The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-20
We ARE ALL FRAUDS
We Go with People We Don't Care Anything About and
Spend Our Time Doing Things We Hate Because
We're Afraid to Be Natural
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
WHY are automobile pages?

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
Why are automobile pages?
Or sections, for that matter.
In the Sunday papers and other
where?
Pages and pages and pages of auto
mobile specials and feature stuff and
personal items and what not?"
More especially pictures of celebrat-
ed gentlemen who have just taken po-
sitions with somebody else after hav-
come & Company since the beginning
of automobile time.
Somebody reads this stuff.
Or 1T wouldn't be printed.
For the one unfailing medium of the
equilibrium of demand and supply is
the newspaper.
The newspapers give the people
what they want.
Or what they think they want
For there is no more self obsessed
humbug than this same public.
They like to be bunkoed and bully
ragged and beaten and cheated and
homswoggled.
They know it all the time.
And like our old-if young-friend,
Oliver Twist, they shut their eyes,
open their mouths and howl for
more"
This Is the reason they maintain
their ecclesiastical systems and keep
up the churches.
The majority of people are fully
aware of the inadequacy and the n.y.
pocrisy of the thing they denominate
religion"
They know their meeting together
in pious psalm-singing and lip-prayer
raising Is farce.
They know it.
But they keep it UPON and on and
on and on yet again.
They know their chatter of brother.
ly love means nothing more than that
of the little English sparrows hopping
from dirty caves to CRIME encrusted
twig
That their virtue is frequently mere.
1y skin deep.
Because If they really meant what
they said and lived out their pro-
fessions-the millennium would be
here.
No manner of doubt about it.
We are, in short, mostly horrible
frauds.
Grimmacing and powwowing and
.smirking and making believe when all
the time we'd rather be doing some
thing else and don't give hang about
what we're pretending we like.
The sage Of East Aurora, he Of the
Little Journeys" written in the attic
chamber of the Philistine, of pseudo
emotions and financial acumen-this
Gilbert Hubbard has said some good
things.
Hubbard fs a sort Of old fake-but
an amusing and entertaining fake.
And none can deny his power.
A successful fake always has tina,
possession.
That's the reason he's successful.
But Hubbard is far removed from
being all fake.
He's a third something else that's
good and for the rest-well, he's ex
quisitely amusing.
And many things can be forgiven
him who is amusing. A bore is never
excusab1e.
All bores should be put to deatf
to slow music. Sometimes their own
For there be bores who think the!
can sing and play and otherwise mau
and torture their instruments, voice.
and refined musical sensibilities O
their audiences.
However this is by the way.
Hubbard among other things ha,
said something that, oddly enough
will be quoted here as relating tt
something that has been said before
Personal liberty is the art of dis
crimination-knowing what you do no
want and leaving it alone"
This is one of the best things tina
has ever been said by anybody. Fo
herein lies the whole philosophy o
1ife-or at least that portion Of i
which relates to social intercourse.
The majority Of people spend thei
thine doing things they don't want t,
do and being with people they dom
care anything about.
There Is popular fallacy, in in
stance, that those of the same blood
and who are inextricabIy twined to
gether with the boa-constrictor o
kinship, must necessarily be of a vas
and comented congeniality.
When the truth is that there is n
hate or dislike so deep. rooted as tina
which lies in consanguinity.
And the reasons for this lie ia
back in the dim ancestral past whe
strains of blood were united which ha
flowed in such widely different char
nels that their forced merging evol,
ed, not new strain, but currents wal
ed up in the same enclosure, each try
ing to force it's way into mid-stream.
Like those trees upon which yo
will find two different kinds of fru