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A Higher Standard Of Success

From The Atlanta Georgian.
There are many hopeful indications that pub
lie sentiment regarding what constitutes success
and failure is adjusting itself along higher and
better lines.
The pendulum which regulates the machinery
of human achievement has begun to swing back
ward in it's inevitable action
In several of the current magazines the ques-
ton of "Success and Failure is discussed from a
most encouraging viewpoint. The standards of
other and less commercial days are again being set
up before the eyes of the youth of the country,
and the ideals of bygone years are commended for
imitation and emulation
In writing of this subject in the August num-
Der of Uncle Remus's Magazine The Farmer says:
''According to modern standards, the success
or failure of man depends altogether on his abii-
ty-if ability can have so poor rating-to make
money and hoard it, to gamble with the resources
of the people, and to make great deals whereby
millions of human beings are made to suffer- while
perhaps not more than ten men reap all the profits
This is the modern measure of success Real sue
cess means the benefit of humanity in some form
or other If no such benefits can be shown as the
result of their abors their success in not equal to
that achieved by the direst poverty and the deep
est ignorance There can be no form of real sue
cess that does not bring some sort of aid and com
fort to humanity, that does not make people lit
tie happier a little more contented than they
were before that does not uplift in some Sort the
SOUL which the German professor could not find i'll
his cadavers, and that does not bring joy and con
tent from the shallow we'll of life.''
BY singular literary coincidence, the above
sentiments so wOndrously well expressed by The
Farmer in the latest issue of Uncle Remus, also
find similar expression in other publications of
note, Just published. These views of individual
writer's are creating a change in public sentiment
which perhaps may bring about a revolution in
estimating the results of human endeavor, and
human achievement
The honorable accumulation of money is ever
and always to be commended It's possession
brings not only the opportunity to crafty the bet
ter aspirations and ambitions, but it also brings
the ability to contribute toward the am Iteration
of suffering and the relief of poverty
But simply estimated according to its gnoble
purchasing power money becomes no longer thing
to be desired or to be striven for The recent
years with their garish display of vulgar wealth
have established certain standards hitherto unta-
mar in the South, and certainly unworthy of the
nobler traditions of its people But the pendulum
of public sentiment has begun its backward swing
and more positive evidence is given this fact
than the simultaneous discussion of such matters
in several of the most notable magazines of cur
rent issue.
Owen Wister in his exquisite literary master
piece, 'Lady Baltimore" perhaps unconsciousy
assisted in the Inauguration of this revolution of
public sentiment
In Lady Baltimore" all the beautiful ideals
which regulated Southern social life bygonc years
are with the pen oisympathetic genius. made to
stand out in so delicate and delightful d fashion
that the reading world of necessity compared the
worthiness of such past with the garish folly of
these present days. From Owen Wister's story
the question has grown to be one of importance
with the strongest writ IFS of today. This hopeful
agitation must result in nobler standards of every
day living antNin a luster estimate of what COS,
StituteS success aud failure.