Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1921-12-08


Faculty advisers Cora Geyer,
Agnez Pyle.
Editor in Chief-Raymond Davis,
'22.
Asst Editors-Eula Smith. '22,
Roy Appleman, '22.
Business Manager-Hugh James
Donahue, '23.
Associates
Birch, '23,
Harold Davis, "a.
Society-Alice Harrington, '22,
Bernice Henery, '22.
Acknowledgements Brooks, '23.
Humor-Opal Martin, '23, Mar
tha Sherman, '23.
Sr. Editor-Inis Lawrence, '22.
Jr. Editor-Marmaduk Sears,
'23.
Sophomore Elizabeth
Humphrey. "a.
Fresh. Editor-Janet Whitaker,
'25.
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10 EDITORS DESK o
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A woman on the streets of Chica-
go asked passerby where she could
find the transportation building.
The polite reply was, "It's about ten
feet from you. This is the trans
portation building" tWell, / de-
clare" exclaimed the astonished
woman, "It's so big I couldn't see
it,"
Greatness often suffers in this
world because it is too big to be
seen. The discovery of genuine
greatness in character or accom-
plishment is nearly always made by
some one far away rather than by
a person near at hand. Standing at
the foot of the mountain one can
not see it in it's full majesty. HUI
man nature is so constituted that 1t
usually perceives defects more quick
ly than virtues. We use the micro
scope at it's highest magnifying pow
er when we talk about the faults of
others but we always lessen the pow
er when we examine their good
qualities.
We know our neighbor has abil-
ity but we spend all our time deplor-
ing his weaknesses and never think
that he may amount to something
in the world. We admit perhaps
that James can write good stories
but-and then criticize him about
something else. Gertrude is a very
fine singer but-and we add another
word of disparagement. Great things
are always close at hand. 1t is not
necessary to seek far in order to find
them.-R. D.
The hardest task in the world is to
think. Consequently the majority
of people stay in the ranks because
they are too lazy to think. Brains
were made to use, otherwise they
would not have been given to us.
Take any great man, for instance
Elihu Root. He is considered by
many as the greatest intellectual
genius of America today. He de-
veloped his brain by constant appli-
cation at hard study while others
slept or played. His mind when a
boy was probably not much superior
to those Of his playmates. He work
ed hard improving and enriching his
memory which is one of the great
factors in making him what he is.
Students, you too may become
great if you are only willing to sacri-
fee few f1eeting pleasures and de-
vote more time to real study. Play
when you do play but never try to
evade your work in or out of the
schoolrOOm.
We are fairly well launched in
our studies now, and probably some
of us are finding them difficult. That
shouldn't discourage, but stimulate
us, for the harder the lesson the
more we have really gained when it
is accomplished. When enc hard
task is accomplished one is justified
in attempting harder. We speak
of grinding away at studies, and the
description is a good one. Lessons
are necessarily a grindstone on which
we sharpen our wits. The mind is
like the muscles, it has to be worked
hard if it is to be developed. We
grow by work, we thrive by indus
try, and every lesson we honestly
learn has been to us good grind
stone increasing the keenness of our
mental powers.-R. A.
Autobiographies and memoirs do
not occupy the place they should
with the American reading public.
Memoirs Of great men probably have