Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-05 | Page 4 | Acceptance of the New Sometimes Terrifying

ance of lix New Children will regard with complete com equanimity the most elaborate wonders or of science and go round eyed with admiration and desire over a wooden clothespin dressed d up in a abit a abit bit of colored paper MIracles they accept as a matter or of course It used to be a familIar complaint among the minded forward until quite recently that the mass or of hu ha is hostile to new ideas The common man is held fast tn in the bondage bond bond- age of old habit He Is the slave of Inertia He is the creature of oC injunctions injunctions and taboos minority has a dicK dickens ot of a a. a time wrenching thiS sodden human mass out of the grooves of ancient habit arid and setting selling its feet on the road to new horizons Today it is not so sure that men in inthe inthe the mass are ImpervIous to new ideas Indeed one may took look around the world and see the human herd as asit asit it used to be called embracing novel ideas with a speed and thoroughness that are often otten terrifying It is poor consolation under the circumstances to argue that people are embracing the wrong new ideas instead of the right new ideas namely our Topics of The Times