The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-30

Speaking at the Memorial services
audience, Mr.. Newton MCGUIRE of
Indianapolis eulogized the names and
deeds of the veterans.
Excerpts from his address follow:
Veterans and Compatriots: This is
the day when we do honor to our
soldiery, both the living and the dead.
Veterans, you have endeared this day
TO the American people, and 1t can
never be erased from their memory
The dissertation of this day is the
very thing that will cause your sons
and descendants, as the responsible
tiles of the day are passed over to
them, to re-establish and reclaim the
day, from one of sports and races,
and make it greater than ever before.
Gratitude is the fairest flower that
sheds it's perfume in the heart, and
your sons shall not and will not be
found wanting.
"Yours 10 Proud Title"
Veterans, yours is proud title.
That good name which is better than
riches, that inspiring example which
is better than honors. We, of the
present generation, can find no better
standard to go by, no higher inspira-
ton.
We take as our model, the ideals
which you have established as your
abiding principles. ~.
1t may be a hundred years after
Lees surrender to Grant before the
soldier for the Union will be fully
appreciated, but If that be true, it will
not be the fault Of the Association
known as the Sons of Veterans" OF
which ! am today a representative.
Our organization believes in the
perpetuation of your deeds OF valor
and heroism, now, as well as after
you are gone.
we'll as all of your beneficiaries,
(Which includes the general public
should receive first-hand from you,
YOUR choicest thoughts, ideas, mem
cries and associations, to hand down
to posterity.
We believe in becoming active
while the present Is in close touch
with the glorious past, that the future
may be more secure.
We do not desire to be the helrs
and successors to your honor and
glory.
We do think, however, that we have
a glorious heritage-you gave 1t to US
and we prize it highly.
inherent Patriotic Spirit.
If that advantage means anything at
all to US it means that We are natural
and logical heirs and successors to the
patriotic spirit of this country OF which
YOU and your organization have been
the faithful guardians for so many,
many years.
"About Your Country"
Nv dear children, want to tell you
something about your country. Emil
Souvestre, the French writer, in his
production entitled The Attic Philoso-
pher," said something that will in
terest the children. He makes the At
tic Philosopher speak to his son, as
follows:
Perhaps my son you have never
thought what your country means; II
is all that surrounds you, all that has
brought you up and fed you, all that
you have loved. This ground that
you see, these houses, these trees,
those girls who go along there laugh
live-this is your country!
THE laws which protect you, the
bread which pays for your work, the
words you interchange with others, the
10y and grief which come to you from
the men and things among which you
live-this is your countryQ
"The little room where you used to
see your mother, the remembrances
she has left you, the earth where she
rests-this is your country. You see it.,
YOU breathe it everywhere! Think to
yourself, my son, Of your rights and
duties, your affections and your wants,
hIoScip wrif q
them all under a single name-and
that name will be your Country"
What Your Flag Means"
Now my children let me tell you
something about your flag. For all
the signs and symbols since the world
began there was never another so full
of meaning as the flag of this coun-
trv. 1t means five thousand years of
struggle upwards.
Our flag is the cream of all relig-
ions 1t stands for an equal oppor-
tunity to all the sons of men. 1t is
not so much the flag, of our fathers
as it is the flag of our children and
of all children's children yet unborn.
1t means the richest, happiest,
youngest people on the globe. 1t
means protection to family, home and
country 1t is the power of the flag
which linked together with Gods
power makes it possible for your faith
ers and mothers to take care of you.
We believe that every man, woman
and child, who is eligible and who
loves his country and his flag, should
identify himself with the Sons of Vet
Grams, or the Sons of Veterans Auxil-
larry or some patriotic society to aid
in the great work of interesting our
young people in patriotic things
Veterans the cause for which you
fought and the bravery which you have
shown. you have written on the pages
of history. you have recorded on tab
let's of stone and bronze, you have
chisled on monuments of everlasting
granite.
Yea. you have inspired the erection
of imposing structures and Memorial
halls, but no page, no tablet, no
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