The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-06

have been good at every session, that
of the first session exceeding all pre-
vious records. the attendance nearing
5000. +.
On each Of the succeeding Sundays
the crowds exceed 5000 despite the
Indictment weather. The attendance
during the two weeks has exceeded
that Of any previous Chautauqua.
Financial returns will be good, the
management states, although the re-
port will not be ready until the first
of next week.
Have a Varied Program
Musical attractions and light enter
tainments were exceptionally good
this year. including the Adanac Male
Quartet, the Welsh Glee Singers.
Crawford Adams and his company, the
Chicago operate company, the Davies
Light Opera company, Strickland Gill
lilan, Leon Cope. Sidney Landon, and
others.
From an intellectual viewpoint, DR..
Arthur Rees, of the University Of
PENNSYLVANIA, exceeded all other at
fractions. DR.. Rees had a remarkable
fund of historical facts which he gave
to his audience in an interesting way.
He was unusually well Informed on in
ternational political. historical and
economical conditions and his lectures
were invaluable to those who heard
him.
An effort will undoubtedly be made
to secure DR.. Rees for next year in re-
Spouse to a large number OF requests
which have also been made for Will
lam Lyons Phelps of Yale university,
who lectured here last year.
Billy Sunday and Pussyfoot Johnson
drew out record-breaking crowds on
the first and second Sundays.
America Unique, He Says.
Governor W. l.. Harding. of Iowa..
was the headliner for the last Sunday.
His subject was America" our nation,
he said, is unique in that here the in.
dividual is sovereign, the letters OF
class and caste being broken and
brain power reigns supreme. There IS
no aristocracy of blood in the Amer
lean republic, he said, but there is in
the United States true aristocracy,
that of brain.
The sooner America recognizes the
power of the brain the sooner she Will
take the position she was lntenoed 10
hold, said the speaker.
Our government, which Governor
Harding said he believed had been Gre
ated on the western hemisphere by
God to solve the difficulties of man, is
the same one with which we started,
and is the oldest established govern
ment without change, on the face OF
the earth. The speaker advocated an
educational campaign for the purpose
of showing the people the advantages
of it's form.
Urges Everyone to Vote
AS good citizens, Governor Harding
urged every man and woman to vote.
The person who does not cast his or
her vote he termed contemplate
Stacker. Dirty politics he attributed
to lack of clean men in politics
which in turn is due to the vote OF the
people. The Stacker, he says, has no
right to raise his voice in complaint.
When man has been voted to a
place CT responsibility in America he
Is deserving of respect, not because ne
is the man but because OF his offlce'
There is no reason for class distinc'
ton in America.
The government, he continued, is
one worthy of serious defense by every
citizen whose duty is is to fight for II,
which means putting into office clean
men.
Persons who are advocating a
change of government do SO with sell
fish motives or through sheer 1snor'
ance. One flag and one language were
appealed for by the speaker, who pc
lieves foreigners should, after GER
tain length of residence in this country
learn the language and be good Amer
lean citizens or be returned to the
country of their allegiance.
An effective means of creating ar
American campaign is the school o.
America, which the speaker said Is
the 100 per cent institution Of Amer
lea, a purely American institution, ant
the outgrowtb CT american ideals.
Must Furnish Opportunity.
1t is the duty of the state to furnish
every boy and every girl an oppor
tunity to find out early in life wha
they want to do and prepare them tt
GO that thing well and in order tt
tri'd ND an institution which will &C
complish this the speaker declared
that he community must take it upor
itself to build up the right kind Of ;
school.
Governor Harding told that in hi
state they are housing the teachers o
the rural communities, paying then
twelve months in the year and givin!
them three year contracts.
The schools, he said, must give tn
boys and girls a chance to think TO
themselves. The happy man or VIC
man he said Is that one who has fount
the thing that he can do best and love
10 do and in this lies the real success
of America AS a second American in
stitution which is a defense agains
anti-American movements, Governo
Harding named the home. Again h,
said it is the duty of the state to fur
nish long time easy money for TIL
man who wants to build a home.
In conclusion he declared Americ;
to be the land Of opportunity and tn
hope Of the world.
landon, as Always, Delights.
Sidney Landon. impersonator. de
lighted his audience Saturday evenin!