The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-14
SIGNIFICANCE OF
 AMERICAN FLAG
 TOLD TO ). A. R.
Interesting Paper on the Subject Read By Mrs.
 Orville Rector.
SIR GEORGE REID
 TO LECTURE HERE
Objections Taken to Fritz Kreisler Playing in New
 Haven.

The appended paper was read by Mrs. OrvilIe Rector at the regular meeting of Mary Silliman chapter, D. A. R., on Monday afternoon Mrs. Rector has recently been appointed on the National Flag Committee by the president-general, Mrs. J. Thatch CT Guernsey. It is very Illuminating and tells the significance of our flag. It follows:
 It is we'll as Daughters of the American Revolution to inspire others to look upon the affairs of our coun- try in as optimistic a light as possi- ble. In order to do this let us look at our flag and inspire our own hearts as we recall for brief moment just what 1t meant to our forefathers and what it means to us.
 Look at 1t and know that it is the oldest legal flaS in the world and 1t has never lowered it's folds to an enc my. It took years of deprivations- suffering and many lives to establish the democracy which those valiant an- cestors sought to found. Today it stands for the same ethfng-democracy government by the people of the people and for the people.
 Tt Is password of common brotherhood and ever floats as a sym bol of the immortal will of human rights as embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
 Tt stands for a system of fairness which is unequaled in any other na- tion. A fairness, wherein the rail splitter, Lincoln and the towpath boy, Garfield, lifted themselves to be chief nf I,i wherein the weakest person is pro- tected by g, law to which the strongest must bow.
 That flag floats over a land where education Is as free as Gods sunlight; where brains are the masters of des- ttnies; where Labor wears a dignity and commands consideration and re- spect. Industry does not hold the position to Capital here that it does in other countries. There is no land like ours and there is but one ques- ton now confronting us. What shall our flag stand for in the future?
 If men as men, and women, as women work. fight. and sacrifice our selves as our ancestors did, our flag shall stand for the just and fair use of national power and no nation shall dare doubt our purpose of carrying out the justice and principles for which our ancestors fought and final ly esta ablished.
 That flag shall stand for the asser- tion of the right of one nation to serve the other nations of the world. A nation that does not condescend to be used for aggression--that is too great to be debarred by selfishness and has it's right to be honored by all countries in the world, and feared by none who do righteousness That is what it should mean in the future and what it will mean.''
 The Contemporary club is to meet tomorrow evening with MT. and Mrs. Lucien T. Warner and Mrs. Arthur T. Whitman at their home, 61 Broad street. Sir George Reid Is to be the speaker and his subject will be "An Optimist's View of Things" The time of the meeting is s.15 o'clock.
 Mrs. John Curtis of Coleman street will be the hostess for the regular meeting of the English Literary club on Friday morning at 10 o'clock. At this time Mrs. J. P. Oamns will speak on Current Events and the paper for the morning will be given by Mrs. J. Cuyler- Shaw on 'Introduction to the Study of the Short Story, Edgar Allan Poe"
 The Authors club will meet on Friday afternoon with Miss Anne Sherman at her home, 55 Rusling Place. The members will start the afternoon with Red Cross work at 2:30 and the regular club meeting will be held at o'clock. Miss Sher- man will have the paper for the afternoon on Arnold Bennett"
 The meeting of Mary Clap Wooster chapter, D. A. R.. held Monday night at the New Haven Colony Historical society rooms was featured by the, adoption of a strong set of resolu- tions protesting against the allowing of Fritz Kretsler, the noted yiolinist, to give a concert in New Haven in lieu with action which was taken against him in Pittsburgh, a short time ago. The action was based on the ground that Kreisler was an ex- officer in the Austrian army.
 The second lecture in the course of the Courtland School Graduates' Association Is to be given on Mon day. at the home of Mrs. Frederick Bassick on Park place. Prof. Blrges Johnson, assistant professor of Eng fish at Vassar College is to be the speaker and he will talk on Books and the Folk That Make Them He is an author of some reputation, and has served in an editorial capacity on the staffs of Harper's and Every body's Magazine, on Outing and Judge. His talk will include per sonal "reminiscences of W. D. Howells. o. Henry and Mark Twain. The hour of the lecture is 3:30 o'clock.
 A class in French is starting this evening at the Y. W. c. A. and will meet on Wednesday evenings through the winter. This class has still room eor those women who are interested in