The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-22
FINE PROGRAMMES ONOPEN|NGD DAY OF 1914 CHAUTAUQUA Dunbar Quartet and Bell Ringers Give Two Pleas
 ing Concerts
ALDEN LECTURES ON
 NEEDS OF THE HOUR
Declares Present Conditions Due to Lack of Sense of Personal RespOnsi- bility-Appeals for "More Reli-
 zion and Less Theology"

The 1914 Birmingham ehautauqua opened
 yesterday under the most suspicious cir .cumstances with two concerts by the
 Dunbar male quartet and a lecture by
 Judge George D. Alden of Boston on
 s'The Needs of the Hour' The audience
 ln the afternoon was naturally small but
 at night the big tent was comfortably
 filled
 This morning Dr. Wallace will lecture
 on America and the Universal Plan;
 in the afternoon there will be concert
 by the Harmony Concert company, a
 monoogue. That Printer of Udell's" by
 Everett Kemp; tonight there will be an
 other concert by the Harmony company
 and lecture, Sour Grapes" by Ed
 ward Amherst Ott.
 The first story hour for the children
 with Miss Conquist in charge will be held
 this afternoon and from indications yes-
 terday the opening day, was especially
 ent. Tn the afternoon the music begins
 at 2:30 o'clock and at night at and S:3o
 instead of 7:s0 and as announced.
 Dunbars Are Pleasing
 The choice of the entertainers for yes-
 terday, the opening day was especially
 felicitious. The Dunbar bell ringers and
 male quartet has the reputation of be-
 ing one of the best musical organizations
 on the Redpath circuit and the perform
 CTS fully lived up to the reputation yes
 terday afternoon.
 The four voices are unusually pleasing
 and blended perfectly to produce har-
 mony that was enjoyed by all. No class
 ical vocal selections were rendered but
 the lighter music seemed to please the
 audience immensely and the singers were
 forced to respond to encore after encore.
 Probably the most enjoyable of the vocal
 numbers was the Turnkey Song,'' from
 deKoven's Rob Roy" and an Indian
 melody, The Land of the Sky Blue Wa
 ter.
 A quartet of male voices is pleasing at all times but when each individual has
 the ability which the Dunbars disp,ayed
 the result is doubly enJoyable.
 In addition to being accomplished vo- calists, several Instrumental numbers were offered with violin, a cello and the piano. These selections were in addition to the work on the chimes at the night concert, which was beautiful Every class of music was offered, including several sacred selections Probably the most en- enthusiastically received of the instrumental numbers was a sonata by Tschaikowsky. The lecture of Judge Alden on 'The Needs of the Hour" was an eloquent ap- peal to the men and women of today to return to the standard of personal re- sponsiblity That was the greatest need, he said and the greatest evil of the present was the snug, self-satisfied air with which the average man viewed the Shortcomings of his fellows.
 Judge Alden is a man of magnetic per sonaity and he won his audience from the start. His lecture was replete with laughable anecdotes and wittcsms and he kept his hearers in a good humor even while he pointed out their faults The lecturer opened by saying that he was from Boston and had never benn in Alabama before; therefore he would not attempt to speak of reforms needed here but to deal with those things which .p- N piled to the nation whole. In ev- cry age, he said, there had been dom IA inant spirit and by the spirit the age had gradually become known. The pres ent age was one of greed and graft" He anticipated the sentiments of the au- dience and denied that he was a re- 4 former but declared he had come ito Y explain why grafters are with us" He s attributed this to lack of sense of per- Y sonal responsibility and self-respect on the part of the average man.
 N On Woman's Suffrage N During the lecture he touched on a n wide range of subjects. among them wom- f ai sulirase, the uivorce evil, politics and # Christianity. In regard to equal suffrage |& he declared that while he was personally Fl opposed to it. he believed that women N would be given the ballot in all states |{ within the next b years.
 |{ As to the divorce evil, he said there ' was no such thing; the evil was in too I nasty and i'll advised marriages. Eradi- A cate the one and the other will be a,l- Economically cured. Here the speaker took fl occasion to pay his respects to Colonc! X Roosevelt having referred to him ire |HQuently during the course of his lecture.