PREAMBLE

For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes:

   To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United State of America;

   To maintain law and order;

   To foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism;

   To preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great Wars;

   To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation;

   To combat the autocracy of both the class and the masses;

   To make right the master of might;

   To promote peace and goodwill on earth;

   To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy;

   To consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.