Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-04-04

hut that. In so far Ms that ls done In n
! spirit OF real pride and satisfaction
and service. he makes himself n co
worker Of Almighty God IN the great
task 81 feeding and clothing and hous'
inc the world
Now. I think the second thing that
II going 10 be very worth while for ~
10 sell in the next three or four years
Ia broader and bigger and a more
inclusive spirit Of tolerance. suppose
that we are all born intolcrant. I
know I was. Some way. II seems as II
Providence had put into the character
of every people on the globe something
that is exceedingly irritating 90 every
other people. know that EnglIshmen
lrritRtc me tremendously. laps irritate
me. Frcnchmcn irritate me. Germans
irritatc me. have no doubt that I
irritate them.
There may have been room for that
sort Of irritation and intolerance In
the world before the war. There In
certainly no room now. Nations no
longer exist In the old. isolated sense
labor ard capital no longer exist In
that individualistic sense. II any mes.
sage was written by the war. NO plain
that anybody ought 10 be able 10 read
Il. Il was this message. which wns
written In letters Of blood across the
sky. that no man. no family. no busi.
ness. no nation. lives 10 itself or dies
to itself or can live TO Itself or can
die 10 itself.
And the third thing. and the last
thing. as ! see II. that IN worth while
for all OF us 10 sell. no matter what
ever our line may he. II n newer and
bigger and broader and more vital faith
In New York. Just before Christmas
time. after I had met n group OF sales
men who had been kicked out Of stores
all over the country for three or four
months. and were tired and discouraged
and disconsolate. and thought nobody
would ever buy any more shoes. and no.
body was ever going TO build any more
houses. and nobody was ever going TO
get married and need more tableware.
or anything OF that sort. ana that the
world was coming 10 an end. said 10
the sa1es manager. 81 want TO take
these fellows for a little drive" We
got into taxicabs and went down In
New York to the corner OF Twelfth
Street and University Place. which Jas
been. until the last few weeks. vacant
lot. and I said 20 them. II brough; you
down here to show you this vacan. lot"
They were amazed and wondered why
I would pay taxicab fare TO show them
"A vacant lot.
said II want you 20 take n very
careful look AT u. Doesn't Il occur to
you as n strange thing. In a part OF
the city as thickly settled AZ this,
where land values are 10 very high
where rents are 80 many dollars font
doesn't u seem to you strange that
there should he. on such n desirable
corner. no building? I am going 10 I'll
YOU the story. and the reason u Is Va
cant II Is vacant because. until few
days ago. II had been Impossible foI
anybody To get a clear title TO u foi
nearly one hundred years. One hun
, drcd years ago. almost. farmer died
and he wrote into his will thaI he dit
not care what his heirs might do WI:
| the rest OF his farm. h';t as for this II:
tlc particular piece IL pasture. which
l. now the corner IL Twelfth Street urt
University Place. ne wanted Il TO b
kept forever free from any crrum
brance as a burying.piacc for the 'oi q
of himself and his wife" Now. ! sab
20 these men who thought that tn
United States was all ready TO pass In
90 the hands Of q receiver. For hcav
ems sake. look at that lot. and carr.
away. indclihly printed ON your minds
a picture 81 II. and u. as a result 1
that. YOU have not got imagination
/ enough 10 believe that n country TIM
lcsa than one hundred years ago wa
nothing hut pastures and vacant Ian
and today has cities OF five million pee
pie. II YOU have not imagination enoug
TO believe that such n country. which
less than one hundred years ago. ha
few white settlers here. battling %
their lives against the Indians. and q
day has one hundred and ten miilio
people who are wearing things and ea'
Ing things and buying things and ne.,
liz things. II YOU have not got imaginr
ton enough TO believe that such
country Il going TO 70 on In popul.
tion and In needs. and In business
then" I said. you haven't got imag
nucn enough 10 he worthy ot the nam
OF salesman. and you certainly are nc
worthy Of citizenship In the create.
rcountry In the world" And that seen
20 me 10 h. the third fundamcntr
thing. that II worth while for US I
believe and 90 carry with US and 20 80
In these next few years.
Evcrys age. YOU know. has its sp'
/. ciai characteristics. One hundred year
aso. Tom PAYNE wrote about what
called The Age OF Reason" II wn
the age when. In the words Of Emersoi
God said. I am tired Of klns.
I suffer them no more.
| ur 10 my ear the morning brinrs
The outrage OF the poor"
And In that age 81 reason. men q,
cided 10 do away with kings. aud al
| almost complste hut not ai,f.,