Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. [21], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1930 Page: 6 of 10
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LIKE HUMAN BEINGS
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By GEORGE DORSEY. Ph. D., LL. P.
PRACTICE ma^s perfect. Even a
* car “drives” better after the first
thousand miles. And as for the driv-
er himself! At the end of the first
day he ever drove a car he was a
wreck. For two reasons.
Fear lest he wreck the car: too
emotional. He suffered enough in an-
ticipation to lose a dozen cars, several
legs, ribs, eyes, lives. Other fears
under his belt moved him deeply: was
it safe, any possibility of its blowing
up, would the gas\ Hold out, etc.? He
did not know his car; it was a great
unknown, the unknown is always a
threat. He did not know his road,
nor ife manners and its customs, its
curves and its grades. The new way
is 'always a threats what is around
the corner?
T^ie other reason. His own motor
mechanism Ivas tired all over. Through-
out the day his muscles had been
tense, taut as fiddle strings, keyed up
for emergency action.-,
Now he drives three hundred miles
a day; is as fresh as a daisy; has a
good time, sees the country, talks his
hat off, smokes a dozen cigars. Does
not give his car a thought the whole
day. He is as automatic as fhis en-
gine.
Same car, same road, same driver.
And the same process in every act of
learning, beginning with the act of
standing up or the first walk in life.
We have time for' the high spots iff
life if we have learned how to cross
the routine valley by force of. habit.
Do you know which stocking you put
on first this’morning or which trousers’
leg you filled first? Do you recall how
you felt the first time you ever wore
a dress suit, or how long, it took you
to put it on, or to learn to tie a bow-
knot? Can you bathe, shave, and
dress in six minutes? I can do it in
less than five.
A skilled performer at the piano or
typewriter or on the tennis court acts'
like an automaton. But no mere auft)-
maton—human or otherwise—ever
makes a great performer.
For this reason: heightened'^sensi-
tivity of the central nervous system
increases the response of the reflex
arcs. A tap on flexed patellar tendon
elicits no kick when one is asleep.
Sleep means that central has hung up.
But try out the knee-kick with your
teeth clenched or your fist tightly dou-
bled up; more kick. Get real mad;
more kick.
A good habit is a well-learned habit
put to useful purpose.
^ The competent driver guides >is car
as a clever boy his bicycle; the right
muscles work to the right amounts at
the proper time and in proper order.
A car, or a curve, or a hole, or a honk
ahead, is stimulus enough for eye or
ear; the adjustment is made as though
it were a reflex, as easy as pie. It
is an acquired reflex'.
All our habits act by force of habit
because these paths are worn. We
awake in the morning and “before we
know it” we are at the breakfast ta-
ble, or possibly “come to” only when
some headline in the paper patches our
eye—pea-bap's already half through our
breakfast. And yet, before we “came
to,” we went through a thousand acts:
dressing, shaving, etc., etc., some qf
them really complex performances re-
quiring delicate adjustments.
Yet there were a thousand, re-
sponses available for that .breakfast
stimulus. The stimulus was not neces-
sarily followed by a yawn, a stretch,
push covers down, one leg out, other
leg out, slippers, etc.—one conditioned
reflex touching off another. But that
chain of reactions had been performed
so many times that the paths connect-
ing up these countless reflexes had
been worn ; all the other possfbje paths
of 'response offered more resistance be-
cause they had not been worn .by con-
stant action. .
A habit, then, is an act so often re-
peated that it runs itself: it does not
need our conscious attention; we can
give our attention to something else.
The average mortal has only one
habit. The one stimulus which rouses
him from sleep carries him through
the day and back to bed and to sleep.
All days look alike to ,him. Saturday
night is , also conditioned into the
chain; no fresh stimulus needed for
the bath! His body’s clock is likewise
set for Sunday. That day, too, goes
by according to schedule, and when
done is itself the stimulus to resume
a. new week. One habit after another,
like a chain, functioning as one. Works
like a clock wound up for life. Makes
a perfect clerk, “hand,” or maid.
This one-habit mode of existence is
fine; it gives the brain a complete
test. The possessor need never have
a thought! He is a skilled performer,
but never great, on piccolo, at lathe,
behind counterror on a stool. He does
not even make a good soldier. There
must be visceral dynamics—generally
called “gflts” — behind a bayonet
charg|; and high-strung central—
called “brains”—in control for a sharp-
shooter. The difference between ac-
tion in an automatic machine and in
a human genius is brains.
(© by George A. Dorsey.)
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Chimes Played by Rain
Children of the vicinity of Univer-
sity high school, Sawtelle, Calif., can
hear, when it rains, the chimes in
Louis Zwieg’s “singing tower.” Holes
carefully placed in the dome built on
^;he top of the sheet-iron house that
this veteran of the Indian war of the
late sixties built for himself, permit
raindrops to drip down on chimes
made of discarded glass lampshades,
arranged around a ring of copper
tubing. Some who have heard the
most pretentious chimes in the coun-
try have said this rain-drop-played
Instrument is better for soft, sweet,
melodious tones.
Russians,’ Soviet atheist officials are
busy formulating an intensified as-
~— sault upon God and religion.
“Ignoring, the world-wide outci-y against Com-
munists for their attitude toward the church,
which they say is only a cloak for an economic
blockade against the Soviet Union, these leaders
have issued instructions to members of the League
of Communist Youths, numbering 2,500,000 mem-
bers. to have ‘special shock brigades and groups
of light cavalry’ during Easter week lead the anti-
God movement and investigate the schools, uni-
'Versities and clubs to see how the anti-religious
education of the young is being carried out.
“Members are directed to organize mock reli-
gious carnivals, atheistic meetings, torchlight pro-
cessions and lectures and also to fight for extermi-
nation of the kulak, the complete collectivisation
of all farms in Russia and fulfillment of the 5-year
industrialization plan.
“On Easter day huge , bonfires of icons will be
made in all large cities and towns around which
unbelievers will celebrate the ‘extinction of reli-
gion.’
“Dealing with its newly-prepared 5-year anti-
-God plan, the Society of Militant Atheists, em-
bracing nearly three million members, has issued
a manifesto asserting means must be found for
exterminating religious teachings among families
and eliminating from the schools teachers who
believe in God so that in the end of the 5-year
plan there will be no such thing as religion in
Soviet schools.
“In its anti-Easter program, which it says will
be carried out not only among Christians, Jews
and Moslems, but among all other religious faiths
in the Soviet Union, the Society of Militant Athe-
ists says: ‘By intensifying the struggle against
religion, we will hasten the collectivisation of
peasant farms. By liquidating the kulak (rich
peasant) as a class we will quicken the fail of
'liis chief support, which is religion. We will con-
vert the state and collective farms into great
centers of atheism.’ ”
Thus will Russia, under the Soviet government,
not only turn from the celebration of, Easter,
which under the did regime was'a deeply impres-
sive religious ceremony, but .it will challenge the
faith of more than one-third of all the peoples of
the earth to whom the observance of this day is
an essential part of their religious belief. For out
of a total of 1,847,500,000 people in the world
today who accept some form of religion, 682,400,-
000 are Christians and, although their observance
of Easter may vary in form in different countries,
the essential spirit of their celebrations of the day
is the same, whether it be in the Orient or the
Occident.
One of the most interesting of all the Easter
celebrations is that which takes place in Jerusa-
lem, centering around tlip Church of the Holy
Sepulcher where took place the event which gives
Easter its deepest significance for Christians. Of
this celebration Maj. Edward Keith-Roach, writing
In the National Geographic Magazine, says:
“The supreme ceremony of the Eastern churches,
the appearance of the Holy Fire, takes place at
midday on Easter eve, according to the calendar
of Eastern Christendom, in the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher. Its origin is uncertain, but that
it is derived from ritual and symbolism in usage
by the very early church is undoubted. In essence
the ceremony symbolizes the triumph of the
Christian faith, renewed yearly In commemoration
of the first victory after Calvary.
“The Orthodox patriarch, the primus inter pares
among the princes of the Eastern churches, enters
the edicule over the tomb in which, for this one oc-
casion, all lamps are extinguished. From here he
passes out holy fire and distributes it to the crowd
thronging the church, which carries it far and
wide. Before the World war the fire was borne
to the farthest corners of Russia. The patriarch
is assisted by a bishop of the Armenian patriarch-
ate. Representatives /of Coptic and Jacobite, or
Syriac sects take part as well.
“The ceremony is. however, essentially a rite of
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1. The pilgrimage of French Catholics to the
Colosseum, in Rome for outdoor 'services during
Easter week.
2. Children of the Near East Relief orphanage
at Syra, Greece, planting the Easter cross above
their school , home. The custom of planting the
cross at Easter has been observed in Greece for
many centuries.
3. The living cross formed by nurses and enlist-
ed men at the Easter sunrise services held at Wal-
ter Reed general hospital in Washington, D. C.
4. Throngs gathering for an Easter sunrise serv-
ices on top of Mount Rubidoux at Riverside,
Calif. 1 .
of interest has been reached. The visible symbol
of resurrection, having been divided and passed
on. no longer burns beside t-tie Sepulcher. Slowly
the crowds melt away,‘some climbijig past the
Garden of Getlisemane to the summit of Mount
Olivet.”
Almost as interesting as the Easter celebration
in Jerusalem is that in another Old world city—
Rome, Italy. There a cross is erected in the cen-
ter of the Colosseum, \vhere so many Christian
martyrs suffered death because of thfeir faith, and
impressive services are held around this cross dur-
ing Easter week,‘ especially on Good Friday.
In the United States the idea of open air sunrise
services on Easter mornkig have been gaining
steadily during the recent years. It originated in
California and the first service of this kind was
held in 1909 on the summit of Mount Rubidoux,
near Riverside, where stands a cross erected to
the memory of Fra Junipero Serra, the pious
Franciscan monk who first brought the cross to
California and founded the missions in that state.
Jacob Riis, the famous writer, is said to have
first conceived the idea of an Easter sunrise serv-
ice on Mount Rubidoux during a visit to Riverside,
and it is- said to have sprung from a recollection
of his' childhood in Denmark when his people
were accustomed to make a pilgrimage at Yule-
tide to the summit of a venerated mountain near-
by, singing Christmas carols as they went.
' On Easter morning 21 years ago a little group
of less than a hundred people nvade, their way up
the slopes of the mountain from Riverside in the
darkness before dawn so that the service, could
he held just at sunrise. The first service was a
brief one, simple but sincere'and impressive. But
as Riis had predicted, the religions feeling brought
about by an Easter sunrise sefYice left an im-
pression which guaranteed its continuance. Each
year thereafter the interest and attendance at
this service grew. In 1917 more than 20,000 per-
sons ascended the summit of Rubidoux at Easter-
tide and the next year saw the same number of
pilgrims there. They had come not only from
Riverside, but from other cities in California.
Other notable Easter morning services in Cal-
ifornia, each of which attracts thousands of wor-
shipers, are those in the great Los Angeles colb
seum, in the Hollywood howl, at the Tower of
Legends in Glendale and in Pasadena. At Stove
Pipe Wells in the famous Death valley a cross
has been erected and there services are held on
Easter morning in memory of the pioneers who
lost their lives on the desert.
Every year thousands of people attend an Easi-
er sunrise service in the Garden of the Gods near
Colorado Springs, Colo., and in the Wichita moun-
tains of southwestern Oklahoma for the last foui
or five years a sunrise service has been held on
the summit of one of the rugged granite hills. The
chief feature of the service is the Pageant of the
Resurrection, presented by fifty members of th«
Sunday school of Medicine Park.
Forced to Stick to Trade
Skilled draftsmen were so much in
demand in Colonial America that
their occasional attempts to become
farmers were discouraged and even
legislated against.
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the Orthodox church and representatives of others
obtain permission from the Orthodox patriarch by
proceeding to the Orthodox altar and doing obei-
sance. A Franciscan monk is present throughout
the ceremony.
.“First the Armenian patriarch passes in proces-
sion around the rotunda and retires; then the
Moslem guafdian of the Holy Sepulcher, in the
presence of one Orthodox and one Armenian archi-
mandrite, exercises his traditional privilege of
sealing the doors of the Sepulchei-.
“At noon the representatives of the other
churches do obeisance, before the altar bf the
Catholicon, to the Orthodox patriarch, who awaits
them vested in white and gold, with a crown of
gold scintillating with enamel and precious stones
upon his head.
“About this time groups of young men enter tlie
rotunda through the Orthodox Catholicon, - clap-
ping their hands and singing.
“The actual service now- commences with the
procession of the patriarch from the Orthodox
Catholicon, preceded by 18 banners borne by rep-
resentatives of leading Orthodox families. They
circle the rotunda, through the throng, three
times; then all except the patriarch retire to the
Orthodox cathedral. He, disrobed of miter and
vestments before the doors of the Sepulcher,
enters, accompanied by the Armenian bishop. The
Copt and Syriac take, position before the doors.
“Tense excitement prevails. All eyes are fixed
upon the Tomb. Voices are lifted up. The crowd,
holding candles aloft, presses forward, wave upon
wave, self-restraint thrown away. The seconds
seem long-drawn-out minutes.
“Suddenly an Orthodox priest, waiting without
the shrine, with a mighty sweep, withdraws his
arm from a hole in the edicule, holding a burning
torch. The flame appears from the Armenian side
also.
“The burst of flame is greeted with frantic
cheering, the clapping of hands, the ringing of
bells and high, piercing ululations from the wom-
en. The priest gives the fire to a selected repre-
sentative of the community, and the crowd opens
to allow him to rush with the sacred fire and
light the lamps on the altar of the Catholicon.
“The Copt and Jacobite enter the door of the
Sepulcher and receive the fire from the Orthodox
patriarch, who then emerges, followed by the Ar-
menian bishop, a flaming torch in each hand, the
focus for a converging crush of worshipers, fran-
tic to light candles from his torches.
“The Armenian, Coptic and Syriac processions
now form and circle the rotunda. But the climax
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Habermacher, Mrs. J. C. & Lane, Ella E. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. [21], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1930, newspaper, April 17, 1930; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1147919/m1/6/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.