Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1915, Page 15

e the will. THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY 13 \ Occupation l By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX. “rom Good Housekeeping Magazine There must in Heaven b Aund occupations, varied, Or Heaven could not We F e many industries infinite, feaven, What lovely tas The Mighty Maker of the Universe Can offer souls that have prepared on earth By holding lovely thoughts and fair desires! Art thou a poet, to whom words come not-— A dumb composer of unuttered sounds, Ignored by fame and to t he world unknown? Thine may be, then, the mission to create Immortal lyrice and imm ortal strains For stars to chanttogether as they swing About the holy center wh ere God dwells. Hast thou the artist instinct with no skill To give it form or color? It may be given to paint Unto thee upon the skies Astounding dawns and sunsets framed by seas And mountains, or to fashion and adorn New faces for sweet pansies and new dyes To tint their velvet garm: ents. Oftentimes Methinks behind a beauteous flower I see, Or in the tender glory of a dawn, The presence of some spirit who has gone Into the Place of Mystery, whose call, Imperious and co Or soon or late. So many with ambitions, Unrealized, who could no elling, sounds for all, So many have passed on- hopes and aims t be content As idle angels, even in Paradise. Surely God has provided work to do For souls like these, and Do you ever stop to think about the lite beyond this earth plane The old orthodox idea of a heaven where the robed n trafling gar-| ments, sat playing on a harp and singing resurrected spirit, osannas through eternity, has passed away Most of us 'knew that it was an im ble idea and that such an existence would be very wearisome indeed. Ad- vanced thinkers and seers have given us food for thought and we have come into the consclousness of a larger and more beautiful life beyond than tbat which the old orthodoxy taught us. Communication between the world be- vond and this world is to millions of minds an established fact. To many others it seems ah increasing possibility. One who claims to have brought a mes- age frem the world beyond, says: ‘“The problem of life is surely to avold the waste of straying into devious ways which do not help you forward. It is no use in spending life in developing a sense that will not be needed héreafter, Over in this land to which all of you must Bequest of Andrew Fr_t_aedman 1 for the weary-—rest, ‘ | come the objects of existence are so Aif- ferent that many who come here have an impression of bankruptey. They have | spent thelr life in accumulating treasure, and so the deposits in the bank on earth cannot be drawn here and they are un- | done.’ But one thing is sure. Every longing which we have to be aweful, every unsel- fish desire and emotion, every ambition to create omothing beautiful, every wish | to add to the comfort and happiness of the world, every feeling of love and sym- pathy and pity and compassion, every | longing for a happy home life—-all that is fmmortal and is helping to build our mansion not made with hands—that is | laying up treasure in a celestial bank and | we will be able to draw our checks when | we arrive there. { Whatever you are wishing to do that is | worthy and beautiful and helpful you will do eventually under happier condi- tions than those which now surround you To the duty which lies nearest you now and do it cheerfully, but keep the ideal of what you want to do in mind and know that you shall yet realize it. i It Might Have Somgthing to Do with the Calendar SET WASHED U Now - 1 WANT RUN You Te AN BRRAND ror me AW+ MA -You ALWAYS WANT ME To DO SOMETHIN' = WAaNTA_ PLAY rOSTBALL the immense range of territory and half a dozen distinct republics south of Panama. Now, if Panamericanism is to be anything more than a name, a policy | A Needed and ‘‘Beautiful Relief to Human Distress.”’ By CHARLES H. PARKHURST. Among the suffering poor there are none who suffer as much as those who ave once been in circumstances of af- fluence. Thney not only miss the com- forts that were the accompaniment of their former condition, but they are likely also to experience the estrangement of many of those whom they had been ac- customed to consider as friende; for, in a highly conventional state of soclety, much of what is called friendship has its price, like material commodities, so that iIf one has not the money to pay for it one can't have it At this point the remarkable bequest of the late Andrew Freedman comes in as & partial and very beautiful relief to human distress. The bequest s excep- tional in its character both as to volume and design. The Income from the seven milllons bequeathed is to be applied to tae erection and maintenance of a home for aged people in indigent circumstances, without discrimination as to race, creed, or sex. The trustees are, however, lim- ited in their selection of candidates for the benefits of the home to those “who have been in good circumstances and, by reason of edverse fortune, have become poor and dependent.’” It 18 gratifying to be publicly informed that no attempt will be made to break The possibility of becoming partakers in so large & fund offers great temptation even to the most affectionate relatives of the deceased. To attempt, however, to thwart the purposes of a te tator, after he is gone and no longer able to make sure the execution of his wishes, is a dastarly trick, and s so often practiced that large benefactors would do well to distribute at least the bulk of their property before they go. The graclous consideration of Mr. Freed- man s furthermore shown in his instrue- tion that special preference shall be shown to aged and indigent couples, and that the institution shall be so managed as to give it the character of a home and to make the Inmates forget, as far as possible, that they are dependent upon some one else's benefaction. The endow- ment is unique in this respect—that it does not duplicate any institution al- dy established Panamericanism, or the gathering of our entire western continent within the bonds of a common sympathy, ls an idea comprehensive enough to mateh the capacities of our own American mind. It s an Mea more difficult of achfevement than Panslavism or Panteutonism, be- cause of wider racial and Mnguistic ai- ferences. It fs a result, therefore, that cannot be relied upon to work itself out by any process of natural evolution, but one which will need to be deliberately fostered and brought about as the frujt of practical effort go forward Into the years with no sug- gestion of reciprocal lines of fortification along our fronties of 3,000 miles. As soon as we turn southward the sit- uatfon changes. That situation includes Mexico and Central America, as well as | of inter-relations between all that varie- gated scuthern gountry and ourselves will require to be deliberately and studiously cultivated. Much will depend on the sincerety of our own motives. We know that In times past popular feeling south of the Isthmus has been averted from us because of a suspicion that our policy was to play the older brother, or even to play the part of the policeman. Apparently that particular misunderstanding has been corrected. ) Another prejudico against us may be aroused If it should be supposed down there that our idea is to exploit South show you an Victrolas and CYCLE Omaha, Neb. Also at So far as Canada is concerned, we have nothing to es< for thet Is not aiready attained. Cansda 1s bound to us by ties of strorg sttachment. There is no longer any talk of its annexatlon, and we shall MICKEL’S NEBRASKA 334 Broadway, Council Bluffs, lowa Vict Amg tion: eurity and as a buffer between ourselves and other persons or as a means of support in case of Invasion. As an antidote to such suspicion no less an idea should bs put forth than that of absolute mutuality, the doctrine of a common interest, each for the main- tenance and security of all, and all for the maintenance and security of each. Difference of language is always a barrier between natlons, however close these relations may be otherwise. The encouragement of the study of Spanish in our schools would do something toward breaking down that barrier and would be an element of no slight significance it there is to be that intercourse between the northern and southern portions of our DECEMBER 23 'a in the ifterest of our own na- ) dontinent which would eontribute I'M ALL CLEANED UP AND EVERTRING MA - Do You WANT . ME To RUN ANY ERRANDS ? much toward producing a relation mutual understanding and regard. The republiea of South America, their modes of government, the type of south- ern civilization, the financial econdition, the commercial activities—those and all questions relatin* to southern life might well be mhde, and ought to be made, matters of study in otr schools. If South and North America are to become tn any sense part of oné whole, we shall have to know a great deal more about each other and establish a mutual Intimacy of thought and feeling, or what we call a common bond of sympathy will be more a phrase than a fact. Along with all the rest we ought not to let any other powers outdo us In the fostering of com- 80 Drawn for the Bee by Hal Coffman. mercial relations. pated us in that matter. Belf-interest, It nothing else, ought to have prompted us to anticipate them. Enterprising travel agencies would ren- der thomselves and the cause valuable service if they would foster tourist in- tercourse between the two sections and | draw into channels of travel, northward and southward, & part of that stream of International visitation which has been flowing Europeward, Such are some of the expedients avail able for converting Into fact an iden which {s beginning to gain strong hold upon our national mind. If the ldda 1s worth achloving, it {s well worth work. ing for. 1 belleve that England of [and Germany have both of them antici- Booker Washington Pioneer in Education By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M..D. PART 1L } His next venture lllustrates how de- | termined he was to build both for the future and for permanency and te utilize | every resource which was at hand One | of the first discoveries on the plantation | was a bed of excellent quality of brick clay. Nobedy in either class or faculty | had ever burned brick in his lfei but :hnt Was no reason why they should not hegin, | Two of them were sent over te the | nearest country brickyard and spemt o couple of daya watching the process of brick burning and getting such informa- tion as they could about the construction of kilns. Then all hands set to work under their direction. The clay was dug | And ground and moulded into bricks and erded, and when several thousand had been laborlously accumulated the eon- struction of a kiln was begun. As no wood or other burnable sub- stances can be used in the construction of a kiln, Its roof and most vital part must be bullt in the form of an arch, and thia 1s a work requiring some little knack and skifl After several unsuccessful attempts the | Kiin was finallly arched over, the fire started and the burning begun in fear and trembiing. But the embroyo brick- makers had forgotten to allow for the shrinkage and cracking due to the ine tense heat: and just as the inside of the Ilin, after meveral hours' stoking, began to show a beautiful cherry red, thers was as harp crack and roar and down came the roof and carefully piled thou. sands of brick under it In one mass of 1. Another tale of bricks was made, Another and stronger kiln was con- structed and again the fire started. They had made some progress fn the art, for the second kiln lasted nearly four hours longer than the first; but it too, went up in smoke, Cheering themselves with the thought that the third time is the luck, the daunte less brickmaking crew went at thefr task for the third time. And this time ap- parently persistence had its reward. The Kiln heated splendidly, the bricks were almost half baked, and the trfumphant class In manual tralning went ecomforte ably to bed for a much needed sleep, exe pecting to open up their prize package successfully in the morning. A little after midnight, however, Dn Washington says he was awakened by & loud pounding at his door and & volce which opled in agonized accents, ‘“Teacher, teacher, it's rainin' lak de ol® scratch, an’ the klin am done cave in again.” Dr. Washington says that as he tumbled out of bed onto the cold floor, rushed to the door and stood gasing out into the black darkness and pouring rain, and thought of all the labor and hope that had gone into that brick kiln, he was just about as nearly discouraged as he ever got. But the next arch stayed hunm‘: and it you will look on your rigl s you enter the present beautiful campus of Tuskegee, with its fifty odd bufldings, you will see the solid, dumpy, square, little birck bullding, now used as a dore mitory, which came out of that fourth Kiln, or Re cords . are ideal for Christmas A few suggestions: Any of Omaha’s three Victor Dealers will absolutely complete array of Victor Victor Records. CO. GEO. E. 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