The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-10-15
FLAG IS RAISED
TO BUGLE BLAST
LiIiuokaIani School Scene of Pa
triotic Ceremony-The
Grafton.
(From Saturday Advertiser)

&AIniu IL uIlASIe VI rain, DuU WIN Du-
gle notes bravely blaring, handsome
American flag was hoisted over the
new Liliuokalani school at Kaimuki
yesterday afternoon, in the midst of a
large crowd of officials and residents
and pupils of the district, while vet.
Grams of the Grand Army of the Rcpub.
lie stood at attention and saluted the
banner, which half century ago they
fought for on Southern battlefields.
1t was an impressive scene and was
an object lesson for the young people
There was pomp and ceremony in the
raising of the flag. Although the rain
threatened TO spoil the outdoor effec-
tiveness of the occasion, the large as
sembly room was found ample for the
crowd, and the ceremonies were con.
| cluded there.
President H. E. Davis, of the Kai-
muki, Waialae and Palolo Improvement
| Club, opened the exercises with an ad-
dress of welcome to the Grand Army
veterans and to all who had come to
| assist and listen. He referred briefly
to the history of the movement to es-
tablish a school in the growing suburb,
of the presence of ex-Queen Liliuoka
lani at the corners stone exercises early
In the year, and of its splendid loca-
ton where the breeze from Koko Head
blew Justify to stimulate the pupils to
hard study. He called attention to the
presence of the G. A. r. veterans and
what they represented with respect to
the flag.
The flag was raised by Veteran
Strout, of George W. belong Post, G..
A. r., and as it rose to the peak, two
army buglers from the coast artillery
garrison of Fort Ruger, sent by Major
Timberlake, gave the appropriate bugle
calls. The Hawaiian band, which had
] been assembled, although this is their
vacation month, played frequently dur
ing the ceremonies. There were flag
salutes and drills by pupils of the
school.
The grafton of the day was made
by Hon. Charles A. Cottrill, collector
of internal revenue, in part as follows:
| Il congratulate your organization,
the Kaimuki Improvement Association,
on having been able To secure this up
to-date- school building for Your see
tion of the city. i commend the wis
dom of the Legislature which provided
for its erection and maintenance. |
admire the splendid sentiment which
prompted the naming of this building
for Her Majesty, Bx-Queen Liliuoka-
lani, who is so generally beloved and
respected by all classes.
"Around the Stars and Stripes, EN-
blem of our great Republic, and the
American public school must ever clus-
ter the hopes and aspirations of our
people. This ceremony of raising the
flag by these members of the George
w. belong Post of the G. A. r., is
eminently fitting and proper These
veterans and their comrades living
and deadly their triumph at arms in
| the great Civil War OF ls6l.1S65 pre-
served it and the nation it represents,
against the assaults of traitorOus hands.
| 1t has been since, and please God, may
] it ever be the emblem of liberty, equal
ity and opportunity. Today they place
it above this school building and there
by express their belief in the doctrine
that the public school is the real foun-
dation stone upon which rests the lib
critics of the people and the safety of
the Republic.
"The public school system is another
Grand Army which is now and ever
has waged incessaDt war upon ignor-
ance and vice. 1t is the Nation Is hope
and is of far more Importance than
standing armies. The warfare it wages
may be bloodless one, but it is ever
achieving great victories for liberty
and humanity. Every President of this
Republic since Abraham Lincoln, was
product of the American public
school.
A Patriotic Law.
Gin this Territory, as in most States
of the Union, il is provided by law that
the American Gag shall Goat over every
public school building during school
hours. learn that the law for this
Territory was enacted by the legisla-
ture at the request aud. on the recon,
mondation of the local Grand Army
Port and the territorial school authori.
ties Both are entitled 20 the thanks
Of the community for their patriotism
In this regard.
''ln this western outpost Of the Uni.
ted States, where are gathered repre-
sentatiyes Of nearly every nation under
heaven, II II exceedingly important
that nothing shall be left nndone which
J viii serve 20 inspire sincere respect for
our Nation B Dag.