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W ednesday, Oct. 23, 1929
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( F rom
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No. 7
M EN YOU CANNOT B U Z
LONG BOW
E v e r e t t D e a n M a r t in )
T here can be no quantity production ’Of things of
the spirit.
ri Education may not end ip;$oubt, but it ends when
man stops doubting.
It is never information which transform s a person,
but the effort put forth to acquire it. |
T he propagandist is interested in
the educator in how they think.
people think;'
A man stands revealed both by the things he strives;
to gain and by those he seeks to avoid.
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Education is emancipation from herd ©pinioU'^_self-
m astery, capacity fof self criticism, Suspended ju d g ­
m ent and urbanity.
Ours is a land of Wool worth buildings, Ford fac­
tories, ¡the Anti-Saloon Eeague, Rotary, th e K u K lu x
Kian and the College Cheerleader.
In these enlightened1 times education is on the air;
all you need to do to achieve scholarship is to tu rn it
on, close your eyes and go to sleep.
F rom O ur O w n Q u iv e r :
W ith some people blindness is a state of mind.
Idle hands’ and eto^ty heads are a bad combination.
How would it be for. us to reverse the usual order
>f affairs a n d pay more attention to business and ieisS
o frivolity during th e coming year? Do we hear a
econd to the motion?
W hich is the worst offender against society, the
bribe-giver or th e b rib e takéf? W e cannot see a great
deal of difference. Just so long as man is over covetous
and unduly greedy just that long can mdhey tempt him
- “•just th at lohg will he be susceptible to bribery. In
private tiüsinèss âffàirs a bribe-taker is' a menace to the
sriccess b'f any given enterprise, while the sèrvarif pf à
government on alfow'ìrig himself to be bribed becomes
in a sense a traitor; because in some degree he offers
for Sale the honor of his nation. The stability of gov­
ernments, as well as private bhèinêss, depends upon
the chaTacter of those in high position.
It seems th a t there ‘has nevêr been an age in the
history of the world when a certain përcentâgè of man­
kind, of high or low degree, could not be bought or
bribed. T he promise of gold, of power, of position,'
of this or that which is coveted has its app’èàl and. re
is lamentable that so many yield to tem ptation. The
ignorant and èârëless »are a’t the mercy ôf the unpfih’-
cipled. A nd, des’p ite all of oür attempts at general en­
lightenm ent, the ignorant continue to constitute the
gréât m ajority. Samuel Smiles, writer, relates a story
w hich seems to clarify our meaning. A certain French
quack w ââhailed intò police court for obstructing traffic
oh a street in Paris and thè words of the court judge
and the q u ack 1 gWe poitit tO wh'at we wish to convey:
“ Sir, how is it tfiàt you draw such crowds about
you, arid extract so much money from them in selling
your ‘ ‘infallible’ ’ rubbish?’ ’ asked the magistrale. ‘ ‘M y-i
lo rd ,” replied the quack, “ how many people dò ÿo'iî
th in k cross thë Pont N euf in thé hour?” '^T'/aon’t
know ,” replied the judge. “ T hen I can'^ell you—
about ten thousarid; and how m any dò you th ink are
Wise?* ’ ‘ ‘Oh, perhaps a hundred! ” “ i t is too many, ’ ’
said the quack; “ but I leave the hundred persons to
you, and take the riinè thousand arid nine hundred for
my cristomers. ” T t seefns appalling that the ignorant,
thë ëarêles’s, 'or the unprincipled should be represented
by so vast a m ajority Of hum anity. ' ’’
A n honest man has always been rated among ‘ ‘the
elect.” Such being th e tcaie, why i‘s it that m ankind
generally is not honest? It is easier to walk at random, '
to meander, than to keep to a straight course. T he
great safe-guards of men and Woineri are qualities possi?*'
ble for all to possess, the spirit of probity, of self-re-
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