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Show 1 AN EDITORIAL BY 1 , FLORENCE DAVIES ? PRETTY SLOW i:K. Man has onlj improved one per cent, physically and mentally, in 2 5,OaO years, according to Profesar a. l. Koebler t the University of California it's a long, long time, and a slight, slight percentage of Improvement, Dividing 25,000 years by the number 'of days contained therein it would seem that only B uorld-beatlng optimist opti-mist could conacientlouel continue to : repeat with Coue: 'Every day. In every way. l am getting better and j better." Because it would take the mind of nn Einstein ior one of his twelve sup-j sup-j posed ly equally w.se colleagues) even .to calculate the mathematical status c.f su h improvement, let alone note and claim its physical or mental effect. ef-fect. The good professor does say, however, how-ever, that we are growing better and better. If not every day, at least every 1 25,000 years. Ho says. ItIs reasonable reason-able to suppose that In the next 25 000 I years we will have Improved another one per cent, perhaps even a lltl'e ; more, because there Is more acceleration accelera-tion to life V e should all be very thankful to j Professor Koebler for this little dribble of .omfprt it is good to learn that I man is going to accelerate his lm-Iprovement lm-Iprovement In the next 25.000 years ithat he's going to step on '.he gas and speed up a fraction of that ono per cent. At that rate, sisters, the perfect 'man for whom we've fl" been looking I for more years than even Professor l Koebler can count, will h available, I relatively speaking. I mean. At first It seems Just a little dls-1 heartening to be told that 2 5.000 years j hence: man will still be only a little more than one per cent better than the Is tod iy to know that then as now, we Will still be picking up his boots from the middle of the floor sweeping I up his cigar ashes. reminding him to put his muffler on, gently suggesting thai It's time to have that suit pressed. But on the other hand the picture lis not too dark, for If his flight toward perfection were any more swift the main business of lining for a good many of us would suffer a great set .back. What would wc do with a race of Icily perfect creatures, whom wo could; no longer scold or nag or tend'' You know perfectly well that looking look-ing after Jim. much as you growl labout It Is the best little thing you I do. and the day when Jim needs no hooking after and tending and gentle brow-beating will be Indeed a dark da for you. And some-how Jim, Icily perfect, would prcbably be Jim that was Just a little lesa loveable. So that's all riht Mr. Professor, wc are perfectly satisfied with this rate of travel toward to-ward that far off goal of perfection |