The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-09-09


Shall with suffused light Hume
A thousand hearts unlit before.
After prayer by Rev Mr. Prentice, the
flag, which is 20x30 and very handsome,
was slowly drawn to its position at the
top of the staff by IL young ladies dress
ed in white and wearing the stars and
stripes. They were:
Bessie Archibald,
Bessie, Grace and EIva Banks,
Libbie and Sadie Bradley,
Fannie Meeker,
Jennette Dalling,
Edna Morehouse,
May Hull,
Alice Finnerty,
Jessie Skeene.
During it's ascent, a chorus under the
direction of Mrs John Hull sang 1.-THE
Star Spangled Banner" and three cheers
and tiger were given with will.
Rev G. w. Banks was the next speak
err. He said in substance: "When the
invitation came to me to be present at
the exercises of the day, could not re-
fuse and am glad to make few remarks
Standing on the play ground where l
spent my childhood days, two thoughts
come to me. The first is the growing
custom of placing the stars and stripes
on the school buildings and the second
is the approaching celebration of the
400th anniversary of Columbus's discov-
cry of America, which is turned over to
the schools to fittingly celebrate. Thir-
ty years ago, when | was turned out of
Yale college, was better able to be-
come citizen of Rome than of America.
/ knew so much more of their laws than
| did of the laws of my own country,
which did not form part of school study
of my day. 1 am glad to note that that
day has passed and now our country's
history and constitution form promi-
nent part of school studies. No COM
munity deserves or has better flag than
this community" He referred to Presi-
dent Dwight's volume of poetry on
Greenfield Hill and read several appro-
pirate selections. In closing, he said
that he trusted that, 100 years from to-
day, the men of the future would be as
loyal to the country and flag as the men
who assisted in the celebration to-day.
DR. M. V. B. Durham was the next
speaker and, in introducing him, DIR
Plumley said that he had heard of 60
ing for the doctor, but it was not neces-
sary in this case, as he was here; he did
MT get killed in the war, his practice in
Greenfield Hill hadn't killed him and he
guessed he was fire proof.
DIR DUNHAM's ADDRESS:
Within few days of 400 years ago,
great discoverer and navigator changed
his course after evening prayer from
"W. S. w. to due west;" seated ON the
deck of his vessel at 10 O'Clock, "saw a
light" mo one slept that night" At
o'clock in the morning,a gun was fired
from the Pinta, a signal for land. So,
unveiled with the morning, this new,
western world was brought to view.
This event, of such transcendent import
ance to the race, we and, by our invita-
ton, the nations of the whole earth are
now preparing to fifty commemorate.
1t was little dreamed then, aside from I'M
told riches of gold and silver and spices,
what great things should be found, what
institutions developed in this new land,
for the good of mankind. But of all the
beneficent things to which this great dis
covery led, as it were opened the door,
nothing at all compares with the found
ing of this great nation, conceived in
liberty and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal" whose
flag and ensign, "the glorious stars and
stripes, I'VE have just flung to the breeze,
wonder and envy of the whole world.
1t was and is a light amid darkness,
seen by all the nations and toward which
the inhabitants of the whole world have
turned their faces.
OF its history and what it cost our
forefathers, you have often heard. They
are household words. OF its preserva-
ton through perilous times, some of us
might tell. How brave, stout hearts and
sturdy hands bore it aloft and to the
front, through the smoke and din and
carnage of battle, on to triumph and vic
tory. But all this is of glorious past.
To-day, it is the flag of united people
and 60,000,000 fresmen love and revere
it. 1t is not only respected in every
land and on every sea, but, of truth, is
everywhere hailed as the Emblem of
Liberty and the hope of the world.
It is great thing to place the nation
al flag on every school house in the land,
to have the children taught what loyalty
and patriotism really mean. The edu-
cation of no American child can be con- |
sidered in any sense complete without
knowledge of the principles on which
rest the government of free people.
Thus, taught to venerate the flag and |
know what it stands for, our youth will |
grow up to be the noblest of patriots
and become its bravest defenders.
The Importance Of thus perfecting the
education Of the rising generation in
these times of widespread social unrest,
and what are called labor disturbances.
cannot be overestimated.
Though this is 1.-THE land of the free''
and has been an asylum for the Cypress
ed of all nations, land of liberty, it is
also land of law.
The immigrant who comes to us /
across the sea, as we ourselves or our
fathers came not SO very long ago, if he
comes to learn this same lesson, is more
than welcome. This is land where
every man is sovereign, but only as he
is, in equal measure, the servant Of all.
We recognize no conflict between brain
and Drawn, save that which conserves