The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-13
FATHERS, SONS
ENJOY BANQUET
SURROUND FESTAL BOARD
FRIDAY NIGHT AT LEE
HIGH SCHOOL
SPEECHES M A ID E
The Reverend Doctor Wander
mullen Makes Hit In Address
That Sparkles With Wit
And HumOr.

The Annual Father and Son Ban
quet at the Lee High School on Fri
day night was successful in the high.
est degree and proved to be one 81
the most enjoyable events Of the
year.
The banquet was held in the base
ment of the school building where
tables were set and covers laid for
two hundred guests. Students Of the
school were privileged to invite
father, uncle, older brother, or a man
not related by blood in case they had
no eligible relative.
Doctor II. II. Ellis, superintendent
of the Columbus schools, acted as
toasthaster, and presided in very
happy manner,
The tables were covered with snowy
linen, upon which was laid streamerS
of red. Upon the tables were vases
of red and white flowers. The dec
orations reflected the artistic taste
ard skill of the mothers of the
school," who labored faithfully and
zealously to make the banquet the
splendid success it was.
Doctor Ellis raped for order at
1880 o'clock and called upon the Rev.
Thos H. Lipscomb to offer prayer.
This was followed by short address
of welcome from Mr.. Goodwin Myrick,
president of the Older Boys Hi-Y
Club of the Lee High School and cap
tain of the Generals" Foot Bali
Squad. Mr. Myrick expressed heart
felt welcome in few well-chosen and
ealrest sentences.
Mr.. Daniel Boone. was the next
speaker. Mr.. Boone gave a brief out
line of the aims and purposes Of the
Hi-Y Club, saying that if its princip-
les were lived up to and its teachings
followed the boy would be developed
spiritually, mehtaliy, morally and
physically. The motto, he said, was
Help Each Other" instead of critic
ising, ridiculing or finding fault. The
Hi-Y boys go in for clean sports, clean
speech and for fairpess in the class
room and ON the athletic field. Mr..
Boore closed his remarks by appealing
to the fathers of Columbus to give
their sons a swimming pool.
Another high school student, Mr..
Frank King, spoke earnestly to the
fathers and welcomed them most
heartily to the banquet. He appeal
cd for closer fellowship between
fathers and their sons, declaring that
the father was the sons ideal man
and that all boys love their fathers.
"The next thing" said Toastmaster
Ellis, SIS something else; the next
number on the program you may put
in your mouth and swallow
Then came the young lady students
of the high school with liberally-flled
plates of roast turkey, cranberry
sauce, French peas, celery, turkey
dressing, and other good things to
eat, an appetite for which had been
created by a delicious fruit cocktail.
Everything that was offered the
fathers and sons, whether food for
thought, food for the inner man, or
attention from the ladies in charge
Of the preparation and serving Of the
food. was of the very highest order.
No detail was overlooked that might
add to the pleasure of the occasion.
At the end of the second course,
Toastmaster Ellis called upon Mr.. Y.
B. lines for a response TO the toast.
"Boyhood Reflections Mr.. INES
spoke eloquently and earnestly of the
life of the boys of the community, and
appealed to the fathers to set them
rood examples. "An index to the
kind of men these boys will make,
said he. "is to be found in the way
they work now in the school room and
on the athletic field" Continuing,
the editor of the Commercial said: Il
am a firm and steadfast believer IN
school room education, and also
believe in a practical education. !
believe in taking the boys to the
city hall, to the court house, to the
Chamber of Commerce and TO other
places where there are living eN-
amples Of practical community life.
Mr. r. A. Carson, an able and an
enthusiastic member Of the schooi
board. was the next speaker. Mr..
Carson talked about Athletics He
said he believed in physical education
as well as training Of the mind. "Of
course" said he, physical training
for BOYS and girls must be secondary
TO their mental development, bat
There must be "A development Of ply
sical strength IN order that a strong
mind may have a strong body to work
with and for IT," In referring to the
Foot Ball Squad. Dir. Carson said:
Il am proud Of the Generals. When !
I saw the Scooba players get of the
train today, I remarked to a friendtt