The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-25
MEMORIAL
DAY PLANS
LEGION POST HAS ARRANGEMENTS
Parade Will Form on Cascade Avenue
Water Ceremony Will Precede
March to Cemetery

| Candy Post, G. A. R., the Hood River
| American Legion Post has taken full
charge of plans for the Memorial Day
| celebration here next Tuesday, when
all places of business will be closed.
| With Harold Hershner as chairman the
/ following Legion men have been APP
pointed committee to arrange for the
event: DIR. II. DIV. Pineo, Capt. Geo.
] r. Wilbur, Capt Edw. Van Horn and
Banks Mortimer.
| A line of March will form on Cascade
avenue, facing east, at 10 a. M, in
cluding in the order mentioned the fol-
lowing: Grand Army members in spe-
cial cars, the Knights of Pythias band,
American Legion in uniform, Company
| C. lS6th Regiment, Oregon National
Guard, ,Woman's Relief Corps. Women's
Auxiliary in special cars and citizens in
cars.
The cortege will proceed to the CO.
lnmbia River Highway bridge over
Hood River for memorial services for
| the nations dead sailors and marines.
Thence they will proceed to cemeteries
where the Grand Army and American
Leion members will conduct ritualistic
services. DIR. Pineo will be marshal
of the day.
General orders from the Washington,
ID. c., national headquarters of the
Grand Army, on Memorial Day, are
as follows;
The thirtieth day of May will again
be observed by the Grand Army of the
! Republic as a sacred Memorial Day,
commemorative of the services and
sacrifices of their comrades who died
that this Republic might live.
/ Originally set apart as the day upon
which the survivors of the War for the
| Union should mark with flags and
strew with flowers the graves of their
comrades who had fallen by their side
on the field of Honor, while each sue
ceeding year has diminished the num-
/ her of those survivors yet living, it
Ihas added to the numbers of the de-
blenders of the Union to whom this
lhonor should be paid, until now OF the
1.-two millions of brave men who re-
lturned to their homes from the scene
of strife, a mere handful remain. To
Ithese who yet survive the duty and
Iprivileee of Memorial Day becomes
the more sacred and imperative.
To assist in this service has come
the welcome aid of our sons and daugh-
ters and many auxiliary organizations
who ask the privilege of sharing in
this honor---this assistance should be
lgladly accepted.
| During these later years the honor
of the Nation has called for the same
last full measure of devotion from It's
sons in vet other wars, and greater
and broader significance has been given
to this Memorial Day, until now the
whole nation observes 1t as sacred to
the memory of all its sons who in any
age or on any field have given their
lives for their country.
To every patriotic son or daughter
it should be the great holy day OF the
year. In no sense should 1t be made
day of festivity or an ordinary holiday.
Let the request be made from clergy
men that during the Sunday preceding
the day itself a service be devoted In
all churches to the memory of the
deeds which this day commentaries.
During Monday, the 29th, let delega-
tjons from the posts in every locality
visit the schools, and take part IN such
patriotic services as may be carried on
therein.
Let the sons of veterans and the
soldiers of all wars be earnestly in
vited to participate in these exercises.
to the end especially that when the
veterans of the sixties are no longer
here to do this work others may be
ready to carry on the same patriotic
service into the future
1t is expected that as a part OF the
services of Memorial Day should be
read everywhere the General Order,
No. IL, of General John A. Logan,
Commander -in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic in 1868, then establish
ing the observance of this day, and
also the address of President Lincoln
delivered at Gettysburg November 10,
1863. II is recommended further that
this year the letter of General U. 5.
Grant, impressing the Importance OF
this day upon his comrades should also
be read.
The general orders also include the
communication of General John A.
Logan, urging the annual observance
of the day. The great address OF
President Lincoln at the battlefield oi
Gettysburg is reprinted in the docu
ment.