The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-21

fifteen had been selected and turned over to the judges. selected by the chapter. These judges were Dr. Thomas M Owen. Mir. Thomas H. Clark. and Miss Cozart Miss Gertrude Steiner was announced as the win ner. with Miss Olivia Bogacki as close second. and Miss Elizabeth Cole man third.
 Mrs. Wyly. Life Regent and founder of the chapter. presented the meaal to Miss Steiner, in a most instructive and interesting address on the flag. This address it is our privilege to give below.
 As hostess Mrs. Glass fully carried out the spirit of the day. the ices being served In designs of the shield and flag of the country. and the most delicious white cake carrying 6 stripe or D. A. R. blue across each slice. In its entirety this Flag Day celebration will long be delightful memory to the participants.
 Address made by Mrs J. Nj. Wyly on presentation of the Peter Forney medal to Miss Gertrude Steiner of the Mont | gomery School for Girls:
 Madam Regent Daughters and friends: There are moments in all our lives, when 1t seems that the tide of happi- ness has a limitless flow, such an oc-
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 a happiness to me to be with school girls and to look into their bright, happy faces, and 1t is such a delight to | us to have our friends join us in cele-
 brating Flag Day Then I had the
 honor to have a two-foId commission
 from the Peter Forney Chapter. D A 1 R. First, to extend to every one or
 you greetings for Flag Day Second.
 to perform the pleasing and honored l dtff fn r Ndo nf n h a representatives of the Montgomery | School for Girls. who contested for the Peter Forney medal and to deliver that medal to the successful competitor. | The Peter Forney Chapter has learned | that the Flag is one of my hobbies and I ask that this audience grant me the | same indulgence and allow me to speak about the flag which is waving here and all over the United States today. Wherever that flag floats on land or sea, at home or abroad. it carries with 1t the breath of freedom and represents | humanity, civilization and liberty. When that Continental Congress, on June 14th, 1777, took the first legis- lative action of which there is any record for the establishment of some common, national symbol. they passed resolution. saying, that the flag of the United States of America should be l | white, with thirteen stars, white, in a
 blue field, representing a new constel- lation in the heavens. That new con | stellation was the American flag. Have any of you ever seen the sun that could dim that constellation? No, the
 sun may rise and like a bridegroom take its course, but he cannot eclipse the stars in that flag, for it is a flag upon which the sun never sets.
 Our President General, in an
 address before the Continental Congress of the N. s. D. A. k | says her Daughters are those stars.
 because we too are in the Constellation. | born into the heavens of our country's | zenith In what more profitable way | can we. as Daughters, carry out one | of the principles for which we are or
 ganized than to instin patriotism into
 the hearts and minds of the youth of
 our land. who are so soon to take our
 places, than by teaching them rever-
 ence for the flag. The flag is the sym
 bol of that noblest of sentiments love
 of country and 1t represents to us
 everything in the life of any value-
 our government. Was 1t not loyalty
 to the flag that supported the patriots
 of '76?-and that loyalty continued for
 decade after decade, till on the
 breaking of that eventful dawn, that
 radiant flag unfurled in the morning
 breeze above ramparts of Fort McHen-
 ry proclaimed victory. It was then
 that the burning thoughts in a loya
 breast. clamored for utterance and they
 were voiced In that imperishable song. The Star Spangled Banner. That | song will live on and on and thrill the heart-strings of our people, for it was the product of a fierce and fer-
 vent patriotism-extending on down to
 almost the present time, 1t was a pa
 triotic spirit that made the boys in blue" and the boys in grey", in that 1 bloody conflict, carry the stars and
 stripes through a desperate fire up
 San Juan Hill-every man who went up | that hill was a hero. It was in 1898
 that the children of the Society sug-
 gested that the flag should float over
 every school building in Atlanta, Ga.
 That suggestion met with hearty ap-
 proval and the city authorities appoint | ed a flag-day for the school children
 and at given signal flags were rais- l ed simultaneously over every building and the patriotic enthusiasm with
 which the children received these flags
 showed a true American spirit. Then | is 1t not right and proper that the at-
 mosphere, in which we rear and edu- l cate the children of our land. should
 be enriched with the aroma and beauti- | ned with the emblemS of patriotism. l The D. A. R.'s do not claim exclusive
 right to the flag. For the women of
 our whole land have not only a cmmon,
 but a peculiar interest in the flag
 which floats here today. It was the | hand of a woman that made the first | flag and since it was the hand of a wo-
 man that made the first flag and since
 the light of Christianity has shoue up- | on the world. woman has been emanci- | pated from slavery and inferiority--- and wherever that flag floats. women are free. So the lesson we would l teach you to-day Is patriotism. If you remember when visited your school.
 I told you that "a man without patri- otism was a man without a soul, and a woman without patriotism was a wo- man without a heart" The motto of our society is Heaven and Country but one and all, old and yorng can la- bor in their church, their home, their school or in any business in life and pray that the fatherland may stay as beacon light for the guidance os all people who are yet in darkness. This can best be done by education and with the blessing of the Heavenly Father education has been so far advanced that the teaching of patriotism is nec- essary Patriotism does not consist
 solely in erecting monuments and mark | ing historical spots. Doing little | things that lie everywhere around us | constitutes patriotism to-day, just as l truly as the efforts of our fore-fath-
 CTS in fighting for Independence. As | executors of our God given trust it Is | ours fo keen alive the dres and fhe