The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-04-25
A Single Track World

deed, so narrow that they have prac-
tically eliminated from their theories
even religion itself. Eighty-five per
cent, probably, of the membership in
these above systems are today Mini
lists in religion. Obligation to God
and obligation to humanity-these
| matters are not at all a part and
parcel of the one-track world to-day.
1t is almost needless to say that a
single-track world cannot be a safe
world, nor a comprehensive world,
| nor a world of great business and
of openmindedness and of enlighten-
ment. A canal is a one-track water
way; the ocean is ten thousand track
waterway. There is no greater diff
| ference between a canal and the
ocean than there is between one
track man and the multiplex track
! man of large ability and comprehen-
sion.
There are many men, indeed, whose
systems seem to be built only and
alone for a one-track way; and there
are men, on the other hand, who
seem to be limitless in their powers
and in development. The world
could not get along without her big
men who carry multitudinous tracks
in their systems, and true it is that
the other kind of a man, working
under a one-track system, cannot con-
tribute much to the worlds progress ;
most often time he is indeed dan
! ger to himeslf and to the public.
The large number of cults, opera
| ting on such narrow and Infamous
| lines, are facts today as amazing as
was this late war. 1t is inconceivable
to believe that the rights of proper
ty and the rights to ones life today
are being denied and incOnceivable
to believe that great financial and in
dustrial interests that only the man
with thousand tracks in his system
can manage-inconceivable to be-
lieve that such large portion of the
world today believes that these great
matters can be handled in better
way under the Soviet system, where
a few men, all illiterateS and untutor-
ed and ignorant, are put in charge.
And vet this is the status under which
we find the whole of Europe stagger-
ing today, and there is only one out
come to it all.
We find the single track man not
only in the political life, but we find
him, too, in the religious life, and we
find him, just as often, in the realms
of agriculture. One of the principal
reasons why our southern agriculture
is not more diversified thing, rather
than a single track thing, is because
the farmer himself is too often a
single track man.
have friend, for example, who
+. is four pillow farmer yet who made
| $4,000 net two years ago on his
plantation. His whole place is sowed
to Burr Clover. In the spring he
plows out his burrows and does his
planting; then, late in May, turns
under the middles after the clover
has reseeded itself. He has built up
his plantation in this way, and never
makes less than one and One-half
bales of cotton per acre. He never
buys nitrogen guanO; and all he uses
is certain amount of acid phosphate.
And yet you could count on your
fingers the number of farmers in that
county who have followed that mans
lead.
/ have a friend, too, in Alabama
! who has built up 500 acres into the
same hight state of cultivation by this
same Burr Glover method; and yet he
too, has only the fewest number of
followers. And so it is that there
are thousands of successful agricul-
turists succeeding in their own lines
most admirably and yet, who, in spite
of their success, seem to inspire the
fewest of men around them to do
likewise. Indeed, the strangest thing
in life is that great successes in all
lines of endeavor draw so few imita-
tors. And the reason here to be
found is, perhaps, because there is
in the world such a large majority
of single-track men! - Sandersville
Progress.