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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The settling of the problem of the ages can't be done in the twinkling of an eye--not even the legal eye. I, for one, have no such ambitions, even if I were to live and try for 'a thousand years. But though the aim be only to hint at a useful tendency--that, too, takes a certain amount of effort and patience. That is why I feel the need of coming back to the attack, on that little matter of the aims of education.

The chief omission of emphasis in the interesting comment which you published on my previous suggestion is on my urging of the political or social attitude. Profiteering, private gain, crushing weaker nations--in those vocations there is no outlook of social justice, or of righteous acquiescence in the other fellow's striving for the same standards that we seek for ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square deal in those physical advantages. In short, less Billy Sunday salvation and more Roosevelt social justice and Wilson democracy in the mill towns.

The second aspect of my apparent failure to convey my whole philosophy of life in one CRIMSON column is the distinction between urging education to be only more materialistic and urging it to be materialistic. The difference is obvious when the two concepts are in juxtaposition.

And the materialism needed is the granting of the other man's economic needs. ISIDORE LAZARUS 2L.