Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-18
DECEPTIVE REASONING
BY DR.. Frank Crane

| was talking the other day with an expert
who makes a living by "Sizing up" people and
telling what they are fitted for He made some
interesting statements, which have filed away
as important if true"
| One thing he said is that blondes are better
organizers than brunetteS. They are more in
geniouS. They have capacity for diversity.
| If this is So probably Martha was blonde
for she was careful and troubled about many
things"
am afraid he left me unconvinced never
took much stock in phrenology, chiromancy
pedomancy, nor any other system by which we
are supposed to judge such facts as ones ability
to write poetry by such other facts as the size
| of ones feet.
Condolences are not consequences.
Post hoe does not mean propteT hoe.
The fact that Farmer Simpkins planted po-
| tatoeS in the dark of the moon for three years
! in succession and got good crop, and set out
his tomatoes during the full moon three years
and was successful, may be, as fact, indis-
putable SimpkinS is a member of the Baptist
church and a school trustee and would not lie
not for potatoes at least.
But when you claim equal certainty for your
deduction from that fact, to-Wit: that things url-
derground grow better if planted in the dark
of the moon, and things above ground grow
| better If planted in the light of the moon, you
have stepped off into space. Non Sequitur.
| A vast deal of the alleged proof accepted
by the multitude is on level with this moon
logic.
Prepare thousand bread pills, absolutely
innocuouS Administer them to one hundred
people who have neuritis. Probably fifty OF
| these patients will be improved. But because
they got better while taking your bread pills
does not prove that they got better because
they took the bread pills.
| AS a matter of fact, the argument ut has
cured others; why not your" is of no value
whatever.
'Try it and see" is not always intelligent
| Lies 01Iifa nffo fol lie
truth. That is, if you do not know how to
interpret it.
This is why men of really scientific mind
are chary of subscribing to any statement, why
honest physicians often seem provokingly lg-
norant and refuse to make positive assertions
1t is because they are honest. And scientific
The whole body of spiritstic facts and
| phenomena, such as those adduced by Conan
Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge, is defective be-
cause of this same weak chain that links cause
and effect.
Beware of concentrations. Add grain of
salt to all dogmas, general rules, systems and
| the like.
| The trueSt things in the world are the ex-
| ceptionS.
Somebody said that "al1 generalizations are
| false, including this one"
Copyright 1919, by Frank Crane)
What we call thrift il ourselves is some
times stinginess in others, and the record in
meanness is we'll established by the lady who
| called at the butchers shop in the country
| town, and asked for very small portion of
| goods, including a nickels worth of cat meat
The butcher was muttering angry words to
himself a half-hour later, as he made up the
| order when a 1urried and breathless maid
servant dashed into the place.
Have you sent off Mrs Grableighs things
| YETI" she gasped
"Just dom EN-" snapped the man.
ooh, thank goodness" exclaimed the girl.
''Then don't send the cats meat. The cat, has
| just caught a sparrow