Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 13 | The Human Question Mark

Q c I The Human Question M Mark MarkA rk 1 A LEXANDER POPE in one of his neatly worded lines remarked that the proper study of mankind is man Trying to trace the causes of human be- be is fascinating What makes p people ople do doas doas as they do Why is such and such a man a good citizen for a score of years and then an embezzler or a thief What are the he mysterious forces that fill the human heart silently year by year until suddenly they cause an unlooked for explosion The papers printed an interesting picture the e other day a picture of a Calif California Chi Chi- nese Loy Yoeng who had been a cook on a a ar i r loy had been well behaved and quiet enough for years but one day without any reason lie he went vent on a frightful rampage rampage ram ram- page with a J gun lIn Before he was captured and disarmed he had killed t ten n persons The picture showed a rather slight com coin posed man of placid appear appearance nce Hi His fact face fac t lad bad an expression of quiet repos reposO Whatever his secret may inay be it will never be betrayed by anything anyone can see in his eyes Du ib uncomprehending and puzzled this stolid Chinese cook will never explain or pro pro- test And we will never know just what him fly into such a strange incomprehensible fury It is easy enough h to make conjectures A Chinese rook Cook on a California ranch can hardly have a very good time of it Beneath Ills his surface placidity pl he may suffer great woes and nourish grandiose schemes of revenge Yet we cannot find out In due time Loy Yoeng will be executed and for forgotten otten but before that happens we should like to know what ailed him His is an extreme case Yet basically it is like all others We never know what moves our fellow citizens Locked in every everyman's everyman's mans man's breast there are struggles defeats dis appointments and outlandish hopes enough to amaze us if we could see them They ferment ferment fer- fer ment together and produce unlooked for reactions reactions re- re actions a a. Judd Grey helps a woman murder her husband a Jesse Smith kills himself when at the height of worldly success and all we can do is ask Why U There are murky depths in human nature Strange fires can in them and pro duce startling and We Ve can seldom understand just why people do the foolish criminal bizarre things they do