Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-23
DIR. M'CULLOCH
PAYS TRIBUTE
TOWAR HEROES
Presents French Memorials to
Relatives of Shelby COun-
tvs AZ Dead.
BASIS OF AMERICANISM
Special to The Times.

Special 10 AHo
sHELBYvILLE, Ind, Feb. pa beau
tiful tribute to the men who gave their
lives in the war was paid by DR.. Carleton
5. McCuI1och in presenting to relatives
OF forty-two Shelby county men who
died in the war the memorial certificates,
the gift of the French government as a
token Of appreciation of sacrifices made
in the cause of freedom.
DR.. McCuIloch. who served as a lieu
tenant colonel in the medical department
in France, included in his talk number
Of instances showing the courage OF both
American and French soldiers in the war
The objectionable sin. DR.. MeCulloch
told his audience, is the sin of ingrati-
tude, but. he added, our sister republic
will purge itself of any implication that
republics are ungrateful. He called upon
the relatives of the dead soldiers to be
of good cheer in the thought of the
service rendered by their loved ones.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
SISTER REPUBLIC.
DR.. McCullochs speech in part, fol-
lows:
in the memorials about to be dis
tributed to those whose sons and broth
ers have laid their lives freely upon the
altar of freedom, the republic of France.
president Poincare, calls all men to wit
ness calls the living rocks TO behold,
that she holds in honor and respect and
love. and all enduring gratitude, the
memory of those fine young men, who
stood not upon the order of their going,
but gladly left the city and the farm to
do their utmost to stem the tide Of
aggression, which was threatening to en-
gulf not the continent of Europe but the
whole wide world
'4Glad am l indeed that France tenders
this tribute TO our dead. Glad are We
that those sorrOwing families may not
feel that the world rolls easily by, with
the mind full of new thoughts and prob
lens, and with never a pause for hand
clasp with those whose freSides are va
can't by virtue Of the patriotic sacrifices
Of their erstwhile occupants.
HONORS DEAD
OF OTHER WARS.
zone of the finest, one of the most
ennobling attributes of American idealism
is the respect and the honor we pay TO
the heroic dead whose lives were the
price of our freedom. Scattered over the
length and breadth of our country are
memorials in enduring stone to those
sturdy patriots OF our wars-ReyOlu
tionary, Mexican. Civil and Spanish wars
anu We TINT OuL EltAuttu ny tAC manu-
and point out to them that there is no
higher glory, no more exalted destiny
than to die for ones country. We instill
into their impressiOnable minds the
glories of American ideals. of freedom OF
thought Of freedom of speech. of repre-
sentative government, of religious free
dom, and we tell them that the time may
come, may always come, when other
things are es nothing compared to these
principles, and wealth and family and
comfort must be left behind to do battle
against any foe who advances to over
throw them.
And you. fathers and mothers and
wives. here today, kept these fires burn
ing IN the hearts of your loved ones now
gone. When the trumpet sounded calling
them to arms, you did not hold them
back, but bade them godspeed and good
courage, and a safe return. if so be the
Hand that rules the universe should so
Ordain
SACRED CHARGE
UPON LIVING.
Then from every nook and hamlet,
from the forge and mills. and college.
from broad acres begging to be gar
nered. our young men heard the call
and dropped their tools, abandoned their
lesser duties and gathered in the camps
days to come you let the luster of their
memory dim by one slight shade Of
mistiness. Shame be upon you If the
stranger within your gates finds not
their memory kept green and ever be
fore the eyes of men.
And so l say unto you, the recip-
tents Of these memorials from a grateful
republic: Let not your hearts be trou-
bled. You are not pitied, you are en-
We'd by those in whose midst you have
lived so many years. Taps have been
long sounded over the graves Of the de-
parted, but the echoes carry on the
most far reaching of all the airs in our
own or any other army.
Full Of the feeling of restlessness, as
one bugle after another takes It up and
carries 1t along into the distance. II
arouses all the thoughts and memories
Of comradeship and homesickness and
love. and thoughts beyond the grave An
insuppressible emotion comes up from
the depths of the heart; a lump in the
throat, and an eye suffused, and we flush
with exultation at the thought, that these
your brothers, your husbands, and your
sons have remained steadfast and true
to the high ideals and the noble aspira-
tons of the luminous morning hours of