Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-18
Our Thoughts Exert All-Powerful
Influence Over Life's Destiny

(aS II surely cam isn't ii possible tnal you ana
I are Just little packages of thought all tied
together and called electrons or bodies?
know this when my publisher walks into the
room can tell Immediately by looking at him if
he is angry or in good humor BY THE WAY
HE LOOKSl The things that he thinks about
certainly do change him. Sometimes there is
grand fire in his eyes and his face breaks into
glorious smile and ! know the magazine is
running all right What makes him change like
that? Why doesn't he always look the same if
it's true that matter is not changeable?
The great Stenmetz said that when we dis
the powe, Of thought shall discover
real life and I think he was right - so BE
CAREFUL WHAT YOU THINK AND WHAT
YOU BELIEVE!
If you want something out of this old world.
why just go after it - and firmly believe if you
go after it hard enough you'll get it, because I
don't believe even material things can resist the
power of a dynamic thought.
I don't begin TO unde stand this and ! don't
believe our most able scientists do either, be-
cause if they did they would know why we live
and die and the whole story Of existence
which no one knows.
The beginning of it ali is somewhat explained
by Gertrude Hartman, in THE World We Live
In"
w. OMING down the centuries" writes Miss
~ Hartman, I'VE find that man has con-
stantly modified his ideas about the earth his
knowledge of it increased. For man" centuries
people had many wrong ideas about the shape
of the earth. AS look upon the earth it ap-
pears to be fiat; so it is not to be wondered at
that for long long time most people thought it
to be so, especially they had no travelled
enough its surface to find out what it really
was like. But even as far back as tn time of the
Creeks learned men came to believe that the
earth was round.
For many centuries, too, every one believed
not natural to think So when men saw it rise
in part of the heavens in the morning and
set in the opposite part at night? Then in the
fifteenth century came great original thinker
named Nicholas Copernicus. He eagerly
read everything he could find out about them
(the heavens. and after studying and thinking
for years, he came to believe that the older
writer's were mistaken in thinking that the sun
revolved around the earth. The rising and setting
of the sun, Coperncus explained, is caused, not
by the movements of the sun, but by that of the
earth 1t just appears to us that the sun is NOV
ing and that we standing still. When he was
quite old man, Copernicus wrote book ex-
planning his ideas, but he scarcely lived to see it
appear. A printed copy of it was gently laid in
his hands just before he died. so that he might
feel it,
"Copernicus not able to prove his belief
because he had no means of studying the heavens
except his own eyes Shortly after the time
of Copernicus man increased his seeing power
by making an eye of curved glass which collected
the rays of light over large area and bent
them so that they would pass through the little
pupil of his own eye. This is the principle of the
telescope There is interesting story as to
how this discovery was made. About three hun
dred years ago there living in Holland a
man by the name of Hans Lippershey, whose
business was making eyeglasses. One day, so
the story goes, while he working in his shop,
his children were playing outside with some of
his lenses They happened to hold up one lens in
front of another to look at the weathercock on a
nearby church steeple. Their excited cries of
surprise upon seeing how near it seemed through
the glasses brought their father from his shop