Tárogató, 1941-1942 (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1941-1 -01 / 4. szám
TÁROGATÓ 15 rected by the human spirit, may lead to a noble enlargement of life. Enterprises which make roads across pathless mountains, collect the waters over a hundred thousand miles to set the desert blossoming, build harbours on harbourless coasts, tame the elements to man’s uses—these are the equivalent today of the great explorations and adventures of the past. So, too, the patient work of research laboratories, where to the student a new and startling truth may leap at any moment from the void. Those who achieve such things are as much imaginative creators as any poet, as much conquerors as any king. If a man so dominates a machine that it becomes part of him he may thereby pass out of a narrow world to an ampler ether. —John Buchan in Memory-Holdthe-Door Do You Like to Read? Does it matter if we do not read? Admittedly, it is almost possible to go through life without opening a book, but to do so is to miss much. If education introduces young people to the kingdom of literature and makes them happy there, it has accomplished one of its main purposes. Once they are at home among books they will never have to wander far for interests and excitement. Whatever else they miss, they will not miss the best if they make books their friends at the beginning and keep them as friends to the end. — Everyman’s Book. A Pat On the Back A wise employer of labour noticed that one of his workers was getting highly nervous and irritable, and laboured under the delusion that the foreman was down on him. The employer quietly told the foreman to “give Tom a pat on the back occasionally.” The foreman did so, and the result was almost miraculous. There is a lot of human nature all around us, and the tendency to find fault rather than to commend is exceedingly widespread, which makes this world a much less comfortable place to live in, and detracts very materially from our effective work. A good course at all colleges and schools would be one on “The Appreciate of People.” To know men, to trust men, to love men, is one good way of making human machinery run smoothly. “Onward.” The Eternal Change When life moves sweetly and serenely, when friends are loyal and numerous, when health and strength are ours, it is natural to desire to have things stay just as they are. When life’s cup of happiness is full to the brim, why should there be any change? But it is clearly manifest that change is one of the eternal laws which govern saint and sinner. It is useless to rebel against this fact, and it is as foolish as it is unavailing. The same power who gave us the brightness of today has in store for us many days which are just as bright. We are not rolling away from the love and mercy of the Eternal, but we are moving ever toward the loving appointments of a providence which is “too wise to err and too good to be unkind.” God does not love men by spells, nor change his love to indifference; the truth that God is love will be just as true one million years from the present as it is today. The law of change is relentless, but it is never an enemy of man when rightly understood. The best is always ahead of the child of God. —Onward. Prairie How could you wrap it up in words And keep it for remembering ... The long green waves of Prairie With the tumbleweed blowing ... blowing ... Like tangled skeins of army wool Under the fences ? And the horses ... Standing pressed together With their manes blowing ... Ginger and russet and piebald, Lean of flank and sharp of hoof ... Prairie horses! Mile sand miles of sky Cleaner than any other sky ... Wider than any sky! How could you wrap it up in words And keep it for remembering? And the prairie night
