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Show EDMUND VICE COOKE LECTURES AT T. y. C., Author and Humorist Delights Appreciative Gathering Sun-' Sun-' day Afternoon. Edmund Vanco Cooke, author, lecturer, humorist and poet, a literary caterer to the fancies of children, author of "Little Tot Poems" and "Press Sketches," "Impertinent "Im-pertinent Poems," and contributor to tho leading magazines, talked for ono hour Sunday afternoon to fifty of the members of the Y. M. C. A upon the alms young men shoudl havo In life. JJc was introduced intro-duced by A. Q. Adnmson, and from tho first what he had to say was meter and rhyme, confirming his reputation for being be-ing a rhymester. Mr. Cooko stated that ho had not come to deliver an oration or a lecture, but to havo a social chat, to, perhaps, point out something that would satisfy a present pres-ent need, an In tho caso of a man who goes to church. Ho docs It to havo his i thoughts lifted up so that ho himself may bo elevated anil spiritually stimulated "Orthodox lines in literature becoino stale If repeated too frequently, and man sometimes some-times gets to relish an old thought If it be presented In new garb. "1 was Invited here to relate old truths Jn my way, and that is what 1 will do," Hald Mr. Cooke. He then urged tho young men to aim high and be among tho lenders, lend-ers, to bo the shepherd and not one of the Khecp. "If you choose tho lattor you will bo mutton on the block. Aim to get Ihcrc. That's the way John D. nnd John 1j. made their big- successos by putting their opponents out of business," busi-ness," he added. Mr. Cooke denounced war, and compared com-pared the trip of tho great .merlcan fleet around the world to a desperado entering a gathering of select people, clad In outlandish costumo and armed with guns nnd a bovvlo knife. "War Is like eating your grandmother." he said, and In his argument he used some remarkable allegories. |