The Washington times., 1915-03-08

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We Americans deprive our
selves Of the best that is In life by
importing our workers from abroad.
There is no game as permanently in
teresting as work, when we know how.
This I know from my own experience
and from the testimony Of scores OF
the many hundreds Of girls and woIn-
on. boys also, whom I taught at one
time or another during the last twenty,
] might just as well say thirty, years or
teaching home industry. for I had be-
gun to teach at least ten years before
the Kristinehamn's Technical College
set it's stamp of approval upon me as
Sloyd-teacher.
II is work that not only saves men
and women i'm times of stress and
trouble, but at all times. and not only
saves them. but develops them and
brings them joy.
Mans Greatest Privilege
As means to joy. one work is as
good as another. The Joy comes in the
consciousness of having done something
that Is useful we'll. 1t Is in the bring
ing out of the creative power, the doing
power. within which Is at the same time
the highest function and the greatest
1t is in creating, in doing. that man is
most Godlike. The continual doing Of
one kind of work. requiring the con-
physical faculties. becomes wearisome.
But the changing from one. kind OF
work-the vocational for instance
to another as nearly opposite In nature
ali the faculties better than games can.
though T would not advocate the entire
abolishment of games. For this reason
our children should not only be trained
given instruction in recreative work, as
means to JOY.
Joy and Pleasure Opposites.
would emphasize that when I say
JOY do not mean pleasure. Joy and
pleasure are not only different. They
are Opposites. Joy comes from within.
1t is the inward elation of the con-
sciousness of having done or being able
to do or being something worth while.
Pleasure is the elation Of the senses IN
receiving something from without.
Pleasure hunger, which drives its vic
Tins to pleasure hunts. is nothing but
the consciousness Of inward lack of be-
ing able to do. or having done. of being
something worth while. Neither JOY nor
pleasure hunger has anything to do witt,
environments, exterior conditions, or
cnce joy in hoeing row Of rine pota-
toes Of his own growing while a society
queen in the midst Of the pleasures Of
the season may have no JOY at all.
As to Gregoriousness.
Dr. Mckenzie. OF this city. advocate.
games especially as a leveler of hu-
manity and means of drawing meni-
ters thereof together. ! would like to
point out the fact that the flocking
spirit is not distinctly human. Animals
manifest this spirit more than man.
children more than grown-ups. and the
lowest types of mankind more than the
higher developed.
The hocking spirit is good for those
who have so little within that they can
not do without 1t and should not be dis
couraged. but neither ought it to b.
especially encouraged. for that woulc
he reta riding mans evolution from thu
mass soul to individual soul.
Men and women with highly developed
mental and spiritual faculties are in
variably happy in their own companion
ship or In the Companionship Of SOM
equally we'll developed friend. while th'
masses seek crowds. The unison of pur
pose of highly developed individuals Il
another matter entirely.
Individuality Is fostered by the cxer
else OF interior faculties. as In work o
any kind; while conforming to rules, a
In school systems and rules of games
for instance. is retardinE this develop
ment.