El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-25

lions Of ideals Shortly this. your ideal
will enlarge into building material
making a completed home. These ideals
are thrust into existence through love,
and love il the bridge over which we
! all travel home.
Love is the only bow on llfes dark
cloud. 1t is the morning and the even
ing star. II shines upon the babe and
sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
1t is the mother Of art nispirer Of poet,
patriot and philosopher. 1t is the light
and air of every heart, builder Of ev-
/ cry home. kinder Of every fire on ev-
cry hearth. 1t fills the world with mel
ody, for music is the voice Of love.
Love the Magician.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
that changes worthless things to joy
and makes right royal kings and queens
Of common clay. 1t is the perfume of
that wondrous flower the heart, and
without that sacred passion, that divine
swoon, we are less than beasts. but
with it earth is heaven and we are
gods"
In our language there is no other
word around which so many happy and
loving memories cluster and linger as
around the word home These memo
ries OverWhelm US, dim our eyes, and
we are compelled to close the gates Of
memory on this flood tide Of yester-
days. Some one has said that Home is
an inn where love is landlord and con-
tentment chief guest" Here No. 955
viii be the good landlord and Charity.
Justice. BrOtherly Love and Fidelity"
will be the chief guests, and We say to
them, as did the disciples Of old: Abide
with US" Here viii these guests so
charge and dominate the atmosphere
Of this building when erected that it
will be home indeed-a homo for the
rich, a home for the poor.
Strictly American.
As you know, the Order Of Elks is
strictly
say without fear Of successful contra
dictiOn that no soil or country other
than our United States of America
could produce, maintain and perpetuate
like order The charity that will be
practiced in this temple would be
crushed in any other country than in
THE land Of the free and the home of
the brave" Justice, as known to US.
could not sit proudly on her throne and
equally balance her scales in the cOun-
tries of kings and class. Brotherly
love, as will be exempllfied in this
home, would be crowned by treason and
crucified in the slime of treachery in
the land of European military despot-
ism. The star of fidelity would not
shed its soft and fervent glow on any
other altar or flag other than the altar
of ElkdOm and the flag Of our country.
You, my brothers. should feel proud
Of your membership in this order, and
proud of the fact that it will be your
privilege to assist in the building and
maintaining Of a source of good The
encouragement rehOunding to us in our
Christmas cheer, as the tears Of joy
coursed down the cheeks Of the needy,
brought us close to "Old Glory" the
flag Of our order and our country, and
in our prosperity, our minds turned to
millions of suffering humanity, whose
homes are desOlate. Down the Cheeks
of these grieved ones course tears for
reasons the extreme reverse OF joy
Tears that are caused BY the breaking
of hearts tough fiber, while loved ones
in countless numbers continue to be /
sacrificed on the altar Of war.
Hearts Crushed.
'These hearts are not crushed so !
much for the loss OF even home and !
the bare necessities of sustenance. as /
for the lives or those near and dear /
TO them. In answer to these agonized ]
yearnings for loved ones is heard the /
further thunderings OF war in all the !
fury that modern science can produce
Rivers Of tears and rivers of blood! !
Are these streams OF two-fold human /
life exhaust, with their anguish and 4
torture, not yet sufficient to appease
the gods of ware
For them no more the blazing hearth
Or busy housewife ply her evening /,
care;
No children run to lisp their sire's re-
turn,
Or climb his knee the envled kiss to
share.
when this home shall be completed !
and you enter its portals 1 trust you 4
will not forget the suffering and dis \
tress Of the homeless ones. or the care !
you owe to the widows and orphans. /
but that YOU will continue the good !
work so splendidly and faithfully car
ried out in the past by the members
Of this lodge. May you grow and pros
per with the growth Of your city
we live in deeds, not years, in thoughts
not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial:
We should count time by heart throbs:
He most lives who thinks most, feels
the noblest, acts the best
MEXICAN SPUDS IMPORTED.
Three cars of Mexican potatoes were