Show Men Blamed for forMost I Most of Our Ills Editor The Telegram A Great Lakes sailor awaiting execution in the Ohio penitentiary for murder tells a fellow v prisoner that he committed murder because he had iad a grudge against the world in general He had sailed the lakes for nearly nearly nearly near near- near near- ly forty years he lie said and in al all that time never got the breaks the theother theother theother other fellows got got Embittered an and sullen he lie had waited his chance to pet get et even and when finally he go got Into a quarrel with an associate he struck him hint down and hammered his head In with the dim feeling that he was somehow avenging th the thereal thereal real or fancied wrongs that the him 4 world had done dono It would be interesting to know Just how bow many i crimes of violence tr trace ce back to just some s such ch reason reason rea rca son as this The number must be belarge belarge large Even the most moat and self conti controlled oiled of oC men have moments when they feel feet that the whole universo universe is in some sort o of conspiracy against them Put that thai feeling in the underdeveloped brain of a m man ln who vho has spent a lifetime Without hope and you have the materials for tor a a. terrible outbreak As a m matter mattei of cf f fact there are arc some men men who are almost justified in feeling that way way The ordinary ordinary mortal brings most of oC his troubles upon himself but there is no use denying that now now- and then Ihen the cards ards do get stacked against a a. manThe man The Time man who spent his childhood in ina ina a n. slum and had to start stait earning liI his bis own living before he had donned long tong trousers egan began under a tremendous tremendous tre tre- handl handicap ap the addition of or ofa ofa ora a few m mote moie re ul circumstances ir circum um- um stances e can n easily rob him for forever ver vero o 0 fall chance to gain happiness or contentment in his whole life lite Such people however are the ex exception ex- ex Most lost o of us have no no more right to consider ourselves s 's cheated by ty the tile world than w we have to take a hurricane hurricane as a pel personal son l Insult fro fo We Ve are responsible for nearly all alt oC oJ ou our own own difficulties s' s and anti j if w we could once thoroughly di dl digest dl- dl gest fest that f fact ct we would do a good deal less useless RA HAMBLIN REASONER |