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is more valuable for streets and other improvements than for
pagan worship. More than three hundred acres of some of
the most valuable ground in the central part of Tokio was oc
cupied by. these temples before 1923. In consequence of this
ruling which is a part of the Tokio reconstruction plans, the
Buddha worshipers must be content with erecting the new
temples to their diety in the outlying suburbs. In view of this
decision the inference is beyond dispute that the light of in
telligence radiated by occidental civilization is gradually casting
off the spell by which this venerable old symbol has kept in
leash the oriental mind for several centuries.
One school in Seattle with 485 pupils reports that
55 percent, or more than one half of the children in attendance,
are foreign born. The greater part of these, a foreign
language paper in Seattle states, are “from Norway, Sweden
Italy and Austria.” If the parents of these children also were
attending an American school so that they could progress with
their children, then everything would ‘be well in Seattle and
its Americanization problems would be in a fair way of being
solved. If these families are to be kept together so that
harmony between children and parents can be assured, the
later will need something for their mental prerequisites besides
foreign language newspapers.
People who are anxious to fix up other people so
that they may be able to “step right” in the marching column
of the all-American contingent, should learn to watch their
own steps so that those they essay to train might find some
tangible evidence of creditable leadership. One ounce of
good example is worth a ton of flighty speech. Theorists may
put it over with those of their kind, but they cannot put it
over on the common herd that has been inocculated against
fandangled notions in a matter of fact world where they have
been trained to work out their own salvation according to the
definite rule they know by a definite name — common sense.
JUNE 1925
AMERICAN
in the Kimberly mines alone, are so numerous that were they
marketed indiscriminately and competitively, diamonds would
be as common and as cheap as ordinary glass beads. Funny
what our imagination can do for us, isn’t it?
A man’s reverses may be blessings in disguise if
they teach him to think. The man who loses his all, even at an
age when many people retire from active business life, who
sets out anew with two empty hands and accumulates a compe
tence, is the man who learned a profitable lesson from his
misfortunes and did not sink into the mire of despair and
self-pity.
Just what shape the roads in America would have
been in had not someone got into the notion of building an
automobile, is a question. Whatever is said for or against
this modern form of locomotion, it has transformed impassable
wagon-roads into highways, measuring three million miles in
length, within our country, and of this distance we have paved
no less than four hundred and thirty thousand miles.
Searching for heaven may seem foolish to some
people, particularly those who are everlastingly working in
the direction of the other place, but those who are searching
for heaven have a wonderful faculty for creating heavenly
little way stations while traveling along the trail of life in
the right direction.
How about the standard of the one-teacher schools
in America? Does anyone know? We have, according to
the lastest statistics, 174,947 one-teacher school houses in the
United States with 3,500,000 children attending these schools.
The children of the rural communities are entitled to as much
educational protection as their city cousins.
The open mind is the open window to the sunlight
As a Supreme Court Justice, Lewis L. Fawcett of
Brooklyn may be (giving the Sunday School a lot of credit
when he says that regular attendance during the formative
period of youth would dose the doors of the criminal courts
and jails, but it is a certainty that if the Sunday School was
made a greater ally of the home, for the building of a better
youth, the criminal and juvenile courts would not be doing
such a thriving business as they are at present and the jails
and reform institutions would not require larger and more
spacious quarters.
of reason. Close that window and you will experience how the
darkness of fear suspicion, jealousy and hatred enters your
mind. The result is that you lose your courage, your faith and
your physical and mental poise. Keep your mind’s window
open and the destructive germs will never affect you.
Not all the well deserved epitaphs are carved as
boldly as this one, which someone recently discovered on a slab
in a rural cemetary:
“Here lies the body of John Doe Jones;
His meanness on earth is interred with his bones.”
The most exacting test of human virtue is applied
when the scales tip and trouble gathers around one of a
circle of friends or relatives. Those who fail are those who
join the throng that is engaged in throwing stones. Those
who rally to relieve the burden and rescue the weak and
the perishing one are proving their mettle. Human virtues
are rare. They are the greatest assets in life. Lose them
and liabilities are likely to accumulate so fast against you
that your individual security may be in danger.
By the looks of things we are a rather careless lot
in the United States, where we managed to maim seven million
eight hundred thousand people, by accident, during the last year.
Seems rather hard to believe, yet, two millions six thousand
four hundred, or more than one fourth of this number, were
victims of accidents that happened within or about their homes.
The total is said to include only those accidents to which all
of us are exposed, without regard to employment. Getting
rather unsafe to be almost any place, doesn’t it?
Give some people a position of power and influence
and see how they misuse their power and then you will under
stand the reason why they are never kept long on the job.
When you see someone wearing a large diamond,
indicating a measure of wealth which lies beyond your fondest
dreams, forget it, the sparkler isn’t worth the' price that was
paid for it, for authorities will tell you that the diamond stones
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It may not matter much to some people who are
rather profane in their every thought and expression, but
it is a great relief no doubt to the more sensitive New Yorkers
that the policeman who “cusses” a citizen knows that this act
on his part causes him to forfeit one day’s pay.
Overcoming obstacles in the better part of a worth
while life. Battle for your rights and struggle to achieve
your objective, but fight with clean weapons, and never rob
the other fellow of the fruits of his labor.
Where there is moonshine there can be no sunshine.
The two don’t mix very well.' Don’t try the mixture for it
holds potentialities for many ills that sensible folks are dili
gently trying to avoid.
The man who forms the habit of speaking well
of people will have no time to devote to idle gossip or to
condemnation based upon the mistakes and the weaknesses
that may be discernable in the lives of others.
The troubles we worry over are invariably too
trivial to be of any consequence provided we could put them out
of our minds and get busy thinking about worthwhile things.
The one who performs a spiritual act will bring
no sorrow to others and no regret to himself.
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