The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-10
HUGHES CRITICISES FLEE I IN G VISION
 IN AME ERICA TODAY
Says Public Officials Have To Give Half Of Time To
 TWaddIe

PROVIDENCE. R. L, Oct. 9.-(By Associated Press. )-Publlc officers are forced to give half of their time unnecessary contacts and a consider able portion of the national energy is wasted by the dominance in Amer ica today of a f1eeting vision, a thirst for sensation and a relentless need for motion, Secretary of state Hughes declared tonight at dinner to Presl- dent Angel of Yale university, held in connection with the convocation of Brown university.
 "We find ourselves" he said, "in the age of the motor, the movie and the radio, which with freedom of locomotion, novel and easy intimacies, and the ever present and constantly expanding enterprise of the press. give us a delusive facility In acquir- ing information. It is the day of the fleeting vision. Concentration, thoroughness, the quiet reflection that ripens the judgment are more difficult than ever.
 Facility of communication is agreeable and useful, but 1t leads not only to making more numerous and lmportunate the demands of every calling, but to a vast waste of time by rendering easy countless intru- sions on serious work. A host of or ganizations spring up to give an ar tifical insistence to these demands. Too Many Requirement..
 q think that 1t Is the experience of public officials that 1t is not the proper work of the office that wears. but the unceasing requirements Of those who have little to do with the public business and by their constant importunities for extra official at tention use up the nervous energy iot, oh nr1d doUnfa6 service. But so important is the maintenance of good will, so generous are our American expectations. that it may be said that a public officer gives about one half his time in con tacts which are really unnecessary in order that he may be in a posi- ton to serve the other half"
 Secretary Hughes asserted 1t was the primary need of the American university-inore now than ever-to inculcate the desire for serenity, re- flection, sobriety of reason and calmness of judgment.
 The universities, he said, were over whelmed by numbers, condition which made necessary the use o various measures of elimination and process of selection of students.
 But" he added, fin some wa America must continue to provide tn opportunities of liberal education for  CTS, we must give of the best tc the best, but democracy needs no simply a chosen few but the elevation of t..e standards of life and though among the masses of the people tc the fullest extent practicable.
 No one MT. Hughes said, who want a higher education, along humanastie as well as along vocational or profes- sional lines. should be denied it for lack of resources.
 Wants Reasonable Men.
 Educational aims, he declared. re main unchanged asserting that teach CTS should not fall prey to the search for 'notoriety by sensational meth ods and purveying hasty generaliza tions and imperfectly considerations "
 "If democracy is to achieve its aims" he continued, ''if peace amone the nations Is to be assured. it will depend upon the supremacy of the disposition to be reasonable and just that is. upon the influence If reason able men.
 "To the extent that the university merely reproduces the rush. the hustle and the rapid give and take of life to the extent that it fails to yield serenity and reflection. it sacrifices it's great capacity for service in a tumultous world"