New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-01
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With the advent of this month
of young men and women
will leave the schools in which they
have been instructed and enter the
active conflict of life. Youth looks
ever upon life as huge joke, appre-
ciating but little the deep channel of
sincerity upon which the ripples of a
lighter life dance and sparkle in the
sun of prosperity.
There is meaning to life and it
may well be defined as consisting in
this: To unfold yourself; to work
what thing you have the faculty for;
to be sincere. It is natures great
law. There should be an irresistible
tendency in every person to develop
himself according to the magnitude ma
ture has made him of; to speak out, to
act out. what nature has laid in him.
Not the coveting of a place, but the
fitness of the man for the place; that
is the question. The graduating class
of the public schools of this city have
a most suggestive motto: Launched
But Not Anchored. To seek a safe
anchor, that is the chief end Of life,
the prime motif of living: and in this
age where the chariot of time pauses
only to record the birth and death of
existence, nothing is more important
than safe anchorage to some stable
occupation.
The sea of life is covered with dere-
licts, vessels that have slipped their
cables and put out to sea without a
rudder; insincere and irresponsible: a
menace to their own safety and source
of danger to those who follow steadily
the compass and chart.
Be an original man. Stand on your
own foundation. Not a secondhand,
borrowing or begging man. Nature
has given to all her children a pur-
pose; find it and develop it. If it is
to carry the hod for bricklayer then
be the best hodcarrier that ever
climbed ladder. Be sincere and the
world will pay tribute to you. Being
anchored is nothing more than being
sincere standing on the reality of
things and not on the semblance.
Great men are always sincere but to
be sincere one need not be great; that
is not a necessity of nature but only
of certain corrupt and unfortunate
epochs. A man can be true and make
his own, in most genuine way, what
he has received from another. The
merit of originality is not novelty, it
is sincerity.
We would say to those who would
cast about for safe anchorage, let it
be sincerity, for no sincere soul can
go far astray. Life is a problem the
correct solution of which lies in a
fixed purpose: it cannot be satisfact-
orily solved in any other manner.
There is no mystery in living, neither
is there in death to the sincere man.
Such man can face his. maker with
the assurance of one who closes his
eyes in sleep, being at peace with him
self and all the world.
A new writer appears in the June
McClure's in the person of Riley FL.
Allen, who tells a blood-stirring Klon-
dixie story, called "For the Under
Dog It is a powerfully written tale
of strong men struggling against the
fercest elements and primal passions
in whom humanity and some Unborn
instinct of nobility finally conquer the
evil they would do. Sergt. McWil-
liams, of the Canadian Mounted Po-
lice, and Chambers, the outlaw, in
whose desperate heart there glowed a
fierce pride which made him scorn to
strike the under dog" are wonderfully
strong characters.
"The Booklet of the Golden Leaves
poem by Leroy G. Davis of Sleepy
Eye, has recently been put on the
market at all the book stores. It is
published by the Broadway Publish
ing company and is among the best
productions along the line of thought
it embraces, that have been put on the
market this year. It is an exposition
of socialism and the pros and cons of
the question as it has appealed to him.
He handles this great world problem
in a very intelligent and quite master
full manner, showing deep thought and
literary ability, making the work one
that attracts the general reader as well
as the student in political economy.
It is we'll worth reading and should
find a ready sale.