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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1015.
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S EE here—you Elks.
You never have been In Atlan
ta, have you? That Is, In the
lump—en masse—by and large.
Well, then!
You have been to New Orleans, and
now you are in Eos Angeles, and you
have been In a lot of places, having
your national conventions. But you
haven’t tried Atlanta yet—and Atlan-
'ta is ab-so-lute-ly the best town of all
for an Elks’ convention—ab-so-bloom-
lng-lute-ly the best in these United
States, which, by the way, is easily the
best country in the world for gather
ing large clusters of citizens together
for entertainment just now, unless the
entertainment is of the European or
blooie-blooie variety.
It is not even a debatable point.
There could be adduced any amount
of argument to prove that Atlanta
should have the Elks in 1916. But At
lanta admits It.
And this is by way of welcome—for
you, Friend Elks, are going to be vyitli
us in 1916, along about the time the
Georgia watermelon is at the top of its
form, and the well known Elberta
peach is blushing in the sun.
To say nothing of chickens.
Atlanta welcomes you, Brother
Elks; a year and a couple of days in
advance, because you are coming to
this town in 1916 to find out what a
regular town can be for an Elks’ con
vention.
There is nothing Atlanta won’t do
for—nor to—a friend; and it will all
be “for" when the Elks come here.
What's the use of spreading on the
hoorah stuff? Nothing to it—you Elks
come along (because you’re coming
some time) and make it headquarters
In 1916, and everything will be chick
en. Bring the Entire Works with you.
Come prepared for a Wild Time. They
give you something besides just a
Large'Key to the City when you dis
embark at the Terminal Station. They
give you a Right Hand like the Hand
of Providence—and they have a pitch
er of Ice water in the left.
But don’t you worry about the
Morning After. There won’t be any
thing but sunlight along the G. W.
Way. You can get the Dewy Eve stuff
out in the Bushes; and the Merry Sun
rise at the right end of a day.
And, believe us. Friend Elks, that is
what this oid town of Atlanta is Made
For.
Atlanta, which used to be Marthas-
ville, is going to be rechristened Elk-
town in July, 1916.
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O F course, if anyone who didn’t
know Atlanta wanted a trifle of
assurance that the Dixie me
tropolis could look after a herd of
Elks in good shape—
He could ask any Shriner. They
all were here in 1914.
Forty thousand Nobles, besides
women and children and visitors—
over 100,000 in all.
And did they eat?
Ask the Shriners.
And did they sleep?
Ask the Shriners.
And did they have the time of their
young lives?
Ask the Shriners.
They found food and • • • and
drink. They found shelter in most
excellent hotels and c!ubs ; They
found everything they needed, and a
lot of things that only a fond fancy
bred at the Shrine—or among the B.
p. O. E.—could ask or wish.
They all came to Atlanta, and they
all found all they were looking for. In
the biggest. best, most brilliant
Shriners’ convention ever held in
America, which means In the world,
of course—and If you want to take In
any more territory, why, go ahead, ad
lib.
Atlanta tackled its biggest conven
tion job when it took on the Shriners
in 1914.
And now—
Well, now, if the Elks want to bring
40,000 here, besides women and chll
<j r en—and run the total up to 100,000
—or even two or three more—why,
come ahead.
Atlanta is waiting, and eager, and
everlastingly able to entertain them
all—and then nn4.
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By WALTER P. ANDREWS.
(Chairman General Committee ol
Georgia Elks.)
1 HAVB long desired for Atlanta tfl
have an opportunity to witness
an annual reunion of the Order
of Elks and to entertain that great
body of the “Best People on Eartn*
within her gates.
Without in any way depreciating
any other convention, I think I can
safely say that the Grand Lodge of
Elks assembles annually one of the
very greatest and most sought after
conventions in the United States.
While they are deeply fraternal in
their mutual relationships, and ex
ceedingly serious when charity is
needed or when distress is to be re
lieved, they are on most occasions
characteristically Bohemian and
pleasure-loving.
An assembly of Elks, however few,
is by no means conducive to a dull
time. Furthermore, I doubt if there
is another convention in the Country
that assembles so many good spenders
as the vast body of Elks that meet
annually with the Grand Lodge. That
is one of the reasons why cities con
tend so strongly for the honor of en
tertaining the Grand Lodge.
The Order of Elks has a member
ship of 450,000 brothers, and in the
city of Portland, Oreg., in 1912 there
were registered 54,000 Elks in attend
ance, and the daily press of that city
stated that there were 200,000 visitore
in the city upon the day of the great
parade, which, by the way, required
more than five hours to pass a given
point. In fact, it never did finish.
It is, therefore, from Atlanta’s
standpoint, exceedingly desirable that
we win the Grand Lodge for 1916, es
pecially as w'e demonstrated so splen
didly our ability to do great things
when we entertained the Shriners in
1914.
I believe that the Elks would be
gTeatly pleased to come to Atlanta, as
they have never visited the “heart of
Dixie,” or that great section known
as the Southeast Atlantic States,
larger in area than the German and
Austrian Empires combined.
We feel that they would be deeply
appreciative of our Georgia brand of
hospitality, which to an extent would
be a novelty to the masses of them,
and this is as much a Georgia enter
prise as t£n undertaking of Atlanta.
The Elks of all Georgia are much
interested in and enthused over the
prospect of the Grand Lodge’s
lng within our State in 1916. They
feel that it will give the order a great
boost in the State, and that it will be a
splendid object lesson to all our peo
ple.
The Grand Lodge meets annually
the second week in July, and at that
season the Georgia peach and the
Georgia watermelon are vying with
each other, as delicious twin attrac
tions. for supremacy among those who
indulge in the honeyed juices of tho
one and the luscious hearts of the oth
er. Neither can be equaled anywhere
else on earth.
The Elks can not afford to miss the
opportunity of coming to Georgia, and
we must not allow them to go else
where in 1916.
I deeply regret that my duties in the
General Assembly of Georgia will 'pre
vent my going to Los Angeles and
presenting our invitation in person
upon the floor of the Grand Lodge, but
that task has been transferred to an
other, and I earnestly hope the invl-