The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-15
BANQUET IS MEATLEss
Dinner Is Quietly Patriotic and Conse-
quently Popular With Men of Mar
tial Sympathies-Or Orator Is Effec-
tive-Movies Are Appropriate.

patriotism characterized the second
meeting of st. Matthew's Men Club
held at Guild Hall on Tuesday even
ing. Following dinner that was
meatless, Rev. William Barrett Millard
delivered a pleasing address with just
enough suggestion of war to make it
inspiring and yet not enough to cause
depression Of a sort that develops pes
smism and interferes with sociability.
AS a consequence the gathering was
vibrant with a feeling of wholesome
optimism which made it both beneficial
and delightful to men oppressed with
the responsibilities of business and
the reverses of war.
The session began with dinner adj
mirably appointed and charmingly
served by the Ladies Aid Society of
St. Matthew's Church. A meatless
n6nu made the luncheon appropriate
to a Tuesday function and exemplifed
a patriotism characteristic Of the
members of the club. The innovation
was decidedly popular inasmuch as
creamed chicken was the substitute
for the more usual roast pork or
flet of beef.
Following the dinner the guests re-
paired to the lecture room Of the hall,
where Rev William Barrett Willard,
executive secretary of the Chicago
Church Federation Council, delivered a
pleasing address on the suggestive
topic "Getting Together The speak
er dealt especially with the effective
ness of religious unity in the prosecu-
lion of the war and plead for at least
q partial federation of Protestant
churches in the exploitation of patrio-
tic and sociological movements.
Rev. Millard won his audience imme-
diately with a series of rapid-fre
anecdotes that inspired laughter and
compelled applause. The stories were
new and wholesomely humorous. AT
the same time they were perfectly il
Illustrative of points in question and
thereby made the speakers introduce
ton both popular and appropriate.
luuo GpbdplloutU LII llG SuUu RIdCts
of his hearers Rev. Willard proceeded
to serious appeal for Protestant pat
riotism of the sort that sinks petty
differences in a common desire to adj
vance the cause Of Country, Man,
and God
"IS is an economic sin, y he declar-
ed, "to allow different agencies to do
the same work. Consolidation means
conservation of time and energy and
consequent efficiency of a kind de-
manded by the strength of our enemy.
Wars are lost by waste and won by
haste of that reasonable type that as
signs one duty to one agency and an
other to another until everything es-
sential to success has been done in a
minimum of time and with maximum
of thoroughness. To accomplish this
end unity is imperative and church
federation is essential if religion
is to perform the task assigned
to it by the powers and principles be-
hind the present war"
Tn this connection Rev. Willard pre-
sented the effectiveness of the Chicago
Church Federation in the promotion
of war-proiects. With statistics re-
garding the Liberty Loan, the Conser-
walton Campaign, and the Red Cross
drive for membership and funds, he
demonstrated the utility of concen-
tration of religious energy and inAu-
ence upon single problem at single
time and persuaded his audience that
concerted effort of this sort can ac-
comphsh more in week IS time than
can possibly be achieved in months and
years of scattering fire.
Federation, ~ he concluded, els
teaching us the sin of magnifying
small differences and the wisdom OF
uniting on fundamental principles in
q determined effort to bring the
dawn of peace and make world safe
for democracy and religion.
Moving pictures of the battle of the
Somme followed Rev. Millard Is address
and admirably supplemented his dis
course They showed wildly and i'm
pressively the necessity for unity on
the firing line and therebyA suggested
the need of the same quality among
the folks back home With a presen-
tation of the general good-humor pre-
Yelling among Tommies and Poilus al