Education: Our Reasonable Service

The Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell, a canon of the Protestant Episcopal Church who serves as a religious adviser at the University of Chicago, has been blasting away at the manners and morals of Americans for the past 40 years. Canon Bell, author of more than two dozen books, pamphlets, etc., is a concerned critic who usually suggests a cure. This week, in an impassioned little book published by Harper ($2), he is out to cure a national epidemic which he calls Crowd Culture.

As Dr. Bell sees it, "The chief threat to America comes from within America . . . While wealth...

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