The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-03-09
STIRRING RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED I
AT LARGELY ATTENDED MASS MEETING
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE CITY HALL
Mr. Frank P Phillips Pesdes-Speches by President FAINT Hon.
John F. FriersOn, Hon. ]. l. Sturdivan, Mayor Glover
General Sykes, Doctor Whitfield and Others
Resolutions Read by DR.. J. w. Lipscomb

Seldom does 1t fall 10 the lot OIL
citizens of municipality to attend
meeting so fraught with community
welfare, and gathering so filled with
enthusiasm as the mass meeting held
at the City Hall on Monday night UNI
der the auspices Of the Forum De-
partment of the Columbus and Lown-
ties County Chamber of Commerce.
The meeting was presided over by
Mr.. Frank P. Phillips, chairman Of the
Forum Committee of the Chamber Of
Commerce, who raped for order at
TAO Mr.. Phillips stated that several
days ago a number of prominent c;ti-
zens of Columbus called to see him
with the request that he cali mass
n,cel. ing to discuss the ouesrfn of law
end order; that he then got, all the
members of the committee together,
and that they were of the unani-
nous opinion that a public meeting
should be called to take up any mat
ter that would be of betterment 70 the
city. "This," said Mr.. Phillips, sis by
way of explanation, and is MOI in-
tended as an apology" {.
Mr.. Phillips then called upon DR..
James W. Lipscomb, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, who read the
following preamble and resolutions:
Prime Requisites.
thinking that good government,
law and order, combined with clean
living and high moral standards are
the prime requisites of nations, states,
cities and communities, and thinking
that a discussion of such matters Is
always Of interest to law abiding citi-
zens, the Chamber, of Commerce ofI
Columbus and Lowndes County
through its Forum, has called this
mass meeting on this the seventh day
of March 1921.
Eve believe that deep down in the
hearts of every citizen there burns
brightly or smolders an ember of pat
riotism and manhood patterned after
the highest ideals, and that it is our
duty, privilege, and pleasure to meet
together from time to time, and re-
plenish these fires in order that we
may measure up to the highest type
OF citizenship.
eve know that if we fail to COM
prehend and appreciate the mani
fold blessings which are ours in this
country which guarantees us life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
bought as it was by our fore-fathers
at the price of untold hardship and
their very life blood, and further;
that if we fail to keep the trust"
ever striving for the highest in man.
hood, patriotism and citizenship, we
have but to turn to the pages of his
tory, refreshing our. memories OF
what happened to Sodom, Gomorah,
Babylon, Rome, Carthage, and at the
present time, to poor, ignorant, bleed
ing, down trodden, Bolshevik-ridden
Russia, as examples of our own fu-
ture state.
acting upon the above mentioned
facts, conditions and truisms, and in
the interest of every citizen, be he
conformist or non-conformist to the
afore- mentioned statements, and
whereas, to put the matter in more
concrete form, we recognize and de-
plore the terrible crime wave spread
ing over our great Nation, and realize
that the continuous breaking of law,
the sowing of the seeds of discomfort,
anarchism, bolshevism, communism,
and Germanism, il you please, will 60
far towards the undermining, break
ing down and ultimate destruction Of
this, the greatest government in the