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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1917)
13 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 11, 1917." Take Your Medicine De lay Won't Sweeten it. The Imitation Great Man Over-Emphasizes His Impersonation, uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiitiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii O ver-Use DtiUs the pur By HERBERT KAUFMAN. 1 Continuous criticism thwarts itself. Senseless censure simply fortifies stubbornness. Strike a spot often enough and it will gradually become indifferent to the blow. A blister is merely the forerunner of the callous. 1 Oppression has never failed to incite revolt. , Even a chicken-heart pumps lion-blood under sufficient provocation. Give an overdose and you will get a revulsion. 1 Nagging obtains results, but unexpected ones. It produces irritation and. indifference or hate. I The constant drip of temper wears away the strongest restraint. Patience and charity easily win points which wanton pestering chronically loses. , 1 All of us have our flaws, but they can be dealt with far more effectually by reason than 1 through force. Many a man can be coaxed who won't be driven. The whip, long since, proved itself a failure. 1 Nothing of account was ever accomplished under the knout. Encouragement is the greatest driving force human nature knows. rlurting never yet helped anybody. H-ven surgery held a blood-stained score until anaes- thesia eliminated its brutality. ? ' ; 1 Cutting a fellow to the quick may have a constructive intent behind it, but humiliation and resentment often set up a gangrene in the harsh wound. You can't batter and bruise a man's sensibilities and make him like you, even if your remarks are incidental to assistance. I The helping hand feels like a crushing fist when it pinches a sensitive spot. Every nag eventually seems like a nightmare. The most placid disposition will sour before I daily frets and complaints. Life isn't worth the bother, under the spur. An occasional dig is a salutary experience for everybody. ' , We all need to have attention directed to carelessness, delinquencies and mistaken courses, I . but by no stretch of imagination can we call a heel that kicks us raw a beneficent institution. The skeleton of an error is less impressive each time, it is yanked out and rattled about our ears.. 1 Leave played hands in the discard. " 1 Repeated reminders of the same misstep will change it from a profitable example into a pestiferous nuisance. What occurred yesterday can't be replevined, resurrected or remade. One look is quite enough to waste on any ghost. You can't alter a man any more than you can rebuild a house if you hammer on one spot all the time. niiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiui iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirE IT"? v T T -24 Vf -l-i II VERSES fv ife- - .tr r. Herbert zvBUJHjaa 3M You hid what you did, But you'll never get rid Of the past. It will find you And blab what's behind you. Surrender ambition And hope of position Until you can clear your ca reer of suspicion. You will not out-race it, So turn 'round and face it The error is there, hasten back and erase it. You're simply delaying The ultimate paying. Clean the slate, wipe the score. Put yourself right before Exposure locates you and screams at the door. The Devil's Due COMPUNCTION is treason to Titan ambitions. , When men survey paths across history, they have no regard for costs or corns. Wrecked rivals are episodes in the , carrying" on of mighty ventures. Even Progress, if occasion justifies, rides the Car of Juggernaut. ' Men seldom mark , their hour without bruising it. But for all that, never forget that something stronger than his wantonness is responsible for every victor's eminence. Constructive instinct must dominate those who operate on great scales, even though they appear to achieve results by re course to indefensible methods. They may break laws arid men, but they make them, too. The mailed fist wastes its blows, if it has not between . times held tremendous tools otherwise power would be known only through the outcries of its victims. Nobody can attain fame and command genuine prominence by simply knocking others down, despite undeniable evidence that certain sorts of leaders have invariably smoothed their paths by rough dealing. In our time we have watched conscienceless enterprise win with des picable weapons. But while captains of commerce do not scruple to expedite their ends, by short cuts across legislation and justice, all enduring success may be traced to manifest ability to the economies of efficient control. Many a monopoly exists because its possibilities were exploited so shrewdly that the consumer would have paid far more to disorganization than the huge amounts shrewd management demands as its due. Blind Men's Vision SOME day we'll give deformed men and women a fairer chance to assert their com petence in practical pursuits. Lots of 'em deserve their opportunities. We're losing the notion that such can't make good. The governments of-Europe have decided that they can't underwrite the future operating expenses of the million men who will have emerged from the war minus various vital be longings. They're educating them to piece out with near-human substitutes for absent por tions. Experiments prove that nine out of ten can adapt themselves to the requirements of trades and crafts.- With a little thoughtfulness we might have broadened life for them, these many years. The past is bright with the achievements of the maimed. Milton saw the gates of Paradise. Helen Keller had so much will that she didn't miss her absent senses. Pulitzer and Pearson refused to accept eternal darkness as a hope less estate they went on seeing things. Im agination lent its sight to them. -They became greater in misfortune. Big works can be planned behind closed lids. The undone must always be visualized before it can be reduced to tangible form. The truly blind are those who look without beholding and the most hopeless of all are those who live with all ambition asleep. The Failure? SUCCESS denied him and he nothing wrought (Except within his heart what stars will know) And in his love and duty failed of naught. He could have sold his honor, but he chose To garb his soul in clean resplendent robes And wear his threadbare patches on his clothes. He held his manhood stalwart to the end. He hungered, but his conscience never starved. He kept the faith with self-respect and friend. "A Good Fellow" HE lurched home last night "stewed to the gills," a maudlin, insensate hunk of pulp. She heard his clumsy noising in the dark and made pretense of sleep to spare herself from facing such a shame. This morning he'll 'awake with tingling nerves andturn the Sabbath into a competent imitation of Hades for all the household. They alone know him this woman and her children. The "boys" downtown call him a "regular guy" and all the cafe waiters smirk at sight of the prodigal. He's a sport, a spender and his family foots the bills. Incidentally there are, little bills at the butcher's and milkman's which won't be met this week or the next or the next. Also a needed sujt of clothes that the boy won't get a promised dress the girl shan't have, and the woman will manage with last year's hat and get her best shoes half-soled again. If the "good jfellows" weren't so popular, neither would Prohibition be. Being a Real Citizen BECAUSE you observe the law, pay your taxes, meet your debts, contribute occasionally to charity and vote the "regular ticket," you esteem yourself a good citizen and quite the peer of any neigh bor. But the trouble is, your neighbor isn't the peer to bis own traditions. The neighborhood itself is indif ferent. The state is too apathetic and the Nation, in many ways, is found wanting. . No man is a good American because he is orderly that's taken for granted he hasn't fulfilled his re sponsibilities until he has made it a mission and an ob- .ligation to help improve the standards he found wait ing. for him. 'To strive for betterment, to advance progress and decency these are basic duties of patriotism. " .Nobody is truly a good citizen until he has bene fited his time by his work. A COPYRIGHT. 1817. BY HEBBEST KAWaiAST, GREAT BRITAIN ASU AM. OTHEB BIGHTS RESERVED,