| Show F I J Franic Francis How arc are the songs Bongs of ot our coun count country try written How ilow Is the tho Inspiration Inspiration tion obtained Julia Ward ard Howe Hoc wrote th Hymn of ot the Republic when her soul revolted at nt slavery Home Sweet Home was corn com composed posed r p ced by an American filled C with withie ie deep sentiment because he was wal In a foreign land among strangers But sometimes the emotional I fide Ide 1 Is Ib developed in the every day of ot the home The mother of a large family fl while engaged in the exacting services of ot the j I home wrote one of or the most mOlt pop pop- popular popular ular lIar of oC our church hymns She he was a middle aged und f seemingly could not find time timeo to 1 o devote ote to writing But out of oC r K-r r busy lusy bUl days she managed to cul- cul I CUI-I ate J I her hobby and finally be be- tame lome famous as a hymn writer The busy bus people quite often otten Unit hod fore nore time to do big things ihan jhn those hose I OSe- OSe who have ha no great gre-at duties 0 o i This thought thou ht Is somewhat In la line with what Dr Carver Car of Harvard ald fald on Sunday The distinguished speaker said caid a n man or woman Ir lr lost who falls fails to serve That the highest purposes of oC life lICe ore are found In constructive e activity and that the Idle could be classed as the lost Those Thole- who have la ve little or nothing to do fall fail to develop They re- re reele eive e no great Inspirations and e buve no n great grea calls on them Dr Carver CalVer said paid that In the Greek sin meant an arrow which had missed the mark In other words to the ancients sin Bin em was mis mis- misapplied misapplied applied effort One having no aim In life liCe Is sinning most against society Dr Carver based his lecture on the he 1 statement that civilization In Inthe Inthe the past has been destroyed by ii and Individuals are de- de Etro d dIn In the th same e way war Wa He H doubted that Christianity or other religion had the power to save a people from the vitality vitality- upping sapping power of oC the indolence comes cornea from prosperity His Ills conclusions run parallel to those of oC II If G G. Wells WellO who Is ts pes- pes as to the future What Dr Carver Carve sees Is the dy- dy dyIng Ing ng off at the top and the tho reproducing at the bottom which must r In an an Inferior race If H that be tru then thon America must be well wen on the way a to de destruction de- de for of oC all countries America Is the most prosperous And If Ir Dr Carvers Carver's philosophy Is sound then the recurring panics 13 In this country must have ha havea a tendency to postpone the day da of oC oCI tribulation I as os they bring the ad ad- adversity on which a n race builds When the Israelites Israelite were In bondage h they were made to do the heavy eavy work of ot the Ule Pharaohs and he toll toil strengthened them and they rhey grew powerful enough to escape es es- es- es rape cape from their oppressors All history Is I a repetition of oC the burdened d displacing their misters YOl of oC leisure But Dr Carver offered no solution lion tion of ot the problem Our own opinion Is that there is I. I I at work all the tho time the law of oC compensation I The e rich have ha the opportunity to become lecome dissipated That very dis dissipation dis- dis destroys their efficiency I The struggling tellers grow Irow In physical worth and the and the tho vitality of ot their bodies builds brain as well at as brawn Eventually they displace the Ih h Highly prosperous So there Is constantly coming jp ip from the fields of labor the capable arable the efficient the Intel Intel- e tua That has h s been he en the experience of If r America Our rich families famille of oC dis die displaced displaced been fifty years ears ago have placed by the families of men who ho id h-id no pride of ot ancestry The great leaders of oC today loday toda are arc rom the plain people of yester- yester ter- ter oi y How old mailing lists persist there has been ben received Recently n mall for the tho at t the business badness house houte of oC W W. W t runge Continued on Page Fage Two f I NEWS AND VIEWS I 4 4 Continued from front Page One It Is forty years since the Funge hardware store was doing doln business in a building bull In the middle of the block on the site of the present Tank Dank of Commerce Then another letter came for Burton Herrick White It will willbe bp be 3 z a turning In memory which only old timers will be bo capable of doing doingo to o recall that at one time there thero was such a firm W. W W sv Burton Durton Letter Lester J. J Herrick and Bernard White were ero the of the partnership partner and antI they were the outstanding busl- busl business n ness ss men of the day da When hen a a. letter arrives addressed IId rees d to them it Is as though a message fr m the long ago had been re re- re received It U dogs does do 8 not seem possible that the wide awake modern business concern would fall fail to revise its mailing list in a period of forty years Like individuals Individual business Institutions Institutions institutions can get Into to a rut I IBy By the way there thero are not many Mg big concerns eon con erne which have survived th the changes of the tho past forty or fifty years It Is III a reminder of the tho great transformations which have taken place In half a century Men dl die and with them dl dies s the spirit of achievement which en entered en- en entered entered Into their business life |
