Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-18
ANTI-SOCIAL
By Dr.. Frank Crane

The fundamental problem Of society Is to
eradicate the anti-social tastes.
Because the great problem Of human be-
ings is not so much how to live and be happy
as it is how to live with other people aid
be happy.
Even more important than the much
mentioned ambition to live ones own life is
the matter of living it so as not to spoil other
peoples lives or to have them spoil ours.
Sir Henry Newbolt, in a speech educa-
ton the other day, said: 1.-THE real object
Of education is to teach everybody how to
live as a member of human society, how to be
a worthy and useful member of society, and
how to enjoy the life of that society,""
And the only wa, to teach that sort of
thing so as to be any real good is so to train
the children that they shall like the social
virtues and be "epelled by the unsocial
vices.
For there is, after all, only one real task
in any kind Of an education, and that is, to
change ones likes and dislikes.
No matter how much information one may
be crammed with, and no matter how much
skill of hand and quickness of mind he may
Develop, he cannot be said really to be an
educated person or actually to have i'm
proved, unless the quality of his likes has
been bettered.
Love, for instance, is social, while hate is
anti-social A group of people animated by
love would get along together and be happy.
If they were animated by hate they would
fly to pieces. And that perhaps is natures
reason why love is good and hate is bad.
Almost all those qualities that we call
vicious are injurious because they make it
difficult or impossible for us to get along
with our neighbors.
So anger is bad and meanness and egotism
and uncleanness and cheating, lying, and
murder. We punish these things very prop
erly by law, not because they render a man
unfit for heaven so much as because they
render him unfit to live with.
There are other and more subtle anti-so-
cial vices. One of these that needs deal of
pointing out is the vice of taking the admin
istration of justice in our own hands.
The very essence of civilization is that the
administration of justice is to be delegated
to the proper authorities. Common sense
tells us that no group could possibly hang to-
gether. and no communal life possibly exist
were every man righted his own wrongs.
Civilization demands, first of ALL that the
individual give UP his gun and carry no con-
cealed weapons, for a city without courts
and policemen would speedily degenerate into
hell of anarchy.
Order is the prime necessity for communal
life. Order is the common soil in which alone
prosperity, family life, protection and per-
sonal liberty can flourish.
And the same thing is true of nations. I'm
til they delegate justice to some international
body and put all force at that body's dis
posal, wars will continue. And war is moth
ing but international anarchy.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)
Everybody wants somebody else to obey the
VolStead law-New York World.
| The Ford campaign battle-cry: Ford and a
| bumper crop! Cincinnati TimeS-Star.
1t must be annoying to be born rich and never
have an opportunity to brag about your humble
start.-Memphis NewS-Scimitar.
| What's worse than changing your mind after
having your hair bobbed? -Nashville TenneS-
sean.
Now that the women are beginning to show
their ears, they pin long earrings to them in
order to prove that they are of some use
| Waterloo Tribune.
| During the freckle season, Eve doubtless ex-
amined herself at intervals and wondered if she
was related to the Republication Beacon
Journal.
Mules are said to be cheaper than they have
been in many years. The secondhand automo-
bile has all the stubborn vices of Missouri
mule and costs lot less money.-Lincoln Star.