Show PRESIDENT WILSONS WILSON'S FLAG DA ADDRESS ESS He spoke In do full as follows citizens citizens We c meet t t My IY fel fellow ow V p Celebrate ele rate Flag day because this fla fia we honor and und under r which w w we serve is the emblem m of of our unity unit fur jur power our thought and is ji a nation It has no other character charac chars ter ler than Man that which we give it from fro generation ener tion t generation The choice choices are ours burs It floats in majestic s sl lence fence above the hosts that those chose choices whether in peace or I ii in war And yet though silent i h speaks to us us speaks speaks s to us of ot the thi ast of the men and alid women win wilt went before us and of thee the record they wrote upon upon it We Ve celebrate thi th J Jay y of Its birth and from its birt antil now it has witnessed a grea great History lias floated on high the sym ool Dol of great events avents of a great plan of li life e worked out by a. a great people We Ve are about to carry it into battle LA i lift it where it it Will w draw v the firof fir fin of of our enemies We Ve are are are about t tc to old Jid thousands hundreds of thou thousands thousands sands ands it may maybe be millions of our m menthe men menthe n nhe the he young the strong the capable men of the nation to to go forth and am anddie anddie die beneath it on fields of blood fa far fai away for away f for r what For some unac unaccustomed us t tomed omed s med thing For For something i which ft It h has s' s never sought the fire before American armies were never nev er r before sent across the seas Why are tre they sent now For some nf new new w put pur pose ose for or which this great fi flag g has hat lever been carried before or foi fOl tor or V ich It has seen men its own owa men nen die dieon die on every battlefield upon which Americans have borne arm arms since ince the revolution These are questions which must be bb answered We Ve are Americans We Ve Wen Vein in n our turn serve America and can erve serve her with no private purpose We Ve must use her flag as she has al al- ways rays used it We Ve are accountable atlie at athe he the bar of history and must plead In utter itter frankness what purpose It IS ik ve we seek to serve a 4 Forced Into War Var It is plain eno enough gh how we were forced breed into the war The nary lary Insults and aggressions of the the German government left us uso to o self respecting choice b but t to ip LIp p arms In defense of our rights as asa a free people and of our honor as a a. government The military ml tar masters casters I of Germany denied us the right gilt to be e neutral They filled our unsuspecting communities with vlious vl- vl ious clous ous spies and conspirators and ought sought to corrupt the opinion of our people eople ople in their own own behalf Whet they hey cey found that they could not do that cat their agents diligently spread spread sedition edition against us us' us usand and sought to draw raw aw our citizens from their al al- and glance and some of those agents ere were men connected with the th official of the tle German Itself here in our own capital Tb The destroy destroy our our h n. violence to Bought ough by b and nd arrest our tried to to Incite Me Mexico to to tal Uliey against us and to draw Japa Jap lI up arms J alliance with her her her-a her and an hostile nto into a but by dill direct indirection that not by the foreign o office i in from impudently denied v t They the high seas and repel repeat Ube he use of their threat that th the thc executed idly their death any of a 01 could send t to approach t Ventured to people ople who coasts of Europe Many Corrupted Corr And many o of our own people WE wei werd 1 corrupted 5 5 Men began to look up heir own neighbors with suspicion iid nd wonder wonder er in their hot resentment whether there was a an any lid surprise nd-surprise surprise in which hostile Intrigue nation i What great 1 id td not lurK would not it Ut uch ch circumstances al alien aken en up arms Much Mu h has as we had bad t tired di delfe de- de denied us a at ired peace pea e it was This flag t ui un- un choice lot of If our own own ier which we ser ser-ie serve would have ne net l t had had we wit withheld o 01 OUT f nand mind But that is only part of or the stoVe story stor clearly as we kne v IYe Ve know now as efort we were were ourselves en eng engage g ge not the enemies of or t tl the mat matve ve ve we are and that they are r n not Jorn Jordan ernan all people did not originate original Jut fur enemies They this hideous war ar or wi wish desire 1 t- t 1 fiat we should be drawn drawn Into it a an anne ana conscious clous that we a ai are r. r ne e are vaguely their cause as they will sot son some laY jay see it as well as our own own The Theire Tb They Lr ere ire themselves in ih the grip of t tame tt the that has now t tast at ame mIne sinister power ast stretched its ugly talo talons s out a ati and tawn blood from us The who ori arid orld is 13 at war because the who world is in the grip of that pow power and Lod d is trying trying out the great great batt which ditch shall determine whether it ito is isto i ito to to o be brought brO under under tinder its m mastery c cIng or Ing In itself itself free Purpose Long Xiong Avowed The The war was begun by the militia militar masters casters of Germany who proved t toe to of Hull Austria masters master's J C oe also the have never ever r reo men ary y These J yarded rde nations 1 as peoples men mei women and nd children of like blood bloc md nd frame as ns themselves for who whom their life The Tb governments had had lave Have regarded them merely as ns sei se ser ser- organizations organisations which the they by 1 y forc or intrigue bend c or corrupt to their own purpose Th The ave regarded the smaller states i in particular J lar and the peoples peoples con coneo could coul be eo e overwhelmed ed by force as the their natural tools tool's and Instruments c of lamination Their purpose h ha has long ong ng been avowed The statesmen of f other nations to t whom whom that pui pur jose ose was vas incredible paid little alter atte ion tion regarded regard d what German German es- es ors jors expound expounded d' d In in their class room roon md nd German writer waiter set forth to Ih ti the It orld as the goal goal of German policy is dS s rather the dream of f minds d ge- ge ached from pr practical affairs as pr private conceptions of Getan Gei Ger n tan nan n than as the tho actual jans lans of responsible sible rulers but Jut th tu tiers ulers of Germany themselves knew kne til Il the while what concrete plan plan- what hat well-advanced well intrIgues intrIgues' l latek la tack tek acl of what the professors and th the writers w were ware re saying and were glago glato gla glai to 0 go yard for unmolested filling ing th the crones of the Balkans with German Germai Minces putting pulling P German officers a ae a ahe at h he e service of Turkey t lo to drill he her mies and make interest with he hel developing plans of sedi ant rebellion In Indian and Egypt setting etting their fires in Persia The Thi demands mands made by Austria upon S Serb rb la 1 were a mere single step in in a plat plan Lich compassed Europe and Asia from rom om Berlin to Bagdad They hopes hoped those liose ose demands might not arouse Eu rope ope but they meant to pr press ss then them whether tether they did or not for the they ought hought tia themselves ready for the finI fin fin- 11 I issue of or arms Germanys Germany's P Plans Their plan was to throw throw w a broad broat bell Bit it of German Grman G military po power er and political control across the very center cen cen- ter sr of Europe and b beyond yond the Med Med- into the heart of Asia and ad d Hungary Austria-Hungary was to be as much tilt uch tl their tool and pawn as Serbia r Bulgaria or r Turkey or the ponders ponderous ponder- ponder ous is s states stales of the east Austria Austria- Hungary indeed was to to become part II of the central central German empire abbed ab- ab bed and und dominated by the same forces ees and influences that had Lly cemented the e G German states stales themselves The dream had its ils heart at Berlin it could have had a heart where nowhere else It rejected the tho idea of solidarity of race entirely The choice oice Ice of peoples played no no part int In Inal it al nt t all It II contemplated binding to- to together gether her racial and political units which ilch Ich could coUld be kept together only by force Czechs force Czechs Magyars Magyars- Cr Greats Serbs bs Rumanians Turks Armenis Armen- Armen Armenthe the lans is the proud states of Bohemia and d Hungary the ilie stout little conj conj- of tha Balkans the tn- tn in- in ble Turks the subtle peoples of lie east easl These peoples peoples' did noti not wish sh i to be united They The ardently de deed sired ed d to direct their own affairs would uld id be satisfied only by undisputed l Independence They could co ld be kept quiet only bV by the presence r the constant threat o of fanned armed men They would live u und under r er d er a common power only by sheer compulsion and await the day ay of revolution But the Ger- Ger Gelm German m man military statesmen statesmen had reckoned with all that t and were ready to deal with wilh it II In Jn their own way And they have actually carried the greater part of ot that amazing pla pIa into nto execution Look how J st stand nd Austria is al nt their mercy merc It II has has has' nc need ed not upon its own in Ini Initiative n I. I the choice of its ils its own ve or upon ulon people leople but at Berlins Berlin's dictation ever since the war began Its people now it until have desire desiro peace peace e but cannot leave eave Is granted granted from from Berlin The so so- called d central powers are in fait fact fa t ml IUt a single power Serbia is at its ite it mercy nercy should Its hands be but for fora a moment freed Bulgaria has con can dented to lo its will and Rumania i is s overrun The Turkish armies which Germans trained are serving Gerr Gera Ger Ger- I r a many eerily certainly n no the guns o of ot t German tiT elpe in III the h harbor rail at t r h 11 mid Turk Turkish o that thai they have have no mea tt h their or orders ers i from 11 Hamburg to the theis Berl beill I is s spread Persian g Bolt Talk Tall of P iv Is 13 it not nol a easy to un eagerness for a Poa peace manifested that the snare was from set her tI and Peace peace has hee been foreign office for n the ta now fl Ow more not nol t r f peace pea ce u uPon pen tive but bul upon JJ her th the thi naU nations ms over which sh the she herself herselt to lo hold not nottie the ad He Ue of the talk has tt been most of or it has liar l v been n p pall tL all sorts of I channels iu it me and i In n all aU has rat sorts Orts never with the terms terns of Bah h the Germ German an 0 gover government 51 continued on pa Page tj fu-tj t il Greatest Roll o o of H iono Honor n continued from first firs paste pap pa e I. I Lewis Victor Morrel Hiette Allen McKown George H. H Mash 1 George Albert AlbertI I McDermott l Jams John McConkie Wilford 75 Martin l Chas Jos Joseph ph 77 Mai Marcellin llin Emil L Louis is 78 Maddux- Maddux Ben Ben I 79 Morris lorris George P P. Myler John JQhn B. B z I Maxwell Robert obert Bo Boyde I II de 4 91 Ma lm Maxwell Irvin Leslie I 92 Morris Ruben A A. A I Murdock 1 Lawrence L L. 9 Mealing Meiling C Curtis W. W Morris Lee C. C t Motter Fred W. W Murphy 1 Edwin L L. I I Mitchell Parley C. C Mathews Jefferson Clement Clement Clement Clem Clem- ent Mitchell Wilford Alden Ol Mathews Claude Alb Albert rt Mecham 1 Clarence E. E 03 Mitchell Ire Ambrose Marsing Be Bert t L L. Morgan 1 Ira Roy Mecham 1 George org Warthen 1 05 Miller Parley V. V McDonald 1 Frank Franl Martinez Joseph Birch 03 McIntire 1 Joseph Birch 09 Mecham Joseph f IVl Miles les Edgar Henry d' d 11 Elmer Andrew r tt Wallace R R. McAffee 1 AlmaE Alma E E. M McAffee cAffee F Farley M McAffee Affee David Mayhew Robert Ray Mayhew Otto Benjamin Mott Samuel D D. D Mott Joseph M M. r Mott l Orson Mitchell 1 Clifford PL rh 0 1 Mitchell ll l' l Marvin arvill Mitchell Argy Homer 42 Mecham James Duke t. t Murray l George Mott Mot Marion t Moore J Jas as H. H t Monks 4 Frank Maxwell i Bruce Arthur Arthur Bruce Michie 1 Marvin Robert Maxwell Robert Rabert Warren Maxwell John Lawrence Mitchell l HWu Huau 4 Marett Parley Marvell Mitchell CIvo a Mayers Leland Albe Albert Alpert c Marrott Lorance Loranc H Henry nrY McClellan Doyle Morgan l Dan Ray Murray l J J. J Guy 1 Mai key John Patrick Miller Newt Moon Nephi o Milliner William H Henry McMillian l Robert McDonald 1 Chase 1 McDonald Willard J McDonald Stanley If McDonald Monroe 50 Murdock Nymphas Warren Warre Mecham Brigham Warren Murdock l Douglass Todd Murdock furdock Scott Nathaniel 54 McMillan George Nickolos Lenies Levies Lemuel 4 6 Nye Richard Hesmer Nelson Ethan Charles t t- Nielson Arthur C C. Nielson Niels E E. Nye David W. W James William Villia Nicholson tarry DarrY M M. t 1163 Nick Charley Nick J John Johl oh Harper Nowland James aides W. W a Nelson Robert L L. Li Nelson Royal Christen Christon Nielson Peter Leonard Novak Louis Norton Alonzo Nielson Emery Nielson Gennies James Nicholson Paul Vinton ONeil O'Neil B. B George eorge orge Ernest Ernest- Edgar Edgare Tool e Bernard William ONeil O'Neil Lycurgus Orr Leslie James 79 On Orr David J John hn Olsen Henning Benjamin Oman William Lav Lavern rn 82 Owen Harry I Orser Omer Wm Lym t Owen Frank n n. n 1 P Parson J. J E. E t Pai Pason Palson son Clyde Charley Pe Perry D Dan n Palmer Archie J Peatross William WilliamS S. S 4 Pike Edwin Clarence J Jacob aco b Pett Pettey Homer Pious Lesley Webster Albert E Eugene genc 95 95 Peacock Clarence Lloyd Pearson Sherwood H H. Peacock Clinton Movell 98 8 Powell Arthur E. E Fred Pec t l Jesse L Leroy roy Potts Azim G. G Pace Fran Francis is Marion 3 Pace Earl P Palmer Edward Lawrence continued on page eight |