The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-29
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1916. by Frank Crane)

No, Mrs. Bonebrake, am not go!b
to try your religious fad in order to ~
my sore feet; no, Mrs. Hardscrabblel{'
will not use your number riemarolSl
improve my prospects; and no, MI
Likenbower, will not wear your amulP
to get rid of my rheumatism. is
Why? Well, because am honest. |E
may not be very holy or soul-emancip}f
ed, but l pride myself on being an hd
est man.
And I'm going to be as honest vii
myself as I am with my neighbor.
The fundamental ethics is the ethf
Of the intellect.
And that means that will believe orI
upon examining the facts. My judgme
shall remain absolutely automatic, al
shall bend only by weight of evidence.
! shall not say believe thing jul
to see if it will not help me.
| shall refuse to proclaim a faith
order to help anybody else.
Ladies, you touch the quick of n
virtue. / will not be disloyal to my rel
son-no, not even to get to heaven.
History is full of pious and learn{
men who put expediency before honest
They did not believe what they profess(
they did not even understand it; b,(
they said they did because they though
it would aid others, would not offend til
weak, and would save tE own souls.
But l will take my chances with ID
tellectual integrity alongside of all tn
earnest souls who deceived themselve
and everybody else because, so dom
they verify thought they were doing tn
will of heaven.
/ know, Mrs. Bonebrake, you clair|
that your faith, resting upon a plai|
denial of facts, has healed manyj so, Mr}
Hardscrabble, your cabala and so, Mr1
Eisenhower, your amulet. Why not tr1
it? 1t has benefited others; why nd
me?
Simply because every one of you
cures can be traced as justly to tn
strange, mysterious, recuperative power
of nature as to your particular nostrun
or form of self-hypnotism.
Thousands of invalids have got wei
after being given up by physicians, AM
got we'll without crossing their finger
and reading your book. In fact, mos
people, some time in their life, have mi
raculously recovered when it seemed the!
should have died.
Hence. if you bottle Chicago Rive
water and get enough people to "jus
try" it. you can collect innumerable ties
timonials. But doubtless if you publish
these you would not include in your re
port the equally innumerable cases wher
the victim did not get well.
No, ladies; appreciate your kindly in
terest in my bodily health and my soul
salvation. but I'm going to stay homes
and see what happens.
When / am met by proposition tina
is based on facts, and not on the ignor
ing of them, that is reasonable and con
vincing. and that is substantiated by tn
known laws of evidence and squares will
common sense, will embrace it. Other
wise, no; and thank you all the same.
Nothing doing on the esoteric, tn,
fuzzwuzzy. the ecstatic, the self-hypnotic
the what-if-it-is-true-af r-all-you-can'
tell.
My intelligence may be pretty poor
but it's all 1, have. I'm going to stant
by it and refuse to prostitute it, no mat
ter what the bride.
The web of destiny is complex, know
and none of us knows the secret spring!
of life and events; but have a notion
that if man sticks to the truth as h,
sees it, and declines the lure of truth
as he does not see it, even If the latte
promises health, wealth, and hapH
hereafter, he will be likely to come on
about where his Creator intended.
WIRE IN cows HEART
Hart Wallace lost valuable Jersey COW. th'i
he purchaeed a short time ago at n sale In Tia