Henderson gold leaf., 1911-10-05
EGO AND COSMOS.
.ha Editor of the Gold Leaf.

u,ble paper of our town fathers with
rrrh interest, and voice the purpose
o,d interest of the writer's as far as
they 90, but they place ''too much
oa,, in their COSMOS" is a diagnosis
TINT fits all souls that are dissatis-
fed and unhappy. Selfalwayswants
10 be the center, the whole thing. 1t
REQUIRES the cosmos to applaud it
and converge toward it. But the
cosmos, naturally, does not do this,
not being made that way, as the
-langgoea. Hence, the plain remedy
f,I disappointment and bitterness is
tu take ones place in the cosmos
willingly and cbeerfuily. There is
nothing humiliating about it and
there is a place for each one that
counts. The past is behind us, the
mistakes have been costly, lessons
have been learned, but not Needed.
Henderson has grown from village
to Il small city with it's mills, manu-
featuring plants and various enter
prises capitalized by home people.
No town in the South OF ten thou
sand inhabitants offers a surer re-
turn for capital invested. More
churches. better school system, a
more refined and cultured people,
where "a glad hand welcomes the
stranger and there is q place foreach
one which counts. | say we have
crown and all will admit this fact.
TIE same laws and ordinances pass
ri a few years ago we have out
grown. Henderson has made such
rapid strides in progress in the eleven
wears the writer has been among
YOU, pause in admiration and then
when am told of the ways our town
fathers have trOd | stand aghast.
Henderson is all right. Our town
fathers are all right as men. Get out
IF the past, live in Che present, give
Henderson what she needs, new
charter, Il cleaner city, in fact prog
ross along side of the development
Of our municipality. Our town is
like unto a large manufacturing
plnnt, it requires material, men and
system We are fortunate in having
the material, men and system in our
midst who we point to with pride in
every avOcatiOn in life. that have
made success for themselves and have
placed their shoulder to the disad-
vantages our town has labored un
der in not having officers who do not
stand for progress or the upbuilding
of Il municipality. We need nOU be
disturbed because of constant opera
tion of change. If there we're no
change in life there could be no hope.
We should all remain just as we are.
am reminded of an ancient story.
We often hear stories about how slow
many people were two hundred years
ago. We have some now. 1t seems
ns il every proud otticeholder OF an
cinmt European towns thought that
it would hurt his dignity to hasten a
little. On the frontier between
France and Germany is the ancient
ciry Of Basle, whose inhabitants used
to be such people. The town officers
would come strOlling along barely III
tim" to keep an appointment or else
little late. They would seldom be
more than few minutes tardy, but
it did seem as if it was almost crime
to be few minutes ahead OF time.
Have we anything like this? Stop
and think. According to history, it
was in l431 that some quiCk-Witted
Individual tried a scheme of getting
them together on time i'm @ very odd
way. There was great religious
meeting attended by hundreds of the
clergy and in the number were many
bishops and cardinals. The latter,
feeling the Importance of their posi-
tions, positively refused to get to the
great meeting hall ahead of the ap-
pointed hour, just like unto our
Chamber of Commerce meeting. The
services were greatly delayed in con-
sequence. and the meetings would
last further into the evening than
was desirable. 1t was suggested that
these meetings be called an hour
earlier, but storm of protest arose,
they could not agree just like our
town council, inasmuCh as we are liv-
III" i'll the past we will continue. The
time OF the meeting was already set
and somebody might be greatly in
convenienced by not getting notified
OF the change. At length the quick
witted individual above referred too,
suggested that all the clocks be set
ahead Just one hour and at the same
time it would give them an hour
more of daylight in which to work
This suggestion was carried out. All
the clocks of Basic were set ahead
Just an hour and everything passed
oil satisfactorily. Then after the
council of clergy was finished, the
good people had grown so accustom-
ed to the change that they did not
think about setting the clocks back
again until people or visitors began
to come in from other lands. Even
then the peasants, proud of the dis
tlnrtion of having different time from
that OF other places, would do moth
ln~. Finally, after three hundred
and fifty years had gone by, the
wealthy burghers wokeup to the fact
that their town of Basle was the
cause Of a great deal of merriment
because of the odd time. So they
held meeting after meeting and de-
LIBERATED as to what they should do.
they were too proud to admit to the
world at large that Basle's time was
hot the correct time, and they did
hot wish to set the clocks all back an
hour, so they were puzzled as to how
To make matters right. At length
another quick witted individual sug-
grsted that if they were to move the
hands back q minute each day they
could imperceptibly reach the correct
time in two months. This was such
a good idea and the burghers were so
pleased with it that they pondered
over it, but it was finally decided
that in order that the change might
not be noticed at all, the hands oil
the town tower clCck should be set
back half a minute at time, not at
stated or regular intervals, but at
times when it should be least notice,
able, and that a record should be