Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-12
URGE TEXANS TO
ATTEND BANQUET
Representation from Lone Star
State Is Requested at Fed
Grated Societies Affair
SECRETARIES ISSUE A CALL
Ask Former Residents of the Cow
Country to Awaken and
Round Up
SECRETARIES ISSUE A CALL

Texans in Los Angeles are deter
mined that the Lone Star State shall
be as well represented at the annual
banquet of the Federation of State So
cieties at Hamburgers, June u, as any
state in the Union. The various state
societies have been stirred to mighty
rivalry in preparation for this great
banquet, which, it is expected, will be
far the largest ever held in the west
Each is anxious to bring out as big a
delegation as possible, and to make as
fine a showing as 1t can.
Mrs. [, 3. Innes, secretary, anu Rosa
Miles Van RiDer assistant secretary,
have issued an appeal to all Texans to
get together for the banquet and spread
fame of their native state in the land
of their adoption. The appeal follows;
THE TEXAS CALL
ITO Every Loyal Texan in and
Around Los Angeles Greeting:
you are earnestly requested to at
tend the annual banquet of the Fedora
tion of State Societies, to be held at Z
o'clock p. M, June H. at Hamburger S,
as q representative of your state.
"Friends, we all love the Lone Star
state who have galloped on our sturdy,
sWift-footed COW ponies over her broad
plains, and breathed the fresh, cool air
as it rushed over the waving grass, or
whistled through the tree tops. Every
one of you has stored in memory some
pleasant times spent among her big
hearted men and tender, sympathetic
women, and know Of their open doors,
where the latch string ever nung in
reach of the stranger who cared to pull
it and enter in to find kindly greeting
and welcome.
80 will you not show your loyalty
to her by rallying to her call as per-
sonal favor to the committee that Is
working so hard and earnestly to give
the state of Texas a fine, strong repre-
sentation by her people who have her
interests at heart, although they are
now sojourners and home builders in
the sunny land of California. Dear
friends, do not let the poppy-laden
zephyrs of the Golden State lull your
interest in your old homes to sleep.
Wake up, and show to the other states
which are doing such grand work for
their loved lands that you too still keep
alive and warm your interest in the
Alamo by responding unanimously to
her call, to help swell the numbers at
the Texas table at Hamburger's on the
evening of Friday, June II, at o'clock
sharp. Don't be late. Come at o'clock
so as to be in your place and enjoy the
social hour before the program Of the
evening opens.
Yours in the full belief that you will
rally around your Star, and that we,
the undersigned, will have the pleasure
of greeting you, our brother and sister
Texans, on Friday evening, and having
you Join in the Herd Song" of the
Texas Cow ranch, to bring forward our
own state and help boost our adopted
states interest. For we all know that
whenever the name California is spok
en-, the world lifts up its head and
turns a listening ear to learn what glo-
rious new thing will come from her
Wide-aWake people.
MRS. l. B. INNES, Secretary,
ROSA MILES VAN RIPPER,
Assistant Secretary"
In addition to the appeal to Texans,
Rosa Miles Van Riper has written the
toast to that state, the Lone
Star state:
We of Texas have many beautiful
memories as a foundation and back
bround on which to rest the broad, ten
der sentiment of reverence and love
for the Lone STAR that has ever
shown with a bright, steady CLEAN
over her vast prairies and evergreen
mountains.
Me thinks as my mind turns back
can still hear the roar of a thousand
hoofs as the herds over her level plains,
following the call of the leader" as
his voice floats out on the evening
air and is answered by the rear watch
In the herd song of the Cow Ranch"
I hear the singing Of the tall, silVery
prairie grass as the wind sweeps over
it, touching its sensitive stems as it
sends forth its sWishing signs, which, |
as they reach the incoming tide of the
gulf, are sent back on the waves echo |
In a hundred tones OF melody. 1 can |
hear the subdued boom Of the waters |
az the tide sweeps in over Aransas |
pass, and see the gulls and la Golen- |
drinas" as they dip in its ripping |
waves.
There is no other state in our union
that owns an Aransas pass or claims
such vast territory or has enshrined |
in its heart a Davle Crockett, a Jim
Bowie or carries on its banners an
Alamo or enjoys the exquisite pleas
Ire of the Texas moCking bird as it's
sweet notes float out into space as 1t
scars heavenWard, bathed in the sill
very radiance of a Texas moonlight.
I thank God I was once a Texas COW
girl, and for the memories of those
lays of untrammeled freedom and
plenty, and the memories of our pio-
leer forefathers, who were the leaders
md statesmen that sustained her glory
and made her what she Is today, the
grandest, brightest star in the galaxy
If gems that bestud Old Glory.