| Show POWER UNDER PROPER CONTROL A weekly magazine ot of comment announces a supplement on power poi Thata Interesting you say as your eye efe eye lights on the word In la big type across the title Utie page lage of ot the magazine Power that's some some- something some thIng that we all want all want Lets Let's read about It But as as you turn tura the pages you find that the editor r- r ris Is talkIng lights about the electric lights lights and p power industry the current that turns factory wheels and sends street streetcars streetcars cars along the tracks and lights big titles clUes And that Is s a li dull dull topic topic to most ot off o us however lull full of roo ro- romance ro romance mance It 11 may maybe may be for the engi engineer eer end nd the capitalI capitalist t But those who covet power power- power personal personal power tor for themselves know this much about about that other kInd of o that power power that Its value lies in Its control In fact tact that that It If it it were not for this very element elem nt of repressIon and and control there would be no power wrote The one wh who wr write te that little b book ok Power Through ugh Repose coIned an Invaluable leand and an unforgettable unforgettable gettable phrase for tor he understood somethIng about the source ohu- ohu ot of hu- hu hu man power Those who vant want to possess hu- hu human hu human man power power to control the ther r forces about us ua power to earn money to live IIvo efficiently efficiently and well power to Influence others and to I order our lives as we wish will find It thus first through self control self self- control through silence and repose Some Somo day when this wave of enthusIasm over the fatal tatal necessity necessity sity tor for self expression subsides we may find find that repression Is not wholly a destructive force A certain degree of ot repression may prove to be a source pf pt power power- When the doctors and psychologists psychologists psychologists discovered that repression was the source ot of all manner ot of otI off I f twisted viewpoints troubled troubled mInds and sick bodies they were probably probably probably ably talking about extreme and long continuing repressions whIch eat Into the soul and poison polson the spIrit They were not referrIng to reasonable self control But the fixed Idea of ot the mo- mo moment mo moment ment seems to be that wo we must do and say and fe feel l and experience experience ence whatever enters our heads I at the moment as being desIrable to do and say and feel and ex- ex experience ex experience That way weakness lies 1 not strength It Is not from yield yield- yielding ing fog to every passing whim from chattering whenever an Idea en- en enters en enters our our heads from spreading our forces out thin as a result of o ev every ev ery outward stimulus that we gaIn Inward power Even the editor who wrItes about electric power knows that thIs latent force which lies In the swift moving current and the whirr whIrl to of the dynamo would be useless mankInd were It no not harnessed h and controlled d Power Its Power Its It's at the very heart heart of the wealth of the country It turns the wheels of Industry and carrIes the output of the land from power coast to coast But like human power It Is born of ot a degree ot ot of repression repression un un- under under un- un under released sion which is 1 finally der control we will be begin One of ot these thes days we gin to explain that fact tact to to to these these loving loving freedom young people |
