Show president pleased with the work of elks lodge holding of conventions and the va rions rious state and national meetings of the aliks I 1 as the approval of dent livinson li ilson vilson he ile so expressed him self in a letter to grand exalted ruler fred harper who wrote the chief magistrate specifically request ing an expression of his wishes and attitude on the subject in his re pl the president expressed his ad mi rai ration for the order and also his appreciation of the patriotic service which tie elks are rendering the countr country the president also stated that he thought it would be highly addan tadeous it the several conventions of the elks would devote themselves to the serious consideration of the many problems which confront the country in tie tl e conduct of the war that pa rades would naturally be the oyt cit come of such meetings and councils and suggest to the people who wit ness them the serious purpose and united sentiment of this great order in line with this oscar forslund resident president of the state association of utah has announced that the patri otic otle parade will be one of the big features of the association meeting I 1 which will be held at provo june 5 and 6 and which will be attended by many members of the order from |