Show uncommon john 0 bell syndicate service owing nen neer er was there any very good rea son for ignorance today there Is less around than ever tl the tle e world lou ion can go dowd down the street or if you are rich enough sit in your living room and look 1001 at a religious 1 groces sion slon in russia a bull fight in spain or a tiger hunt in india you can hear the voices and the words of great men and women in al most every nation in the world when shakespeare wrote home keeping youth have ever homely wits he could not foresee a time when home keeping youth md and adults for that matter could sharpen their wits by looking at the world by means of tiny sparks that may be carried from one end of it to another baj although these opportunities are here they will prove of scant value if people do not make use of them and comparatively few people do 0 I 1 think that the alles are excel lent many of them even if their stories are too often florid their settings enable one to get and keep a wider understanding of peo pie all around the world than they could ever gain by mere reading and using their imaginations the imagination has to have some thing to imagine or it is not very use ful there Is little doubt that within a comparatively few years we shall have sight with our sound that means that we can look across the sea and witness events in foreign countries while they are actually hap pening we shall be able to look out on the ocean and see friends and acquaint ances wall ing decks that are a thou sand miles away from us and they will be able to look at us it if they like us enough fo to do it and to hear what we are saying to them I 1 am not convinced that another war will come immediately I 1 am not persuaded that it will come at all but to prevent it and at the same time to avail ourselves of all the pos for happiness which have been created by think thinking hig and studying men we bae hane got to get rid of international disputes and hatreds and with the end less endeavor to gain new territory which nations would not know how to use if they captured it what blessings men may have a hun dred years from now we do not know and it will not make much difference to us but in our own individual cases we can help a little by being a little more charitable and a little more with our neighbors and by cul tiva ting an active d tor for the tice of carrying chips on our ders lt dogs let dogs delight to bark and bite says the old poem some of those eld growls poems contain con and snarls side sid erable ra ill e hard sense the growling and biting will go on in the kennels but one would imagine by this time that it ought to be bellint bated from the living room and the business office tempers are not easy to keep but when you reali e that the minute you lose your mental balance you stop think wg ing clearly perhaps you will put a strong er curb on your utterances I 1 have worked in many offices under many men lever never have I 1 known a growler or a who wouldn t have got more and better work out of those under him if he had been a little more tolerant of ml mistakes staLes and a little more sparing of hard words in the prize ring the man who loses his temper loses the fight who 1 the e m man a who be beats ats his boy because he has been impertinent the woman who slaps her baby because it gets into some mischief it knew no better than to get into are storing up trouble it Is just as sens ble to get mad at a root which trips you up while you are walking through the woods or a door which slammed in the wind and hurt one of your toes john riske said that george wash ington on one occasion when one of the men under him had done something foolish threw his hat on the floor and stamped on it or did something of the same irritated kind but washington did not loose any profanity when battles were going on and neither did grant or lee or any other great I 1 generals I 1 have heard that anger really breeds poisons in the system certainly it breeds poisons in the soul poisons that are likely to prove very harmful learn if you can to accept tunes even failures with philosophy learn to forget hard words that ar are e said to you or the nu mistakes stakes that people who are working with or for you or over you may make happiness Is one of our heritages it makes life pleasant and it Is likely to make it more successful if as you are advancing in years you get grouchy be careful you may some day find yourself a sour and querulous old man and if ever you need friends and congenial ones it Is when you are coming toward the end of the road so cheer up it can t hurt you and it will probably do you no end of good |