Editorial on Home Celebrations for Returning Soldiers, July 28, 1919

From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, July 28, 1919

The North Carolina communities that have given welcome home celebrations for soldiers have included the colored boys of course. But we have yet to hear of an incident that was not to the credit of the people of both races at any of these celebrations. North Carolina colored soldiers have returned from the camps or war and gone to work. They are no causing any trouble. They are behaving like men.

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Catawba county people will not forget to make preparations to attend the big county welcome to young and old veterans at Newton on Thursday, August 14. There is every reason to believe that it will exceed in interest any gathering of the kind ever held in the county seat and those who are absent will regret it.