Evening star., 1936-03-24

Essential
ToYoung
A lw y S Encourage
Consideration of
College.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

oh, I DON'T know. What's the
good of sending children to col
lege if there is no place for them
when they come out? And maybe
we will need the money to live on.
You can't tell these days what is
going to happen between night and
morning used to think that send
ing my children to college would be
the greatest joy in my life. That's
gone, too"
Now isn't that going over the
mountains to Nowhere? Things are
bit upset. but there is no reason for
expecting them to get worse. no need
of sitting down to watch catastrophe
fall upon ones roof. A sure way to
bring about the thing you fear is
to take 1t to your bosom and cherish 1t.
No blue-prints come with life. There
never was any certainty as to what
would happen between sunrise and
sunset. Many Of us got into the
habit of thinking there was and that
made us happy. Then something
happens that was not in the plan
and we are lost. We have no faith
in ourselves, in our neighbors, our
country and its Government. Nom
sense. We are as secure as we ever
were. Get back your faith and go
forward trusting to whatever good
may come and it will come. Good
ness has never failed us.
Nobody really means that he has
no faith any more. The fact that
he continues to live is proof enough
that he has faith in the goodness of
life and a strong belief that it will
come to him if he is prepared to re-
ceive it. Nobody believes that all
men are evil. Every one of us be-
lieves in the goodness of humanity.
If we did not we could not go on
at all. All of us really believe that
the storm will pass and the skies
brighten again, but we must mourn
aloud, indulge our fears, hug our
hardships so that we can pity our
selves little. That Is bad business.
After pity comes fear. and fear Is
SOctl uSU1fCs
Children are growing up all around
us. They are living-not waiting for
another day-but living in the day
that is theirs. They are adjusting
themselves to the thought of their
times, and before long they will be
influencing the life of their times di-
rectly and forcefully. They need the
best possible education, training and
discipline, so that they may stand
up like men. This is no time to
waive college education, or any other
sort Of education. Youth needs all
the power it can pack into the span
Of its growing time. To discourage
learning, research, practical effort on
the side of knowledge is to stunt the
growth of the coming generation.
II you cannot have faith in the
old ways, then have faith in faith.
Have faith in believing, and something
will come to strengthen and clarity
your belief. Fear kills mental power
and stunts spiritual understanding.
Away with It! Put faith In its place.
You can believe in the goodness
Of people, In the rightness Of the
universe. You can believe in the
goodness Of work well done. It always
rises to strengthen the rightness Of
today. Build on that. Have faith
In faith. Encourage the children to
60 ahead day by day. one step at q
time. Never mind what lies ahead.
You don't know and never will know.
Give the children the best possible
education, the best possible home life,
and have faith, the substance essen
tial to living.
lcopyrignt, 1851