The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1919-11-14

just far enough to break down the
language cells. While the man re-
covered perfectly, yet he was never
able to use or understand a syaeb.e
OF language. When he died, years
afterwaros, the autopsy revealed the
nature and extent of the injury.
Thus we see that the functions of
the vital organs are presided over
and stimulated to action by these
separate groups of brain cells locat-
ed In different sections of the brain
mass.
These brain cells, like the muscles
of the body, must be exercised in
order to keep them healthy, vigorous,
active, and In good working order.
Nothing stimulates, exercises and
inWgorates these brain cells but
mental activity.
We must appeal to their develop
ment through the corresponding and
cooperative cords of thought, rea-
son, investigation, covering as wide
a range as possible. In otner words,
the more you think and the more
comprehensive your area of thought,
the more brain cells you call into az
ton, and consequently the more uni
form and symmetrical will be the
operation of your cerebration or
thought-producing machinery. Then,
as yuo grow old, your intellectual
faculties will retain, in great
measure, their vigor, their energies
and fruitfulness. But if you permit
the majority of your brain cells to
remain dormant while you cultivate
only small and limited group, such
for instance, as the capacity to accu-
mulate and safely invest the ever
glittering and aliuring dollar, then
your old age will be dull, selfish,
narrow and barren, of the ripe fruits
of intellectual activity, and refresh
ing memories.
Not only that, but the uniform
and symmetrical cultivation of as
many brain cells as possible, is con-
ducive to longevity. In other words,
the man who thinks will live longer,
other things being equal, than the
man who does not think.
The genius is the man who cult
Yates only limited area of brain
cells, and these often to an exagger-
ated degree.
In the ranks of this class we find
the poet, the painter, the sculptor,
the musician, and other specialists,
such men as Byron, Burns, Gold
smith, Edgar Allen Poe, Sidney
Lanier, Prentiss, and many others.
These men rarely reach old age,
they run on one wire, and often at
white heat, and burn out premature
ly.
But the man who cultivates wide
range of brain cells, the man who ac-
complishes the profound far-reaching
and fruitful service of mankind,
generally reaches and enjoys a ripe
and well-ordered old age.
This type is represented by such
men as Jefferson, John Adams, Ben
jamin Franklin, Gladstone, and
Jefferson Davis.
Mr.. Davis had the most universally
cultivated mind in the century in
which he lived, and yet he had been
a frail man physically. He lived by
brain force. For two years of his
eventful career; he endured the
horrors of prison life that would
have brought shame to the cruel
and fanatical religious hypocrites
who are starving, to gruesome
death, even millions of innocent
Jews in Russia and Poland.
Every cell in his symmetrical brain
was kept bright, active, and alert.
Mr.. Wilson belongs to the type of
the genius. He has an inordinate
development of the language cells.
He is linguistic acrobat and verbal
aviator. His mind is like wheat
field, in which tares have been sown
with the wheat.
If you were to strip Mr.. Wilson's
messages, speeches, and correspond
ence of their redundant phrases and
superfluous verbiage, they would
look like wheat field from which
the tares had been eradicated, at the
expense of the wheat.
Mr.. Wilson accurately defined his
calibre when he admitted to Henry
Watterson that he had "one-track
mind" which he offered as an explana-
ton of his abrupt and discourteous
treatment of George Harvey.
/ was sitting on my gallery, with
some friends, one day when noticed
that George Harvey had suggested
Woodrow Wilson for President,
l threw down the paper was
reading and said, "Well, If the peo-
pie of the United States should ever
elect that old school teacher Presi-
dent, he will disrupt the Democratic
Party and get the country into
rtouble,"
/ knew something of his history.
! expressed the opinion then, to
which ! still adhere, that no man who
had given the most vigorous years OF
his life to school teaching could be
broad enough, liberal enough, and
practical enough to manage success
fully, the affairs of great nation,
as its Chief Executive.
In the school room there is no ex-
pansion of views, no expansion Of
thought and opinion. 1t is essential.
ly system of order and obedience
and there is almost as much danger
of going to school too much as not
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