Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1916-06-09

VI our ranks are taken 5000 good men
and true-6000 useful and honored
citizens. Who can measure the loss I
That loss both social and material, is
beyond measure or estimate, and It is
allowed to continue year after year
with scarcely protest. Let some
calamity Of fire or flood fall upon |.
community and wipe out Eve thousand
lives, the nation stands aghast with
horror. We rush to the scene and
pour out unstinted wealth for relief.
Our annual toll of death passes un.
noticed. We bow to the inevitable,
and cast the blame on Providence.
In truth, We have been educated to
think this loss il unavoidable, but it
is not 80. We know that there is ON
escape from this plague; that tho
proper treatment under favorable eli
matte conditions will not only relieve
but will also cure; that nature has
furnished the climatic conditions in
many accessible localities and that il
only remains for rs to place our suf-
fering brethren in these surroundings
and build q home for them under the
bright blue skies, where the pure mir
Of heaven will bring healing on it's
wings.
Let us remember that this great
waste Of life CAN he avoided. Real.
ising this fact, what is our duty7 We
Of the Order are bound together by
the strongest ties, ties that not even
death may sever-thc ties Of charity.
motherhood, and love. II is our duty
to protect and defend our brothers
from all ills, moral, physical and ma
terial, so far as in our power. Is this
In our powerf Is any material sac
ri6ce made to stay the cold hand of
death, too great? We heap flowers
on our brothers graves, while we
deny the pittance that would save
their lives. Think not that when the
touch Of the blade Of Damascus laid
the honor Of knigbthood upon your
shoulders, it did not by that same
touch lay upon your soul, the duties
Of brotherhood. He, who accepted /
the honors and fails to discharge the
duties places a stain upon his shield
that even the hand Of charity can
not ehace.
"Climate is Fatew exclaimed Helen
Hunt jackson, and it was because the
climate Of the Rocky Mountains gave
her a new lease on life that she pro-
vided in her will that the Cheyenne
Mountain at Colorado Springs, be her
tomb. Thus there are thousands in
he Rocky Mountain region today who
I'VE not merely health, but life itself
o the salubrious climate.
From earliest times, climate has
determined the fate Of nations. The
irst known civilizations arose in the
rid, sunny valleys Of the Nile and
Suphrates; art reached its highest
development on the sunny and dry
slopes Of Greece and Italy;
I was from arid, sunny Spain the
'reat explorer who discovered this
continent set sail. and from the arid
md sunny highlands Of Palestine
hat came our religion and where the
,reat Master taught the very doe
rines that are the breath Of life of Z
'ur noble Order. Even on this hemi-
phere, the first culture of any conse-
ueuce was developed on the arid,
unny plateaus of the Great South
rest, where there are thousands Of
ave and cliff dwellings bearing mute
ct eloquent testimony Of n civiliza- .
ion that existed when our forcfath. |
rs in Europe were submerged in the |
uperstitions and barbarism of the ,
fiddle Ages. 4
Take il in your own daily life. Gil I
rate and weather conditions are i'm
ortant factors in your commonplace
ctivities and existence: they effect
our temperament vitality. Your ,
ulse leaps higher, your energies re- !
pond more joyously on a sunshiny, :
heerful day, than they would on n !
unid, cloudy afternoon. If We wer, |
, analyze, we would find that many {
business deal, many an undertaking, !
amy a decision are affected by the 4
Gather. Therefore, disregarding all a
Their features, life in n place like the i
outhwest or Rocky Mountain region G
it'll 800 sunny days year, must he @
lore Of a joyous song than life in a
ity with only 140 sunny days and 7
,ese filed in part with smoke and
". In lifetime of the proverbiai &
lyee score and ten, that means more q
ian $4,000 more sunny days for the {
an living in the Southwest than for k