Show lifes plans seem sadly out of joint it if indeed the intention was that t life should mean happiness how sad has been the blundering blunde for consid er for one thing the pitiful ignorance which has resulted in such tragic suf fering to humanity As a matter of fact man has been cheated of his birthright supposing him entitled to happiness for has he not been corn coin belled unaided to wrestle with the problem of fitting himself to bis his en viron ment through long ages by sweat of brow travail of spirit and onerous physical to I 1 he has struggled to adjust himself to conditions into which he was thrust he found no paradise of happiness free to all life Is a perpetual struggle not elysium elys iura says vogue not only have millions been the victims of hideous slavery but the ft hole race from all time has suffered cruelly because of ignorance the mot pat pathetic betic phase of this suffer ing being the unpremeditated cruelty and injustice which results from ig borant parentage can those who claim happiness as a birthright explain why sentient beings predestined for happiness are not put in the way of achieving it ita for instance is the fate which Is supposed to dispense happi ness asleep or gone on a journey that it permits northern nor north thein ein capitalistic unholy love of money to combine with southern parental greed for the tor ture of children in the process of mill money getting 9 it if happiness be the de signed portion for humanity then are life lifes s plans sadly out of joint tor for the most cunning of malevolent spirits could not possibly devise greater varl tart ety or more lacerating kinds of misery than those which human beings in all grades of society are made to expert ence apart from the inevitable per bonal sorrows which affect all how Is it possible for any but the very young or the very selfish to be happy in a world where the majority are miser able because of disease little health dire poverty incapacity onerous la a bor or cruel anxiety 9 life as disc pline for character building is an in conception life as an abor tive happy hunting ground is an appal ling theory |