Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-04
Augusta Lodge of Elks Holds - sss.as
Appropriate Memorial Services.

Augusta Lodge OF Elks, No. Ga, held
memorial services, Sunday afternoon.
lat the opera house in the presence of
La large audience of members and in
lvited friends. The services were con-
ducted by the exalted ruler, G. Wal
ter Poor, and we're in memory Of Will
llam =. kenibbs, James l.. McIlroy.
michael j. Colman, James E. Blanch
lard, Allen II. Jewett. Fred :. Thorne
lClarence h. Burleigh, Chaplin Lydston
land Henry l.. Morrill,, members Of the
lodge, who have died since its organ
Iization.
Rev Leroy w. Coons Of this city
gave the Invocation ana the music
was furnished by the National Home
Orchestra. Sara Miller Mcnamara
VI sang two appropriate vocal selections.
Hon L. f.. Newbert a member OF
the Augusta Lodge Of Elks, gave the
memorial address, speaking in part as
follows:
This memorial occasion is a fitting
public expression of these sentiments.
Ion this day and hour such a service
as this will be held wherever lodge
of Elks is founded, and nearly 100000
men. American citizens and members
of this fraternity. have heard the call
and will heed it.
| Truly ours is a great fraternity. Al
most within a generation we have
grown from a small beginning until
we are nearly 100000 strong. There
are nearly 1900 lodges Of Elks in
this country. with net assets figuring
almost S1S000,000. 1t is far from our
purpose. however. to boast our
strength or our wealth. | mention it
only to show how great our response
bility as stewards of trust l have
spoken of sentiment as the golden
thread in life. Yet sentiment is
poor thing unless given practical APP
plication.
The responsibility of such a fratern-
IL as ours to help in the moral work
of the world cannot be shirked. Nor
should |, in passing, leave untold some
| of the things We are doing and the
| things we propose to do. In the Il
| months ending April !, our order dis
pensed 100000 in charities. This
half million dollars was expended by
practical men of the world in practi-
| eal charities. The poor were fed, the
lnaked clothed, the sick We're cared for
| he improvident dead given burial, and
| Il a thousand different ways the bur-
| len of care lightened for hundreds OF
| Gen and families.
| In the city of Denver are many hos
| Jitals for the treatment of tubercu-
| ar disease. In addition to their
| egular benevolences, the Elks of Den
| ger have been caring these many years
| Tor tuhereular patients coming from
| uany points of this country to that
| .ity. To carry on this work the Den
'er Lodge of Elks has spent in the
last six or seven years more than
$4,000, and today it is supporting Il
.ooms in hospitals in that city, ask
ng no question of the wealth or the
poverty of patient but treating al
| brother Eiks thus unfortunate, alike
| Sor should | fail to mention the ma
| ional Elks' home at Bedford, Va.
designed on an elaborate scale to be
| real fraternal rest" which. when fin
| shed. will cost $500 900 and will rep
| esent contributions from every Elk
| II America. OF interest, too, is the
| movement known among Elks as The
| Big Brothers Movement. movement
we'll named and now under way. This
| movement was begun in the East and
| rapidly spreading in the West. The
,lan OF the Big Brothers Movement
OF aid and uplift ethe boys in big
titles, who, because of one reason OF
mother, have fallen into vice or are
| drift on the streets, or are homeless
| md friendless. The plan is for an
| ELK to give his personal attention Il
| one or more of these boys, to keep
| him under his eye. to give him
| strong hand, 10 guide him by kind
| ness to clean living, to better ideas
me associations. to new ambitions
md to q decent. hopeful.s responsible
manhood In urging this Big Broth
| ,rs Movement the grand exalted rul-
n has said: There is kindness in
lit. There is protection in it, and there
| s salvation in it for our little brother"
And this leads me to suggest that
| here is enough good teaching in
| odge of E,lks to transform human So
ciety. No true Euk can be a selfish
| nan. No true Elk can be mean
| man He cannot be untrue to man
/ kind in his human relations. A true
| elk will not be a hypoerite or a slave
o.. coward. He cannot debase wo-
/ manhood or offend little child He
| will not champion wrong nor defend
| lie. A true Elk. wherever he is
| found, is a humane man. boasting no
| perfection of virtue, processing pur-
| chance no particular religious belief,
| vet given to the service of state and
nation and loving his fellow men. In
| The name of gladness, a rational liv-
| ing. a sensible life, a smiling face and
| better comradeship, We unite in say
| ing. and may his tribe increase.
| Finally. the mystic rol-call of those
| who will come no more. In these words
| are gathered all the tenderness, the de-
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