Show howe ry about A loafers utopia the final average leading a normal life 1833 1933 bell syndicate service by ED HOWE 0 NEWSPAPER can N manager possibly ia keep nonsense aon sense out of his columns out bill he should be careful to carry along every day a suggestion of the old conservative common sense necessary in properly distinguishing right row rom wrong most newspapers do this with considerable faithfulness in spite of the increasing demand for sensationalism som af pf f them call it humor but the common sense Is suggested and may be worked cut by those who care for it As an example of this I 1 note a recent syndicated article by westbrook and appearing in a good 0 od a gue ninny many first ars rate papers in introducing mr the paper I 1 see sea regularly says gives a humorous slant on the ahe new deal what Is called a humorous slant Is actually the most important piece of wisdom I 1 have seen printed in many months mr air says the trouble with the russian soviet system has been that it sought to compel the citizens to work sometimes resorting to enforced labor whereas under the american plan enforced loafing will be held field over the heads of the comrades as a threat to work hogs who endanger the success of the new deal by indulging a selfish passion for toll mr air works out the idea t to 0 the extent of a column which Is not too much many others would have made it into a book and thus burled buried the good idea I 1 cast my vote for a wreath to westbrook for writing the most illuminating piece of american wisdom in 1033 1933 possibly tor for all time 0 in being careful im rather an enthusiast st when in such mood and receive an important paper or letter I 1 put it uway away so carefully I 1 cant find it later altogether my average in exercising care Is low altho although tigh I 1 believe such virtue one of the first a human being constantly in danger should exercise the time to tc lock the stable door of course is IE when the thought of thieves first occurs to you but so many delay that a warning maxim was written cent centuries urles ago the wisdom conveyed by the maxim Is so important that all careless y men have been familiar with and frequently repeated tt it hundreds of years without it doing them any good A young man went to it doctor for advice and the doctor asked have you been leading a normal life lafel the young man replied that he had well wel 1 continued the doctor you must cut out liquor and women for rt it least six months 1 this may be a good joke 1 confess to a smile myself but it displays a fault common to most american lokes jokes tn in that tt it gives the impression that all normal m men en drink too much intoxicating liquor not one in twenty of them do flow many confirmed drunkards do you know I 1 have asked myself the question my reply ls Is I 1 do not know to exceed three or four and these so widely scattered they annoy me rarely in thinking over that part of the joke referring to women I 1 be come more serious but hut risk resl no figures A new word lately becoming popular Is moron meaning a man suffering from arrested mental development it Is rather a better word than fool which seems to mean a man who Is not a full shilling who never had any sense and never will have any but a moron means one born with sufficient and overage intelligence and after reaching twenty five or thirty becomes shiftless as to his mind and quits developing it I 1 estimate there are hundreds of morons marons to one tool fool the number of complete fools la is actually not greats great there seems little doubt that the mind may be developed as naturally and easily a as s the muscles by proper exor exer else cise but as we grow older our nat ural disposition Is to become flabby in flesh and mind are today supporting doctrines as foolish as per letual motion inflation as an example I 1 it Is the same thing all such are suffering from arrested mental development they do not take a proper dally dozen for their heads men die unnecessarily every day because of arrested physical develop ment and morons marons develop in the same way they become poorer thIn thinker kerp because they do not fairly and properly exercise their minds and shuffle shift lessly along to the bread line or poor house when they might have easier lived fairly respectable and successful lives and finally achieved a very go good od obituary in the local papers 4 the more young men act like cautious old men the better they will get along |