Show about A loafers utopia the final average leading a normal life 0 1833 1933 bell syndicate service by ED HOWE N 0 NEWSPAPER manager can pos poa i sibly keep nonsense out of his columns but bill tie he should be careful to carry along every day a suggestion of the old conservative common sense necessary in properly distinguishing right rom wrong most alost newspapers do this with considerable faithfulness in spite of the increasing demand for sensationalism som t f them call it humor but the common sense Is suggested and may be worked cut by those who care for it it As an example of this I 1 note a recent recen syndicated article by westbrook and appearing in a 9 good 0 o od many first rate papers tn in itro introducing sir mr pettier the paper I 1 see regularly says gives a humorous slant on the new deal what Is called a humorous slant Is actually the most important piece of wisdom I 1 have seen printed to in ran many ny 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 air works out the idea to the extent of a column which la 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 for all time in being careful im rather an enthusiast st when in such mood and receive an important paper or letter I 1 put ataway it away so carefully I 1 cant find it later altogether my average in exercising care Is low although I 1 believe such virtue one or of the first a human being constantly in danger should exercise the time to lock ak the stable door of course la S when the thought of thieves first occurs to you but so many delay that a warning maxim was written centuries ago the wisdom conveyed by the maxim Is so important that all care less men have been familiar with and frequently repeated it hundreds of years without it doing them any good A young man went to a doctor for advice and the doctor asked have hava you been leading a normal life the young man replied that he had well continued the doctor you must cut out liquor and women for it at least six months this may be a good joke 1 I confess to a smile myself but it displays a fault common to most american jokes in that it gives i the impression that all normal men drink too much intoxicating liquor not one in twenty of them do now HOW many confirmed drunkards do you know I 1 have asked myself the question my aly reply 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 become more serious but risk 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 la Is not a full shilling who never had any sense and never will have any but a moron means one born with sufficient and average 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 morona to one fool the number of complete fools Is actually not great there seems little doubt that the mind may be developed as naturally and easily as a 8 the muscles by proper exercise but as we grow older our not nat ural disposition Is to become flabby flab by in flesh and mind millions lons are today supporting doctrines as foolish as perpetual motion inflation as an example it Is the same thing all such are suffering sulT erIng from arrested arrest ed 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 poo poorer poor r thinkers thinker because they do not fairly and properly prope aly exercise their minds and shuffle I 1 along at ng to the bread line or poor house when they might have easier lived fairly respectable and successful lives and finally achi pied a very good obituary in the local papers the more young men act like cautious old men the better they will get along |