University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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MR. E. G. DOUDNA Secretory Wisconsin Board of Teochers College Regents CLASSES

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THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE 1. Health is important if we are to preserve our American ideals. A class taught by Mrs. Flagler visits the Eau Claire Health Unit. 2. The Reverend Carl Zietlow, who is pictured on the preceding page, is a leader in the spread of religious tolerance, the desire of most Americans. 3. Mr Fox, director of the 1942 summer quarter, addresses an assembly during the session, the theme of which was Life in America. The 1942 summer term was one of the most successful in the history of the college. Page Seventeen

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YOUTH SHOULD HATE WORLD EVIL During the present academic year, a number of well-known speakers have addressed the Forum at Eau Claire Teachers College on problems growing out of the present war. The views of these speakers as expressed in these addresses are summarized on the Division Pages of this book, because they represent, in the opinion of the staff, a cross section of views as to what the future holds for the American Way of Life, the theme of this book. American youth should hate the enemy we are fighting in this war, said Mr. E. G. Doudna, Secretary of the Wisconsin Teachers College Boord of Regents, in a Forum address at the college November 2. I don't mean that we should hate the people of an enemy nation, he explained, but do mean that we should hate the evil those nations are attempting to impose upon the world. If you don't like the word 'hate', substitute 'noble rage', the phrase used by Shakespeare to characterize the righteous anger felt by King Lear because of the outrageous cruelties of his evil daughters, he added. According to Mr. Doudna, members of his generation had the answers to all questions done up in packages to be opened later — usually spoiled . The science books of 1900 had nothing in them about the airplane, the radio, and other modern world-shaking inventions and discoveries. Today, he said, there is on advantage in not knowing all the answers. Not knowing constitutes a challenge to look continually for the truth, to accept nothing fallacious that is being palmed off as truth. Thus will knowledge grow, if the individual keeps his humility, for by being not too certain-of the answers, youth may avoid many cf the disastrous mistakes of the older generation. In another address at the college during the day, Mr. Doudna warned of the growing shortage of teachers. In 1943, he said, teaching positions in the public schools will go begging. The colleges must prepare to meet this emergency, he emphasized. We will be compelled to permit only portly trained young men and women to take over schoolrooms during the war period, with the understanding that when the war is ended they will return to college to complete their professional training and earn their degrees, he said. FACULTY