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Show Howe About: More $40 Executives Clear Writing Men vs. Women , Boll Syndicate. W.NT Service. By ED HOVE TV MY town we once employed only high-priced experts to manage man-age the street railway; It was not believed an ordinary local man could handle so great a problem. But somehow the experts could not prevent pre-vent a steady falling off in revenues, or increase In expense?, so a local man, at thirty or forty dollars a week, was given a trial. lie turned out to be the most capable superintendent superin-tendent we had ever had. . . . There are thousands of big Institutions Institu-tions In this country In need of the services of thirty or forty-dollar a week men In the management. On? railroad ofiieial gets $1G.",000 n year, but In spite of his great ability, the Income Is steadily declining. Are some of our suffering big Institutions Institu-tions being robbed by their own officials, offi-cials, through the payment of outrageous out-rageous salaries? In a book copyrighted In 192G a selected list of forty men of considerable con-siderable age and prominence wrote what Is intended to be Inspirational messages to the young. All of them, with two exceptions, are unnatural, un-natural, not understandable, and In some cases, foolish. The head of a great university includes this In his message: "Take God's armor; hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity in-tegrity as your coat of mail, and have your feet shod with the stability stabil-ity of the gospel of peace ; above all, take faith as your shield, to enable en-able you to quench all the fire-tipped fire-tipped darts flung by the evil one. put on salvation as your helmet, and take the spirit as your sword." . . . I try to be honest and decent in my judgments, but to me this is dreadful dread-ful stuff. It Isn't beautiful, it Isn't sensible; It has no appeal whatever no excuse for existence. Yet ask ten average Americans to write for a large audience, and seven will attempt at-tempt something like it. The writer quoted Is probably an excellent man. In his private capacity no doubt his opinions are sound, helpful and Interesting, yet when asked to write a message to mankind, he thinks It his duty to wr!te nonsense. It Is another of the American ways that cause so much astonishment abroad ; no really creditable foreigner, asked to write a message for the young, would sign his name to such meaningless mean-ingless and foolish stuff as this. Men are meaner than women, yet for the best interest of themselves and their families men try to get at the practical sense of things. Women Wom-en refuse to do it. One of the most surprising things I liave encountered encoun-tered in long years of reading Is the statement that there has never been a woman philosopher. Why ls it that in the long list of the specially wise there is not the name of a woman? I can see no natural reason rea-son why women should not be ns wise as men, since they have lived as long, and experienced ns much. . . . One explanation is women have fought the men Instead of worked with them. Women do not always win, but the general goal of their sex is to make slaves of the men. Winning men work; winning women go in for society, amusements; amuse-ments; play cards, dance, or do showy welfare work wiLh funds provided pro-vided by their victims. . . . The philosophy of every woman ls further fur-ther weakened by the gross flattery showered upon her when she Is fourteen to twenty-five years old, and the false Impression she thus gets of herself Interferes with correct cor-rect thinking when old and neglected. neglect-ed. Something I once heard I have carried along In my mind for years, as new, Important, and Inspiring hope. I cannot remember whether I read It In newspaper, book or magazine, mag-azine, or heard some one say It; nor can I recall the name of the author. . . . Briefly, the statement I was that If a man practices food behavior for Its own sake (because It Is finally easier and more profitable profit-able than bad behavior, and renders his success In life more probable) such practice Improves his Intelligence; Intelli-gence; strengthens and betters his brain, ns other organs of the body may be Improved by exercise. . . . Thus a well-behaved man has n double advantage: J. His good con-duct con-duct pays him, In Increasing bis I comforts; 2. ITe Is pursuing the J course In life best caleiila ted to Im- ! prove liis intelligence and bis char- j rioter. ... , The story told during the war ( tl at a German soldier ran Ids bayonet bay-onet through a Belgian baby, and carried It ell day as a trophy, wns disproved. . . . But Americans can not deny that an American slole a tv.-o-year-old baby, brutally beat ll to death because of Its frigl.t nr-d cries, and later collected a firiy-tliousand-dollar ransom from the distressed parents. . What Is the J.ts(,n of the moment, the hour, the century, or of all time'; I believe It Is the dangerous an 1 j growing p'.-.vor of peliMcians, the ; pre---i ;.sl r.vJi'T:!?, all r'-pr' ?' I lli.g mir.orlt:', and the cevn n!e of tl:e ! j inaj'U'i;;.- in refusing to ouT'irce tit": j essary C'-reiitT. j |