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Cunningham Is HLocal SpeakerFor ArmisticeRe*»oiitbU Prepared nets Urged Al Best Insurance Of Being Involved In War; Program At Tech CollegeCity Closes ShopoDAll-Day Observance Featured In Lubbock; Breakfast For Legion Opens Activities As Tributes Are PaidhoitXMwhIonantmo1thethewcJShiautC8CpercorOk1anlt;mm: be.st possible insuranceA against the United States being involved in any future war is a reasonable amount of preparedness for eventualities.'' Dr. A. B. Cunningham, a former service man and member of the faculty of Texas Technological college, told World war veterans and their families, students and members of the facul-;*'T ty of Texas Tech and residents of j Lubbock, In his Armistice Day ad- car dress Wednesday morning. The pro- | on* gram was held in the college gym ; *and fifteen hundred people listen- | up rd with careful atlruiion to the program.L ibbock generally celebrated the ob.-ervance of the close of the World war by a suspension of ordinary activities. Business houses closed for the day and its several attractions. The program began with a Legion breakfast and ctoeed with a dunce in Legion hall that lasted untii midnight.Unrestrained JoyThe boys let themselves loose with a feeling reminiscent of thirteen years ago. unrestrained joy and hilarity prevailing with good spirits marking the strictly former service men’s gatherings. There was a lot of Innocent fun and amusement at ! thlt; the expense of the crowd, who re- j j sponded in like and a general feeling of brotherhood and comrade-thrmeormeba:CSCofdirPaffoipnTwPUsaiPUThwefaiship. waThe high point of the day's program was the address of Dr. Cunningham. whose carefully chosen words gave his hearers something to think about. It was not an appeal to passion but to reason and logic. Pointing out that ‘in contemporaryAmerican life there is a general confusion of thinking along aU lines. He cited the announced opin- : ions of leaders of the nation as to j the cause of present financial and economic conditions to show the differences of belief. We do not have one clear voice speaking to j us. he added. j(a.M Are Cited j’ Let us make America a hospit- j able battleground for these dnrtrg- j ing views. he declared. We should not throttle the radtcal ideas.” He pointed to two instances of where a differece of opinion led io attempts to secure the dischargem1SeSee ARMISTICE DAW Pw 13.(Coeda *wa
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Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 12, 1931
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