Arizona republican., 1906-02-12
PAYS TO 5E A FOOL.
Worlds Successes Achieved By Men of
 Ore Idea.

Ore Idea.
 Fools are coming to the front in the world.
 Since the world began the fool has been looked down upon and usually imposed upon, and it has taken cen turies of development for the inteIIi- gent people of the world to .reaIize the commercial value and possibilities o1 the fool
 As matter of fact it is becoming more and more apparent to the wise l people of the world that it pays to be a fool
 Every day We have instances of men great in the worlds affairs doing some | thing that causes the wise people 70 ] stop and say: He was a fool" We ] have lti-millionaires going wild l over actresses; rich, cultured members | of leading society wading in fountains and giving dog parties; persons of ex- treme wealth trying to ride five miles minute in autOmobiles-and then we realize that they are fools As a matter of fact it is the fools who are in the lead almost everywhere. The brilliant, talented fools are at the head of great industries and in pos session of vast fortunes. They arrive
 
 rush in where angels and wise per sons fear to tread. and reap the re- wards of daring in business. in so- ciety, everywhere.
 For a long time after they have reached these high positions the world is prone to look upon them as ex- tremely wise persons. Then they do something-run away with an actress CT go in for airships-and reveal Co the astounded world the fact that they are fools all the time.
 That class of fools however build on unstable ground. The fools who are winning tine real successes in the world are those simple minded souls who know but one thing
 For long ages the person who was wise in all things looked down upon the plodder, who knew only one. and justly and rightly accounted him a fool. But as the world has progressed and life has become more and more com plicated there had arisen a practical impossibility for any one to know ev- erything, and an age of specialization has come.
 It is this specialization that the one idea man - the feI- low who does not know but one thing-has come to the front. From the beginning he has been the natural specialist. He knows but one thing, and, in this dull plodding way, he knows it thoroughly, mechanically, and therefore, perfectly. The wise man, hampered by knowing thousands of other things, has found it difficult for him to limit his Knowledge and his application to one thing, and the one idea fool has been outstripped by i'm i'm ha ialist
 It is true that the man who does not know how to do anything but whit tie shoe pegs will in the end achieve prominence as a shoe peg whittier while the man who knows how to build great ships, read Sanskrit at sight weigh the universe,> win IL. DIS from every university probably has a hard time making Q living for himself and family.
 The fool is the natural specialist. All he knows is centered on one thing.
 The old Sanscrit sage wrote:
 He who knows not and knows. not that he knows not-he is a fool. shun him.
 He who knows and knows not that he knows-he is asleep; wake him.
 He who knows and knows that he knows-he is wise. follow him."
 That was good advice then. but not so good now. Now, in this age 1f specialization, the man who knows not, and knows not that he knows not IS still a fool-but he goes right ahead and wins. Possibly he only knows how to pound sand into a rat hole, but, by steady pounding he becomes the best pounder of sand in the community He knows that he knows not, and, there fore, he does not die of nervous pros tratiOn. Neither does he suffer social aspirations, or if he does he knows not when he is snubbed or sighted, and generally lands on top.
 Knowing not that he knows not he always can look extremely wise with out having that objectionable air of the man who knows and knows that he knows
 As 2 matter of fact, the man who knows and knows that he knows is a bad man to follow. He goes far-but he usually Oversteps the limit. maybe not his own limit, but the limit of the great majority. who are in class two-the class that knows not and knows that it knows not-and, in their 1