The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-06-15
Good Program For
1922 Chautauqua
Seven Days, With Thirteen Different Entertainments. No
Program On Tuesday, June 9th

as pastor of one Of the largest church
es in Ithaca, New York, where each
week ne breaches to a large audience
of Cornell students. Previously he
was pastor OF one OF the large church
es of Chicago. DR.. Hardin Is a pro-
found student, a sane thinker and is
possessed of unusual platform ability.
His subject is America and the Inter-
national Mind"
Abel Cantu comes to us from Mexi-
co, l~ecturing on Mexico and the Mexi-
cans"
Frank Waller Allen, author and edi-
torial writer, lectures on "As a Man
Thinks"
This year as usual. C~hautauqua GO
ers are asking themselves, What
shall we do with the children?" and
happily the problem seems to have
been solved in advance quite effective
ly. or course, our boys and girls will
find a lot to enjoy in the adult Chau-
tauqua program, but something spec
ial has been planned for them by
Frank G.. Armitage, entertainer, whose
program divides fairly between the
youngsters and the grown-ups. Mr..
Armitage Is a fine ventriloquist and
Johnny" furnishes rich fun for all
the youngsters. Other parts OF MIR.
Armitage's program will especially
appeal to children. For the grown
ups, Mr.. Armitage has high standing
as an ~impersonator of Dickens fam
BUS characters.
This year a special Junior Chautau-
qua, with a tent and fence of its own
will provide fun for the Youngsters
and at the same time give them splen-
did opportunities for self improve
ment. There will be a Junior Direct
or who will give the Juniors a novel
and very attractive course I'm Musical
Appreciation. In this all the children
will learn TO enjoy music. Then to-
ward the close OF the Chantauqua
there will be a music memory contest
and recognition given to those who
car remember all Of he selections
that arc played. The Juniors will
also give a short program on the clos
ing night.
All In all, this years Chautauqua
program makes an excellen impress
sion, and the best of II is, II Impress
es US not SO much with the fine things
1t promises to bring as with the fine
things 1t promises to leave behind.
When the tent and seats and parapher
MALTA ard performers are loaded into
their long train OF autos-this sum-
mer's Chautauqua goes by gasoline
and when the town is left to resume
its customary pursuits, then comes
the real test of the whole affair. What
good did IL do? What remains? Any
thing lasting? Anything more valu-
able than pleasant memories? We
predict that among the benefits re-
naming will be a broader outlook on
world affairs, a quickened aspiration
toward righteousness, and a deeper
response TO great music, which In it.
self il refining and ~ennobling and a
permanent delight.
Later on, we shall perhaps have
more to say abs1t these charming
lessons in musical appreciation.
They are for grown-ups as well as
children. Their results will he last
ing. All our livep we shall get more
pleasure and more upIift from music
because Of what the course has reveal
ed to us.
This sounds like taking our Chat
tauqua pretty seriously, and the truth
is, we do take 1t seriously. While II
is OF the same time a lark, a festival
and a vacation and a eason of laugh
ter and sociability and general good
feeling 1t is u%ndeniably educational.
Just for the fun there It In 1t, we
would welcome the Ch%autauqua. But
the fun is, well not the least of its
attractions, though certainly an attrac
ton overshadowed by interests far
more important. However, we are not
pressing the point. Having watched
our people attend the Chautauqua for
a number of years, now, we rather
guess they will be there anyhow, sea-
son tickets In hand.