Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-11-23
DR.. JOHNSON DISCUSSES
:, FAULTSOF .US MORTALS''
Former Willmar Resident is Justly
Indignant Over Theft of Fowls
From Orphan Homes j.

From Orphan Homes
Everett, Wash, Nov. t., Editor Will
mar Tribune: Having just finished
reading The Willmar Tribune Of Oct.
26., I got the writing fever and the
real cause of this feeling was the read
ing of the theft of chickens at the
orphans home. I have observed sew
eral varieties of human delinquents
out here, and have time and again
said to myself, "West is west, east is
east. but out here we surely have the
riff-raff of the nation" But I must
admit that l have seen nothing hui
man out here so devoid of moral fac
ulty as those Eagle Lake chicken
thieves.
As student of human mentality,
normal and abnormal, am we'll aware
that these non-moral individuals exist,
and in apparently large numbers. The
question that now worries ordinary
law-abiding people is how large a per-
centage of the population is thus with
out moral completes in their mental
make up.
In a sense these moral detectives
are really insane. They are moral
idiots. Their physical bodies have
grown up but their brains have not
developed and their mental and moral
development remains on the Level of
men in the old stone age Whatever
their passions of good or sex call for
that they take without further thots.
And whatever mentality they evince
is simply the cunning of the savage.
Now in all European countries this
kind of humanity is severely sat down
on. Here in this country, with our
larger individual liberty, this" class
comes to the surface and is now seri-
ously menacing society. DR.. Patton,
an eminent authority on sociology,
in Oct Yale Review says: "a wide
spread epidemic of insanity, far more
insidiOus and menacing than all the
physical diseases combined, threatens
the foundations of modern society,""
He goes on to show that We are pay
ing all kinds of attentions to physical
hygiene, but utterly forgetting mental
hygiene, and in all probability raising
moral monsters that will destroy the
benefactOrs.
Man is a gregarious animal. We
are now in process of adjusting, the
human mind so that the individual
shall be capable of living in peace and
u
Most of humans are hogs yet. They
want everything for themselves. Yet
: in some races, at least, reason, human
fellow feeling, and religious have
brought about a public sentiment in
favor Of live and let live. Is that pub
lie sentiment of love to our felloWmen
strong enough in the advanced major
ity 60 to suppress the 'hogs" or
Evolves" in the sheep fold? Time
will tell.
I And so will the nations. In a few
days the nations will meet at Wash
ington, as individuals of the human
herd of the world, to try to arrange
some equitable way to live alongside
Of each other on this Globe without
war. Will they succeed? They ought
to. But if so then they must shed
their hog-propensities-a be human.
I Outside of China, whenever human
population has been too dense for sup
port, it has organized itself into a
= wolf-pack for aggressive warfare on
other people. The latest example of
that was the teutonic pack against
the world. The remedy, the real
casual remedy-nOt merely placed
is the regulation of population-bir
control scientists call it-so that every
nation can support itself. Not until
that fact is recognized and practiced
will war cease.
Well, now, kindly excuse me fol
philosophying. Throw itsis the basket
if type and space forbids.
C. T. Starlund and family from Ar
1ington, Wash, visited US Sunday an(
we had delightful time talking about
old KandiyOhi. Mrs. Starlund was al
Enblom of Kandiyohi and is vel
known in Kandiyohi county as for
mer teacher The Starlunds have {
prosperous clothing business at Ar
lington, 20 miles from Everett. Your:
truly and wife are we'll and enjoying
the Puget Sound climate. All the Will
mar and Kandiyohi people out her
are prospecting and l believe content
ed.
Panama Canal Saves Situation
Mills are now running full time
some night and day. The shippin,
through the Panama canal is the saw
ing of this region during this perfoi
of adjustment: Our shipping of lum
Der and fruit and everything to every
where on the globe is just beginnin
to loom up, and with our unllmite'
water power, hydro-electric, the out
look for progress is bright. The on
fly in the ointment out here is GU
crowded public highways, all paveG
and auto accidents. I see by the Viii
mar Tribune that you are also b<
ginning to do business in that line. ]
is problem what to do to make tn
roads fairly safe for ordinary people
And here again you have the juvenil
mind to contend with. Full grown per