The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-31
DAY OF TRIBUTE OSOLDIER
Decoration of Graves, Memorial Exercises at Sea- side Park and Parade Featured Days Pro- gram.

33sth Coast Artillery corps. c. N. G., ip Hurley commanding the two com lpantes. Next in line was the 163rd Ambulance company, c. N. G., Captain David B. Wason, commanding.
 was Captain A. c. Bennett, with hides:
 Lieut.. c. A. Klady, Sergt. F. E. Lynes. and Private William Roberts; The
 In this division were the members of Franklin Bartlett camp, No. II,
 Sons of veteransi Elias Howe, Jr., post, No. 8, G. A. R.; members of the W. Bishop camp, No. 3. United Span
 ish War Veterans; the Veterans of
 Foreign Wars drum comps; Raymond W. Harris post, Veterans of Foreign Wars drum corps; Pettus post. veter-
 ans of Foreign Wars; Catherine Me
 Gurdy post, American Legion; Bridge
 P0st P6st P6 Rt, TG MoFla Scof4fb #aT
 CTS band. and the British War Veter-
 ans of America
 The Highlanders' band, the mem
 bers in their kits and gay plaids,
 made one of the picturesque features
 of the parade.
 The third division. of which Charles N. Stephens was marshal, took in the
 auxiliary of Harry Congdon post,
 ment, Knights of Pythias. and the
 Bridgeport Marine band.
 When the procession filed under
 the Perry Memorial at the Park ave- nue entrance to Seaside Park. it was
 greeted by thousands who hurried to that point of vantage in preference to any of the city's streets. The long line of marchers proceeded directly to the Soldiers and Sailors monu- ment, where the final devot1ons in memory of those who had carried the torch of liberty werec arried out.
 The monument was covered with beautiful wreaths while at its base strewn by the Civil War Veterans, Sons of Veterans. and members of the Ladies auxiliary of the American Legion.
 Rev. William Horace Day deliver ed benediction, his prayer being the one used by him at many burial services of the heroes who died in Flanders fields. The children of tional airs.
 The orator of the day was Dr. Archibald Campbell. former pastor of the Washington Park M B. church, who is now located at Hartford.
 Our representatives in Congress seem to have a hard time deciding the question of giving the American boys a bonus declared Rev. Dr. Campbell, at Seaside Park yesterday | and they talk about a balance sheet, | and of not having enough money. There was no balance sheet in France, | nor in Rull Run nor in Fredericks- | aire friends, though: They have money enough, They made money | enough out of this war to pay the | bonus. want the bonus subscribed to by | every American man, woman and child, I don't want to pay it by means of a tax on my theatre tickets
 
 anyway, and you soldiers wouldn't get your bonus. There must be some lind of a tax that every man, woman md child in this grand country of l ours must help to pay.
 'I don't care how you do it. want to, and everybody else should want to contribute a good share. Every patriotic citizen should do his 9art.''
 Dr. Campbell in opening his ad- iress, said Memorial Day was com ng more and more to assert it's right ,ul place in the hearts and minds ,f Americans
 eve would be a nation of cads f we cannot stop to visit, and weep 'ver the dead heroes, the ones we lnew and loved and the ones who nave gone before us in the great work If the nation building to take one lay out of the year and dedicate it o their me emory, to read the Lincoln address once more," he continued.
 "A little over 100000 American ,oys were in France. There are ewer than 1000 on the German today. The steady stream has been hom eward bound md with them there is a silent army coming who will never march again.
 'I have heard many folks tell what 'ught to be done, that our boys bod es should remain in France. There will be a few, without kin of any kind, vho will remain there, but is there my boy who has a mother, sister. brother or wife who would say he ;hould remain in France? France will keep their memories fresh, to be | ure, and around such graves as Ker- nit Roosevelts, many an Am erican will tell his story to the listening world, by the side of the unknown lead in Paris, in London and in the Arlington National cemetery, the story f American heroism will repeat it. elf again and again, but we do not .xpect the fields of Flanders and 'iccadil1y 70 make American patrio- ism.
 ''We need those little mounds here marked fell at Argopne' or where yer he did fall. We need these raves to tell the story, to give the ternal warning that Vigilance is the rice of Liberty
 we should perpetuate Chateau hierrS. Argonne and Bel1eau Wood.