Show I I ir If Brains Brains Brains' I Ih i h S L S f from om London say th that t tw ty- ty g i five clergy clergymen en star starved starred ed to death in inE E England gland last year The Rev Billy Sunday i has retired in affluence after a few years of ofal al picturesque i The chances are that an any ny man of the twenty ff fi b starvelings was I more highly educated than and fully funy as intellectual as LS Mr Sunday 9 Th The chances are th that t each strived to do doI dohi I I hi W his ministerial duty in fully as great a deI deas degree de de- de- de I fl gree e. e as Mr Sunday did ld Why hy does the world orld reward one man with rags and another anther an an- other ther her with riches Why hy is one starved and tind hd one surfeited Is not the difference entirely in the angle of the appeal T The world is emotional And sensa- sensa If you can feed its emotions it will willI willward I r reward w ward rd you If you appeal to its mentality I J j pu u may starve and welcome We Ve pay harlie arlie Chaplin a million a year to excite aur sur risible emotions The teacher to whom We Je e entrust our childrens training gets a I Million from us in just about a thousand I wars Frs Very few of them live to collect ie e full fun amount I Sir Oliver Lodge exploiting the s super super- per per- ural ral sensation of the hour receives es S 1500 t I f. f pr r r a few remarks but Sir Oliver Lodge lecturing to us as he he eminent scientist he is uld receive 50 perhaps John McCormack can pack any auditorium audi audi- audi in the countr country to titillate our ears but if he tried to teach us something the I hall liall w would td be full of emptiness We Ve pay I Bud Fisher more than all the members of 1 al all the academies i Bernard Dernard Shaw does indeed appeal to our our mentality but he does it with a laugh and h he uses uses' the medium of the theatre He Henakes 1 a show of himself Socrates Solon and n d St Solomon on couldn't o ld be elected elected to the leer r he leg lee o rt i islat l re e and yet we wonder ond r r n politicians poli are not statesmen Ve We refuse to think We Ve want to be shown Thrill us fill us with some some sort of emotion but do po not ask k us to to exercise our brains or our spirituality If you do well there are th twenty five five y-five dead clergy men |