The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-12-06
Plain Living and High Thinking.
(By w. L. Harrington)

iouS pIOUIcm WHICH every SO OICeD
appears for the worlds solution;
"how may we live more plainly and
how may we have a higher moral
tone in our lives"
This problem has appeared SO Of
ten and Is so old one would imagine
1t could be easily solved. There is
a solution. The solution must come
through our young girls and boys.
Men and women who have been liv-
ing the contrary, high living and
plain thinking can scarcely be re-
claimed. Their condition is the re-
suit of gradual development
through previous generations. Only
when results have actually been &C.
complished do we realize we have
reached the summit On the other
side is SUDDEN slope if we care to
take a plunge, in a short time we
would find ourselves righted. Matur-
Aty 40 SOuoCl fdClFO. IL Ju0 udTluE
of youth we must trust the plunge.
Wise men in previous generations
have seen the necessity for action
when such conditions confronted the
world and they have shown their ap-
probation of impending trouble by
writing books pamphlets and articles.
We have long list of these books
reaching back to Plato.
In the past uneducated men have
sought relief in mob violence, war,
rapine, in fact general anarchy.
Today men realize that conditions
are drifting toward the shoals of in
difference, some towards socialism,
. few, a very few towards anarchy.
Witness condition in Russia.
None of these things have ever
solved the problem. Books help, agi-
alton causes men to think. Violence
defeats the movement and more
strongly entrenches high living and |
plain thinking" Because conserva-
i've men abhor bloodshed and join |
lands with their enimies of social
honor rather than to suffer mob vio-
ence.
Where then lies the remedy for the
wills of the hour? How may plain
living and high thinking" be restor-
ID?
The youth of the land, standing on
he summit will take the plunge.
Youth is the period of red blood.
Blue blood is putrid blood" To
hem must be given the task of re-
IGNITION. This idea is not new. Je-
lovah selected a new generation to
inter- the Promised Land. Sturdy
Dung America shook the shackles
f England from this country for
yer. Young men make the volun-
GERS for all wars. Old men never
make new parties. Youth has no ira
ition. Traditions are the ear marks
t experience. Youth is without ex-
erience.
Who shall guide the youth? Pla-
. says, I'm every cline and time
here are men whose passions are
urnt out-these are the guides of
outh." The world today has such
len. You will find them in the pull
1t, the home, and in the school.
hey are modest retiring men. But
Ike Cincinnatus they will leave their
low in the furrow, do the worlds !
'ork, and like him to return :'to the I.
bscurity from which they sprung"
"Unwept unhonored and unsung."
How can 1t be done, this social re-
Back to the SOLVE must
} travel. Away from the city's tolls
nd allurements. Back, away to ma
Ire, the producer and the restorer.
he will do the work. She alon can
0 1t.
The dignity Of labor" is the t
acthword Of the movement. Honest {
'bor must be honored not tolerated. 1
he man with the hoe, the man with I
le hod are producers.
The man with the cane, the man !
18th the lily white hands is the de- q
roger. h
Youth hates a dude. Only force +
axes him titerate one; custom and G
addition makes him one. Let nature q
one. Let her ideals be the ideals G
ot those of men.
The church will teach him pure
orality. The nobleness of virtue,
irity of thought, charity, are the
lrdinal points of all creeds. To
lie church is entrusted the fixing of
lese ideals. u