Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-13
AFTERMATH OF MODERNISM

Today read in the press dispatches of two col their lives because life longer held interest few their lives because life longer held interest. few months ago the nation shocked by the murder of Bobby Franks by college students beset by the same morbid impulses A few weeks ago we read of youth in Washington State who committed suicide under sress of a light reprimand.
 These are but few of themany fruits of ultra-mod- enism wherein youth has had the doors of former sube mysteries thrown open and bdden to peer within Child psychology has been parroted until 1t has become bro mide along with such phrases as expression o child lnd viduality''
 Thus uneashed, youth has had full play with things more suitable to mature mentates-thngs reserved forI hours of meditation when the adult mind desires to coor dnate personal experiences with that which has passed before One of the youthful suicides had pondered te phlosophes of his college in effort to discover the truth of e and announced that he had experienced ev e1ything life had to offer This in itself bespeaks so pistcaton that youth of right should not possess Add to this such phosophies the Medtatlons of Marcus Antonius Socrates Ccero-a coored with the taint of Stoicsm and dealing with conditions of men who had in dulged saet the usages of the days o spend0r and luxury and begins to the underlying lnfuence which aside the normal senses of the victims o sef-destrucon and suppanted them With medley or feet matter that but fuel to the morbid fires deve contradictions accentuated by daily contact with sub- oping within. |
 It has been said that this is age of revelation The phrase is well chosen. Fundamentals which havel served guide to the production ot greatcvlzatlon appear to have been srapped and n their stead we hae Modernism" The pendulum appears to have reached the outer arc and is returning The present is reapng much of the faulty frts but is due for postery to reap he big harvest of purefacton Who knows but that teWI more tests of "chld psychology "sef expression of i'm mature youth" 'revelation of all the subeties of fe from it's genesis may be the power that will sweep all ths modern cant from human existence and readust the bal ance as before!
 And might be remarked in passing that one ot the youthful suicides was the of noted psychiatrst
 When making comparisons such as as exciting as al Democratic convention Kansas tornado and Texas stampede add :" Ma Ferguson governing Texas"
 Mussolin will tax bachelors to secure funds with whic which to sustain maternity homes Modernism must have hit Italy with a thud
 Southern Congressman says President Coolidge afronted Congress. We'll Calvin has been trailing be- hind so long, he is entitled to lead the procession.
 It cost Los Angeles county nearly million dollars tO air the Aimee scandal not to mention billion dollars ln of time spent by the morbid in listening to the
 Many mans fortune has been decided by his inability to make decision between buying en-doar bottle of mule and starting savings account.
 has not been decided yet whether the candidacy of convicted politicians wives to be their successors an effort at vindcaton to break into the pen with their old man.
 paragrapher says that light eating and deep breathing lead to quick and clear thinking They there should be great thinkers among the Weare Wies of the brake beams