1911-12] USING one's eyes 53 



The result was that this well known physician organized, 

 for the first time in this country, a committee of social service 

 to help these poor people and this committee reaches the notice 

 of wealthy and influential people as well as the thousand chari- 

 ties of the city. I understand that right here in one of the 

 hospitals of Worcester a committee is being organized and so 

 we find that in every walk of life the people are beginning to 

 use their eyes. 



In Westboro, there is a clergyman who was once a preacher, 

 and has now become a farmer of a very excellent type. Recently 

 I visited his farm and I saw there many different kinds of corn 

 which he has been raising, and he is now producing a kind of 

 potato which has a miinimum amount of starch and is therefore 

 very good for medical purposes. On one acre he has raised a 

 vast number of water melons, and knows all there is to know 

 in regard to the different varieties of soil. That shows what 

 good opportunities there are here in Worcester County, not 

 only to raise fruit, but also to make money. 



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The man who uses his eyes is the man who wins success. 

 Now, after speaking for a time, and trying to illustrate the 

 fact that most of us are exceedingly blind, and also having 

 pointed out the fact that people who make use of their organs 

 of vision are the people who win success in every department of 

 human endeavor, I want now, in the next and last place, to 

 call attention to the truth that we can see things not only in 

 their present shape but can discover that everything is a sign 

 or symbol of something else. For example, a daily paper 

 would be to a savage chief but so much material with which 

 to kindle a fire, or wrap things up in. To us it is a symbol 

 of what is going on in London, New York or Boston. 



Now, supposing I were to hold a piece of coal in my hand, I 

 might pinch that coal until the black came off on my fingers, 

 I might pinch it until it made my fingers sore. It would seem 

 as though I had laid hold of reality. Yet you know and I 

 know that if I were to put that piece of coal into the grate, it 



