Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-15

sudden emergency. The lecturers
tales Of France touched the heart of
the great audience, and when he de-
clared that as long as Frenchman
lived it was his opinion that the Ger
mans could not get into Paris the
audience showed it's sympathy with
hearty applause.
Along the four hundred and fifty
mile battle front the "Y" hut is the
popular rendezvous for American SOL
diers. DR.. Cole gave graphic pictures
of life in and about the "Y." Soldiers
taking the Sacrament under fire, the
pathos of Thanksgiving and Christmas
exercises at the front, big meetings
both religious and for entertainment,
walking miles of hospital, feeding
hungry men by day and entertaining
them by night, helping home-sick men
ever their nostalgia-what varied
picture of human interest it was, and
how full of compelling pathos. When
men did not answer to their names at
the roll call about the Christmas tree
in France, because they were dead or
prisoners, the gifts for them were
given to giftless soldiers. Only a
heart that was calloused could fail to
be touched by the appeal of current
American heroism in France.
DR.. Cole knows little more about
economic conditions in Germany than
the rest Of the world, but he has seen
many German prisoners rush to the
American garbage pail for something
to eat, and that tells its own story. He
thinks the war will last long time,
but he has no doubt as to the final
outcome, for there can only be one
issue and that one of complete victory.
! German VilenesS.
The spirit of the German empire
is shown by the vileness of German
propaganda. The lecturer told the
story of the crafty and insidious
propaganda which led to the Italian
defeat, and it was tale that reused
the Indignation of the audience.
Evidently hell will have to be deepen
ed and it's fires quickened to more in
tense caloric pitch if German deviltry
is to be covered with suitable punish
ment Human words are totally in
adequate to picture the truth about
German iniquity in France and Bel
GUM and the evidence for unspeak-
able German atrocities upon the civil
population is piled terribly high. Dr.,
Cole told of hundreds of innocent civil
lians lined up against stone walls and
brutally shot by German soldiers, and
he declared that he could not tell to a
mixed audience the full horrors of
German lust and crime in the stricken
lands. h5s4p 4au |
DR.. Cole was loud in his praise Of
the morale Of the American soldier in
France. American soldiers live a
clean moral life and win the respect
and admiration of the allies The
trenches are making new brother
hood among the allies, and when the
war is over this brotherhood will
continue. There is literal and fig
urative transfusA of blood brought
about by the wary ne social and poll
tican benefits of which will last for all
time.
Dr. Coles lecture was one of the
strongest ever presented from the To-
cal Chautauqua platform. and Mr..
Vawter is to be congratulated upon |
having secured such timely message
for the present year.
A Day OF Music.
Sunday was day OF music at |
Chautauqua when The Bostonias ap-
peared for the afternoon prelude and
rendered a full program in the even
ing. The Bostonias are a notable
musical organization of ladies who
hail from old Boston town and have
won renown by high class musical
programs across the continent. There
are twenty-one ladies in the organiZa
ton and they left a fine impression
with their two Sunday programs. In
the evening The Bostonias rendered
the following program and were gen.