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I j frt Between I f You and Me I j I Common sense is the he most uncommon kind of sense f ft t t 1 t By 1 HAROLD DELL BELL WRIGHT I r- r r Keeping Up With Life When you jou ou turn a sudden corner and ti meet yourself our ct ft l gain oln the other way lilts hits hits plumb certain that one ono of or you OU Is n a hendin tho the wrong direction Bill ll TES S I 1 know Dut But you JOU n are re tl not not so different i from the tire test rest of t sl Mo-sl of us ure are bothered more or orle orless orless le less s because the wot Wor Id Is so much old older older er today than It was yesterday No matter r how hard we try Jy to keep up we seem recta to be ul lJ always s 's behind We Weare Weare are ore always wishing Life would Walt wait a n minute If Life would only stand bland standstill still we ye might catch atch up Ul with It But Hut Life Ufe doesn't stand still It never has hns anti and never lIe will And from roar start to finish Life always lea leads Hide lode our our- oUlI ourselves 5 5 selves as ng hard haid as us we may tray lay lay on tilt whip of necessity ply the lire spurs spins of am um billon Life Life runs always s 's more than thun a u I length th ahead Mr Casual Observer sa says s 's There are a few fast ones nowadays s But BUl the fastest steppers i f that ever raced on un the track of time timet t i ran Tan always s 's at mat the taU tall of Life Catch Catchup up tap with Life Never Neter I 1 tell you It II ItIs itIs t Is Impossible The race nIce Is fixed fixell Why we cant can't even en catch atch up with ourselves And between you jOU and me It may he be hen ben n t thing ping b br that tine tile race Is fix fixed cd for forI r I Life to win In I 1 guess it is a good g tiring thing too that we vie cant can't even en catchup catch catchup t up with our ourselves elves es I J dont don't know again about 4 t. t tit you but hut speaking for myself I 1 have hll more titan than a H suspicion that If I 1 ever should succeed In la catching up with III myself self I would he be sure to make nn on one Jump too many runny and leave myself be be- hind I Yes the thc world Is older than thun It was wag when our great great great-great great were training us for our nur race rice with wit w Wright right Philosophy Philo ophy I I Tire The and oud tIle the quality f of the male mad and female human I Ie e vegetable is wholly a n matter mailer of I i culture f t Of at dour cour course z one must start i t twIt t wIt with b good se d. d f fA t A r v a y T f t TL Th The ground un In 1 which hl h the s seed cd I is planted limN be right f i t S I IJ Ix J I j x t And nd we vye ye must not o overlook ij j i JI r c cultivation tI Cult Culture re and and Cation are very h arIS twins t j Is there anything sadder to f ft ff f f ft t see than thun tI the tig teen pen and women who ml might ht have b been en I I t i 5 i f People whose minds are T j filled with selfish cruel obscene ob ob- i t scene vicious thoughts and j t t whose Indecent tastes would i j I shame any red yellow jellow black or orI I t brown sa savage age a are re not cultured culture I j it I languages Ian lan They may speak seven 7 j or write books about i nothing at nt aH atI in passable le EngI English Eng Eng- i t I lash lish or be at home In the time social f capitals of the world but If I their minds morals and tastes 1 are those of degenerates they 11 are not cult cultured re Verily It Is better to think in one language langua e than to be f thoughtless in several t i 1 S j There is an un ambition for you I ITo To be the author of an advanced advanced ad- ad I d It t civilization t Life Ufe Touching some things the world Is ls wiser For Instance we are Ie beginning to understand that training for the race with Life actually does begin with the great grandparents of the entrant When our understanding of ot this truth reaches the point where we can remember our forefathers without forgettIng forgetting for for- getting our grandchildren we will C have hn rave arrived somewhere In what hat our doctors of estl esthetics call culture What our doctors of medicine mean when they speak of culture Is sonic some times something else and else and sometimes sometime not ant so different You know the old sa saying People 4 who are content to re rest t their claims to recognition upon their Ir ancestors are like potatoes the best part lart of them themIs Is underground round Oh yes ce 1 agree that It Is good Joud to know the name naive of the ship that brought ht our great great-great-great- great great-great great great- tines ones over I am um merely trying to say if we Wl do tin nut nul keep a sharp lookout Out trim for waid our our descendants will be wonder wonderIng hit anti what we the came over o In Ie where we canoe came from arid and why wiry So fur far as 1 I am Informed Life Ufe moves 1 t In III one direction only straight ahead Ihre re t teems to be no reverse gear no brakes brages no na way of stopping Everything Ev Es' is must artist move forward on the road fuad which Life l. travels tra or drop out- out human things not excepted Those hose silly v folk who persist In wearing wear wear- JIg big tire the lights head where their taillights tall tail It lights ought to tu be always make trouble trouble trou trou- ble for themselves elves and others No r you yu simply cannot make better time by hy wearying wearing your our tall tail light ht In III 1 i. i f front i nut your our head head behind Hut But there mere are ore some things about which the world knows no more toda today i thou than U It did when It lived In a 8 cave I t tI l dressed In skins and ate ute Its meat raw I Yes and und between you and me these I things s of which the world can cnn never ne 1 know more than It U has hus always known me pre the only fluh s which arc worth j i fug about mt r 1 L r i We are moved mo today by the same passions passions- which moved ell us at nt the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning of Life We are subjected to the same temptations which tried us inthe In Inthe Inthe the Garden of Eden We follow the same Instincts and work to the same end as when we were wriggling around In the mud trying to make mako a living In iii early Paleozoic times Physically Physically Phys Phy's mentally menially spiritually the real needs of the time world are the same this year jear n as they were ere fort forty or 01 fifty million years n ago o. o Somewhere IH re to live something to cat n o mate mute something to think about something to do God cod to worship these things we tive have always s 's had these things we must always have But the houses we live Ilce In the tire manner of our cooking our Ideas of mating the thc things we think about and do the forms of our these worship worship these all nil have changed from age ue to tu u age e. e A prehistoric cave a n mud hut n a clil dwelling a 3 castle a n palace a u farmhouse a u city apartment hotels these ee all 11 ha have hat t been heen evol evolved vell by hy mans man's unchanging need of somewhere to live hive Hunger er Is hunger the hunger the same satire today as ns In the time the beginning beginning the sal satire same In every every every ev ev- ery land hand every elj language every social plane The rile time was when we ranted muted to establish establish es es- homes Ironies I 1 will leave it for you yav to say what the Ideas of ranting mutIng are mire these days and where the they are likely to lead lend us A long long time ago before ago before Hunt Lunt was governor of Arizona a Arizona a tangled tangled- halted haired ll low bewhiskered person person person per per- son sat sut In fir a n cave e and with a n sharp hit of hint flint scratched something sO on the tire bone bonc of a 8 prehistoric animal The Tire something which our ancient friend scratched on ou the flat tint hone bone was teas meant to tell how he chased and killed the critter that supplied the boric bone and how low he ire felt fell about It It didn't amount to much from front the viewpoint of the art urt editor But Hut Just tire tile same It was the beginning of Art The Thc succeeding ages have brought ht paints brushes cum canvas cantos us paper printers printer's u I Ink link printing presses mind and all nil such thins things to replace the tine sharp flint aril and the flat lint hone bone But slut the need of expression which Is the thc genesis ene ls of Art Is still the Ule same satire Thereal The Thereal real reul lUst artist of toda today still sits In his I cave u and tries to put down what h hhas he lie has seen and felt Through h unnumbered ages the forms of worship have e changed with the changing conceptions of Deity but butman's butmans butmans butman's mans man's need to worship has hos remained the same saume The outward and visible I It t trappings of religion have changed as us Life has hns gone forward and man has followed ld Life but God Is still the tIle God of our beginning Very well weB we the will talk about Chris Chris- If It you wish some wish some other time Just now we t are aie thinking about keeping up with Life I am trying to tosny say that we can live e successfully only by f following Life Life Life-by by which I mean conforming in thought and amI habit to the chan changes es which Life as It goes oes forward forward for for- ward demands and that we shall most miserably perish if we fail to recognize through h all aU our changes those elements of our being beig which are ure unchangeable Exactly That Is the Idea Iden The changes es which Life demands are like hike the colors a assumed by a chameleon When Mr Ir Chameleon migrates or advances advances ad nd vances In education or strides forward forward forward for for- ward Ip science or climbs up the social ladder or 01 betters his iris position or becomes the head of the firm film Mr 11 Chameleon simply changes his makeup make make- up lie does docs not change himself No 10 chameleon ever became an nn alligator ator by hy chan changing ln his color fro from brown to green gleen Through all his color changes es Mr Chameleon remains the same old chameleon And dont don't you jou ou see If ie he did not change his make up he would not be a chameleon That poor chameleon who found 1 himself on OD a n Scotch plaid and und died died doing doIng do do- Ing hl his best was simply trying to lec keep up with Life Ile lie was not unfortunate because he was a chameleon chameleon his misfortune wits was due to to cr circumstance it was that landed him on nn the Scotch plaid He blew up because he was tr trying ing to live as ns no mere mer chameleon should live Perhaps If he had moved to a n quieter or neighborhood or found fount friends in a different set set-or s set t-or t or been heen cUlli lIt with a n million or 01 two less he might bright ht have hu lived to enjoy old n age e. e tC mss 1328 by tho the Bell Syndicate Inc Luc |