Milford chronicle., 1928-12-21
MILFORD, FRIDAY, DEC. 21. 1928

" JOu uSp6uuS upon Vol
capacity for knowing just as yol
appreciation of everything else d,
pends upon your capacities. In IL
man who can not read, capacity
limited by so much. If he learns I
read but cannot read music, his ca
pacity still is limited. As he goe
on learning, his capacity of KNOWN
is increased and thereby his field G
enjoyment is enlarged. Ignoranc
is not bliss, as it sometimes is mis-
quoted as being. Greater happiness
comes to those whose faculties nav,
been prepared to appreciate at theil
proper values all things in life. 81
what Christmas day means to Ill ot
US depends upon our capacity fol
knowing.
There is a Christmas tree in your
home. Around it are those passing
through some of the happiest mo-
ments they ever will know. Do you
not envy the experience of the youn-
gest of the group seeing that tree for
the first time? To that little one the
tree is an amazing sight. As the
years pass it will become less and
less amazing but it never will lose
its power to give enjoyment. Then
all of sudden, it will become amaz-
ing again when the child of today
has become a parent. You, who
were children yesterday, are chill
dren again today, so know the feel
ings of all those gathered around the
tree, from the tiniest to the largest,
for you have known the experiences
of all Of them. And how merry you
are this morning! You know now to
make all the toys run better than
any of them-how infinite your ca
pacity for knowing! You do not re-
feet upon it but it exerts its magi-
cal influence.
You know there is a Santa Claus
some of the children may look at
you knowingly-but, in your heart |
you know something they must yet
learn They have been infected by
a taint of skepticism that once af-
fected you, but you know, ah, you
know. You know there is something
mysterious and unseen that is more |
real than the perceptible-something
superior to practical genuineness.
You cannot give it words nor define
it any more than you can the colors
that you are conscious of after you
look at a bright light and then close
your eyelids. They are beautiful
colors but they have no actual exis-
tence. Yet you see them. For colors
the Christmas tree is just as amaz-
ing as that, but the children do not
see them, because they do not have
the same capacity of vision that you
possess.
Merry Christmas, visionaries all.
SeS
THE MOVEMENT to establish play
grounds has had a wonderful infu-
ence. All over the land cities and
towns are buying play spaces for
children, and for sports for both
children and adults. Statistics
prove that where you have play
grounds in city, crime is reduced.
Yet just turning children loose on
playground without supervision
does not accomplish so much. Some
older person needs to look after
them. and organize their games, and
make them play in teams, and adjust
their quarrels and grouches.
Children do not have much sense
Of team play. They want to do
things themselves and get all the
glory. But along about the teen age,
they can be made to see that they :.
get more satisfaction to work with -
1 team, and that when team plays =,
base ball, foot ball, or whatever it -
S, they get more results if each
cam member obeys orders, and does =
he thing that will help his team the "
most, even if he gets no chance to
ihine himself. When children learn I'
hat lesson, they have learned lot. I"
A somewhat similar situation ex- I"
SITS in the life Of any community y
ike Milford. Many people are very ID
low to join in with team play.
they want to act as pure individual q
SITS, either pursuing their own per- p'
onal effort, they want to be in the u
melight, and get lot Of applause.
Team play is one Of life's chief pc
,ssons. When the boy learns to pc
are little whether he has the foot pc
all or not, provided his team wins, eV
,d when the man and the woman
arm TO care nothing whether they be
+ anv praise or not, provided tn
cir community advances then we ri'
a progress and things accom- a
shed. -.
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ruE WEEKLY newspaper does fit
! claim to be as wise as the owls
the big metropolitan journals tlO
it does not know so many things tn'