CHAUTAUQUA

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 March 1920, Page 3

CHAUTAUQUA

COMING TO HELENSVILLE

MARCH 30TH TO APRIL STH,

Chautauqua ia coming to Helansville on the above dates, and right throughout this widely settled • district there are hundreds of,people eagerly looking forward to the arrival of this exceptionally talented and able organisation of musicians, lecturers and entertainers. -itit the local committee of guarantors report that their Bales of Beason tickets (10s) have been most successful, and state that everything points ?tb a good Chautauqua session eventuating in Ilefensvilje. Season^ tickets are obtainable from iiftbst local business places. Aims and Ideals.—The aim bf Chautauqua is to establish a platform whereby vital questions may be discussed by distinguished speakers in a non-partisan and non-sectarian manner, and to combine these discourses in a happy way with music and high-class e^rtainment. It is a twentieth cenassembly, featuring Intellect, Art, .Music, Oratory and Entertainment of th© better sort. It aims to be broadly educational without being academic, arid to level prejudice in school, church. :' state and society by creating mutual % confidence for all social progress. It solves the problem of clean, wholesome public entertainment at a minimum cost on a democratic basis. In fact, Chau- , tauqua is an international movement "W towards world democracy expressed in the fellowship of mutual service emulating the highest aspirations of mankind in every avenue of expressive endeavour. " How is it Financed ?—Chautauqua is ~< fiyfanced by public-spirited citizens or organisations who guarantee the financial success of a circuit of towns to be visited assume a portion of the financial risk of the expense of the Chautauqua assembly in their particular town. In later years the organisation in America has been, self-supporting, and has built up a .small reserve fund. '*>'l Government of ' The Association. —The Association -'is registered in - New Zealand under " The Incorporated Societies Act, 1908," as it is not establish- * ed for the purpose of pecuniary gain. Anyone interested may become a member in accordance with the rules and . regulations. From the membership a -■Council is elected, which carries on the * operations bfjthe Chautauquas. At present the Council consists of Miss Helen Carson, the Hon. George Fowlds, Mr W. J. Napier, Mr Mark Cohen, and Mr M E. Paget. ->M Where Does The Money go ?— Chautauquas are not operated to make money. The amount that you pay for your season ticket will go towards paying the expenses of your Chautauqua.

Like everything else, it costs money to

run Chautstuquas. Railroad fares must ** belaid; equipment' must be bought; printing is no small item; salaries must be paid to all workers, lecturers and artists, for they are hired by the Association just .as teachers are hired for your public school system. If any money is left after these bills are paid, it will go

solely^ towards promoting the objects of

the Association—that of bettering and Chautauqua. from year to year. No individual or firm will receive one penny profit. In accordance with the Act under which the Association is registered, the accounts of the Association are furnished to the Government each year, and any member committing a breach of the Act by not applying all money towards promoting the objects of the Association is subject to a heavy penalty,