Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-20 | Page 22 | Our Longing for Freedom

I Our Longing for F Freedom ree I i LONG about this time every year editors L on oil newspapers in every city from Se- Se to Jacksonville make the observation there ther are more wife desertions in the spring than at any ny other time The flie yoke of l. l L rile worn placidly throughout the J begins to gall in April Police courts Tin charitable organizations have pitiful rec's rec- rec s 's of f families left destitute by spring wanY wan- wan r i The answer of course i is that spring is ise I e time tinie when the desire for freedom is re re- 1 Even the most devoted and law- law Y Joing of h husbands and husbands and wives too for all tV fiS is lat is apt to find himself or herself think- think w of casting off old ties tics and seeking 1 gerty etty If Jf y you u really could get ct absolute freedom away the harm resulting from W particular spring urge might not be so But this world it is is you cant art For it is a curious fact that only by some sort of bondage can you attain ur freedom r The he hobo sauntering along the railroad o ck riding here and there on freight trains the spirit moves him him considered considered the very ol 01 of utter r freedom freedom is is as a matter of I the greatest slave in th the world He is isid isto I id td to his Own craving for movement and ads him unceasingly He is not free to toa tm t a home to store up money to win the theof I of his fellows felloes to make his lois life count countI t I ft anything the wanderlust rices him like 2 rold old man of the sea He is forever o v S And And the stay home The one tied to e and childen compelled to watch A ry penny unable to to get away for more e er r n a day or two at a time That person is r Q tone one j who is truly free For For the tramps tramp's s sa a lilly fo to travel to the next county at will f r. f tI 1 I r c t. t J ih and sleep on olio the bare ground is a poor kind p of freedom If it is the best pet th thing yo you c n imagine you will always be bea a slave But i if you YOli can rise above that if you you can reject i it and embrace the bondage of everyday s ser service r- r vice vice then then you are arc on the way to real free free- dom Freedom to serve someone else free else free freedom dom doni to tie tic yourself to your jour work binding your body but keeping keepin your spirit unconfined is is worth seeking It gives subtle intangible rewards re that the runaway wilt will never never- know v. I. I