The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-12-11
ELK MEMORIAL DAY.
Confined from Arst pags.)

NSt.AsAeNa " INV FAHStI
OF Elks was organised about q hall
Century ago in the City Of New York
Since our organisation Thousands Of
hearts have been made glad, Thousands
Of homes blessed, the hungry have
been fed, the naked clothed, the siel
ministered to, the dying eomfortsd, the
dead buried, widows protected and pro
vided for, orphans educated, throns have
been elected from life . rugged path and
roses strewn in their stead, sunshine
and gladness have driven back the
clouds Of sorrow and despair. Totter'
ing feet have been lifted from temp
tations miry clay and placed upon the
pedestal Of honor and true manhood,
aud bitter tears hive given place 70
smiles Of sunshine.
AZ an organization the Elks have
been a success. The Elk, the emblem
Of the order, was wisely chosen by
our founders as . symbolic type, on
account Of his strongly marked quail.
ties. Naturalists tell us that the ELK
Is strong of limb, fleet Of foot, keen
IN his perception, acute in all his sen.
SEES and ut the same time, gentle-timid
and unaggressive saw whom attacked
OF in the defense OF tho weak or help
less dependent upon his protection.
Let US who have adopted the name
of Elk ever be on the alert to hear the
cry Of distress-swift to respond 10
the call Of need-strong and r~esolote
IA our protection of the erring, the de-
f~ensless and the unfortunate. And
With all II there qualities should eve
bv combined every acquisition which
marks the refined and cultured gentle.
a vi the highest and trues type,
The tenets Of our order are Charity,
Justice, Brotherlylove and Fidelity
aud We should so live up to all that i,
involved IN these cardinal principle.
as To sustain with honor u~ntarnished
the very keenest Investigations of 4
,crutinizing world.
Our order, started with u single pro
f%ession, now enrolls some Of the no
blest and best Of every calling aud pro
ic>siou in our land .
Governors and Judges, bankers anC
Senators, and the most eminent ex
ponents of the Clerical, Journalistic, tn,
Legal and the Medical professions, tb'
worhi 5 most brilliant lights in art, lit
%erature and music, and the Capitalist
who with a touch like the magician I
wand makes the desert blossom lik,
the rose, transforms the unproduetiy,
areas " our country into the granarieI
of the world, builds the waste place.
into thriving cities, humming will
busy Industries, sll-are linked togeth
er in the grand work of tie elevation
of man to higher planes, broader Wis
ions, clearer views, and truer eoneep
tions Of their relations to each other
for we recognize the fatherbood Of
God, and the universal brotherhood Of
man.
We have achieved our success anC
standing among the fraternal organi
nations oil tho world because-plant
ing ourselves on the broadcast platform
of liberality, we have given u univer
salty to our benevolence that Is ham
Pered by no bigotry, enslaved by nc
abjeet devotion TO dogma, and that
when summoned by the wall Of agony
or the moa of despair to the couch
Of suffering or death, asks no questions
as tn creed doctrine or belief of tn,
sufferer. II Is enough for an Elk q
know that he has met with suffering
that be can assuage, some human be
ing whose sorrows be can alleviate anC
whose life he can brighten, and instant
~, with tender willing heart and read,
hand the deed is done and so effec
lively, that the gushing tears OF thank
f%ulness replace the oman Of misery, an,
so unostenttatiously, that only when thu
books are opened in the land beyon'
the shadows will there be revealed tn
good that has been done without tn
knowledge Of the busy world around.
We have cared for and protected o
the widow aud orphans Of our departe'
brothers where ever found, but NOR
than this, We have recognized that al
the human race is linked together b,
the ties Of kinship and the responsi
bilities which spring from q univsr
sal brotherhood. AS the protector
of the fatherless, as the counsellor
Of those whose erring feet have per
CHANGED strayed from the paths Of dut.
and rectitude, we have made our BE-