The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-09

"A.
F1tz Lee and Gen. W. B. Bate were also
honored by their old comrades in arms.
Gen. Samuel G. French of Pensacola was
20 have been there, but I have seen no
mention Of his name, nor that OF Gen.
Basil w. Duke Of Louisville, nor w. H.
Jackson Of Nashville William Montgom-
cry Gardner of Georgia is now residing
in Memphis, aged and battle-scarred
from two wars, and was visited by many
of his of Georgia comrades. Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis and Mrs "StoneWalr' jackson
were absent, but Mrs. ]. B. Gordon, Miss
Gordon, Miss Cheatham, Mrs. Basil w.
Duke, Mrs. Cabel Currie, Mrs. Fitz Lee
Mrs. f. Kirby Smith and Miss Kirby
Smith and Mrs. ]. Patton Anderson and
Mrs. William Lawson Peel wives, widows
and daughters of Confederate generals,
were present.
This insubordination of college boys"
says Bill Arp, in regard to West Point
Military Academy muss, Seems to have
crept into our own Southern institutions,
and has well-nigh demoralized oxford
and Tuscaloosa. What does 1t mean? We
had nothing like it in our day. We feared
our fathers and we feared and respected
the faculty. The Tech boys caught the
infection not long ago." Bill Apps men,
DRY must be very weak in his old age, IL
he has forgotten the insubordinations in
the old Georgia Military Institute at Ma
rietta and in the old Franklin College,
now the Georgia University at Athens
lie refers to the University of Mississippi,
at Oxford and the University of Alabama
at Tuscaloosa, but the University of Geor-
gla has had similar cases of insubordina-
ton. can answer, What does it
mean?" in very few words. 1t means
that lack of proper family discipline sends
Boys into our schools and colleges and
the world at large filled with a spirit of
INSTRUMENTATION When I was boy and
teacher whipped pupil the parents fol-
lowed 1t up with another whipping at
home. Nowadays, however, the parents
take cowhide or a shotgun and go for
the teacher.
1 am glad to see that my suggestion IN
regard to an official change of the South
ern Decoration Day to Memorial
Day. be made at Memphis, was acted
upon by the Confederate Southern Me-
| mortal Association. Miss Sue H. Walker
OF Arkansas, the corresponding secretary
introduced a resolution, which was unan-
| imously adopted, that all memorial asso-
Citations call the day on which Confed-
| crate soldiers graves are decorated Me
mortal Day." and never Decoration
| Day" The confusion of names this
year, both North and South, has been
very marked, and the further use of
| Decoration Day. is not desirable But
the origin of the Southern Decoration
| Day, when no memorial services were
held, is being made more and more a
vexed question. Bishop Thomas F.
Gailor, in his Davis memorial address ut
Memphis, put another claimant into the
contest when he said:
| The Confederate Southern Menoori al
Association is the Oldest and the most
sacred society of women that has been
| organized since the Civil War To il we
! owe the institution of Memorial Day,
which Is now recognized throughout this
| country. 1t was a Southern woman.
Miss Sue Adams. who in the city of
jackson, Miss, on April 26, 1865, almost
| Immediately after the surrender of Gen
| Lee, first decorated the graves of the
fallen soldiers and to her eternal honor
be 1t said, she placed the wreaths upon
the graves of friend and foe alike. and
| this was the first time that any Federal
grave in a Southern state received a
| floral offering, and that Offering of ten
| der sympathy came from a Southern wo-
man Three years after that, May 80,
| 1868, Gen. Logan's order made the day
| perpetual, but the earlier and more beau
tlful incident should never be forgotten"
| Blshop Gailor errs in stating that on
| May 30, 1868, Gen. Logan made the day
perpetual No matter who originated the
Southern Decoration Day" or where or
how it was instituted, it had no official
authority for its general or continued OBJ
| serVance 1t was a voluntary affair
| without the usual parade, address. ETC.. of
| the present period. Nor is April 26 I'M
iversally observed in the South as Dec
Grafton Day." and each community. not
being bound by any official order. can
choose the date most desirable to that
! community. But Memorial Day" as es-
! tablished by Gen. Logan, is a fixed and
permanent feature of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and always occurs on May
81 unless that date falls on Sunday. And
1 while there have been thousands of in
stances in which the graves of Confeder-
ate soldiers were decked with flags and
| flowers, a resolution was adopted by the
Grand Army National Encampment, some
years ago, that only the graves of Union
soldiers should be thus honored. But the
resolution has not been obeyed and ev-
cry Memorial Day. the graves of Union
and Confederate soldiers are decorated by
G. A R. men. Sidney Herbert.