Judge — June 20, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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These Courteous Youngsters ACCALAUREATE sermons and com- B mencement addresses always E this an unctuous and f year. The of is not a very credit- thle showing for the adult portion of our human race. vk people, all rs pews in meck attentive shining. word-mongerin upon th young ned oon hard Their Their hearts are rows, eyes are of gaicty awaits And a whole precious hour of golden youth must t iven over to listening to this old bozo who like as not will insult’ their intelligence by telling them (a) things that they have long known to be true, and (b) things that they already know to be untrue. most of th they are six words And when they drop behind him, it is only bean are to figure out what he cou by that last locution. Yet they listen! It’s just about the last duty they have to perform Durin dreary speceh trying alma mater, and so they listen. College spirit saves the day. That and the markable courtesy of more we see of this new or dear, fussy old youth, The seneration, we admire its tolerance of the vanity of elders, the more grateful for the s our i the me we are kindness with which it over! norance, the more we wonder at the politeness with which it humors our assumption of power. Ah well! All too soon these lads ind lasses themselves will grow stout and gray and bald and boresome, and they in turn will get their reward in the forbearance of a yet newer 5 tion, So let the old fellows pose and flaunt their brief authority. After all, Day t s not to tient youth but to sentimental Commencement * * * M aybe it’s a bit late in the year to call attention to it, but here’s hope for the collegiate bonehead. An Ohio has ruled that court state- supported university has no ri: expel students who fail to get passing marks. ‘They ean be kept back in the ide, they don’t have to be iven a degree, but if they have paid to get in, the college can’t kick “em out. That's swell. Another step to ward making college life leisurely and safe for Dumbocracy. Now if some wood. kind fue will deeree that all applicants must be admitted without college boards or passing the other entrance exams Publicize Courage Pp HOLOGISTS are cagey. They are not so sure getting more " now of the sneasurement of personal Not lor one the range group asserted that f difference in brain func little more than two to ene. Dr. Joseph Jastrow challenges this. “Tf we didn’t have differences in nen greater than two to one,” he says, “we tion is should never have had any great ¢ One craftsman may be 300 to 3,000 times better another in the 1 workman than same class.” What we want is more study of the variability in the “upper ranges of intelligence.” Professor Mark May of Yale fur- ther attacks intel They may be all right for giving “samples” knowledge and must go beyond vence tests. of man’s But samples. “There is in people some kind of a mnetaphysical thing called courage and this courage is the measure of person- ality and character. That's good talk. does not set a behavior. you The modern man high cnough value on courage. Invention has pampered him with soft comforts. Printers’ ink has warned him of all dangers and filled him with craven fears, Crowded into ome more dependent self-reliant. Finding safety in numbers, he stands no longer as did the pioneer, one bold man alone against the forest, the storm, the marauding beast and the handed outlaws. Little crises wilt us, 13 towns, he has be on his neighbors, less litth squeaking things send us scuttling in panic. little upgrades start uy puffing, Intelligence, that faney virtue, ho been over-advertised. that plain one, needs press- And the the lady for the job. Courage, able gists are some ascents. psyche Planning—The Way Out D«: oO. MLW culiarly advantageous position to size up the tion, Spracve is in a pe- situa An American himself, and for professor of finan at American economic merly banking and Harvard, he is now Bank of Eng- land. He has just returned to London after a visit Thas he has a point of view which is at once objec tive and intimate and not colored by private interests. He says that Amer ica is now “in the same boat rest of the And he turns, as do all the best economists, to the on planning. He says: “Hf you permit full sufficient fore nomic advisor to the here. as the world.” solution do not and do not Cy sight, ii ion and give and take to execute by planned arrang the sort of changes that tak under the working of economic forces economic forces sway left to themselves, then there can be nothing in the futu but a slow decline for this country or, if one ner individualistic Western World a slow decline relative to the possibilities of a competing alizes, for the being developed in Russia. By “this country” he aw land, w remarks were made. But note that he applies his conclu- sion to the whole “individualistic Western World,” as contrasted with The Sovict five-y at least well enough to im press all but the most prejudiced. The great question is whether under a ré gime of individualism, partly real and partly imagined, we shall be able to make a plan and make it work. RAW, ere these comicbooks.com