The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-19
THOMAS DIXON WILL
TALK THIS EVENING
Chautauqua Program Continues to
Draw Large Audlenoes-Zedoler
Symphonic Quintet Today.


There is only one Thomas Brook
Fletcher-that is to say. there can b,
only zone guch"-and he came int,
Pensacola yesterday began taking TIT
city soon after noon. when he was tn,
guest at joint meeting OF the XII
wants and Rotary club and completed.
captured 1t before the close of his leo
ture last night, when he talked on 1.-THE
Martyrdom of Fool"
Program Today.
Frank Dixon will be the speaker Of
this evening. delivering his lecture or
THE Indispensable Tools Of Democ.
racy." Mr.. Dixon Is a brother Of
Thomas H. Dixon, the author OF "Tht
Clansman," on which David WarI
Griffith founded 1.-THE Birth OF q Ma
ton, and is said to be even superior tc
his distinguished brother as lecturer
The afternoon entertainment will be
a grand concert by the zedeler Sym
phonic Quintet, and this company will
also appear this evening as a prelude
to the lecture.
Yesterdays Program.
The entire program yesterday both
afternoon and evening. was exception
ally fine, and few musical attractions
which will appear at the chautarqua
win surpass that Of yesterday, when
the Gretchen Cox company gave two
Of the most delightful entertainments
ever presented in the city.
Miss Cox as violinist, Is an ar
tiste Of great charm. and Miss Clio
Messner, pianist. is equally as gifted
A. N. Jones, baritone, pleased his audi
ences at both performances, and his
beautiful baritone voice was heard to
excellent advantage in the numbers he
gave.
Miss Cox Is one of the younger vio-
linists OF the country who is winning
laurels for herself, and has been COM
pared to the late Maude Powell in
power and expression.
Thomas Brooks Fletcher.
In the lecture given in Pensacola by
Thomas Brooks Fletcher was mint Of
good things which had been mined
from the experiences of the speaker
and transmitted into pure gold through
the alchemy OF daily living.
Mr.. Fletcher has that rare gift of
presenting the most ordinary expert
ences In most extraordinary way. He
takes the little every day happenings
that come into the daily lives OF all
of us, and through processes OF his
own brings them out as gems Of
thought, worth many times kings
ransom.
In his talk last night he paid a
wonderfully beautiful tribute to
woodrow Wilson, the great leader of
democracy, and also called attention
to the fact that 1t was thought at
a crucial period In the life OF President
Harding that changed the whole course
of his life and placed him in the white
house.
The power Of thought, the Influence
Of habit, were the background OF his
theme--thought, deed, habit, destiny.
Mr.. fletcher is kindly critic and
his wit is never barbed. And one thing
that stands out in his lecture is his
faith In human nature, his belief that
every man has a god within him" II
he will but call upon 1t.
He has faith. too. in the younger
generation, and called attention to the
fact that in spite OF all the criticism,
woman's dress today is the most SEN
sfble ever worn by ''the female Of the
species" He also stated that in spite
Of the reputed craze for jazz. that In
a high school in one of the great cities
of the country by "a voluntary vote
taken by the students, recently, 80 per
cent OF them voted against jazz mu+
sic in any form.
He believes in the boys and girls OF
today, Just as he does in the men and
women Of tomorrow, but he does not
think they are fool proof. He does not
think anybody or anything is fool
proof. 1.-The Martyrdom of Fools" Is
a great lecture by great man.