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MEMORIAL DAY 
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Roundy’s band of Boston, A. B. 
Roundy, leader, furnished the music for 
the day. 
The address in the afternoon was by 
Rev. Herbert W. Stebbins, of Boston, 
and following are a few excerpts from 
his speech : 
“You have been told in the General 
Orders read by your adjutant that this is 
the 40th year in which the G. A. R. has 
celebrated this day. ‘This order came 
not as an order from the War Depart- 
ment, or from the state, or from the 
President of U. S. Indeed, while this 
is a state holiday it is not an national holi- 
day, for we have still the people of the 
Southland, in which they celebrate their 
own Memorial Day. 
“You are not called to commemorate 
the death orservices of the leaders of that 
great army; youare called to commemo- 
rate the memories of this. great army 
who offered their lives to the nation. 
Out on yon hillside, in yon valley are 
the graves of dead comrades. Stay not 
in your halls, but find the mounds; skip 
not one in the remotest corner where 
the body of a patriot lies. Nota patriot 
who gave his life on the southern field 
only, but the patriot who died at home, 
or in the prison pen. 
**When one by one the patriots shall 
be laid aside one more grave shall be 
added until those living shall be num- 
bered with those now dead. It is the 
service of the great grand people com- 
memorative of the great grand patriots of 
the U. S. There is no service like this 
the wide world over. 
“What makes this service unique is 
because the army was unique. This 
patriotic army of 1861-65 had the small- 
est percentage of men trained of any 
army we ever had. The men of 1776 
and 1812 had been trained to war and 
through war; but the men of 1861-65 
had the smallest number of trained men. 
It was also unique in that it had the 
smallest percentage of want and vice. 
Illiteracy was represented in this army 
the smallest of any army we have ever 
had. ‘The volunteer was called into ser- 
vice and he was trained with service. In 
England, Germany, Russia, and other 
foreign countries social rank governs 
position in the army. But here it was 
the people’s army and the best man 
could rise to the highest position.’’ 
‘The speaker alluded to the unique 
patriotism and the unique cause for patri- 
otism, and he went on to say what there 
was in the country to make the _ patriot 
love his country, such as freedom of soil, 
freedom of home, free public schools, 
town meetings, freedom in_ religion, 
freedom of suffrage,—a grouping of lib- 
erties which was unique in all the his- 
_ tory of the world. 
He pointed out how this patriotism 
was readily changed over into patriotic 
activity. He spoke, too, of the respect 
for authority and obedience to authority 
in that day, and lamented the fact that 
these characteristics of the old home are 
fast disappearing. 
“Your schools were taught by women 
in summer and by men in winter. You 
obeyed in winter if you didn’t in sum- 
mer. Constantly you have been cutting 
the man out of the home, and out of the 
schools and asa result today the boys 
are not being trained to respect authority 
as you were in the days of ’61, either in 
the home or in the school.’’ 
He spoke of the lyceums and the 
great good accomplished through them 
in training boys in debate and in gaining 
knowledge of affairs of the day. The 
speaker laid emphasis on the “‘ school of 
labor’’ of that day. 
““You had a distinctly high concep- 
tion of manual labor. You were trained 
to work hard; hard work that was hon- 
orable, and when the word came to fight 
for your country you were well trained 
to work. ‘There was nothing but pat- 
riotic sentiment in your heart. 
“You are war patriots. We are not 
training now in view of a war. But 
aren't we going to train patriotism any 
more? ‘The patriotic sentiment—love 
of country—rests entirely on the knowl- 
edge of things of value in your country. 
If you are not intelligently patriotic they 
can’t count on you for much. 
‘““How are we going to train patriotic 
sentiment today and thus carry on the 
work you did for us? We must educate 
the sixteen millions of people who have 
come to us in the last 40 years from 
foreign countries. “They have come 
here. “They do not understand us. To 
a very large percentage of the sixteen 
millions, coming to the U. S. means 
coming to a place where they can earn 
more money than they can get at home. 
‘What we need is to train these men 
who come here. ‘There is a great work 
for you sons of veterans. Let us gather 
them in tents and in halls, let views be 
shown them describing in their mother 
tongues so that every man shall be taught 
what we value and why we value it. 
Faith in men ts the source of American 
success. “Teach them what our great 
institutions mean, and show them a con- 
nection between them all. 
‘“Teach them respect for our flag. 
Make it impossible for any flag but the 
American to be at the right of your soul. 
Will you not teach these foreigners so 
that they will ‘stand attention’ every 
tmea flag passes by them.. We need to 
pay more respect to the flag and for the 
law.’’ 
The pansy bouquets worn by the Post 
and Camp members were furnished 
through the courtesy of S. N. Bliss, of 
the Beverly Post, who spent the day ‘i 
Manchester and ‘participated: in the ex- 
ercises with Post 67. 
Patriotic Eveftises in the dettiod 
The Town hall was crowded in the 
evening when public patriotic exercises 
were held under the direction of the 
Post, assisted by a committee of ladies 
from the W. R. C. The. program was 
of two hours’ duration and consisted for 
the most part of singing. of patriotic 
selections and recitations by school boys 
and girls. 
The feature of hee evening was the 
appearance of the chorus composed ‘of 
Post members, in which Adjutant Rivers 
was soloist on all but one occasion, when 
A. J. Orr carried the solo patt. Mr. 
Rivers has a way of leading the chorus 
which is original and purely his own. 
More than once was he ‘‘given the 
hand.’’ In the chorus were: Jf. H. 
Rivers, John Meader, Wm. Pert, Enoch 
Crombie, James Widger, H. T. Bing- 
ham, John Goldsmith, E. P. Stanley, 
G. A. Jones, A. J. Orr, Charles Stone. 
The program follows: | 
Overture, Popular Airs. 
ORCHESTRA 
Chorus, We are the Boys 
Sash Drill, 
16 Giris, G. A. Priest School. 
Tableaux, Soldier’s Farwell (with chorus), 
Herman C. Swett and Miss OLive Cook. a 
Recitation, What Grandpa Said, : 
STANLEY BEATON. 
Army Scene (and the Army Bean), 
Post MEMBERs. 
Recitation, Eagle of the Blue, 
EFFIE STIDSTONE. : 
Selection, Tenting onthe Old Camp Ground, 
Post CuHorus, A. J. Orr, SoLotst.” 
Recitation, The Man Behind the Gun, 
WINTHHOP YOUNGER. 
Chorus, Marching Through Georgia. 
Selection by Orchestra. 
Tableau and Chorus, The Prisoner’s Home. 
Post MEMBERS. 
Selection from Memorial Day Address of 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., 
RovanD KNIGHT. 
Chorus, Kingdom Come. 
Selection from Sherman Hoar’s 
Courage,” 
“fA merican 
P.H: Boy e. 
Chorus, Battle Cry of Freedom. 
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