The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05

A certain newspaper asked It's sub- scribers to make three wishes. Many things were named but more than all else the men wished for money, power. position the women for money, love and beauty NOW
 Supposing the men got their money. power and position. The money would give them a lot of trouble in keeping 1t, the proper use of power would vex them tremendously. and the demands of position would soon tire them.
 And the womens wishes?
 Supposing they got the beauty they crave. The day would surely come, as surely as they are mortals, when that beauty would fade. The money would not buy 1t back. And love? That was he best wish of them all. But love does not always last. Would 1t abide? Alas for the vain wishes! Yet not yain. They are so human. And also they. are expressive of the soul. And they have much to do with the shaping of character. Because
 IL is the law of being that you are fashioned into the likehess of that which you admire and desire what you wish for.
 What you wish for determines to a large extent what you really are.
 Therefore You may well ask yourself. Do wish for the things that are the best? Desire and Use
 If you would develop the powers within you there is but one way: Use them.
 In the South sea islands are certain birds that have no wings Biologists tell us the birds once could fly; but there be- ing no carnivorous beasts or reptiles in these countries, the birds had no need to defend themselves or their young. Therefore
 The birds grew too lazy to fly up into the trees and build their nests. They lived on the ground and fed on insects. Centuries passed Gradually the wing muscles grew flabby, the wing bones of each generation smaller. Finally by the pr rocess of evolution, the birds came to be WinSlcss.
 So Of your powers. If you do not use your muscles they will grow flabby and smaller and of no account. So also of your mind If you do not use the muscles of your will or of your memory or of any faculty of your intellect they will grow small, flabby, of no account.
 Another illustrations:
 Darwin tells us that at first the eagle
 
 and weak. But it wanted to fly, and 1t tried to fly. Each eaglet inherited from l it's ancestors the desire and determination | to fly Years passed. Pinions grew. Muscles swelled. And then | Rq and by there came day when the first eagle scared into the empyrean. | Wonderful?
 Yes. but natural Use develops power
 Desire and use coupled together, will
 create power. If any part of your body is weal-and there is 10 organic aisease-desire and
 use will make 1t strong. l If any faculty of your mind is weak
 and there is good gray matter in youl
 brain pan--desire and use will make il virile.
 l But.
 l. If, like the birds, you grow lazy ani l refuse to fly and stay upon the ground your faculties will grow limp and useless If you do not challenge your soul to ac'
 tion your inheritance will come to naight
 Is not that fair?
 And compelling?
 Your Boys Pig If you give your boy pig and when
 if is grown 1t becomes fathers hog you are confusing your boys sense Of prop | erty rights. .t, And you may make criminal of him | besides
 Is the statement strong? Listea. Eighty per cent of a.i us are propertyless people who have never been taught to do things skillfully. Don't you see the moral values n- volved in ownership of things and Its effect upon your boy? Here is where you may begin to make your boy good citizen, Help him to own something, ovrre-~e' -es him respect for the property of otheu. Our civilization rests is..sse-.. -i prop erty rights. You may say 1t ought not to be so' but 1t is When you break down property rights you have anarchy. Mine and "thine." Our stone age parents came to treas- urc carved bone. 8 crude tool, a club, for their very own. Thus developed the sense of individual ownership. Note it's beginning in your baby boy. Let some other infant get into your sons high chair and hear the primeval howl of the owner. Let another child try to capture your baby's ark or tin solViers. There Is a fight on.
 Nv
 ThAs sense of personal ownership end the respect for the property rights Of