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meeting held in the far northern part of our united 
country. 
Some years ago a friend of mine, while traveling 
in Massachusetts, was asked by a gentlemen if “it 
were not dangerous for a northerner to go ‘out 
south,’ ” as he expressed it. 
And again on the other hand, this friend met a 
charming young woman in Georgia who stated that 
she was twenty years old before she realized that 
“Damn Yankee” was not one word. 
Thank God, gentlemen, tliat time is passed, and 
the foolish prejudices as shown by these incidents, 
amusing to us, are buried forever, and not in the 
modern burial park of today with its provisions for 
future care; but in the old-time graveyard, as it 
were, with not even a marker to show they ever 
existed — no perpetual care fund to keep their 
memories green, and no regrets at their passing. 
These conditions have been changing gradually 
We all know that this band of noble men and 
beautiful women have accomplished much in its 
lifetime of thirty years. 
We know that our burial parks of today are 
monuments of beauty to the skill and ability of 
the landscape men among us, and we also know 
that when we meet each other in these conventions, 
compare notes, exchange thoughts, as it were, that 
each one of us will take home new ideas and new 
principles to apply to ids own particular cemetery. 
There are a few things to which I would like 
to call attention at this time, upon which I would 
be glad to have the members of this convention 
take action. 
One is the adoption of a “uniform set of laws” 
applying to cemeteries in every state in the Union, 
and I would counsel you to listen, think, and act 
on this important matter at this time. 
A paper has been prepared on this subject that 
The secretary's report showed 4l) new 
members. There are now 252 members and 
the Association is in a more flourishing 
condition than ever before. 
After limcli on the first day the visitors 
were entertained by an automolnle trip to 
the granite manufacturing plants and the 
cemeteries. The thoughtfulness of the en- 
tertainment committee was especially ex- 
hibited here when they presented everyone 
of the nearly 4U0 visitors with a linen 
duster. 
On Tuesday evening the people of Barre 
tendered an informal reception to the la- 
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for a long time, ami nothing has contributed more 
to the now complete and perfect change by which 
all sectional feeling has been wiped out, than the 
present great national struggle in which the mar- 
tial strains of “Yankee Doodle” and “Dixie” are 
commingled and lost in the one of “Star Spangled 
Banner”; and it is to that national anthem, sung 
in unison by brotherly voices, that the sons of those 
who fought with Grant, and the sons of those who 
bled with Lee will charge side by side over the 
trenches “somewhere in I'rance” in what will 
prove to be their victorious effort to make the 
world safe for democracy. 
And still further pleasure is added to this occa- 
sion when I consider that there are found in our 
body members from our neighboring great common- 
wealth, the Dominion of Canada. 
Assuredly this is a time for congratulation for 
every speaker of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. 
Just now we hail our brothers from Canada not 
only as “Friends.” “Neighbors,” or even “Broth- 
ers.” but also as “Comrades in Arms.” 
I repeat, therefore, it is an extreme personal 
pleasure to bring you greetings from the sunny 
south with all the warmth, enthusiasm and sin- 
cerity rightly ascribed as being properties of that 
fair section. 
And now. my friends, a word or two about our 
<;rganizatioii. We are business men, and we desire 
to make progress. Our business is on a different 
plane from that of most enterprises; it is tilled 
with a sentiment of love that holds it high abr)ve 
the mere “dollars and cents” proposition, and we, 
as an organization, must ever bear this in mind. 
is to be read before you, and I hope you will fully 
discuss it and take detiiiite action at this meeting. 
I w^aikl Jje glad to have this convention adopt 
a “uniform deed or certificate” to be used by all 
cemeteries, and especially a blank form of trans- 
fer where lots are sold and resold or parts of lots 
are sold to different parties. 
Many of our cemeteries forbid the selling of a 
lot or any part thereof, yet it is done; hence a 
suitable blank for the transfer is important and, in 
fact, necessary. 
My co-workers, I want to congratulate you on 
being able to attend these annual gatherings. 
I know you are happier here today, far away 
from the sad scenes of your daily routine of duties. 
The annual meeting of the Association of Amer- 
ican Cemetery Superintendents is the bright oasis 
in the life of the cemetery man; it is a breathing 
spell for the tired spirit; it has groves of recrea- 
tion and gardens of pleasure: it has fountains of 
laughter and lakes of song; it is the mass plant- 
ing of beautiful shrubbery and beds of roses for 
the weary brain of the cemetery superintendent. 
And now, as you are here in the city of Barre, 
with her granite ribbed hills surrounding her, and 
her fine streets, and her hospitable people, and 
with the welcome extended you from His Excel- 
lency, the Governor, Horace F. Graham, and the 
Barre Entertainment Association, I cannot doubt 
but that you are to have the time of your life. 
And let us leave, with these good citizens here, 
memories of our visit just as pleasant as those 
we carry away of them, and of their beautiful 
municipality. 
dies at Hotel Barre while the business 
session for members was going on in the 
convention hall. At the latter place there 
were some very interesting papers read. 
"Our Cemeteries, Ancient and Modern,”’ 
was the title of the paper read by Leonard 
W. Ross of Boston. This will be printed 
in full in an early issue of Park and Ceme- 
tery. 
A. L. Gale of the Taylor-Critchfield- 
Clague Advertising Agency of Chicago 
spoke about what “Dignified Advertising is 
Doing for the Modern Cemetery.” His pa- 
per follows: 
tVHAT DIGNIFIED ADVERTISING IS DO- 
ING FOR THE ilODFIRN CEMETEItY. 
By A. L. Gale. 
I venture to say that if anyone had suggested — 
ten or fifteen years ago — that advertising would 
ever be used as an influence in the development 
and improvement of the great work which you 
gentlemen represent, he would have been accused 
either of wild dreaming or a harmless form of 
insanity. 
The constructive possibilities of advertising have 
been appreciated by the general public for so 
short a time as to make this profession, or sci- 
