Show Richard H. Colleges Must Supply World of Tomorrow With Able Leadership The idyllic and peaceful life of a varsity campus seems far removed from the world depicted in our newspaper y Yet more than any what is place on those campuses will determine the kind SIP of world that is Wi emerge from the M and chaos today be-J It is not a pleasant live to see the time when brute force and tyranny jM dominate whole shares the bleak and hopeless outlook of France or Belgium But we live in a world where the forces of retrogression and i de-civilization are in the and where decency and humane ing are gradually being exterminated from the face of the NEW APPROACH NEEDED How long this trend to barbarism will continue depends upon what we in U. S. do during the next half The defeat of desirable as it would not insure a reversal of this for he is more a symptom than a of the present sad state of the Only a wholly new approach to the ills that beset mankind today can save us from more calamitous Our choice is either we create a new and better social order or see what progress man has made during the past thirty centuries disappear in a series of world wars and economic de-i Which that choice is to be upon the men and women who are to be our leaders during the fateful years If they lack the and or the strength and wisdom to do what must be the last chance for civilized men to wrest future of mankind from the forces destruction and barbarism now ascending in power will be and the outlooks for western civilization will be darks 1 It is the young men and women are now and who will be students in universities who must become these lead- They are the ones upon whom so-J has lavished its richest ties social and economic Theirs is the responsibility to the advantages they have en-j joyed by assuming the role of leadership in i LEADERS MUST BE WISE Not only but a new concept of democratic leadership is We ther need nor want the brutal and ruthless leaders who are now being trained by Nazi Germany to rule the territories occupied by the German Our leaders must rather express the noblest and most desirable traits in good The creation of such leaders must be-J come a function and aim of our The greatest leaders are not those who make speeches or enact but whose thoughts and actions elevate and stimulate the people with whom they come in A good teacher is a true His influence upon his students can be made the source of and stimulating the student to new insights and habits of clear think- wise skepticism and creative The essential qualities of a leader are clearly defined objectives and certain beliefs or convictions that form a vital part of his He may believe thai the ultimate aim of society is the creation of free capable of living useful happy He may believe that beliefs and practices of Nazi Germany and Japan threaten to destroy the root and flower of western unless checked before the whole world falls beneath their The important thing is that he has that they feet his behavior and the thoughts and actions of the people influenced by COLLEGES SOURCE OF LEADERS The men and women who are from our universities must active influences in our civic and Too long have our trained individuals remained aloof the inner councils and the economic political life of the mainly be- cause their has been more than the pursuit of and bundles of miscellaneous Our universities must lead the way tog a re-construction of our many or inadequate institutions and practices political by making the men and women who effect these The rare student who leaves college with a grasp of h j goals and desires and able to play a dy-J and positive role as a leader society must become the not the i By recognizing our by becoming the leaders of we who are today university students become the creators of a new and better the hope and beacon of all mf If we do we need not fear however dark it may momentary ily |