The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-12-21
worries GREATEST
NAVY UNIQUE THEME
RtU CROSS SPEAKER
WORSHIP, SCHOLARSHIP, HARD.
SHIP, FRIENDSHIP AND CIT.
lZENSHiP THE FLEET.
u GE PATTERSON, PATRIOT
Small Audience Hears Splendid Ad-
dress on Patriotism and Hearts
Fired by Philadelphia at First
Methodist Church.

About 500 Red Cross members
missed Wednesday night splendid
address and an opportunity to learn
much about the work of their organi-
cation when Judge John NJ. Patter-
son of Philadelphia spoke to hand
full of persons at the First Methodist
church on the Christmas membership
drive OF the American Red Cross
society. His theme was patriotism
and he handled it as only true
American could.
Judge Patterson was not non
plussed by the scarcity of his hear
ers, but himself set up an excuse for
! them saying that he realized that the
j people are so absorbed with the rush
of Christmas business on top of mum
erous activities in the interest of the
war that they are loath to go out to
hear speakers on a subject about
which they have already heard so
much. His address was such that no
! person, however we'll informed about
.. the war and the work of the Red
.. Cross, would have regretted hearing.
THE Worlds Greatest Navy" was
his subject, but it was not the navy Of
Great Britain. of France, of the United
/ States, Of Germany or OF any other
! nation about which he spoke. 1t was
! the great navy composed of Worship,
!. Scholarship Friendship, Hardship
: and Citizenship, to which he added
. rship-membership in the Red
] Cross, that every nation must have
] il it is to endure. Relying upon his,
I tory to prove his assertion he show
! ed that every great nation that aban-
: doned worship and religion had fall.
: en-; that every nation without intel
! ligent inhabitants had fallen, that
! every nation that had not observed
] the principles Of right as embraced
1 in friendship had fallen, that only IA
: tons that had undergone hardships
had prospered and that only nations
with the highest standard Of citizen
!! ship could endure. His plea then was
! for membership in the Red Cross as
0 the embodiment Of all these things.
Z Judge Patterson said that he die
4 not doubt but that the patriotism Of
the people of America everywhere
: was what it should be, but that he
! had observed on his tour that as ne
I left the coast cities the manifesto
, ton of that patriotism diminished
I that the people of the interior do no
= seem to realize the gravity of the wa
: situation as do those on the coast wht
: are in closer touch with the conflict
Having been in Europe at the out
! break of the war, Judge patterson
/: was qualified to speak with authorit.
= tupon the atrocities of the Germans
He said that either Germany is RICH
!. or we are wrong and that there is M
: compromise between right and wrong
He contrasted the imperialistic gov
n eminent of Germany with the demo
4 cratic government of America, am
ElIaclared that we are not fighting TO
= any differences of the moment but 10
= the maintenance of those principle
]! That have come down to us through
81 the centuries of struggle for human
n freedom. II Germany wins the worl
n will 90 back to the principles of TIL
= dark ages, but if the allies win Their
=lNill be new era OF greater liberty.
Russia's predicament was explaih
!! as a breakdown of the moarle OF tn
L people, who have neither intelligenc
n nor a true conception of Citizenship
The fate of Russia will be the fat
of America if We do not win this wal
L Judge Patterson branded as Ii
L spread by German propagandists an
n aspersion on the Red Cross, and h
81 told the story Of the organization O
u this noble society which is more tina
:. the mere attention to the matera
comforts of the men under arms, bu
a is the hand on the shoulder whic
n makes the boys on the firing lin
81 realize that the people back home ar
= supporting them.
W. S. Fleming. Sr., president of tn
y Maury chapter of the Red Cross, pre-
L sided. The invocation prayer wa
n said by Dr. s. D. Logan and the benz
n diction by DR.. J. c. Molloy. Mis-
= Elizabeth Whitthorne led the singin
of America" and THE Star Spangle
= Banner" with Mrs. Ella Kelly at tn
~ orCou