Allen D. Albert

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GROWING OUT OF THE ORGANIZATION OF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS, AND THE TRAVEL WHICH IT ENTAILED,
ALLEN D. ALBERT ANNOUNCES FOR THE SEASON OF 1933-34 A SERIES OF FIVE LECTURES, AS OUTLINED ON THE NEXT PAGE


I. LESSONS OF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS:
A WORLD'S FAIR with a distinctive theme—the transformation of life in 100 years through the ministrations of science.  What happened to the theme.  How a World's Fair is organized and run.  A vast job of salesmanship.  What values survive.  Great personalities in the governments of other countries.  The new importance of the Arts.  Has the Exposition given any light upon the forthcoming century?



II. THE ORIENT GOES AMERICAN:
JAPAN becomes modern in 75 years.  America her exemplar.  China becomes modern in 30 years.  America her big brother.  The movement spreads from the Philippines to French Indo-China and Siam.  Back of all, Russia, industrializing after the American manner.  English the one common language.  Remaking the cities of China and Japan according to modern American city planning.  Government in the hands of young graduates of American colleges.  Manufacturing for American department stores.  Oriental flappers and Sheiks.  Censoring our Movies.  A new view of the Christian mission in the Orient.



III. WHAT JAPAN IS THINKING:
AN interpretation of the mood of modern Japan.  Turning to Germany for training of her army; to England for the training of her navy; to France for her public school system; to America for methods of banking and industry.  The decline of German influence in the army and French influence in the schools.  Free general education.  American social freedom interpreted to Japan by motion pictures with the caresses cut out.  Sixty-four millions must live upon an acreage no larger than that of Indiana.  The Japanese a poor emigrant.  A national program—Directing population into the cities; improving agriculture; expanding manufactures for export; fostering emigration.  Self-defense in Korea, Manchuria and Jehol.  America and Japan, nearest neighbors of the Pacific.  What of tomorrow?



IV. THE AMERICAN CITY:
AMONG the newest of social products.  Favorite child of geography.  From Constantinople in 1453 to New York in 1933.  Virtues and failures as old as Babylon.  On the eve of change.  Old pressure reversed.  New diameter will be 50 miles.  What is the measure of a good city?  It must be the quality of life provided the great body of the people.  New generation entering upon building of new city.



V. LONELY AMERICA:
GREATEST of modern nations.  Detached by geography and national polity.  Although most nearly self-contained, she could not keep her business in steel, use automobiles, enjoy the distinctive American breakfast, have potash
 for her chemistry, or manufacture a dozen different articles of every-day use without exchange with other countries.  Potential in International influence, America seems set not to exercise her influence.  Can she be responsible to her own people without observing her responsibility to mankind?



THESE lectures are offered by one whose experience in public speaking has been broad, and whose success with it has provided him with engagements in every state of the union through the past 18 years.  The following comments are all probably a little colored by friendliness:

From the President-Emeritus of the University of Illinois:

He is always clear, informing, persuasive and entertaining.

DAVID KINLEY.

From the Founder of Rotary:

The secret of his power lies in his ability to forget himself in his subject.  He has a well stored and cultured mind, a splendid reservoir to draw upon.  His speaking is the perfection of an art, and the sincere dedication of the art to a worthy cause.

PAUL P. HARRIS.

From the Head Master of a Boys' School:

His social material is casy for us all to listen to.

WALTER D. HEAD.

From the Superintendent of Schools of Chicago:

I am always happy when he talks to our students, and they are happy also.

WILLIAM J. BOGAN.

From the Executive Vice-President of the Buffalo Association of Commerce:

I have not heard a speaker who has more to tell the community leaders of America that they need to hear, or the ability to present his interpretation with more interest for his hearers.  He is pre-eminently one who can speak to men.

SAMUEL L. BOTSFORD.

From a Former President of the Chicago Woman's Club:

He thinks clearly, portrays vividly, and has real eloquence—here is a speaker who pleases men and women alike.

CHARLOTTE S. HILTON.

From the Bishop Coadjutor of Connecticut:

The character of a man gives significance to his message; wide experience and study give it power.  On such a foundation, Dr. Allen D. Albert is particularly fitted to make a lasting contribution to contemporary thought.  His gifts as a speaker charm and inspire his hearers.

FREDERICK G. BUDLONG.




A CENTURY OF PROGRESS provided this speaker with some of the most interesting and educational experiences of his life.  As soon as President Rufus C. Dawes took office, he named Mr. Albert As sistant to the President, thus designating him as an adviser and planner for the New World's Fair from the beginning.  Mr. Albert participated in the early conferences which shaped the theme of the Exposition and in many of the important interviews which led to the development of the theme.  President Dawes assigned him to present the idea informally to the Governments of North Europe in 1929; he was sent again to Europe in 1930; in 1932 he went as Commissioner for the Exposition to the Governments of Japan and China.

As a specialist in the Causes of City Growth, Mr. Albert was asked to advise the Governments of Canton and Shanghai as to the remaking of their cities, and to consider with members of the Chinese Ministry in Nanking the development of that new-old capital, as Washington, D. C. has been developed, and as now in Australia a beginning has been made upon Canberra.

An abounding fund of special information was thus made available for the lectures.  Furthermore, the experience provided the speaker with diverting revelations of the human nature of modern ministries, and confirmed his old range of sympathy for the great body of the people of every land.  As lectures it is his hope that the series will be justified on the ground of entertainment and educational value; but they would not have the earnestness and interest which now they command if they were not also the means of expressing the speaker's zeal for the reduction of war and his social philosophy of unit responsibility.

SINCE 1906, Who's Who in America has published a biography of Mr. Albert as a sociologist.  That in the edition of 1932-33 reads in part as follows:

Allen Diehl Albert, sociologist; ed. pub. Schools, read law in offices of Heber J. May, Washington, D. C.; attended lectures in law and Polit.  Science Columbian (now George Washington) Univ.; Sc.D. in Sociology, Evansville College, 1922.  Reporter, Washington, D. C. and New York; Corr. in Spanish-American War; Chief Editorial Writer Washington (D. C.) Times, 1895-10; Pub. Columbus (Ohio) News, 1910-11; Editor and Assoc. Pub. Minneapolis Times, 1912-16; President, Jacksonville Gas Co. (Florida) 1923-24; now Assistant to President, Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1933.  Specializing since 1906 in causes of city growth and programs of city development; consultant to city development bodies; with comms. on training camp activities 1917-18.  Member, American Academy Political & Social Sciences, etc.; President, Minnesota Academy Polit.  Sciences, 1914-15; President, International Association of Rotary Clubs, 1915-16.  Author many magazine articles on social science.  Episcopalian; Clubs: Cosmos (Washington, D. C.), Cliff Dwellers (Chicago).  Office: Administration Building, Burnham Park, Chicago, Illinois.

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