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DIVERSIFIED PHILOSOPHY
rhe British embassy has banned
All liquor from its doors;
The question is, how low or high,
Are present British stores.
The German war debt now is
solved,
So settle all your bets;
I’d like to pay my own iust by
Acknowledging the debts.
A scientist is asking what
Cave ladies used to slam;
They had no doors which made it
tough.
I think, for the old man.
Our girls and cars are much alike,—
To spring one rather hoary;
With paint the years are covered
up,
But lines give out the story.
Our Cal was silent and so stood
Apart from all the herd.
That glory’s past; he's getting now
One dollar each per word.
Our Helen wears her hose full
length.
When tennis balls she knocks;
That’s very queer, for all may see
Her racket shows her socks.
—Sam Page.
Law and Morality.
oourtland Nicoll, in North Amer
ican Review.
We Americans like to see our
moral precepts in the criminal law.
We hang Roosevelt's words, “Hit
the line hard, but play the game
fair,” in our boys’ rooms and then
amend the penal law of New York
to provide that any player on a pro
fessional team who “throws" a game
shall be guilty of a felony. "So dear
to heaven is saintly chastity”: con
sequently, illicit love is made a mis
demeanor in Pennsylvania, and also
in New York if either party is mar
ried. “Be ye temperate in all things”
and we have the “Jones law” which
provides that the penalty imposed
for each offense shall be a fine not
to exceed $10,000, or imprisonment
not to exceed five years, or both.
Excellent as is the purpose of
these statutes, they completely miss
their aim because they represent
attempts to accomplish by criminal
law results which cannot be at
tained by that mean's. Though oc
casionally used for blackmailing
purposes, most of such laws are
innocuous. No serious attempt to
enforce them is made. They lie
quietly in the Penal Codes of the
several states, to be looked at like
mottoes on the wall, stating our
moral ambitions, but not to be tak
en too seriously.
When we try to take them seri
ously and enforce them, as in the
case of the national prohibition
act, the effort brings more evils in
its train than the statute was de
signed to cure. Sportsmanship,
clean living and temperance can
not be ensured by penal statute.
The federal government was not
created to be a moral policeman,
and the criminal law is solely to
protect society by punishing acts
which are universally condemned
as immoral, or are necessarily dan
gerous to the well-being of another
or of his property. When the fed
eral government steps out of bounds
and tries in an alien sphere to en
force moral reforms by penal legis
lation, it makes a double error, and,
consequently, a double failure.
When Dreams Fade.
From New York World.
The man who could explain this
debacle that ended in the death of
Margaret Lawrence could probably
explain most of the tragedies of
human existence. For regardless of
how the shots came to be fired,
whether by agreement between her
and her lover, that is, or by his own
Impulse alone, it is obvious that she
lad fallen on evil days. Between the
time when she was happily married.
& Broadway favorite, and satisfied
with life, and the time when she
was found surrounded by liquor bot- i
ties with a bullet through her heart,
something had happened. Some
thing had gone wrong inside of her,
and a grotesque outcome of one sort
ir another was clearly foreshadowed.
What w'as it? Who knows? What
ever it was, it is something that all
of us have to wrestle with when we
reach a certain age. The dreams of
youth fade or, worse still, have all
been realized, and we are left won
dering what life is all about, what
we are doing here anyway, what
conceivable reason can be found for
carrying on. At the end of our
wondering, some of us find an an
swer, and pick up with renewed
vigor. But others find none and be
gin to slip, taking to drink, or to
some kind of queer religion, or to
sleazy amours, or to something else
that betrays their inner works are
dying.
It is a theme, of course, that does
not attract the writer, for it is so
profound that it usually oroves too
much for him. But occasionally one
tackles it with fine results. Sinclair
Lewis, for example, dealt with It
almost exclusively in “Babbitt.”
What was it that sent Babbitt off
on his round of jazz, widows and
radicalism? Simply this realization
of the futility of his life, a futility
all the more ironical because of the
organized optimism in which he
lived. Joseph Kergesheimer dealt
with it in “Cytherea,” showing a re
sponsible, middle-aged American
suddenly going off on a mad elope
ment in quest of his vanished
youth. Dorothy Parker dealt with it
recently in “Big Blonde,” a story
that told of the inexplicable disso
lution of a woman in fears, fat and
gir. At the end, after an inepi ex
periment with veronal she was try
ing to pull herself togetne’- to keep
a date with the current lover.
Modern life, perhaps, with its
continual erosion of the verities
that used to sustain people through
this crisis, is responsible for much or
the trouble. Or perhaps not. It is
just possible that the trouble is as
old as the human race.
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The Change in Baseball.
Herbert Reed, in the Outlook.
Even the most rabid baseball fan
atic will admit that the game is fac
ing serious competition at the hands
of other sports. There are many
reasons for this that may be stated
without actually knocking the game,
although as far as the writer is con
cerned it seems dull and uninter
esting, and this latter statement is
made in the face of the fact that
he served his time as a baseball
reporter.
Just how long the professional
game would last—and it is essen
tially professional in spirit even
when played by amateurs—without
publicity no one will ever know, for
the game will go on in the public
prints as well as on the field.
Thus it is a show as well as a
game. Old timers who really loved
the game for its own sake are not
too enthusiastic over recent devel
opments which have greatly crip
pled the defense that was so im
portant in their day. They will ad
mit that it has become a game for
the mob, a show, and at times a
circus.
Here is a sample of just how
heavily the game leans on publicity.
A few years ago there was a news
paper strike in New York. In the
small sheet that was jointly issued
for a few days by the combined
newspaper publishers there was
little room for sport. This strike
came in the middle of w'hat the
baseball writers are wont to call a
crucial series.
The owners of the park where the
series was played estimate that the
lack of publicity cost them at least
25.000 in attendance. And they are j
expert estimators.
It is safe to say that the game i
was really slipping just before the
advent of the lively ball and the
consequent battering of the fences.
Interest in the “inside” features of
play was waning, and it is and was
a fact that thei^ are other games
which will provide more real action
in 15 minutes than in the customary
two hours of baseball.
So today the crowd goes to see i
not so much a game of baseball as i
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Rogers
Hornsby, and their fellow sluggers.
NORWEGIANS SHOW
AUSTRALIA VALUE
OF SOUTHERN SEA
SYDNEY- — A £ 5,000,000
haul of whale oil in three voyages
by a Norwegian whaler has aroused
a public sense of the enormous eco
nomic value to Australia of the
Antarctic regions.
In th econtroversy among the
Great Powers, Great Britain, the
United States and the Argentine,
over territorial rights in the souths
polar regions, Australia watches
every move wtih the greatest in
terest. Great Britain’s policy in
the anarctic is greatly Influenced
by the proximity of Australia and
New Zealand to the frozen lands
of the south.
The anarctic expedition under
Sir Douglas Mawson, which the
federal government will send out
next November, will devote itself
more to the possibilities of com
mercial exploration than to the
usual polar exploration. It is in
tended to be more useful than
spectacular. Sir Douglas possesses !
anarctic experience end he is re- |
garded as equipped in a very high
degree to gauge the economic pos- ]
sibilities.
Sir Douglas Mawson has a fine
record of achievement in the south
ern polar seas. The expedition
which he led in 1911-14 explored
1840 square miles of land and froz
en sea.
His notable discovery was the
determining of the south magnetic
pole, which feat stands to his cred
it in association with Sir Edge
worth David, the Australian geolo
gist and explorer. That was in the
Shackleton expedition in 1907-9
when Sir Douglas was 25 years old.
Long Gloves Stylish
With Short Sleeves
PARIS- —Long gloves have
reappeared after an absence of
many years, since some of the big
gest names in fashion making de
clared for half and quarter sleeves
for mid-summer dresses.
As soon as the weather is warm
enough for silk ensembles and thin
summer dresses to be worn without
coats, people who read the fashion
signs expect to see long gloves
aplenty.
They are in the shops now, in
many varieties of wash gloves of el
bow length, or slightly shorter.
Nearly all the models are button
less pull-ons.
Glove makers so far are waiting
for demand to regulate their output
of long gloves. Some of them are
frankly skeptical about women's
acceptance of long gloves for mid
summer. They base their doubt,
they say, on the modern woman's
insistence upon the least possible
covering.
Pull-on gloves with six-inch cuff
are the model most worn with the
informal suits made of silk or wool
that are an important phase of early
summer styles. Nearly everybody
wears washable suede in Paris, the
weight of the glove varying with the
weight of the fabric in the costume.
With tweed costumes the rule of
stockings and gloves of matching
tint still holds.
Q. According to the last census,
had the number of centenarians in
creased or decreased? S. D. A.
A. In 1910 there were 3.555 cen
tenarians, whereas in 1920 the
number reported was 4,267. More
women than men reported. In 1920,
1,561 of the centenarians were men
and 2.706 were women.
Genius Is Not Plotted.
From the Miami Herald. . |
Human geniuses must be bred as '
race horses by combining “carefully
selected pedigreed stock,” Dr. Clar
ence G. Campbell, president of the
Eugenics Research association, said
at a meeting of the organization in
New York. Whether that is true of
the future or net no one knows, in
cluding Dr. Campbell. It has not
oeen true in the past.
Physical development may be so
influenced, and morons may be the
descendants of morons. But genius
and leadership appear in so many
unexpected places and persons that
we are unable to draw anv diagram I
or arrange a plan whereby we can
plot their creation. One genius may
come out of a family which pro
duces others of no account. Yet the
brilliant intellect and the lazy nit
wit possessed the same parents.
Eugenists may prove that certain
families over several generations
have produced only mental defec
tives, while other families have
given society a high grade of su
perior intelligence. But there are of
ten exceptions to uphold or break
the rule.
But genius is hard to trace. We
do not know why one man becomes
a great leader, a wonderful engineer, 1
an Edison, a Ford, or a Dr. Camp
bell U may be heredity, or environ
merit, or education, or what? That
man must continue to advance
through evolution and better breed
ing is undoubtedly true, but that we
can create a genius by planning is
yet to be proven. No age has seen
so many geniuses as the present,
and eugenics had nothing whatever
to do with the manufacture of this
wealth of brains.
Q. When walking for exercise,
how fast should one walk? P. C. B.
A. For an average person in good
health, the rate of three and one
half miles an hour is about right,
and the daily walk should measure
from and one half to five
miles
Reparations Committee Makes Report
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Here are the members of the Reparations
Committee in conference with Secretary of
State Henry L. Stimson, to whom they made
an official report of the European settlement of
the German war debt to the United States.
L. to r. seated, J. P. Morgan, Secretary Stim
son and Owen D. Young, Chairman of the
Committee; I. to r. standing, Thomas W.
Lamont; James F. Cotten, Under Secretary of
State Thomas Nelson Ferkins (member of the
committee), and William Castle. Jr., Assistant
Secretary of State.
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Native Sons Get Big Hand Back Home
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Nothing is too good when Paris turns out to
greet anybody as witness the huge crowds,
above, which awaited the three French flyers
and their stowaway, Arthur Schreiber, at Le
Bourget Field. Paris. Caught by the camera
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in front of their plane they are, left to right
Jean Assolant, Rene Le Fevre, Armand Lotti
and Schreiber. They were riotously cheered
for their feat of spanning the Atlantic in the
“Yellow Bird.”
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Lone Eagle and Mate Migrate
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Off for the west Colonel Charles Lindbergh and his bride, th<
former Anne Morrow, get ready to hop for Columbus, Ohio
Lindy is on an airport inspection tour for a new transconti
nental route. It just seems as though Mrs. Lindy is going t<
accompany him wherever he flies.
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Future Edison?
Merman Robinson, aged 17,
iigh school boy of Venice, Cal.,
tops the list from which Cali
fornia will select a boy to com
pete for the honor of working
with Thomas A. Edison. Ac
cording to his instructors,
young Robinson i* a "wizard"
m science already._