Show I o J I MEMORIAL I lo D DAY Y I 1 I N No No Xo o public holiday so stirs the emotional life liCe of the people as does Memorial day Originally conceived as asa a t d day Y on which graves of soldiers and anc sailors sailors' of ot the tho civil war tear were d decorated cor ted Jt Is now note dt a day when we l honor onor with floral tributes the final resting renting places p of the heroes of or orall all of our nations nation's wars ars and also the civilian civilian- dead I In the cities and towns the schools generally cooperate with the patriotic patriotic patri patri- otic societies In the observance of th the da day School children contribute readings s pageants and various other dramatic exercises to the community programs High school bands frequently lead the parades of ot veterans and nud patriotic organizations on their marches to the cemeteries and school children decorate the graves raves raves' of the C fallen Callen llen warriors Participation Participation Participation Par Par- b by the youth In these exel exercises ex- ex el awakens the tho highest Ideals of or patriotism It not only teaches them to honor the heroic dead but Inspires them to devote their best I I efforts to their country's welfare Inthe Inthe In Inthe I the thou thoughts of Lincoln's Gettys- Gettys Gettysburg bur burg address the lesson of or orthe the day Is consecration of the living to the unfinished unfinished un un- finished work of or the dead lead The rho individual Individual in individual In- In who ho as as a child child gets ets this meaning of oC Memorial day can can cannot not but hut prove a worthy cItizen en of the re ro- ro public P I y ti Thousands Thousands' of or children living in inthe the the isolated rural school districts I do do not nOot have haye the opportunity to sharin sharIn shar share e In the exercises of Decoration day Schools are usually closed so that tha t there is no opportunity to observe th the day as part of or the school pro pro- gram gran There is seldom an organization organization za responsible Po e for the planning planning g of a a com community m program The decoration decoration decoration dec dec- oration of the graves in rural cemeteries is generally generally-a a matter o of f family concerti concern In most of the rural rural ru ru- rural ral cemeteries ries of the United States State there are graves of or soldiers of on onor one o or more of or our nations nation's wars Theris There Ther e is hardly a t. t rural community co i in t t which there does not reside veterans veteran of the civil war the Spanish Ameri can war war or the world war i I May 30 MemorIal 30 Memorial day day- is lay a I public holiday in a al 1 states and and 1 possessions except Alabama Floida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi an mill and 1 N rth and South Ca n t. t Conf Confect Confederate 1 crate erate Memorial days das that lare are public holidays are April 26 in Alabama Florida Georgia and Mississippi l May 10 in NOl North th and South CarolIna Carolina Caro Caro- lina hula and June 3 In Tennessee June 3 is a Q legal holiday in Arl Arkansas Arkan Arkan- ansas an- an sas Louisiana Texas and Virginia |