New Britain herald., 1924-03-04

He made plea for the spirit of progress. He said that people resent anything new. They think that If anything is new, it is inferior. He gave as examples the trials of those brave men who first ventured forth with umbrellas and those who first | used bath tubs. Tn those days ii
 was the belief that one would get sick
 if he bathed all over." he said. The man who first carried all umbrella | in the rain was jeered at by the rest of the populace for so doing, the rest of the populace meanwhile. getting soaking wet in so doing"
 That tendency to resent anything
 new is the basis of race prejudice and 1.-the cause of war and evils. We should stand for the things that unite. and not for those that divide" he asserted. Progress is only accom- plished by being and doing something different.
 Liberty was the next ideal to be spoken of. Professor Vaughn stated that the people of today are not free and they have a tremendous job on their hands. All giants were not in
 the past" he said. we must get
 some out of the future"
 The fact that the people of today are not free was shown when the
 speaker told of the ravages of disease and of the needless and preventable
 deaths that occur every year. We thought it was a horrible thing when
 we lost so many of our brave soldiers in the great war, but during that time thousands of others were lost as a result of tuberculosis and we didn't say word"
 If there are any cases of typhoid fever in a community, it means that someone in that community should k6 jailed" he said in concluding the dis cussion of needless diseases. Free dom comes only with perfect health" The Beauty of Poverty ,...
 Another thing from which the peo- also spoken of in no glowing terms. If you're poor, you're slave. There's no getting away from that. It's all nonsense to talk of liberty without in cluding the question of income. Even the schools realize it and are prepar- ing the young people so that they may not have to know what poverty is Spiritual things have their beginning In material things. and material things cost money" he exclaimed.
 He characterized as ''all bunk" the stories of the glories of poverty and those who laud poverty, telling of speaker who goes around the country telling of the beauties of being poor, for sl5o a tell" I've lived among the poor and know what it is to be poor" he asserted.
 'If poverty is such a wonderful thing. shell out!" he exclaimed. talk ing to those who speak of tho beauties of 1t. Its all talk. Those people just indulge in lot of foolish platitudes that get them nowhere. They say 1t makes people hustle. It does So do crime and war and disease. How could the factories do business with universal poverty?" he asked, adding. as a warning 10 the younger people, that they should not give their char acters for the sake of a few dollars, declaring "There are worse things than poverty" +'r
 Another tyranny who prevents peo- pie from being free is custom, accord ing to the lecturer. He spoke of many instances where custom and fashion have people in their grip, mentioning some not altogether serious examples of custom and its origin In tho line of modern clothes.
 He then went on 10 the next Ameri- can ideal, justice. He spoke of the negroes and the partial justice given them, stated that there is more com-