The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-06-07
MEMORIAL DAY AT
NATIONAL CEMETERY

dress of the day and a Confederate
veteran, Prof j. Cotton Lynes, spoke
few words in approval of the re-
united brothers st one time bitter
foes The Marietta Rifles marched
with the national troops. Most of the
visitors were oolofed and pink lem
onade and other cold drinks were
served on stands all around the square.
A snake show was the most popular
feature of diversions. The flags and
flowers on the graves we're beautiful
We give the closing remarks made
in the address by Rev, e. S. Doan,
rector of St James Church, Marietta:
AS world power. Uncle Sam ad-
vocates peace among the nations. We
are beginning to think world thoughts.
We are getting beyond the provincial,
the local, the sectional in our thinking
and our policies. We are learning
more and more that all around the
globe which we call earth there is one
great human family. In this family we
have the superior and the inferior
races; we have the strong, and we
greatness that the superior should be
unjust to the inferior, or the strong
bulldoze the weak. The greater our
privileges the greater our RESPONSE
bility. 1t is Just here that Uncle Sam
shows greatness, for as a nation we
are pre-eminently the friend of the in
ferior races and The protector of the
weak. We believe in the square deal,
theoretically, at least, for all man.
kind. In practice we are steadily ris.
ing to the theory, though slow in
some respects.
In the process of evolution through
the potent and peaceful influence of
Christianity we shall no doubt learn
that all injustice is boomerang, that
all narrow and sectional ideas of the
brotherhood of man will only retard
our progress toward great, prosper
GUS and happy conditions. We must
get in line with God and with the prog
ress and uplift OF all humanity if We
are going to realize the bigness of lib.
erty and the greatness of human life.
If all conditions are met by the com.
ing generations they will enter into
promised land which is ours only to
dream about or view at a distance
individually, we have our supreme mo-
ments of what Justice, liberty and life
really mean, and at such times we
wish they might be of universal ap-
plication. In the collective mass of
humanity we are pushed back from
the vision and compelled to realize
that too often justice is a class priv.
uegea. that liberty is a dream; and
that life is not as happy mad sweet as
it should be. SeIfshness, greed, mar.
rowness and petty ideals becloud the
vision and the cry goes up, How long?
How long,
'F'orty-seven years have passed
since the terrible war between the
States terminated. A generation has
sprung up which knows nothing of
the horrors of that war We say that
war might have been avoided if GER
tain conditions had been fulfilled sat
isfactorily to Doth sides in the dis
pute. Many saw the vision of bet.
ter way, but, alas, they were pushed
back and the cloud of war darkened
the supreme moments of an exalted
vision that would have realized all that
was best for the whole nation without
the shedding of blood We can only
dream of what might have been if the
war between the States had been set.
tied by arbitration. If that course had
been pursued, wnat a difference his
tory would have been written of these
United States! out as it was, the ma
ton had to pass through crucifiXion
in order that new and reunited
nation might arise again as a world
power for justice liberty and peace.
AS a grandson of a Federal veteran, it
would be disloyal and dishonorable on
my part to deny tde heroism and the
patriotism of the Northern army, as it
would be equally disloyal and dishon-
orable for me not to affirm the hero
ism and the patriotism of the Army of
the South. On both sides men fought
for their country, their homes and
their property as they felt inspired
to do. They both rendered unto
Caesar the things that were Caesars,
and unto God the things that were
Gods
THE time has passed that cherished
the bitternesses of the strife. The
time has come Tor thorough, prac.
teal realization that we are one PEG.
ple-North, South, East, West. Each
section may have its own character.
istics and its own problems, but these
are natural as characteristics and prob
lens which four boys in one family
may accentuate and confront. The
similarities are greater than the diff
ferences in one case as in the other.
No father. if he is just, impartial and
peace-loying, will discriminate against
his boys. He will give them all the
square deal as long as they try to do
what Is right and stand by the family,