Arizona republican., 1917-12-03
Deceased EIkS Are Httingly Eul0giZed
 Al Memorial Service

Phoenix Lodge, No. 335, B. P. o. Elks more fittingly eulOgiZed than were the three who answered the supreme com mand during 1917, at the annual mem orial services of the order yesterday afternoon Not only were the eXer- cises deeply impressive, but the ar engagement of the big auditorium of the Elks Theater was quite in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion.
 A. B. Kellogg, Eugene Brady O'Neill and Christy Mackin were the three members of the antlered herd who passed to the great beyond during the year now drawing to close. It was around the memory of the virtues and deeds of these departed brethren that the warp and wool of the memorial was woven. Even in the decorations, the most beautiful ever employed by the Phoenix Elks at this annual serV- ice, the names of the absent brothers stood out in letters of gold, and bright stars appeared when their names were called, indicative of their having an swered the call of the supreme eX- alted ruler
 From the moment that the various officers of the lodge assumed their re- spective stations and the unusually ex- cellent orchestra under the direction of Elk Walter Boothman, of Danbury, Conn.,, lodge, charmed the big audi ence with the opening strains of Elen- burg's Mill in the Forest" until the benediction and exit march, there was not a moment that did not carry with it an appeal to the better side of humankind and eXemplified the motto of the Elks, The faults of our brothers we write upon the sands; their virtues upon t6e tablets of love and memory.
 The Singing of Mrs. Doane Merrill, Elk E. J. Myers and Billy Cochran was particularly good. And the eulogy, an able presentation of the aims and purposes of the Elks, together with an earnest of the efforts of the members of the order to rise to the needs and duties created because of the great world war, became a real classic as rendered by Elk Mulford Winsor, past district deputy grand exalted ruler of | the Arizona jurisdiction.
 MT. Winsor prefaced his remarks by saying that by reason of the | portentious events which are occur ring-events that are engaging the mind of the nation practically to the exclusion of all other subjects-he would not dwell upon the purely fra I celebrated with the particularity that he otherwise might.
 Briefly, however" said the speaker, T wish to say of our mem
 orial service that it is always a
 sacred and solemn event. With the
 expansion and development of thu
 order the growth of its mission and
 the clearer defining of its ideals,
 this annual ceremonial has grown
 in importance, in the sacredness of
 its character and in the regard and
 affection of the brotherhood. It is
 one of the two annual public cere-
 monials which so faithfully symbol
 ize the orders aims, and affords at
 once a period of remuneration, in I which all Elks may renew their
 solemn covenants, one with another
 both with the living and with the
 dead, and an opportunity whereby
 the public may gain an insight into
 the lofty principles which form the
 framework of the orders structure.
 He spoke of the universality witt [ which the memorial service is ob- served wherever the antlered hero has a gathering place" neither di- rection or cline marking an excep l tion. From bleak New England. shore to where the setting of tn, shining orb of day gilds the higl [ Sierras," MT. Winsor declared. "Thi virtues of our brothers are ono, again being written upon memory tablet, while in the land of the mid night sun, where the mountains ar , nameless, and the rivers all run Got . knows where the responses of ou
 Alaskan brothers ring true above tn l ,f
 the songs of the Elks of Manila ris e in harmony with the music of tn waves that gently wash the shore n of the Philippines"
 f Always an impressive service, MI l Winsor said that to him this par t ticular service appealed as no simi
 lar one ever had. Losing nothin a of it's fraternal character, but rathe - enhancing it, it takes on a new, e broader and a more exalted mean . ing. We miss our departed brother - none the less keenly; we recall thei
 familiar features none the less tend e erly; we glow with no 9ess of prid U as we reflect upon their virtues an
 their achievements, but in this hou U of the nations peril, this servic ' should be dedicated, as our abser z brothers would have it dedicated, t . the stricken brotherhood of man. II We mourn he said, for the mil
 lions. of all nations and races, who's d blood is drenching the earth, stain n ing the mountain sides and swellin - the very tides of the rivers ( n Europe; our hearts go out to tn
 women who are widowed, the chil
 dren who are orphaned and the gray
 haired fathers and mothers who hay
 sent forth their brave boys, fles
 of their flesh, blood of their bloot
 to die that the liberty of the worl
 may live" He recounted the atroci
 ties which have called forth ou