Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — Chautauqua Season Ticket Values. [ARTICLE]

Chautauqua Season Ticket Values.

For example take these three attractions. Is a Chautauqua ticket worth $2? That’s the question we s want every man to answer lor himselT; and in answering it, to consider a few facts. We will have 15 and more highgrade, but distinctly different attractions in the full • six-days’ program. They will consist of musical companies, entertainers and lecturers, all of topnotoh quality; in fact the very best the chautauqca affords (and Chautauqua audiences are a finely discriminating lot, you may be sure.) In this statement, we are asking you to consider but three of the 15 or more attractions. They are of an entirely different type, doingdm altogether different work and about the only respect in which they are simi lar is in the fact that they are all making good in a very big way, and to hear any one of them would be worth the whole cost of the tickets. Here are their names: Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, Nela Darling and Pitt Parker. Capt. Hobson is one of the country’s greatest statesman. He has long advocated the policy of naval supremacy and the necessity of adequate military preparedness—in fa"t. the Hobson preparedness ideas, which he has so earnestly presented to the American people in numerous ways, are fast shaping themselves into a strong national policy. How ever, Mr. Hobson is at the same time a prominent leader in the movement for International peace and he is an orator of marvelous gifts and has kept close to the people for the past 20 years in his extended and numerous lecture tours. He will speak on the evening of the closing day of the sfjautauqua. Nels Darling 1s a business man's

and farmer’s lecturer. He talks oh better business, better store management, better farms, better prices, Wetter cities and better towns, schools, churches —in short, better communities. His knowledge of these things has made him Valuable and in great demand as a Chautauqua lecturer because a Chautauqua has a bigger job than just to furnish a town with a few days of amusement. In his two addresses he will talk not about "things in general,” but about things close at hand. In his newspaper, Lieutenant-Governor W. V. Morgan of Kansas, editor of the Hutchinson Gazette, says ‘‘Darling is a 42 centimeter questioner. He arrived on a late train and had all the facts about this community for his lecture in less than 20 minutes.’’ He no doubt, is one of the greatest bust ness men’s lecturers and community builders in America. Pitt Parker is a real “down east erner yankee.” N*r>t only is he a clever cartoonist, a real crayon artist and clay modeler of the better type, but he is at the same time an interesting, fluent and entertaining lecturer. He stands in the front rank of his art and profession There is not a dull moment in his programs. He is simply bubbling over with wit, humor and good cheer. As he builds his pictures and molds the clay, his audiences catch the inspiration and are filled with good cheer. He is a man of high ideals and his programs make for the up-lift of all who see and hear him. This is less than a fifth of the program, and costs less than 4 0 cents. Is it worth the price? Then get your ticket today of the Chautauqua secretary or some member of the Chautauqua association. We’ll look for you there—and your family, too.