The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-02-01
CHANCE FOR THE
ONE-TALENT MAN
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Doctor Burdette Speaks.

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Doctor Burdette Speaks.
Chairman Dillingham; then introduced
Doctor Burdette, stating that it was
possible that Doctor Burdette did not
know until he came to Honolulu that
he had so many friends in these Is
lands
what had been done toward raising the
mention of his name had died down,
Doctor Burdette arose. 1t was pleas.
ant thing, he said, to be well known.
1t reminded him of an old colored man
in Washington whose name was Wash
ington. A visitor once asked him his
name.
"Mah names Washin tom" he re.
piled.
Washington That name sounds
familiar" said the stranger. cit seems
to me I've heard it before
al think mebbe you has, replied
the negro. "I'se done hauled swill
outa dis ward fob 'leben yeahs.''
Doctor Burdette said he wanted to
thank the people of Honolulu for the
reception that had been accorded him
and Mrs. Burdette, and to show his
gratitude, he would not "tell them how
we do things in our town." nor advise
them as to the regulation of the ter
ritorial government. He would talk on
| the man who thinks he has no chance.
The Average Man.
The subject of Doctor Burdette s ad-
dress, however, was really the aver.
age man." and he began by reminding
his hearers of the parable of the tai
ents Doctor Burdette thought the
man with the one talent did a mean
| thing to all of us in that he neglect
really the average man, but he didn t
make use of his opportunities. He
might have shown us what a man can
do with nothing at all to start with,
but he didn It. He might have shown
the world how UNNECESSARILY he could
have surpassed the man handicapped
with ten talents.
A Slicer of Cheese.
Doctor Burdette said he didn't have
such an awful lot of respect for the
great men of the world. He used to
stand in great awe of lord, but the
first one he saw looked exactly like a
man he used to know in Peoria. Hi
nois. That man could cut pound of
cheese more exactly than any other man
he ever knew, but the people made
the mistake of sending him to congress
and after that he didn't amount to
anything.
''Ninety-nine times out of a. hun
dred,' said the speaker, "the average
man wins out. 1t isn't the man who
depends on his ancestors who gets any
where. The man who depends on his
ancestors is the man who has invested
everything he ever had in a graveyard
You can't live on the strength of your
grandfather. Usually a man wants to
forget some things his grandfather did
: 1t is the man who is diligent in his
own business who does things. Brigham
Young's mother-in-law didn It help t,
establish the family
"The one-talent man has to be dill
gent in his business. Hard work never
killed any man; it's rest, recreation
! pleasure that kills men,
How Luck Helps.
Doctor Burdette said he was a be
lever in luck. He was firmly convinc
: ed that the boy looking for job, whc
], goes into the Office of the manager o.
a business house and blows cigarett,
. smoke in the manager IS face is pnlucky
: just as pnlucky as the youth who lean
up against the side of saloon waiting
!, for job to come to him. ''The DO,
|, who hustles is born to good luck. Goo
:. luck is simply good sense"
J, Diligence, the speaker said, consist
I. largely in minding one s own business
), The man whose business is everybod,
}, else's business doesn It stand befor,
: kings; he stands before the polie
!. magistrate.
n "Drudgery is part of the work o
I; the average man, said the speaker
!. "You may be called upon to do some
I. thing you don It want to do, to under
take some business you don't like
$. Don't throw away the chance; it IS you
Q one talent. Drudgery for the sake o
humanity doesn t soil anybody IS hands
t, The man with the one talent Away
(, finds place to put it and it is Away
l. worth its full value. I served in tn
army three years as a private and
e, man asked me afterwards if had neve
IS been promoted. / said no and he sneel
l. ed at me. / told him / had never bee
\. reduced, either. -
e. One, Talent Men.
Doctor Burdette said that 1T ism u tn
Y big men who do things. He WASH
: sure but that the country could eve
{ get along without President, fo
:. every summer the President and a
10 the cabinet officers go off to Oyster Bay
Z, or somewhere else, depending on wha
J. the administration happens to be. an
IS about the country generally, and ye
!. the government goes on just the SAINT
Y, 1t is the $1,000 clerks who do the wor
a in the absence of the big men. 1t
J. not until the President and the cabine
II return to Washington that there is an
!. trouble. The $1,000 clerks are all ave,
i age men, one-talent men,
Y "Be glad concluded Doctor Blu
b, dette, "if you are only n one-taler
a, man. and try TO make amends for this
3. fellow In the New Testament VIII
., didn I make use of his one'talent
J. surpass the ten talent man..
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