New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1924, Page 3

¢ ' D.D. VAUGHN ON "AMERICAN IDEALS' Boston Man Talks to Central Parents and Teachers’ Assn. Through the knowledge of chemis- try that man now las, the next war will be more terrible than the past one, said David D, Vaughn of Boston University at a meeting of the Central Parents’ and Teachers' association last evening, his lecture being one of the most interesting of the season. He prophesied another war within ten years, a war in which not only the fighting men will be killed but one in which women and children will be in- cluded in the toll taken. Soldiers will nat be of much use. Through the pérfection of deadly gases, airplanes wil] be able to swoop down on cities, dropping deadly gas bombs and wip. ing out the entire population in a fe: hours. “The trouble with the world today is sheep! Sheep! Sheep! What the world needs is independent thinkers,” he said. Professor Vaughn's talk dealt with “American Ideals.” “What does Amer- ica stand for?" was the first question asked. “We are willing to go out and die for American ideals, but do we know what they are? What does the old flag really stand for?" He brought out the fact that the United States really has ideals which should be known by all. The ideals born with a college educatjon, so pe: ple must acquire thelr appreciation of the truth of things eleswhere. “Adam |and Fve did not come into the world {fully equipped. All they had when Iohey entered the world were their | birthday suits and a smile.” Tt was |for them, to gain other tHings else-] where, he said. ! Toghow how thought and truth de- |velop, the speaker took astronomy |for an example. He asserted that as- |tronomists are looking forward to the ;flny when that science will no. longer | be a plaything for millionaires and a | pastime for others, but a real bene- }m to the world. It is probable, he said, that in time to come, it will be | possible to foresee weather conditions for years in advance by the study of |sun spots. He showed how astrono- my started and how it has gradually come to the fore as one of the lead- | ing sciences. Another of the great studies of to- |day, chemistry, was also discussed. }atod in alchemy, where men tried, by pouring acids on lead, tin and other | metals, to change them into gold and silver. A foolish quest and a fruit- less one, he, said, but from it develop- ed the most important of modern |sciences, chemistry. Taking Up Religion. He made the statement that primi- |tive man has always been religious. | Because of the creative instinct which is in all of us. Primitive man wanted |to control his environment, but he needed outside help. So he placed his faith in some superior being. Without that faith man would not survive today. To show how progress cannot exist | with conformity, the speaker gave ex- |amples. He shawed how people| |laughed at the steamboat, the tele-| was the belief that one would get sick if he bathed al) over,” man who first carried an in the rain was jeered at by the rest of the populace for so doing, the rest of the populace ,meanwhile, soaking wet in so doing.” new is the basis of race prejudice and {the cause of war and {should stand for unite, and not for those that divide,” he asserted. {plished by being and doing something different. { He showed how that science origin- their hands. are not free was shown when the ispeaker told of the ravages of disease and of the needless and preventable thought it was a horrible thing when time thousands of others were lost as a result of someone in that community should L | jailed,” he said in concluding the dis- cussion of needless diseases. He made a plea for the spirit of progress. He said that people resent|commented in glowing terms on the anything new. anything is new, it is inferior. gave as examples the trials of those brave with umbrellas and those who first They think that if He men who first ventured forth used bath tubs. “In those days it| he sald. *“The umbrella getting That tendency to resent anything | “We that evils. the. things Progress is only accom- Liberty was the next ideal to be spoken of. Professor Vaughn stated that the people of today are not free and they have a tremendous job on “All giants were not in | the past,” he said. *“We must get some out of the future.” The fact that the people of today deaths that occur every year. “We we lost so many of our brave soldiers in the great war, but during that turberculosis and we didn't say a word.” “If there are any cases of typhold fever in a community, it means that “Free- dom comes only with perfect health,” The “Beauty” of Poverty Another thing from which the peo- ing to them as tim emancipation of women, saying that the country will some day realize the good which is derived In giving the | women the rght to vote. | He also dealt with the child labor | question, saying that man is the only | animal that lives on its young, asking “If children are brought into the world without their consent, why | should they be brought into the world at all unless they can be fully equip- ped for life?” He did not stop on the ideal of ' equality, but dispensed with it, by saylng that it is believed in and that legislation is passed advocating it. The last deal, that of service, was emphasized, every sentence of it. | “The people of the United States have no use for a parasite. Money doesn't mean a thing to the Ameriean people | unless the man having the money has { done something of service to his fel- low man.” He sald thal there are many who want something for noth- ing. One fault he sald he has to oftén noticed In the younger genera- tion, is the fact that they are a bunch | of grafters. In summing up his talk he said that Americans would, if need be, die for | thelr ideals in order that they might | become the heritage of a world demo- tracy. MARDI GRAS TODAY Today is Shrove Tuesday and New Orleans is City of Mad Galety As People Celebrate. New Orleans, March 4.—Mardi Gras | —8hrove Tuesday—the last day before the beginning of the Lenten period of forty days of abstinence from gaiety for most of the city's population— broke forth with the customary mad whirl of fun and frolic. As early asssunrise revelers garbed in every conceivable kind of costume appeared on the streets. As the hours | considered American ideals do not im- | Phone and other inventions. He show- press. European nations and the peo- |4 how the forefathers of this coun- ple In the far countrics think ot | ¥, because they did not wish to con- Americans in a different light than |fOTM to laws lald down by a British they think of themselves. For king, packed up and departed, thus stance, he said, in England making the foundation for the United ple of today are not free, poverty, was also spoken of in no glowing terms. “If you're poor, you're a slave. There's no getting away from that. It's all nonsense to talk of liberty without in- cluding the question of income. Even the schools realize it and are prepar- Buy in New Britain and not out of town—Values and Quality offered at the Big Furniture Store cannot be excelled elsewhere. . in- they | Y | states. think of American jazz as being typi- cally American, Others characterize He brought out truths to show that {ing the young people so that they may advanced the .eddylng throngs of | maskers swelled, until at 11 o'clock, us being American the fact that Yan-|the forefathers did not know it all. kees like to boast and tell big stories | 1" 80 doing he carried on an exam- about themselves and the country. |IPation of George Washington, as it|in The art of making money s thought | might be carried on if that great man by many Europeans to be another|¢uld be alive today. He asked ques- American ideal, tions, to which the inevitable answer Professor Vaughn stated that Amer- | Would be, “I don't know,” for instance fea doos have ideals, “We in the|“What Is a steamboat,” What 18 a ra- United States consider ourselves the |410?" “What is a submarine?” He did most idealistic nation in the world,” |that to show, he said, that the men of hie said, And that thought is not pe- [those times did not know it all, and culiar to the United States. Thut be. |that great strides are now being Jief is held In all frontier countries, as | Made In_the direction of something well us in the United States, better. One hundred years from now, [thing, shell out!” he exclaimed, talk- The real American ideals were then Lhfl sald, people will look back on this|ing to those who speak of the beauties discussed, the speaker taking each in jgeneration, and Jaugh because it}of it. “It's all talk. Those people just turn and explaining it. This explana- ;'\"0“* o ‘little, g indulge in a lot of foolish vlnl"ud"!{ tion was uchieved, sometimes by | Hits at “Stand-Patters,” lh:-‘t‘ get m'ilnh“m]wr?t dThey :oyd" stories and other times by the reci-| e launched into makes people hustle, oes. o tation of facts, Tho first idoul 1o bo |0 catled ~stand-patterss According|CTMe And War and _ disease. How thought of, he asserted, is truth, to the speaker they are not “so good.” could the Vm'tnrh*'n! do business with P'cople seem to have strange ideas |He. usked where the world would be|U"iYersal poverty? he asked, adding, about truth, he declared. He went ‘ o "lus a warning to the younger people, C . now If Christ had been a stand-patter|yy.y they should not give their char. into u discussion of evolution, which, jand had stood by the Pharisees, if ¢ y v . acters for the sake of a fow dollars, |claimed he was the victim of a plot ::';|4~::.d']|l:rrpol.\l"'1:I-nl"; :::n:‘:x!':n’v.?.'l‘: Ml;h iy "n%‘ ”"“‘:‘d hldd been|geclaring “There are worse things | And nearly 300 students at the meet- the cholce of two theories. - ?f he world needs free|than poverty. ing applauded when he finished an [ thinke: A er tyranny who prevents peo. | swering the charge. ~ One of them i that man was de-| “The conservatives 'of one genera- nl«-\?:;:u ;el)nr: r:c’.- mhcu‘s‘tom. -c«-grd- ’I‘ho‘.l“l'l “""0'“"““"“"‘ kissed ad- seended from monkeys and the other ‘tion are the worshippers of the dead |ing to the locturer, He spoke of many | dressed the board In behalf of the in l‘huL man come from mud. “Mon-|radicals of Jpreceding generations,” |instances where custom and fashion |instructor. &he sald Damon Kkissed keys or mud, he said, “we must |was & sentgfice driven home by Pro-|have people In their grip, mentioning her “on a dare,” and “we would have muke our choice,” “Either we came | fessor Vau “There was no man|some not altogether serious examples | thought we had scored agalnst any from a perfect man and are on the |so nmhgny in his day as Lincoln.{of custorm and its origin In the Iine of |teacher If hé had refused a dare way down, or we sprang from unlmnl!?\\’n-hlnmoflgu a traitor, Christ was|modern clothes, The girl told the board that Princi- .n_d” are on our way up,” |a heretic,”, sald. The one thought He then went on to the next Amerd- | pal €. T, Rice had reported the kiss- Ihe appreclation of truth iy not he desired to impress on his hearers|can ideal, justice. He spoke of the |ing incident after she told him of it born in people. They must come by | was that these men all lod movements|nogroes and the partial justice glven |in confidence. Damon sald he would it afterwards. Just as a Laby 18 lmllm the direction of definite progress. not have to know what poverty s Spiritual things have their beginning material things, and - material things cost money,” he exclaimed. He characterized as “all bunk” the storles of the glories of poverty and those who laud poverty, telling of a speaker who goes around the country telling of the beauties of belng poor, for $160 a "tell.” “I've lived among the poor and I know what it is to be poor,” he asserted. “If poverty is such a wonderful the hour for the appearance of Rex, king of the carnival, the route over which he was to pass with a gorgeous pageant of a score of floats was a mass of exuberant humanity. Throughout the day and until sunset when, under a police regulation, they Readthe Price Tags and Deduct o Ot tiaaskaiy Taa dtabtr i ws 20% 20% 20% bR . then you have our Sale Price for cash. At no other time of the KISSING TEACHER OUSTED year wil‘ you have an opportunity like this, so act now. Kansas High School Instructor Who Did Tt On a Dare Loses His Job As Result, Kansas City, Kansas, March 4. The city board of education last night unanimously voted to oust E. ¥E. 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