Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-05-04

ers say that speech is controlled from
a lobe in the lower cerebeIlum.
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Man, in the embryonic state, passe,
thru all the stages of mans existence
on earth. Within $50 days he evolved
thru all the forms that evolutionist.
say he passed through in the adult
form. He's not pretty object in some
of his stages. An unfinished fish, or a
great-headed pollywog or monkey are
not nice things to look at.
There seems to be furore over the
statement that man 'sprang" form
monkey. Rather say that monkey
sprang from man. Man sprang from
nothing. He evolved and the process
has been tremendously slow. He has
tremendous physiological and psy-
Geological past He's but on the first
lap of the cenozoic age-man age. His
future is impossible of determining.
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Forty thousand men and women
watched a ball game recently with
breathless interest. The swat of the
ball with resounding smack, the hurry
to first base, the slide, the cut, brot
forth g.cans and cheers. One man
knocked three-bagger and ten thou
sand people arose and threw hats in the
air.
The foremost men of England, Italy,
France, Germany and Russia met to
discuss ways and means to settle for
ever the status of man to man, prevent
war and make stable currency. Who
were inteyested2 One-half column
told the momentous news; but a full
page was given to the opening of the
ball season!
Perhaps it's true, after all, men are
sprung" from monkeysl
News affecting the destinies of at
least thirty nations, and probably in
volving the entire planet, occurred at
Genoa last week when it was learned
that Russia demanded 50,000,00O,OOO
gold roubles as indemnify for damage
done to Russian property by Denikin,
Yudenich. Wrangle, Semen
off and others alleged to be financed
by allied powers, and the fact that Ger
many and Russia had formed an alli-
ance.
Ringling's circus parade passed
down Fifth Avenue, New York, and at
least hundred thousand people saw
it, all eager to see the giraffe, the soft
treading elephant and the gaily capar-
Isoned animals and bespangIed eques-
triennes and equilibrists. Children
chirruped with glee, older folks clap
ped hands and laughed.
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The morning paper told the porten-
.ous news from Genoa-it was unin-
-eresting. The morning paper gave the
Inc of march for the parades-it was
very interesting.
Yes, man is in his infancy, never
grows up till he dies. and belongs to
he trilobite of the tertiary period.
Anything for amusement and every
hing for amusement, practically; for
he amusement film is the fifth indus
try in the country. Theater owners
say that men and women spend third
of their life at the movies! They give
as the reason to get away from them
selves" In other words, avoiding the
demands of thinking.
Thinking is hard work. Turn
thinker lose in this world and. if his
thought is held in leash and directed
a world is leavened. Every
enterprise in the world started in one
mans head The complex devices of
modern industrial life are the results of
thoughts originating in one mans mind, |
1888
How is it possible to avoid minority |
and monopolistic control of civiliza-
ions destiny when the preponderating
mass refuses to think. prefers fiction to
fact, as the magazines show, and pa
.ronizes to the limit every great amuse-
nent device placed before them.
The wise five percent arrange all
his and more power to them; for it
axes blackness out of many a tired
oul.