Harold R. Peat, who as Private Peat won an international reputation in the telling of his experiences during the Great War, will deliver his noteworthy lecture, “The Inexcusable Lie,” at the coming Redpath Chautauqua here. Both in his books, which have been exceptionally popular, and on the lecture platform, Private Peate presents his ideas with clear-cut directness and clarity, and with a vividness that is tremendously convincing.
Private Peat in his lecture here discusses the problem of the proper education of the youth of the world, with the idea of producing later a better understanding among the nations. He asks for a more just appreciation of the real qualifications of greatness. A war here, he tells vividly of the horrors of war.
As a speaker, Private Peat is essentially dynamic and sincere. He is an orator of great power, and wherever he speaks, he makes a profound impression.
From page 4 of the Forest City Courier, Thursday, May 6, 1926, C.E. Alcock, editor. To see a photo of Harold R. Peat, go to:
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068175/1926-05-06/ed-1/seq-4/
Project Gutenburg has “Private Peat” by Harold R. Peat available online as an e-text book at www.gutenberg.org/files/16685/16685-h/16685-h.htm
Harold Pete was born July 12, 1892 in Jamaica and emigrated to Toronto, Canada. He served as a private in the 3rd Battalion of the First Canadian Contingent during World War I. He was hit by an explosive bullet and lost his right arm. He wrote two books, “Private Peat,” 1917, and “Inexcusable Lie, 1923. The second is a treatise against nationalism and destructive patriotism that wastes the youth of nations.
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