The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
RED FLAG COWARD'S
RAG, SAYS GEN. WOOD
Tells Union College Graduates
to Beware Of False Glib
eral Ideas" Banner.
AMITY WITH ALLIES URGED
Honorary Degrees Conferred
at Commencement Exercises
in Schenectady.

SoHnNpcTADr. N. r, June s.-Rieor-
Gus suppression OF anarchistic tendencies
was urged by Ma or Gen. Leonard Wood,
VINO received the honorary degree Of L.
ID. ut the 1884 commencement exercises
OF Union College here to-day. In his
aodress to tho graduating class Gen.
Wood said in part:
There Is room In this country for but
one nag. and that is the American fias.
Put down the red flag. 1t stands for
nothing which our Government stands
Tor. 1t Is against everything we have,
struggled for. 1t Ia against the integrity
Of the family, the State, the nation. Il
iioats only where towards are In power,
1t represents everything which we want
to avoid.
These are times OF dangerous world
psychology. The barriers between or
oered government and chaos are uvyyn Il,
some nations and trembling In others.
Avoid the cankerous doctrines of the
hour which are Incorporating under
the banner Of Liberal Ideas and Prog
ress'
The world must once more get on an
even keel and settle down after the
upheavals OF the great war. II IL time
now TO keep our feet on the ground.
THE experience of the training camps
brought out forcibly the desirablllty OF
having but one language In our grade
public SCHOOLS, and that language should
be the language of the Declaration OF
independence, of the Constitution. of
Washington. Jefferson. Lincoln. Cleve-
land and Roosevelt It IL the language
of the best democracy. As Col Roose-
Welt put II. We do not want America to
be polyglot boarding house..
We must do all we can to maintain
n all ~
ourselves and the Allies, the kind which
makes treaties and understandings en-
dure. which grew up and became strong
during the war because Il was founded
upon not only community OF interests,
nut also community OF moral ideas.
Let nothing arise to drive a wedge be-
tween us and the Allies, for whoever
does this is one who betrays the dead
and the cause for which they fought and
makes vain their sacrifice.
while we welcome desirable immi-
grafton We should turn our faces against
those who come to us with ideas repug-
nant to our civilization and with pur-
poses and ideals hostile to our form Of
government
Degrees were awaroed to rorty-eight
undergraduates. together with twelve
graduates Of the medical school. Ad-
teen post graduates.
The degree OF Master OF Arts was
given to DR.. Charles q. Mcmillan of
Schenectady. surgeon attached to
Base Hospital 50, and to Thomas Au-
gustus Watson Of East Braintree, Mass,
an associate OF Alexander Graham Bell
In the development of the telephone.
DR.. Willis r whitney of Schenec-
tady, a member Of the NAVY Consultinp
Board: Dr. Alexander Duane OF New
York city and Dr. Thomas Ordway.
dean OF the Albany Medical College,
were made doctors Of science.
Doctor Of Divinity degrees were con-
ferred upon Henry Dewitt Griswold of
Indiana, a Sanskrit scholar. and the
Rev. John Van Scheaick. Jr.. Red Cross
| Commissioner for Belgium.
D. John Halliday Denbigh, president
OF Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn,
was made an L. H d.