Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-05-03
HONOR FLAG
PRESENTED TOWNS
Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids Receive
First Honor Flag in North Carolina
From Hands Of Lieut.. Govern
or O. Max Gardner
GREAT CELEBRATION OF EVENT

This community celebrate
most fittingly on last Saturda
afternoon the signal distinctio
it has earned in having won tn
first liberty Loan Honor Flag i
the whole State of North CAROL
ma. 1t is an achievement of whic
the community is justly prou
and its celebration was carrie,
out with that energy and enthus
iasm which won the coveted an,
much priced bit Of bunting tina
flies to-day from the Roanoke
Rapids Central Graded Schoo
Building, in mute testimony O.
patriotic service well and quickly
done.
Lieut.. Governor y. Max Gard
ler, who presented the Honor
Flag on behalf of the Liberty
Loan Department and at the re-
quest of Mr.. Jos. &. Brown, OF
Raleigh, Chairman of the Contra
Liberty Loan Committee, won
from an enthusiastic audience the
full need of attention and round
after round of genuine applause.
Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary
turned out one of the largest
crowds in its history to hear Mr..
Gardner and the spe ach JUS
titled it. Only one building in
the community could hold the
crowd that gathered even in the
face of threatening weather
which rendered an open air ad-
dress inadvisable = the magnifi-
cent new Mill No. 2 Of the Roanoke
Mills Company, not yet equipped
with machinery which was
turned over for this purpose by
Mr.. S. F. Patterson, Manager of
Roanoke Mills, and Chairman of
of the Liberty Loan Committee
of Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids.
Preceding t h e presentation
came a parade of nine hundred
of the city's school children, the
fraternal orders, Boy Scouts and
Camp Fire Girls, headed by the
full Regimental Band of the 3lSth
Infantry, from Camp Lee, Vir-
ginia. Hon. W. l.. Long, in a
few we'll chosen words, introduce
ed Mr.. Gardner and the Lieut..
Governor made himself solid with
this community almost immedl-
ately by his tribute to the energy
and patriotism of its citizens who
put through its one hundred per
cent oversubsciption to the Third
Liberty Loan in record time.
Mr.. Gardner's speech was mas
terly plea for continued endeavor
in the work so well begun. mo
room exists in North Carolina for
the Stacker, the pro-German, the
pacifst, or the |. w. W." in Mr..
Gardner's opinion. He was i'm,
pressed, with the cooperation
between employer and employee,
and with the welfare work car
ried on here as nowhere else in
the South.
my commission to-day" he
said is from the Liberty Loan
Department to present the First
Honor Flag to Roanoke Rapids,
as being the first town in the
State of North Carolina to secure
this honor. Quoting from Mr..
Browns letter, I'm doing this,
please convey to their community
my most cordial greetings and
heartiest congratulations on their
splendid achievement, for it is a
splendid achievement to win first
place in competition with all the
splendid communities of this
great State. 1t would be honor
well worthy of their best efforts
to be frstin any line of endeavor
in North Carolina, but to them
there is a special distinction in
being first in patriotic fervor and
in patriotic activities.
However, nothing less than
this could be expected of the
sons of the fathers who signed
the Halifax resolutions!"
''The United States Treasurer,
John Burke, in his recent speech
in Raleigh, said that 5000 sub
scribed on the first day of the
campaign was equal to $4,000
on the last day. Whether this be