| Show uncommon sense fi by JOHN BLAKE e ca dell bell syndicate service from tile the time of your early childhood you are arc always engaged in some kind of a 11 colip competition competition if you iyo have brothers and sisters you learn early to compete with them for things that you want As you grow graw older you begin to compete for a job in life after that if it Is a good job you have to compete with others in ili order to hold it IL now if you are going to get what you want out of existence you have got to work against others many of these others are people you never have seen and never will see hut but they are trying to do what you want to do which Is to gain some of the prizes of existence thomas A edison was wa not the only man who was thinking about tile the new unseen magic fluid called electricity after men found out that there was such a thing but he was the arst raan man to realize its future possibilities and to experiment with them the wright brothers bro were not the farst farat people to believe that light flight was possible many men had done that professor langley built a plane long before they did ile he would have flown it if the gasoline engine had been perfected in ills his day to show how bow right lie he was in ills belief after ills his death other aero took his plane equipped it with a gasoline motor and flew it today men in america in england in trance france and many other countries are all working to develop machinery of all sorts and from froin time to time the announcement comes through the newspapers that one of them has succeeded 0 0 remember as you work a your jot job that while you are doing it othor other people whom you have never known and whose existence you never bevc r have suspected are arc doing much tile tho same thing and are ara matching their wits against yours it if life were not organized in that way there would be very little progress it Is likely that we would be still rolling around in ox carts or sailing in junks as many of the chinese Clil nese do still it is this battle this competition that puts men mem on oil their mettle and enables them eventually to do da things ii ngi ol of the greatest importance nc I 1 know it Is fashionable to sneer at the sp spen eakles ldes 11 but since there ls Is D no way to put an end to them and to bechy not make tile the roost most of them it Is true that some of them are cheap melodrama but even in these people who bo would otherwise lend lead very drab lives aln find d r real e a enjoyment and to the thousands aDds of people who live in n little country towns where the chief occupation used to be to go down to the depot and see beo the iraln come in they have cave been a brosl positive ive messing blessing the popo isope of a back woods town no longer gape at high bui bu d ngi nga when they come coma to a city they have seen them thein in the they have hae seen important men and women from many parts of the world and moreover they ahey have heard them thein talk falk they have bad an opportunity to see the worlds best plays which are often staged weib ailcia an elaborateness iness and a fidelity to truth that would not be possible in the or three erfour or four act drama 0 tile the kind of person called hick has ceased to exist since tile the elros were made to talk I 1 admit that some of tile the films ar arc stupid and some of them are ba bad but just the same they are next to the newspapers a fine alne means of promoting general knowledge hot only of ones own country but of all the ble countries in the world 1 I who in the course of my life had only seen one iceberg leeberg saw at least a hundred of them thein on the screen I 1 lave hare seen been european 3 european capitals and A Af fricas rims burning stands and the russian steppes and the pyramids in egypt aff tt i I 1 have seen the amazon nod and the te volga and the tower of london find ani the place de bastille in paris with the exception of the two lat int ter I 1 would had no idea of the appearance of any of these por for the people who live in tile the lonely forests forest and on tile he wide plains the sp eables eakles are a blessing some of the melodrama in them might be easily eliminated some of the sexy ones could be cleaned benned up without doing any harm but as ai a they have been a great benefit and will be become cotrie more useful and more mare valuable to the pen pea pie ol of the world as tine time takes its way As for a dangerous effect upon children forget it children are children and the influence of anything does not materially teri ally change their itria |
