The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-06-16
CHAUTAUQUA TO
RETURN NEXT YEAR
Necessary Guarantors Secured to Be-
come Responsible For The Unsold
Portion of Tickets, And to Guar
antee That Those Signed For Will
Be Taken.

When the final collection of slips
for tickets for next years Chautau-
qua was made Wednesday night, it
was found that there was a shortage
of more than one hundred tickets,
and at that time considerable diff
Guilty arose in connection with the Sc
curing of fifty guarantors to assume
! responsibility for the unsold portion
Of tickets and to guarantee those al
ready sold, but yesterday the reQuir-
ed number of guarantors were secur-
ed and the Chautauqua will return
next year.
The difficulty in securing sigma
lures for the tickets is largely due,
we believe, to lack of cooperation
between the local guarantors and the
management Of the Chautauqua As
sociation. And the large number Of
tickets signed for was a personal en-
dorsement of this years superinten-
dent, the Rev. J. Wells.
The public felt, without exception,
that the Rev. Mr.. Wells had been
placed in most embarrassing posi-
tion, fnasmuch as the management of
the Chautauqua Association might
feel that the lack of endorsement of
the Chautauqua in Cambridge might
be due in some way to his failure to
measure up to the duties of his DO
sition. This was not the case, for no
superintendent has ever been more
obliging. more. generally satisfactory
or more popular than the Rev. Mr..
Wells, and no superintendent has en-
joyed the confidence Of the local pub
lie to greater extent than has he.
A large number of tickets were
signed for by the local public, not
because they particularly wanted the
Chautauqua to return, but because
they wanted to help this particular
superintendent out of the hole in
which he had been placed by the
Swarthmore management.
The differences between some of
the local guarantors and the Swarth-
more management are these: The
local people guarantee to the Chau-
tauQua management year in ad-
vance that they will pay $140O cash.
when the ChautauQua comes. In ad-
dition to this sum, the Chautauqua
Association receives such cash money
as may be taken in for the sale of
single admission tickets, amounting
to several hundred dollars more
The Chautauqua Association guaran-
tees upon its part to consult the To-
cal guarantors about the program
and to endeavor to arrange a pro-
gram that will be, as far as possible,
satisfactory to the local public. A
number of the local guarantors state
that the Chautauqua Association has
not done this, or, II they have sent
such tentative program out in ad-
vance, it has been sent to someone
who has not brought it to the atten-
tion of the guarantors, The local
guarantors naturally have a right to
expect that there will not be too
much repetition, from year to year,
of features. This year among the
lecturers scheduled for Cambridge
was one who had delivered the same
lecture here for two or three years;
there were some otner features that
had been here before, and no III
rangement had been made for any
special speaker on Sunday, the ar
rangement for Montaville Flowers
being made after the program had
been gotten out, and as the result
of the earnest protest of some of the
guarantors against having Cam
bridge, acknowledged by the Chau-
tauQua management to be one of the
best places on this circuit, left on
ChautauQua Sunday without a speak
er of some special reputation.
Summed up, the local guarantors
are responsible for the guarantee of
$14O0; they sell the tickets, do the
advertising, arouse the enthusiasm;
in short, do all the work and put up
the cash, and many of them felt that
their wishes should be consulted, in
a reasonable manner, about the pro-
gram for which they were to pay.
The people of Cambridge and the
community are in SYM
pathy with the ChautauQua move
ment; they believe that these Chau-
tauquas are of great benefit to this
and every other community; they
recognize the fact that it brings tai
ent here that very large majority
of the public would never have the
opportunity of hearing; they believe
it to be one of the greatest all around
forces in the country to-
day, and they believe the money is
well spent, in that the great majori-
ty OF those who attended receive
benefits out of all proportion to the
cost, but as the people pay the bills,
they naturally have right to believe
and expect that the contract be-
tween themselves and the Chautau-
qua Association shall not be one
sided affair, but that the interests
or both should be considered, and
when this Is done, the arrangement
will be mutually satisfactory one.