| Show PARADES Of I G. G C A. A R. R Will VILL p SOON CEASE I Long Marches MaKe MaRe V Veterans Veterans Vet Vet- etI et- et I erans Too Tired to EnI Enjoy Enjoy En En- I joy Encampment The time is not far distant when the Grand Army encampments will be small quiet uneventful affairs There will b bno be beno beno no parade no monster campfires and no great ac activity vity on the part of the old soldiers such as an marked the encampment encampment encampment en en- which concludes in Salt Lake take today The time of this change is uncertain but it will probably be bo not more moro than ten years from now acc according to Past Commander in Chief H. H M. M Nevius Nev It is practically certain that the tho parades will wil be a matter of the past within the next five years The veterans are getting so old that the long IonA tramps over the streets wear them out completely com corn and many are laid up for weeks afterward In five years from now said Past in Chief Nevius the parades will in all an probability be a matter of memory The The- Theold old soldiers will gather ather at the encampment cities and nd nd bold campfires receptions and have bave a good quiet time They will not attempt nt at tempt the great reat parades In the pageant pageant pa pa- geant of last Wednesday the old fellows fel fe- fe lows were completely tired out and und many of them theist suffered serious consequences consequences conse conse- which vl tb deprived them of enjoying en en- jovinE the tho rest of the encampment Within ten years from r m no now in in al all probability probability probability ability the encampments will willbe be delegate dele gate ate affairs and will consist of campfires campfires camp camp- fires and general elections It is impossible impossible im im- im possible to state bow how long IonA the Grand Array Army will hold together but it is probable able ible that encampments will be held for between fifteen and twenty years longer I. I After that time there will be so few of the the- theold old soldiers left that the army will be or of little importance as asfar asfar asfar far numbers as are concerned As to importance from a 11 patriotic standpoint I the Grand Army of twenty years from fromI now will be just juit as import important nt a as it is isnow isnow I now if not more so 80 As the ranks thin reverence for the old soldiers grows roWl I The average 8 age e of the Grand GrADd Army men at pre present nt is a fraction over sixty six years jean It is i is estimated that within thirty five years the last veteran veteran vet vet- I eran will have passed into the great beyond The majority of them will t have e expired long before that time it Iti Ih is the opinion of of y who have figured up tip death rates that the last lut of I the old soldiers will iII go to his hill grave e b by 1914 1944 |
