Evening star., 1930-06-17

seized upon by the average American
as II 1t contained the explanation Of
the whole mystery of life
Nothing could be farther from the
truth, of course. The study of alb
normality teaches nothing sure about
every Tom, Dick and Harry is by no
means a case" in the medical and
psychiatric sense, although all may be
equally off, in some way or other.
But this makes no difference, for the
repression" stuff is easy to understand
at least In part, interesting to talk about
and splendid for the home nerves when
put into practice.
Every one of a certain age knows that
the old-fashioned parent had a terrible
time bringing up the family Johnny
was told not to do SO and so and not to
do something else, and II he did hap
pen to do something or other, he was
always in the wrong, at the mercy OF
any neighbor who chose to assume the
role of accuser.
In those days it was, Johnny, why
did you do that?" without giving John
a chance to explain his side of the case
He was assumed to have committed
the crime.
Today all that is changed Now John
nv is right all the time, and his ac-
cusers must prove their case, and even
then they will find themselves UP
against stone wall of distrust and dis
approval.
Nor is John slow to take advantage OF
this state Of affairs. He knows that he
wields a power formerly possessed only
by court beauties and the like. One
grin from him, and mother and father
will believe him against the world.
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VIZ MT e,,ra that fI,;e &c not I,
right attitude, after all. In fact, we
are willing to say that it is the right
attitude.
AT any rate, time will change it final
ly so all those who are today annoyed
by the little ones or who believe, and
properly enough, that fine statues
should not be used as gymnastic ap-
parati, may rest assured that conditions
will some day change again.
And the joke of the matter is that
they will be changed by the very chill
dren of today, who will then be grown
up and have children of their own.
The boys and girls of today are
shrewd enough, one may feel sure. tC
see the errors in their own bringing up
The child who is permitted to run al
large, like little dog without a tag
will not permit his own children such
license, one may be certain, II the ole
The boys of today fire off thousands
of dollars worth of firecrackers during
the month of June, so that when Inde-
pendence day comes in all its glory
they are fed up" on both firecracker'
and the day itself.
Does any one think for an instant
that the very boys who are thus, in q
sense, desecrating the idea Of July
do not see the error in their spending
so much money, wasting so much
money, and in their spelling the glorious
day itself?
They do, and will, but who can blame
them for taking advantage of the gooc
nature of their parents? The boys are
seldom to blam0. Any boy of any age
would have dope exactly the same thing
| If he had been allowed to. The boys
are allowed to today, that is the only
difference.
Considering that they are allowed tc
do so very much, they are undoubtedly
| the finest bunch of boys ever seen ir
the world, and what's stone finger or
a statue every now and then?
We repeat, that when the utter free
dom Of the juvenile population is taker
into consideration, the amazing thing i:
| that life is not intolerable. It speaks
very well for the youngsters, we think
that the heads aren't off those statues
too,