Woman's enterprise., 1922-06-01
DECORATION DAY
OBSERVED HERE

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The first celebration Of Memorial OF
Decoration Day ever held in the city
of Baton Rouge took place on Tues.
day evening at 500 o'clock in the
National Cemetery before a large
crowd of people composed entirely Of
white people. The observance Of
National Memorial Day was first agi.
tated through the efforts of Mr.. J. St.
Clair Favrot, a veteran of the Span
i ish American War who enlisted the
aid of members of the American
Legion and other local patriotic or
CARNATIONS with the result that a
committee from these organizations
met and arranged the program of
exercises. The committee on ar
rangement was W. P. Denham, U. C.
"; Mrs. L. U. Babin, U. D. c.; Miss
Matte B. McGrath, U. D. c.; Messrs.
Herman Moyse, DR.. J. J. Roberts and
Rev. Royal X. Tucker, American Leg
ion, with Mr.. J. St. Clair Favrot, U.
S. W. ", as chairman. The Boy
Scouts under the direction of Scout
Master H. E. Steele placed the ma
tional flags on each grave in the cem-
etery and ladies and the manage
ment of the cemetery placed decora-
tions on the stand and on some of
the graves in the cemetery. On the
stand during the ceremonies were
representatives from all the patriotic
organizations in the city and the
program of exercises was as follows
Introductory address by J. St.
Clair Favrot, Master Of Ceremonies,
U. S. W. ".
Reading from the ritual of the
American Legion by Major George
Wildes, Jr., Post Commander.
Thirty seconds silent, tribute cf
respect to the dead.
Music, America, by L. S. U. Chor-
US, directed by Prof. H. w. Stopher.
Invocation by Rev. Royal X. Tuck
er, Chaplain American Legi,n.
Music by L. S. U. Chorus.
Address of the day by Hon. Jared Y.
Sanders of Hammond, La.
Benediction by Royal X. Tucker.
Taps.
The address by Gov. Sanders was
a mastery appeal to the people Of
Baton Rouge to be proud OF their
past and to keep alive the history and
traditions of the South but to re-
member that times change and men
change and that we are now the
greatest people on the face Of the
earth, that there is now no North and
no. South and no East and no West
but one great and undivided people
that mourn for those who at any
time gave their lives that the prin-
ciples that they deemed just, might
live and whether in victory or in de-
feat had proven themselves, whether
living or dead, heroes that knew how
to live and to die for what they
deemed right. He reviewed the deeds
of the American soldier in all the
wars in our history and stated that
while the North and South had set
tied in blood the question of the SOW
ereignty Of the State, yet it was a
strange historical fact that the first
threat Of secession had occurred in
Connecticut and that Andrew Jack
son, a southern man, had been the
first tadvocate of the integrity and
indissolubility of the Union. He said
that out of this cemented friendship
between the North and South through
the medium of bloodshed, had grown
the greatest country in the world
and that since the Civil War the sons
Of the Confederate soldiers and those
who fought for the Union had prov
en- themselves worthy sons and had
upheld the might of American arms
and American principles on both
hemispheres.