The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-10
PHANTOM LAKE
HAS BIGGEST DAY
Dedication of New Dining
Hall Draws Great Crowd
to Boys Camp.
MANY FROM KENOSHA
(By a staff Correspondent

the D1Eg6Sb Jay Ia tHo HAsSO1y "a HaH-
tom Lake camp for boys over here near
Mukwonago and more than 100 boys
from Kenosha, and more than double
that number of their parents and
friends had part in the interesting
ceremonial attending the dedication of
the new dining hall.
More than 500 people from different
parts Of the state attended the open
ing Of the new "mess" and the list of
guests included many of the prominent
men and women of the state who have
Of building better boys.
The men in charge Of the program
for the day included Archie Tegtmey
er, H. A. Moehlenpah, Walter A. Al
ford, N j. Ross and S. j. Brewer. Mr..
Moehlenpah presided at the interesting
ceremonies.
Adds Much to Camp Life.
The new dining hall, with the new
athletic field provided by G. E. Voor-
his of Kenosha, has added much to the
facilities for service Of the camp and
these additions have made Phantom
Lake camp the best boys camp in the
state.
The nearly 200 boys now in camp
had an interesting part in the program
on Sunday morning. They brought the
songs of the camp as one of the fea-
lures Of the program. The McMillen
quartet sang a number Of selections on
the program. There were talks by
boys who we're among the first camp
ers at Phantom Lake some 16 years
ago and while these boys long since
grew to manhood they indicated that
they still had most active interest in
the camp and lbs work. H. F. Lind
say spoke on "The Beginnings of
Phantom"; Bamber Tegtmeyer talked
on Phantom Of Today" and A. G..
Knebel told of Phantom of the Flu
ture."
There were interesting reports in
connection with the completion of the
new building and the program closed
with the singing Of Dear Old Phan-
tom" by the campers and the hum
dreds of visitors.
independence Day was fittingly OBJ
served by the 1o2 Kenosha county and
Sd WAukesha county boys at the Y.
NJ. c. A. camp at Phantom Lake under
the direction of the two dozen directors
and supervising leaders in charge.
The feature Of the day was the dis
play of flags from number OF foreign
nations which have been donated for
the decoration Of the new 81 900 din
ing hail recently completed and which
was formally dedicated on Sunday.
These flags, from Italy, Holland, Swe-
den, Switzerland, Russia and England,
were received by Ray v. Sewers, state
high school Y. NJ. G. A. secretary of
Milwaukee in response to letters writ
ten the embassies of thirty nations at
Washington, D. C. Favorable replies
were received that flags would be sent
from Mexico, Paraguay, Norway Pan
anna, Greece, China, Italy, Czecho- SLOW
aka, Sweden Switzerland Mexico,
Uruguay, Hungary, Russia, Great Brit
ian, Persia, Brazil, Germany and
Argentina, and the flags from the ma
tions first named arrived in time for
exhibition on Friday. The other flags
are expected from time to time, some
of che embassies having written that
they had not flags on hand for distri-
button, but were writing their capitols
abroad to forward such flags. 1t was
significant, too, that among the boys
called forth to hold up the flags were
Slav, am Irishman, English, Danish,
German and American. The officials in
charge stated they were confident that
every one of the flags written for were
represented. by descendants of people
from those respective countries. The
exercises inA commemoration of Inde-
pendence Day came at the conclusion
of a bountiful dinner and following
the announcement of water carni-
val for the afternoon and Of d Vene-
tian night celebration in the evening
Fourth of July Speech.
The principal speaker was Rev. C.
w. Haywood, pastor of the First Meth
odist church of Waukesha. He took for
his subject: what Makes a Nation
Create" He said in part:
II believe in the America of yester-
day, / believe in the America Of today,
and my faith is equally strong in the
America of tomorrow. believe in the
America of the past because of the
sublimity of her history and if it be
true that the history of nation cIust-
ers around its great characters then
our history is just an Interpretation
Of the ideals of that unique cluster of
statesmen whose names are lustrous
even to Immortality
The history Of this land from the
birth until now can Be read without
q blush and 1t can be repeated without
apology. No blood has been shed
through lust Of blood and when that
has been necessarily it has been
staunched as quickly as possible and
often by the hands that made the
wounds.
"There is a tradition giving to a GER.
tain spear the quality of healing the
wounds which itself had made. 1t
Il even so with US. When America
has been obliged to draw the sword
she has always provided for the heal
ing of the wounds that sword had
made. 'Today's unrest is not due to
the decay of the national life but due
to the growing pains Of greater de-
velopment. The majority Of the Amer
lean people today are peaceful, lawful.
conscientious folk"
The Snipe Hunt.
The camp is now in full swing and
tent twelve is looming up as the pos
sible champion in volley ball, baseball
and eating. The annual. snipe hunt
came off fine with Go sssn!nes" being