The CHEMA WA AMERICAN
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THE NECESSITY OF WORK
(F rom
the
Q uiver of A rthur S chopenhauer )
A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in
striving after something which he thinks will make
him so.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: Those
who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write
for writing’s sake.
A great many bad writers make their whole living
by that foolish mania of the public for reading nothing
but what has just been printed.
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Nature covers all her work with a varnish of beauty,
like the tender bloom that is breathed, as it were, on
the surface of a peach or plum.
Of every event in our life we can say only for one
moment that it is: Forever after, that it was. Every
evening we are poorer by a day.
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so
big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magni
fied by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
How insatiable a creature is man. Every satisfac
tion he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so
that there is no end to the wishes of each individual
Will.
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A book can never be anything more than the impress
of its author’s thoughts; and the value of these will
lie either in the matter about which he has thought,
or in the form which his thoughts take; in other words,
what it is that he has thought about.
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs
to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in
the end he loses all patience, he crushes both them and
himself. Or he is like Gulliver at Lilliput, over
whelmed by an enormous number of little men.
A wide-spreading apple tree stood in full bloom,
and behind it a dark fir raised its dark and tapering
head. ‘ ‘ Look at the thousands of gay blossoms which
cover me everywhere,” said the apple tree; “what
have you to show in comparison? Dark green need
les! ’ ’ ‘ ‘That is true, ’ ’ replied the fir, “but when win
ter comes you will be bared of your glory, and I shall
be as I am now.”
By far the greater part of the suffering and crime
which exist at this moment in civilized Europe arises
simply from people not understanding this truism—
not knowing that produce or wealth is eternally con
nected by the laws of heaven and earth with resolute
labor, but hoping in some way to cheat or abrogate
this everlasting law of life, and to feed where they
have not furrowed, and to be warm where they have
not woven.
I repeat, nearly all our misery and crime result from
this one misapprehension. The law of nature is, that
a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a
certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If
you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food,
you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for
it. But men do not acknowledge this law, or strive
to evade it, hoping to get their knowledge, and food,
and pleasure for nothing; and in this effort they either
fail of getting them, and remain ignorant and miser
able, or they obtain them by making other men work
for their benefit; and then they are tyrants and rob
bers. Yes, and worse than robbers. I am not one
who in the least doubts or disputes the progress of
this century in many things useful to mankind; but
it seems to me a very dark sign respecting us that we
look with so much indifference upon dishonesty and
cruelty in the pursuit of wealth. In the dream of
Nebuchadnezzar it was only the feet that were part of
iron and part of clay; but many of us are now getting
so cruel in our avarice that it seems as if, in us, the
heart were part iron and part of clay.— J ohn R uskin .
SENIOR ROTATERS
The Senior Class in Business Training has organ
ized a Club, “The Senior Rotaters,” with the follow
ing objectives in view: Stimulating interest in the
classes in business training, making the most of them
selves as individuals, and promoting opportunities for
accumulating general knowledge and usefulness in
things pertaining to business practice.
At the organization meeting in September officers
weie elected, a constitution written and adopted, by
laws agieed upon, a name selected and committees ap
pointed. Frank Johnson was chosen president; Ar
menia Plouffe, vice-president; Lottie Kipp secretary,
and Louis Parazeau, sergeant-at-arms.
The second meeting will be held this evening, Oc
tober 29, in the Business English room at the High
School with Mrs. Herlits as chaperone. The program
will be:
Remarks
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President Johnson
Song
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Mabel Halsey
Dialogue
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Matthew James and Herman Goudy
Address on Business Principles
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Mr. Larsen
Harmonica Selections
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Mr. Lobdell
Adding Machine Demonstration
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Mr. Roen, of Salem
Typewriting Contest
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Six Club Members
Invasion
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Hallowe’en Witches, Ghosts and Black Cats