Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-30
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SCHOFIELD BARRACKS. May 30
THAT Americas part In the war is
o pledge Of moral and military assist
ance which offers the opportunity for
Belf-goyernment to all the nations OF
the world was the declaration today
by Wallace r. Harrington. president
Of the Honolulu Ad Club, who deliver,
ed the Memorial Day address at the
patriotic services Of the big army
post.
HIS address dwett strongly on the
present-day duty OF Americans in car.
rying forward the banner upheld by
the veterans of the Civil War and
other conflicts.
The services, held at the post GENE.
terry, beginning at 1920 o'clock, we're
on the following program:
1-Massed band:
March-"National Emblem"
2-lnVocation, Chaplain H. L. Winters,
LIST Infantry, y. s. A.
S-Hymn, America" by School
Children, Band Accompaniment.
4-Lincoin's Gettysburg Address.
4 Chaplain A. J. Schliesser, 32d Inf.
Hymn, Nearer My God to Thee"
with massed band.
Introduction Of Orator Of the Day, by
the Post Commander, Brig. Gen.
Charles G. Treat.
6-Address-Wallace R. Harrington.
Honolulu.
Hymn, Star Spangled Banner"
with massea band.
s-Benediction, Chaplain Geo. W.
-. Prioleau, 25th Infantry.
9-MRrch, "Semper Fidelis." with
massed band.
Musical Director, Chaplain Ignatius
Fealy, LIST Field Artillery
Address OF the Day by
W.. q. harrington
MI. harrington said In part:
More than fifty years ago Provi-
dence gave TO this nation q great lead
er who was B great interpreter. And
50 It was that Abraham Lincoln utter.
ed the memorial to the men who have
given their lives in the service OF our
country, memorial that was q per.
feet and inspired Interpretation of
nations thought, its ideals and its
high tribute to its honored dead. That
legacy We review year after year aud
we never tire. II thrills us now. as
1t did our fathers, then. Years have
not dimmed its fire and we love to
hear that memorial because II voices
the message Of our hearts and sends
MS away from the hailowed earth of a
soldiers grave with new courage and
new enthusiasm, new determination
to better round our lives to suit the
ideals Of the United States of Amer
lea. q -. -
While repeating the words OF Lin.
coin we are reminded the conditions
under which the address was given,
the terrific strain under which Presi.
dent Lincoln was working In his high
endeavor 70 perform tho task that
Fate had selected for him. 30 that q
nation OF free men should mot be
wrecked on the rocks OF dissention
and noble men whose lives had been
given IN Its cause should not have
died IN vain.
: Duties Of To-day sa :..~ r.
Today we find ourselves standing
at the threshold OF q period that Of
fers US the opportunity and the re-
1ponsibility Of world struggle for
the freedom Of mankind. On this
day We stand besides the graves OF
our fellow citizens who died "a the
service Of their country and recon.
secrate our lives to God, our Country
and the mission Of our Country 70
which our deliberate selection and
destiny directs.
We know that we have q great task
before us. We know that the hour
has struck Tor America 70 find its
soul In another great crisis. We be-
lieye that this crisis win mark the
beginning Of the federation Of the
world Of which our own federation Of
empire states ID but q forefunner
A we dwell on this thought Il is
not strange that there wells into our
hearts an overwhelming sense OF
what little men, what little lives, what
selfish goals, and what wfthered souls
have marked the highways Of history
we have been travelling through all
too many years Of luxury and its con.
seQuent indifference,
s'The Men Who Stood cuardn
Tht men who simply stoed guard,
who did their duty, their plain I'M
popular duty, while the world, our
world, raced forward wasting its sub.
stance, needless Of al warning, reck-
less OF the efforts and ideals Of those
who builded this nation, selfish to
the last degree-the men who simply
stood guard during this saturnalia OF
indifference, they are patriots whom
we honor today. For theirs was
crisis more difficult to deal with, q
crisis Of threatened national dry rot.
These boys whose lifeless remains
rest in these graves about w served
i their country at q time when q nation
laughed at danger, jeered at warn
ings uttered by the guardians at the
gate whose business It was to know.
They found the glory Of soldiers life
to be IN the satisfaction Of keeping q
bull dog hold on loyalty, and the
knowledge that they we're doing their
duty. The proof OF valor by a fair
fight with an open enemy was not
their lot In life.
Americas Part In the War
{. We are In the great war to better
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