The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-23
THE REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA.

! Wednesday afternoon and night
marked the opening of the 1922 Red
path Chautauqua season in Union
City, which will continue throughout
the week The afternoon perform
ance was given by the Collegian Male
Quartette, composed of Messrs. Les
ter Spring, Clarence Riser, Albert
Strahan and John Wesley Bean, four
very talented musicians, who de-
lighted their audiences with their
vocal selections and saxophone num-
bers.
The lecture by Governor Brough
Wednesday night on the theme,
Americas Leadership Of the World"
was a comprehensive and eloquent
discussion of the pre-eminence of our
nation in practically every branch
of human activities government,
business, education and literature,
the fine arts, wit and humor, oratory,
craftsmanship and above all, in re-
ligious development. The former Ar
kansas Chief Executive paid a glow
ing tribute TO Union City and Obion
County, and, as a preface to his lee
ture, made telling plea for the con-
struction and maintenance of i'm
| proved highways, urging the next
General Assembly to authorize bond
issue of 5000, 900 for the construc-
tion OF State and Federal system of
nearly 1000 miles in the next ten
years. He called attention to the
piece-meal and haphazard method
now in vogue in the construction and
maintenance of roads, and said that
this bond issue could be f1oated with
out any additional burden of taxa
ton using the present highway funds
and one cent gasoline tax as sink
ing fund to take the principal and
interest of the bondissue up each year.
The lecturer quoted Gladstone and
Bryce to prove that our government |
and constitution is the greatest and |
most serviceable among the nations |
of the earth; he reviewed our tri-
umphs in the field of industry; the |
democracy of our educational sys-
TEN, the enormous sales of our litera-
ture, the influence of our press, the |
growth of our appreciation for art,
sculpture, architecture and music,
the ability of our orators to combine |
wit with wisdom and fun with pro-
found political philosophy, the con-
tributions of our statesmen to the |
thought and idealism of the world, |
and the marvellous record of Ameri- |
lea in religious progress. He paid |
Woodrow Wilson most impassioned |
tribute, characterizing him as a |
Statesman who combined the pa
triotism of Washington, the philos- |
ophy of Jefferson, the constructive |
genius of Hamilton, the courage of |
a Jackson, a Cleveland and a Roose-
welt, the yearning for humanity of
Lincoln and Mckinley, and the ju
dicial temperament of a Taft, who |
would go down in history as immor-
tall Governor Brough predicted |
brighter and better business condi- |
tions in the near future, due to our
position as the great exporter of the
world, and said that the recent rise
in the prices of practically all raw
rates, the increase in building con-
struction, and the sterilization of the
worlds market for the sale of Ameri
can securities all indicated the re-
vival of prosperity He praised our
religious institutions and said that |
the Bible is the Rock on which this
Republic rests. He deprecated the
crime wave sweeping over the coun-
try, called attention to the $500 MUIR
ders in the United States last year,
the fact that one marriage out of ev-
cry fourteen performed in the United
States results in divorce and urged
greater thrift and habits of saving
on the part of our people. But,
after summing up our defects and
weighing them against our achieve
ments, Governor Brough argued that
we Americans are Gods chosen peo-
pie under the new dispensation, even
as the Children of Israel were His
chosen people under the old dispense
ton.
Governor Brough is a great friend
and former teacher of Mr.. R. F. Lid
dell, one of our business men, and he
paid him glowing tribute in the
course of his lecture.