Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-08-31
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Factors of Safety" in Living
Creatures, by John B. Huber, A. M,
M. d. The doctor says in part:
After the last Haryard-Yale boat
race it was the losing team which
gave the greatest evidence of ex-
haustion. In one instance the Yale
team We're so. utterly "all in" that
they had to be lifted out of the boat
One might have expected Just the
reverse, that the Harvard men hay
ing taken the extra exertion necessary
to win, had worked more nearly to
he limit of their powers aud should
nave been more played cut than the
J ale men in consequence.
But to think that way is not to
take into account the stimulus of
victory on the one hand, and the de-
pressing effect of defeat on the
other. Ii has been estimated that
the mortality from wounds in a de-
leated army is in proportion to that
II the yictors as four to three or
even as three to two. The science
Of psychology gives the explanation.
success brings into play the factors
II safety in the living body, failure
las the reverse effect, to weaken
-hese factors.
What then, are those factors of sa :
" They are our reserve forces,
Which avail us in times of inordinate
stress and strain, condition in spite
Of many injurious external agencies.
In the American Magazine is
short sketch of one Joe f. Sullivan
Which is worth reading.
For myself / am going to use 8
essentials to success. Faith, Prayer
and Perseverance. They never fail
you if you are in the right and you
are already a failure if you are in the
wrong"
This is the nutshell philosophy of
ice F. Sullivan, just q
years of age, and recently elected
mayor of lmboden, Arkansas.
The election of the youngest mayor
of the United States was most
exciting one, and more votes We're
polled for the boy candidate than in
any previous contest in Imboden.
Mayor Sullivan assumed office on
Ny 9th just after his twenty first |
His campaign was conduct
ed while he was several months und-
er age. But his youth was by no
means his only handicap, as he is
4 cripple. At the age of four he
was stricken with paralysis which
deprived him of the use of -one arm
and both legs. Since that time, in
Ill these yeras he has never taken
4 step. His only way of getting
ibout is by driving a tricycle. or
cam of trained Angora goats, which
lave been to him for the last five
'ears what feet are to those who
walk
Five years ago Joe decided upon
journalism as his life work, and after
raquent disappoiltments finlaiy mace
good. He is now correspondent from
lis city for numerous papers, editor
" the Imboden Gazette, and writer
ii short stories.
Like good many other newspaper
nen, when he entered the field OF
Jurnalism he became quickly inter
sted in politics, and it was not long
before his articles in his paper on
he political situation in his own town
t racted attention. But nobody inn
.gined that the youthful Joe was a
uitor for public office. He kept
hat to himself until he was ready
nd then quietly one day he started
ut and drove his goat cart down
he main street, stopping here and {
here at the various business houses
o tell the proprietors and clerks
hat he was a candidate for Mayor,
nd that he desired their votes.
To attract attention something orig
nal must be done, and Joe quickly
eyised a plan of campaign. His
Irst move was to appoint twelve
retty school girls less than sixteen
ears of age with whom he had at
ended school and whom he had
nown all his life, as his campaign
managers. The girls took up Joe's
ause with vigor and energy which (
urprised everyone. He was their f
gro bold. !
On a bright winter day, all unan- (
ounced, they started out from the q
'azette office laden with armfuls of :
osters which they tackled on trees, .
p e granh no1pS and wherever vacant ,