Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
LAST TRIBUTE TO THE ABSENT
 GIVEN BY ELkS
More Than 700 People At tend Memorial Services Program Of Music And Speaking Marks Last Honor To Dead

So live, that when thy summons
 comes to join
 The innumerable caravan, which
 moves
 ITO that mysterious realm, when each
 shall take
 His chamber in the silent halls of
 death,
 Thou go not, like the quarry slave at
 night,
 "Scourged to his dungeon, but, sus-
 tained and soothed
 By an unfaltering trust, approach thy
 grave
 Like one who wraps the drapery of
 his couch
 About him and lies down to pleasant
 dreams"
 "Thanatopsis" / found a fitting place in the eulogy delivered by Sidney F. Osborne, P F. R., at the memorial services of Phoenix Lodge No. 335, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, held in the Eslks theater yester day afternoon. The memorial service is held annually the first Sunday in December by all Elk lodges through out the United States.
 The purpose of the service was ex- plained by Exalted Ruler Edwin NJ 6erS III HIS aSSeFlIOn. We are born not to die, but to live Memorial Day with us is a day of intercession. | More than 700 people attended the | impressive service and joined with Elkdom in singing "Auld Lang Syne.' 1 There was touch of the awesome in 1 the stage settings which featured the roll of the departed where the names ] of the commemorated appeared in 1 electric letters. These names were on the list In Memoriam": Walter i Hege, James T. Shaw, John J. Me Mahon, Edward May, Norman c l Webster. Erwin s. Yarwood, Jacol Miller, Harry N. Cox. Sam F. Webb | Adrian A Lyall, Albert O. Erhardt c. J. McCraley, Louis J. Killeen ane ! w. F. Snevely.
 "ElRdom, ever hopeful and opti- mistic, today stands appalled, at it: loss" declared Sidney Osborne in de livering the eulogy, finding solace fo the loss in the fact that There is ], mysterious and indefinable influence about Ell1dom that draws it's member together into an eternal bond. Livinl or dead, an Elk is never forgotten, i never forsaken."
 Death a Form of Growth
 The speaker. called attention to tn fact that veneration of the dead be longs to every race and all people It is the most ancient and touchin l custom.
 Death in it's true sense is a forr of growth" he said. It is q stage o development and transition. Lif, would be unbearable if we lived for ever in our present form and unde out present environment. As a chil we long for maturity. As we grow ol we regard with envy the days of ou childhood. It is natural for us t want change-to desire existenc under different conditions If ou dream of life is to be realized it mus ? be in different world than this Upon the foundation of fidelit, T brotherly love, justice and charity 3 Elkdom founded The speaker dwe d at length in defining these attribute
 and showing how they spelled spir s tual and mental progress. Il Tt is the spirit of Elkdom to get u . very best there is out of life and e dying to feel that we have not lived
 vain," was the speakers comment
 was also pointed out that EIkdom 9 essentially an American institution
 no man is a loyal Elk unless he is IF patriotic citizen of the United State . Following an introductory march l . the orchestra Chaplain Harry J. Bel @ nett pronounced the invocation. The musical program included Il
 Rosary" played by Fred B. Barlo'
 violin; A. R. Ewing, piano: and J.