The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-11-10
BIG AUDIENCE
CHEERS PLEA
FOR BISMARCK
All Asked to Join as Duty in
Organization for Common
Good Of City
DIR. BREADY SPEAKS
DIR. BREADY SPEAKS
Preacher-M of Pontiac,
Mich. Emphasizes Compon-
ents of Four-Square City

An audience of Bismarck men and
women which filled the Rialto thea
ter last night heard DR.. Russell H .
Bready, pastor of the First Methods st
church and mayor Of Pontiac, Michi-
gan, a city of 100000, give his opin-
ion of knocker in forceful style,
heard him tell just why every for7
ward citizen should join in a pro-
gram for the betterment Of city
through a Chamber of Commerce
Formed on the American City Bureau
'.!an, and learned from him just what
it means for every citizens to forget
hate and prejudice and politics and
ioin in movement for the common
good of his community.
The audience was enthusiastic. The
big community gathering started
with community singing led by Frank
Gale. S. W. Corwin presided. c. L..
Young, former president Of the club,
spoke briefly, J. H. Mclaughlin out
lined the reorganization plan Of the
Commercial club, Mrs. Frank Barnes
Sang two beautiful solos, accompanied
by Mrs. Genevieve Menard-Hughes,
and DR.. Bready addressed the audi
Cnce.
Politics, business animosity, per-
sonal hatred must be buried, he said,
in building what he called four
.quare city. And the four elements
in the citizenship of a four-square
city are: first, Equalization; second,
DECENTRALIZATION; third, organization,
and fourth, Installation. ~
Emphasizes Loyalty.
Emphasizing his first point, DR..
Bready declared loyalty to a city
, was a duty of every citizen.
"1f there is anyone in Bismarck
who knocks your city it would be a
blessing to you if he moved out, and
if there is anyone who knocks North
Dakota it would be blessing if he
moved away" Or. Bready said. "Fc.
the person who finds the bad things
in one city will find it in another"
He emphasized the value of a
fraternal spirit, and declared that the
only organization through which ali
the elements of city can work for
the common good is a commercial
and civic organization such as the
Commercial club.
He told Of his own experience. He
ssaid he, as mayor of Pontiac, Mich,
had been in a: controversy with the
superintendent of police. But at
big civic dinner they sat side by
side, rose and asked to be placed on
the same team in the canvass.
He told his audience the CONNER
cial and civic club ought to include
Republicans Democrats, Nonparti-
sans, business men, laboring men
all the elements 'of the city.
Must Preserve Institutions.
Dr.. Bready told of propaganda be-
ing carried out in large cities by
red-fag socialists. He said he had
stood on the corners and heard them
denounce religion and denounce mar
riage. They are working to over
throw all American institutions, he
declared. 1t is the duty, he said, of
all citizens to join in an organization
to improve the city for the common
good, to help remedy such evils as
there are and to preserve American
institutions.
DR.. Bready said in part:
"It is just as possible for a city
to lose its soul as an individual. The
soul of the city is the spirit of its
citizens. We read Of the city in tn
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