The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-05
ELKS' MEMORIAL
 SERVICES DRAW
 OUT BIG CROWD
Juneau Lodge Pays Annual Tribute to Memory of
 Departed Brothers.

Marked by simplicity, reverence and absence of anything of the nor bid, the annual memorial exercises of Juneau Lodge No APO. B. P o. ElkG; at Elks' Hall last night, were at tended by the largest crowd that has eveI gathered on such an occasion in this city. Fully 125 members of the order were present and the s3at- ing capacity of the hall was hardly suff.t tent to take care of the rest of the audience.
 The ritualistic work by officers Of the lodge was most impressive. Sec retary J A. Davis called the names of the following members who had passed away since the last lodge of sorrow was held year ago: Sidney S. Jacobs, Lewis A. Burns, William T. Burns, Ralph B. Stearns, John L. Carlson, Charles M Spores, N. M Tate and Gerald Q. Dwre. On the printed programs appeared these names and those of g other mem- bers of Juneau Lodge No. 420 who have died since the lodge was insti- tuted nearly 9 years ago.
 A vocal solo by Miss Connie Mar tin and a violin solo by Willis F. Nowell and selections by Woofters $ Orchestra added greatly to the en- i ioyment of the program.
 Mayor Robertson's Address An eloquent tribute to the memory of the departed brothers was paid by Ralph E. Robertson, past exalted ruler of No APO, whose address was considered one of the finest orations of it's kind ever delivered here He said in part:
 We meet tonight to pay reverent tribute to our honored dead--to our 1 brothers who have broken asunder the frail. unstable ties of this earthly lodge that they might undertake the enduring obligations that are sealed with the everlasting bonds of the Eternal Heavenly Lodge
 Homage to Departed
 ''It is fitting and eminently proper that we thus assemble to pay homage to our departed brothers. Let us not vainly ponder why they were the ones selected to lead the van, why they were honored to venture forth and, by their example, make easier that dread, unknown path but let us | comfort and solace our brief over their absence by honoring and rever- ing them and by tender thoughts of them. Well we know that, had we been chosen as the adva1ce-guard to lead the way and had they been destined to live on, they would have so gathered in sober, solemn congre gation to render homage to their dead
 Each a Citizen
 Inasmuch as each of them was member of our order, we know that each was a citizen of this our coun try, that each belonged in spirit to this our last great frontier, that each had reached those years of discre- tion at which manhood is attained, that each believed in an All Wise Creator and Supreme Being; other wise they would not have been elig ible to membership in our order. Their vacations in life were as di- verse and varied as the multifarious occupations of so strong, self-reliant men we'll could be The particular occupation of each no longer con cerns us, but we may safely assert, without fear of contradiction, that each conscientiously performed his daily labor in full accord with the dictates of justice and humanity. That they had no human faults would be fanciful for us to urge, as to err is only human; but with the exercise of only small portion of that great quality of charity which they would have been called upon to exercise were our lives under review, we may truly say that their errors were as naught; that even had their faults once been carved, not on the sands of time, but in the rock-ribbed gran ite of the hills, their virtues would long ere this have obliterated them
 Good Lives
 "To what heights they might have climbed; what further honors they might have attained; what greater achievements they might have ac- complished, had they been spared. is beyond human prophecy. But this