The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-02
BY PROF. ROBERT E. ROGERS
Copyright. 1890. by United PressD


Copyright. 1880. by United Press
Mr.. Gerard's list Of the rulers Of
America undoubtedly is valid so far
as it covers the control Of our bust
ness and therefore, probably, of our
prosperity. But social history
shows undoubtedly that popular
demagogues, journalists, educators
and religious leaders with sufficient
dynamic power can often %overturn
that control either temporarily or
for long periods.
I have been requested by United
Press to make up a short list OF
intellectual and spiritual leaders Of
America"
/ have tried to stick to names so
we'll known that almost every one
will know them-names guaranteed
to exercise considerable influence
at least in their own groups. All are
important. Arrangement of the
names, however, is not the slightest
indication Of their Importance.
Cadman Heads List
If I we're giving them honorary
degrees 1 should present them as
follows:
Or. S. Parkes Cadman, radio
preacher, whose success delivered
yet another blow at church going.
DR.. Harry Emerson Fosdick, idol
of all perplexed modernists of
American Professionalism.
Bishop James Cannon Of the
Methodist church.
William Cardinal O'Connell of
Boston, ablest of the hierarchy in
America.
John Haynes Holmes, founder of
the community church in many
cities.
Felix Adler of New York, founder
of ethical culture.
Bruce Barton, who thinks Of
Christianity in terms of business
and craftsmanship.
Upton Sinclair, our only absolute
100 per cent idealist.
Judge Ben Lindsay of Denver.
Edgar A. Guest, American poet
laureate, who has cut the American
public off completely from their
great natural heritage of English
poetry.
One Original Thinker
George Horace Lorimer, editor of
the Saturday Evening Post, for
over thirty years he has taught the
American business man his weekly
gospel, that nothing in American
is important enough to stand in the
way of private profit.
3 John Dewey, most notable among
American philosophers.
Henry l.. Mencken, editor of the
American mercury, u only eight
zenith century realist.
Walter Lippmann, editor of the
New York World, q modern stole
who believes man must stand on
his own feet.
Irving Babbitt, the only professor
of literature at Harvard who is a
creative thinker and not a philog-
list.
Paul Elmer More, who seeks to
restore classic control in literature
and philosophy.
Charles A. land Nary Beard,
whose conception of history as a
social and economic complex has
revolutionized its writings in the
United States.
Holmes, Rogers Important
James Harvey Robinson, his
torian.
Stuart Chase, whose books on adj
Vertising, business and the machine
age have revealed to us the over-
whelming anarchy and irr~ationality
of our American business civiliza-
ton.
Clarence Darrow, lawyer and
humanitarian.
Justice Holmes of the supreme
court of the United States, who is
generally held to have inherited the
mantle of the late Charles william
Eliot as THE First American"
Will Rogers, cosmopolite, whose
successful unbunking of the Amer
lean politician. high and low, is an
indispensable preliminary to a new
and intelligent conception Of
democracy.