SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
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SUCKER LISTS IN 1600 B^ C.
Hopes of curing the public of its
perennial temptation to star in the
sucker role seems rather remote when
it is learned that the populace appar
ently has changed little in that res
pect in the past thirty centuries.
It has just been discovered that a
chapter on ‘how to change an old man
into a young man of twenty,” is con
tained in the oldest treatise on medi
cal science in the world, the Edwin
Smith papyrus, evidently by one of the
quacks who infested even the ancient
medical profession.
The search for the fountain of per
petual youth, which led a noted dis
coverer to his doom, and which has
led the ex-kaiser and some other per
sons of note to the monkey gland
school, probably is as old as history
—and as hopeless.
If the archeologists continue their
researches with sufficient zeal and
pertinacity, they no doubt will discov
er that there were ancient promoters
of salted gold mines and even fake oil
wells, notwithstanding that oil ap
pears to be a modern discovery. In
any event, the same impulses moved
the people of old as those today. Sol
omon is quoted as saying that “all is
vanity and vexatious in spirit” and
we know that there were dollar chas
ers even in ancient times. Socrates
got in bad with the Athenians and had
to take the fatal hemlock for his pains
because he charged the people of his
day with forgetting the solid virtues
in quest of material things.
Quacks and wild catters of all kinds
plied their arts and now we find that
they had their papyrus sucker lists.
When we reflect that the people
of the United States are mulcted to
the tune fo $2,000,000,000 a year by
slickers in a variety of come-on and
confidence games, ranging from fraud
ulent stock sales to such gold brick
schemes as amount virtually to high
way robbery, we wonder sometimes
whether the public wants to be warn
ed and protected against the sharks.
At any rate of progress that has been
made since 1600 B. C. we may enter
tain the hope that mankind will be out
of the babe in the woods class about
the time all the oil is gone and gold
is classed with the baser metals.
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WORLD’S GREATEST MOTHER
Touched by the horrors of the
frightful tornadoes which brought
death and destruction to Illinois and
other states of the cyclone belt re
cently, the people of other sections
liberally responded to appeals for
aid.
But, as always, it was the noble
Red Cross that took the lead in re
lieving distress and bringing order
out of chaos. Henry M. Baker,
national director of disaster relief
for that organization, declared the
recent storms to have been the
worst in American history—then he
set about with characteristic e I i
ciency and precision to clear up the
wreck.
Not only must temporary relief
be provided, but means of perma
nent rehabilitation must be, furn
ished to thousands left without a
thing with which to begin life anew.
But the Red Cross never falters,
no matter how tremendous the task.
It is not faltering now.
Every member who answers the
annual roll call must feel a renew
ed pride in the magnificent work
being done. Again the Red Cross
has confirmed its right to the proud
title of “the greatest mother in the
world.”
ARTISTS AND OTHERS
Artistic temperaments have of
ten clashed with the ideas of those
who pay for the artists’ services and
the following quotation gives one
side of such a situation, in which
the employer said:
“You can not bring your great
gifts to light alone; you show your
greatness only through the oppor
tunities we give you. Now you
ought to be a little more submis
sive, not so arrogant and head
strong. I consider you have neg
lected my wishes and worked for the
fulfilment of your own.”
After hearing this the artist, a
sculptor, left his unfinished work
and his employer in high indigna
tion.
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Those who have followed the con
troversy between Gutzon Borglum
and the Stone Mountain Memorial
Association might well imagine the
above as referring to that recent
unpleasantness. But not so.
The words quoted are those of
Francis I of France to the Floren
tine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini in
1545.
Cellini wrought in marble, bronze,
silver and gold and his works are
among the most notable of the
Italian Renaissance. But he had a
most fiery temper, which led him
continually into trouble, often into
jail, once nearly to the scaffold.
Aside from his artistic labors, he
appears to have been concerned
principally with hatreds of men and
loves of women. He wounded sev
eral adversaries and killed at least
three of them. His Memoirs, writ
ten in an extremely self-assertive
style, set forth one of the most sin
gular careers in the history of fine
art.
Persons of genius have always
been forgiven many transgressions
not usually tolerated in less gifted
people. Perhaps it will always be
so.
WHAT CHILDREN THINK
We hear a great deal about the
waywardness of children of* the
present, but it occurred to the Rev.
Clinton D. Cox of Chicago to get
the viewpoints of youngsters them
selves, which he did from 175 boys
through asking them to write free
ly their ideas on “What’s wrong
with the home?”
Among the answers given by these
boys, who ranged from 14 to IS
years of age, were the following:
“A boy wants a mother who can
keep a secret ' and not tell the
neighbors everything about him.”
“The girl’s word is taken and the
boy’s word is always doubted.”
“Home is a court room and ev
ery member of the family tries to
take a hand in raising the boy.”
“Parents never admit it when they
are wrong.”
“People who led the wildest lives
before marriage are ■ the strictest
parents.”
“Mothers try to hold other boys
up as models too much.”
These are only a few of the an
swers, but they indicate that boys
believe there are a good many faults
on tne parents’ side of the case
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and perhaps that is true.
While there are exceptions, young
persons will usually acknowledge
their shortcomings and accept re
proof without resentment if they
feel that the parent is right and
fair. But it is often difficult for
parent and child to see things from
the same angle.
• To deal with children firmly when
necessary, yet without apparent
harshness is not always easy.
DANGEROUS THEORIES
An increasing flood of literature
is being turned loose with a view
to establishing new theories of
dealing with criminals, based on al
leged new developments in psychol
ogy, psycho-analysis and Other allied
sciences and pseudo-sciences dealing
with mental processes.
Some of these theories are doubt- j
less more or less sound, having a
truly scientific foundatoin, but
some others are not only loolish,
but positively dangerous to society,
through denying the criminal’s ac
countability for his acts.
One recent crew is that every
thing one does is done by compul
sion, based on heredity, physical
and mental condition, environment
and former experience. Taking this
statement broadly and literally , it
is probably true.
The factor not sufficiently, stress
ed in this formula, however, is
that of experience. If a criminal’s ex
perience is that no punishment ordi
narily follows the commission of
crime, naturally he will not feel any
great necessity for exercising self re
straint. If, on the other hand, his
experience in observing the conse
quences of crime is that sure pun
ishment follows, it is very likely that
he will make some effort to over
come his criminal impulses.
No one can escape the fact that
we have a most deplorable situa
tion in this country, with respect to
crime, which continues to increase,
especially tliemore serious crimes
of murder, assault, burglary and
others which positively menace the
lives and property of peaceable citi
zens every hour.
If swift and certain punishment
were meted out to these major crim
inals, thereby making the exactions
of law and order a part of their
experience, we should have to deal
with fewer “complexes,” “compul
sions” and “neuroses.”
The present trend of the newr
criminology is toward relieving the
individual from all responsibility
for crime. It is a pernicious doc
trine, fraught with grave danger
to mankind.
Even movie actors dislike getting
up to be “shot” at sunrise.
If evolution works out, ladies of
the future may grow fur on their
ankles.
When constrained to make fools
of ourselves we seldom lack for
raw material.
Professor Shaw of Northwestern
University has invented a fear de
tector, but most wives don’t need
it.
When he remarked on her bird
like appetite she. was flattered un
til she found he owned an ostrich
farm.
A Nebraska state senator favors
the repeal of the Ten Command
ments on the ground that they are|
obsolete.
For several weeks earth tremors
in various parts of the country have
been noticed by persons not riding
in Fords.
Reformers will view with alarm 1
a recent fashion note for women un-j
der the heading “Trimming Trent.
Upward.”
Kurdistan men want their wo
men to wear veils again, which
isn’t much of a compliment to the
looks of the women.
According to engineers, the Lean
ing Tower of Pisa is getting nei •
vous again and may topple over, a
it has threatened to do for th
past 600 years.
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