Show SELF ACTION whiting williams who makes a profession of studying and observing people in an attempt to find out why they do certain things and entertain certain ideas says that everybody insists on thinking well of himself the bum who sleeps in flophouses convinces himself that his way of life is much better than that of those hard hardworking working fel follows with snug homes and families whereas the solvent and upright fellows despise or pity him ho he despises and pities them the bum tells himself that his way of life is a deliberate choice and that he would not exchange it for a steady job and a full dinner pail 1 when failure e overtakes any of us we blame someone or something other than ourselves in lecont lecent years the unemployed have li blamed the machine for the situation in which they have found themselves nearly all of our thinking is based on oil personal experience a fact which has led williams to conclude that we live our way into our thinking rather than think our way into our living we all like to think that we arc masters ma of our 0 ur situation that we could alter our circumstances if we pleased and that we are arc as we are arc because that is the way we prefer to be I 1 what we call my c experience is that final and unanswerable argument that we use in ili the discussion of all controversial matters i |