The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-15
Kenosha School Children Get
Copy of Memorial Day
Annual Issued by State
Superintendent.
Old SOLDIERS TO SPEAK
Book Is to be Used as Guide for the
Exercises TO be Held in the Schools
AL over Wisconsin-GivesM Much
Space to Wisconsin in War.

Schools of Kenosha have all been
supplied with the Wisconsin Memorial
Day annual for 1919 which has just
been issued by State Superintendent
re. P. Cary and il is to be used as the
basis for many ceremonies attending
the observance of the annual festival
Of Memory in the schools of Kenosha.
While the feature Of the observance of
the day in Kenosha will be the adj
dresses to be delivered by the members
of the Grand Army of the Republic
in the various schools of the city much
of the matter contained in the annual
issued by the State superintendent will
be used in Kenosha. The new book
contains more than a hundred pages and
much of the work offered for the child
rem has been inspired by the world
war; There are some wonderful pic
lures in the book contrasting the sol-
diers who fought in the great battle
for national life in 1868 and those who
fought for world liberty in 1918. The
book gives a considerable of the his
tory of Wisconsin participation in the
world war and has a long list of the
organizations from the state which were
overseas or ready to leave for the
battle front.
In the foreWord to the very inter-
esting work, State Superintendent Cary
says:
The present issue of the Memorial
Day Annual contains much material
in relation to the great World War.
How little did we imagine five years
ago that such war as that in which
we have been engaged was possible!
Many people today scarcely realize that
we have been at war, and many more
do not really sense what it was all
about Even the most enlightened
leaders Of the nation, we believe, only
gradually came to sense and full signi-
fcance Of the conflict. Abstract terms
such as democracy, freedom, justice,
to most people seem cold and unreal
when it comes to the shouldering of
gun and going to war. And yet the
ideas and ideals for which such terms
stand are the most real and fundamental
things IN the lives of men, When we
look back upon it all we can now read
lily see that this contest had to come
sooner or later between autocratic and
democratic systems of government.
Some of us had fondly hoped that each
country would work out this problem
for itself either in an evolutionary war
or, if need be, a revolution, and that
a conflict of nations would not be nee
cessary. Such a view was shortsighted
and over optimistic. We sometimes
hear it said that this was not clearly
drawn battle between autocratic and
democratic systems, that all sorts of
governments were involved. True; new
ertheless fundamentally and essentially
1t was autocracy versus democracy. If
autocracy had won, it would have taken
a hundred years at least and possibly
thousand, for the democratic forces
of the world to have rallied for an
other fight with autocracy. But when
It would have come, under such cir
cumstances and conditions, its horrors
would have made the French Revolu-
ton Of 1889 pale into utter insignif
canoe. Let us hope that the world will
quickly recover from the frightful los
ses, and that mankind may be greatly
the gamer in the near future, as GER
tainly will be true in the distant future.