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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1921.
The Dalton Citizen
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT, i, 1921.
More people are fed to death than starve to
death in this country of ours.
And don’t forget that Dalton is entitled to a
new depot.- Talk it, brothers!
Are you going to make an exhibit at the fair
this fall? Why, of course you are.
To the Woods for Breakfast
Outdoor breakfasting was once an innovation,
then it became a fad, but now it is about to become
"a custom. Within four walls, even if there is a
window where the sunlight can come peeping in,
breakfast is too often the mere partaking of nour-
i ishment. The same amount of food prepared on
a dutch oven out among the pine trees, with the
bracing mountain air for an appetizer, becomes a
Veal meal, and the fortunate diners are strengthen
ed for the day bodily, mentally and spiritually.
Some few years ago supper was the most pop
ular out-door meal, but from the number of early
risers and the happy little groups of threes and
fours one can see leaving town with the rising
sun out-door suppers have taken second place to
country breakfasts. Families are gathered into
the faithful speeder, edibles and equipment are
tucked in, and in a few minutes “town is left be
hind and a mountain retreat is reached. The fire
is kindled, the water for coffee put on to boil,, the
ham and eggs, or the bacon and apples, cooked,
the toast browned and the fruit prepared, and
breakfast is ready for the family and the family is
certainly ready for breakfast.
Afterward there is time for the kids to play
a little and for the grown-ups to relax after their
exercise, and then after one more drink from
the mountain spring and a walk along the rocky
by-paths the crowd that has started the day right
comes back to town in time for the man of the
house to-get to his shop or office on time.
The wholesomeness of these outings is making
them more and more popular, and the opening of
a good road to a delightful breakfasting spot has
given great pleasure to dozens of Dalton families
throughout the summer. The real season, how
ever, is just opening, for there is no time more
enjoyable for out-door recreation than the fall-
tinged days of September. Those who haven’t
indulged in an open-air morning meal should try
the innovation, and before many weeks it will
have become with them a fad, and by another
season a well-established custom, so ideal are our
conditions for easy breakfasting beside mountain
springs.
, Who is going to get Parsons is now the para
mount question in these immediate digging
We don’t believe the railroad men are going to
vote to strike. They have too much sense to do
such a foolish thing.
The esteemed Columbus Enquirer-Sun copied a
. paragraph from last week’s Citizen and credited
‘ it to Dothan College. Must have thought it libel
ous and was seeking to shift the responsibility to
broader shoulders.
Folly of a Selfish Policy.
(v Since the two Athens papers were consoli
dated all their exchanges have been stricken
off and, the publishers lose the close and inti
mate touch with the several neighboring coun
ties that they always maintained heretofore.
This is a poor policy and one that will hurt
Athens and her newspapers far more than it
will the country cousins who are no longer
considered good company. As for The Trib
une, we will manage to. worry along without
the Athens papers, somehow.—Walton Trib
une.
For several years the newspapers of Athens
have pursued a selfish policy, and in so doing
they have done the town no good apd have harmed
themselves.
How many people in Georgia today know the
names of the Athens newspapers?
Seldom is the name of either one of them seen
in any of the state papers. As a matter of course
newspapers are not run for the purpose of having
themselves exploited by their contemporaries, but
they should not be run in such an exclusivejdoof-
ness as to hide their lights or make ineffective the
thoughts of those who are responsible for their
destinies.
In the newspaper business for almost a quar
ter of a century and editing one that has been
going since 1847, we have not yet reached that
point where we fail to enjoy the companionship of
respectable exchanges. Without them we could
not make The Citizen worth while (provided, of
course, it is worth while), and further we would
not care to try.
Exchanging one newspaper for another is a
courtesy that should not be considered on a “value
received” basis, although in many instapees more
than “value received” is the reward for the cour
tesy.
An editor of a newspaper can not properly edit
one unless he is reasonably well informed, and he
can not be so informed about state matters unless
he is a feeder at the sources of information. There
fore, if one is to know his state he must be famil
iar with its newspapers, which reflect in a large
measure the sentiment of the people. The same
is true of the nation as a whole, although a na
tional exchange list is impossible. Here is where
a medium of comprehensive digest comes in, and
in most newspaper offices such a medium is a
regular visitor. ,
Hence, it is not surprising that in Athens, real
ly a one daily town, there should now be spring
ing up the third daily, no one of which can pos
sibly do more than keep its head above‘the water,
unless, of course, patronage should for some rea
son or other center on one..
Brighter Days Are Coming.
We are not a pessimist, but if we were so in
clined we would have jo turn from our wailing-
post and smile awhile because the “brighter day”
that has been-heralded is dawning. Georgia ns
prospering, despite all of the dispatches from the
north to the contrary. Crops, except cotton and
tobacco, are large, and just as the harvest is made
prices go up.
The Industrial Department of the Georgia Rail
way & Power Co., after a survey of the state, has
issued a statement on the agricultural conditions,
and this department has observed that harvests
I (except cotton and tobacco) are plenteou^. Be
cause of the short cotton crop, the price on this
commodity is mounting, and it would seem that
the cutting of cotton acreage has paid the farmers
well.
The report said that stock raising and dairying
are rivals of cotton in middle and South Georgia,
and in another year we hope tips will be true in
North Georgia. . The people of this section are
getting a\yay from a strict schedule of planting
and harvesting, and are devoting more time to live
stock raising, poultry and dairying.
We reprint excerpts from the agicultural state
ment referred to, because it shows interesting
figures in regard to various crops and their money
values:
Present indications are that not more than
1,000,000 bdles of cotton will be produced this
year in Georgia as against 1,400,000 last year.
Having completed the marketing of a peach
crop of 10,500 cars, which averaged to the
grower about $714 per car, or a total of $7,-
492,000; and a melon crop that will approxi
mate 15,000 cars, which will bring about $3,-
000,000 additional into circulation, Georgia
farmers are now turning their attention to the
marketing of tobacco and sweet potatoes, each
of which will bring into the state several mil
lions more in cash.
The commercial acreage of tobacco this year
has been materially reduced on account of the
low prices received for last year’s crop'. Only
about 16,821 acres have been planted with to
bacco this year as compared with 26,700 acres
in 1920. It is predicted that the yield this
year will be around 9,294,000 pounds of vari
ous grades.
Last year’s acreage of sweet potatoes was
148,000, which sold for $13,764,000—an average
of $90.21 per acre. This year’s 'acreage is
165,760, and the estimated yield is 14,255,000
bushels. Even should no higher prices prevail
than last year, the income to Itie farmers from
sweet potatoes alone will be $14,000,000. In
dications are that prices will be better, owing
to the establishment of curing houses in potato
growing districts, and a system of marketing
which affords the grower more profitable dis
tribution.
Live stock raising and dairying, too, are ri
vals to cotton in the interest of middle and
south Georgia farmers, where the boll wepvil
has been destructive. Large creameries are
being established at Ashburn, in Turner coun
ty, and at .Eatonton, in Putnam county. Farm
ers in surrounding territory to these towns
have pledged themselves to produce enough
_ cream to keep the plants going full capacity.
This will naurally tend to bring about the
breeding of a better grade of live stock and the
production of increased acreage in hay, grain
and legumes to feed the cattle.
Since the above statement was compiled condi
tions have caused agricultural statisticians tq low
er the estimate of this year’s yield of .cotton to
7,500,000 bales, and this should have a tendency to
increase the price.
A hotel—-well, we believe one is goilng to be
built. But of course, we don’t know. Those back
of the proposition are not men who fail. They
can’t afford to.
The creamery is-assured, and the cheese fac
tory is being built. Better times are in store for
the people of this section. We must have that
hotel and a new depot.
Rome’s curb market is proving*a success. One
in Dalton would prove a big help to local house
keepers, and would enable the producers of the
county to market more quickly.
A Benefactor Rewarded.
We are never happier than when chronicling
the achievements of co-laborers in the vineyard,
regardless of the age of the vintage, which has
latterly been christened, and vulgarly, too, we
think, home-brew.
But regardless of opinions and jealousies, it
now becomes our duty to pass along the informa
tion that our friend and co-worker, Bert Tyler,
has been awarded a cup—^a full pint size—cost
ing all the way from a “jitney” down, for heroic
services rendered in times of stress, such as phil
osophizing and mixing chill tonic, as if anybody
in Hungry Valley had energy enough to have a
chill.
He is the beneficiary of The Tom Jones Found
ation of Savannah which has been handsonlely en
dowed for the purpose of rewarding worthy ob
jects after having accomplished some wonderful
feat, such as saving a life, or pulling a pupmobile
out of a place it hadn’t any business being in.
The engraving on the cup is the work of an
artist, both as to text and mechanical execution,
and is as follows:
To Bert Aristides Tyler—Herodotus, of Hungy
Valley, Optimist, Philosopher, mixer of Tyler’s
Chill Tonic, and Preacher of Prosperity, this cup
is awarded for the year 1921, in recognition of
his distinguished Services to the folks ‘‘back
home.”
THE TOM JONES FOUNDATION.
MCMXXI.
“Our Tom” now thinks ihat secret diplomacy
is all right for the disarmament meeting. Well,
well-^and that settles it with Tom and his’n. But
it is funny it you are easily .made to laugh.
Freight rates are so high on certain kinds of
products that it takes the price of the products
to pay the freight. And yet we > are told by rail
way officials rates are not too high. Then, what
in the h—1 is wrong?
Candler Still Chairman.
.The re-election of Mr. C. Murphey Candler
as chairman of the Railroad Commission of
Georgia for the sixth time will -be received
with endorsement in Georgia. Some .members
' of the Railroad Commission have been pretty
roughly handled of late for a too liberal pol
icy toward the public service corporations.
Mr. Candler, however, is not one of them. He
is q. man who possesses the confidence of the
people. He has served as chairman longer
than any man in the history of the Railroad
Commission.—Savannah Press.
When the class of'the attacks on the railroad
commission is considered it turns out to be most
complimentary.- The railroad commission was
right in its treatment of public service corpora
tions in this state. It saved them from bankruptcy,
and if this, had not been done there is no telling
how many disastrous failures would have-follow
ed the collapse of any of Georgia’s public service
companies. Time has shown that the commission,
knew ‘what it was doing when it refused to heed
the warnings of the impecunious bellyachers who
are more interested in raising hell, than they^are
in raising anything else.
Chairman Murphy Chandler is one of the
state’s biggest men, afid it is fitting that his co
workers on the commission should retain him in
the chairmanship.
A writer in the Greensboro Herald-Journal
urges the organization of a woman’s club in
Greensboro. # A woman’s club is certainly a pro
gressive factor in any town. The work of local
women, through their various clubs, has been
far-reaching, and many of;the improvements in
and around the town had their origin in women’s
minds and were effected by women’s clubs.The
oldest woman’s club in the state is here, and the
benefits from its endeavors extend to all classes.
Looking Backward.
Many of the leading papers over the state are
running “Looking Backward” features, and are
making them, so interesting that even the single
purpose, forward-looking folk can not help taking
an occasional side-long glance into the past.
The Citizen has been requested by a young
woman to reprint some of the happenings of years
that are gone. In reminiscing she immediately
thought of Frank Reynolds who for years was
general record-keeper of events in and around
Dalton, and asked him to publish parts of his
diary for 1906. Mr. Reynolds complied with her
request and below are priqted jottings from the
pages of his diary for 1906—fifteen years ago^-
and also some interesting historical data:
1 Year of 1906.
January 25th.—Gen. Joe Wheeler, the great
Confederate cavalry leader, die'd in New York.
January 31st.—Sousas’ band gave a concert
in the Dalton Opera House, a thing now much
needed in Dalton.
February 19th.—State of^Georgia 184 years old
February 12, 1921. (This, year.)
February 19th.—Dick Russell, candidate for
governor, spoke in Spring,, Place.
February 20th.—Clark Howell, candidate for
governor, spoke in Spring place.
February 21st.—Hokp Smith, candidate for gov
ernor, spoke in Spring Place.
February 22nd.—Daughter born to Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. McCutchen.
February 28th.—Lewis Edwards, well known
farmer dfed from hiccoughing.
March 15th.—Mrs. W. J. Manly died.
March 21st.—25 per cent of fruit killed in Whit
field.
April 18th.—San Franciscq, earthquake and
fire destroyed 453 blocks and 60,000 buildings.
April 22nd.—Knox Ramsey shot in Murray
county by Jim Franklin.
April 25th.—Knox Ramsey died.
May 18th—Memorial Day; Col. Tom Fort, of
Chattanooga, orator of the day.
August 22nd.—Hoke Smith carried 119 counties
in democratic white primary for governor.
September 1st.—Free mail delivery establish
ed for Dalton. First piece% delivered was to the
North Georgia Citizen, consisting of the Atlanta
News, now Georgian. «
October 16th.—Sixth Whitfield County Farm
ers Fair opened. ' 5 V.
October 20th.—Sixth Whitfield County Farm
ers Fair closed.
Novembe 14th.—Snow, eight inches.
Louisiana purchased from France 1803
Florida ceded by Spain 1819
Texas annexed : 1845
American title to Oregon Established 1846
Nevada and Utah ceded by Mexico 1848
Gadsden Purchase (New Mexico) 1853
Alaska bought from Russia for five and
one-half million dollars. We have since
mined over fifteen million in gold there 1867
Philippines and Porto Rico acquired from
Spain ____J 1898
Haiwaii annexed 1898
Tutuila Islands acquired by an Internatfoftal
treaty _J 1899
High Spots in the World War.
First declaration of war was by Austria
against Serbia, July 28th, 1914. ^
Germany’s first drive toward Paris halted
September 6th, 1914.
Germany started ruthless submarine warfare
and declared submarine blockade of Great Britain
February 8th, 1915.
United States declared -war on Germany April
6th, 1917.
Bulgaria signed an armistice on September
29th, 1918, and surrendered on September 30th,
1918.
Turkey surrendered and signed an armistice
on November 1st, 1918.
Germany sighed armistice November 11th, 1918.
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Walking is the healthiest exercise ever in
vented. Try it.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Walking is fine exercise, but those who most
need it are generally too lazy to practice it.
See by the papers that in Cuba profiteering
is now regarded as a felony. Over hare it is
regarded as a habit—Macon Telegraph.
And by many of our most pious citizens it is
considered altogether lovely and quite tjie proper
habit to form.
The Walton News is advocating rural police
or rural guards for Walton county. The time
is rapidly coming when all communities must
have police protection.—Madison Maaisonian.
And we can remember the days when we were
told by professional prohibitionists that when the
country went “dry” all would be lovely and law
lessness would be only a memory.
The ultra prohibitionists—rather prohibi
tionists who have been so uncompromising in
prohibition enforcement—are beginning to re
realize that they have harmed their cause by
their intolerance and by their damning every
body and everything which did not feel and
think and act about liquor as. they feel and
think and act about liquor.—Augusta Chron
icle.
There is much truth in the above. The fool
friends of prohibition have done the cause incal
culable harm, and have helped to make more un
popular a very unpopular law. Nearly every day
somebody is killed in connection with so-called
enforcement, and the chaingangs are fast filling
up, and yet there seems to be no improvement.
Drunkenness and crime are on the increase.
Cotton advancing at this season is something
new. It is the outcome of reduced cotton acre
age and the activity of the boll weevil. An
other year or two of this and the cotton farm
er will be able to dominate the market.—Rome
News.
If cotton continues to rise fall business will
show up well. Already there is a more confident
tone present in this section.
The Philadelphia Ledger speaks of “Mr.
Harding’s masterful manipulation of the mat
ter.” The matter referred to is the peace treaty
with Germany. And yet a lot of chronic
grouches contend the newspapers never print
anything funny.—Macon Telegraph.
The separate peace with Germany is more
serious than funny, because it is so excijuciatingly
ly humiliating.
Some folks never seem to be able to save
anything, no matter how much they make.
There are other folks who seem always to be
able to save something, no matter how little
they make.—Albany Herald.
Which goes to show that it is not so much
what folks make as what they save. Many a poor
fellow is kept in sight of the poor house through
extravagance and waste in the home. As much
goes into the garbage can, and sometimes more,
than finds its way to the dining table.'
The Dalton Citizen says Dr. Caleb Ridley,
of Atlanta, is a sort of sensational preacher
with “a record by no means worthy of his
cloth.” Atlanta has another preacher of about
Dr. Ridley’s calibre, Dr. Ham. Both of them
would make better ward politicians than they
do preachers.—Conyers Times.
Dr. Ham doesn’t deserve to be classed with
Ridley. While he is sensational, he is well
meaning. This is more than we are willing to
admit as to Ridley.—Greensboro Herald^Jour
nal. „
The sensational, muckraking preacher does no
good, but much harm. Of the two mentioned
above Ridley is the worst. It pay be true that
Ham is well meaning, but on the other hand,
the former is simply vicious. Look up his record
if you care to know the sort of preacher he is.
We are old-fashioned enough to be against
the new-fangled idea of allowing officers to
search a man’s house unless they have a war
rant to do so. If they think he is selling liquor
or otherwise violating the law, they have no
trouble in getting a warrant. And unless the.
suspected offense is a grave one, they have no
business there anyhow. In other words, the
preservation of the sanctity of the home as a
man’s “castle” is more important than ferret
ing out anything but very serious crimes.—
Cedartown Standard. N
And we are old-fashioned enough to agree with
you, and to go a little further and say that if a
man, or an officer as for that matter, enters a
home to make a search without a warrant, the
head of the house would be justified in taking the
necessary steps to stop the intrusion.
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God.
My soul 'sees God
In star and clod,
And leaf and bud,
And blooms that stud
Sun-lighted mead—
In green boughs spuad
High overhead,
To winds that break
O’er.hill and lake,
When forests shake
With melody.
I
In earth and air—
Everywhere
His pulses beat;
And ’neath our feet
His purpose lies,
And vaulted skies
And peaks that rise,
Silent and grand,
Reared by His hand—
And tides that sweep
Bosoms of deep,
And stoiies that moan—
All things make known
His majesty!
Not far away,
But like the day
Encompassing
All things that are—
Flower and star, ,
Plant and dod—
My soul sees God—
The Great First Cause,
Working through laws,
To love’s great end—
Man’s Divine Friend,
And Almightv.
JESSIE" BAXTER SMITH.
August 28, 1921.
A Recipe for a Day of Life.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Can there be a more important question than
the make-up of a day of life? Our lives are made
up of a succession of days, and we only have one
day at a time, therefore the success or failure of
life may depend upon what the day brings forth.
The tendency of this hustling twentieth century
life is to make of the day a monotonous succession
of nerve racking, grinding work, taking a little
time to eat and sleep, with an occasional highly
salacious moving picture, or a sensational news
paper thrown in by way of recreation.
Is it any wonder that the world is going mad?
Is it any wonder that our hospitals, prisons and
asylums contain & large per cent of our people,
and are constantly being enlarged? Suicide is
becoming alarmingly popular, thousands of people
adopting the philosophy of Hamlet that it is better
with one stroke to end it all than to bear the
stings of fortune, etc.
Still, there are a few fortunate people who have
found the true philosophy of life and are living
sanely and getting the good of existence;
The man who is living only for his business
and the dollars it represents, whose day is a grind
ing rush and whose night is a feverish nightmare
of unrest is to be pitied. ,
Why should one live thus? Life is absolutely
crowded with opportunities for, enjoyment, and if
we fail to use them we deserve all that is coming
to us.
Let me offer you a recipe for one day of life
with the assurance that if you adopt it and work
it out, life will be worth living.
Work—you must have something to do to main
tain your self-respect and that of your friends.
To work is respectable; to refuse to work is va
grancy, no matter what your condition, or wheth
er male or female. When God said, “By the sweat
of thy brow shalt thou eat bread all the days of
thy life,” He conferred the greatest blessing on
man that He could possibly conceive.
Recreation: Don’t become a slave to your work.
Slavery is not conducive to character building.
Three-fourths work mixed with one-fourth inno
cent recreation makes your work a pleasure rath
er than a task. Study the child; he work and
plays at once and he could not tell which he enjoys
more. The business or industrial plant that does
not provjde recreation for its workers deserves to
be suppressed.
Humor: Ah! what a possibility for enjoyment!
What would life be without its humorous side? I
think the reason God made so many fools was that
the rest of us might have something to laugh at.
But. don’t look entirely to the fools for humor;
the air is full of it all around you if you will only
put yourself in tune like the antennae of the wire
less. One good laugh a day will keep the blues
CHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
By JAMES WELLS, The Printer-Poej
Home Brew.
(Some remarkable stories are beine
about the “kick’’ in home brew.)
circulated
Fellow spilled a drop or two
- As he drank out in the woods
Rabbit came and licked it up ’
Then he thought he was the’smna,,
Brindle bull dog came along g ° ds '
Thought he’d give the rabbit dm*.
Mister Rabbit wouldn’t run nase ’
Just spit in the bull dog’s face
Home brew, home brew,
Oh, what crimes are laid to you!
Fellow brewing “hootch” at home
Left the batch uncorked one day
Little mousie got a smell ’
While the old cat was away.
Cat came slowly sauntering in
What did mousie think of that?
Did he turn and run away?
No! He turned and whipped the cat
Home brew, home brew,
Awful tales are told on you.
Fellow—sort 6' hen-pecked man
With a ma-in-law for fair,
Drank a quart of home brew’ “hootch ”
Got to where he didn’t care. ' ’
Ma-in-law came on the scene,
Man gave battle, stern and grim
Did he whip his ma-in-law?
No, the ma-in-law whipped him.
' L’ENVOI.
Home brew! Home brew!
Wondrous qualities have you.
But there’re limits to your powers
Even in your prudent hours.
You can make a mouse whip cats,
Rabbit slap dog with his paw, ’
But you’ll never make mere man
Equal to his ma-in-law.
The Poor Batches.
“Oh, have a heart,” the butcher cried
His manly form did shiver;
But his appeal was all in vain—
I bore away his liver.
—James Wells, in Dalton Citizen.
“Be merciful,” implored the butcher,
His form a convulsion of pains; ’
But his cries were not heeded—
I carried away his brains.
Jim Jams, in Greensboro Herald-Journal.
I went into a butcher shop—
In vain the’butcher plead;
I went into a butcher’s shop
And took away his head.
The Fool Killer.
Here lie the bones
Of Andrew Boad;
He thought the shot-
Gun had no load.
Treated Like a Dog.
“My wife treats me just like ai dog,”
Remarked my friend old Abner Hay;
“She takes me with her on her walks;
Feeds me fresh meat three times a day.”
* Keep Your Head.
Business sorteP slowin’ down?
Keep your head.
What’s the use o’ tearin’ ’roun’?
Keep your head.
Just go on your own sweet way,
Matters not what others say,
Things will come all right some dav,
Keep your head.
Fools “blow- up,” but wise men think,
Keep your head.
Though you J re on misfortune’s brink,
Keep your head.
Though disaster’s in the air
And may strike—you know not where—
Bravelv do and boldly darie
And keep your head. ‘
Then whatever may betide.
Keen your head.
Though you may lose all beside.
Keep your head.
Go ahead and just keep cool,
(What’s the use to act the fool?).
If vou’d win. observe, this rule:
Keep your head.
away.
•A little kindliness: For the love of Mike, put off
that grouch and limber up. Open the windows
of your heart several times a day and let the sun
shine -in. Do some act of kindness every day, if
not to a human being, at least to some of God’s
creatures. Pick up a wounded bird, give a stray
dog a bite and a kind word, speak kindly to the
old horse and brush the flies from his back Then
when you have seen the good effects of all these
acts, go home and speak kindly to the dear old
wife once more, tell her how beautiful she is (not
was), then see if the sun doesn’t set clear and
promise a better day tomorrow.
Think: Sure, you are thinking of your business;
of the dollar you have put away, and just where
the next one is coming from. You know more
about the American eagle and the Goddess of Lib
erty than you do about the moral law. These
things are momentary; you belong to the ages.
Are you laying up something against the time
when all your dollars will be demonetized? Do
you know that the foundation you are laying here
is that on wnich your eternity will be built? Take
time each day for a thought or two on things that
will not perish.
Some time with good books: What a wonderful
thing to have the accumulated wisdom of ages at
your hand. You don’t have to dig it out like Pjalo
did. You have far greater power than the Witch
of Endor, for you can call up the choice spirits
of all heaven and converse with them- They will
tell you all-they knew, then you may add to that
all that has been learned since. Of all the beings
that God created the people of the twentieth cen
tury are the most fortunate. Yes, you can spare
a little time with a good book every day and you
will acquire the power of self-entertainment, ana
you need never pass a lonely hour.
Some music and some friends: Don’t forget to
mix some music with your daily work. If >’ 03
can’t sing, whistle. If you can’t whistle, g et
Victrola or a player piano, Music is the soul
release from world tension, and while it has Jitti?
connection with intellect or reason it has the pov -
er to soothe a weary soul.
Your friends: If you fail to strengthen the cor s
of friendship as each day passes by you will na
lost out at the point where you can least atio
to lose. Cultivate a few who are not friends
your m’oney, but are those upon whom you c.
calj in the hour of darkness. These are. nias.
few; don’t let them slip.
Some sorrow and a little struggle: Your me
cannot be all sunshine. If it were you would
but half a man or woman. If you have some strug
gles and disappointments you will develop
best that is in you. If you have no sorrows
your own. take up those of some less fortuna'e
one, and help to bear them. TTiese things t
to weld us all together and make up the mas
human sympathy. We have no control of C 'L ,
stances, but we can take the ingredients otter
above and mix them in the bowl of circumsta
as it is offered, and, behold! you have a da>
life of which you need not be ashamed.^^,.