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Show , THE FRIENDLY PATH. 0 By WALTKR L. ROBINSON 9 t . ' 447 HE rich will do anything t X tor tho poor except get off their backs." i This statement onco was made J by Tolstoi, the famous Russian '; t writer, often lauded as the J greatest friend of tho working- t man In the world. J What would ho say or write t today were ho nllvo to seo tho J hundreds of thousands of starv- j Ing women nml children In his ; J native land crying In vain for ! 1 "a hunk of black bread and n J draft of bird-seed tea?" One need not seek tho rich t men In order to find those who J mistreat tho unfortunate poor. i Lenin and TroUky have bam boozlcd thousands Into follow i Ing them until tho grent power of the Russian peoplo was vlr : tually wrested from them to be ; turned upon their own homes. Wealth Is not to blnme for ; :: most of tho Injustices visited ; upon humanity. Most of those who possess more than the J : average of material things are ' aids to our happiness and civil- ' tuition. It's tho clamoring after ' ; wealth that turns tho world up- ; sldo down and tramples imfor ' tunatcs underfoot. ' As fur back as history re- cords some have had moro than t ; others. It will nlwnys bo thus. ' ; Few of those who clamor most : for a "fair" distribution would J : be satlsned If given what they I: claim Is their shnre. Nor would J : they keep It long If they got It. ' Financial gains can only be J honestly acquired by contrlbut. ! Ing something to mankind In : . return for It and by Improving one's fruiuo of mind. , The world Is not all wrong by J a great deal. Many are just t thinking and living wrongly. ; Their unhapplneis Is tho fruit J of their selfishness. ' tCopyrlfht) , |