The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-31
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FOR CHAUTAUQUA
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FORCEFUL ADDRESS
BY ARTHUR H. CHUTE
Programs by Howell Concert Players
Lecture by Supt. Kammeyer - BO-
hemian Girl Tonight Metropolitan
Artists, Lecture and Play Tomorrow.

hemian Girl Tonight Metropolitan
Artists, Lecture and Play Tomorrow.
Arthur Hunt Chute, prominent
writer, speaker and author, was the
premier attraction OH last night s
Chautauqua program, and his heart-to
heart talk to the people present on
Practical Idealism, for clearness and
strength of thought could not be i'm
proved upon. He had message for
every true American, and he delivered
it in manner which had the crowd s
attention every second of the time.
He introduced himself as d man in
terested in Brattleboro, because Rud-
yard Kipling made Brattleboro his home
for a time and he said he loved kipEng,
as a real red blooded author.
The keynote of his speech was "Can
adams and Americans are not cousins
but brothers, but before either Can
ada or the United States can advance
disposition must be made of the
parlor BolshevIki' and OF the "my
father did it for me" spirit.
1--WE have learned Mr. Chute said,
that blood is thicker than water, -
ana that even IL the English language
has spread over the seven seas 1T Is d
great bond OF unity.
10 represent the spirit of non-re-
straInt which is predominated in the
Americans, Australians and Canadians,
lie told the following story: 1.-The Aus
traliaus liked to have the reputation
or being the most unnciplined lot of
soldiers IN the world, and they made it
rule never to salute an English officer.
One day Field Marshal Haig walked
past bunch of Australian soldiers on
the street III an English city, with their
sleeves rolled up and everything else
on their person IN the greatest possible
disorder, and even when he passed
through them they failed to salute He
stopped and said: Don t you know |
am Field Marshal Haig~ commanding
the English armies? GU Australians
are the most disreputable troop in the
world. suddenly. voice came out OF
The crowd and said: Don t tell that to
the New Zealanders or they'll be sore
as hell. -
He next emphasized America as the
land of Opportunity. He said the old
world Is static, the new world dynamic
He said the radicals of today had the
same trouble as Mark Twain said old
men had-''th trouble with them is
they remember so much that ain t so. -
HIS Challenge to them was: If these
immigrants can I bring their souls here
where their bodies are, they had better
drag their worthless carcasses back where
Their souls arn.''
II saw King Emmanuel once, said
Mr.. Chute, land he had such an insight
icant look and such spindlv legs that if
he ever came to Ellis island they would
turn him back, because he had come
over without any visible means of
have today is the divine right of the
able man.
His last subject was the spirit shown
in the great war. 1t was a fight of the
mailed fist against the pierced hand;
it was Il victory of the soul over the
beast. Leave Is our dreams, for the
love of liberty is the spirit which will
give America the right to live after
other nations have passed into history.
Community Ideals was the subject of
the lecture by Supt. j. +. kammeyer
yesterday afternoon. He pointed out
that the responsibility of the commun-
ity lay first in the establishment and
maintenance of ideal homes, the
schools, churches and best kinds of
newspapers, institutions to which the
community owes so much. If we do not
have laws of hygiene enforced it is i'm
possible for the home to combat the
criminal Indifference of the community.
The community can and should estab-
lish such environments of law. such en-
vironments of health. education and po-
litical organizations as will make pos
sible the development of the highest
type of homes. In speaking of the rela-
ton of the church to the community
Mr. Kammeyer said that no community
poorly churched could hone to attain
to those levels that it could if it were
well churched, because the spiritual life
is as important as the physical or eco
nomical life. 1t is as necessary to have
a church as to have the school, the fac
toTv or the shop
After the series lecture and before the
evening lecture the Howell Concert Party
gave a musical program. The party con-
sisted of Lewis James Howell, Welsh
baritone, Mrs. Nina Prettyman Howell,
violnist. and Miss Bessie Phillips, con-
tralto. 1t was perfectly apparent to
everybody that the artists were high
ranking in their respective spheres. Mr..
Howell is especially proficient IN oratorio
work. Mrs Howell is one of the leading
/ figures in concert work in the unsteady
cultured city of Philadelphia, and Miss
| Phillips is a concert singer of extensive
| experience.
| The Bohemian Girl, light opera, will
/ be given tonight at 8. Tomorrow after
noon at 3 the Metropolitan Artists will
! give musical program, followed by a
4 lecture by Fred Dale Wood on The Bust
/ ness of Men, being a practical discussion
/ of the causes and cures for the present
economic and social unrest. Mr.. Wood is
q broad gauge man. and has been promi-
nent in the political life of his home state
| of Nevada. Tomorrow night at the
! Chautauqua Players will give the comedy.
drama, 1t Pays to Advertise
! n beginning was made last night on the
work of securing guarantors for next year
A larger guarantee than heretofore will
be necessary and the price of course tick
cts is expected to be SO instead of $3.50.
II ASKS HELP F0R FATHER