Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-26
TRIBUTE PAID
HEROESOF COS
Splendid Memorial Day Grafton
Delivered In Americas BY
Judge George
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pattern their lives, and that the con-
slant recollection of the deeds and
valuor of the men VINO fought in the
sixties is heritage that will shape
the lives of Southern people for gen.
erations.
"A land without memories" he
said, as land without history. Say
ages have no history. As we meet
on these occasions to commemorate
the heroes of our Southland of more
than half a century ago we do so
with no narrow spirit. Scattered
through our Southland in every city
and in nearly every county are me-
morial statues and shafts to them.
They are engraven with inscriptions,
but among them will be found not
one ignoble sentiment, not one dis
loyal statement"
Judge George went into the life,
ancestry, and achievements of Gen
eral Robert +. Lee, the gallant lead
Ell of the Southern armies, using the
man to typify the members of his
army whom the occasion was meant
to honor. BY the glory of the line
age of Robert E. Lee" said he, "by
the glory of his life, by the preemi-
nence of his commandership, by the
excellence of his life, the South now
is ready to submit its case to his
tory
Triute to Women.
Fine tribute to the women who
formed the second line of defense
in the Confederacy was paid by the
speaker, and his remarks brought
prolonged applause. The days were
never long enough nor weary
enoagh," said he, NOR the nights
dark enough or starless enough to
drive the women from the support
Of the heroes who made up the daunt-
less lines of Jackson and Lee"
He went into the World War Of
recent history, recalling the drawing
of this country into the maelstrom and
of the breathless anxiety of the world
as the Germans hurled their hordes
against the lines of civilization in
April, four years ago, and of how
they were turned back at memorable
Chateau-Thierry, which, a small bat
tie in itself, was the fore-runner of
scores of others in which American
manhood wrested victory from the
enemy and rescued totterng civiIza-
tions
Have the men and women who
turffed back in 1865, defeated and
poyertystricken, facing hostile
government and conditions of almost
uncomfortable hardships; who found in
April barren fields that had run with
human blood and turned them into
green fields of grain by June-haye
these men and women no message for
today in these trying times? Sure
~ they have, and that message is,
Government does not come to men
self-eYecuting. Men get out of gov
ernmei.- what they put into it them
selves. 1t is up TO US to look more
10 ourselves for the solution OF our
problems than to the government"
The program opened with an over
tuce on the pipe organ, followed by
4 medley Of loved Southern airs, by
Miss Cecil Ryals. The audience sang
How Firm Foundation" and Rev
l.. A. Harrell delivered the invoca-
ton. Miss Susan Stallings read an
inspiring selection, appropriate to the
occasion, following which a high
school quartet, composed of Misses
Cornelia Shriver, Katherine Turner,
Agnes Wooten and Louise Thayer,
accompanied by Miss Ella Polk, sang
selection.
After the address Miss Melva
Clark, accompanied by Mrs. VIII
Dudley, sang Last Rose of Summer"
and When You and Were Young"
The benediction was pronounced by
DR.. F, H. Harrington, who was pre-
scented by Rev. II. T. Brookshre.
After the exercises veterans and