Hopkinsville Kentuckian

Lyceum and Chautauqua Workers to Hold National Convention.

The International Lyceum Association, which is composed of a thousand of the well known lyceum and chautauqua workers, will, this year, hold its eleventh annual convention at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Sept. 15-19, inclusive. For the past three years this organization has held its convention at Winona Lake, Ind. The chautauqua, by means of Secretary of State Bryan's lectures, has claimed as much attention as the Balkan and Mexican wars, the Japanese scare, the tariff, and it is almost on a par with baseball. Lecturers of note, statesmen, musicians and artists in all the various branches known to the lyceum and chautauqua profession are members of this organization, known to its friends as the I. L. A. There is perhaps no other union of force with quite the unique distinction that the I. L. A. claims. It is composed of those who furnish the performances, the managers who conduct the business end of this vast and growing movement, the agents who sell the programs to the various chautauqua assemblies and lyceum courses, and the committeemen who annually spend about $10,000,000 for lyceum and chautauqua attractions. There are this season about 2,000 chautauquas and 1500 lyceum courses, and it was of this great people's movement that Theodore Roosevelt said: "The chautauqua is the most American institution in America." and Senator La Follette has recently paid the lyceum this tribute: "From the time of Wendell Phillips until the present, the lyceum has been the salvation of our republic."