The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-19

ANCESTRAL GROVE
sawaiians Prove Interesting and Tell
How the Islands Did Not Need
the Draft Law to Get
Soldiers.

~ HOW the tSfesNQS DIQ INOI INSCu
the Draft Law to Get
II Soldiers.
l#The Hamilton chautauqua opened
It's fourteenth annual session yester-
ly in Gordon's grove. 1t is one OF
/ lie oldest chautauquas in the middle
est and owes It's fourteen years OF
fe to the excellent programs 1t al
I avs presents
| The Rev. Eleanor Gordon preached
/ le cflautauqua sermon Sunday morn
lg on the subject, "Is Christianity a
ailure?" She read for a scripture
ssson the fifty-fourth chapter or
allah as symbolizing America at this
articular time and emphasized in her
srInon the assurance of the triumph
our righteous cause and of the
iessing of peace which is certain to
,me. Miss Gordan said that the ques-
on. SIS Christianity a Failure" is q
orld old question and that it has not
cen answered, because christianity
! as never really been tried. She said
i lat the world holds that the object
! [ life is success; christianity teaches
lat the object of life is love and serv-
,e When the world is given to love
nd service, then will christianity have
cen tried and the question can be
answered.
Music for the morning was furnish
by local musicians and was pleas
lg addition to the service.
The program of the afternoon open
=, l,,l@ n ,fya1 mi
awaiians, a company of four, which
ave also the full program in the
B vening The original company had
We members, but few days ago the
4 elective draft took one Of the men
ito the service of the United States
rrny. There is peculiar quality and
harm in Hawaiian music which
Iudes description The company
layed and sang as encores some OF
sur popular music, Somewhere in
rance" and Goodbye Broadway, Hell
b France and into these they put that
ocular quality of Hawaiian music
Fhich made the American ragtime al
lost unrecognizable. Their program
sas thoroughly enjoyed by the large
udience. One memoer OF the COM
any gave brief history Of the Island,
EMPHASIZING the part they are having
i the war. He said Hawaii was an
exed to the United States by the re-
Hest of the natives as of all the gov
rnments of the world we chose to be-
ong to your republic. We are proving
ow that we are satisfied with your
overnme emit. The selective draft was
OF necessary in Hawaii, the volunteers
xcelled the quota for the island. At
he beginning of our entrance into the
5ar, two thousand trained soldiers
rent from the island direct to France;
month ago five thousand more cross
d the United States Ind sailed for
rance. On the island there is an
rny of $50 900 and a fleet largely
named by natives. Some of the
trongest Notifications in the world
ave been built by the United States
government on this island. One Of
hese forts took eight years in con-
truction A foreign foe who would at
empt TO land on the islands would re-
GIVE a warm welcome from cold
teeI."
Not Your Town, But You.
The lecture of the afternoon was
delivered by Col. William Hamilton
filler, who was well known for
wenty years as a country newspaper
nan, editing a weekly at Ottawa, III.
lie was born and reared in a country
own and knows its needs from first
sand experience. He had for a sub
ect, Its Not Your Town, It's You"
He made very interesting address,
cling well known facts in a humor-
rus individual way. His description
If Fourth OF July celebration in a
title town in the sos as it impress ed
4im as boy was very well given. He
aid that the first idea of the develop
nent of a town or community was
o make it bigger. He said that isn't
necessarily development, size is a
mall part of it. He said the city peo-
lie miss much Of human sympathy.
'iglit can't burn all night in an upper
soom in a house without the neigh
pors asking the next morning Who's
pick over at Browns?" In a city you
IAN get away with anything and die
Iioing it and nobody will care any
hing about it. He said wealth doesn't
-eally count, either. There is an old
aging that money talks" but to
most of US it has never said anything
3ut goodbye" He said community in
Eerest in the development of homes,
schools and churches and clean gov
'ernment was what every community
needs and that size and wealth will
AXE care of itself Speaking of the
Voting privilege he said that he had
recently made a trip through the old
louth and that he came home con-
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