The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-12-04
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From the Springfield, Mass. R~enubricsr
ID social life coming to be over organI
lied? That Is the view taken by a wis
,consin professor who complains that the
high cost Of living is further Increased.
especially In villages and small cities bv
the needless multiplication of entertain-
almost compulsory. Every small town.
he say sis filled with more organizations
today than It's actual intellectual, social.
moral and religious need warrants" Wyd
are used to the complaint so far as the
multiplicity OF competing churches Is cont
cerned; this rebellious professor, Wild
may recently have been held up for
he hated, carries his analysis OF conditions
further; .r Eu u
This is a problem OF the man IN the
town and smaller city. It probably has
this I do know, 1t surely applies to towns
and cities OF from 1000 TO $4,000. The
problem Is nothing more than that OF
which this is furnished. There entertain
rnents Gre put on for the intellectual and
social betterment OF the community, to re-
lsye the weary and caTeworn for Q brief
The advertisements read something like
the foregoing, but the actual fact Is that
most of these so-called entertainments are
otherwise. to procure money for some
cause. Some organization needs money,
aud this is one way of getting the public
70 %or Psy, t hse REORGANIZATION oEsani5ntiS1 may may be Ss y y;gS
class, blu the multiplicity of organizations
In such towns and cities has produced
such a struggle for the means OF support
that the entertainments have come so
thick and fast that the people are sur
feited and cannot enjoy the best when IL
does come. The solicitations made In many
cases demand quite as much, II complied
ceries In the family budget
The community needs entertainments,
OF course, but they ought not to be too
as good as possible. Even a small town
can afford excellent concerts, lectures,
ETC., provided the people will save up their
money for something worth while; tn
fractions crowded In for the benefit of one
cause or another, this potential support Is
dissipated, while the people ere being
poor stuff. For, unfortunately. the state
Of things described has created a great
field In America for a quite second-rate
class or public entertainsrs-semi,profes-
competition, lectures with no
message, bungling musicians, performers
of all sorts that the public would not q
to hear II not drawn by loyalty to some
cause. L.. .a4
Fol these people a reform would be a
disaster. but after all they could find
other ways to make a Twins, and the need
ought TO be put first. 1t might at first
seem a little hard on the Causes also,
yet probably the loss would be less han
imagined, for the waste In raising money
In this way Is great. Often when enthusi-
asm has done it's utmost to coerce people
into tickets, the net profits will be pitt
fully small. Moreover, the greater the
competition, the less the profits for the
organizations which promote the enter
tainments, while the tax on the public in
creases, and with II the difficulty In sus-
tanning those performances which stand
on their merits. II would be much more
sensible TO give directly to the treasury
whatever modest sum was needed-say 10
or Is cents on the price OF a N-cent ticket,
ments Of interest and value to all.