Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1918 — Regular Meeting of ladies' Literary Society [ARTICLE]

Regular Meeting of ladies' Literary Society

An intelligent appreciation of the resources and needs of the world is a very necessary foundation for the proper conception of the profound international problems which confront the world today and affect so vitally the every day lives of each of us. It was therefore a profitable as well as pleasurable afternoon for the members of the Ladies’ Literary club,, who had the opportunity to listen to the regular program at the library auditorium Friday. s Knowing, as we do little of any other countries of the world except our own country, we, as Americans, are prone to underestimate their importance, and as Mrs. G. E. Murray described in interesting detail the vastness of the more enlightened countries of South America, Brazil, Argentina, Chili and Uruguay and drew a word picture of the wealth of their resources, especially is .agriculture, it was a real comfort to know they are now near neighbors and are easily available in these strenuous and needy war times. Mrs. J. J. Hunt depicted the artistic and historic interests which relate to the seaboard city of Valparaiso and its inland companion city, Santiago. So well was her subject presented that every interested listener must have wished to have a personal knowledge of these two impontant cities in Chili. Mrs. E. D. Rhoades closed the program with an excellent account of the erection of the well known statute. The Christ of the Andes, which commemorates the peace negotiations between Argentina and Chili by means of arbitration when war seemed inevitable. Mrs. J. D. Allman gave the political part of the program explaining comprehensively the difference between the federal and state legislature, Executive and judicial departments of each; also the number and dates of Indiana’s two constitutions. ■* The responses to roll call were facts concerning our newest posessions, viz., the Danish, West Indies. Mrs. E. P. Honan closed the meeting by reading the Collect.