The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-23
Earn Life Or Lose lit

IAIice Hubbard in NcCall'sl

sending for a physician wGs followed, and someone had brought p doctor to this kings and queens palace 10 minister to them
 Lady Macbeth was too absorbed 0n her misery to think or care, and ae- cepted what was offered Mae beth. still active. asked this question "Canst thou not minister to a mind dlseasede" And the honest docto~ answered. Therein the patient mus, minister to himself" No docto. could cure either of them. The pa tieurs dia nos minister 10 them selves and the reign of the Mac beths was done.
 Physician, heal myself" the Jew~ flung out in derision to one who had been hailed as a great doctor who could heal all diseases.
 Over and over again. Emerson say in Self Reliance that the source of all We can receive or have is within ourselves And heal'hy peo pie are glad 10 know this. The wise who are sick accept the fact and bestir themselves to action. Ac- ton is the only manifestation of life that continues life, or Is life.
 Life is perpetual motion. When action of the body ceases that is death. Life is achieved. l. is not given by one to another. Neither mortal nor eternal life is sift You work to live Lie down and never stir again of yourself and the end is here, no matter how many servants come and go 10 serve you.
 We work for success. And yet success has ruined almost all who have succeeded. Individuals, nations have arisen from poverty and want 10 affluence, 10 position where they c-uH control circumstances connect ed with their welfare. When ease and luxury were within their reach. few have resisted their lure. Hard necessity has been mans best friend. He has grown through exercise. Het when man has had the opportunity to choose. he has rarely been wise enough to see that the methods used to develop him thus far, are the methods to follow is he wishes to be we'll
 We haze been told that Heaven is an ideal Also that Heaven is a goal where everything is provided and much of it. Eternal rest ease. luxury. angels for servants. and no thing to do are requisites for happi- ness and immortality. according 10 some interpreters of the Bible. Places where there is little work, much to spend and ease and luxury, have seemed to be the suburbs to Para disc And this teaching and the natural pull of inertia have led peo- pie and nations to death. The few who have acquired the work habit and the very wise few who have foreseen and have understood the sure penalty for inaction, have es- capped. Not to succeed. but to forever be in the struggle has saved and kept virile the people who have preserved the race.
 When Rome lost her small farms her decline began because the peo- pie as a whole were not working. He brought many captiyes home to Rome whose ransom did the general coffers fill" was said of Caesar. Slaves made from unransomed cap. tives did the work for the Romans and became active men of the cOun- try Scented baths, museums, ban quets, public entertainments, public corn cribs, free soup kitchens made ruin of the greatest nation of it's time. A state of inactivity for in dividuals and peoples means death, no matter by what route they reach inactivity.
 Nourishing food of superior quality, good clothing, well-made and com fortable, beautiful homes, artistic, sanitary and restful, means for the economic expenditure of strength, are all wise to have. We should have them, for we are heirs to the wisdom of all the ages. But we should never decrease our activity nor lose our virility. We should be an evolving race in strength, Each age demands more eXpenditul2 of energy, more wisdom. A man today must have brains To live now demands it. Action is the re quirement of the times, Fools could live on the earth when primitive individualism reigned There is no space for them where cooperation is the law of life, and people must be individuals.
 We have passed the stage of brain less humans. They are out of date and belong to prehistoric ages. It takes brains to use the wisdom thai has been evolved with the race. Peo- pie who are "old-fashioned' in their ideas of life are doomed
 Male man has kept up with the ,;p,ae bot,ar for him 1ralf than hp has