Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-18
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON
 THE NEW EUROPE

America goes down in shame if she ig | nores starving. war stricken Europe. said | Dr. E. A Bartlett of Brooklyn, N. r.. E 1, an illustrated lecture on The New Flu | rope at the Church of the Good SheD- ! herd. Universalist. Sunday evening. The evening service was given over to Dr. | Bartlett's lecture and there was a good sized attendance.
 The service opened at o'clock with Rev. George H. Welch. the pastor. pre- siding. After the opening hymn Or. Bartlett delivered prayer and then gave his lecture. Dr. Bartlett briefly men- tioned the scenes attendant upon the breaking out of the war which he said cost fifty million lives. He said he was in Europe when the war broke out He saw the French army mobilizing and saw she English lzpd at Havre.
 went back there last fall, said Dr. Bartlett, to see what conditions are now. When he booi1e dpassage on a French linerr out of New York he found that the | steamship rates have doubled. He found 1 the steerage well filled, as many foreign | CTS were at that time returning to their homes.
 He had been in England but short time when he discovered that women were still working in industry. One of his many beautifully colored slides show 
 fish pier. Another slide showed masons and brieklayere.
 Dr. Bartlett said he found England was doing her best to keep down the cost of food. Butter, he said, was selling at | 25 cents a pound while in this country it was selling at Soc and soc. When Lloyd Georges portrait appeared on the screen he spoke of the latest de- 1 velopment in the mine situation in Eng 1 {. s1,s Toe G-~a-+ ~-s-t, the coal miners, who have broken their promises that he will win.
 Dr. Bartlett then showed several views taken over London from an aerop,ane. From London he took his audience to South Hampton and thence to Havre, where he said prices have quadrupled. Women have taken their places on the street cars there.
 It is in the little town in France that one realizes the pathos of the war. said Dr. Bartlettt. In the little towns nearly every woman wears a black dress For the most part Paris is as it was before the war.
 After showing several views the women with market baskets He said he wanted to find out what 1t costs to live in Pats. Prices were as low rule but he saw a pair of American selling at twenty dol- lars pair Most of the marketing is
 done at open air stores
 France has a dearth of children. the speaker said. Last year there were fo0.- 900 more deaths than births. The three things facing France today are the de- , crease of the birth rate, tuberculosis and alcoholism.
 Dr. Bartlett in hI tour visi; A' more
 than a hundred devastated towns and
 villages and he showed a picture of a
 cemetery in which 21.0O0 American sol diers are buried. One slide shower the grave of Quentin Roosevelt Slides of Rheims were then shown. IT Rheims. Dr. Bsrt,ett said that 10.09' , homes have been destroyed. yet tn Rhierns cathedral stands. No one il
 Rheims has lost faith in God and good . ness and religion still survives. l Underground houses in Verdun wer
 shown and another slide showed th
 destruction wrough in Lens by the Ger
 mans.
 Pictures taken by Dr. Bartlett in Bel
 zion were hen shown. Thee wer
 views of Nieuport. Ypres and Bru-se,
 and then views of Switzerland wer
 shown Dr. Bartlett said he believe
 that Switzerland was and is in sympath
 with the United States. Tn bringing his lecture to a close. Di Bartlett said: America goes down i shame if she ignores starving. war s'rici' en Europe. Europe cannot survive with out America.