Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-30
Cites GIories of Peace
and Cost of Building
at Memorial Services

build" whether it is ST.000.hoo for a
Congressional Library. $4,000 600 for a
model battleship or the lives sacrificed
and the hereaved hearts aching. that
the republic might be preserved as a
Union. Rev. W W. Barnes. pastor of
Douglas Memorial NJ. f. Church. pic
tured the glories of the heroes of peace
in the age of brotherly love that sue
ceeds the era of warfare. His address
was the most prominent feature of the
memorial exercises in Glenwood. Pros
pect Hill and st. Mary's cemeteries.
The observance was under the direc-
George II. Thomas Post. No. Is. Other
patriotic and affiliated organiZa tons
participating in the exercises were
George II. Thomas Womans Relief
Camp. No IL. Sons of Veterans They
assembled in the chapel of Glenwood
cemetery at 10 am.
Order of the Exercises.
The order of exercises was. Sounding
of assembly, Bugler Glenn c. Dorsey;
calling to order. Commander +. T At
kinson: invocation. Chaplain William H.
Honn: reading memorial orders, Adjt.
Samuel Beisht; My Country tbs of
Thee. audience, led by CornetisH Dor
sey, reading of Lincoln,s address, Sobert
NJ Eyler. commander George Fl. Thomas
camp. s of v; SOLO. selected, Glenn c.
Dorsey; flowers for the brave. Robert
pastor Douglas Memorial NJ. +. Church:
the new memorial day. Jessie Morgan;
kellers American Hymn" pupils of
Emery School: progress of the flag.
Adtt. Beight: Nearer NV God TO Thee
audience led by the cornetist: benedfc-
ton. Chaplain Honn: taps, Bugler Glenn
c. Dorsey
Gathered here today in this silent
Barnes, we are emphatically reminded
build
This is true. whether you build a
house, life or a republic And we all
recognize the more elaborate the plan
ana the more pretentious the building
the more the most.
The Congressional Library, one of the
most beautiful buildings in the world
cost approximately 100000. You say
that is a great amount of money to put
in building. Yes. but it is worth it.
IT is said the great battleship, North
Dakota, cost S10.O00OOO An Immense
amount. but If these great battleships
preserve peace, then you say It is not too
much.
Cost in Human Lives.
Gathered here today. let your eye run
over row after row of white stones
marking the last resting place of those
who laid down their lives for the repub-
lie. and You see its cost to build The
cost of libraries and of battleships is as
nothing to the price paid in the aching
hearts of wives made widows. of children
made orphans and of the uncounted null
titutle who gave their lives. and in whose
honor and TO preserve their memory we
gather here TO strew flowers on their
graves.
,1tI,r
ton Perhaps none but the few remain
ing veterans knows how great the price
paid TO keep the grand old Stars and
stripes floating over our united people,
who are Fastening toward the time when
there shall be no geographical boun-
daries. but when all shall join in one
great shout,
Long may it wave
Over the land of the free
And the home of the brave
In the past 1t has been a quarrel
some old world. Men have quarreled
been the battlefield on which has been
fought out, sometimes amidst the
smoke of battle and the clash of arms
some of the most precious things of
life
III is well said: Nothing is settled
until il is settled right And so we see
how great the cost of fighting out to
the final settlement some of those
things We hold dearer even than life
our American Constitution declares:
That since all men are born free and
equal. IL is therefore the inherent
right of all men 10 enjoy life and liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
World Is Progressing.
The world is on the march to q
clearer conception of God and a grand
er perception of man
We are living IN an age of great
ideas and great principles rather than
the age of great heroes
Men are no longer shouting for the