MORNING ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, MAY.30. 1912.
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MORNING ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
C. E. BRODIE, Editor and Publisher.
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May 30 h American Hlstorv.
1SC8 First general celebration :f Sol
diers' Memorial day.
1887 Major Ben. Perley r'oore. jour
nalist and author, died: born 1820.
1890 Memorial to General James
Abram Garfield dedicated at Lake
view. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
(From noon today to noon tomorrow.)
Sun sets 7:23. rises 4:32. Evening
Star: Mars. Morning Stars: Venus.
Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn.
Play Ground Swimming Pool
We who have grown beyond the boy
stage, who have given up the play
ground to the youilger generation
who have happened to get through
boyhood alive ,even though we were
nearly drowned, or neary killed in
another way look back upon the past
and wonder how we ever reached our
majority with all our senses and the
two legs, arms and eyes the Good
Lord gave us! Is it not right that we
should profit by our past and by so
doing make an extra effort to do some
thing for the boys of today who have
some of the same traits, the same dev
iltry the same games as in our time
and who almost daily take their lives
in their own hands especially during
the summer months, when they must
- swim at any cost. A boy would not
be a boy if he did not want to do the
things that boys have always done
and will always want to do, and we
would not give a cent for a boy who
did not want to do so.
This city has never done much for
its boys. Let's begin now. It is nev
er too late to malie amends.
Clackamas Southern Railway
Work will begin on Monday next and
how the dirt will fly. We will have
Molalla Corners linked with Oregon
City in the great commercial doings
of the world by the time winter sets
in and then the large amount of
freight now going through other quar
ters will reach market through our
city either by water .electric or steam
road. Oregon City has better freight
handling possibilities than any other
Willamette town outside of Portland
and the world will soon look to Ore
gon City for other than the products
of today.
The Straight and Narrow Path
Baltimore, Maryland, is doing every
thing within its power to induce in
dustrial plants to operate within its
limits. That state is shaping its
course to invite capital with equal
rights to labor. Why not Oregon? If
we begin right we won't have to
change.
Improvements
Needed to Make
Oar Array
Inferior to None
HE number of gradu
ates of West Point
should be increased,
and the first thirty al
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I By Major General LEON- f
ARD WOOD, Chief of
Staff. U. S. A.
ternates who pass the highest successful examinations each year should
be appointed to the academy by the president. At least THREE
FOURTHS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY SHOULD BE
WEST POINT GRADUATES.
A FITTING RESERVE 8HOULD
LIFE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED
SHORT PERIODS. .
In Europe it ia generally recognized that training in the army if
BENEFICIAL TO ALL MEN, and a similar idea should be en
couraged here. If this .is done the United States will be much better
prepared for emergencies than it is now.
We now want to reorganize the army aloug safe and conservative
lines. We want legislation to make the militia available for service
outside of the country, and we also want legislation which will enable
us to CALL OUT VOLUNTEERS WMKNF.VKR SEEDED.'..
We want a well balanced army, s that it can bt organized into
working units and so that it can be mobilized at place? where it is
needed with the smallest expenditure of time and money. When we
get what we are now working for we. will have AN ARMY LN
FERIOR TO NONE LN THE WORLD. ,
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THE SADDEST INCIDENT
OF THE
By F. A. MITCH EL.
Copyright. 1912. by American ress Asso
ciation. HATis the saddest occur
rence you witnessed dur
ing the civil war"' I ask
ed the white headed vet
eran. "The saddest occurrence?"
"Yes, the most pathetic."
"I'll tell you. but the circumstance
involves a little preface. I can't call
It a story, for there's not plot or plan
to it I fought in the ranks during
the whole of those terrible four years
and was in many skirmishes and bat
tles. I started in the west, my first
fight being at Shiloh. my uext at Per
EATING WITH TIIK ENEMY.
ryville, and so on. including Stone Riv
er, Chickamauga. Mission Hidge. lie
saca and Kenesttw, and most of the
time that I wasn't In battles on the
Atlanta campaign 1 was under fire.
"Our people up here only knew ot
the war by some one near and dear
who went down there to fight for the
Union and never came back. Some
i times those lost ones were brought
I back in a box, sometimes they were
j buried with mnrtial honors, with a
I wooden headstone over them: some
times they were marked 'Unknown,'
! and sometimes tbey were all shoveled
Into a trench together. At the time
their northern friends didn't know
much about all this. They read in the
newspapers of a battle, and it was
very exciting and all that. But they
never realized war.
"It was the southern people who
found out what war was. It was
right among them. That's the reason
ML as - itj3rogressed they . became
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Billiard Ball Effect
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cSwBY JAUES A. EDGERTON. .1,
By fours right march!' rings down the line.
From troop to troop it flies.
The bent torms straighten; there comes the shine
Ot the old light in their eyes.
"Ta-rat-tat-tum!" throbs the turbulent drum.
While the wild fifes shrill and blow.
And the tunes they cry as the ranks go by
Are-of fifty years ago.
Old "John Brown's Body" "Guide right there
hep!"
And "Rally Round the Rag!"
The hearts of the marchers keep m step,
Though their old feet halt and lag.
"The Girl 1 Left Behind Me" say,
I never hear that air
But 1 think of the day I marched away
And left Her standing there.
more and more-unanirnousabout 'it.
Many of them didn't wish to go out
of the Union. They were driven out
of it by their leaders. But when thev
were overrun by armies, their little
garden patches destroyed, their fences
used for firewood, their fathers anil
brothers killed, they changed thei
minds. Many a time the men of :i
family when we Yanks were approach
ing their homes joined with the Con
federates for the first time and fought
against us.
"I was with that army that advanced
south in the spring of 1862 through
Kentucky and Tennessee. One night
while carryiug a message from one
part of our army to another I lost may
way. Coming upon a cabin. I knock
ed. A man came to the door and ask
ed what was wanted. I told him 1
would like forage for my horse, a place
to sleep for myself and to be put on
the road in the morning. He complied
With all these requests, and after sta
bling my horse I lay down on the floor
in his cabin and went to sleep.
"In the morning my host's wife gave
me what she had in the house for
breakfast, and. being hungry. 1 ate a
good meal. The family name as
Shanks. The father was about forty.
i and there were two boys aged., respec
i tively, fifteen and twelve. They treat
! ed me kindly and insisted on filling my
haversack with salt pork and corn
pone, which was all they had. They
were an uncouth lot, but they were a
family, and we all know what that
means, united and with no wish ex
cept to live their simple lives together.
I noticed their affection for one anoth
er, and it made me homesick.
"They put me on the road, and I con
tinued my ride. After delivering my
! dispatches I returned to headquarters
and handed a reply to the general com
manding. ! "Wo mat mo n v nannla In tha emith
for a moment, a day or a week The
events through which we passed were
ever changing and filled with excite
ment For that reason we didn't re
member people. I forgot all about the
Shanks family. Indeed, they never
again entered my head till they were
called back by the incident I'm going
to tell you. The army I was with ad
vanced to northern Alabama and re
mained there nearly four months.
Then in August of that year General
Bragg marched through Chattanooga
and on up toward Louisville. ' General
BuelL commanding our force., went
marching north by another route to
bead him off. The two armies came
together at Perryville and fought a
battle.
"Perryville Isn't considered today
one of the great battles of the war.
but I don't remember In all the fights
I was in having such bard. Incessant
firing as there was that "day. I sup
pose It isn't considered of so mnch I in
! porta nee now because only n small
part or the union army was engaged,
the rest being held back by the com
mandlng general.
"Well, now I'm getting to the point
j of my story. After the battle, we
) found the Confederate . dead and
wounded agooddeaL .mlxedsoir .
Isn't Just What
Copyright, 1912. by American Pica Association
"We're Coming, Father Abraham"
Yes, coming as of yore.
And when we pitch our final tents
Upon the farther shore
We're sure "Old Abe" will greet us there.
And the boys we used to know,
And we'll hear above the songs we love
- Of fifty years ago.
times a Confederate lying across a
Unionist and sometimes vice versa.
The wounded were picked up and laid
on the grass in a long line for the sur
geons to visit and operate upon. Some
of them died before a surgeon got to
them at all. I was walking along this
line and came to two of those who
had died. A boy was waving a green
branch over them to keep the flies
away. - ' --
"'Are they related to you, my boy?"
I asked.
" 'That one." he said, pointing to the
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CAKIS9 FOU THB WOUKDED.i
man, 'is my papa, and that one.' point
ing to the boy. Is my brother."
"I looked at him and recognized him.
He was the younger of the two Shanks
boys. When the battle came on the
father and the oldest son left their
cabin, which was near by, with their
shotguns and joined the Confederate
ranks. After the battle the boy found
them, and they died while he was
keeping away the flies."
- Saved by Enemy's Picture.
James Garrabrant. a New Jersey sol
dier, while fighting at a battle on the
Rappahannock, in Virginia, saw a da
guerreotype fall from the pocket of a
dead Confederate soldier. He picked
It up and placed it In the breast pocket
f his own blouse. Soon after he was
struck by a ball and fell. His brother
picked him up and found that the met
al plate of the picture by receiving the
bullet bad saved his life. Garrabrant
was not wounded. :
How Ha Was Wounded.
At aconncil of. Confederate generals
We are Looking
"The Battle Cry of Freedom" Bill
Do you mind how the band blared out
"The Battle Cry" when we charged the hill
And took it with a shout?
"Yankee Doodle," The Picket Guard."
"Gone at Their Country's Call"
How they take us back through the years, old pard,
And how we love them all!
early-ih the ivil war one remarked
that Major Blank was wounded and
would not be able, to perform a duty
that it was proposed to assign to him..
"Wounded!" said Stonewall Jackson.
"If it really is so I think it must have
been by an accident i 1 discharge of his
duty."
"THE BLUE AND THE GRAY."
When Poem W33 First Published It
Aroused Protests.
LITTLK band of women in Co
lumbus. Miss., did uot fcuow
that they were pouring n few
, drops of oil on the troubled
waters when in the spring of lSi'.T lhe
decorated the graces of the boys who
had worn the bine and the boys wUo
had 'worn tin gray lyin in the eeaie
tery near the town. The -New York
Tribune the next day outaine;l thi.--
dispaU-h: . - .
The women of Columbus. Miss., ani
mated by. nobler sentiments lhan are
many of their sisters, have shown them
selves impartial in their offerings to tlix
memory of tne fiend. They strewed flow
ers alike on trie graves of the Confederate
and the Federal soldiers.
It is not to be wondered at that this
beautiful im-ideut (suggested a poem to
j one in whom there was the spirit of
I true poetry. Francis Miles Finch.
whose home was in Ithaca. .. Y.,v read
the dispatch and was impressed by the
fact that the incideut indicated that
the south was holding out a friendly
hand and that there should be some
response to it. His beautiful poem.
"The Blue and the Gray." was his own
personal response to this friendly over
ture. -
Mr. Finch, then a lawyer of about
forty years of age. had no poetical as
pirations, but he felt that he would
like to have at least this one poem pub
lished. Therefore he sent it to the At
lantic Monthly in Boston, and it ap
peared in that magazine in September,
1807. The poem made little impres
sion at first, but finally the newspapers
began to copy it. and objections to its
sentiment began to be heard by sol
diers in the north, and there were a
number of poetical "replies' to it.
' The poem became the subject of
newspaper editorials, and there was a
good deal of scathing criticism that
might never have arisen bad the cir
cumstance giving rise to the writing
of the poem been generally known. In
deed, the editor of the Atlantic wrote
to Mr. Finch before publishing the
poem and asked him if be could not
Incorporate the Tribune dispatch into
the poem and make It form the first
stanza. Mr. Finch tried to do this,
but the result was unsatisfactory, and
the poem was published as originally
written. Here is the first stanza:
By the flow of the Inland river , .
Whence the fleets of iron have fled.
Where the blades of the grave grass
quiver.
Asleep are the ranks of the dead.
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment day; . .
Under the one the Blue.
Under the other the Gray.
5
Jrk
For
JOHN A. -LOGAN
WAS REAL FOUNDER
OF MEMORIAL DAY
GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN
was the real founder of
Memorial day. On May 5.
18CS. he was commander in chief
of the Grand Army of the Re
public and as such gave the or
der that Decoration day be gen
erally celebrated on May 30. One
reason for. the date doubtless
was that it was on May 30 that
the last Union volunteer of the
war was discharged.
General Logan was born" in
1S215, served in congress from
Illinois as a Douglas Democrat,
resigued to go iuto the war.
fought at Forts Henry and Don
elson. being wounded at the last
named: commanded the center
1 'h
JOHN A. LOGAN.
before Vicksburg. became mili
tary governor of the city after
the surrender, served for several
years in the United States sen-
ate and was a candidate for vice
president with Blaine in 1S84.
After his defeat he returned to
the senate.
James G. Blaine slid of Gen
eral Logan: ,
"While-there have been more
illustrious military leaders in the
United States and more illustri
ous leaders in legislative halls,
there has. I think, been no man
in this country who has com
bined the two careers In so emi
nent a degree as General Logan."
THE VETERANS.
By DENIS A. M'CARTHY.
Every year they're marching slower;
Every year they're stooping lower;
Every year the lilting music stirs the
hearts of older men;
Every year the flags above them
Seem to bend and bless and love them
As If grievins for the future when they'll
never march again.
Every year that day draws nearer.
Every year the truth is clearer.
That the men who saved the nation from
the severing southern sword
.Soon must pass away forever
From the scene of their endeavor.
Soon must answer to the roll call of the
angel of the Lord.
Every year with dwindling number.
Loyal stlil to those that slumber.
Forth they msreb to where already many
have found peace at last.
And they place the fairest blossoms
O'er the silent, mold'ring bosoms
Of the valiant 'riends and comrades of the
battles of the past.
Every year grow dimmer, duller.
Tattered flag and faded color. -Every
year the hands that bear them find
a harder task to do.
And the eyes that only brightened
When the blaze of battle lightened.
Like the tattered flags they follow, are
grown dim and faded too
Every year we see them massing.
Every year we watch them passing.
Scarcely pausing in our hurry after pleas
ure, after gain.
But the battle flags above them
Seem to bend and bless and love them.
And through all the lilting music sounds
an undertone of pair.
D. C. LATOURETTE, President
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