Show shallowness amm OF or THE mm PEOPLE lackadaisical EASYGOING EASY GOING di DISREGARD OF THE LAW criticism offered by president hnry henry churchill king of oberlin col lose ata dinner ch chicago icaco april 27 shallowness hallow ness I 1 passion for material comfort and a lackadaisical easygoing easy casy going bisgard for wal a aw 54 a r church III king TO lege arc am the besetting sins of the american people president kings dia goisis of the nations case was made last night in on an address before the oberlin alumni aa socia Bo clation tic n nt at its annual dinner here we are in real danger from the ani american rush he lie said we pride ourselves on living fast and we do but the nation that lives too fast to think Is lost it lit Is curious that in this age of science in which the reign of law IB Is supreme there should be so utter a disregard tor for law in moral and spiritual affairs in our reaction from puritanism we seem to have fallen into inte a lackadaisical easygoing easy going point of view aa if somehow or other we ox expected to escape the law whenever we so desire I 1 tell you we wo are in danger of waking with ringing in our oars ears the awful mockery of these words thou fool I 1 1 I have no doubt that tho the american people are wrongly interpreted when they arc are classy classed as anere mere money grabbers and yet the danger of our immense increase in wealth tho the danger of the stupefying deadening effect of our passion for material comfort no roan man can deny our personal and our national ideala ideals we bad had them once are in danger |