Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-23

this work is no exception to the es- tablished rules of history. You may review the stories of knightly deeds i and peerless chivalry of centuries gone, the eloquence of whose telling l echoes like mellow music from the sombre halls of the past, and you will 1 usually find that the greatest achieve l ments were born in the benediction | Of their smiles. Our lady friends have been loyal to the lodges of our state ill providing many of the orna- ments which decorate our beautiful homes. loyal in lending their alluring charms to many of our social festivi- ties and loyal With their presence and their prayers in our annual memorial exercises. when we hang the rainbow of hope over the dust of the dead. The l great Order, of EIks may boast that it's existence was fashioned by manhood 1 oi utuhticoo cliOedF OI, put IL cOHlu never have reached the heights of it's greatness were it not sustained by womanhood as lovely as Esther, as faithful as Rebecca and as beautiful as the blue eyed blonde of Troy
 Tn speaking of the Order of Elks do not mean to discount or reflect | H4 hor f,.at fC, there are many in our country which deserve the highest commendation for their works of kindly deeds and un- ostentatious charity. We rejoice in our success the more because they too succeed and that out into life's rugged highway preaching the Gospel of Sum- shine we can walk hand in hand as out of Abrahams tent Young lshmael wandered with Hagar.
 The state organization of the Or der of Elks will live because it is founded upon fundamental princi- pie: TO cultivate good fellowship among it's members and to quicken
 
 Both principles are vital, yet they are er-dependent No man can be loyal to our national flag, it's azure fields, it's hammered stars and harbor in his heart hatred for his fellow man. Defense of that flag is dependent up- on mutual effort which is only con- sistent with mutual harmony. On the other hand, no man can be loyal to our national flag without loving all whom 1t protects and all who share in it's common glory, and no man is worthy of it's protection who is unwill- ing to spend a few days in each year l i'll cultivating the affections of his 1 countrymen. Fraternal organization ! is an essential to a nation perpetuty as it is to it's economic growth and i it has figured in American history since the landing of thr Pilgrim Fath- CTS upon the black New England l hills. You might as well attempt to take from Yorktown and Bunker Hill their fadeless aurels, from Gettysburg and Shiloh their deathless glory as to attempt to write the history of this republic and omit from it's pages the work of fraternal organizations
 Tn behalf of the individual Elks of our state today l desire to thank you Mayor and Brother Can't for the keys of your city, for l feel that they will save the individual .siis d great deal of inconvenience. Ne appreciate the feast of entertainment, the bounteous welcome which you have extended us, a welcome as royal as ever prepared 1 by Calypso for Ulysses coming, and l trust that we may prove to be guests 90 erAsicus and happy that when 70 9saa depart from the gates of yo&r ciiT aat you will regret our gons IS Ga2nly as did Dido when she stood upon the wild seabanks and waited her love to come again to Carthage. We assure you Brother Can't that your words of welcome will also be among the sweetest mel odies which echo from the minstrels of memory.
 | And now my friends 1 am like the old maid who came out of the water I one windy day at the seashore and | who said I am glad to know that l 1 am drawing nearer my close.
 Let me say to the good people of Pine Bluff who so generously have 7 extended us their hospitality that