The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-03-30
SPLENDID ENDING or
,REDPATH COURSE
John B. Ratio Was I'm
personator and Lecturer


The con, luding entertainment in the
Redpath Chautauqua course Friday
evening WI one of the Bne I Of the
series. John B. Ratio Was the enter
tainer and following delightful
group Of Representations he delivered
a fine lecture in conclusion Import
ant points touched upon by Mr.. Ratio
were as follows.
We haze M closed big. dreadful
war W. h.ee ster been cleanser.
The 'er'iee. ~- NV made in this
war jusdhcs OR asa N and demand
ing that j, a. t8c nos cleansing war
in all history We have been prom
ised brotherhood nf nations to come
out of H. hut Nou and | rs individuals
Will not have prudted abreast of the
sacrifices We nave made. are making
and must continue to make unlea- We
get out Of II bigger and more genu-
ne brotherhood among ourselves in
our respective communities. We are
born into this world in the midst of
IN, deceit. misery and corruption
around rs in many forms. II is not
war Of four years. but an eternal
battle OF life that everyone of us NUT
- IL ~ 'il tlit = tiAAiI " iut Ei dNt. YOU
has given us one great weapon for all
Of this fighting loyalty to truth. 1t
q not a weapon of steel. but one of
the heart and the mind, and much to
the shame of us men sometimes wom-
en- have proven better fighters than
men. This army that fights this cter-
nal battle has it, barracks. Our head
quarters are located in our churches,
our schools. our organizations for mu-
nicipal advancement and local i'm
provcment public Libraries. social and
civic clubs and any other organiza-
tion whose motive stands for improve
ment and advancement.
All of these things that have men
toned cost money and take effort and
energy to @ Labish You can't have
church without an aggressive com
mlttee and going in debt You cant
have a good school building without
an active school board and issuing
bonds. You cant have public Ii
brary but what someone must dig up
and library board get on the job.
You can't have a good Chamber OF
Commerce of commercial club with
out q h"c secretary and business men
behind it, You can't have good w.
mans club without few dear women
spending time. energy and money to
keep it going.
Then the que itiun COMES If these
things are benefit To a community.
II they stand for anything. and are
necessary to its welfare. then who
should tend to them?
God points with unerriDg finger to
the men and women whose duty il is
to respond to every call for the wei
fare Of their romma.ity That per
son may dodge bat the finger crooks
and if there is bit of red blood in
their veins. they either respond to the
call or tand eternally in their own
shame AMI here is the finger that
points.
There is no difference between the
man or woman Who lives in the com-
munity only for themselves. selhshly
takes from it all the good they can.
giving nothing in return, than there
is in the mail order house hundreds
of miles away that ships yun its goods
and cares nothing about your com
munity when they have your money.
They are birds cf a feather. There i3
no such thing in This world as man
or woman superior to. divorced from
or not in debit to the community whore
they live. The mcre fact that any
one has specialized with their brain
does not divorce them from the one
who works with his hraWn. Mind and
muscle NUT ever 20 hand in hand
because the moro YOU specialize in
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