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V ■ ' c ' • \ IUM<. <M/ Herald ... .Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser Seutember, 1888. I N^i^uMsliad 1866. (Consolidated with Now nan -New a •January, 1U15. f 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’.” DARK DAYS Are Days of Suffering—They Are coming Brighter for Some New nan People, Many "dark days" from-kidney ills Backache, headache—tlvod days; Urinary trouble makes you gloqnry. Doan’s Kidney Pills have proven their worth. Have been tested by many klaney sufferers Ask your neighbor! They are endorsed by Newnan poa- pie, Mrs. Goo. Crawford, 94 E Wash ington St., Newnan, says: "When my kidneys were bothering me sev eral years ago I often suffered with attacks of dizziness. Sometimes col ored specks would float before' my eyes and no matter whnt 1 did I couldn't got relief from those aw ful backacheB. I always felt tired out, run down, depressed and languid. 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