Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
UNION ARMY VETERANS
| HONOR DEAD COMRADES
March to Soldiers Home Cemetery,
Where Services Are
Held.

Retired veterans OF the Uniteo
States Army formed a parade at the
Soldiers Home this morning and
marched to the speakers stand in
the cemetery for the annual cere-
| monies.
J Representative Philip P. Campbell
of Kansas delivered the principal ad-
! dress. ..
mo generation in the history Of
civilization has produced greater re-
suits than the generations that pre-
served the Union and saved the re-
public of the United States" he said.
THAT was an event of so great
Importance to all mankind that it
cannot be computed" he continued.
Great Progress After War.
'"Then, too, the developments and
improvements that followed the war
mark the greatest material and social
progress in any period in human
history. Our population multiplied
to more than a hundred million; new
inventions and discoveries were made
that have created new opportunities
to reward the pursuit of happiness
in our own land and throughout the
world. The hand sickle and the fail,
the stage coach and the freight wagon.
the spinning wheel and the loom, the
crane and the Dutch oven were the
simple implements used in providing
the necessities of life when you old
boys were young boys. These crude
implements of industry have been
sent to the antique shop by the reaper,
the thresher, the tractor, by the
limited express and the fast freight.
by the coal, gas and electric ranges
of the Dutch oven on the hearth.
I'VE have shops with million
FORCES and factories with more than .
million spindles. We have instant
communication with every quarter of
the globe. and fly in a few hours
across continents and over seas. The
span of your lives has seen this mar
velous evolution in material progress.
Your day and generation performed
the miracle of this great change.
II congratulate you on the import
ant fact that this development and
progress were the result of individual
initiative and Individual industry and
without the patronage of government.
You enjoyed the hope of reward OF IN
dividual excellence and accomplish
and only asked that the government
make you secure in your life, liberty
and the pursuit of your happiness"
The celebration opened with the
presentation of the colors and the
singing of '"The Star Spangled Ban
neT Dy 01ES. 0IAuIts
Reads Original Order.
Rev. H. A. Griffith, chaplain Of the
Soldiers Home. delivered the invoca-
ton. Senior Vice Department Com
mander r. B. Harlow. delivered the
Grand Army ritual address and Mrs.
Mary Logan Tucker, daughter OF Gen.
John A. Logan. read the original order
of her father, establishing Memorial
day. .o. ,.,
Flag" Lincoln's Gettysburg address
was recited by G. L. Shorey. The Sol
diers' Home Band, under the direction
of John S. NJ. Zimmerman, played sew
eral selections. Benediction was pro-
nounced by Rev. Father Whalen, also
chaplain Of Soldiers Home.
Poem by DR.. Thomas calver.
A plea for q. moro conscientious and
universal observance of Memorial day
was voiced in an original poem by pr
Thomas Calver, read at the exercises by
! the author. The poem follows;
| MEMORIAL DAY y THE SOLDIERS LAST
| Oh. hallowed spot! oh, sacred time,
When thought trends up to themes sueiime'
| In upward march to heaven and God!
No sordid thought Of worldly gam
resting place should here Obtain;
But thought that prompts to give and give
And die that truth and love may i've
The grassy mounds here mutely speak
OF glory on its highest peahi
The glory Of hard duties done.
The palm Of honor bravely won.
And vet each mound an ending seems
OF some ambitions golden dreams;
4 stopping place Of martial might
As here We meet each passing year.
Each meeting seems more sweet ana deafS
or %ho s B,svsy fought our eountrys toss
To share with them their hopeful dreams
OF good to come. of peace to reigni
Their brave young lives not spent IN vais.
This time and place make strong appeal
To souls Of patriotic zeal.
To gather in the sacred shade.
Where Freedoms boys to rest are iafd.
For here rich blessings from above
Await those who their country love,
In showing safe her future days
While boys like these her nag shall raise.
As here We staId upon the Eround.
Made holy by each precious mound.
We feel vibrations that must dow
| From tuneful strains Of long sgo;
The echoes Of the songs Of years,
Thrown back from distant heaveniy spheres,
With sweetness that is heavens alone.
To add to beauty all their own,
Let no mere pastimes patriots stay
From duties Of this vital day
| To those who bore our country's arms
And stilled the anxious hessts alarms,
Our country's future we may reach
By lessons that We now may teach.
| OF hopors due to those who fight
Fer God, for freedom and the right.