News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 13

MANSFIELD INDWO PEBRUARY 12, 1925. MORE OPTIMISTIC VIEWPOINT ON LIFE GREAT NEED OF DAY Lincoln Banquet Speaker Says Lincoln Would See Things Differently CLEVELAND BUSINESS MAN GIVES EULOGY Seventeenth Annual Banquet Of Association Held at Elks Home Many new Incidents in the life of the "Great Emancipator" were fentured last evening by Thomas W. Hendricks of leveland who addresthe seventeenth annual banquet of the Richland County Lincoln association having for his subJect, "Detour---Road Under Construction." "Host would Lincoln have looked upon modern doings of today" asked the speaker. "He would have probably frowned on some of the things that transpire during our everyday life, and especially on our actions on the Sabbath day, Lincom was a devout man and it wAS through the help of God that the dark days of his career were cleared away." Preliminary Program. While the more than 300 banqueters were being seated and during the serving of the meal the high school orchestra furnished a number of delightful musical numbers together with cornet solos and duets.

Tables were arranged on the dancing floor of the Elks home with the speaker's table located on 4 raised platform at the north side. Tables had been reserved for industrial and business delegations, and citizens of the village of Lucas had two tables. There were 30 persons inethis delegation of which G. E. Gladden was chairman and Rev.

A. M. Himes spokesman. Seated at the speaker's table were L. Freundlich, R.

E. Hutchison, Judge Edwin Mansfield, H. H. Helter, Rev, Fr. R.

C. Goebel, who Invoked divine blessing, Mayor C. H. Stander, C. H.

Workman, Thoma8 W. Hendricks, L. J. Bonar, president of the association, W. A.

Hambleton, toastmaster, E. M. Businell." Brunner and Jenkins Fred and M. William Schwan greeted the people they assembled for the event.4 Mrs. P.

S. Carroll sang "Joy of the Morning," to the accompaniment by Miss Minnie Marks, and was repeatedly encored. The assembly sang "The Star Spangled Toastmaster Hambleton stated that Mr. Bonar, president of the association for 15 years, had A few announcements to make in which respects were paid to the ladies present. President Bonar Speaks.

"Richland county is credited with being the first community to formally endorse Abraham Lincoln for the, presidency of the United Sates," stated Mr. Bonar, "and I feel it would be right and proper to erect a tablet of some kind in this city in honor the the man after whom the Lincoln highway, extendfrom east to west through this city, is named." Mayor Stander nade a motion which was approved that the matter of a tablet to the memory of Lincoln be left in the hands of the directors for action. In closing, Mr. Bonar said, "I will allow one of the charter members. of the association, C.

H. Workman, to speak." "I have a simple duty to and I will do it briefly. I perform want to inform the speaker that this is Mansfield, and like Saul of Tarsus can say, 'I am a citizen of no mean Although this society is not the oldest in the United States, we have been meeting for 17 years" said Mr. consecutively Workman. "We have been addressed by statesmen, doctors, lawyers, preachers, presidents, senators, but never er have we had the pleasure of hearing a man tell about the attributes Lincoln.

have the peasure of presenting Thomas W. Hendricks of Cleve- Held Government Together. In commencing his address, Mr. Hendricks remarked that people can always link nis name with Cleveland for Cleveland and then Hendricks reason that president was and vice born in president alone the hills of western Pennsylvania," said the sneaker, "and until I was old enough to get out in the- world I imagined that all democrats, had horns. I came to in Cleveland SO I could educate my sons to be president, as this state has a knack for furnishing presidential timber when ever needed." "Lincoln held the government together those threads- of dark days of secession and rebellion, and It is only just and right that we respect his would have occurred to memory.

What this country it he had not suffered much agony of spirit and depended the help of God, in on Lincoln was the only extremity. his time man of his equal to task, and he held the threads government intact." He spoke of the it first landed Lincoln family in the early days Higham, of this that country, demonstrating the fact It Lincoln came of good stock. many years to took characters of the family develop the slaves to the man who freed the leading and salved the disruption. nation from the speaker From those early days the traced the history of Lincoln family down to the momentous days of '61-'65. Must Live In Present.

"We must not in the old days" said the speaker. "We entered into a new have conditions regime, and are entirely We frequently hear different. timers deplore the departure some oldold days, when of the butcher one could go to the for and get enough shop steak a Sunday dinner th for 25 cents a nice piece thrown of calf liver when in. We can all remember our feet it was customary to place on on a polished rail and lean a mahogany With bar. The trouble the country is that men too many have cold feet and look on the dark side or things." only BUSINESS WOMEN HEAR TRIBUTE TO ABRAHAM LINGOLN C.

E. McBride Is Speaker at Meeting In First Presbyterian Church MORE THAN HUNDRED AT DINNER MEETING Delegate to MidConvention at Zanesville Also Selected Commemorating the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the Mansfield Business and Professional Women's club enjoyed the monthly meeting last evening at the First Presbyterian church, featured with a talk on Lincoln by C. D. -McBride. The dinner and program was attended by 92 members who were served by the women of the church.

At its conclusion a short business session was held during which Miss Mildred Ihrig was selected as the delegate to the convention which is to be winter, ville, Saturday and Sunday, and which will also be attended by Miss Jeanette Hedges, Miss Myrel Reyuolds and Mrs. Della M. Cochran. Other features of the interesting program consisted of a violin solo Collins, and several songs by Vera Smythe, who sang Alisa among others "Your Flag and My Flag." Eulogizes Lincoln In speaking of Lincoln, Mr. MoBride emphasized his education, his diplomacy, his honesty and his unflinching purpose.

"Lincoln was an educated man," said speaker, "he had never received a diploma from any university. He had never attended any college except that of experience and what greater is there than that? "But he was an educated man. thing he was an oninorous reader. He so absorbed three books, the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, and Blackstone's Commentaries- -that today there hangs two tablets, one containing a letter of his and the other his Gettysburg speech, both of which are examples of the purest English in literature. While in the state legislature, he spent all his spare time in the library, one day when asked why he did so Lincoln replied, "I am preparing myself to take advantage of the chance when it comes." telling of Lincoln's diplomacy arr.

McBride cited many instances where he saved the United States when Seward or Stanton would! He told of the fear which Seward have hurled the country into held that Lincoln, because he came from the "backwoods," would know nothing of diplomacy nor of the tact necessary in handling state matters. So he wrote to Lincoln, suggesting that he, Seward, take charge of ambassadors, such other diplomatic affairs, and that all Lincoln would have to do would be to sign documents and commissions as they came up. However, Seward was given a change of heart by the return letter from Lincoln, in which the president kindly, but tactfully, informed him that he was fully able to care for all matters pertaining to his position. Acted At right Time "He had one unflinching purpose," continued Mr. McBride "And that was "To save the Union." He was derided and abused because he" would not issue the proclamation for emancipation when Horace Greely though he should.

But he ignored all the newspaper derision and issued that document when the time came. His whole thought and purpose was to preserve the' union, and he never faltered in that purpose no matter, how hard he was pressed. "And when he died by the hand of assassin, the ship of state was still intact And old glory was still streaming with not a single star effaced from the blue! This counnot bundle of states but a cemented union whose flag today is carrying the message around the world of equality and fraternity. May our flag be preserved as Lincoln preserved it and may it never have one single star effaced from the field of blue!" TWO NEW PATIENTS ARE ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL Two patients were admitted to General hospital today. They were: Russell Spevick Jr; 27 Last Fourth street; Ruth Rist, 94 Ford street.

The following patients were dismissed: Helen Geiger, 81 Bartley avenue; Andrew Bauer, 26 street; Mrs. Wilson Buckworth, 174 South Main street. S. M. LUTZ ILL Samuel M.

Lutz is 111 at his home on 394 West Fifth street. His condition has not improved. be pessimists when we reach the sign, but look on the bright side. This country is producing more commodities and grain than any other nation in the world with only five cent of the population in the world. Why then should we not be optimistic, rather than always finding fault with everything and everybody? Let us resolve to be better citizens, and in this manner render to Lincoln the finest tribute we can pay." Before the assembly adjourned Judge Mansfield offered a resolution of condolence to James Feeney, member of the executive committee, unable to be present owing to his bereavement, and it was the sense of the association members that an extension of sympathy be made in his dark hour of sorrow.

The resolution was adopted by a moment of intense silence. Harry F. Bell moved the adoption of a. vote of thanks to the speaker of the evening, Thomas W. Hendricks, for his excellent addres in which were inculcated ber wishes for long and Three Fatherless Grecian Children Adopted by Club MICHAELTSMADOS destitute mothers with pathos and sadness.

She has spoken to half dozen or more groups since her arrival in Mansfield and everywhere she has touched the hearts of her hearers until they have gladly given their bit toward remedying this awful condition. She told, last evening of the treachery which preceded the sack-! ling and burning of Smyrna, following which 1,500,000 refugees; fled toward Greece and were taken child-ment can only allow two spoonsful four of condensed milk per day for each child. We have no cows, you know. aged 10 Onassis, Older children live on what they can get out of the garbage can and Business that is scarcely anything. If these club children grow up into outlaws, we of the will have no one to blame but ourMichael: selves.

"Cannot America, "pleaded Madome Tsmados," find it in her depres-1 big she heart to help this nation of destitells of tute people until Greece turns and their them into self-supporting citizens?" Barney Swoveland Hardware and Auto Accessory Store 65 S. Main St. Canal 3610 Open Evenings GULF Supreme Auto Oil and Grease Moorman Tire Shop 30 W. 3rd St. Complete line of Bathroom Accessories IN Vitreous China AND Nickel Plated Brass W.

E. Antrican Plumbing and Gas Appliances 68 S. Diamond Canal 1171 NORMAL STUDENTS TO GET BLUE RIBBONS Eleven students of the Richland county Normal school will be sented with Blue Ribbon awards Friday morning, because they too, like the children they will tench, have become perfect physically, These students include; Mary Bright, Alice Boyle, Berniece Clark, Marlo Hill, Margaret Forsythe, Dana McCarty, Mildred Helchel, Ida Eileen Utz, Naomi Wolf, Harvey Tucker and Charles Divelbiss. Because of their efforts to become up to normal weight, to observe health habits and to have defects corrected. this group of prospective teachers will have far better capacity for teaching the same things to their children than 'others who have not made this effort.

"It means," said Miss Elma Rood, this morning." that we will have. eleven physically perfect teachers going out into the county to tench the same thing to their children." According to Miss Abigail Bris- tow, others of the Normal school are working on their records now and will receive their awards later. TO BE REPRESENTED BY VOLLEY BALL TEAM Roy Sweeney was appointed chairman of the Y. M. O.

A. volley ball association which will work with I. G. Maxwell, physical director, in the selecting of a representative volley ball team to represent the local The various volley ball teams have been practicing at the Y. M.

C. A. and the selection of the "varsity" team will be made shortly. Mr. Sweeney has been taking part in physical activities at the gym, It is the plan of Director Maxwell for the association to arrange for a schedule intercity matches with out or teams in the near future.

The northeastern championship tournament for such teams will be held in the West Side gym, Cleveland, the latter part of this month and Mansfield will be represented. I NEW ATHLETIC FIELD IS DISCUSSED BY CLUB INSPIRING TALK IS GIVEN AT BANQUET THOMAS H. HENDRICKS The speaker referred to Bible times when the spies sent out to look promised, land returned over, kinds of fruit but then claimed it was an awful country to inhabit a account of the giants living there. He brought out the fact that we have the same kind fellows with us today and per(haps always will. It was shown that Lincoln was in the habit of looking only on me bright side, and in this manner accomplished many things.

"An optimist is the fellow who looks out in the dark," said the speaker "and sees a light which is not there, while the pessimist is the guy who blows out the light. Pessimism never gets anybody anywhere. It was not the spirit pessimism that sent four millions of our boys to fight overseas, but a spirit of optimism that it would be the means of ending all wars. There is a distinct setdown on things in the world which leaves the impression that the Humpty-Dumpty brotherhood is falling to the ground. Religion Will Help.

"Then there is evolution and evolutionists who want us to be-1 lieve we are descendents of monkeys and our ancestors hanged by their tails in a jungle forest somewhere in the wide world. Like Lincoln we should put more dependence in religion, which will overcome all the isms that run riot today. Religion will be the means lifting the veil of distrust that has settled over the world. Like Lincoln we should worship the Master and not stay away from preaching services while our wives drop coins in the contribution We can not get much out of religion if "There it is in our wives' names. is a predominant feeling country that all office holders are dishonest, and if so we are only a party to the making of men us at Columbus and Washington.

There is tendency today to place every officer under which results an investigation. It was not so in Lincoln's time. What would have Lincoln thought about the morals of the country, if he were here. What we as boys used to read in the form of paper back novels, the entire family sees in three reels today. In the old days we boys frequently underwent chastisement at the, hands of our mothers, if we were found reading the thrilling paper backs of those days.

Need More Tolerance. "What we need today is the tolerance and common sense of Linusicoln's time to put into practical use. We must get away from the volume of distrust in business life. Lincoln pointed out that when disintegration came it would not come through outside force but through inside decay, caused by distrust and suspicion. We must face the Inevitable and make an effort to reach a solution of our internal problems.

This can be accomplished only by looking on the bright side. "We must have more optimism in our and be like the old prophet Elisha, who escaped from the Assyrians through looking on the bright side. Through meanness of men, this country has reached a point where tolerance is absolutely necessary to assist in bringing things to a better state. It is the meanness of men makes news. A man may be insignificant in the news of the day until he does something mean.

Seldom is the good of the man brought to the public notice. "We have come together this evening to reflect on the greatness of the man whose memory we pay tribute to. have cause to revere his name. Let us not forget that he in his darkest days leaned on the arm of his Master, who ly carried him through his adversities. In addition to hundreds of other momentous questions solve, Lincoln in his darkest hours was pested with office seekers--men afIter smali offices at his disposal.

He had a story related to office seekers, about a king who placed a donkey into office because the animal could foretell the weather, and concluded by saying he guessed all donkeys, wanted office since that time. Get Back To Sanity. "It is highly necessary that we all get back to sanity, and look upon the possibilities of the future as our war president would do if he were here. We must never write on the pages of American history that this country has entered on a period of decadency. In Lincoln's time wealth of this country was estimated at seven billion dollars, while today the amount is estimated at 320 billions.

Twenty billions more is due America from the allies. "The time has arrived when we must heed the sign, 'Detour- -Road Minder Construction: We chould Following the business meeting which opened the weekly gathering of the Junior Hiclub at the Y. M. C. A.

last evening, a discussion period Was held during which the boys talked over the possible erection of a new athletic field for Mansfield and the grooming of a varsity M. H. S. baseball nine this spring. These two subjects took up much time of the Junior last night and much interest was shown over both.

John Angle, president, was in charge of the meeting. The subject for discussion WAS "'The Life Problems of High School Boys." The topic dwelt along the lines of high school athletics. H. D. Caldwell of the boys department, who 18 In charge of all group meetings of the sort said today that the Juntor H1-Y club was in the best possible condition since its organization, Three fatherless Greecian ren, Eleni Macrides, years, John Seraphimides, years, and Eleutherios four and a half years, adopted by the Mansfield and professional Women's last evening as the result talk given by Madame Tsmados, of Athens, Greece.

Weighed down by a great sion because of the conditions has seen, Madame Tsmados the fatherless children MADAME in. Greece Opens Doors "Thousands more," said Madame Tsmados," have streamed into the Lausanne treaty. No other country wanted them and Greece opened her doors. Greece had no money and could borrow none. e.

So that if we had a thousand dollars. we gave five hundred; if we had a house with six rooms, we gave three of them to the refugestany of them have been absorbed into the normal life of the country, but so many have been suicides that we have ceased to speak of it. How can these people be fed, sheltered, clothed, and nursed back to a normal life become a help to the country? "Aside from the great political problems there is that of absorbIng these people. Greece has shown herself worthy of the confidence of other nations because she has been strong in her hour of trial. Terrible Conditions After a five year absence we returned to Greece last year to see the things of which we had heard.

But I would not belleve until I had been shown. In our Municipal theater, which is one of the most beautiful buildings in Greece, although not very large, 1200 people were packed together in conditions which American people would not allow for their cattle. Little booths were partitioned off and in one of these, probably baby would be born and in another some one would be dying. The conditions at (the warehouse were more terrible. One little child three years old was eating dirt.

I remonstrated with the mother and she answered out of a daze, "What else is there for him to eat?" "And that was true," continued Madame Tsmados," the govern- HEALTH EDUCATION DIRECTOR VISITS GRADE SCHOOLS TODAY Every school in the public! school system of Mansfield was visited this morning by Miss Elma Rood, director of health education of the Child Health Demonstration, as the preliminary step in the school examination project which will take place in After tallanch with the princi-1 pals and teachers, together with the children of the schools, Miss Rood made the following statement: "I believe this will be the biggest and best school examination that we have ever had." I WOMEN'S VOLLEY BALL CLUB IS HOLDING A TOURNAMENT Members of the women's volley club of the Y. W. C. A. are playing a tournament, which will close with a dinner for the winners, by those who lose the contest.

The members of this club include Mrs. Douglas Miller, Mrs. Philip Wolfe, Mrs. J. R.

Palmer, Mrs. Ruby H. Baerron, Mrs. E. B.

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