Work: A Wonder Drug September 12, 1965
In speaking of work and leisure and play and pleasure, there is this further to consider: that work is essential. Work is essential to survival. It is essential to peace of mind, to health and...
Work: A Matter of Attitude September 5, 1965
The balance between work and leisure, play and pleasure is always of interest. Precise appraisals appear to be impossible, because what is work to one is pleasure to another, and what is work at one...
Where Else but Home? April 25, 1965
“Every home is perforce a good or bad educational center,” wrote Ida Tarbell. “It does its work in spite of every effort to shrink or supplement it. No teacher can entirely undo...
What Two Married People Owe Each Other April 4, 1965
John Ruskin said, “Do not think you can make a girl lovely, if you do not make her happy.”1 This moves us to the question of marriage, of parents, of children, and of all that happens at...
What Has Happened to Virtue? June 27, 1965
“We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive,” said Cecil B. DeMille, “⎯something hemming us in. We sometimes think of law as the opposite of liberty. But...
What Cometh Out of a Man March 28, 1965
What a man laughs at, may be the measure of his mind.1 The words he uses may also be the measure of his mind, or even more than his mind⎯his character, his soul, what he is inside. Said the Master...
We Can Be All There… March 7, 1965
One of the most gracious and considerate men of our acquaintance, and one of the busiest also, puts at ease those who come to call by giving them his complete attention. Many people seem preoccupied...
Washington and the Genius of Character February 21, 1965
As young people face problems, the qualities of character that have shaped the leaders of the past become urgently important in the present. And this increasingly becomes clear: that without...
Too Much… July 18, 1965
Epictetus left some words on a subject we should like to consider: “See children thrusting their hands into a narrow-necked jar,” he said, “and striving to pull out the nuts and...
To Know That Life Never Ends… April 18, 1965
With deeply moving insight a poet left us these words: Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before? There is much earnest...
To Be Indifferent… December 12, 1965
The problems of our time, whatever they are, are partly our problems. Albert Camus expressed this thought in this significant sentence: “Conscious of the fact that I cannot separate myself...
The Wrong Places August 22, 1965
We have talked about being absent, about staying away from school, from church, from other places where we ought to be, using the excuse that it is to repetitious, that is seems too much the same....
The Use of Profanity February 28, 1965
On the prevalent practice of profanity, we cite these words from George Washington: “The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and los, that every...
The Slow-Down Symptoms October 17, 1965
There is a symptom that shows itself in many ways, with some cause for concern. It varies from petty stubbornness to prevailing progress—a symptom of deliberate “slowing down” as the...
The Right Places for the Right Purposes August 15, 1965
We cannot reasonably expect constantly increasing excitement, or an evermore spectacular entertainment. Much of life is simple routine, made up of doing day to day the things that must be done, and...
The Reach and Power of Prayer February 14, 1965
“There is no limit to the reach and power of prayer.”1 Everyone needs help, no one is self-made, no one is self-sufficient, no one, in a sense, is safe, for all are subject to accident,...
The Practical Joke… January 24, 1965
Humor is a wonderful lubricant in life. “Good humor,” said Stanislaus, “is the health of the soul,” and heaven spare us the starchy stiffness of living without sincere and...
The Personal Contribution June 6, 1965
Rudyard Kipling, said an eminent observer, took a piece of paper, which certainly would have cost less than a penny, and wrote on it the “Recessional,” with all the stirring, moving...
The Meaning of Dignity October 31, 1965
There is a word in our language not often talked of, but one of much meaning. The word is “dignity.” In dictionary definition it is associated with character and quality, intrinsic...
The Fabric and the Flaw August 8, 1965
In a screen play, one of the characters expressed bitter disillusionment because of the supposed prejudice of a judge in whose court a case was being tried. And so this disillusioned person...