The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1920-01-13
RED FLAG NOT To
FLY HERE, VOW OF
POLICE sERGEANTs
Notables Address Dinner Of
the Order of the Chevron
in the Commodore.

Nirlle denunciauonS or the red nag
brought frenzied signs of approval from
twelve hundred police officers and their
guests last night in the Hotel Commodore
at the annual dinner of the Order of. the
Chevron. the Police Sergeants' Benevolent
Association.
From the newest sergeant to the Com
missioner and the Mayor the public SER
wants showed that radicalism will not be
tolerated. Cries of ut never willn' greeted
the remarks of Rabbi Joseph Siverman
when he said
Il honor the police who would not per-
NIT the red flag to march up the avenue,
and 1 hope that the day will never come
when the red Gag will supersede the Stars
and Stripes"
"Americanism was reborn when we
sent that Soviet ark across the seas and
proclaimed that law and liberty shall live
in this land" the clergyman declared.
And the man who did rise up in his
pulpit and compared the sending of that
ark with the coming OF the Mayflower de-
serves the condemnation of every rgh-
teous citizen.
There are some people in this land
whom the immortal Roosevelt would call
pussyfoot reformers. They're preaching
in the parlors and in literary circles that
there is something wrong with America.
They're not very dangerous, but they're
giving support and encouragement to q
group who took their cue from Kar!
Marx and stand up and would proclaim
doctrine to supersede our constitution.
incompatible with Americnnism."
II refer to the Socialists of our day So
calism is absolutely incompatible with
Americansm. 4 true American cannot
be Socialist, and a Socialist doesn't de-
serve the title OF an American. Socialism
means the destruction of all things that
have been produced by the last three
thousand years of civilza ton. The So
cialist denies and blasphemes God, and
any one who denies and blasphemes God
doesn't believe in law and order"
| The Right Rev. Charles S. Burch. Epis-
copal Bishop Of New York, stirred his
audience as deeply by his expression of the
! gratitude the people have for the police
forces stanchness in upholdng law and
order And in reply TO some recent critic
isms, he said, he added
And let me say here before you who
represent law and order that the one who
is speaking to you holds nothing higher
in his estimation than loyalty to our gov
ernment, no matter how constituted,
I loyalty to the laws and everything that
makes for good citizenship"
4 Job u. Hedges also aroused great ap-
plause by his plea for Americanisn. In
it he took to task the Legislatures action
in suspending it's five elected Socialist
members, and exhorted Americans not to
PREJUDICE men of guilt on a mere accusa-
ton. but to reserve their opinions until
after the trials
Debate on Pay Raises Question.
4 Besides so much applause on the subject
OF the safety of the nation. the sergeants
had not little noise saved up for what
developed into a mild debate on the ques-
ton of another raise in polcemen's pay.
| Sergeant Joseph Courtney. president OF
the association. and POSTMASTER, started
things by thanking call concerned for the
recent Increases and saying that before
1920 is past perhaps fortune will smile on
us again" Mayor Hylan then soberly
called the attention of the policemen to the
fact that recent increases will cost the tax
rayers about 100000 in the 1920 budget.
and that all told during his administration
the salaries of patrolmen had been in
creased 500.
! IT believe you are entitled to raise and
ought to get it," said Fiorello A. La
Guardia. president OF the Board Of Alder
men, Property owners know tnelr over
head expenses have increased, and protec-
ton of that property is one of their over
heads"
| Edward Riegiemann. Borough President
| of Brooklyn. remarked that La Guardia
would have two years in which to act out
his talk. Henry II. Curran, newly elected
and Republican Borough President of Man
haitian. repeated the remark of the chair
man about fortune telling again.
But / don't believe there will be much
trouble between the right wing and the
left wing Of City Hail." Mr.. La Guardia
said. The Mayor is a good .crapper and
love a good scrapper."
Mayor Hylan announced that he had
gone to the hotel in a municipal bus from
Williamsburg Bridge, beating by fifteen
minutes Mr.. Hedges, who. he said, "trav-
elletf in one OF his green car lines"