The Washington times., 1918-05-08
What Should Be a Mans Object
In Life?


to dig them out Certainly looks for sermons in an
evening newspaper.
At the same time will you kindly think and
swer the question that heads this column?
Here we are, marooned for few days flying ball
Of earth We don't know how got here. We don't know
where going We full of beautiful and satisfying
FAITH. But we don't KNOW.
Into this Universe, and WHY not knowing,
Nor WHENCE, like Water will -nily flowing;
And out of it as Wind along the Waste,
know not WHITTIER wily-nilly blowing
That's the way Omar, the old tentmsker puts it.
We drift from dinner to the theater thence to bed
thence to breakfast thence to work. and Or in
hard luck struggle and wall 'cursng our day. or more
We rarely stop to think what it is all about or what we
are here for
We know the pig object in life It has been beautifully
and permanently outlined in Carlyles pig catechism
The pigs life object to get fat and keep fato get his
full share of swil and much he manage to
And his life object is worthy By sticking at it he
develops fat hams inside his brstes and WE know though
he does not that the production of fat hams his destiny
But our human destiny is NOT to produce fat hams
Why do so many live earnestly the pig basis? Why
do struggle savagey for money to buy kind of sw
luxury, food etc-and cease all struggling when that
money is obtained?
Is fear poverty and dependence the only emotion that
Are we here merely to STAY here and EAT here?
great German scientist, very learned and about
imaginative as war hog declares that the human face
merely extension and elaboration of the amentary canal
that the beauty of expression the marvellous qualities of
mentary canals striVings to satisfy its wants
That is hideous conception is it not? But it is no
@ o s a Sn 70 Ts thu anu IS
What SHALL we strive for? MONEY?
Get thousand millions. Your day will come and in
due course the graveyard rat viii gnaw as calmly at your
bump of acquisveness at the of the pauper
Then shall strive for POWER?
The of the first great kings of the world are for
gotten and the of all those whose power envy
will drift forgeulness What does the power
full in the world amount to standing at the brink of
Niagara with his solar plexus trembling? What is his
power compared with the force of the wind the energy
Of one small wave sweeping along the shore?
The power which man can build up within himself, for
himself, is nothing Only the dull reasoning of gratied
egotism can make it seem worth while.
Then what IS worth while? Let US look at some of the
who have and gone, and whose lives inspire
Take few at random
Columbus Michael Angelo Wilberforce Shakespeare
Calico, Fulton, Watt, Hargreaves- these will do
Let ask ourselves this question: ''Was there any
ONE THING that distinguished ALL their lives that
united all these men, active in fields different?'
Yes Every among them, and every whose
life history is worth the telling did something for THE
Hargreaves the weaver invented the spinning Jenny
and his invention clothes and employs hundreds of millions
Calico perfected the telescope spread out before man
intellect the grandeur Of the universe Wbeorce helped
to awaken mans conscience He freed millions of slaves
Columbus gave a home to great nations We thrive
today because of his noble courage Michael Angelo
and Shakespeare stirred human genius to new efforts and
fed the human mnda task worthy than the feednr
Of the human stomach We ride in Fulton steamboats, and
Watts engine pulls us along.
Men who are truly great have DONE GOOD to their
fowman And the greatest Soul on earth came
to urge but one thing upon humanity LOVE ONE AN
OTHER"
Get money if you Get power if you can Then
if you want to be than the ten thousand million I'm
known mingled in the dust beneath you what good you
do with your money and your power
If you of the many millions who have not and
can't get money power what good you do with
out either.
You help carry load for old man. You can en-
courage and help poor devil trying to reform You can
good example to children You stick to the men
with whom you work. fighting honestly for their welfare
Time when the ablest would rather kill ten
men than feed thousand children. That time has gone
We do not much about feeding the children but we
less about killing the To that extent we have i'm
proved already