The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-05-03
HIGHEST IDEAL
OF WAR UPHELD
BY A VETERAN
MAJ. BELL BRINGS MESSAGES OF
CONFIDENCE AND PATRIOT.
ISM TO MAURY COUNTY.
AUDIENCE THRILLED BY HIM
Liberty Day Address Pronounced
Most Impressive That Has Been
Heard Here Since Beginning Of War
Day Was a Success.

and hardshipS, its hero1Sm and SELF
sacrifice, its songs and amusements,
and the fortitude of the French and
British people was graphically de-
scribed by one who has had part in
1t not only but also one who had a
mind big enough to grasp all OF its
intricacies, heart tender enough to
feel the suffering of the people but
brave enough to share the dangers,
and a naturally impressive ability as
an orator to express himself Maj.
Bell used none of the commonplace
facts in his address. He spoke along
the lines of the highest idealism
among nations, but his ideals were
founded upon grim facts and thanked
by the will to use every conceivable
means of force to accomplish those
ideals. His address has been unan-
imously declared to be the most i'm
pressive that has been heard in CO.
| OlhCO LILO pC6Iuhih6 VA thO
war.
The entire days program was a
success, and from the point of Liberty
Loan subscriptions it was glorious
achievement, total of about $4,000
being sold, which will be credited to
the woman's committee which had
charge of the sales for the day.
Preceding the address by Maj. Bell,
the Columbia Military Academy ca
diets gave an exhibition drill on court
square and West Seventh street and
the cadet band gave patriotic con
cert. High school girls and boy
scouts directed by Prof. John B.
Dodge led the great crowd in singing
patriotic songs.
From the west portico Of the court
house above the platform lavishly
decorated with American and allied
flags, Judge J. T. Mcknight announc-
ed the sale of each $1,000 worth OF
bonds and the movement of the giant
figure made rapid start and soon
had made the circuit of the square.
To Miss Fletcher Fariss of the Wom-
ans committee went the, credit for
selling the first $1,000 worth of bonds,
and other sales were made in rapid
succession At four o'clock Uncle
Sam made his last tour, being car
ried in Mrs. Amis Timmons car to
the corner of South Main and Ninth
streets and back out West Seventh to
the postoffice where he was placed
to stand as monument to the sue
cess of the day in selling Liberty
Bonds.
! Maj Bell began speaking about 2
o'clock and spoke for an hour and a
half He was introduced by Hon. j..
| II. Dining. The crowd stood
throughout the address packed as
close to the platform as it was posi-
BILE for them to hear. At times as the
speaker told of some pathetic Incl
dent there was scarcely dry eye in
the great throng. Men and women
shed tears of sorrow and of enthus-
iasm alternately. His ringing declara-
tons of the inevitable victory OF
America and her allies started storms
of applause and cheering that echoed
over the city. His reference to the
debt of America to France. poor,
bleeding France, who for three and a
half years has beat back the Huns,
brought a realization that America
must pay that debt now and do honor
to the spirit of Lafayette.
Maj. Bells praise of the allied SOL
diers was impartial. He lauded the
French, the British, the Scotch, the
Canadians, the Australians and all OF
the armies of men who are fighting
shoulder to shoulder for the one cause
of liberty against autocracy and OPP
preston. He is an American but
soon after the outbreak of the war he
volunteered in the British military
service and for two years was on the
battlefields of France and in the ex-
petitions in Africa and Asia. There
is no part of the fighting that he has
not seen. When America entered the
war he returned to his country and
was detailed as an instructor at the
military officers training school at
Fl. Oglethorpe where he ranks as one
of the most capable men in the mill
tary medical service.
Mai. Bell began his address with a
reference to the singing. He said the
singing of the Columbia audience was
called that for want of better name
but that after they have caught the
spirit of the war the people will
sing as the people OF Europe now sing
when they gather to celebrate vic
tory or to pray for the defeat of the
Huns. Then the people of America
are going to sing the wonderful sons
of victory. He told In his most pleas
ing manner, with a voice dramatic IN
its timbre, about the songs of the al
lies. quoting verses from some o.
l4ha,n n,,f ba caid that n was n1aa 9