Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1910-01-21
POOR RICHARD CLUB
HAS JOLLY DINNER
Oratory, VIII and Merry Stunts
Mark Annual Feast of Adver-
Using Men at the Belle
vue-Stratford
RABBI WISE MAKES HIT

Real oratory, witty speeches merry
Jest and many unique stunts OF varied
kinds, combined on Monday night to
make the fourth annual banquet of the
Poor Richard Club a most interesting
and enjoyable affair. The dinner was
served in the Glover Room OF the
Belleyue-Stratford and for d evening
at least the members forgot their
daily tasks and whooped
things up in joyous abandon. Inc
Poor Richard Club is composed of buy
ers. sellers and writers of advertising.
The presiding genius of the feast was,
of course, Benjamin franklin, patron
saint of the club, and his bust, in
g~eniously lighted from within, beamed
on the merrymakers. Every conven-
ton of the regulation banquet was ao-
sent from the proceedings, the decora-
tions were humorously simple, consis-
ting of the bust referred to above, an
American flag and a copy of Ben Frank
Inns famous kite, key and all, hanging
from the ceiling in front of Toastmas-
ter Thomas Martindale.
While there was an orchestra, the us
nal string band, concealed behind a
bank of potted palms and ferns'' was
dispensed with and music stunts were
furnished by a Scotch piper, in plaids
and kits, who came in with the Scotch
broth, two Italian gentlemen, a mon-
key and a hand-organ, who rendered
the musical accompaniment to Tom
Daly's r~ecitations of Italian dialect
poems; a German band, especially pro-
vided for the delectation of Mr.. Martin
dale, who loves that kind of noise, and
finally by two pretty Italian girls, in
native costume, Who appeared with a
hand-organ at coffee time and added
their share of tue festivity of The occa-
sion. This last musical number gave
StanleyC.K rebs u chance to perform his
imitation of John Philip S jusa, which
he rendered with much verve and
apparent enjoyment until suppressed
by a volunteer committee.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of New
York, was the oratorical expert OF the
evening, his speech on the Power OF
the Press" being a really eloquent plea
for an unbiased presentment Of facts
by the newspapers.
s"The press Of the country must be
kept FROM the enslaving power OF
money! said The Rabbi. 1.-THE yellow
Journal that Is governed by gold prints
s1me OF the news and leaves some un-
printed because of orders from below.
A newspaper ought to be willing to
bear a party yoke, but not a party
muzzle; should lead, aud not be led by
political parties.
"Some day Philadelphians may I'M
derstand that before God created the
Republican party He created the thir-
teen colonies. / want the newspapers
of America 10 be loyal to country and
not to party. The best way to prove
yourself loyal TO the party of your af-
filiation may be to run counter to the
existing bosses. That may not be good
religious doctrine in Philadelphia"
Henry Rowley, of New York, made
one of the wittiest speeches of the eve
ming In responding to the toast, "Ben-
jamin Franklin-Man." "Franklin
was a wholesale plagiarizer," said Mr..
Rowley; This ability did not lie in the
direction of discovering truth as much
as 1t did in expressing truths neatly.
He stole other mems writings and re-
wrote them 80 neatly that he now gets
the credit for originating them. This
no doubt is what made you consider
him q good model for advertising men
to follow. He was not the first man to
advertise but he was the first to make
money at it."
Mr.. Rowley added that Franklin
never amounted to much in Boston,
but that the minute he landed in Phil
adelphia his good fortune began.
Thomas A. Daily provided the hit OF
the occasion from the entertainment
viewpoint, his recitation of his own
original ballads IN broken italian
English" especially the description of
a base ball game, in which the batter
is made TO chase a home run because
the outfielders refused to walk s far,
bringing down the house.
Mayor Reyburn made quite a hit by
a speech one hundred words long.
Director Clay drew a stirring picture Of
the values of Philadelphia.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, former Secretary Of
the Treasury; Hugh Chalmers, of De-
tIoit; Morris Williams, DR.. w. e.
Hughes aud the Rev. Robert Forbes
were among the other speakers.-Phil-
adelphia Evening Bulletin.