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Show SAM GRATHWELL 'Peptimist" to Lecture on Fourth Night of Chautauqua Festival- Someone has said: "A pessimist closes an eye, wrinkles his face, Jraws up the corner of his mouth and says 'It can't be done.' An optimist has a face full of sunshine. He beams an you and says 'It can be done' and then lets George do it. But a peptimist' takes off his hat, rolls up his sleeves, goes to it and does it." That's what Sam Grathwell, the "Peptimist" "Pep-timist" is. He is the fellow who took the doifble "SS" out of pessimist and coined the word "peptimist." Here is a young man who was handicapped by poverty and- wrong environment; who had to support a family at 7, did every variety of menial jobs in the slums, was blacking black-ing boots at 20 and held the B. A. degree of Stanford at 30, all because he worked on the principal that a pound of pluck is worth more than a ton of luck. A natural orator, fujl of pep and punch, and with something more than worthwhile to say he lias become so popular that he cannot fill all engagements demanded of him. "Tinkers and Thinkers" is delivered with the piquant sauce of scintillating epigrams, convulsing humor and dramatic dra-matic force. It is a lesson in character char-acter building, in individual possibilities, possibili-ties, in practical optimism, and withal a rare entertainment. |