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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 31, 19
Fire At Hollow Bluff
It was just a charred, smoldering stretch of land. That's all that was left of Hollow Bluff after the fire. The animals had gone to make their homes elsewhere, the ones that had survived the fierce flames.
Hollow Bluff had once been the center of activity for the animals of Clarey County. Their community was very much like some of the human towns I had seen in my travels, I thought, as I watched Orville Field Mouse gather the last of his family's belongings which he had managed to salvage. It was certainly too bad that the green, peaceful community had met with such violence and destruction.
About a year ago, Wilbur Fox had come up with some big ideas, very big ideas indeed. He felt that one of the principal ideas behind Democracy was expression of the individual. "Besides," he said in one of his many speeches on the stump in Hollow Square, "It's just too much trouble to fool around with all this community business. We'll just live our own lives with our own families."
I must say I suspected that something like this was going to happen and I had warned them.
I remember how the animals cheered at Wilbur's eloquently delivered speech. "Hurray for Wilbur!" was the cry of the day and the little silver fox became their hero.
The animals moved their homes as far away from each other as possible. Some erected fences to insure the privacy they wanted in their newfound individualism. It was wonderful. No more Town Council, no more responsibility. They
would just live their own lives, doing as little as possible for anyone else.
They usually asked my advice about any major changes they were planning to make in Hollow Bluff, but when I came to town last spring to offer my suggestions, I was looked upon not as a wise, but merely an old owl, with "out-moded customs and old-fashioned ideas."
This summer was an unusually dry summer and the families were having a bit of trouble finding water since they had made no previous preparation as a community to meet the problem. "This would be a good lesson for them." I thought, as I just sat on my branch in the center of the Bluff and watched.
Yesterday I was sitting half asleep on my usual branch, when suddenly I smelled smoke. A tourist had thrown a lighted cigarette away and a portion of the Bluff's woods was on fire. The fire took hold near the Woodchuck's house and I yelled for everyone to come to help us put it out.
"Be quiet, and leave us alone. They can handle it themselves," was the response.
This was the attitude which prevailed until the flame had covered half the community and then it was too late. Then the animals couldn't get organized, they couldn't work together, not even when their lives depended upon it. Many were swallowed by the flames and the others fled for new territory.
It was a difficult lesson for those of Hollow Bluff, I thought. But now we know that the price for absolute individualism is too high. Evolution Hall
Live With Purpose
Evelyn Hall
The easiest thing in the world is to lose the point of living.
Most people go through the motions of existence, but if they ever had any big idea about themselves, it has been long forgotten. We may have started with a sense of the wonderful gifts of life, but the years have brought us to an acceptance of petty actions. We worry about things which do not really matter, and we work for things we do not want.
On this Monday of Holy Week, we remember that Jesus cleansed the Temple. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and he drove out those who bought and sold doves for the sacrifices.
By his action he was proclaiming that the Temple was for the worship and service of God. It was not for financial profit or for economic gain.
Our Lord was attacking all who use the church for some ulterior purpose. He was announcing by an act that religion is to bring men to God.
On this day we look at all our activities but not through eyes blurred with selfishness and compromise. We look with the eyes of Jesus Christ and we recover the vision of greatness.
Once again we are met by one who says to us. "You were made for faith, hope and love. You have lost the way in the darkness of the world. Here is light to bring you back to the straight path. Here is the vision of what you might be and what deep in your heart, you want to be."
I stood not long ago in a pagan temple filled with a hundred idols. And I thought that if my own heart could be seen, there might appear the idols of pride, bitterness, and selfish ambition. Then I remembered the word of St. Paul: "What agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God...". So on this Monday of Holy Week, may all our temples be cleansed and may their true purposes be restored in our minds.
Bishop Gerald Kennedy United Press
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