The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-03

cit is going TO be mostly up to young
men Of the country to shoulder the
guns, it is true that it may become
necessary for the older ones, but my
advice to the young man would be, if
/ were you, / would not wait until was
called to should the gun, | would
go out before that time and shoulder the
gun, or al least offer my assistance 10
the greatest nation in the world
This was the call of Charles w. Nash
president of the Nash Motors Company
to the young men of today at great
patriotic demonstration held on Friday
afternoon in connection with the rails
ing of wonderful silk flag over the
new buildings of the Nash company on
Grand avenue. Mr.. Nash spoke to
more than FIVE thousand people who
Icheered his patriotic address to the
limit and the demonstration was
one of the most notable patriotic
gatherings ever held in Kenosha.
If was memory of the days when
war ran red in the nation and when the
flag and all that went with it stirred
people tic heights of patriotism. Old
Glory was enthroned everywhere on the
west side when the big automobile
plant closed down to give it's employees
a chance to show their patriotism
Citizens caught the spirit of @he cere-
monial and dropped into line with the
employees of the big company and kept
step to the music Of the patriotic airs
and cheered sentiments which proclaim
ed love of country and the defense of
national prestige and national honor
1t was no maudlin celebration, but
great outpouring of people who
were loyal to the core and wanted
to know it,
The Jefery plant may have twenty
one nationalities represented in its
corps of workers, but when the fac
tory whistle sounded the call to patrio-
tic action just before FIVE O'Clock on
Friday afternoon these nationalities
melted into just plain Americanism
Every man and woman too left their
place in the great factory and in few
minutes there was a great parade of
men and women all under the red and
white anC blue of their countrv's flag
1T looked like an army with every com
pany bearing aloft its colors. The
parade formed in tho big yards of the
company and when it was in marching
order it was a riot of patriotic colors
Departments We'd with each other in
making the best patriotic display and
in the line of march there were more
than thirty great flags while nearly
every one of the men and wonderland
there were three thousand of them
waved aloft some replica of Old Glory
The girls who made up detachment
all their own, wore red, white and blue
hats. Forty of them lined in military
order, carried with pride great flag.
At the head of the parade was band
and a platoon of police and real mill
tary color was given to the parade by
a detachment of the marine corps OF
the United States navy. The memories
of the past were not forgotten and in
place of honor, right at the head OF
the procession, proudly marched thirty
members of the Grand Army of the
Republic under the leadership of form
er Mayor G. F. Stemm, commander OF
the Fred S. Lowell Post. Then came
the young women, hundred and fifty
strong, and then came the army OF
men from the Office and the plant and
Charles W. Nash, the president of tbs
company, in the first rank of the
iworkmen, bearing the same kind of 8
flag az the rest of them carried.
1t was as fine body of men as ever
marched under and behind the fac anC
the enthusiasm which the men showed
IN the organization of the demonstra
tion was an assurance that these same
men were ready to defend the flag il
Che nation called for their services.
AS the parade left the factory
grounds for the short line of march Il
the Grand avenue building, thousand,
Of people lined the streets and the