Newark post., 1922-08-02
LARGE ATTENDANCE
HEARS FRANK SPEAK

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news predominant. Second, there is
the psychological fear which fills
many with dread that that saving
insurgency of the individual will be
lost in the hurly-burly of group en-
deavor. Third, the economic fear,
with which we are all most familiar.
Fourth, the administrative fear which
possesses those who feel that the very
magnitude and complexity of modern
civilization have outstripped the ad-
ministrative power of mankind; and
fifth, the moral fear, which includes
all this flub-dub about the younger
generation that is all around us.
at is but natural" Mr.. Frank de-
clared, chat all this literature should
result in a mood of despair. The pub
lie is mobbing the bookstores to buy
these books.
'But side by side with this litera-
ture of despair there exists a litera-
ture of hope. Unfortunately, how
ever, the literature of despair has re-
ceived more advertising and we know
about it. This is true because it was
consciously written and plainly label
ed as literature of despair. Our real
literature of hope has not been con-
sciously written, for we may be sure
we are not to find it in the spirit of
Polyanna or in a dance around the
world with Peter Pan. The real
literature of hope is Ning written by
the men hidden away in laboratories,
by men with the itch to know; it will
be more or less by-product of this
type of men. Certainly the work of
such as these is filled with spiritual
concepts which are unrecognized by
the great mass of people. 1t is these
creative and as yet unused thoughts
which will make up the literature of
hope Of our Western civilization.
"The literature of hope" Mr.. Frank
continued, "is a literature of raw ma
terials upon which the world should
| be drawing conclusions. One of the
important Offices of the journalist is
to go around and ferret out the ideas
that the Deweys have produced and to
| translate them into the words of the
street. The men who can do this are
going to be the engineers of the new
Renaissance, which will make it possi-
bic for the world to avoid a new Dark
Ages of the future. If the creative
scholar attempts to do it he will
squander his power; this job is the
part of the journalist. Today we
stand in desperate need of the evan
gelism of the scholar but the evan
gelist must be the servant of the
scholar.
"Personally l believe" the speaker |
declared, "that the next twenty-five
years are going to be very important
and very challenging years, years that
Will mark very definite turning
point in human history; years that
will be either the beginning of a new
Dark Ages or the morning hours of
new Renaissance. Before the war the
world was undergoing slow process
Of organization. Germany caused the
war we say, but Germany caused the
war | believe the historians will tell
us, not because of any last minute
capricious prank of mad Kaiser, but
because in Germany the process of
paganizing the world came to a head
first. Germany was the Samson that
pulled down the temple but the whole
temple was rotten. For a time at
least during the war the world caught
glimpse of great principles of
right: the application of the moral
law to public affairs; the necessity
for guarantee that the weak might
stand with the strong. For a moment
at least we stood wrapped in chivalrv,
Because America adventured after
those ideals the moral leadership Of
the world centered for a time in
Washington, and whatever we NAV
say about Woodrow Wilson's mistakes
IN the technique Of statesmanship-
and we might write volumes about
them-for moment at least he con-
verted the sinister ways of diplomacy
into an honest search for the Holv
Grail. After Versailles the spectacle
degenerated into a naked barbaric ,
struggle for axiSfenca C;n,o Al | e,
Peace Conference we have been wit ,
Messing a moral slump that has led {
incisive intelligence everywhere to s
speculate on the downfall Of the ]
Western World. Nothing, we are =,
forced to conclude. can prevent the Z,
Dark Ages except a vast spiritual
Renaissance, something that is a