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CULTURE.
The English Chautauqua might start| at the delicately educated town of Fun- ITS bridge Wells A huge. tent would be erected in some plearing demostie-in the United States the font is, if pos rible, pitched in a triangle between two railways, and stentorious breathing of engines, shunting wagons goes on durs ing the time you are talking--and “thr young and other ladies of Tunbridge, Walls would flock to hear Mr. Alfred Noyes recite his own poema at 11 to listen to Mrs. Philip Spowden on When Women are Trumpa at :3 p.m., and crowd at 8 pm to enjoy Mr. G. K Chesterton an "The Philosophy of the Village Pub, "
[BY SIR JOHN FORTER YEASER.}
The late Willian Jennings Bryan was an acquaintance of mine,All the news papers have beer telling about his pro test against mankind being crucified on a cro-s of gold--naturally, as he reject ed the Darwinian theory of evolution -how thrice the citizens of the United States despised and rejected his en- deavour to become President, and that{* he had a silver tongue. But little has been said about him being the greatest Chautauqua merchant that ever carried the torch of "uplift" through ten thou
Band lesser towns of America.
CHANGING OVER.
The next day this trio would do in Ril over again in a similar tent at Can terbury, whilst their places at Tun- bridge Wells would be taken by Mr. William Le Queux on "Why I Hate During four brailing summers falsa Germans," Miss Sybil Thorndike on WAS Chautauqua merchant. Each of Shakespeare as a Sedative," and Mr." those four summers I travelled all over J. H. Thomas, .P., on "I were that land, from Florida to Wisconsin, Dictator." When the Noyes Showden- and from Massachusetts to Iowa, with Chesterton party has moved to Whit one speech and swg shirts For six stable and the La Queur-Thorndike weeks I alternated with Mr. Bryan. Thomas trio are at Canterbury, an Papers like the Toledo Blade and the other three are occupying the canvas' Drawha Bee usually described my per university at Tunbridge Wells-and so formance na
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A GREAT SCHENE
Bryna's rolling periods were an in-At the end of the seventh day Tun spirational address. He received unbridge Wells will probably be fed up indifferent a week for two speeches a day, and I with high, medium, and had to be content with £120 a week for browism, and the Chautauqua will end one speech each evening. He spoke with a few wall-chosen words from the about the sins of America, and I con- mayor. The tent will be wrapped up fined myself to the politics of Europe, and hastened, with all the expedition of which the Southern Railway in master. to Eastbourne, ready on the eighth day Whenever I mention. Chautauqua of the tour to receive the aforesaid (Shaw-taw-kwa) to English friends they Noyes-Snowden-Chesterton group, who screw up their faces and ask how it during the intervening days have been is spelt. When they inquire what it elevating Hargate, patronising Folke means I explain that it is an Indiaaone, instrueting Rye, and esusing a bigger futter in Hastings than there has the word signifying a sack tied in middle: Then I expand with a declara. been since à notorious scrimmage in the tion that Chautauqua is the greatest neighbourhood some time ago. The day scheme for intensive education the world after Tunbridge Wells closes down Can- has ever seen--and that mystifies them. terbury does the same, and the tent and In thousands of American burgs Chau Crew make haste to be ready at Hay- tanqua is the event of the year. Main wards Heath for the first three when street flutters with pennons Shops are they arrive laden with the enthusiaan of
Eastbourne. - closed because everybody has gone Chautauqua Chautauqua laste three, five, or seven days.
Chautauqua gees racandering all over So, playing a sort of leap-frog, the the land, and possibly finishes in North, Wales at Criccieth when 10 eminent politician says a few words education of the masses.
on the
AMERICAN AUDIENCES. In America the distances are much further, the "jumps, as we used to call them, sometimes being several hundreds of miles. I have, seven nights a week, spokep for nineteen weeks on end.
Of course, I was on the souven days' premier de luxe Chautauqua circuit During those seven days each town had three addresses or speeches or messages or inspirational addresses a day- twenty-one in all A season ticket for the lot cast two dollars and a ball, 85 10 8d.. One night as 1 left the "university tent" at Mankato, Minn.. one, farmer said, to another in regard to my message. I would not have miss ed that talk for a million dollars," "Yes, siree" ssid the other, "it was worth the price of the entire ticket!"
Chautangus is a little lake in New York State where Americans go holiday. making. Old Bishop Vincent, Methodist, hit upon the idea of getting famous in the Middle West are as like as cons falk, whom the holiday-makers had only read about and seen pictures of to come to Chautauqua and do some uplift talking. It was a great idea. Ameri cans rushed to hear popular preachers as we rush to watch popular pricketers
American audiences listen well, and if you tell them "America is the greatest. land on earth they appland vociferous ly. They are keen to learn. People will come long ways in their "tin lizdies," over ribbon-like concrete roads, to hear. I have spoken in a small town-all towns
of 1,700 population and had an audience of over 2,000, for the farmers and their families had driven in from tweaty miles round.
To get a crowd like this, the men in their shirtalerves and the women fanning themselves and chewing gum, to sit in a temperature of 104 Fabrezbeit whilst a perspiring Britisher, with n wilted collar, was explaining the hectic part religion plays in Balkan politics, was wonderful and the sight of 400 glaring automobiles all. trying to make for home at the same time was spectacle never to be far gotten.
SIX LECTURES A DAY. Huge lecture-halls, to bold as many people as the Albert Hall, had to be erected. Sixty thousand people attend ed for weeks on end, and they had choice of six lectures a day-lwb in the morning, two in the afternoon, and
I was often asked if the Chantauqua two after supper. The President of the United States blessed the noble work of would be a success in the smaller town Chautauqua, the greatest educational of England. I didn't think, so, but 1 work the world had ever seen; charac- never told the Americans the real reason. teristically worthy of God's own coun- The smaller towns of England don't want try.
to be uplifted-London Evening Stan
But all people could not go to Chaudri tauqua. So the Chautauqan was taken to
the people. That was the idea of PAPER PULP FROM BAMBOO.
little friend of mine-Mr. Keith Vawter,
THE INDIA TARIFF BOARD'S
PROPOSAL
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Why shouldn's every town have its own Chautauqua ? "Give me a guarantee of $2,500," said Keith Yawter to the people in each
The Indian Tarif Board have made re- community, and I'll give you a week commendations for the investigation of of cracker jack, peppy uplift.. I' the possibility of the creation of an bring to you worth-while men and extensive manufacture of paper palp from
women, folk of renown, and your lovely bamboo.”
city will be right on the map of high They lay stress on the steady diminu toned culture.' They gobbled. Keith tion of the world's supplies of coniferous Vawter has had imitators. This summer woods and the increasing demand, and eight thousand towns are having Char point out that, as paper-making material tauqua: twenty-four thousand sperchis!
On the circuits which I travelled from wood becomes increasingly exper- there were over a hundred performers: sive, dearer paper is inevitable. It has senators, preachers, travellers, singers, been proved possible, the Board say, to musicians and just talkers. The most make excellent paper from bamboo, and popular sort of lecture, as Koit they therefore recommend, that the Gov Tawter once told me, is that which ernment should provide the capital to en made the audience feel good, "of the able the existing India Paper Pulp Com mother, home and Hearen type-for pany to increase its output from, 2,500 to Americans are a sentimental" people. sund tons yearly.
A travelling Chautauqua is like a The Board further recommend that ju Barnum and Bailey, Lord George place of the existing 15% ad valoranı Banger circus, only more so; for whereas duties on printing and writing paper, the circus has one big tent, the Chau there should be a specific duty of one taaqua circuit must have eight or nine anna [id] per lb. on writing paper and to keep the mighty educational forum ll printing paper, other than newsprint, of the people perambulating, each in containing fo per cent, or more of me- charge of an idealist, and the men who chanical pulp. They consider that the put up and pull down the tente are all
college boys. One year I spoke in 133 Prospect, of the development of a con- towns on 13 nights or tried to for aiderable export trade in bamboo pulp sometimes there were storms and rivers is remote, since several years, will be re- rao, through the tent, and once, "in quired to reduce the cast to 220 rupees Tennessee, the whole thing was torn into|[£14 133, 4d.] per ton, the price at which ribbons by a tornado.
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