DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 3, 25 March 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

THE PENALTY OF PROMINENCE

BY

DR. FRANK CRANE

( Copyrii pKOMINENCE has its danger. Many of us are more or less ac to be gazed at and crowded after like Valentino. Many of us lament the some lowly valley where we are prac We might get some comfort froit he remarked that he had to pay five ordinary person. When a man is re have a lot of money every conceivable get some of it away from him. Anc human nature that enjoys taking a is safe. You speedily discover that when or some such thing, whatever you d' Little acts or peccadillos that man are played up when they are y( your walk and about your dress. A 1 speal» to. The eyes of humanity are everybody watching you. is somethii pleasant. There is a childish element in ing stones at anything that is up higl Publicity is a great thing and d< deal of money, but it is a dangerous safer when he doesn’t fool with it. T o-morrow—Th

iffht 1927 J. nxious to be famous. We would likt e “Doug” and Mary or like the late > fact that our days must be spent ii tctically unknown. what “Doug” said the other day when e or six times as much in tips as the ’ e puted to be makng a lot of money or kind of attack is made upon him to L( * there seems to be somethin? is 1 whack at a prominent man. Nob# 1 you’re president or senator or governor is the public’s business, t would pass unnoticed in an ordinar ro urs. You have to be careful aboir. where you spit and whom y° :: - ail upon you, and living so, in g like being a gold fish. It is not s 1 humanity which cannot resist thro* rtl on the wall. *°ubtless makes some people a 1S thing and, on the whole, a man n he Owner of Books.