Evening star., 1925-01-10

Have you ever stopped TO think
how much bunk there Is in the world
All that pleasant stuff about the
sandman. and fairies and Santa Claus,
to begin with; and then some about
George Washington and the cherry
tree, and what a crime II is for bad
boys not to get good marks in dull
studies.
AS IL sleep depended upon a sand
man or the enjoyment of life upon
fairies, or the huge and undoubted
success of Christmas upon mytho-
logical Kris Kringie, or the tremen-
dous worth Of Washington upon a
cherry tree. or even advancement In
life upon the dubious ability to dis
tinguish afno from amat!
Bunk ] calls it, 20 use the scintil-
lating language Of the comics, which.
after all, comes nearer to being the
speech Of the people than the very
pedantic lingo OF the classroom.
Growing up, a man meets an aston
ishing amount OF plain bunk, so much
In fact, that when he has reached the
august age OF 25 years he bsgins to
find IL very difficult, indeed, to keep
his bearings in the overnowing sea of
mixed truths and lies which beat about
him.
In the ocean OF bunk float the
"blurbs" on the jackets OF new books,
the Congressional Record, parts of
the annual reports OF the Govern
rnent departments, all the flag way
ing" portions of speeches. the over
done grief OF parents at minor crimes
of offspring and hundreds of other
exhibits which the average observer
can spot for himself easily enough.
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What. then. are some Of the truest
ylt II, 81 No., ,srt.4 or
which men have come to feel are the
truth and nothing but the truth?
These statements must be abso-
lutely free of any suspicion of bunk,
TO meet our requirements. so that
we might place them before a child,
saying:
My son. here are some of the tru-
est things in the world. You may
have to grow old before you realize
they are true, but they are true.
nevertheless, as far as We can see"
The boy. no doubt, would answer
with one worda
Bunk"
But we cannot help that: here are
10 true things:
1. AS a man thinketh in his heart,
so is he.
2. Early to bed, and early to rise.
makes d man healthy, wealthy and
wise.
]. To him that hath shall be
given, and from him that hath not
even the little that he hath shall be
taken away.
4. Birds Of a feather fock to-
gether.
5. What is, is; and what will be,
will be-
8. A man is known by the COM
pany he keeps.
:. Every man has something 70
sell
S. Nothing succeeds like success.
8. There is something in the mis-
fortunes of our best friends that is
not displea sing.
10. The square described on the
hypotenuse OF a right triangle is
equal TO the sum of the squares on
the other two sides.
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These sayings stand firm against
the shocks OF men and time. One
OF them is from our Old Testar1 ent.
one from the New Testament. or
gosrel of good tidings; one by Benja-
min Franklin, one by a cynical
Frenchman, another by Euclid, the
others part and parcel OF that world
~ wisdom enshrined in the proverbs
and savings OF all nations
"As man thlnketh in his heart, so
Is he.
Surely this is one of the truest
thoughts ever put into words. It's
thinketh, so Is he" merely dropping
out lin the heart" in order to be
nearer scientific truth. as we know it.
Whether man does his thinking
with his brain or lin his heart" the
fact is that his character depends, In