Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-18
Dr.. :. a. Brinton Gives Talk on the
Land Of War and Women
The Morning Junior
chautauqua.
YESTERDAY WAS BAND DAY.
Famous Musicians Give Afternoon
and Evening Program-A
Rare Treat.
yesterday WAS BAND DAY.

yesterday DR.. e. A. Brinton talked or
The Land Of War and Women, and
those who missed the lecture have
something to regret. DR.. Brinton
who is a graduate of Iowa City ane
Cedar Falls, has spent number o.
years in Paraguay as superintendent
of the schools of that republic for the
Methodist church, and he brings
back a fascinating tale of the coun-
try and its people.
When in 1870 Paraguay found hel
militarist government crushed by the
combined forces of Brazil, Uruguay
and Argentina, she awoke to the fact
that practically every able bodied
man above fifteen years OF age had
been killed in the war. This left the
women in vast preponderance ant
brought about a period of polygamy
and vice with resultant horrors, the
like of which is unknown in history
Today the woman of Paraguay is the
beast of burden and the man is hel
driver
In Paraguay, where it is SO hot in
summer that banks close for five
hours in the heat of the day and
storekeepers, attend to their business
clad only in paiamas. there is a most
strange mixture Or the fifteSnth and
the twentieth centuries. The cleo
trio street car and, the OK cart use
the same street, One-tenth of the
population compose the gentlemen
class and conscientiously abhor any
thing which has about It the sugges-
ton ofa manual .IAh1r.f Tlie ronditi6f
Of the other nine-tenths is little bet
ter than that of their domestic ami
mails.
Two things mentioned by DR.. Brin-
ton are specially Interesting to the
United States at this time, namely,
the trade conditions in South Amer
lea and the, attitude, of the southern
Republics toward the Monroe Doc
.trine. South America, said DIR. Brin-
ton, is splendid place for north
American business man to stay away
from, unless he is connected with
some large interests which can take
care of him. The small business adj
venturer is virtually doomed to fail
ure in South America because of eli
matte and economic conditions.
Among these southern republics the
Monroe Doctrine is decidedly in dis
favor, so Dr. Brinton said. 1t is al
most impossible for these people
whose governments are governments
by persons rather than by laws.
Paraguay has had eight presidents
in period Of eighteen months) to
take anything but selfshness as the
motive of the United States in deal
ing with South America. AS a re-
suit of this inability it is easy to
see why our interference with Mex
leo would be objected to most SER
iously by these countries of the south.
DR.. Brinton closed his most inter
esting talk by congratulating Iowans
upon being citizens of country
where citizenship had real value
and whose flag stood for something
more than medieval lordship of
the few over the many.
A good audience heard this ad-
dress and was much interested in the
DR.. Brinton pressed in
to the hour.
Miss Helene Bakers Work.
The Junior Chautauqua this year
has been unusually successful. Miss
Helene Baker of Corning, Iowa, has
been in charge OF this department
and her success marks her as an ex-
pert in handling and instructing
children. Miss Baker is graduate
Of Simpson college, Indianola, and
she is teacher of English in the high
school at De 'Kalb, Illinois. The en-
rollment under Miss Baker this year
is close upon hundred and fifty.
which is a substantial gain upon
any previous year in the history of
the Webster City Chautauqua. This
puts Webster City about
second among the towns visited thus
far by this. circuit.
The Redpath-Vawter system takes
special care to make the Junior
both helpful and enter
From the first the value of
the story hour has been understood
by the management, and from year
10 year the children who have at
tended have been brought into touch
with the best things in the story