The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-18
MONCRIEF SPEAKS
AT KIWANlS CLUB
Pastor of First Baptist Church DeIiv-
ers Oral Boost.

Probably no speaker who has ever
addressed the Kiwanis club has ever
been received with greater favor than
was DR.. A. j. Moncrief at yesterdays
| luncheon. The theme of DIR. Mon
crief's 10-minute talk was the COM
munity of interests. He took occasion
to say that men who have made their
| fortune and have acquired social and
political prestige who stand in the
way of younger men, are nuisanCes and
detliments to the community.
DR.. Moncrief urged every Brave to
prepare today for his opportunity and
to do today everything that came into
his head 10 do, not waiting for tomor
row, which never comes. This" he
said, SIS the best day of the best month
of the best year in the best century
the world will ever know"
In his closing paragraph, DR.. Mon
Grief urged that the Kiwanians re-
member that those things on which
the moral stability Of the community
is founded are most important of all
and extended a cordial invitation to
every Indian to help in the moral and
spiritual advancement of the commu-
nifty.
The committee on entertainment for
the district convention to be held in
Pensacola April II and II reported
and gave out the hist of committee
appointments for the convention.
t. L. Cant submitted a resolution
with reference to the encouragem
of the new administration in the ex-
tension of trade to South and Central
America, which was adopted. The
resolution follows:
Whereas, it has been announced
through the press that President War
rem G. Harding's policy will be to de-
velop relations of business and friend
ship between the United States and
are various nations of Central and
South America to a high degree, re-
garding it better to invest the energies
of this country toward the permanent
development of our own hemisphere;
therefore be it
Resolved, by the Kiwanis club of
Pensacola, that in view of the impov-
erished condition of the Old World
and the unmeasured richness of the
New in natural resources, we are con-
vinced that our presidents announced
policy holds out the greatest prospects
of immediate prosperity for our coun-
try from a commercial standpoint, and
that we therefore strongly. endorse his
stand and urge him to proceed with
all possible vigor, pledging him not
only our own most faithful support,
but that we. will take every possible
step to enlist the cooperate of the
entire section of country within our
influence; and be it further
Resolved, that we see in this policy
the immediate unfolding of the destiny
n panSann1a %
ways to Central and South America,
and the immediate rescue of our CITY
from the threatened business depres-
sion; and are profoundly impressed at
the thought of the energies of our en-
tire nation being directed through our
doors and those Of our neighbors, see
ing in this movement enlarge activity
and enrichment for. the entire gulf
coast. President Harding could not
have conceived a more potent step to
gain the support of the south to his
administration of national affairs and
to wipe out the last trace of section
alism and unity the country
Resolved, that we designate one or
more of our members to personally call
upon President Harding or upon one
or more of his chief advisers as soon
as practicable, to encourage them in
the wisdom of this step, to assure
them of our full support, and to i'm
press especially upon them the de-
STABILITY. from the standpoint of the
national welfare, of their immediately
and fully investigating Pensacola's
great superiority as a gateway and
taking speedy steps to have this gate
way fully ready to do it's part in the
proposed Western Hemisphere deval
opment which is an immediate need
in this crisis of readjustment.
Resolved, that we seek the most ear
nest cooperation of our representatives
incongress with our club committee,
especially the aid of Congressman
and bespeak united action
by all business and civic organiza-
tons of Pensacola in a project so
manifestly to the lasting advantage of |
all of us.