Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-06-04
PrememoriaI Exercises.

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The Prememorial exercises of the high
and graded schools held in Chandler
Music hall Friday afternoon taught pa
triotism to the children and stirred the
patriotic sentiments of their elders, of
whom there were many in attendance.
The pictures of Washington and lincoln
and flags and bunting were the decorative
touches in honor of the occasion and Of
U. S. Grant post, No. 90, g. A. r., which
was represented by delegation of old SOL
diers.
George w. Flagg addressed the schools
in behalf of the post and made speech
OF genuine merit, showing the soldiers
idea of loyalty and love of country and
giving his young listeners to understand
the hopes that rest in them. He con-
fessed to feeling some uneasiness in
standing before such an audience though
he had been in places Of more danger, and
he well knew no child would wish ill to
an old soldier. Tomorrow, he said, will
be what is called the American Sabbath;
today we teach the children to grow up
loyal to country and flag. Forty years
ago eleven states in this Union tried to
set up gover6nent for themselves. Had
they been loyal this would never have
happened. The Northern states said no
star must be taken from the flag; we
must defend it and see that it is kept un-
sullied. In the North, the young men
now these old soldiers who, it does not
seem to you, could ever have been young
enlisted for the war, little knowing
what was before them, but they did know
that loyal people stood behind them, a
people that loved the stars and stripes
and the union.
How we'll I remember when enlisting
here and, as we passed down the road,
hearing the cheers and seeing the flags
waving. We went to the front, and had
we not been loyal, what would have been
the result? Loyalty is the foundation of
all government, and without it no gov
eminent can exist. We are the most
powerful nation on the face of the earth,
and a supreme effort is being made in
every town and city to educate the chill
dren in loyalty on which that power de-
ponds. When we were on picket duty,
walking beat, perhaps, in the wind and
rain, the soldiers back in the tents slept
soundly, knowing full well that the pick
cts were watching and would not let the
enemy approach the unconscious slum-
berers. The same thing is true of an
army at the front and loyal people at
home; great and powerful nation back
ing up its soldiers.
1t was so in our case. We believed our
country loved its soldiers, and well We
might believe it.
At Gettysburg, had our corps not been
loyal to the army, had our generals not
been alert and determined to conquer, the
army would have been destroyed. We
were 33 miles away when the engagement
began; but, carrying, from 80 to 40
pounds of blankets, knapsacks and guns,
we marched those 33 miles in "a hours
and reached the field the second day of
the battle. That was great march of
modern times, and had we slackened or
delayed, che victory would not have been
won.
1t is loyalty that counts from the be-
ginning to the end of this life. The gov
eminent for which its people have no love
ceases to exist and becomes a prey to 9TH
er nations. Let us hope our nation will
always be powerful through the loyalty
of the children now growing up, educat-
ed in patriotism. Learn to obey your
teachers in order that you may learn to
respect your government. A school with
out a good teacher is no school at all, and
government without good rulers is no
government at all. Even the president of
the United States must be loyal if he is to
make his government worth anything to
the world and himself.
The excellent program preceding Mr..
Flagg's address was as follows:-
Song by school, ssThe Star Spangled
Banner"
Recitation, "May,n Arene Rumrill
Recitation, "Red, White and Blue"
Homer Hood
D. -
Mildred Mutually
Song, sour Flag
4th, 9Th and 9Th grades
Recitation, sour Flag" Herbert Tallman
Recitation, stThe Unknown Grave"
Emma Danyow
Song, "Memorial Day."
Six boys of Grade
Recitation, ssFather Time"
Margery Morse
Song, "Come Ye Happy hearted Chill
dren," Ten children of Grade 2
Recitation, "The West Winds Offering"
Lawrence McKanna
Song, "May,"
Muriel and Madeline Martin
Memorial Day exercise,
Ten children of Grades 4 and 5
Recitation, "The Soldiers Prayer"
Helen Blanchard
Recitation, "The Flower of Liberty"
Muriel Martin
Recitation, "Our Navy" Roy Johnson
Duet, ''Cover Them Over"
Mildred Goodwin and Dorothy Buck
Recitation, sour Unknown Dead"
Esther Ham
Essay, "The American Fleet,''
Mildred Hutchins
Song, "Grandpa, I'm Going to be Sol
der" Fred Goodwin
Recitation, siOur Army of the Dead"
Maude /. Putnam
The closing song by the school was
very appropriately America"
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