The Republican journal., 1913-10-30
LIFE.
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To THE EDITOR OF The JOURNAL.
During the past few months I have been
dwelling somewhat upon the pessimistic
side of life. When left home to come
here a typical production Of the society
with which was surrounded was fami-
ly with divorce suit in court. OF them
a neigbbor said that whenever they at
tempted to live together the man felt
the pressure of the water from the tea
kettle or the wife got black eye. Such
is the fruit of want of harmony. From
state of society which tends to make
each succee ding day less valuable than
the preceding, l would turn to the talk
of man who says that each succeeding
day is happier than the one before it, and
he expects this to continue forever. 1t
is really worth while to spend little
time with such man. He compares the
iron ore from the mountain with the lit
tie child and shows how each succeeding
roasting makes it more valuable until
ton of razor blades or watch springs is
valuable. He says that we must endure
as many roastings as the iron ore if we
would be of any account in the world.
He tells of advertising for stenogra-
pher and of the numerous applicants
with letters of recommendation. He
says that being able to irritate type
writer is only one of the symptoms of
stenographer. He says he would rath-
err look the applicant in the eye than
read bushel of letters of recommended
ton.
This is in keeping with the teachings
of our school that we ourselves are to be
our best and only diploma that is of any
value. He says, never be ashamed to be
the oldest graduate in the class. 1t is
not we'll to be in haste to finish the
course. There is only one kind Of wealth
in the world and that is wealth Of the
heart. The people who rise in the world
are those who see things to do, and do
not stop with doing merely what they
are told to do. He illustrates bad luck
and needless knocks by an incident in his
own life.
When he was four years old he wanted
the coffee pot to play with. His mother
told him to let it alone, and she was one
of those women who never said thing
but once. He looked wistfully at the
coffee pot and then at his mother. He
thought, what right has she to inter
fere with my pleasure? When his moth
err wasn't looking he got the coffee pot
and he got the hot coffee all over him
and the neighbors came in for weeks
with everything that was good for a
burn.
He said when ne was a young man he
hauled apples to market over corduroy
road and the big apples had faculty of
rolling right through the crowd to the
top and that left the little apples at the
bottom. He said the same is true of US
and the only way for US to stop that
bigger fellow from rolling above US is
for US to grow bigger than he and then
he will go below US just as naturally as
stone sinks in water. We decide our
own destiny. Getting great place does
not make us any greater. He says
fat head is not as good as bald head.
A man had worked twenty-five years at
single machine and knew nothing of
any other machine in the building. The
manager said he had confined his atten-
ton to that one machine so long that he
had lost the ability to operate that one
machine efficiently. Grow or go is the
rule.
Happy is the boy who doesn't get hold
of the coffee pot until he is big enough
to handle it. The one who runs most
after things is the one who will dolefully
tell you, They beat me to it" Fit your
self for place and the place is looking
for you. Was it the plan of nature to
have runts? There is always room for
one more of any first-class product. The
world respects the man who works, but
suspects the idler. The only greatness
is the greatness of service. A great
man fills his days by helping people. An
education must be grown under suitable
conditions like plant. The speaker
tells of a wealthy owner of factory
who wished to buy an education for his
only son. The blindness of his love was
strangling the boy. He went through
college like steer through the slaugh-
ter house and both were finally canned.
1t was reported he had man hired to
study for HIM. Poor little Gussy had
no chance to grow. After his fathers
death he was as helpless as he had been
before. The factory could not run under
such management and poor orphan boy
who had borne his full share of life's
burdens was made receiver. Those who
would make it so easy for their darling
children by keeping them in box of
cotton simply make their continued ex-
istence impossible.
The speaker accosted prominent man
and asked him if he was born in that
city. He replied II should say not; the
cities would drop off the face of the
earth if not reinforced from the country"