The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-10
NWANIANS ENJOY
some GOOD WORDS.
Rev. Ben M. Edwards Entertains
Members With Fine Talk and MIR.
Pollock Renders Popular Songs

Members OF the Kiwanis club wer,
lentertained yesterday noon at the reg,
lular weekly luncheon, which wes helC
lat the Pensacola Yacht club. by goot
talk by Rev. Ben NJ. Edwards and Mr.
/ Pollock. who also sang two popular
songs.
DR.. Edwards is here In the city
holding series of meetings at the
First Christian church. while Mr.. Pol.
lock is conducting the song services al
the same meetings.
Harry Thompson presided at yes
terday's meeting and had an excellent
program prepared.
Rev. Ben Edwards, who was a visi-
tor of the club, was called upon for a
talk by the master OF ceremonies.
| Mr.. Edwards halls from the lone
star state OF Texas, and here is the
way he characterizes the bigness of
his native land:
Texas occupies all of North Amer
lea with the exception of a small part
Of the United States and Canada
Texas is so large that the people of
Brownsville call the citizens of Dallas
Yankees
Using TexaTkana as a pivot and
Ell Paso as the outer rim, a compass
will encircle most of the great lakes
and part Of the New England states"
Again the speaker said his state was
so large that if all the alfalfa was
baled and stacked it would make q
golden stairway to the pearly gates;
that If all the cotton raised in Texas
was made into one big mattress tenn
ing millions of the earth could lie
down on it with comfort at one time.
If all the hogs raised in Texas were
put into one big hog he could dig the
Panama canal with three roots.
If all the mules raised in the state
were put into one big mule he could
stand in. the center of the state and
kick the face off the man in the moon.
If all the cattle raised in Texas were
put into one big steer, he could stand
with his front feet in the Gulf of Mex
leo and with his hind feet in the Great
Lakes and with his tail could brush
the mist off the aurora borealis.
DR.. Edwards told of the organization
Of the Kiwanis club and OF the XII
wants spirit that the members dis
played.
Taking an illustration from the in
dustriai world, DR.. Edwards called at
tention to the cotton plant holding out
its downy crest and saying to man,
Come and use me-" To get the seed
out of the fibre taxed human skill, but
Hargreave, Whitney and Roberts were
equal to the task.
THE building of our great cities"
continued DIR. Edwards, the navigat-
ing our streams and improving our
harbors and the development of our
natural resources have called for the
master mind and heart.
THE musician masters the world OF
sound and thus makes common wood,
wire, cork. brass and fiddle strings,
sweetly musical. The painter compels
color and canvas to serve his thoughts
and heart The sculptor, the cold,
rigid marble to yield to the touch of
his genius and embody man and an
gels.
'All of this is good, and we might
make mention of many more illustra-
tons, but after all, the main matter
is not how rapidly travel, but what
sort of a person is the traveller: not
how far can talk without the aid of
wire and matter, but have I anything
to say worth saying? Not how easily
can manufacture goods. and palaces,
pile UP wealth, but what are the goods
for? What does the wealth bestow."
DR.. Edwards then told of Joe Bar
ringer. general manager of the Ma
-ional Cash Register company of Day |
ton, Ohio. How he had from the bot
tom worked to the head of that great |
institution by his own initiative. How |
ne had made good in every position he |
was placed and had generally rose
higher and higher. The speaker de- |
,lared that everyone has an equal OPP |
oortunity, and that within oneself rests |
advancement in his chosen line of oc- !
,upation.
The members of the club gave ris-
ng vote of thanks to the visitors in |
appreciation of cir entertainment.
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