Show 41 op and ait Educator Locked On Question of Modern Dancing N. N 1 A s YOUTH THREATENED WITH MORAL DECADENCE 1 A or ye I l i PROFESSOR EDWARD A A. A ROS AND BISHOP THOMAS NICHOLSON Sl Wis Nov No Nomy 2 my By ByNEA XEA NEA Service Service Whither bound Is Americas America's as a.'s youth the youth the same youth entitled fd by precedent to its fling O such grave import Is the question ques ques- tion an eminent bishop and a a. g i ed educator are locked in controversy ersy over it F respective pulpit and ros- ros hurls wordy challenge at tl e iQ 1 hers her's ers er's views while their verbal apter sei meanwhile cross at logger- logger k 1 draw fire Ire 1 iu lii scholarly scholar aloofness com comes g Professor Protessor Edward A. A Ross Boss of ot tUc of ot Wisconsin here to a announce that the younger generation generation gen gen- Is dancing and petting It Itself itself It- It self into moral disintegration SOME CHEERFUL OPTIMISM R Regarded as one of the tho greatest living living- sociologists Ross further e c comments ti that we we have never ne k Ic before such pleasure mad young people Their entire time thought and energy are devoted to to finding new thrills Automobiles jazz dancing com com- and the movies lie He have haA-e done more toward weakening the moral fiber of America college college men and women not than excepted than any other of or th tho Institutions which history records Parents today today mothers mothers especially espe espe- cl lly he says are Just naturally Incompetent And where whelo not Inc Incompetent in incompetent In- In c competent they are too frivolous to bring their children up tip right Ea Educational institutions in the Iho next generation will have to begin tho moral teaching of the young BISHOP SAYS NIX To To which Bishop Thomas Ichols s in charge of ot the Chicago area of the Methodist church churell replies with hot rejoinder sending out sparks in all directions Tut Tot Tut says heIt heIt he It is ridiculous t tt tb think th the youth of today is on the downgrade downgrade downgrade down down- grade Why the hope of the tho future is in these young oung people It is true that tho theatres are aro crowded with pleasure seekers and I the tho roads crowded with Joy riders But over OA-er against that let me give vou you a few tew more facts There are more candidates for forthe forthe forthe the ministry today than ever before And the they are of higher ability I ordained fifty in the last ast thirty thirty- five I days Seven of the number were graduates from a state university sity too And it used to be that we I 1 got no ministers except from church II I colleges B BATTLE STILL WAGES In the Sunday schools of of our I church alone we have ha Just a a. few I short of enrolled And last I year there were published and distributed distributed distributed dis dis- dis- dis among these these- young people I more moro than a billion pages of Sun Sunday Suh day school literature 1 While the places of amusement are filled the churches colleges and libraries are overcrowded We had youthful criminals Inthe in inthe inthe the past and to have them In inthe the future But the young oung people of toda today taken as a whole are sound It is easy to magnify the Seriousness se seriousness seriousness se- se of ot youthful externals Finishing thus Nicholson doffs his ecclesiastical boxing gloves to await r resumption of or the battle from froni the enemy's stronghold Just what the next move will Avill be definitely known |