Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-06-01

Is Devoted To
Memorial Day
Ministers, Legionaires Give
Appropriate Addresses at
Meeting of Club Thursday
After Ceremony.

The meeting Of the Rotary Club
Thursday afternoon was devoted to
a program commemorative of Mem
orial Day.
Dave Davis was program chair
man for the day and had as guests
about 20 members of American Le-
goin Post No. :.
Rev c. H. Sloan was the frs
speaker on ttIe n:ogram. FF de-
nye1ed an ins2r ing address, bring
ing ,ut the following though.S:
'rhtrc are 5.illie4 2mong individ-
uels, history has shown that tho {
are .ar which are bull s. l
fear that there ,i.i awavs De warc
and I believe N rational p:eDar-
cGness. He l~Stnted some of lie
many arguments against war and
suggested that many times wars
might be averted.
War does not pay from an &C.
onornic standpoint. Even the victor
ious nation is loser. The last year
CT the World War cost us ten mil
lion dcllars an hour In 1920, 93
per cent of the national income
went for paying the costs CT cars.
The Wall Street Journal points out
that in the national budget fer
1.,G FIVE af5t ~t aeate siS dollars
will be spent for war purposes.
Work for Peace
Another war will be even more
terrible than the last. We may
have to fight, and if we must we
will. But let us work for peace.
Sam Shaw, commander OF AM
erican Legion Post No. 8, was the
second speaker. He related a touch
ing story Of how he and his buddy,
in Seattle at the beginning Of the
war found that there were many
who di dnot respect the flag and
stood with covered heads as it
passed by. Tney each got a small
flag which they carried with them.
During a fierce charge near the
close of the war, Sans buddy tied
his small flag to the bayonet OF
his gun and started. That night
Sam found him, the flag still on
the gun and his face to the enemy.
But he had paid the supreme sac
crifice.
Rev. C. S. Reynolds OF the M,
E. church IVES the third speaker
on the program.
He stressed our responsibility TO
the future generations, in the form
alton of the highest of ideals, with
due reverence for the memory OF
those who have devoted their lives
for us in the past
We Of today must perpetuate
those institutions and principles for
which so much devotion has been
shown in the past, preserving ana
building upon them in the most
worthy manner of which we are
capable he SAID. We are PRODUCES
f past generation and must be.
unselfish in our viewpoint for the
future, laying the foundation for
perpetuation and improvement of
the ideals for which wars have
peen fought in the past.
Tribute to Heroes
In tribute to the heroiSm of our
men in the World War, he related
an incident in which a group OF
scouts was sent one night into
No Mans Land. All returned at
she Appointed time eNc~py one.
After hope of his return had been
abandoned ne came back to the
lines. Asked how he found his way
back he said that he set his course
by observing the faces Of our dead
BOYS lying on the field, each With
his face to the foe.
In vhe faces OF tnOSe gone before,
he said there was reflected more
shan hraverv-idealsr The NT'n-
ciples back of the Stars and Stripes
cen never be iorg0tJon.
Another pleasing feature OF the
meeting was the ntlcduction by
z o. Knudson of ice Phillips VIM
ner of the senior scholarship OF
the Rotary Club, who responded
Nv saying he hoped 10 be worthy
of the conf'dt nee shown in him.
Miss Maude Frazier, city super
intendent Of schools, told of the
important stimulus to the school
work the Rotary scholarship had
Z. owed to be and SAID that she
cons,uered this the biggest thE-G
that the Rotary club mas lone.