| Show loRDER ORDER UNIQUE IN of 01 Little Band k J Men Hen Known tf loll Jolly CorKs CHARITIES OF G GREAT cREAT E SCOPE T-SCOPE I 1 Preservation of 1 from Which Its me meIs Is Derived r xa J. J HASKIN ZI II of the Be Be- of Elks t u aDil Prot Protective tive Order Orde II held eia in Portland Or the United ot of JOO ro rC 1 part parL f f flaVe ted to the land of laVe b mf migrated ita lu for tb bi big even event some fa m magnificent all aU 1 Pullman K and I I others going II one at tat ill t tU bent beat ent on having ing one of meetings meeting 1 in the th order And a as aa for tor the 0 testify that tit city all 11 hands Ji been overlooked that Trill w Elk of the country always ot Jarm wot in their h heart f for r ta itY Of f f that north Pao Pacific fie II r of 01 importance to Elk Elk- be he brou brought ht before b fore the con con- of these I Is I the tie problem 3 al l home hene for lor the order i t I fund fond of a hundred bundred thousand a the hands bends of August Her Her- who ill IB s also allo the ba baseball ball commis commis- commis- commis tie purpose of some dint ding operations at Bedford e the home is is lie tern Elks dai claim r that f site lite for tho home borne is IB too IM td ld Ide of f th the country they J wed nearer neater the center of ofis It is expected that they strong fight hf to have ha the Tea ed ea to the Mississippi val O OB the tb other hand it is Ia at nh the delegates at sall all tolt together t er for the Vir Virginia felt they will Jtb bo t supported t t l f th t body ir c t i i that at 1 come b i i ati J of f a 5 b s sanitarium for foro for fort t o th ii i has Denver I Ier er Sri l' l ibe- ibe h. h matter that fi site ite sUd and plans lans lines have already been rh Elks have hue labored carr car ear r i J rg rl to o further tho the ti fight ht and aDd the Colorado t f fe Ii that if jf a ean sanitarium be e established th that t n now w f is 34 d that Denver r is h the place er Movement little br brother ther campaign i hs been attracting a tion t a in in parts of tb the i r campaign D in which I f on oa pa page e 2 ELKS ELKS' ORDER OmER IS UNIQUE IN FRATERNALISM Continued from TH page pago O 1 I Elks undertake to tog to enlist the interest interest of C young oun America In in g the thc order and to awaken aken In In thorn them an Rn appreciation of tho principles for which stands It Itis is IS 35 believed b by those who inaugurated nau this thin campaign that in a it will 11 begin to hear bear fruit in the expansion ot tho the order and in the making of f bettor belter men out of th the ho boys who now are arc being being be be- ing in influenced by tho movement The members of order are arc much pleased with decision of tho t courts of N New w York lork in in which it wa was held that tho nc negroes roe of th that t state have hac no r right to be known as II Elks or to u use o the official pin pin of ot the organ organ- The The constitution provides provides' that it is an Rn order to which only male malc whito white citizens citizen of tIll the Unit United d S States ate 21 years of O Bg-O ago or ter ver are eligible In spite of this c colored men mon in Ohio have hn I 4 have o had bad them or organized aniza lodges nail ami iD incorporated un under tho thc laws of the stat state The order claims dum that the they theare are interlopers and have havo DO no ri right bt to the name namer V The Elks were the first of or all the secret se se- se cret or orders lers to hold annual iri ual memorial V services es for departed brothers No Elk e ever r sf A Alo Aslone g a ag as the order lasts lats memory be kept green ien b by the annual of sorrow held on tho first Monday of December These rhes memorial services services the tho reputation tation of of- bein being jig among th tho most beautiful hum beau and impre impressive heI held heh by bJ any organized or or- body Millions for Charity No secret order is more de devoted to tho the C ends of charity t than an the B. B BP P. P 0 O. E. E Aside from the many m millions the membership has within the order order or or- or-I or der morn more m ro than three million dollars d has b been en r raised for outside purposes A beautiful illustration of the charac of Elk charity is to be found in their heir efforts l last st wint winter r to relieve relieve- the distress of the flood victims of the Mississippi A large lareo fund was raised and dispatched to ta the stricken district by y th the same men man who V had succored ho tho starving rvin at San Francisco and Galveston The name Elk seldom was vas spoken by the dispensers of the bounty of the tho order When tho suf suf- wanted to know knot to whom they were wore indebted for this thi kindness th they y were t told ld that the giver giyer was mouse When they 1 wanted to o be af af- forded a means whereby they could repay repay re reo re- re pay it after th they got back onto their financial feet they told that thoy could do doso so by passing it BloD along to 8 some me other needy person when tho the time came The wealthiest lod lodge lode e in th tho whole order of Elks is lodge No 1 L of Brook Brook- lyn lye It annually gives ives to charity and has to hold bold its membership member ship restrictions very close in order to o keep it down to any reft reasonable size One lodge had bad to double its it's initiation fees in in an effort to put some kind of ofa a check upon the remarkable growth c While tho the B. B P. P O. O E. E is the direct outcome of a small social club of Now York fork known as as' as the Jolly JoUy Corks which Wa was made up principally of theatrical people banded to together for mutual ben ben- And und in opposition to sumptuary it is a a. a cosmopolitan order order and has hns in it some of the most eta staid staid in and conservative men men in th the country Its membership ts is g growing ow ns rapidly and the he latest reports indicated that the mark soon will Trill be re reached ched It Its js 35 s now flOm the ei eighth lar largest eat secret order u the country In Inthe the past few years the he order has built more new homos 1 homes omes for or it its local lod lodges es in pro proportion to the he sizo eizo of its membership than any other order in iii tho ho United d States State Tolay To To- Today Tp I day lay there thero are moro more than a dozen big structures going oin up in many cities and it itis is said that other cities are con con- erection m of new new club club- houses housos louses The Washington tou home is bein being I taken aken an an example of Elk ture uro and tho the magnificent now new home u n Ne New few York is only one ono of many that have lave been modeled after it jt Many Unique Features Few of the the- secret orders are hotter better represented with periodicals devoted to their heir interests than are the Elks Ever Even section of the country ha has one or more papers which chronicle the doing donga do do- in nga ing of the lodges es Some of them do do- ute Fote themselves c mainly to the doings or of f their localities s. s while others are naiona na na- iona liona in rn their 5 scope pe The or organization of tho the order of I Elks ElkS hl is unique in some somo respects Its Its' grand erand forum is is th the supreme court ot the order nd many questions relative to th the constitution and bylaws are brou brought ht up annually This court consists consists con con- of or five fi members representing as 15 many different sections section of tho the countr country In addition t to this it has a committee e eon on judiciary whoso whose general duties are ate not not- dissimilar to those of the judiciary committee e of the two houses of con con- cress The committee on the preservation tion of the thc elk is one ono in which the them theor m organization or or- takes considerable pride prid and the thousands of elk that have havo been heen prot protected ted from slaughter through h hits its activities are a testimonial to to its work in that that- dir direction There are aro some who seek seak to domesticate cate the elk as a 8 moans means of saving it from extinction They assert that asa as asa a destroyer of underbrush it has the goat loat left in the stable because it Is Isable able abo to browse fl as low lots as the goat oat and twice as high As 8 a protector of sheep likewise likewise likewise-it it is raid to bo be superior to the heaL best billy goat that ever over with a flock of ot Southdown s. s No dog do has mu munch much h hof of a a 8 chance cnance in a sheep lot when an elk is around Elk for domestic domestic do do- purposes now lOW are aye bringing n about loo a head It is said laid that they can live Jive on mu much muth h less than cattle eattle and that they make mako more moat in proportion to their wei weight ht than cattle The elk tooth fraud is bein being work worked d again atrain i in some somo quarters with much profit to those who perpetuate it A firm in iu Maiden Malden Lane New NewYork NewYork York ork gathers up the particles of ot walrus wal wal- rus rue tooth in ja preparing in articles Of ot various vari van ous one kinds in which these teeth are used and molds molds' them thom into imitation elk teeth These aro aro then Counted as ag asnins nine or watch charms and put into the tho hands hand of canvas canvassers ers who go 0 into the h hedges and in search of ot Elks whose whoso love for the order is if stronger er than their discrimination Thousands of these emblems recently have ha been sold flold in Michigan It has been assorted ft V SV a that the real Teal elk of Wyoming the tho tho antlered animals the the being ra exterminated by hunters and there have been frequent t. t assertions that tho the order was not doing its duty by the tho animal whose name it bears An investigation of the tho qu question ques tion is said t to show that there thore are ate elk lk in that one state and that II they are being protected by stringent and w Wen well ll enforced game me laws Most of ot t these es elk herd in what is known a athe as the n Hole re region on the last great eat stand of the noble beast boast in America A ear vear ago ato last winter the elk olk and tho the cattle both had a hard time to k kee keep p alive owing to the rigor r of f the tho weather T and the ht heavy heay y snows While it is is' true as asserted that nearly all the calf elk were wre destroyed bY bv tho the cold weather or er it is is 18 equally true that the domestic cattle suffered in like Th state of or Wyoming used need many hundreds of tops of ot hav har nav to feed the famishing elk herd sad and nd that so 80 few of ot the adults of the Jack Jackson on Hol herd died is idue due t to the humanitarian efforts of the state Tomorrow Tomorrow- V AMERICAS AMERICA'S GREAT GAT ENDOWMENTS S i V I. 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