The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-07
MS 9oULA PAYS
SOLDIERS : HONOR
Dedicate Service Flag With
Impressive Ceremony
on Street.
PARSONS Is SPEAKER
Attorney Delivers Address
on Unfurling of Big
Banner.
(contlnued From Page Four

years or palsied with age have en-
twined their souls into its soul by
Seams stronger than hoops Of steel.
Every stitch is seWed with love and
sanctified by prayer. Every point OF
every star may prick the core Of vi
brant hearts. but every pang is born
of hope and iewelled with a smile.
And every star to sweethearts hope
and mothers love is sacred as the cru
cifix on Calvary.
THE wife who girds her husbands
sword,
Mid little ones who weep and Won
der.
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asun :
der.
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rat
tie,
Hath shed as sacred blood as Ger
Was poured upon the field OF bat
tie!
The mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she
presses,
Then breathes few brave words and
brief,
kissing the patriot brow she
blesses,
With no one but her secret God
TO Know the pain that weighs upon
her.
Sheds holy blood as eer the sod
Received on Freedoms field of
hover"
Neither time nor inclination permits
me 10 recount the imperlshable glories
or her achievements in war, much less
IN peace. But in every time of peril
and disaster, on every field where hui
mainly, struggled for humanity. she
has stood like oak and rock, without
Tear ana without shame. suffering and
dying In the cause of human liberty
History's Great Womsn.
There was Joan of Arc who followed
God and led the army: the maid of
Saragossa. who loaded guns ana fired
the cannon; Florence Nightengale. in
the Critnea, who defied all govern
ments, cut the Gordian knot of red
tape and gave food and succor to the
armys Deborah, who ruled Israel ant
DESTROYED the Cananites: Marie Their
essa, who all but sanquished Frederick
the Great; Queen Elizabeth, the dean
or hypocrisy and diplomats in peace
ana IN war; Julia Warde Howe, VIII,
wrote the Battle Hymn of the Repub.
lie; and Harriet Beecher Stowe. who
made her pen the heaven appealing
tongue of an outraged race" and
aroused the north to IL sense of union
ana the danger and horrors of slavery
in peace and in war. at the cradl,
ana the grave in politics and religion
In honesty, morality and sobriety
woman has been the guardian anec
OF the world, and her courage anc
uniqlaty are equllled only by her for,
titude and divinity.
Here is a flag that we may cherish
ana be proud of. 1t is held in angus,
reverence by one hundred million o
the sons and daughters of men. I
IS newborn and unseasoned in tn.
carnage of the battlefield, vet it ton,
4 story of dcsolated countries. crusho,
HDeft'es and violated rights. /
springs, In part, from the tears ant
fears and imprecations of the down
tfodden and oppressed, the cries ant
anguish OF the conquered and til,
starved. Pillage, rapiac and barbar
ifs gave 1t life and infused into its sou
the courage To lift alon it's proud
nntaltering head in protest aeitius
the degenerate brutality Of thu say
age and lilore degenerate Hun, Thi
emblem means something; stands 70
something: is something, II ,arri,,
q divine message of hope and deli,
eranee 10 those myriads abro;,I u.b,
are suffering all the c1l1.l,ios .,,,1 81