The Delta independent., 1910-09-02
THE THINKERS.

THE THINKERS.
Herbert W. Collingwood.-Wo
it not be a very poor specimen of
man who would wish or pray for an
easy job where he would have no
responsibility, be in no danger and
not be forced to exercise his powers
of mind or body? No one has really
faced the storm could have respect
for a poor creature who craved that
kind of job. The man that is
worth while takes the job that is Civ
en- him, and if it is a hard one.
prays not that the work be made
lighter, but that he may be given
the strength to conquer. And he is
usually given the power, if his faith
is strong enough.
James ]. Hill-History shows
that the high cost of living is the
beginning of every national decline.
What we need most at present. is
conservation of business. We must
quiet down and let things go along
smoothly. We are too much inciin-
ed to throw away our money. The
brains of the country could find no
better work to do than the evolu-
ton of some scheme that would cor
rect the growing national habit of
extravaganza. We can cut down the
expenditure in the government SER
vice all the way from five to ten
per cent by putting business meth
DDS in place of wastefulness. If the
people would only make big enough
howl, economy would come.
A. F. Allen.-The people do not
rule and any man who knows what
our financial system really is, knows
why the people do not rule. The
use of money is by legal enactment
made necessity. Government COM
pels it's use but refuses to make 1t
available. The people surrender
all authority when they surrender
the control of money to private con-
Germs while leaving themselves un-
der a legal obligation of obtain
ing it for use and that an obliga-
tion which requires them to surren-
der all they possess of other utili-
ties If they fail to obtain money for
use. A product rikhtfully belongs to
him who produces it, Government
produces money. gives 1t all the eff
ficacy as a medium OF exchange
which it possesses and stands be-
hind to make it good.
Josh Billings.-Fun is the cheap
est fisick that haz bin discovered
yet and the easiest to take. Fun
pills are sugar coated. and no
change of diet is necessary while
taking them. A little fun will some
times go a crate ways. | have known
men to liv to a good old age on a
Joke which they managed to tell as
often az once day and do all the
laffiing themselves that was done.
But there IL lots ov pholks who kant
see emmy fun in emmy thing. You
couldn't fire joke into them with
double-barreled gun, ten PAGES
off. They go through life az solem
az a COW. Fun is the pepper and salt
of every day life. and all the really
wiZe men who hav ever lived have
used it freely for seasonin'.
Elbert Hubbard-A vast number
of people are buying automobiles
who cannot afford them. To mort
gage a home in order to buy an
automobile is deliberate lunacy. TIC
keep out of debt is quite as neces-
sary as to travel far and fast, kick
up a dust and make bad smell
, The peace that comes to you from
! knowing you can meet your obliga-
, tions Is some thing you cannot af.
( ford to trade in on the price of g
, machine. The burden of debt and
also keep to the right. If you hav
, en't machine, you can walk. The
open road is yours. Sit on the bank
side and watch them fly past, ant
feel sorrow for the occupants whs
go so swiftly that they see little o.
i, nothing, and who perhaps have stoo'
off the butcher, baker and grocer, Il
. order to open up their social cut-of
and cultivate that stony stare o
non-recognition and conscious super
= iority.
4 B. S. Paddock The people rul
, and get what they want. They trad
at a store because the proprieto
q tells them he is selling cheaper Il
them than to other less favored Gus
n toners. They go to the church tha
a gives them the greatest recognition
4 irrespective of the virtues of Chris
: and other members of the congrega
|, tion. They vote for the Judge tha
. will favor them as against equal,
fair and honest litigants. They Vot