. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. change,but the fact is, even this to which wenow offer our traditional toast ischanged and continues to change frombiennium to biennium. A moment ago we heard this fineyoung man who represents the babychapter, a new chapter, a change in ourfamily life. The family is increased;the household is different from what itwas before. Time Marches On! Anew member comes into the family ofbrethern and the very institution whosename we recite when we give the tradi-tional toast can never be the sameagain, nor is it ever the same from dayto day, from year to year. Development
. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. change,but the fact is, even this to which wenow offer our traditional toast ischanged and continues to change frombiennium to biennium. A moment ago we heard this fineyoung man who represents the babychapter, a new chapter, a change in ourfamily life. The family is increased;the household is different from what itwas before. Time Marches On! Anew member comes into the family ofbrethern and the very institution whosename we recite when we give the tradi-tional toast can never be the sameagain, nor is it ever the same from dayto day, from year to year. Developmentis constantly taking place so that it isnever the same. Not long ago my brother, who issomething of a philosopher in his way,said, Paul, has it occurred to you thatthe wit of the nation changes fromperiod to period, as evidenced by thestories of the day, and that they repre- sent the changes, the developments thattake place in the world from time totime? I told him I had not thought aboutit, and he said, A few years ago, when. PAUL R. HICKOKWorthy Grand Chaplain you and I came back, nearly all thestories we heard were stories about thewar and stories about soldiers and aboutbuddies, and things of that sort, thethings that happened in camps and theamusing relationships that developedoverseas, the still funnier things thathappened after the boys came home. Soon after that, he said, a dif-ferent sort of story began to be heard,such as this one, for instance: A man had a little hotel situated inthe farthermost point of West advertised that it was unique amonghotels in America because George Wash-ington and Abraham Lincoln and Her-bert Hoover had been guests in that 396 THE PALM, December, 1937 hotel. One day a guest approached thehost and said, I know something aboutthe travels of George Washington. Idont believe he was ever out this am. quite sure Abraham Lincoln wasnever here. It may be true that HerbertHoover was a guest here, but I doubtthat, too. The hotel pr
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