The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., November 01, 1924, Page 8, Image 8

NOVEMBER, 1924
THE UNITED AMERICAN
Page Eight
FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER
Anon.
/")NE DAY AN old umbrella mender brought skele-
ton frames and tinkering tools into the alley at
the back of my office. As he sat on a box in the sun
mending the broken and tom umbrellas, I noticed
that he seemed to take unusual pains, testing the
cloth, carefully measuring and strongly sewing the
covers. Being always interested in any one who does
a piece of work well, I went out to talk to him a few
minutes.
“You seem extra careful,” I remarked.
“Yes”, he said, working without looking up; “I try
to do good work.”
“Your customers would not know the difference
until you were gone,” I suggested.
“No, I suppose not.”
“Do you ever expect to come back ?”
“No.”
“Then why are you so particular ?”
“So that it will be easier for the next fellow who
comes along,” he answered, simply. “If I put on
shoddy cloth or do bad work, they will find it out
in a few weeks, and the next mender who comes along
will get the cold shoulder, or the bulldog—see?”
YeSj I saw; and wished that every worker in every
trade and profession had as generous a conception of
his duty to his calling as this itinerant umbrella
mender.
HAPPINESS
Tolstoi
THE ESSENTIAL condition of happiness is work;
first your favorite, free work; second, physical,
which makes you sleep soundly.
Happines means to be with nature, to see it, to
commune with it.
One of the first conditions of happiness, recog­
nized by everybody, is a life in which man’s ties with
nature are not broken; that is a life under the open
sky, in sunshine, out in the fresh air, near the soil,
plants, and animals.
Health and death without disease are conditions
of happiness.
There is no position in which a man could not
be happy.
If there is a God and a future life there is truth,
there is virtue, and the highest happiness of man con­
sists in striving to attain them. Man must live,
man must love, man must believe.
Love, self-renunciation — this is real happiness,
which does not depend upon chance.
I am happy when I can perform an act of kindness,
but to set an injustice aright is the greatest
happiness.
SUCCESSES AND FAILURES
Dr. Claude Wm. Chamberlain
'T'HESE FIGURES are for each hundred men in
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America: At the age of thirty-five, sixty have
progressed, thirty-five have failed to improve and five
are complete failures. At the age of forty-five, fifteen
are failures, sixteen are dead while only four have
made much progress. At fifty-five, thirty have failed
in life, twenty are dead, three are wealthy and
forty-seven self-supporting. These figures indicate
that ninty-seven per cent of American men at the
age of fifty-five years have failed to demonstrate
that they chose the proper vocation to make successes
of themselves.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE POWERS
WITHIN
Frederick K. Davis
IU ITHIN ALL FORMS of life there is “Something"
” that strives always for more complete expres­
sion of latent potentialities, as well as for more
perfect adaptation to environment. The growing
scientific recognition of this “Something” is doing
much to overthrow the purely mechanistic theories
that held sway so largely the last few decades. Man
does not acquire powers or talents from without;
he releases them from within. Environment, blended
strains of heredity, education — these merely provide
opportunities for that which is within to unfold and
manifest itself.
AROUSING THE HIDDEN POWERS WITHIN
Henry Thomas Hamblin, in “Dynamic Thought.”
'T'HE UNSEEN IS greater than the seen, therefore
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to work in the Unseen is to deal with the
“cause” of which the outward life is the “effect.”
By working in the Unseen by means of meditation,
affirmation, visualizing and by holding in our mind
the highest ideals we arouse the Power that lies
hidden within us. The Power that is within us is
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