The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-11-11

the support of
scholarship in rendering it thus: "Who,
being in the form of God, did not med
itate a usurpation to be on an equality
with God, but [contrariwisel made
Himself of no reputation, and took
upon Him the form of a servant" He
said:
Whoever has no ambition has not
properly begun to live. Ambition i'm
plies appreciation of the value of life
a weighing of prospects and possibili-
ties-a decision, and a fixed determi-
nation of will. Parents and teachers
should aim to lift before the mental
vision Of the young noble ideals, and to
assist them in determining what they
would copy and which goal they will
bend LIES energies to reach. To such
parents and teachers many of those
successful In life refer in terms of en-
dearment, declaring how much they
owe to the encouragement of ideals
and ambitions to which these assisted
them.
Many Woe Begone Faces.
As we learn to read character and to
observe people, we perceive that many
are wholly without ambition; or that
their ambitions are so low and trivial
as not to be of real benefit. In crowd
Of thousand people, less than a hun
dred will show by their faces and their
energy that they have an ideal, an am
bitfon, and are pursuing it, In other
words. nine-tenths Of our poor fallen
race lack the very handspring of life
This lack Of proper ambition not only
makes life a drudgery instead of a
pleasure, but 1t is menace to our so
cial fabric. According to the Bible. 1t
10 this nine-tenths of the human fam
fly, without lawful ambitions, that will
be anarchists. striving to pull down the
structure of civilization in kind of
blind fury-the awakening Of an am
bition which, knowing not how to vent
itself, will bring trouble upon ALL
Worldly Ambitions Profitable.
1t lie the ambitious tenth of humanity
that cause the wheels of progress to
turn. Their ambitions are keeping their
own minds actively occupied and are
giving employment to the remainder
OF men. The ambitious mechanic hopes
30 become an inventor and to rise In
the social scale The ambitious clerk
strives for success, hoping to become
successful merchant. The successful
merchants. princes and captains Of In
dustry take pride In building up vast
enterprises, In the erection of monu-
mental edifices, In the construction Of
great bridges, tunnels. etc. Others
have ambitions along professional lines.
There is a general tendency among
the ambitionless to view these success
ful people harshly, to think of their
ambitions as purely selfish, giving no
credit to the pleasure of an exercise
Of ambition which the majority cannot
appreciate because they have none
themselves.
Contrary Thoughts Should Prevail.
Men with ambition leading on to
genius should be admired, appreciated;
and 1t should be remembered that they
have helped mankind In general to lar
ger conceptions of life and to wider
possibilities. l grant, indeed, the ne
cessity for legislation in restraining the
rich, and especially trusts and COM
binations of brain and money which
might endanger the liberties and pros
perity of the masses. But let us never
forget how much we owe to the ambi-
tious men whom we seek to restrain
from power to crush those of less am
bition and less capacity, who are more
or less dependent upon them.
AS proving that some of our success
full men were moved by ambition rather
than love of money, we note the fact
that, having accumulated vast for
tunes, some are directing their ener-
giles in expanding the money in the en-
dowment of colleges, the building of IL
braries, the financing of political and
medical Investigations for public veal
Whether their Judgment and ours agree
az respects the wisdom of their bene
factions Is another matter. They have
a right to exercise their own judg
ments in the use of money which came
TO them through the exercise of theii
own brains and ambitions.
We can surely agree that beautiful
library building becomes an incentive
for the erection Of other beautiful
BUILDINGS. even though comparatively