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Show FLETCHER TELLS PLAIN TRI.THS . The banquet given by the Merchants Mer-chants Association to the . lyceum lecturer, -Brooks Fletcher, a newspaper newspa-per man of Marion, Ohio, was a fitting fit-ting recognition of the man who is doing a wonderful work of plain truth telling. His Red Cross talk after the banquet was the most intense in-tense and stirring appeal given in Milford since the world war began. There were thirty-four ladies and gentlemen at the banquet, which was served in the dining room of Hotel Milford. The words of the eloquent orator seemed to not set well with a very few traveling men present. Their unpatriotic comments were noted and their names and addresses taken by the local committee of defense. de-fense. At thejligh School The evening address at the high school auditorium was. worth all the cost of the lecture course. - Mr! Fletcher's subject was "Fools," - and' he described several kinds of them and was glad to see so many out. He is a talented actor. After a run of humorous side-talk he would drive home some important and serious ser-ious truth with the force of a pile driver in words and illustration that all could understand.. He censured the present-day preference for "intellectual "in-tellectual rag time" rather than for the uplifting, worth while things. A comprehensive synopsis of the lecture lec-ture is impossible. Those who failed to take advantago of hearing Brooks Fletcher should never repeat such a blunder. It is hoped that he will return re-turn to Milford for another lecture. U |