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Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers

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Arthur Brisbane

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EDITORIALS from the HEARST NEWSPAPERS {Arthur Brisbane}

CONTENTS

Why Are All Men Gamblers?

No Man Understands Iron

We Long for Immortal Imperfection—We Can't Have It.

Three Water-Drops Converse

Did We Once Live on the Moon?

William Henry Channing's Symphony

The Existence of God—Parable of the Blind Kittens

Have the Animals Souls?

Jesus' Attitude Toward Children

Study of the Character of God

The Fascinating Problem of Immortality

Discontent the Motive Power of Progress

The Automobile Will Make Us More Human

Let Us Be Thankful

The Harm That Is Done by Our Friends

Shall We Tame and Chain the Invisible Microbe As We Now Chain

Niagara?

The Elephant That Will Not Move Has Better Excuses Than We Have

for Folly Displayed

Let Us Be Thankful

What Will 999 Years Mean to the Human Race?

The Azores—A Small Lost World in a Universe of Water

No Napoleonic Chess Player on an Air Cushion

A Girl's Face in the Gaslight

The Criminal Class

The Wonderful Magnet

Who Is Independent? Nobody

When We Begin Using Land Under the Oceans

Where Your Body Came From

How Marriage Began

Man's Willingness to Work

The Human Brain Beats the Coal Mines

How the Other Planets Will Talk to Us

Shall We Do Without Sleep Some Day?

The Three Best Things in the World

The Value of Solitude

There Should Be a Monument to Time

A Mother's Work and Her Hopes

Your Work Is Your Brain's Gymnasium

The Steeple, Moving Like the Hand of a Clock

Cultivate Thought-Teach Your Brain to Work Early

The Wind Does Not Rule Your Destiny

One of the Many Corpses in the Johnstown Mine

Limiting the Amount of a Day's Work

Catching a Red-Hot Bolt

The Trusts and the Union—How Do They Differ?

France Has Learned Her Lesson

Union Men as Slave Owners

Again the Limited Day's Work

To the Merchants

What About the Chinese, Kind Sir?

150 against 150,000—We Favor the 150,000

To-day's World-Struggle

White-Rabbit Millionaires and Other Things

No Happiness Save in Mental and Physical Activity

The Owner of a Golden Mountain

The Human Weeds in Prison

Crime Is Dying Out

The Value of Poverty to the World

600 Teachers Now, 600,000 Good Americans in the Future

Education—The First Duty of Government

Poverty Is the Father of Vice, Crime and Failure

The Importance of Education Proved in Lincoln's Case

Knowledge Is Growth

A Whiskey Bottle

Those Who Laugh at a Drunken Man

Law Cannot Stop Drunkenness—Education Can

The Drunkard's Side of It

Drink a Slow Poison

To Those Who Drink Hard—You Have Slipped the Belt

Try Whiskey on Your Friend's Eyeball

What Are the Ten Best Books?

The Marvelous Balance of the Universe—A Lesson in the Texas Flood

The Earth Is Only a Front Yard

Last Week's Baby Will Surely Talk Some Day

The Good That Is Done by the Trusts

Trusts and the Senate

The Promising Toad's Head

Trusts Will Drive Labor Unions Into Politics

The Trusts Are National School Teachers

A Woman to Be Pitied

When Will Woman's Mental Life Begin?

The Cow That Kicks Her Weaned Calf Is All Heart

Respectable Women Who Listen to Faust

Why Women Should Vote

Astronomy- Woman's Future Work

Woman's Vanity Is Useful

To Editorial Writers—Adopt Ruskin's Main Idea

Imagination Without Dreaming the Secret of Material Success

The One Who Needs No Statue

The Vast Importance of Sleep

Woman Sustains, Guides and Controls the World

The Story of the Complaining Diamond

Don't Be in a Hurry, Young Gentlemen

hen the Baby Changed Into a Fourteen-year-old

The Eye That Weighs a Ton

What Animal Controls Your Spirit?

From Mammoths to Mosquitoes—From Murder to Hypocrisy

The Monkey and the Snake Fight

Too Little and Too Much

Do You Feel Discouraged?

Two Kinds of Discontent

What the Bartender Sees

What Should Be a Man's Object in Life?

Cruel Frightening of Children

It Is Natural for Children to Be Cruel

Two Thin Little Babies Are Left

A Baby Can Educate a Man

The articles in this book were published originally in the editorial columns of the various Hearst newspapers throughout the country.

These articles may have some interest for the student of modern happenings, because of the fact that the newspapers publishing them have an aggregate daily circulation of two millions of copies, and are read each day by no fewer than five millions of men and women. Such wide circulation of identical opinions on current events, in different parts of the country, is a new feature of our national life. The character of such writings, and their probable influence upon the public mind, whatever their lack of intrinsic merit, may be of sufficient importance to justify the publication of this collection of ephemeral writings.

WHY ARE ALL MEN GAMBLERS?

The annual report of the gambling house at Monte Carlo shows a profit of about $5,000,000.

A large collection of human beings travel from all parts of the world to Monte Carlo for the sake of giving $5,000,000 to the gambling concern there.

Wherever you look on earth to-day or in the past you find human beings gambling, and you will find the gambling instinct stronger than any other—stronger than the love of drink, infinitely stronger than the love of normal, honest gain.

* * *

Christopher Columbus's sailors gambled on the way over, and the Indians on this side were gambling while waiting to be discovered.

In an office overlooking Trinity graveyard, in New York City, an old man, past eighty, with a fortune of at least $50,000,000, gambles every day with all the excitement of youth. The fluctuations in his game bring to his sallow cheeks the color that no other human emotion could bring there.

On his way home this old man passes crowds of children in the streets and looks down, concerned and sorrowful, to find that they, too, are gambling.

They are matching pennies or shaking dice.

* * *

Clergymen are startled and amazed to find that women are gambling heavily.

They have gambled heavily ever since civilization has progressed far enough to give them large sums to gamble with.

Marie Antoinette staked thousands of louis at a time at

Versailles.

She was so wrapped up in gambling she could not see that her neck was in danger.

When the lava came down from Vesuvius it buried Pompeiians who were gambling.

The men who dig up the old monuments in Africa find gambling instruments crumbling away side by side with appliances for taking human life.

* * *

Nowhere in the lower forms of animal life, so far as we know, is there the slightest indication of the gambling instinct.

The monkey, the elephant, love whiskey, and easily become drunkards.

The passion for alcohol seems innate in animal life; even the wise ant can be readily induced to disgrace himself if alcohol is put near him.

For all the human weaknesses and mainsprings—ambition, affection, vanity, drunkenness, ferocity, greediness, cunning—we can find beginnings among the lower animals.

But man appears to have evolved from within himself the gambling instinct for his own especial damnation.

Where did the instinct come from? Why was it planted in us?

Like every other instinct with which intelligent nature endows us, it must have its good purpose, and it must not be judged merely in the corrupted form in which we study it at Monte Carlo or in Wall Street.

Perhaps the spirit of gambling is really only an atrophied, perverted form of the spirit of adventure.

Columbus staked his life and gambled, when he started across the water.

The leaders of the American Revolution expressly staked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in signing the Declaration of Independence. They were noble gamblers, working for the welfare of their fellows.

Perhaps gambling is only a perverted form of intelligent ambition—we are all natural gamblers because we have within us the quality which makes us willing to risk our own comfort, security and present happiness for a result that seems better worth while.

The universality of the gambling instinct in human beings is certainly worthy of our study.

NO MAN UNDERSTANDS IRON HOW CAN WE HOPE TO UNDERSTAND GOD?

Is there laughter in heaven—or can nothing move the eternal heavenly calm?

If mirth exists among the perpetually blissful, how must the angels laugh when in idle moments they listen to our speculations concerning the Divinity? They peer down at us as we look at ants dragging home a fragment of dead caterpillar. They hear us say things like this:

If God exists, why does He not reveal himself to ME?

How could God exist before He created the world? Force cannot exist or demonstrate its existence without matter. How could a creator exist except with creation around him?

Where did He live before He made heaven?

If He is all-powerful, could He in five seconds make a six months' old calf? If He made it in five seconds it would not be six months old.

Nonsense more subtle comes from the educated, from those who know enough to be preposterous in a pretentious way.

Hear the wise man:

God does not exist, because I cannot prove His existence: I can prove everything else. With my law of gravitation I point to a speck in space and say: You'll find a new planet there, and you find it. If a God existed could I not also point to Him? If I can trace a comet in its flight, could I not trace the comet's maker?

Huxley says: The cosmic process has no sort of relation to moral ends. That's a philosopher's way of saying something foolish. Lalande, the astronomer, remarked that he had swept the entire heavens with his telescope and found no God there. That's funnier than any ant who should say: I've searched this whole dead caterpillar and found no God, so THERE IS NO GOD. The corner of space which our telescopes can sweep is smaller, compared to the universe, than a dead caterpillar compared with this earth.

Moleschott, an able physiologist, believed that phosphorus was essential to mental activity. Perhaps he did prove that. But he said: No thought without phosphorus, and thought he had wiped the human soul out of existence. Philosophers do not laugh at Moleschott. But they would laugh at a savage who would say:

I have discovered that there is a catgut in a fiddle. No fiddle without catgut—no music without cats. Don't talk to me about soul or musical genius—it's all catgut.

We peek out at this universe from our half-developed corner of it. We see faintly the millions of huge suns circling with their planet families billions of miles away. We see our own little sun rise and set; we ask ourselves a thousand foolish questions of cause and Ruler—and because we cannot answer, we decry faith.

Wise doubter, look at a small piece of iron. It looks solid.

You suppose that its various parts touch. But submit it to cold.

You make it smaller. Then the particles did not touch. Do they touch now? No; relatively they are farther apart than this planet from its nearest neighbor.

That piece of iron, apparently solid, consists of clusters of atoms wonderfully grouped, each cluster called a molecule. The molecular cluster is invisible, millions of clusters in the smallest visible fragment. The atom is accepted by science as the final particle of matter. Its name indicates that it is supposed to be indivisible. When science gets to the atom it calmly gives up and says: That is so small that it can no longer be divided. A reasonable enough conclusion on the surface, considering that you might have millions of atoms of iron in one corner of your eye and not know it.

But why should the atom be incapable of further division? If it is any size at all it can be thought of as split.

Where does the divisibility of matter end, if anywhere? What is there SOLID about iron? Nothing in reality, except that it seems to us solid. Already, with the X-ray, we can look through it. Forces such as heat and electricity pass through it more readily than through free air.

Science, which gradually finds things out, denying as it goes along everything one step beyond, tells you truly that the clusters of atoms in iron float in a sea of ether, just as do our planets going round the sun. Heat the iron intensely. What happens? You get what you call white heat. The white heat and the white light come from the increase of wave motion in this ether, and this ether, absolutely imponderable, of a tenuity inconceivable, possesses elasticity greater and more powerful than that of coiled steel. ——

So much for one small piece of iron, such as you would kick to one side in a junk heap. If it interests you, read pages 159 to 162 of John Fiske's admirable little book, Through Nature to God. You will finish the book the day you get it.

If you