Harry Elmer Barnes

              HARRY ELMER BARNES Newspaper Columnist
Authority on World Politics
Sociologist, Historian and Criminologist

Professor Barnes is the Author of
Living in the Twentieth Century, The Genesis of the World War, The New History and the Social Studies, The Twilight of Christianity, The Story of Punishment, World Politics, Can Man Be Civilized?, The Money Changers vs. The New Deal, Etc.



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Harry Elmer Barnes
HARRY ELMER BARNES unquestionably stands in the forefront of those Americans who are now engaged upon the task of humanizing knowledge.  Not since the days of Huxley has there been another scholar and writer who has been so effective a foe of sham, superstition and intolerance.  As educator, lecturer and writer he has gained international distinction for his services in organizing and popularizing modern knowledge for the purpose of promoting enlightenment, urbanity, social justice and world peace.  The Nation says of him:

Dr. Barnes is an evangelist of modern science who recognizes what few scientists are willing to admit, namely, that the transition of scientific knowledge to common men is just as important a task for the scientist as is the discovery of laboratory truth.


First Claim to Fame
Professor Barnes first gained extensive notice as a result of his efforts to modernize and humanize history.  His New History and the Social Studies has been compared by leading historians to the epoch-making work of Voltaire and Buckle.  Of his History and Social Intelligence Paul Radin wrote: He is a soldier in the battle for liberation from the die-hards.  He belongs to the lineage of De Foe.  H. G. Wells wrote of the same work, I am going over your book as a hungry man goes over a cold chicken, left at the end feeling eager to find some bit that I have missed.



Establishing An International Reputation
Publication of The Genesis of the World War brought Dr. Barnes immediately into the limelight, not only in America, but all over the world as well.  Dr. Barnes has lectured widely on this subject, both here and abroad, before distinguished groups of scholars, publicists and statesmen of leading European countries.  His European lectures were veritably an international event and those before the universities of Berlin and Munich constituted perhaps the most striking occasions in the recent history of these two great centers of learning.  His World Politics has just now brought this material down to date.



Dr. Barnes As a Reformer in the Field of Criminology
Many think of Professor Barnes primarily as a reformer in the field of Criminology.  His Repression of Crime, his Story of Punishment and his Battling the Crime Wave launched trenchant criticism against the savagery of our outgrown and futile prison system and presented a systematic and powerful plea for a scientific treatment of the crime problem.



Genius and Versatility
Dr. Barnes looks upon his Living in the Twentieth Century and Can Man Be Civilized?  as his foremost efforts to humanize history and human knowledge.

Of the former book Professor Roy L. Smith says:

The amazing range of Professor Barnes' information and reading confronts one on almost every page.  Nothing but the highest respect can be accorded his exhaustive research and painstaking assembly of documentary evidence.


The San Francisco Argonaut says of Professor Barnes:

Professor Barnes is the American H. G. Wells, and his equipment, his philosophy, his method of doing his bit to help the world realize this iconoclastic twentieth century, are of immense importance.



Champion of Religious Reconstruction
Many commentators have regarded The Twilight of Christianity as Dr. Barnes' most striking book.  This is not an attack on religion, but an appeal to bring religion down to date and make it harmonize with our modern knowledge of the universe and man.  Professor Charles Prosper Fagnani of Union Theological Seminary says of the book: It is a superb piece of work, so comprehensive, so judicial, so impersonal.  The author has covered magisterially every phase of the subject.  The Rev. L. M. Birkhead states that: Making an heroic attempt to bring us up to date in religion, Professor Barnes has written the most devastating book on religion that has been published since the World War.  It utters a challenge to present-day religious leadership which cannot be ignored.



An Exciting Teacher
When Dr. Barnes resigned from Smith College to take up an important journalistic post with the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, President William Allan Neilson said of him in his Commencement address: He stimulated a large body of students to think for themselves.  He displayed and employed in this work the largest range of information of any scholar that I have ever known.  The value to a college of that type of encyclopedic knowledge is very great.



Lectures and Debates
Dr. Barnes has agreed to devote several periods during the coming season to lecturing and debating and we believe he will be a much sought after lecturer and debater.  He offers the following lecture subjects and debate topics, and will consider any additional subjects for debates which are submitted by suitable opponents.  We especially recommend Dr. Barnes for debating dates.



Lecture Subjects

ARE WE IN DANGER OF REVOLUTION?
THE COLLAPSE OF LIBERTY IN THE UNITED STATES.
CAUSES AND CURES OF ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS.
THE RAID ON EDUCATION
SHALL WE SAVE THE CONSTITUTION OR THE COUNTRY?
THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION TODAY.
THE CHALLENGE OF WORLD AFFAIRS.
THE MENACE OF ANTI-SEMITISM.
THE SWING TO DICTATORS.



Debate Subjects


DOES MANKIND NEED A NEW RELIGION?
(Affirmative)


CAN WE SAVE DEMOCRACY?
(Affirmative)


CAN IMPRISONMENT CURE CRIME?
(Negative)


CAN ROOSEVELT SAVE CAPITALISM?
(Affirmative)






Comments on American Lectures

Of all the addresses at the recent great meeting in New York of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the one that commanded the widest public attention and stirred the most comment was an address on religion by Professor Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College.—
The Outlook.


Professor Barnes and Rabbi Brickner debated on Science vs. Religion, before an audience that rivalled the great crowd which heard Rabbi Brickner debate Clarence Darrow in the same hall about a year ago.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.


Only once in the proverbial blue moon does Springfield have an opportunity to hear anything of such spectacular interest as the debate on prohibition between Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes of New York and Dr. Burris A. Jenkins of Kansas City last night.—
Editorial in Springfield Leader, Springfield, Mo.

Professor Barnes' contribution to our program was extraordinarily effective.  He was clear, concise, logical and, above all, made his audience feel that his message had a significant value in the thinking of our time.—S. D. Schwartz, Hirsch Center, Chicago, Illinois.


Dr. Barnes was received with applause from a packed house and was surrounded with interested groups until, at the end of two hours, we were obliged to depart because the janitor insisted upon turning off the lights.  We thank you for sending Dr. Barnes to us.—
Evelyn C. Adams, Louisville Public Forum, Louisville, Kentucky.

You will be interested to know that we were more than pleased with Dr. Barnes' lecture.  For two hours he held a large and appreciative audience so interested that they had to be dismissed in order to give the man a chance to get away.  I have never heard a lecture that was better organized or such a fine example of sound pedagogy in my life.  He has the unique ability to cut away all extraneous details and in bold outline do a large job in short order and do it in the most artistic fashion.—Teachers Club, Wichita, Kansas.



Appreciations from Abroad
The great hall of the University of Berlin was packed to the doors by a distinguished audience which included many of the more famous German scholars, publicists and statesmen, as well as many foreign visitors.  They listened intently to the striking summary of the new evidence as to responsibility for the World War presented by the brilliant young American professor, Harry Elmer Barnes.—Deutsche Zeitung, Berlin.

Hours before the lecture began, every seat in the 'Auditorium Maximum' of the University of Munich had been occupied and the great courtyard was packed with thousands more who hoped to follow the address through the loud speaker installed on the balcony over the court.—Bayerische Staatzeitung, Munich.

The American Professor, Harry Elmer Barnes, delivered an address on the causes of the World War before the Royal Hungarian Society of Foreign Affairs in the Gold Room of the Parliament Buildings yesterday afternoon.  A capacity audience made up of some of the most distinguished scholars and political figures of Hungary listened intently to his lucid presentation of the facts.—Budapesti Hirlap, Budapest, Hungary.



Clarence Darrow Casts His Mantle on Barnes
The calendar and various other hunches constantly warn me that there are only a few more speeches and debates left in me, and I am so relieved when I look at you.… I hope you will gradually take up a good deal of my work.