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Show AN APPEAL FOR HORSE SENSE Richard Washburn Child, famous author and diplomat, says people ought to have more "horse sense." Why, Richard, how can you expect people to have horse sense when they no longer have noises to set them an example? If people have any sense nowadays nowa-days it must be automobile sense. Such as it is, they will have to put up with it for they certainly can't expect to learn horse sense by cultivating- an acquaintance with autos. The auto is a groat achievement, but it is purely mechanical. It has none of the spiritual characteristics wihich have made the horse man's greatest great-est help. Undoubtedly the human family are making serious sacrifices in abandoning the horse and taking to a mechanical monster which has nothing whatever to offer except the lure of taking people somewhere Where in most cases there is nothing for them to do when they get there. A horse has so much sense that he limits his day's work and the amount of ground he will cover in a day. Our modern speedsters, you will note, possess no such wisdom as that. Even after they have passed all the other cars on the road they are not satisfied. They truly represent the restless, reckless, purposeless, soulless, godless spirit of this horseless age. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise," the Bible says. But who would dare imitate the ways of the ant in these times, wlhen the sluggard is paid for loafing? The btisy bee has always been cited as something to copy. But being bu-iy now is heavily penalized. A dog is the very type of faithfulness. faithful-ness. But we no longer can tell human beings to be faithful, for they know that their very faith and confidence have been coined irito unearned profits by the schemers. To go on with our domestic do-mestic animals we might even learn a few things from the cat. What contentment there is pictured in a cat ! Don't you wish you could enjoy even one-half of one per cent of her perfect appreciation apprecia-tion of the good things of life? But you can't because you are living in an age when contentment is held up as a moral sin. If you are content, then that is evidence that you must be living at somebody else's expense, just as the contented cat does. Discontent Dis-content with everything that exists is the ruling spirit of these times. This doesn't mean just in the United States. If you went to the islands of the Pacific you would find, exactly the same thing. The islanders can exist by working only two days a year, but; they are now demanding that their working year be reduced tcv only one day. They heed the rest for gallivanting and resting according to their witch doctor. Yes, yes it would he a great thing if people today could have more "horse sense," as Mr. Childs says. He might as well have said they should have more "dodo sense." The dodo has enough sense to disappear off the earth when its usefulness was ended. The horse is disappearing the same pay. And it may be that half the human fantily will have to become extinct also in order that the rest can live that restless, soulless life. The Rus-sian Rus-sian revolutionist had to dispose of a whole generation of opponents oppon-ents before the revolution could win. They cited the example in the-bible, where Moses kept the children of Israel in the wilderness wilder-ness wandering aimlessly for 40 years before leading them into j the. Promised land. It is argued that that was just Moses's way of getting rid of an opposing section of society and growing up a new generation that would be different and that could grapple with the new conditions. The Israelites were willing to wait 40 years for a good thing. Imagine anybody waiting 40 years for anything in this horseless age! Pathfinder. |