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Show M0DERNISH8F TODAY We often wonder why the wolrd is so unsettled; why our youth don't understand un-derstand us or we them; 1 why we can't get laws to cope crime and all that sort of thing. Now stop and think what changes have taken place in the past twenty yeras, and then ask ourselves the question, 'What have we done about them " Let us pee. We have taken away the horse and buggy and put on the road speed. , breeding machines that strike when no wrath provoke. We call this mordernlsm. It Is. But it often leaves In its path ' the tracks of sorrow by killing somebody besides the fool driver. The liberty of speed has often been translated Into In-to un trammeled license. We have Invented talking machines and radios and sit passively In our overstuffed cushions listening to the artists broadcasting culture from a waxed plate or through the static atmosphere. at-mosphere. Why learn to play music ourselves? It is much easier to remain undeveloped undevel-oped and get our culture by dropping a nickel in' the slot! The result is a conglomeration of Jazz performances and . a Jazty-mlnded, Dlzry.mlnded nation of ' people. Jan is all we know because Jazz Is ail we can perform. per-form. We have taken 'away the saloon (thanks be for that), but In many in. stances we have failed to evolve and foster the necessary social, moral and religious forces to appease In whole, some manner the excitement loving prosperity of the half-drunken multL tudes of a decade ago. We have, prohibited! what Is wrong but we have been, ' too prone to stop here and have not gone a step further and provided the right things to. take its place. Here Is the challenge to the church, the school, and the home, and to the community's cnlture resources. We have mobilized the soap boxes to stand upon and tell what we think is wrong with the country, when all we want lis a Utte mlore domestic happiness easily produced y more charity to our wives, children, rela. Uvea- and humanity, and a few pill to cure our lndegestion. We have taken away classical learnings learn-ings from our schools; substituted for the fundamental three "R's" . a host of strange doctrines which scarcely scar-cely two "educators'.' agree upon, and then wonder why crime, in its moral and economical aspects, costs more than education itself. Everything Is specialized. We hire the other fellow to do our working, our playing and our .thinking. . Our children seldom wield their own shoe brush, and for the modern girl to "do up" her own hair Is getting to be a lost art Thanks to the safety razor. It is helping to keep the world safe for democracy, but only by a close shave. Modernism Is a golden heritage, but we must watch It keep abreast of It of ever changing conditions or it will get away from us and get away with us. |