Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners it is not always ethical to say what you think when you think it but its a heap more unethical not to think at all I 1 tried to be ethical but it was all I 1 could do to keep my thoughts to myself he wore such a superior look and descended condescended con with such magnanimous pity for my inferiority my thoughts threatened to become explosive you have no financial ability he expanded theres just a very few men who have the foresight and the money sense tj handle property the masses of humanity live from hand to mouth and just cant envisage anything future they cant see beyond the narrow horizon of today I 1 succeeded in keeping still while he rattled on and on artfully holding up for my admiration his herds of bloc blooded jed cattle and flocks of fine sheep his 1 lanches anches his merchandising establishments lish ments his bank stacks and farms in withering contrast to my humble little dwelling and the simple operations by which I 1 paid for my simple menu and my plain living he imagined he was torturing me with envy that my heart was breaking because I 1 was so far behind him in the big race but because I 1 was not broadcasting as he was he had no idea at all of what was going goine on in my mind I 1 had all I 1 wanted to eat all that I 1 needed in the way of a comfortable for table home owe any man a dollar and was devoting myself to the thing I 1 wanted most of all to do then what kind of a fool would I 1 be to go a whoring after the burden he had heaped on himself if that was the penalty for being a financial man I 1 want to be found under that responsibility he was very farsighted far sighted in grasping everything within his reach as if it could be and would be his own instead of becoming in a little while the thing for far some other man or men to fight for and hoard away in hopes hope of keeping it he was not farsighted enough to perceive that all the wealth of the world belongs belong s t to the creator in spite of all the embezzlers bezz lers outside of hell he was farsighted in trying to hold and operate a thousand times more than he had any use for it was a mania it left him no time to live no time to associate with and teach his family notice notime no time to enjoy the more profitable things of life no time to cultivate the love and confidence of his friends but rather to be regarding them always with suspicion of designs on some of the property he was hoarding as well as shattering their confidence by the sharp I 1 practices he thought he had to employ also he was farsighted in leaving ng to his children the means over I 1 continued on page ten I 1 the old settler continued irom page nage 1 which they would fight and hate bate each other all their lives as everybody body has seen the children of the moderately rich do almost without fail and his children because of their inheritance would become parasites and weaklings wea klings where they would without this inheritance develop strength and character in standing on their own feet and he boasted too that he was farsighted d in leaving twenty thousand insurance to his wife plenty for her to make of herself a fool and to become becom e the coveted plum of a snarl of sycophants and hypocrites crazy to marry her for her imaney money and then hope she might die and get out of their way oh it may not be ethical to say what you think when you think it but its quite impossible not to think at all ALBERT R LYMAN |