Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-04-13
Superintendent Stearfes Ada
dress at q Flag Raising at
New Market April a.

Superintendent Stearns opened hi
remarks by referring to the call o
the hour and the tremendous impor
of the step which our country wal
about to take. He spoke OF his early
morning ride up the Shenandoah Val
ley ~ trip through Garden OF
the Gods", particularly at this season
of the year. He said as he stood,
amid such surroundings, on the his
toric field OF New Market and thought
of Virginia AZ leading the nation in
this crisis not only In the Executive
Office OF the national government, but
also in the Senate and the House OF
Representatives, his heart was filed
with patriotic emotion.
1--WE have met" continued Mr..
Stearnes, ito unfurl the banner of
our country to the breezes OF battle.
field consecrated by the death of
young heroes, students Of the Vir-
GINA Military Institute, and as its
starry sky of blue and its ripping
folds of white and red wave above
the heads of the New Market boys and
girls, want to ask what these boys
and girls can do for their country in
the crisis to which l have referred.
The speakers answer to this ques-
ton emphasized two ways in which
Virginia boyhood and eirlhood
could be immediately modified for
service, the one along practical and
the other along patriotic lines.
"Soldi ers and Sailors" continued
the speaker, Unjust be fed and cloth
ed. Millions of men have been trans
ferred from the arts Of peace to the
trenches of war. The greatest de-
mands and the smaller number OF
producers are manifest in the increas.
ed and increasing cost of living. In
preparedness is just as i'm.
portant as military preparedness;
and every boy and girl should have
his or her 'garden plot'' to raise
food to feed those who are giving
their lives for our liberty and per-
sonal safety. have urged our chill
dren to take an interest in home
project work for several years, bat
the call was never insistant as now"
the State Superintendent
7ave his unqualified endorsement to
The school fair and school garden |
work projected by Superintendent
and the County School
Board, and he urged every child |
above the lowest primary grades to
On the score OF patriotism the
could foresee. re-
Nuisance of the American spirit as
t famed in '76. "This is a reunited
now militant against a com
non foe. "Old Glory" is our fag
and we are to love it as the symbol
If our national honor and greatness.
This our own, our native land -.
1.-THE spirit OF nation" said Mr..
Stearnes, depends so much on the
schools that. the seeds Of instruction
which are planting daily in the re-
,eptive soil of youth are sure to bring
'orth fruit either unto honor or dis
,onor. A moral cataclysm has struck
his planet, and whether freedom and
democracy or tyranny and oppression
hall come out of the melting pot OF
worlds war depends in no small
Measure upon the ideals and patri-
,tic vision of our schools"
Dear Editor:-Fhe above is part
If an address by State Supt. K. c.
stearnes at flag raising in New
Market recently. AS you know We
ire urging the children Of the County
o take part in the agricultural work
If the County School Fair which is
o be held in October not only for the
benefit they may derive but because
he times demand that every inch of
round be utilized and made to pro-
luce foodstuffs OF some kind. UP to
his time probably 1900 children have
q desire to enter some OF
he departments of the school fair.
But we do want to see many more do
10. This is a new movement in this
County and naturally needs all the
it can get. You from
he very nature of your position as
IN editor Gao help us greatly in this
Our committee will APP
preciate anything you can do to help
as. The above address or part OF
Il is an endorsement Of this move.
nent aud coming from the head OF
The school system it is bound to have
great influence with both parents and
children.
Very respectfully yours,
C. v. SHOEMAKER.