Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-24
Memphis Editor Exhorts Pine Bluff Men to Make
 City Better Place.
ADVOCATES PARKS.
 LIBRARY, SCHOOLS
Former Citizen Emphasizes That for Community to Be Really Great Its People Must Create SOme-
 thing More Than Dollars.

c. P. J. Mooney, managing editor :f the Memphis Commercial Appeal, one of the country's greatest newspaper directors, and at one time a resident of Pine Bluff, last night, in a talk of an hour or more, made plain to 300 of this dity's business and professional men, that they should stand together as one man, should work steadily and patiently along well defined lines, to make Pine Bluff a bigger and better city, and above all things, to make it more and more "liveab ble" city. MT. Moneys talk was perhaps the l most interesting, the most instructive, the most "meaty' practical talk de- i livered to an audience of Pine Bluff people in many years. As one of his hearers remarked, he "covered a lot of territory" but he had firsthand knowledge of every matter touched upon, he knew whereof he spoke, he was never at loss for a name, or a date. or a figure, and the fact that he spoke continuously in a donversation al tone, in heart-tohart manner. only added to the stress placed up his re- IldFkS, IlOL ny HlHl, Ull Dy lle IIlt'l who heard him.
 Mr. Mooney sought no advantage from oratorical flights. He did not wave the Bonny Blue Flag, nor did he beseech the eagle to scream, when he urged that his hearers do their full part to reach stage of preparedness, for that period of close commercial tompetition which he declared will follow the coming of peace in Europe. He did not mount into empyrean heights when he spoke of the "sacred heritage of citizenship in this great republic" But he quietly spoke sentences whose meaning rang clear as tempered steel or cathedral bell, when he urged that his hearers do not make prosperity mean only matter of dollars and cents. but that they strive to make their dity, their epuntry, a better place ehically. better place in which to live, to bring up their children to be God-fearing. law-abiding, law-observing men. who will cherish that heritage. And the applause that interrupted him was spontaneous, as it was thunderous.
 Attendance is Large.
 The attendance at the membership banquet of the chamber of commerce was large, although there were not so many men present as covers had been spread. Something like 300 were in attendance, however. these including men who are leaders in the city's commercial and professional life. The spacious ballroom of the Hotel Pines mad been prepared for the affair, and three long tables had been provided. on the tables were vases of narcissus. tne only decorations used, At the mead of the denter table, where sat tne guest of honor, was lovely bas- ket Of pink carnations and maiden hair fern.
 Before the banquet. and following lt' MT. Mooney held an informal levee, m which he greeted old friends, made new friends, and renewed acquaint- aaceships. Members of the chamber ol commerce generally took it as a get-together' affair. spending more .,he exchanging social greetings and qnatting. than they have for lengthy perlod, in many instances.
 several musical numbers by talent ea local artists. stationed behind a screen at one end of the banquet hall. were pleasing numbers on the pro- eram arranged by the entertainment 'ommittee of the organization.
 m the absence of H. I. Holderness. president of the organization, detained oecause of the illness Of Mrs. Holder ness, Vice President w. w. Taylor tSe %ceed most adceptably and capably as .n., .ne presiding officer. A very brief .aik by MT. Taylor, as the guests as s.elnoled, concluded with the introduc- ru t,oh Of Rev. J. I. Norris pastor of thc rnsl Presbyterian church, who in ing. "p0'' ''o
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 MT. Taylor's talk was short, but he s.agt S.tuugnt a burst of applause when he a.a.eo ~ that progress has been achiev-
 u ,n the movement for a system O. parAs here, and particularly when ht hanouncfd hau definitely that the cham Oe' or commerce could give it's assur
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