Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-24
Major General Shanks DeIiV-
ers Patriotic Address at
Center of City-GirIs Sell
"Memory Day" Tags
BY ERNEST ROGEES

| Memory thumDed back through
sixty years of golden history Tues
! day as hundreds of AtlantIans con.
| gregated at noon at Five Points TO
! commemorate the Battle of Atlanta,
! fought July %, 1864.
Heroes in gray, eyes brilliant with
| recollection and glowing from the
tribute paid them by Atlanta men
and women who have not forgotten
their noble precepts, gathered at the
foot of huge army truck, on which
speakers and members OF the Allan
ia chapter, United Daughters of the
COnfederacy, We're located and heard
members of a subsequent generation
eXtol the valiant warriors of the SOS
and point to the magnificent city
which arose from the ashes OF a
crushed and broken village.
1t was difficult to realize that the
Memory Day exercises were being
held in the heart of a city throbbing
with commerce and business enter
prise. When Mayor Walter Sims
first raised his hand to ask DR.. S.
r. Belk! pastor of the Trinity Meth
odist church, to offer the inVOca-
ton, a great calm settled on the
throng and was not broken through
out the ceremonies.
Rebel YelI' Goes Up
The hush, at the close of the cere-
mony, gave way to a chorus of rebel
yells when the band, under the lead
ership of Fred Wedemeyer, swung
into Dixie The veterans Of the
War Between the States, tn ugh
bowed with age and with the tell
tale tracings of the years in their
faces, sprang to their feet and the
first bars of the song of the Con-
federacy made Five Points rever-
berate with voices.
Mayor Sims, who presided, spoke
briefly on "Atlantas Remarkable
Growth and said the watchWord
of the progress made by the city in
the last sixty years was due to the
old-tin1e southern hospitality brought
over from another era.
Major General David Shanks, of
the Fourth Corps Area, also spoke
feelingly on Preparedness, the Key
note to Peace"
General Shanks empha sized also
the national defense test to be made
September u by all organized units
of the regular army, the national
guard and private citizens wishing to
take part in the patriotic exhibition.
General Shanks' Address
General Shanks said, in part:
Following. the World war, and as
a direct result of it's lessons, con-
gress passed the national defense act
which provided for a small regular
army, for a national guard which is
constantly growing in size, in impor-
lance and in efficiency Your fine
Atlanta regiment recently organized
in record time through the efforts
of General Cox, Mayor Sims and
other patriotic citizens is a type of
this class of our defenders. No bet
ter material is to be found anywhere
than that in this fine regiment COM
posed of the flower of your young
manhood
las a third class there was estab-
lished a, reserve corps which consists
of some 80, 900 reserve officers nearly
all of whom had service during the
World war and who have volunteer.
ed to form the framework upon
which we must build our reserve
force in case of emergency With
pride | mention the fact that Dr.
M. l.. Britain, president of Georgia
Tech, is one of our reserve officers.
Congress also made provision for
training a number of the youth of
our land at our various schools and
colleges. Last year there were train
ed within the whole of the United
States some 10000 college boys, of
whom 1000 were trained within this
Fourth corps area. The boys whom
YOU saw in training at Georgia Tech.
at Emory university and at Atlanta