Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — The Spirit of Youth Is In Chautauqua Program [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Spirit of Youth Is In Chautauqua Program

Mountain and Fishing Fun Equaled In Big Tent Ten Years* More Life In Ticket.

When the engines whistle In the canyons near your summer mountain home and you' hear the gurgling of the waters released from the snowcapped peaks above you, when the air seems to lift you far above the ordinary courses of your life and your heart sings while your blood races warmly through Its courses, are you happy? Are you glad you are alive? Does life seem good and sweet? Ttfere are hundreds of people In this community who won’t have that experience this summer. They won’t throw a fly out over the surface of the stream. They won’t experience the feelings of speechless delight that the trout fisherman knows and that ex-

tend his life a half score years or more. These hundreds of folks who have all the capacities necessary to joy must for varying reasons stay at home. The same old streets and the same neglected sunsets may or may not get their attention. And yet these are the people whose outlook, whose vision, hopes, confidence In themselves and faith in you must determine the policies of this community and largely the aspirations and ambitions of your children.

What of it? w ha t is the use of talking about it? Listen! There is a lot of use, and that is one of the reasons why we publish this article. There is just as much new life just as many worthy ambitions, just as many lively possibilities in song, speech, in laughter and pathos, In concert and in impersonation as there are in water and tree. We knew a boy ten years ago who was a shut-in. Along came the announcement of an assembly. He attended. Today he says that his happiness,.health and moderate wealth began in that assembly. The Lincoln Ghautauqua program will be here soon, and there is not a red headed kid nor the making of a

ffood cook in this whole confine who should not attend, and there is not a grouch, a pessimist nor a growing preacher anywhere within reach of this city who should not be there and see these kiddies grow a cubit every day of the program. Get a season ticket and have a vaca tion for a song,” which otherwise you might never have, or if you did have it might be cheap at a hundred times that amount. Do you want to extend your life ten good years? Then get a ticket.