The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-05-31
LODGES OF THE CITY Join IN
THE PROCESSION
Splendid Program at High School Au-
ditOrium Included Eloquent Address
By General George II. Roberts OF
Boise.

With banners and flags floating and
with music playing, the Memorial Day
parade led by Captain H. w. Wilson
and Senator S. p. Atherton marched
yesterday through streets lined with
citizens from city and country, who
came to do honor to the soldiers of
the nation living and dead and to show
by their presence and interest their
willingness to emulate the men who
fought for the flag in previous wars.
Following the leaders and the band
came the Elks, more than 100 in num-
ber, each with a flag in hand. Then
Odd Fellows, a goodly delegation;
then the Modern Woodmen of America,
with the team which won the state
championship and which showed
splendid discipline; then the Knights
of Pythias, followed by the Knights
Templar, the presence of whom in
uniform was noted as an evidence of
the exalted pitch to whish patriotism
has been aroused, since Masonic or
ders seldom participate in public pa
rades of any sort. The boy scouts
bearing an immense Red Cross ban
ner aroused enthusiasm. The thin
ming ranks of the G. A. r. were new
ertheless well represented and the
old soldiers marched steadily through
the cool breeze inspired by the
thoughts of by gone days.
The Ladies of the G. A. r. and the
Pythian sisters were present in au-
tomobiles, and were followed by line
of autos. When the last of the
Knights Templar arrived at the cor
ner of Main avenue south and Fourth
street the line divided and the dele
cation of old soldiers selected to dec
crate the graves of sleeping COM
rades to the Twin Falls cemetery,
where the ritualistic service of the
G. A. r. was held.
The new and deeper note of patriot
ic feeling that, under existing circum-
| stances. pervadeS our entire country,
was this day strongly manifest. All
business houses were closed, through
out the day; and even the expression
upon the faces testified to serious in
terest. For no one can now see the
flag pass by without thinking that
our own sons and brothers will soon
be marching under it to meet the arm
ed wrath of our country's foes.
1t was evidently with the feeling
thus indicated that the large audience
assembled at 2:30 p. m. in the higf
school auditorium, and by whom the
program announced Tuesday was ap
preciative and enthusiastically re
ceived Hon. f. F. Bracken presided
a feeling and appropriate invocation
was offered by DR.. Shepherd; the eve
memorable Gettysburg address o
President Lincoln, was read by Mr.
Longley; the grand Battle Hymn o
the Republic" was splendidly suns
by Mrs. w. o. Taylor, with a stirring
CONGREGATIONAL chorus. The chairman
then introduced Gen. G. II. Roberts
whose patriotic and eloquent address
is appended in full.
The meeting concluded with "Th
Star Spangled Banner" fervently Civ
en- by Rev. c. U. Butler; and the chor
us by the entire audience, standing
and waving flags, hats and handker
chiefs, testified to the deep feeling
evoked
Upon being introduced, Gen. Rob
l erts addressed the chair, the twenty
one old soldier members of the G. A
r.. who occupied the front seats, an
2 the ladies and gentlemen present a
follows:
s This day is sacred to our soldier
= dead-A mighty nation bends abov
= heroic dust and pays to noble wort
= the tribute of it's tears. Gratitude
the fairest flower that blooms /
the garden of the human heart.
Today we tell the history OF ou
country's life, recall the lofty deed
A of vanished years, the toll, the suffer
u ing. the defeats and victories OF heroi
- men: of men who made our natio
great and free. These men fought
d Dreserve the homestead of liberty
d the family of freedom. They were II
defenders of humanity, the destroyer
of prejudice, the breakers Of char
and in the name of the future the
IL challenged the monsters of their tim
st They finished what the soldiers OF u
ID revolution commenced, they relight'
y the torch that fell from their angu
d hands and filled the world again WI
< light. They made it possible for Judg
ID to be just and statesman to be huma
:" They broke the shackles from u
IL. hands of slaves, from the souls OF ma
w ters. from the northern brain. Tn
d kept our country on the map or q
lg world and our flag in heaven. Tn
De rolled the stone from the sepulcher
e, preiudice and found there two ange
ct clad in shining garments: Nauonall
Sc and Liberty. The soldiers were Z
e. saviors of the nation, they were [
r 1iberators of man. In written proci
nation of emancipation, Lincoln