Connecticut western news., 1909-01-21

mind him that, as Choate said, "It IS better to have lunched and lost than never to have lunched at all"
 Rev O. E. Maurer
 MT. Goddard then introduced Rev. Oscar E. Maurer of Great Harrington, recently called to the pastorate of the Center Church of New Haven, who. in part, said he had heard much about the Litchfeld County University Club, and being anxious to know something about it at first hand, had accepted the com mittee invitation to be one of the speakers and had found the proof of the the story of the man who was taken with a great pain in his right side after a banquet. He thought he had appen- dicitis and sent for physicians who in- formed him that the trouble was not with his appendix but with his table of contents. MT. Maurer said he conveyed to the Club the sentiments of the South Berkshire University Club. "The com mittee in inviting me suggested that l might make a comparison between the western college and the eastern college. am @ western college man and proud of my Alma Mater but received a shock when I went back west and heard of the record made there by member of the Litchfeld County University club who was famous as a track runner. This man secured employment with a herder and after rounding up flock of sheep, tol his employer he had rounded up the lambs also. As the herder owned no lambs he went out to the corral and found that the athlete had not only rounded up the sheep but six jack rabbits as well. No western college man ever equallcd this reco d.
 One reason for affiliating ill Southern Berkshire was u enjoy one .another's fellowship. We wanted to get together a few times a year and spur ourselves to greater things i'll our com nuuities.
 When leaders i'll community life are looking for educated men 10 interest themselves ill the small questions that refer to the welfare of the community, they do not depend upon. the college men in our town. We had local issue before us i'll Great Harrington almost a year ago (no-icense) and 1 had some thing to do with arranging the campaign. must admit it was not the college men who helped but the men who knew not of school except the school of common sense and hard knocks. Our motive in organizing club was to arouse greater interest in local affairs.
 There is the country church. There never was time when so many prob- lems. were touching it as now. I am speaking for many of my brethren in rural districts who, many times are the only college men in their vicinities who see their boys go to college and come back and wave aside the claims of the village church. It is not a broa1- minded thing for the college man to come back and act ill that way. There AS muCu JOu Cdu uO lou Can KNOCK some of the meanness out of the country church and some churches need it. The same thing holds true ot civic affairs. There is no lack of men who are willing to enter the race for office that has a salary attached to it. In some cases college clanship is wrong. College men in America more than in othC r countries, must. always be the leaven. There is not one of us who is adequately paid for his education.
 Tax Commissioner Corbin
 MT. Corbin was introduced as the father of football and now tax con- missioner who had come to talk on taxes, not to collect them. He seemed to have