Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Mar 1933, p. 26

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do yor 1J~ hel> us on mir way. charged t rexular a4vertlmng rtes. Years ago we heard a sermon, on the theme, "Respect. the, Burden." The speaker said that if you were ,walking on a narrow path and met, Respect the a mani carrying a heavy Barde» burden vou %vould nat- urally step aside to give, the burden-bearer plenty of ýroomî to get by. You would not crowd him off the path, but, seeing the burden, vou would Many, niany times since then %ve.have thought of this sermon and have feit its value. We have seen that huinan beings carry a great variety of burdens. Somne of these burdens are physical but perhaps the majority are mental and spiritual. How many people in the worl are handi~- capped by physical afflictions-blindness, deafness, lameness, illness. We certainlv, takc-l4ear vision on the part ut t uie' s L see thiese burdens. But that they' are real burdens and that they hinder. straight- ahiead progress is sureiv true, Othiers carry xvhat îii.ght be called s1irittual bur- dens. The -force of bard events lias catused thein to lose faith in the great rligl(is, crés. So thcy s tagger along alinôst crushIeçlI 1wtheir lheavv load s. Thlese hur- (lns Nve list take into accounit. ant news. n4very paragrapn 'i l elU some world-shaking occurrence. In the first place it.would, be a very smaJl news- ,paper, and ini the, second place it would be, a. most depressing paper, and the resuit: of this last would he that after a littie while. it woffld not be read.. Our newspapers must be like life itself -amiture, of big and littIë. We talk' about everthing from the: doings of the most important, people to the doirigs of the least important, if. the.re. are any such. Does it flot say .in.the Bible that every hair on our heads, is numbered? Doesn't that Mean,,that God isý interested in the littie things of life? At the very opening of this remarkable century we were tra veling in tin'iaxd; spending, our last fewv days in the Lake Keep Country - the country of Kee.b Wordsworth and Coleridge. Moving Noting that a great outdoor sports meet was to be held on the outskirts of Grastuere, we decided to take it ini. The sports the 1mselves were most interesting, but more interesting were the, attitudes and wvords of the native lunes callout, "Stand; abooL, uuLLq.e This command enphasized to uis then, and it lias many timies since, the need of movetuent. In or(ler. that spectators miay see wvhat is tikling place on the field those. w~ho stanid near the contestants miust miove ab)out. Býoth iiuonev and blood inist cir- culate ini order that ecoxioiic and physical Iulvsshal i health ily funiction. Iduring Potience, that is zehat tue need, IX cstorillg o!flaitÏ hat knows no chang ing, J 'idornitable co.urage> minus greed. T o you and yours -iilI cote the final -victory, Y oti havebu.t to love, apnd serve and hecd. -Olit4ia Kipigsle. As was to he expected, a veritable epidethiico -hoa rding" stories, have been flitting hither and yon since President Roosevelt set a deadline for the reý- turn to circulation*,of accumnulations of the coin of the reaim1 that' had been re posing peacefully in cupboard ja rs, under mattreses and various other, places of concealmfent. Here'is one of the. beSýt we've bea-rd and no less .tfan a traveling man sweairs it actually happened. A gentleman iti Aurora appeared to pay bis ,taxees arwmed ~witb a sizable cati which ]e placed before the collector. "There's $1,400 which will just pay my taxes,- iie said, indicatinig the coiitents of the conitainer. "Count it P' The collector counWtd and replied: "I can make only $1,200 out of it."ý "There nust be some mistake. You'd better counit again," insisted the ownier of the can. The collector siimm-oned several assistanits, each of whom set about the couniting job. "$1,200," was the unianimous verdict. "Well, isn't that a hot oiie," quoth t 'he taxpayer. "I ust've brotught .along the wronig can." via the foreclosure route and' suffered a severe financiai set-back dlue to' the closing of* his favorite bank, and whoc now declares he neyer felt better ini bis ife. "-,man,' .sezzee, "cain't youl see, 1 haven't a thing to Nworry about any more. I f eel like a kid starting out to conquer the world 1" WILD PLUM TREE Oh, Loveliness,' Oh, Beauty, That sPrings front qiet soul, How ~,ru-h I ain that I cit.. cpp Ils wîIt tells iiiii to nx rus flair. Many might have been troubled by the intrusion of such a trifling request in,,the midst of such, important proceedings. We heardi an ai *formance of The 1 most ail the actor pie. We were d from, first to last. "Could 'e peo - "Certai opera "Fine,1 I have A of it today?' ily." then l'Il. leave it right there. Goodbye." do 3-our bit

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