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MEMORIAL DAY WILL
BE OBSERVED IN CAMP
WITH CEREMONY
Fitting Program Has Been Ar
ranged. Col. Oliver Edwards
Will Have Personal Charge.
President’s Proclamation to
be Read by Major Brandtt
In compliance witji the request of the
President of the United States acting at
the special suggestion of Congress, tnat
the people of the nation join in a day of
prayer on Thursday May 30th, Memorial
Day, Colonel Oliver Edwards, Com
mander at Camp Hancock has arranged a
fitting program for proper celebration of
the occasion Beginning promptly at 11
o'clock on Thursday morning the soldi
ers in camp will be assembled at the
reservoir known as the Bowl, and Major
Alfred Brandt, General Staff Corps will
read to the assembld troops the procla
mation of President Wilson.
Following is the program as outlined
today at headquarters:
1. Song, “Onward, Christian Soldiers,”
led by Robert El Clark, Y. M. C. A, Camp
Musical Director.
Onward. Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war, -
With the cross of Jesus,
Going on before,
Christ the Royal Master,
Ecads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See His banners go.
Chorus.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching’as to war,
With the cross of Jesus,
Going on before.
Onward then, ye faithful, -
Join our happy throng.
Blend with ours your voices
In the triumph-song:
Glory, praise, and honor,
Unto Christ the King:
This, thro' countless ages,
Men and angels sing.
2. Reading of the President’s Procla
mation by Major Alfred Brandt, General
Staff Corps.
A Proclamation
IVhereas, The Congress of the United
States, on the second day of April last,
passed the following resolution:
“Resolved by the Senate (the House of
Representatives concurring), That it be
ing a duty peculiarly incumbent in a time
of war humbly and devoutly to acknowl
edge our dependence on Almighty God
and to implore His aid and protection, the
President, of the United States be, and is
hereby, respectfully requested to recom
mend a day of public humiliation, prayer
and fasting, to be observed by the people
of the United States with religious so
lemnity and the offering of fervent sup
plications to Almighty God for the safety
and welfare of our cause, His blessings
on our arms, and a speedy restoration of
an honorable and lasting peace to the na
tions of the earth;”
And Whereas, It has always been the
reverent habit of the people of the United
States to turn in humble appeal to Al
mighty God for His guidance in the af
fairs of their common life;
Now, therefore. I Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of Amer
ica, do hereby proclaim Thursday, the
thirtieth of May, a day already freighted
with sacred and stimulating memories,
a day of public humiliati<vi, prayer, and
fasting, and do exhort my fellow-citizens
of all faiths and creeds to assemble on
that day in their several places of wor
ship and there, as well as in their homes,
to pray Almighty God that He may for
give our sins and shortcomings as a
people and purify our hearts to see and
love the truth, to accept and defend all
things that are just and right, and to
purpose only those righteous acts and
judgments which are in conformity with
Tils will; beseeching Him that He will
give victory to our armies as they fight
for freedom, wisdom to those who take
counsel on our behalf in these days of
dark struggle and perplexity, and stead
fastness to our people to make sacrifice
to the utmost in support of what is just
and true, bringing us at last the peace
in wthich men’s hearts can be at rest
because it is founded upon mercy, justice
and good-will.
In Witness Whereof. I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed,
Done in the Dstrict of Columbia tris
•leventh day of May. in the year of our
Continued cn pages S and 9
Memorial Day Number
TRENCH<CAMP
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WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
THE AUGUSTA HERALD NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL
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THE FLAG GOES BY
HATS off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky;
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
Blue and crimson and white it shines.
Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines.
Hats off!
The colors before us fly;
But more than the flag is passing by,
Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and
great,
Fought to make and to save the State;
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Cheers of victory on dying lips;
Days of plenty and years of :ace;
March of a strong land’s swift increase;
Equal justice, right and law.
Stately honor and reverened awe;
Sign of a nation, great and strong
Towards her people from foreign wrong;
Pride and glory and honor —all
Live in the colors to stand or fall.
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blabe of bugles, a ruffle of drums;
And loyal hearts are beating high:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
—Henry Halcomb Bennett.
CAMP HANCOCK
MARCHING TO VICTORY
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HEROES DEM IN FRANCE TO BI
HONORED ON MMMI Oil
French Soldiers Will Partici
pate in Decorating Graves of
All Americans Fallen in the
Great Struggle
The American dead sleeping in the soil
of Fra. ce will receive the homage of the
American army on Memorial Day, accord
ing to the Associated Press. Many of
those who have given their lives for their
country are buried in graves over which
shells and bullets are flying, close to the
spots where they fell, but, whereever they
are resting, their comrades will bear them
in mind and pay tribute to their mgm
ory.
To many Americans now® fighting in
France Memorial Day has heretofore,
when they were at home, meant only a
holiday tn a vague may they appre
ciated the meaning of the decoration of
on£ cent postage
graves by the survivors of the Civil War
iayg, but now they regard Memorial Da.'
in a different light, for it means honoring
t'ne memory of men they have known,
bunked with and fought with.
French to Participate.
Throughout all the zones in which there
are American soldiers preparations have
been made for ceremonies in which the
French will participate in nearly all cases.
At one place is a row of mounds under
which lie sons of New York. Men of the
same regiment will gather there to re
place the faded American flags with new
ones and deposit wreaths of fresh flowers
and other decorations which will with
stand time and weather.
Similar ceremonies will take place at
the graves of men from lowa, Illinois,
Michigan. Maryland and other states who
have been killed in action or have died
from wounds. In the same localities road
side graves of French soldiers, buried
where ’hey fell in the earlier days of thg
war, will be decorated by Americans.
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