The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-23

shall be opposed to some legisia- ton which, fear. Congress is likely to pass. The president sen1ea to me a better leader and decidef than Congress. Where I cannot follow him, I will be open-mind ed, not questioning his honesty and straightforwardness,
 Fourth, believe a new dav is coming, and many of the fhinEs I liked and believed in yesterday. are not going to be part of our fife to- Fifth, I will be sympathetic with those who envisaged a new day, even If 1t is based on striking changes. I will not say that these are impossible. chiefly because of the personal irritations which I myself may suffer. I will be par ticuiarly tolerant in my attitude; on tnese matters, toward the younger gen eration, who are so largely dis. satlsned with the so-called capital- istlc society, which has contributed m oays past, so largely toward Connecticut's prosperity.''
 President McConaughy described the average college boy as vastly were in our college days. Some of his convictions he will modify when he sets out to try to make his living. His college world is a different world from yours and mine. He sees his government at his very elbow. His roommate is able to continue in college only be- cause the federal government is paying him for job on the cam- pus. If he is at Yale, he knows his president believes 1t certain that education, ultimately on its university levels, will be brought under government influence He Is told that the state is exercising more control over the private col- lege than ever before; in Connee- ticut, by the threat to tax part of It's property, made two years ago and likely to be repeated this win. ter; in New Lork, by the legisla- tive vote that no teacher cnrl be paid until he has given an oath to support the constitution of the lla- ton and the state. He is disturbed at the agitations and expulsions of hls fellow students in New York and California. Socialistic agita- tors--of the type of which, fortu- nately, Connecticut has few--leave him cold. He is moved to thought, however, when a senator's son, or a Morgan partners son, adopts so. cialism.
 Avoid College Revolutions
 The colleges of Connecticut are controlled by men of rare breadth and sympathy. Like all colleges. they have prospered by the bene- factions of capitalists whose wealth has largely come through success full industrial activity. To be fair to the boy who is disturbed about American life, and to the capitalis- tic society which has built and en- dowed the college-that is not easy. The colleges are the recruit ing grounds for the best leadership tomorrow. You and must be gen erous in our judgments on these young people. In South America and some European countries, the universities are the centers of revo- lution. That must 'not-and will not-happen in America. Connecti- cut manufacturers should not let 1t be said that they are opposed to adequate educational opportunities there is involved the strengthen ing, through increased taxation, of the state controlled college.
 These new ideas of life and so- ciety often cut straight across the convictions and experiences of Connecticut industrial leaders" the Wesleyan president continued. Rugged >individualism' is. think. as outworn a phrase as '16 to T.. The president of the National Chamber of Commerce, who hap pens to be a Wesleyan graduate and trustee, lists these among the goals we must seek together:
 "A job for everybody who is able to work, at fair pay, with req sonable working hours, and with adequate time off to enjoy life.
 Security against the hardships of unemployment, sickness, acci- dent. and old age.'
 These are matters we must face, nationally, and in our state. Many of them cannot be accom- plished for years. We must de- wise some form of insurance to protect the honest man who wants work and cannot find it; society will not let him and his family starve. Modern life is now so con- stituted that we cannot approve the old doctrine that each man must work out his own salvation, find his own job, support his o~r, family. Nor. I trust. shall we try to tide ourselves over any future depressions with stupendous fed. eral grants for jobs and new con- struction. Something must be done to lessen the fear of poverty in old age, for the citizen who. in spite of his best efforts. has been unable, unaided, to prepare adequately for it. The poor farm. or town farm, is not the solution for this prob- lem. One half of our. states now have some form of old age pen. sion; only two New England states have such laws, and Connecticut is not one.
 Illness Handicap
 "Some d.y, the community will have a larger share. believe, m keeping its citizens healthy, No waste in the world Is as staggerirg as that due to illness-nHpst of 1t. thanks to our medical discoveries, avoidable. Such plans, If under taken by the nation and state, would involve tremendous costs. The plans are not, however, revolu- tionary. England has them all, and industry has not been confis- cated.
 .'Taxation changes are inevitablei whether the report of the special commission in Connecticut de- scribes the best reforms for us. or not, i, beyond my judgement" MT McConanghy concluded. Each of you will be facing this question shortly. Your rights must be pro- tected: private industry with rea, sonable opportunity for profit will be, I trust, continued for many decades. Industrial Connecticut