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Show CHAUTAUQUA CLOSES WITH A LARGE AUDIENCE PRESENT Prof. B. R. Baumgardt's Illustrated Lecture on the Stars ia One of the Big Intellectual Treats of the Session Chicago Glee Club Pleases With an Hour of Music John C. Kennedy on Socialism. i The 1914 session of the Utah Chau- ' itauqua was brought to a close last jj night hy Professor B. R. Baumgardt, with his remarkable illustrated lecture, lec-ture, "An Evening With the Stars," (before an audience that filled the Glenwood pavilion to its capacity. Preceding the lecture, the Chicago Glee club gavn a concert of an hour's duration, which proved one of the finest fin-est and bost received treats of the entire Chautauqua. The program presented pre-sented by the club was as follows: Male quartets "Antoinette" Geibel Encore, "Southern Melody" "What the Chimney Saug" Parks EucOre "Nightingale Serenade"... Original Arrangement Trombone quartets Quartet arrangement of "Sextette from Lucia" Encore, "Humoresque" Dvorak Solo, "Bonnie Sweet Bessie" J. w. Turner, with tromborve trio accompaniment Sketch "Worn Qnt Songs" James Whitcomb Riley, vMr. Dixon rind trio. Male quartet, "Old Oaken Bucket " Professor Baumgardt preceded his illustrated lecture by giving a short talk on astronomy and hip astronom teal pictures, by some scenes in California, Cali-fornia, near the Lick observatory In word and picture his lecture was r.othing short of wonderful and was of rare educational value. The professor Is a splendid lecturer anrl his sincerely sin-cerely stated belief that a divine hand rules the movement of all the bodies '. W in the solar system,, made a noticeable notice-able impression on the large audience. More than anything else, he said, the obtaining of the pictures how godlike god-like man was in his capacity, though small indeed In comparison with the great heavenly bodies. In the lecture he showed the stars, the moon, comets, com-ets, meteors and heavenly bodies without with-out form and void. The latter, he said, were the beginning of new worlds, which would be formed through condensation. He toid many interesting things in connection with each picture and the audience showed its appreciation of the efforts of the lecturer to educate as well as entertain by frequent bursts of applause In the afternoon, the program was opened with a prelude of sacred songs by the Chicago Glee club and the lecture hour was taken up by John C. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy was introduced to the assembly a? the socialist candidate for governor of Illinois and the subject sub-ject he discussed was "The Twentieth Century Socialism." The forepart of the address was taken up with a review re-view of the rapid growth of Social-Ism Social-Ism in recent years. This he Illustrated Illus-trated by saying that at the present time in Germany there were 4,200.000 Socialist voters and 114 members of parliament; in France 1,400 000 and 102 members of congress and that in every country in Europe the Socialist So-cialist party held either the first or second place in strength and that its greatest growth was being shown among the classes where the standards stand-ards of education and culture were the highest. The growth of the Socialist movement move-ment in the United States he said, was shown in the polling of 900.000 votes at the last national election, an increase of 800,000 in 12 years. According to the Socialist doctrine, Mr. Kennedy stated, all industries should be applied to service for the masses and not for private profit, inasmuch in-asmuch as the labor was performed by the masses and the class that now I secures all the profit has little or no , hand in the making of it. This would make a more equal distribution of wealth among the people who create it and are rightfully entitled to it and would do away with the maintenance of B few wealthy parasites who put forth no effort to achieve it. The first ideal of Socialism is to gie to all mankind the opportunity j of expanding his individuality and to eo this an economic and social system sys-tem which will make all men equal ' must be evolved Socialism advocates such a system for under it all men will be given an opportunity to de-elop de-elop the best that is in them To evolve this system, the present indus-i indus-i trial system of the world must be ! changed, so that the masses may have in fair share of the wealth" that they create. Under the present industrial system, sys-tem, the aim of the employers of labor la-bor is to get the profit of their labors and to do this, they have made the working conditions so bad that the workers are gradually being driven to Socialism. The laborers cannot own their own tools and worse still, cannot can-not control their own Jobs and may iir the whim of an employer, be cut off from the means of earning a livelihood live-lihood for themselves This condition is worse than chattel slavery, for the blave was at least sure of a living-In living-In the change that would come under Socialism, the workers, whether BkiUed or unskilled would participate In (be division of wealth according to the importance of the service they performed. To create this new industrial system sys-tem would be to create a democracy Tor the people, in which the workers would have a voice In the management manage-ment of the Industries in which they re employed. This would also apply in matters of education and the teachers, teach-ers, parents and students would have I j) oice. instead of the educational j policy being dictated by a few men , or women. These principles are so i important that they are now becom-' becom-' lng recognized by the employing class ' ; nd efficient workmen are being con-I con-I si.lted as to the best means of increasing in-creasing production and improving im-proving service, but thoy are not getting a wage commensur- ate with the value of the Ideas which I they evolve through their years of experience ex-perience in the work at which they are employed. At this point the speaker said that ! the Socialists had been accused of I being too materialistic, in that they 1 thought of nothing but to receive a greater share of the wealth of the world and to better their living conditions. con-ditions. This idea, he continued, had been given life owing to the great agitation agi-tation of the Socialists along those lines, but that materialism was but the foundation of a higher social order or-der in which the people should become more cultured and have a desire for the better things of life. In order to fulfill the higher Ideals, It is necessary to have first a economic baiss upon which all men and women would have an equal opportunity. Another ideal of Socialism Is a desire de-sire for universal peace and tlfe Socialist So-cialist party is the greatest factor of the present day in the international peace movement. This was shown in Germany and France recently, when the government of those two countries were advocating war. In both countries, the Socialists had large demonstrations against the idea of fighting each, other and said that, if there was to be any fighting done, the officials could do it themselves. This attitude prevented the war that seemed Imminent at the time. The only things that the workers are setting set-ting out of wars are the bullets and they arc getting tired of that kind of diet. The practical side of the question of Socialism requires government ownership of public utilities and that service under government ownership Is better than under private ownership owner-ship ha.s been well proven. The government gov-ernment should acquire possession of the railroads, for instance, through purchase and the money could be easily easi-ly obtained by means of an inheritance inheri-tance tax, through which the bloated fortunes of the present day autocrats would revert to the government after death, instead of to the relatives, who had no hand in creating them. Another Anoth-er legitimate way to secure revenue would be to increase the degree of the present income tax. As to the proficiency of the government gov-ernment in managing public utilities successfully, the parcel post system may be tairen as an example, and the F S. bureau of agriculture Is another The latter is the greatest force In America today in the improvement of methods of agriculture and in increasing increas-ing the area of irrigated lands. Building or thp Panama canal shows v. hat a government can do. after af-ter a private corporation has failed And in the accomplishment of this work, the government made conditions in the canal zonp ideal, according to the ethics of modern Socialism. They built homes for the workers, established estab-lished store:-, not for profit, but to cut down living expenses for the workers and in every way made life a pleasure for them instead of a burden. And if that were done In Panama, it could be clone anywhere in thf world under a Socialistic form of government. The parcel post, the public schools, public libraries and many other things for the benefit of all the people am evidences that the world is growing toward Socialism and the question In America within a few year? will be as it is in France not "Are you a Socialist" but "What kind of a Social ist are you?" Following Mr Kennedy's talk, Miss Maud May Babcock gave her final reading, "The Servant in the House " Her interpretation of the drama was up to her usual hijrh standard and though she read under difficult cirsum-stances, cirsum-stances, for the most part she held her audience well. On Saturday afternoon. af-ternoon. Miss Babcock read excerpts from ".Macbeth," by Shakespeare. In addition to giving a finished reading from a dramatic point of view, her Interpretation In-terpretation comprehended the intellectual intel-lectual points In a manner that taught her audience the literary value of the work to a high degree. Miss Babcock's work throughout th j week was highly educational and all of the reading that she gave were greatlv appreciated. Saturday afternoon, Mr. Kennedy gave his lecture on "Civic, Recreation 8.1 and Social Centers." In his talk he said that the public school buildings build-ings were the logical social centers of the community and that every school building should be utilized as such. An evening lecture course should he arranged for the winter months and teachers could be secured to give the lectures. Many of these could be illustrated with stereoptl-can stereoptl-can slides or with moving pictures, which would add to their value The day is coming, the speaker said, when the moving picture would be considered consid-ered a necessary part of the public school equipment. In addition to using the schools as educational centers during the evening even-ing hours, the polling places should be located in public school buildings, and the citizens living in each school UlSiriCL huuiliu utr uiaiiiicu utiv a. i civic club which would discuss ques-1 tious of public interest Thus the . citizens would be prepared to vote intelligently on all matters coming before them. It would be advisable to have a paid civic secretary to organize or-ganize and direct these clubs in the public school buildings. Recreation should also be provided for at each center. Every public school should have a plav ground and J a swimming pool Musical clubs, dramatic dra-matic clubs and other social organizations organiza-tions should be formed and encouraged. encour-aged. Perhaps the most interesting suggestion sug-gestion made by Mr. Kennedy was that the city of Ogden should purchase pur-chase the land at Glenwood Park and make it a public park, playground and camping ground He said that the location, in his opinion, is excellent, and that an excellent bathing beach could also be laid out at small expense ex-pense along the stream. In closing. Mr Kennedy spoke In the highest terms of Ogden's Chautauqua Chau-tauqua and said that it was not only a splendid "social center,' but a great forum for free speech which the city could not afford to lose. Inasmuch as Dr. Baumpardt was delayed de-layed by a late train so that he was unable to fill his afternoon engagement, engage-ment, Mr. Kennedy volunteered to fill his hour, and answered several interesting inter-esting questions put by members of the audience regarding the social problems which he had been discussing discuss-ing during the week He also save a vivid description of Industrial and social conditions in Chicago's stock-vards stock-vards and packinghouse district. Saturday evening Prof. Bauragardt gave his illustrated lecture on "Switzerland," and the Chicago Glee club gave a splendid program Both lecture and music was well received by the audience. Miss Stevens was not present to conduct the children's story hour, so Miss F.lva Littletield, assistant librarian, libra-rian, most creditably performed the task. |