The New York herald., 1921-10-09


hurt herself so much by daubing her face
with colored dirt as her greatgreat-grand-
mother hurt herself with eighteen inch
corsets. Considering how our great-great
grandmother behaved, there really shouldn't
be any race here at all. Fortunately few
fashions are fatal.
"Mr Johnson's structures as to the un-
preparedness of young girls are impregna
bly, right Superficial phases may be passed
over but we cannot lightly consider the
failure to prepare for fundamental, for
unbeatable obligations.
traditional homes may not be impera-
tive. Even traditional marriage may not
be imperative. But a society that forgets
babies will soon be out of the game If
having babies is to be left to foreigners
to foreigners must go the inheritance. The
world belongs to those who take hold of it
and who help populate it.
"Lipstick ethics may be against me.
Yet if we can't have a census we can't
have a history. Despite the gorgeous dream
Of Mr.. Shaw there is no present promise
that babies will be born without mothers
How the Psycho-A naIyst
Considers the Main Facts
"Of course babies are old fashioned. But
so is the North Star"
When the psycho-analyst greets the
problem of the wasting generation he gives
no thought to protesting against condi-
tons as they are. He accepts them as
facts, and promptly uses them in his
business.
These are tremendous facts which Mr..
Owen Johnson has presented" said DR..
David Orr Edison. "They make splendid
array of tabulated statistics. But what
business have we protesting against
axioms? We should be utilizing them.
putting them together for some use, in
stead of standing static and saying
Amt it terrible
Furthermore although Mr.. Johnson has
some wonderful stuff do not believe that
he is interested in sitting out the truth.
He is merely angry at the results. He is
reporting in relation to his prejudices,
Judging the country according to his own
standards. While he is splendid in facts,
his conclusions give the psychologist access
to his stabilized idea of perfection.
II see no waste in the sons of successful
men failing to carry on. | merely set it
uONH lHdl Juey nave tie ulSCdoc VI ioohih6
for pleasurable excitement They make
room for others to come up instead of
sitting back and saying: We've got it
and we're going to keep it.
I'm a college the seniors have no bust
ness saying: Oh kick out those freshmen
This is a great country for development
where the furnace stoker can become an
Andrew Carnegie. Mr.. Johnson has his
formulas already east. The world she do
move. and Mr. Johnson wishes to stabilize
1t as it is to-day. He will have his diff
culties.
People are always complaining about
the politician, cussing him out for his in
efficiency. They haven't the vision to see
that politics-even bad politics-forms an
essential feature in herd organization.
have a fine feeling of admiration for crowd
nefficiency. When the politician pays $4
day to the man for so cents worth of
work | watch the proceeding rather CRATE
fully. | am very thankful that the so cent
man will accept his S4 and go along on his
way without bothering the rest of us.
Some reformers would throw the so cent
man out into a vacuum. But still he'd be
here organcally, the same fourteenth cen
tury animal. If you didn't have the gov
ernment to take up this problem we'd be
overwhelmed by the 80 cent man and grad
ually we would go to pieces.
"T' look at these things from an investi-