Putnam patriot., 1921-05-13
ManhasSef Village To Fly Stars And Stripes Af Top or Sixty Foot Pole
 Decoration Day
PUBLIC INVITED TO MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE
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Plant Operating Continuously y-Manhasset Inn To Open Monday.-community Gardens.-cet-T IT gether Spirit
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Led by the Manhasset band. several hundred ehildren's voices will unite in chorus in singing "fhe Star Spangled Banner" as a brand new American flag, f2xis feet, is thrown Co the breeze in the ManhaSset Village short ly after s o'clock on the morning of Memorial Day Monday. May 30. The public is extended q cordial invitation to attend the community flag raising and the exercises will be over before the public observance begins.
 The bright. new flag will be hauled Co the top of sixty foot pole. This pole is composed of 20 feet of five inch pipe. 20 feet of four inch pipe. and 20 feet of three inch pipe capped by large bail. The poie rests in a solid reinforced concrete base that extends four feet under ground and nearly as many feet above ground. The site chosen Is at the junction of Middle and Arch streets and was properly located hy City Engineer George W Perry Being at the june tion of the 1wo streets it will serve as a silent policeman as a guide to traffic. 1t is just northeast of the baseball grounds
 Not a cent of expense has been en- tailed in procuring the flag or the pole All has been donated or paid for by a community fund This en- Renders a community spirit. and. as the employees of the company see the country's emblem floating high in the air, each may say to himself That is my fag and my eountry's flag
 The committee has arranged the following program
 All taking part will assemble in front of the mill office iH time Co form in line by s o'clock. Preceding Che Manhasset band the new flag viii be carried by sixteen girls of the village Following the band will be seen the company's service flag carried by Putnam Boy Scouts Then will fol- low the children of the village
 Arriving at the flag pole the Siars and Stripes will be afiixed to the hal- yurds and as the basd plays "The Star suanrlei Banner. to lead che chorus singing. old Glery Will be proudly raised sixty feet into thc air. where II may ba seen from the Win- doWs of the largo factory and from all point of the city and beyond. The flag will be raised by girls assisted by Boy Scouts Miss Gertrude C. War ner will conduct the chorus.
 Frank Sweet of Woopsocket. an ar dent patriot and lover of the flag. will deliver an addse after~Horda of vel come and introduction hy Agent Rob ert W Boys Mir Sweet is 'f magnetic speaker. especially on such an oeea- sion, and took part in the flag raising under Agent Boys when the com munity at Goodyear. of which Mr Boys was then resident head. had n similar observance. Mr Sweet will be followed by Attorney Erie II John son of Putnam, who is well known to Putnam citizens as man capable of expressing sincere and deep feeling on such an occasion. The band will play "Ameriea" and the children will sing After marching back to the front of tie mill office the parade will disband.
 The following committees were formed for the flag raising Commit tee to organize the children for par ade, Stanley Wilkes. William Pigeon, Mrs. K Pye, Mrs. A. Gagne, Mrs. Wm. Worznick; committee on arrange ments, John T. Hanton, Martin Ho- gan, s. Fisher
 To Engender Community Spirit
 The flag raising Is the first public step taken by Agent Boys, who re- gently came to Putnam, to engender the community spirit in which he is a firm believer. It has always been MT. Boys plan and effort to arouse such a spirit in the mill villages where he has been the head. He believes thor oughly in looking out for the welfare of his employees, arousing com munity spirit that in effect makes the employees one large family, causes them to become acquainted with each  other, and to feel that their employ CTS interest Is their interest and that their interest is their employers in- terest
 Mir. Boys does not believe that em- ployes should be engaged to work in d large plant with hundreds of other employees and then be left alone. He believes in making them feel at home and to feel that they are a unit of a harmonious whole and that fl is duty to take an interest, not only in their work but in each other.
 Perhaps Mir. Boys attitude toward his employees may best he expressed in his own words spoken at Goodyear when he and Mrs. Boys were given a public farewell. He said;
 My Dear Friends: Words would fail to express the deep feeling of osrnflftsdn urA fhaukfulnaae of Mrs