Monthly Archives: September 2010

“Old Bill” Suggests— To urge the value of hard work is never popular. Yet there is no blinking the fact that for practically all of mankind work is an acquired taste. Nobody starts with any particular predilection for routine tasks. … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— When one of the early New England colonies was starving through its first winter in the new world, it was saved by friendly Indians who brought food. The settlers were “unemployed” in the midst of a rich … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— “Prince Henry the Navigator” didn’t navigate. Yet his title was no illusion of history. He was the heart and soul, the material backing and the moving spirit, of one of the greatest crusades of sea-going exploration that … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— This might be a good time to take a shot at the cruel injustice of overemphasizing either age or youth as a requisite for employment. George Washington, whose day has just been celebrated, was not too young … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— There is not a man on the staff of this paper who does not wish to say something about his personal sorrow at the passing of Henry Justin Smith. It takes recollection of the sense of proportion … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— Buried treasure has the lure of something for nothing, like the Drake estate and many other get-rick-quick swindles, but it is usually trivial in amount in comparison with the sums which are made daily in the ordinary … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— A guide was leading a pack train along a wind-swept trail when the party glimpsed a mountain goat, silhouetted for an instant on a lofty pinnacle, then bounding zigzag up what seemed to be almost sheer cliff. … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— Suppose that a teacher in a high school algebra class, instead of merely struggling to inculcate a minimum of essential understanding in dull but receptive minds, was confronted by an actively argumentative opposition. What would his chance … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— “When Jerry is drunk he feels too important to pay his debts,” a bartender described one of his customers, “and when he is sober he hasn’t any money.” A similar situation in the United States, when the … Continue reading →

“Old Bill” Suggests— For thirty years the “white-collar” worker in the United States has been drawing the short straw in the distribution of income. He has had to maintain a standard of living only slightly below that of the owners … Continue reading →