THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1921. '
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THE TRUTH
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lEOPLE are still gbing about with
their eyes eagerly alight, hunting
for the honest man and the
honest product.
When that search is rewarded, nothing but
betrayal can break or lessen their
allegiance.
It has been pathetically true from the be
ginning of time that men admire honor in
others even when they have smirched it in
themselves.
Humanity may be a million years old in
point of time, but it is as young as this
morning's sun in its pursuit of the ideal.
After two thousand years of disappoint
ment and disillusion the eternal verities
and the eternal values still prevail.
The elemental truths are still true; the
man whose word is good is still the secret
hero of our inmost hearts.
We smile, perhaps, at the spectacular
triumph of the trickster; but while we
smile we hate the trick by which he filched
that sham success.
Even in an era of unbridled extravagance,
when, on the surface, men appear -to have
lost all sense of proportion, that which is
sound, and good, and true, is more ad
mired, and more desired, than ever.
In such feverish times the mediocre and
the meretricious only seem to be admit
ted to equality with that which is worthy, ,
because they fall heir to the overflow
which excellence is unable to supply.
The process of discrimination between the
sham and the solid, the superficial and the
substantial, goes on, just as before, with
out interruption.
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That which is unworthy carries its own
punishment, and its own penalty its true
character is inevitably disclosed in due
time, even though a temporary prosperity
comes to it from the caprice of the un
thinking. When "the tumult and the shouting" dies
down, the strong man, the strong institu
tion, the true artist, and the true workman,
in any and every vocation, is more solidly
entrenched than ever.
Even though it be surrounded, and seem
ingly obscured by shani and pretense,
nothing in this world is discovered so
surely as solid merit.
Nothing stands out so strikingly, by way of
contrast, as genuineness and genius.
No special and painstaking effort of hand
or heart, or brain or brawn, that goes to
the building of something superior, is
ever wasted.
Cheapness and compromise, substitution
and surrender---tjiese, in the long run, are
the real sources of waste.
The unceasing search of the mass of man
kind for that which is good and enduring
this is the only law of supply and de
mand with which the superior craftsman
need concern himself.
Let him dedicate his life to the satisfac
tion of this restless hunger of the human
heart, and he can, if he will, remove him
self beyond the reach of rivalry. .
This is the truth that embodies all truth;
this is the truth that makes men free.
(Copyright, 1920, Cdillae Motor Car Company).
J. H. Hansen Cadillac Co.
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