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CLOSE OF CHA 0TA U QU A.;Will Probably Come Back NextYear,»The Chautauqua closed SaturihvI1nift'ht. Taken as a whole the attrac- slions during* the week were satisfae-j tory beyond what they had been in for- j mer years. One or two of the numbers pleased below par but even they were worth more than they cost/ The lectures on the programme were all good) and some of them were decidedly good.Nearly 100 patrons of Chautauqua have signed the guarantee and we will have Chautauqua anocher year. Nearly 400 season tickets nave also been subscribed for, the people having been given an opportunity co sign up for tickets during the entertainments Saturday afternoon and r 'grit.Two of the very best lectures on the programme were by Capt. Leslie N. Vickers, one Saturday night and the other Sunday night. Capt. Vickers is a Scotchman and resigned a professorship in Columbia University, New York, to enter the war against Germany He was wounded and has recently been lecturing. This two lectures here consisted of a recital of some of the incidents of the battlelines and a discussion of the great lessons we must learn from the war. He expressed the great appreciation of his country over the Uni ted States* enhance into the war and.that it means lies that will forever land the two countriesThe attractions Friday—the Berkeley So.vtette in the afternoon and the opera, “Pinafore,” in the evening'— were both good, “Pinafore” being an especially fine comic opera and well oroRcnted. The pageant, “Liberty'sTorch,” by the Juniw Chautauqua,and the Haiting-Kcniston Co., were the attractions .Saturday afternoon.J ud go Havana ugh.The lecture of Judge Marcus A. [Cavanaugh at the Chautauqua Thursday night touched on a subject of most • ] vital importance. “Traitors to Justice'’j ' was his subject.Judge Kavanaugh discussed what,] lu termed foolish technicalities that;, stand in the way of: justice. Every j .war for the past ten years there have r been an average of not less I ban ‘,000 homicides in the U mi oil States, lowstated. More than 00,000 peoples kill- j ’ ed by the pistol or knife in ton years./ No one scans greatly cone-’rued about | ’ the situnuon. In Canada there arc I” 1 homicides a year for each million population; in Germany f»; in Italy Id; in: the United Stales 00. Is it any won-4dor that we are gathering upon our Ik ads the scorn of civilised people? Our prison population has increased 17 times since INbO. We are not a dishonest people; we am not an immoral people; w o a r o 1 a v e r a o f j u s t i e e. Then what ails us? Few men have reached middle age who haven’t at some time been tempted. In other countries the people know that a big j per cent of those who commit crime j arc punished and they are deterred i from committing crime because ofi this knowledge, In the United State'* j there is not the same certainty of; punishment. jA disease is responsible for the/ condition and the disrate i: lack of. res pert of law. The laws roust be on- I forced —-dhe big laws and the liUFl laws. Enforce the little laws and the big ones will he. Where taw is my. i enforced the people cannot place th ' 1 blame on their uOieinls. for it is the; people who elected them, The day a -c r i m e i s clt; nvimit I et 1 we a re re a' i y t o ; lynch and in a few months we are ji •1
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jun 18, 1918
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