The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-03-15
PATIENCE.

The following editorial from the
Idaho Statesman is we'll worth read
ing and bordering, calling attention,
as it does, to one of the tendencies
of the times:
Impatience is the curse of America.
All the news seems to cry it. The
doctrine of the times is Hurry,
hurry, hurry" This is u busy
day" frowns down from office walls.
Make hay while the sun shines" and
"Strike while the iron is hot are
good old maxims constantly put to
new use. We are forever moving
from where we stand to new posi-
lions, always seeking change and
clubbing it progress" But it is not
always progress, nor always wisdom.
We make fortunes quickly, lose them
quickly. We pass laws quickly,
change them quickly. We are con-
stantly in turmoil. Isn't it time to
put in a word for patience?
1t was pleasing to see at the head
of the Philadelphia Public Ledger's
editorial page the other day an edi-
torial captioned 1.-THE Quiet Mind"
which contrasted the "air Of having
time enough and room enough " which
some men of commanding power dis
close with the fussiness, the petu-
lance, the febrile restlessness and
nervousness of lesser men. 1t was
called forth by nothing in the news,
but it was worth writing, that edi-
torial. And here is its closing para
graph, worth careful reading:
The quiet mind, in any field of
application, can afford to wait
and be gentle and tolerant of
contrary opinion, and generous
and humorous. 1t has its own
durable satisfactions :" that come
"when few men heed" 1t finds
a satisfaction in deliberate ses-
sions with itself, sometimes in the
nocturnal ~silences, sometimes in
far, lonesome places, but always
with consciousness that a Power,
shaping a destiny, guiding a life,
controlling the world, is near at
hand. One who never feels reli-
ance IN that presence greater
than self and beyond self can
have no perfect rest In a world
of mortal error and finite short
comings. Peace comes when we
understand that round about us,
and in our lives, there is the love
divine; a love serene and wise;
love as ample as the fullness
of the sea,
One likes to see that sort of rea-
soning in editorials. One expects to
be "uplifted by clergymen and re-
form workers. One looks for a GER
tain amount of moral education from
educators. 1t is the business of these
people to pass on wisdom. But the
editor, through whose fingers passes
the n~ever-ending ribbon of the worlds
life, with it's story of good and bad,
may put down his reactions as he
pleases. He may be himself without
restraint save such as is placed upon
any gentleman. All the more force
full, then, is his occasional writing of
this kind.
The connection between patience
and greatness is really almost proven
bal, though we Americans have
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activity for it and applied the terms
"forceful" and dynamic to hurry
ing men when they best belong to the
/" quiet minds" Lowell wrote that
Endurance is the browning quail
ity,
And patience all the passion of
great hearts.
And Shakespeare must have seen
the greatness Of patience when he
put into the mouth of Antonio of
Venice the words, concerning Shy
lock,
I do oppose
My patience to his fury, and am
armed
To suffer, with a quietness of
spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.
Quietness of spirit" the quiet
mind "a man thus armed is well
Though those who hustle
lbout, scoffing at his patience, may
him slow, scottish, unprogressive
md re~actionary, he is truly big and
he only real progressive of them all.
- pa he
The other day a prisoner was put
0 work on the streets of Occur
'Alene, anchored to a ball and