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Show i HOWE ABOUT j I By ED HOWE j : TH ' ' (CoyrlKhi by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) , Some men seem to wish to run wild, j and associate with wild people. Ber- ; nard Slitiw, possibly the wisest man ; writing today, Is tame, and believes ; others should.be: he believes that j wild men drift; civilized men steer. j I'll not combat selfishness. I'm selfish self-ish and never kuew n decent man who was not. The greatest trouble with teuchers of morality is too main of them teach morality is unselfishness. Morality is rank selfishness. Why do'-s a man prefer to be at liberty lib-erty rather than in jail? It Is selfishness: selfish-ness: the fact that freedom Is more comfortable ilian imprisonment. Why have we progressed from barbarism? bar-barism? Because pure seldshness finds civilization more agreeable. In Kansas city recently a man died as a result of slow starvation. As lie suffered he kept moaning: "Oil. my heart! Oh, the disgrace!" He bud been a respectable, popular young man, hut suddenly changed to ti thief. The change was so great he could not face a frowning world, and starved himself to death, moaning as be suffered: "Oh, my heart! Oh, the disgrace!" Had this man been decently selfish would he have suffered so tragic an experience? When Mrst urrested he said: "I so loved tny town that I attempted too much." But the people he loved didn't come to bis rescue; they were selfishly looking look-ing after themselves, and trying to keep their records straight. The greatest wonder Is that so many millions of men and women get along w retchedly, when they might get atona well by behaving better. One of the demonstrated things Is that any man whose affairs are in a tangle may find some relief by night by behaving better; A good deal within a week; And sufficient within a year to be comfortable and at peace. That so many neglect this simple truth from year to year and worry and explain and suiter -Is the real wonder won-der of the world. It is known that at birth one child may have more Intelligence than another; an-other; that while one child's disposition disposi-tion will be toward honesty, another's will be toward idleness and mischief. . . There is no helping It : God has so ordered : perfectly respectable parents of the human kind may produce pro-duce "black sheep" through accident or freak in the process of reproduction. reproduc-tion. Scientists are trying to find out why this is the case but make no progress: prog-ress: it is one of the human facts we must accept with blushe. |