The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-20
VETERANS SHOW
Up YOUNGSTERS
Grand Army Men Acting AS
Hosts Surpass Their Youth
full Guests in Art
and Cleverness.
AN ALL PATRIOTS BILL
Commander Boyington Shows the Way
Many Follow Suit Mrs. Lane Sug-
gests First Floor Rest Room
for Veterans.
AN ALL-PATRIOTs BILL

If any "young fellero in Kenosha
thinks he's budding Daniel Web
ster let him look up Comrade Theodore
Boyington in the Public Service Build
| ing and learn the fine points of the
speaking game from him. Or if he
knows he can tell a story cleverly let
him talk to Comrade Fred Stemm for
fifteen minutes and be persuaded that
he's piker who doesn t know even
the first principles of turning joke
Wittily and well. And if, after that,
he consoles himself with the thought
that he "can play the piano anyway,
let him listen to Raymond Flasch
through one selection and spend the
lrest of the day begging him to reveal
the secret of left-hand variations.
And then, when he's persuaded that
someone ought to "hire a hall' where
these artistes can gather to amuse them
selves and their friends, let him con-
suit Mrs. Frank Lane at the Robinson
Bookstore and have her explain her
plan for restroom arranged on "a
first foor' for the peerless men of
81, who are tired someway of
climbing stairs and swapping
stories on the corner'.
This is neither an editorial nor a
directory of Kenosha's wartime cele-
brities. It's news story. Comrades
Stemm and Boyington, Raymond Flasch,
and Mrs. Frank Lane were only few
of the "whizz- changers" appearing at
the g. A. R. party given in Castle Hall
on Monday evening. The others in
cluded Mrs. Frank Truax, DR.. Helen
Harbert, Miss Dorothy Larsen, Miss
Helen Smith of Racine, Mrs Ohmsted,
president Of the Woman s Relief Corps,
Professor o. L. Trenary, the Rev. I. W.
Corey, and J. B. Roders. IF there were
any more they were lost in the shuttle
preceding the luncheon of ssarmy
means, sandwiches, salad, and coffee
by the bowl, if one wanted it that
way.
Friends, said Commander Boying-
ton in his modest "Word of Welcome,
the Fred s. Lowell Post greets you
most cordially. The Comrades are your
hosts tonight With all the enthusiasm
of youth they bid you enjoy yourself with
"reminiscences of the days that were
when the grand wild music of war sent
men to do or to die for the Eternal
Right.
eve are young tonight, he went
on, E'but other nights, when you are not
here, when we meet alone in the seclus-
ion Of the Army Hall, we admit to
each other in whispers, that we have
gone over the top, that we are sliding,
sliding down at the rate of thirty
/ thousand year, and that out of the
two million seven hundred comrades
who marched away to save the Union
only two hundred and eighty three
thousand nine hundred and eighty four
still remain to see another triumph
of the same Cause. And yet, few as
we are, we are glad that we lived to
see our sons and successors plant the
old flag on foreign soil in the greatest
war the world has ever known -
Not SO bad for so young man -
I esg And that wasn't all. Thereafter
Commander Boyington introduced the
various artistes on the All-Patriots Bill
with cleverness and wit that suggest
ed anyway tBob' Ingersoll or maybe
the plumed knight, James G. Blaine.
This is an omnibus paragraph. It
has to be to leave any space in the pa
per for news about the German Assem-
| bly, and the League of Nations. Pro
fessor Trenary gave brilliant address
in eulogy of Washington, Lincoln,
Roosevelt, and Wilson Miss Helen
Smith of Racine showed rare elecu-
tionary power in her readings ssOn Wo-
man. s Rights and 1.-THE Mourning
Veil. = Miss Dorothy Larsen took
s. the kid to the colors, with unusual
artistry and power. Mrs Frank Truax
her voice is neither soprano nor con-
tralto; it's marvellous 80 made herself
the ultra-artist Of the evening with
her spirited renditions of .Our God,
Our Country, and Our Flag and "The
Americans Come The Rev. I. w.
Corey and DR.. Helen Harbert made
the kind Of talks they always make -
sincere, forceful, and electrifying. j.
B. Roders gave charming interpreta-
ton of "The Songs Ny Mother Used
to Sing and Mrs. Ohmsted acquitted
herself cleverly in behalf of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps. In conclusion i