The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-27
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


THE Mutation of Types in Ameri-
can Society,"" was the subject of the
Institute lecture this morning at ten
o'clock by DR.. Edward A. Ross, of the
University of Wisconsin.
That the disappearance of what has
been termed the frontier and the at
tendant changing conditions is the pri-
mary cause for the evolving of the
national type, was the declaration of
the speaker .----.-u.z---~.----------z-.
That the land hunger" which added
100000 new farms to this country ev-
cry year must now go unsatisfed-or
else safe itself in Canada-since there
is little left here to feed it, and that
the immigrants who used to eat land
alive, now herd in the cities and have
become consumers instead of pro-
ducers.
That one of the reasons for the fam
ed high price of living" is in the
tremendously increased values of land
over those of few years ago, and
the consequent financial and social
sophistication of the owners.
View Point Changes.
The evolution of the character of
our exports from raw material and
agricultural products to manufactured
products, the lessening of the stress
of the railroad question in it's relation
to the agriculturist through the grad
ual elimination of frontier conditions,
and the national restlessness with re-
gard to the problem of the immigrant
fellow the metamorphosis of the rural
into the near-urban type, since "the
point of view of the American is
changing in many essentials" as put
by the speaker.
This is not all due, however, to the
mere shifting of social lines through
material manifestations and geograph-
ical juggling, but to it's attendant
psychological effect of the loss of that
sense Of freedom which is part and
parcel of frontier life.
There is a certain west in the
heart of man." said DR.. Ross
And that this feeling of independ-
ence-something the Western people
have felt but which they could not
voice through any mediums being
eliminated through our gradual NATHAN
al sophistication, which, with all its
advantages cannot replace the for
mers value toward the making of a
virile citizenship, was the opinion of
the speaker.
That the psychology of the business
mantle individualist whose scheme
of social operation was based on that
of the battlefield-had been exalted to
that of the nation, which was now in.
terpreted in the terms of the former
whereas Americanism had originally
stood for the rural ideal.
And that, in the opinion of the speak.
er, social equilibrium could only be
maintained through a fusing Of the
two extremes, a type that embodied
the best elements in both
Fine Address by Russell.
A fine address in both manner and
substance followed by Professor El
bert Russell, of Earlham College. who
gave his lecture. The Bible and the
Curriculum which was to have been
heard on Thursday morning at this
time, in place of that of H. B. Brown
on The Making OF Teacher" on &C
count of the unexplained non-appear
ance of the latter.
Professor Russelfs theme was the
importance of the recognition of the
value OF character 10 citizenship and
| its development through our system oi
education.
If education is developing power
and skill in American citizenship said
the speaker. 1T becomes necessary tc
give some guarantee that that power