The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-18
CROWD AT cHAUTAuoUA.
Continued from Page H.

character readings and impersonations
by Miss Helen Mailer and comic songs
by one of the McGrath brothers, both
of whom showed clever familiarity
with their banjos in solo and duet num-
bers with piano Accomplishments by
Miss Batting. The appreciation of the
audience was shown in continued APP.
plause, and the artists responded lib
orally with encore numbers The fea-
lures which caused the most amusement
were Miss Mailer IS impersonation of a
woman at the movies Iand Mr.. Me-
Grath s song, One Hundred Years
from Now
At the close of the musical program
in the evening announcement was made
that each afternoon session would
open at 3 o'clock and each evening
program at with junior Chautauqua
at 0 clock in the morning, which the
parents were urged to visit Mrs. Greg
DRY stated that the superintendent, Mr..
Hayes, had arrived and asked that the
patrons remain to meet him at the
close. She also stated that on Thurs
day and Friday nights the grounds
would be open at 7.15 o clock, but that
no tickets would be sold for single
admission until 7.30, in order to give
the season ticket holders first oppor-
tunity for seats
She then introduced Chancellor Brad
ford, who directed much attention to
the boys and girls and fathers and
mothers, his subject having to do with
the preparation of one Is self to help
solve the world problems, as the whole
world S destiny is upon the Shoulders
of no ba
lean can get that conviction down into
his heart then the responsibility of this
hour will begin to dawn upon us.
He dwelt at some length upon the
value of an education as compared with
the old theory of apprenticeship and
told of his own experiences in securing
college education. If America ear
ries the world to no-war goal tomor-
row, he declared, it viii not be because
America has more money than any
other nation of the world but because
the boys and girls and young men and
young women shall be big enough and
broad enough to carry the world up to
that great goal. There never was a
time, he said, when it was so easy to
succeed as it is today, and then in some
detail he explained the way to open or
to close the door of opportunity.
/ The boys and girls, said Chancellor
Bradford, are not always TO blame; it
is more often the fathers and mothers
who do not take the time to think of
their child = future and talk with their
children of their education because
their minds are occupied with the
thoughts of getting rich. He referred
to the moving pictures and the fact
that the work of the school teacher is
made % per cent more difficult every
year because of the kind of moving pie
lures which are being shown today and
that when the teacher closes the year
the net results are 10 per cent less be-
cause OF the bad kinds of moving pie
lures. He also spoke of the large num-
Der of boys and girls in the nation who
are being taught by so-ealled teachers
who have not so much as graduated
from high schools. He added that, so
far as he had been able to determine.
neither the Republican convention in
Chicago nor the Democratic convention
in San Francisco touched upon the sub
ieet of education and declared that
when the women get into politics they
are going to say to the men: Your
store and business arc all right, but my
home and my child are of Just as much
Importance as your store and your bus
mess = They viii go ahead, he said,
and do some of the things which are
fundamental
The speaker deplored repeatedly the
idea Of one s using every effort to get
rich and give no thought to the up
building of the community and the ma
ton, and declared that he hoped the
time would come when the women of