Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-18 | Page 4 | G. A. R. Will Never Give up Parades

6. IL R. WILL NEVER GIVE jP PARADES HELENA, Mont, Jan. 17. Harvey M. Trlble, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Adjt. Gen. Charles E. Koch, en route to their homes at Princeton, 111., from a tour of the western coast, were guests of honor at a luncheon given at noon today by the local post of the Grand Army. Governor Edwin L. Norrls and Mayor Edward Horsky delivered de-livered addresses of welcome and tho vlBltlng veterans responed. "The Grand Army was born without with-out an ancestor and It will die without with-out a successor," said Commander-ln-Chlof Trimble, In an interview here MJUajT. JL JJO JUU4IIIV.UUUU IUI UAUllA- bership In the Grand Army will never be changed. Survivors of other wars may In time tako the placo of tho , Grand Army, but they will never be ' admitted to membership In this organization or-ganization to perpetuate Its existence "Although death has made such inroads in-roads that the membership Is now J less than one-fourth Its maximum en- i rollment, the spirit of the army ev- l erywhere keeps up, nnd the memberE will never scrlorjsly consider giving up tho big parades which have always been the big features of the annual national encampments. The Grand Array will continue these yarpdes until un-til Its members drop In their, tracks.''