Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-10-14
"DINNIE" UPTON.
Remarkable Character will be Heard
in Ellsworth This Week

Remarkable Character will be Heard
in Ellsworth This Week
How would you like to be known
and loved by more children than any
one else on earth? That is what mas
often been said of Captain T. Dins-
more Upton, known all up and down
the Pacific Coast States, all over
Western Canada clear up to the
Alaska boundary line, and all over
New Zealand, as plain "Dinnie" Up
ton.
It is a strange hold that Captain
Upton gets on people. He reaches
the children through their parents,
and parents through the children.
He probably knows more boys and
girls personally than any other man
in America to-day. Yet "Dinnle'
linton is not a preacher; neither is ne
a juvenile Judge; nor is he doctor
he simply reaches out, gets hold OF
the heart strings of children and pa
rents alike. And the results whlch
follow him wherever he speaks are
tangible and lasting.
Captain Upton comes from MusKe-
gon, Michigan. He was educated at
the Muskegon high school and later
at Olivet college. In 1912, he be-
came director of athletics at Grand
Rapids, remaining there a little less
than five years, during which time
his teams won championships in all
branches of athletics. 1t was there
that his wonderful hold and influence
over the young folks first became
noticed by outside people and or
CARNATIONS.
CAPTAIN Upton directed the ply
steal training for 10000 men in the
army. At Camp Gordon, Atlanta,
Georgia, he spent considerable time
training officers for this branch OF
the service. Later he took an ex-
animation and was. commissioned in
the air service. Still later he was
sent into the northwest as a labor
mediator, and it was here that ne
first attracted attention as remark
ably gifted public speaker.
One has to hear "Dinnie" Upton to
fully appreciate the sheer power OF
his eloquence. In the first place ne
is natural born leader, young it Is
true. and yet he makes the deepest
impression with his audiences. At
the last convention of International
Lyceum Association, attended by
leading lecturers from all over the
United States and Canada he ap-
peared on the platform, practically
unknown to eastern people. Before
he had talked ten minutes he audi
ence was wrapped in attention and
the applause which greeted his ad-
dress was most enthusiastic. The
East Immediately turned it's eye on
| "Dinnie" Upton.
REGAIN LIFE WITH THE GANG.
Captain Upton's personal expert
ences with boys and girls began when
he was one of the gang" in Muske-
gon, Michigan. Later he became a
big brother to the street urchlns OF
the town and studied their problems,
their games, their haunts and assocl-
atoms. 1t was here that he first
realized the necessity of clean, whole
some recreation. He emphasizes the
necessity of teaching the child to CO.
ordinate the operation of muscles
and brain. He believes that 1t Is
much less expensive to care. for the
growing youngster by providing
, clean, wholesome, recreation. and by
winning his confidence, than to care
for the boy and girl later in the
house of correction. Later in the
army he applied this same theory and
found that the grown-up boys
responded in just the same way as
| did the younger ones.
| He possesses a radiant dominant
personality, and his audiences in
stinctively warm toward him. 1t is
when this feeling of comradeship has
been thoroughly established and the
audiences have taken "Dinnie" into
their confidence that he opens uI
with all his guns and drives home
some convictions that sink deep into
the hearts of his hearers-and YET
the audiences love Captain Upton fol-
reminding them of the things ne
mentions. They love him for his en-
thusiasm, for his fine character, fol
his ideals, for his mistaken convic
ton and for his generous service in
big work on one of Americas big
gest problems-the problems OF th<
boy and girl.
Capt. Upton will be in Ellsworth
this week, with Swarthmore Chau
tauqua.