CHAUTAUQUA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1920, Page 5

CHAUTAUQUA.

YESTERDAY'S SESSIONS. v The sessions of the Chautauqua, held yesterday, were more numerously atn tended than any so far as the pteeent series of meetings has gone. The Zedelef Symphonic Quintette again gave the music, and were even more appreclatiTely received than on the previous day, DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP. ■ . • Judge Alden, who created such a faffQM ablo impression by his address ob Monday night, mado himself still more popular by his utterances yesterday, which had for their purpose the arousing of a moro serious recognition of the reapoiui* bilities and obligations of citizenship. Be is a very convincing speaker, and baft a happy way of putting himself on good terms with hearers, and of getting then in sympathy with himself. Last night he mado a splendid plea for a strong, healthy and virile manhood and womanhood in order to build up a strong and healthy nation. He said emphatically that ft clearer knowledge of history would artist in the understanding of the true meafting of citizenship, as the only means of diagnosing the needs of the present wal to know the things which, through the Centuries, had made for the strength or weakness of the nation. He etreseed) ttoe importance of education, which, he eaid, was the only hall-mark of aristocftcy > that should be allowed—not edaNHoiL for wealth but for citizenship. The' speaker urged strongly on independence! of thought, especially in politics, and a keener interest in the government of ttio country. Judge Alden made a splendid' and telling appeal for a healthier feftao life, as one of the most important questions that could 'be considered, He theni proceeded to deal in a most sane Mid] straightforward manner with the tMWtj delicate questions of sex rclatioa&ip. which he handled in a most maetwful way, Ho denounced the "problem plays, and picture films" which, he said, ted' been produced not as an aid to the solu-j tion of social problems, but to line 4he! pockets of the producers. Through tfeese' means the seeds of false knowledge bad! been sown, which were the starting point of disease, degeneracy and divorty. Ho then went on to speak of the sacred relationship of marriage, the sanctity of' home life, the natural love and desire for children, and appealed to parents to take their children into their confidence, teach them the meaning and secrets of life, and save them from learning these things through those channels which made them for ever matters not fit to be mentioned. With eloquence and a passion of intenso sincerity, the Judge thrust home truth after truth, but he relieved his teaching with flashes of humor in such a way as to make the whole address both interestiug and entertaining. To-day's programme will include entertainments by the Fen wick Newall'Concert Party, and lectures ou "Civic Construction," by Ruth Levitt, and "The Value of a Vision," by Col. M. C. Reed.