Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-15

Bangor. and General Manning of
| Lewiston.
| The Department of Maine was we'll
represented i'm all the important pro-
Iceedings of the National Encampment
at Atlantic City. Past Department
Commander w. X. Dana was chosen
to serve on the National Council of
administration. and Past Department
Commander Seth Ts.Snipe was made
member of the committee of resolu-
ltions. The members of the Depart
ment returned home by different
routes. one party visiting Gettysburg
in an excursion which was under the
direction of Comrade L. c. Milliken."
In speaking of the allied bodies,
| Commander Webster said, This is
pre- eminently an age of organization.
II cannot be charged that the Depart
ment of Maine is not well up in the
procession in this regard, we having
4 identified with us. more or less direct
| ly. no less than six independent or
CARNATIONS. the aVowed purpose of
each being to aid the Grandy Army or
/ the Republic. The State and Ma
tional Relief Corps and the Ladies of
the Grand Army of the Republic have
this year maintained the high stand
ard which has characterized their
! work in the past. The valuable ass
sistanee rendered by these loyal wo-
men who are keeping step with us in
our last march cannot be overesti-
| mated
What has been said in reference to
/ the two Relief Corps and the Ladies of
| the Grand Army of the Republic can,
with equal propriety, be said of the
Daughters of Veterans. This order is
| REPRESENTED at this time in this De-
partment by two Tents. Annie A.
! Gould, No. l. Portland, and Dorothy
Dix, No. :, Waterville. The rules and
! regulations of this organization re-
quire three Tents before Depart
ment can be organized. 1t is earn
estly desired that another Tent win
| soon be Instituted SO that these earn
est women may have a Department
| organization.
The Division of Maine Sons of Vet
! Grams L. S. A, are to be congratulated
| on having attained to the largest
membership in the history of the or,
| ganiZation in this State. There are
now in the Maine Division 40 camps,
with a membership of approximately
1000 This gain in numerical strength
places this organization in a position
to accomplish more than ever before
in its history. In presenting and de-
Tending the principles for which it
stands and in affording aid to the
Grand Army of the Republic. to which
organization the Sons of Veterans are
most intimately identified. We wish
the Division of Maine and tile order
through the land the largest measure
of success. The Auxiliary to the sons
of Veterans is organized as an aid to
the Sons in their work. and is more or.
less directly rendering help to the
Grand Army of the Republic. There
are in the State II local associations
with a total membership of approxf-
mately 700. We believe them to be
earnest and enthusiastic, and wish
them every success"
Commander Webster suggests in
speaking further of the allied bodies.
that there may be a danger that in q
desire to excel which may be entirely
legitimate. the individual members OF
these orders may be carried too far.
thus Gripping the possibilities of the
usefulness of the bodies which they
represent. and at the same time bring
ing themselves as individuals into dis
favor with the members of the parent
organization with whose interest and
welfare they are professedly laboring.
He speaks of a visit to the Military
and Naval orphan Asylum at Bath.
and expresses an opinion that ii is one
of the most worthy institutions reeeiv-
a ino aid from the State
OF Memorial Day, Commander Web
ster says, While the day is not re-
garded by the great mass of People
as it should be, yet we feel that with
each passing year a greater interest
J is being manifested. The hope ex-
i pressed by the immortal Logan in the
/ general order establishing the Gay is
now being realized and it is a perma-
nent institution. l am sure that the
| lofty sentiments to which General@Lo-
| gan gave utterance today finds an an
swerlng echo In every soldiers heart
| and that, if other eyes grow dull and
other hands slack and other hearts
cold in the solemn trust, ours shall
| keep it well, as long as the light and
warmth of life remains in u.s.. Thus
shall we not only honor the memory
of the comrades who marched out to
the field of hattie with us and who
were unfortunate but we shall ineul-
cate lessons of patriotism in the minds
and hearts OF eur young people that
will be operative after the last sur