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pie Uas !u lou.AAI This confusion arises from the tact'that these are troublesome times, that no one knows the answers to our controversial economie and so- cial problerns-and, most of ail, according to this religious,leader,. that few people have a sustaining religious philosophy. Students corne out, ot homes in which religion is ho, longer an important factor, points oût 'Dad" Eiliott. They go into schools and colleges where there is- likely to be a good deal of, tranuitionial philosophy re- garding education and culture. There is also likely to be undlue emphasis- on competitive athletics. There are miutuels, on somne cam, puses, too much drinking on others, too little faculty, supervision on others. In one school he named the students attempted to force the, factulty to let them set up jthe cur- riculum. Recails Coilege "'Graft" If there is one important lesson for students, according to the Rev. not try ta gét ahead of Uieir re- sponsibilities. It is not their respon- sibility how the British are getting along with the Japs in thé Far East, but it is their responsibility to. have dlean politics on the campus. Hie told of one campus where the annual circus cost $35,000 to pro- duce, of which $15,000 was graft. The faculty simply stopped the circus. Prohibition is so much easier than regulation, hie points lligh school students are great imitators, "Dad"Elliott avers. He says he can tell within a few hotxrs after arrival at a sehool just what sort of-man the principal is.. Hlis personality shoWs up in the stuidents. He spoke about visit- ing a school that one year had' paid' out more than $3,000 for damages wrought by vanhdals ini the 'student body. There was a change of pii says mhat the majority of People in, this countryý are thin*lng i erms of a God who is not the Jesus,-God, L.e., a God who does not exemnplify the tenderness, the sacrifice, the wisdom of Christ himself. God is an extension of Jesus' character.- Or put the other way round, which is the more common way of look- ing at it, Jesus was the personality of God on earth. In fra ternities, inh cofleges alike the spirit must dominate heurgd.NatUrally he, views the colegeatletic situation today with misgivings and disapproval. "How can we expect students to be honest today when there .15 50 much dis- honiesty going on around them?" he asked. Hie cited the case of a ,southern umvier- sity whlch imaintains a national -re- .cruiting system for obtamning foot- baill players and uses goverrnent funds to help maintain themn in jun- ior colleges throughobut the state. Hie deplorect the all-star football game with its- build-up of false glamour for boys who are not ready for such popuiarityr. He said that' Sunday school attendanice dropped off when the, boys found that the football stars :were having Sunday practice on the Northwestern field. lie spoke of one college where student assistant instructai' wee found to be selling "A" grades to students for $5 apiece. Hie said the honor system was. a thing of the. past. He quoted Secretary Harold L. Ickes to the effect that the col- leges were turning out technicaily trained men ail right but couldn't they turn out technically trained men who were honest? What Hie Does Granted that there is much to correct on the college campus to- * day,. what, does an experieneed leader like "Dad" Ellott suggest? Whàt does he do? The answer lies. in his career and achievements. Hie himself was a farm boy born * . in central Illinois. We went to the * Grand Prairie seminary at.Onarga, * Ill., and, after attending a Lake Geneva student "conférence, real- * ized that there were, other thinýgs * in life besides farming. Hie decided. to become.a zminister and changed *his studies accordmngly. During his freshman year at Northwestern again and decided to devote him- self to the Y.1VLC.A. e. A, religious ýge sophomore ,r information he had ,men- !Four books? "We must change the motivation of the indi- vidual," commeinted the. Rev. Elliott. "We can- not bave dernçrzýçy ini government' if students practi<ce autocrac'y' in our schools and cofleges. m over a pe *a convôca is visits are arranged i ad-. eaks before a daly~ convo- 1Of five days. Pollowmng the (Continued on page 21>