The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-20
Dr.. Charles ZuebIin Arouses
Chicago by Lecture on
Marriage Relations.
WAS FULL OF CENsURE
WoMEN'S CLUBS, MODERN ART
EXHIBITS AND THE PRESENT
ATTITUDE TOWARDS NUDE IN
ART ARE SCORED.

Or. Charles Zueblin, who comes to
the Chatauqua this year for several
lectures, is creating no end of discus
sion in Chicago and elsewhere by his
utterances before the students of Chi
cago University. In yesterdays Pal
ladium some radical views of DR.. Zue-
blin on morals and American institu-
tions were given. In subsequent
lecture DR.. Zueblin spoke on marriage
relations in a manner that has caused
many friends of the University to ask
whether 1t would not be well to either
suppress the views of DIR. Zueblin or
else ask him to give up his place.
The sensational utterances which
reused a storm of protest dealt with
the simple life, and the phase to
which the professor devoted his re-
marks dealt chiefly with sex relations.
He began with discussion of moth
erhood.
Motherhood is the chief interest
of the human race" he said. I'm
sexed animals can not attain so high
a degree of development as sexed an
imals. Sex is necessary. Without
1t the greatest progress can not be
made.
THE typical urban man drinks,
sweats and works too much and has
greater development of animal char
acteristics. Luxuries and prize fights
are typical of this urban man. When
the laborer wants to work off this ami
malism he goes to .see a prize fight.
when the rich citizen wishes to
rid himself of some of this animalism
he INDUCES in what is known as Iux-
uries. The typical urban woman is
hysterical. These degrading char
acteristic are nothing but characteris-
tic of sex.
"Our attitude toward the nude in
art is equally the result Of the unclean-
liness of our minds. A person of de-
cent, clean mind could not object to
the nude.
"Women's clubs may be all right.
but it will not be through them that
the emancipation of the sex will come.
We must see that children know sex.
When fathers and mothers care more
for the future of their children they
will forget their prudery.
1--WE have never looked at the basis
of the marriage relation. We have
taken 1t for granted.
"To preserve the heritage of chill
dren and protect them it is course
imperative that we have legal mar
riage. AS long, however, as we are
so much more concerned with the la
bel than the real thing there will be
this attitude towards marriage"
In condemning modern art institutes
and the ugliness of present day cities
he said:
1--WE should have art made by the
people and for the people and a joy
to the maker and the user. We don't
need art galleries or institutes where
people can go and learn to recite the
names of the famous artists and see
some of their work, but we must have
art in the most commonplace things. |
If we could get all of the people of
Chicago to attend the Art institute
once a week we could not modify the
uglne IS of the city. The kind of art
we must have is the kind we must
live with.
"The curse of the nineteenth centu-
ry is that it crushed out the love of
art in the people by forcing books up
on them. There was once a time |
when people believed in art and also
lived in it. This time we call the
dark ages: perhaps it is because we
can not see into them"