Show Did Xou YOU Ever Stop To Think Edson R. R Waite Shawnee Okla 01 1 R R. R D. D Kennedy Editor of The Whit Whittier tier California News says gays THAT most of us resent innovation If lf we are asked to do 1 something new we are apt to scotch the Idea before be before be be- fore it has ha been given a h chance We all alt get Into ruts and for the roost most part like them We hate to be forced creed up and out We distrust that which we do not nott t understand and choose to hold to the tho fame came old course rather than strikeout strike strikeout out ut in a new direction This is true because we lack nation The lack of Imagination is the real reason why so BO many of us bring up the rear It Il is the fellow with imagination who Is out in front He lie keeps keps pace with the altering ring requirements requirement require require- ments ment of 01 the world orld and achieves success suc suc- cess elS Some of us reach comfortable comfortable com- com pla place in the stream and then rest lest on our oars oE rs and the current carries car ries lies us down again It Is to stop atop in this year yar of 1928 if wo we with wish to hold our place or push ahead In Inthe Inthe the tho business w world We need imagination in most of the tasks set be before foro us A small Amatt boy whose hose chum In ought brought to school each day the kind of ot a sandwich for his luncheon reported to his own mother that the mother of his chum didn have any imagination and be lIe was Wal right The application of f just justa usta a Ji little tI imagination would the diet iet for the child When n we vve say we dont like newfangled newfangled newfangled new new- ideas and argue that we are content ont t with our own way of doing things thing we are begging beg the question We lack imagination Ame American i an business has haa forged ahead a a- head American because American business men have discarded mental laziness andare and andare andare are giving heed to leaders with imagination |