The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-18

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tion. I am conscious that this remark
will not meet with collegiate favor. I
too, have graduated; I know that thl
average graduate regards New Yort
or some Of our great cities as the only
community in which his personality
can find scope for action and that mons
Of it is to be wasted on humanity il
the rough. To urge one of these gift
ed creatures to become country law.
yer or doctor or merchant or editor
seems to him preposterous.
do not expect him to believe me
until five or tsn year after graduation
when he shall haye come in contact
with the chilly world and formulated
principles Of true success based on
rich experience and, perhaps, hungry
observation. 8Es
But for the sake of the one of a
hundred who may be disposed to think
nationally about this matter 1 am con-
strained to repeat the observation.
The young man of moral strength
and education who Identifies himself
with small community is welcomed
and respected. Moreover, he is made
q leader, provided he possesses the
qualities Of leadership-and without
them he cannot hope for perferment
anywhere. He is advanced in favor
commensurate with his worth and tai
ent, thing which is rarely done in
the great cities.
It is no throwing away of genius
for the young man to 60 to the coun-
try. All the ambition, genius, ability
for hard work and influence that he
possesses will find ample scope and
verge enough for their noblest exer-
else. He will find among his neigh
bors character, sound sense and intel
ligence that he cannot hope to equal
in lifetime. If he be educated and
possessed cf qualities that would COM
mand success in large field, his new
friends will not be slow in finding it
out. They will recognize the delicate
fattery expressed by his residence
among them in many ways that will
administer to his prosperity and COM
fort. Though the field is not so broad,
his chances of success are greater be-
cause competition is not so great. Let
every gifted son of genius who expects
to carve out his fortune in some great
city remember that there are thous-
ands and tens of thousands of young
men in that same city who are just as
gifted and as carable as himself Let
him remember the long hours. the in
tense strain, the never. ceasing grind
ing away on the nervous forces. the
jealousies, uncertainties, temptations
and fault findings of metropolitan life.
Remain in North Carolina, my
young friend, and don't 60 running
off to the great cities in the expecta-
ton of doing impossible things. You
may not make so much money, but the
cost of living is less and your savings
will be greater.
Indeed, of all of the young gradu
ates of my acquaintance, and certain
ly those Of my own class, who have
found positions to their liking in the
country or smaller cities are better of
to day, in every proper sense of that
term, than the brilliant fellows who
are slaving in the great cities, weaving
NJ Tue cXp6uS0 VI LuclT ucdlIl anu
youth, garlands for the Bennetts, the
Pulitzers the Vanderbilts and the
heads of great corporations to wear.
And then, too, it is not all of life to
live, nor all of death to die.
The accumulation of money is not
the chief end of man. There is con-
science of the head as well as of the
heait, and the proud and exultant
satisfaction with which a man who
feels that he has not lived in vain, but
has entailed upon the world an heir.
loom of instruction, genius or delight
looks back upon departed struggles
in the happiest emotion of which con
science is capable.
Stay at home; it is the best place fol
you, and ten years from to-day you
will be glad II you have acted upor
this advice.
GEORGE III. GoRMAN.
Washington, d. c., July Is, 'S9.