store and remarked, "Lemme see your razors."

The clerk smiled pleasantly and asked, "Do you want a razor to shave
with?"

"Naw," said the colored person, "--for social purposes."

An education for social purposes is n't of any more use than a razor
purchased for a like use. An education which merely fits a person to
prey on society, and occasionally slash it up, is a predatory
preparation for a life of uselessness, and closes no prison. Rather it
opens a prison and takes captive at least one man. The only education
that makes free is the one that tends to human efficiency. Teach
children to work, play, laugh, fletcherize, study, think, and yet
again--work, and we will raze every prison.

There is only one prison, and its name is Inefficiency. Amid the
bastions of this bastile of the brain the guards are Pride, Pretense,
Greed, Gluttony, Selfishness.

Increase human efficiency and you set the captives free.

"The Teutonic tribes have captured the world because of their
efficiency," says Lecky the historian.

He then adds that he himself is a Celt.

The two statements taken together reveal Lecky to be a man without
prejudice. When the Irish tell the truth about the Dutch the
millennium approaches.

Should the quibbler arise and say that the Dutch are not Germans, I
will reply, true, but the Germans are Dutch--at least they are of Dutch
descent.

The Germans are great simply because they have the homely and
indispensable virtues of prudence, patience and industry.

There is no copyright on these qualities. God can do many things, but
so far, He has never been able to make a strong race of people and
leave these ingredients out of the formula.

As a nation, Holland first developed them so that they became the
characteristic of the whole people.

It was the slow, steady stream of Hollanders pushing southward that
civilized Germany.

Music as a science was born in Holland. The grandfather of Beethoven
was a Dutchman.

Gutenberg's forebears were from Holland.

And when the Hollanders had gone clear through Germany, and then
traversed Italy, and came back home by way of Venice, they struck the
rock of spiritual resources and the waters gushed forth.

Since Rembrandt carried portraiture to the point of perfection, two
hundred and fifty years ago, Holland has been a land of artists--and it
is so even unto this day.

John Jacob Astor was born of a Dutch family that had migrated down to
Heidelber