Article March 14, 1925 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from E. J. Dillon, Ida L. Wilbur, J. S. Haldane, Harry Emerson Fosdick

[Dr. E. J. Dillon, in the Fortnightly Review, London, England, Oct. 1, 1924]

To-day the peoples of Europe have at least an idea of what must be done before they can settle down again to normal conditions. Whether they will make the requisite sacrifices will depend largely upon their lawgivers, their journalists, their public workers,—in a word, the teachers and guides who impress, inspire, and move them. For what will ultimately tell is less the number and functions of the new institutions than an atmosphere of fellow-feeling, of mutual trust, of cooperation. ... The moral and social atmosphere, poisoned by the deadly gases of the World War, is not to be disinfected by institutions only. ... Yellow journalism is a scourge that should be extirpated, ... like yellow fever or leprosy. And for this purpose institutions of a kind that never before existed are needed in every nation on the globe. ... History-teaching, which is generally yellow journalism in book form served up with pedagogical sauce, must be reformed everywhere.

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