Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-08-23

| 'h"l the uemDerS present, as we'll as
all Old soldiers, should feel just as
they did while on that now historic
jaunt through Virginia, the town
had dug bitches and thrown up
breast-works for their beneflt (n,
and in order that the town might be
turned over to them completely tho
city authorities had the calaboose
dynamitcd Monday morning. That
whilc idealism had become a tern,
both Of praise and scorn, no matter
what man undertook, an ideal was
! necessary. That it was an ideal which
enabled the gray-haired veterans to
| endure what they did, and it was
that which helped the men Of the
Thirtieth Division to break the i'm
pregnable EIindenburg line.
Mrs. J.W Bell, president Of Norton
chapter, U. d. c., was then intro
duced, and in very happy and pleas
ing manner spoke as follows:
Mr.. President, Members Of Orr's
Regiment and Other Veterans OF the
War Between the Sections, Soldiers
Of the World War, Ladies and Gen
tlemen:
In behalf Of the Norton chapter,
| U. D. c., I wish to extend greetings
to you.
This day we have come to renew
our loyalty to each other. I would
wish my words to convey peculiar
Significance 10 you'll would wish
this greeting, this loving welcome, to
| pc worthy Of you, honored guests OF
! to-day.
Let us think for moment what pa
triotism is. Some ono has said hat
patriotism is new with every age. To
Washington and his army it meant
manhood rights; it was ideals and
theories OF government to Robert Il.
Lee and his soldiers. Love OF human
ity and the respect of the rights Of
the weaker rs against the stronger
carried Pershing and our sons across
the ses in 1917. In word, patriot
| ism means one who loves his country
| and guards its welfare.
To the World War veterans |
should like to say that our hearts,
though bleeding, rejoiced that The
patriotism in yours was so great that
| 1t rose above selfish aims and greed
1t was patriotism that placed you
three thousand miles away to fight
Oh foreign soil. having to sacrifice
ease, estate, wealth, and even life
itself, for the broad spirit Of nation
alism and for tho sacred cause Of
humanity. Long live such patriotism
as this!
There is no finer heritage to come
to our sons than the life and example
of such men as the Confederate vet
erans-dear soldiers Of the sixties,
whom all Of lis honor and love so
dcarly-patriots who counted no sac
riflce too great to maintain Southern
| honor. We assure you of our CRATE
full recognition Of your loyal devo-
ton to country and Of your supreme
sacrifice to duty. Southern Patriot!
Well may l say OF you what some
one has said Of Robert E. Lee:
Though victory crowneth not thy
brow,
To-day thou standst unveiled:
| Typo Of the manifest manhood, thou,
That in fighting, failed.
Well may'st thou lift aloft thy head,
Immortal Is thy crown;
And tho the cause thou led'st Is
dead,
Deathless Is thy renown.
And so in story thou shalt stand,
In legend and in lore,
The idol Of thy native land
Till time shall be no more"
On Behalf Of tho Veterans.
Col. j. N. Stribling, Of Anderson,
responded to the addresses of well
come, in part, as follows: He said
that but for The United Daughters
Of the Confederacy the veteran Of
the Confederate Army, and most Of
his valorous deeds, would have long
since been forgotten, but that he
was proud to say that the young wo-
men Of to-day are fondly cherishing
the heritage which was handed down
to them by their mothers Of yester-
DAY. That the women had always
been greater patriots than The men,
and that he hoped now, since tho
women have the ballot. they will i'm