The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-11-02
Howe About:
Wordsworth
Success Easier Than Failure
How Time Passes
By ED HOWE

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By ED HOWE
T DO not like poets, but frequently
admire sentence they have writ
ten. Wordsworth wrote of "the mighty
sum OF things forever speaking
Here is sufficient brevity, originality
and common sense, but as rule poets
color their product too highly, and
prose suits me better than the Jum-
bled way In which yersifiers arrange
their lines. The sentiment / quote
from Wordsworth appeals to me be-
cause 1t is my natural way to pay
constant attention to the mighty sum
of things forever speaking. There are
so many of these mighty voices clam
oring to be heard, I can give each one
only few lines.
William Feather-I published this
paragraph: mo man can go complete
" to the devil without great deal OF
determination" Ted Robinson,
the newspaper columnIst, retorted:
.That's wrong. Some can go to the
devil Just by standing still.' ;.
/ do not Intend TO let Mr.. Robinson
dismiss In a few words the most Inn
portant practical philosophy ever for.
INFLATED. e. w. Howe. Of Kansas, says
success Is easier than failure, and
has written much on this theme. ;.
Consider the man who stands still
ON a sidewalk. He Is jostled and
cursed by those who are moving, and
who want him to get out OF the way
The most comfortable way to spend
time on the sidewalk Is to be going
somewhere. Overwhelming. or over
indulgence of any kind, Is followed by
a headache. Over-spending or over.
speculation Is followed by the barking
OF creditors. Violation Of the criminal
| law is followed by arrest and sentence
| to the workhouse Every man who
goes completely to the devil gets there
by easy stages. At every turn he SUI
fers more than the man who behaves
| himself. Never does he rise In the
morning without warning that I'M
less he reforms, his troubles will In
crease. His wife seolds him, his EN-.
/ ployer threatens him, and his friend.
avoid him. 1t takes the strongest
kind OF will to ignore the signs or
the road to hell, and to bear the cross
OF self-imposed failure. Ihinl
about this, and you'll admit 1t Is true
| Success Is easier than failure.
For several years. an hour before
eating NV one considerable meal o
the day, / have Ind the habit OF ak
ing q swallow OF tasteless mineral oil
In connection with pinch OF seawee'
called agar. / suppose some one In
duced me to try 1t, and, as 1t did m
no harm and some good. continues
II. Once | was at table with quit
noted doctor and health specialist, an
said to him:
4Every noted man Is pestered some
what by those to whom he Is Intro
dueed. / shall bother you with only
simple question" Then / outlined m
. habit, and asked:
rs It a good idea7'
swell" the great man replied %
is upwards Of eighty, i do 1t" ! pul
sued the inquiry no further: but Wnf
started out to say Is that time passe
3 SO rapidly when one is old that
6 seems TO me now I take mineral 0
! every hour instead of every tWent,
1 four.
Az impressive reading as may
found In our American books CO.
Germs the firing on Fort Sumter, WIKI
I started the Civil war. The battle las
| ed four days. and the exchange
| shots from big guns between Mort
erners In the fort and Southerners
shore was tremendously noisy, impre
sive and smoky, yet not man
either side was injured during the e
tire exhibition.
However, when the Yankees 81
rendered and retired from the TO
the Southerners, being Brave m
themselves, wished to honor the 81
lantry OF their defeated foes q ha
long observed that opposing fighte
usually commend the bravery OF ca
other).
So the Southerners attempted
fire d salute In honor of their foes,
big gun burst, and four gallant
lows were wounded.
Had the participants on both sic
been engaged In their usual calm
/ should not be laughing at them mi
than seventy years later
When / go on the streets during
present depression, the people Sc
sufficiently sensible and efficient,
when I read of the doing of statesn
at Washington and state capitals
no bow my head and burst into tea
,er Surely I am right In saying our gre
no est blunders, our greatest cruelt
- haua haan in war and statpsmansl