Show i A AMERICANS ARE ABE NOT NOTI I SERIOUS ERIOUS HE DECLARES CHICAGO Aug 16 AmerIcans 16 Americans and particularly Chicagoans are not serious and what Is worse are losin losing their ca capacity capacity capacity ca- ca for friendship according to Prof Charles of the Department of oC of the University of Chicago They are not very serious about an anything anything any any- thing religion or anything else he lie said In a lecture toda today We Wo are In a period of comparative indifference to nearly everything everything ev ev- except the matter mater of getting on We are all al in danger dager of losing our bur capacity for tor friendship through shutting ourselves up and through a diffusion of interests Even when rock bottom subjects subjects subjects sub sub- are discussed It Is only In a conventional conventional con con- way wayA way S A peculiar of con constraint is isan an American racial characteristic On the whole whole our phlegmatic conventional at attitude attitude at- at precludes a certain spontaneity of eX expression S |