New Britain herald., 1918-09-03

is a conservative figure With the Polish contingent fighting today in France are 15,000 more, led by officers of their own blood. under the flags of the Allies and under that proud flag of Poland Already we have heard from Paris that before the onslaught of these Polish fighters, one of the prOudest regiments of Prussia has gone down, ito defeat, almost to annihilation.
 And here I may say that our own War Department is placing at the disposal of the Polish in our ranks, every opportunity for advancement so that officers of high rank will soon be numbered among our Polish troops. Already three officers of Polish blood are assigned to the of flee of the Adjutant General in Washington to assist in keeping records of the patriotism of the Poles in this war; and in addition to the commanders in the field ten others spend their time going from camp to camp studying methods by which the spirit of sacrifice, the innate ability and the fine moral courage of the Polish soldiers can be utilized to the best advantage. And this is but the beginning.
 Recently, after visiting the navy yards and camps of New England where men of today are devoting their strength to defeating the greatest i menace that has ever threatened our national life, it was my fortune to visit the battlefelds of Concord and Lexington. I saw the ground that is hallowed by the first blood of the l Revolution. I saw where Captain Parker gave his great order: Stand your ground. Don't fire until fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here" I saw where stood the rude bridge that arched the flood" where "once the embattled ! farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world" And as l think to- night, of the spirit that animates your 1 sons who have gone out from you to ] war, it seems to me that in it's very
 essence it partakes of the very spirit 1 of the patriots of '76.
 l "Friends, we are here to dedicate 8 1 service flag. Each star means a loved 1 ono is given up that freedom may be l secured. Service is the watchword of 1 the time. Without it the great truths ! enumerted by our leader are empty ! words Without service, the plans Of l our commanding generals are vain ! dreams. With it, everything is pos ! sible. Every day, as it flies from this 1 building, it will remind the city, busy l at it's work, of it's cherished sons on 1 the battlefelds. May the breezes that i kiss it find their way also to the fields of honor and whisper in the ears of ! the troops for whom it waves a mes
 of ch I,storms that are bound to come test
 it's strength to find it will always wave.
 This gathering evidences the truth
 of the statement that if your men are
 fighting you yourselves are doing your ] part. You are keeping the home fires burning. You are keeping the faith i I had occasion this week to call T the Treasury Department in Washington i There I learned, and was not surprised ! to learn it, that of the foreign born residents of the United States who 1 subscribed to the Third Liberty Loan the Polish People stood third, with
 bonds valued at $37,5S3,7O0 subscrib-
 ed with estimated unreported sub
 scriptions enough to bring the total value to S6S,00O,0 ,000. Of this total i Poles in Connecticut and MassaCnu-
 setts in which the Federal Reserve
 Bank is located, subscribed 2,397,-
 900; with estimated unreported sub
 scrjptions enough to bring the total
 to $4, ,360, ,000. In addition the Polish
 people have been liberal subscribers
 to the Red Cross funds, to the Knights
 of CoIu1n bus and I M. c. 4. drives, and to other worthy war works, This
 record my friends, is all envta.ple one,
 ''The stories come from everywhere.
 We learn that at a recent drill of the tFalcons at Toledo, Ohio, the organiza-
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