Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 114

i i [ B Iy THE SUNDAY" STAR, WASHINGT ON, D.g(‘.. SEPTEMBER 29, 1929, HAPPINESS—Where to Find It And How BY SIR HARRY LAUDER. EALTH and the pursuit of it have caused much unhappiness ever since the world began. It is such an elusive thing and, even when it is found, it does net bring every desire within reach. Rank, fame, success, love even—all these things have been pursued by thousands of people of all generations and the path-to them has been strewed with ruined bodies and broken souls, Yet real and complete happiness has seldom been attained. ; What is happiness, and where is it? The fact that money cannot buy it is surely proved by the official statistics of the United States a year ago, which said that 72 million- aires committeed suicide during that year! How, then, can this thing be obtained which may come to the poor as well as the rich, to the unknown as well as to the famous? Here is what I believe to be the solution to the problem—that happiness is to be found in making others happy. There is no room for a dominant self in a werld of millions of in- habitants unless it be attached to a _personality like that of Napoleon or Mussolini, and even there there is no proof that it insures a con- tented life.. But in sinking one's own ego®in a continuous effort to ease other people’s bur- dens and chear them when they are feeling that nothing matters any more is to be found an occupation which brings personal pleasure of the most real kind in its train. -May I speak a little of my own experience? I have been for .many years a comedian who portrays Scottsis character, which I do as fairly and with s little satire as I may. I have now achieveu a reputation which is such that the very mention of Harry Lauder causes folks to smile. When I appear on the stage people sit back in their seats and get ready to laugh. I have discovered the secret of a way to steal away some of their cares with a ‘simple song or two, a joke and a wee dance—a way to make them forget the irksome little bothers of everyday life. All laugh together, feeling a bit happier and more contented when they go out. is not, of course, the direct way of ‘making others happy in the sense that we can all do it by a kindly word in season, a ngquchtlul act or a friendly smile. But it is the way of my profession—one of the oldest in the world, since king's jesters were appointed evem in pagan days to give happiness to the ancient courts—and one which. brings all of us belonging to it real pleasure. . Perhaps you do not know that we laughter- makers. almost count your smiles when you are there in the audiences. When the applause is ever so little fainter than usual, we notice that and feel a: keen sense of loss. This is not merely professional pride either, it is sin- ceve regret that we have not been quite so suc- cessful in spreading the curious gift of happi- ness as thoroughly as we wish to. It is curious that this elusive quality of laugh- § E 3 i g : i £ £ I elin 1 i gigiségfi ey 1 Eigg i F.s BF el o : . § ] i i : E 1] i E whose world consisted of a ceuple of dozen cottages in a tiny glen. He had barely enough to live on, yet somehow he contrived to be always. helping the crofters and the shepherds who, during the week, wsed to force a scanty lmrmthehms,ndml\mhymtto, the wee kirk he ruled. Me was a voracious reader whenever he could get books, yet he denied himself even those se as better to aid & man who hed had bad lJuck, or a needy woman. As for happiness—well, his rosy old face used doubling one's capital chesply—a) eavt to smm.fl?&!!“)fl?{l;nfingm wh 06T oY 1K) Sir Harry Lauder Says: ““It Is Only to Be Found in Making Others Happy, and It Is Doubled Every Time You Share It With Some One Else.”” Dame Nellie Melba Says: “It Is Within Reach of You if You Stretch Out Your Hand.” Sir Harry Lauder. BY DAME NELLIE MELBA. ~ APPINESS is to be found in a thou- sand ways and fame is only ene of them., . I fame in itself were the only VAl :path o content of mind, I suppose my content would wane graduaily. as the years other singers take the audiences of ; but that is not the case. not say that I, whose life has been spent singing to the world, am filled with sad- w that I realize that I have sung my last before the public I have learned to love. But it is a happy kind of sadness, if such a thing R not regret. I do not say to myself: “I would like to have all my fame over .” That would be merely selfish and mor- the very antithesis of happiness. Rather I Jook forward with happy anticipation to young singers who will sway the world to- morrow, as in the past I looked forward te my own ambitious future. I would like to tell them some of the things which they can avoid, which brought me sorrow because I did not avoid them, Asking too much of fame is one of these, Years ago, when I ran about in the sumshine, humming, always humming, a tomboy of the Australian bush, my dreams showed me myseld as the center of an applauding throng, hemmed in with masses of beuguets, surrounded by ac- claiming friends, ideally happy. > £ iz g § I PICTURED myself taking wonderful singing parts in the world’s most famous operas. I was wild for joy when, quite early in my career, I was given the role of Brunhilde in Wagner's “Stegfried.” I realized that it was divine music and, for me, the chance to become fameus in & night, but when I took the part, I found that I eught never to have attempted it. The physi- cal strain was too great and, had I centinued to sing it, I should have lost my voice in a very short time. One eritic said that it was “Mke seeing a piece of Dresden china attacked by a bull.” You can imagine my feeling of utter misery the next morning when I saw the papers, which I had prayed would welcome me as a coming prima donna. I cried, of course, but it taught me one of the most valuable lessons in life. I learned not to be heartbroken over failures, for, however many times one may fail, there are still un- bounded chances of success in the future, and the successes are all the sweeter when they £ome., ¥ Jearped to value my, fallytes just as Dame Nellie Melba. much as my triumphs, a quality which is essen- tial if you find happiness. Where is happiness? Why, it is to be found in the world all about us—in the stillness of a Summer night, in the pride of a good thing done, in the flush of & Summer dawn, the following of an ideal, the strong grip of a friend, the perfect heart of a rose or the wild sweetness of a song. It is always very near, you may come upon it.at the very next turn of the road, it is often within your reach if you but stretch out your ‘The secret of finding it? .I cannot tell you. I know that fame alone does not bring it. I know that it is within the reach of al), rich or poor, celebrated or unknown. Only have cour- age and conviction, tenacity and kindliness, a ready smile and a willingness to lend a hand to one less fortunate in the race. It lies partly in doing your job with all your ability, refusing to despair, however black things may seem; going halfway to the next turn of the road yourself. Often it is surprising to find how quickly happiness comes tripping more than halfway to meet you. ‘There was a time when I thought that if 1 were ever acclaimed by the world as one of its great singers, if I ever won real fame, I should attain the greatest happiness possible. Do you know what achievement of that fame has meant to me? I have had to deny myself pleasures of every kind. I have had to wander from capital to capital in the wearying spotlights of the world, when other women have been able to choose the joys and the wonder of home. I have had to face hos- tility, to hear lies and not answer them, to be the victim of scandals which tortured the more because they were utterly undeserved, and forced a smile when it was my woman's privi- lege to weep.. Such is fame. But I do not regret it—the sunshine was the more joyous in contrast to the shadow. No one could find happiness in eternal sun- shine. We, all of us, resent the sorrows of life, but without them we should never have keen appreciation of its joys. Had I not had times of shadow, I should never have been a great artist. I should never have gained the happi- ness which followed increased confidence when I began to find that my interpretation of roles like Desdemona in Verdi's “Othello” was becom- ing, something more than s mere matter of singing, something which I felt was instinct with the passion of life itself, I have lived for art, I have turned every- thing good or bad for the service of my art and, in doing so, I have found happiness. It would seem that this elusive thing comes not merely when one is working for fame, but when one is working sincerely for anything. It is useless to rail at the pain of life, because happiness will follow and contrast it. Always in these dark moments one learns something. One's character is deepened. One approaches a step nearer to that perfect under- standing and tranquillity of mind, triumphant over circumstances, which is the only true happiness. Better Milf Continued from Ninth Page tect the milk, which is thus exposed to the air and considerable effort is necessary in keeping the water iced when spring water of very low temperatures is lacking. "THE storage vacuum tank in the milk room in use at the Beltsville farm is a double- shelled tank. Between the inner and outer shell a cooling medium, brine or some other liquid used in mechanical refrigerators, is cire culated, while the milk is being drawn in, Within the inner tank a propeller type of agi- tator keeps the milk stirred up and hastens the cooling process. As the tank is in a vacuum with the pump at all times exhausting the system, any odors, such as might be in the milk from ensilage or other feed which the cow has eaten are taken out to a large extent. Samples of each cow's milk for the butter fat test are taken from the glass tank in the milk room. At present this is done by drawing off a small quantity from the glass tank by means of a small valve. The milk having reached the vacuum tank, only the cleaning of the system is left to com- plete the operation. The present arduous washing, ‘rinsing and sterilizing of pails, strainer cloths and other equipment is one of the tedious and unpleasant tasks of the dairy- man, as it is a sort of anti-climax, a doing of the dishes after dinner. The vacuum system cleaning requires not over two or three minutes of the farmer’s time, The teat tups are detached ‘and placed in a disinféctant solution and then the pipe in the milk house is detached from the large vacuum tank and hooked up to a water and steam line. Cold water is flushed through the entire sys- tem, glass tank and all, and finally runs out in the gutter of the milking house. After a thor: ough rinsing with cold water, steam is turned into the water to heat it and a hot water rins< ing follows. The water is then shut off and the steam itself forced through until the pipes ar» thoroughly heated and sterilized. \ ! Once a week the pipe lines are taken down and brushed out by hand. At the experimental farm, however, in a test, the pipes were allowed to stay up five weeks before being taken down and then found to be only slightly discolored from the calcium in the water. - There was ab- solutely no trace of grease in the pipes. In order to make doubly sure of the steriliza- tion of the pipes, it is possible to steam them again just before milking starts. The vacuum tank in the milk” house not only serves as a cooling tank, but can, if desired, be used as a pasteurizer. The milk drawn from the cow is at body temperature and it would require only the circulation‘of warm water through the hollow space between the two tanks to bring the milk to the required 142 degrees at which the milk is held for a half an hour. The chilling operation would follow of course, and when that would be completed, the brine could be pumped out, the dead air space re- maining ferving as an insulator to keep the milk cold. After the milk has been cooled in the large tank, the farmers part is done. What happens from that time on depends upon which direc- tion the development of the remainder of the process takes at the hands of the milk dealers, (ONE course can easily be the establishment of routes over which tank- trucks equipped with both a vacaum pump to keep the air from the tank and a refrigerating pump to provide the necessary refrigeration if the haul is to a long one. The trucks can drive up to farmer’s milk house, tap on to his tank and draw out his supply. When the route has been covered and the load taken on, the truck can be returned to a milk plant where the milk can be pasteurized or not as the shipper desires and the milk then loaded into vacuum tank cars for the journey to the city to which the milk is being shipped. Arriving at the city, the milk can be drawn into’ the bottling plant from the siding or into other tank trucks if the plant is not located at the siding. The necessary equipment for this process is already developed and on the market, although the use is far from being general as yet. Another system and the one which: Dr. Graves is more inclined to foresee is the bot- tling of the milk in the country. In this sys- tem, 50-gallon tanks would be supplied to the farmer by the milk dealer. These tanks, dou- ble-shelled as already described, would have re- frigerating coil in the interior of the inner tank with the necessary propeller for agitation. A farmer would be supplied with one or more of these tanks, depending upon his output of milk. With the arrival of the truck collecting for the milk plant the process would vary. A chain hoist would be provided to lift the tanks aboard with far less trouble than stowing away the 10-gallon cans now in use. The truck col- lecting the filled tanks would leave empties for tlhe rie_xt, day and then retlur.n‘ w tthe Pl;nt 3 TR - <i 0~