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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Great Chautauqua Movement Has Become
Mobilization Agency for National Policies

hard by the Mississippi. has caught
this imperial idea and whips his audi
ences into a great fervor of patriotism
by declaring for the greatest feet in
the world" so that we may wrest the
supremacy of the seas from England.
80 that VIC may defy Germany. and SO
that we may prepare for the ineyita-
bic conflict with the Jap"
There is pacifsm and pacifism. and
patriotism and patriotism, and mill
tarism and militarism, evidently. And
one could not successfully indlct the
Mississippi audiences for lack OF
Americanism on feeling it thrill to the
Hobson-" Tribune" war twist.
II is in its ministry 10 the not over
fed national spirit in Southern Indiana
and in Kentucky that the Chautauqua
idea is at its best. 1t constitutes prac-
tically the only rallying point The
drafted boys have been lined up in the
red-trimmed circuit tent, where with
pageantry and songs Of school children
the boys are given fearful yet rousing
"send-offs."
without the Chautauqua these re-
mote hamlcts would be lacking a stimu-
lus. The countryside discovers at once
fits community soul and its national
spirit. IL begins to feel at one with the
whole world of democracy. In the
Hoosier towns, where all the school
boys in hickory breeches say "HowdyT'
to the stranger, the Chautauqua brings
perhaps the first impulse 20 John Hay
or to an Abraham Lincoln.
A hamlet like Crothersville, Ind, is
no great mart of soldery, and yet it
contributes it's quota and more. II ear
her lacked the bands and the drums
and the flags, and yet the Chautauqua
orator, Judge George d. Alden, of Bos-
ton, was able TO elicit full measure Of
applause for his appeal to the group in
stinct for defence.
/. Crothersvillc, without village
square and with five village pumps, has
it's social wrestlings. Fine touches Of
sentiments were elected, tear drop
pings and hand clippings for Uncle
Sam at war, and also spiritual trem-
blings with the demon of treason. Said
the village druggist:
"That German-Bmerican who works
for Henry Smith has been blowing
about the Kaiser again. I've told him
that there's TO be no more OF it, or
wen have him locked up for the dura-
tion of the war-and longer II 1t don't
last long enough.
This here war has hit Crothersville
hard, and our sons are going of the
farms and from the village, but wen
do our duty like men. We haven't
IS many parades as they have in Chi
cage, but when it is all counted you'll
find that we've done our part"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

the eager country folk, hungry for real
community life, themselves the raw ma
tsYial for national sentiment and ma
tional opinion and national force, sub
scribing for the financial support OF
this new Institution; Kentucky noun
taineers signing with cross OK in
dividual pledges for $50 for its main
tenance, SO that their barefooted boys
and their gingham-gowned girls may
wrest something from these canvas
temples which their poverty-stricken
schools and hea-bitten churches have
denied them.
Then ask yourself if you are not face
to face with one Of the most important
social movements that has evolved
since a century ago, when the little red
schoolhouse itself became the flaming
way to civilization? 1t takes rank with
the women's clubs movement, the union
labor movement and other social evolu-
tons of broad significance, the unrec-
ognized fruit of which is usually reaped
during the generation that follows.
Such is the institution of the timer
ant Chautauqua, and such is the agency
which Washington has discovered for
modifying public opinion back of the
soldier, the better to hurl both at the
Kaiser.
Next year this nationwide agency
may fall to other uses, but this. year 1t
is oriented toward war. The drums
beat and the bugles call, the pennants
fiutter, the enlisted boys parade and
the women's hearts throb as the big
ChautauQua tents move on in groups OF
six from county TO county. In New
York they are now operating at Penn
Yam and at upper Lake, and, from
twenty New England camps the .gon-
falons of American democracy fly fresh
defiance at Germany.
No one has half a chance to know
just what the American people are
thinking of, just what they vibrate to
and if duly, unless one has sung with
them in the tents, and listened with
them. and looked into their eyes and,
crying Hail, fellow" to their reticent
hearts, asked them il all goes well,
and chilled with them and thrilled with
them here in passionate quest with
them for the thing they seek
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
An Anecdote of Balfour

Mr.. Balfour has said in public sim
gularly little about his experiences
in America, but some day he may
consent to record his impressions.
Should he do so We may look for an
entertaining comparison between the
House of Commons and the House Of
Representatives. Here, for example,
is a characteristic circumstance which
the reporters seem 10 have missed.
The first stage Of the war crisis was
a kind of Baby Month in Washington.
Children, and sometimes very young
children, were taken into the visitors
galleries in order that they might
carry into later life the memory Of
being present at an historic sitting,
and on the day of Mr.. Balfour's ad-
dress to the House a good many men,
bers Of Congress had children with
them on the floor. The one Congress-
woman. Miss Rankin, was accompanied
by two Juvenile relatives. IL was re-
marked that some of the children In
the galleries were kept. overcome with
sleep, TO the end Of the long night
sitting at which the war vote was
Observation-Disclosures Guardian.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Britons Learning to Cook

The English are not nation Of
cooks, says a correspondent, and al
though cooks have gone up consider
ably in popular estimation the nation
cannot suddenly change. Do the better
of realize how extraordinarily small
is the amount Of cooking which takes
place in the homes of the working
classes? Bread is indeed the staff OF
life, not only because under normal
conditions it is cheap, but because 1t
Is bought cooked and is portable.
Il is convenient food because 1t
can be cooked in large portions, where
as the substitutes require cooking in
small pieces, thus ct the same time in
creasing the labor and the amount Of
oven space required. These substitutes
require new methods Of treatment,
careful preparation; in fact, both time
and considerable study on the part Of
the housekeeper.' The upper classes
have both the spiritual and material
conditions necessary for satisfactory
substitution and the working classes
have not.-MancheSte Guardian.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

antipathy that the Chautauqua en-
counters, but hunger for social feel
ings. While their dusty automobiles
that carried unselfish loads of neigh
bors and children, nap drowsily at the
fence, the country folk fill the tent
with tense interest. War apathy gives
way to war enthusiasm, just as social
apathy gives way to social enthusiasm
These long silent farmers and villagers
are indeed grateful for the bath of war
emotions which the oratory affords
them.
At Chsutsuqua Lake, N. Y, the pop
ulous camp Of the original institution
serves as we'll as Ovid or Naples, if no
better, to reveal public opinion at work
iT social groups and to feel the wisdom
Of the government in utilizing this
agency. At Chautauqua Lake is verita-
BILE cnntonment, where 10000 persons
mostly women, are assembled, their
ideas modified for war. ...... ..
Here war and education, war and re-
ligion. war and recreation were blend
ed. From this centre q great moral
drive was made upon public sentiment
and speakers were trained and sent out
10 remote parts under the auspices of
the War Department, even the recrea-
tional work of the army camps being
in charge, in large part, of Arthur E.
Bestor, president Of the stationary
Chautauqua' institution.
The National Security League as far
back as January last shrewdly appraised
the value of this social instrument for
moulding opinion and getting into the
mind Of America the fundamental prin-
ciples for which the war ought TO be
fought"
Supplanting the "Prince of Peace"
talks Of the pacifsts who gripped the
West are the militant enthusiasms OF
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, OF
Harvard, and DR.. Smaller Matthews, of
Chicago, who, with DR.. Bestor, hold
chairmanships in this new propaganda,
Observe how frankly stated in the
Chautauqua Lake literature is the mo-
tive:
at becomes tremendously important
that the millions of people shoul d un-
derstand precisely for what ideals the
war is being pursued. The speakers
must emphasize the cause Of our par
ticipation. Chautauqua asserts its ca
pacity for national leadership and il
assumes a definite function in relation
TO the whole intellectual mobilization
of the country"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Attacks on Germans
Arouse No Thrills

What is regarded with suspicion in
the East, and as morbid and treasona-
bic, is in Northern Ohio and in Mich
iRan more or less normal. The Chau-
tauauas were careful 20 capitalize
what enthusiasts there were without
straining the point, just as at Mantle
voc. Wis, La Follette's straw-yote
pacifist German town, where pa
triotic feelings were aroused by pict-
ures of American championship Of
democracy, direct attacks upon the
German people earned the orators no
thrills.
But in Chicago one found quite n
new centre Of national thought. Here
tbe Chautauaua idea Aourishes. Tents,
fopr In number have invaded the
suburbs of the metropolis. At the big
Chsutauoua meet at Fort Sheridan H.
000 peopie were in attendance and the
nccssion was made great military
rally. with enthusiasm in plenty.
Chicago. the home Of Mayor Will
lam Hale Thompson, OF dubious fame,
has the war spirit strong. "A parade
every hour" one man called IL. But
in Ire assemblies one discovers the
stridont note TO be not pro-Ally as
much as pro-Americsn in seleetive,
almost exclusive way. "The Chicago
Tribune" has long preached military
nrepnredness, military aggression ana
military glory % It's Illinois eonstitu-
encv not on behalf OF any stricken Al
lies bIt for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF the
United States. - -,
Richmond Pearson IIobson. hero OF
the Mcrrimac, whom one encountersd
on the Chautauqua circuit ~ Efie' Hi''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Public Opinion
Largely F eminine

Public opinion, however, in rural
Indiana and Ohio is largely feminine.
The women are the club-goers, the
lecture -goers, the Chautauqua- goers.
And the best speakers on the Chautau-
qua circuits prove TO be the unadver-
tised women whose passion for the
practical and whose hatred for plati-
tudes give them peculiar effectiveness.
Prohibition, pscifcism, peace, child
welfare and practical economies are
the things nearest TO the community
heart, and here the feminine side Of
Middle West politics takes its source
Kernism, Marshallism and Organism.
Tho collective intelligence Of the Mid
die West is tinged with feminism be-
cause OF this monopoly in culture by
the women.
The Administration at Washington
has discovered the Chautauqua idea.
I Presently it will discover this feminine
public opinion and the organized minds
of these effective women speakers and
organizers of the Middle West, like
Miss Helen B. Paulsen, who caught the
women Of Crothersville up to her heart
with her talks on 1.-THE Development of
q Community consciousness" Rousing
the Middle West to war practically
{
I rifice.
The orthodox, if phlegmatic. attitude
Of rural New York on war, the finer
spiritual housings of the Chautauqua
Lake assemblies, the apathy of Perrys-
burg, in Northern Ohio; the reluctant
shiftings of Rochester, Mich; the
frank aggressivenesS not to say sell
fshness. Of the Illinois war spirit, and
q h. -sy 81 t.
ana to the patriotic oratory are all re-
actions from a quiet, staid appeal.
The orators are careful not to offend.
| They feel that they are talking TO peo-
pie who "voted for Wilson because he
kept us out of war" They talk in
distractions and half alphabetically, as
TO people who have German-American
neighbors, and TO people who, like the
colored man who protested: "The
Kaiser amt done nofin to me-"
Not so Lincoln Mcconnell, the war
orator of the Lincoln Chautauqua cir
cult to be encountered in one of the
Elk camps now operating south OF
Cleveland, o. He introduces a new
note that sounds more like a wer
whoop than anything emitted in this
| country. And instead Of offending his
audiences he stands them on end with
excitement.
The Mcconnell delivery and its ef
feet might proftably constitute study
/ No. by the administration. This pas
/ sionate anti-German crusader lit upon
the hamlet Of New London, O., like a
tornado and tied its emotions into a
war-knot. lie left a trail of anger
and fear and hate against Germany
across the Lincoln Chsutauqua circuit
/ from Alabama to Cleveland, and the
War Department found it profitable to
send recruiting officer to accompany
him TO catch the drip.
"The Kaiser and the Devil" is Nc
| Connell's theme, with apologies, he
explains, to the devil. This is his
! strain:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
National Defence
Appeals to People

In the Geneva Lake district the group
of Chautauouas discovered the war az
titude of the people only by a direct
appeal to their sentiments. Pomp and
circumstance left them cold, even as
the printed page leaves them. But
when the Administration orator, Joe
Mitchell Chapple, of Boston, linked up
the national defence with sentiments OF
"heaven, home and mother" the sturdy
farmers gulped with emotion and felt
their instinct for social group defence
Jingle in their veins.
Mental pictures of dying soldiers,
weeping Presidents, yearning moth
ers and proud fathers and Of glorious
national destinies gave these rural au-
diences thrill after thrill. The great
American heart was seen to be as sentl-
mental as a woman's. DR.. Frank w.
Gunsaulus, the distinguished Chicago
preacher, carried them to loftier
heights with his visions of a great ma
ton, strong in morality and in demo-
cratic purpose and yet unselfish in its
missionary spirit to do and die abroad
for humanity. And they heard him
gladly.
Oratory still is the great avenue to
the American emotions. Emerson and
Lowell were master players on this
American instrument. Lincoln was
stump orator. The Civil War fame
was lit by Garrison and Phillips. And
on the stump. our national policies are
shaped. Now comes the Chautauqua.
There is very little of the "yodle," very
little Of the vaudeville "Silly Sisters"
very little of the Barnum left in this
final grouping of oratory, dramatics
and recreation.
Wherever the Chautauqua remnants
flew that hamlet became for the week
the dynamic centre of American feel
ing. One DAY it was Ovid, next day It
was Naples, and again IL was Chiffon
Springs. n. Y. The countryside poured
out with automobiles and buggies and
on foot. Naples, with 600 population,
Welded an audience of 1,200 each night
Of the Chautauuua week, even when the
farmers felds were great with the har-
vest. when the beard was on the bar
lev and the gold was on the wheat.
At Ovid, n. Y, which 20 all intents
and purposes is the United States, were
encountered the American people.
There was the sophisticated hotel man
who complained that the farms were
being stripped Of their sons.
"The farmers sons will have to 20"
he said, loOmily, gazing at MS cholceSt
possession on the wall, an advertise
rient for a transatlantic steamship
that is now on the bottom Of the sea.
"The farmers sons are the only ones
who are physically ft."
And there was the village pessimist,
who averred that this country wouldn't
have gone into the war had it known
what a big chunk of trouble it was
biting off," And there was the village
optimist, who said every one was in
the war with will, that "Ovid had
sent the first man and was ready 70
send the last" And there was the stout
sentiment OF the women in the little
stores and the reticent opinion Of the
farmer in his automobile, all orthodox,
all knowing very we'll what Washing
ton was doing, all phlegmatic and de.
tached and acting from slow sense OF
duty.
Until the Chautauqua orators came
10 town, and then sentiment fared up:
II had something TO fare up on; It had
a faRot 10 consume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
oesarers' Coming
NE Visitation

sss,,. asss detached rural people. un-
Ca. aase 70 the social interdepeD-
4 s symIsthiss which dweliers
i,sss'. saarstrs must possess lest they
ss.ss,s. .ash other down In tenementS,
sslsa rather 70 silence and 70
s,sss csslnEs, the coming Of the tin
IA ssss1fua tent IL like vista
isss's. ihsn, The continental line Of
hsiaI,, unable esntonmsnts for the
sss = " epinion, ministsring 20
~ 81 ,fe..nt,De American people who
f<,ss. sins and In remote villages.
Rsss. - tfsinsd srmy Of 5000 leet-
.sttz, :. ,hs'fa,ors, mslodists, recre.
~ sIs.s y',sM end managers who keep
= ''sNb ton moving. Picture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Time to Smite
German Power

81 am here to All your hides with
shot. | am here to flay the Kaiser and
the German murderers. For forty
years the German people were taught
10 believe that the Kaiser was Gods
little boy. Some power is leading him
on athirst for glory, on TO his de-
struction. And il Is not God. Il is
the devil. Is it not timo for US to
arise and smite the power that left
100000 German babies to Belgian and
French women victims7
"The Germans dared US TO even loan
Belgium rag TO bleed on. The Kaiser
murdered our citizens at sea. He said
we were slackers, that we were soft.
I voted for Wilson just like you did
because he kept US out OF war. was
q Stacker. But I've had my. eyes
opened II we do not Stay this Beast
of Berlin he will devour us. Well go
over there 100000 strong and beat
him. Germany must be crushed or
humanity will be compelled to live I'M
der her lying, barbarous heel. You
bows get a good tail-hold on Germany
and lam the stufing out Of the big
bully"
The American people who sit in Nc
Connell audiences inwardly bless him
for giving them tangible hate
motive for bidding their sons depart.
The mothers. insdequatsly sustained
by academic distractions. here feel
that they were getting some emotional
return for their supreme sacrifice. 1t
comforts them 10 feel that their boys
are going 10 give their lives in the
killing of hateful thing.
The Chautauqua has gone to war,
and in its very net OF modifying for
the sacrifice. IL has discovered its own
power and has disclosed TO students
OF sociology at once its tremendous
bulk and It's pregnancy. A..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Worthwhile Things of World Are
Brought Close to the People in Many
Little Villages of the Nation

This su0ey of the ChautauquGs IS intended to combine
IN one picture the emotions discovered by the 70r1ter IN
~ course of an ertended trip around the circuit 1t con-
, series of detached articles that haze been appear
~ the daly columns Of The Tribune. The purpose IS
%Io ,cbat Imey1can sentiment is and hOzo it Is being
rroh1ized" for sCar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Great American Air Corps
Can Seal Doom Of Germans
Teuons Are Defeating Their Own Purpose by Raids over
London and Are Accusing Almost Irresistible
Demand for Reprsals
Bv REV. ELMER T. CLARK, LIT. D.

ly imagine that some munitions arr
made or stored in the "East."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

Copyrighted. 1911. on, f. Wood,
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

improvements of public highways in
Colorado in the last few years have
demonstrated beyond any doubt that
taxation and money expended for this
purpose, is a paying investment for
the people of this state. II furnishes
labor, employment, the wages for
which finds its way at once back into
the channels of trade, and is even
tually returned to the Golfers from
whence 1t came, leaving behind an
asset in good roads for all time, facili-
tating commerce in a business way,
and contributing to the pleasure of
our citizens, our unsurpassed climate
and scenery.
In 1916 we had log 900 automobile
tourists, who left in Colorado more
than ten million dollars. The season
Of 1917 will certainly bring to US at
least 10000 Of such visitors, who will
leave in profits in our business chan
ncls, at a low estimate, two and one
half million dollars, or more than the
entire amount Of money expended by
both state and counties in road con-
struction and maintenance, and build
ing up business Tines, adding perma-
nent taxable valuation in every county.
In the past there has been much
doubt as 70 the adyisability Of a bond
issue for road purposes. My conclu-
sion at this time is that we are far
enough on our way in road building or
ganization and practical demonstra-
tions as to the value of good roads to
the commonwealth, 10 prove beyond
question that moderate bond issue.
covering period Of years, for the
purpose of completing as rapidly as
possible. the grading. permanent bridge
construction and drainage Of the pres
ent system of state highways, with n
program of hard surfacing about the
centers of heavy traffic.
There is n phase of road work that
needs reform in every state. and that
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
NEW CHECKING SYSTEM.

The checking system installed by
the Denver tourist bureau in co-opera-
ton with the department of the in
terror and the Estes Park Hotel Keep
nishing accurate information concern
ing hotel facilities at the Rocky Noun
tain National-Estes park is proving
satisfactory. Reports received last
week show that while three hotels
were filled to capacity there was am
pie accommodations at the twenty
three others hotels in the region. In
formation concerning accommoda-
tions is telephoned from the Estes
park information bureau to the Den
yer bureau from which point the in
formation is given to tourists, railroad
offices and other places that may be
interested.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

pensation for injuries, and pensions
should rest upon the government. He
discussed the question whether, in or
der to establish means to care for de-
pendents and soldiers and sailors who
are disabled, unified program should
be centered upon one of the existing
bureaus or government departments,
or whether it should be turned over to
a new bureau or commission directly
responsible to congress and the presi-
dent
The committee selected by Judge
Mack to draft legislation on separa-
ton allowances, compensation for in
Juries, and pensions, to be presented
to the council of national defense for
approval and then to congress, is COM
posed of P. Tecumseh Sherman. New
York, chairman; D. L. Cease, editor
of the Railroad Trainmen's Journal,
OF Cleveland, secretary; and Frank V.
Whiting, general claims attorney, New
York Central Lines, New York; Prof.
F. Spencer Baldwin, New York; S.
Herbert Wolfe, Washington; and ].
W. Sullivan, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
VOLUNTEER HOME GUARD.

We do not believe it to be neces-
sary at this time for the state legis-
lature to provide big fund to pay a
home guard during the war period.
We believe now, as We believed be-
fore the state executive issued his
call for an extra session, that this
duty can be attended to by communi-
ties and the citizenship generally with
out very much aid from the general
assembly. We hold that there is
enough patriotism eNtant to make the
home guard largely a volunteer body
of citizens who cannot enter active
service for the nation.
There is need for an organization
of state defense at this time But the
professional organizer should not
have too much of his own way; let
the volunteer citizen step in and do
some of the work for the love of his
state and country and not solely for
the pay there is in it.
The public is cautioned against lis
tening to tales of armed rebellion and
internecine strife. Colorado's atmos-
phere is too healthy to encourage
such things. The formation of a Colo
rado Home Guard would be a precau-
tionary measure. This is the time
when every good citizen is a home
guard by instinct.-Rocky Mountain
News.