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FRIDAY, NOV. 22nd
MEMORIAL SERVICES
FOR LT. J. E. OWENS
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Owens,” what his pupils thought of
him. Muriel Williams read the Hon
or Roll, consisting of over a hundred
names of those who have gone out
from our High School, many of whom
are now in France. A very effective
ceremony followed, when Dr. Kinna
man read the names represented by
the two gold stars: Lieut. Justus Er
win Owens and Harrison Smith, U. S.
N., and in the hush that followed, the
sweet, sad notes of Taps were sound
ed. The principal speaker of the
occasion was Col. D. W. Blair, pres
ident of the Board of Education. His
words touched the hearts of all his
hLearers and made them proud of hav
ing had this noble young man for a
friend. The ministers of the city, Dr.
White and Dr. Patton, made the de
votional features sweet and impres
sive as they always do in such a time.
As a lasting memorial to this true
friend of the Marietta High School
the Senior class wants to have a
large picture of Mr. Owens made and
hung in the chapel hall to keep ever
alive the grateful memory of Mari
etta’s part in purchasing the civiliza
tion of the world. |
The text of Col. Blair’'s speech
follows:
Lieut. Justus Erwin Owens
One week ago yesterday we spent
the day celebrating the world peace
that is coming to us and all the na
tions of the earth. It was a day of
universal rejoicing with us that the
awful carnage that had deluged the
world in blood for more than four
years sacrificing millions of lives and
causing more suffering, sorrow and
distress than in any equal period of
the world’s history, was at an end.
This morning we pause in our la
bors to pay tribute to one of the
heroes of that great conflict, one who
went out from the walls of this in
stitution and made the supreme sac
rifice for us and his and our country.
As we appreciate the institutions of
our country, the liberty we enjoy,
the cause for which our country‘
fought, the religion we profess, we
will appreciate the devotion to duty
and the service and sacrifice of Lieut.
Justus Erwin Owens. It is a small
tribute that we can bring for the
services he rendered and the sacri
fice he made. The most that we can
say will sound hollow, empty, and un
satisfying. It is like laying a flower
upon his bier in token of our appre
ciation of his manhood, heroism and
his great gift. Words are inade
quate to the expression desired. |
If I were to select a single word
to express the life that he lived it
would be LOYALTY—loyalty to him
self, to duty, to his country, and to
his God. He was loyal to himself
in his boyhood and young manhood.
I knew him only as one that came
among us to serve us and after a
period went out to serve in a larger
and more trying sphere. Yet I speak
with confidence when I say that
Owens the boy and young man was
true to himself. I know not whether
opportunities knocked for him in his
youth or whether he went out‘and
chased them down, but the important
tking which I do know is that his op
portunities were improved. At school
he improved each shining hour, from
primary to grammar, grammar to
high and high to univesity, where
he completed his course and took his
degre. Oh, if the youth of the land
would seize the opportunities for im
provement that are in reach of them
and make the most of them. “To
thine own self be true,” said the great
poet, “and it must follow as the night
the day thou canst not then be false
to any man.” He was loyal to his
body to develop his muscles, make it
athletic and healthier, a suitable
place for the indwelling of a sound
mind and an upright spirit. He was
loyal to his mind to educate it and
develop it for the greatest power of
comprehension and usefulness. He
was loyal to his spirit to guide it and
control it so it would be just to his
fellow man and obedient to his God.
When he had completed his college
course he went out into the world to
serve, and his first work was in our
high school. How loyal he was to his
work here is known to us all. I dare
say no pupil, patron or teacher ever
had cause to suspect that he was
slacking on his job. He was loyal to
those he served and to those he la
bored with.
On April 6, 1917, came the an
rouncement that we were at war, and
his loyalty to our country at once
became a pressing sense of duty to
him. It was not necessary that he}
should have gone then. He might‘
have said to himself: “I am serving
my country now; I am doing a greati
work here. lam helping to make‘
men and women, develop characters
and make useful citizens of my coun-}
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try. At any rate, I will stay here
until my country lets it be known
that I can be more serviceable in
some other sphere.” Not so; as soon
as our superintendent could arrange
to carry on the work, Owens resign
ed his position as teacher before the
end of the term and enlisted in the
service of his country. I do not know
when he went over nor what were
the circumstances of his death, but I
have every confidence that in that
great trial he showed the same fidelity
to duty that he had ever shown else
where. When the details come back
to us we will hear he was brave,
courageous, that he made a good sol
dier and fought a good fight. Some
where in France is a little mound
marked by a cross bearing his rname,
symbolic of the sacrifice he made and
the resurrection that is to be.
The old pagans who knew nothing
of the Fatherhood of God and but
little of the brotherhood of man, were
won’'t to say: “It is sweet to die
for one’s country.” We deeply de
plore the loss of the lives of our
American boys, but theer is consola
tion in the fact that they have not
died in vain. They were fighting in
idefense of the right and not for con
| quests for war lords. They have giv
‘en their lives for the uplifting of hu
‘manity, for the freeing of the peo
ples of the earth from tyranny and
oppression, and that justice and
righteousness may reign throughout
the earth. Their memories will live
in perpetual green. We know not the
names of the three hundred who
stood with Leonidas at the pass of
Thermopole but his name is never
mentioned but in connection with
them. As long as the story of the
struggle of the American colonies is
told so long will be told the story of
Warren who fell on the heights of
Punker Hill and of Jasper who fell at
Savannah. So long as the story of
Washington is written and read, so
leng will the memories of LaFayette,
Rochambeau, Kosciusko and the un
named heroes who came to help in
cur fight for liberty, be cherished and
henored. The gallant part played by
our American boys in this great world
war will not be forgotten in a thous
and years. Already the French peo
ple are planning a great monument
to commemorate their heroism. their
bravery and their sacrifices. In due
time, Belgium, England, and Italy
will show their appreciation by re
ccrding the valor of these boys in
story, song and stone. May I look
down the vista of years and say the
time will come when the German
people will acknowledge that the bat
tles of the second Marne, Chateau-
Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne
Forest, perhaps to be called the battle
o: Sedan, were blessings in disguise,
that their defeat gave them a new
vision of life and usefulness, and
saved them from themselves. Let us
hope that out of these sacrifices of
cur brave boys, civilization and right
cousness may rise and grow until thev
extend to all the ends of the earth,
ard that the memories of these heroes
may be enshrined in the love of their
countrymen forever and ever.
Do Not Fear When Fighting a
German or a Germ!
By Dr. M. COOK.
The cool fighter always wins and 80
there is no need to become panic
gtricken. Avoid fear and crowds. Ex
ercise in the fresh air and practice the
three C’s: A Clean Mouth, a Clean
Skin and Clean Bowels. To carry off
the poisons that accumulate within the
body and to ward off an attack of the
influenza bacillus, take a good liver
regulator to move the bowels. Such a
one is made up of May-apple, leaves of
aloe, root of jalap, and is to be had
at any drug store, and called “Pleasant
Purgative Pellets.”
1f a bad cold develops, go to bed, wrap
up well, drink freely of hot lemonade
and take a hot mustard foot- bath.
Have the bedroom warm but well ven
gilated. Obtain at the nearest drug
store ®Anuric Tablets” to flush the
kidneys and control the pains and
aches. Take an “Anuric” tablet every
two hours, together with copious drinks
of lemonade. If a true case of influ
enza, the food should be simple, such as
broths, milk, buttermilk and ice-cream;
but it is important that food be given
regularly in order to keep up patient’s
strength and vitality. After the acute
attack has passed, which is generally
from three to seven days, the system
should be built up by the use of a good
jron tonic, such as “Irontic” tablets, to
be obtained at some drug stores, or
that well known blood-maker and
herbal tonic made from roots and
barks of forest trees—sold everywhere as
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
ITALIAN RED CROSS
NURSE HONORED BY
PEOPLE OF VENICE
Concetta Udzinska, a nurse of the
Italian Red Cross, refused to abandon
the sick and wounded under her care
in a little field hospital on the Piave
during the last Austrian advance. She
knew that staying there meant cap
ture by the invading army, but to her
it also meant the possible salvation of
some of her soldier-patients, so she
stayed to face the enemy. The army
which swept across the Piave cap
tured the little hospital station and
made her prisoner.
For her spirit of self-sacrifice and
heroic resistance to the hardships of
imprisonment, the women of Venice
recently planned a ceremony in her
honor at the Lyceum of Music in
Venice. Representative of the Al
lied governments, of the Red Cross,
and civilian officials of the country
were present to pay tribute to the
brave Italian nurse. Flowers were
showered on the audience from bal
conies above by Venetian flower girls.
The Mayor of Venice, Count Grimani,‘
thankéd the young woman on behalf
of the city of Venice and its soldier
sons. Among the many letters he
read was one from Gabriele D’Annu-‘
nzio, who sent also a floral tribute.
Extracts from the memoirs of Miss
Udzinska, written while in prison,
were read. The answer which the
young woman gave to an Austrian
officer, who mockingly said she would
return to Venice as soon as his troops
had occupied it, received great ap
plause. “In that fashion I will nev
er return to Venice,” she said.
FRANK C. FERRIS IS NOW
AN AERIAL LIEUTENANT
Mr. Frank Ferris has just won his
commission in the Aeronautic Corps
st Hampton, Virginia. He is spend
ing a ten days’ furlough at home with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Fer-
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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
THE RED CROSS SEARCHER
There is nothing mechanical in the
work of a Red Cross searcher; the
gamut of human emotions is exper
ienced; it is exhausting. If the sear
cher has no heart, he is not in the
first rank; if he has too much, per
haps, he also fails for subtler rea
sons * * * Many of the men in
bed hear imperfectly. ‘“What is
your regiment?’”’ has been known to
elicit the strange reply: “Laryngitis
and pleurisy and trench fever, sir.”
-—Algernon Blackwood, in “Missing”
in the December Red Cross Magazine.
ST. JAMES’ CHURCH NEWS
The services next Sunday will be
at 11 o’clock and the School at 9:30.
The Rev. G. I. Hiller iz expected to
conduct morning prayer and preach
a sermon.
On Nov. 28th, Thanksgiving Day,
the rector of the parish will officiate.
The services will be at 11 o’clock and
the open door is an invitation to ev
erybody.
Last Sunday, Dr. Thomas, of Se
wanee, conducted the services. He
had a strenuous time getting heré.
He was on the Dixie Flyer which
was detoured at Dalton over the
Southern to Atlanta where he arriv
el after midnight. Then to Marietta
in an automobile. The rector was
searching for him at the depot at
3:20 Sunday morning, and it was a
few minutes later that he crawled in
to bed at the Kennesaw House. He
v.as discovered about nine o’clock.
St. James Auxiliary to
Crphans’ Home
The semi-annual gift from this
Church for the support of the church
home for orphans in Macon is now
due. This offering should be brought
to the Church on Thanksgiving day,
or sent to Mrs. Claiborne, chairman
of the committee, not later than Dec.
Ist.
“The Girl of the Golden West,” at
The Strand, Saturday, Nov. 23rd.
Also comedy.
Farms Wanted
We are having calls daily from
buyers who want Cobb County
farms and city property.
If you want to sell—
just place a reasonable price on
what you have (just such a price
as we could recommend to a
buyer if he was our best friend)
and list it with us at once. We
can sell it. Now is the time to
sell to those who want posses=
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