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HOURS' by John Morley
/ Believe
for the New Year
There will still be people in
There will be "eccentrics"
Everybody needs a good rival
the New Year who will scream:
with new ideas referred to as
or two to keep the rust out.
the loudest for things they can't
crackpots - until the idea
Karl Marx was a flagrant
with them.
catches - and they build the taker. He pretended happiness
biggest house in the block and
for the proletariat
0 There will be renewed real-
while his
invite their critics for lobster
main goal was hatred for the
ization that America is a Para-
and champagne.
bourgeoise.
dise - regardless.
You can't Tool all the people
The only power which can all the time
The more I travel and see the
as some of them
permanently resist fear
world as it is, the more 1 am con-
is are also busy fooling you.
the power of love. If this be true,
vinced that the United States is
then the only power which can
The fellow who appears non-
the only country I know delib-
resist the fear of Communism is
chalant in the face of trouble is
John Morley
erately founded on a good idea
the love of country.
either rich, or amply covered by
insurance.
The New Year, like the
It's the height of stupidity to
Speaking as 1 do across the
be positive about ideas, Every
People will continue to eat nation and facing thousands in
generation, will offer an
unfin-
antiquated idea was once' posi-
the Bible, not its meaning. Like my conventions, colleges. clubs,
unfinished society
tive. fresh and modern. Every
the people who eat the menu, I see the urgent need for a "con-
ished business, unfinished
not the meal.
centration camp" for rumor
plans, unfair practices, unrecti-
fresh and modern idea today will
be passe in time.
We will continue to notice
mongers, alarmists, crepe-hang-
fied mistakes unjust decisions,
ers and fear-infesting politicians.
uncharted wate happy sol-
people who will be so busy
utions. This is the challenge to
Losing your faith usually ends
"building" they have no time to
A committee is a group of
all of us.
up by finding wrong answers.
join the "wrecking crews."
people who singly were unable
to do anything, but together aft-
People who appear uncoop-
The "light" some persons
:
Next year more and more
er long deliberation agree that
100 will continue to make less
erative are not really against
may seek on the outside has
nothing can be done.
you
but for themselves.
robably been burning right in
and less use of their legs and
their own inside for years.
People I seldom see have been
there is every indication that
sending me cards from abroad
I can recall the wonderful
vomen will again outwit them
0 Contain your disappoint-
wishing I was with them
by improving on the extraordi-
days when we counted our bless-
ments next year. Keep in mind
Gngs instead of our calories.
nary use of theirs.
always that people will respond
In
dealing
with
your
fellow
If you can't be grateful for
more to evil than good.
men
all religions offer the
We will continue to meet
what you've got
be grateful
same advice
here it is:
men and women who will do
for what you haven't got.
That rather than trying to
Christianity
Matthew 7:12
their best, win or lose. Others
"capture" the minds of men al.",
All things whatsoever ye
will prefer to just look on,
We will remain a "no-Hell-
over the world, we just try to
would that men should do to
avoid pressure, work and ":07-
ian We don't believe that
"free" their minds with educa-
you. do ye even so to them.
ards. And when these two
part of religion which pro-
tion.
Judaism
types meet face to face, expect
Talmud, Shabbat
claims the existence of a hell
one of them to have a bagful
death For no God of love
That both conservatives and
31A
What is hateful to you.
of excuses, envy, jealousy, and
can be capable of sending any-
liberals get out of similar traps.
do not do to your fellow men.
one to Hell, regardless. Hell is
For, because something is old,
Buddhism
even hate.
Udanavarga 5:18
something self-imposed, or im-
it doesn't necessarily make it
Hurt not others in ways that
Human nature will continue
posed by others, right here on
good, and because something is
your yourself would find hurtful
to be drawn to accident and
earth.
new doesn't necessarily make
Islam
Sunan
No one
tragedy If Jesus, Lincoln, or
it any better.
of you is a believer until he de
Kennedy had died of heart at.
sires for his brother that which
There will be new, success-
That gossip, slander and ru-
tacks, their "images" would
the desires for himself.
ful men because of the loyalty,
mor will continue to travel fas
not have been the same.
ter than the greatest truths.
Brahminism
and inspiration of their women
Mahabharate
Sympathy will not really
while others will succeeed
5:1517
Do naught unto oth-
heal. Only the bereaved can
in spite of be told they
The happiest people will be
ers which would cause you pain
heal their wounds in whatever
dumb.
those who are too busy to no-
if done to you.
direction their heart dictates.
tice whether they are happy.
Confucianism
Analects
1,5.23
Do not unto others
Nothing else in the world
what you would not have them
AS another year approaches,
but your heart will hold almost
We will continue to judge
do unto you.
it will become more evident
anything for you.
people by the way they behave
Taoism
that you don't need to under-
when things go against them.
T'ai-Shang Kan-
Ying Pien
Regard your
stand women to enjoy them.
Much of what we do is not
Except in an emergency, to neighbor's gain as your own
influenced by our experience, but
hurry
at
anything
is
to
lose
its
and your neighbor's loss
by our expectations.
real flavor.
is your own loss.
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