The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-30
THIS IS TOPEKA'S
GREATEST OF ALL
MEMORIAL DAYS
Living and Dead Heroes Hon.
Ored Here by State.
Graves of Warriors Gone to
Rest Are Decorated.
THOUSANDS TO GREET 353RD
Many Events Held by Organi-
cations in City.
Services on the State House
Grounds at 3 O'clock.

America at peace with the world; !;
huge guns that a few short months
ago belched forth flame and iron and
steel into living ranks of men now
standing all mute and silent; war
torn colors folded and laid silently
away to be gazed upon with reverence
by generations yet to come; swords
beaten into plowshares and bayonets
sheathed to drip no more with human
blood; honor to those who fought so
valiantly to protect mankind from the
blight of autocracy; and hearts too
full" for Intermediates Memorial
Day, 1919. in Topeka.
Since the Civil war, when thousands
of unselfish men laid down their lives
that the Union might endure, it has
been the custom to honor, with ap-
propriate ceremonies, those departed
spirits whose examples furnish the
basis for a higher idealism; to deco
rate with flowers and garlands the
graves where sleep those true Ameri-
cans who counted not the cost to
themselves when Father Abraham
asked for volunteers; to show, in a
manner still too insufficient even in
its greatest achievements. the love and
reverence and appreciation in which a
nation holds the memories of its de-
parted heroes.
Added Significance Today.
But there was added significance to
the memorial ceremonies today. Not
only those who died in the Civil war
to preserve the Union and those who
gave their lives to drive an oppressor
from the shores of the new world in
1898, but those who were left behind
by the veterans of the World War in
their triumphant homeward march,
will be remembered, one and all, on
this greatest Memorial day America
has ever seem Beneath the sod of
France they sleep-at Verdun and st.
Mihiel, in the Vosges and on the
Marne, in the Argonne and Belleau
Wood-those silent sons for whom
America mourns and whom America
honOrs today.
The greatest event of the day will
be the parade of the 353rd infantry
"all-Kansas' regiment at o'clock in
the afternoon. And as the column
marches up Kansas avenue, the tat
tered flags that were borne thru the
Civil war will fly side by size with the
colors that triumphed on the battle
fields of Europe.
The first event of this morning was
the decoration of the graves of the
Civil and Spanish war veterans in To-
peka cemetery by the G. A. r. and
Lincoln Circle. This occurred between
8 and 10 o'clock. At 1890 O'Clock
| the Naive SOHS anu DduSnleTS VI
| Kansas decorated the graves of for
mer Governors Samuel j. Crawford
George T. Anthony. Thomas A. Os-
born and Hugh S. Walsh.
Services for Naval Heroes.
Memorial services for the departed
| heroes of the navy were held at the
Melan bridge. The discharged sailor:
of the city and others who were tt
participate in the affair, assembled a
o'clock at Lincoln Post hall. on Eas
Sixth street where the procession was
| formed. Headed by the Ninth Bat
talon band, the procession moved
where the customary ceremonies oi
| throwing profusion of flowers upor
| "a M'ontinned on Pnge Twoh