The sun., 1919-05-16
BENEFIT NETS BIG SUM
Secretary Baker Receives Flag
Which Recalls Glories,
Past and Present.

| Iherry, the Nesle, the Hindenburg line
the suburbs OF Sedan and elsewhere
throughout tts nine months OF almost
incessant fighting. a gray haired youth
Will n comical twist in his smile romped
| on the stage and sang q song, which
the famous regiment ought to add in.
stanty to Its secular hymnal
Il dunno as 1 can remember II. as
l only wrote II last night" said George
NJ. Conan. But here goes"
And striking an attitude that re-
minded every Irish mothers son in the
house Of inspired old gentlemen they
have known he warbled:
Gimme me walking cane,
Gimme me watch and chain,
Gimme me Sunday suit out o. the trunk
| again;
Iron It out n bit,
| Fix It fine and ht
| Gimme me clean white shirt,
An the shoes that always hurt.
| Gimme the hat me father wore,
Gimme the old high hat once more
For I'm going to be out tonight.
want to get started right.
For the sixty-ninth parade Tomorrow
morning!
Has to Come Back to stage.
OF course the singer had to come back
from the wings in response to the de-
lirious enteraty of the 1000 persons In
the opera house. "Whatll you have
you name it." said he. Many voices
shouted lover There
So to the new Sixty-ninth. which had
escorted Secretary Baker from the Penn.
sylvania station. and to hundreds of the
old Sixty-ninth whose tired feet had
been lifted on and on along the roads OF
France by the same strains, the lad who
wrote and composed over There" sans
his bugle song with his own fixings OF
A,,I.A
crooked his back and danced across the
stage and of while out "in front they
howled with glee long after he de-
parted.
The Veteran Corps OF the Sixty ninth
was having a benefit performance to
raise money for monuments in Calvary
| and Green Wood cemeteries to commemo-
rate it's dead of every creed and for a
fund. to assist veterans or their families
in case of need. How much was sub.
scribed was not announced, but il was
a large sum.
Francis p. Garvan, Alien Property
Custodian and chairman OF the evening
headed the list with $1,000. which he
paid for two boxes Justice Aaron ]
Levy subscribed 81 900. Justice Rosa lsky
1880 and there were many others in ad
dition to those who bought seats.
Justice Mulqueen in introducing Mr.
Garvan admitted that the 165th Infan
try was not wholly Irish. but explained
The example and inspiration of tn,
Irish boys in that regiment made then
oil Irish"
Presenting the flag. while two com
Ipanies of the new Sixty ninth stood a
lattention on the stage, Martin CONDO,
reminded the audience that It was Sec
retary Baker who made it possible, b!
an official order, for the 165th Regimen
TO retain the regimental colors of tn,
lSiXty-ntnth.
What the Goth Flag Means.
This flag" Mr.. Conboy said. "repre
sents what the Secretarys order was de
signed to preserve, the history Of tn,
regiment which bore II and the con
Itinuity of its organization. The mem
tories of all the glorious past was thereb,
entrusted TO this regiment. II compelled
courage. demanded devotion. spelled
Isacritice to the last letter. and now 4
the names of the old bands of heroes
ICorcoran, Meagher and Kavanagh Their,
lare added the names OF the new band
led by Donovan and Duffy and Ander
Ison lLieut.-Col. Anderson of the 165th
who was in stage boxl and all the other.
among the living, and McKenna and
dead"
Turning to the Secretary OF War Mr.
Conboy added:
And among the dead whom the regi
ment left in France there was a Capt
! Charles D. Baker. a Corporal Arthur w
| Baker and Private Floyd Baker. No,
does the regiment forget that in tn.
Rainbow Division (of which the l65th
was parO there fought with them a regi-
ment OF National Guardsmen from your
own State of Ohio.
| And now, Mr.. Secretary. present Il
/ TO you on behalf of the Veteran corps
of the Sixty-ninth Regiment on behalf
| Of all the members of the regiment, IN
Guiding that great number whose silent
tents are spread on Fames eternal
! camping ground, this replica of the flag
which symbolizes the history of the regi-
ment and its record of devotion to the
! United States"
The regimental orchestra played
| ''Garryowen" and Mr. Baker made re-
ply to the presentation speech. He said
| that America, by reason OF its unified
| effort in the war. was writing a new date
line In Its history; that except in a
geographical sense lines had been OBJ
| liberated and North Caroline and North
| Dakota have discovered one another"
Ilb Nolu VI SttIllk lllt SlAly-nlItn AT
Camp Mills before the Rainbow Division
went abroad and OF seeing II later in
France, where, near Baccarat he went to
| the front line and found the old Sixty
ninth holding II. He had there said 10
| them that for the first time he had seen
! American soldiers standing guard on
the very frontier of freedom"
| The Secretary told of the French Gen.
eral, Castelnau, replying, when the Sec
rotary expressed a desire to see No
| Man Land.
TT used TO be No Mans Land, but
when the Forty-second (Rainbow) Di-
vision arrived it became Yankee Land
Still later, on the Rhine. Mr. Baker
saw. he said, descendants OF men who
had left Europe TO seek liberty back or
the Rhine as American soldiers with
liberty in their hands and freedom fol-
all peoples of the earth"
~ do not want to take pessimisti,
view OF the world situation at this time :
Mr.. Baker continued, but the waters ar,
troubled all over the face of the civilized
world, All over the world men, womel
and children are starving. Traditions
have proved unstable the ancient form
OF law and order have broken down
Men have lost faith not only in forms o
government but In government itself
Hard TO Restore Confidence,
THE difficult thing IS to restore tn
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