The Newtown bee., 1907-06-21

Syne, :" then led the way to the fla. pole opposite the Park View House
 when the flag was hauled to the top o1 the pole by those popular Civil War vet
 erans, Chief Marshal Samuel R. Hill
 and Lewis Moshier. As the flag
 reached the top of the pole, a cannon discharge saluted the stars and stripes.
 The young men of St Johns Cadets
 were drawn up on the Green south of
 the flag pole. They presented fine appearance and Rev MT Plumb. and their captain were repeatedly compli- mented.
 | THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON OPEN AIR SERVICE.
 The union service on the Green at 3 o'clock, Sunday afternoon, was an at tractive and beautiful one in every | way. Rev F. A. Johnson presided.
 Prayer was offered by Bev J. F.. Plumb and the Scripture read by Rev Stephen Heacock The singing of the chours of mixed voices. under the di | rection of Prof E. G. Clemence. was greatly enjoyed, Gortland's Tenth Reg iment band furnishing the accompani- | ment- Had it not been on Sunday | the singers would have received repeat ed encores. The number of people on 6250. Rev Frederick A. Wright. New Milford boy, captivated the audience | by his splendid off-hand address. The address of Rev Charles J. Ryder. ID. | D., also delighted his hearers. Rev Mir Wright spoke as follows: 1t is pleas | ure to me to address you, both because 1 count it an honor to speak to this au- | dience and because 1 feel it privilege e | to speak on this occasion. My ances- | tors both on my mothers side and on with this town for six generations, so that I feel sort of intimate kinship with the very fields, and mountains and this soil is in a double sense, my | mother earth.' And just as Anteaus, | the child of earth. gained ten-fold strength every time he stretched his | length upon the grass. so, wearied | with the rush and crowding of the city and the sorrows of its poor and "the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin, "I come here and find refresh | ment and repose. The large city has certain great attractions and in some | respects life in it is far broader and greater than it can be elsewhere. That | is the reason that l went to New York. | But the town and the small city have other advantages and it is by those | that my love of this place is kindled. And so on this birthday of New Mil ford. l want to speak of those quali- | ties which 1 prize so highly in this place. And first on the list comes personal freedom. Thackery said that England had fifty million people in it,
 mostly fools. We'll when you have an | enormously big city, there are so many
 fools gathered together there that it | is not feasible and practicable for the sensible people to be free. You must | not carry pistol because there are so
 many gumps that cannot be trusted with firearms. You cannot let people
 walk on the grass or they will destroy | the foliage. 1t is all paternalism. The
 law is taking care of you. You cannot l let people take their children into the park on a sled. they might get hurt. A cordon of police guard the ice on. the part of the lake that is not safe. If
 they did not some idiot would skate in
 to the water. l resent being protected
 from myself. 1 feel like Ben Franklin, Il Where freedom is. there is my coun- | try. Another good treasure you have is simplicity. Life here is less com | pleX. There are so many things in ! city life that demand attention, that | our energies get scattered, and our at | tention diverted and our ways conven-
 tional and artificial. It is hard to ex- press just what 1 mean. But life uI here is less confused and more elemen-
 tai and natural and real. That is 8 good thing. Then you have the sum- | shine and the air and the open fields You have what people who come ur
 here from the Bowery call -.lonli-
 ness.' 1t is aloofness. One can with
 draw here, can get away, can get out
 of sight, can have that still smal i voice which speaks only through the peace of Nature-can flee as bir6 to the mountains" One idea of holi ness is that which is set apart. You landscape has holiness which is moi
 shared by shorn lawns, punctuated by
 statuary. Our national emblem is ths
 eagle and there is an eagle spirit 1T
 the American people which likes tho
 c1 a hal
 boulevards and the parks. Then ther, are not so many of you but that you car
 know each other, and be interested il
 each other and help each other. Tn,
 so.called phlianthrophy which IS more
 interested in institutions than 1t is II
 the individuals is a bad thing. What , this world with its suffering and sir and error needs is not more brown
 stones laboratories and patent book shelves and institutes for the uplift O. . the masses and the glorifcation of tn,
 millionaire rascals that endowed them what the world needs is men that ar, interested in the individuals that sur
 round them. 1 have not S25, 900 to giv, away. but if I had I would pick out
 worthy family that needed it and giv, 1t to them. 1 would endow a trades man and not a trade school. Now con ditons here are good because of tn, l human interest that you take in eacl l other. If there were 300. 900 of you such personal interest would be lmpoS ; sible. Try to take d personal interes r in %, GOO people. You cannot do it r The personal relations of employee ant employer of neighbors and friends il
 a village are priceless blessing Al 5 these are characteristic of this place 9 Beside this it has it's own history, it t beautiful street,its scenery so excep {; tionally sweet and lovely. It is fo s these things we celebrate its birthday g But there may we'll be some of yo,
 that go beyond such matters some win 9 have lived here, who have spent thei y childhood here, to whom all thes d scenes are bathed as in the light O = some far celestial morning. Tn u dreams of childhood still haunt thes l. scenes, like the genii of the place f half vanishing in beckoning wreath
 of mist turing them away from the re g alities of the world to the reality C g some fairer existence. till their heal