Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-01-09
Dreanaers Us ctiicaL Men

News wrote the article under the caps \
ton of Dream rs' 81. { Practical I!
fNI eli, ah not although no credit is
given in, that paper for the article,
the Inter Ocean realizes that There IS !
good lesson i n its teaching ana
takes pleasure in republishing the$I
ideas of another even though it is IN /
able to place credit Where credit
probabl VI belongs AS
To the young man who when urged
to seek "a Christian college education,
declared thar 1t Wasn't worth while, 4
was but q waste of time and money,
that all one should seek in our d lay
was a business education and conclud-
ed with the following ~ ords \. The
y days OF dreams and romance are past
and What'We sneedgin our day are 5prac
men. 3reaineFs never amount 5tt
ssliEtlliI 8: 3is e I3rsstcti ca man 81 10
II does. great things, '' .sG5
ss 81 Let us see. But frs a word of ex-
4 plantation concerning these two; terms.
BY the dream err we 10 not here
B mean a shlftless ne eI- lowell, who is
comp letely satisfied to merely .vege-
\ tate and never turns his hand to any
thin gsuseful, who loafs through life
4 parasite on society, but we mean the
man or the, woman with a :Vision,7Who,
rising above self, IS: dreaming and
:Morkin 8. for the. good of%hunlanity;; the
4 man or woman who realizes that to
\ curing Of wealth and the good things
OF the body. And BY, "a practical
Il man we mean the person whose sole
asset. is d practical ability for business,
whose interests in =life5gru only in
the channels of money getting. This
was the meaning Of the terms when:
used, and with this understanding. LEI,
us compare the two. V Is N ;t.5S
#5 The practical man may doubtless;
have a good, big bank account, but
what real good does. it do to him :.
& What is he. going to buy with it? 5....,,
We know a practical man" with
great wealth in farms and hanks,
v but all he can buy is food and clothes
y and shelter and envy. He does not
care for much else. Pictures books,
music, flowers, friends, the beautiful
4 that crowds the very door of life to
bursting are not for him: He might
/; as well .abe5 deaf d urnbs and blind for.
all he gets out of life. Dogs he hates,
they are a nuisance; and children only
& annoy him. He lives mostly on milk
and crackers and would leave the fin-
I est moonlight that ever beamed to go
and keep his fingers on; a stock-ticker,
4 if they ran them at night So for all
y the good he gets out3of his wealth and
practical genius he might just as well
i be "a little mouse, shut up in a great
Juicy cheese, MI billing for dear life
to make sure that he gets more cheese
than any other mouse that ever lived
in that particular pantry. The man
who has time to dream golden dreams
whose golden hue need not necessar-
lily have a metallic sheen, is 50 far
q ahead of the other one in real 5happi-
ness and the Joy of life, that the other
cannot begin to fol low where this
81 one flies. s I'll; III. :, 5H:
Yes, but What good does he the
& dreamer, ever do for himself re. you
4 ask. Ne 81 ISL:
Man, man, what good is "a sunseI,,
q for that matter, or a rose, the morn
ing: song Of the lark or the sunny
hearted laughter Of a little child? But
What a dreary old place this weary
s8#o old world would be without these
things. The things the 4; v practical
III man usually isl striving for are the
foolish things baubles@ and bubbles
II and differing toys the (. dream err has
smile OF welcome on the face Of &
friend, the light OF love. in the eyes: OF
wife and child, the perfume OF wild
8% flowers, the sound of rushing waters,
the roar Of the cataract. the sigh Of
III summer Winds anon g the pines, 4
II Laughing heart, a good conscience, a
strong and trusting faith in God - ~
these are the things worth working
for and worth having. The more
5s money ker, 1T sis true, also has
some Of these things, but he doesn't
3 know it, and has no time to look fol
w y ScN1Ou OliS uttuGllul E1lIQidii-
5S 'sunarner day, a small party of us. on
s8 one of the high bluffs overlooking the
Il Mississippi river Below our feet
rolled that mighty ather of Waters,
lin the distance the Wisconsin hills;
2st the voc DDS al around us were one riot.
58 Gus mas of autumn colors; in the
va ear aair We could see for many
q miles up and down the valley and
N words simply cannot express the won
derfnl beauty Of that scene II it lay
u in some far off foreign country Amer
leans by the thousands would yearly
it and its. beauties would be suns
by q hundred poets, it's Wondrous play
OF color would battle the genius oi
famous artists. We were silent al
i but one man, a man Of business, e1
great comm ercial acumen; ne was moi
silent But what he kept repeating
" over and over again was the one
thought which he deemed fully snffic