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Show I lion's ntliUidc: "Today's the thing. Lot tomorrow take cure of itself." Two definite reasons why we are i becoming gypsy rovers and do not j build for permanence. First, we ! realize more than ever before that jlife is merely a journey, a training school or gymnasium for self improvement. im-provement. We view life a.s a Pullman car and are quite willing to leave peanut hulls and banana peels behind us. Then, too, we build only for permanence per-manence in big projects like the Panama canal, because we are busy creating new ideas, processes and devices and willing to replace repeatedly re-peatedly the material things expressing ex-pressing these ideas, processes and devices. Former generations, for j instance, were content to use a horse and buggy and make them . last as long as possible. ye connive con-nive or build the idea of the auto and that idea is permanent even if ; individual autos are not. WE ARE BECOMING GYPSY RACE. I lew ninny (lil't'cri'iit towns have jim liwil in? ll.iw many times have you movtd from one house to another? How many miles have ,yoil traveled sinee liirthV Most of us fiial that, a.s the years slip by. 1, we travel more, move ol'lener and -' ehanw jolis more frequently. Gone are the days when son followed In father's footsteps Keneration after generation, living in the same town, the same old family homestead, home-stead, generally the same line of work as parent. There are many indieations that jive are heeomins,' a race of gypsies rovers. It is the natural result of better transportation facilities, fa-cilities, especially the auto. Twenty years ago, a man or woman taking a trip of 1,000 miles was the talk of the town. Today one attracts more attention if he doesn't take an occasional long trip than if he does. Teople move from house to house, city to city, job to job, farm to farm. Covered wagon days are returning return-ing nearly everyone a pioneer, yearning to be somewhere else, doing something different. One symptom of our gypsy tendency ten-dency is the increasing custom of not building for permanence. Houses used to be built to last forever, for-ever, if possible. Now they are thrown together. Owners do not care. Most of them expect to move in a few years. Same with auto ownership the buyer, when he buys, already is looking ahead to the date when he will "trade in the old car on. a new one." E. Yf. Forber, head of Fogg Art Museum of Harvard, warns that the paintings of some of our modern artists may not Inst more than fifty years because of the use of inferior in-ferior canvas or paints. Excellent materials are on the market for the artist, but often he is careless in buying and using. Bad paint, improperly varnished, may fade to a blur instead of lasting centuries like the masterpieces of the old-time old-time painters. All this is typical of our genera- |