Show I LOOKING UP ui By DR FRANK CRANE CRANE- Man and the Institution j I was walking through a great church theother the theother theother other day that is in the process of erection It was a magnificent edifice Into it alread already had gone millions of d dollars and millions more are arc being asked for It will ivill be bea bei i a great monument when it is finished 1 i In the un unfinished structure in one corner 1 of it it a preacher was holding forth He Me was wasa a small man with n a small voice oice and was I surrounded by a little crowd of listeners He made madea a small ripple in a n great pool pooi Who Vho this preacher was and what he said makes very verr little difference The big thing was the church The institution overshadowed the per per- As c civilization grows institutions are created and grow larger luger and larger by accretion By the same token men grow smaller and smaller Out in ill Kansas the they dont don't ha have liae e cathedrals nor man great institutions but men lUen grow I loose loo out in the tlC open and they come ome to a 8 I I I i considerable size I i An institution may be a good thing for the therace therace I race and a good gool thing to perpetuate certain I ideas But it is not a n very good thing for individuals to grow up in it They are apt to I come up small and runt runty like plants grown in ina I a cellar Institutions only hold their s sway because I I the of the people arc small anyhow I I and the they want a a. chance not for opportunity I I Jut but to be protected This is a cold and cruel I world ld and it is quite a comfort to feel that between us and it are the protecting arms of an institution Of course a man e can n grow to what size he lie will an where anywhere but his growth largely depends upon the elements of opposition and upon the amount of life force within him Always the best part of the human ra race t is being ejected from its establishments and the tendency has always been to go West Yest America Australia New Zealand and the like have been built up I by younger sons by those who could find no noI pla place e in the established institutions of the I older civilizations Copyright 1925 b by the the McClure Newspaper I Syndicate I |