Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-04 | Page 8 | Few Lines

S. S Few Lines I i 0 By DR FRANK CRANE Queen Elizabeth historians tell teli us had twenty watches complex and fantastically jeweled and not one ne of kept correct time Ume A laborer today carries L a dollar watch wa that thatIs Is the acme of simplicity in watch construction but keeps perfect time Says Adam Adana Smith in his Essay on the pIes Which Lead and Direct Philosophical Inquiries The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex corn com plex and succeeding artists generally discover that with fewer wheels with fewer principles ot of motion than had originally been employed ed the same effects may be more easily produced The nearer perfection II a thing gets the simpler It is The keener the mind the more it strips away discussion It leav leaves s out everything but the point Napoleon said In the council chamber he was pitted against more eloquent men than himself but that he always won out by the simple argument that two and two male make four When we finish talking and our thought is not clear it is not because the thought is to complex to express but because we are not masters enough of It and of our Words to make It simple Language someone who observed the common failing of not making thought simple said was vas Invented to obscure thought The highest art in writing and speaking Is clarity couched in simplicity The Lords Lord's Prayer the Sermon on the Mount and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are among the greatest pieces of literature and each cach approaches the simplicity simplicity sim- sim of p perfection A noted cartoonist says Cartoons when published published pub pub- look as if the fellow drew In a minute or two Those simple looking drawings with but few tew lines are deceptive There is more mOle work back backof backof of them than It if they contained a million pen strokes The fewer the lines the harder the work Few lines in every field of effort is the slogan of approaching perfection Copyright 1927 by McClure Newspaper Ne' Syndicate