The Worthington Advance

An Exchange says: Two Grand Army posts at Terre Haute, Ind., have joined in a protest against the desecration of Memorial Day by dedicating it to noisy sports. "As now prostituted," they say, "the holiday is an affront to the living soldier and to the widows and orphans of the dead. Unless the sacredness of Memorial Day can be maintained, it were better that it were stricken from the calendar." This earnest remonstrance recalls the proposition which was broached in Grand Army circles a year ago to change Memorial Day from May 30 to the last Sunday in May. In that case frivolities such as picnics, baseball games, horse races, regattas and athletic pastimes generally would not so conspicuously clash with the solemn observances for which the day is set apart.