Article March 4, 1911 Issue

The century opens with strange innovations

John Brisben Walker

The century opens with strange innovations. The man who thinks is to the front in every line of work. There is no longer conservatism in the sense that was understood by the very respectable persons who, for the greater part of the nineteenth century, not only refused to apply reason to the conditions of life, but viewed with great disfavor any one who did. Today the man who allows his mind to be free from prejudice—who seeks the truth, who measures every condition and combination by the exercise of intellect—is taking charge in every vocation of life. To follow old methods means mediocrity. There is scarcely a man prominent in business life today who does not owe his advancement to his courage in breaking away from the old and his ability to reason out actual conditions regardless of accepted traditions. From hour to hour we hear the crash of edifices built upon the stupidity and pride of centuries. This is to be preeminently the century of innovation. The time has come when a real, virile, clean-cut idea is all powerful.

John Brisben Walker.

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