Connecticut western news., 1922-06-01
MEMORIAL SERVICE !
 / IS WELL ATTENDED
Hon. Malcolm D. Rudd of
 Lakeville Makes Stirring Address

An audience of something over two hundred people comfortably filled the Town Hall Sunday after noon in attendance upon the Union Memorial exercises which heretofore had been held on the afternoon of Memorial Day. Sittings were reserv- ed for the veterans of the C.. A. R., the American Legion and the Camp Fire Girls, and these delegations filed in after the audience was seated while the people rose to receive them.
 The hall was most tastefully trimmed for the service by the Camp Fire Girls assisted by Mrs. Frank Whiting, Mrss Helen Hanlon Smith and Mrs. Nestell.
 The Members of the Canaan Chor- al Society occupied seats on the plat form and rendered two appropriate numbers acceptably, being led by the orchestra furnished for the occa- sion by Miss Kegler. Other musical numbers were contributed by a special double male quartette who sang familiar songs of the Civil War.
 Lincoln's~> Gettysburg Address whose thought seems as significant today on such an occasion as the day it was uttered by the lips of che great president, was most acceptably recited by Miss Norma Adam.
 The address of the afternoon was given by Hon. Malcolm D. Rudd Of Lakeville, whose services were freely given and whose remarks served to make the occasion all that was hoped for it. #. .#
 The speaker prefaced his address by a hearty word of congratulation to the citizens of North Canaan that so goodly number had withstood the lure of the out of doors and had come to have part in the tribute and the thought of Memorial Day. The tribute of Memorial Day is signi- ficant one not alone because we hon. or thereby the brave men who fought and died in the Civil War, but chiefly because they fought for cause that was righteous, and because their action forever furthered the princi- pie of justice and fair dealing in the earth. .r tA
 The issues of that great civil struggle seem simple to us as we look back at the events from the vantage ground of nearly sixty years, but they were not so simple to those who 7 had to decide them in the midst of all the interwoven considerations of that day. It is easy for us to- see reproach to the fair name of free America, but it is we'll to remind ourselves that this institution came into being very naturally: that it seemed almost an economic necessity in the South and that it grew grad ually into a powerful influence in the z land. We should not then honor these men of the G. A. R. simply because they fought but because of the vision of justice and right which caused them to line up against an evil which was undermining the : foundations upon which America was created to stapd. ..
 The speaker affirmed that he stood heartily with those who in this day are striving to do away with the evil of war, but reminded his hearers that great ideal movements of this kind may net be expected to come to swift realization, and that should the time ever come when the sons of America were called upon to rise up again in behalf some great principle of human concern, he hoped that that day might find us as clear in our vision of the right, as steadfast in our per formance of duty, and as valiant in action as these heroes of the stirring days of '61.
 On Memorial Day members of Da- vid s. Cowles Post c. A. R. and of the American Legion marched to the various cemeteries and decorated the graves of veterans with flowers. The Campfire Girls and school chil-' dren assisted with this work and there was an abundance of flowers for the work,
 After visiting the several ceme- teries dinner was served at the Con- gregational church n Easc Canaan and later an address was delivered