The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-06-05
Larry Ito PIeases
Large Audience
ST. PAUL'S MAYOR GIVES DEC
GRAFTON DAY ADDRESS:
GOOD PROGRAM GIVEN

l.. Z. Hodgson, mayor of ST. Paul,
gave great pleasure to large audi
ence at the armory last Thursday
afternoon when he gave a patriotic
address at the Decoration Day pro-
gram. This was Mr.. Hodgson's first
visit to Redwood Falls and the i'm
preston he made upon all who heard
him was so favorable that many
citizens are expressing the hope that
he will be able to return at some
time in the near future.
Mr.. Hodgson, better known
throughout Minnesota as Larry Ho,
showed his audience the unity in
thought and purpose between the
boys of the Civil War and the boys
of the present war, how the one war
was justified by the high-minded
purpose of the present war, and paid
glowing tribute to the men of both
armies. Larry's address was not
only a tribute to the thin blue line Of
: heroes and the dashing boys in
khaki, but a charge to each Ameri-
can citizen to live rightly. He said
in part:
"This is the most wonderful Me-
mortal Day we ever had, for we OBJ
serve it in new spirit of devotion, a
new consciousness of our duty as
Americans. We do not merely praise
the dead today-we vow to live as
worthily as they lived.
During the last year America has
proved that it had soul. and that
it's soul is not for sale. We can
sing "My Country" with more ex-
ultant pride than we have ever
known before.
eve stand today in the presence Of
the dead and the living heroes who,
in Lincoln's words, gave the last full
measure of devotion to preserve lib
erty and justice. And there comes
to US the call to serve with the same
devotion, the same holy cause. This
hour we pass Judgment on ourselves.
If there is any man in America today
who would keep back from his coun-
: try the full devotion of his heart he
has no right to observe Memorial
Day. The man who today would ask
questions of America has no right to
worship at the graves of men who
asked no question, but said simply:
Where You Lead Old Flag, We Will
Follow though it be to the very Gates
of He'll
$50 what a heart-searching day
this is. These old soldiers, whose
souls still thrill to the music of the
Republic they saved, pierce US
through with the eye of divine
Judgment, and shame us in every
hesitation we may know, and in ev-
cry doubt or disloyalty which may
scar our living in this tremendous
hour of duty.
Glow can we pay tribute to the
men who died IN Freedoms sacrifice?
BY living with no less devotion than
they did Before the altar of those
who died for man, it is for us to take
new vows to live for man. The man
who will not live for an ideal has no
right to think of those who died for
an ideal
"The lives of all the good and
great, the hercisms and sacrifices of
the past, have been in vain unless we
have builded a little higher upon
them, and dedicated ourselves TO the
Tohler and more enduring aim be-
Tcause of them. God help US to be
worthy of all that men have done
for u.s."
Other numbers of the Decoration
Day program were songs by the
school children, mixed quartet and
a solo by Miss Amy Barnes, the
reading of the Gettysburg address by
Douglas Warner and few appropri-
ate remarks by Henry Schmidt, com
mander of the John Ball Post. At
torney Frank Clague presided at the
meeting. Dr. E. C. Horn gave the
invocation and Rev. B. P. Holt the
lenediction.