The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-11-04
roc MUCH RUSHING.

Mr.. Joseph II. Choate, having re-
turned to his native land after some
several years of service abroad, took
advantage of the opportunity afforded
by a banquet in his honor by the LO-
tuS Club, last Saturday night, to tell
how he was impressed by certain
changes which had taken place here
during his absence. He had found,
for one thing, Il %quickened pace. an
increase Of hurry in American life.
'In the first place." he said, the
rush of life seems to have grown much
more intense than it was when | went
away. The strain Of nerve, mind,
brain and body seems to have been
growing stronger and stronger every
year. You were going at 4 tremen-
douS pace when | went away: now you
have set up a pace that kills. How
mind and body and nerve and brain
can stand it remains to be seen. 1t
seems to me that we, as u people,
could do well to initiate a little Of the
rcpOSe and relaxation that prevail in
certain other countries" Then to
show how much leisure is valued in
England, he said that when he was
practicing law in New York the courts
were busy from the first week in Oc-
tOber to the last Friday in June, with
no interval but a few days around
Christmas. The courts in London
open On October 24, and the lawyers
and judges are at work from that date
for eight weeks Then comes Chris
tian holiday Of two weeks. Then
they go back for eight week more and
work until East err, when another rest
comes. Then eight weeks more of Ia
Dor until another period Of rest.
Eight weeks more bring them to the
summer vacation Of ten weeks, and
that completes the round Of legal SER
vice"
The truth is that greed of gain, the
lust Of power, the gOad of vanity,
must be taken into account by any
student Of American life who would
know the whole secret of its feverish
haste. If competition is the life of
trade, it is death of repoSc in this
country.
The people of the United States
have never got oye the feeling that
theirs is 4 new country-that they
are, SO to speak, not fixed up yet. In
truth. they have almost everything
that money can buy, ahd they still
feel that there is something lacking.
There is no claim in the depths of
their life; but there is an apprehen-
sion of a precipitate to come some day
as the final result of all this seething
turmoil, and no man knows whether
it will be a change for the better or
the reverse. Meanwhile in eternal
worry and hurry there is no peace
and no true enjoyment Of life. One
needs repoSe, not mere idleness, to
take bearings and to preserve a just
standard of values. without haste
and without rest," that was Goethe's
motto; but the real worker requires
that sort of relaxation which is found
In a change Of employment. Still
more important is what the Romans
called the 'even mind" a boon which
comes with the sense Of safety In the
path Of duty. No argument is re-
CURED to prove that ones whole life
should not be spent in getting ready
10 live, or in accommodating things
with witch one is already abundantly
supplied.
1t should be remembered, morrow
n, that no man lives to himself, and
his whole question OF labor and rest
IS not simply a problem OF personal
culture. Poverty, ignorance, folly,
everywhere appeal to the philanthro.
pic heart. And the time is short
he night Oometh. when no man can
VOrk.-New Orleans Picayune.
But few people are entirely free