Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-09
NATIVE SONS TO
CELEBRATE DAY
CALIFORNIA BEAR WILL GR0WL
AT SANTA MONICA
ANNIVERSARY OF STATES BIRTH
TO BE OBSERVED
LARGE Crowd Expected at Festivities
in Canyon-Theodore A. Bell
Will Deliver an
Address

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Attracted by a monster barbecue
where whole steers, sheep and pigs VIII
be roasted, program of speeches. wen
worth hearing and later a program Vi
sports in which everyone can compete,
the Native Sons of the Golden west
expect a crowd of not less than 2OOO TO
attend the celebration of Admission
dav at Santa Monica canyon today.
Cars will run from the Los AngeIes-
Pacific every eight or ten minutes TINS
morning. beginning at 8 O'Clock, ana
enough cars have been promised u
accommodate all who wish to go. II:
e. Lichtenberger will be president OF
the day and Mayor Harper will deliver
an address of welcome
The Midway show will be one of the
biggest attractions. This will be filled
with all manner of freaks, including
e. B. LOWE, ringmaster. Everything
to be found in the best stocked muse
ums of the country will be on exhibit
ton.
Frank Lawton will have charge of
the big barbecue. which will be pre-
pared by a Mexican jefe imported from
Tia Juana solely for this occasion.
One of the best features of the day
will be a speech by Theodore A. Bell,
a Native Son himself and formerly a
grand trustee of the order. Mr.. Bells
speech was not listed in the official
program, as the Native Sons did not
learn he was in the city until yester-
day, when they bounced on him in
hordes and made him promise to speak
today.
The following stirring poem. written
fifteen years ago by Frank Gassaway, will
be recited by John Curtis;
Dear, dear to every patriots pride
Our country's colors are;
We love each stripe by battle dyed,
We prize each shining star.
But blame not If from its place,
Amid its sisters fair
We steal today one star to grace
The Banner of the Bear.
No tickle mood inspires the thought.
No alien faith we hold:
The flag for which our heroes fought
Still claims us of old.
But as. where'er the exile roam.
His birthplace seems most fair
We love that heritage of home.
The Banner of the Bear.
No siken toy was it that they.
Who marched beneath it. bore.
In many a bloody Indian fray,
In many native war.
Ger many an ambushed miners head
It's emblems growled "Beware!
The stealthy savage learned to dread
The Banner of the Bear.
From southland valleys. where still fears
The herd it's grizzly foe,
From where the high Sierra rears
Its battlements of snow.
We come-the first born of the state,
Its birthday feast to share.
And hang upon it's Golden Gate
The Banner of the Bear.
The litter that the she-wolf nursed
It's founders gave to Rome.
So, where their fathers builded first.
The bears brown children come,
To hear their sires' comrades praise
The deeds of days that were.
And help the Old Guard still to raise
The Banner of the Bear.
And though too often now, alas!
We our symbol ride
At half-mast, as it's vet'rans pass
Beyond the great divide"
Though gone, they still are Pioneers,
And surely over there
Above the golden camp appears
The Banner of the Bear.
So, lovingly today we've brought,
To mingle by the sea,
The white flag of the Argonaut,
The star flag of the free;
Long may they futter side by side,
Twin monarchs of the air:
Our coasts flag and our country's flag,
The Eagle and the Bear!