The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-09-14
1--WE ALL TOO FAST
Many Constantly in a Fever OF
Movement.
one of Mans Greatest Mistakes Is to
Allow Himself to Be Constantly
Under Pressure and Intense
Nervous Strain.

Some Of us are trying to live our
lives all at once. We would cramp the
slow development Of years into the
coming month or week we would COM
press the work Of an hour into the
next 1ye minutes. Nature-patient,
ilrelass, cunning laborer that she is
does not favor this plafr.s+le takes Her
tlme-"Because 1t is hers - some one
makes prompt answer. "She has COM
nand of all the time there is. She can
be as deliberate as she chooses. we
must make haste because our little
lives are so soon clipped off The dark
ness too early rounds our day. our
work must be put through with speed
and under pressure or we shall not nm
ish."
The best work even by these feeble
mortal hands and minds Of ours is
done not in Il fGser but in calm. Art
(and the exception proves the rule)
; achieves most nObly when IT achieves
with tranquility. The personal cir
tqimstances Of the artist may be dis
tresslng. He rises above them. Ills
dream translates him to the skies
above his mundane environment His
passion for the truth leads him to for
get that he is poor and hungry and
misunderstood. He writes his book or
paints his picture or composes his
sonata in n land where 1t is always
summer and the skies are blue and
tears are never-shed and none ever
dies. BY the force Of n creative mag
inatlon, he establishes for himself
new Heaven and a new earth, and his
spirit is tranquil because it Is trium-
phnnt over the pinching and gnawing
circumstances.
Artist or artisan, each of us must
learn to make the pilgrimage step at
Il time. Let not an anxious forecast
corrugate the brow with the thought
of morrow sufficient unto itself.
Eplcurean delight lives for the mo-
ment a mans more serious purpose
in existence would often do well to fol-
low the example We can be sure as
10 what we wish to do with our lives;
we can have great and generous aim;
we can appoint goal and know the
point we wish TO reach and the way by
which we are proceeding. But the
miles we measure forward with the
spiritual eye are not to be o'erleaped
in the next second. We must plod. We
must be content with wayside inn to-
night. and thR next night and many
nights, perhaps, before we reach our
haven and our home.
1t will not do to disparage this good
Iy earth as q vale of tears for all the
sorrow and all the blackness that we
see. The earth is full of fallible peo-
pie like ourselves, trying and coming
10 grief and rising to give battle again
in the inextinguishable hope of victory.
We are more alike than-~re realize.
We are marching army, with leaders
whom we must obey. Like good sol
diers we must keep the cadence with
the rest. If we grow careless and
straggle, we dislocate the whole pro-
ceeding. We came into this world
bound to be submissive TO its dis
cipline. To defy the natural laws is
only to be miserable and to make mis-
cry for others. l&.war shall teach as
TO respond with promptness to com
mand, out of its horrors will be born
Il blessing, Philadelphia Public Led
ger.