Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-21
OUR CHAUTAUQUA
OPENS JUNE IS.
Great Array of Talent secured for
the Decorah Chautauqr O. ro-
gram This Year, w
Opens Next .MOntho
BETTER GET YOUR
TICKETS EA, y
The Program Booklet With Con
plete Program With descriptive
Literature VIII be Out Soon

The Chautauqua committee an
nounces our chautauqua dates as
June 15 to 21. The Chautauqua pro-
gram this year, as in the past will
be built for, purpose and as the
keynote of the program last year
was the winning of the war. This
year it will be Reconstruction. !"
There will be plenty of music and
plenty of entertainment but this
thought will underlie the program.
Probably the most unusual fea-
ture on the program this year will
be Lieut.. A. J. (Andy) Nielsen "The
Flying Parson" in his lecture, PRO
blems of the Air." Lieut.. Nielsen
previous to the war was Methodist
minister who says that just because
he happened to be-a minister he did
not see any real reason why he
should let someone else do all the
fighting, so he enlisted in the avi-
alton branch of the service. He
proved to be an apt pupil and was
soon placed in the instruction divi-
sion and spent almost one year in
that department. He will make the
circuit in his plane and if the wea-
ther conditions are favorable will
probably make an exhibition flight
just before his lecture OF the pro-
gram. His machine will then be plac-
ed on exhibition at the tent where
it may be examined at the close of
the lecture.
Among other lecturers on the pro-
gram will be DR.. Lyman Powell,
former president of the Hobart col
lege, and one of the best known
writers and educators of the east
He was the first man chosen by the
government to go abroad and study
the effects of the war on education.
DIR. D. D. Vaughan a man who has
seen life from all angles will be an
other interesting character. Solely
by his own efforts he rose from a
newsboy on the streets of Chicago
to minister, occupying the pulpit
of one of the most aristocratic and
Influential churches of hfs dencmi-
nation in Chicago. He IS a clear
thinker, eloquent speaker and has
been constantly in demand for some
years past.
DR.. Jas. T. Nichols world traveller
will likewise appear. When DR..
Nichols approaches any problem he
views it very much from the same
angle as small boy watch. He has
to get on the inside and see how it
is made. Consequently, when the
United States entered the war. not
withstanding the fact that he had
visited Europe many times. he inn
mediately secured passports and dis
regarding the submarine menace,
made a trip to Europe. Not satisfied
with this, he made second trip in
the spring of 1918. Then when the
armistice was declared, he wanted
to get a close up view Of the after
war conditions and made the third
trip since we entered the war. and
just recently returned home. On the
last trip he had the good fortune of
attending the Peace Conference AMI
hearing President Wilson, Premiere
Clemenceau, Lloyd George and many
others of like note speak. There will
be several other speakers of promi-
nence on the program besides a
headline politician yet to be added
but space will not permit us &c men
ton them at this time.
The musical program will be head
ed by Ewings Overseas Military
Band, a band of war veterans, not
from any one regiment but chosen
for their musical ability from all
branches of the overseas service. The
Amphion Four, a first class male
quartet headed by r. B. Richards,
Welsh tenor, The Liberty Bells, q
singing orchestra composed of seven
vivacious American young ladies,
Mathisens Concert party headed by
Christen Mathisen, Norwegian tenor,
and Ignatus Tello, Brazilian violin
list, and the Royal We!sn Lady Sing
ors, Madam Hughes Thomas, one OF
the foremost musicians Of Wales,
leader and conductor
The purely enter,ninment num-
bers will include The iIenryc, mag
icians with program ahuck full Of
the latest in magic and mystery,
and just for variety, chalk talk,
sand pictures and The like, Then
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