The Parker post., 1917-05-19
OLD GLORY IS
DULYUNFURLED
THE FLAG PRESENTED BY THE
WOMAN'S CLUB IS RAISED TO
THE MAST HEAD AMID MUCH
PATRIOTIC ARDOR.

Wcman's club OF Parker to the peo-
rle CT the town, was unfurled to the
breeze with Appropriate ceremony
last Saturday evening, and has since
been floating from the mast head as
a pledge of the loyalty and support
of the people of Parker to The federal
government in its stand for human
rights and the fundamental principles
of civilization, the cause Of freedom
and democracy throughout the
world, the safety OF our citizens and
the honor of the nation.
At o'clock the exercises negan.
A large crowd representing nearly
every person in town. had gathered
on the spot, the Indian band was
present and diScoursed patriotic
music, and the pupils of the Indian
school, under the chaperonage Of
their teachers, were also present.
Judge W. w. Dunbar, as president
of the occasion, opened the program
with few pertinent remarks and
was followed by the singing of
America" by the audience
Then came the christening act by
little Cherryl Dunbar I'm the
name of the people of Parker"
cutely chirped the little tot as she
broke a bottle of Hassayampa water
on the pole, Il christen thee The
Liberty Pole of Parker May you
ever bear aloft the stars and stripes,
emblem of liberty, equal rights, peace
and good will to all the people of the
EARTH
Much applause followed the little
lady's words and action.
Mrs. A. F. Duclos, on behalf OF the
Woman's Club of Parker, then pre-
sented the flag to the presiding Off
GER, speaking as follows:
Citizens of Parker and members
of the Home Guard: My appearance
here this evening, is | believe, the
first case of conscription Of the war
This afternoon about four O'Clock, a
formidable looking man appeared at
my home in a great battleship gray
car, and drafted me to perform this
service for my club and my country
The reason for this gathering is that
we may place this flag preeminent
above all, the glory of our COM
munity.
1t is fitting that we of the Woman
Club should render this service. This
flag was designed and created in it's
beauty and perfection by a woman,
the famous Betsy Ross. To para
phrase Lincoln, we are now entered
on the greatest war of all time, we
believe, for the purpose of determin-
ing whether or not the principle
That all men are created free and
equal is to become a universal truth
of the world. Woman in this con-
f1ict bears no minor part The SER
vice she renders is no small service.
Man may build the ships that ride
the air, the navies that sail the seas,
and all the awful instruments for de-
structiOn of life, but it is left for
woman out of the travail of her body
and soul to furnish the withal part
OF this great struggle! food for the
cannon at the front or the "man that
is behind the gun" Well has JOa-
quin Miller said:
The bravest battle that ever was
fought,
Shall I tell you where or when?
On the map of the world you will find
it not,
1t was fought by the mothers of
men,
The sacriticial courage and forti-
tude is hers to lay on the altar of
her country what is vastly more
than her life, her best loved sons.
ut would seem to the 'Watchman
on the Wall that the entrance of
America into this gigantic struggle
has changed the entire character of
the war. So long as it was a battle
of crowns with soldiers for pawns
and puppets, it all seemed so useless.
But America will carry new
thought to the old world, new
leaven is infused into the old lump,
the new wine Of our Liberty be pour
ed into the old bottles of European
government. Something must give
way if Scripture says true, but I
believe that, God with us, it will be
the old bottles of their absolutism,