Sam Grathwell: "What I found in Japan"

              SAM GRATHWELL


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What I Found in Japan




SAM GRATHWELLHis Multi-colored Career


Born in Tenements.


Fatherless at Seven.


In Children's Home for Six Years.


Newsboy and Bootblack at Nine.


Messenger Boy in Cincinnati Slums.


Elevator Boy and Factory Hand.


Barrel Painter.


Bar Room Waiter.


Re-entered School at 19.


Started Sixth Grade of a Night School.


Entered Berea College, Ky., at 21.


Pacific University at 26 (Forest Grove, Ore.)


Graduated from Leland-Stanford at 30.


Won Three Oratorical Contests in Oregon.


Won Interstate Oratorical Contest for Pacific Coast.


Awarded Highest Oratorical Honors at Stanford.


Honored with Membership in Four Oratorical Fraternities.


Lectured in 43 states, five Canadian Provinces, and in Alaska during past nine years.


Averaged more than 200 lectures per year.




And Now
— GRATHWELL IN JAPAN! 
Next Season's Feature



Mr. Grathwell spent four months in Japan during the early part of 1927, gathering facts for a featured lecture for next season:  
What I Found in Japan.
  He went to study first-hand the customs, the political aspects, the hopes, the beliefs and the mental psychology of the people of the picturesque land of the Cherry Blossom.





His Platform Achievements



HIS experiences have fitted him to help others and this he does.  Clarksburg, W. Va., organized a 
Grathwell Grit Club.
  Glacier, Montana, High School called its graduating class of 1922 
The Peptimist Class,
 after the popular title given Grathwell.  Owensboro, Ky., where he has appeared more often than any other platform speaker, said of him:  
Owensboro regards Grathwell as one of the great orators of the age and as one of the platform's foremost thinkers.




He holds the record for repeat engagements at the Louisville Y. M. C. A., where is regarded as the most helpful speaker to men they have ever had.




The Delco Light Company used him at their big national convention in Dayton.  He lectured a week at the Genesee County Teachers' Institute in Michigan where at the end of the week he was given an ovation.  Poplar, Montana, announced his third appearance there with a large typed statement across the first page of its newspaper.




Lancaster, Pa., Y. M. C. A., engaged him four times immediately after his lectures there.  He has repeated 
Getting by Your Hoodoo
 by special request several times in various cities.  His lectures have been the subject of editorial comment.




Rotarians, Kiwanians, Optimists, Foremen's Clubs, Women's Clubs, both literary and professional, High schools and colleges have spoken in high praise of his helpful, practical informative lectures.  The proof of it all is his notable record of repeat engagements.




Yet with all his honors and achievements, Sam Grathwell is eager to go on, to learn more, to study more—so as to help more.  
He has
 says Dean Edward Emherst Ott, 
the enthusiasm of genius.




He brings his lectures to you with a manner delightful in his sense of the humorous—a humor that is always purposeful.  His dramatic sense is native and used with power.  You will like him because he leaves you more determined and courageous, and eagerly ambitious to register on your own generation.






What I Found in Japan



MR. GRATHWELL did NOT find a 
story-book
 Japan—in the commonly accepted view of that country.  True, he found a picturesque, a romantic Japan—a Japan of quaint buildings and quaint customs as viewed by our civilization.  He found a most interesting people, courteous at all times to an American visitor.




But what is most important, he found the NEW Japan!  He found it in his interviews with officials, in his talks with American professors, newspaper men, and in his translated interviews with Japanese people of all classes.  Here Grathwell found the real mind of Japan.  Not the Japan of history—but the Japan of 1927!




Here he learned the real attitude of the little brown men toward America.  He studied their views on immigration, on military preparation, on commerce and education.  He learned of some of their internal political problems, which to date have escaped the telescopic eye of the American journalist.  He saw the mind of Japan at work—with all its hopes and all its dreams.




He found himself in the spotlight in many humorous situations as he roamed about the cities, the villages, and in the country districts.  These reminiscences are delightfully woven into his lecture in typical Grathwell style.  He found fun as well as facts.




What I found in Japan
 is a word picture that is most illuminating.  It is a lecture packed with news—and with humor.  It is Sam Grathwell at his best!





Getting By Your Hoodoo



Delivered over 1,200 times before all types of audiences from Coast to Coast and in Canada and Alaska.  Lecture points out that the mental viewpoint is more important than the thing itself.  Salem, Mass., in 1691 became hysterical because of its belief in witches.  But the witch was only a mental creation.  So it is with many of our troubles and problems.  Many of our beliefs are rooted in fear—the great 
Hoodoo
 of life.  Lecture seeks to stimulate Courage, the Will to Do and the Conquest of Fear.





The Unbeaten Way

Another New Grathwell Lecture



H. G. Wells tells us the world is pleasure mad.  Dr. Max G. Schlapp, famous criminologist warns us that 
civilization is in danger because of the general jazz environment which surrounds the race.
  In our pursuit of pleasure essential preparation for the future is neglected for which too high a price is paid.  Lecture seeks to stimulate a proper choice of life's values.





Tinkers and Thinkers



Lecture seeks to stimulate clear straight thinking and right action.  Many are mere mental 
tinkers
 instead of 
thinkers.
  Imitation, guessing, prejudice and a mass of wild 
movie-like
 dreams have made many commit 
mental suicide
—they are 
dead at the top.
  There is food for very serious thought in this lecture.  It's a real mental 
tonic.
  Grathwell hits straight from the shoulder in this talk which has become extremely popular.





SPECIAL LECTURES



Wake Up and Get Up
—Has been very popular at Commencements.


The Challenge of Young America
—For Rotary, Kiwanis and 
Father and Son
 banquets.


Getting It by Wanting It
—Mr. Grathwell's most popular High School address.


The Way That Wins
—For sales conventions.


Pharisees and Sinners
—An ideal Sunday talk.






Some Notable Engagements and Repeat Dates
A Remarkable Record!
Some Return Appearances





Findlay, Ohio


5




Anderson, Ind.


6




Fort Wayne, Ind.


5




South Bend, Ind.


2




Detroit, Mich.


2




Louisville, Ky., Y. M. C. A.


5




Lancaster, Y. M. C. A.


5




Friedens, Pa.


3




West Newton, Pa.


2




Poplar, Mont.


3




Xenia, Ohio


2




Lima, Ohio


5




Parkersburg, W. Va.


2




Great Falls, Mont


2




Hazelton, Mont.


2




Billings, Mont.


2




Ulysses, Pa.


2




Wheeling, W. Va.


2




Tippecanoe, Ohio


3




Newark, Ohio


2




Zanesville, Ohio


3




Hubbard, Ohio


2




Fairmont, W. Va.


3




Ironton, Ohio


3




Norwood, Ohio


2




Cambridge, Ohio


2




Barberton, Ohio


3




Galion, Ohio


4




Defiance, Ohio


4




Farmington, Mich.


2




Plentywood, Mont.


3




Calgary, Alberta


2




Edmonton, Alberta


2




Hamilton Y. M. C. A.


4




Clarksburg, W. Va.


3




Cleveland, Ohio


7




Canton, Ohio


7




Providence, R. I.


2




Owensboro, Ky.


3




Lordstown, Ohio


3




Youngstown, Ohio


2







Here's What People Think of GRATHWELL



There are many able, sincere men on the lecture platform whose interest in the welfare of humanity has won for them the plaudits of the public, but there is only one Sam Grathwell, and it is no exaggeration to say that his humor, his kindly smile and his intelligent manner of prying us loose from our pet superstition makes for him hundreds of sincere admirers as they listen to his words of wisdom.  They see in him the embodiment of truth and integrity, a man whose high ideals and sterling character command their confidence and respect.—


From The Sun, North Canton, Ohio, August
 26, 1926.




I have had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Grathwell and of meeting him personally and bear willing testimony as to his ability as a speaker.  I cordially commend him as a lecturer and a man.
— 
William Jennings Bryan.




Grathwell is one of the most fluent and informative speakers that has ever visited Edmonton.—


Edmonton (Alta) Journal.




Poplar is better as the result of the lecture by Sam Grathwell, lecturer and all-around good fellow.—


Poplar (Mont.) Standard.




Sam Grathwell instills energy, he stimulates to accomplishments.  One dose of Grathwell tonic is equal to a dozen of any other brand.  The peptimist pill is guaranteed to arouse the mind, knock off the shackles from tradition-bound feet and impel idle hands to productive energy.—


Plumas National Bulletin (Quincy, Calif.)




Mr. Grathwell started his lecture in the right place, stopped in the right place and was in the right place all the way between.—


Kerrobert (Sask.) Citizen.




Grathwell has fought numerous battles in his own endeavor to get a foothold on life, and drives his points home with a wealth of detail from personal experience.—


Portland (Ore.) Oregonian.




Sam Grathwell is a very dynamic speaker.  He preaches a gospel of self-help.  There are no dull moments in his lecture.—


The Chronicle (Ketchikan, Alaska).




Everyone wanted the speaker to continue an hour longer.  It was one of the most inspirational and character-building addresses that ever came to Normal.—


Kent Tribune (Kent, Ohio).




The way the gang fell for his wit, wisdom and practical advice is worth alluding to.  Sam is a corker—he's not so much for beauty as for good hard sense put up in plain packages and warranted to keep in any climate.—


Creston (Wash.) News.




He was sharp in wit, strong in ideals, human in criticism.  He was easily the stellar attraction of the program.—


Swan River (Manitoba Star).




For the fifth time Grathwell has captivated our audience.  He has been setting a standard hard to beat but his 'Swat the Pessimist,' judging from the demonstrative applause, not only lived up to the standard set in previous years, but if anything, surpassed it.—


Louisville (Ky.) Y. M. C. A.




His address was full of fine thought.  He completely captured those who heard him.—United States Commissioner of Education.—


Dr. John J. Tigert.




Grathwell is a 'one-lecture' man and committeemen can book him with confidence and feel sure he will make good.  He ranks with the best.  If you have others of his class give him a hunch.
— 
D. D. Dukes, Findlay, Ohio.




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