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Editorial City Life and Dramatic Section Hearst's Sunday American, Atlanta, Sunday, September 7, 19 B
Be Different Inside of Your Brain
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N this age the Intelligent
advertiser appeals to the
•nan who considers him
self “different” or who is
fond of declaring that he
is “particular.”
We are told that such and such a
breakfast food should be eaten bv the
particular man.
Forty-seven hundred different kinds of
collars, with points up or down, or with
no points at all, are recommended as
being DIFFERENT.
Tailors and manufacturers of shirts,
shoes, neckties, socks and even belts,
urge the young men of the day to be
DIFFERENT and to get without fail the
shirt, belt, trousers, socks that are dif
ferent from others of the same kind.
The results of this appeal to men’s dif
ference and to “particular men” are seen
in many directions.
You see one different goose, with a
green hat and a little bow in the back
of it.
You see another “particular” silly
person, rejoicing in the fact that the
pockets on his coat slant up and down at
an angle of forty-five degrees instead of
being straight, or very happy indeed be
cause his necktie, shirt and socks are of
the same color.
One gentleman, proud of himself, will
order a wild duck in a restaurant, and
insist upon having a lime instead of a
lemon to squeeze over it. He wants you
to know that HE is different, AND par
ticular.
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As for the poor women of this world.
Heaven only knows what THEY won’t
do, to be different
They will wear dresses as big as
balloons one minute.
The next minute they will wear a dress
so tight that they must slit the dress up
the leg in an indecent fashion in order
to walk.
They will wear hats as wide as a cart
wheel, and then a “toque,” smaller than
the top of the head.
They are willing to squeeze their
waists or have no waists at all, they will
fasten in their hips with bands of iron
and rubber—although the hip is the most
important and valuable thing about a
woman ercept the brain, they will puff
out those same hips ludicrously with
what they call paniers, or baskets.
Anything on earth they will do, or
wear or suffer.
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Now, young and old men, and old and
young women, please note that there is
only one kind of difference in the world
that counts.
And that is the different think
ing that goes on in the brain.
Never mind about your clothes. Be
clean, don’t be conspicuous. That is all
you need worry about in regard to the
outside of yourself. _
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Be Particular About Your
Thoughts — Never Mind Your
Clothes, Collars, Cravats or Socks.
But concentrate your attention upon
being DIFFERENT AND PARTICU
LAR inside of your brain, where the
REAL YOU lives and where your real life
goes on.
One different THOUGHT is worth a
million different pairs of socks, or
collars, or any other kind of outside
wear.
You don’t want to pass over this earth
like a silly monkey and then be forgotten.
You want to add something to what
men have done here, and take your place
as a real human being, not as a tailor’s
dummy.
The real men and women have been
those w'ho have given to the world new
and DIFFERENT THOUGHTS.
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Before Columbus came they used to go
to India in a roundabout way.
Columbus had a DIFFERENT thought,
lie thought that he could get to India by
sailing out across the ocean to the West.
He didn’t pay any attention to the silly
people who told him that at a certain
point the ocean ended and that he w ould
drop over the edge into eternal nothing
ness. He believed and knew that he could
go on sailing and he went. He bumped
into this continent, of which he never
dreamed. And because Columbus
THOUGHT in a different
way America was discovered.
Before the days of (lalileo
people believed and religion
taught that the earth was flat
and that it had four corners.
Some of the old Greeks knew
better, but they didn’t circu
late their knowledge very
widely.
Galileo, as he looked at this
earth and the outside uni
verse, thought differently
from others. He taught men
something about the shape
and character of this moving
planet upon which they lived.
His DIFFERENT thought
changed and improved the
thoughts of all men. And he
was very wise.
When the religious power
told him that he must get on
his knees and deny that the
earth went around the sun he
thought differently from
some others who had been
martyrs unnecessarily. He
thought, “It doesn’t make
much difference what these
poor ignorant religious
gentlemen believe, or what
they make me say. But it
would make a good deal of
difference if I permitted
them to burn Galileo alive
for telling the truth.” So he
did get on his knees and
solemnly said that the earth
did not go around the sun, at
the same time repeating
under his breath, “Still she
moves.” * * *
There in Galileo’s head
wafl a brain that could
THINK DIFFERENTLY.
The moment he heard that a maker of
lenses in Holland had invented a glass
which brought distant objects near
Galileo, without even seeing the new
invention, MADE THE ITRST TELE
SCOPE and was able to show to those
very religious gentlemen who had made
him deny the truth on his knees that the
whirling planets in the distance had
rings and moons accompanying them on
their journeys.
The difference between Galileo and
the ordinary man who amounts to
nothing, kind friends, was not a differ
ence in neckties or socks, hut a differ
ence INSIDE OF THE HEAD.
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And so it was with our American
friend Edison. When he was a cheap
little operator, tapping away at a wire,
the other operators, who probably had
their minds on different socks and
different neckties, thought that only one
message could go over a wire at tha
same time. But Edison had a DIFFER
ENT thought He sent several mes
sages over the same wire, and he did
other things to prove the importance of
thinking differently.
The stepmother of Abraham Lincoln
was very far behind the times in dress,
ohe never wore a tight corset. Prob
ably never wore any. She would not
have known what to do with a high-
heel slipper. But she knew what to do
with Abraham Lincoln. His mother
had made him a big powerful boy, and
his stepmother made him a thoughtful,
good boy.
She taught him, helped him with his
books and encouraged his ambition.
In her THINKING as a stepmother
she was different. What she did for him
gave Lincoln to the world. His own
mother made his brain and his big.
powerful body. But that brain and body
without the slight education, and the
mental direction that he owed to his step
mother, might have led nowhere.
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In everything it is the different
thought that counts.
Young men and young women who
work for a living, look at those about
you. You will find that those who
put the most attention on the different
neckties, or the different dress, are those
that put the least attention ON THE DIF
FERENT WAYS OF GETTING AHEAD
IN THE WORLD.
You will find a young idiot with a
different shaped collar each week,
always doing his work IN THE SAME
DULL WAY.
You will learn that he thinks it very
intelligent indeed to be different as
regards his hat, or the cut of his shirt.
But he doesn’t think it at all important to
be different in the display of energy, of
power and determination to succeed.
Let the other clerks near you be differ
ent in collars and neckties. YOU BE
DIFFERENT IN YOUR WORK AND IN
YOUR THINKING.
Realize that work is OPPORTUNITY.
Realize that you can’t possibly cheat
an employer. You can only cheat
YOURSELF.
The employer hires his man cn the
assumption that he will do about as liUi.
as he can do. And when you do that you
do the usual thing, you don’t cheat the
employer.
But you do cheat YOU.
Work with thought, plan with thought,
rest that your thought may grow.
BE DIFFERENT INSIDE OF YOUR
BRAIN.
AND LET WHO WILL BE DIFFER
ENT IN THE CHOICE OF CLOTHING.
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