Article April 4, 1936 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Culture and Progress

with contributions from Garry C. Meyers, William S. Whitsitt, A. G. C.

[From the Journal, Minneapolis, Minnesota]

One cannot go about the country, mingling with everyday folk, without being impressed by the quiet strength, the intelligence, the steadfast purpose of average humanity. There is evident a feeling that we have stressed the wrong values, and that we must get back to the spiritual foundations of life. There is a new interest in history and literature, not for the sake of culture in the polite sense, but as the means whereby our minds and hearts may be enriched with the lessons other men have learned at the hand of life.

And one finds all these things, this courage, earnestness, sense of new values, this intelligent effort to bring the largest meaning into life, in the country village of three hundred inhabitants, in a CCC camp thirty miles from a railroad, in a service club of fifteen members in an old mining town, as well as in universities and teachers' colleges and faculty clubs.

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