THE SUNDAY OKEGOXTAX, rOUTXAND, OCTOBER 8, 1916.
It takes as long to worry
as to work.
Hardship is generally z
disguised argosy of hope.
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Another View of It
By Herbert Kaufman
Obstacles challenge and stimulate resource. The more difficulties we encounter, the
sharper we think.
When loads grow onerous, their bearers are forced to consider methods to lighten the
burden.
Shortage spurs experiment. We found most of the valuable materials in general use
after losing formerly adequate supplies of other things. It's human nature to utilize the
handiest stores.
Had population never exceeded sustenance, we'd probably still be eating the fruit and
garden truck of Eden.
War performs a distinct service to economics. The displacements invariably associ
ated with extensive conflicts urge the survivors to dream and strive harder.
Penury and privation are gruff benefactors but, none-die-less, friends of humanity.
The Old World will recoup its losses at a speed which might not have been attained for
decades, had not the exigencies of disaster lashed the Continent to endeavors unprecedented
on this earth.
Engines of every sort automatic contrivances which will substitute for the labor of
missing millions reclamation projects scaled beyond previous concept artificial limbs so
cunning that crippled myriads will be salvaged for self-support are already in prepara
tion and will be followed year after year by more marvelous efficiencies.
Civilization will rise from the ruin purified, energized and vibrant with implacable de
terminations. A new type of mind will dominate trade and science. The old order has forever passed.
Creeds and castes, privileges and restrictions have been fluxed in a crucible of patri
otism all ranks beaten to a general level.
Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, hind and landlord, merchant and philoso
pher, chemist and financier have found com mon denominators in the trenches and will re
turn to their positions and occupations marked by experiences which have taught more than
revolution ever sought.
Ten million men divided by peace have been welded by war; have traded ideas, com
pared notes and prodigiously enriched the community brain.
The wholesale killing of males has so upset the balance between the sexes that multi
tudes of women whose ancestors never married outside their own spheres, must seek hus
bands among peasants and workingmen.
The melting pot of matrimony will alloy intensive intellectual strains with sturdy vigor
ous stocks.
Progress is a ruthless chemist and often makes us pay a horrid price for her experi
ments. But however much we suffer in the processes of evolution, Time regularly demon
strates that the end justified the means.
While it does seem that no possible benefit can compensate for such squandering of lives
and wrecking of utilities, succeeding generations may trace their greatest endowments to
this awful hour.
We demean Tomorrow in estimating her potentialities by Today's competence. Inven
tion keeps pace with necessity. Man has never yet failed to offset his setbacks.
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The price you set
Is the price you'll get,
Provided our terms axe fairly
met.
And your wage will rise if your
powers grow,
As it's bound to fall with the
bluffs you throw;
For we will not pay more than
you essay.
The world doesn't measure re
wards that way.
It's the things you do,
It's the jobs shoved through,
That give us the accurate value
of you.
When your income's short
Of the sum you thought
To have, you can bet that you
never fought
As hard as you could or as much
as you ought.
Your Vote
HOW many times have you intelligently exercised the franchise of
citizenship? Have you any real political convictions? Or are
you one of too many haphazard voters -without a definite concep
tion of the policies you support?
Could you hold your own in a party debate? Are you sufficiently
posted on the facts and figures relating to half the planks in the plat
form you intend to uphold?
Old labels mean nothing in new situations. The Nation has a dif
ferent batch of problems at each election. Will you enter the polls
'without a full understanding of the happenings of the last four years
and the probabilities of the next four?
Elements which never before entered American calculations compli
cate both domestic and foreign relations.
We shall proceed uninterruptedly with our plans or face crises of
immeasurable danger according to the wisdom with which we choose the
men whose wills and purposes control the decisions at Washington.
Listen to what both sides have to say and make honest comparison
before you make up your mind.
Think as hard and as clearly for our common business as you do
about your private activities. One is at stake with the other. We
can't suffer as a people and prosper individually.
The very selfishness that refuses definite participation in this campaign still
more strongly urges active assistance in the election of the ablest and most hon
orable candidates.
To vote without reason is a form of treason. Whoever furthers the advan
tage of forces inimical to National honor and security has betrayed the trust of
liberty.
If you won't give the time to learn what is best for your country, you deserve
the worst that can happen to you and your interests.
With several million foreign-born and uninformed citizens blindly obeying
padrones, bosses and heelers, your vote and your voice do count.
Help Wanted
ONE of America's leading railroads, which con
stantly exploits its efficiency through news
paper and periodical advertising, menu backs,
pamphlets, etc., requires the immediate services of a
man whose sense of proportion will lead him to an
investigation of inaccuracies and inadequacies at
present disregarded by the management.
He will find fertile ground for the display of
thoroughness among the timetables of the system,
many of which demand clarification upon such de
cidedly important points as through trains. Trav
elers now desiring to reach their destinations,
without change of cars, cannot discover from the
company's literature where and at what hour they
will be dumped off with loads of handluggage to
await connections.
Surely there exists an individual of sufficient
genius to correct this asinine production of sched
, ules.
We likewise dare to hope, that among the hun
dred million citizens of this Republic, there will yet
be found a master mind which will solve the problem
of synchronizing the clocks in the home terminal of
the road.
Three different timepieces were recently noted
in the trainshed, each of which varied from the
others by several minutes.
We continue to be a helter-skelter people. Ex
actness is not an American trait. Opportunities for
wide-awake employes exist and persist wherever wc
look provided we think and look at the same time.
If the "most efficient" enterprise on the continent
can't make proper timetables or keep its clocks
straight, one shudders to think of the bungles and
blunders which must characterize lesser businesses.
There are always chances to improve everything
take one of them.
The Scarlet Letter
WE'LL call her Mary Smith you'd call her a
bad girl. Two years ago she made a mistake
the mistake. Vanity, misplaced faith,
ignorance, poverty or recklessness led her astraj.
At any rate, she did not understand what the future
held in store. Now she knows the implacable condi
tions along the Primrose Path. Her future is with
out a vestige of hope ; the longer she lives, the worse
her lot. They soon grow wise in her sphere ; the "old
oifes" are bitter with experience and example. The
night has taught her all the hideous truths that
neglectful parents fail to impress. She has a sense
of values; an appreciation of respectability and hqme
and the decencies which only suffering and humilia
tion can possibly establish. But she's afraid of
something even more intolerable than the streets
contempt.
That's why Mary Smith hasn't come home.
Society won't believe in her regeneration.; Of the
two degradations, she'd rather keep on being the
Scarlet Woman among strangers than wear the
Scarlet Letter among her own people.
Think it over.
Guineas and Sixpences
CONFIDENCE demands evidence. Governments,
can borrow at 3 per cent; they represent sta
bility and permanence.
If the very shrewd man who once stood upon
London bridge and futilely offered to sell a guinea
for a sixpence, had agreed to remain in the custody
of a policeman until the piece was tested, the first
passerby with the price in his pocket would have
bought the coin.
His guarantee didn't count because he couldn't
warrant his own reliability. We seldom trust
strangers, no matter how alluring their propositions.
Bitterly bought experience teaches that they who
promise the most usually deliver the least.
Exaggeration and phrase extravagance are the
hall-marks of fraud. Responsibility weighs its
words it must pay so heavily for them. Folks
aren't accustomed to five-dollar gold pieces for silver
sixpences the sixpence isn't worth that much.
Profit and Prejudice
LOADED scales can't measure fairly. The men
we dislike are always better than our opinions
of them. Personality properly determines
social preferences, but performance alone is the
arbiter of competence.
When prejudice intrudes upon trade, profit
shudders.
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