The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-24
Contract Signed for Return
of Chautauqua Here
Next Year
PROGRAM CLOSED
LAST EVENING
Tenor Solos by signor De Parry and
Lecture by Hon. Crawford Vaughan
Junior Mother Goose Party m Jun
iors Raise Funds for Flower Bed.

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Junior Mother Goose Party m Jun
iors Raise Funds for Flower Bed.
Chautauqua for 1920 is over, but not
without assurance that another visit
will be paid to Brattleboro in 1921, as
contract bearing the names of so
guarantors was handed by President
A V. Woodworth of the local associa-
tion to Supt. H. d. Hayes last evening
in the intermission which followed the
musical program by Signor De Parry
and pianist, Mr.. Freeman, both of
whom were received enthusiastically.
The closing feature of Chautauqua
week, the lecture by Hon. Crawford
Vaughan, was to many the best lecture
on the weeks program. 1t was of an
entirely different character from any
previously heard here the subject be-
ing Australia s Industrial Crises-How
We Met 1t, and the way in which it
appealed to the audience was manifest
in the questions asked of the speaker
in the open forum which followed his
address.
Signor De Parry rendered two groups
of songs. the first consisting of two OPP
| cratic numbers and the second group
consisting of three selections. In every
| number the fine quality of his tenor
voice, in perfect control at all times,
was especially pleasing to Brattleboro
music lovers and their appreciation was
manifest in the continued applause
lxr-l,.z al f1ll Il.
Freeman also delighted his hearers
with piano selections, in which he
manifested great skill and technique.
AT this point in the evenings enter
tainment Rev. Mr.. Woodwork pre-
sented the Chautauqua contract for
1921 and Supt. Hayes accepted it in
words of commendation. He then ex-
pressed words of warmest appreciation
for the courtesy and cooperation with
which the Chautauqua team had met
while here and spoke enthusiastically
of the platform decorations of the eve
ming, which consisted of large bouquets
of golden glow, goldenrod and asters,
which were furnished by Mr.. and Mrs.
G. S. Hopkins, and the 'Sfine write-ups
| and generous publicity given by The
Reformer, which he said exceeded that
given by any other paper on the cir
cult
In opening his address Hon. Mr..
Vaughan spoke of the hand of friend
ship which is stretched across the wat
ers between Australia and America and
of the fact that Australia bears more
resemblance to America than any other
nation inasmuch as they are of the
| same color and speak the same Ian
guage. He said that freedom had not
come to them because of any sacrifice
they had made, but directly from
Washington and the men who fought at
Valley Forge. They look upon America
as younger brother looks upon an
older brother.
"As YOU have blazed the trail for us,
so we have tried to blaze the trail for
you,'' he declared, and then spoke of
the Australian ballot. children 9 courts
and other legislative proceedings, which
have been adopted by America. Thirty
years ago, said Mr.. Vaughan, the Aus
tralians entered upon new field of
social endeavor; they attempted to
deal with the problem of working wom-
en-; the wage board was adopted, with
labor and capital having equal repre-
sentation, which should consider means
for taking care of conditions. He said
he believed that men should get what
they earn and that they should in turn
earn what they get; labor is not a
commodity to be bought and sold. You
cannot divide rich and poor, for where
is the line of demarkation7 But you
may divide a community into classes
those who work and those who do not
work We did not do just our bit, but
our all, in the World war, and if that
was true in a war for destruction why
is it not so in construction.
Capital is as necessary to production
as labor; capital and labor must work
in harmony if we are to get results.
The first essential is to establish jus
tice; the wage Garner and capitalist
must be brought together. The wage
earners must have enough to enable
them to live as they should. So long
as there is division between labor and
capital and they have right to a
strike or a lockout on every occasion
so long will there be lack of co-opera-
| tion, without which there cannot be
success. We must get together and cut
out waste, and in this connection the
speaker repeated part of Kipling's
| poem on team work Labor, too has a
right to leisure. 1t is not the amount
man gets that counts, but what he
can get with what he earns. If more
thought was given to reducing the cost
of living instead of putting up wages
conditions would be better, he declared.