South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 119, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 29 April 1921 — Page 19

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Story

A bou t A

Little

Journey

Taken By Edgar A. Guest

The Poet That All America Reads and Loves

hands

nrw arrival .vn lu

an th r i.i & r. err

ltto stepped down on the station platform at Orn.ha. "What's tho fu?s, Gforge?' "That am a poet. F.ih. Yes.ah. a Port but a puffert femmen." A loml puffav,- from tho nvtn In th Me-brlmmeci hat. "A poet with a

v rh.-ikJnc ! to r t -within earshot of tho one who

fr-r North) wore Ihn nianüo of Jam's Whitcomh

Iiil-y zr.l Uugcr.o Field. Ho continued his Journey to I.' AncMrs for a rest. If Fix or S'ivcn appearances a day means a vacation, he

had a fcoo-1 one. Demands for his radint;s from rchnn!, college, socktlrs and churches kept him rn

hive and a haircut?

.i wore Ion hair." Hut the porter was firm. "Oh. Ah knows that man. lie's a p. et a rlftht. VFr"ih, in ah kid r i! J"'lry, and Ah knew it was him all ri'-.t v. h :i Ah saw the nani" or, the yuitraso. voah. "Klar A. ;-m!' Ah

I thought th'y'the Jump. Harriets and receptions

w re Far.dwichtd in between. Where he had been once they

Jpoonis cf Mr. CJue?t are read by mlJIi'r.s ( f people every day in the : United States. The poet's verse ap- ! pears in the kadlr.cr nv.-j-papers of j the- country, he said, thereby r.iakln it pos:d for every fireside and U-very horn1 in every town and vll1 Litre In tho United States to be made jhaprjer by hl.i wholesome philosj opny.

"Judfro Avery declared that no moro lofty or inspiring or charactcrformln? sentiments have ever been penned by an American poet, and that Mr. Guest stands in tho front rank of America': brilliant list of

tinly knows that m ir. lib'ral K' U.men, ys-i: Tho new ;i rrr.nl

shaking hands and bad r to th- h'.t. 1. TK- r-

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boroniir.i; an ad Pi.'urt1. For "Fd-li." (iiu-t hr; s'.-irfM on a trip to 'a:if'.rnia. It m th- tirwt visit to tho 'Tar v..rf of the poot that all Aim ric.i road and love.--. Jle has r;"vcr e.-iind the ozone of the boundioF pr.iiri nor looked on thf towcrinir Itooki's. IIo never had had a. r.hanco to fall under the spell of the desert, nor had ho ever gazed on tho waters of the par inc. He wonderM how the people of Bret Harte, Mark Twain and Joaquin Miller would look upon a more poet from 1 ck east. Ho didn't have Ion to wait, once he crossed the borders of th "far west." Omaha took him to her arms. He wasn't as much of a stranger as he feared. Thoutnds knew him long before he stopped off the train. He discovered that "Kddie" Guc-pt was a household god on th Nebraska prairies. Denver Hungry for Him. If they like you west of the Missouri river, they like you for keeps and are not afraid to show It. Eddie Guest 6pent two gloriously busy days in Omaha, IIo read his verse and he told his stories to school children and their teachers, to preachers and their congregations, to the Shriners and to the Itotarians. Omaha enJoyed him so much that Eddie hardly had time to sleep. "When his hosts escorted him to tho Denver train, it poemed as If a good eharo of tho Tooplo of the town turned out to Md him Godspeed and beg him to co mo again. Denver looked up tho next day. Foetry In the shadows of Fike's Peak? I'ddio admitted ho felt a little foolish about it. The Idea of talking In the lanrruago of Fa and Ma. and Hud and Marjorie to those pioneers who had carved out an

enip're above ground and kept tho

f'f the fronti'-r.

wan tod him to tell about "Ma and tho Auto." "Tho Lrfs; Fürs.." "Midnight in the Pantry," and other subjects T homo and fireside. Jtotarrin f-'hrir.ery. school children, collegian-, men and women of every

;wa'.k of life, trailed him from a-1 it was estimated that he had spoken

.i.s.r.'ibly hails P. banquet rooms ju.st

dlto h'ar ahout themselves.

writers of verso."

When Mr. Guest left Los Angeles

Ilrrmutit Train to I -yes. Writing in the Iys Angeles Expreß of Mr. Guest's visit, Henry E. Dougherty said: "I listened to him when he brought tears to the ryes of .10 0 ministers vostorday at the V. M. ( A. audi

torium. The next moment he had them laughing all over the place. They whipped out their handkerchiefs and looked .surreptitiously at each other, did tho.se men of God, ;is though a.shamed of their childishness, and then a moment later they roared with laughter. Mr. Guest knows how to touch the heartstrings. He knows the human wrlls of emotion, and he can touch tho mainsprings of laughter. "lie knows his American father and he knows his American mother. The small boy and tho largo boy the street urchin and the college youth all are known to him. And when he pictures life to his audience In somo qunlnt style of verso the audience responds, for the audience understands. "Therefore, when tho students of Shakespeare, of Shelly, of Whittier, of Longfellow and of Iiiloy sat in on his lecture at Pomona college they afterward received him wit1, open arms and a welcoming chorus of handclapplng." Eddie's 10 days of "rest" in Los Angeles wound up with a great public reception at tho Hotel Ambassador. Let Mr. Dougherty tell the story: "Moro than 1.000 people rushed the platform at the Ambassador auditoriui last night to shake hands with Edgar A. Guest, 'the people's poet,' after he had delivered hLa farewell lecture in Los Angeles, Ann Heady for Sling. "Mr. Guest left ths big hotel with a happy smile on his face, but with one hand and arm ret'dy for the sling. His popularity as a poet was demonstrated when a capacity audience In tho huge auditorium tcn-

to 40,noo people, all in 10 or 12 days, and not a word had been uttered that had not beon clean and wholesome, full cf optimism and smiles. From Los Ar. roles Mr. Curst fared northward to Oakland, Berkeley, Stockton and San Francis?' He spent almost a weclc at Oakland. The students at Ferkel y adopted Eddie as one of their own. For tho rest It was a repetition of hi3 reception at Ios Angeles. Ministers Introduced him to their fiocks as a powerful factor in the right kind of living; businrs.s men dwelt on the sunshine of his dally ver? For two days he became Stockton's own with tho same warmth of re-

at he had rr.t t all along

Mr. G'.:.

Addrr-vM.s Illlnd.

s f:rt a ! ire?

In n o 1

thrr. California, was before an audi-rr.r-o (.f .several hundred blind students of the C.i'.ifornU School f-r-r the Flir.d at Berkeley. Of this ncrns-inn Grall Ib-atty Wallace, leading SfTkt-.n attorney and university b :;urer. sail:

ir Guest is a Colins and at

' II 3 car Guest

tho

i-ay that he is a

same time Intense! v human. To

put the

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gifted speaker 13 he 5 peaks with

ir.io rare charm wi:h which he

writes. There is only one way to really appreciate his still on the platform that is to hear him. "Yesterday afternoon 1 watched him hold tho breathles interest of tho students at the California School for the Blind at Berkeley. He looked like a colleee yell leader when he stepped briskly to the front of the stage. Although the blind boys and girls could not literally see him. they could feel his 1 uojant magnetism. Ho made them feel at ease immediately by telling them about his own boy 'Bud.' He launched quickly into a Ik art-to-heart talk with the young folks as well. He

ery.rd to almost r.arry r.other and a brighter

all of us to land .as h"

t r.l

r o:tod his vers- written on the d day of the death of James Whitetnb :.

Bi'.ey. Thocrt 0j lIS vrho hav real'oxprct Guest's p-ems. and moro partlcu-jllo ;;.

nny thos? of us who have heard tho him speak, could not but say that 1 who

a: 1 art' w a . p-.f m ier It c ):!: 1

w h e n plain rts rf

has tli"

h. a

;o. too, has the socret which he

within t :

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Anyonto J

llfe.l i xist.

tributes to Filey 'Just the knack will ine-vitab

cf makin people happy." "In the evening I went to Plymouth Center in Oakland three-quarters of an hour before the opening of the services, and succeded In finding a seat in the auditorium, which

was soon filled to capacity with ali sorts and conditions of men. "Edgar Guest proved moro than e-jual to this occasion, as he had the different one earlier In the day. lie knew just how to appeal to grownup folks. He pictured a typical home and skillfully carried home to everyone in the room his own philosophy of life. The fascinating part of it all was that nobody thought he was trying to preach. And everyone was unconscious!y persuaded of the Inherent soundness, wholesomeness and truth of his doctrines. "My chum, a San Francisco

ordinary

out of tr

Co.

Llonl70l by Sxuf.c. On tho final evening of Mr. G two-day visit to Sto ktn ho the loin of the annual B-y S banquet. Matthew Hnmilt'-

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sc-.ui father, f lis th "It was rr.y gr 1 father a sturdy s.-out f

inter--s: an 1 fro d;o Guest said 1

wore a boy. My 's n' had been In town ever that mornincr. !.ad tak- n

stor: fort the

e would wart

b: et scout j school grot bully time. " 'Where pored. I nothing e

could

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scarcely

!s r. Gt:est

told him. Aft o interested h

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mint irolns on what they had dug J dered him a reception that amounted out below. feomcJ a bit nervy. But 1 t0 an ovation. At 8 o'clock, the hour

T)f.nv.r wn hnn?rv for r.lrflp Rupst.!et for the lecture to begin.

Denver you niters packed the school auditoriums where he appeared.

I'tnver churches were crowded tojto crowd

hear him read his verse. 1 D- n

Both branches of the Colorado legislature voted to adjourn and at

tend In a body when it was an

the

people were still coming, air1 II T.'a3 necessary for the hotel management

extra chairs into the

500

"Mr. Guest wa.i Judge Itu?s Avery.

impressive

introduced by Tho Jurist paid

tribute to the poet,

nounced that Mr. Guest would apeak ! declaring that Mr. Guest is the sueon Saturday afternoon at Denver's j cessor to James Whttcomb Riley, ligger.t theater. What of the crowd? ; an'1 then same. The 'then some,' The people began gathering in the J aai.l the Judg.h is that part of Mr. theater before 11 o'clock. Before j Ouest's writings that deal so intir.r.n 1h fl rt flr,nr tv nVrrl ! m.ltplV With hOIUO and home folk.9.

that the doors had to be closed, and' "Judge Avery

balcony and filled It and

stated that the

into the

next they

vent up Into tho gallery and filled that. too. At noon people were turned away. There wasn't any room Cor them. Still they came, and altho admission wa? free. ecorc3 of men nnd women sought to obtain entrance by proffering pay for a chance to pet in and hear this man whose poems have touched a responsive chord in the hearts of "Just folks" cftryw-hero. When Mr. Gur. stepped out upon tho stage, accompanied by Lieut. Gov. Earl Cooler and the Kev. Dr. W. 11. Wray Boyle, pastor tf the Central Presbyterian church, ho gasped. He hadn't seen the crowd before and he didn't know how big the Broadwny theater was. "Wondirful!" That's all that he could nay. Mr. Cooley Introduced Mr. Guest, remarking that it was indeed a pleasure for "Just folks' to see and hear the man who hid dono and was doing so much to make tho burdens of lifo lighter, and It was an honor, too, that all appreciated. He paid a splendid tribute to Mr. Gues-t and the homely poems which make everybody feel bigger and better and brighter. Mr. Guest aid tht he only wished that he was entitled to adl the good things the lieutenant governor had said of him, and that he trusted that thow words and the cordial reception wouldn't c.use a swelling in the head. Appraise! Audience. Mr. Guest sensed the audience, the the majority of his auditors being older than other audiences he had seen in Denver. It was an intellectual audience, too. Just the kind that one would look for to hear and appreciate a poet. The selections by the poet were

from Feme cf his best writings; j many cf them dealt with the sterner ; File of lifo, thouch there wero s--mr in the lighter win. It was a propram wholly different from tho v r.t s he gave In the schools; different, too. from the one in El Job. 1 temple.: Ho recited hi three famous patriotic points, cr.o of wanting his boy to; love his country. fing; the second''

of the wanton destruction by the German In France in killing an" apple trte, given with the desire to keep fr.sh In the minds of people tae bitt rne? of hate of the Germans, ar d. thl. d. of how God gave H'. on to t.tve :he souls of men and hn gave America to save the Ubertl s of men. At tho conclusion of Mr. Guest's prttrra::.. Dr. Boyle paid a splendid tribute to Mr. Guest, with whom he w3 acquainted and who was a close personal friend when he was pastor cf the Woodward Ave. church la Detroit. From Denver the po. t Journeyed

to iSilt B.ke City. The people out there wa.vt plenty of elbow room, s- 1 they have big halls. T n- was any too large. At Prove, the Morm-ii; tabernacle, was thrown open. Schools 1

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