Arizona republican., 1916-05-22

Chancellor Cleveland The address was listened to with close attention throughout.
 Mir Cleveland said in part:
 My Brothers and friends:
 We have gathered here this after noon to pay tribute to the memory of those beloved brothers who, during the year have passed the portals of our Castle Hall to their last resting place in the supreme lodge above, out or the strife and turmoil of this busy life to the home of everlasting peace
 Never before in the history of this lodge have we met in more solemn or respectful conclave than at this time when we are assembled to review the lives of two brothers. whose service to this great order has so clearly eX- emplified the principles of friendship embodied in our teachings. We have at once gained a clearer conception of our obligations and learned the sum of Pythian fidelity, inspired by this
 magnificent brothhood, whose mission
 is one of love
 True frienship is a bond divine Ordained, our natures to refine, Our bosoms to expand by love Responsive to the throne above. Much like the blooming of rose, That with pure fragrance overflows, | Our friendships form the golden chain 1 To link us to the angel train. | Receiving and imparting good l As members of brotherhood, | I l. ata a IT.. Differing life-inspiring light. | So let us dedicate this shrine, : A fit memorial of a friend
 Who toiled, pure friendship to extend,
 And on it's face the legend bind, | He lived to love and serve mankind
 Upon this cardinal virtue has been | founded the Order of Knights of | Pythias and closely entwined through
 out it's teachings. runs the greatest
 story of friendship known to history,
 the story of Damon and Pythias,
 to us from Ancient Greece. Greater
 love hath no man than that he give
 up his life for a friend
 Born at a time when this great na
 ton was in the bitter thrOes of internal | strife and conflict, when brother was
 arrayed against brother, father agains' l son and conceived as a means to hea
 the gaping wounds and soott-
 heartaches brought by bitter war, il
 IS particulariy significant mat n .nl.
 day more than fifty-years later, al
 this time when the nations of Europ
 are torn with the horrors of grea world war, again may come the op portunity for our great brotherhood to join hands with all mankind to- , wards the accomplishment of uni
 versal peace.
 f "The outgrowth of but handful o , men, bound together with single pur pose. one design, a mission of fellow I ship and love in the defense of virtu r and the maintenance of right, todd f seven hundred and fifty thousand mel have rallied to the tri- colors of Pyth l ianism and are paying tribute to tn n teachings of friendship. ' Three quarters of million mel . the realization in but fifty years of tn e dream of a simple school teacher. A
 army of men, sworn to the service humanity; to the defense of their na K tion's flag and the cause of trutl Three quarters of a million men piedG | ed to the care of home and loved one |. to the protection of the weak and CT e ring, to the ministration of the sicl | and when the darkness of death come to the home of a friend, their duty : there, to comfort, to console. and
 possible to point out through til : gloom of sorrows night, the stai | that shine beyond
 | Mir Cleveland then recounted tl
 early history of the order at lengt Isupon the work performed by the fir! | Grand Chancellor B. A. Fickas, tl
 father of William M. Fickas. H
 then paid glowing tribute to the sol = who was born into the order but