Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-27

Grandmother was very often married to
grandfather because it was the thing the FAM
lilies approved and she stayed married to him
because she couldn't do anything else.
This isn't true of the girl of today! In the
office of a great newspaper is a clever young
writer whom I found in the depths of despair
night and we mad dinner together She
showed me a letter she had just written the boy
she was about to divorce.
I want you to hear part of this letter and
see If this young modern isn't just a shade
finer than grandmother, who couldn't do any
thing but be married She wrote 1.-TWO para
graphs from an adoring salutation):
uTHIS is all incoherent-I am trying to work
and think at the same time and not doing
either very well. I know that do want YOU
now, l can buck the world-and do pretty well.
I've proved that. I snapped myself out of low
spell and got job house and housekeeper
in a very short time BUT don't want to play
the game alone. I never did. It's not an easy
one for lone woman-and I'm deadly tired.
want to be taken care of-just like any little
softie! want my back rubbed and some one
who really cares to remember that don't
drink ice in my scotch and some one who
doesn't like me to weep on his pyjama coat
(but always has a hankie) and some one who
prefers me to anyone else in the world want
to go on with him and son and on cock
tail parties with him and have him be proud of
the fact that he has wife"
That's from young modern! SHE ISN'T
AFRAID OF STARVING-AND SHE ISN'T
SEX MAD!
e HE would laugh at me if she heard me say
y SO, but this child is A REAL IDEA OF
GODS! SHE WANTS THE WHOLESOME
THINGS OF LOVE AND COMPANIONSHIP
The art of these moderns their fast planes
their "crazy" ideas, are all an outward express
sion of soul that is reaching to the heavens
for something very fine.
Just as the ancient Greeks were trying to ex-
press POWER in their Winged Victory" so are
the new futurists trying to express POWER!
And power comes from one source-the GREAT
AM!
When you are about to laugh at new ideas
or "crazy notions" of people just stop and real
ize that your laughter might come from lack of
of understanding.
SOLOMON'S PLEA FOR WISDOM and un-
derstanding would be just as fitting today as 1t
was then. IF YOU REALLY UNDERSTOOD
WHAT YOU LAUGHED AT YOU MIGHT BE
AMAZED AT YOUR OWN IGNORANCE AND
STOP LAUGHING!
THERE is an evil power and force which damns
/ while it glorifes itself and it is this power
that you use when you laugh at what you do not
understand Ridicule is perhaps as powerful a
weapon as man can devise and as cruel, but
this serves only as a boomerang, and Injuries
him who would take its weapon in his grasp.
Said Rabindranath Tagore, IT thought that
my invincible power would hold the world cap
tive, leaving me In freedom undsturbed Thus,
night and day worked at the chain with huge
fires and cruel hard strokes When at last the
work was done and the links complete
and unbreakable, found that it held me in its
grip"
TO LAUGH, BECAUSE AT THE MOMENT
YOU ARE IN AUTHORITY AND SOME
FORM OF ART FAILS TO. HOLD YOUR IN
TEREST is TO MARK YOURSELF AS ONE
WHO is TOO IGNORANT TO LEARN!
There is an old theory to the effect that every
new thought or invention goes through three
stages. First is that the thing is impossible
second that it contradicts the Bible and third
that it was always true and is accepted with
out question. This is probably the way we shall
all end up when it comes to thinking of the
new art so let's be smart and look beneath the
surface-BY ALL MEANS LET'S NOT LAUGH
AT ANOTHER's EFFORTS TO EXPRESS
HIS SOUL.
JEAN RENDLEN.