Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-09-07

r. Won reward me, then reward my
soldiers too"
Now, should you not act on the same
principle? Have there been no o'her
hands besides yours building your
"nalace of successT what ABOUT
vour fathers and mothers and prothers
and sisters and the teachers anu
friends of your youth? Have they hau
nothing TO do with holding your char-
acter and developing your talentsF Diu
NOT vour parents give up the best part
Of their lives to your interestsF Dlo
NOT vour sisters and brothers make
sacrifices for your education? What
about the little old village church
where YOU used to be taken as po9
and where. to a great extent your epii-
itrol character was formed? Have
Won ever done anything for that
church? Have you helped to pay OH
its mortgage? Have you bought
! new organ for that church ha'e
Won ever sent dollar to help support
tba moor widow Of your old pastor, VINO
did so much for your spiritual health
How about your old schoolteachers
Have YOU done anything for them
No You stick your thumbs III Inc
lapel of your coat and pat your chesr
annrovingly and contentedly say:
or self made man. These people
had nothing to do with my present sue
cess won It all. Yes, won 1t all
know from Your words that your un-
grateful heart has TUNED INTO STONE
and that it will need a blast Oh uyn"-
mite TO break 1t from Its present in-
gratitude and forgetfulness.
The Worker Deserves a Full Share
Then what about your present stan
of employees? Are they TO receive ho
financial share Of your present sue
cessP You know you have men WORK
ing for you today who are SIMPLY III,
valuable You know that If rival
firm should come and offer certain
men In your firm a third more tnan
they are receiving you would De giau
10 advance their wages rather tnan
lose them. You know that II haIu
> limos should come and business should
RIM behind you would cut your EN-
nlovees' wages down. And yet when
l YOUR business is prospecting you give
) those employees no share OF the pros
. neritv. Now, my brother, l want tt
ask YOU. is that square? Is that right
If Won ask those men with whom yoV
ore associated to share your adversary
)" when it comes, ought you not 10 ie
those same faithful men and womel
share your prosperity
( Rnt there is another large class o
9 neople who need your help today an'
J. who have a right TO claim 1t. Inc!
t are not the old men and women no
e the middle aged. They are not III
people who for years have been nVinI
bv YOUR side. They are not the peopi
% with whom perhaps you are even &C
= ouainted. But they are the boys an
q the girls or the young folks VINO ar
Y standing upon the threshold OF III
y with some fearful mental or physics
, or spiritual handicap. These youn
AZ neonle have on them the faint OF
n had ancestral heritage, or by nnai
r. ciaI misfortune they are compelled
10 grow up amid vitiating social environ
Ia ments. Unless some one comes
IF their help they are doomed to max
q. q failure out Of life before they star
is God expects you to help them.
The Child Breadwinner.
ID Here for instance, is a young DC
g who has q large number of brothe
re and sisters. He is born in the beau'
sc full city Of Philadelphia. But tho
OF sands and hundreds Of thousands
o. families are there, and he is only
ca atom in great crowd. His father
10 q Woodworking, brave, noble ma
II But one day a scaffolding upon whi'
lis he Is working drops, and almost II
mediately the husband and father
dead. His mangled corpse IS earn
n: home to the little cottage. NOW, DC
on Is that young boy ten years OF age
at pct an education? Who is to feed NJ
GU and to educate him and to clothe Ill
ill The mother? Well, II the mother
In TO be the breadwinner, who Will ST
on NJ home and look after the childre
cir Can a weak mother do mans wo
1t and Woman'S work at the sal
de- time? Is it possible for her to be
I'm two places at the same time? Unlt
lp- some one comes to this wOmans IN
ou that boy will have no chance FOR 81
ur- cess. He will be sent forth to help ca
his living almost before he Is out of
In nursery. He may become a newsD
ose He NAV be pitilessly thrown among
tly vile influences of street gutter. III
for his moral character, in all probabill
Is will be wrecked while he is yet onl!
OF little child. Who will be the Stepf
lop Girard to reach out the helping ha
ind to rescue that child?
ink Have YOU ever visited Girard coll
old in Philadelphia? 1t is one of the
and hest institutions in the world. 1t
e founded by an old miser Stepl
lei, Girard during his lifetime was 5
u,u lock who always demanded his
ieip pound Of flesh from his victims.
his financial dealings he seemed to
eeS' as merciless as an Ebenezer Scrooge
me a wrinkled up, shriveled hearted N
lea' ley. But, though Stephen Girard
" mercenary, he was no fool. He XII
no that he could not take his gold acl
'rtn the river Styx, so as he began to q
leu old and come nearer and nearer to
: up end of life he said to himself; Il N
lzes leave this money behind when l
ne will leave it to the people to whor
Dest can do the most good" Then he as
hers himself this question: "Who are
rles. people who most need help? "
and thev ore the children who have no
en- theirs to help them along and to
the them the right kind Of a start"
you Stephen Girard Jumped all his fort
ONE together. He left 1t to a board