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NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921
Vol. 56—No. 32
MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS
Mrs Betty. Reynolds Cobb’s eloquent
on Memorial Day, together with
M- I Helen Long 's benutil’ul intrMo
n E eeX are given below. Both will
bo 'enjoyed by out render*, we feel ns-
jtiretL
introductory Address by Miss Helen
Long, President Newnan Chap
ter U. D. C.
, h .. c: 0 nfedcracy, ttucl Citizens: We are
hied her.0 today for our annual
vnvnue to the Land of Memory—tig Con-
fe lon It States of Anmriea. We will
T„„ the good ship “Retrospect.”
wbieli never lost a passenger., Matthew
Fontaine Maur.v is our commodore, and
the
may bo modern enough to inherit your
polities from your inuthof, but you nro
certainly going to be old-faBhlonod
enough to know, wlmt tliey nro. So you
uro a Democrat, do you hear me?’ And
1 ventuvo to say that, there is not in all
Carroll county today a moro ardent Dem
ocrat than my wen daughter, And to
save my life I enanot help being proud
of it. The difference between her po
sition and mine is that in iiiy,childhood
mothers did not have polities—they had
only religion. 'But unfortunately for
me, perhaps, I.was my father’s daughter.
Yet, as I said before, I am glad 'tlmt it
was at the foot'of snub a father that I
learned my Southern historyand it rend
s.inotliing like this: ‘The Civil War was
a vital necessity. There were issues di-
Dead as the blood yo gave:
’ No impious footsteps hero shall trend
’The herbage of your grave:
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record hoops,
Or Honor point the hnllowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.’
. /
“And to renew our assurances nf love,
of admiration and of loyalty to the few
grny-hnlral [noil who are, loft in the rap
idly thinning ranks of out veterans. A
few moro years nnd none will be left to
answer tho roll-call; but their memories
shall li.ve.in our lion vis unit the hearts of
our posterity ns long as Americans take
pride in the glory of American manhood,
For Momorinl Dny should have, and I
trust it is coming to hiivn, a meaning to
thoso. who do not share ou r personal
memories. When men have come to
celebrate an mmlvorsnry It will be found
■Unbnimi,” commanded by Admirnl .
iluplincl Seinmos, and the “ Sheiian-p illing this country that no legislation
.toll: " commanded by Captain, Waddoll,
jj our convoy, followed by the ironclad
‘'Virginia,”'nnd a flotilla manned by ns
I,rave men as over sailed the seven seas,
pliese are all enchanted ships. They
fomo when we signal them, and bear us
instnntlv to the harbor of Long Ago,
which is the chief port of the Land of
Memory. There are the battlefields
fought over by tho Blue and the Gray.
There “to the sessions of swoot, silent
thought we summon Up remembrance of
things past,” and ponder why tills
“fair land is seen only by looking back
ward. ”
We have with 11s today a distinguished
guide, who will point out to us the chief
places of interest in our mental journey.
Although our voyage is to the port of
Long Agp, our guide is of the most mod
ern school; and while our guide is of the
great twentieth century, she is the de
scendant nnd the flower of the greatest
nobility that jover existed—tho self-
sacrificing, loving,1 Ytondor and true
hearted Southern woman.
It is my pleasure to introduce to you
ns.the orator of tho day one of Georgia’s
distinguished women—a. pioneer of her
sex, and I can say with feelings of ex
altation nnd pride, the first woman to
•'Ira admitted to the bar in this district—
a woman who loves the sacred traditions
of our Southland. I rofor to Mrs. Betty
Reynolds Cobb, of Carrollton, Ga., who
will now address us.
Mrs. Cobb’s Address.
“Veterans, Daughters of the Confed
erac.v, Lndies and Gentlemen: I doeni it a
great privilege to be permitted to ad-
dross this body of Confederate Veterans,
Daughters of Confederate Veterans and
Soils of Confederate Veterans, for there
is no day in- all. the year that so grips
my heart as does Memorial Dny. I love
everything connected with' it; I love the
traditions behind it; I love the cause that
grew out of those traditions; and I love
the sontiinent that, brings lid here. today
/ tp keep those traditions, the nieuiory of
flint cause, and., tire' inomories ..Of ..Dioso
who fell fighting"j^or 'if, rcircvcr fresh In
the 1 hearts of our .children.'
“But I admit that I am not moved
altogether by the, love of a daughter of
the South, though'-I am every inch a
.Southerner, and'have all my life been
verily steeped in the lore of the Confed
eracy ns we have it told us so graphically
m song and story ; but there is n closer
nnd more personal; chord touched by these
exercises. For, although I was born
a quarter of a century after the close of
tile Civil Wav, I was.cradled in a home
aver which the ' glory and the tragedy
the Civil War still hung—but I am
Sind to* say that; it was the, glory and
not the tragedy that was forever held
More my young eyes by a father whom
remember in no other way than ns old,
and gray, and bent, and broken, because
le ,,, c °m e from this same war with
wealth gone, health gone, youth gone,-
| ? ! . e ; everything gone except his iiidomi-
iawe courage and that fiery spirit that
was the heritage of every true-hearted
southern gentleman. That, thank God,
"as imconquerdBle'!
‘I 1 n ' n glad that it was at the feet of
eh a father that I learned my Soutlrbrn
1 !,!X7’,~ n f ntl,nr who tore from, my
i T 1 histories thoso atrocious passages,
I oil • l : v Soathern apologists -fvlio dar-
' it ta„ Wri w : The Sou th fought for what
,f i'b’lj Wlls right,’ nnd substituted
nS? , f °, r "' hat was right.’ And
1 earned that lesson
hcheve it with till
1 Mqtr,
I T »n» not going' to - make
n n ? f <m State’s Rights. If I
keliiwtoi • u, .’°" to s ivc m .V reasons fol
ia tin- .11 ui ll} 5° heartily T might be
prj— hosttiem of tlie young Confederate
oath T len . he was asked to take the
I first ’ L ‘I ’d- rot in prison
' ■■ „ S!u 'i hotly. ‘What are you
I rislifn ? for ' ' naherl the officer. 1 ■' Our
Jrr ':,,; 1 ' 1 .™™! 1 , the boy. ‘But .what
asked the officer with
celebrate an unnivorsnry it will be loiiuil problem every political theory
that, thore is a feeling or a sentiment philosophy becomes foolishness
nnd no decrees of court could' settle.
Fl'tim tlio settlement of Jamestown down
to the first shot fired at Fort Sumter,
thero Imd boon a long drawn out contest
fov mnstory between Nmv England and
tho South. At' ono time or another this
Jiad to be fought out,.and when that time
canto there leaped to the front with splen
dor aiid a giant’s strength tho full .man
hood of tho South. Every man became
soldier, and ovory woman a ivorkor.
l'horo was no necessity of life that
women did not fashion with their gentle
hands. They dug from the hills and
wrested from the soil those things that
were necessary for the support of tlieir
loved ones at home nnd tho maintenance
of their armies in tho fields—those ar
mies that qvhre-,exhibiting a braVery and
0 Valor that' has become the admiration
of the world. ’ ,
But with all that we failed I How
ever, we failed not for the want of
skilled leaders. Thoso wo had, and hu
man annals never furnished their supe
riors. We railed hot for want of cour
ageous armies. These wo had, and hu
man conflict Hicvor marshalled braver.
We failed not for want of able counsel
ors, and certainly wo failed not for want
of morale or the support of the people,
for never were armies backed by a more,
earnest, a more courageous or a riiore
spirited people. Wo failed because wo
had not those physical elements of power
•without which even the right can not
irevnil. And at Appomattox thero was
landed down the last decree on those is;
bucs that had been dividing us, and while
we insist that, all the logic and all the
letter of the law was on the side of the
South, we have homo,, after the lapse-of
fifty years, to see the infinite wisdom,
tho infinite mercy and tpo infinite love
in the hand that chastened it, and to be
lieve''tlmt out of thnt .dire struggle was
born that newer Democracy tlmt is just
nbw floweriiig into the full strength of.
its perfection. When Abrahaih. Lincoln
soi pootically told that everywhere in this
broad land the sun shall shine, the vagi
mail-fall, and-tho wind shall blow-upon,
iio man-Who goes forth-to unrequited toil, 1
he was merely the forerunner' of that
ppostle of Democracy Who was to lift his
voice in defense not only of the negro
laborer alone, but the unprivileged
and voiceless of every race and every
clime—Woodrow Wilson—-who preached
Ids gospel of world-wide Democracy, it
is true that just now that gospel seems to
havo failed. For tho time it has been
repudiated and the world is sunk in a
sort of lethargy—tho natural collapse’
after the spiritual exaltation of twp
years ago, --whim the whale world stood
.on- the tip-toe of expectancy and Mr.
fame—
behind it too big to bo dependent on
association alone. Tnko tile Fourth of
July, for instance. Wo .are no longer
rejoicing that we have escaped an out
grown control, but tho (lay 1s now sig
nificant of a deeper feeling, It is the
day when by common consent wo pause
to become conscious of our national life:
to think'of what our country has dono
Ter us, and to think of wlmt we nro ready
to do_for our Country, If tills is trim,
it. should be true of Memorial Day. Wo
should tench our children to celebrate it
ps an nct of patriotism and, faith, nil'not
that interprets the heart and soul of'as'
groat a people as over inherited the
enrth—the people of tlffi South. The
South is indeed—
world. A now duy hire dawned. Wo
are uri-longer bounded'on tho north by
tile Mason end Dixon line, nor yet by
Cnnndii—only by the north pole—ami on
the east and west not at all. The blood
tlmt wan shed ut Argonne, at G'atoyslmvg,
nt Bunkin'’s Hill—aye, further buck than
that, when wo all steed together at Hun-
nymode,—has blended us Into n glorious
brotherhood, new to tlio world. . We are
no tonger citizens of tlio United Status
nlone, but, by the great tragedy of war
we lire made citizens of tlio world,
brothers to tho men of 1 Nippon nnd of
Bengal, and next of kin ttt tho twenty-
live millions of men who matched, dawn
to the world’s Armageddon to die.
Our citizenship m tn tho world neighbor
hood, ami the. neighborhood problem be
comes‘the problem of every man—that
of bis relation to Ids neighbor. By tlmt
ivoblem every political theory is tested.
if it does
Wilson 011 the pinnacle of world fa
“ ‘The pillar of a people’s hope, /
Tho center of a World’s desire.’
“Today lie sits’ rejected and forlorn—
the saddest commentary, surely, in all
history of the fickleness of popular favor.
But though they slay him with their
contumely and their scorn, his spirit goes
marching on, and the • world shall lie
ipiijfe safe for' Democracy, or else wo
shall'have ‘broken faith with those who
sleep in Flanders Fields.’
“And speaking of this great tragedy,
tho world war, I love to think that
during- that, period the last vestige of
sectional bitterness was wiped out, and
that we are at last welded into one glo
rious whole. Looking back upon it now
it 'seems that the words of J ohn R, Fel
lows, in response to tho toast, ‘the North
and the South,’ were prophetic, of this
very struggle. Ho-said: ■
“ ‘Once we stood face to’face; now
we stand heart to heart: and when this
country shall call upon* her sons to do
battle against a common Toe, when
Georgia and Ohio, when Virginia and
Vermont, when all the North and all the
South shall march side by side in defense
of Old Glory, nothihg on God’s green
earth can stand befpro them: and' when
that time comes their strongest inspira
tion will be.the memory of tlieir father’s
struggle in the Civil War, no matter on
which side they fought: ’
‘ ‘ And I venture to say that when our
| , brave" lads stood in the Forest of Ar-
J 1 they ‘were "'rcadv'Vn'^H^^T •? Sonne, at the Marne, at Chateau Thierry,
v' 1 1. being'a woman mJnntfvi 6 f' wlie “ ,l Hon of Georgia sfklvnneed'jiy the
to a woman, accented mv si( , 6 of a „„„ , of 0 |, io> , vllou „* of
so well that I still
the strength of my
your rights?
' 1 lon'i a ' ^ a ' a Y ’ drawled the boy,
1(7. i, on . r kn r' V .. cz 1 -k'.” to ". you, bein'
I 14 |if,... r . * *7 vu, MCiu
I tlon ,j. , <an \ read, but there’s them
Itlra,11 tlmt "r'i'i In ray oase ‘ tller o was
I.. . .. ‘ ’to! know, ’ and . they knew it
lit; , u woman, accepted my pol
tfnotelv T my fat >ier, ready-made. For-
•n‘,.,1 «'i,’ 11 „ t "' aa aot faced by the compli-
'l.''u;|it„ r ' l ? n fbat confronted my young
age’of si '_4 hen , s,le came at the early
ty. s ,,‘* t0 choosing hor political pnr-
” n ‘l askn,i'? me ^ r n,e with « Puzzled face
IB&ujcfnt Mother, what.am I, n
1 told ho r , a ® e P u blican?’ Of course
’ he ilomiirin Wa ® a ,Democrat. ‘But,’
a Ren,,,,,;,... ' Bravely, ‘My daddy was
kr.lfr' b r ln , : can’t I be half-and-
s “nmi-nt anrt look cd at her for
“iy he ar t “tosttine like fear in
IWther f< ? lln *
a Kit old and alto-
? of "SI?;. “ n r e wa o this
I ’“a
•t It??'! 1 ’ voicing a sentiment
• v cats haaT 1 f .° rae f° r the past few
j,l nad be cn inaiiliouslv " " •
*pnun-
. . stealing into
rat S’ mia<1 ' Half-and-half-,
a other p „,!! ay ' Republican tomorrow,
id foUn-. 2,1’ oan wc sit on the fence
I answnrei 2 re CI P e, iiency beckonfe?
pcitj; u.., T -‘ I'cr a bit shatply for her
jjv. ** ‘asist that if we are to make
' are citizens of, our daughters
’Jid: <1 *1 have to begin early, so
e.oolt here, young lady, you
Virginia led a charge followed by men
from Vermont, thnt every one was re
membering that ill his veins flowed the
blood of a father who fought at Gettys
burg, at Bunker Hill, at Mission Ridge
and at,the Battle of the Wilderness, nnd
that lie must live up to the heritage his
father had left him. And it is to honor
these—their fathers and our fathers, both
living and dead, that wo have gathered
here today to scatter flowers on the
graves of our dead heroes, and to repent
with loyal hearts the beautiful words of
O’Hara:—
‘The muffled drum’s last roll Iras
beat
Tho soldier’s last tattoo:
No more on life’s parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few
On Fame’s eternal -camping-groand
Their silent tents are spread,
While Honor guards with solemn
round
r-The bivouac of the dead.
• -‘Sleep on, embalmed and sainted dead,
“ ‘A name to stir the blood
With a warmer glow and swifter
flood
At the touch of a courage that know
no four— ,
A name like tlio sound of n trumpet L
dear—
A nanie to fill, the blind
With shining thoughts that load'
mankind. ’
“To celebrate Moniorjal Dny is to em
body in the moBt Imprensivo manner
possible our 'belief that to act with en
thusiasm is to apt greatly. It was OI-.
iver Wendoll Holmes, I believe;, who said:
‘ All tlmt is required of you' is that yoiv
go .somewhither as.fast.ns 1 ever you can/
The rest belongs to fate. You may fall-
at the beginning of tho charge, or at the'
top of the breastworks, but in no _ other
way ciin you iiopo to win tlio reward of
victory. As life is action and passioh,
it is required of man that lie share the'
actions uml ppssions of his day, at tho
peril of boing judged pot to have lived.’
And it is to eolebmte tho enthusiasm’,
with which our fathers slfnrod the actions
and passions’ of our duy that Memorial,
Dny is celebrated, rathor than Lite prin
ciples for which they fought, That, ns
IT said in the beginning, lias been settled
by n court of last resovt.
“During the Civil.Wqr ity
North and South' that a' litnu mils!
on one side or the other. There was
scant regard for tho man who refused'
to- tnko sides. He was judged not to;
have lived; And I am prouder • todpjf, [ |
if y.ou will pardon nnqtlicr personal al
lusion, to he the daughter of a private
soldier iii tlie Goiifedernte 'army than* I
would to be tlio daughter of a king who
was afraid to fight for wlmt lie thought
was right.
‘I am glad it is in my blood to shave
passionately tlie actions and passions of
my day. My maternal grandmother
hailed from Boston nnd I nlu often re
minded that a far-off ancestor helped to
bum tlio witches nt Salenr; anil while
this is not a matter of' prido to me, I
would rather know that they officiated
at the burning than to think they stood
imlifforeistly by while it was being done;
For I verily believe it is hotter for 11
man tlmt lie be willing to fight in fin un
just war than that ho be unwilling to
fight in a just ope.
When we meet, ns we have met hero
today, to celobrato Memorial Day, wo
are doing our part to preserve the ideals
of our dear Southlnud, which- are at last
but the ideals of tlie entire nation, made
vivid by a bit of local color before tlio
eyes of our children j and we are ill no
way lessening thelove of tlieir country
or the flag of tlieir country. If those
misguided patriots who see a scarecrow
in every Confederate flag could seq deep
er into human nature or rise higher they
would be bettor satisfied with Southern
patriotism.
‘ ‘ I shall never forget a picture that
saw one nightduring the late war,
when all the world was moro or less hys
terical and all sorts of clap-trap wab
passing for natrioBtin. It showed an old
Confederate ..veteran raised to such a
pitch'of patriotism that ho wept into his
library, took down ids little Confederate
ting, nnd, with tears in Ids eyes, turned
his picture of Relit. )■!. Leo to tho wall,
saying, ‘Henceforth 1 owe nllegiancc to
but One flag, the Stars and Stripes. ’ The
unthinking mob went mad with cheering,
That, flioy thought, was ‘patriotism.
Tlmt, 1 thought with boiling blood, was
treachery to tlie ideal.? a map should
hold most.dear. To stifle sentiment, and
to destroy hallowed memories, is to de
stroy manhood; and I venture to say that
as many men went to death, in tho late
war with tlieir hearts beating to the tune
of ‘Dixie’ ns ever went down with
hearts heating to the tune of the
‘ Star Spangled Banner. ’ I say this
oniy^to emphasize the fact that men will
always lie stirred to deeper depths find
raised to nobler Kelghtp by remembering
tlio valor, the courage and the chivalry
of their own peculiar people, rather than
those of another people. And this is
just as it should be. A Georgia boy
should find more inspiration in tlie life
of Lee than of Grant, of AlexajnW
Stephens tlmu of Wendell Phillips, of
Bob Toombs than of Seward. Patriot
ism, like charity, should begin nt home
And just here I would like to pnv tribute
to the splendid work that is being done
by the Daughters of the Confederacy in
Stimulating interest in Southern history.
It is a subject that has been sorely neg-
lectcd In our schools. Only by living
up to.our Meal's can we hope to become
worthy citizens of the nation anil tfie
not undeistaml -. culture becomes dead
(loglttn if It does not. care; and the
clnii'C.Ivcs have killed tlieir Christ, if
Christianity falls when the Hold is a
world neighborhood-. But philosophy
is not foolish; culture does enro; and
the, Churches havo not killed their Christ.
Anti I verily bolievo that thebe nolgbor-
liood problems will yet he solved by
some, sort of longue,’ association or pnrt-
nerslilp of nations. I beljove President
g chooses to call it an assocla-
lit. sn nearly does it comprise the
tinls of the League of Nations that
the incorrigible Mr. Wntson lias called
blip the legatee of Woodrow Wilson, T
cate not by what i|nme it is called, nor
fe
b.v wlmt political putty it may be put,
into effect, it Is hat the logical growth
of the touching of the wisest, Buncst and
moat, genuine man who ever curried tho
weight of a nation on Ids honrt—the
man who 1ms as surely laid IiIh life
upon the altar of freedom as any who
(lied on the Holds of France. And I
verily believe tlmt Ids gospel of free
dom, df democracy, and of ponce will
live mi, and tlmt in God's good time
It will he the fulfillment of Tennyson Js
propheuy when he wrote:
“ ‘Fur 1 dipped iiito the future, far ns
human eye could sde,
Sinv tiio vision of tho world and all tlio
wonders that.would be;
Saw thd heavens fill with commerce, ar
gosies of magic sails,
Pilots of purple twilight dropping
down their costly bales;
Heard tlio heavens fill with shouting, and
thore rained a ghastly dew
From tho nation's airy navies grappling
in the.ventral blue,
‘ ‘Far along the. world’s wide whisper,
of the south wind rushing warm,
AVltli tlie standard of tho people plung
ing through the thunder storm, ,
Till tho war drums throbbed 110 longer
and tho battle. Hugs wore furled
I11 the Parliament of Mae, the Federa
tion of the World,
“ ‘Thore tho common sense of most
shall hold tho fretful realm in awo,
And the kindly onrtli shall slumbor
wrapped In unlvorsnl law’.”
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