Show howe about sentiment manufactured roar fords philosophy 0 boll bell 6 WW service by ED HOWE ta HE gross sentimentality americans 1 have ii long practiced in their public affairs and do not privately priva tely believe in lias has done them great harm harin no one on can doubt it was our foolishly senti sent mental talk of making the world safe ale for democracy that landed us in ID tile the world war at an expense which bankrupted us and harmed instead of promoted democracy it gave the politicians their present terrible power gross sentimentality too much sympathy for evil doers ruined our courts and built up a legal system that Is the astonishment of the intelligent world it has corrupted our youth our women and our religion everything we are now dow in almost universal revolt again had its inception in gross the writers and leaders biown L town is 1 I the sob squad have taken advantage of our smiling hypocritical acquires ence in sentimental tolly folly until we are the laughing stock of all sane foreigners our present groaning because of self inflicted wounds will make a pa page in future histories that will the once brave word american I 1 have lived so long iong and heard so many tiles tales only a very unusual one interests me today I 1 gave a little attention to this A twenty acar carold car old girl of the best set in a small town Is taking a liquor cure 1 I hav have e just been reading another african book and encountered two well behaved maidenly ladies who went everywhere they had bad no ambition beyond seeing the country no reforms to introduce so they were welcomed by all the whites and the natives found them so unusual they were also delighted to see them the author thus dismisses them finally they had been everywhere in the world that one would like to go and experienced nothing that in their eyes amounted to risk or discomfort cut but they will never write a travel book their observation Is too accurate their views too sane to command attention 0 the writing between the lines here Is that publishers will print nothing about africa or anything else not absurdly exaggerated in everything in print publishers insist that lions roar menacingly maul hunters and carry off women and children in all you read look out for the manufactured roar and discount it or your reading will add to your confusion henry ford recently wrote A man an has no divine right to a job but must work to find work charity undermines Ider derminer der mines wines character self help is in the only road to economic salvation I 1 do not believe in routine charity I 1 think it a shameful thing that any man should have to stoop to take taka it or give it it Is neither helpful nor human the charity of our cities Is the most barbarous thin thing in our system true charity Is a much more costly effort than money giving unemployment has become one of the most dreadful words in the language this philosopher spent a large amount of money in getting this sound thinking before the people but they paid not the slightest attention to it I 1 was once in the company of a mother and daughter and especially admired the daughter she deserves all you say of her now the mother said but as a child site she was terrible I 1 was busy half the time returning things she stole from the neighbors and she was a tyrant with the other children and with her parents in her babyhood I 1 as sincerely regretted she ever was born as I 1 now rejoice in 11 it 14 for she Is an unusually creditable woman she frequently shames me with her ladylike manners I 1 admired the young woman the more because she so successfully overcame tile the natural bad habits of youth success in life Is realization as we grow up that if we are to enjoy the comforts of civilization we must acquire civilized habits i I 1 rarely read without enco encountering entering erIng a statement that capitalism h has as tailed failed E every very such sta statement temen t Is silly but no one c can an be convinced of it capitalism la Is nothing more than the least troublesome way demonstrated by long experience of handling 0 necessary barter it na has no m more ore failed than has marriage or law or philosophy lo not nearly so much as religion or democracy what ahai do these men mean when they say capitalism has failed are t they hey de declaring claring that when we wish to buy a railroad ticket it Is better to pay for it with corn on the ear or pigs on the hoot hoof than with money I 1 am an inveterate smoker but despise the habit babit I 1 get no pleasure out of it I 1 have never owned a satis satisfactory fac pipe used a tobacco that did not bite my tongue or been able to find a satisfactory cigar aay lately I 1 tried quitting and the Dul nuisance sance of 0 quitting was no greater than tile tha nuisance of smoking in fact a little less I 1 shall try the pla plan 11 on some som I 1 other of my bad habits since I 1 hav have IOD long 1 preached that practice of good habits Is easier than 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