Show Lets Let's Explore Your Mind By Albert Edward Wiggam D D. D Sc ARE BOYS BOY'S GANGS i BAD FOR TRAINING DOES THE T TENDENCY YES 2 NO 2 OP WOMEN TO WEAR e BRIGHT JEWELRY ROUSE ETC INDICATE INDICATE- THEY ARE A E ci MORE CAN W WE TRUST THE THAN MEN DECISION OP OF THE THE- THETO Yes i T NO TO 81 BE ALWAYS JOHN DI ILC GO WISEST IN TH THE LONG NG RUN UI Y NO NO- NO a 3 Answer to Question No 1 1 No while they do not realize it it is to try to show they do not have to labor As pointed out by that profound intellect Olive Schreiner ex excessive excessive ex- ex personal adornment in either cither sex is not for beauty but butto butto butto to show one can command the labor of others without laboring laboring laboring labor labor- ing himself The oriental monarch monarch monarch mon mon- arch so loaded with gewgaws he can scarcely walk as well as the richly gowned and bejeweled bejeweled woman take this way of showing how important and powerful they are As another profound student Veblen put it they do this to show they can indulge in conspicuous waste Answer to Question No 2 Z 2 Nearly every time a boy is arrested we read the headline headline headline head head- line Boys Gang At It Again or something of the sort But the gang tendency is the very foundation of character character it it leads to the forming of baseball teams swimming gangs ten ten- nis basketball summer camps and practically all things that require team work A boy who do doesn't belong to a gang isn't a normal boy and is headed to become a neurotic Of course like all good tendencies it can be directed in the wrong way Then it leads to everything that thatis is bad Answer to Question No 3 3 It is a clumsy device for forgetting forgetting forgetting getting things decided but we use it and tolerate it not be because because because be- be cause it is necessarily wise but because we have not been able to devise any less expensive and troublesome way of reaching reaching reaching reach reach- ing political and social decisions and getting problems disposed of But to suppose that 51 per percent percent percent cent of the people are all wise while 49 per cent are all foolish or that there is any special in infallibility infallibility infallibility in- in fallibility about the majority is tops in nonsense We cheerfully cheerfully cheerfully cheer cheer- fully submit to the rule of the majority from sheer necessity but not because the majority has any mysterious wisdom to j- j |