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Show fr fiRST DAY OF j CHAUTAUQUA m i e- . j Music, Speaking-, Round-Table Talks, Camera Instructions, Chil-I Chil-I j dren s Games and Other Attractions Charles Edward Rus- ; sell Tells of the Poverty Problems of the World. " 1 I i o'clock Friday afternoon the 1 ! second annual assembly of the Utah Cbaotnuqua association opened at fl G'enwood park with twice the attend- BnCC it had the previous year. Near-U Near-U u- 500 people attended the opening I meeting- Dr E. P. Mills, president 1 ' . the association, made the Introduced Introduc-ed torr remarks, after which the Schu-B' Schu-B' I aann Quintette, under the direction I K of P'of- I-amPert ave a concert, us-I us-I ing tc raUsJc oC lne timc of Louis a ' vjV nnd wearing court costumes The n incsic was very enjoyable, especially I 1 Wbecause of the fact that Pror. Lam-1 Lam-1 pert took occasion to explain each 1 composition before it was played, toll U me of the conditions undor which i piece was written and give his 2 audience some Idea of the personality I , of the composer His way of explaln-I explaln-I jDg music history to his audiencoo is 3 dolnf much to Interest people in clas-1 clas-1 sical compositions which they would ? otbcrvlse bo lndifferont toward. The 3 program as rendered by the Schu-': Schu-': niJDns was as follows: j Wedding March Mendelssohn Andante , . . . . Beethoven ! : German Dance ....Mozart j Traumerci ... Schumann The Spring Maid Reinhardt H h The Serenade Schubert in the Mill Glllet jfl l Coletor Scene Rubenstcin Spring Song Tschalkowsky jti i Round Table Talk. ' The first Round Table talk of the H Chautauqua session this year was W conducted at 5 o'clock in the after- 9 coon by Prof. Howard Driggs of the I University of Utah Round Tablo II ' tails will be carried on during the re- H nilnder of tho session by Miss Nina 1 I,unkln, who announced that she will I i b glad to have women of all ages at- 0 , tend the meeting and ask questions b darins the meeting. The Round Ta- ( ble talks are essentially for grown- nps, but are also very helpful for 1 t yong women, R , ' During the afternoon Prof. Nogglo n ' organized his camera club on the g grounds Quite a number of kodak g tiers assembled to hear the prelim- I Iwry talk Mr. Noggle gave before & outlining the work of tho club. Miss Mm Lamkin and Prof Brooks gath- jj t tred together the little chijdren and ' ' Wd a meeting at which they Issued tie Instructions preliminary to jj hunching their playground and ath- ItUc training courses. Miss Lamkin I hs charge of tho child games, while ' Prof. Brooks conducts the boy and i jlrl swimming classes Address by Russell. At 8 o'clock Friday ovening the Schumann Quintette gave a half-hour program of classical music, which was followed by an address, "Soldiers of the Common Good," by Charles Edward Ed-ward Russell, distinguished author-traveler-lecturor. Mr. Russell's remarks re-marks all had a tendency toward an appeal for a stronger brotherhood of mankind. He dove deep lntothe social so-cial conditions which exist in our country today, and astounded his audience au-dience by declaring "that he has figures fig-ures which will show that there are 32,000,000 people in America today whose annual incomes are only $400. He said that when a Los Angeles man told him that Los Angeles has no slums and that everybody wallowed in wealth he took the Los Angelan out and Bhowed hlra 44 railroad-tic shacks In which laboring men wore living. "At that," said. Mr. Russell, "the fellow eald, 'Oh, well, those fellows are Just common section men ' " Caste In India. Mr. Russell bored his way Into tho caste of India during his lecture and told how the people of India laughed at tho Idea of an American syndicate building a street railway in Bombay. They said it would go broke because there wero too many grades of caste In that country. At that time, If a man of high caste brushed against a man of low caste he had to hurry to the temple and be purified at once. At that time it cost 32 cents to ride in a cab there. When the street railway rail-way people offered a 2 cent fare casto was cast aside In Bombay and the people just played there was no casto. while they rode to their destinations in a street car, touching elbows and hands with the rich and poor alike. Mr. Russell touched heavily upon tho social evils which now exist in our cities because of poverty "Tho Atlantic cable, that wonderful arrangement," said Mr. Russell, "carries "car-ries to us, day a'fter day, Items of interest in-terest concerning the great ones In the old world. We aro prono to give these too little heed. One of theso Items was when news concerning one of our sonators was wired to us from the office of the College of Perils." The speaker then outlined the Col-lego Col-lego of Perils as a place In London where aristocracy searches for crests, coats of arms and other information concerning their ancestors The event which was wired to Amorica, the speaker outlined, as the message which told that Senator Blklns had found data which established his daughter as a descendant of the family fam-ily of Charlemagne. "To no one." he continued, "was this news more welcome than It was to me. I, too, am a descendant of Charlemagne. But what pained and puzzled mo was that tho senator had Bpent considerable money to find thnt his daughter was a descendant of the aristocratic family." Ho then went on to s,how what an Infinitesimal part of the blood of the Charlemagne family would be in the descendant of today. "One generation genera-tion back," said he, "I have two ancestors; an-cestors; two generations I have four; three generations, eight, and so on until I reach the twentieth generation, genera-tion, which would give me 1,048,214. Charlemagne lived twenty-seven generations gen-erations back, which would give vo.i or I 128,104,126 ancestors. Is not everyone a descendant of this noble family? But they are also connectod to the peasantry and tho criminal of generations ago. There Is No Blue Blood. And upon this rock comes to break every claim of aristocracy. Blue blood? There is none. All the blood in the world is but one color, red. The king and the subject, the wealthy and the poor all rest on this Wo aro all of the same common origin. We all have the same common destiny We have one air, ono sky and we are all of the same family "Tho world has been slow to recognize rec-ognize thlB fact. But It has also been slow to recognize every fact of value to it, steam, eloctriclty, and the principles of astronomy. "Still the truth remains. Here we are, all children of tho oarth together, togeth-er, all of one family. "Democracy is not a creed. It is not a dogma nor a doctrine. Democracy Democ-racy Ib a scientific quality. And then what? "Am I my brother's keeper' I am my brother's keeper, 'because I cannot can-not afford to be anything else. By just so much as I harden my heart against him I harden it ngaintst everything ev-erything that is good in the world " Theso remarks led to a discussion of the poverty existing in the world Drawing from his experience as a newspaper man, the speaker told of conditions existing in the tenement districts In London and other cities. Theso conditions, he declared to bo a reflection on socltj', a reflection which society will he compelled to pay the penalty for. Tho Boor war, he claimed to bo the pynalty inflicted on England for tho conditions of poverty pov-erty that oxiBtod there. When the call for troopB came he said 11,000 men offered their services. Ten thousand thou-sand or them were rejected after the physical roiuiremont8 had twico been reduced. The low standard, ho declared, de-clared, was due to tho poverty In 0 which ihc working classes of England Eng-land had lived. The war, ho said, was won by the Colonials, the volunteers from Canada and tho other provinces, where the conditions of poverty had not become so marked. Today's Program. The official program for today is as follows: 9 a. m. Opening hour of "Daa Garten Gar-ten Spiel," tho boys' and girls' folk games and sports under MiBs Nina Lamkin of Illinois. 10:30 a. m. "How God Made Utah' the fascinating story of the rocks, hv Prof. Frod J. Pack of the University of "Utah. 2pm Grand symphonic concert by the Schumann Quintette. Solo by Miss Rosalie Holberg. 4 p. ni. Second lecture, "How God Made Utah," ProL Pack. Violin solo, Miss Genevieve Malone. 6 p m. Chautauqua Round Table Prof. Howard Driggs 7 p, m First twilight Round Tablo for parents. Miss Nina Lamkin Topic, "Health, Strength and Beauty." 5 p. m. Grand concert by the Schumann Schu-mann Quintette: "An Evening With the Music of the Northland." |