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Show JOS. CHEZ IS PLEASING TALKER A very animated meeting was held by the Chautauque readers last evening even-ing in the basement of the Methodist church. Two pleasing violin and piano numbers num-bers were rendered by Misses Florence Flor-ence and Rac Wright. In reviewing the book, "The Spirit of American Government," Joseph Chez gave in a style refreshingly direct, di-rect, a clear description of the machinery ma-chinery of our goernment The author au-thor of the book devotes some time to an examination of the constitution, under which, he contends, It will be difficult to attain a purely democratic form of government. The growing demand for election by direct vote was discussed On completing his discourse Mr. Chez was asked to take tho floor for ' a flvc-minuto discussion, in which most of those present took parL "The Twentieth Century American" was reviewed by Rev. Frank G. Brainerd and tas followed by a discussion dis-cussion which became quite animated. The book is written by an Englishman English-man who looks upon us from an Englishman's Eng-lishman's viewpoint and who gives us his Impressions. He is exceedingly frank and yet perfectly fair and although al-though some of the things he says of us may chafe a bit, yot the reading of the book increases our feelings of friendliness for tho EngllBh people. His fuggestion of an alliance between America and Great Britain for the furtherance of universal peace is a pleasing one and seems quite possible. The next meeting, to be held in the middle of May, was announced. Tho subjects for the coming meeting are "Hull House, ' by Jane Addams, "Materials "Ma-terials and Methods of Fiction," and "As We See Ourselves," the place of meeting to bo announced later. |