The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-01
CHAUTAUQvZ
OPENS WEDNESDAY
BROOkINGS CHAUTAUQUA CON-
MENcEs JULY 7 AND CON-
TINUES TO JULY ID
GEN. LAFAYETTE YOUNG HERE JULY 10
This Years Program is a Good One and
Contains Some Splendid Talent
Some of the Attractions

The Brookings c~hautauQua will be
opened next Wednesday evening by
Maude Scheerer and her ~Shakespear-
ian Players, and it will continue until
the following Wedne sday evening, Civ
ing fifteen double programs.
The program this year looks like a
strong n and it will compare favor
ably with any of the programs of past
years.
The programs will be given as form
erly in the fair grounds pavilion. Prof.
B. Roland Lewis will be platform SUI
perintendent.
A special feature this year will be a
series of health lectures to be given
On July IL, 13 and IA, by Mrs. Louise
Mcintyre and Miss Margaret Hall.
These lectures will be given in the
morning and will be free to all season
ticket holders. These ladies have ap-
peared at the biggest chautauquas in
the country with success and Brook
ings ladies may be assured of a treat.
The headliner this year is General
LATE Young, the we'll known Iowa
newspaper man and politician and ex-
United States senator from that state.
Mr.. Young recently returned from a
trim fhrC,ruh tho E,,ronaon NOV ,nyr
tries, where he visited the battlefronts
and also interviewed the leading men
of the nations at war, and he will have
a story of much interest. When he lee
tured at his home town of Des Moines
just after his return he was greeted by
an audience of 10000 people. He will
lecture here Saturday afternoon, July
10.
Following is information about some
of the other leading numbers:
DR.. Albert Wiggam's popular presen-
tations of highly technical subjects has
scientific men "Heredity' and ecu
genics" are words now on everybody's
lips, yet the average man has but a
vague notion what either word really
means. By means of a wonderful ar
ray of lantern slides, Mr.. Wiggam pre-
sents the main great facts of the New
Heredity. H~eredity is the most fascin-
ating subject that has ever engaged
the mind of man. It's experimental
study is scarcely ten years old. No
man on the platform has mastered it
in all it's bearings more completely
than Mr.. Wiggam. He has collected
all the leading literature of heredity
in the world. Only the borderland has
been explored. But ~stupendous facts
have emerged. The race that applies
them first will dominate all future his
tory. Why have nations persisted ?
Why is there no great man today in
Spain, in Italy, in Greece, in North
Africa, in Western Asia? Why is the
old American stock dying out? The
biologist alone knows why.
Perhaps the greatest contribution of
the Ch%autauqua Movement to the pro-
gress of our civilization has been in
the distribution of frst-hand and au-
thentic information on the live and
vital topics of the day by the leaders
of thought and action through the per
canal n1Irncc frNv, &c v1nffNrp, 70 tho
thinking men and women of our coun-
try. Thus a wise and safe public
opinion" has been fostered. For this
purpose there is no better medium
than the debate, for thus both sides
are presented by worthy advocates and
public opinion is left to crystalline.
Such is the purpose of the chautauqua
management this year in presenting
Hon. Carl D. Thompson and Hon. Lee
Francis Lybarger in debate on the
topic, Resolved: That Socialism is
desirable for the United States"
Russell H. Conwell, president of the
Temple University and pastor of the
Baptist Temple, Philadelphia. justly
deserves the title he bears, "The Most
Popular Preacher and Lecturer in
America" He has been before the
public constantly for ffty-four years
and in that time has addressed the
greatest number Of people of any
American past or present. His Acres
Of Diamonds" alone has been delivered
more than FIVE thousand times, the
FIVE thousandth delivery being fttingly
celebrated on May 21st. 1914, at the
Academy Of Music, Philadelphia. There