The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-27
.SERV ICE FLAG
With 823 STARS
PRESENTED CITY
AT BIG MEETING
Beautiful Memorial To the
Men In the Service
Dedicated Sunday
GREAT CROWD AT
RED CROSS RALLY
Hundreds Turned Away
From Auditorium When
Canadians Speak

A seFviee flag carrying s23 stars,
seven Of them in gold, eenmeuora-
tive of s23 Fargo men who have an
swered the nations call for service,
was dedicated Sunday evening at +hs
Fargo audiboriums as an unannouno-
ed feature of the gigantic Red Crosse
rally that attracted an audience of
at least $500 people. with several
hundred turned away after the
building waa filed to5canaeF4y.
The service Has, . beautiful pIeca
Of work. &Eis gift Of two Fargo men.
who have preferred not TO let their
names be made public, was given by
them into the keeping Of the Fargo
War Organization. 70 be given into
the keeping of the City OF Fargo, by
that organization at the eoneIusion
Of the war.
Suspended from point far above
the stage OF the auditorium, where it
was conceded fro mthe audience by
the manner in which It. was hung,
the flag was slowly lowered at the
conclusion OF the singing of ''The
Star Spangled Banner as the pro-
gram opened.
The great audience quickly sensed
this unexpected development and its
purport. and while the people arose
to their feet, the flag was unfurIed
to its full length. ...>
The flag has a border of red, while
the field of white is banked with
stars. AT the center, beautifully
worked in, are the seven gold stars,
commemorative seven Fargo SOL
diers who have already given UP
their lives in the service.
At=the, top is the great French slo-,
gan, They Shall Not Pass" while
at the lower part of the white field,
there is the figure, ''S23," F'argo's
nations military forces.
Officers Well Received.
Two Canadian officers, returned
from France, addressed the meeting
at the conclusion Of the service flag
ceremony. Sergeant Boyle, possess
ed of remarkable stage ability,
brought to the audience q realization
OF the terrible conditions in France.
for conquest
Lieut.. Bryant. ons Of a firm of
seven Moose Jaw. Eask., attorneys
who went into the service at the
outbreak Of the war, brought q pic
t1re of the conditions under which
the soldiers serve, and both speak
eEs were intensely interesting and
were well received.
Young Praissa State.
Judge N. G. Young, director OF the
North Dakota Red Cross, who pre-
sided over the meeting, was rnstint-
ing In his praise of the patriotism
OF North Dakota people, who not
only had accepted the states volun-
passed that sum till the war fund
from North Dakota viii be over a
half million dollars.
Presentation OF Flag
Rev R. A. Beard, of the First
Congregational church Of Fargo,
presented to the Fargo War Organi
zation the service flag. ". r. Lowell,
president Of the organization, ac-
cepting it.
Two high minded patriots have
had it laid upon their hearts TO pro-
vide a service dag to be known as
The City OF Fargo Service Flag, =
said Rev. Mr.. Beard. The stars on
that flag tell as that 323 Fargo
young men, in the very flower Of
their robust manhood have gone in
to this awful world war to fight
your battle and mine. The gold
stars tell us that seven Of these
young men have already made the
supreme sacrifice. and have gone
over the top.
"a Home or He'll"
What Is this war into which they
have gone for you and for me? 1t
is a war which ig to determine
this world, in which God
has placed man to work out his des-