with life and shall be all aglow with a passion for service. The great war SUUthrough which we have just lived has thrown doubt upon every answer to the permanent problems of organized society. You must face this universal e mind challenge. Everything is questioned. sidered All of the ordinary ideas and beliefs of not an man are being re-examined, re-formu- i think- lated or abandoned. A deep tone of eaning disrespect runs all through American realizes life. The home, the courts, the ballot r self- box, the present theories of property ht and rights are all regarded by large groups r, the of people as temporary solutions of under- fundamental issues. In this atmosphere ongeal, you must breathe and work and keep cs and vital. No generation ever faced such here is gigantic, momentous problems as you ed. He face. With no thought of solving them t that or even of casting any light upon their element complications and entanglements, but He pos- for the purpose of burning into your r sensi- very souls the magnitude of your re- nform- sponsibilities, there should be men- yearn- tioned here by way of illustration, cer- under- tain primary questions which you must y. He answer. ig new Must Face Issues impressed by a ult. In a word, om the =artistic a ientist. He will evince resh'ness in s in strategy the victory. a of coura- The issues of an industrial democ- racy must be, faced more clearly and more sharply with every passing day. Here is undoubtedly the paramount domestic problem of America. It is not merely a question of wages and hours. It runs down into the very foundations of society. It asks whether la'bor shall be regarded as a commo- dity or whether the worker shall have some share in the organization and conduct of the shop. The whole prob- lem of "representation in industry," of living wages, of standards of living, of American economic prosperity and financial stability are involved here. Mr. Albert Mansbridge in the August, 1919, Atlantic, wisely and solemnly said: "No community can afford to let the powerful influences of educa- tion and labor develop otherwise than in conscious co-operation."' To what extent the government shall go in the exercise of its functions is a Surely- no true person can be too alive to do his share in meeting such tasks. We face not only the attractive- ness but the necessity of being thor- oughly, incessantly alive. Attempt to Define Easy . It is easy enough to attempt a defini- tion of being alive; it degenerates al- most into "platitudinous flapdoodle" in these days to point out the necessity arising out of world problems for every person to do his share; the real issue comes when we discuss methods. How sholl one play his part in this game? Curiously enough as one sets out to fill his place he will discover sooner or later that "self" is the most troublesome factor with which he has to deal. No one with intelligence can shout today the old doctrine df exces- sive individualism,-a doctrine which preached personal success and indi- vidual triumph so vigorously a genera- tion ago that we see its direful effects written in capital letters all over American political and business life. Nor will the doctrine of "live" and "let live" be adequate for our huge' responsibilities today. It will not do to say to yourself, "I will make the most of myself and let everybody do likewise." It isn't a sougd doctrine. If you swallow it whole you will have intellectual indi- gestion. Even so, Germany would have done well in 1914 to have stooped to this level rather than to follow the policy she did. Moreover we cannot with discrimination advocate the absurd doctrine of complete celf- abnegation. To be absorbed as a drop of water in the ocean carries no thrill to American youth. Weak, . supine acquiescence does not appeal to healthy youngsters. Negative, color- less humility and meekness do not grip the imagination. Surely there must be some other method for keping self at its best. We all agree that we want to get ourselves out of the center of the universe but we insist upon posses- sing genuine self-respect, vigorous ini- tiative and undaunted courage. Study Capacities The only method which recognizes fully both sids of thje problem re- quires one to have a cause. In effet it says: study your desires, capacities and achievements. See what you have and what you can do. Likewise study the world. Learn what its real needs are. See what must be done for hu- manity. Then match the two things. Take all that you have and place it at the disposal of some worthy cause, out- side of and beyond your own persona, interests. This is the method of the soldier. It was the ideal of the Pilgrim fathers. It has been the plan of all great indi- viduals, groups and nations. They identify themselves with some noble undertaking. As Carlyle wisely said: "For all human things do require to have an ideal in them, to have some soul in them." Self Finds Proper Place Any man who really identifies him- self with a cause soon learns the great secret of life. Self now finds its proper place. Genuine, natural, positive hu- mility is born. Conceit, self-pride, exaltation of self-all these are im- possible. Yet there is here no weak, dawdling, supine, sentimentality about self-sacrifice and service. Rather there is amazing self-effacement in devotion to great ends. Marvelous poise, con- scious power, innate dignity, unquali- fled self-respect all arise by virtue of the great cause he serves. Just as the traffic 'policeman, the soldier, the governor of the state or the President of the nation are re- spected ot for themselves-individually but because of the communities they respect, so the individual finds his real effectiveness in his cause not in him- self. Ruskin formulated this mighty truth in this paragraph: "Arnolfo knows that he can build a good dome at Floyence; Albert Durer writes calm- ly to one who has found fault with his vork, 'It cannot be done better'; Sir Isaac Newton knows that he has worked ont a problem or two .that would have puzzled anybody else; only they do not expect their fellow-men therefore to fall down and worship them. They have a curious undersense of powerlessness, feeling that the power is not in them but through th'em." 1., Must Learn Final Law As paradoxically as it may soundl therefore we must all sooner or later come to realize that the path of life is the path of death. This is the final law. We must lose our lives to find them-lose them in a great cause. Ex- cept a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth by itself alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. Call it what yot please- unselfishness, being thoroughly social- ized, entering into' the life of mankind, loyalty, old-fashioned unselfishness- thi's is what being alive demands. Sir Auckland Geddes was quite right when he affirmed that "a man does not live by or for bread alone. If he does he is not worth keeping alive." Somehow, by experiences bitter or sweet, through success and failure, through joys and sorrows, you Will be forced back to the truth that "No man liveth unto himself," that life is worth living just in proportion as the welfare of man- kind in some form becomes your first consideration. High Hope Expressed No higher hope can be expressed for each one of 'you today than that as the years come and go you may lay hold on life. Emerson once said that "the one thing of value in the world is an active soul-this every man is entitled to,-this every man has within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn." May the obstruc- tions be torn away and the splendidly noble life within each one of you grad- ually be born. The University of Mich- igan confidently expects each one of you to be thoroughly alive, to hit hard at every form of injustice and to forget himself in the exacting service of this American democracy. WILLIAMS ELECTE )MINNESOT A ATILETIC BOARD PRESIDENT Minneapolis, June 24.-Vernon M. Williams, center on the 1919 Univer- sity of Minncsota football eleven, has been elected president of the Univer- sity Athletic Board of Control. In the student poll, Williams received 945 votes as against the 572 given Neal G. Arntson, another football star. Australia Enters 14 in Olympies Melbourne, Australia, June 24.-The federal government has subscribed a thousand pounds to the Olympic team. 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Or do we believe in any case in be, expanding governmental activities? s/ of That this issue is acute in certain re- .able gions of our country goes without say- tive, ing. We believe ifi the postoffice and hich in public education, we assumed the true wisdom of the government taking over ship during the war the railroads, the tele- man phones and telegraphs, but how far the now shall these processes go? Shall" eigh- the individual states go into the in- This surance business, erect packing houses, uals, own elevators and engage in otherl His- basic industries? How far shall thel this government be asked to go? There' hips may be solemfi elements of truth in the the jest that although Germany once ns of possessed the more efficient form of, st is government, that Americans prefer the less competent form. International System Important Calkins Drug Co.' 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Why ist exist or to make it more re- ible, Why not lead a normal, quiet life without all this effort :ellence and this desire for full- >f life? It must be admitted that ect multitudes of people do this thing. Our line of thought is upon the assumption that a uni- y man or woman readily grants to whomsoever much is given, of hall much be required." So we t hesitate to claim one presuppo- for our thought today. We as- that every real man and true n here would turn in disdain any contemplated plan of life did not recognize that he or she to the world, under normal cir- ances, the very fullest and best which he is capable. Conditions Abnormal. outstanding fact, however, is not one of you is to live under l circumstances. The absolute sity of being alive today rests the abnormal world situation your generation faces. Condi- within and without the nation The international situation cannot be ignored. League or no league, American citizens will be voting regu- larly on these issues. 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