"Liberalism is not a matter of protest, or revolt and defiance," said Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in an address at the Liberal Club yesterday. "It is, rather, the search for truth with a free mind, and with a spirit of humility arising from faith in one's self, in human-kind, and in the verities of human progress. We are having disclosed day by day some of the most sordid events in our entire history. The price we pay for war, lawlessness, unbelievable political corruption, and a thousand other things constitute a great post-war debauchery."

Real education, in place of the fatuously, inefficient machine symbolized by the "little red school house", is the chief ultimate remedy for the ills of America, according to Rabbi Wise. "Our present educational system does no more than drill the memory, and entirely neglects to teach students to think. That is why thousands of men make themselves ridiculous parading as Klan members in costumes ordinarily associated with the privacy of the home; that is why we have political corruption, party politics, and many other ills. Men will remain in criminal mental lethargy, however, until education is a democratic reality rather than a college luxury."