Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-27
VISITORS ARE GIVEN
A ROYAL WELCOME
Sacred Heart Academy Pre-
pares Special Program to
Honor G. AR.

Sacred Heart Academy received the
visiting members of the G. A. r. and
ladies of the Relief Corps and Ladies
of the G. A. R. most royalty yesterday.
Those visiting the academy were:
c. A. Houston, John P. Robertson,
Mrs w. G. Aekermann, Mrs L. Denni-
son, Mrs. Tuwilliger, Mrs. J. j. New
meyer, Mrs. W. NJ. Short.
Program
Flag Drill ...........Physical Culture Glass
Reading ...................H Home Sweet Home
Susie Sparrow
Piano Solo-Yalse Chromatique.
GODDARD
Eleanor Huckestein
Vocal SOlo-April Batten
Marie Campbell
PantOmine ............................... America
Susie Sparrow
The Song My Mother Sings ...... s. c. NJ.
Vocal Class
Flower Drill .......................-..... Minims
Address ............................. Hazel Blake
Revered Members of the G.. A. r. :
Fifty odd years is long space of
time over which to look back, and when
those fifty odd years are tinged with
the memories of long, hard struggle
Of right against wrong, and blighted
with the tears and griefs Of four weary
years of pain and hardships, they lose
their sordidness and become as it were
binding of intricate workmanship for
the volume Of those other years.
Those other years filled Though they
are with dismal records of weary
night watches and deadly fear-filled
days they still form a glorious volume.
Chapters there are-written in blood
that speak only Of defeat and hapless
ruin; defeat nObly suffered ruin brave
ly faced Others, inscribed in the
dark ink of doubt and despair speak of
smOke-clOuded battlefields, loud with
shouts Of the living and groans of the
dying; speak of the glare Of the South
ern MONDAY sun and the insuffersble
pangs of thirst; speak of the field of
carnage, from which the smoke has not
wholly lifted, stretching away and
away in the white light of frightened
moon, while the ghastly forms Of the
dead cry up an awful answer to the
eternal question, Gam / my Brother s
lieeper?"
One beautiful chapter there is, writ
ten in golden letters and with an an
gelic quill recording a victory magnani-
mously won, and an offer of friendship
graciously accepted; and this chapter
it is, upholding the right of the dread
full struggle and shedding its redeeming
light over the other pages that makes
the volume a glorious one.
Truly the five decades that have
passed over the heads of the surviving
of the Civil War are any
thing but sordidl How can they be-
with q record like that behind them
And now when Europe is shaken to its
very foundations by war fiercer than
the world has ever witnessed, not ex
cepting the dread days when the bar
barian tribes of Vandals and Goths
their would-be masters over
threw forever the power Of Imperial
Rome, who are more anxious, than those
Aol lht uNNh VI pNdNNf NhV A"fN ECAAN
through a struggle so similar in aspect,
yet so unlike in cause}
We ourselves unable to hasten that
dawn can only pray that the Right will
in this war as it did in the
one of fifty years ago; and that an
era of goodwill md brotberly love will
be ushered in MS at that time, and that
when the wounds of the many nations
are healed and the wrongs forgiven if
not forgotten the veterans Of the strug-
gle will be held in as high esteem as
are you, Rcvered Members Of the G. A. |
r., by their grateful countrymen. Isl
there, / wonder, a heart in all the land
that does not echo our prayer3
This address, read by Hazel Blake,
was written by Gertrude Robson, n |
former student Of Sacred Heart Acad- !
envy
Col. Houston made an eloquent re-
sponse and was followed by Mr., Robert
SON who besides speaking read two
short poems