The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-27
PERsEvERING EFFORT CONQUER THE WoRLD"--
re- HUMAN L ~ MIDI OF Quaker Cit
tells ST.
Daniel c.. Reid, Millionaire home n ON HUI i


I've had a good time
A good, good time
Nobody knows how good a time but
me,
With nights and days of revel and of
rhyme,
And tears and love and longing by
the sea.
81 beg your pardon" he said hastily,
as he folded up the clipping and re-
turned it to the pocket, but you see
you have started me on a train of
thought 1 like to indulge into talk
about those old days in Richmond For
/ did have such a good time there. and
somehow or other that poem which
cut out Of the newspaper yesterday ex-
presses my feelings better than l could
ever dream of doing myself They
say it's sign a man is growing old
when he begins to show those remin-
iscent symptoms. But that can hardly
be so, because l still feel as if l were
fifteen instead of half century.
But to return to the discussion of
Little Mary and the food question, |
will say right here that l wouldn't give
Q continental for any body who wasn't
a little glutton. The right kind of
boy is always hungry, and the right
sort OF discipline for that boy is to feed
him and feed him mighty well. |
agree with lot of the modern scient-
or in ha1 iaf
when We are young children has much
to do with our success later on in life.
l believe that If everybody could be
well fed for a few successive genera
lions crime and disease, moral, mental
and physical, would practically be
eliminated from mankind"
But you do not attribute your sue
cess wholly to Authorization. You will
perhaps concede that heredity, that ed
ucation, that your early moral and re-
ligious training may have had some.
| thing to do with it,
At the word religious" Daniel G.
| Reid shot a glance at the interlocutor
which was half amusement, half sus-
picion.
Say" he laughed, "if you are going
to lead up to asking me what my re-
ligion is, 1 shall have to answer as
Benjamin Disraeli did to similar
question. What is your religion. Mr.
Disraeli? somebody asked. My relig
| ion,' retorted Disraeli, is the religion
of every wise man. And what may
that religion beT his inquisitor per
sisted. No wise man ever tells re
torted the great statesman
---e. Stern Religious Training.
Now I shan't be so rude. will
say that l did have a very stern relig
ious training, how stern you may real
ize when l say that my father an6
mother were very straitlace United
Presbyterians and that l joined the
same church at an early age and an
indeed still a member of it, although
not very straitlaced member, l will
confess. And l will say too that my
religious training has been, no doubt
indirectly of course, a tremendous fac
tor in whatever success l have had. |,
does in everybody's. A training thai
! is truly religious, religious, that is, il
the highest and best sense, cannot fai
to be splendid thing in the character
building of the young.
1.-THE harm comes only when the re
| ligion SO called is a cloak for hypoc
risy. There is an old saying, yo,
know, that mass and meat hurt M
man, and it's perfectly true; only
should add, plenty of meat l some
times think, however, that we had tor
much religious training. think i
ought to be evenly scattered out oveI
ones life, instead of getting it In he
roic doses when we are too young ane
helpless to defend ourselves. l thinl
I'd be a more religious man today if
had got little less catechism on thos,
long, dismal Sundays of my boyhoot
years. And still it is better to hav,
received too much religion than not t.
have received any at all.
For | doubt whether anything els,
save just such a training as I receive,
could have given me the same strons
sense of duty which / felt when
went to work in the bank With m,
duty was religion, and it must be 81
| WIN any pooy WuO "Ouiu succeed ii
anything. l worked from eight til
six, and l worked hard. For tw,
years 1 remained a messenger ant
general utility boy at the same wages
THE third year / was promoted +,
the janitorship, which / executed IL
addition to my regular work as mes
senger. For the joint job l got 500,
year. The fourth year l added to m.
work as messenger and janitor that O
night Waterman, and for the triplicat,
job / got $25 month. The fifth yea
I became teller of the bank. Late
/ became assistant cashier, and ceases
to wear seersucker clothes or to carr,
my lunch. And then still later the,
made me the vice president, which
job 1 have continued to hold to thii
very day. So you see I can truthful.
say that 1 have never lost my job"
At this juncture Mr.. Reid's fac,
grew strangely soft and mobile, hi
voice vibrant with suppressed emo
ton.
/ The World Was His.
Meanwhile" he continued, takin,
the unlighted cigar out of his mouth
and laying it carefully aside. Mean
while something very important hap