Will Durant, the author of “The Story of Philosophy,” and other noted works, and one of the most popular lecturers in America will speak in Williamsport on Sunday evening in the Elks auditorium under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the League of Women Voters, which will be holding its eighth annual convention in this city at the Lycoming Hotel.

The coming of Dr. Durant offers Williamsport a rare privilege. Formerly a professor of philosophy at Columbia University, he will bring a wealth of experience and profound knowledge to his subject, which that evening will be “My Utopia.”

This topic is a discussion of the reconstruction of municipal government under the direction of science and the problem of the selection and training of competent men in this day of political ends and private desires are often the largest factors in the conduct of municipal business, this subject is very apt.

Dr. Durant’s way of treating his subjects have won acclaim everywhere. Quoting from the prospectus, “Men and women who have studied under him at Columbia still the tell the exhilarating influence of his enthusiasm and scholarship.”

The lecturer’s audiences have been huge. He conducts a class every week under the auspices of the New York Presbyterian Church, which for eight years has had an average attendance of 1,000 persons. Similar numbers are reported everywhere he goes.

Those who have read his human and witty “Story of Philosophy” will not miss the opportunity to hear the man himself.