THE BEE: OMAHA, ' SUNDAY. MARCH 6. 1921.
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1. New Union Pauenger Station.
2. Continued Improvement of the Ne.
braika Highways, including the pave
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3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
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City Manager form of Government.
Safety First and Your Share.
It is easy enough to apply the mote and the
beam parable to the safety first problem there
is no beam in it. At least that is what one might
conclude from hearing the average man's ac
count of any close shave from which he has
emerged; the other fellow is always to blame.
Think it over, and see if you were entirely with
out fault. "
One of the greatest causes of accidents and a
never failing source of confusion and delay is
the mad impulse to get somewhe're ahead of the
oilier fellow. This can be noted in every public
place. Getting on a street car, into an elevator,
through the door of an office building, almost
everywhere when more thau one person is mov
ing, signs of a scramble may be noted. The man
who tries to beafthe train to the road crossing
with his automobile is not the only offender.
"What's your hurry?" is a question to be ad-,
dressed to others than the reckless drivers.
Much of the jamming and jostling, to tie
wreckage of nerves and the disaster of bad tem
per, cau be avoided by simply taking a little
thought of the other fellow. Chcsterfieldian
courtesy is not needed, but merely a show of
good manners; no occasion for an exhibition of
Alphonse and Gaston, but just to move in order,
considering that the man who is ahead of you
has as much right in that position as you have,
and he has no more advantage over you than
you have over him that comes behind you both.
The man who dashes madly through doors,
jams his way through crowds, and so on,
may think he is impressing folks with his hurt
ling ability, but the chances are that most of his
victims are cursing him for being several different
kinds of a strongly qualified fool. City streets
present unending traffic problems, none of which
is to be governed by a hard and fast rule, but
safety first involves some little recognition on
part of each of the rights of all.
Faults of pedestrians do not overshadow those
ot drivers. Veterans at the wheel have learned
valuable lessons, but these are not the only ones
who are piloting cars along the city streets and
country roada. Each year sees a new croo of
drivers, who must master all the older ones have
learned. Therefore the reiteration of safety first
is continually in order. The reckless driver, the
careless driver, and the inexperienced driver will
be with us as long as we have cars, a menace to
all alike. The beginner will overcome his
handicap; the others will not. Happily, they
are in the minority, but too many of them exist.
TheiF trouble lies in the fact that they have no
thought of anybody else. We doubt if they can
be reached by any reasonable appeal, yet hope
that in time a method may be devised whereby
to curb them.
It is not alone in the matters mentioned that
safety first need b; practiced, nor does your in
dividual share in it end when you have become
an entirely careful user of the streets. In your
office, factory, store, home, wherever you are,
not only your own safety but that of those about
you depends in a greater or less measure on
your conduct. Do not take unnecessary chances.
It is as easy to make sure as it is to run a need
less "risk. An old adage says, "The more haste,
the less speed." Safety first may delay your
start a little, but it will ensure your arrival, and
that is really the" most Important thing. Your
share in the campaign is to make certain that
you are doing nothing that endangers yourself
or another. When eaVh of us takes this view of
it, the beam w ill keep us so busy the mote will
get no attention at all.
the best qualities. Clearlv, character shows in
the face, and no good or evil trait or impulse
but leaves its mark there. Cynics say that the
more we know about each other the less we like
each Other, but surelv there is enough of fine
ness in human nature, much of it undiscovered,
to make character reading a blessing and not a
curse. !
A Line 0' Type or Two
Hew to the Line, let the quips fall where they may
Slight Hope for Human Race.
An eastern savant, admitting that none of
the theories evolved by other scientists entirely
met his requirements, evolved one of his own
in connection with the ascent of man. He con
cludes, after ample reflection, and he supports
his conclusion, with some 650 pages of able ex
position, that man broke away from the
anthropoid class because of forming a taste for
flesh food. This necessitated hunting, and the
need for forming a pack. Therefore our sociable
nature, whatever it amounts to otherwise, is the
persistence of the pack impulse.1 'Otherwise, we
have spent a matter of 3,500,000 years, more or
less, in attaining the meager accomplishments we
boast of. ,t
When you get that fragment well assimilated,
consider another aspect of bur situation, de
picted by Seth K. Humphrey, who writes for tlte
Journal of Heredity, to the general effect "that
our drift toward a depreciated manhood and
womanhood toward the sort of thing that put
an end to all great nations of antiquity is un
doubted, though it may be slow." He is dis
tressed by the f 'half-man," and goes on : ,
Who marries earliest and breeds fastest?
"In nine cases out of ten it is those least capa
ble of providing their offspring with either a
heritage of brains or a decent bringing up.
He chides us because we give much attention
to breeding pigs, and potatoes, and such like, and
none whatever to men and wotntfn. "We arc
up to the minute," he says, "in guarding the
heredity of every other useful species, and back
with the Pharaohs in protecting our own." This
is because
of all the relics from the past this superstitious
notion of the inviolability of parenthood is the
most expensive. The one and only way to
clear the race of its burden of hereditary unfii
ness is to cut off its reproduction at the source.
Very well, and who is to be the judge? Just
a few years, when this form of agitation was
more general, a Chicago judge, to demonstrate
his own fitness to determine cases of the sort
presented to him, underwent the Binet test, and
registered the intelligence of an 11-year-old child.
If "Tom" Lincoln had been subjected to inquiry
as to his ability to give his children a decent
bringing up, his marriage to Nancy Hanks
would have been forbidden, and we would not
have had the greatest of all Americans.
As to the great nations of antiquity, which
one of them could be substituted for or com
pared with the great nations of today? Heredity
i$m a wonderful study, the Mendelian law a
tremendous fact, yet it has not upset the doctrine
of the survival of the fittest, nor docs it mar the
eternal process of evolution. Man is not going
backward; we have the "moron," the "half-man"
and the "border-liner," and probably always will,
but the human race is making progress. And if !
you think it is slow, give a Tittle attention to '
the thought that when the man-ape 3,500,000 i
years ago set out on his upward journey, he :
spent the first 1,750,000 years of the trip in learn-
ing that a broken stone would give him a sharp
edged weapon with which to kill the game he
sought to appease his appetite for meat.
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Your Face Is Your Fortune.
Character reading is nothing new, although
like all other branches of science, modern in
vestigation has brought into it more exactness
and codified into knowledge what' formerly was
mainly a mass of scattered impressions. When
Caesar wanted men about him that were fat, he
was attempting to weigh character, although with
a different measure than is now used. In taking
the face as a mirror, Grace Warner Rugg, who
is writing series of articles for The Bee, is
. adopting the science of psychology for an
eminently practical purpose.
Applicants for business or professional sit'ia
tions often have been required to send a photo
graph to prospective employers. This is noth-
. ing less than an attempt at character reading to
determine vocational fitness. Today in many
great industrial establishments the task of en
gaging employes is borne by character readers.
In some plants, when one fails to fit into a cer
tain line of work, instead of being discharged, he
is given another vocational inspection in the tf
tort to find the particular job for which he is
suited. Used in this way, to direct persons into
lines of endeavor for which they are best
- equipped, science can be of great value both to
employer and employe. In a factory at Denver,
the applicant for a position, whether as manager
or laborer, is, after a preliminary reception,
ushered into a large private room and requested
to wait there for a short time. The place is fitted
out with all sorts of chairs, and behind peep
holes in the walls the eyes of the investigator
watch the behavior of the unsuspecting candi
date. This is the final and deciding test, and on
what frdone in the seeming privacy of this room
N has depended the fate of many men.
Knowledge that our thoughts and nature are
being read by those about us ought to stimulate
Find the Heart First.
Human nature is an excuse for many wrongs,
and society usually operates on the theory diat
to suppress the functioning of human nature is
to rectify matters. That there are limits to the
success of repression is evident, and some,
schools of thought uphold the ide.that when
one natural instinct is held in, some other and
less desirable instinct will be pushed out.
It is often said that human nature can not
be changed, and yet the rise and spread of the
qualities of humanity, mercy and those other
practices that distinguish us from savages seem
to prove otherwise. Down in Chicago is an ec
centric religious leader who comes forth with
the statement that reforms can not be legislated
into mankind. To this melancholy conclusion
many more than he have arrived.
What then? Is social and spiritual progress
blocked? Not at all, is his response. Reforms
must be brought about in the souls of men,
not by artificial restraint, but by the natural
operation of a thinking idealism. It is the heart
that must be reached, and this no law can es'cr
do, although after the natural change has come
its significance may be translated from custori
into law.
Where reform laws have been successful, it
will always be found that they were not drawn
from theory but from the actual practice of the
great majority, merely recording the advance al
ready made. In such way might war be elimi
nated, and not by the erecting of a complicated
machine of treaties and courts. For the evils
of civilization cure cau only be found by the rise
of the social conscience, the conviction of sin
and the sincere and widespread desire for better
Welcome to the New Citizens.
A very appropriate party was that held ior
the 120 men who received their final citizenship
papers Friday evening. In churches, lodges,
almost every sort of organization, the newly
elected or initiated member is the recipient
of congratulations from his fellow members. The
"right hand of fellowship" is e?;tended him, and
he is given to understand that all are glad to
have him with them in the work they have set
about. It ought to be so with the citizen who
has just been crowned by order of the court
with the sovereignty that attends every Ameri
can. He has proven his worth, has shown his
desire by his choice, and deserves to,, be com
mended for his act. His rights and his duties
have all been explained to him, and what he
really needs is fellowship. Those who have en
joyed the estate from birth or for years by selec
tion should go out of their way a little at least
to make the newly consecrated citizen feel at
home. A word, the clasp of the hand, a sign
that he is welcome to greatest social organiza
tion that ever grew up in all the world, will help
him to appreciate and value his new condition.
He will be better able to wear the dignity and
honor because he will understand that his new
relationship Is valued by others, as well as him
self and that he has come into' the full enjoy
ment of a social state that is the nearest man
has yet attained to the perfect station he will
eventually occupy. '
Russia's latest revolution bids fair to attract
some attention, if ever the world finds out
what it is all about.
THE l.MROVBIiED MIXU.
Smug as nn Image ot pigmy Ptah
In the ancient temple at Memphis;
Of Assyrian kings, or a l'erslan Shah,
With curlicue beards and a Sbcm phiz;
Smug as a thug who has properly paeked
The Jury that's bound to release him;
Or the innocent hick when the cards have
stacked,
And the gang is all ready to fleece him;
Smug as the pious exponents of cults
Who cross the salt ocean to dandle up,
Word-mongers fooling our drooling adults
In a manner both sketchy and scandalous;
Smug as all these, and mayhap a bit smugger,
To Ignorance totally blind,
A cheerful, complacent, benignant self-hugger,
Is the man with the untroubled mind.
He's discarded his own intellectual mess kit,
From "Nature" he gets his mixed dope;
Bland is his smile and broad as his weskit,
As he harps upon harebills and hope.
A stranger to doubt he preaches redemption
(Though you purchase it only as he says).
And leads you to think that we all get exemption
When the pillars of earth fall to pieces.
For him all is fixed, quite definite, static:
"Why be in a funk a la Schopenhauer?"
"The world's saving grace is to be democratic"
"Why hesitate, ponder, or grope an hour?"
He knows "it's all right" "life is mostly like
dancing"
"Why bother to chase after wisdom?"
(The answer to this is 'discovered by glancing
At the spaces marked "vacant" in his dome.)
Tou have seen him, this oiseau, with views so
specific,
Who, like Einstein, has plotted the universe;
The untroubled mind is a gift beatitic
But here I must end you this loony verse.
T. S. W.
THOUGH there has been little enough to cn
' courage it, the world is growing kinder; at least
friendliness is increasing. Every other day we
read of some woman living pleasantly in a well
appointed apartment, supplied with fine raiment
and an automobile, the fruit of Platonism. "No."
she testifies, "there was nothing between us. lie
was merely a friend."
'Ono Crowded Hour of Glorious Life."
(Krom the GranfCounty, N. D., Leader.)
Geo. E. Thomas attended the dance at
Leith Friday evening, ami Saturday went to
Solon and danced with the Indian girls and
seen a fight between a white man and an
Indian and coming home ho burned out a
connecting rod on his jitney.
. THE French are persistently polite. They
express "nothing short of amazement" at the Ger
man bargain-counter proposals, although they
were wholly prepared for them.
WE lamp by the announcement of the Drake's
supper dances that Miss Walton "will give per
sonal exhibitions." Kervoolyvoodeer?
WHY THE MAKE-UP FLED.
(From the Dodge Center Kecord.)
.' Mr. and Mrs. Umberhocker returned yes
terday from an over Sunday visit with their
son and family in Minneapolis.
They are in hopes to soon land them in
Jail as they did the hog thieves, who were to
have a hearing but waved it and trial will
be held later.
WE are for a naval holiday, and we believe
it could be brought about by persuading Switzer
land to police the seas. The Swiss are a won
derful little people.
T K K THOU S A X D A N 1)
O X E A V 1EKXOOXS,
'Upon my word,' said the Police Captain,
'this is a singular chain of happenings, and prom
ises to be less dull than the usual.' And he in
structed that George Barrington Wild be brought
into his office, where my brother and Mr.
Weatherwax were already seated. It transpirod
that the young man had been apprehended in
the act of picking a pocket, and when the charge
was recited his face flushed with mortification.
T believe, Captain, said he, 'that I had graduat
ed from so low an occupation, the artistic pos
sibilities of which I had exhausted, but the old
impulse overcame me, as a craving for liquor at
tacks one who has solemnly forsworn it. I have
no other defense to offer, and I promise you tiiat
when next I am taken the accusation will con
cern a nobler misdemeanor.' 'I hope your next
offense will be a hanging matter,' said the Cap
tain cordially, 'although I am not deeply in
terested in your criminous career. What con
cerns me at present is the disposition you made
of a pink shirt which you took from this gen
tleman' indicating Mr. Weatherwax 'on the
night of December the twenty-sixth, for I see
you are not wearing it.' At these words the
housebreaker's eyes lighted with sudden inter
est. 'That,' said he, looking about for a chair,
'is a story worth hearing.' 'Be seated, then, and
let us have it,' said the Captain, producing a
box of cigars from a drawer o,f his desk.
with your permission, began the house
breaker, disposing himself for the recital, 'I will
say a few words about my youth and education,
since I may not have a better audience, and
since it will throw some light on my character,
unworthy though you may esteem "that to be.'
Whereupon he indicated, substantially as I have
done (said the fair Saidee), the influences that
had determined his career as a law-breaker.
Chief of these influences, he said, was books; not
the books in his father's library to which I have
referred, but books which he had been com
pelled to read, in which virtue was so flagrantly
and insistently extolled as to become odious to
him. 'I think you may skip all that,' said the
Police Captain, 'and come to the point where you
Jumped from the automobile on the Rush Street
bridge.' 'As you please,' replied Mr. Wild, shrug
ging his disappointment in his audience. 'Well,
gentlemen, what immediately followed my leap
from the electric Is as little known to me as to
yourselves. I fell into the river, which was full
of pack ice, and as I afterwards learned 1 landed
on a floe large enough to sustain my weight, but
the impact must have submerged the raft, as I
was under water long enough to become thor
oughly wetted.'
SEN. POINDEXTER warns that the
Japanese are building many warships ip secret,
and our guess is that the work is being done m
Magdaiena Bay, one ot their favorite haunts.
Making It Perfectly Clear.
(From the Kenosha Herald.)
Mrs. George A. Mowrey can boast an
cestry that dates directly back to George
Washington. Mrs. Mowrey is one of the
very few descendants of this great American,
as George Washington himself did not have
any children.
THE drawn-work decanter, prize for the best
headline for the Nutt vs. Nutt divorce case, is
awarded to G. C. H. for his inspiration, "Nutts
ior tne Lawyers.
AN advertisement of ladies' cotton' hose
promises ."form fitting, while they last, for three
hours only." But at 19 cent a pair, what do
you expect?
BRINGING UP FATHER.
(From the Courtenay, N. D., Gazette.)
A. Swanson is leaving for the cities to
recuperate. We wish to warn those who
have been in the habit of carrying liquor
and drinking "hootch" in his shop, that if
thhj practice is continued upon his return -to
Courtsnay that we shall tine and prose-
cute to the limit the parties making and
furnishing father Hvith home-brewed or other
booze. W. F. Swanson, J. G. Swanson, Jlri.
A. Swanson.
"EGGS Weakened at Week End." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The one wc opened yesterday morning Aas
strong at both ends.
IT appears that Theodore Roosevelt is not a
southpaw. The Evanston News-Index, mentions
htm as "Denby's right-handed man."
CHANCE FOR SOME GOLD COASTER.
(From Huntington, W. Va., Herald-Dispatch )
Full dress suit, complete; also dress ,
shoes to match, one set 8-ounce boxing
gloves; all this in good condition.
- "WHAT is the age of Mrs. Orthwcin?" won
ders a head-writer. Answer: L'age dangcreu.x.
ONE hopes that Mr. Harding's cabinet will
hold together, otherwise we shall certainly be
afflicted with remarks about the President drop
ping his H's. B. L. T.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Questions concerning hygiene, aanitation and prevention of diemse, eubmittrd
ts Dr. Evani by readera of The Bee, will be anawered personally, aubject to
proper limitation, where a a tamped adrlreaaed envelope la enclosed. Dr Evan
will not make dingnoala or prescribe for Individual diseases. Addreat letter
in care ot The Bee.
Copyright. 1921, by Pr. W. A. Evan
"WHITE MAN HEAP BIG
, FOOL."
When the pioneers moved into the
wild and woolly west they found the
Indian had n sovereign remedy. It
was echiuacia or niggerhead or black
Sampson a wild plant round in a
territory extending from Michigan
to the Rockies and from Texas to the
Saskatchewan.
So great whs the Indian belief in
it as a cure that they soon sold the
faith to the white man and Lloyd
says it is used in larger quantity than
nny other American drug introduced
during the last 30 years. Many of
tho patent medicines contain it and
many physicians use it. A doctor
told me hi sister, tho wife Of a doc
tor, thinks it the finest medicine in
the world and whenever she docs not
feci well regardless of what ails her
she takes a teaspoonful of it. A
doctor who treats chronic bone In
fection "just pours it down his pa
tients." It is almost boundless in its geo
graphical distribution as a plant, al
most boundless in the number who
use it, almost boundless in the faith
if inspires and almost boundless in
the range of diseases for which it
is used. In fact it is this last quali
ty which threatens to be its undoing.
Hero are' some of the diseases of
man and beeast in which it is used.
For some of tlicin it is claimed to bo
a specific: Infectious processes,
blood fever, poisoning, puerperal fev
er, uremia, pernicious malaria, septic
fever, typholTI fever, goiter, pyemia,
smallpox, anthrax, stomatitis, ulcer
of the stomaCn, hydrophobia, lock
jaw, erysipelas, bed sores, fever sores,
chronic ulceri, syphilitic nodules,
burns, gangrene, carbuncles, tuber
culosis, rattlesnake .bite, bites of
tarantulas, spider?, scorpions, and
equino influenza and canine dis
temper. Potter says it is anaesthetic, anti
septic, alterative, improves the ap
petite and digestion, it's a stimulant
and' is nutritive to the nervous sys
tem and is specifically antagonistic
to all organic infections of the blood
such as acute sepsis, pyemia, and
serpent venom. There aro extra
ordinary accounts of its efficacy in
cases of poisoning by rattlesnake
venom. It is antagonistic to the
toxin in the blood in dipfherla, it is
not poisonous :.nd it is used internal
iy and externally. All this sounds
like an old fashioned almanac or an
Indian yarb doctor's spiej as he sells
his wares at a street show.
The spiel caused Crouch and Gitt
ner of the United States department
nf agriculture to experiment. They
tried echin.icia in lockjaw. Verdict
no good. Next they tHed it as a
remedy for botulism. Verdict no
good. Tho next effort was in blood
poisoning, or septicemia or pyemia.
Verdict no good. Next came an
thrax again N . G. Rattlesnake
venom was next on the list. Verdict
the same. ,Then came tuberculosis.
The verdict was that the remedy had
no effect on the disease. They next1
tried it m dourine, a disease of i
horses. Verdict no curative value.
The final conclusion was that echl-
naeia had no organic effects. In
other words, lh man who wants to
take it or rub' it on can do so with
safety just as he could take or rub
on spring water. The remedy would
have no curative effect and the man
would have his troublo and expense
for nothing.
And yet I aul sure many million
people have taken cchinacia. havo
gotten well of their ills and have
thanked the p.-erless remedy for tho
cure. Great ts faith in producing
content! Great is nature in the
cure of diseases.
Many Aro ScIf-Supporting.
J. M. .writes: "Are mental de
fectives confined to asylums or are
they left to r.hlft for themselves?
Are such porsons employed In our
factories? Is a mental defective
whoso physical age is 35 years and
his mental age limited to 10 or 12
years capable of operating a power
driven machine? What is the pro
per name for such unfortunates?"
- . REPLY. '
An adult with tho mind of a child
10 to 12 years of a'ge is a moron.
Very few morons who aro otherwise
healthy mentally aro confined in
state or othpr Institutions. As a rule
morons with that grade of intelli
gence are able to make a living and
to deport - themselves as peaceable
citizens.' Tnia, is s it should be. In
fact, society WilI some time provide
educational facilities through which
morons will be made self-supporting
citizens getting as much out of life
and contributing as much to society
as they are capable of.
A Call to Duty
(From the Washtington Star.) '
Said Mr. Hughes at St. Augustine
Saturday:
ur course, i appreciate as a verv
high privilege to be invited by Sena
tor Harding to serve in his admin
istration, and also I regard it as an
imperative obligation to accept.
I think it a call to duty
which no one could refuse in justice
to the nation which we all desire
to serve."
America expect3 every man to do
his duty. She has need of the sup
port of all her sons at this time of
supreme need. Those called to offi
cial station must apply themselves
with all diligence and courage to
their tasks, while those in private
station must follow all that is done
with intelligence and patriotic in
terest. There is no room in tho
country now for men or women who
are. indifferent about results, and
under the influence of the loaferish
spirit to "let George dp It." AH.
in one station or another, must lend
a nana.
There will e room for politics,
and polities will, as usual, be played.
But not small politics. Parties are
not going to be disbanded. The
country would lose lather than gain
by such a procedure. Ours is a gov
ernment by parties; and its affairs
are never so well administered as
when parties are weli organized, and
led bj' men of character and ability
who have made a study of the
science of government.
For America to become, and re
main, the hope of the world, Ameri
ca must continue to be herself,
functioning on the lines laid down
by her founders and followed by
their descendants with unparalleled
success for more than a hundred
years.
May IJo Slight Trouble.
"A Reader" writes: ."I had tho
flu and pneumonia in January, 1920,
and was told by our family physi
cian that I had palpitation of the
heart.
"1. Is that anything serious
"2. Can it bo cured by medicine,
and how?
"3. How long will it take to dis
appear? "4. Is it dangerous to pregnancy?
"5. How lon can one -live with
it?"
REPLY.
1. Not necessarily.
4. Same answer as 1.
5. In some cases' for 40 to 50
years. Palpitation of the heart is
nothing more than a symptom. It
may be due to simple nervousness,
to a nervous heart, or to organic
heart disease, mild or severe. An
examination will show to which class
this case belongs and that will de
cide the proper answer to each of
your questions. Nervous heart may
be due to unimportant conditions of
the heart, nerves and muscles. It
may'be due to conditions of great
importance. There are instruments
pf precision which differentiate be
tween tho various types of nervous
heart. Organic heart diseases which
are complicated by fast or Irregular
pulse are made more serious by
such complications.
Soc a Doctor Soon.
Grateful Reader writes: "1. What
food contains iodine? 2. I have a
goiter. My hoert pounds most of
the time.. What is te best thing that
can be done?"
REPLY.
1. Sea foods, oysters, clams, salt
water fish.
2. A cold water bag to your heart
or throat will give temporary relief.
t5ut by all means see a physician
without delay. Goiter with pound
ing heart is not to be treated lightly.
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Race and Culture
(From tho New York Times.)
It may bo freely granted that few
Issues aro us Important In American
life as that between heredity and
environment, but it inu.sl be added
that few haw? MtiiTeied us severely
from prejudice ml illogie. Scien
tists of the hightest authority ex
press opinions diametrically op
posed, and are not always above the
old pastime of calling names.
S.tys Franlr iluu:;, Professor of
anthropology at Columbia. "Mod
ern anthropologists, almost without
exception, consider themselves justi
fied in disregarding racial, innate
inequalities as almost entirely Ir
relevant in tho development of
cultural history" He accuses Madi
son Grant (and by implication Pro
fessor Henry KairlUld Osborn. who
sponsored "Tho Pu swing of the
Great ltaec"! of being "unsound"
and of "stimulating race prejudice."
Whatever may bo the ease with an
thropologists, however, a long and
distinguished line of biologists, from
the time of Darwin, havo studied
the working of heredity with an
ever-strengthening sense of its
power in the process of civilization.
Frederick Adams Wood, lecturer on
biology at tho Mns.sachus"tts In
stitute of Technology and the Har
vard Medical Echool, not only pro
claims the sovereign might of
heredity, but expresses it in per
centages. .Admitting that conduct
is more amenable to influence than
ability, ho still 'finds that heredity
"explains" more than .r0 per cent of
moral dlffcrenoca. Of intellectual
differences 't explains 90 per cent.
One must admit that this expres
sion of character in set terms, this
reduction of the infinitely complex
and indeterminable phenomena of
life to arithmetic, rather Mau
gers credulity. Let us state the
problem in its simplest form. Agri
cultural experiment utatioiiH have
developed a great variety of seeds
of the same species Indian corn,
for example, that thrives in sandy
soil or in black loam, that pro
duces high percentages of sugar or
of starch. They have found means
of enriching the soil and of adapt
ing it to this crop or that. Other
experimenters have found similar
means of improving the breed and
the feed of animals. But none of
them has ventured to state that In
producing a desired result tho seed
represents a greater or less im
portant element of value than thfe
soil. One might as well question
whehter food is fnore inm porta nt
to human life; than air. Both are
essential, each performing functions
without which the other would be
powerless. Tho warring school of :
biologists and anthropologists are
not very far removed in logic from
the high school :;irl who maintained
in debate that the moon is a more
serviceable orb than the sun, be
cause the moon shines by night,
when it is dark, whereas the sun
only shines by day, when every one
can see. 1
There is, of course, a reason why
we all think quite clearly with re
gard to animals and vegetables,
whereas even trained ecientists lose
their bearings when human beings
are concerned. The study of man
kind is the most difficult for man,
and, in spite of the poet, it is fre
quently the most improper. Many
of our noblest impulses persuade u
that all men are created equal, and
that all arc equally precious in the
sight of their Creator. In "De
mocracy and the Human Equation,"
Alleyne Ireland states the question
as it appears to our traditional sense
of things. "Can the affection, the
care, the guidance, tho education,
tho training given to a human being
determine the character, the ability
and the action of that human
being?" Ago-old beliefs, both re
ligious and political, clamor that iv;
can. Yet wc all know that five chil
dren born of the same parcnls and
enjoying identical advantages, may
become, and generally do become,
five very different persons. Therein
lies the delight and the despair of
parenthood. It is equally evident
to those who can divest themselves
of dogma that tho different races
of mankind, though they may have
sprung originally from tho saniu
parent stock, have divergent charac
ters and capacities. It is true that.
In races which tho ethnologist
ranks lowest, individuals aro often
found who are far superior to tho
average of any race. Yet, given
a soil that is compounded with the
utmost skill ami resources.-the re
sult will not be uniformly good if
the general inn of seed is defective.
It is only ostensibly, of course,
that wo have been discussing an.
thropology and biology. The fable
teaches that we have need of a
deal of clear thinking with regard
to Immigration and Amerlcaiil
zatiou.
otliiii- Alarming.
Manufacturers say that alarm
clocks are selling well and that they
expect business to continue brik.
It's a good sign that we're beginning
to get up and hustle. Cleveland
Plain Dealer. ,
Oil anil Friction.
Considering tho fact that till is
supposed to be a lubricant, it cer
tainly does cause an awful lot of
friction in international affairs. Cin
cinnati Knquirer.
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