The Washington times., 1933-10-14

and one for life under the G. O. P" This is sounder social
philosophy than usually out of Washington out of
gatherings of educators.
What makes life hard for lot of people today is that
they getting their second education too ateand too
year. The new education for America has cost about
$4,000 million dollars already.
Going Nutty
According Dr. Grille will be in need of another edu
cation still in few years. Cheering with the promise Of
eonquerng tuberculosis and diabetes (and perhaps the COM
cold y by 2O33 Dr. Grille notes. little too calmly that
lot of will be going insane by that time, and
expect hundred for breakdowns,
too Civilization going to become too complex for the
structure OF our minds and we will collapse.
The prophecy not exactly new one but the scientific
authority impressive It suggests that the pros
perity returns create political party whose slogan
will be- "More Sanity in $685. and how many votes
get Shaw's politicians in Back to Methusaleh'
stumped the country simple platform to increase the
span of life by several hundred years 1t is more at,
tractve proposal than any tnkering with the tariff and
plank for not going insane would be really satesmanike
Dizziness Will Save Us
One way of breaking down is to be dull note that
Bertrand Russell has recently said something in favor of
dullness, noting dulness proof of greatness in
literature since the best authors not afraid of dull
passages in their books and lone of the surest signs of
secondrae mind is lack Of to be boring, which
the public grows less willing to be
bored" He is profoundly right. Only few people
equally frank. friend Of mine explaining why she
read tedious books and tedious people by saying
that at certain times she felt positive need of being bored
And she was not bore herself
Mr. Russell, like most moras is little skeptica about
amusements being afraid that the age of entertainment
has end the of reflection and great literature
AS who knows about entertainment than about
greatness, him. It is not amusing and
exciting it In fact achieve the highest
degree of boredom only pectaces and other entertain
ments which intended to because the failure OF
the effort makes the resulting duness open and
acute page of statistics is not nearly resome
page of funny book which happens not to be funny.
A Book Today
In "More Power to YOU" DR.. Walter Pitkin has
thing say about boredom and how ecape it, in fact
he has something say about nearly everything from diet
to tepd baths all with the single object of makng the
most of human energy"-what used to call ''being
Efficient in the old days. Go upstairs at the rate Of about
step second; secondclass mail the adver-
tisements by Simon and Shuster for Dr. Pkin book
were secondclass ma have your telephone your
desk; be your psychoanalys And write book like
this one in a couple of weeks
It really is good book-for the which has ended
It is good for the because full of bright ideas
and may make people think that their own lives could be
more nteresting-to themselves at least But it runs off
into purposeless efficiency and the time for that may well
be Perhaps long leisure and lazness will become
virtues the grinding pressure to produce and
and hoard lets up Perhaps it will soon be crime
to be too efficient.