Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-30
DO YOU KNOW WHAT
REAL FREEDOM IS?
Educating for Freedom" the
Tonic of ZueblinS Able
,Lecture.
FREE MEN ARE VERY SCARCE
The School Teacher the Vital
Force in Bringing the
Race to Ideal.
FREE MEN ARE VERY SCARCE
BY BEN NEWSOMEJ

A SMALL but very appreciative au-
y dience gathered at Convention
hall last night to hear Charles Zeublin
Of Boston speak on freedom. The
speaker was introduced by President
Farmer of the Rotary club in "A short
talk on RotaransnI. The drift of Mr.
Iueblin's argument was that the road
to freedom lay through the school
house but that the school itself must
lie emancipated itself from medieval
methods before that could be attained.
The lecture thruout was so evenly
good that it is hard for the reporter TO
do it justice and the best that car BE-
done is to touch the high places.
Few Arc Free.
To begin with he asserted that he
has very seldom met free man or
woman Do YOU know what freedom
is? Vincent Astor with his inherited
millions is not free, but is tied down
by his possessions Can any maa- be
free who !nhcri.s $S,00O,000? Many
men are not free as long as they nave
IS. We cannot be free Americans
while menial and humiliating devices
are needed to keep soul and body to-
gether. Instances of such great dis
tress are less common now. because
we are all getting rich making imple-
ncnts Of murder for our cousins
across the water.
What IS Our Hcritagcf
We speak of this heritage of the
ages. ours is specifically the inher-
itance Of the wonderful nineteenth
century, and three of those lepacies
are our industrial system our demo-
cratic spirit and our cosmic sense
These have not liberated us. Even
here In prosperous Oklahoma. where
even the man Of common intelligence
can hardly escape being rich, we cou;'
not live overnight without the supplies
we gather from other sources. We arc
bound up by capital which has done
many wonderful things, but has not
made us happy. Our democratic spirit
is a different thing from democratic
organization The Oklahoma constf-
tuition gave the old fossils of the east
the blind staggers but 1t has not given
ue self-gOvernment The newspapers
are roundly criticised but they can
print so often and always tell the
truth-they don't have time to verify
The movies relieve MS from the neces-
sity of thinking. The essence OF de-
mocracy Is mediocrity-the common
place. Other countries are better gov
orned than ours. but have not our
democratic spirit.
Reaching for the Infinite.
our grasp on the infinite is mor~
attenuated than on the dollar. Ready
made philosophy does not satisfy.
neither does socialism or anarchy.
The control of all things by the mind
IL u farce. So what are we going To-
give our children culture that Is
founded in the superstition of eign.
hundred years ago, or something less
We educate for occupation, FOR good
citizenship. Do we achieve 1t The
universities do not do It, Great men
may come out of the little red school
house, but they ge, their real educa-
ton in the world College training
gives us calm of mind but rubbing up
against the world is what makes n
man worth while
The Creative Instinct.
Americans do what they are told all
day long. They do not create. Chill
dren are the instructive creators, If
not crushed. Every child is entitled to
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