277. Is the uncurbing of the instincts in the spectators of popular athletic contests deplorable?

278. Is community sentiment (as against egoism, familism, churchism, lodgism) on the whole growing or declining in Wisconsin?

279. What are the conditions most favorable to the production of leaders?

280. Which of the following opinions do you consider decadent i. e. injurious to society itself rather than to certain reigning dogmas? Why? a. Children are a hindrance to a woman's self-development;

b. Art is for art's sake;

c. Economic changes furnish the key to history;

d. Life is not worth living;

e. The truth of a statement depends upon whether you can safely act on it (Pragmatism);

f. Marriage is a failure;

g. The practice of religion is a form of fire insurance;

h. Worldly success is a matter of "pull."

CHAPTER XLIV-Transformation

281. What social changes going on in this country are chiefly attributable to the increase of population?

282. Name four mechanical inventions of the last fifty years which have had important social effects.

283. Name four others equally important in their economic effects but relatively unimportant in their social effects.

284. Show in what ways scientific advertising is a factor of social change.

285. Show in what ways the motion film is a factor of social change. 286. What social changes follow the introduction of good roads into a rural community!

287. What are the social consequences of the easier access of women to the industries and professions?

288. Is the average American intellect more or less dynamic now than it was a century ago? Reasons.

289. What unwilled factors of change are likely to dominate the near future of American society?

CHAPTER XLV-Re-shaping

290. What may a society consciously do in order to prevent the race intellect from becoming arrested and unfruitful under the spell of admiration for past achievement and past success?

291. What reasons are there for expecting that the control of immigration will be undertaken by all the advanced societies?

292. Do you know of any reforms urged nowadays which fly in the face of human nature?

293. What practical conclusion about making social alterations flows from the proposition that "Sociology is not an exact science?"

294. Are society's interferences (by public opinion or by laws) with matings and child production and child rearing likely to multiply! Reasons.

295. How is air navigation likely to affect nationality? the relations of classes?

296. Will it increase or diminish the chances of war?

297. How do you account for the fact that Americans who will cheerfully vote a billion dollars to "clean up" Mexico by force would be horrified at the proposal to "clean up" Mexico by dedicating a tenth of that sum to building twenty thousand good school houses there and giving a course in our universities to an equal number of Mexican youth who might teach in these school houses?

CHAPTER XLVII-Standards

298. Give illustrations of workingmen or farmers being unduly influenced by standards which develop among business men.

299. Can you suggest other taboos it might be well to break down be sides those mentioned on page 566?

300. What proposed new taboos are likely to excite controversy in the course of the next twenty years?

301. May an individual develop morally beyond the need of guidance by standards, so that in each situation which arises he may safely follow his conscience rather than the social standard?

302. Have you ever noticed a change in the standard type of college man, or college woman?

303. Compare small town with big city in respect to the extent to which one has to conform to external standards.

304. Of your acquaintances which do you admire the more-the exalters of standards or the critics of standards? Why?

305. What life situations are likeliest to call forth raw unconventional human goodness? Which evoke goodness dictated by a social standard? 306. How can you tell the one kind of goodness from the other when you experience them?

CHAPTER XLVIII-Groups

307. Would it be better if the women of the plain people paid no attention to the styles, but worked out certain becoming types of costume which they liked, and stuck to them?

308. Show that the more security and benefits you get as a citizen the less tightly you tie yourself up with any group.

309. Show the inevitability of each advanced people barring out immigrants from the less advanced peoples.

310. After reading page 580, show that the amazingly rapid mechanical progress of our time may be more of an evil than a blessing.

311. By what means do the Vested Interests contrive to keep control of the big national parties for so much of the time?

CHAPTER XLVIX-Institutions-The Family

312. What benefits to woman result from her entrance into the industrial field? What evils?

313. Is it possible for the home to recover in any way its former control over the social and recreative life of young people, or is community control the only alternative to commercialization?

314. Is the experience of young people in governing themselves (boys' clubs, girls' clubs, school self-government, etc.) effecting a change in the authority of the parent over the child?

315. Is divorce an evil, or the symptom of an evil? Reasons.

316. Compare city with country in respect to: (a) the stability of the family; (b) its individuality; (c) its solidarity.

317. Out of your own experience, develop and illustrate my proposition: "the family is a half-way house between the ego and society."

318. How far should the state instead of the family assume the duty of instructing children in regard to matters of sex, domestic economy, morals, and religion?

CHAPTER L-Institutions Industry

319. Why do our newspapers so generally glorify business men and propagate the business man's views?

320. Can we retain the system of private capitalism and yet escape capitalist domination of our society?

321. Show that the analogy developed in the paragraph which begins at the bottom of page 592 is not trustworthy.

322. What might be urged against the prediction in the concluding paragraphs of this chapter?

CHAPTER LI-Institutions-The Public School

323. Show that the second sentence on page 596 is not altogether true. 324. Why is it that if the average voter's intelligence remains stationary, his government does not remain stationary but actually deteriorates?

325. What can be urged on behalf of the proposal that the age of compulsory school attendance should be raised to sixteen years?

326. Why have the old systems of handing on skill broken down? 327. Why was the dominant motive for extending popular education in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the desire to enable the common people to read the Bible?

328. What have you noticed in elementary or high school education which appears to be based on leisure-class assumptions?

329. Name some of the "important social interests which are not parallel with individual interests and which should be preferred when they clash with such interests."

330. What kinds of education has the Federal Government put its money behind? Why has it favored just these kinds?

CHAPTER LII-Institutions-The Recreation Center

331. When a man undertakes to explain to you why he likes his work, does he usually stress the worth-whileness of it to society?

332. Do you find a grate fire more enjoyable than a warm radiator? Does a blazing fire appeal to you more than glowing coals?

333. Analyze your feelings when you are in the midst of Nature and identify the items which give you most delight.

334. Contrast what the factory youth dreams about when he is at work and what the farm youth dreams about when he is at work.

335. If the argument on page 610 is sound, factory-workers ought to have taken to drink more than farmers. Did they?

336. Which is the wiser policy-to prune away from play and movie unwholesome sex suggestion? or to try to build in our young people characters that can resist it?

337. Why has the policy of suppressing recreation because so much of it is demoralizing gone bankrupt?

338. A generation ago the Family, the Church and the School were the chief institutions relied on to form social character. What additional formative social institutions are now in sight?

CHAPTER LIII-Institutions-The State

339. Why do most European states keep their hereditary monarch even if he is shorn of nearly all political power?

340. Would it be logical for judges to declare unconstitutional a law, approved by the people in a referendum vote, which appeared not to conform to the constitution?

341. What are the chief obstacles in this country to realizing an effective popular control over our national government?

342. What is the fallacy in the aphorism "You can't fool all of the people all of the time?"

343. Discuss these rival conceptions of the state: "The state exists to protect individuals in their rights;" "The state is an organization of all-of-us to promote any common interests which cannot so well be cared for by any other available agency.'

344. Is the American State losing functions to Washington faster than it is gaining new functions?

345. Is the Wisconsin municipality losing functions to the state government faster than it is gaining new functions?

346. Do you see any good reason why the referendum check should apply more to the city government than to the state government and more to the state government than to the Federal Government?

347. In view of anti-child labor laws, school-attendance laws, familydesertion laws, and laws penalizing the parent for "contributing to a child's delinquency," would you say that the state is controlling parents rather than parents controlling the state?

CHAPTER LIV-The Principle of Anticipation

348. Under what circumstances will pardon not encourage a repetition of the offense?

349. Why did the adoption of scientific principles of taxation begin long before the people came into the control of government?

350. How can you reconcile the paragraph "How children are spoiled" with the maxim that children should be under the law of the home or the school, not under caprice?

351. Should the indemnity received by a man crippled in an industrial accident be diminished to the extent that the man by acquiring skill in another occupation recovers earning power?

352. Why do conservative professors often protest as strongly as radical professors against the violation of academic freedom by governing boards? 353. Discuss the problem as to old-age pensions stated on page 649. 354. Discuss Malthus' contention that dependence ought to be held disgraceful.

355. Show that the wise social policy is: Concealment of every benefit of the nature of relief, publicity for every benefit of the nature of reward. 356. Why is there less danger in the free dispensing of medicine to the sick than of food to the hungry?

357. Why do free meals and shelter pauperize, but not free libraries. and swimming pools?

CHAPTER LV-The Principle of Simulation

358. Should we hit hard commercial deception? or tolerate some of it to keep people's wits sharp?

359. What may a church do to keep as low as possible the proportion of hypocrites in its membership?

360. Is it a good thing for church people to throw their trade or patronage to fellow members? reasons.

361. If advertisers pay nine-tenths of the cost of bringing out the newspapers, shouldn't they have some consideration in the news and editorial columns?

362. How can we keep out of social work those who lack the spirit of service?

363. How may the people discriminate between politician and patriot? 364. Why is it that anything social is likely to deteriorate shortly after it has achieved success?

365. What cases have come to your attention of groups or interests masquerading?

366. Is the University president right who dismisses degrees and diplomas as "toys for the babyhood of science?"

367. Why should a church or reform organization reject gifts of "tainted" money? How about a hospital, an old ladies' home, or a scientific institute?

CHAPTER LVI-The Principle of Individualization

368. Discuss the prospect of individual go-as-you-please labor ever recurring in industry.

369. Discuss the prospect of production-to-order ever narrowing the scope of production-for-the-market.

370. If, of the varieties of Christianity in this country, we might keep only five, which five would you consider most worth-while in respect to satisfying the various types of intelligence and temperament in the population?

371. What are the chief sins of lumping which have been committed in dealing with the poor?

372. What are the chief sins of lumping which have been committed in dealing with law-breakers?

373. What sins of lumping have you seen committed by teachers and educators?

374. What would you do if you undertook to individualize the bestowal of primary political power, i. e., the suffrage?

CHAPTER LVII The Principle of Balance

376. Would you be willing to see as many juvenile courts and courts of domestic relations presided over by women judges as by men judges?