Show I r The lIt t C lI r f nV r a u The Distinguished Lec- Lec Lecturer p 4 y x b e si siY z P f sA Clergyman Cle r gJ man and 2 Y lr d Philanthropist is t Explains If la ms 4 s e fry frya a k 4 x p t ar s q a G jr 4 r What rY hat He e eDo Would Do to Y Yx x w ve i k 4 7 F 4 f Make lake Every 4 R Ry y x 4 o x R 4 t a Pi y W a F k ri rr t y 6 tic r Ya r a at oa Large or Small at 4 e e ro r f f j ii Y x t Place Where JAS 7 R a aY a F Vice TV Would 9 a arF 4 of rF r f t y r w w ao na 1 w ro id p No r 4 j Rave ave 1 rye n e a Customers a N K x Rh fw wv t 1 t r 4 at P PA A t group of city types children of the boys and girls who often go wrong because as Dr Conwell points out they been shown anything better to do r 1 r 3 tear a I If f s x e se s sa a The Rev Dr Russell H Conwell the founder of x Temple University FEW FEN weeks seeks ago the Rev Rc Dr A AFEW Russell II H Connell Conwell Con ell was as green en the award livard provided ty Jd ard W Bok noted editor to be paId each year year ear to that citizen who had bad green gl the most outstanding service senke to the CIty of Philadelphia Dr Connell Conwell is rs ei eighty years ear ears o of age Ho Hois Hois Hois is the pastor of Grace Baptist Temple the tho church of its denomination in Philadelphia and one of the largest In the countr country but he is 1 chiefly known n as the founder of Temple University er and andas andas as the worlds world's most active lecturer HIs most famous lecture Acres of Div Div- monds Dis-monds monds has been heard by hy millions in every part of the country and in many foreIgn lands Throughout the United States interest has been aroused in the Philadelphia award ard b by men and women who had never heard of it through its being given to Dr ell Connell In their opinion there could be no more fitting recipient since for fot fully sixty years Dr Conwell has been dc demoting practically allot all of ot his time timeto timeto to expounding his hh ideals for the better better- betterment betterment ment of towns cities and other communities communities Acres of Diamonds as its title in- in indicates in indicates is a word picture designed to show what hat can call be accomplished by great vision In man many of his lectures lecture advice aduce is given about the problems of modern civilization that crop up in the cities For these reasons and others that w ill appear Dr Conwell was as asked to give e a specIfic outline of what he would do to tomake tomake tomake make every city in m the nation n a model one He lie was as asked also to e shat he thinks are the greatest ls e evils at atthe atthe atthe the present time in the municipal life of the United States and how he lie would go about providing pro a remedy for or them I It t should be explained that in m spIte of his this age Dr Con Connell Conwell ell is still t to a lecture schedule that calls him hen to the platform nights acar a ear In addi addI- addItion addition addition tion to that he ha has undertaken to write rite the authorized biography of the late John Wanamaker who was I his his s close per per- personal personal personal friend It will consist of t thiea lee each containing words a 8 a hul truly monumental work cork M My program for any community says Dr Connell Conwell ell is cased on the Biblical Biblical cal injunction to overcome evil by good I am convinced that since you cannot make people good by law or by any other form of force the only way ti to do it w is j I it r A a 1 r r x t s 5 tt t tt Y 4 t Ml 3 7 r A r y sue 1 J J- J a Ja mc rya s rf r rr r w s 's r- r ra a x J IJ I 4 v t A Ar r v va I a 4 to tor toa a 5 r art tit t l 7 Below Below- tenement house boys learning to do doa dosy sy r raffia work in ina a aAn r q t a tA l York social An after after- a e a al New noon tea settlement ho h o 0 use u s e in in m one of ot the play and an r l I Q educational centers for I young and old which 1 Dr Conwell w would 0 u I d open in every neighborhood where bootleggers thrive to make the good e Vice Ice could not exist t in a model mode community It could not have hae an any customers Vision I is the first essential in any plan of betterment whether for the m- m in individual h the tillage Milage or the city It must be a large largs vision ISlon ision It should look fat into the future It should take tah Into consIderation the needs and desires of aU all classes of citizens It should be big but but it cannot be big unless it begins Ith v ith little things Let Lot me illustrate b Iy by an mi outline of the evils of model modern modem n cI as Isee I see them I do not intend to run 0 oser 01 er a h list t of tho the Ices vices to which shah man falls To my mind they the are the effect rather lather than the caus ciusa causs The real evil etil l e is the shortsIghtedness and lack lak of common commonsense commonsense sense among men that permits such things to be For Tor thousands of years in ar social conditions man has been tr trying to to correct elects by law He lIe has never never I succeeded I do not mean to decry the alue of laws 01 Ot to say ay anything that toll Ill be construed as advice aduce against obe- obe obe obedience to law But one becomes imps tient impatient with sith Ith the lo loss lobs s of money and salua- salua ble ble effort in a futile undertaking The outstanding example is hon tron tion Its Ita lack lach of enforcement is one of the greatest eels euls e to-day to n n American life and one that does riot dot oes seem to ha hate 0 abated in tre the least I as the forces of enforcement have hale been Leen increased and the funds available have hase grown Dunk has been driven into the cellar It has been surrounded with a certain glamour that It never er had before for tor man many many men and The way nay ay to kill hill the drink habit Is not by law lav The wa way to enforce prohibition is 15 to make male people temperate In my opinion the go eminent of the United States J make more lucre effee- effee effective tive headway against the bootleggers by pending its prohibition enforcement fund foi the o of civic centers cen- cen centers cen centers they are needed every everywhere here The funds unda spen spent t in m tt trying hying to 1 run iun un do down n boot boot could be better invested by gIving giving giving ing the people something mole than illicit drinking XO To o mo mc it I is a II simple problem I could build such sui-h centers in the neigh neIgh- neIghborhoods neighborhoods where whre the bootleggers thrive I would have the government go into competition with th ni offering some some- something something thing better and of enduring worth north Books Book music dancing social affairs dean clean entertainment cheaper educatIOn wider opportunities foi for all men and women women omen Ce boy and gill gal they have been placed within the teach leach of the people those are snatched up the institutions offering o them arc are forced to tUI n the people aVo away ay Ii for lack of loom The bulk bull of all eVIl In the cities and hete find finds its b ts suc- suc success sue suc success cess among those who ho haHn t been shown an anything belter better to do It should be explained at this point that althou Dr Conwell Conwel is a clergy clergy- clergyman clergyman clergyman man he does not mean religion when hen he speaks peals of good lIe He makes that point clear at all times To hun hire the broadest religious doctrine is a doctrine of com coin common common mon sense Be leol reasonable is ms his pre pre- pre precept to ministers of or the Gospel and to all the I Cranks do more harm lalm to religion than is 18 done by all of the forces of ofell ll e he continued Thoy Th y close th doors to millions who oud woud conic come Into the chul churches chinches ches and religious institutions If they understood stood The attitude of the ho tues toes to make people good by i law is taken talen as the attitude of all re- re relIgIOn religion re religion ligion People become religious when Pen they that the doctrine of common commonsense commonsense sense is the most profitable and satisfy satisfy- satisfying ing mg doch doctrine me And that is what shat hat the th cities tuu must t do if trey thy wish to attain In an ideal is nothing fetched far abort t thIs program Let us boil it down to es- es essentIals essentials es essentials It would could probably be possible to find many cities cilles where here the grocers for m- m instance in instance stance are ale at car wai wIth v one another tak tak- taking taking ing mg evel every every- unfair advantage antage a prey to suspicion and mistrust The history of lust Just such conditions rectified in m a score f trades trade and industries in m a n thousand to tonne toliS liS and citi s citi-s s shows sho that the tha solution to the problem is simple Let us suppo suppose e that those grocers could be blought together to discuss s theIr in m an all atmosphere of mu- mu mutual mu mu- mutual mutual good wil will e every ery man leaving his suspicions outside and agreeing to dohis do dohis his best to 1 leacha leach each a n settlement It ha liar never been impossible in m a to finda find a common ground of agreement a field 11 r which all could op- op operate op operate erate crate Tie The grocers s could mak mal terms and andrules andrules andrules rules Such rules would be as binding as those thosa in m baseball stating tun things that might not oe ne done and leav leav- leav- leav a co v 3 a fIx P f e eW r l twin W rh dous dons field in ill e each a e h ni III man a n could profit mg to hIs ability and op- op opportunity op opportunity The T h e r e need be no stifling of competition element clement w would o 0 u l I d be stronger than ever but it would bo be in a spirit of fair play and good goad nature T The T h e c history of commerce and indus indus- industry industry try h has ls shown shorn sho n that if such an agree agree- agreement agreement agreement ment is brought about in m anyone any one field it b brings r 1 n g 5 dous ad advantages advantages an- an fa far be beyond ond the tho of its originators originators na tors The whole vi hole lenins of What hat has been done Business is attract attract- attracted attracted attracted ed The spirit of fair fairplay p I 1 Ia a y t e extends into other industries To make a model city it is necessary n cesal y to have in m mind that ideal of or fair play But It it itis IS not sary for lor an any com com- community community to wart wait until all its elements clements hale hae adopted such rules of commonsense common ense sense If it wants to grow it should call together its citizens for the purpose of planning its gro growth th As the vision of the plan is extended to all classes of the population it wIll hate hae the tha effect ofa of a wide city tion hon tion People and groups who had newer ne cr thought of making rules for tl conduct of their 11 lives lies es and business will get to to The builders onel 0 overlook the fot force co of inspiration atlon They ate ale afraid to ex- ex expand ex expand pando Hut But I do not know knos of any lad lad- ladies fall fail mes ies es of such plans even een where hele they hate o been made on a scale that t seemed too large If the of a small email town get et together and make plans calling for or ai ai- ai I r ill and beautiful we use u e of future gro growth th running fi five fie e 01 sr six 1 miles out into the country their to town ton n will grow to its VISIon for it will attract men of courage and inspiration from fron outside b file rhe community problem is the problem problem problem lem of the individual magnified man many ti Wes lies Think of the growth of an inch inch- indi s dual with Ith the courage to set himself an Ideal deal and multiply that by tie the tre tremendous tremendous force of the many in rn any town or city and and you vou ou sill begin to catchi catch i c glimpse of the possibilities I would not have hase it thou thought ht that I 1 believe C in m ignoring evils eels But do doI doI doI I believe in m advertising ad them It does little good to preach against evil unes you o offer some so something better Mr ly idea of individual and community betterment t IS constructive I would not waste aste tur in m calling callin names Think of the av awful ful waste aste of human brain power poser which duch in m attacking ev evil in reality takes tal-es the deen c I would have all that earnestness of pur purpose pose devoted ty the effort to create some something ome thing n m 01 oie ome e attractive 1 Dr Conwell own OKI lire life furnishes an IllustratIon of hat shat hat he has in rn Ind It ItIS Itis Itis IS estimated that he has haJJ has earned more mo ethan than on the e all of which ha has gone either elthel to Temple el or to pay the th expenses of sending young oung men through college During its It lifetime Temple University has educated 1 young oung men omen Pach lach of them is rs I carl can ling to others the Conseil Con Con- Conel Con weH el seil message of common sense sens and to tol- tol tolerance tol tolerance erance crance of constructive But the 1 meal leal eal point of interest t lies in III inthe inthe the fact ct that if it had not been for Tem Tenn pIe University few fe of those men and women omen would have had an education It Itis 4 1 IS the poor mans man's college the unit CI cisty st f of the Various Vanous surveys surveys have sho shown shon n that 80 to 90 80 per cent of of or all aU Its classes arc working Nearly earl 1 every eVry ev ry stu student student student dent makes special arrangements III r as to hIs hours houis S so as not to interfere with the work bv he must earn his Ius his 1 ing for fully sJ sixty years ears Dr Conwell has hils Bee Because use he ga gave e the great bulk of oC th wealth he earned from his lectures books and mother in other ways v avs a s to the education education tion of needy but ambitious young loung oung men and women omen the Rev Rey Dr Connell has long been kno known knon n as the tIe penniless sail mil millionaire His greatest popularity was as gained as a lecturer Theme Thele is rs a n town n of 01 any sl sue size in in the United States in m s he has hs h 3 not been heard at lea least qt once and Ills him lecture louis haw have also taken talen him into evel every part of the tho civilized world orld Although he has discussed many tOpICS during his l foul fifty foul ft foul sears years cars on the tho lecture platform the e the public lIked best of all was as the one called Acres of DIamonds He lIe has delivered ered this more than six siK thousand tunes times and from It alone has hM earn earned d mote mole a than The Rev Dr Con Conwell ell is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Yale lIe He saw active service during the Cl War and rose to the rank ranI of Colonel After thear the war ar he practiced law and hales latel fo a in III Minnesota During DUling the Franco PI Franco Prussian War he went to Europe a as as coi respondent for forThe The The Ne New Ness York Tribune and obtained notable interviews with Bismarck cl and Emperor William Witham I He entered entel ed the tie the ministry in 1879 Aftel a few years vears ean at n a church III in Lex Ila Mas Mass I he Pc wens en to Philadelphia to begin l what hat has pro proved ore olle of the longest and most successful pastorates us the history of any ony denomination I t |