New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-23
ORIGINAL LECTURES
ON TIMELY TOPICS
MONTAVILLE FLOWERS FORE
MOST LYCEUM LECTURER OF
AMERICA.
PROBLEM SUBJECT
FOR FINAL NUMBER AT HIGH
SCHOOL.

Monday evening OF next week, Feb.
%, the fourth and final number of the
lecture course arranged by the Current
News Club, will be given at the High
School auditorium with Mr.. Montaville
Flowers in "Original Lectures on World
Problems.'' Mr.. Flowers is known from
one end of the country to the other as
one of Americas foremost lecturers, hold
ing the unique position of brilliant and
prominent success in two distinct fields of
lyceum work - Interpretation of classics
and American drama.
Being a Californian the Japanese pro-
blem is, of course, one in which Mr..
Flowers is especially interested and well
versed. In personal statement on that
situation he says:
''The Japanese problem is NOT local.
1t is national and universal. It affects
every one of you and all America s future.
It is powerful new-world movement
striking it's frontal tide against our west
ern coast. My residence there has i'm
pressed me with an array of facts of
which my travel everywhere teaches me
you are profoundly unconscious. I want
to tell you of them. This question re-
quires us to survey all the parallels of
history, to scrutinize' all the science Of
life and to evolve course Of action in
which every American citizen must parti-
cipate.
"Only few months ago, anti-alien
land legislation of the western states set
all the world to thinking. I try to set
in order the essential facts bearing upon
this problem, to interpret the position
the people of the western states have
taken upon it, to trace the mental pro-
cesses by which they have reached that
position and to show you, all, your vital
relation to the present status of the pro.
blem.
II summarize the federal laws and
court decisions, define the rights of aliens
present the bills and treaties in contro'
versy, answer the objections Japan has
made to them, and analyze the criticisms
which have sprung out of the sentiments
of the acadenicians and doctrinaires o.
our country.
"This but leads to the main theme
which is a study of the immutable laws
which control the hybridization of races
and a review of the inevitable results az
written in the long experience of men anc
nations Of the past. And all of this with
the hope that all Americans may see the
course we must pursue, and have courage
to pursue it"
With regard to his Life Lectures
Mr.. Flowers has this to say of thei
purpose: 81 do not want my audience tx
think Of me, or see me, but to think of my
drama and see the characters in it. It vii
not be what I shall do that will pleas,
but what they will experience in thoughts
that breathe and words that burn. W.
shall live together tonight in compan!
with all the men and women, good ant
bad, that make up great masterpiece
And when it is over, if succeed and m,
audience succeeds, we shall have turnet
piece of literature into real life, AM
, have traversed the realm Of the ideal, an.
have gained from it power to help, ant
, and love to do in the prosier moments o
the life tomorrow s.=,c.
At this time it is not definitely know
, which one of his lectures Mr.. Flowers vii
!; give in New Ulm but either is sure to b
well worth while. The admission fee
= IS; cents, but students Of the school
e have a special rate Of Is cents. s.