Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-23 | Page 5 | Dr. Vance's Daily Article

DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE j To wblch class do yeui belong'' Are you a maker or a breaker? lit a broad way, people may be divided Into thesti two clashes, with a lot left oer who haven't ginger enough to gel Into ! either Clai There are the makers. They are tho people who put things across. They are the promoters, the pioneers, the path-finders and road-builelers They dream dreams anel see visions and then they get busy. hey throw out a Hps of positive energy, andi when they go on, they leave something behind them. They inako an Institution, u town, an age They make men They touch their fellows with an electric contact, and j evoke They aro dynamic. It is a great thing to be a maker, to trek in the wake ol divinity, to look out on chaos, as Clod, at dawn and say "Let be!" Then there are the breakers. They are tho people who pile things In the 'way. They depress and discourage and tear down flies can Bccnl anything w that is wrong. and there Is always something wrong Tho have the critical criti-cal instinct abnormally developed Such people can ruin an enterprise They cun spoil any picnic. They can break up any Eden They stop progress pro-gress and prevent enterprise They paralyze faith and discredit hope. They are the butchers of civilization. If I cannot build up. Ciod forbid that I should tear down! If I cannot make j the tho brighter anel the way easier , for some fellow-traveler, I have missed i my chance.