Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Automobiles and Moving Pictures Tend to Broaden Life [ARTICLE]

Automobiles and Moving Pictures Tend to Broaden Life

By Dr. CHARLES F. THWING,

President Western Reserve University

THE automobile ahfi -the moving picture, two of the newest material forces in American life, so unlike in themselves, are yet having a similartv tremendous effect on American character. THEY LESSEN PROVINCIALISM AND LOCALISM IN KNOWLEDGE. PEELING AND APPRECIATION. THEY HELP TO MAKE A LARGE CITIZENSHIP. These are good results, but there are also possible dangers. We mint Fee to it that sensation and sentiment do not kill thought. In other words, that insight is not partially sacrificed to sight. Our fathers saw little; they thought much. They did not go out unto all the world; neither did all the world come in unto them. They .were not the creatures of sensations, but their feelings ran deep. The pendulum ever swings between the material and the spiritual; between the outer sense and the inner feeling. But at the present moment there is a peril that these two new universal forces are making the people too dependent on the visible and the tangible. THEY HAVE ADDED INESTIMABLY TO THE ENJOYMENT OF THE MANY, AND THEY HAVE BOTH BROADENED LIFE, BUT THEY MUST NOT WEAN US FROM THE FUNDAMENTAL THINGS.