The Hershey Press 1918-05-31

              Ralph Fiore Performed a Herculean
Task—More Than 300 In Line
Patriot ic Demonstrat ion
The Italian parade last Friday ev-ening
was one of the big Hershey surprises.
Ralph Fiore, our ever-alert officer of the
law , had been telling everybody what a
wonderful affair the Italian parade was
going to be, and we took all that he told
us with a grain of salt. However, Ralph
went about the task and as he said, worked
three days, 24 hours each day, and on
Friday went without breakfast, dinner
and supper, until he was assured that
everything was exactly as he wanted it.
Ralph said that the parade would start
promptly at 7 o'clock, and it was the only
parade we ever heard of that came any-where
near the schedule time, as the par-ade
did start but a few minutes after the
hour set, and this was occasioned by the
photographer taking a little more time
in photog raphing the group tha n Ralph
thought would be taken.
At a few minutes after seven o'clock
the parade began to wend its way from
beautiful Hershey Park, and it was then
that we knew th at Ralph had told us no
fairy tale, for the parade was one of gorg-eousness
and charm.
At its head was Ralph all decorated
with badges and looking at his best. He
was followed by ,the flag bearer who held
aloft a monster American flag, with no
other support thjan his arms. The pole
was unusually strong and this flag bearer
must have, been a Samson to have gone
the full length of the parade without fal-tering.
The Hershey Boy Scouts came
next and came along with a dash and vim
all of their own, being led by the Italian
band playing characteristic Italian airs.
The secpnd division of the parade was
led by a bevy of Hershey Red Cross girls
consisting of Misses Bessie and Minnie
Whittle, Mary Kauffman, Ruth Shultz,
Mildred Killian, and Katherine Snavely,
and they made a very pretty picture.
The Hershey Boy Scout Band followed,
leading the Italian representatives of
Democracy, of nearly three hundred strong.
One of the attractive parts of the parade
was that participated in by five Italian
girls att ired to repres ent the Allies, and
carrying large flags.
The parade was formed in Hershey
Park, then passed through all of the prin-cipal
streets of Hershey, then to Swatara,
where a patriotic demonstration was held,
and then proceeded to the quarries and
down the Union Deposit road to Derry
Church and then to Hershey Park where
the parade disbanded. About five miles
were traversed and the Hershey Red
Cross girls did not need any walking
exercise the next day. \
Ralph Fiore is to be congratulated upon
the manner that he handled the parade,
as he had all of the details to do himself.
Hershey, Pa., May 25, 1918.
Pure la Colonial Italiana di Hershey e
Swatara indistintamente non e venuta
meno a rendere il suo contribute patriot-tico
nel festeggiare il 24 maggio giorno
in cui 1' Italia per giuste ragioni politiche
ed economiche dovette coinvolgersi nel
grande massacro.
II 24 maggio, che per la nostra Italia
rappresenta nella futura storia la piu
grande pagine e questo per piu ragioni
lo pretendiamo perche da sola pote re-sistere
per lunga durata e con coraggio
incalcolabile al grande impeto del nemico
non curandosi dei grandi sacrifici, non
facendoli nessuno ostacolo ne spavento
le magne fortezze i tanti monti da alcui
ben minati non curandosi della grande e
difficile impresa da sorvarcare perche
fortemento animata da quell amor di
patria onde affrangere quel nemico in-civile
quella stirpe crudele e malvagia ed
alleggerire una volta almeno i nostri
fratelli irredenti che da anni ed anni sono
talmente gravati da quel giogo cosi
pesante di cui gli Asbury loro imponeva
a che oggi a squarcia gola implorano pieta
e soccorso.
II 24 Maggio sara per noi Italian! la
grande ricono scenza e simpatia di tutto
il mondo civile se verra fatto eco all az-ioni
del govemo di allora ed il valore del
nostro Esercito. Se si considera che 1'
entrata in guerra dell Italia salvo i nostri
alleati da una grande catastrofe, ed al
tempo stesso mise in condizioni i due
illusionist! imperatori di dover cambiare
i loro piani teste fatti in precedenza colla
convinzione di avere la nostra Italia sua
alleata.
E' stata il piccolo ma forte Regno d'
piu solenne diquanto fu, concorrendovi
in misura non prevista di donne bambini
e uomini di tutti ceti, innestando ciascuno
il tricolore con l'annessa bandiera Amer-icana.
Se tuttocio presegui col massimo ordine
e rispetto lo si deve all' iniziatore nostrc
connazionale Sigr .Raffaello Fiore il quale
serve in Hershey da dectective, un salute
si deve uniti e concordi al Mr. Hershey
che interprete dei sentimenti Italian
ci offri la sua musica con una rappresent-anza
della Red Cross ed una dei Boy
Scouts ed a Mr. J. E. Snyder che offri in
regalo un magnifico tricolore in seta. Un
fervido ringraziamento al nostro compagno
di lavoro Sig: ^Latino Corsi che in oc-casione
pronuncio un acclamatissimo dis-corso
rammentando i fasti valorosi df
Italia fin dal 1848. Infine e da lodarsi la
patriottica fanfara di Swatara che voll4
con maggior sacrificio onorare tale storica
giornata. I
Italia da sola a sopportare la disfatta di
Caporetto, una tuttocio non si rese mai
vile di fronte al memico, non perdette mai
quell' animo patriottico come difatti lo
si vide poco dopo che da sola medesima
riusci a fermarli e respingerlo oltre il
Piave dicen doli—di qui non si passa.
Casa vogliamo di piu dai nostri fratelli
che da tre anni combattono, stanchi ed
affaticati pur pensando alle loro madri
alle loro spose ai loro figli? Andiamo
orgogliosi del valore spiedtato dei nostri
fratelli e non vergogniamoci di essere
Italian! dando loro maggior coraggio
contribuendo in maggior misura alle loro
richieste ai loro fabbisogni. Chi e che
non si dice stanco della guerra? Quelle
in umano ma considerando che la presente
guerra serve a proteggere la Civilta 1'
Arte a la Giustizia ragione percui tutti si
dev' essere in un sol pensiero, augurandosi
ben presto una pace perenne una pace
onorata.
La Italica dimostrazione di affecto
di Hershey e Swatara non poteva riuscire
Italian Parade
Was Big Success
Hershey Goes
Over The Top
Hershey Oversubscribes It s Red Cross
Allotment by More Than $8,000
Over $10,000 Subscribed
As usual, Hershey went oyer the top.
The quota for the Red Cross campaign
was $2,000, quite some quota for a town
the size of Hershey. But the committee
under the able leadership of Mrs. W. R.
Esbenshade, went to work with a vim,
and seemingly had little difficulty in rai s-ing
the allotment. In fact when all the
returns were in, more than $10,000 hzd
been subscribed.
Hershe y Barb er Shop
In New QuaKtei js
Occupies Large Room on First Floor
Of the Hershey Central Theatre
Capable Tonsori al Artists
The Hershey barber shop has beai
moved from the Hershey Central Theatre
building, occupying the spacious room on
the first floor, overlooking the lawn front-ing
on Chocolate Avenue.
The room has been renovated and looks
as nifty as nifty can be.
The barber shop is in charge of Thomas
Black, who is assisted by Paul Gray—bcth
capable men.
Mr. M. S. Hershey will give a "Red
Cross Lawn Party" to the ladies of the
Hershey Red Cross branch, on Wednes-day
evening, June fifth, at his residence,
"High Point."
WILL ENTERTAIN LADIES
OF HERSHEY RED CROSS
NEW TRAIN FOR HARRISBURG
The train that took on express oi ly,
stopping at Hershey at 1.02 in the after-noon,
beginning this week, will also take
on passengers for Harrisburg and inter-mediate
points.
Altho Old Sol did not shine kindly on
Decoration Day, nevertheless this Sid
not deter the crowds from coming to
Hershey Park.
CROWDS AT HERSHEY PARR
PARTICIPANTS IN THE ITALIAN DEMONSTRATION