To uphold and defend the constitution of the United States of America, to maintain law and order, to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent americanism, to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations during the great wars, to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation, to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses, to make right the master of might, to promote peace and goodwill on earth, to safeguard and transmit to posterity