Show I Dr Frank Cranes Crane's Daily Editorial II V The V By DR FRANK CRANE The trouble with the egotist Is that he smothers you V More marriages s have haye been wrecked by than by any other cause No 1 one cnn can sustain a continued intimacy unless he allows the theother theother other othel party to that intimacy a certain amount of ot independence The Instinct for personal expression is one of ot the deepest of ot our humanity Whoever r tre treads d upon that instinct and denies it has laid the ground for a deep resentment A A. recent writer tells of ot a a. man who wa was arrested for desertion after twelve years of faithful married life V He said that he had been coming home as usual that he had seen his wite wife and children through the window that he had seen them there every night and that that he couldn't bear itA It A iA fine coerced him back to his setting setting but but he conveyed a a. lesson Crime is otten often a a. common impulse magnified mag an and l sustained and his impulse was self He was escaping from a a. supplementary picture of or his own conformity He lIe said Your Honor If It she only had hit bit me I never w would uld have left lett her Singularly enough some of ot our laws make violence and brutality an excuse for divorce but not It is well known however that the carters carter's or blacksmiths blacksmith's wife very easily puts up with an occasional beating but it is difficult for the duchess to d live Ue with an egotist V t 1 1 If It a husband or or ora a a. wife mak makes s the partner r but but buta a reflex o of himself or herself herse and of ot his or her Ide Ideas s It may make for tor conformity but hardly for satisfaction V V It t is a difficult thing to see ee that perfect unity Is Impossible with without out perfect independence There can be no sincere unity without de deliberate deliberate de- de liberate self And if It there is an effort on the part of ot one one oneto to tomake tomake tomake make the other conform in every way to his wishes and his ideals the result is la The eventuation is not harmony but dishar dishar- mony By and by there is a constant effort to evade what cannot be argued with Whoever will not tolerate anything but his own Ideals and convictions Is putting a a- premium upon deception Submission or or self giving must be entirely voluntary to be worth i while Copyright 1924 by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate |