The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-06-27
0TT GIVES
PLEASING
LECTURE
Strong Number Marks the
Close Of a Most Sue
CeSSiuI Chautauqua

Discussing the problems OF life in
ther relation to heredity and environ
ment, Edward Amherts OFT in pleas
ing and Instructive lecture on Sour
Grapes" brought to close last night
what might wen be termed chicka
shas most successful Chautauqua. AS
prelude to the principal number Of
the evening the Star Male Quartette
gave a variety Of selections that were
well given and well received.
Mr.. OFT spoke on subjects and along
the lines Of practical things advancing
many ideas that II put into practice
and successful operation would do
much toward making the world better
and the people happier. He paid the
American public beautiful compli
ment BY declaring them the most I'M
telligent people on earth, but took
much of the pleasing phase out Of that
remark by adding that they have nc'
yet learned how to live.
He made the statement that 400
out OF every 1000 born in America
die before they reach the age Of five
years and declared that those who did
live are afflicted with real or imagi
nary ills for the treatment Of which
they spent last year hundred million
dollars for patent medicines, much Of
which was Of the Peruna variety that
contains a high per cent Of alcohol.
In keeping with the old adage OF
t"tell me what you like and I'll tell
you what you are. he says that pleas
ure is the bait on natures book and
those who bite are lost or in other
words people through their Joys and
pleasures. often Of the wrong brand,
strike the rocks and are thrown upon
the shores Of destruction where they
join the vast throng of JOY lovers who
have, in all the ages, travelled the
same ruinous route.
He did not deplore nor object TO
amusements and pleasures provided
! they were Of the proper kind, but he
warned his hearers against the danger
Of modern pastimes which, too often.
are OF kind and character that tend
to tear down rather than build up q
wholesome and desirable ideal.
THE study Of music and OF the 9th
er fine arts. said Mr. OFT. is not pri-
marily to make musicians. sculptors,
painters and poets, but is to widen and
broaden cur mind by cultivation and
training to a point where we are capa-
bic Of appreciating and enjoying the
arts" In preparing people for this
higher and better sphere too much
Importance is given to the schools and
churches and not enough to the home.
After tweny years Of experience as
ain educator and similar period o.
observation OF preachers am con-
vinced that il the world expects 50
much from the teacher and the minis
ter the homes Of the land must fur
nish better pupils and the standard Of
those who join the church must be
elevated or the desired results can not
be obtained"
He suggested as a panacea for most
Of he evils that afflict the worlo OF
business and the professions which
result in failure to countless thou
sands that more attention be paid 70
the hereditary tendency Of children
AMI allow them to develop along the
Ties Of their own predelictiol and not
by any unnatural process try to make
q lawyer out of a boy who ought to be
a doctor or a farmer In this connec-
ton he said "The meanests thing a
man or a woman can do is to plant a
false nope in a human soul He saws
he prays for. and will welcome. the
day when educators, backed up by
school boards. win teach each pupil
according to his needs and not at
tempt to run all students through tre
same educational mill and expect 70
develop by so doing. men and women
of character and the essential quail
ties Of success.
He referred to Napoleon as a fail.
ure in everything except the military
and cited the reason therefore that he,
like the Lees, came Of fighting fam.
ily Virtue and vice, sad he. rim in
families and the way to get the best
there is IN people out Of them is by
roperly classifying them. taking care
fui pains not to ges one in the wrong
pigeon hole Of life and the way to
eradicate a family Of criminals IS Il
possible, to let them de single with
out planting the seeds Of crime
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