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CLOSE OF CHA 0TA U QU A.;Will Probably Come Back NextYear.iThe Chautauqua closed SaturihvInift'ht. Taken as a whole the attrac-{tions during the week were satisfactory 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 i and some of them were decidedly good.Nearly 100 patrons of Chautauqua have signed the guarantee and we will have Chautauqua another 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.'gnt.Two of the very best lectures on the programme were by Gapt. 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 Corn;any lie was wounded and has recently been lecturing;. This two lectures here consi5-.ted of a recital of some of the incidents of the battlelines and a discussion of the great lessons we roust 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 at tractions Friday—the Berkeley SoNtette in the afternoon and the opera, “Pinafore,” in the evening'— were both good, “Pinafore” being an especially fine comic opera and wellpresented. The pageant. “Liberty'sTorch,” by the Junim- Chautauqua,and the Tlatting-Keniston Co., worethe attractions .Saturday afternoon.Judge Kavanaugb.The lecture of Judge Marcus A.[\ a van a ugh at the Chautauqua Thurs- j day night touched on a subject of most j vital importance. “Traitors to Justice'’j was his subject.J ud go K a va iui u gh d i s e u s s e d \vhat;ho termed foolish teohniculiiies that;stand in the way of: justice. Every year for the past ten years there have been an average of not loirs Ilian b,000 homicides in the United States, he* stated. More than 00,000 peoples kill- j id by the pistol or knife in ten years, i No one scans greatly conc-’rncd about } the sHumlon. In Canada there arc 1“ homicides a year for each million population; in Germany a; in Italy !.(; in the United States 00. Is it any won-4dor that we are gat lie‘dag upon our Ik ads the scorn of civilised people?Our prison population has increased jIT times since 1NGO. We are not a j (1 fello*k:st }'eopte; \ve av:i not an i m ■ j m o r; 11 p t ‘O))! e; w ear o I a v e r s o f j u s t i e c. Then what ails us? hew men have reached middle age who haven’t at some lime 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 j from committing crime because ofj this knowledge. In the United State1; j there is not the same certainty of; punishment. jA disease is responsible for Fife; condition and the disrate is lack of. res pert of law. The laws must be on- | forced -Lhe lug lavs and the liUl.'l laws. Enforce the little laws and I lie big ones will he. Where law is mv. ; enforced the people cannot place th ' 1 blame on their oOudnls. for it is the; people who elected them, The day a j er i me i s elt; mm i t tec 1 we a re re.a * i y to ;lynch and in a few months we are j
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jun 18, 1918
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