Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-28

autiful Sight w i t h
fractions
the attractions for the money In The
pocket and for attractions which "didn'
cost nothing, only lookn'." The COM
munity singers then game several se-
lections.
Community Chorus
Ethel w. Lee, organizer; Lester NJ.
Hart, leader.
Chorus: Gwendolyn Griffin, Josephine
Whalen Roy Leach, Mr.. MacAlary, El-
mer Parkman, Eddie Conner, Bessie
Wing, Ethel Anne, Dorella Parent. Al
die Weeks. Ida Hawthorne. Berhice
Leighton, Hazel Beane, Alice Murphf,
Annie Cover, Lillian Massey, A NJ. q.
Soule Mr.. Phillips, Marie Mulvahlth
Lester Hart, Alice Weston, Dorothy
Farnham, Walter Fraser, Mr.. Ei2n,
Alexis Cyr, MT. Hayford. Bess Noble,
Kendall Davis, Marion Stone, Eleanor
Haskell. Josephine Gaifney. Ida i,un-
ton, Gertrude Walch, Ethel Libby, VIM
nifred Scott, Leo Pepin. Harry Shorey,
Mary Gray. Ida Goldsten, Cora Jones,
G. F. H. Bragdon, Irwin Barbour, Miss
Mofse Miss kilgore, Mrs. Wheeler,
Chester Kingsley. Ethel W. Lee.
Selections by the male quartet from
Fort Mckinley were next enjoyel
Bugler Downes of the Naval Reserves
gave bugIe calls. both from the army
and the navy. They were called "A
Day Aboard Ship and "A Day IN
Camp" for they demonstrated all tie
calls used in the life of the sailor and
the soldier in that line of work.
Miss Marion Jones of Augusta, dadsh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. Jones, was
the busler in connection with the com
munityyF singing and she was complt-
mented on her fine rendering OF the
difficult music. Then state Librarian
Henry E. Dunnack spoke,
Henry E. Dunnack
The four minute address of State
Librarian Henry f. Dunnack was of
necessity brief and was of genus in
spring The Answer OF Maine" the
subject which Mr.. Dunnack chose,
was timely. BY calling it timely is
placing it, an incentive for renewed
vigor and true Americanism. in its
own class. He spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Fellow workers, this is a gathering
Of plain people, every day people,
working people. This is q splendid
display of patriotism that will add
half thousand dollars to the Red
Cross war fund and will tell them
OF our interest in their noble work
This patriotic festival le only one of
thousands that are being held in this
country. 1t indicates that the people
have resolved to place themselves on
the battlefield, on the ships, in the
mines, the fields or the factories. AS
the human agency for freedom: that
they intend to work AMI give all that
they have so that the United States
can be victorious. They understand
that if they don't they will have moth
ing when the Kaiser finishes extract
ing his indemnties.
Lincoln said that the United States
could never exist half slave and half
tree. The Kaiser had the same -senti-
meuts, believing that tn, world would
never be right with half n democracy
ana the other half an autocracy The
Kaiser was right in this belief. and
when he threw down the gauntlet
we took it up. We will not Law it
down until his belief is proven by
the sma shing of autocracy.
Our fathers and sons and brothers
and those who are dearer TO some of
Eon than even these, because YOU
keep the holy pledge of love till the
war shall give you back your lovers
or a holy memory-these are all in
France. They are the first line of de-
tense. That line may suffer and
sorrow and die. but it will never
break~or surrender. We. who stay at
home are the second line. This line
may suffer and sorrow beyond all
thought or words. but this line holds;
it will go on holding; it will never
break.
The American patriot has one su-
preme duty today and that is to SUP
port the government with every
ounce OF power which ne has. We are
now actually in the war. war which
l beileNe 10 be as righteous as any
war in which the country ever on
gagged. 1t is war for the preserya-
ton or the democratic principle of
government. a war to defeat the
most hidcous military autocracv
which the world has ever known an
which aims to subiugate
and dominate the world.
If only we can catch the shirt of
our soldiers we shall be saved and
the world saved. Look over at what
was once the fair fields OF France
and which is now A desert place
where death stalks. And there
in the trenches and in the line
of battle are the BOYS whom
you knew, hut they are no longer
the boys as YOU knew them.
These boys who were so carefree.
who were so fully pleased with life
as it was. whose hearts and souls
had not been touched with the fire of
a great cause, those boys have been
transformed by an invisible power
into invincible giants fighting in
great cause. And what has trans
formed those carefree boys into these
wonderful fighters for humanity
Look at their faces. Do you see any
cause or any signs Of terror or fearo
No. These boys now know that
they are face to face with peril and
perhaps death, but the love of God