Philosopher-Educator Smith Conveys Concept of U. S. Abroad in the world today there is a kind of poison... a concept that U.S. civilization is completely materialistic, T. V. Smith, philosopher and educa tor, told Tuesday's assembly j audience. Smith was the keynote speaker for the Festival of Arts which opened Tuesday. His talk was entitled “Our Magnificent Cen tury.” Defining materialism as that which fails to provide for the improvement of man, after a late Chinese statesman, Smith said that in this light, the U.S. could not possibly accept the charge of materialism. “This day is not one day too early to get over accepting this charge ... this corrupt charge that there is a civilization more spiritual than ours,” Smith de clared. “To look anew without fear" is not to emphasize our progress in gadgeteering but to look at the broad sweep of the century, including art and religion. Smith continued. Defines Art and Religion Tieing art and religion to gether, Smith defined art as “dealing with objects worth while in themselves” and religion as “concerned with virtue in its own sake.” “I myself ar not blind to con veniences. I love every single gadget,” Smith said, “but I pre fer to think not merely of pro ductive and distributive achieve ments, but of the general cul tural atmosphere in which these achievements are made.” According to Smith, the chal lenge of the century is “the mag nificent possibility of making spiritual life the flowering of productive energy.” By doing this we shall no longer “be proud of superstition or shamed of our great produc tive surplus,” Smith said. It has not always been pos-! sible to define religion in this way, Smith continued, “because people have not always been able to recognize and solve their problems.” Three Duties Listed Smith gave three duties and privileges which Americans should follow to refute the charge of materialism. They must solve problems, resolve pre dicaments and absolve oneself o£isterling ~3n ...On KWAX WEDNESDAY 6:00 Sign On 6:03 Dinner Hour Serenade 6:45 News Till Now 7:00 Chicago Roundtable 7:30 Radio Nederland 7:45 U.N. Story 8:00 Campus Review 8:30 Radio Workshop Players 9:00 Kwaxworks from a sense of guilt which pre vents doing the first two. According to Smith, problems and predicaments are two dif ferent concepts. Problems can be solved, and are made to be solved. Predicaments, which con stitute most human difficulties. | cannot be solved, but only re solved. Science cannot be ap plied to predicaments. "I never have gotten any help from science and I never expect to,” Smith declared. Predicaments are most notice able on the international level. Smith continued. They arise when two or more intelligent, honest people have diverging viewpoints and each thinks the other view is “cockeyed.” He cited politics as the most notable example of a predicament. Compromise Described "To recognize that politics deals with predicaments and not problems, should enable us to concede to the different view points,” Smith said, “and to reach the high arc of human compromise.” Actually, “legislatures just mess up old problems" in trying to resolve their predicaments, in Smith's view. They do not recog nize that problems are not cas ual, hence there is no solution. Religion provides one way of absolving ourselves from un SocialCalendar Wednesday Firesides Pi Beta Phi-Phi Gamma Delta. Alpha Chi Omega-Sigma Nu. Delta Zeta-Delta Upsilon. Orides-Yeomen. Kappa Kappa Gamma-Sigma Al pha Epsilon. CLASSIFIEDS — Hi Fi Items: University 4409, ! 600 cps, tweeter, $15. T-35 Electro-Voice tweeter, $25. Astatic EA-2 pre-amp equal izer, $10. University 4405 Hi pass Filter $2.50. Pilot T601 FM tuner, $15. Phone 4-0514. 2-4 For Sale—17” Corona Console Model TV in good condition. Beautiful mahogany cabinet with large speaker $89.95. 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