The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-03-31
SCHOOLBOYS HI-Y
BANQUET AT TROY
Meeting Held at the Courthouse Last
Friday Night.

Friday Night. =
The spirit that is taking hole !,
the high school boys of Tep1 set
and instilling into them the u.King'
Of good citizens has taken
foothold in the high school at "
First and foremost, the two young
men. Messrs. Davis and Ferguson
who have charge of the Troy Special
High School, have succeeded in Civ
ing Troy one of the best high schools
in the western section of Tennessee
The enrolment in the early part OF
the year was unusually large, but
: the regular attendance at present
averages eighty boys and girls, who
are making good use of their oppor-
tunities, and as an outgrowth II this
work the Hi-Y becomes an auxiliary
in the shaping of character among
the boys of the school.
The banquet tables were placed in
the old courthouse on the square.
The ladies from the Methodist
Church prepared supper and the
Brown-Taylor basket ball girls, who
won laurels in the Nashville tourna-
ment, waited on the tables. Mr.,
Ralph McDade, president OF the Troy
Hi-Y, presided. Rev. e. M. Mathis,
of Union City, was the first speaker.
The subject Of the occasion was
"Father and Son." for whom the
banquet was given. Rev. Mathis ex-
pressed appreciation of the fact that
he was invited to be with the fathers
and sons of the Hi-Y at Troy. The
fact is that the elders do not associate
with boys as often as they should. 1t
is indeed enough to make the fathers
of Tennessee feel glad that students
are organizing the Hi-Y associations.
Have we stopped to consider what
the organization really means? Clean
speech, clean sports and honest work
clean in what they say, clean in
what they think. This lays the
foundation which will grow every
day in work and sport. 1t will take
the bitterness out of our games,
create whole-hearted rivalry and in
spire the manly character which con-
graduates the conquering foe.
What, says the speaker, is meant
by the Psalmist in referring to the
finger prints of God in the creation
of the universe. Man was created a
little lower than the angels. There
fore the responsibility that rests with
mankind to prove that he is worthy
of his Maker. Man is great only
when he measures up to the princi-
pies that have been taught in the
creation and for which he is sent
into the world.
Room for development must be
utilized by our young people who are
going to stand for that which is no.
BILE and right. The fathers must
stand by the sons in the work. Set
your ideals high and then do your
level best. Take a lesson from the
eagle which scars above the danger
line. Be on deck when you are call
ed. Rev. Mathis said that he was
reminded of the game of ball when
one man was at bat and another on
deck. The man on deck was pre-
pairing for action in the game, and
so we say that the boy on deck is
waiting for his opportunity in life.
The boy that is prompt to answer
when he is called is the boy who
meets the requirements that lead to
greater things in life. Be clean, be
honest, be prompt in everything and
the future will hold for you the title
this is man.
The newspaper man had very lit
lie to say, having declined to sing.
The president didn't seem to under
stand that he had a place at meet
ng of fathers and sons. But ma
i've of the town of Troy is always
glad to get home again.
The president, Mr.. Ralph McDade,
for one of the boys who
vas absent. The young man sug-
,ested that the boy is human and not
oulless and that he had a very high
egard for dad. The right way is
more often reached, said the speaker,
vhen there is a mutual understand
ng between father and son. We are
luman and we like to feel that dad
las an interest in us, so that conf
ence may be established and surer
nd better way may govern the solu-
ion of our trials. That is what
makes US feel that dad is a real faith !
r.
Mr.. Dave Burnett, member of the /
Ii-Y advisory committee, replied to {
be charge that he held all the i'm
ortant local offices, that he was not
uilty, but that he was very proud {
the membership on the Hi-Y