The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-05

Europe is worried, harassed, nations
m~istrusting each other, taxing each
others products. Here we have one
hundred and ten millions of people
living at peace in ~forty-eight different
States, all trading freely, back and
forth, from ocean to ocean.
While other nations lack food and
raw materials, our problem is to get
rid of III surplus on a profitable basis.
We haven't ever begun to scratch
the wealth OF this country. Wages are
higher than they ever were; prospect
ty is greater than it ever was; and
there is more money to be spent than
there ever a
Nineteen hundred and twenty-fou,
the Presidential year. ought to be the
maximum veal of American prosperity
for all time.
It will be if the pessimists will
allow it.
The King of Denmark, who was told
a while ago that DR.. Cook had discoy-
cred the North Pole, has now been
told that DR.. Cook is sentenced 10
fourteen years in Jail for swindles in
connection with oil wells.
Psychologists, if they examined DR..
Cook, would probably find that he has
the brain and the imagination of a
young school boy.
Years ago ne exhibited himself in a
dime museum in New York, with Es-
quinau dogs, sleds and heavy furs,
and gradually imagined himself a real
explorer. Finally, he imagined that
he had discovered the North Pole
perhaps he almost believed 1t. There
is no penalty for imagining that.
But when he imagined that he had
discovered valuable oil wells and sold
stock-that was a different offense.
The Methodist Episcopal Board of
Public Morals has things to say about
the stage in New York. Young ladies,
it seems, many at a time. troop down
to the footlights naked from the waist
up. and practically naked from the
waist down-don't call it nude. just
plain naked" so say the board.
Much seems to depend On what peo-
pie are doing, and why, and where.
In ancient Greece young girls ran in
the races entirely naked without hurt
ing anybody's morals. Their inten-
tons were good. That makes all the
difference.
Many things on the stage are both
immoral and stupid, intentionally i'm
moral, Internationally stupid, but new
ertheless very stupid. Women, as now
----,---J -. H. 4,,bTs1 or1 hasrT A.
interesting as so many sides" of
dressed beef hung up in a butcher
shop. Managers ought 10 know that.
A few years ago, even Henry Ford
wouldn't have thought this possible.
: He will talk, through the air. from his
WWI station at Dearborn, using his
/ $50 metre wave, across a thousand
miles OF this continent, three thousand
miles of the Atlantic Ocean, to men
and women listening in" in England
That miracle would have astounded
those living when the Old Testament
was written.
Let's hope that in a few thousand
years, with every human being able to
talk at will with any other on EARTH
men will decide TO stop numbering
each other. and follow Joseph Pulitz-
er's advice, Don't fight; advertise
Young ladies Of Chicago's Coed
University decide that all men are
takers and are all dull. Some. with
dullness, combine seriousness, others
froth. others triviality, but all are dull.
Nothing new in that truthful state
ment. The miracle is that women
have endured mems dizziness, pretend
ing TO be interested in their converse
ton, for so many centuries, from dull
modern man back TO Adam. He must
have had nothing at all 10 say, being
so freshly made and having no gossip
to bring home to his wife. You do net
wonder that, in the despair Of bore
dom. she talked TO the snake.