Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-04-08 | Page 8 | Doleful Cheerfulness

o 4 I Doleful Cheerfulness I IBy By JOHN BLAKE It was Ben King one of the most molt cheerful of ot optimists who wrote these lines linea Nothing r to do but work Nothing to eat but food tood Nothing to wear but clothes dotheR To 0 0 keep one from going nude nUd c i Nothing t to breathe but air lr Quick as a flesh sh Us gone gon I Nowhere to fall faU b but t off Nowhere r re to stand bt but on Off I i Nothing t to comb but hair hall Now Nowhere ere to tD sleep but be bed to W weep p but tears tear Nothing to ta bury b but bill t. t Nothing to sing ring but songs li f Ah h. h well alas al alack I I Nowhere X XV V re to tD go ga but out Nowhere to come but back i Nothing to strike but a gait Everything moves that goes Nothing at all aU but common sense Can save us from all these woes x N Nothing at nt flU all but common sense but th thank heaven there there- is plenty of ot that In the world to combat all an the dreary prophets of ot evil who see the th world going to the dogs because girls girU wear veal short hair and college boys smoke Mr Barries Barrie's p pessimist who told everyone he be met that it was a weary world has plenty of replicas just now and some of them are ladies ladles and gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen gentle gentle- men who write books and for the newspapers and the tho magazines But when they go out on their doleful trouble- trouble hunting expeditions there is nowhere to come but back and the worst of them will sooner or later tater arrive o where they started from and we wo trust be cured o a 05 their foreboding forebodings This may not be the best st world In the universe and only an Idiot would insist that tha it is as good asIt as asit asit it ought aught to be v But neither is it rushing headlong to perdition There Is still truth and nd beauty In it and a fairly reasonable chance to earn an n honest living and a afew afew afew few friendships fri n and a great deal of very interesting experience 0 It i U III er a much better world than it used to be In the thi days when hen people were stretched on racks and burned fh fires because they didn't happen to hold the same theory of cre creation as other people did Plenty of intolerance and prejudice and Injustice still th there re is is to be sure and an overabundance of selfishness But although there Is nothing to do but work this work can take many very ery entertaining forms form and can be made useful to ourselves as well as to thousands of other people who never heard of ot us usand usand usand and whom f we e shall never seeThe see The last last line In Mr r. r Kings King's poem Is the one he probably wrote first at least he had it in mind when he began his poem and the poem was written to show how stupid is the pessimistic spirit that can find good in nothing We are not a sunshine but neither are areva we va a a. gloom dispenser And we believe that common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense which is the middle course will 1 save sae us from the consequences which otherwise might ensue emme from the of these thelle earnest but lightheaded light light- headed beaded people