The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-09
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

 spent their lives in cities they began l to lose their sense ofScreation and the | creator and needed to get out into the | open to regain their sense os the in | finite and of God. for everything | around them is man-made.
 I am sure it would be a spiritual | bath for. many a tired, perplexed man | who, immersed in material things, has unconsciously shut out the sense of 1 wonder. I hope l will never lose the | child's sense of awe and the mysteri- ] ous. Carlyle truly said we are "girt 1 about with wonder It is well for all l of us to keep this fact in mind.
 David, the sweet singer of Israel, felt | this when he sang: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars. which thou has ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of Man that thou visitest him." It is a won derfully sobering and consoling thought to realize that the infinite is I in touch with the finite.
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 It is my habit every little bit to close my desk and run out into the country. It is a nerve and a soul re- storer to quit the rush of city life and step aside for moment to be alone with nature. It is also a restful change to get beyond the restless conversa- tion in which one is made to feel that time is money and must not be wasted in idle talk.
 Go into any business office and you will find it placarded with silent warn ings phrased frequently with scant courtesy to be brief. The one idea is to make you get what you have to say out of your system in the fewest possible words and then execute a quick getaway. Yes, I believe in dis patching business, but I think we Americans overdo it just trifle.
 q think we bow down over much to the god of hustle, and am writing this, not in the hope of getting any of the "speeders up' to agree with me, but merely to call attention to phase of our life which is making unneces- sarily nervous wrecks out of thousands of our American men and women, and even destroying the child life of our little ones.
 The speed mania is born of the fast driving in the business world, for when the man in office, store or shop has been going under high pressure dur ing business hours he has lost all sense of poise and rest and therefore when he gets in his car he wants to burn the wind, for he is harried with the thought that he has no time to lose,
 
 This reminds me of how, when a cer- ! tain high commission from a country where life is not lived in such a cy- | cIonic way and mem are not always devoting their efforts to make a rec- ord by clipping off a few minutes or seconds even in the journeys down town and back home again, and some consideration is given to the art of 1iv- ing, fell into the hands of some cap tains of industry in New York.
 A dinner was scheduled in one of | the uptown clubs at p. m. The ori- 1 entals were rushed to the underground which was quicker than even automo- piles on account of the chance to be l held up by the congestion of surface 1 traffic. Then they were pushed into | taxis and driven wildly across town and arrived before the hour set to dine One of the millionaires boastingly said we saved at least five minutes.' but 1 the sarcasm of the diplomatic Chinese was lost upon him, as he said with his inscrutable eastern smile. And now | that we have saved them, how shall we occupy them?"
 Now, I believe in turning out work and am an advocate of system, but l there is so much in our business lives which is just fuss and feathers and
 really gets us nowhere, but frets the | life out of us and makes us old before our years, that think it well to pause for a moment and take stock and sec just how much lost motion and need less friction can be cut out without re- ducing our output.
 I got on this line because when came in the news room the other da. after an unusually hard trip, one o
 The Age Herald family said, Doctor
 you are continually on the go, and ye
 you never seem to tire and I hay
 never heard you complain about beins
 ovefworked. How do you get ava,
 with 1t? Put me on to your system, fo you always seem fit physically and il a good humor."
 Il I am not reciting this to hand my self a bouquet, but in the hope that may really help someone who is ner vous and worried to peace of mind an , rest of body. In the first place I ar interested in my work, and it has bee : a joy to serve in all of the war activ Iities Then my habits are simple, an , I take proper exercise and get suffi !, cient sleep. I strive to keep my phys
 ical machine in fix without making a task or burdensome to do so. 3 Best of all, I have enough Irish i me not to take life too seriously. an l, If anyone disagrees with me I do nc D take it to heart I try to make eac day a new adventure. I like men, n love women, and am interested !. things, and that is why each day