Show the old settler 0 my dear san Jua ners when the steamship titanic struck an iceberg and went down off the banks of newfoundland the literary digest published a cartoon entitled the eternal collision it was a picture of a ship as theory battering its frail walls to piece against a giant mountain representing fact the eternal collision is between fact and theory and theory is always the he one to go down men rave on and on most of what they are broadcasting asfalt as fact is but the fallible stuff which in the eternal collision will be crushed to smithereens on he hard iceberg of f fact act it is imperative to a mans own safety of understanding der standing on the conclusion of which he is to place his efforts and expectations that he filter out about 90 of what is intended to shape the potters clay of his opinion men talk and talk wisely and knowingly and convincingly ly coloring their story all the way through to be read or printed sc cc cording to their prejudice their ignorance or their ulterior motives they expects expect and generally they are not disappointed in their expectations of slanting or warping opinion according to their own information or misinformation imagination of design A man considers some information or disturbing report and first thing anybody knows he is too much wrape up over the supposition that the report Is true to make any investigation some of the most absurd and unjust and cruel things have resulted from the acceptance of a false report which could easily have been disproved if people had bad but stopped to investigate or even to think these pet opinions of ours to which we so ardently cling and which we like to express with ev ery opportunity where did we get them who propagated them how much proof is there behind them how sure are we that in the eternal collision they will not be exploded into thin air ALBERT R LY LYMAN MAN |