Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18

present for an unavoidable reason.
! However, DR. Lee did not discover Mr..
Scott's absence until after he had
complimented Mr.. Scott eloquently as
one of California's first public citizens.
"A man who runs a peanut stand down
here on Broadway" was one way in
which the genial POSTMASTER lightly
alluded to Mr.. Scott in his capacity OF
president of the chamber of commerce.
Mr.. Lee then said, Great Scott!' in
tone which indicated that he was
ready to resign the platform, but Mr.
Scott did not appear.
Colonel Thomas Fitch made what
was probably one of the most enthu-
siastically received addresses of the
evening. Colonel Fitch spoke upon the
subject, "A Rolling Stone" His ref
erence to Missouri as the "ShoW me-
state was exceedingly brilliant. He
said
Missouri has given to the national
vocabulary valuable compilation Of
two words of the English language.
| Separately they are as harmless as
charcoal and salt petre. Combined
they are as powerful as gunpowder.
| They are the words, Show me-"
Speaking Of the girls of younger Mis-
souri,, Colonel Fitch said: "The girl
of those days was not scientific. She
| did not meet the demands of her ad-
mirer for osculation with the statement
that there are 6722 dangerous, prim-
orial germs in each kiss And if she
told him so he would, if he were a
dead game Missourian, have taken the
kiss, even if in taking it he had as
simulated enough incipient pollywoogs
to have called for Los Angeles ref
erendum election"
MISSOURI Halls CALIFORNIA
In closing he said: "And Missouri
says, Hail to you, California, bright
est star in the constellation of states.
| Hail to you Los Angeles, magical city
| standing robed in splendor by the side
| of the sunset sea, waving the golden
! helmlet in welcome to your sisters. If
anybody asserts that you are not the
most beautiful city in the most beau
| tiful country of a beautiful world, he
will have to show me-
H. G. Lichtenberger spoke upon ma
| tive Sons and Daughters" The object
Of the organization of which Mr.. LIGHT
enberger is head, he said, 'is to extend
the glad hand of fellowship to the sons
and daughters of other states who come
here to reside, to rejoice in prosperity
of which Californians know so much,
and to thrust out the hand of the Good
Samaritan in adversely"
1--WE welcome with open arms the
thousands who are already here and
the thousands who are to come. We
welcome them to the happiest and most
progressive and most loyal people un-
der the sun"
DIR. Lee summarized the feeling of
every man and woman in the great
banquet hall when he uttered as his
final remark the words:
1--WE have all had a good time"
BANQUETERs JOIN IN SONG
Then the voice of the wonderful as
semblage, the most representative
American assemblage ever gathered at
one table, rose up in harmony, singing
America" Not a throat in the many
hundreds was silent. 1t was a meeting
to make one proud to join in the love
song to the mother of states.
Bishop Conaty pronounced the bene-
diction, and the largest banquet ever
held in the world was ended.
If an attempt were made to express
the sentiment of the banquet in a few
words those words might well be:
''Honor first to all the old home states
but California"
To give credit for the unquestionable
success of the banquet to any one man
would be preposterous. Many had a
hand. The one man, however, to whom
credit for birth of the idea, to whom,
in fact credit for birth of the idea of
a federation of state societies is to be
given is James A. Williams, manager
of the federation. He it has been who
has inspired all the forward move
ments of the federation and who made