PERTINENT COMMENT

Pertinent Comment ACCORDING to the New York Times, Judge Rentoul of the City of London Courts, recently enumerated the following as "The Fourteen Mistakes of Life." Setting up one's own standard...

...Rudolph Spreckels and Francis Heney, of San Francilco, are planning a national organization to fight municipal graft and political corruption...
...Trying to measure the enjoyment of others by our own...
...Such an organization might accompli^ great good.—Kansas City Star...
...President Taft believes Cannon and Aldrich will assist him in his endeavor to carry out the Roosevelt policies...
...flAs to the dismissal of Glavis, probably the President ceuW not have done anything else...
...Looking for judgment and experience in youth...
...Considering anything impossible that we ourselves cannot perform...
...Refusing to believe anything that our finite minds cannot grasp...
...Estimating men and women by their nationality or by any outside quality...
...Refusing to yield in unimportant trifles...
...But what good will that do the country if the new Democratic Congressmen are as subservient to the "interests" as are many of the present members?—Detroit News...
...Looking for perfection in our own actions...
...If he meant to carry the Roosevelt policies out on a stretcher, he may rely upon the enthusiastic aid of the gentlemen who run the two branches of Congress.—Chicago Record-Herald...
...Glavis was not really submissive to his superiors...
...Worrying ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied...
...Setting up one's own standard of right and wrong and expecting others to conform to it...
...Expecting uniformity of opinion...
...f Champ Clark says that the next House will have a Democratic majority of 100...
...Endeavoring to mold all dispositions alike...
...Living as if the moment would last forever...
...Not making allowance *or traits in others, apparently unfitting them for success in life...
...but discipline required that he should go—as long as Bal-linger was to remain Secretary.—New York Mail...
...We have said that it was a good thing he was not...
...Not alleviating as much suffering as we can...

Vol. 2 • February 1910 • No. 5


 
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