Arizona republican., 1921-03-18
200 PH0EN|C|ANs
 PLEDGE SUPPORT. II RELIEF. FUND
Dinner To Aid Women And
 Children Of Irelan q Proves Big Success-Pro- gram Has Many Features

,,as . ! atf4ck Dav was fittinely cele- T.e r,,s etea last night when more than 200 iioehlclans met at dinneryat the Hotel ,Auuains ano by their songs and ap- pi1use or speakers pledged themselves to the support of the Irish relief fund oid Irish songs were sung by the en- tire assemblage, and in solo. The pi1ncIpal speakers of the evening were NNen careful attention and enthusias 'te applause. w. L. Barnum gave a speech on America $ Debt to Ireland ana F. F. l.. Shepherd spoke on Self l3etermination. while Senator Charles x fownc of New York city went deep " into the question of Irish Relief
 Before the serious par of the pro gram had begun. however. Charles McEroy enlivened the evening by suggesting that all join ;n singing My Wild Irish Rose" and this met with such success that it was followed by a request that he sing Where the River shannon Flows, which he did with such feeling and good will that Irish Eyes was sung as an encore.
 J. C.. o Malley. as county chairman. introduced Mayor W. H. Plunkett as chairman of the evening. Mayor Plum kett gave a short talk on conditions in Ireland and said he felt sure that if the question were put to America Am 1 My Brothers Keeper" America would answer ''Yesi'
 Judge Barnum opened his address by saying that historians had not given the Irish credit due them in shaping the destinies of this country. and eX plained America s debt to Ireland. In introducing the next speaker. Mayor Plunkett remarked that Judge Barnum had made him feel so Irish that he had decided to put an "O' in front of his own name.
 R. F.. l.. Shepherd spoke for@ Self Determination" from the standpoint of an American. declaring that it gave the people of a nation the right to make their own laws. choose their own form of government. worship as they saw fit. and levy wha- .axes they de- sired.
 Urges Relief in Ireland
 Senator Charles A. Towne opened his address by saying that when MT. Shepherd made the remark that the Irish ruled in America Tammany could give a glad assent. giving couple of stories to show the Irish wit, before launching into his theme of Irish Relief"
 The world he began. lis just through with one of the most devas- tating wars it has ever seen. All the other wars put together were as noth- ing 10 this-the Thirty Years war was nothing but a skirmish compared to the damage done to civilization during the four years of this war He touched lightly on Americas struggle for freedom, and the fact that at that time there was not another nation in the world which had 9 glimmer of lib- erty. He quoted from the Declaration of Independence to show that our gov ernment had been founded on the rights of people to govern themselves.
 And for century and a quarter We bombarded the world, not with our guns but with our ideas, he said. Parliaments were constructed along tIts lines of our free government, and four times in the century and a guar ter we helped to reform the British parliament.
 Down through the ruthlessness of prussian militarism he went, until it ended on the plains of France, F'where N.fle survival of the divine right of kings pitted itself against the Decla- ra ton of Independence. and lost
 This war has left countless millions of half nourished and starving, aged men and women and little children all over Europe. but in no allied country