The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-21
Mr.. Alexander and Miss
Slattery Speakers Before
Big Audience
TEEN AGE BANQUET
A GREAT SUCCESS
Kew. William Shaw Of Montpelier Elect
ed President = Next Meeting to Be
Held in Morrisville = Enrolment of
Delegates 281.

Held in Morrisville = Enrolment of
Delegates 281.
An audience that taxed the capacity
Of the First Baptist church was present
last evening for the closing session of
the conference and heard two remarka-
bic addresses The body of the church
was reserved for the young people of
Teen age who marched in in BODY
after their banquet in the banquet hall
OF the Masonic temple next door.
From 40 to o clock Organist Ralph
NJ. Cram gave an organ recital. The
opening service was conducted by Rev.
DR.. Littlefeld with the Sunday school
orchestra of the First Baptist church
and the large chorus choir to lead the
music
President William Shaw presided and
| first called for the reading of the reso-
luton by the special resolution COM
mittee which had been appointed in the
afternoon to prepare a resolution on the
syllabus which had been prepared dur
| ing the year. The committee, consist
ing of W. E. Baker, s. H. Smith and S.
B. Anthony, recommended the general
adoption of the syllabus and recorded the
appreciation of the convention of the
pared it.
Under the leadership of L. w. Haw-
ley the choir, accompanied by the or
chestra, sang The Heavens Are Telling.
The first address was by John L. AL
exander of Chicago, secondary division
superintendent of the International Sun
day school association. His topic was
Ten Years From Now.
He wanted to know what the young
people expected to be 10 years from
now. Then he told them that they will
be exactly what they are now putting
in to themselves in social, church, busi-
ness and school life. 1t is essential
for the future that the materials being
/ used in the construction of the lives
Of today are proper materials for per-
manent, sound construction of lives that
are to be lived years hence. He told
them that it they are ever TO be any
thing in the world they must help some
one to lead better life. His address,
anecdotal in character, was so graded
that it was of equal interest to the
young people and to those of maturer
years. He has the rare gift of making
telling points whether telling a story
that tickles the risibilities of his au-
ditors or speaking in a serious vein.
When Mr. Alexander had concluded
E. H. Miller sang and the offering was
taken.
Miss Slattery was greeted with
hearty applause and presented with
beautiful basket of flowers. Making
a Living and Life was her subject
She too, talked in an anecdotal vein
and story after story, as they fell from
her lips, told of the struggle of men and
women to make a living; of the neces-
| sity men and women found to force
them to take positions involving lone
| illness and the hardest of labor to make
, living. She said that as she con-
| tinued her travels she had become con-
, WINGED that the sole purpose of ma
) iority of people is to make a living.
) That s all they ask or try to attain
> Someone has got to do it. 1t might
, as well be me, was the answer so
/ MANY had made her-the lonely light
! house keeper, the stoker in the hold of
the Atlantic liner, the lonely
switch tender on the desert. She begged
her auditors to make something else
out of life than a living.
Everyone who ever amounts to any
thing builds castles in the air. Get
5 hold of the castle in the air and build
it here on earth. Sincerity of purpose
is the great essential in making a life
: out of living. Be and do not only
| seem to be.
l She said that Americans are living
| in a mad rush and whirl beyond their
means and if it is continued they will
| give to their children an inheritance
: that will be such that only moral giants
in the next generation will be power
ful enough to overcome.
She declared that she had travelled
the continent over, seeking the three
things charged with the cause of il all
Everybody, Somebody and They. The
young girl wears her dresses short be-
cause " Everybody is doing it. This
: is done because Somebody said so or
did So "They say is the answer
/ to everything else in the line of custom.
= The ''teen age banquet for Sunday
school children and their teachers was
! ! served in the banquet room of the Ma
sonic temple last evening and 260 were
served with very enjoyable meal fur
nished by the women of the churches
and served under the direction of Mrs.
Fremont Hamilton. So many young
I people attended that many of the
teachers gave up their seats in order
that the boys and girls might be ac-
0 commodated.
: Blue and white were the predomi-
mating colors of the decorations and
n the large basket of white chrysan-