Are you an active member?
The kind that’s liked so well,
Or are you just contented
With the emblem on your lapel.

Do you attend the meetings
And mingle with the flock;
Or do you stay at home
And criticize and knock.

Do you take an active part
To help the work along;
Or are you satisfied to be
Like those who “just belong”?

Do you ever make suggestions
To the officers you pick;
Or leave the work to just a few,
And talk about the “clique”?

Come to the meetings often
And help with hand and heart;
Don’t be “just a member,”
But TAKE AN ACTIVE PART!

– Anonymous

Torch & Trefoil, September 1950