| Show 0 A R AND THE SCHOOLS A score of years yeara ago it would have bare been the bight of rast inese tor for a period leal ical or public officer in the north to have made any assault the honor or patriotism of the orand grand army of the republic the services of the union aldien in the rebellion in preserving aa n undivided country were too fresh freeh lin ID the memories of the people to permit a word hostile to the nation nations na tiona s det defenders onders to go but Butr BB Adm time goes goa on adverse criticism critic lem ill on abe abe 0 A B F become more imore frequent and sit attract tract low jew attention tent loo of course no one will pretend to any ay that every member of the organization is an ideal of perfection yet with all the mistakes it may have made and the unfortunate that way may have crept into its if ranks rank there does not appear to have been bean any adequate cause the bitter attack made in the issue of thle the chicago of may 9 that paper says flay one of the worst features of the 0 A R movement is in the effort that it in ia making to got get our public into its ito clutches olat commander ln in chalef lawler has appointed fourteen members of the order in fourteen different states an aa aldis aids in charge of the military instruction in the public schools acho ola here in ohina chicago 0 permission was given the 0 G A B R gy by the school abool board to participate in the school exercises incident to memorial day 1 there are two of fact on which the on the 0 A R is ia based one to la that the school abool board gave the army permission to participate in the memorial day exercises of the boboila sebou Bobo ola liL what a terrible offense considering abe origin of the day I 1 memorial day was wae instituted in honor of at the union dead who fell in the civil war the companions comp anione in arms arma the men who fought shoulder boulier hou lier to shoulder and ad in codamon cause datre with the 0 A 19 bembera who survived the laughter and claimed the victory on joany ft a hard bard fought battlefield of the national holidays holiday which the Q G A H R above all others othen can look to and with peculiar appropriateness appropriate new nes regard sit a their own memorial day I 1 ia s specially marked out both to in design and observance nex to independence day it is notably the day of the union soldiers who dead and Ilvia lff triumphed in the great fight secession and while through of a beautiful sentiment may 80 has bus become ao an boca sion blon of decorating the graves of all the dead in the public exercises ot of schools or other organizations it lo la a mark of honor rather than occasion forre for reproof that the remnant of the nat loos heroic defenders participate on 00 that dy the other cause of complaint la Is that fourteen ineva members bers of the 0 A B R are given charge of military instruction in the pu public bile there is no charge that they are incompetent instructors on the contrary it to la to be presumed that their active military service gives them practical knowledge of the art they are teaching there ean can be no question or of thear patriotism for in that service the afler made of sacrifice gives reply in advance the fact that they upheld the union flag to is inspiration to their pupils to maintain their country ld honor bonorand bon orind and integrity and as there is military instruction in the public schools school there call be DO better class of men for instructors instruct ora than those who pos possessing the th necomes necessary hf Y qualifications to IB other directions have to proven their realty fealty to the union in honorable military service the people of this country do not anticipate trouble to the schools from the be of the Q G A B and will look upon such assaults as the one referred to as unchristian to say the least the 0 A B R survivors as a body are regarded in the nation as an typical of human loyalty to she union they are unlike a cabal of politicians claws or of a coterie of who would engraft upon the he school system that which would be perpetuated from generation to generation their days day are numbered but a few yost years more and toe the heroes of antietam gettysburg Getty mbarr shiloh vicksburg and appomattox oil fill will have passed from view still stil while the honored ones among cheva ore ire called to public motion the memory of that great era in their lives aben they were under the starry flag for the be overthrow ot of secession accession ap fell design overshadows all else and boaro bears to later generations the lesson joeson of anal ond find patriotism for that union of ba people one and iokepa iosepa rable rabies 11 the great american republic |
