Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-12
THE AGE OF FADS


The age of fads has certainly arrived and the devoees
thereof are legion Reason dehrOned and ultra
faddism holds sway in her place Nor is it confined to any
place sect creed trade occupation or handlcaft Du IS
universal The good roads faddst has tled the local
papers and magazines with his ideas and the air with
his uluulatons Good roads necessity OF course,
but your addst see feel hear smell or taste nothing
unless is at least Favored or coored with his good ROADS
ideas ,
The educational faddis is in the same boat. He would
take charge of the child is able to take notice.
and superntend its wet nursing lie would make the
schools teach any and every old thing except the three
Rs take cnarge of the childs play and supernend his
bath and tooth brush Education is necessity OF course,
and that is the foundation which the educational fad
dist CRAFTS his ultra ideas.
The courts have gone astray trying to follow the may
footsteps of wandering jade called IN their lingo, pre-
cedents This nula fila has led their steps far from the
path worn plain by old fashioned Justice who is reegaed
to the corner of the fireplace given her snuff box and
left to humble her complaints in real sene blindness
The doctrine of "sare decss old and good one
reasonably used and it is on this the courts Dld thelf
airy fabric of legal fads.
The legislatures and other awmakng bodies give play
to their fances and adopt without thought ali kinds OF
fads as laws Oregon bows low before the ads of
Ren and the United States take off its collective hat
when Clifford Pincho cackles realizing that new ald
fad has arrived in the countlys nest New laws are
necesSarySometmes and it is on this fact the laW-tad
dists erect their gabed structure.
The unco good must have this stopped and that GEN.
sored because from their viewpoint is tainted with I'M
morality. They good people, generally TOO gOou; out
they carry their ideas far into the realms OF addSm and
would hang drapey marble statue and pin coverings
on the naked truth making that which is moral IMMORAL
from suggestion They eternaly on the watch lest
something that might be tortured into having an immoral
aspect should be by other people They want to
it first so as decide whether other people can be trusted
to see without danger to themselves and society Morals
are good-sometmes and the fact that they are neces
sary to civilization is the foundation on which the M
morally moral rest their claims to the right to supern
tend other folks morals and pleasures.
There is your food faddist who would, because his
stomach is weak regulate your diet to his digestive cap
abilities He would feed you he does his horse barring
the hay and for breakfast would give you quart of oats
or corn flakes punch you in the ribs and with stand
over Bill" tell you Fletcherze and not waste the grain
Then he would top off your meal with bran mash and
other fodder and with glass of warm sterized water
as chaser ask you if it not crime after such
feast to think of eating meat cabbage and other such
animal provender Then there is germ faddist who sees
microbes everywhere except in his think tank He
travels around walking advertisement for formade-
hyde peroxide of hydrogen and the very latest dope war
ranted to make germs microbes bacteria and all other
pests except the faddsts turn up their ootses and quit
He sterzes his hands after touching his nose and his
nose after wipng it with serilized hanky. He fum
gates his Bible before reading chapter and his hands
after he through Then he will handle all the dirty coin
he can get and play cards with last years deck and for
get all about his germs until he make blamed nuis
ance of himself somewhere in public
And so it goes through every calling and pursuit
Everything is carried to the extreme of absurdity and
the faddst is happy and reoicefu in his insane fool
ishness.