Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11

The night has thousand eyes;
The day but one:
Yet the light of the whole earth dies
With the setting sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes:
The heart but one:
Yet the light of the whole life dies
When love is done.
-BOUD1LLON.
Dear Little Brothers ard Sisters
Our big brother. the Editor. has
been so good as to give Us a whole
column of this paper, so that we may
talk with one another every week and
become well acquainted. We shall
be able to talk about all the happy
and helpful and interesting things
we have read or seen or thought of
from week to week, and what a help
full column this ought to be with so
many to make it so.
Let us see if we can't make it not
only so helpful to each other that
none of us will want to miss d word
in it, but also so interesting that all
the big brothers and sisters who are
so much wiser than we are, and who
read the other columns where so many
wise things are said, will want to read
our column, too.
l am sure you all know what the
people who are interested in this pa
per are trying to do, and | know that
we all want to help just as much as
we can. We know that they are try
ing to persuade everyone who is fight
ing for success out in the world that
there is way that is so much better,
and that will make the world so much
more beautiful and happy to live in
the way of brotherhood.
We are sure that we want to help
them in doing this, Just as much as
we can. What, then. is the first step
to take in trying to help: If we are
going to try to work for brotherhood,
we must first be sure that we know
what brotherhood means, must we
not? Then we shall know better what
the things are that we can do to help
bring it nearer.
So am going to ask all the little
brothers and sisters who read this
column, if they will write and tell us
just what they think brotherhood
means. Do you know how much bet
ter you always know thing Yourself
after you have tried to tell II to some
one else? Someone has said that no
one really knows a thing until he has
taught it to someone else, and / am
sure the word brotherhood will mean
more to US all after we have tried to
tell each other just what we think it
means.
know one beautiful little line that
tells it in very few words. but l. am
not going to write that Just now, be-
cause want you all to tell me first in
your own words. Then when we have
found what the very. best words are
to say it in, we will have those words
at the head of our column for our
motto: perhaps you may be able to
send some words that will be better
than those | have in mind
| wonder how many of the dear lit
tie brothers and sisters who read this
column, have ever thought that they
have. each one of them, 4 very great
and wonderful task to do-more i'm
portant, even. than all the work they
see going on around them. Every
boy and girl has this great task to
do. and some of them are doing il
well, and some of them are doing il so
carelessly that they will not feel
glad by and by when they look back
on it. Can any of you tell me what
this work is that is so very important
and that you all have to do? This is
the first puzzle in the column. and
how many can send me an answer?
Perhaps | have asked YOU enough
for the first week, but still am co.
ing to ask one thing more, aud this is
for all the weeks to come; Will every
one of the brothers and sisters keep
their eyes very, very wide open. and
see all the happy things they can
right along, and whenever they see
anything that makes them happy, or
see anyone doing kind act that they
think is of the right kind to Eclp
buildOur brotherhood whcnevcrthev
see any of these things will they
write and tell MS about IT, Sec how
much that will spread the happiness
among all the people who read
about Ii I'm our column.
IL each one tries To- think Df this.
and notice all the happy beautiful
things nc sees, and remember them,
and write to all the others about
them, Ii win not be very long before
each one win bc finding -omauy ways
that were never thought 0t o,tnrc,
TO help our brotherhood; because.
strange as PC SecU-, il helps ue ever