Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-06-05
MRS. BOOTHS BAN
ON WHIPPING POST
Prison Reformer at Chautau-
qua Says Flogging Is In
human, Barbaric
MUSICAL FEATURES
AT EACH SESSION

While the Wilmington Cbautauona
opened yesterday under unfavorable
weather conditions, the attendance at
poth afternoon and evening sessions
was excellent, the large, Waterproof
canvas tent in which the series of
entertainments is being held being
crowded with an enthusiastic and an
preciative audience. Judging from
the attendance yesterday the Chau-
tauqua will have a very successful
week in this city
Chautauqua is different from any
other form Of entertainment in exist
ence, In the words Of DR.. A. Ii
Turner, eX-president Of Hastings Col
lege, Nebraska, in his lecture to the
gathering yesterday afternoon, Chau-
tauqua is a sugar coated pill. and
a good dose for those who take it,"
1t consists Of a series Of lectures.
each containing a splendid lesson
which is driven home to the hearer
in a convincing maner. interviewer
with these lectures is a series Of en-
Pertaining features, prepared to amuse
everyone in the audience, the in
structive lecture being the interior Of
the pill. containing the medicinal
qualities, and the entertaining fea-
lures on the program comprising the
sugar coated surface making 1t easy
to swallow.
The feature of yesterdays program
was the lecture delivered at the even
ing session by Mrs. Maud Darlington
Booth on Progress and Opportunity in
Prison Reform, in which she brand
ed the whipping post as barbarous
inhuman, and Anticipated, and de-
clared that the employment Of cor
poral punishment not only did no
good, but actually demoralized and
brutalized the prisoner, the guard
who applied the lash, and the spec
tator who witnesses the whipping.
Mrs. Booth told of the circum-
stances which led her to undertake
the work of lettering the condition of
the man who has been condemned to
q prison sentence, and she also de-
clared that the idea that criminals are
made through heredity was wrong.
She stated that the children of Grim
lnals are made criminal in instinct by
the indifference of the state towards
the needs of the family of the man
who is sent to prison. She stated that
that put the man behind the prison |
walls.
At the afternoon session. the first
of the series lectures to be delivered /
by DR.. Turner, who will act as the |
platform superintendent throughout /
the ChautauQua season, was given on I
"The Evolution of City" which was I
highly interesting.
Miss Emily r. BisselI chairman of |
the Wilmington Chautauqua commit I
tee opened and presided over the az I
ternoon session. She introduced DR. I
Turner to the audience with a brief I
address.
DR.. Turner in closing his lecture /
stated that the greatest mistake made 4
by men is retiring from active work 4
too early He stated tnat the most I
miserable of all men on earth are
the men who have accumulated
enough to live on and then retire
while they are still good for ten or
twenty years of active work.
II want to pay homage to the gray
headed and bald-headed men," he
said
The entertainment features Of the
program at both the afternoon and
evening sessions were furnished by
the McKmnie operate Company,
composed of a quartet. two men and
two women. The two opening num-
bers by the quartet we're THE Glad
some Spring" and See What You
Want Before You Buy" The bari
tone sang THE Song of the Soul
from The Climax" and responded
with an encore when l Was a Boy
at School" Mr.. and Mrs. McKinnie
sang THE Swing" duet, and as an en-
core sang "On Our Honeymoon" The
sang THE Hills of the Sky"
and also COVE an encore. The bass
soloist sang THE Brigand." by
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