Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-08
INSIGHT GIVEN ID Y" WORK
 OVERSEAS

Holding the interest of an audi
 ence which comfortably filled the
 High school auditorium, Frank C.
 Lockwood delivered his lecture.
 France, Paris and the Peace Con- ference" being introduced by Sutton H. Martin, superintendent of the city
 schools, promptly at 8 o'clock last evening
 Introductory to his theme, the speaker discIaimed speaking in any
 capacity except that of an American
 who had been abroad. While com
 ing here and accomplishing his work
 ot state high school inspector and
 that of director of university exten- sion, his remarks were entirely inde- pendent of his relation to the public in that dual relation to the school system of the state.
 After complimenting the city schools, both as to the splendid buildings with we'll equipped rooms and as to the excellence of the work carried on by the teaching staff, Pro- lessor Lockwood went on to say that he was very anxious to get overseas and after numerous endeavors to be taken in some capacity or other, he was given a chance to do welfare work. His anxiety to get in was equailed by his anxiety to get out of his Y M. (. A. uniform, for he got more brickbats, so to speak than bouquets
 And the boys were as anxious tc return, the ways and thoughts anC standards of the French not being that of the Americans They insisted on talking their own language, not condeScending to acquire enough tC help the soldiers; then, too, there was the wretched climate. It seemed strange to the speaker than mel would fight and die for the privilege ot maintaining an existence in that unfavored cline, when most of the American soldiers would have beer willing to almost die to get out of it
 After dwelling on the disagreeable spring of this year, Lockwood as serted the Americans did not like SC many painted women and decorated men. He liked animated painting but not painted animations, common not only in Paris but elsewhere.
 After touching upon the boosting of prices to the Sammies, the speaker described the stone walls which en- closed practically every field, house hamlet and city districts, giving as his opinion that these, with their gray, monotonous suggestion of i'm prisonment, intensified the desire O. the boys to get back to the spacious unfettered scenes of their own land
 Growing sarcastic, mention was made of the tendency of the "Y's' own speakers to flock to Paris, or to arrange lecture assignments so that they could gather material for use on the lecture platform when they | returned. This class of worker was contrasted with the type who gave freely and with no purpose of per sonal benefit, the speaker citing Sam. uel Gompers and William Allen White as examples of the unselhsF | type.
 He characterized the French as wal blase, thinking no more about wa than we in this country think abou' strikes. While recognizing then valor, the character of their patriot ism is vastly different than that O. the American, and nowhere com parable with it in purity and devo- ton of spirit.
 He believed the three way" league all right, the agreement of Grea' Britain and the United States tc come to the aid of France if agair attacked by Germany.
 "We have got to get the spirit o' brotherhood and service. While the League of Nations was sort of forced on the foreign nations, they are eX .remely skeptical as to the ldeal1sm therein expressed"
 The speaker warmed lip as he made the kaiser and his generals the goat for the great war, and insisted hat he did not care whether they ailed the kaiser still he must be branded with his ,infamy, as that would warn the world against mill arism, and unless the former ruler vas so labeled, the blood shed would lave flowed in vain.
 Closing with a quotation from the poem "In Flanders Fields, the speaker was given evidence of the approval of the audience by the many personal expressions of inter st and entertainment which he had .fforded.