Show WilUoa A fULITIER-PRIZ- E WINNER! Now SmtHi 78 Carl Sandburg hat boon a nawapaporman distinguished post Unooln biographer folkloro collector Don’t Get Too Comfortable! A beloved Oy CARL SANDBURG American writer gives some good advice in poetic form i Albert Einstein the relativity man was a pioneer and wayshower He changed the structure of the universe as an idea or a concept It made a sensation in the history of science that hasn't yet slowed down When he was asked why his theory and its proof brought the excitement it did he answered “I challenged an axiom” He was one of a series of pioneers each of whom challenged an axiom You didn’t have to prove it An axiom is a principle or theory so plain to be seen that it doesn’t need proof Much of the history of the world could be -- octttor I iiu written in a book to be titled “Challengers Of Axioms” They were not afraid of hard work and plain living There has been a slogan that “plain living and high thinking” go together Einstein confessed “To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me” Some people take it that Einstein in essence was saying “I prefer misery to comfort and I’d rather have trouble than happiness” Of course he meant no such thing Is there a game of words here? Could it be there are men who get comfort by going without comforts? Another little book could be written about how Einstein meant it that “comfort and happiness” are dangerous goals Anyhow we heard Rocky Marciano tell Ed Murrow that since he retired from the ring quit being world champion he had gained 20 pounds And of the years when he fought 49 fights and never lost one be said “I was always hungry always hungry” So h seems that Einstein and Marciano had each his own way of guarding against the dangers of “comfort and happiness” This Weelt © 1956 United Newspapers Magazine 420 Lexington Aremte New York 17 William L Nichols Stew Corpora km N Euclid Y M Covington President John Editor-In-Chi-ef at Beach C Stealing and Publisher Executive Editor Chatman of the Board & TW— |