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AFTERMATH OF MODERNISM
Today we read in the press dispatches of two col
their lives because life no longer held an interest. A few
their lives because life no longer held am interest. A few
months ago the nation was shocked by the murder of
Bobby Franks by two college students beset by the same
morbid impulses. A few weeks ago we read of a youth
in Washington State, who committed suicide under stress
of a light reprimand.
These are but a few of themany fruits of ultra-mod
ernism, wherein youth has had the doors of former subtle
mysteries thrown open and bidden to peer within. Child
psychology has been parroted until it has become a bro
mide along with such phrases as “expression of child indi
viduality.”
Thus unleashed, youth has had full play with things
more suitable to mature mentalities—things reserved for
hours of meditation when the adult mind desires to co-or
dinate personal experiences with that which has passed
before. One of the youthful suicides had pondered the
philosophies of his college in an effort to discover the
truth of life, and announced that he had experienced ev
erything life had to offer. This in itself bespeaks a so
phistication that youth of right should not possess. Add
to this such philosophies as the “Meditations of Marcus
Antonius, Socrates, Cicero—all colored with the taint of
Stoicism, and dealing with conditions of men who had in
dulged to satiety, the usages of the days of splendor and
luxury, and one begins to see the underlying influence
which set aside the more normal senses of the victims of
self-destruction and supplanted them with a medley of
ject matter that was but as fuel to the morbid fires devel
contradictions, accentuated by a daily contact with sub
oping within.
It has been said that this is an age of “revelation.’1
The phrase is well chosen. Fundamentals which have
served as a guide to the production of a greatcivilizatior
appear to have been scrapped and in their stead we have
“Modernism.” The pendulum appears to have reached the
cuter arc, and is returning. The present is reaping much
of the faulty fruits, but it is due for posterity to reap the
big harvest of putrefaction. Who knows but that a few
more tests of “child psychology,” “self expression of im
mature youth,” “revelation of all the subtleties of life
from its genesis” may be the power that will sweep all this
modern cant from human existence and readjust the bal
ance as before!
I* .Li
And it might be remarKea m passing mat one u± tut
youthful suicides was the son of a noted psychiatrist
When making comparisons such as as exciting as a
Democratic convention, a Kansas tornado and a Texas
stampede add “ ‘Ma’ Ferguson governing Texas ”
Mussolini will tax bachelors to secure funds with
whic which to sustain maternity homes. “Modernism”
must have hit Italy with a thud.
A Southern Congressman says President Coolidge
affronted Congress. Well, Calvin has been^ trailing be
hind so long, he is entitled to lead the procession.
It cost Los Angeles county nearly a million dollars tc
air the Aimee scandal, not to mention a billion dollars in
of time spent by the morbid in listening to the nausea.
Many a man’s fortune has been decided by his inability
to make a decision between buying a ten-dollar bottle of
mule and starting a savings account.
It has not been decided as yet whether the candidacj
of convicted politicians! wives to be their successors is an
effort at vindication or to break into the pen with theii
old man.
A paragrapher says that light eating and deej
breathing lead to quick and clear thinking. They then
should be some great thinkers among the Wearie Willies oi
the brake beams.
LARGE ATTENDANCE IT
PUBLIC CARD PARTY
Sixteen tables, 12 of bridge and
four of whist, and 75 people in at
tendance, marked the public card
party presented last evening under
the auspices of the Seward Woman's
Club and was but another mile-stone
in the many successful affairs the
capable members of the organization
have carried thru successfully.
It is said the largest crowd which
has ever attended a party of this
nature were on hand and that they
thoroughly enjoyed the evening was
easily perceived. At 11 o’clock a re
past of excellent sandwiches, cake
and coffee was served.
Awardes at the bridge tables were
made to Mrs. Carter W. Clarke for
high score and to Miss Grace Moul
ton for low. Mr. P. C. McMullen car
ried off high honors among the
men and Mr. R. W. S. Reed, low.
Prizes at whist were presented
to Mrs. T. Osbo for high and to Mrs.
Wannamaker for low. Mr. Pete
Anderson scored high and Mr. Mel
Horner, low.
WILL TOUR STATES
MEXICO, Jan. 13. (/P)—Former Pres
ident Obregon of Mexico will tour the
United States, presenting the Mexi
can side of all issues between the
United States and Mexico.
ATTENTION—B. P. O. E.
All Elks are requested to meet atj
the Seward Grill Friday night, 8’
o’clock, to discuss business of im
portance to the welfare of the order in|
Seward. MEL HOLBEN,
Chairman Membership Committee, j
MUCH NOVELTY IN NEW
SINS! PRODUCTION
One of the greatest moments in
her latest Paramount productions,
“Wages of Virtue,” at the Liberty
tonight, is where Gloria Swanson,
as Carffielita, gives a vivid inter
pretation of the famous “dance of
the seven veils,” for the hard-bitten
soldiers of The Foreign Legion.
Swathed from bead to foot in golf
black veiling, the first veil of the
seven over veils of lighter color, she
not only proves by the grace and
rythm of her postures that she is an
accomplished exponent of the intoxi
cating beauty of the dance, but en
acts a remarkable change of char
acterization as she ceases to be the
exquisite little mother of lost men
and becomes the provocative, daring
little cafe dancer, striving to amuse
the wonshipping legionnaires and
make them forget the horrible bore
dom of the Algerian barrack town.
Another incident which is going to
set a lot of Gloria Swanson fans puz
zling, is how she manages to balance
a bottle on her head while carrying
on a conversation, a feat which she
accomplishes perfectly.
The truth is that Miss Swanson
only achieved this effect after ardu
ous daily practice, so that she might
enact the scene where she attempts
to bribe a sergeant of the Foreign
' Legion with wine to spare her lover
from punishment, with the same ease
that would be natural in a girl of
the East, to whom carrying articles
' on the head is an everyday occur
ence.
Raw furs bought at Brown
& Hawkins
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\ Ask for the film in the yell.w box.
; Eastman's Films. Schallerer’s Alaska
, Shop.
LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
The Beautiful
GLORIA SWANSON
IN
‘Wages of Virtue’
A thrilling story of Italy and Algiers, in which
the French Foreign Legion, Americans and Arabs
carry the tale
Something different than we have had for some
time.
Ben Lyon is the hero and the famous strong
man, Ivan Linow, is the villain.
IT’S SURE GOOD
And there’s a fine News and Fable reels
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