The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-23

reach tho same grade OF people nc
northwest Ia filing up with the best
people on earth and ia boys and girls
need a chance
HIS definition of success is worth
| remcmbcTine II Is. ~Whosoeycr has
done moro for mankind than mankind
has done for him. whosoever has IN
creased the worlds stock Of happiness
/ and comfort. and decreased It's mis-
cry and pain has made an enduring
success even though he won't out as
poor as when he came ln. Luck has
nothing 10 do with success. Speak
| ing OF education he said, Tho one
/ idea ! am trying TO put into rich
mems heads IS that education Is an
antidotc for anarchy The big colleges
! have too much luxury and not en-
| ouEh work Rich and ruined Is true
with most rich mems sons. We must
look 10 the poor hoJ aud girls for
the future That is why / help the
small western school
This Is the thought OF the man who
| gave % years OF his life 10 making n
fortune and then spent % more in
giving II away Was he wise in Civ
Ing as he did? Listen 10 the greatest
| foreign authority on recent America.
l read from Bryce's american Com
monwealth." speaking OF the small
western college he says. "Thcy get
hold OF multitude of poor men who
might never resort 10 a distant place
! for education. They set learning In
visible form. plain indeed and hum
! bic, but diEniGcd even I'm her humil-
| ity before tho eyes Of a rustic pcO-
| pie in whom the love OF knowledge
naturally strong might never break
forth from the bud into the flower,
| but for the care of some Jealous gard
ener They light up In MANY a coun-
try town what Is at first only a farth-
! ing TushliCht, but which. when the
town swells into q city. or endowments
| flow in. or when some able teacher
Is placed In charge becomes lamp OF
| glowing flame. which may finally
throw It's rays over the whole state
i'm which il stands"
But Pcarsons was to WELD a still
larger and wider influence. He could
give only his seven millions directly.
but indirectly his influence would do
larger things In 1885 a Scotch lad
was horn I'm Dumferline. Scotland In
1S45 his family emigrated 10 Amerl-
ca and settled I'm Allegheny. Pa He
never attended the public schools. At
the age OF 10 he was earning a dollar
and twenty cents a week as hobbin
boy in a cotton mill At the age of l3
he was earning a dollar and eighty
cents a week as engine boy in a fac
tory Then he became a messenger
boy I'm a telegraph Office at $3.50 n
week Learning toleGraphy he became
an operator at % dollars month. He
realized the service which the telc-
graph could be TO the railroad in dis
patching trains and was made super
intendent OF the telegraph service for
the Pennsylvania railroad In the west,
from there he rose TO be superlnten-
dent Of the Allegheny division. OF the
same road. Then. when model of
the Woodruff lecping car was shown
him he became part owner i'm the first
two sleeping cars built on the line.
Realizing the need Of better bridges
he organized company for the manu-
facturc and building of iron railway
bridges.
When on a journey to England be
noticed that they were using steel
rails on their track He returned and
organized the first company for the
manufacture OF steel rails In 1883
he controlled seven great iron and
steel mills employing $4,000 men
and paying over a million 4 month in
wages This man was Andrew Car,
negie He heard OF Pearsons' method
OF giving in such way as to make
his gifts perpetual i'm their blessing
In his youth he had on Saturday
nights borrowed books OF a man in
Allegheny and returned them Monday
morning These books had given him
his education and youthful pleasure.
Now he wished 10 help other youths
who, not having money to buy desIr-
ed 10 read good books Pearsons'
plan of giving money for perpetual
endowment on conditions that would
furnish incidental expenses, led Car
ncgic TO give libraries on condition
that the city would care for and main
tain them. Carnegie has often spok-
en- of Pearsons as his senior part
ner' in the work of giving money.
There are two ways OF using money.
investing and spending. These two
men have chosen 10 invest much I'm
young America for better trained lives.
There are two ways Of dlsposing OF
your life and time. Investing II or
spending IL. One thinks only Of today
and spends life; another sees to-
morrow and invests il. The best in
vestment contains the clements of
surety and dividends in true proper
ton. The christian life Is the only
life which answers TO each of these
requirements. II gives surety even
unto and beyond death, and 1t Yields
dividends Of JOY. peace, strength and
blessing. You each have one life to
invest or 10 spend. / present YOU
these thoughts for your consideration.