Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
Senator Harding
 Delivers Address
 ! At Elks Memorial
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BEDFORD, Va, Dec. b.-PreSldent- elect Harding today redeemed promise to his boyhood friend, Henry M. Stowe, now a blind resident of the EllSs National home here, and prac- ticed his own precepts of 'memory's retealments in fellowships and friend sliips." which formed the basis of an address delivered today at the annual memorial exercises at the Natlonal home of the Lodge of Elks.
 1t was at the invitation of MT. Stowe. formerly a business man of Marion, Ohio, that Senator Harding as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency agreed to deliver the memorial services ora tion at the EIks National home and when he was nominated he repeated his promise.
 So today he delivered the address calling in the presence of his friend of his boyhood that it is not geven to all men to inspire great shafts or granite or tablets of bronze, but it is the privilege of every living being to plant an everblooming friendship in some fellow breast and gather all the fruit it bears.
 The oration was delivered in the onen beneath the mild sun of an h. dian summer day, from the portico ot the national home while two thousand Fllxs and friends from all parts of Vir- ginia gathered to take part in the ex- ercises, in memory of fourteen broth CTS who had died during the year. Senator Harding was introduced by Grand Exalted Ruler William M. Alb bolt of San Francisco.
 Senator Harding reached Bedford at a. m. and left this afternoon al o'clock for Washington, where he will remain for two days in conference with senators and others before goinl to- his home in Marion Tuesday night
 "The greatest gift in Gods maste bestoWal upon man is memory, sai' Senator Harding.
 Tt is the storehouse of everything in life worth while. It fashions char acter and inspires all hope. It take .-su the impressions of human exist ence and by some alchemy of love re moves the dross and makes golden tn cross of faith which is the rosary t every human prayer
 eOne cannot fancy life fit to liv without the memory's revealments l fellowships and friendships. withou love and attachments; without en couragements and endearments; with out inspirations and the consciousness of achievements.
 "We are met in memory today; grateful, fraternal memory, in beha of those who have taken the work ( the road to eternal peace. Ours not a memorial of grief. Only happ memories are becoming to the de parted. only helpful memories al worth while to the living. If the de parted breathren could know of ol memorial, if we could solve the gre; mystery of mysteries and know th' they knew, we should still atune oI memorial above the murmurings sorrow. For them the book of life closed. Sorrow has had it's becor ing expressions. but normal naturi interest is in the living. Indeed, V are met for the living. else this mee ing would be in vain. We are met remind ourselves that as we live. shall our memories endure. We con to a fresh conclusion today that in oI daily lives we are making memoria and 1t is the privilege of every humS being 10 leave such memory as would like to have recalled
 Of the disappointments of publ life. Senator Harding said:
 Glow often do we criticise harshl when we ought to bestow garlan We do it in private life and leave wound where praise would be mo becoming. We do it in public Ii and withhold from sacrificing pub men. the one compensation that mig atone"