The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-24
OKENUCK TRIBE HEARS SPLENDID
 PATRIOTIC TALK
J. E. Jacobs Makes Wash ington's Life Subject of
 Address.
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last evening will ever regret the time spent after listening to the nnaster1y address of J. Erwin Jacobs of New Haven, who was the speaker of the evening and who gave one of the most interesting patriotic addresses ever heard in the town of Stratford MT. Jacobs who gained the closest at tention of his audience from the very start by telling a humorous story dwelt at length on the life of George Washington, telling many of the stories of the life of the father of his country which all had heard many times but which were listened to wit1 the closest attention and which are always interesting when told by ora tors of MT. Jacobs ca1ibre. Mr. Ja- cobs classed Washington with the sun which sheds its light for 12 months of every year on the people, saying that the great American whose name was heralded everywhere made manifest his great principles and all were ever ready to accept his advice, unselfish as he was and with a character un- bIemished his spirit shines upon the people of the earth today. He pie tured the sufferings of Washington and his men at Valley Forge and told how under the suffering conditions
 
 preference to his own self and how as he had been taught to paddle his own canoe so Washington in a most successful manner taught his men to paddle theier own canoes. In clos ing on the life of Washington, Mr-- Jacobs told his hearers that the music this great American made when he caused the Liberty Bell to be rung will ever be heard all over the world and Is today as clear in the atnfos- phere as it was in 1776.
 In touching upon the life of Lin coin the speaker spoke briefly of the great Gettysburg address of Lincoln and how it today stands out to the world as the greatest address in his tory. How it has been revived again, and again, and again until it is in our memory all our own. MT. Jacobs chased Lincoln as the greatest man that ever stood on American soil, a, man who gained wealth by deeds of honor and not by prof1teering from the sorrows and sufferings of others.
 Speaking of Theodore Roosevelt, MT. Jacobs said that he was a differ ent type of a man than either Wash ington or Lincoln because he lived in different days and that he was the only man who had courage to stand up. and tell what we are and what we should be. He was an American, said the speaker, for Americans, and not for the type of men known as the Bolshevik.
 MT. Jacobs paid high tribute to the Improved Order of Red Men, speak ing with much pride to his own mem bership in the order because it's mem bers are Americans as he is. He re- ferred to the orders origin when the first tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men emptied the tea overheard in the Boston harbor during the Revolutionary days and said what those men represented in those days the order of today stood foremost for the principles of freedom and liberty. He told the members pres ent that wherever they went it, was their duty as members of the order to pass the word that they were Americans, for America, and true to the great American principals of lib erty and democracy. MT. Jacobs told how he had travelled in the Arc tic and Antarctic regions, how he had crossed the threshold of Russia and yet has he to find in the remotest re- cesses of the world any place that stands for equality like America and he said that he hoped that the men who were sent to Washington next November would reckon with and see that America reaches it's goal as the foremost nation of the world.
 MT. Jacobs told how the American flag now enters every civilized and uncivihzed port in the world and af- ter the thousands of men lost in the great war just ended and the millions of dollars expended how can any man ever concede the returning of the 30 German ships. In closing the speaker appealed to the gathering to stick to the ship as your country and my country and as Red Men let us make it the mightiest country in the world.
 Mir Jacobs's address which was about an hour in length, was inter rupted time and time again by deaf ening applause from his appreciative audience and at its close a most rous- | ing vote of thanks was extended to him by those present.
 | William Howard rWilcoxson, sachem of Okenuck tribe, presided at the meeting and William Hart, whose tal- ent as a leader would be envied by l Sousa, the great band master, led the Community singing which took up a part of the program. Irving Shaw was heard in a very pleasing cornet | SOlO, -D6inS aCCOIpdulSd .Dy Baldwin at the piano. A banquet was served at o'clock and the regular tribal meeting was held following the entertainment.
 On Wednesday evening in the Tut; tie auditorium the fast basketball 1 team representing the local post of the American Legion will meet the regular Milford team in what is ex- pected to be a close and interesting game of basketball. A preliminary between the legion's second team and the Arrows will also be played and dancing will follow until a late hour
 Owing to a large influx of orders with only limited space to work the members of the board of directors of the Stratford Body Co. at a recent meeting voted to increase the capital stock of the company from $10O0O to s5O,OO0 A good portion of the above stock will be sold as preferred stock
 while some will be disposed of as common stock The present board o1 directors will he given the first od1-