The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-02-09

While the legislature Is pounding :"
NOV on Iot of laws, many OF WHICH
Won and [ don't give a straw 'oU"'
and while congress is debating Witnii
itself about a lot of things that were
settled long ago by the Greeks ana
Romans if even. not before then, lei
ms talk of something that is OF inter
est:
Boys and girls.
want to tell you young folks tha'
I can see that most of my FAILURES
have been my own fault. | want &c
foil YOU. in spite of the croaklhSs oi
many who are dead but don kho"
If that you don't need to be AFRAID
of aiming too high, if you Will Du'
lust bend your energies, all OF them
TO reach the goal aimed at. Why !
know positively that | could nave
been all that | ever dreamed mat
wanted to be, but, my dreams seem
ed out of reach. In fact | am ann
ing higher now than | did at the De-
Dut l. van iic'' '.'''' -
as | could have aimed i'll the begin
ming, for | haven't the time TO com
plete the task.
Don't be afraid to hitch your wag-
on to a star" 1t seems presumptious
but it isn't. If you have the amDl-
ton there is no limit to what you
may attain.
And, | want to tell you parents not
TO discourage the ambitions Of your
children. Does your son aspire to be
president? Well, don't tell him that
his chances are only one in 90,00O,oOO
though that is true, but tell HIM Ii
all depends upon himself. 1t does. il
he has the real ambition and the
real determination he is boy in 30
OOO, 900, and his chances are mighty
good for being president. Does your
girl want to be a Melba? Alright
help her all you can. If that isn't
much. If she has the real Melba quail
tiles she will find a way for helping
herself. 1t is all possible. 1t depends
only ON whether they want what they
want bad enough or not.
Now this | have been telling you
is all true. Positive truth, SO true
that l would feel it crime TO preacf
it without at the same time proclaim
ing warning. Greatness is an aw-
full responsibility. 1t isn't the great
ness itself-the fame--the knowledge
~ Oh; hot hord
achieve. The difficult thing is to learl
to use greatness righteously, and with
out learning it, you never quite reach
greatness. You fail when success i
even in your grasp. So then my con
clusion is that goodness and rea
greatness are very closely related
and that the latter without the form
err is not much to be desired. For in
stance, Mark Hanna was great. Abra
ham Lincoln was good and great.
guess most any of us would rathe
be like Old Abe. So then, l wo,,l'
say:
Love first your fellow men an
learn to do right by them and The
ing turn you from your purpose .,
Cept an opportunity to do good unit
others. Each such opportunity is
disguised short cut on your road
success.
There is profit in labor, and los
in talk.
Do you know that l am not S
certain but that within decad
interurban railroads will be out {
date. l half expect to see auto
mobiles take their place to a larG
extent. l was reading the other da
of 80 horse power automobile hau
ing a 40 ton locomotive. think
was somewhere down in Californi'
That shows something of the powe
these gasolene engines will develo
on the level. Well, when we get GOO
roads throughout the country
level roads and solid roads--thes
autos are going to haul mighty load
III VIOtuISy anu >oAi AA-'I -
sengers at a remarkably low COS
a mile. Take this Guide Merida
road for instance. AT cost
$4,000 or 100000 it could b
macadamized between Lynden an
Bellingham to a width of 80 fee
That would include the levelin
down the hills and making the grad
equal to the best railroad grade
the country. Well with such
road beween Bellingham and Lynde
what would be the automobile COS
OF hauling freight or passengers
Would it greatly exceed the rate
charged by interurban railroads
An Iowa farmer raised a puml
kin on a wire fence. That's nothin
In some parts of the south the
raise negroes on telegraph poles.