The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-30
INTEREST IN CHAUTAUeUA.


world was a practical man. Men who
have stepped forward have always been
idealists
He then went on to say that patriot
ism is mans greatest emotion. 1t is not
always evident, but when the opportunity
arises it becomes the dominant passion.
Such emotion made Leonidas make the
last stand at Thermopylae."
His next point was: Nothing real
and great can be maintained by force
alone. We remember Athens for her
ideals but Sparta, whose one ideal was
success by the sword, we remember only
as her history effects Athens. An appeal
20 reason rather than an appeal to the
sword will soon be the new natural
IDEAL.
DE- Kammeyer then gave some inter-
esting statistics regarding the money
spent in Is months of war. IF the state
of Pennsylvania was a level plain with
out cities, hills. rivers, forests, and all
that plain was planted with wheat which
had ripened there would be 72O,000,000
bushels of wheat ready to harvest, an
amount practically the same as the pres
ent wheat crop of the whole country.
Set a match TO it, and burn it. Think
Of the waste. And yet one would have
to do that for 81 consecutive years TO
destroy crop in value equivalent to the
So, 100000 900 we spent in Is months of
war.
IF. a man should build a railroad
from New York to San Francisco, dis
tance in round numbers of 5000 miles,
at $4,000 a mile, and on every 300 feet
of ground build a house and support
family in it as well as furnish them with
a Packard car; build for each mile
church costing 100000, a schoolhouSe
costing 100000, and library and hos
pital costing 100000; then supply a
minister at salary of $1,000 n year
and three doctors and seven nurses,
school teachers and a librarian, whose
salaries totalled $4,000 a year; when
all this had been done only One-third of
the money we spent for Is months of war
would have been disposed of.
OF every 81 our government spends,
IS cents go for past wars % cents for
wars to come, three cents for the main
tenance of government. three cents for
public works and only one cent for edu-
cation and science.
Following the superintendent : lee
ture, and preceding the lecture by Mrs.
Paulseu in the evening, Miss Frances
HoEt and Miss Grace 1oyt, sisters, and
Harry Wilhelm, pianist, gave a pro-
gram of musical numbers, character i'm
peTsonations and action songs that was
| first class The HOyt sisters are Yer
mont Young women and were the first
| company sent to France TO entertain
| he soldiers when Director Paul NJ.
| Pearson of ChautaUqua was in charge
| of the soldiers entertainment. They
| afnearrd in a wide variety of solos and
duets, principally in costume, and made
! i decided hit. Mr. Wilhelm, who was
an last vear's Brattleboro circuit. dem
orstrated. the fact. that he is a wizard
in playing the nano.
| Tonight the Howell Concert Party in
| 4 concert and Arthur Hunt Chute in a
lecture on The New World Spirit will
! be the attractions. The Howell Com
cert Party consists of Lewis James
| Howell. Welsh baritone. Mrs Nina
| Prcttyran Howell. violinist. and Miss
Bessie PhlEpa, contralto. Mr.. Chute
Is an author of note, a World war cor
respondent and one of the prominent
Young mon OF Canada.
| \ series lecture and q concert by the
! frcratic Orchestral club will constitute
the program tomorrow at 3 clock. and
| !" the evening the opera, Bohemian
| Etrl. will be presented at o'clocI,
With full cast. chorus and orchestra