The Record-Argus from Greenville, Pennsylvania • Page 3

Jt DAY SERVICE HERE MPRESS1VE AND INTERESTING i (Continued frotti 1) the brlvtltge of addressing jtrrinpr stoiw- thls morntttR 1 nm Indebted to) ing witrmly (he pnH.lti.lHy of the metnbei-s of Thomas ttvana Cfttnp, fftimbofr 12, of Ihe United Spanish Witt 1 Veterans, niid joining with them are the bors o.f the Gi-eenvllla tost of Ahiorlcafi Legion and the various, auxiliaries. Sudh a prlvllnge Is'to be esteemed most highly. Nor Is my appreciation of the honor ns perhaps It should be, by the consciousness of my own Uhdeservlttg, The time, the place, the cause, lit- splro to thoughts and mighty endeavor, While lacking In the qualifications that should mark an caslon like this, am most happy to devote my talents to the part nsslRtied to mo In the program of the day, "You have heard Comrade Hoey's reading of General Ordet- No. 11, published by General Jo.hii A. Logan, Commander In Chief of the Grand Army, of the Republic In May, calling on the survivors of that great conflict to observe the flrst Memorial Day, Just then proclaimed, He urged the members "to gather around tho sacred remains their fallen 'enmities aud garland the passlon- mounds above them with the -i flowers of springtime, 'and to rulso above them' the dear old flag they had saved from dishonor.

"One sentence of that Initial order Is to me particularly appealing, As Comrade Hoey read It you heard how the Commander In Chief stated that ho had Inaugurated this observance in the hope that It would be kept up from year to year 'while a survivor of the war remained to honor tho memory of his departed For sixty-seven years have the citizens of this great republic with ever increasing fervor and devotioA observed that sacred cus- torn, until now It stands out as the pre-eminently patriotic day in all our national calendar. "On October 12th, wo celebrate the discovery of a continent, July 4th, we rejoice in tho birthday the nation, in February, we honor the days when God sent us a Washington and a Lincoln; but today we recall the sacrifice and service, the valor and the of countless thousands of our fellow citizens from every walk, of whoso heroism made possible the country which Washington planned and Lincoln preserved, tho spirit of General John A. Logan might be permitted to 'look down this morning from, another and better world, it might observe what wished to come every village and hamlet of' might now see, 'jrations have come 'and' gone, how tho memory of the trylngidays of iu sixties is honored "and revered ith Increasing fervor and devotion. Thou he might truly realize tho answer to his prayer when he wished 'that no vandalism avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, might over testify to either the present or the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a'people, the cost of a free and undivided republic." "More' than," the three score years and by the Psalmist as our years', have gone since the firing on Port Sumter called the youth of the North to arms. How very, very few are living now who can recall even from childhood memories the stirring events of that far otf time.

"Yet, we are blessed this morning by having with us In this observance (as participants in, this pro- th'hgs It reprcspnia; forgetting, for the -but with beat- for the. flag fthd saw them, moment, the burden of years, stride along In spirit of youth find ngftih they bade the boys Godspeed and good-bye. "And still the -world will wondef why the rcoot-d of the AmeHOfln eoldle'i- In tho Woild War will evsr remain nrtiohg the most glorious pages of our country's history, know thai every veteran of the World War here today wilt agree with trie "when 1 assert that thnt record of the veterans of the Grand Army of tho Hepubllo at home was on'inspiration and a model to theni every day they were In the service, "The- spot whct-d human, endeavor reaches the supreme is thenceforth enshrined for the future. The Allying stars will look down tonight on Liege ahd Louvalti, on tho Marne and the Argonne Wood, and for all time to come they will remain nmong tlio hallowed places of the world. The grave of many a Pennsylvania boy was decorated "ovw there" this morning, and many a fervent prayer went up for them from the sons and daughters Of our sister republic across the seas.

I know tlint In that great struggle every Pennsylvania acquitted himself as a hero should; and I know that tho example and the tradition of the boys of tho least of the factors that made every, Pennsylvania boy a hero when lie death, on the banks of River Vesle or In the tangles of Argonne Wood. "With reverence I always stand beside a soldier's grave for I know wore the hue or the gray of seventy years ago, he died for and for honor. Nor can we. ever forget that It was the-women of the war-torn ftnd prostrate South', strewed blossoms Impartially on the graves of the boys who followed the Stars and Stripes as well as those who swore allegiance to the Stars and Bars. It was the action of these magnanamous and devoted' Women of Columbus, Mississippi on April 25, I860, that called from the poet, Pinch, that beautlful'trlbute: "No more shall tho warory sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever, When they laurel the graves of our Under-the sod and the dew, Awaiting the Judgment day.

Under 'the laurels the' Under the willows the gray." Memorial Day In General Logan's initial order was planned to honor those who fell In battle, we have rightly used it for many'years to honor likewise those who have survived. The soldier living Is quite as worthy of our respect and honor as the soldier dead. That one fell In battle While the other survived was merely the fortune of war. That, of the survivors, some of them answered the prim Reaper's call'from the paths of peace, too soon perhaps after their return, while others attained patriarchal age, are some of the mysterious ways of Providence that none can explain but all must recognize. "So, wherever those graves are found battler, field of 1 in homeland's loved burial a half century or only a few days have elapsed since lights ou); were sounded and taps blown over the burial place of every citizen soldier should be a soc- gram) some of the men wno not pnly I re shrine, con recall the time, but whp.took a Nor it weU to stand ln in tlie events that fol-' lowed.

Oh, my friends, what an Ini splratlon to us Is the presence of i these few survivors of the Civil 1 Warl "You remember the tribute Daniel Webster paid to the Veterans of Bunker Hill'on the 50th annlver- sary of that battle. How much er seems the dispensation of Providence 'that, 70 years after the close of the, conflict, some of the heroes of the sixties are spared to us that their presence might be an inapira- lon to us weaklings of another gen- tt 4 ivatlon, year after tlie close of the Civil War, It, was the privilege of the members of Company of the 16th Regiment of Pennsylvania unteers to march out of Greenville 'under arms in response: jo: their country's coll, under the leadership of that outstanding gentleman and soldier, Captain John Martin, whose recent Joss we all sincerely mourn. As one who enjoyed tlia priceless serving in that war, I knew h'lm well and he always remained one of my best) friends. "Every member present can recall, how they were accompanied to the train survivors gf the Civil ftnd can still remember tho stirring words of encouragement and cheer received rl)m the boys of '61 as. they marched away.

You can of course, recall, as from my own so well remember, how tjie memories of the old soldier? at served us as an inspiration benediction all the time we abjrpad, My comrades will call pj-pud they were to ffreet QB oujp (return) but they were noj go proud as we wore, for pp porvioe, we had oonstjojitly 'p thejr records both £'nd as citizens in aj Weal ftWl an inspiration. 'fortune during; da. the shadow of a selfish sorrow. A heathen poet has taught us better. Centuries ago, if my memory serves me right, it is 2414 years, at the end of a desolating and destructive war, the freemen of ancient Greece won a decisive victory over the almost unnumbered hordes of a foreign despot and the forces of Persian tyranny and autocracy finally and forever were driven from their soil.

For the citizen soldiers, who fell on Plataea's 'people of Athens reared a'monument that stood there for centuries, and for that monument, the Grecian poet, eimonldes, wrote an eptitaph or that has long outlived the block of Grecian granite on which it was carved, In. it he made the fallen heroa speak, as It were, for themselves; and this Is what they soldi to die nobly were the chief parb of excellence, then to til) Heaven given this loi hastening to set a crown of freedom on Greece, we lie here possessed of a fame that will not grow Saturday afternoon, I was passenger for tbe first time In my life on a steamer going down the Potoijwo from Washington toward the sea. As we approached Mount Vernon the machinery of the er stopped, a bell tolled II the passengers and every of the crew stood at attention, as we floated past the modest tomb of the greatest oj a bugler sounded taps from the bridge of the steamer, And, oa the n'otej. reechoed faintly from that Oeofffg H. ttot- lowdy raft out of bflit frit the fish wfctt togifmtfif Id B-bod.

Me WM wlhdlng his Itt disgust Wheft fc kinKtflahftf tied A mlhflow lit hts thfrbalt three-' pound fish. through Vatic? ahd town, past DoftlfcSofl and AppomatoK to the terrible itrUf gle of the Wofld War, whole echoes stilt iOUttd in out- ears. Ahd so long We have that spirit in our cltlsena, bur future is assured. "In some quarters even now, there is growing up the notion that peace way best be secured by 'forgetting the lessons of war. With such ft theory, tho soldier who has served his country has nd sympathy.

"We prefer to stand with tho mortal Washington in his first dross to both houses of the AtnerU can Congress, In it he outlined the policy he felt thts Infant Republic should pursue and he said that to be prepared for war was the most foetua.1 way of preserving peace. "Arms are says Shakespeare 'when the Intent of bearing them 'While the terrible burdens that armaments and national Jealousy have Imposed on the nations of Murope -warn Us of tho perils nt standing armies and military establishments beyond tho power of tho people to support, while tho present mad race for armed supremacy abroad Is turning every nation of the old world into an armed camp, yet It bos not been tho policy of America to disregard the lessons of the past or to be unmindful of the perils of tho future. "We prefer to stand with another great American from whom I quote the following: "Let us, tho children of the men who proved themselves equal to those mighty us, tho child ren of the men who carried the great Civil War to a triumphant conclusion, praise the God of our fathers that the Ipnoble counsels of peace were rejected; the suffering and loss, the blackness of sorrow and despair, were faced, and tho years of strife endured, for In the end the slave was freed, the Union rstored, and the mighty Amerlcnn RepUblJc placed once more as a helmeted queen among nations. "The words that I have quoted fell from the' lips of that great American, Theodore Roosevelt; nowhere In our history has a more typical American appeared. I speak today through the courtesy of the veterans of tho World War, In the presence of the veterans of the Civil War, and myself as a veteran of the And as veterans all, we would say to our fellow citizens that we follow the standards of Washington and Roosevelt The lessons of the past, the conditions of the present, and the prospects of the future alike show no other standard to which we may repair.

"We for whom the shadows are lengthening toward the east would leave this message with tho it Is with the individual, so It Is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is thd nation that has no history. Thrice happy Is the nation that has a glorious history, Par better is it to dara mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat If In 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the end of all things, and war and strife, the worst of all things, and had acted up to their belief, we might have saved hundreds of of lives; we might have saved hundreds of millions of. dollars. Moreover, besides saving all the Wood and treasure we then lavished 'we could have prevented the heartbreak of many women, the dissolution of many homes, and we would have spared the country those months of gloom and shame, when It seemed as if our armies marched only to defeat "We could have avoided all this suffering simply by from strife, But if we had avoided It we could have shown that we were weaklings, and that we ware unfit to stand among the nations of the earth.

Thank God, for the iron In tbe blood of our fathers, the men who upheld the wisdom of Unoom and bore swert or rifle in the armies of Grant" "The words I have read to you fell from the lips of great Aroer Icon, Theodore Roosevelt Nowhere In our history has a more typical American appeared, I apeak today through the courtesy of the of the World War, In the presence Of two survivors of the Civil War, and myself of the Spanish War. And, vet- etafil all, we wffiild Bnfr to OUf fet- to-tt clUcem thnt we the standards of WftsMftgtbfl Mid ROotlevett. The lessons 6f the pft.it, the condU Wons of ths ptcitht and thb pros- iftets of tne futiife alike show nd tithet Btandnfd tb which We may Irt Of hdfibf Ntfcalr. 'We for whom the lengthening toward Stosi would leave this message with the ans of the World War as a word encouragement In your civic even as your fallen comrades dried out between thfe corpses row Oft we you from shrine and again the Virginia hills Beyond, was told by one of the cj-ew that way for. years.

With. to the dwejljng place in in death, Ana I feej tjwt'so JpQt and i thuB ml' I FREE axnr, far aalf AT BOTH OTQW Ihf hands tofcn. tit yours td fift It hlghj If yeti tell in vaiii they died who era "A fifttlon's character in hlitoty Is the tuft of Us hetoes' deedi. The Character of our country for the hundred li written in the of the American youth of Iftlf Mid 1918. The the Revolution put life into the DwUta- tlon of Independence and made focoe ftil and effective the principle thai Ml i tevefnttiefttB derive thelf juil from the consent ef the gov.

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