Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1918 — Childish Selfishness. [ARTICLE]

Childish Selfishness.

Unselfishness is one of the virtues which has to be cultivated, for we are not born unselfish. We have to be, taught this virtue and of course the greatest teacher of all is love. I am inclined to think love is the only teacher. Henderson say», “To get chßtJren interested in impersonal things' is to make them unavoidably unselfish. Solitary children, only sons and daughters, are, as a rule, ■ extremely selfish, for the simple reason that their lives have been so overwhelmingly personal. The way out |s through group activities on the part of the whole family through pleasures as well as through service. If life is to be permanently successful, and happiness genuine and secure, the major interest must be impersonal, must have to do with something bigger than the little self, must concern itself with the abiding and universal things.”—Alice Barton Harris.