Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-06-17
Something to
Think AbOnf
DEPENDENT on OTHERS.
BY r. #. WALKER

~ I'D sou ever stop to reaiize no"
~ dependent you are upon the
thoughts and efforts of your fellow
men?
Did you ever try TO imagine just
what would happen 10 you If you were
left alone on this round globe with all
its wealth, all its resources and all Its
possibilities?
1t might teach you a lesson In
humility il you gave it the proper con-
sideration.
The money would be worth nothing
TO you for there would be no person
from whom you could buy
You could not even be charitable
and give il away for there would be
none to accept it
What would happen TO you then
happens in lesser measure every
day now.
Let us suppose you are million
aire with plenty of money and a desire
10 spend il, we will say, for beauti-
full home.
Suppose again that the masons and
the carpenters and the plasterers and
the hundred and one other artisans
whose handiwork go into fine home,
refused TO accept your money or do
your work. How would you get your
homer
You might by dint of hard work
build yourself a shelter, but it would
not be at all what you wanted nor in
the least what you could afford.
You see. then, that although you
were millionaire. you are dependent
for your home comforts upon the will
ing efforts of others.
Suppose, on the other hand, that
you are poor man, not poverty
stricken, but poor in the sense of mod
ern fortunes.
You have saved a few hundred dol
lars. bought bit of ground and wish
to build yourself a home.
In order to do 1t you have to Dor
row money. Suppose the bank, or the
! building association. or whatever or
ganization you apply to just plainly
and bluntly refuses to loan you a
penny.
You will find yourself in the same
predicament that the millionaire was
in. You cannot have the kind of
home you want and can afford. You
are dependent on others for that.
Every morning when you eat your
breakfast you are eating, In part, the
labor of hundreds of men and women.
The clothes you wear, the shoes you
walk I'm, the hat that shelters your
head. all the necessities, to say moth
ing of the Injuries. you enjoy are the
fruit of your dependence upon other
people.
If you could analyze your needs for
one day and count the human beings
that Iabored 10 satisfy them with
either toll or money, you would find
that scores and scores Of people had
been indirectly in your employ and
working in your behalf.
And on the other hand, you have
the satisfaction of knowing If you do
an honest days work that you have
Iabored TO help scores of others.
II is the lack of recognition given
10 the fact that We are all dependent
each upon the other that leads To our
greatest troubles. 1t is that that pits
capital against labor and labor against
capital 1t is that that causes the war
between classes and the wars between
nations.
If you fully recognized your indebt-
edness TO your fellow man, you would
want to help him because by doing so
you would be indirectly helping your
self.
If everybody in the world set out
to gouge and cheat everybody else in
the world. il would be only a short
time before there would be utter chaos,
commercially, and morally.
It is because only comparative
few try at one time TO get all they
cail-regardlesS of methods or results
that keeps the world on an even keel
and society from topping to destruc-
ton.
The more we recognize that we must
rely and depend upon each other. the
higher consideration we have for the
good of the world as a whole and the
more nearly We Aome to bein, truly
civilized.
God in His wisdom made no one alb
solufe.
The only such power that has ever
been bestowed has been placed and
recognized by subjects who thought
they needed TO be ruled. which was a
conclusion not very complimentary TO
themselves.
1t is really worth while for you to
think for a few minutes on what an
inefficient and incompetent being you
are when you divorce yourself from
all outside aid. 1t will help you ia
be meek and in the greatest sermon
ever preached IT was said. Blessed
are the meek for they shall inherit