The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-12-14

ing down the hill to see the result of
the shot.
"We got him." said the other.
"Where do you get that we stuff?
shot that deer. You didn't even raise
your rifle to your shoulder"
But when they reached the thicket
of quaking asp and found fine
yearling heifer dead, the man who
had fired the fatal bullet turned to
his friend with: "We sure played
HI this time, didn't WEI"
There are people who seem to have
learned only one letter in the alpha
bet: |. The only grammar they ever
took seriously was the first person
singular. You need to look out for
them; they are dangerously i'll, and
it's catching.
This / trouble is insidious and little
noticed, like some other diseases
which are contracted and developed to
the danger point before the sufferer is
aware of their existence.
Don't bet on these / people in the
gamble of life. And, what is more,
watch yourself that you do not uncon-
sciously develop that / disease. 1t
will cause no end of pain and unhap-
piness if not checked in time.
The man who thinks ME instead of
WE always defeats himself in the
end. 1t is disastrous to consider any
kind of an enterprise or business I'M
dertaking from the Me point of view
because such view is not compre-
hensive enough. 1t leaves out too
many factors. There is no such thing
as an individual interest in life. A
person can do nothing which does not
include other people. To consider
any human relationship, business or
social, friendly or domestic, from the
ME point of view is like trying to
arrive at the sum of column of fig
ures by leaving out all the figures
but one. 1t simply can't be done.
My farmer neighbor says: 81
raised a bumper crop of corn this
year." Did you, neighbor? You
might have helped little, but as
matter of fact, you yourself raised
nothing.
The men-many of them dead and
gone-who invented and improved
farm machinery-they helped raise
that crop of corn. The men who la
bored in the mines, the lumber camp,
and the smelters to produce the iron
and steel and wood, and the men who
labored in factory and foundry to
make your plows and planters and
cultivators and harvesters = they
helped. The merchants who sold these
implements TO you, and the banker
who financed the manufacture, the
merchant and yOu-they all helped.
The farm hands who worked in the
field-they certainly had hand in
making this crop. You did not pillow
furrow; you did not plant a seed;
you did not cultivate row; and did
not gather an carlow can you say:
81 raised bumper crop of corn?
Your education? / beg your pardon
your education is not your educa-
ton at all. What you call your edu-
cation, my friend, in reality belongs
to a great many people. 1t belongs to
the taxpayers and donors who build
the schools, equip, maintain and run
them. Did you think these great edu-
cational institutions were established
and are operated for your own per-
sOnal benefit? Indeed they are not.
Your fellow citizens merely entrusted
this education to you in order that
you might use it for all.
Education which is not in this spir
it of WE is dangerous education.
The educated ME person who does
not acknowledge real Indebtedness
to teachers and to those who make
schools possible is, after all, not we'll
educated. We would do well to write
over the entrance of every school in
the land this wonderful little word
WE.
Consider what the WE spirit would
do in the affairs of our government
If our politicians were to seek office
in the spirit of WE rather than in the
spirit of ME, our election campaigns
would at least be raised to a level Of
decency more becoming to the dignity
of our nation-if you IAN read much
of our legislative doings and still feel
that such thing as national dignity
is possible.
The ME type of Office seeker and
job hunter is the shame of our coun-
try-prOfessional politicians whose
conception of public office is that it
exists for the personal and individual
advantage and prosperity of whoever
is lucky enough. or clever enough, or
INSCRIPTIONS enough to win it. These
ME people never think WE in con-
nection with their public duties ex-
cept insofar as WE includes their
financial obligation to their campaign
managers and party committees They
have no feeling of WE in their rela-
ton to the people in whose service
they have to take the oath Of office.
From street sweepers to post office
club it is What / can get out of 1t
and the people go hang.
Nevertheless this nation was brought
into being by the spirit of WE The
spirit of WE is written in every line
of its early history. Only in that
spirit can 1t endure.
Yes, indeed, WE is great little
word In business, in religion, in edu-
cation, In the home and in friend
ship you can safely bet on the man
who thinks WE, saws WE-who, in
short. has the WE habit.
t@. 1928. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc,
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