The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-30
RESUME OF CHAUTAUQUA
AND THE VALUES OBTAINED
By FREMONT KUTNEWSKY

By FREMONT
Another chautauqua week has
come and gone, and left behind an
awakened desire for more of the food
of freedom, intellectual quickening.
Every number had it's interest and
nothing fell fiat. Each day the tent
was practically filled and each audi
ence went away with praise on its
lips.
The only negative feature of the
chautauqua this year was deficit
in the guaranteed sale Of season
tickets. Blame for this flies far and
wide, but the guarantors themselves
seem the most satisfied of all and
many signed up to bring back Eli
son-White next year just the same
and "pungled up" with smile.
One of the big contributing causes
of harmony and satisfaction all
round this time was the personality
of Director Don T. Orput, who never
harangued, but said many a good
mouthful of common sense talk,
whose enthusiasm did not droop
even when he was discouraged on
every hand by being told that Black
foot men would not sign again to
furnish the chautauqua to unappre-
ciative fellow citizens, and who over
came every idea of failure and signed
more guarantors than were on the
list before.
The first two nights were not so
largely attended as the later enter
tainments. The spirit grew. Mr..
Maybe injected good nature into a
big lesson in humanity, and Mr.. Fish
the second evening, put punch into
many a solid principle that smolders
inside all true Americans. And then
the crowds came out and filled the
tent, all anxious for the stimulation
to be had and the lessons to be
learned.
Judge Alden held everybody, even
the children, evidently, in trance OF
concentrated attention. when he
finished his lecture his audience was
leaning forward on the edge of its
chair and eagerly listening for more.
His output of good ideas seemed in
exhaustible. He spoke easily and
penetrated the flow of intellect with
enjoyable points of humor, pin pricks
that made the lessons go down
smoothly.
On the third night Blackfoot for
got any disappointment it may have
had over not getting brass band on
the program, for Paul Pereira and
his string quintet handed out reyel
of music such as has only too seldom
been offered out here Gin the sticks
The trouble with chautauqua Is its
cheapness. There is no doubt what
ever that we should all have got
more enjoyment and pride of sensa-
ton if we had paid $500 seat to
hear Pereira and his excellent play
ers. The tone of each instrument
was pure, the intonation clear, the
technique refreshing. 1t Is from
such concerts that young musicians
gain their greatest inspirations. The
successful ones in any art get there
by initiating artists. How else could
they know the finer points? 1t is
impossible to know good music with
out hearing it, and likewise to know
good performing without seeing it
done.
Pereira's skilful handling of the
violin must have been healthy and
valuable lesson to all embryo fiddlers
in the audience Wednesday evening.
His tremolo was so much restrained
and governed that sometimes it
seemed he depended entirely upon his
bow to produce the pure tones, like
the Germans do. In learning music
lessons help, but to hear good music
is equally essential.
Judge Bale put in a lot of good
ticks for education, as did also Miss
Bloomfield, who told of New Zealand s
high regard for careful training of
youth.
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Samaritans who go about the world
on chautauqua platform telling us
| how to do what we want to do.
Every man will admit that children
should be reared intelligently, kept
healthy and we'll educated. That
children should be seen and not
heard is a philosophy that has been
exchanged for another just as poor
that they should be allowed to grow
up like weeds in the garden without
let or hindrance.
We mean well, but we don't get
very far. Judge Bale and his kind
of men are out to put point in our
endeavors. Wanting to do something
for children is such a vague virtue
Consider the matter of health alone
most persons in this old world
true to we'll worn custom, just about
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