The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-06
CHAuTAUQUA TENT
USED FIRST time
SINCE STORM
Good Audiences Afternoon and
Evening
DIRECTOR PEARSON'S LECTURE
Day and Evening Program Consisted
Of Concert, Two Lectures and
Moving Pictures.


Audiences of about GOO and 1000
respectively attended the programs
OF the local Chautauqua Thursday
during the afternoon and evening en-
tertainments. 1t was impossible to
prepare the tent for the afternoon on
account OF the damage done by the
wind and rain and the Chautauqua
was again held in the high school
hall, but the evening program was
given in the Chautauqua tent at Nor
gan park. Two concerts by the Iiac-
kett-Florence Trio, a lecture by DR..
Turner on "A Plea for Unity" lee
ture by Paul NJ Pearson on "Who is
Great?", and motion pictures portray
ing the story of the Odyssey were
the numbers on Thursdays programs
which made the third day of the
Chautauqua enjoyable.
The excellent and artistic program
by the Hackett-Florence Trio in the
afternoon drew many to the tent in
the evening where another inspiring
concert was heard. The lIackett-
Florence Trio is made up of Miss Al
berta Florence, violinist, Constance
Freeman Hackett, pianist and ac-
companist, and Arthur IIackett, ten
or.
The lecture by DIR. Paul NJ Pearson
director of the Chautauqua, given in
the form OF a lecturerecital was en-
titled who is Great?' The force
and beauty of the eloquence OF the
orator was brought home to the aud
ience in DR.. Piersohs expression of
the messages that The worlds liter
speaker opened his address with tie
inquiry as to what class of men are
considered great in America, con-
trasting the names of those found in
the annals of history with those
found in Americas Hall of Fame.
From the former source, it appears
that the great men have all been eth
er presidents, sailors or soldiers but
from the latter source, it is found
that the names of teachers, invent
ors, preachers, reformcrs, and auth
ors have been chosen as exemplifying
the greatest men and women in
America Dr. Pierson went ON to ex-
plain the reasons for which these
people have been chosen, the four
greatest being for service, work,
courage and cheerfulness.
1t was declared that "it was not the
business Of the town to put boy on
the map but it was the business of
the boy to put his town on the map"
Throughout the address, DR.. Turner
gave many recitations in his forceful
manner which portrayed the beauty
of work and what constitutes real
man. Some of the authors who were
quoted by the speaker were Shakes
peare, Joaquin Miller, Kiping. Frank
son and Ben King, There arc two kinds
of laziness. too lazy to begin and. too
lazy to stop, one form being as
dangerous as the other.
DIR. Pierson laid especial stress
upon the element of cheerfulness in
the character of a great man, saying
that it was even easier to make sac
rillces than to always be cheerful. 1t
is the duty of each man to so de-
velop himself physically, mentally,
morally and spiritually, as to be able
to make his efficiency count 100 per
cent. In this development, cheer
fulness plays an important part, it
being "a fountain from which flows
| many of our virtues"
At the conclusion of Dr. Pearson's
address, two reels of motion pictures
were shown dealing with Homer's
story of the Odyssey and the wander
ings of Ulysses.
In the afternoon entertainment,
which was held in the high school
nall, DR.. Turner maintained Lis abili-
~ as an interesting and convincing
speaker in able address, the sub
ject being "a Plea for Unity
Throughout the talk the speaker urg-
ed the awakening of a social ccnsc-
enceness of which the two greatest
elements are a closer relationship
with ones neighbors and IN interest
in all movements which tend toward
the public welfare. The people must
awaken to the realization of The
economic waste which is taking place
in the country and remedy the lack
of thrift which is the cause of almost
criminal poverty. To do this, it is
necessary for us to think, not as indi-
viduals but as state, and as ma
ton. Dr.. Turner said that we must