Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 245, 25 August 1917 — Page 12
THE RICHMOND 3PAULATIUM -AND SUNTELEGRA23 SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1917
COMMONER STILL HAS POWER TO CHARM HEARERS Bryan Pleads for Suffrage and Prohibition Before Huge Crowd.
William Jennings Bryan Is older than he was when he first appeared on a Richmond platform, but he Is the same wonderful platform artist. Bryan's lecture yesterday afternoon was eai titled "Two Pictures." He devoted the first twenty minutes or so to a consideration of the war, in which he urged Americans to stand behind the president, and to forget their difference!. Uses 'Em For Texts The two pictures were those of the Madonna and of "Breaking Home Ties," and be used them very effectively as texts for the twin themes of woman suffrage and prohibition. In every state where it had been introduced, woman suffrage had Improved conditions, said the speaker. Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, was eulogized by Bryan as the man who had dared to take liquor out of the navy. Speaking of Indiana's prohibition measure, and of the state's campaign against hog cholera, he said he "was glad that Indiana was going to raise her manhood to the hog level."
SCHWANS LOSE TG TEAM OF "GEESE"
It was some battle the Schwans and the Gese put on out at the park yesterday afternoon. Volley-ball is usually considered an old man's game. But the way those fellows played it, it's a game for youngsters, and vigorous youngsters, at that. Schwan himself did sterling work, but his team lacked teamwork, and went down to defeat three times before the opposition. Don Warfel, Dr. L. M. Gentle, who achieved fame by ducking a hot drive, Newell Hill and Charles Rno of Wittenburg, and Schwan finished the game for the Schwans. C. E. Thomason, Burt Overman, Louis Kinley, Chester Edwards, Dr. A. B. Price and Rev. Raymond Isley were the others.
Biggest Crowd of Season Hears Him Here, Says Bryan
Richmond has the biggest Chautauqua he has spoken before this year, said William Jennings Bryan, after bis lecture Friday afternoon. There were more people present than at any place he has appeared, from the number of paid admissions. One chautauqua out in Iowa paid him more money, Bald Bryan, but they charged fifty cents for single admissions.
PHELPS GIVES FAREWELL TALK
Dr. William byon Phelps, whose morning and afternoon talks have been so popular a feature of the chautauqua, gave his farewell address Friday afternoon. Phelps spoke on "Culture and Happiness." Happiness was a matter of personality and what the Quakers call books, art, and music conributo to it.
William Lyon Phelps
"Authors," sickly, inkstand fools, (We'd thought) half genius and half devil; Who lived in garrets, wrote in "school;' Were either wholly good or eviL Not those neurotic, morbid, freaks, But just as we are, live and human He shows them to us, and through him speaks The living, breathing, man or woman. Touched with a wisdom of his own; A humour, saving, salt and kindly, Which makes us think; "Had we but known, We'd never read, or lived, so blindly." They call him "Billy" down at Yale, Fit tribute to a man from men: So, may your shadow never fail, Here's to you, Billy, come again! Roscoe Bain Fleming.
OLD-TIMERS SAY 'TWAS BIGGEST
Twenty-five hundred paid admissions between 12 o'clock and three! Add 2,600 to 2.800 season ticket holders and add paid admissions before twelve o'clock to that, and you will have the crowd that listened to Bryan Friday afternoon. Estimates at the hadauarters tent gave the crowd between 5,500 and 6,000, but old timer said that it was the biggest one ever around the tent, and the former record is 7,000. So there you are. They packed the tent, they crowded the aisles, they darkened the inside of the tent by crowding around the edge until the big tungsten lights had to be turned on. Men and women stood on the braces on the outside of the bleachers. Two dozen sat on the platform. A hundred or so crowded in and stood at the side of the stage on each side. The folks around the outside of the tent stood from a dozen to twenty deep. People from as far away as Winchester motored down for that one number, and there were 600 autos parked during the lecture, also a new high record.
AFRICAN TO SPEAK
Thomas Kalane, a native of Africa, who is preparing at Wilberforce college for missionary work in his native land, will speak Sunday morning at the First Christian Sunday school.
William Busk, of Chicago, is the youngest ensign in the United States navy. When he was graduated on June 28 from Annapolis, he was not quite twenty-two.
More Than 600 Cars Parked Bryans9 Day
The horse has seen his day, at least so far as chautauqua ' Is concerned. To the more than COO autos parked for Bryan's speech yesterday afternoon, there were Just fifty-four horsedrawn rigs. Old-timers around the park recalled the days when there were hundreds and hundreds of horses, hitched In every concelvoble place.
SEXTETTE HAS OVERFLOW CROWD
Friday night was the night for the Boston Symphony Sextette. They played tired from a long journey Thursday night, they played In the rain Thursday afternoon, and they played to the backs of Bryan's retreating audience Friday afternoon. But Friday night they had an audience of 3,000 people, who came because they wanted to hear the sextette, and the sextette made good. The Hungarian Rhapsody, perfectly and masterfully played, was perhaps most popular. The perfectly blended Salut D'Amour, and the three little lighter pieces played together, received much applause also, but the musicians could not complain of lack of applause at any time.
G. A. R. TO MARCH
Members of Sol Meredith post, O. A. R., are requested to meet Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock In the post rooms in the court house to plan for the patriotic Labor day celebration.
REV. H. S. JAMES TO ATTEND WHITE RIVER CONFERENCE
Rev. H. S. James and wife, will be Richmond representatives at the White River conference at Indiana Central University, at Indianapolis, next week. Fred White is the lay delegate from the Richmond Congregation, and the alternate is O. P. Lewis.
Chautauquettes
"If a bull pup is found, telephone 3683," says a sign on the headquarters telephone. Chin music and chamber music dont mix, but the crowd that remained to hear the Boston Symphony sextette Friday afternoon don't seem to know it. There were a little core of attentive people in the middle of the audience, but the rest "visited," with absolutely no regard for the sextette or those who might wish to hear the music.
Main street after Bryan's lecture resembled, for about ten minutes, Michigan Boulevard on a busy day.
Bryan pulled down Just $311.10 for his hour and a half's work Friday afternoon. Patriotism was rudely bumped when people sitting on the top row of the bleachers tried to stand up for the sextette's playing of "America," Friday afternoon. The roof was only a couple of feet up, and they didn't succeed.
Some one's little Susie, about three years old, wanted to walk on the stage railing during the afternoon concert and little Susie walked, during the whole concert.
GOVERNOR FERRIS SUNDAY SPEAKER
THE PROGRAM Saturday, August 25 7:00 p.m. Prelude, L. A. C. Ladies' Orchestra. 8:00 p.m. Entertainment, Sidney Land on. Impersonator, "Character Studies of Great Men." Sunday, August 26 9:30 a. m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Sermon-Lecture, Rev. F. A. Dressel, "U nsearchable Riches." 2:00 p.m. Prelude, L. A. C. Ladies' Orchestra. 3:00 p.m. Address, Hon.Woodbridge N. Ferris, Former governor of Michigan. "The Dynamics of Human Conduct.' 5:39 pjxl Young People's Union. Subject, "Excuses.' Leaders, Miss Helen Ball and Miss Helen Hockett 7:00 p.m. Concert, L. A. C. Ladies' Orchestra. 8:00 p.m. Julius Caesar Nayphe, "Oriental Interpretation of the Twenty-third Psalm. Woodbridge N. Ferris, former governor of Michigan and dynamic speaker on current life, is the headliner for Sunday's chautauqua program. Sid Landon, impersonator extraordinary, Julius Caesar Nayphe, Grecian, with his lecture on "Oriental Interpretation of the Twenty-third Psalm," and the L. A. C. Ladies' Orchestra, four times during the two days, are the other chautauqua features. Rev. F. A. Dressel, of First English Lutheran church, will deliver the sermon-lecture Sunday morning at 10:30. His subject is "Unsearchable Riches." Sunday school will be at 9:30 and the Young People's union will meet at 5:30.
Middle Westerners are Good Critics, Says Sextette Chief
Max O. Kunze, director of the Boston Symphony Sextette, likes the middle west. "People out here," he said know Just the instant anything goes wrong, and you don't get much applause from them unless the piece Is played perfectly." "If they like anything you play, they let you know, while an Eastern audience will sit cold and indifferent while you play your heart out,"
Field Day Events To Start at 2:30
The field events, arranged for Booster Day program at Exhibition Park, will start at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon preceeding the ball game which will probably begin at 3 o'clock.
Phelps on Christanity
"Although God may be infinitely distant, our minds are powerful enough to catch his light and set our whole lives afire. It la like a burning glass
and the sun."
"A. great difference between art and life is this: you couldn't put the Gotr terdammerung on this little stage; but in life you could. Life constantly mounts the most tremendous drama on a mean and filthy stage, a squalid alley, a stupid village." "The problem of every thinking man is to get to God if he can." "People say: 'If a certain thing's true, why doesn't everybody believe in it?' That's a silly question, Wilson is a great president. Why don't everybody believe he is? "People who say, 'I have only one life to live, and am going to get the best of it, aren't to be condemned. They are just pure, unadulterated human nature, left to go its own way,"
City Statistics
KLUTER John Henry Kluter., 34 years old, died Friday evening at 7 o'clock, of heart trouble. His death was unexpected. He was born in Richmond and has lived here all his life. Two sisters, Miss Cecilie Kluter, and Mrs. Thomas Merkle survive. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Mary's church. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call at any time at the residence, 217 North Third street. SHOFER Funeral services for Christopher Shofer were conducted Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Mary's church, Father Cronin officiating. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery. Pall bearers were Thomas Ryan, Henry Vosmeier. George J. Knollenierg, Joseph HUler, William Beckman, Arthur Crump.
SPENCER STILL - IS IN DANGER
DAYTON, O., Aug. 25, All but one of the Dayton Central league baseball players are out of danger and will recover from the injuries received In the railroad wreck at Mansfield, 111., Thursday night, according to a telegram received here from J. Elmer Redelle who la now with the club. " Ray Spencer was the most seriously injured of any of the men and his condition is still critical, although somewhat improved. Spencer's ear will be saved, although he suffered deep cuts on his forehead and on the back of his head. His most serious Injury, however, is a broken end of his spine. He was operated upon at Mansfield Saturday morning and will probably recover. Louis Schettler will not lose the sight of his eyes, although his back is severely injured. He is also badly bruised about the body and limbs. Doctors say that his condition Is not very serious. Pat Donahue lost the forefinger of his right hand, but physicians say that the second finger will be saved. Donahue's back Is not seriously injured. Stewart and Derrick were badly cut and bruised but their conditions are not serious and it is probable that Stewart will leave the hospital Sunday. Other members of the team were bruised but are able to return home Saturday. No definite action concerning the future of the club has been announced here, but it is probable that efforts to finish the season will not be taken up. A telegram was received from the management of the Richmond club today offering the services of the club in an exhibition game, and It is probable that this game will be played next week during one of the three days when the Richmond team was scheduled to play here.
Court Records
Marriage Licenses. Evan Horn, farmer, Fountain City, and Inez Clabaugh, at home, Fountain City.
A frame covered with wire netting to be attached to automobiles, has been invented.
Kodak Films developed Free Prints 3c each. thwaiteV Drug Stores.
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