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SOME FOLKS contend that this is not inflation we are worried with right now; that we have simply entered upon a new era in economics.

But many others are of ln.l.ni"a" that it is a new error, not era, that we travetr tlrrough.

THERE IS ONE ".ru5J"t in ;t nationat life today concerning which there can be no disagreement of opinion, namely, that America's bloodiest pastime is traffic on the highways. ,< d *

THEY USED to say that "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." * {< *

We can amend that now to read "Nothing is certain but HIGHWAY deaths and taxes."

And it might be argued in the light of all events that, of the two, titre highways deaths are the more certain.

YouNG MEN talk or**rL.ln., "r. going to do, old men talk of what they have done, and lazy men tell what they would like to do.

It's what we learn "fa.r**J hJ.re dec,ided'we know it all, that counts.

What this -Anon. country "TUt_ is a share-the-brains plan.

Someone says that a good poker player could make a success in any line of business. He fails to mention what a good poker player would need with'a business.

Ttre famous formula ri oLn* Frederick Sheldon continues to be as sound as when he first said it: that to be a succ€ss a man must increase his AREA: his Ability, his Reliability, his Endurance, and his Action.

A garageman in a small Western town h'ung out a sign that read: "IJse genuine parts. No substitutes as good. Ask the man wit&r the wooden leg." ***

Historian Harry Elmer Barnes says that more than a hundred years ago a scientist named Berthelet said: "Within a century we'll know about the atom. Then God will come down with His white bearcl, swinging a bunch of keys, and say: 'Closing time, gentlemen'."

Tagore wrote: Life is but a garment. When it's dirty, -brush it. When it's torn, mend it. Make it last as long and as good as You can'

Herbert lloover is reported to be writing a book about

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Woodrow Wilson, of whom he is a great admirer. Which brings to mind a remarkable statement that Mr. Wilson made more than forty years ago that will bear frequent repetition. fle was giving people a fit for running to Washington for Government aid. He said: "You do not need Wash.ington. There is genius enough in this country to master the enterprise of the world. When I hear Americans begging to be assisted by authority, f wonder where they were born. I wonder how long they have breat&red the air of America. I wonder where their papers of spiritual nationalization are."

We read and hear often about "youthful prodigies." And then, as a rule, you hear and read no more about them, Great thinkers are not always early prodigies. For instance: Charles Darwin could never learn a language; Napoleon was No. 42 in his cliass, but you never hear of the 41 who were ahead of him; Sir Issac Newton failed in geometry; George Eliot learned to read with difficulty; James Russell Lowell was kicked out of Harvard as a poor student; Oliver Goldsmith was at the bottom of his school class; Emerson was a dunce in math, and many others who became great started slowly.

A profound thinker ."1. ]"rJ, The greatest of human miseries, the most deadly of diseases, is one we cannot touch with a knife, or reach with drugs. I mean boredom. There is more real wretchedness, more torment driving men to folly, due to boredom than to anything else. Men and women will do almost anything, fling themselves into lost hopes and crazy ventures, to escape it. They will drink, drug themselves, prostitute their bodies, and sell their souls; they will take up mad causes, organize absurd crusades, they will torment themselves and torture other people to escape the misery of being bored. Anyone who can discover a cure for boredom would put an end to more misery than all doctors put together.

There is an old ,tory tl .i. Ju... that eight men were once wrecked on a desert island: 2 Irishmen, 2 Scotchmen, 2 Englishmen, and 2 Americans. At the end of a year it was noted that : the 2 frishmen had fought each other twice each day; the 2 Scots had founded a Caledonian Society ; the 2 Englishmen had not spoken to one another because th.ey had not been formally introduced; but the 2 Americans in one month had organized a Rotary Club, a Chamber of Commerce, and a real estate F.l"t.

General George S. Patton once said concerning human courage: "If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which.knows no fear, then I have never

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