The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-08

Address OF Lawrence C. Jones be-
fore the students of the Piney Woods
Country Life school, Braxton, Miss:
Mr.. F. NJ Hubbell, the richest man
lin Iowa, upon being asked the secret
of his success, answered in one sent
ence the words which are on the little
cards you now have in your hands
What's the use OF working if you
don't save"
Fer each of you there is an import
|ant lesson in these nine words. Not
|one Of you will ever be as rich as Mr..
Hubbell-your surroundings preclude
Fit. Not any Of you will have the op-
|portunities that have been his. Yet
his motto is yours, if you wish to sue
coed to the farthest extent OF your
ability and opportunities.
Mr.. Hubbell, by virtue Of his being
"a white man and because he was born
in the north was at birth further up
the pathway that leads to success
than you will be after you have round
ed out your lives. Yet that need not
deter you from making the best of
your life.
l want every boy and girl to realize
the vast Importance Of that motto. I
want you to have more and to con-
serve more than the generation that Is
passing. II you do not your time in
this school is wasted, my time is vast
ed and even further. the money that
the good people Of Iowa paid in as
taxes that went to support the Mar
shalltown high school and the State
University of Iowa. the schools that
attended, will have been spent in vain.
in SO far as / am concerned, unless
you make good.
Civilization is but another name for
saving. When man in the dawn of
history started to save, to put some
thing aside for rainy day so to
speak-that was the beginning of our
civilization of today. We are what
we are and have what we have today
because the generations before the
present saved and we have taken what
they saved and made it better.
But tonight, / do not wish to talk
to you on the general problem of saw
ing-that is a long story and one as
old as civilization 1t is the individ-
,ual necessity for saving that l want
you to see into.
Have you ever noticed that there
are some animals wiser than some
men? Stories of the squirrel and the
bee are too well known for repetition.
In the very first place, want you to
learn to realize the value of time and
to learn to save it. That is one OF
the things Mr.. Hubbell saves. He is
a man who never takes long vacations
for rest or holidays for idleness that
the general run OF people think they
need. A few weeks ago read in the
Des Moines Register and Leader that
his 1912 birthday had occurred and
that he took only one-half day off.
Thousands of people with his money
and position would have taken a
month off.
Your lesson here is to stop taking
Saturday" as we call it down here,
and thus save somewhere around fifty
two days in one year. Have you ever
thought of that7 When you leave here
teach that to our people.
| Another habit we have Is to spend
at least three weeks of Christmastide
| in idieness. That is southern habit,
not one OF the north. 1t is unneces-
sary. Let US teach our people to
save some time here.
| Again. but few Of you get up in the
mornings as early as the farming pop
ulation Of the north. You lose an
hour every morning. During the sum
mer of 1911, | was in Des Moines in
1.-THE interest of this work and went out
to see Mr.. Hubbell. / decided to go
early to his home and ask for an in.
lterview at his Office, as he is a busy
man. l arrived at Terrace HILL" his