Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-27
McNUTT'S PHILOSOPHY

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McNUTT's PHILOSOPHY
Summary of Dinner Pail Mans chau-
tauqua Lecture.
The Chautauqua audience got a lot
the lecture Of Mr.. George L. McNutt,
known as the dinner pail man. Mr..
McNutt's lecture brought to mind seri-
Gus thought on some Of Americas
most important problems Of the hour.
He told of an experience he had in
getting a job once and after the en-
ployer had called him inside he asked
him one of the hardest questions it has
been the lecturers lot to answer What
can you do?" asked the employer. Mr..
McNutt dwelt upon this one question.
What can you do?" Being very much
startled by the question; the speaker
said to the employer, I'm not afraid
of work, and can stay sober" He was
hired.
Then Mr.. McNutt related some of
the things that had been done and
some that remained yet to be done.
1.-THE world is benefited more by fool
boys than all the philosophers that
ever lived" he said. A fool boy con-
ceived the idea of electricity, tele-
graph, wireless and other means Of re-
volutionizing the world. I'VE make
a fool of people in one generation and
build. monuments to them in the next"
said the speaker.
He told that Edison was even now
working on an invention SO delicate
that he could communicate with the
spirit world vtry easily. "Oh you may
laugh and call him fooP' said the
. speaker, "but other seemingly impossi-
bilities have been laughed at just as
much"
Mr.. McNutt gave phrase in this
:eonnection.whiel gave his Listeners
the right to twist as they pleased:
To-day is the tomorrow that we were
worrying about yesterday"
Mr.. McNutt went on to tell of q
question he asked John D. Rockefeller
once. What is wrong with the world
today?" Mr.. Rockefeller considered for
second and then replied that the
world was right, but the system was
wrong: that the fault lay in the trans
porting Of the goods from the grower
to the buyer. Mr.. McNutt gave as an
example to this the instance Of an old
woman in Georgia, who sold a basket
of peaches there for rs cents and that
same basket in New York city brought
1925. There is where the trouble is
he said 1T is the middle man. The
man who is incapable Of working with
either of the two ends, and Is now
skinning them both. The in-betweens
or as Mr.. McNutt calls them the
i Economic Coolies"
Then the speaker gave a delightful
illustration Of two roosters, in proof
that, "you are as you think you
are" One Of the roosters, he said was
a regular game cock. He strutted
around with more military pomp than
the kaiser ever dreamed Of and the
other rooster was great big foppy
specimen that wouldn't fight worm.
The younger fighter used to make life
miserable for the other rooster and one
day he caught him out where he had
to fight. Mr.. McNutt describe ed the
young fighter as wolloping the other
rooster on the jaw and then asked the
admiring hens If that wasn't great
This went on until the big rooster was
simply reeling under the fierce assault
of the young fighter. Then Mr.. Nc
Mutt said he picked up rock, and hit
the young rooster knockout blow.
The young game cock spun around
several times, thinking the old rooster
had done it, ran off and cowed ike
a wet puppy. Mr.. McNutt explained
that the fear of anything is what is
holding 50 many people back. That
young fighting cock had got it into his
head that the old rooster had at last
taken stand and would whip hlHl'
But worse than that" continued the
speaker "the old rooster believed that
he had beat the fighter, and he strutted
around there for the rest OF the
summer like second Napoleon
In conclusion Mr.. McNutt told how
the spirit of one boy saved an army IN
defeat. It was Napoleon's army and
he was being defeated. The great gen.
eral told the drummer boy to beat
retreat and he replied that he didn't
know how. With that he struck up
rattling charge and 's soon as the
soldiers heard it they saw that the
spirit of the drummer boy was still
faithful and they charged and won the
battle. -
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