The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-06-29
PEssIMIsTIC PROFESSORS

Commenting on the baccalaureat'
addresses of several eastern college
presidents last week, the New Yorf
Times says:
There is prevailing these addresses
a note of what might be called hope
full pessimism. President Hibben OF
Princeton rather glories in the pes
simism Of youth, looking upon it as
a symptom Of health, as the begin
ming of any philosophy Of true optim-
ism and as a provocative of the de-
termination on the part of youth to
prevent the world from going to the
devil" President Angel saw his first
graduates at Yale going out to face
and to fight falling standards, as wit
messed in the exploitation Of business
for purely selfish ends; in the viola
lions of laws, never SO general nor
so widely condoned;" in the lower
ideas of marriage, which has become
less of sacrament and more of a
transient adjustment and in the fact
that traditional religion is under
fire. But his own belief sees the
young educated man meeting the ex-
pectation of the world that he will
come through all this with saving
faith in the 'primordial place of
righteousness and love in the world"
and a reverence for the spiritual sig
nificance of personality"
President Lowell begins with the
same portentious word, saying that
never in it's history has the world
been more in need of "clear, consci-
entious and generous thinking" but
from the very compulsion of this
tragic need springs the hope that we
with the unmatched power to m
fluence the fate of all mankind upon |
the earth will not be content with
mere material wealth and comfort
but will act in accordance with a be-
lief in a moral order President
Faunce speaks dispara gingly of 25 per
vent of the American students, saying
that it would have been better for
them and for the colleges if they had
never entered, and he declares for
discrimination in admission, not on
grounds of politics, race or religion
nor even scholarship alone, but of
character as well; and so, out Of his
pessimism, he looks toward finer
college Influence upon the life of com
munities and the nation
Other baccalaureate speakers have S
found, one that our generations do
not pull together" another that we
glory too much in our aloofness and ]
another that we are challengers of y
the world only in other than the !
highest things But from all this
pessimism flames confident hope as
eternal as the spirit Of youth and the
recurrent seasons
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WHEN ESSENTIALS ARE INVOLVED
The coal strike and the possible b
railroad strike brings up the question =
of the relation to the community and =
to the national life of the people who a
There are some kinds of service, II
which, by their very nature, must be
continuous. Every interruption means q.
4 great Inconvenience to the public al
and results in the feeling that the 81
lights of this same public have been o.
The result is an antagon- -
SIN which is hard to overcome and or
which results in the men, whether ST
hey be coal miners, railroad men, or OF
What not, who are responsible for -
his public Inconvenience, having to n,
ombat public sentiment in the future. of
he Issue then ceases, to an extent,
0 be between capital and labor and, re
7hether right or not, becomes an is tn
ne between the public and labor if y. -
abor is responsible for the inconveni- III
nee which is being suffered. 3O1
There are few basic essentials
Ike coal mining and railroading that thu
re so essential to the health, safety ac'
~ o,.;a+oao ~ ~ .,:.-- al for
~ S''' $3.50 - ~ eoii'iiuiii.y 'n"S del
lese services should be continuous.
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] strike ought to be in some en- boz
oyment in which they could do the an
me without endangering the safety dad
the community The public will bid
.mand that this principle be recog- flee
zed in these pending difficulties. lDlt
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The opinion prevails among those and
quainted with the political situa- !
:, 8, m,soons;n tbat conato ject
'llette will be renominated. The dav
socialists and nonparti- B
4 1eaguers have decided that he is CON
but the best maa they can nominated nun
the republicans-Ex.