Show A i PRACTICAL WORLD this is a practical world and we are a practical people but there is such a thing as being too practical too toa hardheaded hard headed too businesslike business like ilke if our indulgence in these homely virtues takes f from rom rather than ministers to our ur well being and happiness they are I 1 virtues out ot of place it is american doctrine to be shown we dont want to buy a I 1 pi pig in a poke when we employ d it man we pay him to do a job we de 1 mand that lie he labor his bis eight hours for his pay he must earn his bread by the sweat of its his brow it if we can get someone else to do it for less so much the worse tor for the man we had and whom we now fire and so we say to our doctors our inventors our investigators our men of 0 research research our professors our scientists enlists ts by all means ingeni invent and discover and delve and dig up new things tor for the benefit ot of all ot of us it if you do you can sell them to us but dont neglect to make your own alvin living while you discover or invent otherwise starve it never occurs to us the few very few positions in this country in which a man can make a living while engaging in research work are not enough to count it never occurs to our government I 1 I 1 to say to erudite m man an ot of learning here is five thousand dollars a L year for life go ahead and eat and drink and clothe yourself and your family and forget the battle tor for existence use all your time all your talent all your enthusiasm to invent discover dig and delve that we may all have the benefit ot of course after they are dead we raise hospitals and call them walter reed and erect statues to S P langley but while they live we dont doat give our really great investigators inventors scientists and discoverers a real chance no sir they have to males make a living first every man must stand on his own feet this Is a practical country ou |