Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-07-20
To SPEAK ON China
DIR. Poole, Chautauqua Lecturer,
Has Spent Twenty-Five Years
in Orient.

The Chautauqua plans are beginning
to assume form.
Advertising will soon be distributed |
throughout the city and country about, !
and it is believed this will be most de-
lightful and most important event in the
summers activities.
Patriotic day, which is the first day of
the session, will bring in a great many
from outside, and the plans of the man
agement are to make this Patriotic day
program one that will long be remem-
bered
The music will be a big feature Of the
week A different musical company will
appear on each of the five days. These
include besides the SaXophone Singing
Band, the Hawaiian Singers and Players,
the Schubert Concert Party, the Royal
Marine Band and Wilfred the Lutte
Player
The music for the day, by the Saxo-
phone Singing Band, will be patriotic in
character, and the principal speaker, DR..
Lincoln Writ, will talk on THE Challenge
of the World to America" DR.. Writ has
been in the war zone in Europe and is
world traveller and student of information
al problems besides being lecturer of
wide prominence.
A big feature of the week is DR.. Fred
eric Poole, authority on things Chinese.
DR.. Poole is an Englishman, who has
spent nearly quarter Of century in
China. He went into China in the old
days when the Chinaman was stepped in
antipathy to the foreigner. 1t was in the
anti-foreign days. He acquired knowl-
edge of the Chinese language and lived
the life of Chinaman. He travelled into
the far interior of the empire and visited
places that heretofore had been untouch-
ed by the foreigner. He established a
hospital in the heart of China. In the
uprisings that followed the riots in the
Yangtse valley he lost his wife and child,
and, broken in health, returned to this
country, where for several years he en-
gagged in educational and sociological
work among the Chinese.
About this time China began to
awaken. Startling changes took place
one after the other. DR.. Poole says: AS
studied these changes I realized the po-
tential possibilities of a regenerated
China and determined to return again to
the land of my first love. Re enforced by
United States government Endorsements
and generously provided with letters Of
introduction from the Chinese legation,
| addressed to the vice-roys of China,
made an extensive tour of eight months
through the provinces of China as the
guest Of the various provincial viceroys.
AS a result | returned to the United
States with a wealth of information
which, together with descriptions ofChina
in her anti-foreign days, have put into
this Chautauqua lecture, An Evening in
China.
He is regarded as the greatest living
authority on China known to the lecture
platform. Not only is the information
he gives absolutely reliable and authorita-
tive, but the delightful racy character of
his presentation renders it extremely fas-
chatting
The season tickets will sell for S150
These will admit to all the ten sessions.
One of the most interesting PERSONAL
tiles in the lecture field is the lecturer
who is to be here on the last day of the
Chautauqua, DR.. T. Alex. Cairns, who is
coming to talk on "Humbugs and Moss
backs
DR.. Cairns is an Irishman, born in
Belfast And through the wanderlust of
my parents" he says, Il was brought to
America in babyhood, and ever since
have joined the chorus, My Country
'Tis Of Thee. "
lie has three degrees from Uncle Sam s
big kindergartens scrawled at the end of
his name, and he spent four years at the
head of large boys school in Japan. He
may be classed as broad Drained hui
manitarian."
Ex-Governor Robert B. Glenn of North
Carolina says of him; He talks with
clearness and conviction, pathos and elo-
quence. | have spoken from the same
platform with him number of times"
He has an unusual mastery of Eng
fish, his Irish wit flashes like meteor,
and his lectures bristle with epigram."
These expressive terms have been used of
him by his admring friends in describing
| his work