benelt when
misfortune assails us. It is for sub
stantial aid to our loved ones when we
are gone. It is for the entertainment
of our families and friends -in social
sessions, and thus more firmly weld
the fraternal bonds which so pleas
antly unite us, and finally it is to
‘build a firogressive and = permanent
institution which shall prove a “vali
ant knight” in the defense of home
and country through the coming ages.
“It is for fraternal benefits upon
fraternal principles. It is for business
benefits upon sound, conservative
business principles. It is for social
benefits upon the highest social prin
ciples known to the moral law. It is
a happy intermingling of fraternal, so
cial and business relations, each stand
ing upon its own merits, each having
its own individuality, each being re
sponsible for its own department.
While one, yet three—a finite trinity,
the trinity of human life, fraternal,
social and financial. .
Teachings of Woodcraft.
You can readily see from the fore
going that the “teachings” of Wood
craft are noble, pure, man-making
and elevating morally and mentally.
When rightly interpreted it is a pow
erful school of the most practical
moral philosophy among men. Its
great principles of f.ove, Honor, Re
mambrance, Generosity, Peace, Tem
perance, Protection, Devotion to Deity
and a real fraternal regard for each
other‘as enunciated by its magnificent
ritualism places the order on an ele
vation separate and apart from all in
stitutions of like nature. It regards
not the creeds of men, it interferes
with no man’s religious scruples; its
outstretched arms embraces all na
tions of Caucasian race (it is distinct
ly a “white man order”), its heart is
large and warm enough to be keenly
sensitive to every human need, and
under its protection win millions of
earth’s children may find peace, pro
tetcion and fraternity exemplified as
no where else. Among the first les
sons taught the stranger with the “for
est” is fealty to the flag, patriotism-fp
devotion of the highest interest of his
home, community, state and nation,
that a clean, upright and industrious
citizen is a fundamental element in
the progress and prosperity of any
nation and that each individual citi
zen has his own individual part to
perform—hence the secrade serious
ness of democratic citizenship. Ah,
the wonderous inspiring bheauties, up
lifting aspiration and noble impulses
found in the forest! Would that all
men of the race might enter our gates
and breathe the healthful, balmy, red
olent atmosphere permeated with the
donations of bud and bloom, walk bhe
side the waters of the inviting dell
and be inspired by the majority of the
‘grand old wood.
Brief History.
Perfected Woodcraft—the Wood
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SOVEREIGN J. GORDON JONES
Vice President South Georgia Log
Rolling Association.
men of the World, was organized on
the 6th of June 1890, twenty-four
years ago, with nineteen .members, in
a room in the. Paxton House .in the
c¢ity of Omaha, Neb., by Joseph Cullen
Roof, the father and founder of all
Wooderaft. The greatness and the
grandeur of the order is but'a reflec
tion of the same (iualities of the
mind, heart and soul of this man,
whose name will go' down in history
as one of America's most. devoted cit
izens, greaiest statesmen, and noblest
sons. Born - wealthy, yet his heart
and mind was ever employed for the
10jl'ers of humanity. He was a ge
nius in mind and a noderate, generous
gentleman of .the loftiest, type in
heart. He concéived in his matchless
mind the idea of fusing into one the
{wo heretofore separated principles of
Brotlierhood and Business; in the re
tort of his strong and conservative
mind, which was a master of business
principles and details, thoroughly fa
miliar with all the stupendous busi
ness elemens involved (for he was
one of the “'ori(]"s greatest insurance
’experts) heated by the hot fires of a
‘great heart, kindled by the fuel of hu
}man need be succeeded to the aston
jshment of the whole world .to make
of these two principles—one,.a per
fect blending of the two and he nam
ed it “Perfected Woodcraft” and la-
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Consul Commander Cordele Camp 106
neled it the “Woodmen of the World.”
‘A new star was seen in the fraternal
firmament, the star that all wise men
see and follow, and it has proven to
be the great sun around which all
lesser lights revolve.
Achievements. ‘
The order started with only nine-i
teen members and without a dollar.
It is among the youngest of fraternal
orders, yet it today ranks third in nu
merical strength and first in financial
strength. In only twenty-four years‘
it has growll from mineteen members‘
to over a million (in all jurisdictions).
Wondertul! Starting without a dol
lar, in' twenty-four years it has paid
out to beneficiaries of its deceased
members the enormous-sum of over
one hundred million dollars. Oh,
shades of Croesus! :t has erected as
a token of esteem and tender remem
brance over the graves of its deceased
mmbers (no Woodman fills a pau
per's grave or sleeps beneath an un
marked or unkept sod) Over (fifty
thousand monumenis at a cost of one
hundred dollars each—total over one
million dollars; it has paid out to the
old men among its members approxi
mately five million doliars; it has
erected its own magnificent home in
the city of Omaha, Neb., at a cost of
approximately two million dollars, and
this, too, without one extra penny
from its membership; it is now pay
about seven hundred thousand doliars
or $16.70 per minute, day and night—
solid time. It has today in the Sov
ereign Jurisdiction an emergency sur
plus of twenty-five miliion dollars, a
total net asset in all jurisdictions of
about thirty=seven million dollars. The
surplus of the Sovereign Jurisditcion
$25,000,000) is invested with its con
stant accumulations at an average of
41-2 per cent compound interest an
nually. Its annual income from all
sources approximate sixteen million
dollars, or over one million three hun
dred thousand dollars per month. Its
surplus increases about four million
dollars annually. It invests its su{
plus in non-fluctuatthg securities
only, such as government bonds, state,
scheol and municipal bonds, and
these must be known to be absolutely
“gilt edge.”” The order takes no
chances with the sacred funds of its
membership. It has now in force al
mest one billion dollars in insurance,
in the Sovereign Jurisdiction only. Of
the more than one hundred million
dollars paid out at least sixty per cent
of this has gone to the poor man's
Itome who did not have a dollar of his
own when death called him. Think
‘'what this means to human society
—pause and think!
The above figures do not include
“special heneficiaries” paid to dis
tressed communities like the Galves
ton flood, San Francisco earthquake,
and the other cursed districts of Ohio
afld other states. These sums run up
into thousands of dollars.
It is well to state that the achieve
.ments of Perfected Wooderaft is. not
altogether confined to the realm of
finance, for as a great fraternal and
social order, apart from its beneficiary
feature, its vast achievements can
not bhe estimated by any standard
known to man.
Many a man has been reclaimed
from the downward road of vice, in
temperance and shame, given back to
his loved ones a decent fellow. Many
a young man has been restraind from
indulging in the grosser evils by the
strong tie of his Woodman's oath.
Many a good name and reputation has
been preserved and protected from
the vile lashes of the gossiper’s
fongue by the valiant and true Wood
man. In Woodcraft that which we
hold is a man’s most valuable posses
sion is his reputation and good name,
and the reputation and good name of
his family. By this work the true
sovereign lays up in store for himself
an eternal legacy in vaults not made
with hands, where “moths and rust
doth not corrupt, nor where thieves
can break through and steal.”
Its Membership.
The Woodmen of the World is a
democratic or representative govern
ment (the most perfect in the world
today). The citizens of the great
commonwealth of Woodcraft arc like
unto the citizenry of our great repub
lic—it embraces men of all creeds, vo
cations and standings. It was organ
ized primarily an institution for the
common people, yet we have upon our
roster some of the wealthiest men of
our land, some of the greatest state¥-
men, jurists, lawyers, doctors, gov
ernors of states, congressmen and
prafessional men of ti:e nation.
The virtue, the merits, the trust
worthiness of the order appeals to
men in all walks of life. In our forest
and about our camp fires, around the
sacred stump we all are on an equal
—all are “Sovereigns”—rulers by di
vine right. There are no Jews nor
Gentiles, nor Greek or barbarians; no
Catholic nor Protestants; no Metho
dist or Baptists or Presbyterians, or
Episcopalians, but all are “Sovereigns®”
and each sovereign we know is a man
whose natural covering of his body is
a Caucasian skin. Banded together
we stand, in the dignity of our indi
vidual and collective sovereignty, “in
mind and in heart,” a solid wall to
shield and foster the interest of the
home, to protect the women and the
children, to guard well a fellow sov
ereign’s good name while he is living
and mark well his grave when dead,
and stand faithful sentinels to safe
guard every interest of his dependent
loved ones whom he perchance leaves
behind. .
Woodcraft and Labor.
Woodcraft enjoins industry and
thrift upon its devoiees, a lazy man
cannot measure up to the standard of
Woodmen perfection and he is other
wise an undesirable citizen of our
commonwealth. It idealizes labor,
whether it be on the farm, in the fac
tory, in the shop, in the mines, in the
mills, in the office, on “the road,” on
land or on the sea in the class room,
at the bar or in the legislative halls
of the state or nation.
“Woodcraft asks not what are the
clothes he wears. With what tex
tures and ornaments he adorns the
body. = But what the furnishings and
qualities of the mind and heart.
© “The pioneer Woodmen were not
idlers, neither were they above labor.
They earned their bread by sweat
of their brows, and the reward of
their toil was sweet to them. And so
in our Modern Forest and Woodcraft}
we revere the humble instruments of
honest toil and the beetle, axe and‘
wedge, emblems of usefulness, of la-‘
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DR. J. W. SIMMONS
Head Consul of Georgia
John W. Simmons, eldest son of the
late Sev. J. W. Simmons of the South
Georgia Conference of the Methodist
church, South, was born at Macon,
Ga., June 28,1880. Attended Emory
College, Oxfard Ga. in 1897-98 gradu
ated with A. B. degree from Mercer
University, Macon, Ga., in the class of
1902. Was first honor graduate in the
class of 1905 of the Medical Depart
ment of the University of Georgia, at
Augusta. One of the founders and
composers of the ritual of the Chi Zeta
Chi Medical Greek letter fraternity,
while in Augusta at college. Now a
practicing physician of Brunswick, Ga.,
secretary of the Brunswick board of
health, secretary of the 11th Georgia
Distrit Medical Society, editor of the
Brunswick Evening Banner. Now Head
Consul of Head Camp, Jurisdiction of
Georgia, Woodmen of the World.
P_elivergil_ Ey Carrier.
In City 5¢ Per Week
The Woodmen Circle, the only au
thorized auxiliary of the Woodmen of
the World for women, was organized
«bout nineteen years ago. The pur
pose of the organization is to bring
fogether the women of our land 'as
co-workers in the great mission of
woodcraft, to uplift humanity, improve
society and to provide and maintain a
practical, tangible protection for our
loved ones at home. g
It has all the advantages common to
other fraternal institutions for women
plus the great beneficiary feature,
which the sensible women of our land
are becoming more and more 'to ap
preciate. It is right, just and proper
tor the wife, mother, sister ang
daughter to take a practical part in
the great work of throwing about their
homes and loved ones a protection of
gold, by carrying life insurance, and
thereby in the event of death should
claim them they by this wise and ]figt
torethought have provided a legacy
that will be a means of smoothing the
pathway of the loved ones left behind,
and have assisted in lifting the finan
cial burdens incident to sickness and
death. 2
The fraternal feature of the order
is a true product of the great princi
pal of fraternity—"“Love one another.”
The incessant demand upon our wo
men in social and community life ip
weaving the fabric of our modern so
ciety, creates a strain upon our indi
vidual fortitude, for the tendency of
all is more or less ambitions along so
cial lines from the highest to the low
est in the social scale; this being true,
evil in the form of envy, jealousy and
gossip will inevitably become mani
;t’est, therefore, to counteract this, the
iWoodmen Circle in its fraternal prat
tices and teaching is playing an ap
‘preciable part in thousands of commuy
nities to band women together in our
sacred compact, Love, Wisdom, Power
and Remembrance for the better, clos
er and more appreciatice fellowship
among the women of our country.
' The social feature of the order is
the equal of any woman’s fraternity,
and far superior to mere “clubs.”
Woman is most especially a social
being, and the founder of this. great.
order made ample provision for the
development of our social facilities
along a high plane of dignity and re
finement. Special attention is always
given this feature within“the gates of
our order, and by this we are enabled
to see inore and more that we are all
creatures of one God and that— '
“Our fears, our hopes, our aims are
one,
Our comforts and our cares.”
Hence, within our groves we under
stand one another better, and love
ecach other more; eagerly holding-our
gselves in readiness to lend whatever
aid we can personally or financially to
smooth the rough places from the
pathway of others, thereby makihg our.
sojourn in this life a real pleasure to
ourselves and a blessing to humanity.
To speak the kindly word, to extend
the helping hand, to assist, comfort
and cheer those who walk in the night
(Continued on last page). * .
bor, are the emblems of the Wood
men of the World. ;
“Work—for mutual improvement,
“Work—For mutual enjoyment.
“Work—For mutual protection.
“Work—For the good of humanity.
“Work—That there may he less of
misfortune and misery.
“Work—That there may be more of
prosperity and happiness. The
“Work—That there may be more of
good and less of evil in the lives of
men.
“Work—That there may be more of
generosity, charity, mercy, and less of
greed and oppression.
“Work—That truth may shine Te
splendent and that *error’ may be,
driven back to the vaces of darkness,
securely chained, no more to march
up and down the highway of life, to
mislead, perplex and embitter the
hearts of men.
Woodcraft teaihes each man to do
his part, to work for the best good
of the greatest number, and promises
a most gratifying and substantial re
ward.”
“Long live our order bright, :
Offspring of truth and right, i
Sent from above. s
Long may our Sovereigns stand,
A firm united band, ¢
Streng pillars in our land, 0
Our pride and love.”
Brotherhood and business with greed
or graft,
Is the practical meaning of the word
“Woodcraft.”
The W. O. W. has met every test,
It stands today the “biggest and best.”
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