Article February 24, 1923 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from F. Paul Langhorne, Canon Oliver C. Quick

[From the Tribune, Hastings, Nebr.]

Few people probably realize how great a part good books play in maintaining a balance in the business world. It is not just the content of the book that counts; it is more the appeal that it contrives to make. It is recorded that a prominent business man once said that whenever he found himself getting stale in his business, he would read a standard book or play, because he had found that this aroused his imagination and stirred him to greater productive activity. In other words, it opened his thought to an influx of ideas which had been checked by his former sluggish trend or habits of thinking, says The Christian Science Monitor, Good books arouse the productive instinct because the same type of vision is required to write a great work of fiction, a good play, or a fine poem, as is needed to bring into manifestation a great business idea. It must not be forgotten, however, that the thought of the reader is an extremely important phase of the situation, because it is only the response which a book obtains that enables it to carry out its function with success.

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