Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1915, Page 8

- — 2 : s ot st o = Bad World Made War Inevitable. . Conditions By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, Copyright, 195, If you listen you wui hear, Star Company. from easi (0 west, arowing sounds of discontent and deep uniest. It is just the progress-driven plow of God, Tearing up the weli-worn custom-bounded sod; Shaping out each old tradition-trodden track Into furrows, fertile furrows, rich and black Oh, what harvests they will yleld When they widen to a fleld! They will widen, they will broaden, day by day, As the progress-driven plow keeps on its way. It will riddle all the ancient roads that lead Into palaces of selfishness and greed; It will tear away the almshouse and the sium That the littie homes and garden plots may come. Yes, the gardens green and sweet Shall replace the stony street. Let the wise man hear the menace that {g blent In this aver-growing sound of discontent Lot him hear the rising clamor of the race hat the few shall yleld the many larger space For the erucial hour {s coming when the soil Must be given to or taken back by Toll, Oh, that mighty plow of God— Hear it breaking through the sod! It Is useless to waste our vitality and our time In reviling any or all the Euro- pean forces who have brought on this shaumeful war. As one who walks about amons his fellow men for weeks with the germs of typhold fever In his wvetem must finally fall & prey to that malady, sothe wreedy, lustful, pow- er-craving \worlad must fall a prey o war periodically. Tlere are some pro- clamations from the seriptures regarding Proclatm among the @ this tiles: pruning hooks into H the ay T am breng. v e Pt setn i e L for mnq i come, get .m‘lovm. for the itees la furl n.a-ffi Nation, shoul Agalnst nation, B .‘n“n‘nfin‘:m‘“{ i di * * * And there shall AL ulation, mc-n ere was Of the world to Hioms By hotia b mhbrashet e | 1.‘-‘&3 .9."«. Mv.l. mm-‘&':&’fif g he It the nat'org | %I And | [ he £} hore shail sl Fthau th armk sena amone them O oo e Tl shall fudge n; Ik many e, rehvke menv ulm" ;::y Sl vent” o'y .-%r@f‘?ng?':fifi iooka: ntion sk bt ey L0 Pruning agninet peither ghall they learn War anv_move. Put thev shall sit evory man under his wine and fi, 357 ™hall make thom" afral—Mican” po Wo may as well fact the facts Premsnt ecnmitione wavs [pevisahin, world has been preparing for them many | Yeara Land monopo'y has been one of the great causes which brought on this | On December 2. 1910, shortly after | Carnegle made his gift of $10,. the International Peace Fund, | him. pointing out | Deace propaganda. | r. Fels sald: “You' international that | The | H g i how great, ‘AgEressive warfare is wlways the re- flt“mmwhmwflmnlc‘ “WI't the Carnele fund be used to any extent in abolishing 1and monovoly, | thus checking any possible repetition of Suceessful apreals to commercial cupidity in support of A gift of $10000600 to secure relief from malaria in swampy districts which could ot be used to se~ure the draining of the | me each time he en ter. Meantime Mr. Carnogie’s $10,000,000 might better have b en given to the mos cuito fund. Had it been given to niding Mr. Fels' magnificent work of giving labor accoss to natural resources the great question of the unemployed in our land would be nearer eo utlon. The vacant and the partially used city lots and the valuable mining and agri- cultural lands held out of use on specu- Iations are causing poverty, unemploy- ment and low wages. vcts, which manufacturers and merchants are Mmboozled into belleving can be re- lieved by forcing the people of weaker nations to purchase, Jean Jaures has sAld: “You cannot maintain the soclety of today; it is per- ishable; It Is condemned, and it enn dis- | appear efther by the brutal force of biind violence or by the resulating and con- ' , ciating force of law." And here Is an old German proverb which is timely just now: “A great war leaves a country with three armies—an army of cripples, an army of mourners and an army of thieves' Advice to Lovelorn Who it to Blame? Dear Miss Fairfax: | am 19 and was going with a young man of the same age. We had a quarrel and fell out, and now I am going with his best friend, | think, in time I would be able to | who, [ love. Btill I cannot stop thinking of the first young m with whom I am very much In love. I have heard from a friend that he still cares a good deal for me, but he, thinking I am to blame, will not make any overtures. Shall I write to him? WORRIED, Love geta shipwrecked oftener on the stubborn contention, “I am not to blame,” than on anything else. Since one must give In, show yoa are big enough to say you were wrong. The spirit with which he meets this avowal will show the manner of man he s and determine your future action. Tried to Reconcile Them. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 24 and my wife is 26, She often vi and meots my married ® her fee inge are often hurt by w! moth the way she treats my-sister. I try very hard to maintain peace. 1 really do not think my mother means any harm. PERPLEXED IKUIMND. ‘The tie of blood naturally makes your mother fonder of her own child than of her son's wife. Your wife must conquer her jealousy of your sister. A little tact in suggesting to each that the other really cares for her will do much to bridge the &ap. Fal : 1 am 1§ and have been keeping company with a young man three years my senior for last two y«r‘-d lx'\rur monmll l" en- ¥aged. In a quarrel nof ong ago he said he thought it was per for him to kiss red my home, but s t happens, there always are & number of my famil, , &l for this stated eason 1 do not approve of It BLONDE. He is an unusual young man if he wants to kiss you under such clroum- stances, but as your engagement sano- tions such a form of greeting you should not be averse to It. That is, if you ove him. The result is un- “ der-consumption of manufacturers’ prod- THE of Coaten '[_F:iery-Fruit %/ ( ,..(,l | W In all the faery stories they never name it—never call it by any name so we may know it. The Go'den Apple that' princes are always searching for—that malds are riding the world over to find—beyond the land that lies East of the Sun and West of the Moon—beyond the Iron mountains—asking the Eagle if he has seen it, begging the West Wind to try and remember where it is, bribing the Mother of the Moon to tell all she knows about it! Always in faery tales they are hunting Golden Apples. And the Apple never has a name. Always out of faery tales we mortals are hunting the Golden Apple, too, But it has a name, and that is Contentment! The ftaces we pass, the millions on the city street, have a quest- ing look, sleep-walker’'s eyes, and the hopeful smile of the seeker. Each |s an exployer dragging after him his outfit. Sometimes he bas money to help him tind it, and sometimes all his pack holds is | good disposition and the capacity to work. Some jog gently alons, doing their best, taking a bite of the cake of pleasure now and then, and seeing a bit of beauty as they go, bending to soothe the troubles of a little child, taking time to see the rose-paths as well as the BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST The Go'den Apple 30, 1915, e e The Bees Home Magazine Dage | tment i.E A\ AL Some just sit down by the road and wish! ‘wishing-cap, this crowd. Apple—except in Faery tales! you'll be happy!” By Nell Brinkle Copyright, 1015, Intern'l News Scrvice. They believe in the But wishing never got anybody the Golden Some are just good. “Be good and But all the world searches, each with a different theory, each in a different place, all with faces daft, whereon there glows the fruit of Content. for the slim little quivering tree Oh, there are clustors of fruit on it sure enough—and many of us have to be content with what we happen to shake down-—Happiness, Godd Fortune, Plenty, Love, Success, But there’s only one Apple of Content, I think, and fis gilded. It hangs high And, side by slde beneath it—equally earnest, blood- sisters in the lust for Content—the Darling of Wealth shakes the tree with white gemmed hands, while the Girl Who Earns Her Salt pitches frantic stones at it gleaming in the sun. “You have too much,” say the Darling. Jagged roads, and trusting that, somehow, they may get a glimpse of the Golden Apple some day! more and it will help to gain it Girl Who Earns Her Salt to the “That's why you can't get it.” “You haven't enough,” says the Darling back, “I will give you —NELL BR'NKLEY, The Pursuit of Happiness Not So Hard to Find, Provided One Knows the Way to Appreciate Life, : i l% i ) ] i By BEATRICE FAIRFAX, | it is never mappiness you have pursued ' |for itself. It came Incidentally as & re- | Most of Wfe's happiness comes inci- |SUlt of labor honestly performed. | dentally. The minute you pursue happl- | We catch happiness when we are least | ness you find it an elusive jade who |dreaming of it. Sometimes we find it | |delights to lead you a wlldgoose chase [In the approving glance of kind eyes; l.,.. 10 taunt you with the unmpleasant |Sometimes it lies in our own conscious- ! col of the sort of classifica- |Noss of attalnment; sometimes the scent |tion into which the chase is leadiag yo3, |Of & flower gives us an exquisite emo- {Aud how is & mere goose to kuew when |tion; and ofien the knowledge that to | |%he Is happy If ¢ver the chase is sue- |Others we have brought full happiness | cesstully terminated? |glves us & beautitul knowledge of the | Pursue your dally tasks and duties |desired of all humans. honestly and faithfully and sometimes | But circuinstances cannai make you in the midat of them comes & wonderful | happy or unbappy. What counts is how | focling— ¥ou react to them. Happiness cannot come from wilhout It has te be born But | n your own soul ‘There is exquisite happiness in this fedling of accomplislunent. | A dear {ricud of iaine suffers the tor- | f life are sure the subordinate th tures of unhappiness from the things she manages to imagine. If a friend is preoc- cupled ard not as enthusiastic as usual she suffers tortures from the thought of losing the friendship of that indi vidual. If cne of her friends happens not to communi-ate with her for a few days, she immediately decides that th ties of friendship hase been loosened. And she manages 8o to imagine herself as truly inte unhappiness as if it really existed Harpiness is largely a matter of being at peace with yourself and the world, 1t is well not to expect too much of life; not to be afrald of it. and so far as possible wtihout . self-deception to see some good In it The evil must always be regarded as something powerless and temporary which will in time defeat it- Taking life and oneself too seriously is & fine way to manage to bo very un- happy. Much of the day's measure of unpleasantness s a passing thing=—a | eriticlsm from others. |find little flaws In the mmber and from ings do not count greatly It is so easy to magnify trifles—to worry about the possibility of unking It is 80 easy to a focusing of attention on these to take such a distorted view of the amber thnt its clear yellow light will be 1 | no lon | beautitul, o To be happy. be glad of the chance life |offers you for work and achicvement. T fnd carth not gray, but rosy— Heaven not grim but 1 ') 3 | Do stoop? T Dluck & posy ° MU Do I stand and stare? Al's bive So savs Browning. In the fact that the stars Mght the midpight sky, in the love- linesn of the daisies dotting the midsum- mer flelds, In softness of the winter snow crystals lies exquisite happiness for many a soul. Life is full of benefits. Contentment s within .the reach of any {one who is mot morbid—and happiness lls there for the taking of any one who |phase of no importance. If the essentials 'lives life sanely and well. ! I The State of l Preparedness | J Statesmen are hurling back nd forth Iupinlnns as to whether the United States shorld hold herself always in readiness for war. When statesmen disagree the public is likely to be muddled. But | whatever the states- |men and diplomats conclude as to the wise course for this country there is no doubt whatever as to the individuals who compose the | nation Everybody should be preparel for that | war of life which |is change. The short |sighted, the lazy minded, the weak ! give mo By ADA PATTERSON. willed, | thought to change. That eveything wili { remain as it is they take it for granted, and when change comes it finds them not ready. Sonie “proverbs” are ttrong, truthful, inepirinz. Some are weak and enervat- ing. Of the weak and cnervating kind {8 the ancicnt, advice. “Don’t cross a bridee until you come to it.” That pro- | verb should be amended ‘o read ‘‘but cast a sharp eye on :ts timbers before you try to cross it”. In its unamended | form it encourages sloth of mind and body. It is the first step in the well trodden path to the poorhouse, | A great man perished in the sinkinz |of the Lusitanfa. His death was proof of the wislcm of his own speech. “I lam always thinking of what may hap- | pen and what 1 shall do if it loes hap- |pen.* He disobeved his >wn injunction. !He departed from his usval safe and | sane course. Had he really thought of | what ‘might happen on ihat journey he wouldn't have taken it nd the world would not have been poorer through its loss of a man to whom it had given, and from whom it had received much. Thoe man or woman of balance is usu- lally in a state of rrepuredness. The man i is ready to meet the note which he made i payable on demand. The woman has her |ice box or pantry so well atocked that the fnvasion of a friend >r two an hour before dinner doesn't throw the house- hold into a panic. Last week a self supporting woman, well known and of generous salary, lost her job. It was one of the fortunes of | war, for business 1s war. A quarrel with | her employer, n holding out for a con- ! cesslon that he would not grant, in- dignation on her pact, obstinacy on his, and they parted. “I've quit”, she said to me. “Why so tragic wbout 1t?" T -asked with soothing intent, “There are ol °r posty of the same kind. You are healthy and capable You can get one.” “Mut" she complatned, *“if I have to iive without salary “or three or four weeks it will be dreadful, I will have to borrow.’ I had hesrd a dozen Hmes that this business woman was wealthy. “She hal invested well,” my informants sald with cheerful convietion, Thero were reasons for this assurance She Jived in an expensive apartment. Sha kept an autcmobile, not a lttle runabuut that she herself guided through the mase Her automobile was - of the city strects A touring car and had a chauffer tachment, She dressed richly and show lly. I noticed, while she talked, a p of slippers with buckles that would ha cost more than an average week's salary | “Yes, I'm broke, she sald. “You scr !T've always lived well. I've lad som~ | obligations. But I could have saved i1 spite of them and I didn't. T never ¢x ! pecteil that this would happen.” ! But things do happen, strange’ thin unexrected things, events that are over | wheiming if we haven't antlcipated the' | Floods, fires, failures, illness, death | estrangement, bus'ness upbeavals, that i change the map of a life. And we shoull Ihave in mind these possibilities and re- | solve what we will do if they transpire. | Preparedness isn't worry. It is self- | respect It is use of our cranial fur- Inishings It is the dike raised aga'nst !the encroaching waters. It is Iife, fire |insurance. It i3 money in the bank for |the illness fund. It is that best of all { sight, foresight. / |