Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-13
Old Guard Dimes
Go To Marjorie
VETERANS QUOTE BIBLE IN
PRAISING CHILD AS LEADER
IN PATRIOTISM.

The New York Tribune: The Old
Guard made it's annual parade day and
dinner a practical demonstration for
preparedness by getting behind Mar
tories battleship fund last night, with
speeches. spirit and money. 1t was
the elouuence of Bernhard Wall that
was chosen for the purpose getting
the members to pour out their dimes
and he succeeded to the tune OF
$26.5O.
Mr.. Wall said that the Old Guard
is the one patriotic military order that
disdains the theoretical in patriot
ism, believing in practical applied
patriotism. He then went on to pay
this tribute to Marjorie:
I'm the bible it says, And little
child shall lead them 1t appears that
a little child is leading the van in
practical preparedness. OFT children
let wisdom slip from their mouths
which is a premonition. The instinc'
tive fear of the child may mean much.
We know this child to have sized up
a situation about which there isn't any
room for argument.
"She went to the front to remedy
it like a child. It was patriotic fer
vor and the spirit of helpfulness that
made her place her dime at the dis
posal of Uncle Sam. That dime has
grown to nearly 100000.
NAT Wills at the Hippodrome said
he'd bought many a schooner for a
nickle, but he'd sooner buy an inter-
est in the battleship for dime. Yes.
it is the individual interest of each
giver of a dime in building up a senti-
ment among the Riddles, propagating
the spirit of patriotism. And we, the
foremost patriotic body of the land,
should encourage the spirit of sacri-
fetal giving on the part Of young
Americans by giving something our
selves. Let each Of us spill dime or
two on the salver when it comes
around to the glory of the flag and this
our fatherland.'
Then the shower of dimes began
and lasted pretty much throughout the
evening. Company A, Captain Ed
ward H. Snyder, led the list Of the
unit contributors with $3.50. The staff
of the commandant, Col. Ardolph L.
Kline, gave IS jointly, while Co. c,
through Guardsman E. Untermeyer,
gave 1920 and the commissary de.
partment 50. From individual givers
came $3.50 more.
Boosters Must Get Busy.
The Marjorie sterrett Battleship
fund, started by Airline Patton and
fostered by The Courier Junior, did
not grow any this week. When The
Junior went to press last week the
fund was $4.30. so the Courier Junior
Booster sent in check for that
amount to the New York Tribune, GUS
todian of Marjorie Sterrett's battle
ship fund.
The names of the contributors in
Iowa and northern Missouri follow:
Airline Patton, Doris Tower, Edwin
William Piatt Elmer Piatt, Verna
Piatt, Earle Derby, Kleta Derby, Dor
othy Mae MacManus, Eleanor Patri'
cha MacManus, Erma Kellogg, Miss
Emma Fielder, principal Of the
Adams school, two donors who do not
want their names published right
now. Beulah Binks, Maize Areingdale,
Miss Catherine Ramsell, teacher at
the Adams school, Donald Pickett,
Paul Clifford Pickett, Gerald Lee,
Gretchen Grotz. Robert Mclaughlin,
John Canny, Edward Wayne Songer,
Paul Greer, the Misses Marie, Helen,
Ruth and Gretchen Silvers, two I'M
knowns, Elmer Gillen and the Messrs.
Johnson, Poundstone, Mayes and Mer.
rift