Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-12-09
!. ALEXANDRIANs HONoRED.
High Compliments Paid to Elks Who
Made Memorial Addresses
Sunday, l..

High compliments were paid to ths
two members Of Alexandria Lodge
of Elks who made memorial address,
ses before other Virginia Lodges OF
Sunday. Hon. Charles C Carlir
spoke in Danville and Robert S.
Barrett in Roanoke.
t Speaking of Mr.. Carlin's addres!
the Danville Register says:
''Hon. Charles C Carlin, of Alex.
| andria, Va, one of the most influen
tial members OF the Virginia dele
cation in Congress, was the orator
of the occasion. It was his debut
before a Danville audience but HI
pleased his audience with his fine
address and his impressive and elo-
quent delivery. Mr.. Carlin touched
upon the te,lets of the order, but
stressed especially its brotherly love
and the influence of fraternal or
ders upon the patriotism, unity and
harmony of the people of America.
Citing the distressing conditions ex-
listing in Europe today where the
brotherhood Of humanity appears to
be forgotten in the great destructive
struggle now devastating and filling
those lands with mourning, he con-
trasted the peaceful conditions which
he attributed largely to the silen.
underlying influences of the fra
ternal orders which knit men to-
gether in such a real brotherhood
sinking the circumstances of birth
and of nationality and emphasizing
the brotherhood of men and their
duties toward each other. In elo-
quent tones and beautiful diction Mr..
Carlin stressed the brotherly love
and the benevolence that softcned
the asperities of human nature, drew
men together and blessed and
frightened humanity With ef-
fective oratory he blended pathog
with delightful touches of humor
and swayed his audience alternately
between smiles and that touch o.
rapt silence that evinces deeper
feeling. He cited Il touching illus
tration of the loyalty of the mother
love in remembering even the dead
child in her annual Christmas COM
memoration and applied this effec-
lively to the fidelity Of this order to
its departed members, as testified in
this annual tribute to them He paid
a handsome and deserved tribute tc
the order for it's practical benevo
lences and the happiness brought IN
to the lives Of others
An elaborate account Of the serv.
ices of Roanoke Lodge is given in
the World News which has the fol-
lowing to say of Mr., Barrett's adI
dress:
There was not vacant seat
and before Robert S. Barrett, OF
Alexandria Lodge No. 75S. the mem
orial orator, had concluded his clo-
quent appealing message Of brother
hood there was more than one man
who wiped trickling tear from his
cheek and looked about at his fe low
Elks with glistelsng eyes unashamed
to she'd tear over the memories Of
men and incidents that have passed
"The memorial orator was intro
duced by Exalted Ruler s. X Snede-
gar. and speaking in great measure
extemporaneously, he gave to the rs.
sembled Elks thirty-minutc mcs-
sage that fell like Il soothing benedic.
tion on the ears Of those who heard
"NIr Barrett, by way of introduc-
ton. called attention to, the fact that
lodges of Elks all over North Amer
lea in the Hawaiians and the Philip
pines were meeting at that hour
to perform one of the principal
duties of an Elk. the keeping alive
Of memory Of those who have gone
before"
at takes great deeds" said Mr..
Barrett, sto have monument erect
ed to man. 1t needs great accctn-
plishmcnt to have erected in the
memory of man such shaft7!a
that in Trafalgar square to Nelson;
But in Elkdom the lowliest and the
poorest, following out the princi-
pals he learned in the order wat
have a. blasting memory in the, fGarta
of his friends and brothers. n,.,., IN