The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-30
Interest Renewed In
Chautauqua Movement
Georges Clemenceau Addresses
Gathering at Washington -
Harding Sends Message.

Washington, d. c., Dec. 26.-World-
wide interest was renewed in the Ly-
ceum and Chautauqua movement by
the Lecturers Conference on Public
Opinion and World Peace called by
the International Lyceum and Chau-
tauqua Association at Washington, d..
c. M. Georges Clemeneeau, war pre-
mier of France, was The principal
speaker at the second days session of
the conference, making his only for
mai appearance in the nations capital
before the large gathering of Lyceum
n ~Chautauqua representatives, COM
mitteemen, lecturers, educators, diplo-
mats and statesmen assembled in
Continental Memorial Hall, which
comparatively recently had housed
the delegates to the Arms Conference.
The sessions of the Conference
were opened Friday by Charles T..
Horner, of Kansas City, who after
paying a tribute to the leadership of
DIR. Paul M. Pearson, President Of the
Association and chairman of the COM
mittee which had made the arrange
ments for the Conference, sounded the
keynote of the assembly when he
said, 1--WE are here to learn
ffIlllC T1OdSC oiCStS SOitClCIiSCs
In a 30O-word message TO the open
ing session of the conference, Presi
dent Harding recalled his own service
upon the chautauqua platform, and
paid the platform like compliments
to those expressed by his predeces-
sors, President Roosevelt, Taft and
Wilson. at has been to me a person
al satisfaction stated President Har
ding, "to be numbered among the lee
turers who have carried the message
of ch%autauqua throughout the coun-
try. The time has long since passed
when there could be any doubt of
~chautauqua's service. Chautauqua,
along with the great lyceum move
ment, has served to reveal the indi-
vidual American community to itself
at its best"
Referring more especially to the
lecturers conclave before which his
message was read, the President
caught a vision which led him to
state that the conference of intellect
and authority which you have brought
together suggests a certain parallel
to the intellectual movements in
which the universities Of Europe were
founded, and in which the renaissance
of learning and humanism had its be
ginning.
clemanceau Visit Significant.
Even in staid old Washington, with
its historic traditions, rarely has there
assembled such a notable audience as
convened for NJ. C~lemenceau's address
to the lyceum and c%hautauqua forces,
on the conferences second day. Off
cial and social life of the national
capital seemed there en- masse. al
though the days honors were being
shared with the President in the per-
sonal delivery of his message to Con
gress.
On the platform with Frances war
premier was the House committee IN
foreign affairs. Speaker Gillette of
the House, the staff of the French
embassy. with Ambassador and Nine.
J%usserand, and Gen. Tasker II. Bliss,
who presented the Tiger" Others
in Continental Hall included Senator
Wadsworth, member of the Senate
foreign relations committee; Senator
Spencer, of Missouri; Senator Reed,
of Pennsylvania; Senator Walsh, of
Massachusetts; Ambassador Pezet, of
Peru; General John f. O'Ryan, who
pitN ipholN ldu dAul tSotd ltlt Nbll1A-
enee: William G. Redield. secretary
OF commerce during the Wilson adj
m-inistration Assistant Secretary of
War Wainwright; John Barton Payne,
president of the American Red Cross;
Henry M%Orgenthau, former ambassa.
dor to Turkey; Representative Mon
dell. majority floor leader in the
House; Breckenridge Long. third as
sistant secretary of state; Henry
White. former ambassador to France.
with whom Clemenceau stopped while
in Washington. the week of the lee
turers' conference.
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