Evening journal., 1917-04-18
employees
BREAK OUT COL0RS
Mayor Price and Everett c.
Jones Speakers at Noon
day Ceremonies
OTHER FLAGS TO BE
UNFURLED ON SHOPS

Mayor Price made the principal adj
dress at the plant OF the Pullman
Company, at noon today, when a
large national flag was raised over
the shops. Everett c. Jones. an up
holsterer at the plant. presided, and
introduced Mayor Price. G. w. Phag-
or, OF Chicago. the general shop SUI
pervisor OF the Pullman Company.
was an interested spectator, as was
General Manager John NJ Cannon,
OF the Wilmington plant. Practically
every employee of the company was
present. Music was furnished by the
fife and drum corps composed OF en-
ployes.
The exercises began with a parade
OF the employees, some 500 or more.
around the plant to the building on
which a high hagstaff had been erect
ed Then the men crowded every
available point OF vantage. and
heartily cheered Mayor Price upon
his introduction.
The mayor voiced his pleasure at
being invited TO participate in the
ceremonies, and told the men that
their action in providing and raising
the flag was most commendable.
The very act OF itself" said the
mayor. Shows to the President and
to the government the loyalty os the
men employed here. and. like them.
that of the rest Of the 100000 or so
residents of Wilmington. Wilmington
is proud of you. jealous OF your 10y
atty to your employers, your city and
your country, and. before long, you
will have occasion to be equally proud
OF your city and its service to the
nation in this time OF peril. When
the head OF any government, be Il ma
tional, state or municipal, is shown
so strongly that the constituents OF
/ that government are so Loyalty and
| sQuarely behind them as this act OF
yours shows you men are. IL gives
them strength and encouragement ia
give you much better service than
otherwise could be expected or given
In these times OF war Il Is squarely
up to every man to be absolutely loyal
to his post and to his country.
while many people are inclined ia
think that the only soldier giving
real service to the country is the
soldier who is fighting i'm the
trenches, you have the word OF your
President. through his recent procla'
nation that the man who works loyal
" and we'll in work of this character
and makes It possible for railroads e
procure and maintain the equipmen
necessary TO the transportation o
men, munitions and supplies, is ever
whit as valuable a soldier 10 the ma
ton as the man in the trenches. Thi
maintenance of transportation equiv
-lent is Just as valuable service Q
: fighting battles.
"There is much credit due TO thos
who conceived the idea Of raisln
this flag. and !. as Mayor OF you
city. and as a private individual, an
very proud OF the bunch Of men VIII
could conceive and execute such
plan.f
Here the Mayor read SOME extract
from the recent proclamation Of tn
President. and concluded by CALM
upon his hearers, when the color
we're hoisted TO the top Of the stan
to take off their hats. in salute. AM
give three rousing cheers for the ma
ton and the colors. And they did II
with a will that could be heard 70
blocks. e.,
Mr.. Jones followed the mayor with
brief. but strongly patriotic address d.
liyered with a spirit which showed this
il was meant. and ended by rcciting Il
poem "Thc Flag That Betsy Made" i
was heartily cheered.
"Unless We forget the flag that high
cuI
Mr. Jones, always will It be the en-
bodiment OF the power for good that
represents today. The Spartan mother
81 after Thermopylae. long kept the grave
: of their heroic dead green, and long d
, they teach their children. boys an
p Girls the lessons learned from their tn
e. ditions. because their trad tions to-
r them that so long as they did this an
, kept their children physically and mel
4 tailv clean. Just so long would Sparl
5 he free And lust as soon as they 10
cot these things, Just as surely did the
e race decline and fall. And that apple
e with equal force to MS.
III we keep green the principle
7. enunciated by our mayor, we shall ke'
5 strong n nation. for right, that shall M
nerish from the earth. Keep the sta
and the stripes clean and strong an
right. and so long as we do that, the
the government can give MS the Ne'
: best service that governments were or
ated to give to the human race
I Yesterday the men OF the shoT
! raised a flag over the blacksmit
/ shops with much ceremony and tc
|. morrow there will be a similar cer'
, mony when another large standard
raised over the erecting shops. o
I, this occasion the Pullman Chorus an
! 1.-THE Pullman Fife and Drum Corr
will furnish the music.