Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-08-04
CHAUTAUQUA ENJOYED
Large Audiences Attended Various
Sessions Last Week
Attractions We're of High Order, In
Guiding Addresses by Noted Persons
Another Course Next Year.

Brattleboro s second Chautauqua sea
son closed last evening. The course
was one of great interest and merit and
made many more friends for the
movement Rev. DR.. H. w. Huelster,
the superintendent, gave thoroughly
interesting and uplifting address each
afternoon, and there were special at
fractions afternoon and evening, all of
a high order of excellence. Chautau-
qua will return to Brattleboro next
year, and large majority of the $50
course tickets Mt So each which it is
necessary to sell were pledged the past
three evenings.
The Junior Chatauqua was an inter
esting feature mornings, attended prin-
cipally by children At the Friday af-
ternoon session of the Junior Chautau-
qua the town organization was begun
by the election OF John Mann as may
or and law and order commission
consisting of Philip Wheeler, Charles
Crosby, Holland Smith, Edith Nash
and Katherine Scrcombe. At the SEES
sion Saturday forenoon the organiza
ton was completed by the election of
these officers: Cleanup commission
Alfred Martin, Paul LaPlante, Fred
erick Knight, Ruth Howe and Thyra
Morrill,; health commission, Irene Cur
rier, katherine Stockwell, Marcella
Rolin, Kenneth Wheeler and Jack
Vaudervecr; minute savers, Norris
Bragg, Mary Stolte, Marion Fairbanks
and Harold March.
Friday nights attractions were a
folk song and quintet in Irish, Rus
sian and Bohemian folk songs, and
Ross Crane in illustrating and clay
modelling. The principal attractions
Saturday and Sunday were Colangelo s
band and Miss Ethel Bentley, soprano,
and on Monday afternoon Henry Such,
violinist, gave a recital and DR.. A. f.
Turner gave an exceedingly interesting
address on Watch Your Step.
Not before in generation has a
Brattlcboro audience listened to such
tremendously forceful and vitalIy in
teresting address as was delivered at
the Chautauqua Monday evening by
Montaville Flowers of Los Angeles,
Cal, whose subject was Rebuilding the
Temple. 1t was a plea for keeping up
the bars against the admission of the
brown and yellow races of the world
into the United States and for uphold
ing the Monroe doctrine, lest the cit
liens of this country be forced some
day to correct by armed conflict the
errors of their ancestors, as they did
half century ago. 1t was thor
oughly convincing argument and a
wonderful exhibition of oratory. There
were times when the large audience APP
plauded vigorously, but most of the
time the listeners were too seriously
engaged with their thoughts to give
much physical demonstration.
War, he said is the name for a
breakdown in civilization, and the
whole temple of civilization has been
flat on several occasions. The present
war is the product of great groups of
errors, and unless the people come to
see what has caused the collapse and
eliminate those causes in rebuilding
their temple it will fall again The
first error to be eliminated is the idea
that any man has a divine right to
rule his fellow men. The world will
rise up and declare a new declaration
of Independence. Another error is the
secret diplomacy, which breeds dis
trust among the nations and which
ever has been the parent of war. Ma
tions should make their treaties out in
the open as they do their laws. The
treaties of the nations in the triple al
lance and the triple entente never
have been laid before the people OF
those nations.
1t has been considered in Europe tt
be right for one nation to acquire lane
from another by force. No two sec
tions of the world should come to
gether except by the willing union OF
their people. The Monroe doctrine adj
mits no such thing in the western hem
isphere, and when you take the pol
icy of the Monroe doctrine out of this
hemisphere you take the keystone out
of its arch of peace. When the PEG
Pile rise high enough to see it they
will realize that the Monroe doctrine
is the first beacon light leading to in
ternational morality. "Think of Eng
land and Germany getting up on t
plane that high the speaker ex
claimed "and we must be careful
lest we ourselves fall off"
"The destiny of humanity lie
pressing at your hearts tonight Mr.
Flowers asserted, "and unless we SEE
our road ahead of us America S dcs
tiny will be but IA matter of blind ant
staggering chance
Then he asked if the United State
would make the Fundamental blundc
of race mixture. TO admit the brown
and yellow races of Asia would be tn,
most fatal and irretrievablc blundcr o
this generation. Ten men from TIL
North and 10 from the South cOulo
have disposed of the slavery question
had they taken it in time, but the,
sidestcpped it until it became dragon
that forced the two sections into wal
He showed that at the present rate o
increase this country's population
would be 350O00,000 at the end o
the present century and that if tn
Asiatic races are admitted the figure
will become stupcndous. Moreover, n
great human stock ever has come on
of race cross, but it always has bee
inferior to the original stock. off W
can hold still 10 years, declared tn
speaker. "America will remain tn
white man s land forever
The program on Tuesday aftcrnoo
opened with a series lecture by Dl
Huelster on The Church, or What |
the Matter with the Church, His aud
ence agreed perfectly with what he ha
to say, and all agreed that his addrcs
was deeply interesting. His point wa
that there is nothing the matter wit
the church but that whatever trOuhl