Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-08

AudHlSoH Is 70 De SenN 70 liie VA
tional Kiwanis magazine for pub
lication.
So strongly did the address appeal
to the local members that they
have submitted it for publication
in the Dispatch that Douglas folks
may gam some clear idea OF the OBJ
jects and ideals of Kiwanis.
DR.. -AGamson spoke as follows:
NEW YEARS TALK 49,.
Kiwanis Club, Dec 81, 1925
This is to be my swan song, and
last day of the year and the last
luncheon of the year, was given over
to my chairmanship.
We are on the threshold of new
year. We do not know what the
coming year holds for us, but we
are not afraid of it. We have
learned and are still learning to
look for kindness and goodness in
all our paths, and so we go for
ward with glad hope and pleasure
able expectation.
The past is dead and has no
resurrection; but the future is en-
dowed with such life that it lives
for us in anticipation. The past is,
in many things, the foe of man.
kind; the future is, in all things,
our friend. For the past there is no
hope; for the future there is both
hope and fruition. The past is the
textbook of Tyrants; the future is
the Bible of the Free. Those who are
solely governed by the past stand
like Lots wife, crystallized in the
act of looking backwards, and for
ever incapable of looking forward.
A mans purpose IN life should
,be like a river which is born of a
thousand little rills in the noun
tains, and which reaches it's man
hood in the plain. Often, as you
watch it, you see little eddies that
seem as if they had changed their
minds, and We're resolved to turn
back again to the nils, yet it's
manhood has been we'll founded, it's
mighty current -Gows changeless to
the sea,-onward!-eyer onward, to
fulfill it's natural Gestiny.
If you build a dam across it in
a few hours it will go over the top
with the voice of victory. If the
tides check it at its mouth, it will
sweep forward again to the ocean,,
as soon as they ebb. So goes the
Amazon across a continent-never
losing it's way or changing it's direc-
tion for the thousand streams that
fall into it on the right and on the
left, but only using them to in
crease it's own force, and at the
same time serving them by bearing
them onward in Its resistless cur
rent.
1t is a serious thing to live. We
can pass through any year but once.
If we have lived negligently, we can
not return to amend what we have
slurred over. We cannot correct mis-
takes, fill up blank spaces, erase
lines we are ashamed of, or cut
out pages unwortniiy filled The ir-
revocableness of life ought alone
to be sufficient motive for inces-
Omar said:
"The moving finger writes, and hav-
ing writ
Moves on; nor all your piety, nor
wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half
a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a
word of it."
However, in this lies the hope
of the future. The more thorough
a mans education is, the more he
yearns for and is pushed forward
to new achievement. The better a
man is in this world, the better
he is compelled 70 be. The man
Of ability, of right thinking and
training will never submit to going
downward. To him all life is
climbing; every upward step makes
another needful.
Now what do we mean by life?
Most people do not make any dis
elimination between making liv-
ing and making life. The first is
necessary to the second, and of
course comes first in it's time re-
lation though distinctly secondary in
it's real Importance. There are mil
lions of people in the world who
make a sort of living, who are giving
no thought to making any sort of
life. Even some of those making
the best livings are making the poor
est lives. You know and L know
people, whose capabilities are such,
that if turned into money making
channels would make them wealthy
in lands and bank deposits; yet who
remain in the unrenumerative pro-
fessions such as teaching and preach
ing and the humber callings be-
cause of the other and more valued
compensation that comes from the
chosen work. The ideal occupation,
of course, is that which brings
most money and most satisfaction
simultaneously, such as that felt by
Brannigan. Mike was asked one day
by friend he had not seen for
years:
What are you doing, now, Mixer"
you niver behave ut at all, but
I'm gittin' paid fer jist enjyin' me-
self!
mo! How Gomez"
Sure, I'm tearin down a Pres
byterian Church, an gittin siven
dollars a day fer ut!''
Making living means something
L do not mean to slight it. Those
who fail to do so are usually pretty
considerable failures. The Book of
BOOKS tells us that "he that pro-
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