| Show Howe Hove About Morality Behaviorism A Rebel at Heart By BJ ED HOWE 0 G of the most disturbing n trig among men concerns the tho meaning of morality The dictionary RIMs dds to the confusion b by giving do dos doz ens of definitions One of them Is Is Guidance deducIble from a fable fable- another Courage urage to do right unmoved unmoved unmoved un un- moved by odium or ridicule still another another an an- other Probability that ca can hardly fall Meanwhile every disputant should know that the word ord morality means muns means only civilization Our earliest and rudest ancestors realized the Importance Importance Im in- of providing shelter from f storms the advisability of adding comforts and conveniences con In their lives If we e meet a stranger and say of him he tie Is a civil man man It means he Is to be civilized polite fair educated reasonable In his Judgments judgments Judg judg- ments merits willing to exchange civilities with his neighbors to recognize not only the rights of women and children but the rights of men Dlen If you sincerely wish to be known as 81 a civil man and make reasonable effort to des deserve that reputation I 1 will add m my voice olce to that of the world In declaring you a civilized gentleman rent And civil men practice the thi rules of civilization because long experience has demonstrated It Is finally the best and easiest way and the most profitable profit profit- able If civility did not pay It would not have been heen so long and universally recommended The best word I 1 encounter In readIng reading rendIng read read- Ing Is la behaviorism The new and Intelligent religion we have been hoping hop hop- ing ng for might be founded on It Behaviorism Be lIe Is the substance of the advice advice ad ad- vice of parents to children the best and most unselfish teaching In the world It Includes culture education success In life civilization Itself Preachers and orators always Y advocate advocate advocate cate It school teachers recommend It constantly to children all ladles ladies and gentlemen practice It no It-no no finer sentiment sentiment senti senU ment may be used In writing ng Yet the word does not se seem seem m popular I see It only In an occasional book very rarely In newspapers newspapers newspaper and never hear It used In conversation Although I cordially dislike the Impudent impudent Im im- propagandists who constantly urge the people to become wasters waster and enthusiastic fools for wrong measures no one more readily submits to them When I travel I know It Is an outrage to pay the sleeping c car car r porter for services servIces sere sere- ices I paid for when I bought my ticket ticket tick tick- et but I am always anxious to satisfy him no coward worries more from fear he be has not done his full duty as asa asa asalia a alia slave ve I always take off my hat In a public public public pub pub- lic elevator when a 8 stenographer enters enters enters en en- and feel Last winter In Florida I occasionally lIy went to a cafeterIa cafeteria cafe cafe- teria tens for food Once I forgot to tip the colored boy who carried my tray a afew afew afew few feet and was uncomfortable most of the day I am constantly In rebellion rebellion rebellion rebel rebel- lion but the mildest of rebels I Privately my greatest heroes herol's are I those Russians who kicked open the thedoor thedoor door of the palace and pull pulled ell the czars czar's whiskers I have always been so afraid of rulers so 80 cordially despise despise de de- their weakness and the unreasonable unreasonable unreasonable tasks they Impose on me on one of my secret sins Is I admire these Russian ruffians rumans How they put the preachers and women In their places I Having always been a country town man roan the farmers have ruled me Observe Observe Observe Ob Ob- serve the bold attitude of the Russian toward farmers I l I know the Russians are wrong and that they would be better off If they observed the conventions but these scoundrels are at least not cowards Im I'm ashamed I am not as bold for measures measures measures meas meas- ures I 1 know to be right as they are for measures met they know to be wrong Years ago I knew an old fellow smart above the average himself who said his bis daughter Allison was the only member of the family who had any sense lense Once his wife went to Big Doctors Doctors Doc Doe tors to be looked over and they reported reported reported re re- ported she ahe would not live a n week unless unless unless un un- less opera operated te l on at once Allison the father said you OU go on and see what sense lense there Is s In n It It And Allison Allison Al Al- lison went on brought her mother home without an on operation and she Is alive yet We never had hadan hadan hadn I think Ill I'll an n Allison In our family ask her hubband husband for permission to appeal appeal appeal ap ap- peal to her In my graver emergencies Plato has been exploited thousands of years rears as a philosopher as probably the wisest man In history A writer lately sold a story to a syndicate of newspapers declaring that Plato was not not a philosopher or thinker but only noted In his time as a strong man a huge buge fellow who being attached to two horses borses at street carnivals pulled them all over the lot Much In print printIs Is like that new Interesting clever well-done well and Invented The greatest story In the world 1 It is the story of the French Revolution Involution Every Ever leader In It was a scoundrel and nearly everyone had his head cut cutoff cutoff cutoff off before the people whipped themselves themselves them them- selves Into going back to the old common com com- common common mon sense At one time during the Imprisonment of Louis XVI's X queen everyone of her two hundred guards bad had sold himself to the enemy It was wat an honest man looking for a purchaser who revealed the plot for her escape C neli Syndicate l |
