The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-28
Won}en's Relief
 Corps Honors
 General Grant

A most impressive memorial service fin honor of the Tooth birthday ami versary of General Ulyesses s. Grant. Followed the regular monthly meeting yof the members of Elias Howe. Jr.. Post WomerSs corps. yesterday after street. Mrs. Agnes M- Stevenson, president of the corps. presided and a special program arranged by Mrs. Dora Terhune, the patriotic instruc- cer was presented.
 Mrs Jerome May sang "The Song of the Etag," after which the guests and members recited the American'ss creed in unison. With much enthu- s1asm the Veterans and other visitors later sang Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" Rev. R. c. Whitehead, the princi- 1 pal speaker of the afternoon, traced the important events in the life of the in the introduction to his address on Grant In name they were identical and in many of their outstanding qualities they were very similar. In detail he told of the life of the great American leader from the time when all his relatives placed in a hat the names they wished bestowed on the child and the maiden aunt. who had just finished reading the Odyssey, suggested the luck name of Uylesses. to the moment when he closed his eyes in eternal sleep. Rev MT. White head proved that Grants life was simply one of chance and that ffck1e fortune untiringly pursued him through all his career.
 "In his boyhood he was not over anxious about work and some of the neighbors even went so far as to parody the name of Ulysses to Use- less. It was only after his father had becomed iscouraged in trying to make something of the boy, that he applied to a friend, Congressman, to give this child of fate. a place in West Point" said MT. Whitehead. This was just another dint of chance for if Grant had not gone to West Point he would not have had such military training; if he had Hot this military tarining he would not have become great general; if he had not been the great general he was he would not have been the candidate for Pres ident; if he was not a candidate he would not have been President; and without a President of his caubre, understanding and unselfishness could we have had such a tremendu- ously successful reconstruction?
 The speaker declared that in com mon sense, courage, grit and deter imitation, good spirit and magnani- Ulysses were similar and presented certain incidents to prove his state ments.
 ''We shall let time draw a kindly curtain of justice over whatever faults this American leader might have had, and think of the great things he accomplished not only as general but as a President. The trend of international affairs today is but the fruit of Grants idea of a world congress and he corrected something which even the great Lincoln over looked, the spells system and put in its place the Civil Service Reform. What other man. without his military experiences and prospective could have so cleverly. so unselfshly, and so quickly won back the confidence of the Southern states,'' the speaker asked.
 -tAs great is l1is personal triumph greater still is what he has done for us in preserving the word "United'' and in name United States" and we that unaSoleum on Riverside Drive in New York and say to ourselves, there lies great man" he concluded.
 After the eloquent tribute, Miss Is abel Gregory sang '"Tenting Tonight" and '"The Battle Hymn of the Repub- lic." George Sanger, one of the Civil War veterans related many of the an ecdotas about Grants army life and afterward played "taps'' while the guests stood at attention.
 The guests of the afternoon were members of the G. A. R., the Sons and Daughters of Veterans, Sheridan Cir cle and other Veteran auxiliaries.
 The Civil War Veterans present were Frank A King, Commander of commander of George Van Horn Post of Milford; Abram Peck, senior vice of the local post; William Wurtz, ju- nior vice; J. W. David, adjutant: Geo. Sanger. Charles Curtis. John Thomp son. Byron P. Rugg. Isaac Gilbert, George Rutherford. Thomas Bracken and Charles Scarrett, chaplain.