The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-25
TRIBUTE PAID TO
MEMORY Of GRADY,
NOTED JOURNALIST
Many States, Cities and Or
CARNATIONS Are Represented
at Re-unveiIing of Statue
In Atlanta
BY Associated Press

Atlanta, May 24.-America' desire for
world peace was voiced here today by
John H. Atwood, Kansas City jurist
speaking at the memorial exercises at
the Grady monument here in honor OF
the seventy-first anniversary of the birth
of the Georgia orator and journalist.
Wreaths were sent by governors OF
many states. from Massachusetsr where
Henry w. Grady made MAJ -. eches
Louisiana and other states = . Boston
and other cities, including in Geor-
gia. and numbers of soei = 70 ID orsani-
cations in the north q s,SS as scores
in Georgia. The mon, was re-un-
yelled by Betty By 2 nree-year-old
granddaughter of 50. and the
wreaths were piled the monument
until the 12-foot bas~ = ding the heroic
statue was hidden unosr flowers.
MARKED BY SIMPLICITY
The memorial was marked by the ex-
IRENE simplicity that characterized
Grady's life. Mr.. Atwood. born in New
England and long a resident of Kansas,
was the only speaker, although the gov
ernor of Massachusetts, city of Boston
and various other states, cities and
organizations were represented. The Rev.
w. H. Glenn, a super-annuated Metho-
dist preacher, who was Grady's pastor,
delivered the invocation and Rabbi David
Marx pronounced the benediction. At the
close the flag at Five Points, two blocks
away, was lowered with a salute by the
Georgia Tech r. o. T. c.
X. L. O'Brien, Boston editor, who re-
presented the commonwealth OF Massa-
chusetts, suggested at a luncheon address
today that the memorial exercises in
honor of Grady who died in 1889 be made
an annual affair. Mr. OBrien. w. III.
Lord of Boston, Melville E. stone
councillor of the Associated Press, and
other visitors, including Confederate and
Union veterans came to pay tribute
WHAT HE TAUGHT
Describing the Georgia orator and
journalist Is a man of peace, Mr.. AL
wood told the thousands of persons who
filled the streets around the monu-
rnent that Grady taught the north that
men deemed wrong by their brothers
of the north could be wrong and not
licked he taught tho south that men
might be victors without being vim
dictive.'
The lamp held up by Grady's hands,
fed with the oil of brotherly regard,
lighted all America" Mr.. Atwood con-
tinued and prayed that such a beacon
might some day illuminate the world
Telling of the horrors of war and
praising American valor, the speaker
turned to the problems of the present
day the strange doctrines" of boil
| shevism and the .profiteers In
America He turned aside from his
prepared address to urge that Ameri
can business men in all lines regard
1t as duty to take fair profit and
not what they can wiring from mems
necessties'
Voicing a plea for more intensive
America nism in the face of the unrest
that is shaking many nations of
Europe and that is even felt in this
country, the Kansas City jurist said
| it appeared that the south had but
| little unrest and that it might We.
come to pass that the south would
show the north 1.-The way back to sanity
| and safety and how to buttress anew
the foundations of the nation"
| The aftermath of the war, he said,
has been marked by bolshevik doc
trines that we can have government
without authority, production withou.
supervision, a state without morality,
and manhood without honor"