The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-04-28
Howe About:
Poor Advisers
Drag on Progress
Geniuses
Bv ED HOWE

TN 1929 the President appointed
Research Committee on Social
Trends. The members were the most
notable Of the college professors, sew
en- in number, and their report has re-
Gently been made. With one exception
everything in it might have been rec
commended by similar commission
appointed by Joseph Stain, the scoun-
drel who heads the Soviet government
in Russia. The one exception is that
the members express faith in private
property, but the belief is also ex-
pressed that violent revolution in
America is probable, if not inevitable,
and that the injustices we practice
warrant such revolution.
Arthur Schopenhauer is, believe,
accepted as one of the ten most intelli-
gent and best educated men in all his
tory. He contended steadily through
out his best years that college profess
sors are the least reliable of all advis-
ers, because of their seclusion from
practical affairs, and their enormous
The President must have known this.
l wonder he did not appoint on the
commission some of the more notable
men of practical sense and education,
and save us from this humiliating
broadcast. The report comes at
time when the Soviet doctrine is fall
ing to pieces of its own weight, from
having been put into effect. It comes
at a time, also, when the intelligent
world is most interested in attempts
to confine the Russian plague to its
own borders.
A report encouraging renewed eff
forts Of the respectable majority ev-
erywhere to more courageously attack
the Russian monster would have been
wiser, and more in accord with the
decent lessons Of history. The Rus
slams are being starved out of the
false doctrines founded by their own
professors; that we should be placed
on record as encouraging their CHASTITY
error, and call it another noble expert
ment, is not only humiliating, but as
founding. The report of the commits
sion is an exhibition Of old folly the
more intelligent of the savages, them
selves, warned us against; more to be
ashamed Of.
Every twenty years there is new
crop of young men, Of whom so much
has been expected. AS matter of
practical fact young men, with their
immature, rebellious notions, are
drag on sound progress. By the time
a generation gets things reasonably
well settled and is preparing to pro-
coed with greater peace and intelli-
gence, along comes another lot OF
young men to dispute all that has been
decided upon, and the row starts all
over again.
The feats of the geniuses have never
I greatly astonished me; l have been
more interested in the amazing manner
in which common men have been able
to get along with no greater effort
than the practice of natural habits.
Ishave concluded there is no such
thing as genius, unless it Is determi-
nation and ability to steadily follow
the simple rules of morality. History
tells Of people who were once slaves,
but able to overcome their masters by
patient practice of industry, efficiency,
reliability, saving. Such information
as the masters had, the slaves acquired
and improved. The rowdy masters
disappeared from the face of the earth,
but the slaves survived because of bet
ter habits.
wonder an American is not
ashamed to fail in a country where
good living is so easily made.
Women believe men hover around
them because they need the counsel,
wisdom and morality Of the sex.
Men are not attracted to women by
any of these things; women them
selves say men are famous for hover
ing around silly women, and will not
marry women of real worth.
At time when many of the Romans
had statues erected in their honor,
man asked Cato, the elder, why he had
none. He answered: II much prefer
that men ask and wonder why have
no statue than wonder that had one"
It is always wise to remember that
your mind is as much part of your
body, and needs as much help and man.
agement as your stomach, your ears,
or your eyes; your mind is not a no.
BILE thing that functions without care,
or assistance, or the teaching of ex-
perience. q
When hear men are stepped in sin,
it occurs to me they have done rather
we'll In spite of it. OF twenty discov-
cries of greatest use to mankind, thir-
teen were made in the last hundred
years, as against seven in all preced-
ing time.
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