The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-22
JUNIORS HONOR
members NOW
IN THE SERVICE
UNFuRL SERVICE FLAG AND "a
sTRloTic ADDRESSES BY
n MEMBERS or ORDER. 4

N rTHlOTlC ADDHESoEo
MEMBERS or ORDER.
IKE
70 EQUIP COUNTY CLUB ROOM
wIlIsbe Furnished for Convenience Of
Members Of Order Throughout the
county-DInning, Mcknight, Whit
thsfDe, Turpln, Webster and Others.
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TIE unfurling of the Service Flag.
Thursday night at the meeting Of the
Maurya Council 275 Junior Order Unit
ed Aaiierican Mechanics was one Of
the Most auspicious occasions IN the
history OF the order in this county.
The presentation speech was made
by j. H. Dining, who in no uncer-
tain terms told the hundred Juniors
present what their duties and what
the duty fof every American citizen
wastp the flag, and to those who
would not be called to the colors Of
the 1iation, what their duty was to
those boys who have marched away
from+their homes and loged ones and
gone into foreign lands and barred
theirsbreasts to the enemies bullets.
For several minutes the speaker
held his hearers transfixed, and an
plause after applause greeted his re,
marks, His words kindled fires in
the hearts, and minds of every man
present andtmade him want to do his
bit, whatever that bit is or may be
In the future 5
Bringing his address to fitting
climax, the speaker reached UP and
pulled a ribbon which unfurled the
handsome service flag with twenty
four stars representing the twenty
four brave lads, members Of this 10.
cal council Of Juniors, who have oil
ready enlisted in their country's ser.
vice. srh6se men are:
Douglas Hail. Cakes Ragsdale, =. r
Dance, Obie Stone, O. L. Farris, Paul
Flowers, n. e. PinkIcton w. E. Crit
fin, Clarence Fry william Fry, Hor
ace Frierson. Jr., DR.. .Dake Biddle
Sam Rogers; II. T. Voss, DR.. c. E
Kord, Clarence Watson, Joe Gran
ford. Hugh Smith, DR.. P. Fl. Faucet
William. oakcs, j. r. Witherspoon
Revssh IL Barber, w. B. Foster AM
John r. Fleming.
The next speaker on the program
was VIC. Whitthorne who spoke, q
the subject. Our Duty as an Order K
Our Country in this Time of War
Mr.. Whitthorne was full 81 his sub
ject and spoke feelingly, He spok,
knowingly. He not only spoke 70
those boys who had left their lodg'
and gone to fight the hydra headed
enemy, as a brother would speak Of ;
brother, but he spoke as father VIII
has. sent his. only son into the fray.
In the course of his remarks he stat
ed that right would prevail, it mat
tered not how long it was throttled, a,
1t has been back in the dark ages, 81
may be for hundreds and thousands q
years, but it will prevail, as surely
as there was a good God in heaven
and that as the seed Of civilization
had, been sown in England hundreds
Of years ago, which caused the Anglo
Saxon people to come from under the
rule OF the despotic kings and rulers
justsso sure would the Christian, PEG
pie of this present time conquer and
come from under the despotic rule Of
kaiserism Of the present day and
generation" lsHs''s
In his speech he was bitter in his
arraignment Of the German govern.
ment and its ruler and all nations al
lied With this heathenish monarch.
His talk was along an entirely differ.
ent line frcnh the first speaker and
caused an entirely different thought.
It is FOR tho privileges OF serving our
God In whatever methods we choose,
attending to our business as we see
fit, Just so long as we are law abiding
citizens, is what we are fighting for
now, and not to have one despotic
man say to us that we shall do thus
and so about our religion, we shall
worship him and not the good God in
heaven, we shall do business this way
and not according to our accustomed
methods. These things are what the
American people stand for and for
what their allies are fighting and
losing their own precious blood upon
the battle fields.
Next came L. Y. Turpin with short
talk on For the Good of the Order"
Mr.. Turpin did not speak long. but
what he said was to the point. He
referred to the addresses of the two
gentlemen who had just proceeded him,
and IN a. brief but in a telling way
outlined to the brothers present what
was for the good of the order. and