The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-10-03
Talk Current Events
ny ~ ADpINGroN BRUcH
Author OF The Riddle OF Person
atty" Psychology and
Parcnthood." etc.

What DO YOU know about the do.
,ngs in this great world wherein va
live?
You read daily newspaper. OF
course, You feel that you could not
get along withou, a newspaper But
DO you read IL with any thoroness.
or do you skip hastily thru Il?
DO you, IN fact, give more than a
| passing thought 10 the news IL con.
taius? DO YOU try 70 form a really
intelligent and well-consldered opin.
/ .on regarding events tho world ovar7
DO you ever discurs their signin.
canoe with friends and nelghbors?
IL asked what YOU think OF any
| particular event, YOU are perhaps
| ready with az answer. Is your an.
swer anything hut . snap judgment.
deie mined by prejudice rather than
by reasoning analysis?
put these questions not 20 be
| disag reeable. but because. II neces-
sary, want 10 spur you 70 appre-
ciate the value that there is In dis
cussion OF current events.
Many people. fortunately. appre-
c.Gte ,ts value instinctiyely. Per
I h3ps you are one OF these Many
others are beginning 10 appre.
| CIifc H.
This Is shown BY The growing pop
u.sri'y ~ clubs and classes on cur
rent events
Only a few years ago such clubs
"a classes were almost unheari OF.
4f IA. r,t.nn ~ ,frts. .efff.a N9Na
/ bali 4 dozen OF them or more.
In one city Boston "a talented
woman OF my acquaintance draws
an income OF thousands " dollars
q ycl< non. her leadeNhip OF cur
lrcnt Ants 1laAses.
: OthcN men anu women have slmi.
/ i3rlv discovered that interest IN cur
/ rent events is increasing SO rapidly
chat they can well afford o organize
I classes Ike hose conducted By the
Boston woman
Srn there remain many people
. thousand 90, reople-who never dis
el current events Many thou.
sands more discuss only such events
! gs come under the headings OF
me -ne thester.' and sports
These are the people want Go
reach They are the people ! want
! fo rouse so recognition OF The prac.
! tte8l hplnfulneSs they Mil find IN
! 7T777 U7STUU II CUFTFHr eYfurS Iu@gFu7
ersl
Current events clubs and classes
m'elf well bc organized ia every
4 1e eAuo uo0l With weekly meetings
Ito take gD The outstanding happen
0g IN International affairs. nation.
a neltics literature. art music
+ science and industrv
Regular attendance ar. and active
4 rattc patton ~ these meetings viii
prov. TO Ar on education 10 itself.
II VIII enlarge me mental horizon
nd broaden he moral sympathies.
Hs dls. lpling The mind 20 active
hcgehf 81 VIII raise the level OF
worka3ay eHclencv
~ VIII MAKE for a more alert. a
b more conscientious Cltizenehlp n
vIl gltc zest and color 10 a lie
which perhaps has hitherto been pa
thot.callv drab.
+ Jnsu specfed powers viii be awak'
f sncl with better grasp on the
+ realities al NE lac whole person
au'v wfi EXPAND
one evening a week ia certainly
no. TOO mich 10 give 10 discussion
~ he day odsy developments In
|0u wonderful. world
" max mean doing withou, an
evening az cards or al the musical
+ tomedy or az the dance hall but
this after an Is not a terrible sac
rldce
Aud from the occasional talk over
current events viii come more pfoht
than could possibly come from any
number Of evenings spent IN card
4 riaying. dancing or listening 10
musical comedies