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Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-10-01 | Page 12 | Ripples

Type issue
Date 1926-10-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Ripples
Type article
Date 1926-10-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 12
OCR Text e I 1 I Ripples I 4 By Bv nI HR FRANK CRANE Opinions ar are like ripples How lIow long they last depends upon the surface o on n which the they appear appearS The mind of the individual who holds the opInion n Is the surface whose character determines its lastIng last las t- t ing lag quality I Think over your friends Some chan change e their opInIons ri- ri Ions continuously other with great reat Infrequency You have seen man many kinds of ripples ripples ripple es eson on water ripples on sand ripples on ice and rIpple ripp Ic marks in In solid soUd limestone All are duplicated in n the minds of ot men On water ripples alter with each rr breath Jn tn n stone they change on only with the erosIon of years One type of or mind Is fluid another concrete The first l la 13 plastic but the second id Is retentive but unchanging and indurate One changes Its opinions too frequently frequent th the theother other not frequently enough In a general way th these se two characteristics o of mind represent two stages of life In youth the tendency is to change our opinIons opinion too often In old age lige the tendency is to change them to too seldom Youth is a time for ripples rippled on water It Is a time for alternating changing chan open mindedness for a sort of sparrow-like sparrow hopping from one idea ide to another l Opinions are formed destroyed and reformed with little effort Old age is a time when the ripples of opinion seem marked In stone They are fixed The after They alter only long erosion erosion erosion ero ero- ero- ero sion by contrary evidence Both attitudes are off balance One leans to too far tar forward forwald the other too far hack back Between th the two extremes is the happy medium Of Ot the two attitudes the one that can be mos most controlled Is that of solidity Little Little- can be done don to change the attitude of ot the mind of youth an and it has time to steady down anyway But open mindedness Is a habit that can b be cultivated p A new v truth is truth a and an old error Is a an error Is a good motto for advancing ad years
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