Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-09
GOVERNOR URGES
NEED OF COMMON
SENSE FOR ILLS
War Dangerous Mental Disor.
ganizcr, Sproul Tells Swarth-
more Graduates Today
By Associated Press.

Philadelphia, June 9.-Govornor
Sproul was tho orator at Swarth-
more College comm day ex-
ercises. Tho degree OF Doctor ofLaws
was conferred upon Governor Sproul
and Attorney General william I.
Schaffer.
Discussing common sense, Gov
ernor Sproul said: There is need
of common sense now. War. in ad-
dition to all of the other indict-
ments which may be made against
it, of waste md destruction and
brutality and debasement and devil
ishness. is n dangerous mental dis
organizer After great disturbances
such as we have Just passed through
there is always Il period of unbal-
ance,
Mad men become madder, the
thin partitions that divide other
minds from madness are broken
through and even some ordinarily
sane men are apt to feel strange
whirlings of fancy in their brain
cavities. There is likely to be a
failure of reasoning among the
masses of the people and all sorts of
vagaries in politics, economies and
religion find fertile fields in which
to flourish until the sober second
thought again takes possession OF
the popular mind.
World Must Go On
"The world must go on and man
must exist and develop in orderly
fashion If civilization is to endure.
We must not be impatient of the
line between liberty and license es-
tabllshed by centuries of woe and
struggle, whose historic lessons are
before us for reference now when
we need them. We must not forSet
that the nemeis of God are the
enemies of mankind and the doc
trines which would dethrone our
faith and establish selfishness ana
brutishness as a world cult should
not claim our intelligent sympathy
for a moment.
Must Reckon With Aliens
"Fortunately the world is getting
n lesson in the futility of some of
the more radical innovations in So
cial reorganization right now. Our
fear Is that the unspeakable brut-
ishness and barbaric immortality
which has characterized the new or
der of things in Eastern Europe
may result in such reVulslon OF
popular feeling that the pendulum
NAV swing back toward the tyranny
of people among whom such con-
ditions are possible. In this coun-
try where our people have deNel-
oped> under liberty of conscience ana
equality of opportunity. with thelr
governmental organization respon-
sjve to their own needs and SUD
iect always to their Will, we need
not fear any general trend toward
such conditions. though we snail
have to reckon with some of those
who have come here without
knowledge of our institutions of our
national ideals or who have not
been taught their opportunities and
have ben exploited and misused per-
hans here in the land of hope. our
answer to these conditions is a thor
ough public spirit. n devoted inter
est in our public affairs and an in
sistence by the people upon good,
clean government, exact justice,
complete popular education and
thorough understanding between
our workers and our admlnlstra-
tors.
Bids Enemies Leave
1--WE cannot and must not toler-
ate. however. attacks by violence
and destruction upon our institu-
tions. Those who have grievances
against our democracy have their
remedies at hand if they choose to
exercise their rights of citizenship.
If they do not care to join us in
citizenship they should seek con-
genial political and social atmos-
phere elsewhere