The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-11-30
EVOLUTION FASC|.
MATING. SUBJECT
Pres. Little of Univer-
sity of Maine Speaks
Federated Meeting oi Woman'S Club,
SoroSiS and Town Improvement
Society Tuesday Night

The Federated meeting of the three
women clubs of SkoWhegan, the
Woman's Club, Sorosis and Town In
provcncm Society WAS held Tuesday
evening in the Federated Church with
DR.. Clarence Cook Little president of
The University of Maine, as the lee
turer. The lecture was given in the
auditorium which was prettily decor
ated with pine and berries. A mum
Der of young club women, two from
each Of the organizations, acted as
ushers, Mrs. II. c. Woodbury., Mrs.
Granville Reed, Mrs Robert Green,
Mrs. r. c, Tucker, Mrs. S. NJ. Cover
and Miss Leila E. Fairbrother serving
in this capacity. While the members
and their guests were arriving music
was furnished by Mrs. Il. b. Weston,
organist and Mrs. +. G. Nye, pianist.
NJ IS Violet Allan sang two selections,
with piano accompaniment by Mrs. X.
l.. Marston and Mrs. Florence Waugh
Danforth president of the Town I'm
provement Society. presided. Mrs
Danforth greeted the audience in be-
half of the three clubs, speaking Of
the successful federated meeting of
last Eear and referring to President
Little as having sacred trust, that
of guarding the young people sent
out from the homes of their parents
TO be protected by him President
Little, who is perhaps the youngest
college president in the world, has IA
most engaging personality and pres
cnted a very able address upon "Eoylu-
ton giving his listeners many new
ideas on the most interesting of to-
pics. He said Evolution was rot a
new idea and that it didn't beg With
Darwin. nor even with his grandfather.
who was extremely interested in cyolu-
ton. He pointed out his theories of
life from the lowest to the higaeSt.
touching upon the matter from geo
logical standpoint. He then took up
the development of the higher animals
periods from the microscopic period
To the development of reasoning pow
ers. He illustrated evolution by the
growth of our own bodies and cXplOd
ed the theory that many believed Dar-
win held, that man sprang from the
monkey. lie did believe that man
and monkey were the two living crca-
tions nearest alike aud that they may
have developed from the same source,
but that source may have been en-
tirely unlike either result. His COM
parison of animate and inanimatc OBJ
iccts was most fascinating, showing
the difference AS he did between the
living and non-liging and the reason
ing and non-regsonig He also touch
ed on the spiritual powers, saying that
our reasoning powers will never ex-
plain the spiritual and added that
our job on earth was to put ourselves
in a position 50 that spiritual forces
might utilize us.
At the conclusion Of the address,
Miss Allan sang two more selections
very beautifully and tho club ladies
with their gentlemen and guests re-
paired to the parlors Whcrc very de-
licious refreshments Of ices, fancy wa
fers aud nuts were served under the
direction Of Miss Gertrude S. Weston
from the Town Improvement Society.
Mrs. Annie 2, Hackett from the Wo-
mans club and Mrs. G. l.. Conant from
the Sorosis, assisted by other club
ladies'