Milford chronicle., 1960-05-06
A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

fall 10 do do mucn clear thinking, or develop
a philosophy of life.
True happiness is only possible when one
has developed philosophy of his own. All
of us have our deficiencies and our handi-
caps, and the sooner we all realize that we
are limited, in ways, the better off we will
be.
Moreover, all of US will not be million
aires, and all of us will want some things
during life which we cannot attain. The So
luton is to be satisfied with what honest eff
fort and real dedication can do, and to real
ize that this life on earth is not everything.
Nor are material values as important as
many of us assume.
The secret of happiness is philosophy
of mind. If one can develop philosophy
wherein he seeks to help others, is thankful
for all that he has, and for all of natures
gifts, and so on, he can be happy with rela-
lively little. That is not to say that one
need want only relatively little, but it is to
say that happiness is a state of mind, and
a philosophy, and not the state of bank
account or of material possessions.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON AS A FARMER
The Syracuse, New York, Post-Standard
recently carried an Illuminating portrait of
George Washington in little-known role
that of farmer.
DR.. Karl D. Butler the well known agri-
cultural economist who wrote the article
points out that "Washington's first and true
love was undoubtedly that of the land" He
was large property-owner and was keenly
interested in improving and conserving the
soil. And in. this, as in so many other ways,
the First President was far ahead of his
times DR.. Butler writes g. he advocated
the use of plows, drills and other crude fore
runners of modern farm equipment He knew
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land and advocated fertilization of the soil,
but his neighbors by and large were able to
buy new land cheaper than they were able to
fertilize the DID,"
Well, times certainly have changed: Fer
tilizatiOn is as much part of land manage
ment today as irrigation. And those crude
pieces of equipment whose use Washington
advocated have undergone a magical meta
morphosis Mechanization, in this era of
Sky-high labor costs, is the key to successful
farming. The machines are models of eff
cheney, long-life, low operating costs and pro-
ductive ability. Equally important, they
make possible and practical the conservation
techniques that will save our precious and
limited acreage. of croplands for future gen.
erations.
THE GREAT POLITICAL ISSUE
f-- Between now. and November the candi-
dates for the presidency and lesser offices
will argue many an issue. Some of the argu-
ments will be fortnight, some will amount
to fence-straddling.
But, as the Wall Street Journal points
out in an editorial, there is one overriding
issue that, above all, should be dealt with
squarely. In the papers words, at is moth
ing less than the question of the future
direction of the government -.
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met head-on; the American people deserve at
least that much. Are we to surrender to the
Communists by in effect initiating them? Or
are we to disprove their hideOus philosophy
by making this the freest possible of socie-
ties? That is the great political ISSUE and
it would be a healthy thing if it became the
focus of this campaign. The American peo-
pie must face it sooner or later. The sooner
it is got out in the open, stripped of Subter-
fuge and double-talk, the better for the Amer
ican future"
The American people are constantly told
that way to combat the Communist menace
is to turn over more and more power to say
nothing of more and more of their wealth, to
super-state. If the people allow that to
happen, there will be small need of combat
ting COmmunlsm-fOr we will simply adopt
Communism of our own, no matter what
label is given it.
RURAL CHILDREN BETTER BEHAVED
A survey of some nine hundred commun-
tiles recently revealed that youngsters stand
better chance of living crime-free life if
they come from rural areas, or from small
cities, than if they are reared in metropolitan
areas.
The survey showed that in nine hundred
communities, each with less than $4,000 pop
ulation, the number of arrests of adoleScents
in recent years was about one-third the num-
Der of arrests in metropolitan areas, over the
same period.
The result of the survey showed that not
only were total arrests less in the rural
areas, but that the number of arrests per
one thousand youngsters was far lower in
rural areas and in smaller cities Even
though this is better record than is found