The Press., 1920-07-08

Regular monthly meeting of the | Business Mems Club next Monday evening.
 An adjourned annual meeting of the stockholders of the Stafford Building
 and Loan Association, will be held on
 Wednesday July 21, at 7.30 p. m.
 The Warren Woolen mill addition
 is nearly complete. Most of the ex- terior work is finished and there is but little more to be done inside. Miss Louise Newcomb of Winnipeg, Manitoba, accompanied by Miss Ruth Hicks, have been visiting at the home of MT. and Mrs. Ed. Kinsman. They have returned to New York, where they are taking a special course in nurse training in Columbia Univer
 sity.
 South Hadley. Mass, will send team here Saturday afternoon to en-
 gage with the local nine in Hyde Park. It is probable that the management will be able to obtain "Babe" Steer for Sundays game. MT. Steer has been showing excellent ahilitv on the mound for the Springfield Eastern league team this season.
 Rain caused the postponement of the Golf Clubs Fourth of July celebration which was to he held last Saturday. On Monday several of the members played for their positions on the team but there was no dancing in the even ing owing to the fact that the orches- tra could not he hired for that even ing. So it comes about that the club is still to hold it's first dance of the season.
 The Chautauqua added a lot to the Fourth'S amusementS by opening their five-days' entertainment with a session Monday afternoon, followed by one in the evening. The afternoons entertainment was interfered with by the noise about the park. The even ing's program ran along well and was made a little more interesting bv a bit of heckling the reasons for which is explained elsewhere in this issue. On Tuesday afternoon the second lee ture in the series by Superintendent Clarence Myers was given besides concert and entertainment by the four artists. In the evening a lecture was given by s. A. Beck entitled Korea and Peace in the Far East" MT. Beck spent nearly twenty years in Korea and was we'll fitted to talk upon it. He dealt for some length upon the cruel treatment of the Koreans who are ruled over by the Japanese. Some of the atrocities he described, which the people of that country underwent, surpassed even that in Belgium in horribleness. A second concert was given by the four artists on this even ing. Their entertainment pleased so we'll that the large gathering was loath to have them leave. The pro- gram for yesterday afternoon contain ed a lecture. Serbia in 1920" by John Dunaway in which he explained con- ditions in and about the Balkan coun- tries. Following this came concert by Colangelo's Band. This band made such a favorable impression last year that it was made one of this years at fractions; and it seems as though there will he reason to bring it in again next year. A concert by this band took up the whole of the evening. Stafford did not have a band concert for some time which fact had much to- do with filling the large tent last evening. In addition to the band con cert there were several renditiOns by Miss Eckhof whose work merits much praise. This afternoon and evening the people will have an opportunity to hear some truly Hawaiian melodies besides two important lectures.
 Communication
 Ordinarily it may rightly be con- sidered extremely impolite to inter- rupt in the course of speech or lec- ture. The speaker should be accorded the courtesy of attention even though it should happen that he is giving ex- pression to views that are unpopular with his audience. Heckling is defen- | sihle only in extraordinary circumstan- ces. Unless the circumstances that obtained on the occasion of the Chau- | tauqua lecture Monday evening were I would certainly thor oughly deserve censure of all the fair minded for interrupting the lecturer as I did. That my action was war ranted arises from the fact that there are certain we'll defined limits within which every speaker on the Chautau- qua platform must or should cOnfine himself He must remember always that he is speaking from a non-secta- rian and non-partisan platform: he should scrupulously avoid discussion of religious principles or party pOli- cies. It. J. Dunton Sharman in the course of his lecture, Fathers and Sons," loses sight of this fact. Strange as it might seem that the League of Nations should be discussed under this innocent title, It. Sharman contrives to do it, and as might be ex- pected he makes an impassioned plea for that hideous instrument of impe- rialism. Without taking time to draw any differences from the fact that It. Sharman is an officer in the Canadian army and hence in the pay of the British Government I will briefly sum up my objections to his lecture. They