The Washington times., 1929-05-03
Suffering Is Good For Us---
Makes Us Work
There Is No Good Book on Political Economy The Best
Book on Astronomy Is the Sky An Answer
to an Intelligent School Teacher.
w . have Letter from an intelligent young wOn


Cialy of the generation to come !.
The ordinary citizen would say that she ougnt 10 pc
fled doing good getting satisfactory pay but sne
Is not satisfied wants know about this world ana
the worlds outside Of it, and in her letter asks for advice as
to the best books Astronomy and the best book on
Political ECONOMY.
We do not want to give any ppant earnest
woman But repeat here the advice we would give
to every young woman and that is MARRY
The thing IN chain IS strength ana the most
thing is that link shall break
You young lady are link in chain that stretches back
to the beginning of human intelligence this planet You
have no right to break if you can help it.
If you die without children you are the link that BREAKS
the chain that courageous men and women carried on
through horrible centuries that you might live in semcvlza
tion will be broken
The work that any woman do in short lifetime
Is nothing what done by thousands OF
descendants Inspiration education the influence Of the
mother upon the child important than anything
else in human progress.
comes NEXT to motherhood But the direction that
might give three young minds created by yourself
ID more important than all.
is possible to do good such you do though
t may satisfy the highest aspirations and keep other
work. astronomy and economy, Of which you speak, as
mental stimulant.
Man has body and brain The brain should endure
the duness in life while the body does the hard work and
the brain finds its comfort in thought
The astronomers at Flammarion but he is full OF
suggestion courage and you detect and reject the
\ superficial
The best astronomy written, in the opinion Of
astronomers is that Of Newcomb.
There is an excellent textbook astronomy by M Houon,
For q mind like your own looking at the heavens as
map of infinite power there i Of book like the
sky night And words written astronomy more
impressive than the words that God supposed to have
said to poor prosecuted Job:
canst thou bind the sweet influences of Peades loose
the bands of Orion?
s'Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth his season?
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?'
There are no definitely good books ecOnomcsthat is
60 say no permanently accurate books Practical strive
TO make of economics science accurate and permanent
That absolutely impossible in the present stage Of human
There no use in laying down rules what is wise
unwse since it is necessary that should be un
happy and suffer in order make them go forward.
ant hs va n4o rrobems No economist regrets that But
every economist will tell you that gave government
salary the average the world would to smash and
civilization with it. Individual effort would cease
More than nine hundred and ninety thousand out of
million must suffer in order to make them work.
And they must work harder in order to make their work
Therefore for the present and probably for centuries
TO come the best economic system will be infctng
suffering upon the workers mothers and
senting fairly good imitation of hell on earth.
As teacher you know of course the of the prin
cipal economic writers and the principal books.
!, muoh eConomo truth ss any man Henry George in
progress and Poverty has presented well theories which
have done great good in stimulating thought
you wrote letter to the Professor Of Political Economy
at Johns Hopkins University any other large university he
would probably give you list of the latest books now
considered the best
# we had to write book on economics would be short
one and would read about follows:
1rr USfanu in novery @ and snxiety without eminstn~
the desperate brutal selfish struggle that alone produces
real effort among half savage human bengs?"
That would be the end Of the book because should not
question except with the unsatisfactory
words "Time and evolution" "
express dissatisfaction because you have devoted
good deal of your life to studying family expenditures
teaching young minds, ETC. Whoever does thing well
should not be discouraged.
Each Of the little creatures building up coral island had
10 his little particle Of coral substance and die in
doing it.
The sum total the efforts of those tiny creatures brought
their work to the surface of the water They
the real world the sunlight knew what they
building
We the creatures building similar island, called
civilization and each Of ought to be glad to contribute his
small particle-ahough of will get above the
face the real civilization Of which laying the
foundation.
Widows and Orphans
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