Chautauqua Sessions Still Thrive,
Blending Education And Recreation
Traveling Chautauquas are
making a comeback.
Prominent acientists will
visit a dozen United States
cities this year and next to give
science teachers a four ? day
course in such subjects as
human genetics, computer
techniques, and air pollution.
The lectures, directed by the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, are
modeled on the Chautauquas
that brought adult education
and entertainment to rural
America at the turn of the
century. But the science
seminars will be held in the
winter, while the earlier
Chautauqua circuit was a
summertime activity. The
traveling Chautauquas took
their name from a two - week
meeting of some 2,000
educators and clergymen held
at Chautauqua, New York, in
1874, the National Geographic
Society says.
Intended to upgrade the'
teaching in Sunday schools, the
gathering combined lectures
and debate with music and
outdoor recreation. It proved
so popular that the
Chautauaua Assembly became
an annual event.
As it grew in size, the
sessions stretched to eight
weeks and began including art,
crafts, and music lessons along
with lectures on science and
current events.
Chautauqua pioneered
summer school and university
extension courses. The first
book club in America
developed from a' program of
recommended reading devised
there.
Imitators sprang up, and by
1884 there were about 50
Chautauquas in the nation.
Traveling Chautauquas took to
the road in 1904, pitching
tents and presenting lecture
programs levened with opcratic
divas, magic acts, and
ventriloquists.
By 1909 there were 554
Chautauquas making the
rounds, and "Chautauqua
time" had become the high
point of the summer in towns
and villages across the country. 1
hi their peak year of 1924
Chautauquas played before
more than 30 million persons
in some 12,000 communities.
On the Chautauqua circuit
William Jennings Bryan
repeatedly delivered his famous
"cross of gold" speech
attacking the gold standard.
Audiences in straw hats,
waving hand fans against the
summer heat, heard Swiss
bellringers, Hawaiian guitarists,
and Mme. Ernestine Schumann
? Heink singing Schubert.
Radio, motion pictures, and.
the Depression of 1929 ended
the circuit. Even the nonprofit
Chautauqua Institution in New
York nearly failed. Wreckers
were on the grounds to
demolish the buildings when a
last ? minute fund drive saved
the day.
Now more than 50,000
visitors are expected to throng
the 700 ? acre grounds for
Chautauqua's 98th season,
from July through August.
Staying at the five hotels or 29
inns, or just spending a day.
they will hear politicians,
academics, and authors discuss
narcotics, the future of the
Presidency, foreign policy, and
the plight of the cities.
They will join workshops or
art classes and study everything
from piano tuning to investing
in stocks. Some will fish, swim,
play golf or tennis, or loaf.
Evenings will be given to
operas, plays, ballet,
symphonies, Welsh singers,
rock, and A1 Hirt's jazz.
As Theodore Roosevelt, one
of seven United States
Presidents to speak at
Chautauqua, said of an earlier
summer session, it will be "a
gathering that is typically
American..."
little
League
In the Little League, the
Fire Department is undefeated,
with an 8-0 record.
The Lions are in second
place with a 6-2 record and the
Kiwanis are third with a 5-3
record.
The Jaycees have a 4-4
record this year and V.F.W.
and Moose both have a 1-7
record.
The results of last week's
games are:
Kiwanis 11; VFW 4
Jaycees 12; Moose 2
Fire Department 5; Lions 2
Kiwanis 1 S; Moose 4
Fire Department 17;Jaycees
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Tip
By Mik? Wood. R?? Ph.
Avoid blisters, as they can
lead to serious infectioa.
The fluid that forms in *
blister is there for ? healing
purpose. Do not puncture
a blister unless absolutely
necessary, as this invites in
fection. It is best to have
medical advice before pierc
ing a blister.
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Programs Set
For Beefmen
Field days and farm
tours for beef farmers have
been scheduled in the
Mountains and Piedmont
sections of North Carolina,
July 8 and 9. A similar
program was held in the
Coastal Plain earlier.
The Western Cattle
men's Field Day and Farm
Tour will be held Thursday,
July 8, at Jonathan Creek,
on Interstate 40 west of
Lake Junaluska. - On the
following day, Friday, July
9, a similar program will
be held for Piedmont beef
men at West Rowan High
School near Mt. Ulla.
The educational pro
grams are sponsored by
N. C. State University, N.C.
Department of Agriculture,
the N.C. Cattlemen's Asso
ciation and the area devel
opment associations.
They are designed to
bring beef producers up
to-date on production prac
tices and research. NCSU
scientists and specialists
will conduct the program.
Subjects to be discussed
Include herd health, pre
weaning calves, perform
ance testing, stocker cattle
production, forage crop
production and economics.
In addition to formal
presentations, tours will be
made of nearby beef farms.
The program starts
both days at 8:30 a.m.
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Reinhold Niebuhr, the great
American theologian, once
noted that "not much evil is
done by evil men." To the
contrary, "most of the evil is
done by good people who do
not know that they are not
good." Along this same line he
concluded that the First World
War had been "made inevitable
not by bad people who plotted
against the peace of the world
but by good people who had
given over their conscience into
the keeping of their various
political groups."
Niebuhr was commenting on
the tragic tendency of
Christians to "leave politics" to
others. Many of the failures of
our society can be attributed
to a failure of Christian
citizenship. All too often we
have been content to live our
complacent lives quite
indifferent to rendering any
more to "Caesar" than we have
had to.
This is the meaning of the
parable which Jotham tells in
Judges 9:8-15. The occasion of
the parable is a crisis in the life
of the Hebrew confederacy.
Gideon, the great man of God,
is dead. One of his
descendents, Abimelech, an
evil man, has successfully
plotted the deaths of almost all
Gideon's other descendents.
Ruthlessly, he seizes power for
his own selfish aims.
Jotham, one of the few of
Gideon's other descendents
who escapes, tries to rally the
good but indifferent men of
Shechem. Abimelech's tryanny
is possible, he realizes, so long
as the men of Schechcm fail to
respond to his challenge. So he
tells them a story of how one
time the trees sought a king.
Going first to the noble olive
tree, they ask: "Reign over us"
(Judges 9:8), but the olive tree
responds: "Shall I leave my
fatness, by which gods and
men are honored, and go and
sway over the trees?"
Unfortunately, the olive tree
loved its prosperous existance
and did not want it disturbed
for the sake of exercising
An attempt in 1692 to
provide scheduled mail delivery
among the American colonies
went bankrupt because roads
often were impassable and
conflicting laws and coinage
prevented establishing uniform
postal rates.
responsibility. The same was
also true of the tig tree and the
vine. Thus, because the capable
trees refused to rule, the trees
in desperation turned to one
who was not fit to rule, but at
least willing: "Then all the
trees said to the bramble.
"Come you, and reign over us!"
(9:14). And the least capable
tree of all became the ruler.
One of the things that this
parable should teach us is that
poor government, corruption,
and even tyranny do not "just
happen." We find ourselves
ruled by evil men, very often,
not because they have waged a
campaign to seduce us, but
because we have actively (not
passively) allowed them to fill
the vacuum of leadership in
our communities and nations.
In the parable, the bramble
bush did not seek to become
king; the trees turned to him
because the capable trees could
not be bothered wilh the
responsibility.
The problem with good
men, all too often, is that they
sit back and leave the world !<?
those who are not good.
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State's Cities Show Most Gain
About 70 percent of North
Carolina's population growth
during the 1%0's occurred in
the metropolitan areas, and
two - thirds of the
metropolitan growth occurred
in the surburban rings around
the central cities, according to
a report issued today by the
Bureau of the Census. I S.
Department of Commerce. I he
report is based on the I<>70
census.
North Carolina has seven
Standard Metropolitan
Statistical Areas (SMSA'si: the
Asheville SMSA. which
includes Buncombe County:
the Charlotte SMSA.
Mecklenburg and Union
Counties; the Durham SMSA.
Durham and Orange Counties,
the Fayetteville SMSA.
Cumberland County: the
Greensboro - Winston - Salem -
High Point SMSA. Forsyth.
Guilford, Randolph, aiui
Yadkin Counties; the Raleigh
SMSA, Wake County; and the
Wilmington SMSA. New
Hanover and Brunswick
Counties. These* 13 counties
constitute North Carolina's
metropolitan area.
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