South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-27
EVANS PLEASES
FELLOWSHIP CLUB
TUESDAY EVENING
Reveals Pitfalls of British I'm.
perialism Compared to
American Democracy.

meeting Tor the month or December
and held in the Mishawaka hotel,
Tuesday evening. America has a
/ strong tendency toward an aristocra-
| cy Of money" DR.. Evans declared,
/ and the movement IS growing every
| day toward the narrow mlndedness
and b!goted sense Of authority that
results from a financial beaurocra-
4 cy."
A close study q the two coun-
/ tries shows a direct comparison be-
/ tween England's former imperialistic
beaurocracy and Americas threat
1 ened aristOcracy of finance.
/ The beginning Of the end Of the
/ centuries old war between feudaIis-
tic imperialism and democracy, in
England. followed and was the d.
/ rect outcome of the Boer Rebellion
in South Africa" declared DR..
! Evans.
For centuries and centuries he
/ continued. England had lived d.
I vided existence between Grass i'm
perialism, blue bIooded, and a red
/ blooded democracy. ever struggling
/ for existence and expression. This
struggle was clearly typified by the
/ speaker Of the evening by recoueC-
tons from h!s own early childhood,
spent in southern Wales under the
! ever threatening gIoved fist Of an
/ oye1bearing peer Of the land"
After the tragic (for England)
end of the Boer war, numbers Of
British soldiers were stranded with
out jobs, but their plea to the peers
Of England for employment fell on
deaf ears. It was at this time, Mr..
Evans declared his uncle, David
Lloyd George, EngIands Great
i Commoner" took UP the struggle of
the under dog which ended with the
/ former Premier Premier's un-chal-
lenSed threat to the House Of Lords.
to make their number again i'm new
lords II they returned his proposed
budget system with veto a second
time
The back of the old tyrannical
/ peerage system was broken then.
DR.. Evans said, and at the present
time, has progressed so far that a
recent measure proposed Parliament
provides with the doing away with
the expression. The British En-
pire," and substituting. The Com
nonwealth of The British Common
wealth OF Nations"
American Commerce.
The United States Of America "a
regarded the world over as the great
est manufacturing nation on the
face of the globe. so why can we not
have sufficient naval support so we
40 not have to ship the greater part
OF our products on foreign vessels
queried DR.. Evans and added that
the greatest advertisement for any
nation was for their flag. flying from
the mast to be seen i'm all the i'm.
portant harbors Of the world.
DR.. Evans. who is naturalized
American citizen, scored the for
eigners who come TO this country.
accepting American protection.
American money and food. but who
: are not willing to repay this coun-
try and reward themselves by be-
coming full fledged American citi-
zens
Throughout his talk. DIR. Evans
proved himself an adroit satirist.
and in closing made a strong appeal
FOR this country to turn aside from
the wilderness of deception. based
on false values which we are no%
facing, and return before it is too
, late 10 the only real aristocracy the
world Will ever know. the aristoc-
racy of service and superior intel
lectual force, based upon the creed
and the God of our forefarhers who
, founded this country upon one
standard of equity for ALL
Hold Election of Officers.
Preceding the speaker of the eve
ming, the annual election of officers
followed the banquet. at which
Pres't c. a. Ostrom presided. The
. invocation was pronounced by Rev
j. y. Burnett, who also acted As
POSTMASTER of the evening.
At previous meeting.sa nomina-
ton committee was selected. OF
which DR.. Burnett was the chair
3 man.. and i'm that capacity the fol-
lowing names were read as NOM
inees and We're unanimously elected
shortly afterwards: President. Prof
a. ii. Moran, secretary George w
Blair; treasurer, A J. SCHNEIDER
. The following men were elected TO
serve for the next year as the board
Of governors. E. c. Went. c. J. Mac
Intyre, Vernon Lowe. r. G. Grimes
and 2. =. Hewlett.
, Before turning the meeting over
TO the POSTMASTER, former Pres {
, OstrOm scored the members for
, their alleged lax.ty in allowing the
clubs membership 10 fall from SOC
, at the beginning of the year 1922 to
} 259 at the present time During
J this time, % had been dropped for
} alleged failure 20 pay dues and g
, members had been adopted most
Of them new men i'm Nishawaka
Henderson Trio.
The meeting was closed by a
@ number OF exceptionally good vocal
- and instrumental numbers by the
= Henderson Trio, a well known group
e OF entertainers who presented a med
a ley of instrumental and vocal selec-
$ lions that delighted members II the
Fellowship club who We're present
The trio singing and two piano solos
were the most applauded. The mos.
? appreciated Of the latter. which
e were played by Mr. d. O. Beckw.th
!. were Nevin's Caprice" and a Schu-
. mann sonata. Several character
y numbers were also given with ex-
r ceptional ability. An ensemble 10y
d the trio closed the evenings enter
tainment.
--n rrxx-r rnrN-r rN-cr&Tr .u-r0~~