Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-14

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one is to uphold the dignity Of our
flag.
Before the evening prelude, Mr..
Molt presented the plan of having
the evening session begin at $3.50 in
stead of at 8 o'clock, as has been GUS
tomary. A vote was taken and here
after the sessions will open at and
$3.50 p. m.
! The Amprion Four once more fur
nished very pleasing prelude and
then came an illustrated lecture by
DR.. Arthur K. Peck. DIR. Peck in his
numerous trips to the war zone in the
past three years has collected Won
derful group of pictures. These along
with his personal account of the ac-
Invites of our men at the front make
a very interesting evening entertain
ment.
CHAUTAUQUA, SECOND DAY.
For the second day of the Chautau-
qua, Platform Manager Molt present
ed for the entire afternoon concert,
"The Liberty Bellies" This singing
orchestra is made up of seven very
charming and talented young ladies
from various states. These were in
troduced separately by their leader,
Miss Hope Hardy, Of Kansas. A num-
Der of splendid choruses and orches-
ira numbers were given by the entire
group, as we'll as pleasing variety
of solos. A child dialect reading.
"The Angel Child" by Miss Barbara
Schmitt, was especially pleasing, as
were the violin solo by Miss Hazel
Echolm, and the cello number by Miss
Frances Glow. Throughout their en-
tire concert there was a pleasing var
iety and the young ladies quite capti-
waited the audience with their. viva.
cious manners and their ready re-
Spouse to the numerous encores.
In the evening 'The Liberty Bellies"
were presented once more for the pre-
Jude number and again were enthusi-
astically received. Miss We've Diery
as vocalist, and Miss Hope Hardy.
violinist, presented the solo numbers
of the evening.
At the conclusion of the prelude,
platform manager Mott introduced
the lecturer for the evening, Capt,
Peel H. Moore, who returned only 4
month ago from Northern Russia,
where he served nine months against
the Bolsheviki. Before going into
service, Capt. Moore was head of the
Department of Rural Education in
Wisconsin State Normal School, and
expects to take up his work again in
that institution at some future time.
During his stay in Russia Capt. Moore
became very we'll acquainted with the
people ard their tendencies and he
feels that Bolshevism as it stands to-
day is the most dangerous menace
that the world has ever known.
The Bolsheviki are absolutely
against anything Of religious nature
No person who processes any religious
belief is allowed to hold office.
At present in both Germany anc
Russia there are two factions and the
Bolsheviki are ever struggling to gain
the upper hand. In Germany the
official government and the ones who
have so recently ratified the peace
treaty are still very unstable. II the
Russian and German Bolsheviki gair
as they hope, they will be able to
unite and overthrow the government
as it now stands. If this is done
those who have been responsible for
accepting conditions of the armistice
will be out of power and chaos will
again reign.
In the U. S. there has always beer
question of why our men were eve,
sent to Russia, and Capt, Moore offer.
ed practically the first explanation Of
this. Soon after General Foch was
made commander in chief of all AL.
lied forces Russian high official
came to him and asked that troops be
sent north in hopes Of saving thei,
country General Foch listened tt
him and as a result British, French
Italian an dAmerisan troops were
sent. Our men numbered only about
5000. The feeling in Russia is that
if America had sent enough men. Boil
shevism could then have been broker
up, but now it has spread beyond con.
troll.
Sunday Afternoon.
Sunday afternoon the usual order
of the program was reversed and DR.
Lyman B. Powell was presented a:
the first part of the program. DR.
Powell was sent to Europe by tn,
government to study the effect of thu
war upon the schools.
The French people have suffered s.
much that their whole idea was to flint
the Allies would assure them that the!
could again live in peace, and if the!
were once more attacked, would tn,
Allies again come to their rescue. L
England and America had not assured