EMINENT REFORMERS TO SPEAK

Booker T. Washington has been secured to give a lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Wednesday evening, February 4, at 8 o'clock. The subject has not been definitely announced but will very probably deal with some phase of the negro problem. Mr. Washington who is now principal of the Tuskegee Institute has made a careful study of the intellectual and moral qualities of the American negro, and his standing as an authority on questions pertaining to the education and elevation of the black race is universaly respected. He is the author of several treatises on the subject among which are "The Future of the American Negro" and "Up from Slavery."

Socialist Member of Parliament.

George Lansbury, Labor Member of Parliament, will lecture here under the auspices of the Socialist Club on the afternoon of Thursday, January 15. He has been in active political life for 30 years and is known as the first active Radical. Soon after his entrance into the political field, he became a Socialist, and since 1891 has been a Poor Law Guardian. He has been a force in legislation for the poor, establishing the first Poor Law Colony, and being also influential in establishing the first Labor Colony for the unemployed, which is under public control. He has written many pamphlets on the Poor Law, the Unemployed, and on Socialism in general. His subject will be some aspect of his work among the laboring and poor classes of England.