Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-06-08
ALL PULLMAN DOES HONOR TO
UNCLE SANS COMING SOLDIERS
Greatest Patriotic Demonstration in Towns
History Marks Registration Day---Park
Capacity Taxed During Exercises

The greatest patriotic demonstra-
! ton in the towns history marked
| Pullman's observance of the national
registration day last Tuesday, when
fully $500 people did just honor to
the several hundred Pullman young
men who wore the red, white and
blue badge signifying that they had
| placed thier names on the roll of
honor and stand ready to take up
arms in defense of American democ-
racy and against German autOcracy.
| Everything connected with the cele-
bration was we'll organized, the day
was a perfect one and the big crowd
! which thronged the streets during
the parade and crowded the city park
! during the program seemed thor
oughly imbued with the spirit of the
| occasion, all combining to make the
| day a memorable one.
The parade formed on South
| Grand street soon after one O'Clock.
Headed by the combined college and
city bands, and marshaled by J. f.
Boiler, marshal of the day, the big
caravan of patriotism and enthusi-
assn wendell its way through the
| principal business streets and to the
| city park. where the program was
! given. Occupying a place of honor
| in the parade We're the veterans CT
the civil war, followed by two
companies of state college cadets.
The ladies of the w. r. C. occupied
beautiful float, and behind them
came the representatives of Pull
mans fraternal organizations and
the rifle club.
One of the big features of the
parade was the floats of the L. O.
@. NJ, order, one of them being an
| improvised 16-foot cannon, manned
| by members of the order in military
and naval uniforms. Another of
| the Moose floats was loaded with the
children of the members and repre-
! scented "AICoseheart, the we'll estab-
! lished home for Moose orphans. 1t
| bore the legend, when our daddies
| go to the trenches Mooseheart will
take care of u.s." Another float rep
resented the Moose auxiliary, Wo-
men of Mooseheart Legion. The
! officers of the l.. O. o. NJ. lodge ap-
peared in the parade in their official
robes. while the mem bers of the
degree team wore the regulation
degree team uniforms and the
members were CARRIED in neat suits
of white.
Members of the X. of p. lodge
marched in a body, bearing the Stars
and Stripes and carrying banner
calling attention to the facts that of
| 100 members, 70 would register,
that the lodge had subscribed to the
! liberty loan to the amount of 5000,
and that three members of the lodge
are already in training at San Fran
cisco Pullman camp of the w. o.
w. was also represented.
Stirring addresses, teeming with
patriotism and the true spirit of the
times. marked the program at the
city park. Judge Thomas Neill, the
first speaker. opened his remarks
with a strong appeal for a greater
display of patriotism on the part of
the American citizens, calling atten-
| ton to the fact that the eyes OF
! Germany are now focused on the
response of the American people to
the call of the nation and that a
| trem endous moral effect for the good
loyalty and patriotism by the masses
of the people and concrete evidence
of unity of purpose among all the
citizens of the United States. Judge
Neill closed by calling the attention
of the people, in a forceful way, to
! the urgent necessity of subscribing
| TO the Liberty loan, arguing lhat II
is not only the privilege, but the
duty of every true American citizen
to assist the government in a financ-
ial way by investing in the Liberty
bonds even at the cost of personal
sacrifices.
Tom Parry spoke from the stand
point of the registered man. and was
duly qualified for the subject mas
much as he wore the insignia Of
honor himself He dwelt upon what
the day means to the man who is of
conscriptable age and asserted that
the young men who are called to the