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month or a chapter whenever you can. Find out what men and women have 

 done by the use of the time that was left over after they earned food and 

 shelter. It is in that time that we grow. 



MAKE GOOD USE OF EACH GOLDEN MOMENT. 



Someone said the other day, "Tell me what a man does after his work 

 is done and I'll tell you how much he amounts to." You have all heard the 

 story of the man who was asked what he did in the evenings. "Well, my 

 friend," he answered, "sometimes we sit around and talk and sometimes we 

 just sit." (Laughter.) That man will never get very far. We need the 

 hour of relaxation before bed time or after dinner, it is beautiful and valu- 

 able. But it doesn't hurt that precious hour to use it for something! There 

 is so much to talk about and think about, so much that we might dream of 

 doing in this hour left over for us after the day's work is over. Let us value 

 each golden moment and use it ere it passes! 



What do we want to be? What do we want to learn? We do well to 

 think and question thus. My friends, it is by the use of our leisure, by the 

 use of this time that is left over after the day's toil, that some way or other 

 we have worked ourselves up from the slime and mud, where life began, to 

 where we are now. And from where we now stand, let us lift ourselves 

 onward and upward till we reach the loftiest star! 



I thank you. [Applause.] 



PRESIDENT MANN: I am very glad to be able to introduce to you 

 tonight Mr. Carl J, Baer of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce who will 

 talk upon "Interdependence of Town and Country". 



INTERDEPENDENCE OF TOWN AND COUNTRY. 

 (Carl J. Baer.) 



We have learned in St. Louis the big lesson that we, as business men in 

 that city, are totally dependent upon the people surrounding the city of St. 

 Louis, for our beautiful city is a part and parcel of the State of Illinois, the 



State of Missouri, and the sister States of the 

 United States; that a city cannot be greater than 

 the territory surrounding it; that the interde- 

 pendence of town and country has not in the past 

 been fully understood by all American people; 

 that today we are in a critical condition through- 

 out the civilized world, perhaps, primarily, be- 

 cause of a lack of understanding between the vari- 

 ous groups of people in the world. We haven't 

 been close enough to each other. There has been 

 a great breach growing for a hundred or two hun- 

 dred years between the groups of the people in 

 the country and the people in the towns and cities. 

 It isn't anyone's fault. No one is to blame. It 

 isn't because one group is wrong or the other 

 group is wrong. It is because we haven't under- 

 stood fully how totally dependent we are upon 

 each other. 



The nation is in a critical condition, but that 

 condition is no grounds today for pessimism. We, 

 in this American country, have tried to serve and 

 do our part in the great world's conflict. We all 

 entered the war. The boys who donned the khaki, of course, did more than 

 the rest of us. Those who stayed at home, who could not go, men and women 

 who served with the Red Cross, the Liberty Loan, the Y. M. C. A., the food 

 propaganda all of us did our share. There isn't a man, woman, or child in 

 this audience who did not do his or her share in the world war; but when 

 we left the great war problem on the signing of the armistice, and it isn't 



Carl J. Baer 



