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Show Life's Plans Seem Sadly Out of Joint. c If, Indeed, tho Intention waa that life should mean happiness, how ssd has been the blundering! For consld-m consld-m r. for one thing, the pitiful Ignorance which has resulted In such tragic suffering suf-fering to humanity. As a matter of fact, man has been cheated of his birthright, supposing him entitled to happiness, for has he not been compelled, com-pelled, unaided, to wrestlo with the problem of fitting himself to his environment? en-vironment? Through long ages, by sweat of brow, travail of spirit and onerous physical toll, ho has struggled to adjust himself to conditions Into which he was thrust. He found no puradlso ol happiness free to all. Life Is a periM'tual struggle, not clyslum, says Vogue. Not only have millions been the victims of hideous slavery, but the whole nice, from all time, has suffered ciuclly because of Ignorance, the most pathetic phase of this surfer-lug surfer-lug being the unpremeditated cruelty and Injustice which r exults from Ignorant Ig-norant parentage. Can those who claim happiness m a birthright explain why sentient beings predestined for I ; : happiness are not put in the way of achieving It? Fur Instance, Is the fate which Is supposed to dispense happiness happi-ness asleep, or gono on a Journey, that It permits northern capitalistic unholy love of money to combine with southern parental greed for the torture tor-ture of children, In the process of mill money getting? If happiness be the designed de-signed portion for humanity, then are lire's plans sadly out of Joint, for the most cunning of malevolent spirits could not possibly devise greater variety vari-ety or more lacerating kinds of misery than those which human beings In all grades of society are made to experience. experi-ence. Apart from the Inevitable personal per-sonal sorrows which affect all. how la It possible for any hut the very young or tho very sclllsh to bo happy In a world where the majority ore miserable miser-able beiause of dlscusc, little health, dlie s)erty. Incapacity, onerous labor la-bor or cruel anxiety? Life aa discipline disci-pline lor clifiractcr-bulldlng is an Inspiring In-spiring conception. I.iro as an abortive abor-tive happy hunting ground Is an appalling appal-ling theory. |