Grand Forks herald., 1922-05-31
A. +. Brown Gave All.
dress To The Unknown,
Dead; Mr. Davie. Spoke
! \ OF Significance OF Decor
alton Day And Outlined
Americas Duty To The
World.

AMERICAS DUTY 10 The
] World.
The Memorial day exercises in
Grand Forks eliminated in tho after
noon I'm splendid program given in
sentral park, the feature OF which
Davies editor Of The Herald. Just !
before the park program, the ad-.
arcss to the unknown dead was given
/, at the decoration Of the soldiers
monument by Major A. E: Brown Of
the University of North Dakota r.
The afterpoon program was at
tended BY an Immense crowd which
thronged every part of the park. 1t
was one Of the most impressive Me-
mor1al day programs given In years
Walter Schlosser. commander Of the
local post Of the American Legion,
presided. An interesting feature was
the pageant given by school children
under the direction of Miss Glenn
Bruce of the university
Special music was given by the
Mems and Women's Glee clubs Of the
university, and Adjutant A. u. Pierce
'oA vVAhS "a 6OEIldIl pO6C,,. a. H.
read the general orders Of General
John Logan. ~.
Mr.. Davies address was as follows:
Mr.. Davies,,~Addres
The program closed with the ad-
dress Of the day by Mr. Davies. which
follows:
close the exercises OF day the OBJ
servance of which has become one, Of
the sacred customs Of, the American
I people. Set apart at the close Of the
Civil war as a time for commemorat-
ing the services Of those who had
given up their lives in that great strug-
gle for the preservation Of the Amer
lean nation, its observance was. ac-
cepted as a fitting and, appropriate
tribute, not to, the soldiers Of the war
alone. but to all who had made sac
rifices in similar service at any time
during the building and development
! of the nation. 1t became distinctively
a. dayeo patriotic observance, a day
on which thought was turned to the
creation OF this: great commonwealth,
to the purposes for. which it was
: founded. and to the ideals toward the
realization of which its founders
sought to direct it.. No other day
which We observe has its peculiar
quality.
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To-day the graves t,of our soldier.
dead have been streHn with flowers
SoT "a tifs s WassTs sfi Il II memory. @
. Of those who found [ heir era yes in the,
great deep. Ga arlandsf have been hung
! upon the granite shaft I. erected IN
memory of loyal sons of the nation
who gave up their lives in Its service.
Fitting. and eloquent wordsffhavcs been
!, spoken in honor Of those unknown
dead whose names are lost to us. but
whose deeds !. have given them i'm
perishable fame. Rifle fire. and, drum
: beat, and bugle call have given us the
symbolism Of the close of day and the
= folding of the hands to sleep, and now
we come, with prayer and song, with
\ the nag Of our country floating over us,
to sum up the days doings, to think
for a little while of what it all means,
and how the things WHICH we COM
Inemorate AFFECT the lives OF US, the
!: living, whose work isyet uncomplcted
.e:$t- The early years of the nation were
l years Of construction growth and 'ad-
I iustment. The men who had Trained
Z the constitution had Understood but
! in.perfectly the meaning of their own
act. They had seized upon great fund
II ameatal principles of whose soundness
they were convinced, and for which
they were. prepared TO make any sac
rifce, but the. application $of those
principlesto the changing conditions
{ Of a growing society, with growing
+ conditions changing even more rapid
I, ly, was a work requiring time, and la
Z bor, and The wisdom OF great minds.
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