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Show ROTARY CLUBS TO BE HOST AT BIG LECTURES 300 Young People from Six High Schools Coming to Provo. High school students? from Lincoln, Lin-coln, Pleasant Grove, Springville, Spanish Fork, Payson and Provo will be in attendance at the lecture to be given at the Utah stake tabernacle taber-nacle Monday forenoon at 10 o'clock by Dr. Charles E. Barker under the auspices of the Provo Rotary club. The students of the Lehi and the American Fork high schools have also been invited but definite word has not as yet been received from them whether or not they will be present. The address to be given by Dr. Barker is "How to Make the Most out of Life." Of this particular lecture Rotarian Charles' L. Estes if Chicago writes from Los Angeles as follows : "Today I have witnessed as never before the wonderful work of Dr. Barker. ;It has made such an im pression upon mo that I am moved to write J'ou, for sometimes a report re-port from the field, by an unprejudiced un-prejudiced person, is valuable. "At 8:30 this morning, in company with five Los Angeles Rotarians, I visited the Los Angeles high school". There we found assembled in a great auditorium upwards of a thousand boys and girls to listen to Barker. And how they listened ! For forty minutes he held them perfect attention, tense interest. At the close they applauded him for minutes. Even though he told them straight things about themselves, such as no one had ever told them before according to the master of the school, who was deeply impressed. im-pressed. "Then they were dismissed. And another thousand filed in to' the seats. Two audiences in one great school. Same lecture again. Same tense interest) and attention. Same applause. Forty minutes again. "Then we drove to the Manual Arts high school. Hero the same lecture lec-ture again given to two more audiences au-diences of a thousand or more each. AVith the same effect and result. School officers veterans in the profession pro-fession told me they had never seen such a sight. Each of the four lectures, mind you, forty minutes! "From there we drove to the Rotary Ro-tary luncheon at the Biltniore Hotel. Here he talked on "The Evolution ol! Rotary'' forty-five minutes. Not a man quit his seat. Crowded meeting. meet-ing. "Wonderful message. Great enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. Think of the work this man is doing as n Rotary service. Five addresses before 1 :45 o'clock. Ye gods! "What a privilege I have had today." The afternoon lecture of Dr. Barker Bar-ker is at 2 o'clock for women and girls over 14 years of age. The address ad-dress will he "A Mot her's Responsibility Responsi-bility to Her Daughter." In ithe evening the fathers will be addressed on the topic. "A Father's Fath-er's Responsibility to His Son." All three lectures will be given in the stake tabernacle. Admission is free to all lectures. |