The Dermott news., 1919-09-04
Radcliffe Chautauqua Program
 1919

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 Final preparations are under way for the opening of our Chautauqua The dates for Dermott's three day in- spirational community meet are Sept. 15-16-17.
 Cooperating with the Radcliffe Chautauqua System, the local organ izers of this educational movement are arranging for a rousing time with twelve events on the Program. Enter tainment numbers of the first quality are to be combined with features illus trative of the great central theme of this years program Education for every American child
 The quickened spirit of democracy preparing for the dawn of new era embraces Education as the only road to future progress. Embarking on crusade for real education and stalking it's success on the finer and more joyous things of life. the Radcliffe Ghautauqua and 1t local co-operators invite the whole community to make Dermott the dymatic center for three days
 The Columbia Male Quartet has an enviable record in entertainment and musical circles and comes with the confidence and prestige of many sue cessful engagements. This group of players will open the first day Chautau- qua program in the afternoon with spirited presentation of popular musi- cal numbers. and will give an entirely different entertainment at night.
 The Porter Co. group of cultured musicians and entertainers. will give double program on the second day. afternoon and night A certain intel. lectual tone will be found in even their lighter numbers. but the spirit of joy #ousness will not be lacking This or ganization of skilled artists k prjmari= ly one of tnstrumeutalists cornet. fugei horn. violin and piano but 1t also makes strong appeal with its vocal offerings
 The Mozart Co. is an organization of strings, two vioins. a cello and I pianist But the individual instrumeu tai offerings and the ensembles do not exhaust tue versatile capacities of this company of attractive women musi= clans. One of the Mozarts is reader of uncommon quality and each of the group contributes her dramatic vocal bit to the whole
 Dr. Herbert feaelI broad. eloquent keen, analytica constructive the master of 5000 audiences. will give the opening afternoon lecture on The Lamp of Aladdin. This lecture will be remembered long after the khaki tent has departed There will be stimulated brains and aroused emotion before he has finished with hi. graphic picture of the achievements of the trained minds of the world His eve hing subject, The Greatest Thing That Men May Know, will promote ideals of true education. not of the hands alone. nor yet of the head only. but also of the heart
 The marshal of this educational crusade will be the Ghautauqua Direc- tor, MT. Jos L. Thompson. who. on the night of the second day, will carry the central theme to practical level under the topic The Problem of The Unprepared The Director will in ject fresh elements into social life and. Tn snappy. live-wlre phrases. awaken us to the backward conditions of American life. His third night topic will be Pushing Back The Horizon Individual, Home. Community. fertile subject that invites eloquence and imagery but that affords also valuable basis for objective instruc- ton in ideals
 Of particular significance will be the lecture on Home Making" and the conference on The House Around The Corner" by Mrs. Jessie W. Cross. the Radcliffe Woman Specialist in Home Engineering on the afternoon of the second day
 Mrs. Lydia H Breaux, overseas veteran, especially assigned to this educational work by the American Red Cross, will lecture on the after noon of the third day on The Red Cross-A Record And A Prophecy. and will hold an instruction conference on Home Care Of The Sick 'i