Putnam patriot., 1915-07-09
cHAUTAUQUA HELPS A TOWN
Trade Journal Comes to Support of the Movement and States Some ln-
 te-estinu Facts.

tSFSsNin9 FaSts-
 Our people are beginning to give thought to the Chautauqua that is to be held this year. and one of the most natural things in the world is for this proposition Co be discussed from & strictly business standpoint There are ethereal souls who fo hear them tell it live without a thought of the vulgar dollar and sometimes the butcher. thc baker and the grocer mourn because of this fact when they look over their books and contemplate certain bad debts to be found therein recorded. It is right that Chautau. qua should be considered from the business viewpoint.
 The above statement does not mean that if a Chautauqua fails to pay a dollar and cents profit in expenses and receipts each year it is a failure That sort of decision wouldn't be business That would Eg foolishness. But if it does not so build in a community that that community iS bettered. then it is a failure. And if community is bet tered. then business is bettered.
 The Merchants Trade Journal of Des Moines. la. comes to the support of the Ghautauqua from business viewpoint and says:
 "Any business man is proud to be able to say. We have n good Chautau- qua in our town because the word Chautauqua is recognized as q symbol of culture. high ideals and broad think. ing These are things fer any com munity to be proud of But today as we see many hundreds of splendid Chautauqua assemblies being held throughout the country we think ot what it means to these communities and to the entire country. in fact. in a business way, thinking. of course. of business in the broader sense of the term. II is impossible to better q com munity Intellectually and morally ano not at the same time better that com munity commercially
 "Go into any community where a force of this kind has been working for number of years and you will find that the whole appearance of that community k changed We might cite to you town after town that we have watched personally, and we could tell you Of some of the splendid develop ments of these towns. much of which can be traced back directly to ifs source in this sreat Ghautauqua move ment. this moral. this intellectual move ment.
 This great movement. the Chautan qua. is demonstrating every day the fact that the community can be bet tered by giving the people thoughts and ideas that unfit and broaden them Then if it is true that this thing is having Il tendency to benefit the community in a business way it seems to us that il is only good business on the part of the business men of any community to cooperate in the matter of giving the people instruction from this great forum
 THE BURDEN OF THE NATIONS"
 Dr. Thomas [. Green, who comes to the fifth day of our Chautauqua with his great lecture, 'The Burden of the Nations" is I lecturer. q traveller and an author He has cireled the globe
 He is il vice president of the Ameri- can Peace Society and has seen and Interviewed soyereigns, prime minis ters. goveIuors, students, people Of every sort aud kind. He is the man who created such sensation at the fourth American Peace Congress, he'd in St Louis. of which the St. Louis Globe-Bemocrat says:
 Two thousand persons I8se to their feet. cheering and waving handker chiefs at the close of the ad lress by Dr. Thomas E. Green on The Burden of the Nations! A standing vote of