Weekly journal-miner., 1921-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY |S F|TT|NGLY
 OBSERVED BY PRESCOTT IN
 EXERCISES AND DECORATION

ed and uncovered heads as the first
 coffin draped in the Stars and Stripes
 was lowered into the grave.
 Il stood in that largest of all na- tional cemeteries, the French from
 tier. Behind Verdun I saw our boys
 digging graves for their buddies in that soft, miry clay. I saw the silent funeral cortege and the burials day after day Of many noble American youths, who had crossed the 'sub-in- fested' Atlantic and given their lives in France, that the world might be made safe for democracy; and 1 said, Can it be that these dead who have died in these several wars, shall have died in vain?'
 With the Spanish-American war sectional lines were wiped out; our soldier dead became our dead! The world war dead were our comrades of yesterdayl
 This touch of comradeship unites its survivors by one mighty bond, while as the years pass we are re- solved that so long as we have life and strength we shall not suffer Me morial day to pass without due hom- age from us. Not that we can add one jot or title to their deserved need of praise or one cubit to their stature, by any word or act which we may this day achieve. On this day of remembrance and patriotic devotion let us recall the prophetic words of our martyred Lincoln, that TC FDfhar For fn ha 1al. cated to the great task remaining be- fore us.' So comrades, Memorial day becomes a great muster for near ly four million men today and while with military honors we fire the sa- lute and sound taps at the graves of our late comrades as a fitting testi- monial of respect, yet, were we most direlect did we not pause still longer, and as we decorate a comrades l grave, rededicate, reconsecrate our selves to those sacred principles, of | democracy for which they gave the | last full measure of devotion
 They, faithful unto death! We, 1 praying for strength of character, | fortitude and wisdom to consummate those principles for which they died | Lest we forget, and in the hour of weakness betray the trust SO loving ly committed to our keeping Lest we the living, dishonor the
 name of our hero dead,
 Judge of the Nations spare us yet, I
 Lest we forget, lest we forgetl
 God of our Fathers, give us such l valor, such courage, such Christian 1 character as will enable us to con- quer in the battles still before us, so | that when our lives shall end we may lie down in peace, and in honor ; sleep as do our hero dead, through eternity" I
 Exercises were carried on at the | Citizens cemetery yesterday morning l by veterans of the c. A. R., at the same time that those at Mountain | View were being held. Assembling in front of the K. P. hall at 9 o'clock | the c. A. R. veterans marched to the cemetery. The exercises concluded, | they joined the memorial exercises | held at 10 o'clock on the plaza.
 With hundreds of Prescott citizens assembled around the statue of | Buckley O'Neill in the plaza, the i'm pressive ritual of the Veterans of | Foreign Wars was read, and a salute l fired in honor of the soldier dead of | the nation. Patriotic selections by l the Prescott municipal band preceded | the ritual, the ceremony concluding with the playing of the national air by the band.
 The Memorial day program closed | with impressive exercises at the | cemetery at Whipple Barracks, where the people of Prescott joined those of the post in honoring the memory of those laid to rest in that ground |
 No grave in the cemetery had been overlooked by the Memorial day | committee of the Women's Auxiliary of the legion, which placed on every | grave a cedar wreath made by Pres | colt school children, and fastened to | each headstone a small American flag.
 At one side of the gate stood |