Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville The aG velyte 11-1912 The aG velyte, November 1912 Cedarville College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/gavelyte Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation Cedarville College, "The aG velyte, November 1912" (1912). The Gavelyte. 44. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/gavelyte/44 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Cedarville, a service of the Centennial Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aG velyte by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Cedarville. For more information, please contact [email protected]. C r,: DAR V I LLF COLLJ '. CE SCHELL'S Watches, Rings and Kodak Supplies New line of Holiday Goods just received. Call and see us before making a selection. Cur. i\Iarn & Detroit St. -:- -:- Xenia, Ohio ----- --- - ~'-- ----,~-- _\9,,..,....~_...._.ll(WIOII Bastian Bros. 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Millage Shoe Shop 1 manbattan \\'e make a specia lt) 11{ returnil,hinal Lunch at all Hours and repairing all kind. ut fuot weM • anct with a tactury hui. 1i. Spec1a I trade catered to College Students Green Street Over Express Office Stop and eat with us Xen ia , -. - Ohio . Xenia, I )11111, • The Gavelyte VOL. VI I. NOVEMBER, 1912. NO. 8. Value of Right Thinking. Really what a man thinks has a lot to do with what th .:! thinker is. Somt-times we may get to thinking that even though our concl11sions are wrong, although our reasoning may be out of joint and out of time, that it doe not make much difference. But say, it does make a whole lot of dif­ ference. lt makes a difference because the man whose reasoning and con­ clusion are wrong is on the wrong track and ultimately be becomes the wrong k:ind of a man. A whole lot of merchants have arnved at some concl11sion on some question and they stick to the opinion, but many and many a time they will admit to you that maybe they are wrong, but they go on thinking the same old way. If such a man only knew it, he is wrecking hi .5 future. What a man thinks is one of the most serious things in life. The facts are that thinking is our life. What we think is really us. What we think is a measure of cur bigness or littlenes a a man. It makes a whole lot of difference as to what you think, and wi1ether or not your thinking is right or wrong. The facts are when a man's tho11ght is wrong, when his conclusions are w1ong, he is out of joint with everything and he is cro ing fixed and inevitable laws which are bound to pa s judgment on him and fix a penalty h{" must endure. It make a lot of difference what you think, an-I we (lught to be mighty < areful in arri\' ing at our concluc;ions We ought to pretty nearly know that the line or rea oning we follow and which leads u to the con~lusio , is based 011 sound principles. Just for in. tance, take a town where the bu ine sand professional men ay the town cannot he boo ted; that condition~ there cannot be m.ide any better than they are. Don't you know this kind of reasoning will kill any tuwu'? Mo t small towns have been killed becau,e of this very thrng. They were killed becau e the conclusions arrived at were wrong, and it is thi amf' principle which ha. led us tl,rough all thPse age to say that whenever a 1r1an quits going ahead, he begins tu die. 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The fact· ar · th.it ·, r, b1 ol g11 11 t ,n ,cha, 1· in this ,~orld, n ry 1111 pn vunent ul 111,1chinen·. ur 111, th I .. 1 thing,., wa 11e11 ,ll 111e t1111e It,..., · different lrnm .tll) 1hi11,.., "111, h Ii 11 1 ·11 ti, ne a one time, ,111d , t th1. time it v.;is lit:\\, Jr j11-.;t before •: pr 1il"t1 ,,., · proven, pt:L>ple ,dd it 1,11ld no he done. l'he he t 1--·11 ol 1 ,mpt·ti· "' .111~ l>t, t ,. , r profe ion.ii n .in c,111 hc1, · he 111.m 11ho ,n, 1 thin~ 1.:,1r11wt lie I I e. l.111y c1 r1:·c1il merch.illt ha neYer ~Otten al1e.id in 1111 11, rid 1,t', .111, • , m!)-;t of hi- thinkini:; · to him,eH all the :ime thJt a thin.., , .111•1 1 ~> • d,me. \Vlien it i 1im that he add 1hat :see 1· t" h1111 .1 1 <', ·pen.-e to 1 ··bu ·inc , hi, ri::,,-,m- mo- alwa). a -~ to him that it c,11111111 l>c d, ne. it cannr ' doue; and it , ire him unt 1)( 1h ing tht· thing tint ht·, II.!: ·, .'• ·nmetime-. 1011 ,H tem1 ted "im, 1 little monev i11 . , mething new, rH , ,u are tempted t11 hir!" ,111, 1npl11)c "''' 11ant - more wa~e- th,tn you e1· r paid ~,efore • .i.nd 1-rung; re. s,,nin:! t,1 s.1 .. '"It won't pay, it won·t pay,' and ... u lt-t it" ·are vn11 ,111t llf d,,in~ th.it 11 hi, h 1·ou ought tn d<. \\'rung rea. niug mah .., l o>\1 rd" It make. "t,1u by-lour .. men. It make<: the foob: it ma,._,. thl' I e -.i11ii t: make the g,, uch: it make,; the Ii tie merchan ; it m des the l"t le r,>11 n. Ye,, ,ir, wha ,.,u th.nk. "hetli<>r it i, right or whethN it i. wrong, i migh i1111 t1rt,t11 thin.! to 11111. ·1 ere 1, .1 plea-.ure in thinkin~ hing out "hen , , u k n,m the ba. ic prin 1 p . i11 l\ ed. The chemi t get: plea-u re in 1\ >rk111g \\ hen he know the pnnriple, 1t \\ork in the chemical he is handling • . nd JU... :, th 0 h ,sin· ., m 111 w 1 1 kn '", l 1e µrinciple he i · de,ll n~ with, get .t plf' - ire in mani >1il.it111l.: tlte~e l'ri111 qilec. a d ePing them r du ·c resu t, CE.lJ.-\R\'lLLE COLLEGE ,j He is careful, mighty careful, with his reasoning. Such a man is not afraid to take suggestions. He does not believe that everything some one else suggests or does i1 wrong. Sometime!': we think that many a young man ;rnd young woman who go through our chool , come out poorl y fitted for the battles of life, because in a chool-room they have not bf·en impressed with the £act that they think is almighty important to them. Some way or other they do not seem to get hold of the right principles of things. Possihly our college and universities need to look more to the basic thoughts, or principles, they put in the minds of the people whom they arc sup po. ed to teach. There ought to be more of the practical there, more of that somet hing which will make it possible £or them to more successfully rub against the rough side of the old world and make their way .