The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-06-15

It came and conquered and has not
gone yet.
It is in our midst-also around the
whole circumference of our conscious
living and more or less conscious
thinking.
In fact, the proof is upon us once
more that an intelligent Chautauqua
is mighty good substitute for the
old-time one-day horse circus, the Ia
ter hoodlum street fair and at times
even for the pent-up and often sugges-
tive night scenario. =
The Lincoln Company are happy in
the men sent for the local service. Mr..
Hester, the superintendent, is quiet,
able, clean, Christian gentleman. HIS
assistants, chosen mostly from college
students in their vacation, conform ad-
mirsbly to this type. The ushers Sc
lected by the local committee, are head
ed by Mr.. Ridley Wills.
The ticket force under the direction
of Mr.. Fred Lyle and Mrs. Jonas Eel
senthal, acting for the Brownsville
Cooperative Club, the ministers, within
their unqualified sanction and untiring
suavity; the Boy Scouts on-hand TO
help everybody
Surely with all the pain and wrong
and rout in the world, it is new gay
!. .,sa slis,f In trnth about seven q
them there IN the big tent down on the
Bradford lot. And perhaps If we can
lust keep it up awhile, this getting
all the forces and all the friendlness
of the old town together in such real
lv effective and influencing way for
week at time-who in Haywood
knows but that we shall at length gel
the habit, ard that one fine morning
somebody away out on Old Hatchie
or West Main, or Park Avenue, ol
Washington will wake up and move
to make our courtesy and common IN
terest in and work for each other per
manent?
OF course the unsettled and unpre
cedented conditions in the government
and business world have made the 10
cal committees task most delicat,
and troublesome one. Nobody witt
the faintest acquaintance with the mel
who compose that committee ha
thought for an instant that in tn
hour of the ration's crisis they woul'
willingly be found playing off the Ike,
of the country's call by leading tn
people through a week of misceliane
GUS tatch-penny pleasure-making. Bu
to not few excellent people this seem
ed inevitable; and even yet there ma
be here or there solid citizen or S
who, having little too solidly take
this position and not having gone
see for himself, can't make out tn
apparent puzzle.
All who have seen, however, al
more than convinced that even if II
Chautauqua had not been previous
engaged, it would have been goC
thing for the town and the time to 6
and get one.
Most of us read the morning pape
and spend the rest of the day swal
ping the familiar rehash Of what v
all have just read. What we need
some calm, large voice from the ou
side, along with the inspiration Of Il
nations songs and the relief of havir
our attention effectively removed #
a time to other wholesome but n
conflicting interests.
Hamilton Holt, editor of the Ne
York Independent, on "The League +
the Enforcement of Peace" the fir
night was in this respect and eve
way a godsend. The coming of Sc
ator Kern with message of "Awal
America" seemed direct ambassy
Brownsville from Washington a.
Woodrow Wilson himself. No SO
could have heard Miss Maud Willis al
not felt thrillingly the call to an u
wasted life. As this is being writ
we go into a day Thursday with Re
ert Perry Shepherd, who in the
ternoon and evening hours is to be
though the city had sent for !
community expert, teachingus in the
very principles and procedure
neighborhood living, for the neglect
which the world is by the ears Il
day.
The big band concert tonight Of
day. will stir patriots blood as it !
need to be stirred. Saturday night v
come the striking Patriotic Pagea
America Then and Now" led by NJ