The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-08-04
STRONG ON TALK
This Land Too Full OF HaIf-Baked
Theorists.
What Good-Natured Americans Have
to Endure in These Days 10
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-giviDg US the
low-down and the real Mccoy on a
variety OF topics. many Of them ex-
ceedingly dull.
The land Is full of well-fed, imprac-
teal theorists who have Thought II
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 Living never
stood up to the East Wind. Of Hard
Luck and Hard Work and Won
Through I'm spite OF discouragements.
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 II any wonder that we are so
often on the wrong track7 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-
dive to replace 1t; men full of theories,
but short on practice.
1t Is fine thing for a citizen to
have a Helpful Theory, but Il still
dner thing for him to Work 1t Out.
1t seems to come natural to lot of
people to Explain Matters. When a
citizen feels moved to go out In the
Back Yard and Undertake to Plant a
Garden some neighbor is Quite Apt to
step over and Lean on the Fence and
Explain to him precisely how the
garden should be Put In.
What n Splendid. Grand Glorious
Thing 1t would be If all the Volunteer
Instructors and Guides and Exhorters
would Stop Talking and Go to Work
themselves
AS 1t Is, a lot of the Listeners ere
Getting Nervous. They are getting rea-
sonably well Fed Up with Instruction.
When n man who has been Through |
the Mill Raises his Voice In counsel, |
he generally has something of value
to say.
But when party with a Gas Bag |
moves In and begins to Release the
Gas he becomes nuisance to every
body. He annoys people who are
really working and accomplishing
and often drops a monkey
wrench or screw driver into the
There are orators running around
With Load of Mlsinformation who
would probably Be All Right IL they
Had Bath and a Haircut and con-
sented to Go to Work.
Anyhow. 1t would be Worth Trying,
md 1t would be Wonderful Relief
10 the Public.
There are entirely too many able
bodied men standing around Instruct
ng Others and awaiting formal In
to Hard Work.
This country's business and in
iustry would Bounce Like a Rubber
Ball II we could contrive to induce
very ablebodied man to turn his hand
o some useful work and Soft Pedal
he Talk.
What we need is Moratorium on
volunteer Mlslnformation.
AS 1t Is the season for the Talkfest
$ over, and the Janitor VIII Soon Be
Putting Out the Lights.