Show t-iI t i Morality r 0 By DR FRANK CRANE CRANES I 1 Leon eon on Trotsky one of ot the ablest men In t Russia has come out for tor a n return turn to mor morality ac according according according ac- ac cording to pr rs reports ports from Moscow In an nn ess add he advocated nd a code of morals which opponents termed mid VictorIan Soviet Russia swinging S' to an extreme of ot personal per per- onal liberty after alter the War Avar has offered an InterestIng Interest Interest- Ing experiment In casting aside moral Ideas of ot the past put And now new in the Judgment of ot ono one of ot Its most popular popular pop pop- ular men p. p return to morality i Is n needed Morality and arbitrary moral codes are aro frequently confused confuted Tile The wandering of ot the time of ot Socrates maintained that the distinctions between right and wrong were not natural and permanent but m merely rel conventional That which was ns right in ono one region they said Id was sas wrong TOng In another and what wall wha wrong under one ne set of circumstances was right when they were we-re changed Rebellious Individuals today say MY to those who t to their lr conduct V You think It Is wrong todo to-do this I think It Is Isan all an right to do It My Iy opinion Is as at good as yours youra r Both h of these groups are alJe speaking of arbitrary arbitral moral code codes Such codes laid down by human minds are al always al- al ways fallible Yet somewhere in the whirlwind of conflicting Ideas on right and wrong Is b the calm of ot a soundly based true morality Entirely apart from an Arbitrary I religious code of morality Is the moral code of ot nature things are moral and some lome are ate immoral some some are rl right ht and some some are Ire wrong and great argument about it and nd ab ut cannot ch change ngo the facts ct Some repressions lons are necessary sortie control of pers- pers personal nal gratification is 19 demanded by nature Excess Excess Ex Ex- Ex- Ex cess ceas means we weakness s and Indulgence brings The religious moral codes which have endured longest tind bod which will continue to endure are thO those that are most nearly in line Ine with the moral code of nature Copyright ht 1926 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |