Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 13 | The Center of Our Lives

i I The Center of Our Lives i astronomers at the Harvard ob ob- GIFTED have found the center of the univ r e It is located in the general direction of the constellation of Scorpion a matter of 5 52 O oO light years away and all of our stars and suns revolve about it This represents a bit of starry range finding find find- ing that is something of an advance over the our forefathers used to practice years of study and and- finely tuned were necessary to It about Yet with all respect it is to say that the Harvard savants are wrong The center of the universe is not a fixed position It It varies for each individual For Foran Foran an an astronomer it may be off in outer space tight light years away but fos' fos the man next door it may be in the mahogany office of of- ofa a bank the arid confusion of a railway yard or the cradle of a baby in an upstairs bedroom It is amazing when you stop to think thin about it that men should make their lives revolve about such diverse and often seemingly seemingly seem seem- insignificant points We are here for such a little time here so incomprehensibly and trailing clouds of mystery if not of glory lory yet there ar are men who can devote their whole lives to knocking a golf ball balt about a field putting rare postage stamps In little books or wandering through forests shooting wild animals It would seem that we are quite blind Given a L short space of vivid being between t two o eternities of inscrutable silence we might b be expected to he be in a feverish hurry to sample all varieties of experience to devote ourselves to things significant and lasting we do not Ordinarily we are content to live from day to day taking the little tittle joys that little tittle jobs jobs- bring It is surprising Yet it may be that we weare weare are wiser than we seem Who would be so pr prodigal digal of time so blind to opportunity but beings who knew that they had all eternity Perhaps we use our time better than we know The scientists may put the center of the wherever they wish Yet we each r- r own center and for each of us the world revolves about that one point It may maybe mayhe he be that we are quite right In some limitless tomorrow there may be time for the great things that plague us in our dreams Today we have today's tasks sorrows and joys great or small We are not wrong to stick to them