The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-20

the records of the educated and pro-
fessional classes in America show
them doomed to. The commentator
struck home when he said of President
Eliot's happy reference to forty years
of service in a profession held greater
than all others, there spoke the fortu-
nate man. But how many of such
fortunate ones do the times allow, and
how helpful moral can logically be
deducted from such a rare case. for the
3o,OOo,Oo0 tOiiers who daily wish they
were doing something else.
Eliot Loved His Work.
1t required no trick of the magma
ton to make President Eliot in love
with his job, and how less exalted
minds should be expected to rise tb
the psychological process of finding
charm where theirs is no charm, it is
not easy to see. In the teeth of all the
psychologists it is safe to say that it
can't be done. Nature allows no such
violence put upon her laws and loves.
Duty or necessity may hold men to
| the distasteful task of relation but the
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never be part of it. The poets and
sages are right who tell us that every
mans work is born with him. and, as
Richard Realf says of the singer. "a
burthen large lays nightly On him if
he can not rightfully utter to the day
what Got taught in the night The
troubles in the industrial world which.
I 1j1in al hn IF
the earth by the few, rob man of his
chance to do his true work in the
world, go deeper than the political
economists recognize.
Old as the ancient Persians, to be
sure, is the saying. when we can not
get what we like let us like what we
can get and, as people so seldom get
what they like in this crooked world,
it has served for that poor excuse for
happiness which ordinary mortals put
up with. But when it comes to de-
slaring the real secret of happiness, v
as the case il hand claims, it does not
fill the bill in any particular. Moreover
it blocks the way to the path of real
happiness which the sight adjustments
OF life might bring. THE reasonable
man adapts himself to the world the
unreasonable man persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreason-
able man." says Bernard Shaw. 1t was
a greater man than Shaw, however,
who declared that mo wickedness pro-
ceeds on any ground of reason" where
So 81 ,--t.x l. l.
Ultimate to reverse Shaw's terms and
declare it the reasonable man who tries
to adapt the world to his true self, in
stead of taking it joyfully as it is. and
thereby foregoing his little chance of
| helping it along the path of progress.
In any case it is certain that the toll
ing multitudes who can content them
today. to say nothing of falling in
love with them. will not do very much
in swinging the old world starward.
And, as for the great army of the I'M
| employed. among beings invited to find
their one chance of happiness in their
| jobs. it is no wonder that the irony of
| the situation confounds statesmen and
orators-though really it would seem
F., that the devil. rather than the Al
mighty, should be appealed to for an
explanation of it..
The Unmastered Task.
If human activity is to be accepted
as the key TO human happiness, some.
| thing ought to be pardoned to the wo-
men of the day who are making such a
desperate and revolutionary effort to
| lay hold of it. 1t may be from their
| own discovery of the deficiency of the
| love clew that.much of the present phi
iosophy of labor has come about, al
though it is clear that its advocates
| make little not of woman's side of the
| case. Why so many men are not hap
py.' is the ayowed point of the present
explanation. and to charge it to their
attitude toward their jobs and not
their wives is the limit of gallantry
| deemed necessary in the matter. Why
SO many women are not happy, despite
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