New Britain herald., 1930-02-12

"All cranks possess the same basic quality of character. They arc irrit- able. When in prep school l had crank for an instructor. Everything irritatcd him. lr the dessert didn't suit his fancy, he would rise 10 the full six feet Of llS self importanc" and with lvid lips stamp out Of the dining room. If the waiter put T cracked plate at his place. he would rise in wrath anI smash it in pieces on the floor. He was just q grown mp baby He had carried liabilities over from childhoCG into manhood, He had tWo-Whccl brakes on his mrryous Syatcm And they lcldom worked But tlc greatest labor leader the world has ever known was 2 crank. II" was irritable also. But there was q. difference. When he looked out over the plains of Egypt and saw his fcllowmcn toIlins under 3. burning sun in a leadcn sky making bricks without straw, living in SQualor and misery, it irritatc@ him. He started the first Jewish Ia bor union. And when demands weren't met, he lee the union out of Egypt into Palestine. Two cranNS. One taught mathematics. The other taught his people how 10 live rct- ter, One showed a perverted scnsi- tivcncss. The other demonstrated a glorifed sensitiyjty.
 Irritability Indicates Life
 t"rbcrr'c no 6iGprapc in heinz ir- ritable Science claims that irrit- ability is the real flow of life. Moth ing irritatcs q dead man. If it did, he would return to life.
 Tn the spring the farmer lays kernels of corn mt the furrow. A few weeks and the ground cracks. A row Of green SproEts stick up their heads and grow into the fullncss of rlpcncd grain. Why? Heat and moisture lrritatol it into life.
 "Thc other day l vent with q reputable surgeon 10 the home of one who had suffered cerebral hcInorrhaSc. An arm and leg were paralyzcd. How did he determine He laid her hand across his and tapped her wrist. No response. fIc ticklcd the bottom of her foot with a match. No sensitivity, no irrita- blity. And he declared the limb, dead, usoless. No irritability; nc sensItivity; no life.
 The same principle finds cXprcs. sion in successful business enter. priscs. The insurance agent makC' a man sensitive Of the fact tha' death is just around the corner Then he irritatc9 the man into buy ing insurance. IIcmy Ford had mad' nor" cranks than any other success ful business man He made the poo man sensitive of the fact that q mal car be as big fool riding as he cal walking. So we all bought Model T Then we became painfully aware 0 poor highways. We were irritatct into demanding better ones. ThcI when the highways were improvc' he irritatcd more people into riding and when the market was Cluttcrcc with used cars. Ec irritatcd som into buying a used car for thci wives.
 Irritability Yields Progress
 "yhe principle extends to th realms Of human progress. The clan never got anywhere. Why? Be cause it was perfectly satisfied wit it's environment. It couldn't be ir ritated. Therefore it dug itself inc inc oozy mad anG waited there m iii someone irrltGl"G by hunger du 1t up and ate if What marks tn difference between the man in tn White House aGd a certain Chimes coolie who spends his days draggin people around in 9 Whoel- chair. Nil Hoover is a crank, n the finest sens of the world. He is irritable, scnsi tive. Nature made the cooic to tough and stolid Mr. Hoover locke around the wor;1 and say half bein overfcd while the other half Wcr starving. It in .tatcd him 10 tn point of taking away food from th oVcr-stuficd and giving it to the u dernourishcd. He saw the tcrr'bI outcome Of wal and it irritatcd hi D rcaliTatlln oi the need Of ou
 awing war from the face of ;I earth. He saw thc busincsa dcprc -Ion that hot in iast November an it irritatcd him nto bringing b, business mon trGcthcr 10 plan col srLctiNe work ai would ward o poverty and suffering. On the oth. hand you have the coolie. True I l,sn't had chnnEe in life. But ]
 he 1crpt sensitive, sheds his tough hide for hin one. allows hi: environment
 initiate him in.r action. No irrt; bil,ty, no scnsitiVI'y, no life,