Evening star., 1925-04-26
Colleges Would Stem lrreligious Tides
By Rectifying Own Mistakes of Past

the wrong direction. Moreover, they have
failed to influence the parents to give their
children the proper religious education. The
parents are not educating their children re-
ligiously as they did generation ago.
Q. Why not?
A. Because they do not know what to
teach them. The parents themselves don't
know what they believe. We are in transi-
tional stage.
Next Generation Equally Bad.
The sad part about it all is that the chill
dren of today will be the parents Of tomorrow,
and they will in turn be at just as great loss
as to how to instruct their own children.
The colleges and schools not giving
these future parents the right religious and
moral training. But we don't know ourselves
just what to teach them. We, also are in the
process OF finding ourselves. We are just
awakening to the Importance of our failure
which in itself is an important thing. In fact
one of the most optimistic signs at present is
the fact that every college realizes that it has
failed in this respect
Q. How long will the youth Of our country
continue to lack this essential moral training?
A. Until we get out of the present slough
of despond" and find out where we are, and
what we want to make Of ourselves and
children. The parents very much to blame,
and it is essential that all look these facts
in the face.
However, think that the tide has turned
! know for a fact that most colleges have un.
dertaken new work in the field of religious in
struction. Northwestern has just added five
professors in this department.. The largest
number OF our graduate students are now en-
rolled in department of religious education.
This was never true before Chemistry, which
used to be most popular. has now fallen to
ond place.
The universities have at last come to see
that the proper study of mankind is man. They
have begun to realize that we must place our
emphasis on the social sciences whose value
cannot be measured in terms of dollars but in
the finer and less tangible terms of apprecia.
ton, service and sacrifice.
We have awakened to the fact that men
not working together happily and eff
fectively. There is said to be lack of control
in the home, restiessness in the school, apathy
in the church, shirking in the shops. dishonesty
in the counting house, grating in politics,
crime in the city and bolshecism threatening
institutions.
The universities are tacking these prob
lens. Here are some of the things we have
done at Northwestern. know that other uni.
versities are working along the same line.
Colleges Prevent Strikes
Three, of our professors experimenting
with the relations of employees and employers
in industrial organizations. Ten years ago
they tried out unique form of cooperation
with single firm. At present the system is
used in over so plants employing $4,000 men.
l believe this experiment Is step toward
eliminating bolshevism.
Four OF our professors have been working
with the children of public schools en-
deavoring to appraise artistic ability in order
that children may get started the path for
which they are best fitted This should elini-
nate restlessness in the schools. Three other
professors, assisted by SO graduate students
working with thousands of parents, Sun
day school teachers and preachers in devising
a proper religious training for children and
ascertaining the reason for apathy in the
church and lack of control in the home.
Only few have caught the vision Of the
possible service that awaits the development
of the social sciences The dividends will not
be in dollars nor in increased earning power
but in the helpfuness Of members Of the fam
lily, efficient service for the industrial organiza-
tion better citizenship in Government and in
ternational good will, which will make for per-
manent peace.
Archimedes said that. il provided with
fulcrum, he could move the earth. The Ameri-
universities are providing an effective
fulcrum that makes it possible to move the
earth and to promote the welfare of ALL