Weekly journal-miner., 1922-04-12
APRIL
 z GRANTS DAY
Governor Requests Appropriate Observance of Services of Civil War General And Presi- dent on That Date.

PHOENIX, April Z - Governor
 Campbell has issued a proclamation
 setting aside April 2 as U s. Grant
 day, with the suggestion that com Imemorative exercises be held by churches and schools.
 The proclamation reads as follows:
 Among the notable figures of the
 civil war, surpassed i'll glory only by
 the martyred president, was Ulysses
 s. Grant. The march of time is i1n-
 pressed upon us by the fact that soon will approach the centennial of
 his birth. Now, after GO years have
 passed, into the union of the states
 has come union of thought that in
 Grant was raised up an instrument through which the Almighty forged the bands that have reunited a dis
 turbed and divided nation in such
 wise that it has become a citadel for
 liberty, so strongly founded that |ChVh tIlC NdfNo HUH AdkCI duu greater storm of war could not pre- vail against it. Grant was one of the maryels of American citizenship, born in obscurity, exhibiting in his youth no signs of future greatness. Yet by sheer merit he rose to the command Of the greatest armies that till then ever had been gathered. He was greater after victory than he was on the field of battle, for his forbearance toward the conquered served to more speedily reunite the severed fragments Qf the nation that did any other single action.
 There is more than personal sig nificance in the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Grants birth. There must arise the thought that he was little older than the average age of the men who fought in the war between the states, and that it is now g years since his death. Initiation of the celebration comes from the Grand Army of the Republic, though joined in by the Woman's Relief Corps, Loyal Le- zion, United Spanish War Veterans and American Legion and other similar bodies. There is pathos in the call, in which is recited: This is probably the last time that the Grand Army of the Republic, as an organization, will seek the aid of the people and the constituted authori- ties in doing honor to the memory of the distinguished leaders of that great army Of the union which saved the country from wreck, and ruin, and, by so doing, made it possible, through a united country, in l9l7-l8, to save the civilization of the world. Our ranks now are very thin. Only a remnant remains. But our hearts are yet warm with zeal for our country, and our faith is undimmed"
 At the last Grand Army national encampment resolutions were passed, asking that patriotic exercises be held on April 2, 1922. in ali the schools and churches of the land and that legislatures, governors and mu- nicipal officers be urged to take evil action to bring to the attention of the people the great lessons taught )y General Grants steadfast adher- ence to his country's cause in the ime of severest trial. In this I would express most hearty concurrence.
 Now, therefore, l, Thomas E. Campbell, governor of Arizona, do recommend that on Thursday, April 7, 1922, in the churches and schools # Arizona and within the various ,atriotic organizations of the state, here be held appropriate exercises commemorative of the character of Ulysses s. Grant and of the service lone by him in re-estabIishing the nifty Of the nation and in preserving for the maintenance of liberty, oth of America and of the world.