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Show TALKS ON ITALY SUNDATTVENING Miss Lila Van Kirk Will Speak i at Union Services in First Congregational Church At the First Congregational church Sunday evening. August 29, at the union services of all tho churches. Lil Van Kirk or New York will speak on the subject of "Italy and the Adritttlt Problem.' which will be Illustrated Il-lustrated with m;ips and view, presented pre-sented to Miss Van Kirk by tne Italian fovernment This talk will take the I.iacc of the sermon. Miss Vnn Kirk dlscussod this subject sub-ject at the Hermitage hotel last Mon-dny Mon-dny evening, when sh. undertook tOi prove the Jostle- of Italy's clsYlmi to the eastt-rn coast of the Adriatic sea! because of her lack of harbors and mountains on the eastern shore of the p nlnsubi the opposite coast there-; fore becoming necessary to her as ai means of defense for the mainland Although Al-though the originator of the dread-, jnj.ught. during the late war. Italy had ;.o pluce in which to harbor her ves-1 nls which were bottled up In conse- quence throughout the entire conflict i Eminent writers, military experts ord geologists were quoted In support' Of Italy, showing that geologically, go-1 ogr-iphlcally. historically and traditionally tradi-tionally she has the prior right ovr! aP other nations to the ports of the! Dalmatian coast and that the port of Flume as a Corpus Separatum has tho light of self determination in controlling con-trolling nor own destiny. Claims of both Italians and Slavs twill lir given In the discussion Sunday e enlng. M:.-m m Kirk whose home is In New York, has recently made a tour of tho Pacific coast and in her native state Is chiefly known for her humanitarian hu-manitarian work for dumb animals In that clt two lurge horse troughs ha ibeen erected through her efforts and for a number of years she maintained an extra horse at the foot of a steep hill to aid the over-burdened horses in reaching the top of the grade. When In Ogdon three y.-ars ago, it will be remembered that with the as-1 lctancs of Mayor Francis, then editor I of The Standurd. and Dr. A. C. Condon, Con-don, she aroused an interest In the same humanitarian work In this city I r. Milting In the organization of a humane hu-mane society. |