DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 17, 11 April 1927, Page 12

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

THE TROUBLERS ARE THE TROUBLED (Copyright, 1927) \ SENTENCE worth pasting in the proverbial hat and remembering is The troubling are also the troubled. Those six words explain a lot in life. They help give perspective to the irritations of the day. In th.e schoolroom the children hard to manage who cause most of the trouble are the ones who are troubled themselves —who are in some sort of ill-health, who have no home environment, who are unhappy. In large families where one child occasions more worry than all the rest he is usually one who is troubled with poorer health .or more highly strung nerves. 111-health of some sort is'the secret of most of the cantankerousness of childhood. Among grown-ups the trouble makers are also the troubled. The criminal class is, almost without exception, composed of those who are physically or mentally sick. The jealous husband or wife is a trouble maker who is troubled. He lives in constant torment himself, tortured by his doubts and suspicions. 9 The cruel are often those who themselves are tormented by fear. The sarcastic, cutting tongue often indicates inward wounds that have never healed. . * The braggart is troubled with a secret sense of being inferior, tne surly person hides behind the mask of his sensitive timidness, the irritable person has nerves stretched to the breaking point. The nagging woman is usually worried, nervous, overworked. Socrates’s famous sentence: '‘The men and women who are gentle and good are also happy and the unjust and evil are miserable,” derives much of its truth from the obverse fact that the happy are usually gen e and good, the miserable unjust and evil.