South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-23
PUBLIC FAILS
IN Thinking
AVCnS KLINE
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ions printed with 10000 10 100000
copies IN each edition. mood the DOCK
stores ana are swoOped down upon ~
an minimizing pubic. THESE NOVELS
give "a raise sentimental view or life.
IL IL no wonder that the novel readers
gamer an exaggerated view or life I'M
ger such conditions.
CaruH Are Played.
81 say too that cara playing de-
prives men and women or the power
or thinking. / admit that all card
games have certain rules TO follow
and that the skilful player is he who
is best able 10 follow the rules, but IN
the last analysis card playing is little
else than game of chance.
Dancing likewise is detrimental TO
a thinking nation. Hugo Muenster-
berg, the eminent psychologist, prob
ably the most famous psychologist in
America today in a book published
only recently made this statement,
that a dancing nation can not be
thinking nation. II stands To reason
that anyone who puts himself under
the lure of dancing is not liable 10 be
thinker. Dancing makes appeals TO
the emotions and not 10 the brain.
Therefore where the emotions doml-
nate the brain cannot serve its vital
function.
The greatest trouble with the
American public is that they don't
think clearly enough. Dunn and
Bradstreet, the most reliable finance
firm in America today, made this
statement in a financial report, that
80 per cent of ali new business ven
lures tried in times of prosperity fail
Must Build Up.
1T is therefore Obvious that We
must build up safe, sane, reliable,
constructive concepts for the Amer
lean public. l would sum them up in
this way:
Get all the facts. an adequate
number of facts, that guarantee your
position.
Learn to think clearly according
TO the processes Of logical thinking
and reasoning
Think calmly. There can be no
successful thinking unless it is
through calm thinking.
Think on the fundamental laws of
truth.
Think in the future. In the words
of the president of Yale university
think in a lifetime, and there Will be
no need for statesmen.
Think disinterestedly.
Tentatively"
In his lecture Friday afternoon Mr..
Kline pointed out the disease of dem
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he saw il is the disease of them who
stand for special privileges, special
rights, TO the Obstruson and oppres-
sion Of others. Democracy Is moth
ing but the laws of human rights, he
said.
The French Revolution was
! dangerous example of the disease Of
democracy" Mr.. Kline said. 1T was
/ the overthrow of this disease, which
! followed so violently during the reign
of terror, upon the heels of long op-
preston by the lords and barons and
all the nobility that shocked the SEN
sibilities of the whole world.
Modern History.
THE disease OF democracy has run
| rampant from ancient history up
/ through medieval history till it came
/ to modern history. Most historians
/ begin modern history with the discov-
cry of America in 1892, but | begin 1t
/ with the fall of COnstantinople in
1853. The fall of ConstantinCple then
| drove the Greek scholars into Europe
and they in turn awakened a desire
| for learning. But most OF all ala TINS
awakening affect the arts, The period
was known as the Renaissance.
THE next step towards the deVel-
| Opment of democracy was the protest
/ against papacy This was bound TO
come. il was inevitable. Democracy
was beginning to mean 2. freedom Tor
all types. Then came the reVoluuon
of the kings against papacy. Ihen
/ came the revolution against the d.
| Observation-Disclosures decree. England
/ and America really began develop
| ing their rights with the signing OF
| the Magma Carta in 1915. In france
/ came the revolution. There was an
action and reaction, such as are round
in the laws Of physics, Identical with
IL ON
preston and that horrible overtahroW
that followed it
Important Problems.
The speaker declared that the Dec
laraticn Of independence making all
men free and equal brought about
democracy for this country. Inc IN
alienable right given to every citizen
TO have life. liberty and pursuit or
| happiness formed one of the funda-
mental factors in giving Americans
their equal rights, he reiterated. Mr..
Kline spoke about child labor, women
labor. handling criminals, and proph-
! esied a great industrial uprest in the
| next few years.
IF YOU don't and won't give these
people the privilege of life, liberty,
and pursuit of happiness, they Will
take it for themselves. So you mad
better give it 10 them
There is TO be no morning lecture
at the Chautauqua Saturday but Mr..
Kline will give two lectures the fol-
lowing Monday morning, the first lee
ture beginning at 10 o'clock and the
second ending at 11:45. The chill
dren's hour which is being conducted
by Miss Verna Swanson, will be con-
tinued however.
Saturdays entertainment Will ne
Senior Pallaria and his band. a con-
cert Will be given both in the after
noon and evening.
The orchestral club rendered con-
cert just previous 10 Mr.. kline's lee
ture Hal Van Aiken, South Bend
man, and formerly teacher OF the vio-
lin in the South Bend conservatory
played several solos, which were en-
Enthusiastically received
William owen and company proved
the star attraction last night at the
Redpath Chautauqua. Mr. owen and
his players presented The Servant IN
the House" the play written by
Charles Ram Kennedy, which when
II was first produced created so much
comment in the theatrical world. Mr..
owen, taking the part Of Robert