The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-28

versa they play the game of war as
brothers in the great scheme of
teaching the world humanity. Says
Mr.. Beauchamp our soldiers do not
want our sympathy. They are not
looking for our tears, but the love of
mother and the support of the people
at home with encouraging messages.
This is what kindles the morale and
strengthens the warrior for battle.
War has it's compensation in better
civilization. France, twice disin-
tegrated has since the war began
become a praying nation and a bet
ter people.
The humor of the speaker was in
fictitious. His sallies convulsed the
audience. The modern dress of wo-
men, he says, is in tubes without the
inner tube, and the man who wants
to marry can see what he is getting.
Proceeding to the conditions in
the churches, he quoted from the
statisticians to show that the per-
centage in growth of membership has
been exceedingly slow, and the trou-
BILE was with card-playing members
and hesitation" dancers in the
church. They have lowered the
standards of religion until the
church is almost without it's infiu-
ence for good.
He called attention to the fact
that while this is democratic coun-
try it is not without it's defects. We
have more murders than any other
civilized nation, more even than
Germany, the land of the Hun, before
the war, and the trouble is politics.
The time is coming when we must
elect men four-square without ref
erence to their politics, tall men who
are not afraid of political influence.
Recently in Indiana plain citizen
was elected Governor, and the laws
were enforced until the percentage
of murder had been reduced more
than half. There were some dozen
or more hangings and then there
was more respect for law.
MIR. Beauchamp closed after an
hour or more with the most heartily
interesting attention and the audi
ence was 10th to leave.
On Saturday afternoon and evening
the Redpath audience was entertain
ed by Miss Vera Poppe,i the cellist.
Miss Poppe is an artist of interna-
tional reputation. She is hardly
as versatile as the Spanish cellist,
last year, but she produces all the
full rich tones of that instrument,
inexhaustible in possibilities. She is
mistress of technique and interpre-
tative skill to a marked degree and
plays with the spirit of enthusiasm.
When Miss Poppe had finished her
afternoon program Miss Clarrisa
Harold, the reader, made her ap-
pearance. This Office had no report
er present, but in the language of
Mrs. Leland T. Powers, Miss Harold
impressed the audience with the OBJ
servation that "she seems to possess
every attribute that a good reader
should-sympathy, tenderness, a
loving heart, keen intelligence and
appreciation of that which is beauti
full in literature and in life, fine
sense of comedy, together with a
gracious and beautiful presence"
Frank L. Mulholland on Business
and the War" was the Saturday
evening speaker. Mr.. Mulholland is
an international traveller. He has
just returned from the war zone,
and while not effective in the schol-
arly arts of platform oratory, his
boundless enthusiasm and optimism
carry him over the top. One thing
he has done effectively and that is to
bring home to us the truth of all the
hideous Hun atrocities heretofore
given to the public by the English
Commission. He retold some of the
Aershot horrors, published in this
paper few weeks ago, with all the
realism of personal proof. Mr.. Null
holland is distinguished American
citizen and attorney of Toledo, Ohio.
One of the most popular of the
course of lectures was that of DR..
Geo. H. Bradford Monday afternoon
on the subject, Rebuilding the
World" which takes account of prob
lens as they are to-day and states
the proposition that America must
be the leader in the new order of
things.
Miss Margery Maxwell, of the Chi
cago Grand Opera Company, whose
star seems to be in the ascendancy,
before the audience, large
one, Monday evening. She was ac-
companied by the pianist Miss Schu-
bert, and the violinist, Milan Lusk.
Miss Maxwell has what is somewhat