New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-10-07
liant. YOU will start on the road to

llant. You Will start on the road to
success.
Outside help may seem to YOU
a blessing at times; but it is us
uallv a curse because of its Grip
ping power People who give
- money are not your best
friends. Your friends are those
who urge You, who force YOU to
lepend upon yourself, to help
Yourself.
There are plenty of people old
er than YOU are. with only one ley
or one arm. who manage to earn
a living, while you who are heal
thy and physically able to work
are looking to others for assist
ance.
No able-bodied person can feel
that he is quite a man while he i,
dependent When one has a
trade, a profession, or some kind
of occupation which makes him
absolutely independent. he feels
a sense Of added power, resource
fulness. completeness. which moth
ing else can give Responsibility
discovers ability. Many IA youth
discovers himself for the first
time when he goe. into busines.
for himself He might have wsrk-
ed FOR years for somebody else
without ever finding himself.
1t is not possible to develop
ones utmost possibilities while
working for somebody else. There
Is not the motive, the same reach
OF ambition or enthusiasm. No
matter how conscientious to duty.
there is not the same stimulus or
incentive to bring out the posi-
bic man that God intended. The |
best in a man in his independence.
his self-reliance, his originality,
and these will never reach their
highest expression under service
to somebody else while human ma
ture remains what it is now.
1t is only when the brain is test
ed to its utmost. when every bit of
ingenuity and sagacity the young
man possesses must come to the
rescue of a possible failure that
he will develop his greatest
strength. 1t takes msnths and
years of effort to stretch small
capital over a larger business
without danger It is the perpet-
ual struggle to keep up appear
ances, to get and to hold custom
ers. that will call out the reserve
in a young man. 1t is when mop-
ey is scarce and business dull.
and living high. that the real man
is making his greatest progress.
Where there is nos struggle,
there is no growth, no character
What are the chances of the
youth s developing his own innate
resources who knows he has mon
ey enough to buy his Education"
and need not work for it, and who
pays a tutor to help him cram for
examinations? What are the
chances of his buckling down to
hard study, working nights and
parts of holidays. of seizing every
spare minute for self-betterment,
self-imprOvement, in the same way
as the body who knows he will
not have a dollar which he does
not earn. who knows there is no
rich father or uncle backing him ?
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Accomplishing the Impossible"
A boy was telling his father of
seeing woodchuck up a tree. His
father told him that that was i'm
possible for woodchucks did not
climb trees. The boy insisted that
a dog got between the woodchuck |
and his hole and he just had to !
climb the tree. There was ne 9th
er way out of it.
We do impossible" things in
life simply because we have to.
Self-reliance has been the best
substitute for friends, influence,
capital, pedigree, or assistance.
1t has mastered more obstacles,
overcome more difficulties, carried
through mOue enterprises, per-
fected more inventions than any
other human quality.
There is something in human
nature which loves the genuine,
the true. the man who has an opin-
ion of his own and dares to assert
it. who has a creed and dares to
live it, who has convictions and