Henry A. Adrian: Luther Burbank man

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Henry A. Adrian
The Luther Burbank Man


HENRY A. ADRIAN
FOR several years we have been trying to get Luther Burbank to devote some time to the lecture platform, but as he has steadfastly refused to do so, we have succeeded in doing the next best thing, in securing Prof. Henry A. Adrian, the Burbank Man, for a lecture tour.  For five seasons he has been a big success at the leading Chautauquas in America, and this season we have succeeded in inducing him to devote some time to lecturing during the winter.  In three years he has made the Burbank lectures among the most popular in America and has scored an almost equal triumph with his series of lectures on The Boy of Today and Tomorrow. Mr. Adrian is an intimate friend of Luther Burbank and knows his work thoroughly.  Furthermore, he is a very gifted speaker.  His vivid descriptions are made more intense and real by the use of many rare specimens of new creations of plant life direct from the Burbank gardens.

Thousands of people all over the country have desired to see Mr. Burbank and some of the wonderful work he has accomplished, and to hear more about it.  Mr. Adrian has given thousands of people this opportunity, and describes the work more brilliantly, perhaps, than Mr. Burbank, himself, could do.  Through all the World's long history new forms of plant life were produced only by the slow processes of nature.  Mr. Burbank has shown the way to add almost without limit to the kinds of useful plants we now possess, and Mr. Adrian tells in a vivid manner how he does it and the results that are being accomplished.  He also shows, in the course of a single lecture, the great value of this work to humanity at large.

On the opposite page, we have divided Mr. Adrian's work into two departments and we give briefly some idea of how he treats his lectures in each.




The Luther Burbank Man

ABOUT THE PLANT WORLD
MR. ADRIAN has three lectures about the plant world.  In these he aims to present the wonderful work done by Luther Burbank in adding many useful plants and what results may be accomplished with these plants by the agricultural classes throughout the country.  He has with him many specimens of the new creations of Luther Burbank.  To increase the quantity and improve the quality of human food is the biggest problem the race has ever had to face.  Mr. Adrian shows how Luther Burbank is helping to solve this problem.  Ninetenths of all the plants of the world are either noxious or useless.  The problem of tomorrow is to transform a part of them into useful plants and to destroy the remainder.  Mr. Adrian's lecture, The Conquest of Environment, tells this story.

Under the general heading, The Plant World, Mr. Adrian offers three lectures, as follows:

With Burbank in Wonderland
THE Transformation of Flower and Fruit
Disarmament of the Desert




ABOUT THE CHILD WORLD
THE second important problem of the human race is the right raising of children.  It is only one step from the plant world to the child world, and Prof. Adrian, widely known on the Pacific Coast as an educator, has bridged the gulf and has applied many of Luther Burbank's methods to the proper raising of children.  He argues that if Luther Burbank can do such wonderful things with plants, why cannot we do equally wonderful things with human plants?  Mr. Adrian says that there is no boy so bad that proper training cannot make of him a useful citizen, and adds: As surely as the wayside weed was moulded into the beauty of the Shasta Daisy, so surely may the weak and the wayward among children be made into useful citizens.

Prof. Adrian's work with children has, in its way, been almost as remarkable as that of Luther Burbank's with plants, and of each he tells an absorbing story with all the power of a master of thought and expression.  These lectures are not for any one class of people alone, but for all classes and all ages.  They are romances of the race.  He offers three lectures about the child world, as follows:

THE Passing of The Hickory
Wild Animals I Have Known
THE Making of Men






HENRY A. ADRIAN: Lecturer
What Has Been Said of His Lectures

Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver:
A wonderful story, wonderfully well told.


Dr. J. M. Myers, Kansas City:
One of the few great lecturers upon the American platform.


W. L. McAllister, Neligh (Neb.) Chautauqua:
A remarkable lecture—the best of our entire program.  We must certainly have him again.


George Fields, Washington, D. C., Press Correspondent:
He tells his story with all the actor's skill and the orator's power.


S. B. Chamberlain, State Superintendent Public Instruction:
One of the strongest men we have ever had upon the platform in Idaho.


A. B. Thorpe, Institute Lecturer for Wisconsin:
I have heard but few public speakers, in a wide experience, more effective before an audience of any character.


Edward Hyatt, State Superintendent Public Instruction, California:
He has a striking personality, an unfailing fund of humor, and a wonderful store of anecdote to illustrate his thought.


Joaquin Miller, Poet of the Sierras:
A man of splendid abilities—a thinker—an orator.  Few men have so great power to sway an audience at will.


Guy Potter Benton, President University of Vermont:
One of the best things I have ever heard.  A great message to young and old alike.


Albert Baxter, Iowa Falls, Iowa:
Bryan, Kenyon and Adrian were the great features of our Cuautanqua.


The Los Angeles Times:
A magnificent address.


Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.:
A great lecture.


Gate City News:
A more deservedly popular man has never been upon our platform; the variety of his subjects, his ready, illuminating wit and the wonderful way of fastening home his points are just simply a gift.


Santa Barbara, Cal., Morning Press:
A masterful oration, the equal of which has rarely ever been heard in this city.


The Portland Oregonian:
An unusually strong and entertaining lecture.


St. Paul Pioneer Press:
Few speakers have such a wealth of interesting material, and fewer still possess his rare gift of portrayal.


Coeur d'Alene Evening Press:
Last night Prof. H. A. Adrian, of California, delivered one of the strongest and most interesting lectures that has ever been given in this city.  The church was filled to its capacity with an audience which sat for nearly an hour and a half almost in a trance, as the interesting recital simply gripped the entire attention of every member of the assembly during its able and dramatic delivery.


Hawarden (Iowa) Chronicle:
Henry Augustus Adrian's address on Luther Burbank, Sunday evening, was just as good as the speaker's long name.  He had his great subject well in hand, and the things of which he told, and showed, and illustrated, were marvelous.  It is a wonderful lecture, on a wonderful subject, by a wonderful man.


Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune:
At his second appearance he was called to the platform amid a storm of applause.  The house was packed from floor to ceiling, and no man ever had a more attentive and appreciative audience; and, truth to tell, no audience ever had a more interesting and instructive speaker.


Knoxville (Iowa) Journal:
Prof. Henry A. Adrian was the speaker Tuesday afternoon, and there was not a man, woman or child disappointed in his talk on his favorite Luther Burbank, the Wonder Worker of the Plant World. He is a close friend of Mr. Burbank and illustrated his lecture with many specimens taken from the Burbank gardens at Santa Rosa, Cal.  While the thermometer was ballooning around the 100 mark, the audience paid little heed to the heat, but gave the closest attention to his religious philosophy and lavish predictions of future development in the plant world.

The Los Angeles Times, The Portland Oregonian and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer have given editorial discussions of his lectures.




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