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Show LELAND BREWER LAID TO BEST 1 GITY CEMETERY The funeral services, largely attended, at-tended, and very impressive in character, char-acter, of Alexander Leland Brewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. ..Brewer woro held Thursday afternoon In the Tabernacle. Tab-ernacle. After prayer offered in the homo by Elder Joseph A. West, the funeral cor-tego cor-tego proceeded to tho tabornaclo led by the student body of tho Weber Academy. The pall bearers were Malcolm Mal-colm Watson, Julian Geiger, Linley Couch, Kenneth Mills, John Saugh-nossy Saugh-nossy and Victor Critchlow. As the funeral party entered the Tabernacle tho strains of Ave Maria fell gently on the ears of the bereaved people and all present rose In respect to the flag and the youth so closely wrapped together to-gether In a last embrace. In his country's coun-try's servlco the young man had die, having contracted pneumonia while in the service at the Great Lakes. Naval station. The service was conducted by Bishop Bish-op E. A. Olsen of the Fourth ward. Walter L. Stephens sang tho opening song, "Thy Will Be Done." The invocation, in-vocation, by Elder Christian J. Jensen, followed and Miss Mildred Ware sang "O Rest in the Lord," preceding the Introduction of the first speakers. The first of these was Russell Petty, president pres-ident of the Weber Normal college student stu-dent body, who read a letter of condolence con-dolence from his fellow students to tho family. This was followed by tho reading of a letter of condolence from tho college faculty, by Principal Owen F. Beal. Prof. Barker Speaks Prof. James L. Barker, former principal of Weber academy, was next to pay tribute to the memory of tho decedent and. in part, he said: "My first remembrance of Leland was of meeting him in the hall at 'Weber and, yet, in all my after acquaintance ac-quaintance with him, in and out of the school, 1 never thought of him as a student but as a staunch, honest, true friend of mine. He was cheerful, loyal and generous, always willing to do any servlco asked of him for his friends. In his life at 'Weber' he was a leader. When he was In the junior class, he was its president and he was also president of tho senior class and captain of tho basketball team in his last year at the school. "No one ever asked service of Leland Le-land that was not given, aye, he even anticipated a need of service, by the school, the team, the dramatic club, tho church, or his friends and often proffered it. No one over doubted his courage, honesty or manhood and I know that if ho had forsecn his death when ho entered the service of his country, ho would not have held back, but would have done as he did. This was typical of him." ' Following the eulogy of Prof. Barker, Bar-ker, the song "Resignation," was sung by Edward T. Saunders. This preceded pre-ceded the eulogy and sermon of Apos-tlo Apos-tlo McKay, who opened his address by quoting the following poem: ' True Nobility "Who does his task from day to day, And meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, Has found real greatness here below, "Who guards his post, no matter where, Believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toll It be, Has risen to nobility. "For great and low there's but one test, 'Tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, Shall ncver"die in debt to man." "That definition of true greatness, by ono of our American poets," tho apostlo continued, "seems to mo most applicable today to the life and death of our brother, Leland Brewer. As I knew him from childhood, ho was a dutiful son, a cheerful playmate and a staunch friend. He died a noble soldier sol-dier in the noblest army over organized or-ganized since timo began, a worthy representative of tho greatest country now fighting for the noblest cause that the world has ever known. "On occasions like this, we only Snnnlr nf fVl rrnntl (hot tVin lonnrlnJ havo done, but I can say to you that 'good' is all I knowf not only of Leland, Le-land, but of every member of 'Alex' Brewer's family, from the father down to tho youngest child." Tho apostle .told of tho homo life of the Brewer family, to which Leland was indelibly allied, speaking particularly particu-larly of its spirit of unity, under tho lovable influence of the mother, and said: "To me, this supreme sacrifice is tho final proof of Leland's love and courage tho two most admirable elements ele-ments of the human soul. Love! He was full of it and expressed It most beautifully to tho one most worthy of it, his mother. She was his sweetheart, sweet-heart, he called her his sweetheart, thought of her as his sweetheart and wrote to her as his sweetheart after ho entered the service of his country, which ho loved as two million more of our boys, now in France, and other millions preparing to go love it. It takes courage to kiss a mother goodbye, good-bye, a courage that's admirable, a courage typical of the American soldiers sol-diers who are going out to bless all nations great and small, to glvo them the freedom and liberty that tho fathers fath-ers of this nation gave to us." Continuing, the speaker reviowed recent re-cent incidents in the deliberations of tho United States congress, in which political opponents of President Wilson Wil-son firmly backed tho administration in its war policies, and thon quoted the terms of the president's peaco proposal.- "I Relieve that Leland went out with a pure heart and a conscientious desire de-sire to represent his family and his community with true loyalty, whatever what-ever conditions might arise to confront him. He has given proof of his courage. cour-age. I bring to his family the condolence condol-ence of my brethren, whom I left today to-day in Salt Lake at noon. Our hearts go out to them and the mothers of all the boys whoso live havo been or may be sacrificed. I know there Is a feeling feel-ing of pride in every student hero who knew Leland, and in his family I know that ho Is not dead, for his personality still lives. "I commend tho patriotism of this family and, in conclusion, wish to say that if we lovo these boys who have gone into the conflict to make the supreme su-preme sacrifice, If need be, as Leland Brewer, Milton Holmes, Jabez Draper, Herbert Fowers and others in this community have already done, wo will not hesitate to place in their hands the weapons for defense." Bishop Olsen, in bringing tho service ser-vice to a close, endorsed tho eulogies of Prof. Barker and Apostle McKay i and thanked all who had in any way participated in the service. The closing clos-ing song was "Savior, Comfort Me," sung by a quartet composed of Edward T. Saunders, Willard Gardner, Hyruin Nellson and L. M. Hilton. The beno-diction beno-diction was pronounced by Elder Hy-rum Hy-rum Lund and, as, the body of the I honored dead was borne from the auditorium, au-ditorium, Organist Whitaker played Shubert's "Funeral March." The Weber college students escorted the funeral cortege to City cemetery, whore the body, was interred. The 9 grave was dedicated by Elder C. J. W A. Lindquist. , , |