El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-19

IT IS old fashioned to take Of life doubt, and
hardly welcomed these days but sometimes it seems
worth while to recall that average folks generation
ago got lots Of fun Of life, thoroughly enjoyed It
all performed worthy service reared families gained an
education acquired homes and modest competence cared
the poor and sick, found recreation in play in read
ing learned to appreciate and enjoy the good things that
have down from the past and went through the
years with smile and song, yet they were not hun
dredth part dependent Of today shows
and all the things provided BY organizations and govern
nsnIs as part OF the social upfL Ihe average child
Of today spends much money mixed drinks and ice
cream and shows" in week his parents and grand
parents spent IN year when they children yet It IS
question If there is real happiness. Somehow
Of today have largely lost the power Of smusement
have largely lost the ability to educate ourselves We
rely too much governments and special organizations
do this and that and the other for and children
As Of this day multiply social upf" agencies Of all
kinds to become and helpless less self
reliant The intense organization Of this age not always
Of developing and applying greater power; too
often it is simply means Of shifting responsibility and
lodging work
There is need for revival of the vigorous individual
life Of other times. This does not antsociai
cusFenes It does not the coiser the cave,
does not antagosm to government to cooperative
effort in human society. It that need to learn
again value self education self amusement self
reliance self support, thrift self sufciency IN broad
sense, not seshness but simply good old American indie
pendence and solid contentment-
The work. today has better of interdependence
than It used TO have, clearer sense Of social obligation
Experience has shown that the welfare Of all to be sought
BY him who would fare well himself To be generous to be
liberal to give oneself to community work and to give ones
means proportion to ones ability, this is way to
ones happiness and COnenment But with the
worlds gain social morality has shppags in the
individual machinery; Of this day too much
inclined rely others instead Of ourselves, to bring
Us what desire and need
People, young and old used to play together and make
their amusements; they think they have to 90
somewhere and pay somebody to make their amusemens
for them People used to know and love the region close
about them; they think they must 60 thousand miles
enjoy nature. People used to sing; they must be
sung to; they used TO play music musical Instruments
they pay hear musical taste insulted People
used to clear land and build homes; they sell their
houses and pay dearly for apartments IN house belonging
to another, thinking to escape work by sacrificing home
Great have been greatly educated IN the past on
library Of six hundred books; today have hundreds
Of thousands Of books Available in libraries but we
better educated BY Of that7 Are the complicated
tools and costly equipments In modern education" used
such advantage that boys and girls really better
educated than their parents In proportion to the great ad
that has taken place in supplying educational fach
ties2 Sometimes It fparents today bit IL
cined to throw their own responsibilities off the Schools
that children today bit less about mastering
be aided and heped and fed they not quite so
Iesourceu children used to be- not quite independent
and self sufficient their standards not their own, but
are artificial and supplied for them They cannot find
their joys and their education IN the ordinary life around
them, but must buy something to initiate happiness they
demand gifts instead Of creating and making things for
themselves.
We hear so much Of the high cost Of everything Yet
there sorehouse whose stock Is unlimited and free
to all there is treasure house whose wealth does not