The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-03
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color to the occasion. he singing was
delightful and found a ready response
with the audience, who felt. when the
last number was finished, that the pro
gram was not long enough. Miss Wash
ing rendered several readings and i'm
presentations that illustrated ability anG
artistry of high class.
Following the musical program, tho
session was turned over TO the chill
dTen in charge of Miss Montgomery
who explained that the Junior Char
iauqTa was fully as important as the
senior work. She stated that the ideT
of the Junior Ghautaudua was to in
troduce or supplement where it had beer
introduced, the work OF the town for
the children. particularly in the teach
ing of citizenship and fellowship.
To carry out the idea of INSTALLING
the principles of citizenship into tn
minds of the children, a town meeting
WAS heitf antk the follow fnpe elected i
office: Mavor, Robert Culver. l6 Chaplin
street: town clerk, Miriam F'tt~ J.
Oak street: law and order commissioner
Winston Church, 60 Green street. These
assistant commissioners were appointed:
Frederick Houghton. "a Forest street
and Edwin Pratt. Is linden street.
The heavy shower about last
evening kept away many who otherwise
would have attended the first evening
session. but an audience of about 40e
was in the tent when the curtain rose
shortly after $50.
The College Singing Girls started the
program with a different but fully as de-
lightful a program as they gave in the
afternoon. The numbers included a floral
dance. medley of popular airs, a medley
Of Scotch airs and two pianologues en-
tertaingly rendered by Miss Henrietta
Fraser A feature of the program was
the three children's songs artistically
given by Miss Douellen Kenny. Perhaps
81, Ea has
ball song which found such a ready re-
sponSe with the audience that it brought
two encore numbers.
The address of the evening was given
by DR.. l.. G. Herbert and was a stirring
and powerful talk on the conditions of the
world at the present time. DIR. Her
bert's remarks revealed Il thorough un.
dcrstanding of world conditions and
showed the result of clear insight and
persistent study.
The speaker said that we are living
in the prOfoundest age in history. He
sketched the makeup of the population of
this country, showing the high percent
age of foreigners who live in our great
cities. He told of the great industrial
contests now going on, saying that last
year over 5000 strikes occurred in the
United States. Europe, he said, is APP
preaching some terrific cataclysIn He
showed how England was beSet with civil
var in Ireland. and revolutions in India
and Egypt and trouble in South Africa
n addition. England has labor party
that is much more radical than the labor
union organizations in this country. The
next % years, he said, will witness the
greatest crisis that England ever had
DIR. Herbert then took each country in
Europe and showed the turmoil that ex-
isted in each. Russia is beset with that
sinister force. bolshevism Italy is hav-
ing, clash between the forces of church
and state; Greece and Turkey are ready
to cross swords, the Balkan states which
awaiting the flicker of the match which
viii start a big confiagration socialism
is rampant in AuStria-Hungary Swe-
den. Denmark, Holland, Portugal, Spain
and France are all passing through pc
RODS of unrest and Germany is beset
with two terrific forces, socialism and
rationalism in the field of theology.
The outlook for a peaceful Europe. ac-
cording to the speaker, is dark for some
time TO come, but n glimpse of new
Europe shows a centralized Europe made
up of states that have been and are now
individual countries He took issue with
the statement that the antagonism of
races prevented solidifed Europe
4 here is no race antognism and he
showed how the peoples on the border
lines intermingled and married and car
RED on affairs in business and in a social
way.
Turning to our own country. the
speaker had much TO say about our own
affairs. prominent among which was the
statement that most of our congressman
are a bunch of "hcks' and they are in
congress because we as hicks" put them
there. He said the voter who did not
realize his duty and go TO the primaries
and polls was the worst kind of a Stacker
He upheld womens rights and said that
certainly they can't make rottener mess
out of things than the men have. The
women. by reason of home affiliations and
their interest in education. are at least
speaking in terms of construction. He
concluded by saving that the world must
become Christianized in thought and deed
along the three great paths of education,