Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-19
Professor Zueblin's Discourse
on Probationary" Causes
Big Stir in Chicago
CALLS MARRIAGE A MACHINE
Thinks That Each Couple Should
Have No Romantic Illusions Re-
sardins Each Other When They Are
Observation-Disclosures Shocked by His
Views.

chicago, July Ibis the university
of Chicago, a Baptist institution which
has placed emphasis upon religious and
! become the disseminating center of al!
forms of socialistic propaganda and
| theological schisms?
This question is being anxiously ask
ed today by thousands of prominent
| educators, clergymen and Chicago club
women who were shocked yesterday at
| the open attack made upon the mar
riage relation by Professor Charles
zueblin of the department of sociology.
Coming in the wake Of the startling
book recently issued by Professor Fos-
ter denying the divinity of Christ the
declarations of Zueblin are taken ia
be doubly significant Of tendencies at
work in the university.
1t is remembered that Professor
Foster, despite the opposition which
his views ELECTED, was retained on the
faculty of the university. The trustees
then declared that a thinker must not
be hampered in the expression of his
honest convictions and that univer-
sity is essentially center OF free
thought.
Viewed With Tolerance.
The fact that they are inclined to
view the utterances of Professor Zue-
bin, which are admitted to be revolu-
tionary in the extreme, with the same
tolerances became known last night
and resulted in severe censure for those
who are in charge of the institutions
affairs.
1t was expected that official recogni-
ton would be taken of the sensational
utterances of Professor Zueblin and
that action by the board of trustees
tending to discourage such freedom
of expression would be the result. 1t
was at least expected that the right OF
an instructor to invade realms foreign
to his subject before an undergraduate
assembly would be called in question.
The board announced last night, how
ever, that no official discussion would
result.
The utterances of DIR. 7. W. Good
speed, secretary of the university, are
taken as omnibus. He displayed little
interest in the matter last night and he
would say only that ''the University
of Chicago stands for freedom of
thought and speech There has been
no official discussion of Professor
Zueblins speech and SO far as i know
there is no likelihood of such dis
cussion."
Faculty Remains Silent.
The faculty maintained noncorn;-.
initial silence and gave no evidence of
having experienced shock.
While it has been known for some
time that Professor Zueblin, together
with a number at the university. had
been devoting his academic leisure to
discovering flaws in existing social
institutions it was not deemed prob
able that his discretion as a member
of the faculty would permit him to
give them formal expression. The in
sidious growth of socialistic tendencies
in the university founded by John D..
Rockefeller is being viewed with un-
disguised alarm by members of the
board of trustees and there were indi-
cations yesterday that action might be
taken looking to the encouragement of
expression of such views in the fu-
ture.
Not content with the comment exc1t-
ed by the epigrams with which he
adorned his public lecture Tuesday on
the Common Life, restricted to dis
cussion of sex, Professor Zueblin yes
terday essayed a more complete and
detailed analysis of the marriage rela-
ton before his class in sociology. He
is not epigramatic when he talks in
the classroom and he frankly confessed
his view that the marriage relation
as practiced in America, and indeed
turnout the civilized world, is anti
uuated and fails to achieve the best
results. He pointed to the alarming
efficiency of the divorce courts in sup
port of his contention.
Professors Views Destructive.
Professor Zuebhn did not refer to
the opinion of George Meredith, the
eminent English novelist, nor to that
Of George Bernard Shaw. who are
the most conspicuous latter-day advo-
Gates of marital reform, but he de-
clared that the present system is nap
hazard and unscientific and irretrlev-
ably debased by material standards.
Members of the class who waited for
q, revelation touching the modern So
luton of the sex problem were disap-
pointed. They found the professors
views destructive rather than con-
structive.
But at least he dispensed in his talk
ioron, and academic