Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-26

A patriotic, enthusiastic crowd which filled the Elks' theatre to ca pacity, was present last evening to en- joy the program which had been pre- pared as part Of the city's farewell to the departing soldier lads. During the time that the house was filling, the orchestra rendered a number of appropriate selections and patriotic airs, which put the good-natured crowd in mood to enjoy the varied numbers which followed.
 The central portion of the orches- tra section had been reserved for the guests of honor, and at the beginning of the exercises, not seat remained unoccupied in the entire house. Uni formed Boy Scouts served as ushers under the direction of Scoutmaster LindhorSt
 LeRoy Anderson acted as chairman, having been requested to do so by the chamber Of commerce, under which auspices the program was held. As the first speaker Of the evening, Mir. Anderson introduced Attorney P. w. OSullivan. The speaker took occa- sion to say that this was not the first occasion within the memory of most of the citizens that Yavapai county had been called on to furnish a band of picked men to go forth and battle in the name of Liberty, and said that one had but to mention the names of O'Neill and Brodie to recall the mem orics of other days when the city had turned out en masse to wish God speed to the boys who were of for the trenches.
 These boys whom we have with us tonight will perform deeds of equal valor under the sunny skies of France, and will emulate the example set them by "Bucky' and his band of fearless ones who left us in 'o8. Yavapai county furnished some of the bravest men who went to Cuba, and today we can again furnish some men equally as good. We are not in this war of our own volition, but because Ger many by long chain of circumstan- ces has forced the war upon us. We are not at war with the people of Ger many, but with the system which un. derlies Prussianism, and with kaiser ism and bureaucracy, and with the pirates who have made the high seas unsafe for the ships of this nation. Our sword shall never be sheathed until all of these relics of feudalism shall have been eliminated from the politics of the world We want no booty nor spells of territory or of gold, but we do seek the dethrone- ment of tyranny, and we demand that the world be made safe for democ- racy regardless of what land the prin- clples of free government may be car ried into. The presence of the Stars and Stripes floating in the breezcs along with the tri-color of France and the Union Jack of England will pro- claim to the German tyrants that no more will they be permitted to com- init their crimes of plundcr, murder, rape and arson with free hand"
 He Offers Everything.
 Chairman Anderson fclicitatcd the young men who were to go to France because of the fact that they would have an active part in the overthrow of kaiserisnl. and said the whole world owes them debt of gratitude He also told the boys that Inc regret ted the fact that the government had seen fit to order old-timcrs like him self to remain at home. According to the speaker, he would have given up everything, even unto his false teeth and glass eye, for an opportunity to