Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 254, 5 September 1921 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELfcGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, SEPT. 5, 1921.

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Mans Brain Power Debauched Says Fletcher at Chautauqua Cheap Literature and Entertainment Damnation of America Lecturer Declares People Are Opposed to Thinking and Hearing New Things.

Bulldins: his lecture on the premiss that people are what they think, and that they don't want to hink anyhing but what they do think, Thomas Brooks Fletcher, editor and lecturer, of Marion, O., expounded truisms with such wit and farcical applications at

the Chautauqua Sunday alterno, that his audience convulsed in -oro-xysms of mirth. "People want to hear J''t what they believe. When ever J .eel a new Idea coming along in my uiind editorially, I leave town. Pe pie would quit my paper if I publi.ied a new idea, and then those same people would want me to publish their obituary free as news. "Did you ever thank your editor for Fome of the civic improvements he has helped you get? If you start to thanking him, do it gradually; he might fall dead. People Like Old Ideas. "The speaker is acquainted with all of the more prominent lecturers on the platform, and he doesn't know of a single one that is speaking on subjects entiredy new. They know that you wouldn't come to listen. When a Fpeaker advocates the doctrine that it is wrong to beat up your mother with an axe. you shout 'great, because you have come to believe that it is wrong. Yet there are idiotic reactionaries who are fighting the national maternity bill, and what do you get silence. "People will not finance the changing of their opinions. When you applaud what a speaker says it is not applause for him, it is only you flattering yourself on your own ideaa.

People are not so interested in fundamentals as they are in the superficial. That's the reason teachers and ministers are having such a hard time of it. Most of us belong to religions or political parties which were established from 500 to 1,000 years after Christ arose. And yet we boast intellectual superiority. Few Readers of Bible. "How many of you believe in the Bible?" the speaker suddenly asked. Nearly every hand in the crowd of 3,000 was uplifted. "To believe a thing you must know about it. How many of

you have read the Bible clear through?" About 150 hands were raised. "You must have been having a drive on it," Mr. Fletcher remarked, "for the Bible is generally considered only as a Tire escape. "Democracy will never be safe unless you people read more about what you vote upon than you did last fall," said the speaker after finding that about one-half dozen present had completely read the league of nations articles. "You ask a man how he is going to vote and he says 'straight.' It doesn't take a smart man to do that. Yotf can't change conditions until you change peoples' minds. And when it comes to changing the minds of people they damn you. "Why did you people come to my lecture this afternoon? Because you wanted to hear issues discussed? No. Just because you had a ticket which entitled yu to the whole shootin' match." Shows Power of Thought Deviating a little from the straight forward manner of verbal explosions practiced almost throughout the lecture, Mr. Fletcher discussed the discovery of the presence of electricity by Franklin, and the lighting of the entire world, which followed; and of the work of Edison in originating the talking machine, which he said would reproduce the golden voice of Caruso 1,000 years hence. "Wouldn't it be great if that invention had been made during Christ's time, and we could this afternoon hear the voice of the Saviour talking to us." v Tracing the modern inventions of

telegraph and wireless telephone, Mr.

Fletcher stressed the point that they are all the products of thought. That some one had to think before the

world got them.

"The world moves despite the I. W.

W. conservatism. It is the conserva

tive who throws the monkey wrench

into the machinery of progress. And

it is he who is more dangerous than the radical I. W. W., for he can be put into prison or tar and feathered. Discusses Belief in Hell "Ancient philosophers used to teach that heaven was somewhere straight up, and that hell was in the center of the earth; that we would have harps in heaven and play our songs on gold

en streets and have nothing to do but rest. Wouldn't that be hell? "Just a few years ago we believed all of that stuff which was handed down from paganism. Now we know that It is only 8,000 miles through the center of the earth and that the space wouldn't be large enough to hold all of us. "We also know that each 24 hours, the world turns completely around. If I were to stand with my hand pointed at the sky for 12 hours I would

at the end of that tne be pointing

at what was below me.

is ever bad. When they do things they should not do it is only mis-directed energy." Upon closing the Marion editor spoke briefly of the relationship existing between himself and President

Harding, "wnue we aurer pomicany, ; wiU ,ualify- for the concert staeT as we never knock one another. Harding ! rhoir ""fl"-.1 a? . c?PS.e: rt.8Uge' !

is one of my best subscribers. He gets

men are trained in the various metropolitan schools of music or with private teachers, as each case demands. Among the students of voice are sever

al who will in another year or two be ready for grand opera. A number

all of his bright ideas from my paper

And I get my ideas from his paper. I hope you stand by President Harding whatever your politics. We want to help him do his best for America and for the world. It isn't

choir singers, or for light opera and vaudeville. Some are preparing to

teach music; others are studying com-iment's training schools in the central position. A disabled professional west is located only 40 miles from baseball player has been found to have I Richmond,' at the National Military a beautiful baritone voice; a man with Home, Dayton, O. There technical SftJS'm k WM dance? graining in automechanics. electricity before the war, will become a concert ' . , , . . , . , . singer; another who played a pipe or- fd drafting is given, also training in gan is studying choral music. poultry raising, orcharding, landscape One of the largest of the govern- gardening and allied courses.

It is because of our unwillingness whether we agree, it is being ladies

to think, that God has to wait so long for the coming of his. Kingdom." Addressing himself to the children siting upon the front Beats, Mr. Fletcher said: "Don't you children ever be afraid of criticism. Everybody needs it. Approval is the greatest danger to the average brain. Flattery gives you fatty degeneracy. Hate and persecution may kill the thinker but it can never kill the thought. The reason we have so many fools today is because men use about 20 per cent of their mental capacity. I have had men in my office who I thought used but one-tenth of one per cent. Brain Power is Lacking "We have debauched the greatest natural resources of men the brain

power. Foolish, trashy, cheap literature and entertainment is getting to be the damnation of America. All of us are what we are because of what we take into our minds. What do you suppose will become of the boys and girls of today whose minds are being filled with grotesque murders, scenes of lust and of theft?" Most of the speaker's brilliant wit found a place in his description of some of his boyhood pranks which he said made his parents and school teachers call him bad. "No boy or girl

and gentlemen, and broad enough to

remain friends in this 20th . century, even though we differ."

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life a little more in his old age. He hopes soon to be able to buy a car, and we shall attempt to get him an operator's license." Another interesting veteran receiving training is J. W. Nuckley, who, at

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