| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 26 4 1031' AND WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE OTHERS? up the various spheres in which move the girl who through no fault of exher own Isever-aex- ed vice social to all on and aides posed 1 irregularities? And yet It la tha secure socially 'make You Cannot Use Yourself as Yardstick ' onscious : i t TX week-will- ed good to be true which bad ' it may and yet the day does appear to be dawning when' human beings are beginning to realize the fallacy of judging others by themselves Not that society u by any means free who establish the barriers "good women" from the women divide ASKS FANNIE 'course to be reckoned with but It Is not 'a high percentage and the general Is attitude against hiring an sowhose la a girl Why pathological cial and ‘mental handicaps are obvious once society bothers to look beyond the 'surface fact that she la an ‘‘offender” any more of a menace than a diphtheria v patient who Is to be cared for isolated which still yawn tor them It Is nevertheless also true that society Is so geared that the stigma of social transgression Is a general one to hold It is difficult for an a position or Job once his past becomes knbwn The percentage of "reverting criminals" who offend again and again is of -- lct ict While it Is true that more and more of misdemeanor are Judges In court sending their culprits si often to the clinics as to the prisons snd Institutions for a time then cured by antitoxins? Secure ladles of untempted virtue will agree and extend a gloved and helping hand In the matter of providing homes for such girls in institutions bub Just the same the cruel branding of social stigma takes place Women as a sex' with little or no knowledge of the subtle and enormous pathological differences between themselves are ruthless In their condemnation of other women You need only regard the social ostracism Which Is drawn around socially transgressing women of any community most noticeable of course those of smaller cities and villages' The scarlet letter Is still In figurative use The cruel fallacy of the point of view which says "I would not do it why should he" Is still the crux of many a Juryman’s ver'dlct because we still permit the uniformed citizen to become his v brother's keeper And uninformed to the limit is the man In th$ Jury box who does not know to what enormous extent the laws of heredity environment and health bold in human behavior Tha man who judges a man who has killed a man by the outward evidence of where he did it why he did It and how he did It knows not what he does or could never find bis peace again after reaching a decision involving a human life on such fallacious evidence and lack of knowledge Countless the cases On record of murderers whose deeds have been traced to the appalling evidence unearthed by doctors that a bit of skull has been pressing against the brain of the Offender or that hereditary insanity has come tp the surface or that the early environment of the boy has been one of vice and degradation and pressure brought to bear What a colossal task to set uninformed humanity right on the meaning and causes and sources of variation between human beings I But not an Impossible one It means mental housecleaning throwing out of old prejudices born of Ignorance education in mercy Of oourse the entire problem of hu- man eompatablllty revolves around that same question of variation Two people live In harmony In Just such proportion as they realize and accept their differences Just as they realize and accept the fact that no two people have the eame fingerprints Because I would not do a thing Is no reason that you due to Impulses beyond your control may not bo impelled to of the courage of that terrible and cruel point of view "I wouldn't do It myself diy should be" but Here is creeping In- -j the attempt to administer justice In courts of law and In courta of human beings the realisation that what one individual would or would not do ia no ' yardstick of Judgment to apply to an- other Barst Even to contem-rann- ta the humber of verdicte that have been meted out to of- fenders In the past because a majority pt Jurymen have eald to themselves "I would not do It why should he" is to realise how desperately man needs to be Instructed In the seemingly Immutable laws which seem to differentiate jnam-beof the human family In the last decade penal law has undergone what amounts to revolution In its growing recognition of the patho‘ logical aspect of crime ostrawoman who secure The socially cises a sister because her feet have' ' etrayed from the primrose path of conformity may be1 and often Is guilty of gross Inhumanity Just as no two people eome into the worid with Identical fingerprints so do the same complex variations exist wliere their physical and mental makeups are pts rs concerned The smug Juror who apprrw es the guilt of an offender before the bar merely on the grounds of whether he did or did not do a certain act la himself a gross offender against Justice Crime breeds in the stagnant pools of environment Just as surely as certain larvae are begot in swamp Think and then rebel against the It possible cruel condition which tot a man who has been healthily born and decently reared to Judge the external behavior of a fellow being whose life has been one of exposure to vice crime and disease Whet does a woman of languid sex Impulse social security eoonomlo wellbeing know of the strange hells which mes pi-ti- re dolt '7 would not do In some future perhaps even a near one pathological psychological physiological laws of ‘differentiation between human beings may be fart of the ordinary education of every child Then may we hope that men and women In Judging men and women will be In a position to employ to their and punishment of those who transgress the Incomparable yardstick of understanding it why shc”—Mlss Hurst should in Her Article Today Points Out the Cruel This Point of fallacy The 'Wonsan View Secure and protected Who Ostracizes a Sister Who Has Strayed from the Path of Conformity Often of Meanwhile Guilty if thoee who employ the and cruel gauge "But I would not do It why should he" would only come to understand that much of man's Inhumanity to man la the outcome of such thinking almost automatically the next generation would be protected against the same appalling errors of Judgment and mercy Gross Inhumanity Says Is ' -- of Miss Hurst (Copyright King Features dicate Inc) 1931 Syn- HOW TO PUT WINGS UNDER THE DISHPAN All in Viewpoint Whether There’s Happiness Two women live next door to each other In a small town near me two women whose history sounds as If their lives might be similar Each la about 35 husband four each has a six small children cheap and plain rooms in a cheap and plain neighborhood a backyard full of ropes and bro— ken kiddy cars a? fientyard full of hard-worki- them all six Bui even when things art running smoothly and they git down to a nice supper there seems t be no grace no thankfulness In Eva’s scheme Her children look worried and timid they watch her fwee as grimly exhaust-cdl- v the plain mutton' and Mama's face Is the It Is usually set and stern lift hasn't been feasy for Eva' pnd she doesn’t mean that it shall be for anyone She hounds th children about the clothes and wear way they abuse out their shoes she harries than) about their homework They've got to be edu- cated Eva doesn’t propose that her boys shall slavs along aa undsrllngs the Way their father hast She’s going to hav her one girl dressed Just as well aa richer girls sh isn’t going ta have Evelyn she serves boiled potatoes family barometer ttelr laughed tt These children are growing granted I mean a gas stove a tele- phone kitchen llno-- l leum radio phono-- ’ graph bathroom electric light and Yet the lives of! Queen Mary of Eng-- 1 land and Eva T"- guay are not more Kathleen Ndrris completely separated than are the lives of these two neighbors ' The husbands are very much alike quiet Industrious men not destined ever to set the world on fire but gentle and generous devoted to their wives and children glad to help out at home only anxious that things shall go well at the office and that the domestio atmosphere shall be serene at night Eva Green’s husband rarely experiEva Is a ences the latter condition good woman but she Is a worrier and a she slaves nagger She' works-m- ore all day long scrubbing cooking opening doors to sally forth with rugs to shake slapping at flies scolding chilto an uproar dren keeping everything Eva Is a ''good- woman conscientious to the point of making everyone who knows her want to abandon tha straight and narrow path once and for all She rarely has money for clothes or hats and she lets everyone know It 8he lets the entire neighborhood know that It Is five weeks since she has seen a moving picture poor folks can't waste money that a sveek Mummy and the kids bring supper along The family spends a hundred exquisite twilights a year on the open hills way I doThe Greens are poor thirty-fiv- e llars a week must clothe feed shelter A ' -- average very far with one broken leg and one doee of bronchitic life to Anne’s house Is one continual adventure Bhe loves It And she makes her family love it too Her husband has to drive seven miles to the cement works every morning and for the first few years of their married life Anne let him take the old car off for the day But In hot weather when the two oldest babies were small she discovered that a motor car however battered and old is a nurse a cook and a magic carpet rolled Into one So one summer morning she put Nancy on Morgan’s lap on the front seat June to a pillowed basket in the baok and hereelf drove the man ot the family to work Since yeast-powd- -- Three times I s ner- - anxious burdened by eoonomlo financial Jean blighted 'in their end small chUdhood by the one peraonwho could make life lovely to them Anne Brown next door Is e different type Anne has imagination fire and a heart that Is always singing for one thing she is In better health that? Eva who Is always taking pllla and headache powders and Jonlcs Health has a lot to do with high spirits Anne and her huband and their three girls and their boy are always happy and never ill It sounds like a sweeping statement' but It Is the simple truth that four winters to succession how neither Nancy June nor Junior has had so much as a cold and Ursula didn’t bring down the you v i flowers c battered' old car and the usual luxuries that' even our poorest families take for soon up By KATHLEEN NORRIS ture She loves an orderly kitchen then his increasing family has done this children every morning and gone to get him wild blackberries stewing every night and Morgan Brown is eo barn to circus the baby "help-ing- ” playing fatuously devoted to his family that he In of the Instead house lifelessly never be promoted pays he hopes he will nasally calling: “Come In and eat your to the town office and miss seeing lunch children those other little girls Mummy and the kids waiting for him and boys will have to go home now I” under the elms outside the factory every ' as Eva Green would call a light of exnight citement comq Into Anne’s eyes when Three times a week when the weather she begins rapidly to make sandwiches Jose San the to Cal and permit— Of all the available bread the stale weather permits about three hundred cold the end the rye buns the ot a the and and fifty nights year Mummy biscuit Peanut butter — homkids bring their supper along They emade jam— tomatoes and lettuoe leaves bring bread to toast tomatoes peaches presently she Is carrying them all out the old tin coffee pot the old tin cooky to the neighborhood of the circus calbox Anne Brown can get up a picnic Lemon side I" ling “Sandwiches! with less fuss than some Women could The lemonade of course Is blackberry make a sandwich Sometimes she fills Juice with sugar and Ice and lets ot a big glass jar With salad made of letwater the clreus troupe rapturously retuce vegetables the last two ounoes of sponds there Is no muss to the kitchen the cold fish and takes that Wong—ehe there Is no break in the play— Instead keeps wooden plates and paper napkins there is happiness and hospitality and : always on hand the entire picnic equipment when it ta washed goes Into a harmony as always at the Browns And a little girl leans aganlst Anne's shouclean old flour sack for Instant and tasy lder “Mummy you’re so wonderful Will transportation I ever be as nice as you are?" The family spends a hundred exquisite The Browns own their home now and twilights a year out on the open hills ' or in the forest or by the shore have a modest bank account The ChiThey ldren are growing put circuses But know how redwdod branches sound high they never can escape the riches that overhead to the dusk they know every have been theirs all their lives— serenote of the Pacific on foggy days rough nity content courage common sense days perfect days They wade climb — - Not every women Is as blessed u Anne cook swim tramp explore — they are ' happy children Happy children—there Brown with a good man good health are no two words that go more exquisiteBut almost every wo-- ‘ fine children man whose job la that of wife hously together than those two ekeeper and mother can manage to put Anne never lets her children hear more fun more grace more originality anxious talk of money They regard it into her day’s work with respect but without fear They Children love change variety expert- know exactly how much Mummy and ment and men do too We dent use Dad have and being reasonable human ' our motor cars with half enough Imabeings they never ask for the Impossible 'What they cam and nowadays gination they are real open sesames to the bigger world the beaches and for- they are all earning money to one way ests and the tops of mountains We or another they spend intelligently Anne herself pointing out to 14 year-oldon't study diet schedules half enough there are substitutes for meat bulk that Ursula the advantage of the gown are cooling apd refreshing on hot nights ehe can launder over the gown that —dishes of corn salads sandwiches will be hard to clean the white shoes there are fruit combinations and wholthet will always be smart over the esome dark breads that sue more easily blue shoes that will not wear The fun these children and their digested than Starchy white bread heavy meat rich sauces putry desserts in father and mother have had to the summer Their past 10 years is incalculable adventures with budgets their experiAbove all we don't take the children ments moving mattresses Into the back sufficiently Into our confidence and let yard their games at the table their them share the responsibility and the bonfires and picnics and motor car exfun of playing the game It ts only peditions have enriched their whole the genius of an occasional Anns Brown lives beyond all measure They usually that can leaven the dull lump ot livhave had a cat and a dog someone has ing with this magic yeast put wings had goldfish someone has had rabbits under the dlshpan and under the —in short they have had everything hearts and souls of her children and to their childhood that makes childhoo husband as well I happy— and what more can Mr Rockefeller or Mr Mellon do for his chil(Copyright 1931 by the Bell By dren than that? dlcate Inc) To Anne life is a delicious adven- i d 4 |
