The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-10-03
Bale WAGGENER
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Bale Waggener's twelfth annual pic
mic here today. 1t was the largest
crowd Atchison ever had. Many
thousands heard President Taft pay a
beautiful tribute to the famous Atchi-
son man when the president, on behalf
of the people of Atchison presented to
Mr.. Waggener a handsome silver low
ing cup. Tears appeared in Mr.. Wag-
goner's eyes as he spoke his thanks.
All morning special trains and regu-
lar trains with extra coaches poured
thousands of children and grown-ups
into Atchison. After the last excur-
sion train had arrived, there was
children's parade, one of the most
unique ever seen in the West. Sixty
automobiles, most of them gorgeously
decorated with flags and bunting,
thirty horse vehicles, gaily decorated,
all laden with bright, pretty and hap
Ply children marching, bands playing,
horns blowing, everywhere happy chill
dren, were the features of the page
ant, with Mr.. Waggener, Atchison's
Santa Claus the central figure of
the demonstration,
President Taft presented the loving
cup to Mr.. Waggener and said:
I feel greatly indebted to Mr. Bale
Waggener for the opportunity of COM
ing to this unique entertainment To
entertain for twelve years the boys
and girls of a community like this is
an opportunity, but 1t required a gen
ius to recognize the opportunity and
seize it as Mr.. Waggener has. If
were DESTROYS of accusing Mr.. Waggen-
err of political aspirations, l should
say that he had found the way to the
the voters through their children, but
Mr.. Waggener illustrates what We
all of us-have to learn. 1t is the
truth that the real pleasure n,life is
not in dressing, eating good things
and doing things that entertin our
selves, it is doing something for 9th
ers, not in order that you may get
from them expressions of gratitude
because that is the cheapest reward
but it is the consciousness of hav-
ing put happiness into the lives of
others that really brings happiness
into the heart of the benefactor.
Envies Waggener.
Il envy Mr.. Waggener the pleasure
he has in looking back over these
twelve years, and in looking over this
ocean of faces, to feel that everyone
is responding to the feeling that he
loves Bale Waggener, because Bale
Waggener has shown that he loves
everyone. He has been up to Mime
sofa. He has been ill, and he has
been subjected to the surgeons knife.
He comes back to illustrate the won
derful improvement in the science of
surgery, and / hope he is well. He
was met at the railway station by g.
900 children to testify their thanks to
God that he had recovered from his
illness and was restored again to this
community"
Bale Waggener's Return.
The Journal, in commenting on Mr..
Waggener's return recently from the
hospital, where he was seriously i'll,
said:
Everybody in Kansas knows Bale
Waggener, either personally or by
reputation. Many know him as a big
railroad attorney who has gained
wealth and influence; others as a sue
cessful politician, and still others as
citizen whom they may meet any
day on the streets of Atchison But
none of these people know Mr.. Wag-
gener as the children of Atchison
know him, for every tot and chick in
the town just naturally loves him and
he in return loves them.
when Mr.. Waggener was forced to
go to Rochester, Mimi, two months
ago to be operated on for a serious
malady, Juvenile Atchison mourned
the absence of its great friend and