The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-11
COMMITTEE
TO WELCOME YORK
Hun Staying Sergeant Will
Tell Cotton Merchants
What War Taught.

PROMISES are that Sergt. Alvin G.,
York, premier Hun slayer Of the world
WAT vii be well welcomed excuse the
alIiteration) when he comes to Mem
phis town to spend three days ms the
guest OF the Cotton States Merchants
association at their convention Aug.
10, 20 and 81. A committee OF a men
and women has Just been appointed by
W.. b. Cleveland, chairman Of the as
sociation's program committee, TO well
come York when he appears, This
COMMITTEES is composed of the follow
ing: Leslie M. Stratton, general chair
man; Mayor Frank l.. M%onteverde,
Lient. Col. w, j. Bacon, Mai. Roane
Waring. Capt. Waiter c. Chandler. Boil
ton Smith, Judge Israel peres, l., ].
Moss, W. H. EtzHugh, Judge j. Nj.
Greer, ;: l.. Calhoun, Thomas h. King,
y. H., Ellis, n, A. Ramsay, Rev. W, II.
Coleman, Rev, c, II. Williamson, Rev,
Ben Cox, w. Il. Holt, Fred Collins M
9. Bailey, George X, James, c. W. Met
CALI, Jr., p. r. Barrow, Ben Parker,
T.. Henry Lake, w. r.. King, George A,
Lamb, Bono, Ark j. +. Crowell, Itta
Bena' Miss; w. II. Maxwell, stanton,
Tenn; W. B.. Pace, Mammouth
spring Ark. win a. Hall, J. r, Paine,
Mrs, John w. Mcclure, Mrs. W, Il.
King, Mrs. sam Phillips, Mrs. j. Il.
Paine, Mrs. Marion g. Evans, Mrs,
Hugh Hayley, Miss Minna Beasley,
Lieut.. Archie Quinn and William Orgiil
Sergt, Alvin G.. York, Of Pan Mail,
Fentress county, Tenn, who viii be the
guest OF the Cotton States Merchants
association during the three days Of
their sixth annual convention In Mem
phis, Aug. 10, 20 and 81, earned the dis
tlnction of the world wars greatest
hero by killing 70 Germans In a machine
gun nest with his rifle and capturing.
with five assistants, 1872 OF the enemy,
including four officers.
Gen. Pershing has declared this
achievement to be the greatest single
Der of tina 32Sth Infantry. SOD division,
and upon his arrival from France he
was greeted by the Tennessee society
OF New York and taken to the Waldorf
Astoria, where u dinner was served in
his honor and he was presented with
$4,000 In Liberty bonds.
Sergt. York Is n member of the Holt
church and has always lead a
Christian life. He has never had much
of an education but frankly. admits its
need and has set for himself the task
of founding a N educational institution
near his mountain home in order thai
his %neighbors' children will not be de-
prived as he was.
lessons from the War will be the
hubJttt VI IVlb y lHlKS 10 tlB meFH
chants who attend this %three-day bust
ness conference, during which he win
tell in his quite unassuming manner
of the big event of the war which .made
famous; of his religious convictions
against killing and how he became CON
WINGED Of the need for killing Germans;
of'the impressions created In his stoical
mind by the terrible experience and
now what he is going to do for hts peo-
pie since he has the opportunity to
benefit them. Surely such a man de-
serves TO be heard. You want to know
what sort of chap he Is and what en-
vironment fostered such a combination
OF moral courage and physical skill,
The Cotton States Merchants as
ISOLATION has arranged with the SER
geant to be its guest to provide an
opportunity for the merchants and bust
ness men Of the South, who viii be
in attendance at this convention to
meet and shake hands with him and
have a chat with this worlds hero, a
product Of the South,