Anonymous ID: 2ace9d Jan. 6, 2019, 1:45 p.m. No.4632080   🗄️.is 🔗kun

I've been digging the secret societies. Found this on the Wiki. Secret Owls. But wait until you see the bottom sentence.

 

History[edit]

The order originated among a group of men who engaged in different businesses and periodically met for mutual assistance. This group included John W. Talbot, Joseph E. Talbot, George D. Beroth, J. Lott Losey, John J.Johnson, John D. Burke, William Weaver and Frank Dunbar. They got around to discussing the teachings and methods of different fraternal orders and decided to create a new one, named after the owl. After several months of planning by "the best constitutional lawyers in the Middle West", the constitution was adopted and the order was founded at the law offices of Talbot and Talbot on Nov. 20, 1904 in South Bend, Indiana.[4]Ritual[edit]

The Order of Owls worked four degrees[17] and had a secret ritual, signs, grips and passwords. The initiate was required to recite a lengthy obligation, before he could join the order.[18] An Owls circular in the early 1920s stated that "We have a beautiful ritual, but no religious observances. Nothing in the ritual is offensive to any man's religion or irreligion."[10]

 

In 1912, it was reported[19] that the Owls' motto, penned by Frank Dunbar at the initial 1904 meeting, was:

There's so much bad in the best of us

And so much good in the worst of us

It hardly behooves any of us

To speak ill of the rest of us.

 

The same article goes on to state:

 

The Owls in their mottoes have gone the Hoo-Hoos one better in the rescue of a good old but sadly abused Latin derivative. Out of deference to non-members we will use the customary dash in the one quoted, which is offered in evidence of fact that the Owls, while going about in a serious way to sandpaper the splinters of the helter-skelter of life, are firm believers in the play spirit. The motto is DON'T TAKE YOURSELVES TOO — SERIOUSLY.[19]

 

>ON MAY 27, 1921, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH REPORTED THAT 200 MEMBERS HAD LEFT THE ORDER OF THE OWLS TO FORM THE SUPREME ORDER OF THE WHITE RABBITS. LODGES OF THE WHITE RABBITS WERE LOCATED IN MISSOURI, KANSAS, ILLINOIS AND OHIO.[27]

 

Where have I heard follow the White Rabbit before.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Owls