Show howe about poor advisers drag on progress 1 geniuses 9 by ED HOWE IN N 1029 the president appointed a 1 research committee on social trends the members were the most notable of the college professors professor seven In number and their report has recently been made with one exception averyt everything hing to in it might have been recommended om by a similar commission appointed by joseph stalin the scoundrel who heads the soviet government in hussla the one exception Is ia that the members express faith in private property but the belief Is also expressed ean that violent revolution in america la Is probable if not inevitable and that flint the injustices we practice warrant such revolution arthur la Is I 1 belleve believe accepted as one of the ten most intelligent and best educated men in ill nil his tory ile he contended steadily through 1 out ills his best years that college professors are the least reliable of nil all advisers because of their seclusion front from practical affairs and their enormous prejudices and over education the president must have known this I 1 wonder he did not appoint on the c commission 0 minis slon some of the more 0 notable men of practical sense and ant edi education catlon and save us from this brou broadcast d cast T the e report comes at a time when the soviet doctrine Is 13 falling to pieces of its own weight from having been put into effect it cornea comes nt at a time also when the intelligent world Is most interested in attempts to confine the russian plague to its own borders A r report e po r t e encouraging n e 0 ti r n g 1 n g r renewed e n e w e d e efforts t for ts 0 of f t the i ie r respectable e s p e e t a i 1 e t majority u a j 0 rl t e everywhere v ery cry where to more courageously attack the Ilus Itus monster would lieve been wiser and more in accord with file lie decent lessons of history the russians are being starved out of fit the false doctrines founded by flidr own professors that we should he be placed on record as encouraging their ghastly error and call it another noble experiment Is not only humiliating but as founding tho the report of the commission Is an exhibition of old tolly folly the more intelligent of the he savages themselves warned us against more to be ashamed of every twenty years there Is a new crop of young men of whom so much has been expected As a matter of practical filet fact young men with their immature rebellious notions tire are a drag on oil sound progress by the time a generation gets things reasonably well bettl 1 l and Is preparing pre to proceed with greater peace and intelligence along comes another lot of young mon men to dispute all that has been decided upon and the row starts all over again the feats of the geniuses have never greatly astonished me I 1 have been more interested in the amazing manner in which common men have been able to get along with no greater effort than the practice of natural habits I 1 have concluded there la Is no such thing as genius unless it Is determination and ability to steadily follow the simple rules of morality history tells of a people who were once staves slaves but able to overcome their masters by patient practice of industry efficiency reliability saving such information ro as the masters had the slaves slaver acquired and improved the rowdy masters disappeared from the race face of the earth but the slaves survived because of better habits I 1 wonder an american Is not ashamed to fall in n a n country where a good living Is so BO easily made women believe men hover around them because they need tho the counsel wisdom anil and morality of the file sex men bien are not attracted to women by tiny of these things women themselves say men a are re famous for hovering around silly women and will not marry women of real worth at a time the romans had statues erect erected ed in their honor bonor a roan man asked cato the elder why he hit had none lie ile answered 1 I much prefer that men ask and wonder why I 1 have no statue than wonder that I 1 had one it la is always wise to remember that your mind Is as much a part 0 of f your body and needs as much help and management as your sto stomach your ears or your eyes your mind Is not a noble thing that functions without care or assistance or the ten teaching chIng of experience peri pori ence when I 1 hear bear men are steeped ln in sin it occurs to me they have done ra rather ther well lit in spite of it of twenty discor discoveries of greatest use to ninn mankind kind thirteen were made in the last hundred years na as against seven in nil all preceding time in iii the early days of the republic one cotton mather blather believed amer americans I 1 were so sinful they were likely to be destroyed at any time anti and he expected no improvement since his lay day the country tins has shown a development that tho the men of all time thae will marvel about what cotton blather believed tho the people needed most they lindevald least attention to A good many flirt dirt with the devil hut but every morning there ore are sufficient sober men at desks hunches and plows to carry on a creditable daya cayll work bell salo Sf lo |