Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-07-21
AN AMBITION IN LIFE

News offers the following excellent
advice to the young:
"Every day is a new beginning,
in this montn of commandments are
more radical and far reaching than
those of ordinary days. The plans,
purposes and yearnings which hold
the heart of youth as it breaks away
from childhood and school routine
will have much to do in controlling
the future, They may have all to
do with the color of the future If they
are sufficiently wise and earnest.
The saddest fate of mature years is to
look back upon hopes and noble
ambitions of youth with ironical
oynicism. 1t is sad to remember
them with sense of disappointment,
but when these ideals and aspirations
have been repudiated life has been
tragic as we'll as failure. SO
long as the heart is loyal to early
dreams, even il events shape them
selves disappointingly, true success
has been gained, but to flout and
deny the visions this is failure
indeed.
Silence, let no frivolous jest or
precocious worldly -mindedness keep
the young men and women of the time
nom vitalizing heart and soul with
rs large measure of hope and high
resolves as their natures are capable
of receiving. 1t will make possible
a clear course when the way seems
dark; will clarity the judgment when
perplexities arise; will make life
rich, however impoverished by circum.
stances.
'The assurance of material success
ls not so sure as might be wished.
A woefully large number fail to
aahieye either riches, rfame or an
assured subsistences bat there are
two things of which anyone may be
sure-his own personal sanity and a
sense of world progress.
''The one life plotting personal
curse Is loss of the ruder in the in
dividual life. To gain mastery of
oneself which shall make impossible a
shipwreck through any form of vici-
GUS hypnotic spell is the first re.
quisite of every life. The appalling
array of drink and drugs victims,
gambling man iacs, slaves of animalism
hAx
originally degenerates. They were
as class normal children in normal
homes, but as youths they allowed
thoughtless impulse to control and
drifted from day to day without
questioning where the stream would
lead.
1.-The result yielded an automator
instead of man-will weakened by
habits and conrolled by the hypnosis
of slavish desire.
cit Is folly for anyone to imagine
such fate to be impossible to him.
Only three classes of persons are
not in danger of enetring the ranks
of the self-hypnotized slaves Of
vicious habits the cold. bloodeG
devoted of self and the pocket, the
sheltered child of protected surveil-
lance, who never meets the world anC
he who has found himself and looks
clear-e eyed upon the world of temp
talon, resolved to he unswayed 10y
cusom, free from reckless daring anC
strong in loyalty to his noblest self
$50 poised in calm purpose, the
individual life success Is assured
however fate may buffet. Sanity
in mind and will is the first great re
quisite if life is to be other than I
farce aud tragedy combined.
''But given that freedom from
moral servitude, without which ther,
is nothing TO live for anywhere, the
chief good possible to all is conscious
participation in the forward move
ments of ones generation. Lowell,
in one of his poems, says that the
present is like narrow isthmus be
TWEEN two oceans; one the past, the
other the future. From the ocean
of the past mon have looked forward
to the time we call today as the
hoped for goal, and from the future
'nerveless poets will look back to ouI
time as the long lost opportunity OF
song.
''This ia not the full truth.
Though men ever dream glorious
dreams Of the future and are prone