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Show I Why the "Golden Age" Is Never the Present Dean William Ralnh Inae. the most recent English visitor to look us over and tell us what he thinks of us, speaks about the "Increasing stupidity of modern life." It would be interesting interest-ing to learn Just how such a thing can be Judged. Did our forebears make no mistakes? Was life In the past, even a few r ago, less dull than it Is nowT Are there good signs showing that human beings are acting act-ing more like geese than they used to! It Is a common habit to clothe the years that are gone with bright and shining garments. The golden age Is never the present one and it will not come In the future. It has always been In the past. Tills Is why regrets will be expressed until the crack ol doom that people and life are not as they were once, even though there be 10,000,000 evidences of betterment. Toledo Blade. |