Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-30

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MEMORIAL Day is an interval of rest and peace,
wi welcome and lovely intrusion upon days given over
to swift haste and uneasy turmoil
We do well to refresh and renew ourselves in whole
some memories which crowdng back with obServ-
ance of the day and thus fulfill its purpose.
Our present tasks very hard and weigh upon us
heavily.
Rest and peace which grace those with whom men,
DRY our only bond give spirit and strength for these
tasks and are best sought in recollection and reflection
Men may be poor in all else, but if rich in memories
are possessed of great wealth.
When il is courage that is essential it may be re-
membered in who had courage.
When faith is required, it may be restored by remem-
brance of one who had faith.
When affection and loyalty our needs, we have
examples of these virtues in those whom have known
and from whom we have been parted.
When worthiness in any purpose cause must be
summoned we take inspiration from the worthy
locked in memories and released by remembrance
A DAY devoted to memories is therefore spent in en-
"A rchment among treasures in which all men rich
according to their willingness and ability to open their
minds.
George Eliot. very wonderful and most talented
English woman once wrote of those immortal dead who
live again in minds made better by their presence"
II is the beautiful understanding have of profit
in the of Others however briefly they touch that
the Memorial Day observance mean so much to u.s.
comforting and yet strange emotion attends the
observance.
Somehow it is the good that people do and the good
things knew about them that are the remembered
things.
mother is remembered for infinite patience and
seess love- and in remembering her acquire patience
for our hard tasks she had for hers and at least
thing of the capacity for unsesh affection for which
we honor her.
father is remembered for his kindness and for
his sacrca devotion to the security and welfare of the
home, and in remembering him are armed with the
virtues, in which he strong.
loved one is remembered for the things in which
love had it's meaning and a friend for that in which
friendship significant and respected associate for
that in which the relationship wholesome
Memory is charitable.
1t is cleansing and purifying.
1t is kind and generous and forgving.
II is sweet and beautiful.
Otherwise our minds would not be made better by
the dead who Give again in memory.
IF THE bitterness and unworthiness and fraitles OF
i which all men are capable and guilty in some degree
should come to mind when they remembered. we
would ourselves better by locking our minds against
them.
But it is our great good fortune that the good men
do lives so well and long after them, for that what
we improve ourselves by and what seek to refresh and
renew ourselves with by Memorial Day recolections
Antony said "the evil that do lives after them;
the good oft inferred with their bones only to refute
that philosophy.
And our own experience refutes it, our Memorial
Day reflections attest.
We find rest and peace in this very restful and peace
full day. and aside for at least brief and refresh
ing moment from hard and ominous things and from evil
and bitter things to what love and honor and cherish
Memorial Day is beautiful and clean and sweet
the flowers which bear in tribute to the resting
places of dead and wholesome and good and
as the memories preserve of them.