| Show I L Pre V Opinions ion s Comment e t of the e American Press Fewer Peptic Ulcers All Right RightA t tA tA A worried world is not going to get much pleasure out of the statement made by Dr Howard Gray before the American Association Association Asso Asso- elation of Railway Surgeons in Chicago that it is a compliment to a mans man's ability to become af afflicted afflicted af- af with peptic ulcers He pointed out that active men constantly constantly constantly con con- on the go are most sus sus- sus- sus That may be Dr Grays Gray's idea of a pretty compliment but it is not our idea of a peptic ulcer Our idea is that a man with one doesn't feet highly complimented at all he just feels miserable and he goes around round making everybody else feel the same way The main trouble with the world right now Is is active men constantly on the go In times times' lik like these the Dr Grays would serve humanity better by saving their praise for placid men content content content con con- tent with their own vine and fig tree Just because a man goes rushing and fretting about it does not necessarily follow that he accomplishes anything On the contrary the milder quieter man may get a a great deal more work worl done and it is likely to be constructive constructive constructive con con- work too Certainly his life is far more satisfactory He Heis Heis Heis is jovial and mellow inclined to live and let live He enjoys his food he sleeps well he wishes territory territory territory ter ter- from no man Contrast the placid man with th the peptic ulcer type The latter bolts his food gets sour stomach stomach stomach ach cant smoke cant can't take a glass of mild beer without fearing fearing fearing fear fear- ing the co con This makes him yet more mere active yet more on the go Soon he is wearing his poor wife's nerves to a frazzle giving ultimatums losing weight acquiring a lean and hungry look Yon Cassius l hath bath ath a peptic ulcer Such men are dangerous Omaha Omaha Evening Sun Savagery Threatens Earth Savagery armed to the teeth with dreadful inventions of perverted perverted perverted per per- science threatens to bestride bestride bestride be be- stride the earth much of it cravenly cravenly cra- cra venly surrendered without a struggle by governing self peoples Wherever there is a dictatorship it undertakes to destroy the precious precious precious pre pre- cious things of the spirit which by painful effort exerted through the 4 centuries brought notable awakenings awakenings awakenings awak awak- in human minds and hearts Those Thoss civilizing influences influences influences are doomed to suppression by iron decrees of the which claims rights of unlimited expansion by the sword if necessary necessary necessary sary because of its self pro claimed superior virtues Armaments cannot cure the spreading sickness which is proving proving proving ing so destructive of democracies The ancient tribal instinct grown grawn rampant and ruthless through the calculated planting of hatreds covetousness and nd greed is merely the still more ancient instinct of the wolf pack which must hunt huntin in common if it is not to turn its fangs against itself In our own great republic internal hatreds cunningly built up on feeble foundations foundations foundations foun foun- are sapping in some som de degree degree degree de- de gree our peoples people's democratic spirit tending thus to make acceptable acceptable acceptable ac ac- ac- ac to them the cult of the omnipotent hand in government There is of course great need of a moral awakening that spreading widely the spirit of international understanding and helpfulness shall shaH endeavor to moderate to the point of extinction extinction extinction tion existing antagonisms Though achievement of that idyllic condition condition con con- now seems infinitely re remote re- re mote if the forces throughout the world that make for human progress progress progress ress were to rally under competent competent com corn intellectual and spiritual leadership there would be a hopeful hopeful hopeful hope hope- ful prospect of hailing halting the stumbling stumbling stumbling bling progress of humanity to toward toward toward to- to ward the abyss Chicago Chicago Daily News End of a Cycle An advertisement says White nails have caught on They are areas areas areas as much a part of the smart beach club scene as bronze skins Customers have been back to show us their nails grown to the fashionable mandarin length The blood red nail has yielded to the bleached claw The vampire yam yam- pire has given way to the Chinaman Chinaman Chinaman China China- man an and the mummy In this grisly vogue vogue the the thin brown hand with its long white nails the shape of leisure and the shade of deat it i it seems to us that fashion has reached the end cud of a cycle The revolt against the Gibson girl can ean go n no fur fur- ther New New Yorker 1 f A Symbol of The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Marys Mary's bigger sister ship took to the water yesterday as a crowd of looked on She has become therefore the largest vessel afloat 10 feet longer than her distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- relation and registering more tons a difference in tonnage equal to a sized fair-sized tramp But of greater significance significance cance canoe than her size is the faith she embodies that when she is ready for her maiden voyage in May 1940 this world will still be bethe bethe bethe the kind of world which demands vast luxury liners in the pursuit of peaceful adventure in foreign lands Among the persons who watched launching her at Clydebank Clydebank Clydebank Clyde- Clyde bank there must have been very few who were not impressed with her as a symbol of the hope that springs eternal in the human breast There she lies now being equipped and dressed for her wedding with the Atlantic two years hence as if there were no doubt that her decks will be thronged then with a great company company com corn pany of ot gay voyagers sailing forth to happiness Two years is a long longtime longtime longtime time in the incredibly swift march of modern events So much can happen in the interval to alter the very face and substance of the civilization she would serve But let us heed the kings king's message message to the crowd at the launching to be beof beof beof of good cheer in spite of the dark clouds hanging over them and indeed the whole world And let letus letus letus us derive further cheer from the spectacle of at that great hull being resolutely prepared for the accommodation accommodation ac ac- ac- ac of tourists not troops New New York Trib Herald une Pa Parallel ael Jew Baiting Edicts closing all the private schools in Austria religious and secular and denying Jews in Italy the privileges of education at accredited accredited ac so- credited schools and universities follow each other so clos closely ly as to indicate action in concert though differing in detail In Austria all education is being taken over by bythe bythe bythe the nazis with special provision made for Jews who are to be segregated with apparently carefully carefully carefully care care- fully limited opportunities for tor schooling In Italy the intention seems to be to exclude Jews from all schooling leading kading to profession profession- A 1 al l or official careers accomplishing accomplish accomplish- in ing much the same result That both nations will be considerably considerably considerably con con- damaged in cultural progress by these policies if it their educational systems are not in fact completely stagnated seems obvious Neither Italy nor Germany Germany Ger Gem many openly adopts the spirit of the French revolution which sent the chemist Lavoisier to his death with the comment The republic has no no need of scientists but the difference is hardly discernible Los Angeles Times 5 t |
