98. What would you say to working out a score card for Christian missions in China and publishing each year the comparison of each mission's score with that of other missions and with its own score in previous years?

99. How about having universities, city school systems, etc., surveyed at regular intervals by competent outside experts, so that by cross comparison the spirit of emulation may be roused?

100. Is there anything objectionable in substituting the desire to beat for the desire to be well, as the motive for physical self development?

101. The Russian Kommissars have worked out a method of measuring the performance of railway repair shops so that the laborers of shops a thousand miles apart are eagerly competing, conscious that all Russia is looking on. Is this good!

CHAPTER XV-Antagonistic Effort

102. Show that modern government is more capable of summoning forth the entire strength of its people than previous types of government. 103. Is there any reason for supposing that, more and more, loss is the portion of both antagonists in a conflict?

104. Is the formation of women's "battalions of death" something to be encouraged in all the nations ? Reasons.

105. Why are secret preparation and surprise attacks likely to come the regular thing among the nations?

106. Expose the "preparedness" fallacy.

CHAPTER XVI-Personal Competition

107. Two boys are equally crippled for life in an accident due the negligence of the railway company. One is the son of day laborer, the other the son of a successful business man. Shall the damages awarded on the basis of injury to presumed future earning power be equal or unequal?

108. Should admission to a profession be on examination, on diploma from an approved professional school, or on either?

109. Should a trade commission (state or federal) be empowered to suppress advertising which is untruthful, misleading or against public policy?

110. Why have the better sportsmen put the repeating shot gun under the ban?

111. If you were to compare the rules of a racing association today with those of fifty years ago how do you suppose they would compare in number and detail?

112. How would the development of psychological tests determining in advance whether or not an individual is fitted to meet the requirements of a particular occupation affect the amount of ill-will generated by personal competition?

CHAPTER XVII-Sex Antagonism

113. What indications are there that the sexes differ in the strength of their instinct of self-assertion? Of self-abasement (submissiveness) ? 114. Is a self-satisfied male smoker entitled to criticize women for smoking?

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115. Should men settle what is "manly" and women what is anly," or should the sexes share in shaping these ideals? Share equally? 116. Will our present greater indulgence of the swearing man than of the swearing woman give place to one standard for both sexes on this matter?

117. Do you suppose women are as uncomfortable and irritated under masculine ascendency in society as men would be under a like feminine ascendency?

CHAPTER XVIII-Class Struggle

118. Would sharp restriction of immigration aggravate or mitigate the labor-capital struggle in this country?

119. Why is the labor-capital struggle peculiarly ruthless in our mountain states?

120. Are American farmers fated to become as class-conscious as the wage-earners are?

121. Is class struggle sheer social waste?

122. Is the possession of government as much a goal of the laboring classes in America as it is in Europe? Reasons.

123. What would you think of providing by law that out of our sixteen University Regents not less than three shall be bona fide farmers and three shall be representatives of labor?

124. Is the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations (which aims to prevent strikes by adjudicating disputes between employers and employees) likely to lessen class strife, provided it is honest and reasonably able?

125. A clergyman writes me: "What proportion of my sermons should be devoted to current social questions?" What shall I answer?

126. Should public school teachers organize locally and affiliate with organized labor?

127. Show that one may believe in the normalcy of class struggle yet not be a socialist; communist; syndicalist; or anarchist.

CHAPTER XIX-Institutional Competition

128. Is the eagerness to destroy the competitor rather than meet his competition due chiefly to laziness, to consciousness of weakness, to reluctance to adapt one's self or to a conviction of his utter perniciousness?

129. Why does not Science set up an "index" of theological or antiScience books which its followers are to shun?

130. Was it good policy for the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture to promote its rural community organization work with men paid Rockefeller money? Reasons.

131. Which is the better way to make labor count politically-form a labor party or make the old parties bid against one another for the labor vote?

132. Give instances which have come under your observation of the new making extravagant claims and promises?

133. Do the single-taxers over-promise?

134. Give illustrations of your own of the sensationalism of the new. 135. Should the young accept or repudiate the attitudes (memberships, friendships, grudges, etc.) of their parents?

136. Should grown children feel obligated to follow parental wishe respecting mating? vocation? religion? politics?

137. Would you wish the influence of the past upon the institutional life of today to be greater or less than it actually is?

CHAPTER XX-Adaptation

138. Pars. 2 and 3, p. 223. Which is better-the Oriental way or the Occidental way? Reasons.

139. Ought we to have more tolerance or less tolerance for deliberate law breakers?

140. Would you discriminate between law breakers on the ground of motive, e. g. whiskey smugglers and conscientious objectors?

141. Ought native Americans show or hide their scorn of their Slavic neighbors who with no greater need make their daughters work in the field?

142. Would you cast off a friend advocating a doctrine you consider noxious, e. g., negro lynching, free love; or would you tolerate him because his motive is good?

143. Now that this country is settled, will the migration from one state or section to another be as great proportionally as it has been?

144. Should public opinion encourage or discourage cross marriages, e. g., Americans with Jews, Protestants with Catholics, Irish with Portuguese, blacks with whites?

CHAPTER XXI-Cooperation

145. Illustrate from university life the truth of the last sentence of par. 1, on p. 245.

146. Compare farm family and town family in respect to amount of cooperation.

147. If most of the things once done by voluntary cooperation are looked after by the city or the state, our chief duty being to pay taxes, what is going to socialize us in the future?

148. Doesn't the enfranchisement of women reintroduce the old dangerous distinction between the fighting and the non-fighting citizenry?

149. When for a generation there has been a path of escape (free education and maintenance) into the intellectual occupations for every bright son or daughter of farmers or workingmen, will the classes working with their hands enjoy more or less social consideration than they do now?

CHAPTER XXII-The Organization of Effort

150. Would we do well in Wisconsin to save money by replacing our 3-man commissions by single commissioners?

151. What are the chief outside forces which may help an organization to keep in proper relation to other interests in society? (See p. 262.) 152. What might be urged against the position taken in paragraph 3,

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153. Can routine workers stand the straight-laced Sunday such as our farming ancestors submitted to?

154. Do you think fondness for camping out is likely to become more general? Why?

155. What might be urged against the view presented in the last paragraph of p. 267?

156. Should a legislature called in special session be restricted to the matters named in the Governor's call?

157. What considerations caused the party nominating-convention to be discarded in favor of the direct primary?

158. Would it be better if the membership of our House of Representatives-now 435-did not exceed 250? Reasons.

159. Why are the Swiss, the Norwegians, the Danes, the CzechoSlovaks, etc., more likely to keep their government under effective control than the people of the Great Powers?

160. Would it be a good thing for the University if its biennial budget could be forced to a referendum by a small minority (say 10%) of the voters?

CHAPTER XXIV-The Organization of Thought

161. In what ways is Science democratic? In what ways is it undemocratic?

162. Is Religion as much addressed to the expert as Science is? How does it compare in this respect with the Drama? With Art?

163. What are the good points and the bad points (if any) of the open forums spreading over the country?

164. What do you think of the public joint debate as a means of separating truth from error in non-technical questions?

165. Should cities be governed by commissions of experts, provided always that any commissioner is subject to recall at any time by the voters? 166. Would you want the State to be governed by such a commission? Reasons.

CHAPTER XXV-The Deterioration of Social Structures

167. How did Roosevelt seek to overcome the indifferentism in the public services he was connected with?

168. How would you go about it to build up morale in a disgruntled group of public servants, say, postal clerks?

169. What instances of formalism can you cite from your school experience?

170. What instances of formalism (not emphasis on devotional forms) have you observed in connection with religion and churches?

171. Pros and cons of rich men endowing newspapers just as they have endowed colleges?

172. Would it be a good thing for the International Y. M. C. A. if rich men endowed its work?

173. What is the lesson of pages 316-318-that perversion comes from certain diseases (which are avoidable), or from old age (which is unavoidable)?

CHAPTER XXVI-Stratification

174. Are there grounds for thinking that most people may be happier in a stratified society than in a fluid competitive society?

CHAPTER XXVII-The Rise of Gross Inequalities

175. What is the issue between conservationists and exploiters in respect to water power?

176. Oppression of workers by great employers may be prevented (a) by strong unions, (b) by laws and state regulation, (c) by the development of conscience and sense of responsibility in the employers. Compare the value of these.

177. Why is the prevalent opinion in the corps of army officers taken as a whole, pro-war?

178. Evaluate President Harding's suggestion (in his inaugural address) that in the next war business men be held down to the "normal” rate of profit?

179. Show that a highly dynamic time (like ours) is unfavorable to the spread of socialistic doctrines.

180. Should high school texts in American history include an authentic account of the crimes, frauds, corruptions and treacheries which have so much contributed to produce the present astounding concentration of wealth in the United States?

CHAPTER XXVIII-Gradation

181. What are the factors which fix the social rating of those creating a new occupation, e. g. social workers, or county agricultural agents?

182. Outline an educational program designed to remove from children's minds the stigma on manual labor.

183. When mental measurement has been so perfected as to afford a solid basis for mind-grading, would you want to see decided pride in the A and B people and humility in the D and E people? or would you try to blunt the implications of mental grading by such ideas as: "A man's a man for a' that"; "Don't blame a man for his heredity"; "It's character that counts"; "All souls are equal in God's sight."

184. Ought we professors to think less of the young woman who supports herself through the university doing fine laundering, or think more of her? If the latter, should we show our admiration, or conceal it?

185. After looking over the advertising in the Saturday Evening Post or Vogue, explain how advertising nourishes snobbishness?

186. What is the effect on snobbishness of (1) the tooth brush drill in elementary schools; (2) the private fitting school; (3) the custom of manicuring; (4) cooking classes for school girls; (5) Ingersoll watches; (6) the parlor car; (7) the dancing academy; (8) the vacuum cleaner; (9) the cafeteria; (10) the college fraternity?

CHAPTER XXIX-Segregation and Subordination

187. Discuss whether immigration is likely to give rise to caste in the in the United States.

188. Aside from immigration is the principle of caste likely to gain or lose in the United States? Why?

189. What are the beneficial functions of social inequality and what are the limits within which it should be confined?

190. What is the difference between the theory of heredity which an aristocracy offers in self-justification and the scientific theory of heredity! 191. Discuss the comparative power and security of an upper class (1) under a caste system, (2) under a system of open classes.