Evening star., 1927-05-31
DAVIS LAUDS DEAD
At bR|GHTW00D
Labor Secretary Says Work.
erS Have Shared in Bene.
fits of War.

.i'The united America we have today
IS largely the work of these heroes
who fought and died to keep it whole
largely on their dead bodies we have
built this structure of today" Secre-
tary of Labor Davis declared in an ad-
dress at memorial services held yes
x..-.---, -f.crnoon at battle-ground Ma
>4onal Cemetery, where lie those fallen
heroes, who on July IL and l.. 1864,
stopped invading forces bent on de-
etroying the Nations Capital
And the men who most have profit.
ed ~by these who sacrificed so nobly.
the Secretary added, ARE the same
sort of men who fought and fell. For.
in great measure. the Civil War was
Naged by working men. and it is the
worker of today who enjoys the great
est happiness and prosperity. To the
rest of the world, the American work
eh~dwells in Utopia. He lives better
than the king of three centuries ago.
And of all the happiness that has
come to him / believe the greatest Is
this-he has no enemies any more. 1t
Is proof of what harmony has come
among us, 81 years after our greatest
war.
Order of Exercises.
At 3:15 o'clock Assembly was
sounded by a bugler from the loth
Engineer Band. followed by the rals'
ing of a large American flag to the
tail flagstaff in the center of the ceme-
terry by Maj. John Deavy, While all
present saluted the colors. The Star
Spangled Banner" was rendered by the
18th Engineer Band under the dlrec-
tion of Bandmaster George a. Horton.
after which the orders of the Grand
Army of the Republic were read by
John NJ. Kline, Department OF the
Potomac. G.. A. r., who was chairman
Of the exercises. The band played tne
MILITARY Overture" by Mendelssohn.
and Vice Chairman John Clagett Proc
tor followed by introducing Mr.. Kline.
who presided.
The invocation was pronounced py
Rev. E. V. REGISTER. pastor OF Emory
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Robert +. Pogue, accompanied by the
Battle Ground Quartet sang renting
Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
after which Arthur Bradley White re-
cited The Star Spangled Banner ana
Mrs. Z. Clyde Shade sang a soprano,
solo. "One Sweetly Solemn Thought,
hv Bischoff. Mr.. Proctor recited an
original poem, why Should We
Care?" and Louis +. Randolph sang
n tenor solo, Just Before the Battle,
Mother" by George +. Root. Iheo'
dnIe Hardy recited Lincoln's Gettys-
la,rg address, followed by the Battle
Ground Quartet singing the "Reces-
sionap by De koVen.
Traces Wars Effects.
Secretary Davis, explaining that
1--WE cannot too often remlnu our
selves of what these heroes did 1or
us" and that 1--WE cannot too otten
oover again the story of their valor,
reviewed some Of the outstanding
events and their effects OF the Civli
War. He declare the war snoula
have closed with the turning back OF
The Confederates at Gettysburg.
"There. in reality" he added, ''at the
end of three dreadful days, the dream
of the South was ended. For magnln-
cence in courage and daring nlstory
has nothing to outdo the last grand
charge of Pickett's men in that pat
tie. But when they broke, not only
was the battle lost, but SO was tnelr
cause. Still more bloody pattles re-
manned TO be fought before passion
gave way to reason, but never again
did Southern hopes reach the hlgh-
water mark of Gettysburg.
Iamenting the fact that those whose
lives go far enough back to remember
the war are passing, Mr.. Davis SAID:
sBut as long as democracy survives
on earth men will recall that Ameri.
can heroes once fought war for its
eternal preservation.
"If the picture has its brighter
side.' he continued, "it is lightened
by the fact that no bitterness is left,
either in the North or in the South.
Even while they fought, both were con-
scious of being Americans. Robert
e. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are
heroes as much as Grant and Sher-
man."
Children Decorate Graves.
At the conclusion of Secretary
Davis speech the band rendered the
selection, Gloria" from the Twelfth
Mass by Mozart. Under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Angus Lamond, the fol-
lowing public school children ceco-
rated the graves, while the audience
took up a position about the circle of
graves in the center of the cemetery,
around the flagstaff, and witnessed the
ceremony.
= Misses Elizabeth Coale, Thelma
Carter. Polly Monarch, Helen Bunten,
Jane Holt, June Smith, Helen Pattie,
Mary Elizabeth Hochbaum, of the Ia
koma Park School; Eleanor Tracy,
Dorothy Poole, Catherine Boswell,
Clara Cook, Of the Whittier School;
Ethel Passin, Rosa Skinner, Louise
Mothershead, Martha Underwood of
the Keene School; Charlotte Heitmul-
Ter, Catherine Swami, Alice Lee Kel.
Ter, June Nettleship, Marjorie Davis,
Dorothy Woolf. Mary Aubinoe, Doris
Goss, Maxine Eaton, Virginia Wiley,
Rachel Merritt, Virginia Setz, Dorothy
Schultz, Katherine Cotter, Elizabeth
Burns, Janet Neely, Dorothy Sutton,
Dorothy Norton, Ruth Logan, Jean
Tbopancon Anna DpSl<in Doris IIoh-
berger, Eileen Wallace, of the West
School: Miriam Rothstein, Jean Creech,
Virginia Sullivan, Daisy Mace, Helen
Berezoski, Vernon Thill, Rebecca
Needle, Ruth Murray, Charlotte
Nicholson, Nena Boyce, Of the New
Brightwood School; Laura Virginia
White, Virginia l.. White, Catherine
Bragg, Vera Schiedel, Dorothy Dinger
Florence Evans, Anna NJ. Beller, OF
the Old Brightwood School.
The assemblage, accompanied by the
band, sang America" after which
Rev. B. +. McGeary, chaplain at Wal
ter Reed Hospital, invoked the bene
diction at the base of the flagstaff anc
bugler sounded taps" The per
sonnel Of the Battle Ground Quartet in
cluded Mrs. L. Clyde Shade, soprano
Mrs. William w. Wallace, alto; l.. F
Randolph, tenor and Robert f. Pogue
hasso. The accompanist was Harr,
Wheaton Howard.
The guests of honor included Mai
Gen. Lansing II. Beach, Lieut.. Col
J. Franklin Bell, Engineer Commits
sioner of the District; Eugene Black
John c. Box, Maj. Gen. John l.. Clem
Mayor Ben G. Davis of Takoma Park
Nd; Maj. Gen. Robert c. Davis, Com
missioners Proctor l.. Dougherty an
Sidney +. Taliaferro, Senator Frazier
Lieut.. Col. u. S. Grant, Sd; Prof. II