Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-08-20
The Chautauqua

The eleventh annual Chau.
tauqua opened yesterday with
the largest asst mbly of any
session 80 far. }. S. Deuell
president of the Missouri Val
ley chautauqua assembly open.
ed the session by stating tina,
for the past ten years our as
semblies had been managed by
a local organization but this
year they had decided to
have a change, so they had
given it over in part to the
Midland Circuit of Des Muines,
as these people had control OF
talent and were better able to
till vacancies and meet disap-
pointments He then introduc
ed Walter Zimmerman who has
q very pleasing personality and
seems we'll adapted to the work
In his opening remarks, he
stated that there were two
things necessary for a good
Chautauqua: first satisfactory
talent and second a receptive
audience.
He then introduced Liberati's
Concert Band and Opera Go. of
New York City, who gave a
prelude and concert. Liberati
has had his band organized for
40 years and is a leader of ma
tional repute. During the af
ternoon and evening they rem
dered some very beautiful Sc
lections in such a manner that
each one proved himself to be a
master of his instrument.
Liberati also has with him
six talented vocalists, who gave
several very pleasing selections.
Friday
The prelude of yesterday af-
ternoon was given by Miss
Marietta LABEL of Toronto,
Canada. She is a reader of
great ability and entertained
the audience every minute of
the time. She is very good as
q child impersonator, and can
give a word picture of people
in the common walks OF life
very successfully.
This was followed with a lee
ture by Walter B. Zimmerman.
entitled gospels in Groans." "
He is a young man with a mes
sage to ali, young peupla es.
pecially. The main thought of
his lecture was for better man
hood of a fuller, more rounded
out type, to raise the American
standard.
He spoke of the foolish ex-
cuses given to the youth of to-
day and the impressions they
might make. That while food,
clothing and hereditary were
necessary to life, that they did
not make a man, but as Solomon
says Gas a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he"
He divided the development
of man by deep thinking into
three parts:
First, create habit for deep
thinking as our present method
is too superficial. For instance
in education the method of a
few years ago was the three of
RS and as an example OF the
success of this method he point
ed to three of our great finan-
ciers, Rockefeller, Carnegie
and Hill. Now however, the
3 HIS being used, Head,
Heart, Hand. Deep thinking
enables one to meet the emer-
gencies of life.
Second, symmetrical thinking
That America produces the
greatest lawyers but the fewest
and poorest diplomats. We are
not broad enough i'm our voca-
tions and in conversing with a
person a few minutes. you can
tell what he does. There is too
much shop talk. High specia|i-
cation is being made in every
vocation, as in surgery, railroad.
law, etc. Hard work and lots
of it makes any one a winner,
but there is no short course.
Third, concerted thinking.
Work at one thing and make a
success of it. If your heart
and soul are in your work and
you do it best, it is your great
est work.
Boys and girls should be kept
in school at least through the
four years of High School.
From q financial standpoint it
is better for them and he quoted
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