The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-02
ATTRACTIONS TO
BE STRENGTHENED
Chautauqua Will Be Held
Anyway Next Year and
Disposition to Throw Lib
eral Patronage to Associa-
ton Will Make Series of
Entertainments Even Bet
ter Than Has Been Wit
messed.
BY GILFILLAN SCOTT,

The Chautauqua which has just
been brought to a successful conclu-
sion in Pensacola must not be permit
ted to fade away into the limbo of
dead and forgotten events.
Pensacola s first Chautauqua has
been an historical event; and, upon
! the manner in which il is followed up
and made to bear fruit, will largely de-
pend the city's intellectual future.
The intellectual progress of the
world is of more Importance than any
other kind of progress; it is better to
be intelligent than rich; money beyond
ones needs can only buy sugar plums;
therefore the advancement of educa-
ton is of more Importance than she
advancement to trade.
Incidentally let it be observed that it
takes brains to advance trade; and, as
brains are the outcome of education,
the the more we advance education the
more we are advancing trade
We should look upon education as
the root of the three and trade as one
of its branches; look after the root and
all the branches will flourish.
EDUCATION THE BEDROCK.
Yes, education is the bedrock, the
foundation OF the worlds advancement,
and the Chautauqua movement is one
of the finest and broadest methods of
promoting it.
What is a Chautauqua, anyway
Why Chautauqua?
Well, Chautauqua literally means "a
foggy place. a good description of an
uneducated brain, and is the name of
a county in New York state, where
learned men commenced some years
ago TO give lectures and entertain
ments which would improve the mind,
suggest new lines of thought, lead to
new lines of conduct, and yet amuse
and please.
They knew that education need not
be like castor-oi1, easier to administer
than to take; they knew that it could
be made palatable and pleasant; so
these clever fellows put their heads
together and discussed how best to
give the oil; they agreed to mix 1t with !
all kinds of nice things, and the result |
is the ewide-spreading Chautauqua sys-
tenn of today. of which Pensacola has
just had it's first taste.
How did you like it? Was it good?
Do you want some more?
These are the all-important ques-
tons which the directors of the Pen
sacola Chautauqua Association would
like to have answered.
The Journal has earned the graft
manner in which it has thrown open
its columns day after day to help
boost the Chautauqua: without that
publicity 1t would have fallen fat;
through that publicity it has been a
success, a great success. The public
I
qua doings and have been encouraged
to encourage il, with a result that the
Chautauqua Association is encouraged
TO go ahead and have another.
WILL BE IMPROVEMENT
True there will be improvements:
Of course there will; is anything ever
lone so we'll that it could not be bet
.er? OF course not.
And what has been done? Some uf
he biggest, broadest and most exper-
In Too hoy hnn
brought to this city to talk to rs citi-
sens and tell them things they never
heard of before; men whose very ex-
stence had been weighed beforehand,
lad been strained and filtered and con-
lensed and cut down until the final
,roduct was essence, like the famous !
neat extract Bowl an OK in a bot- !
le.
SOME OF THE ARTISTS.
Familiar as DR.. Dent Atkinson per-
nan; full to the lips of rich expert ,
.nces garnered from every corner of
he globe; his records show travels of ;
wo hundred and seventy thousand .
niles and he could run an entire
of lectures and not be one
enth of the way through what he has
earned therefrom. DR.. Atkinson is
,entIeman, every inch of him, and he
s as humorous as he Is learned. Good
uck to him.
Then comes Ralpn HarIeLLes VIII ne
ver be forgotten by those who heard
lin? Not on your life. His is a
which is unforgetable orig Il
nal, sincere, straight from the shoul- Q
er.
Would you like to know he is com
ng again? Brass bands and process c
ions and Ralph carried shoulder high q
hould be the order of the day If he a
an ever be brought to Pensacola
gain.
Next we have DR.. Frederick Cook G
7ho told us and showed us things we {
ught to know but didn't. Controversy Z
s TO whether he reached the North P
'ole or not is no way detracts from L
he value of the information he a
rought to Pensacola, and his lecture z
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