Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-04
People of Nation Join in
Quiet Demonstrations
Celebrating Day.
OPEN NEW LABOR HOME
President Wilson and Cabi-
net Members Partici-
pate in Dedication

Washington. July Adjudication of
the new home OF the American Fedora
ton Of labor. with President Wilson,
members of the cabinet and prominent
labor leaders participating, featured
Independence day here.
The exercises were preceded by a
big parade The line Of march was
from Peace monument at the foot of
the capitol. up Pennsylvania avenue
and past the new labor building
There President Wilson, after re
viewing the marchers, was to make an
address. Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
also was TO speak.
Springfield Observes Day.
Springfield. Ill, July Springfield
today combined a celebration of indie
pendence day with a formal welcoming
of recently naturalized foreigners into
citizenship in the United States. The
municipal celebration staged at the
fair grounds, now Camp Dunno, was
without fireworks other than rhetori-
cal The use of fireworks Sas prOhib-
fed at Camp Dunno to avert danger of
fire in the mobilization camp.
A volunteer trained chorus of nearly
one thousand members sang at the
camp and the principal address was
made by Governor Edward F. Dunno
Tonight there will be band concert
on the courthouse lawn.
Special Exercises in Chicago.
Chicago, July T. - Celebrations in
nearly all the parks in the city with
special exercises in suburbs and inSti-
tutions, are to mark Chicago's sane
and crackerless observance of the
Fourth of July today. One of the prin-
rTUa1 tTOp= will 10 hold al q
Coliseum. where foreign born citizens
viii be assembled. Three minute
speeches will be made in each of ten
different languages on the topic of
American patriotism and there will be
q parade Of the natiOnalities. Edmund
J. James. president of the University
of Illinois Will be the chief speaker.
Athletic Fourth in New York.
New York, July 4.-Tndependence
day was celebrated at 100 centers
throughout the city today with so ath-
letic meets for men and boys, 70 fes-
rivals for women and children, band
concerts. drills of boy scouts, ad-
dresses by city officials and dancing.
Tonight the largest electric flag ever
made VIII blaze from the roof of the
city hall
Take Day OF at Dubuque
Dubuque. Iowa, July 4--FOurth or
July was observed in Dubuque by COM
plete suspension of business but there
was no public celebration. People dis
tributed themselves in shady groves
near the city or at summer resorts
along the Mississippi. A monster pub
he fireworks display tonight is the on
~ thing out of the ordinary.
Daniels Delivers Address.
Lewiston. Maine, July 4.-The Amer
lean youth of the future must be
taught a patriotism without bOasting,
q love Of country without chauvinism
or jingoism. a reverence for the flag
without a trace of brag or buster, de
clared Secretary Daniels of the navy
department. speaking here today at a
Fourth OF July celebration
The day has passed" said Secrs-
tary Daniels, when the spread eagle
orator boosted that Uncle Sam could
whip anything in creation but the day
must never come when the American
youth viii not glory in the victories of
putnam and Marion and Washington
or when we are not thrilled with en-
thuslasm when the victories of John
Paul Jones. Perry and Marlborough
are related"
America" said the speaker, sis
broadening its viewpoint and getting
away from a parochial patriotism"
Secretary Daniels said the pressing
heed of preparedness is not causing
congress and the administration to
lose sight of other pressing questions.