Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-01

ger than the man on the bleachers at
Sunday baseball game. The man who
prays is bigger than the man who
sneers at God. And the man who is
in the saloon tonight is about the
smallest thing there is
L hope to inspire you to put your
lives in italics. A midget in mind and
body is a carbunkle on the body pei
itic You can not look up to runt in
mind and a runt in character unless
YOU are married to him and the law
compels you to.
Leave the Misty Valley.
God likes to see a man leave the
mist valley and climb the sunlight
hills. The man who will sit in a ham,
mock and suck lemonade thru a straw,
because it is easier than to get out In
the field and turn the burrows. is vast
ly different from the man who is WILL
ing TO SO cut into the world and bury
his sword to the hilt in the rottenness
and sin of the land. How few there are
who are willing to stand up and fight.
You have got to have desire to he
somebody You have got to have de-
sire to do things. How am to get that
desire?
Go with people who are doing things,
and who are bigger than you are Do
not go with the people who sheer and
rail at God.
Go to College.
Go to college. Go to school and
get a good Introduction from yourself
to Yourself
Turning from his direct theme he
aimed these at two influences, some
fathers and cheap theaters. "There's
many a boy who swears, booze fights
and is a good-for-n nothing lazy, lout
just because he was unfortunate
enough to have a no-account father
J, In my judgment one of the most pro-
life sources of crime is the cheap jim
skate theaters in this town You have
gone daffy over these and 10 cents
holes in the wall" To illustrate this
theater influence he told of the youth
full Chicago street car barn bandits OF
few years ago.
i. Fathers Undue Influence.
Fathers do not try to make anothe,
you out of your boy. One you i:
, enough. If God had wanted another OF
: you he would have made twins" TIC
. illustrate he told Of great men who re.
fused to become what theis fathers
wished them to be, because they hat
E an aim Of their own in life.
Have definite aim in life and ain
high. Do things well. The one whs
does the thing that lies next to HAND
y we'll is the man who succeeds.
, u think it is the false ideals tina
strew the shores with failures. 1 d.
not wish to close the gates to highel
= fields Of usefulness in this world, bu
all can not be in the spotlight. Happ.
. is the man who learns to do what h,
or she can do and does not try to al
= what he or she can not do. The plow
. man who labors for home for his wifi
and family is better man than tn
= miserable gamblers who buy and sci
= July and September wheat when the.
: J. own or. want not a bushel.
Poverty Matters Little.
II '1t matters little where I was borl
: or whether my parents We're rich o
{ poor, but whether or not I am an hon
U est man, I tell you, that matters much
{ Some men are mere ciphers in tn
y figures OF life.
e "Your ignorance, that is great bar
1t rier. But there is no excuse for it 20
e day. Your size depends on your brair
It and there is. a vast difference betwee
apparent size and real size. If you d
not believe me try to stop a horne
: with the end Of your nose when he
y going mile a minute.
e I'VE have better chances for educa
1T ton today than ever before. You PEG
e pie can thank the old Deopia for tina
y Books were never cheaper, Our news
q papers today are better colleges tina
: Abe Lincoln had. Knowledge hang
e like fruit on the limbs Of traes. An
e boy can walk up and pick them of
y In referring to Abraham Lincoln, NJ
! Sunday paid a most glowing AID elc
,e quent tribute to his struggles fl
'-lan education and how the countr