Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-03-23 | Page 9 | Albert E. Wiggam's Let's Explore Your Mind

Albert E. E Wig Wiggam's gams gam's Leis lef's Explore Your Mind 1 Are all human lives equally Valuable Answer to Question No 1 1 No Some Som people are worth wortha a hundred or a thousand or ora ora ora a million of others If that were not true why do we educate children children children chil chil- dren so they will become Valuable Valuable Valuable able to the world An educated educated educated ed ed- ed- ed man is worth any number of ignorant men A good goodman goodman goodman man is worth a million bad men A genius who invents a radio or airplane is more valuable than the man who invents noth noth- ing The man who minds his own business rears his family pays his debts is honest with his neighbors neighbors and and buys defense bonds is worth a million times as much as one fifth columnist columnist columnist colum colum- draft dodger or quisling 2 Is popularity necessary to success Answer to Question No 2 2 2 No Many of the greatest heroes prophets scientists and reformers have been popular popular popular pop pop- ular but they have been enormously enormously enormously enor enor- successful Jesus surely was not popular but the most successful l being that ev ever r lived Men have often crucified their saviors and stoned their ets However we ordinary I mortals long for popularity the approval of our fellows tellow and doubtless all great men have done so even when they have done great things Ask any bigman bigman big bigman man who has done big things and yet been unpopular with the masses and he will say Yes 1 I put it over but after all I feel I am myself a failure This is because the human heart longs so intensely for the affection affection affection tion love and praise of other human beings 3 Girls' Girls hl high h school chool class asks Have JIa men or women done more for humanity Answer to Question No Xo 3 3 If It you mean young ladies which have made the greatest creations the greatest reforms the greatest works of art literature literature literature lit lit- and science and the greatest political advances the answer unquestionably is is- is men But in carrying on the days work of the world inspiring the men bearing and bringing up the children holding up the morals and morale of the world and making that sanctuary of the human heart and mind the mind the home women home women have probably done far more In th the totality of human welfare happiness and nd progress their have probably been equal