Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-06-10
SAYS NEW LEADER RS
MUST SAVE WORLD
President Harding Appeals to
the Graduates of 1921.
DANGER FROM lcoNoCLAsTs
His Speech at the American UniVer.
sity in Washington Is Addressed
to Graduating Glasses in All
Parts of the Country.

Washington, June 9.-Declaring
that almost nothing" remained Sc
cure from the attacks of icOnoclasts.
President Harding appealed to the
graduating classes of the nations uni
versities and colleges, in an address
here to dedicate themselves to unself-
ish service in the preservation of civ
ilization.
''We look to this months graduating
classes" said the President, speaking
at the commencement exercises of the
American university, ito provide for
more than their numerical share of
leaders for the nation in a future not
far ahead.
almost nothing remains that we
may safely think of as sacred, as Sc
cure from the attacks of the icono-
clasts. 1t is a time in which men
search their souls and assay their con-
victio2s, in which they examine the
very fundamentals of which no tradi-
ton may be held immune from the as
saults of skeptic and doubter."
Should Recognize Arguments.
The President added that there
must be an open-minded willingness to
recognize the arguments of doubters
and experimenters, but that the nation
must constantly be on it's cnard
against the tendency to tear down es-
tablished institutions before a plan of
reconstruction had been devised.
Foreign relations were also touched
on briefly. Mr.. Harding asserted that
America could best help mankind if it
held fast to its own ideals and its own
security.
"You of the next generation of lead
ership will live in a time of readjust-
ment and reorganization" he contin-
ued. Nothing remains with us that
is not queried. Therefore, we need
for the leadership of the coming gen.
GRAFTON an open-minded willingness to
recognize the claim Of the doubter,
the innovator, the experimenter, the
would-be constructionist.
'But while we must give these adj
yenturous ones their full chance. we
must sedulously guard against the
spirit of mere cynieism, the DISPOSE
ton to condemn all things as they are
because they are not perfect, the
tendency to tear down before any plan
of reconstruction has been prepared.
World Is Not Young.
After all, satisfactory as some
earnest people regard the present
structure of society and existing hui
man relationships, reasonably con-
scious world has been a long time trav
cling as far on the road toward ideal
conditions as it now has reached. His
tory has afforded many illustrations
of societies crumbling and going TO
pieces, and the process has invariably
been attended with superlative disas-
ter to great masses of humanity.
1T is commonplace that at this
time the world stands on the brink of
what looks very much ike a precipice
1t must not be allowed to take the n.
tai plunge.
1T will not, if it shall BE able to
summon to its leadership L. he COM
ing generation men and women who
will unite a necessary measure of con.
sentative purpose with an equally nan.
essary portion of willingness to con.
slider new expedients, to test ont old
formulas, to apply the acid test even
to what we have learned to believe Is
pure gold.'