Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-26
Capital Can't Buy Brains

their output their product but the mind behind
them, which generates new ideas as rosebush puts
forth new blossoms. Money can buy masterpiece
of painting; but it cannot purchase the power to
put the faintest flesh tint nor even tie power
really to appreciate the marvellous at its
worth. So far the depth, the secret the sublime
conception, of some ideal, realized by the artist
genius the picture may be as meaningless to its
owner as though it was cuneiform inscription 1t
may be to him merely thirty-ive thousand dollars
in frame. The rich man who has genuine joy in
his art collection receives it from innate knship
with the artists imagination that no money could
buy, no love of money take away.
millionaire in his box for the at the opera
where the magnificent glorious voices from the
tet from Lucia, rising like incense and swelling vi
desecrating buzz of conversation in his box, has
bought only the privilege of seeing and hearing He
might well envy the quiet little man the back
seat of the topmost gallery who is obvious to his
strained position and his tired muscles who is lost
to the world around him, while he is feeding his soul
from the almost divine music.
Money purchase great library of books
bound in the finest levant and tremendously arranged
in SETS but it cannot buy the magic power to create
one single thought of some one Of these great minds
these reincarnated in type which has influenced
countless thousands for centuries Money alone
could never bring the JOY and companionship from
books that comes as benediction to some student
in attic, poor in money but rich in intellect He
call the greatest thinkers of the ages to speak
with him from his little mante shelf of classics and
feel their joyous nearness to him as he comprehends
and responds He is living for his brief hour of respite
in the great democracy and brotherhood of letters,
and SO absorbed that he does not note the growing
dusk that begins to dim his page This appreciation
defes mere checkbook The man who is rich may
have it too; but it never came to him by purchase.
Poverty of Wealth
THERE is certain pathos about the poverty of
wealth. the emptiness of mere riches in their rela
ton to all the greatest things of life. Superfuous
wealth is like the load a camels back: he cannot
use it. he dare not shake it off but he must carry it.
The things that wealth can buy for the individual
and his family are SO exhausted, the novelty
pals and the pleasure of mere buying reaches
its saturaton point that the wealth begins to tug on
the individuals moral reserve unless he is strong
enough to resist There is danger of speculation in
the nondividend paying stock Of the folies the fri
volities, and the immorals of life.
The first money ever spent in the world was about
two hundred and twenty five dollars that Abraham
paid for burial plot when his wife Sarah died Since
that time goodly portion of the worlds money, Of
both rich and poor has been spent in buying graves
graves of varied evil wherein the individual buries
the best, the highest the nob1est in his character
The limitations of the purchasing power of money
and the attempt to force it into fields where do
business because it cannot enforce the delivery of
the goods, applies equally to the poor and the rich
Money is necessity in our civilization. AS it has
possibilities for evils SO has it great powers for good
While it can buy only within fixed limits it give
spend, and serve without limit in the interests of
humanity. It can feed the hungry, help the sick
back to health, and in many ways it can overflow
the material things of life beyond its narrow
channel the rising of the sleepy Nile from its bed
and its spreading over the land make its delta
of the richest soils in the world
While money can buy neither mind nor heart nor
soul, it inspire; it furnish opportuni-
ties; it hearten the sorrowing it strengthen
the weak it starts in life to those fallen
by the waysde; it give new impulses, glad
hours Of fresh hope, and the sunrise of purpose
to the struggling the sad, and the suffering.
Lies Greatest Things
THE really greatest things in life being beyond the
power of mere money to buy to corner they
thus revealed the possibility and privilege Of
all who will pay for them in the consecrated energy
of body mind heart or SOUL Let us seek to escape
the masma of day that has crept the land the
money worship the constant talk of though
it was merely synonym for money making. In the