Show experimenting tn with life by HULDAH MITCHELL HULET editors note given by mrs airs huldah hulet in it a talk at an if 1 I A conjoint meeting a few weeks ago the following contains so much ot of truth and good sound advice to young people that we asked permission to publish it tor for the benefit of those who were not fortunate tort e enough to hear it we recommend its careful reading and rereading reading re by all our younger readers particularly there is an all too pre ot of experimenting with things that have already been proved beyond a doubt we have all heard it 11 expressed in such phrases as ill try anything once try anything even though it has been proven time arid and again to bring nothing but disastrous results I 1 tile the phrase youre only young I 1 once is almost as common as be a good sport how otten often has the th e persuasive be a good sport been used to induce individuals to do something they have hesitated in doing the fear 0 of the scorn ot of their companions the effort to keep up to their pace has haa started many bad habits for scores acores ot of young people times are different they say you must not forget that things are not the same game as a s they were a few ew years ago yes times are different but fund ament als remain unchanged honesty is still honesty varl virtue ue Is still virtue truth is still truth honest effort is still rewarded gravity still pulls all things to earth Ds regard for or law still brings punishment two and two still make tour four the ten commandments are still in force as are all the other laws of life nature matui e and the universe it is ia unscientific and unscholarly to waste time attempting to prove or disprove things that have already been established beyond question the true scientist no langr attempts to d disprove the pull of gravity or the rp rotation tation of 0 the earth or the motion of heavenly bodies or the sequence of the seasons sea sans or mans need of at food arid and water or the unction function ot of the heart these things are established and tor for each individual to bring them into question and insist on going through all I 1 the experimentation whereby they llave have been established would be I 1 costly wasteful and unfeasible the trial and error method la Is the one ane that has to be employed in teaching and training animals they have to do a thing and fi find ild out that it brings a favorable response before they will always repeat that act or visa versa but beings differ from animals to such a degree that their intelligence their mode of talking t to 0 one another makes it possible tor for them to learn which is the right way and which is the wrong way ot of doing a thing by being told they can profit by the experiences ot of others they dont have to burn their fingers I 1 rn n order to learn what wh at tire fire is it is just ai 1 unscientific unscholarly and even more costly tor for each individual to ito insist upon personally condu conducting eting the experiments that have proved that slit sin brings sorrow that disbelief brings emptiness and unrest that things forbidden 0 of god are not good for or man that the use of tobacco is an enslaving habit babit that brings unhappiness etc some time ago in a radio broadcast telling of the damages wrought by the use of tobacco one authority reported that a wide survey had bad been made wherein heavy usera of tobacco were interviewed and when askel asked about its use sald said in absolutely every case that it if they had their lives to live over again they would never take their first cigarette A young man not long ago remarked about the use of alcoholic drinks by mallig alno NO ahe the stuff taste good arter after the first drink its only that increased sense of artificial exhilaration on one e wants liquor can make the lowest kind oi of tramp out of anyone dr adam S bennion in an article in fit a recent improvement era on companionship said eald your continued to page live five T eri ri alm with lift life I 1 1 from first page ikie happier or lewt leas happy be bc tk 11 of your answer to tills this te lied companionship let me ou two experiences out or of the nj past that tell me how real att may be bm then related the story of an OH tan who always comes into his I 1 every spring ile he is past 90 1 js ils family is all pone gone save one Is past 4 40 band and is paralyzed er j id fellow always brings Ws ys in the spring when last lie he ahe e said brother brollier bennion Renni ir if ver fr doubted doubled it in ill your life you yet lot an old man mail tell you wonderful thin thing to have 11 ik s n in contrast to tills prother brother 1114 on told ot of visiting the peniva ry in doise boise idaho one after after lie he had addressed the st ot of about men he had a ay or so of them remain and 11 4 0 him after the ice fee had been r n B and their reserve broken he asked men alen if I 1 wont wont you bo be good ei to me w what lint you think it oat t baroug brought lit you here colored boy followed air M r i on n as he was about to leave i ald id mr air Be belinson linion youve got k oniso so me to la do one thin thing W 9 go got to promise se me to tell e t this one thing dont never ajl that nobody aint neva T na ina find out speaking peaking of that visit there lok ida hosa convicts lie he says alv what aliat liat ag id ad say without an exception were here because we lve got 41 li IT the wrong crowd oil a we must conclude front from this R and from any place we look awe tw 0 canno cannot afford to prove R picking the wrong crowd Ss Is rous us it has already been i i by the sad results of 6 81 1 who have conducted that i rous ous experiment a is your friend the compan AO 0 says aw be a good sport r a cocktail or emcke a cigar rho io urges you to do some contrary to the high ideals bijur ur people Is he your friend john 30 hn A widtsoe soe in a recent lali lal says the answer is no shouted front from the throats of ands who are suffering from re 9 of being a good sport ggs are known by their et ef alcohol makes drian drunkards bull bullets kill men thit that is well len arn should you take the chance W un kenness to prove the known J i of alcohol or do you need to tat to understand the known IGI A of the bullet 6 e person who says that you hissing a lot by not carousing silly making the offensive lm lion lion that happiness cannot be lit all through normal healthful of life he implies that for success the athlete should be sick the teacher ignorant the writer without ideas that the whole world would be better oft off it tipsy your friends will in nuance influence your course of life they will pull you down or wt lift you up therefore choose them carefully it is better to have no friends than had bad ones it Is not necessary to relate adv more mere rea reasons ams for convincing people lint hat it Is expensive dangerous and otten often fatal to experiment with life to go through the process or of proving provin in a thing that has already been druven pi veil to a young man beginning life richard L L evansa evanar says another thing you must believe young man beginning life is the supreme value of thinking things that are nearly tight right or just a little more or less harmlessly wrong have no place in your list of values warped and crooked thinking in the minor initial decisions of 0 today may not mark you too noticeably from scrupulous ly honest men now but ten or twenty years from now on a slightly wrong tangent will plate place abysses between you the file men with whom you would like to find fellowship you dont need an engineer to tell you that there Is an infinite difference b tween between a little leak in the dam and no leak at all and you must beleve bel eve that there is 19 just as great a difference between one cigarette or one drink or one shady act or none of these things at all however I 1 little proving this may seem to east cost you it worth the price this you must boliere because a friend tells you it is true else clao you may become a life asember of that sorrowful and numerous host holt of wish they had dane differently men ono thing you ought to know c cd d must believe young man beginning life there are some things that change in a changing world they are the rock fast foundations to which are moored tile the floating locks docks that rise and tall fall on the tide of 0 life they are the eternal footings that keep keel everything around us front from becoming mete mere drifting debris on oil a restless sea they are the priceless and ageless possessions of mankind they are the heritage of at all men who pay allegiance to truth they embody the principles and ideals and teachings of your church young man mail and no life structure that you plan to erect can afford to be on less safe footing tIng lest you join the tragic ranks of those who have seen proud creations crumble on their rotten foundations when the storms came A final thing that you must believe and must prove tor for yourself young man beginning lite life Is that the world Is still offering fering ot inward peace and exceeding happiness and rich honest rewards to him who will take these things to his heart and fashion his jeisi structure iture accordingly 0 |