George L. McNutt: "the Dinner-Pail Man"

              The League for Political Education
17 West 44th Street, New York
NOVEMBER BULLETIN, 1917



TOWN-MEETING FOR WOMEN
Addresses by Mayor JOHN PURROY MITCHEL




Dr. KATHARINE B. DAVIS ON 
New York's Better Self

Hon. HENRY MORGENTHAU, Chairman
Carnegie Hall, Tuesday Morning, October 23d, at 11




Mayor Mitchel will present to the women of New York the issues of Fusion Government versus Tammany control.  All women's organizations are invited to participate.  There is no charge for admission and no tickets are required.  The doors will be open at 10:15 and it is suggested that League members come as early as 10:30 in order to secure seats.




The reserved section for Subscription and Maintenance members will be held until eleven o'clock.




SATURDAY MORNING LECTURES AT 11
Carnegie Hall, Seventh Avenue and 57th Street



Nov. 3.  Hon. HENRY VAN DYKE, Ex-Minister to Netherlands


Our Country's Conscience in this War


Nov. 10.  Ex-President WILLIAM H. TAFT, Yale University


A Partnership of Democratic Nations


Nov. 17.  Rabbi STEPHEN S. WISE, Free Synagogue


What We Are Fighting For


Nov. 24.  Admiral ROBERT E. PEARY, Discoverer North Pole


The Conquest of the Air




All memberships admit to the Saturday morning lectures.  Non-members:  single admission, $1.00; in reserved section, $1.50; dress circle, $.50.




See bottom of page 3 for Notice of Special Lecture






League Bulletin for November, 1917
MONDAY MORNINGS AT 11 Hudson Theatre, 139 West 44th Street



Nov. 5.  Prof. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Harvard University


What the Nation Owes to Itself


Nov. 12.  ANDRE TRIDON, University of Paris


The 
I. W. W.


Nov. 19.  GEORGE L. McNUTT, the 
Dinner Pail Man


Food and People—Recent Discoveries


Nov. 26.  NORMAN ANGELL, Author of 
The Great Illusion


Success in Our War Aims




Regular ($10) and Subscription ($25) memberships admit to the Monday morning lectures.  To other persons, single admission, $1.00.





TUESDAY MORNINGS at 11 Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue

Six Lectures by
 JOHN COWPER POWYS, Cambridge University


REPRESENTATIVE PROSE WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY



November 13 to December 18




Nov. 13.
  
Charles Lamb


Nov. 20.
  
Thomas Babington Macaulay


Nov. 27.
  
Thomas Carlyle


Dec. 4.
  
John Ruskin


Dec. 11.
  
John Henry Newman


Dec. 18.
  
Walter Savage Landor—Walter Pater




Regular ($10) and Subscription ($25) memberships admit to the Tuesday morning lectures.  To other persons, single admission, $1.00.  Course ticket for Mr. Powys' six lectures, $5.00.






THURSDAY MORNINGS at 11 Hudson Theatre, 139 West 44th Street

Four Lectures by
 ALFRED W. MARTIN, Society for Ethical Culture


PRESENT DAY PSYCHIC MOVEMENTS



November 8 to December 6




Nov. 8.
  
Modern Interest in Psychic Phenomena


Nov. 15.
  
New Thought
 and its Origins


Nov. 22.
  
Psychical Research and its Results


Nov. 29.
  (Holiday.  No Lecture).


Dec. 6.
  
Modern Materialism and the Rebirth of Faith in a Future Life




Regular ($10) and Subscription ($25) memberships admit to the Thursday morning lectures.  To other persons, single admission, $1.00.





SPECIAL LECTURE
FRIDAY MORNING, November 16, at 11
Hudson Theatre, 139 West 44th Street
Colonel SWARTZKOPENSKY


MY LIFE IN AND ESCAPE FROM A SIBERIAN DUNGEON



Colonel Swartzkopensky served the Czar for twenty years.  He held the high record for target shooting in the Russian Army; was sent to Siberia for life for refusing to order his troops to shoot unoffending citizens; walked 2,500 miles to Siberia in heavy iron shackles, spent one year in a dungeon, escaped, lived ninety-six days in the wilderness; after escape, was befriended by Count Leo Tolstoy, who hid him in his home for seven weeks; later, traveled in many countries; returned to Russia in disguise and did propaganda work for the revolutionary party.




Admission; free to Maintenance ($100) and Subscription ($25) members.  To other members, and to non-members, admission, orchestra and 1st balcony $1.00; 2nd balcony $.50.  The tickets are now on sale at the LEAGUE office.






NEW LECTURES



The following speakers are in addition to those named in the first edition of the League's program:




Ex-Ambassador JAMES W. GERARD
Professor STEPHEN LEACOCK, McGill University





NOWHERE ELSE IN AMERICA



It is a sober statement of fact that not elsewhere in New York or even in America, can the lecture opportunities be equaled which the League offers this year.




Momentous events affecting the world's history and our country's destiny are now taking place.  These events and the new relations the Nation is assuming will be discussed by the most distinguished and competent men and women who can be secured.




Public speech now has new and greater importance.  It is impressive as the printed page cannot be.




The League's officers are determined that this year, after rounding out nearly a quarter of a century of educational influence, the League shall do its utmost to enlighten and inspire those who come to its lectures.





WHAT CAN I DO?



Those who must serve their country at home often ask this question.




The clear, decisive answer at this moment is, INVEST IN THE LIBERTY LOAN.




The officers of the League urge its entire membership to buy Liberty Bonds to the limit of their ability.  $5000. of the League's Reserve Fund will be invested in these bonds.  Only a few days remain until October 27, during which the bonds may be purchased.  Further information regarding them may be obtained at the League office.





SPOKEN FRENCH



Ability to converse in French at this time of the great world struggle has a new meaning and is of special political importance to Americans.




For this reason the League has arranged with Mlle. ALICE BLUM to give two free demonstration lessons to League members immediately following the first Monday (November 5) and the first Thursday (November 8) lectures of this season in the Hudson Theatre from 12.15 to 1 o'clock.




Mlle. BLUM is a graduate of the University of Paris, and has a new and original method of teaching French which she has used with great success during this summer in the army camps.  The important feature of her classes is the inspiring loud spoken drill in unison which gives quick mastery of pronunciation, diction, rythm and cadence.




If sufficient interest is shown, classes will be formed for a series of ten lessons before the Christmas holidays.




Mlle. BLUM'S book, 
An Oral French Method,
 may be seen at the League office, where further information will be given on request.