JAMES L. HALL

Concentrated Energy

fn our childhood most of us played with a "burning glass," perhaps a simple magnifying lens with which we amused ourselves by burning holes in paper.

In one of the laboratories in Washington there is a leqs of a similar kind which measures three feet in diameter. This huge lens focuses the sun's rays on a small spot a.few feet below. This sinfe spot becomes hotter than a blow torch. The heat profirced is said to be so intense that it will melt steel. l

Simply the pow{hat comes from concentration. The same rays of sunlight\hat fall pleasantly on the.earth, come concentrated through that lens with enormously exaggerated power. Same way with human energy. Scattered, our energies and resources may not amo,unt to much; but concentrated they take on tremetdous energy.

Concentration can be cultivated by persistent and conscientious practice. An ordinary amount of human energy' concentrated into one sizzling hot, infle<ible purpose, has moved mountains, bridged'rivers, severed continents, spanned oceans, and girdled the. earth.

A DUMB MAN'S WAIL

\ilfe were driving together, She and I, through the Cold, dread night, And I Noticed that she seeqled Rather uncomfortabf. Now I am Kind of a slow chaf, but I Know opportunitlfvhen I see It. And so I saidf "Are you Cold, dear?" And she said She was very cold. Then I Asked her what she thought She needed to keep Her warm. And she said she Thought it would take A little oven.

So

Next time, I took along An oil stove. I Wonder why she don't Go out with me any more?