Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-31
SIGHT, FOR FAULTS.

An oA6f1L EOns AOAAo
The only thing hat can easily b
found where it does not exist is fault
That is, you car easily find 1t Ii
others. But in yourself, though yol
be blackcned with it, you can't see it
If the other fellow has a fault-anC
sometimes if he hash 't-you are quiel
Ito perceive it. And, Of course, yol
know how it might promptly be RENE
died. 1t is the simplest thing in the
world to know the remedy for thu
faults Of the other fell w.
You necessarily find fault with the
weather. It is either too warm or toe
cold, too wet or too dry, too sunny OF
too cloudy, and you have a good deal
to say about it. Very seldom is a day
just to your taste, and sven then you
are apt to complain that the morrow
may be bad. To hear you go on about
it day after day and week after week,
some simpleton might suppose that if
you only had control of the weather
for a while you would soon teach Di-
vine Providence a thing or two.
And the times never suit you. It's
either hard times, or else some other
people are making too much money by
methods you don't know anything
about and so don't approve. Deep in
your subconsciousness you are quite
sure that money-making which you
can't comprehend and can't initiate
can't be honest. AT the same time,
for the man poorer than yourself you
little respect. Had he your en-
ergy and your intellect, you think, he
would be as well off as you are. So
you find grounds for complaint in that
men are richer than yourself and
some poorer than yourself and that
you are not richer than you are. To
hear your voluble goings-on about it
Dne might suppose that if you were
regulating the complicated business af-
of the world they would be far
better managed-even though you
regulate your own present little
part in them to your own satisfaction.
And the government is all wrong,
700, in your opinion, AS a matter of
fact, you may confess to yourself that
you are unable to vote with real dis
elimination for county sheriff, but you
10 think you konw all about running
The national government and settling
all international difficulties. You may
not know why your own ward has a
DOodler in the town council, but you
find all kinds of fault with the
President of the United States or the
Governor of the state,
You may be loudly preaching for
worldwide peace, when you can't get
along amicably with your own wife.
You may not be able successfully to
run "A little corner grocery but you
think you know all about regulating
he big trusts.
You don't know what are the ele-
nents of failure in your own business
affair, but you think you know just ex-
,ctly what are the faults of the great
railroads.
You may not be able to write two
sentences dramatically or think two
connected thoughts co%nsecutively, but
YOU are probably finding fault with
his able editorial and foolishly imag.
ming that you could write a better
Dne.
The trouble with you is easily di-
lgnosed. II is one of the most common
disorders under the sun, You are "far
,ighted'' in your mental vision. You
see only the things that are beyond
the reach of your hands and are blind
10 those hat lie about you. You see
The faults of the other fellow but not
your own,
And how much time and worry you
waste over faults that are beyond your
reach TO remedy, and how many ops
portunities YOU miss to correct the
that are directly under your
control.
Train your vision in upon yourself
md see il you cant find, without aid
IF a magnifying glass, enough faults
10 correct, which viii keep you out
,f other peoples business the rest of
your life.
What affair is II Of yours that the
and Russians are bent on slaught-
one anotheri OF far more inn
portanee is It 10 the world and you that
you cause your wife and your neigh
Dors no ground for contention with you.
OF what avail are your puny protests
the weatheri It is enough for
you to take advantage of the sunshine
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