The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1920-03-27
Written Especially Tor The Sea Coast Echo
BY CLIFF WHEATLEY,

Written Especially Tor The Sea Coast Echo
BY CLIFF WHEATLEY.
Sporting Editor, The Constitution. Atlanta.
This story is affectionately de-
dicated to impressions.
Impressions, as we have come to
term a Feeling" we experience
when we are meeting something
new, or becoming acquainted with
some individual or community un-
knonw to us, are divided into three
assifications-good, bad and indif-
ferent.
Hers we will deal with only the
first class, for good impressions are
the only ones the members of the At
lanta Baseball Club and the newspa-
per men who are following the daily
Developments of the Crackers train
ing season, have come across, since
we have crossed the lang trestle and
settled to SOLID comfort in this hos
pitable little city.
Gratitude is the quality that all
of us feel in thanking the residents
of Bay St. Louis for the many acts
of kindness, the many good turns"
they have done for US since we ar
rived, and it will be with this atti-
tude, the twenty-odd members of the
Atlanta party, will leave the city
when the period of preparation for
the long summers work is complet-
ed.
A visitor to any city is prone
to form opinions of the community,
to pass judgment on the outlook of
the town, and the result of this hasty
observation is the in1mutable esti-
mate of the municipality he carries
with him in his visits to other sec
tions On account Of this fault, if
you may, or virtue, if our opinion
stands for anything, community num-
bers it's boosters by the impression it
makes on the visitor, and as the rule
operates both ways, the knockers"
arise from the same source.
Taken collectively, twenty opion-
forming visitors might have little
influence in aiding or hindering the
progress of a city, but twenty visi-
tors, representing every section of
the United Staes, all careful observ-
ers of civic pride and municipal
spirit when they return to their res
pective homes, are certain to give
their impressions of Bay St. Louis,
and there is little doubt in the writ
er's mind, that these estimates will
be favorable to the city of Bay st.
Louis, her ideals, constructive plans
and community foresight.
One of the Many Reasons.
Twenty-odd boosters, all members
of a single organization, will have
some effect on the future of any
town, and every member of the
Cracker clan will have many words
of praise for the things they have
observed around the city they are at
present practicing in. Of course,
there's reason. And we meet the
reasons" every day on the streets of
the town.
One of the 'reasons" can be
found at almost any time of the day,
where the players assemble after the
workouts of the day. We refrr to
His Honor, the Mayor, R. w. Webb.
Mayor Webb loses most of his inher-
ent dignity, SO much part of him,
when he is attending to the weighty
matters of municipal administration,
the minute he crosses the threshold
of the Klock Hotel, where the Frank
men have established headquarters.
In some mysterious manner, he for
gets that he has a city council to
worry over; a street department to
fret with at the end of every rainy
spell; that irate ballot casters hail
him at every avenue intersection to
fo1a "a o,olo i,,f iyfo
that must listen carefully. These
worries Mayor Webb smiles away,
when the merry patter from an over
worked piano reaches his hearing.
After that the mayor is just about
the most human, good-fellow the
men connected with the Atlanta
Baseball club have ever known. All
Of US to Mayor Webb are real "bud-
diesp This term, one of the most
expressive of the descriptive words
used by the service men during the
world war; so comprehensive to
those who have seen their 'buddies"
sacrifice precious life that the shell
pitted trails of the Argonne would
be safe for their comrades, who were
pushing toward democracy's final
objective, tells concisely what May
or Webb is doing for. the welfare
and comfort of the Cracker boys.
None other but buddy" would do
for US what the mayor has undertake
en- to accomplish, and that the players
appreciate his attention is putting it
in words totally inadequate. Perhaps
it would be more appropriate to as
sert that of all the reasons" why the
players of the Atlanta Baseball club
will depart with such good impress
sions of Bay st. Louis, Mayor Webb
is the chief one.
Where the Population Is Only Three
Thousand.
The writer has never been told the