The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-03-01
Annual Banquet
IS Big Success
FATHERS AND SONS MEET FOR
DINNER AND PROGRAM
THURSDAY EVENING.
GOOD PROGRAM GIVEN.
FATHER JIRACEK SPEAKS ON
THE HOME OTHER GOOD
TALKS GIVEN.


banquet was held at the armory last
Thursday evening and was accounted
by all who attended it a very worthy
successor to the first event of this
kind which was featured last year
These banquets, uniting as they dc
all the people of the community, are
one of the several signs of community
growth and cooperation now existent
in Redwood Falls. The banquets are
given under the auspices of the Com
mereial Club, the banquet chairman
appointed by the executive committee
of the club this year being G. A. Jaeh-
ming, with an assisting committee
consisting of Chris Schultz, Mrs. F
G. Hubbard, Mrs. L. P. Larson and S.
E. Hargis. Several subcommittee
were appointed to have charge Of the
banquet and it was the united activi-
ties of all committees which made the
event the success it was. Every one
who shared in the work also shared in
the success although Chairman Jaeh-
ming, in speaking for the men on
these committees, states that the sue
cess was due to the wonderful work
done by the ladies of the city who
cooked and served the banquet-and
it is quite impossible to find single
dissenting voice to this opinion.
Five hundred and fifty persons
were served, this number including
the members of the orchestra and the
ladies serving Of this number over
four hundred were the guests proper
the fathers and sons for whom the
banquet was given. These marched
to the tables to march played by the
high school orchestra, and Rev. A. w
Ross pronounced the invocation be-
fore they were seated.
During the service of the dinner
the orchestra furnished several num-
bers, the High School Boys Quartet
sang, Alvin Bittrich played cornet
solo and several songs were sung by
the guests under the direction Of B
L. Main. At the close of the dinner
Charles Burmeister, the toastermast-
er for the evening took charge of the
program and very cleverly introduced
the speakers of the evening.
The first was F. w. Stanton, who
responded to the toast Dads and
Lads. Mr.. Stanton's talk was full OF
kindly and gentle humor which made
very palatable to his audience the
kernel of truth in his remarks. The
speakers urged fathers to be pals ano
sons to be considerate of their fathers
and their problems, and each, by for
getting himself, to help in the growth
and happiness of the other.
Kay Harris responded with well
defined talk on Mothers and Fathers
revealing to both parents some OF the
essentials of parenthood as boys see
a it. these essentials being an under
standing comradeship, a large patti
enee with boyish faults and little
time taken from the work phases OF
life for a genuine acquaintanceshlI
which the boys of the family.
Mrs. G.. A. Fobes, who spoke fol
the mothers of the city in response
to the toast Our Sons likened the
things which mothers desire for thei1
sons to the bountiful menu with which
the company had just been served
Mrs. Fobes closed her very splendid
talk with the Message of the Torch
putting upon the young men present
the responsibility of carrying on in the
homes, the city, the community ano
the state, the work started by then
elders, urging the necessity of clear
hands as the only proper means OF
carrying the Torch to victory.
The address of the evening was
given by Father Jiracek, pastor Of
the Church Of Saint Catherine, who
chose as his subject Father and Sor
in the Home. Father Jiracek usee
as his theme Judge Waite's question
"Where Shall Anchorage Be Found il
Not in the Home" and in wei
] rounded, well presented talk, made his
auditors seriously conscious of the
Home as the supreme factor in the
training and preparation of the young
people of the nation. Beginning
with the family as the foundation OF
All social structures, the speaker
brought out that the home is essen.
tial in material growth, and in the
growth of the arts and sciences anc
that in the search for these things
the ideal Home has somehow beer
overlooked. By series of well de
fined statements Father Jlracek made
plain that what the ideal home must
stand for, and what many modern
homes lack, is religious training on
which the young people reared in
these homes shall base their lives;
that this religion is matter of educa-
tion. and of parental influence; that
Home can only be ennobled by loyal
fv 10 that home and to duty and OBJ
adience to the principles given by par
ents. education and religion. This
WAS Father Jiracek's first introduc-
lion to many of the people of the city
and his strong personality as well as
his words of splendid and kindly ad-
vice to both parents and children,
made him many friends among his
new townspeople.
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