The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-25
ILondon Times Corresponds
!S;s, ent Speaks in, Chau7ls.s,
{ Us tauqiia Tent
IA W. ~ Ssss NJ
II 20
RELATES INCIDENTS n:
OF MUCH INTEREST
Melrose-Jordan Co. of Four Young
Women Musicians Gives Very Pleas
ing Concert-No Service Sunday on
Account of Thunder STORM.

! Because of inclement weather 1t was
necessary to give up the Sunday after
noon show which was to have been
given in the Chantauqua tent on the
high school grounds, heavy thunder
storm being in progress at the hour set
| for the service. --,rssf
I On Saturday nights large audience
assembled IN the tent to hear the con
cert by the Melrose Jordan Co. and the
lecture by d. Thomas Curtin, war cor
respondent of the London Times and Sc
eret service agent, who expects to be
| called upon to testify at the trial of
the former German emperor. The lee
| ture was highly entertaining and I'M
veiled many things which the American
people We're only slightly aware of dur.
ing the war, and held the close atten-
ton of the audience. In the afternoon
the series lecture was followed BY a
concert by the Melrose- Jordan Co. and
| this company opened the evening pro-
gram.
This musical organization is composed
OF four talented young ladies' Miss
| Inefficient Melrose, soprano, whose voice
| Is high and very strong. and who sings
with much dramatie expression, Miss
| Marion Jordan, who plays her flute.
| with skill and charm, Miss Irma .Jor-
dan, competent cellist and Miss Edna
Jones, aeeompanist and pianist, who
| ably supports her partners, and is n
! thorough musician. All the numbers
| pleased the audience. but among the
best were the Mad Scene from Lueia.
which brought out the beauty of Miss
Melrose voice with the flute and n
| group of Indian songs, which included
By the Waters of the Minnetonka and
| From the Land of the Sky Blue Water,
sung by Miss Melrose in costume.
Mr.. Curtin, although in the service
of the great English newspaper syndi-
cate owned by Lord Northciiffe. Is an
American citizen. lIfenis known in
s t.3 aa The t983dI aiSIo dFasse@ the
straig htforward way he told Of some
| Of his experiences during the world
| conflict which Show up the way the
German people brought about and car
| RED on their ''war of hate. /"
He first showed how the war was
| started by German trickery and in
Intrigue and built up by illusion and a
iipfrverted system of political ednca-
I tom In part he said n newspaper
| trek was used to perpetrate the war on
i Russia The kaiser sent telegram to
Il rhe ear declaring that if Russia mobil,
fzed Germany would declare war. Then
IN the July 3lst issue of one of the Ger
man papers in Berlin appeared the
headlines Germany mobilizes. > The
Russian embassy immediately wired
this to Russia. The issue of the paper
| was quickly withdrawn, and a denial OF
the report that Germany had mobil-
| lied was given out The Russian en-
bassv Immediately sent another wire to
! Russia, but it arrived too late because
the German government controlled the
wires and blocked this telegram until
Russia had already begun to mobilize
TO offset Germany. This gave the Ger
mans their opportunity The news
papers famed With the report Of Rus.
sia $ mobilization and the German peo-
PIE rallied at once to the support of
| their kaiser. ST.
| impression on Mr. Curtin's mind was
! the way in which the German govern
ment, through the professors, poisoned
the mind of the German people with
hate. The professors taught the scien-
Il title benefits of scientific hate. "Onlv
I through hate, they said, ''can the
greatest obstacles in life be overcome. >
In contrast TO the allied armies the
Germans did not have new popular
songs such as Over There, There S a
Long, Long Trail, etc. They sang Their
old patriotic songs, such as, The Watch
ON the Rhine. Only one new song was
on their lips and that was Professor
| i iSSalnr'S oE -.