Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-10-26
Hammers Disappear
and Horns Are
Nowm Style

The Armory was taxed to capacity
on Sunday afternoon when Rev.
Burke Culpepper delivered a lecture
under the auspices of the Bogalusa
Chamber of Commerce entitled,
Throw Away Your Hammer and Buy
You a Horn"
The choir of fifty or more voices
rendered several numbers under the
leadership of John U. Robinson, who
endeared himself to the citizens Of
Bogalusa.
Mrs. W. H. Sullivan sweetly rem
dered a solo entitled, Somewhere"
w. H. Sullivan, president of the
Chamber Of Commerce, presided and
he was in a spirit that carried you
back to the olden days when he was
telling how we were going to have
paper and hardwood mills in Boga-
lusa. He was on and off the plat
form several times to give welcome
to intimate friends and to see that
everyone was comfortable.
There was goodwill and good fell
lOwship in his expressions and action,
and he even stopped the taking up of
a collection. And when Mr.. Sullivan
started on his opening remarks one
quickly realized his old-time energy
and enthusiasm had returned.
''Fifty years from now, want you
children who arc acre to remember,
because none of we older folk will be
here, that BOgalusa is going to be
a city of $4,000 population and one
of the greatest manufacturing cities
in the state of Louisiana. And when
Bogalusa's population has reached
that stage, l want you to go out to
the Bogalusa Cemetery, where l will
be buried, gather round my grave and
say "That man Sullivan was SOME
prophesier."
Mr.. Sullivan then talked of refor-
estation, it's meaning to the present
generation, to the community, state
and nation and the Importance to
every citizen, whether a landowner
or not, to encourage reforestation.
He urged the necessity of better
feeling between all citizens, a closer
understanding and sympathy for each
other and explained the Importance
of the existence of a feeling of good
fellowship between every citizen of
BOgalusa.
NV CulpeppGE SLdELSu at Ills SuD~
iect in his own inimitable manner and
held his audience through an hour,
with everyone sorry that he had fin
ished He told of conditions in other
cities he had visited, where citizens
were making no progress due to fac
tons. He praised BOgalusa, then
gave the knockers a spanking. He
paid the Pine Tree Inn a high COM
pliment and then went after the gos-
slipping women. He told a few
stories and drove home some more
facts. People who send out Of town
for merchandise while they stand off
the home merchant; people who do
not pay their doctor bills after they
have received medical attention, did
not escape the gifted orator. He
exc0Fiated the suspicious and jealous,
people with i'll will, told of how gossip
and factions can wreck a good name,
q good town or a growing church. He
entertained as we'll as giving q lee
sure and it is to be regretted that
every citizen in Bogalusa did not hear
Rev. Culpepper's address.
Rev. Culpepper, at the conclusion
If the address, had everyone in the
the audience shake hands with five
people before leaving the building.
Throw Alvey Your Hammer and Buy
You a Horn" is Ding to be the slogan
in Bogalusa for the next few months