The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-06-23
Something to
Think Ab0ut
ON OTHERS
By +. II. WALKER

. n I'D you ever stop to realize how
s - dependent you are upon the
thoughts and efforts of your fellow
men?
Did you ever try to imagine just
what would happen to you if you were
left alone on this round globe with all
its wealth. all its and all its
possibilities?
1t might teach you a lesson in
humility if 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 it away for there would be
mono to accept it.
What would happen to you then
happens in a lesser measure every
day now.
Let us suppose you are a million
aire with plenty of money and a desire
to spend it, we will say, for a beauti-
full home.
OuDDOSt again llldl the lu1SOllS anu
the carpenters and the plasterers and
the hundred and one other artisans
whose handiwOrk go into a fine home,
refused to accept you money or do
your work, How would you get your
home?
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 a millionaire, you are dependent
for your home comforts upon the will
ing efforts of others.
Suppose, on the other hand, tina,
you are a poor man, not poverty
stricken, but Door in the sense of mod
ern fortunes.
You have saved a few hundred dol
lars, bought a bit of ground and wish
to build yourself a home.
In order to do it 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.
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breakfast you are eating, in part, the
labor of hundreds of men and women.
The clothes you wear, the shoes you
walk in, the hat that shelters you
Lead. all he eeess ties, to say moth
ing of the luxuries, 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 labored TO satisfy them with
either oil 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
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to help scores of others.
It is the lack of recognition given
TO the fact that we are all dependent
each upon the other that leads to u
greatest troubles. 1t is that that pits
capital against labor and labor against
1t is that that causes the war
between classes and the wars between
If you fully recognized your indebt-
edness to your fellow man, you would
want to help him because by doing so
would be indirectly helping your
self.
If everybody in the world set out
% gouge and cheat everybody else In
he world, it would be only a short
line before there would be utter chaos,
commercially, and morally.
1t is because only a comparative
Few try at one time to get all they
IAN regardless of methods or results
hat keeps the world on an even keel
md society from topping to destruc-
ion.
The more we recognize that we must
ely and depend upon each other, the
higher consideration we have for the
rood of the world as a whole and the
more nearly we come to being truly
civilized.
God In His wisdom made no one alb
;olute.
The only such power that has ever
,een bestowed has been placed and
recognized by subjects who thought
fey needed to be ruled, which was a
conclusion not very complimentary to
themselves.
1t is really worth while for you to
hink for q few minutes On what an
Inefficient and incompetent being you
re when you divorce yourself from
Ill outside aid. 1t will help you to
,e meek and in the greatest sermon
yer preached 1t vas said, Blessed