The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05
GOOD CHAUTOU0UA PROGRAM.
Continued from Page u

ludiclOuSly varied, ranging from the
more classical numbers TO the old time
selections with which everyone is IA
miliar so that everyone, both young and
old, found something enjoyable about
the program.
Mr.. Lindstroms talk on The Spirit of
America was spirited analysis of our
country's part in war, reconstruction
and peace. He traced step by step, the
sacrifice, the heroism. the victory that
America displayed in war. Mr.. Lind
strom was chaplain with the SD di-
vision in the Argonne, was gassed and
spent six months in a hospital in France.
The personal experiences that he under
went, the actual conditions that he saw
and the people with whom he came in
contact has made him well informed on
his subjects: and his observations en-
abled him to tellwhat should be done
regarding the rebuilding, the adjustments
and the rewards of the war. So that
now we are in the midst of tremendous
days which will require absolute loyalty
on the part of every man, woman and
child in this country.
The talk of the week for which every
one interested in Chautauqua had been
waiting came last night when Or. Green
spoke on Guarding the Outposts. Few
men have had the experience and success
in platform activities as has DIR. Green,
and the mastery manner IN which he
presented his subject and the close at
tention he commanded showed that both
speaker and subject will long live in
BrattleboTo's Chautauqua annals. DR.
Green said in part;
During the 10 months that we were
engaged in the World war we suffered a
loss in battle dead of approximately
$4,000 men. During the same 10 months
there died in the United States 100000
children under five wears of age. During
2 hn 1OIL DDI nQ0 CHI IrlraF, IfD1 N4rhp.
did not live to be twelve months old
In 1919 100000 more slipped away dur
ing the first year of their lives. The
concensus of medical opinion Is that 65
Der cent of this infant mortality is need
less in that it Is the direct result of de-
fective civilization.
In 1920 l.25OOO0 people died in the
United States of what in general terms
we call sickness-two-thirds of them
needlessly. because they died of prevent
able disease. During a single year we
lost l25. 900 people from tuberculosis
alone. constituting 10 per cent of our
total deaths from all causes. We carry
a continual sick list of one million and
q half from that one disease-one half
a million of them bed-ridden. Eighty
per cent of the deaths are between the
ACES of sixteen and forty -five-the most
useful and productive epoch in human
life The actual loss to the nation
from that one disease amounts to hun
dreds of millions of dollars-and vet
consumption is not visitation of God:
It is not an unavoidable inheritance; it
is the result of defective civilization
the wav that we let people live.
Medical science is growing more and
more preventive. Tn clinic and labora-
tory it is discovering and defining the
causes ard their results vanish. 1t NAV
cause something of shock. but there is
n distinctive value in toachinO our peo-
nle that good sewers are worth more to
an average community than decorated
churches. and that pure water supply Is
If more value than bank balances. The
h0rC of tomorrow lioS in making health
catrhing instead Of disease.
"Of tho first three million men who
rassod TIE physical examination in the
enlectivp draft. 100000 were rejected be
cause they were iiliterate-uuable to
lad or write-to sign their names to
the muster roll-to interpret the sim
~lest written order that might be handed
- thom. The census returns iDdica te
that there are at tho present time 600
a00 neOple in the -nited States above
ten years of ace who can neither read
nor write English. nor any other Ian
grage. Fiftv-nine per cent OF them are
white. Thirty-two per cent of them are
native-born white Americans.
The United States commissioner Of
education estimates the expenditure for
textbooks in the public schools of the
United States for last wear at ten mil
lions of dollars. The treasury depart
ment reports the expenditure last year
for chewing gum at more than fifty mil
lions of dollars. The amount paid in
the United States last year for automo-
hiles alone was more than the total cost
of the entire public school system OF the
United States.
"The luxury bill of the United States
for the single wear of 1920 was more
than the cost of education during the en-
tire history of the country. During that
wear luxures as defined by the federal
tax schedules amounted to TWENTY-FIVE
billion seven hundred dollars. From the
adoption of the American Constitution
down until 1920 there has been spent
for education in the United States six
teen billion six hundred and forty-five
million dollars During that same year
the instructors in all the schools in the
United States received salaries aggre-
eating four hundred and ninety-five
PilliOn dollars. and during the same wear
there was spent for face powder. cos
mctics and perfume, six hundred and
fifty millions of dollars. Our cigarette
bill for that one. year was over eight
hundred million, while the total amount
snent for tobacco was five times the
salary IF all the public school teachers
in the United States.
'This perhaps is the reason why a
recent authority in one of the popular
MAGAZINES should have made the state
ment that Of 100000 public school teach
ers in America, 100000 were unfit for
their work simply because the salary
paid did not command any better grade
>of efficiency.
"The world is fun Just now of theories
of reconstruction. 1t is seeking a basis
of stability through conferences. treaties
and conventions 1t needs but the his
tory of the past to demonstrate that
these are but scraps Of paper unless
dominated by some great spiritual force
You cant make peace by act of congress
You can't reorganiza a shattered worlc
byl resolutions. Selfishness all but
wrecked our modern world. Unselfish
rnss alone can restore it. The future
hinges on the recognition of that great
fact. Service is the gospel of the world
tomorrow A nations worth lies. not
in what it has. but in what it IS, In thu
eternal assiZe nations and men shall
no iY1IoaI h4r what tbnv hut