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WITH THE CHAUTAUWJAijfUl i illl ll ljialThe Week’s Entertainment Under the Tent.Yesterday afternoon was the concert by the Ongawas and an address —“Humanity’s Last Reserves”—byGeo, H. Turned Last night the Ongawas and an address by Judge Marcus A. Kavamiugh, “Traitors to Justice.” This afternoon will be the Berkeley Sextette and this evening an opera—“Pinafore,” Tomorrow afternoon^. “Liberty’s Torch,” by the Junior Chautauqua, and a concert by the Ratting-Renniston Company. Tomorrow night Capt. Leslie N. Vickers •will tell of the “Life in the Trenches,”It is not probable that a contract will be made for Chautauqua next year.Women in War Work.Miss Anne Brown Carson, representing the W!ar Work Council of the Young Women’s Christian Association, was the speaker at the Chautauqua Wednesday afternnoon. Miss Carson told of the v/.ork the Y, W. 0 A. is doing to make life more comfortable for the “women behind the guns.” 1,500,000 women are engaged in making munitions and supplies for the army. There are 2,000 girls at work as clerks and stenographers in the departments besides the yeowo-men in the navy; the girls in the signal corps, experienced telephone operators who are being sent to France to work in cities and army headquarters; and the large number of Red Cross nurses. The Y. W. C. A.is providing recreation centers for these women, doing a work similar to that done by the Y. M. C. A. for the soldiers. Miss Carson described the “nurses’ huts”.the recreation centers for the RedCross nurses in France, of which 1“ have already been established at base hospitals abroad. She also told of the “Y, W. C. A, hostess houses” established at camps in this country. Miss Carson paid tribute to the wonderful spirit and heroism of the women of France. It is not food that will win this war, nor munitions, nor the courage of the men in the trenches, nor the spirit of the women behind thelines. \ It is cooperation of all four that will win the war, for success depends oh team-work.Following Miss Carson’s talk a programme of songs and readings was given by Misses McDonough and j Eaglestern,The attraction Wednesday evening was the play “The Fortune Hunter.” given by the College Players.Dr. Geisel.Generally speaking, those who were at the. Chautauqua Monday night and heard Dr. Carolyn E. Geisel, feel that they got. the worth of the price of a i season ticket. Dr. Geisel’s subject | was “Miss Columbia, M. D.” Perhaps there was a feeling of pity among the audience when the speaker mounted the platform. Frail and tired-looking, there were those who thought that the wrong person had been sent to talk health to the audience.After Dr. Geisel had been talking for a little while the opinion of the audience, changed and before she had finished tire feeling of pity for the “old maid,” as she characterized herself, had vanished and those who heard her wondered at her power. “The speech of Dr. Geisel alone wasj worth the price of the season ticket”; “it was the greatest, speech I ever heard”; “1 would have given §100 if every man in Iredell county could, have heard it”, and similar comments were heard.Dr. Geisel is connected with the Battle Creek, Michigan, Sanatorium. She was on programme for here last year but was taken sick in High Point and did not get here. She has recently returned from the battlefields overseas and told the audience of some of the work being done for the suffering and some of the needs.Dr. Geisel spoke in plain language of the neglect and evils that are undermining the health of the American people and plead for a correction of these tendencies,Mr. Lovejoy.Owen R. Lovejoy, general secretary of the National Child Labor commit- j tee,- lectured Tuesday night on “Chil- ; dren in War Time.” He urged that I it would be a mistake in war time to ! stop schools or to in anyway curtail I the educational facilities for children. He warned against indiscriminate employment of children in the shops or on the farms to make up for the shortage of labor. A proper working of children 10 years or older was approv ed, but the work of others should he limited to town gardens or in other work under the supervision of those | fitted to take proper care of their wel-jfnre. At^ the beginning of the war, Mr. Lovejoy stated, France and England made the serious mistake of curtailing schools but had now realized the mistake and are now correcting itj by re-establishing them.I The Accordion Player.^ Mr. Andrew Visocehi ofitho Conrad Company, the young* man who wore I the red sash and the comical manner | and played what we would call an enlarged accordion—piano accordion iti is called—was interesting. The accordion was attached to his chest—or at least hold there tightly—land as heworked the keys Tuesday evening his eyes seemed to snap as if there was j a connection between the accordion I keys and his eyelashes. And lie had a way of glancing aauiou.sly to the j rear as if he was expecting something to come and get him and was keeping an eye out so that he could get a running start. But he made much music | and good mush*; too—at least it I sounded well enough- m that accordion; and he amused the audience by i his half-startled manner as well as by ! his playing.! 1“Doomed.”The heroic stand of A llctachmeiit of dismounted French cavalry on the j height of Lc Plemont will bo remem-beml as one of the most heroic episodes of the wav. Surrounded Sun-; day morning at 4 o’clock they resisted until Monday noon against repeated and most ferocious enemy assaults. Every two hours they sent back a•. wireless message which always read; i r We’re holding,”11JlwpHy* when the hour of noon \vm [|fRiking on Monday, ore word eamo , ! : . . , M :
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Jun 14, 1918
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