Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — Oblivion Is Right on the Job. [ARTICLE]

Oblivion Is Right on the Job.

Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee has experienced woe in a library. Writes he: “I fell to thinking the other day, when I had slipped into the Forbes Library, that all the documents that we produce nowadays are being saved as they never have been saved before. I fell to thinking for a second, as I stood there just where the echo is, by the door, of what it all meant. I thought of a Springfield Republican 4,000 years old. I was oppressed. Formed ages may not have been clever, but they did manage in one way and another to have fair and reasonable conveniences for forgetting. . And I thought of my own innocGnt woolly-lamb works, of the people ten years away, perchance, who would be struggling with them, and it came to me mercifully that oblivion would be attended to, that It could depended upon sometime.” So it came, and Mr. Lee may cheer up. Not all the wood pulp is consumed as breakfast food. Most of it goes to make paper. Owing to its extreme lack of durability, it may be said to promise oblivion by the carload, expressage paid. Don’t write for posterity. Wood pulp paper won’t last. Imitate Charles Lamb, who said, “Hang the age- I’ll write for antiquity!”—Boston Transcript.