The Washington times., 1920-07-31
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Perhaps the most powerful motive OF human conduct Ii
the desire do others do 1t difcut Tor US 70
resist the crowd as it is for the drop resist the stream
Most things good and bad that people do' tney 90
because somebody else has done them
Millions of women seeking eagerly to fnd out what
kind of hats to wear This they determine not by any
canon of art or taste not by becoming what
they afford, but solely by what other women wear
Millions of forming their political and other
opinions not by what true probably true but by what
q party sect, or some other mob thinks ..
All we like sheep follow some belwether. We jump
when he jumps whether there is anything there to jump
not
This is why men hats in the main an unsantary
and expensive custom and wear coats In summer ana
comfortable shrtwaists as women
No boy liked tobacco or whiskey at hrst. he
began because he wanted to be like others.
Ninetenths of all habits borrowed ine-tenths
of acquired tenths OF our sins are the
result contagon and tenhs of Righteousness Is
respectabty which another word for acting SO much
like others as not to be noticed.
Most people would insist that they at least eat and
drink what they like. "They druther eat what they
druther Maybe But don't realize that very likes
caught by imitation from Others particularly from those
we think superior.
Fashion started potato eating It was introduced they
say into Ireland by Sir Walter Raleigh and by the rar
of Spain into Italy The of Mons received from
the hands the Papa gate of Belgium David Fairchid
Journ of the Franklin Institute) gives it as his opinion
that Fashion started potato cultivation
People drink tea coffee and alcoholic beverages not
these have any food health value but because
superior gentry the style and the herd follows
We the flesh of beeves and fowl for precisely the
same the Solomon Islanders ate human fesh-be-
others do There plenty of nutrment and better
and cheaper) in grains vegetables and fruits
and reason made eat beefsteak, or like it.
We are slaves of the Zeitgeist-dumb cattle driven by
the ghosts who herd the mobin much that do in church
and out We are little rational than those Chinese
who rats the Russians that eat the strong smelling
caviar eggs the Voga sturgeon the ancient Romans who
ark tongues and ees fed the flesh Of slaves the
VIII eat SkpperS,
Indians who snakes and lizards the Maors who eat
woodrub the French who eat frogs legs the Africans
who eat fried rhnoceros hide the Japanese who eat
weeds and canded grasshoppers the Mongols who eat
powdered deer horns the Germans who eat sauerkrau
and imburger.
Our btterest hates not against those who do us
injury but against those whose skin is of different COM
pexon from who speak words with different accent
and who do not like what we like.
We make uniforms, not men.
Our politics war cries. not convictions
We deport those who won't agree and hang those who
won't keep STEP
Two English navvies, well filed with liquor were walk
ing down the quay and noticed stranger approaching
"Who's that, Bil?" said one.
II dunno" replied the other Looks like furriner
Let's eave 'arf brick at um''
Addison said that whoever would undertake to dress
in accordance only with the dictates of his comfort and
desires would be in Jail by the end of the week.
"oh, you gotta play ragme, runs the jazz ditty f
you wanta belong"
And if it's you for the Lone Trail, why "kiss your
love goodby