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Subject: [PIATT] Byron C. Piatt
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:52:02 EST


(IN)South Bend Daily Times, Thursday, January 7, 1909, p.10.

PIATT PROPHET OF NEW ERA
Noted Lecturer to Address Y.M.C.A. Men's Meeting-Sunday

Byron C. Piatt will give his great lecture upon "American Morals" at the
Y.M.C.A. men's meeting at the Auditorium Sunday afternoon. It discusses the
relation of industrial conditions to public morality, treating of American
homes and propounding the question, "Are amusements the cause or result of a
low standard of life?" He discusses in a most brilliant way the future of
the American home. The lecturer is called the prophet of the new era, being
a descendant of John Piatt, an exiled French Protestant, who settled on the
New England frontier over a century ago to escape religious persecution.
>From the loins of this one man have sprung successive generations of
soldiers, journalists, poets, preachers, farmers and business men. From one
branch of the family alone came Col. A. Sanders Piatt, the general; John
Piatt, the poet, and Donn Piatt, the journalist. During the civil war a
score of these men from both sides of the Maxon and Dixon line met in battle
and fought against family and blood for a principle.

The mettle of the ancestral zealot has reappeared in the life and work of
Byron C. Piatt. The key to the man is in the line he has chosen for himself
from the poet Heine. Upon leaving college to enter the ministry he was drawn
irrestibly into the thick of the social questions that are agitating the
time.

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