The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-22
LEADERSHIP
IS BIG WORLD NEED,
CONFERENCE is TOLD

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1.-The modern world, above all. de-
mands personal leadership" declared
| DR.. Miles H Krumbine, of Dayton, in
the open discussion at the Young
Friends conference Saturday morning.
"And the leaders come only from the
! four and one-half per cent of the popu-
| lation that reach the fullest mental
| development
institutions fall down without lead
ership," he declared, land the Polly
J anna of the White House has learned
| that popularity is not power that
makes for progress"
! Following the devotional Bible
study of the morning, and the hrstI
meeting of the various classes, the
| whole conference met at Chase stage
at 1O:45 standard time, for the daily
talk by Dr. Krumbine.
] Personal leadership is particularly
needed" he declared, because IN
nearly all coses it is the minority that
sees the paths to improvement, while
the majority is in the wrong. 1t Is
! impossible to limit the suffrage, but it
is nossible to educate the leaders for
the tasks ahead.
Class Tendency Shown
"America is showing a tendency to-
ward concentration of wealth and
division of the country into two
classes. rich and poor. The natural
tendency in such a circumstance Is
for such a society to revert to low
er type. 1t is the task of leadership
to keep the society on the higher
plane"
DR.. Krumbine pointed out that there
were three points of view in history
the religious, which holds that God Is
responsible for everything; the eco
monte, which holds that economic
causes are responsible for all results:
and the geographic, which holds the
country responsible.
AS society progresses. he pointed
out. mankind gets farther away from
the impersonal causes and progresses
: under leadership, using the physical
causes as only starting points. Under
wise leadership there is no limit 10
: the achievements that are possible, he
said.
Institutions, which are the organ
izations by which progress is made
fall down without strong leadership
We have found that we lacked that IN
our national policies and that our ma
tional institutions would not exist With
out it. :,
The function of youth is to furnish
1.-The enthusiasm, the inexperience
I and the faiths that result in new re
forms. Our modern youth have sacrl
feed to animal passions in way tha'
EQUALS the worst of any other age
: But it is not for our immortality tha
: the world will condemn us, 1t is to'
a the things that we should have don'
: but have not
/ "It is youth that has taken part II
S all of the reforms of the age. Luthe'
;. did his greatest work while he was
U a young man, it was youth in th'
o constitutional convention, it was you'll
g in the French revolution, it was youtt
in the religious revivals that Drough
about the great changes in the modern
world"
But there are difficulties in the wa,
s There is the attitude of the person
c in power-the Protestant clerical1sm-
), THAT wants a reverence for itself OIL
o the basis of the past But dificultie
a of the future can only be solved b,
q meeting those difficulties, in the ligh
s of the day.
n There are those that are afraid tina
4 we will tamper with the doctrine. Yo
!. of the Friends church are not troubles
" with that as the Lutherans, for eac
generation must create from its oWl
experience a personal and real re
ligion.
and finally there is the ugly tenC
ency to fatalism; that belief that tn
H.
L. Youth itself has its defects, it
lie impatient, it draws hasty conclusion:
s, 1t sees clearly deeply into the wei
n but it never takes a second look. Blu
al it cannot get the confidence of tn
is community unless it does study owe
TT things and look again.
,e Youth Intollerant.
" youth is non-conformist, but i
trivial things. If it were non-conforn
ist in the essential things there woul
be more hope for it. And final
youth is intollerant, not of ideas tia
1 it does not agree with, but with tn
~ persons who hold the opposite views
- Following the talk by DR.. Krun
I'd bine, the conference took up in publ
RS forum books and magazines that wer
Up of interest and value to the membe
m ship.
ar The afternoon was spent in athletic
ty and sports.
DR.. Krumbine's lecture subjects Il
next week are as follows:
Monday: Call to leadership"
Tuesday: Attitude Toward Leade
10 ship"
- Wednesday: "Fallacies that Hindt
and Thwart leadership"
n Thursday; Faith of leadership"
Friday: "Strategies of Leadership
IN Saturday: Sources of Person;
70 Power"