The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-04-27
BREAK AT CHICAGO
MEMORIAL DAY
AND LIBERTY DAY
The Combined Occasion was Loyalty
and Efficiently Celebrated All
Over the South


Atlanta, Ca, April 27.-A new note
was struck yesterday throughout the
South on Confederate Memorial Day,
note that has reverberated from one
end of Dixie to the other.
While paying the most devout trib-
ute to the hero dead of the Confeder
acy, those gray hosts who fell in
other years under the Stars and Bars,
and while keeping the spirit of the
day intact, nevertheless the attention
of the people has been directed this
year in the direction of the present
and the future.
For Memorial Day was also Liberty
Day, and the South joined the entire
nation in stimulating the spirit of
Liberty and recalling the ancient
ideals which have prompted the peo-
pie of America to throw off every
bond that tied them and to become
free men.
Local Liberty Loan committees ia
thousands of communities had charge
of the Liberty feature of the day.
The appearance of the battle-scarred
veterans of past years in the parades,
side by side with youngsters in khaki
emphasized the crisis of the present,
and brought added Importance to the
celebrations.
Speakers not only recalled the deeds
! of Southern heroes who fought at
Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and other
civil war battlefelds, but they also
spoke of the needs which now con-
front the sons of these men, who are
back of machine guns and other
modern weapons in the trenches of
France. The necessity for feeding and
equipping these men, and of supply
ing the new armies which are spring
!, ing up over night, was impressed in
new fashion upon the multitudes who
sat in reverence listening to the pleas.
With this new realization has come
the added fact that the South is still
far back of it's quota in the present
campaign. The sixth district still
maintains it's unbreakable hold on the
bottom of the ladder among federal
reserve districts. In spite of magnif-
cent work by many local committees
in many parts of the district, In spite
of the wonderful work being done by
the crews of the relic trains which
are being taken over the entire terri
tory to bring. to the people of the dis
trict a keener realization of the war
and its meaning, in spite of all the
work that is being done by the Liber-
ty Loan executive committee, under
the leadership of w. C. Wardlaw,
, there are still majority of districts
: that have let three-fourths of the
: campaign go by without showing re-
| suits.
The final weeks drive is now in
) prospect. The big punch must come
: in the next seven days, or else the
campaign in the South will be fail
{ ure. All along the line, the big guns
r are shelling the woods, and something
: must come out in the next few days.
: The Boy Scouts are taking the field
: to pick up every man who has not
J. signed his name on the dotted line
The youngsters in most instances are
wider awake to the situation now thar
the grown folks are, and it is very
r probable that the slackers who have
e d dyed the mems committees and the
: women's corps will surely fall vic.
tim to the youngsters.
That the ultimate outcome vii
r show the sixth district permorning 1T
e full duty is the geenral belief around
Headquarters. But in order for this
result to be shown, there must be {
D mountain of work done by every cit!
Il and town in the district before thu
fourth of May.