Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-09-16
STRONG ON TALK
This Land Too Full of HaIf-Baked
Theorists.
What Good-Natured Americans Have
to Endure in These Days Is
Surely "a Plenty"

Americans are probably the most
Fully Advised people on earth The
whole land is full of emergency
rostrums where people who have a
passion for advising their brethren
may repair and relieve their minds
In detail.
No people are more Talked To and
Talked AT, and no people are more
Tolerant and Good Natured about it.
Not only is the land full of native
advisory talent, but advisers hive here
from other lands and insist upon Ex-
planning Matters to us-giving us the
low-down and the real Mccoy on a
variety of topics, many of them ex-
eeedingly dull.
The land is full Of well-fed, imprac-
dcal theorists who have Thought 1t
All Out and are Willing and Anxious
to Tell About 1t, asserts Glenn NJ.
Farley in the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer.
Most OF the Fluent Speakers are
men who have never done anything in
all their long lives but write or talk.
They never, by any chance, have got
into the thick of things themselves;
never been horned around and pushed
and showed and stepped on, or ac-
quired calloused hands or practical eX-
perience in Working for n Living never
stood up to the East Wind of Hard
Luck aud Hard Work and Won
nh In, Of NJ
Still they are Perfectly Willing to
Explain Matters and tell how to
correct our sad mistakes of judge
ment
The land is full of Instructors With
out Appointment and Guides Without
Certificates.
Is it any wonder that we are so
often on the wrong track? Is it not a
miracle that we are on the road at
all and making progress?
The land is full Of Critics, men anx-
lous to point out the errors of poor,
lost. wandering humanity; men keen
to tear down and destroy the work of
others and furnish nothing construc-
tive to replace it; men full of theories,
but short on practice
1t is a fine thing for a citizen to
have a Helpful Theory, but a still
finer thing for him to Work 1t Out.
1t seems to come natural to lot of
people to Explain Matters. When u
citizen feels moved to go out in the
Back Yard and Undertake to Plant Il
Garden some neghbor is Quite Apt to
step over and Lean on the Fence and
Explain TO him precisely how the
garden should be Put In.
What Il Splendid, Grand Glorious
Thing it would be if all the Volunteer
Instructors and Guides and Exhorters
would Stop Talking and Go to Work
themselves
AS it is, lot Of the Listeners are
Getting Nervous, They are getting rea-
Sonably well Fed Up with Instruction.
When a man who has been Through
the Mill Raises his Voice in counsel,
he generally has something of value
to say.
But when a party with Gas Bag
hONCS III anu bcSihS 10 iNtlebSe the
Gas he becomes a nuisance to every
body. He annoys people who are
really working and accomplishing
something, and often drops "a monkey
wrench or screw driver into the
machinery.
There are orators running around
with a Load Of INSTRUMENTATION who
would probably Be All Right If they
Had a Bath and a Haircut and con
sented to Go to Work.
Anyhow, it would be Worth Trying.
and ii would be Il Wonderful Relief
to the Public
There are entirely too many able
bodied men standing around Instruct
ing Others and awaiting Il formal in
PRODUCTION to Hard Work.
This country's business and in
dustry would Bounce Like a Rubber
Ball if we could contriye to induce
every ablebodied man to turn his hand
to some useful work and Soft Pedal
the Talk.
What we need is a Moratorium on
Volunteer INSTRUMENTATION.
AS it is the season for the Talkfest
is over, and the Janitor VIII Soon Be
Putting Out the Lights.