| Show FEEDING prejudices most of us who consider ourselves broadminded are anything but that otherwise how can we account for the fact we are seldom interested m reading the other side of any question we read almost exclusively such books periodicals and newspapers as we know in advance will generally coincide with our own views few republicans subscribe for a red hot democratic newspaper or vice versa people take church papers only of their own denomination capitalists take few labor papers and laboring men would hardly look at one that reflects the capitalistic viewpoint jn other words we all have more or less confirmed opinions on nearly every important subject and do not admit that there may be some virtue in the contentions of those who take an opposite view As a recent writer has said the only facts we can tolerate are those we already know we read not to really learn something new but for the purpose of confirming ourselves in our present beliefs and prejudices our onetime one time infant industries now appear to be in their second childhood modern children are so dumb that experts are needed to teach them how to play many college graduates could go through life without being suspected of being college graduates life insurance companies should recognize banditry as one of the least hazardous occupations the teeth cures many ills doctors say but pity thedoor the poor laws that never had any teeth reports indicate that much canning will be done this fall in that of quite a lot of candidates now russia consents to paying workers according to their skill which would be a bad system for a lot of us if a scientist had not told us we have been developing human for years we could have scarcely imagined it we doubt that japans incursions into china are inspired like that of our roy chapman andrews by a desire for dinosaur eggs y w maybe it is not possible to put old heads on young shoulders but young heads have been known to nestle on somewhat older shoulders i i f |
