Volume 17 , Issue 16

Memorial Day Ad of 1918

In The Central Record, dated 30 May 1918, page 2, out of Lancaster, Kentucky, we found this ad submitted Jas. W. Smith, the home of Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothes, in Lancaster, Kentucky, which read: Memorial Day May 30th. At first Memorial Day was a day of memories; the graves of the brave men who gave their lives in the Civil War were decorated with flowers; a sign that a grateful people had not forgotten the supreme sacrifice these men made.

Then the Day gradually became a popular day; games, sports, picnics were more important than heroic memories. The original idea of the day was a danger of being lost in May, 1918.

They also reported that day in 1918, "Now we have come to a time when Memorial day can be consecrated anew; when we may look back with reverence upon the victories past and forward with courage and determination to a victorious future. let us make the day a time when we renew our declarations of loyalty to the great cause of which our country has always been the foremost champion ... The cause of human liberty and rights of Men."

They mentioned in 1918, We shall should do our daily work, whatever it may be, with a better spirit, if we keep that idea before us. Let no man be a slacker in these trying times; whether it be in the store, on the farm or at the front; lift the camouflage and let our true patriotism march squarely and fairly to the front with Uncle Sams victorious armies."
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