The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-12-25
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their lacking they have tackled the
young folks, the boys and girls II
their teens, and the women who
don't dress the way their grand
mothers did-and of course that In
cludes pretty nearly all women
young and of middle age. They at
tack all these folks either on what
they call moral grounds or on the
tendency" to evil. At first thought
you wonder why the mature men UP
to middle age escape their attack
but they don't. In an undetermined
way they blame men for two things
"a wrong attitude toward women
and for reeking with disease. If
you are not convinced, go and hear
them lecture, or admit them into
your private Office or place where
they feel free to give you their whole
lingo, and he, or she, will nearly
drown you with information about
the unspeakable conditions of the
health and morals of students in the
schools and the more active men and
women of the community.
l used to become alarmed over
those things, but as I come to know
people more intimately, as 1 learn
through their frank confessions just
what impels them to work and play
and make merry and then become
serene again, I conclude. that my
alarmist friends are strangers to
human nature and for the most part
cannot correctly interpret outward
appearances at all. For every ten
stories circulated to discredit
students or men and women, / feel
safe in condemning eight or nine of
them as being false, and in making
allowance for the others being only
partly true.
application for divorce l no longer
think of them as being abnormal or
off color. I think Of them in some
what the same light as I do radio
they are probably making some dis
coveries agreeable and otherwise.
The fact that they are taking action
suggests that perhaps they see light
ahead, perhaps they are learning
some of the possibilities of tuning
in.
We know enough of radio to know
that the universe is full of music
and messages and harmony for us.
We have witnessed enough of the
operations of radio sets to know
that with the wrong equipment or
wrong tuning in person or an
audience can draw only a nerve
racking experience. 1t is not
enough for the sender and the re-
ceiver to have good Intentions
they must be correctly attuned or
there is discord of very damaging |
nature. A receiving set that abb
solutely fails in its contact with one
source of entertainment, may turn
away and harmonic exactly with
another. Science says 1t is a matter
Of wave lengths, and inventors made
that feature of the outfits adjustable
so that more of them can be har-
monized. If psychologists are going
TO solve the human problem in time
10 save people from the nerve-rack-
ing discords that divorces are made
If, they need to get some practical
to spread among people
pretty soon. l.
Rays of light produce different
,olors, depending on different wave
engths, and PSYCHOLOGISTS seek to
how that people are born with diff
erent temperaments and their
course fixed by the wave length of
he planet predominating at the time
# birth If they have the true
heory it is high time for them to
make it practical by showing people
low to select in marriage those per- l.
ons belonging to their respective f,
wave lengths. But there are dozens
f other "logies" and "isms" with
heories possessing equally good
howing but nothing that has been
ccepted as being practical. In the
Meantime the world sits as much
ghast at the calamities arising from
Unhappy relations of the two halves
f society as from the ever-present
menace of war. AS civilization be-
ONES more complicated and people
ecome more specialized in their
york and play, and the crossing of
aren't stock creates new combina-
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