The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-01-04
BUSINESS MEMS BANQUET.
Hotel Carnegie Filled With Distinguished
Citizens Friday Evening, Dec. Is.

ceed with the program. If there arr
any two subjects that are insepara
BILE they are "Press and Progress, an(
if there is any one man capable o.
handling them pleasingly, it is Mr.. E
Munsey Slack.
Mr.. Toastmaster and Men of John.
son City: confess that in memorizing
impromptu and extemporaneous talks
my memory is as tickle as politicians. s.
The divine Bernhart never appears
without notes, and, as a matter of fact,
it would be somewhat anomalous for q
representative of the press so appear
without copy.
The press Of any city is the Archime-
dean lever that lifts city from the
slough of despond to delectable noun
tain. When the air is not surcharged
with red-headed language and thou
sand factional tomahawks are no longer
brandished, when only the velvet flute
note of harmony, proclaiming peace,
good-w among all men, is heard the
job is difficult enough, but is absolute
ly impossible without the steady an
sturdy cooperation of the entire citi-
zenship.
The press and progress are Siamese
twins-kill one and the other dies;
wound the former and the latter is pull
ing. Hand in hand they go, promot-
ing the Welfare of all. The press is for
the Soldiers Home, new railroad, for
a new depot, construction of macadam
turnpike, the laying Of sidewalk and
the locating of new industries. 1t in
variably lends whatever influence it
may have to material progress, strong
ly believing that when another manu-
facturer is added to the population,
there is more money in circulation,
more people buy dry goods and groce-
ries, clothing and insurance, use elec-
trio lights and read newspapers. All
are benefited. 1t may be encroaching
on another's ground, but it is material:
The press of Johnson City is aesthetic
enough to stand for reviving, rejuve-
mating and repainting in this town
until she resembles a comely bride
nervously anticipating the arrival Of
her passionate lordl
Along educational lines we are op-
posed to any one teacher attempting to
instruct more than thirty students.
For teacher to generalize to sixty
students, each possessing o separate
and distinct individuality, we care moi
if he or she possesses the wisdom Of
Solomon and Plato combined, why il
is nothing short of cruelty to the young
"deers." Therefore, the press adVo'
Gates another school-building in north
western Johnson City and magnif
cent high school building on noble ole
Science Hill in order that your chill
dren may be fitted to intelligently ex
ercise the manifold duties OF citizen
ship and reflect the highest credit and
honor upon their parents.
Morally and spiritually the press il
just as clean as the delinquent subscri
Der and the drowsy individual wht
doesn't advertise will permit it to be
Incidentally it shall strenuously advo
cate the construction of more new
churches and devote as much space tt
ecclesiastical metamorphoses and theo
logical metempsychosis as the demo
cratic, republican and prohibition can
didates will stand for.
In other words the material, educa
tional and moral progress of johnson
City is in the press heart, the goldel
clapper in bell, and as the pres
knows no rest, always the heart
shaken, and ever rings its name.
Again, fellow citizens, the press c
any community must needs be just
a trifle in advance. 1t is the messer
: ger that spies out and attracts to th
: promised land; to do this work vigol
i ously, to meet the mark of their hig
calling the newspapers must be patrol
} lied constantly and literally, not sp'
radically and stingily, by every bus
ness man in the community, for the
= are published week IN aud week ou
whern business is good and when bus
ness is bad, in sunshine and shadoV
The press must be stood by even
9 the business element expects the pre-
to stand for the city and tor progres
: and 1t will exert an influence that "
not be despised and an energy that
tireless.
BENJAMIN Franklin, who was n
J. without some experience, said that
,. is just as necessary that there be a su
a plus in publishing newspaper as
| conducting banking business. Ct
tainly it is very unpleasant to condu
any sort of business with deficit CO
stantly staring you in the face.
Therefore 1 beg of you, if you expe
the press of this city to be the lit
Cured His Mother Of Rheumatism.
9" My mother has been a sufferer
la many years from rheumatism, sa
W. II. Howard, of Husband, Pa. g
times she was unable to move at a
IN while at all times walking was painfl
40 | presented her with bottle of Cha
. berlain's Pain Balm aud after few 6
70 plications she deci led it was the MT
a. wonderful pain reliever she had e'
=. tried, in fact, she is never without
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