The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-07-12

Is PATRIOTIC
APPEAL Is MADE BY ALL SPEAKERS
The Annual Event is Well Attended, Tick
cts Exceeding Guarantee SOld--
Musical Programs Good

day evening, was characterized by the
patriotic utterances of speakers. Pat
riotism was the dominating keynote of
the entertainment.
Poet and humorist, W. A. Bone,
known as the Riley Of Illinois, who de-
clared that he has been accustomed in
the past to regaling his audiences with
frivolity for the most part, gave lec-
ture Friday afternoon entitled ''The
House of Man. While much of the
original and unique sayings of the llli-
nois humorist is laugh producing, he
digressed at frequent intervals to voice
expressions that bring home to Ameri-
cans the purpose of their country in
entering the great world war. He de-
clares that the war is bringing out
from recesses of closets the ideals of
the greatest, democracy, furnishing
them anew and setting them up to kim
die in men the reborn spirit of uni
versal human liberties.
The big chautauqua audience, num-
bering approximately LOCO, were
swayed Friday night by patriotic ad-
dress of Ex-Governor G. A. Carlson, of
Colorado. 1.-THE Price of Progress.
was the subject of the Colorado man,
who declared that Americans of the
present generation were enjoying,
while they paid small price for them,
more of the fruits of civilization than
the people of any other age.
81 expect to hear from Ex-Governor
Carlson" says Ernest c. Smith, who
introduced the distinguished visitor on
the evening of his address. 81 have
not heard sounder, saner expounding
of the ideals of American citizenship
than that contained in the address of
the Coloradan.
Ex-Governor Carlson sees in the
great war in which America has en-
tered with unselfsh motives the guild
ing hand of destiny to save .the great
democracy from drifting onto the reefs
heaped up high by the apathy of her
own citizens. He declared that world
war, while it is bringing about ma
tional compactness, formerly woefully
lacking in American citizenship, is also
Fastening the day when the ruling
guide of nations will be international
service.
Governor Carlson touched on the
harping and trouble making critics of
the administration war measures.
Debate as to the war is now not to be
tolerated in open assertion" he de-
clared, "nor even to be thought of in
the secret recesses of our brains.
at is arousing us" continued the
Coloradan, ''this war, and bringing
about the rebirth of a nation. 1t is
taking up this unwieldy mass Of lO0,-
000,0 900 human beings and reshaping
them into one compact form.
Great wars are not won by the men
at the front with their bayonets, but
by the heart power of the people left
at home. can tell you the destiny of
the fighting armies on the battlefield
by looking into the eyes of the women
back yonder at home"
Governor Carlson arraigned alike the
labor agitator and the exponent of un-
scrupulous capital. He characterized
the career of the man who fought sole.
ly for his own financial aggrandize-
ment, capitalizing even the protective
powers of his democratic country, as
tending to bring about retrogression of
democratic principles
During the past score of years,
said Governor Carlson, 1--WE have had
the opportunity to witness the activi-
ties of many men of this character.
Their accomplishments may be remem-
bered for few years. But today we
see the men and women of America
engaged in a task the mastery of
which may form great climax of his
tony for 1000 years.
Governor Carlson, who has had ex-
perience as special prosecutor and as
district attorney in communities of Col
orado, where the coal strikes of several
years ago menaced the stability of the
civil government of the state, cites as
a menace the sentimentalist who would
become law maker, and thus, as the
erstwhile prosecutor characterizes the
tendency, pull the teeth of the laws.
Virtue has long since learned her
prayers" he says. "but | want to see
virtue develop punch. If we would
put stop to thievery, grating, gam.
bling, crookedness and murder, we
must meet the thief, the gambler and
the murderer with blow between the
eyes and not kiss.
The Lyric Glee club was an attrac-
tion at both the afternoon and evening
prformance of the chautauqua Thurs
day.
Thursday afternoon Francis Hendry
entertained the audience with imper-
sonations. One of the evening num-
bers was Andrew johnson in a lecture.
Musical selections were given Friday
afternoon and evening by the Fillion
| Concert party, while at both perform
ances of Saturday the Military Girls
orchestra was present.
An illustrated lecture was given Sat
urday afternoon by DR.. G. Whitefield
Rae, South American explorer, who
told of horseback trip through five of
the principal states of Latin America.
A union service of all churches, the
sermon given by DR.. E. l.. House, was
held at II O'Clock Sunday morning. At
the Sunday afternoon and evening per-
formances the Royal Venetian band,
which is accompanied by Mary Adele
Hays, a soprano singer appeared. In
the afternoon an inspirational lecture
was given by Mrs. Lorene Wiswell
Wilson.
The Monday and TUESDAY numbers of
Ine program were dS ioliOWo.
Monday afternoon = musical selec-
tions, the Wasser Company; lecture on
Women of India, Miss Nettie Spencer; /;
Monay evening. musical selections, the
Wasser Company; motion pictures,
The Mawson Antarctic Expedition.
Tuesday afternoon-lecture, ''Stories
of the South" Wood Briggs, pageant,
Making Americans" by Junior Chau-
tauquans and Miss Columbia; Tuesday
evening, can Evening in the Alps,
Graus' Alpine Yodlers.
Each morning during the chautauqua
the children of the city participated in
Junior chautauqua. All of the pro-
grams were we'll attended, the local
committee in charge, composed of
about 40 business men and orchardists,
having sold more tickets than called
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