The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-06
SAYS UNCLE CIV

! A good many of us are howlins
about curtailed liberties when We are
really Directing to discipline. The
| battle between personal privilege and
| general efficiency began when the frs
patriarch drove his eldest son out to
| herd the goats. 1t will end when the
planet dissolves in chaos. Only he
who has learned that one with too
much personal privilege is a slave to
his own weaknesses is wise enough to
perceive the beauties of discipline. He
knows that the human being is a
cluster Of warning desires, most of
! them suggested from without by this
, or that sensation the whole lacl<ing
in unity save as discipline. subjective
or objective, gives that unity.
The average Individual who has al
ways had his way is, within himself,
a bowling mob. He seldom can con-
centrate his faculties upon one thing
until he has accomplished it. One part
rebels against another. ideas dispute
within his brain, emotions clash in
his heart and his hands grow weary
when his feet have but carried them
to their labor. His whole mental and
moral mechanism flies to skies and
+ seVens and he complains that he is at
war with himself.
This is the fate of the spoiled child.
the unframed darling of wealth and
the habitual day dreamer, whom
neither the pinch of necessity nor the
sting of pride abs been able to drive
to self control.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
labor is the heritage of the race.
Neither is it to be disputed that fruit
less labor is an abOmination. This
universal principle includes the rich
as we'll as the poor the weak and the
strong, the willing and the unwiIl-
ing. The muscles that are not used
decay and disappear. The man who
does not labor finds that which 9TH
ers have won for him tasteless to his
palate and repulsive to his eyes.
There is no doubt about it-a happy
life depends al last upon labor that
is we'll done and none may know en-
during joy who has not figurativeIy
put the hand to the plow.-
This being true, 1t is necessary that
we be disciplined. Discipline begets
lacking 1t eliminates the whims,
the false motions, the waste of en-
ergy, the wool gathering tendencies
of the mind that destroy all effective
ness. 1t makes soldiers of US all, not
bondmen. It makes us fighters, not
>rvants. 1t trains us to be masters
of ourselves: without training we
master no man nor anything.
Don't complain of restrictions until
you find out their nature. Don't con-
denim existing conditions until you
have learned whether they really cur
tail your usefulness or merely prevent
you from wasting your energies. The
Things that gall YOU may make YOU
There is a vast difference in the effec-
tiveness of the mob and the army
when it comes to battle. The circum-
stances that make you unhappy may
only be making you an army man
instead OF a mob man.
When you become disconnected with
your lot it is a good plan to indulge
in little introspection. That flaw NAV
be within rather than without You
may be in need of check which Won
alone can apply. Self discipline is
more than likely the cure for your
trouble. No man conquers men or
circumstances who has not conquered
himself. With your senses running
riot, you've got a revolution on your
hands that prevents you from meas
ur1ng strength with others-(Couv-
right. 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.l