Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-16
Lagoon the Scene Of Gathering
For Patriotic Tributes to
"0ld Glory
INTERESTING PROGRAM GIVEN
q. A. II. Outing Success from EVERY
Standpoint---Fund Raiscd ior
Utah Delegation.

In snite of the fact thar II ralned
until noon. Lagoon was the scene OF
large gathering of G. A. II. veterans
n celebrate Flag day yesterday after
noon and evening.
The object Of the day was to com
memorate a patriotic occasion to raise
funds 10 send delegation to the g.
A. r. encampment this year, and to
work for the securing of the encamp-
ment for next year.
In all of these purposes the outing
was n success over 1000 old soldiers
md their friends were on the ground.
A patriotic program of music and
speeches was rendered, and q great
many prizes were awarded for excel
lence In various amateur athletic
events.
The old soldiers proved entertaining
hosts and energetic ones. The prizes
offered brought out the following win
ners in athletic events:
Races for girls over 12-Beatrice
Boilln. first; Edith Webb. second.
Married women's race--Mrs. Ada
Burns, first; Mrs. t. H. Carger, sec
ond.
Nail-driving contest for women
Mrs. Thomas Slcater, first; Mrs. Ada
Burns. second.
Veterans race--Major NJ. A. Breed
en-. first: Col. Henry Evans, second.
Race for boys over 12-Paul Tan
ner. first; Thomas Smith. second.
Races for boys under 12--Harold
Hines. first; Bert Cahoon, second.
Three-legged race-Haroid Hines
and Edmond Wilkinson, first.
Race for girls under 12-Emma
Lawleiss, first. Bertha Boilin, second.
la ttNa.
grounds was Comrade and Mrs. Hous-
ton, who were awarded a prize. They
have been married SO years.
THE REV. j. f. CARVER.
After the athletic events, DR.. j. Z.
Carver of Ogden delivered an Grafton
US part of literary program. "Not
alone the Stars and Stripes he said,
but also the old coats of blue cause
us to lovingly recall the debt we owe to
each. We love TO read again the
grand story of our nations banner, it's
progress and achievements, and God
forbid that we should ever forget the
men who in shot and battle defended
It.
There are those who tell us that
patriotism is only sentiment, but in
SO doing they forget that our lives are
largely ruled by our sentiments. and
that in the trend of the worlds his
tory 1t has been the sentiments that
nave SO oftimes been the dominating
powers against which no power of
logic could prevail. And sentiment
has ever loved some object about
which II might cluster its affec-
tions. We see 1t in the Scotch love
Tor the heather; we see II in the Irish
love for the shamrock we see II in the
way in which peoples have ever select
ed symbols and banners to be the
standard of their loyalty and devotion.
The Persian and the Roman choose
the brazen eagle; the Greek the letter
or bit OF arinor. but with the old Nor
man there came new standard-the
banner.
strange as 1t may seem, ours is
about the oldest OF all the worlds ban
ners. For the flag of England dates In
Its present form from 1901, the French
tricolor from 1894, the Spanish flag from
1857 and the ensigns of Italy and
Germany from the commencement OF
really older than them all for while the
form of our flag Is no older than July
d 1918. when Peter Vendover and his
committee tixed its present beauty. and
from 1874 to 1878 1t had the Is stripes
and stars yet the underlying principle
and fundamental support was ever the
same from the day. when, on Jan. l.
l776, Washington unfurled the stripes
and jack from beneath the old Cam
bridge elm. The oldest flag. YES. and
II stands for the Oldest principles. Free
dom and equality, we are told, were in
power in the old, old days. before kings
and greed We're dreamed OF. Slavery
and oppression were not the first prin.
ciples of humanity by any means.
"our banner Is n most fit one. be-
cause of the component colors. Red In
the color of loyalty and worth. 1t was
the imperial purple of the noblest rul-
ers OF Rome; thence It was flung from
the turrets of old St Denney. in the
shape of the old orihamme; thence 1t
entered into European life. and on to
that land OF the free, where all are
kings and loyalty Is a fundamental
principle. Blue is the color Of fidelity.
We got 1t from the Covenanters of
Scotland, who fought meath the blue.
When they went to the Carolinaa they
took Il with them. and the first Ameri-
can flag of those southern patriots was
the blue flag, which Col. Moultrie car
ried. and which waved In the Carolina
revolutionary outbreak of Sept, IL, l775
we love our flag because of the In
tense national spirit 1t has fostered
What an ardent spirit those OF old pos