The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-05
ALL BRIDGEPORT TURNS OUT TO
SEE UNIVERSAL Service PARADE
IN UNIQUE JULY 4 CELEBRATION
Streets Clear of Traffic. Scores of Thousands Witness
Great Military Demonstration AS Two Regiments of
Home Guards Naval Nitiamen, and Industrial
Floats Pass Through City.

degrading influence upon human
character and thought is a dishonor-
able, ignoble and cowardly peace. Had
the men who founded this republic
more than a century ago been willing
to purchase peace in that way and at
that price. there would have been no
free republic. We would still be in a
state of vassalage to a despotic power.
We want peace, not mere cessation OF
physical strife though ignoble sur
render Of principles, not peace that
will make desert of all human hope,
all noble aspiration, all high desire,
not peace that means elf-abasement
and grovelllng subserviency to wrong.
not mere peace of body, but peace
OF heart, peace of mind, peace of soul.
peace that walks hand and hand with
honor and dignity and self-respect
with justice and truth and liberty.
$50 long as any considerable por-
ton of the human race is ready and
willing to resort to war, SO long is 1t
vitality essential for other nations to
be prepared to meet any such emer-
gency as may arise. We cannot ban
ish war from the face of the earth
by denying the evidence of our senses
and refusing to believe that there can
be such a thing as war. We cannot
avoid war merely by not desiring war.
The only way to end war is to go
forth to meet it, to battle with it and
destroy its cause just, as you would
with hyphtheria or scarlet fever or
any other ravaging disease. In Revo-
lutionary days the people of the
American colonies did not desire war,
but war came because they were de-
MED peace consistent with honor, self
respect and liberty. This nation did
not desire civil war, but we had to
meet that visitation, and tens of thou.
sands of lives. both of North and
South, were need1ess1y sacrificed be-
cause of the complacent belief on the
part of the ill-advised in both sections
that the nation was incapable of war.
We did not desire the war with
Spain, yet the truculent savagery of a
handful Of men prompted by a spirit
of desperation brought war upon US
At noontime Battery F fired a sa.-
lutte of 48 guns to the Union and at
2 o'clock gave an exhibition drill un-
der command of Capt. J. Alden
Twachtman. The movements were
executed with snap and dash and
many daring feats of horsemans41ip
were performed for the edif1cation OF
throngs who gathered to see the work.
The holiday crowds enjoyed bath
ing at Seaside park and other
beaches and thronged the restaurants
and amusement places of the city
throughout the day.
The residents of Catherine streer
participated in a flag raising in the
afternoon.
A striking feature of the parade
yesterday. was the newly painted am
bulanceAof the Animal Rescue league
carrying the red flag which now rep
resents the care of animals according
to members of the society.
The Lancraft Drum Corps Of New
Haven, who led the Singer employees
in the parade, is one of the loudes
and the large barrel drums, which
having been organized years. II
attracted great attention. in the pa
rade by it's unique Continental uni
forms, a reminder of Colonial days
and thel argeb ariel drums, which
makes it one of the heaviest sounding
corps in the state