Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-24
MORE FLAG RAISINGS
AT THE EDWARDS MILL
The American Flag, the French Flag
and the Red Cross Flag Are Raised
in Room No. q, with Appropriate Ex-

IN Room NO. q, Win RppToPridSe -
ercises
A most pleasing demonstration was
the triple flag raising which took place
at 1880 o'clock Saturday forenoon IN
Room No. 4 at the Edwards mills. The
employees of the mill raised the AM
erican flag. the French flag and
Red Cross flag in the room and APP
propriate exercises took place. An or
chestra played several selections and
vocal music was rendered by a party
of singers, composed of Amanda To't-
louise, Bernettc Beaudoin, Elizabeth
Beaudoin, Treffie Gilbert, Louis Ar
bour and others.
Louis Arbour made the presentation
speech as follows:
The patriotic ceremony that gath
ers us today. ladies ana gentlemen,
emotions and makes our hearts vibrate
with the most generous enthusiasm.
We are here to pay a solemn homage
to the flags; and what flags. gentle
men. Those that are, all over the
world, symbols of the right. justice and
liberty. the symbol of courage, BRAY
cry and unconauerable heroism, the
symbol of devotion, charity and of the
great human fraternity. All hail to
you, standards of our dear America
of the immortal France and of the
Red Cross.
American Flag-and first. dear COM
patriots, If we are proud of our title
OF Americans, it is because our Iie-
public is powerful and rich, but 1t is
also because it is the land of liberty
and that she was always glad TO pro-
tect, by her grand star flag, the perse-
cuted, the eXiled, the unfortunate that
has come TO her from al points Of
the globe. And today if this glorious
standard to whom defeat was never
known. waves its glorious colors over
the fireline and is already stained by
the blood of its soldiers, it is because
there were the laws of moral and in
ternational justice to aVenge - so
outrageously violated by Il nation
without conscience nor honor because
the menaced civilization had to be
saved. because the little nations agon-
izing under the boot of the "s;ava gc'
had to be restored to their independ-
ence and liberty because ii should be
proclaimed high before the face of the
whole universe that the United States
OF America are and VIII always DO the
champion Of right. justice and honor
French Flag -Gentlomen there is
another standard whose colors We like
to unite with our national nag. 1t is
our French tricOlor because it also
symbolizcs the same sublime ideals.
ON. we can he proud Of this Red
White and Blue standard because il
carries in its folds those names writ
ten in letters of fire and blood: BRAY
cry, heroism. glory. Victorious on
thousand fields of battle, carried in
triumph on every continent, if il
has sometime known defeat. those
temporary rovcrses of fortune have
not furnished its honor.
During long time this t'rench
+ O or has inspired terror 10
the de pots and tyrants who
dreamed OF reducing in slavery
the individuals and the nations.
mere are two names h"nccforth ac-
CURED TO history. two names that will
I'VE immortal through the centuries
ana which already fly from mouth to
mouth as q joyous ban of deliyerance:
La Marine ana Ncrdun, which send into
ShadoW the most brilliant Victories Of
past times. which eclipse the glory Of
'he creates, captains and which are
synonyms. now of courage, Nalor, en-
durance and heroiSm La Marine and
\erdun. which carried on the wings of
time, will ever repeat what the French
people can do when they fight for the
defense Of the invaded soil, when they
hGht for an ideal and for the liberty of
the world
The flag Of the Red Cross. Most no
PIE OF these two standards. Gentlemen,
there is an emblem which deserves to
be put in the middle of them: 1t is the
Red Cross. 1t is also a symbol of char
lty and fraternity. It does not belong
as the other flags. to only one nation.
but 10 all nations of Christian civiliza-
ton 1t does not conduct as the others,
TO battle and glory but it is for n null
titudc of generous souls and of devot-
ed hearts n sign of rallying point
around which they group to fling at
the help of all Distress of all misery,
of all Suffrance caused 10y war. That
army of charity as the army of
combat does not delay before any sac
rifice and in the place of accomplish
ing work of destruction and death.
it supports the wounded. nurses and
brings them back to life; to the dying
it makes less hard their supreme
passage: TO the orphans it keeps the
place of fathers; to the hungry and
discouraged populations, it gives bread
and hope. The cross it carries in the
imma culate folds of its flag is for every
man. as the sacred Gibbet of Calvary.
the sign of pity, of Divine charity and
OF human fraternity
In honoring these flags. ladies and