The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-02-08
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The Road to help people TO spend
Happiness their idle time.
pie know who have any idle time are
forced to spend the most of it looking
for jobs.
Those who have plenty Of work to
do don't have enough idle time on their
hands to worry about.
1t is my belief that person who has
overabundant idle time ought to devote
it to finding some useful employment.
A good many widely known million
aires have done that.
When Andrew Carnegie retired from
the steel business, with much more
than enough money to keep him and
his family for the rest of their lives,
he didn't send for somebody to portion
out his time for him. and show him
exactly how he could live in enjoyment
for the remainder of MS existence.
Not having any schooling in his own
youth, he thought of other people who
might need it as badly as he did.
So, instead of trying to teach them
how to spend their spare time In the
lightsome pursuit of mock happiness,
he scattered libraries all over the coun-
try, so they could at least read and
improve their minds when they didn't
have anything else to do.
My idea of spending idle time profit
ably is to devote it to some interesting
kind of work.
| Why don't these blase people study
another language, or look into a book
now and then to see what it contains,
| instead of hiring a dancing teacher or
employing a guide to show them the
things they ought to see in trip
around the world.
That would relieve them of the
rigors of ennui, and when they wanted
exercise they could take walk
through the slums of great city,
where idle time combined with idle
money might do a great deal toward
cleaning up the town and making life
brighter and happier for those who
never will have any idle time as long
as they are able to stand and see.
am not a Bolsheuik or a Communist.
| don't believe that everybody ought to
toll throughout his existence, il he has
been skretud enough to store up money
for rainy day.
But hiring professional time-spend-
er looks 20 me like an extremely use
less and futile procedure.
And there still being a high percent
age of intelligence in the country, I
don't believe that the professional time
spending councillors have hit on the
right way to make existence more
profitable for people who have more
money than brains.
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There is no possible way to grow
happy and prosperous in this life with
out now and then taking chance.
If Christopher Columbus watch word
had been safety first" America would
have had to wait
towards considerably longer
Motto to be discovered.
Courage deserves
the praise which it has had since the
beginning of the human race.
Moral courage, which is the highest
type of courage, always involves some
form of risk.
The instinct of representation is
strong, but if it had not been constant
ly set aside during the races upbuild-
ing, we would be about as far along
our way as the timorous lazy Digger
Indian, whose tribe still exists on some
portions of the North Pacific coast.
Heroic men have always been able to
nerve themselves up to doing things
they were afraid to do, and there can
be no higher courage than that.
The hero worship bestowed upon
men and women who are not afraid to
run great risks for the sake of their
kin or friends, or for a cause, is always
justified.
l can remember a time in this coun-
try when party zealots were afraid to
defy some political boss who had or
dered leaders to nominate VIGOROUSLY
rascally and unfit men for Office
That sort of thing, luckily, is passing.
AS a race we are improving, because
our courage is improving.
No longer demagogaes rise in the
land to achieve such following that
the rank and file of the country is
afraid to take measures to unseat
them.
Nobody can accuse young Mr.. Lind
bergh of being governed by the safety
first idea.
Had George Washington been guided
by such a rule there would today be
no United States of America.
We are improving, however.
Every man and sOonan knosos instinct
ipely the right thing to do. But, unhop-
PLY, every man does not possess the grie
to do il.
More people recognizing risks take