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Show Ralph Parlette Delights Large Audience o "University of Hard Knocks" Lecture Theme: Parlette's Philosophic Truths Holds Everyone Spell-bound: Spell-bound: His Humor Highly Entertained: Enter-tained: Lecture Course Under Consideration. Ralph Parlette, popular lecturer who is at present working under the direction of the University of Utah Extension Division, certainly earned his reputation as philosophic humorist humor-ist Sunday night, March 3, when he held a packed audience spellbound in the Alpine Stake Tabernacle, w-ith one of his most noted and universally wTell known lectures "The University of Hard Knocks." Humor was his personal wTay of expressing his philos-sophy philos-sophy of life that made for real happiness. happi-ness. He fashioned a mirror in which everyman discovered his own image. In his clever way he divided his theme into three chapters: first, the Needless Knocks received in this great university of life; second, the Needful Knocks; and third, Self Development. De-velopment. The Needless Knocks chapter was illustrated with personal experiences, from: babyhood until manhood, and was concluded by his stating that ownership wasn't what you had in your pocket, but what you had in your heart. The needless bumps were those knocks you receive voluntarily, volun-tarily, brought upon yourself by your own thoughtless actions, and -which after experience and experience which bring you financial failures, unhappiness and practical loss, teach you life's greatest lesson "That you can't get something for nothing." The Needful Knocks were those bumps which come unexpected, nn-seen nn-seen upon you, when you have been trying to do your very best. Discouragement Dis-couragement is often the result of these mishaps, but he emphasized the point in this chapter that "The human race was a raw material that must be bumped in order to be perfectly fitted for the future." He illustrated this point with incidences of striking verisimilitude. The last chapter he illustrated with a bottle of little beans and big nuts. He compared the actions of the big nuts always shaking up to the top and little beans jolting down, with the human race. Self Development Develop-ment was stressed if anyone is to 1 shake to the top. He urged youth to show deference to the experiences of others. This would train them for future cooperation. Self Development was the big job before everyone today. "Do a common com-mon thing uncommonly well" was the general idea stressed throughout. The comparison illustrations used in this last: chaipter he verified with all enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. And they were indeed truths, when applied In the light in which he showed them, He pointed out specifically that every child has got to start in the kindergarten of life, and that it cannot be avoided. Mr. Parlette, summing everything in a nutshell, simply took the commonplace com-monplace fact of daily life, clothed it with homely language, breathed into his own personality, and through some unknown genius unfolded a ; great truth of power. Lion President Martin Nielsen was in charge of the meeting, and led the congregation in the Lion tribute to I the American flag, given at the conclusion con-clusion of the lecture. Preliminary music was furnished by the High School orchestra under the direction of K. J. Bird. The Ladies Glee furnished fur-nished a musical selection, as well as the combined Male and Ladies chorus. The Lions Club are to be highly commended for their sponsoring this lecture, and as a medium of the people, peo-ple, this way is taken of expressing their appreciation for the opportunity j given them to hear Mr. Parlette. According to recent reports, the Lions Club are at present considering j of sponsoring the Tark'tte course of! lectures in this city. Tt is to be hoped hop-ed that this project will mature. |