Show IA S ha common M an rk to rule population 4 may backslide olow low intelligence level W f fly by t N news ew j analyst and commentator washington when the henry wallace for president t i movement was launched in california it made a lot of republicans happy just to think about it ni although though they never really bali believed eVed that a third party was possible when I 1 was in col legen frie friend n d of mino wrote an essly essay entitled why a thil third d i party Is impossible in america thia thi was just before teddy roosevelt Hoo sevelt came out with his bull moosers in 1012 if wallace were to become president of 0 the united states it Is unlikely that tho common man whom ho he champions would have tiny any tn oreto say ay about running the country than he does docs now however I 1 when wallace says tills this Js Is the century of the common mon man 10 lie ile far wrong tho the revolutions which have swept the world in the past decade certainly would not have been possible it if they had not had the support of 0 the people 0 I 1 this support was not necessarily A ia the result ot of tree free choice intellectual delisl decision on or popular vote in tact fact f for or the most part certainly under mussolini franco littler hitler andi and S stalin falln it was wae the opposite no corthe bl less ants they were n not t revolutions of c th the aier upper classes E even von jn in the case of great arit oens very mild revolution which was the result ot of popular vote mind and a tree free choice the traditional political and intellectual leaders were swept out of onico office Amb americana americans ricans are commuted committed to the idea that tile majority should rulo rule and the theory always has been that the people would be wise enough to select a person of 0 sufficient intelligence d and integrity to represent them at the job of 11 rulley oi 01 late however a number of 0 f w p persons ers 9 ns approaching tho the problem leni roni 0 m qu quit ito different angles hay have e expressed concern about the aduca tion and training of the men available for or the tha responsibility ot of car crying on the business of 0 government i 1 have been assured by old timers here who have leom bean with the of corier congress ess over a 8 number of years that we perhaps have as aa high type 0 of men mentally end and morally in congress today as we vo havo over ever had in fact act I 1 am told they aro are making excellent use of 0 tho greatly expanded sources of information on tho tha issues they have to consider and are arc therefore better wormed informed than any has wit V eyer ever been u n y erth eless we hear from edu 1 catora ato rs from economists and statis tl ti clans out sorts of diri warnings one that has recently stirred up tho the press considerably was by guy ftc burch head of the tha population reference bureau it seems durch burch reada read a survey mado made in england by sir cyril curt burt at the re quest of the royal commission on population As a result of his survey sir cyril suggests that in SO 60 years the number of students of scholarship schola iship willy ability in britain will be app roxi r hafely halved and tho the number of feeble almost doubled this conclusion was based on psychological tests and size of ts milles lies in 4 britain ration nation seen in future burch has 1141 studied population statistics for the U tilted states from the standpoint of psychological tests educational attainment economic status and typo type ot of occupy cioll Hc says wo we way 7 reach tho the general conclusion that tile tho lowest third pt of gur people in each one ot of v these our c categories ate gorles has camill families as about twice I 1 as largo as those of the W highest ghost third and ha fit As a voting parit elpant in helping to 10 solve tile the many intricate problems of our complex civilization a dull aud and backward ackward individual Is almost ns as helpless as an idiot in fact ho he maya may bo be more dangerous to democrat lo 10 institutions because ile he la is easily commanded by derna dema bogues nud and dictators chis gives bi a quite a different dil lerent pie pic i ture of 0 uie the emoury ot of too the common man dr francis drown brown staff assoil ate of tho the american council on education end the executive secretary of the presidents commission quarrel with buechs figures but he says Ws this population intel report does not give enough importance to the possibility of improving intelligence by education t in other words it if wu wo broaden the base of our teaching we can regain a lot of the potential waste ma f aerial that burch has discovered t what the burch report OWN over looks loois Is 19 tills says art dr brown human intelligence niver never has i been developed to its fullest among atmon the great masses of people no way has haa been found accurately to lo measure ithe ultimate capabilities of cf the ho human mind there are others however who while they may agree with browns postulation question the methods now being used to develop these innate abill abilities fles A very dim view of the situation Is taken by canon bernard iddings doll bell educator pastor author laid consultant on education to tho the episcopal bishop of chicago iio ho thinks henry wallace is I 1 correct in his description of the current century but he says it does not follow bebau zo the common man has suddenly been lifted into control that he Is thereby automatically mods made competent properly to exert control ile iio thinks wallaces definition ought to bo be expanded ito ile says anys ours Is the century of tho the perpetually adolescent common bommon man of the common man unskilled in tho the art of living U untaught n in the wisdom of the race lie he Is incompetent either to rule or to lis he ruled ll 11 need education for common man the canon snobbish lie ile Is not looking down his canonical nose at anybody As a member of society he takes his share of the blame by saying that society has played the common man a low trick ifor for which those who control education are chiefly chargeable dell ile 11 quotes the late dr william rainey harpers definition of an educated man A man who by the za 1 1 j OT 11 u M M k 1 avi A 42 III J A canon iddings bell unskilled Skilled fin i I 1 time he is 25 has a clear theory formed in tho the light of human experience peri ence down the ages of wha constitutes a satisfying life a significant ant life and who by the age of 30 has a moral philosophy consonant with racial experience dell bell thinka think that what wo we do not do ao and what wo we ought to do to educate Is first to give children a knowledge of the races wisdom imparting to them mem they iney aught to know rather than teach them what they would like to study second to teach children how to read write listen to and speak tho the Efi english glish language third they must bo be taught decent manners thoi rights of others fourth they must learn that honest and crafts manlike achievement esthe only door to so elal app approval fifth teachers mus inspire reverence for or thoun tho ahr un n seen and impart somo some objective knowledge of what tho the various faiths about us are arc to do and teach I 1 wish that some smart statistician would try to figure out it t the kind of education which would give a man a high income like likewise wile makes hill fit to run a country ai s complicated tom as ours in IL a world as complicated HB as ours |