The Washington times., 1920-04-04
What and Where Is Happiness?
The Nearest Approach to 1t Is In Realization OF
Proper Finishing of Task.

of us search through life for mental spring of permanent
happiness
In the beginning, youth being selfish we seek it for
ourselves.
Later we try and make it permanent for those
whose welfare is important to US than our own
The first cry of newborn child is protest against
unhappness discomfort 1t has escaped from close dark
confinement world of WORRIES hunger fear anxiety
The last sigh of old is sigh of relief at escap
ing from restless life, sigh of hope that the change
following hfes end may be better.
Look on any crowd big little-every man, woman
and child is seeking happiness resigned seeking to
escape misery.
Absolute happiness exists nowhere, except for few
moments or hours.
An old miser goating his piles of money satisfies
vicousy intense passion but ne Is not happy young
spendh throwing away money that the miser had saved
appauded by ycophants is as unhappy as the fool that
saved the money to be thus squandered
A struggles for position power, fame gets all
three, and at the end finds comfort in none.
The nearest approach to real happiness on this earth
undoubtedly comes in ACCOMPLISHMENT IN FINISH
ING, and seeing finished good piece of work
Close to absolute happiness the great Newton
when long calculation worked out and proved the accuracy
Of his theory of gavtation That was intense intellectual
happiness.
But it is less than the happiness of good mother
who at last holds in her washed dressed and ready
for its first dinner the little baby that she has created
with patience and suffering
Moments of intense happiness fortunately for the
world, frequent and all of them interesting An
antelope Is supreme happy when grazes with its fellows
stream of water close BY The lion is happy when he
springs accurately breaks the anteopes back and drinks
its blood.
Similarly millions of peasants have been happy allow
ed cultivate the soil in peace and conqerors have been
happy only when sprngng successfully in they have
been able to destroy the lives of thousands and e their
land.
Alexander the Great you may be- sure, was happy
when he the famous letter to Darius the Persian
King who had offered him his daughter and half his great
empire Aexanders naughty letter ordered the great King
to address him, Alexander, ruler OF all ASIA
Calico intensely happy when he heard by acci
dent of double glass invented by man far of and said
bring objects closer Immediately he Gaeo, made the
first telescope without having the first attempt
and with that telescope he the of Jupiter the
rings of Saturn and other wonderful mysteries he
the first to look into the mysteries of Gods creation
Incidentally he compelled deny those truths by
others supposed to represent God but that did not inter
fere with his happiness.
You can end the happiness of man like the Kaiser
by locking him up in another country and making him
ridiculous But you cannot take from the dscoverer of
truth the happiness that discovery of truth brings
Cramer happy when, standing ready to be burned
alive he first held his hand in the fire and burned it off,
saying, This hand hath ofended-this unworthy hand
It the hand with which he had signed recantation of
what he really believed There is happiness in courage
whether victorious defeated.
Alexander was happy when he proudly showed his
purple cloak to his conented generals saying that he had
made them rich and had got for himself only the cloak
sign of imperial power
And Nelson was happy when death found him doing
his duty fighting for his country
One thing is certain: is important to emphasize the
fact that happiness consists in ACCOMPLISHING
thing merely ESCAPING trouble living from
worry and suffering
In the life of such giants as Michael Angelo or
Beethoven both unhappy men, bitterly disappointed but
always working and creating, there happiness
than in a million ordinary lives.
Nothing more false or harmful uttered than
Patos famous saying "The man who would be tuy happy
should not study to enlarge his estate but to contract his
desires"