New Britain herald., 1927-07-09
LAZY MAN DOING HIS DUTY.
 CHAUTAUQUA LECTURER SAYS
Dr. Vaughan Declares Leisure Is Preventive of Many Bodily Ills-Makes Plea for Mothers.

A note of warning against over work in this fast age was sounded in no uncertain terms by Dr. David D. Vaughan. professor of social service in Boston University, speak ing in the Chautauqua tent at Wal nut Hill park yesterday afternoon on the subject The Right to Be Lazy" After vividly describing the frequent results of too much work and too little rest. saying that colds and other physical ailments. nervous breakdowns and moral breakdowns were thus caused, Dr. Vaughan made strong plea for reasonable amount of leisure for everyone. He said that it is not only mans right to be lazy, but 1t is his duty to be lazy.
 "We need rest-plenty of rest said the speaker. There are moth- CTS who have never had | rest. They are never separated from the chill dren and have never been all their lives. A woman once said that she had a big family and that because of the family she was compelled to go to work-she's in the cemetery and the family has no mother. In these days mothers should have a chance for recreation. Baking bread in these days is waste of time. Today bakeries bake better bread thaA any woman can bake and when they don't there is some thing wrong. Mothers and fathers need their reserve strength so that they will not fly off the handle"
 Diagnoses Social Ills
 What ails our youth today?" ;pointedly asked the Boston profess sor. One of the chief ailments he said is that the girl has a mother who does not know how to help her. We are living in new world now and the mothers need leisure time to enable them to understand 1t. The kind of mothers needed today as never before. are those that are tactful. kind. patient and under standing"
 Dr. Vaughan then went on to say that there is a spiritual reason why man has right to be lazy. When a man has been drudge all his life 1t is hard for him to think of God. When he has worked 365 days in the year how else can he be anything but mean and ugly?
 Man cannot do his best work when he is overworked. Engineers have compiled statistics on this point and they agree that there is increased production when men have had their time for rest and leisure. There is less labor turnover and fewer indus trial accidents. There also results a better spirit of cooperation, de- clared the speaker. He spoke of the new attitude toward labor and time spent at work in Henry Ford's plant of an eight hour day and five day week. Human justice demands that man should share in the benefits that labor produces. he said.
 Machinery Means Leisure
 In closing. Dr. Vaughan told how machinery has come into use in in- dustry and elsewhere with the result that people have more time for leisure. He said that no person has g. right to be a parasite. Leisure is good and 8 necessary thing. but we must learn to use it construc- lively. We must do something for the town that we are all interested in, and our energies in leisure hours must be used to help build lip our manhood and our womanhood."
 Following the lecture three-reel moving picture of the life and work of Thomas Edison was shown.
 In the evening the attraction was the comedy "The Patsy" which was enc of the best plays that has ever been seen on the Chautauqua or any other stage. The audience was held spellbound from start to finish, and to say that all enjoyed the play im- mensely is stating the fact mildly. The six members of the cast showed themselves real artists.
 Between acts. Arthur kimball spoke briefly of the benefits of Chau- tauqua and expressed his hope that Chautauqua would return to New Britain next year. Opportunity was again given and many additional tickets for next years Chautauqua were signed for.
 w. c. French in appropriate re- marks presented prizes to five boys and girls who had sold the largest number of tickets.