Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-10 | Page 4 | Dr. Vance's Daily Article

DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE o 3y DR JAMES I. VANCE What sorl ol a world would it be l If everybody wore jus-t like you? Would you care to live iu such a ! world? Suppose everyone treated his neighbor as you tieat yours, and conducted con-ducted h!. business as you conduct yours. Suppose all homes were like your home. What kind of a nation would it I te if every citizen treated his citizenship citi-zenship ,;s you treat yours? What j would be the business life of your lown if your, ideals and practices were adopted by the rest of the , communfi Would the world be belter or worse if you were universalized? univer-salized? Has a man an right to expect the world to be better thun ho is? Is 1 here any reason why he should ex-pecl ex-pecl other men to treat thler wives better tha he treats bis, or to go to 1 church oftener than he does, or to bo I more generous In charities than he is, or to be more public-spirited and patriotic than himself Come out of the fog bank and get I a real sight of your.oelf. and say out loud whether vou want to he nni iversallied or retired from circulation. circula-tion. Are you the species of the genus homo fittest to survive I Society Is made up of social unit.s I There is no wholesale way of malt-ling malt-ling a better town or a greater nation Society cannot rise higher than the 'level of the people who compose so 'fiet. The whole thlug hinges back on the individual and you are one of them You cannot hide oul .You jrtre bound to be counted. The only way a man can lift the social level is to be as decent an Individual In-dividual as he knows how. It is not desired that he ape his neighbors or j try to be a twin to anybody Let him be true to himself. Let him make his own life fit His Maker would not have made him Just a little lit-tle different from his fellows if he had wanted him to be a duplicate of anyone else. Hence the only man lit to be universallzi-d Is the nian who Is intensely individualized. Therefore, There-fore, "Stir Into a flame the gift that Is in thee "