“Civilization in Danger, Odd Fellows Are Told”

Representative George Huddlston of Alabama speaking before Odd Fellows at the City Club in Washington D.C.:

“Present age is in danger of destruction by its opulence and devotion to worldly things.” Last year’s increase in the prison population was due to the declining amount of “old fashioned virtue in men and less of the old-fashioned modesty in women than ever before." It was not a result of the war he said, characterizing the world conflict as only "a rash that broke out on civilization showing the inner fever.”

“Something is the matter with our ideals, the representative declared. “The World reeks with an atmosphere charged with selfishness and greed. Never before has the world needed the principles of Odd Fellowship so badly. People should realize that the spiritual life is the only permanent thing and that the doctrine of love and fellowship is the great need today.”

[Washington Post, March 25,1924, p.11.]