Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-05
Be TRAMP
ADVISES OFFICIAL
By Martin H. Glynn.

AIIOm an duuIcSS Dl lue Hculeudnl-
governor of New York to the graduat-
ing class at Fordham University, New
York City,
In "a Tramp Abroad" Mark Twain
says because he did not know where
and how to go he walked thirty-five
miles one night trying to find his bed
in an old German castle. No educated
man has any business to be a tramp on
life's highway-every educated man
ought to know where to find a man s
work and how to do it.
l consider it a part of man work
to take hand in making current his.
tory. l would advise adjuration of
public office, but 1 would urge an in.
terest in politics. l have no patience
with those educated and refined gen.
tlemen WHO hold aloof from the poll
teal field because it smells of "vil.
lainous saltpeter." They are like the
lord in the play, "perfumed like
milliner," who used bottle of smell
ing salts to protect his nose from the
carnage smell of battle and who would
be soldier if it were not for the
guns. This powdered milliner of a
warrior is no more grotesque than the
letered dilettantes who hold themselves
above their cOuntry's affairs. Like
George William Curtis, you can be
gentleman in pOlitics-even if some
gentlemen cannot be in politics because
their gentility is of the hothouse varie.
ty instead of natures brand.
What Is Expected.
No one expects you, my young
friends, to preach your philosophy of
life in the marketplace, like Socrates,
but everybody does expect you to live
up to it where men can view and God
alone can see. No one expects you to
go hunting for an honest man with
lighted lantern, like Diogenes, but ev.
erybody does expect you to know and
to show that at least one honest man
resides beneath your own hat.
Men of faith you are-men of work
and vision you must be. The man of
the hour is the man who does things.
Napoleon coat of arms" shirt
sleeves has become fashionable.
and society's drones are tabooed as in.
dustrial twins Of the hobo. The ro-
nance of ehivalry gives place to the
poetry of mechanism. Kipling's "Song
of Steam" supplants Tennyson 4
" King Arthur With His Table
Round" " the "Man on Horseback" sa.
lutes The Man With the Hoe" There
is no place today for what Homer
calls a dead weight upon the earth.
Halloek wrote wonderful book to ask
If life is worth living, and the world
answers, "Yes, if we work. -
The Magic of Work.
Blaze your own way in life; wall,
on your own feet; work with your own
hands, and speak with your own mind.
Don't be a graphophone and don't be
an autOmaton! Circumstances NAV
hamper you, but they cannot defeat
you if you keep your blood red and
your brain clear Talleyrand walked
with difficulty; Alexander Pope wore
a leather jacket to keep him from bend.
ing double; Napoleon rode a horse with
the bouncing of novice; Bobby Burns
topped the bottle, but he did not drown
the Muse; Robert Louis Stevenson
wrote like an angel while dying like
man. James G.. Blaine solved prob.
lens of state while suffering pangs of
pain; Helen Keller, though blind. deaf
and dumb, sees the wonders of crea.
tion, hears the music of theages and
speaks with the master minds of
thought; John D. Rockefeller cannot
eat a square meal and Andrew Carne.
gie can't spell, yet these people did
not allow what they could not do to
prevent them from doing what they
could. Indifference to the magic of
work, the potency of drudgery, is the
curse Of too many college men. They
want to fly before they can creep; they
want to be ten-thousand.dollar men be.
fore they are thirty.cent apprentices.
Vision and Dreams.
10 be rounded men, though. nv
young friends, you must mix vision
with your work. Life is not all druid
gerry and "the man who thinks the
grass will not grow at night unless he
lies awake to watch it either lands in
an insane asylum or on an emperor 8
throne" In the usefulness of the
cabbage do not overlook the splendor
OF the rose. st. Francis proved laugh.
ter to be as divine as tears. Indulge
IN what Alexander Pope called
"The statesman s scheme.
The air-built castle and the golden
dream,
The youth s romantic wish, the chem
lists flame,
And poet vision of eternal fame.u
Vision is often fact, reality fraud
Be men of vision! Don t try to meas
ure life by mathematics, for you can t
DO it. Life is not warp for the map.
maker-life is woof for the doer and
the dreamer. Homer's Iliad is great
because life is battle; Homer's Odys.
sey is great because life is a journey;
the Book of Job is great because life
is a riddle and YOU can't measure a
riddle, you can t measure a battle, you
can't measure a journey whose end
you cannot see.
Vision and work-they span the