The record-union., 1896-02-22
MARSHALL PRIMARY.
Stirring and Patriotic Address by !
A. Woodson.

Stirring and Patriotic Address by j..
A. Woodson.
At the Marshall Primary the pro-
gramme was as follows: Song, Hail
Columbia school; Greeting" Lottie
Morris; Like Washington" Alfred
Oldfield ''Washington's Birthday"
John Gedeon; Girls Thoughts of
Washington Hattie Wardle; wash
ington," Roy Eldred; dialogue, Ten
Little Hatchets,' Etna Claypool and
ten little boys; "Our Country's Father, =
Arthur Valentine; song, Flag of the
Free" solo by girls, chorus by school;
ST Would Tell" Dwight Rue; dialogue,
"Our Flag Howard Eames, Charlie
Martz Tilly Gruhler, Bertha Gruhler;
washington and the Flag" Norvin
Hall; Greater Robert Bentley; Feb
ruary Twenty second" Myrtle Old
field; song, George, George, third
grade; "A Happy Boy" Willie Ber-
riesford; washington Flag Drill first
and second grades; dialogue, IAN In
telligent School, Lillian Kamenzind,
Mayda Neff, Freeman Blodgett, Dwight
Rue. Lana Brink; song, 'Battle-cry of
Freedom SCHOOL, ''Good Enough"
Hugh Rusk; Liberty" Mercedes Nc
Ginnis; "Our Flag" Susie Fisher; Dig
nified George Wylie Harding; Wash
ington," Maybell Belote; dialogue,
what Washington and Wife Thought
of Slang" Minnie McNairn, George
Latham; Date in Washington's Life,
Alvin Paxton; dialogue Washington
Memorial Exercises, fifth grade;
Something to Remember Emeline
Wiseman; song, Columbia, the Gem of
the Ocean," school; "Georgie's Hatch
et," Adam Damn, Jr.; "Washington's
Christmas Party" John McGinnis; song,
"Our Washington" Jennie and Minnie
McNairn; "Our Flag Elsie Blodgett;
dialogue, ''Washington's Name" fourth
grade; WAS Washington Like Other
Boys" Merrill Hubbard; "A Washing
ton Memorial, Edith Phillips Sur
prising the Hessians at Trenton, Helen
Phillips; Landing of the Pilgrims"
Pearl Self; song, Mount Vernon Bells,
school; remarks by J. A. Woodson,
speaker of the day; Superintendent o.
w. Erlewine Win. j. Davis, President
of the Board of Education, and other
friends of education; song, America,
school.
J. A. Woodson's address was stirring
and patriotic and thoroughly suited
to the comprehension of the children.
He said in part:
You are celebrating the birthday of
General George Washington. Why?
Because you are already patriotic, be-
cause your parents and teachers want
you to be more SO, and wish you to
know why you are patriotic and what
patriotism is.
Patriotism means love of country the
country made up of our homes, yours
and mine, and one home is just as much
a part of it as another and a man has
home in this country, if it is only
place beneath a plank to sleep.
Our homes make up our city, Sacra-
mento, which is one of the divisions of
cur country. The counties are larger
divisions, the State of California is a
still larger one. There are many States
made up just as is California, and all
these make up the republic, which is
our country. 1t is the union of all the
States, this collection of homes, that we
love if we are patriotic.
You love father, mother brother, sis
ter. You will do much for them to
make them happy; you will do nothing
to make them suffer. Neither does any
boy or girl want to do anything to make
his or her neighbor suffer or wish his or
her neighbor to cause him or her pain.
We all want everybody to be happy and
enjoy life, whether they live here with
us or in some other State. These
neighbors of ours are all the people of
our country Without them there would
be, only land and water and trees and
mountains and streams and beasts. 1t
is the homes and the men and women
in them, and the boys and girls in the
homes that make up our country. To
love our country then is to love all
these, our neighbors, to wish them all
to be happy and do we'll and to love us.
And that is in part patriotism.
We have, you know, no king or ruler.
Rulers are unknown in our country.
In their place we have officers to do as
the laws direct. We get together in
meetings and consult, and by election
and otherwise we appoint some of our
neighbors and ourselves to meet to-
gether and make rules for our good.
These we call laws, and we agree to
obey them, because we make them,
and he who makes a rule and
breaks it no one respects. Our laws
are like the rules in your home and
and telling us also what we should do.
These laws are necessary, because some
people do some things that are not
right, causing other people pain and
suffering. or that prevent them from en-
joying life. as they have a right to do.
II is the law that you shall not go into
your playmates' house without his con-
sent He has the right to shut the door
and keep you out. IF you break in you
violate a law and do him a wrong, and
ought to be punished, and will be.
Now, these laws lie at the bottom Of
what we cali Government, and hold it
up, just as the stones under house
as its foundation uphold it. The men
we select to make the laws and to see
that they are obeyed. and that those
who do not obey them are punished. are
our officers, and the laws and the Off
GERS are what we call Government.
Now, If we love our country we obey
| its laws and respect the men we have