The San Francisco call., 1904-09-07
Says Getting On in
the World Is Due
to Work.

sept A@~SiAN 49,
Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury,
knows how to tell a story. The Secre-
tary's stories are ali good stories and
there are many of them. But he does
not debase them to the mere story
teller's subterfuge to raise a laugh.
His design is to illustrate the sterner
side of life and bring the point home
to his auditors. This prediction for
the story as a vehicle for illustration
the Secretary generously INDUCED
when he addressed the student body
of the University of California this
afternoon in Harmon Gymnasium.
That he carried humor as well as con-
viction was evident from the number
of times he paused to let the applause
and laughter die out.
The very first word Secretary Shaw
said was the beginning of a story. 1t
concerned his official capacity as
Cabinet officer, only II was on Grants
Attorney General. When the Secretary
visited his native town he tried to get
the sentiment of his old neighbors upon
his rise to craftsmanship, but his fame
was of little consequence to the reign-
bors. When he asked one of them how
they took his promotion to the exalted
office the lout replied:
"Oh, they only laughed"
Being a Cabinet officer is mighty
important job" said Secretary Shaw,
but it is not SO important from close
| by
Then he went on to say that there is
nothing in this life that has so much
charm about it as student life. There
are charms, of course, in the other
phenomena of nature, there is charm in
| the growing of babe and charm in
the aging of the old, but there is O
different kind of charm about student
| life. There is something inspiring
! about young men and women lifting
themselves in one great community
for the struggle with the world.
A commotion in the rear of the gym
| nasium disturbed the Secretary and he
| paused long enough to loose another
| of his witticsms. He said he wansed
| everybody to be seated because he'd
rather see 100 young people come in
| than see fifty go out
Il used to teach a school myself"
| he said, but never an institution like
this. l think I'd rather be at the head
| of a great university like this than
| anything else in the world. And that
! follows along the line that l have al
ready pointed out-that there is a GER
tain charm about student life that Is
| indescribable. Under it you see young
1 IIleu anu HOiHeH, DIS l. SctlQ DeIOFe, get
! ting ready to meet the world. Some
| Of you may go out and be failures and
| some be successes. But I-must say
J this, that it will not be for lack of
knowledge, for, you get all you want
here, but for the knowing or not know
| ing how. He further said:
want to congratulate you who are getting
/ this education. But you must remember that
the university is not everything. And right
| here want 20 say there is one difficulty with
our schoois-they give too much information
ana not enough education. / mean by that that
! there is too much pouring in and not enough
drawing out What is needed more is mental
| development-the ability to think and deduct
/ don't know whether it was JefYries or Fitz-
simmons-you gentlemen know more about
! that than | debut one Of them could hit 50
: hard that ne could puncture a punching bag
, Now, that was education. And II you would
| succeed you. must educate your muscles-the
| muscles OF your BRAIN so to speak
! / always like 10 tell that story about Grant q
| education. Grant you know. although an ed
ucated man, graduated at the foot of his class.
That indicates that the educated man Is not
necessarily one Of attainments l would lust
as soon trust the man at the foot. providing
! he has worked for what little success ha 9
! come TO him, as the at the top The
! man who works hard finally succeeds The
smart fellow is too apt to stop when he has
Well, when Grant went to West Point the
| boys took him in charge and by way OF a set
| ting-up exercise they bade him look at a hole
in wall for long time. Grant obeyed and
learned his first lesson in discipline He
learned that when he told TO do something
! he must continue at T. until told to do some
thing else.
If you set your mind working and keep
| it going you will succeed. l heard OF a
! man who could set his mouth going and go off
! and leave IT. But few men are capable OF
doing that with their minds. To be undis-
| turbed in the midst OF the great activities OF
life is great thing. It IL to be master OF
| yourself. If ask you to write out the condi- :
tions of success you may say industry. 1t is
true that large part of industry is drudgery,
! yet the man who is really industrious and in
| terested in his work is never conscious Of the
! drudgery.
Let me give you little advice-never work
for hire. If you do you will never get any
higher. II you work for hire you con-
I scious that your work VIII cease at the end OF
| given time. II you work for yourself you
| are working for the accomplishment Of some
| thing and you won't care about the hours. II
you want to be good lawyer, don't take the
case for the fee. didn't say not to take the
fee. but don't work for that alone. II you dc
| you'll be disbarred within ten years, not by
| the courts. but by the community. You know
| there are more lawyers disbarred BY the com
| munity than the courts
1t is immee surably immaterial what you do
1t is how you do il. The fact Is that there ID
| place for everybody Of the right sort. There
| are too many attorneys and too few lawyers
| too many doctors and few physicians. too many
pettifoggers and few teachers. II you were
| fha right aorf could aefziIv the a.