The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-01-21
INTERESTING ADDRESS
FRIDAY EVENING
Lt.-COl. Dan Morgan Smith will Speak
in the Methodist Church at 7:3O
O'clock on the Work of the Ameri-
can Soldier in the Great War and
the Problems that Now Confront
the Country.

the Country.
The advance agent of Lt.-Col. Dan
Morgan Smith. who will speak at the
Methodist church Friday evening,
was here yesterday, making the final
arrangements for the lecture Col
Smith will arrive Friday and be the
guest of his father, DIR. d. NJ. Smith.
His address will be very interesting
one, and he particularly desires to see
ex-service men present.
Col. Smith has been all over the
United States on his speaking tour,
interesting his audiences wherever he
went. The Star has received in the
past few weeks a great many news
paper clippings referring to his ad-
dresses in various cities. One of these
from the Tucson. Ariz., Citizen, is of
particular interest. for in his audience
at that place were three ladies who
spent their girlhood in Ocala-Mrs.
Pendleton, Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Neely,
formerly Misses Maude and Mary
Reardon and Miss Minnie Nash. One
of these ladies sent to an Ocala friend
the clipping from the Citizen. which is
as follows:
"Anyone who loves the story of ad-
venture and daring cannot afford to
miss hearing Col. Dan Morgan Smith
Wednesday, Nov. 6. at the First
Methodist church.
"The colonel is a strange man with
strange history and has a strange
and wonderful story to tell. He is a
modest man and says as little about
himself as possible. He tells the
story of the war from the standpoint
of the private soldier-"the American
buck private who won the wars
the way he puts it.
"No one can listen to this story of
the war as he tells it without appre-
ciating as never before what the men
went through who left their midst to
go fight for the cause of freedom and
world democracy. He shows the life
of the soldier in all it's phases, in the
rest camp. down under the ground in
the dugouts, out in the trenches, over
the top. in the enemy's wire entangle-
ments, into their trenches. the night
raids, the hand-to-hand encounter-it
is a great panoramic word picture so
vivid as to make his hearers follow
him step by step, forgetting all but
the scene he paints. 1t is one of the
greatest war stories that has ever
been given the American public.
"This mans story is not a second
hand affair. but is told by a master
orator who led his men in the thick
of it and shared their fortunes thru
it all. He was wounded twice while
leading his men, and he is still suffer
Ing from shell shock, yet he declares
that all the heroes were found in the
ranks except a few lieutenants and
now and then a captain, but never
getting above that.
"The colonel speaks for one hour
ard fifteen minutes. The first hour is
given entirely to the story of the war,
and the last fifteen minutes in show
ing the similarity between the Hun
over there and the Hun over here,
He shows the danger from law viola
ton, and how it may bring about an
archy and bolshevism if we do not in
sist that America is for Americans
and that those who come here, must
be law-abiding Americans if they
stay.
"No one can listen to this lecture
without loving his country more and
being willing to make some sacrifice
for it's safety as the boys sacrificed
their all for it on the fields of France