The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-15
VETERANS OF
 } WARS JOIN
 IN EXERCISES

, Veterans of three wars joined wDh the members and friends of Bridge port Lodge 26 in the Flag Day cele- l Dratlon Of the EIks in their audito- rum last night The address was de- !lVered by United States Marshal Viii liam R. Palmer of Derby Lodge, who declared that the Elks stood for the same ideals IS the American flag and that the flag itself was but a symbol of the fidelity, brotherIy love, charity
 ana justice among men first taught
 noWer in the American nation.
 In introducing the speaker Exalted Ruler Lawrence T. Gallagher said:
 T believe there is no man more fla
 Inlllar with the patriotic spirit of the country than the speaker of the even ing, Brother Palmer of Derby Lodge"
 MT. Palmer said in part:
 Our flag is great development in the minds of men, and this great or ganization of which We are proud to be members. this really American or ganlzatlon Is founded upon the very
 principles which started the thought that culminated in this flag of ours. Long ago there came a great pretacher into the world and his doctrine was chastity, and in those days men were drunken and the doctrine of this teacher was temperance. In those days the law was an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and his preach ment was love one another. He taught our forefathers for the first time the very principles on which this order is found ded---FideEty, Brotherly Love. Charity and Justice among men
 '"The emblem of this kingdom which he established was a cross. The King was killed and He died that His kingdom might live. This nation of ours was founded on those princi- pies as no other nation had been, Fidelity, Charity, Brotherly Love and Justice, not only among individuals, but among nations of Lhe world.
 Wherever that flag has been r. ried men and women have always stood for those principles. When we first took it up the world throbbed and a great nation was born. Then took up this flag and carried it back, and all the seven seas became free because the idea that followed the flag was Fidelity, Brotherly Love, Charity and Justice. Again we took it up and carried it into battle and added to this great nation an inde- pendent people who chose to become a part of us. Then again it was associates and a whole race were made free men and women. Again we took it up and there was added to the diadem of nations a small na- was taken by these young men and our associates. our sons, our sweet hearts, and the world became free. It was pounded into the minds of
  principles by which the world must be governed were those principles in culcated in the minds of men 2,0OO years ago, the principles of Fidelity, Charity, Brotherly Love and Justice. It was pushed into the minds of the world that we are the universal brotherh ood of men under an ever lasting fatherhood of Almighty God.
 '+This great nation of ours, these are the things we have accomplished. On this great day, don't let us forget that during those terrible years such a short time past a new flag came in to existence You saw 1t in win dows of homes and stores and shops. | Each one of the stars on that new flag meant a tear that nobody saw but those who shed them.
 'Iet us never forget that the | principles on which this great Order was founded are the principles that have come down to us through 2,0OO l years. They are the things we must never forget, they are the things for which this flag stands"
 In conclusion, Marshal Palmer paid a touching tribute to the veterans of the civil war who were present as guests of honor.
 The entertainment program in 1 c1uded patriotic numbers by John L. ] Frederick w. Harrison, Miss l Anna Riley, Arthur Levasseur, Nan l chen Adams Rosan and Reynolds | orchestra.
 The flag committee was composed | of Edward J. Daily, William Louns- | bury. Thomas F. Conway, Raymo ond | J. Keefe. Robert A. Mccullough, | James W. CoughIin and Edmund | Hart. The reception committee con sisted of loser h D. Hartigan, Thomas J. Keegan, Joseph c. Ivers, James T. Trainor. Charles Kelly, Joseph T. l Coughlin. Irving Bison. Frank F'as- | saneFa, Robert R. Rosan and Will | jam P. Kirk A special after-dinner 1 was provided by Jack ] Sullivan, H. ScheIInsky, William i Toomey, William Keenan, Ray and Dunn and Farrell.