The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
u solids tie Annual Mtrrsinu antl
Stsct1 OFFICERS st an Interesting
Session Arrsr a Good
Dinner.
ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
r4ns-x a Lawyer arc a PREACHER Dis
cliss One Size OF Il, anr sIas
Lieutenant Sp-p~,is Tell
&houf the Mar.

'NhehUAlttA al tL1t G1lhlftl
iiist evening hsKrd TWO addresses on
me league OF nations, one on d sold
ler's experience in France, attended, To
rnnLine husinasR, n annoyed q good
dinner provided ag the CHAPEL Fund
snciay.
T'he attendance w,as not as large ar
usual, nut The audience seemed to sr-
JOY all the maattns from the hakaa
chicEsn Die 10 the banedicsion. The
Tables were DECORATED with liiacs.
issporfs were made by the secretary
ana other officers, showing q prosper
nus condition Of the club, and from
varIoIs ~sranding committees. Tn.
9ewcomb spoke on the work uf the
brotherhood.
ls1rhT z members were elected
III IA business meeting. New officers
were elsnted as follows: w. G..
Blo0o, president; DR.. C. ]. Uhristan-
sen. v~ice-presida1t; Ferdinand Board,
sscrssary; Charles w. Dickinson.
trsasursr. The chairman of committees
are; g. S. Carver, inside romm1ttee,
Charles Davidson, outside committee,
n Walter Brinlar. membership com
taiftee.
Lawyer, PREACHER, Spldisr.
q \ Carver, chairman of the rnrn-
mtttee, walcomed the guests and open
ed the program. The peace conference
is the one big Ehins IN the eyes Of the
world today. be said, and the taagus
O. Nations, like all treaties, needs an
analytic mind TO Erasn, as he intro
nucad j, %. Boyd, who analysed the
iea.sue.
Mr. Carver said The club had secured
& minister TO verify what q lawyer
said, RS he introduced R4v. Hur,n
w arTen. vsho made an address of
idaalism, praise nf American ideals.
and objection Of the AisurTroe doctrine,
as moi IL harmony with modern ideas
and MOI righteous enough.
Chairman Carver safe there are two
I'd the question and the com
nffTtaf sought DnpDnents taf the Iaague,
but four it heard of left town when
NJ
The entire audience rose TO It's feet
.Rl;planding when Lieut.. John Sprpv.ls
ssas introduced, 10 talk on SOME of his
during the war.
a ksotuk Snidisr Abroad.
Lieutenant Sprpwls said his v!yvare
FFSpce WIS very different from his
approximations, especially rs for five
DAYS his vessel had no convey. because
the speed OF the Olympic was q bertar
than q slower convey. On
cne trip she cut q submarine in two.
The vnyaee took seven days on the
Ir1p Of LieutanEnt Sprowls.
a resi- camp is a misn0mer in which
rlt soldier works sixteen hours a day,
he said. F1e describad the utter, total
darkness of Southampton During the
var, and preceded TO tell about his
aEnsriences rs q lillaring officer in
These experiences were
amusing, Interesting, complicated and
pleasant,
III is tust the fnult OF having 10
live TOO hong together. not the fault
uf the soldier nor the fault Of the
people" satd Lieutenant
sprowls, referring 10 some trnuSles
occurring in northern France e. one
time.
THE mo corne bach from war no
content with the WORK or peacs,
L wRs told me, sut ynn need have
fear of such I'D effect on your
boys Lisutenaut Sprowls
ITO get bH5R 10 his home is b
hing OUT soldiers most desire" he
;rid once. "And the love OF home End
country is deeply ernplnnted in their
a~enrts." 4
MOT q Party Mr1tsr.
q feel that Rs Americans we Should
1ppr1ach The suhjact non in r PARTS
way. hut like Taft, who said
rartias are bounded by the Atlantic
The Paclhc.' SAID Mr.. Bnyd, in be
MS address +
That England and France said ~ the
,AFinuine that AT the end If the
rRr they hoped FOR IN agreement to
nd war, WIS the genesis OF the iaaa
sterwArd expressed in Wilson's four
cen POINTS, saia Mr. Boyd.
Senators Borah and Reed we're
For opposing the lesgun OF
on PARTISAN grounds.
"Tn oppose B. lascne OF nations Is
latioasl perhay," he said.
"To try 10 change The final draft