The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

thing in this world because success comes from education. If you are young man, I would advise you to get an education
 I used to look into mans face and tell if he were college-b bred It Is true that many men who never saw inside a col Iege have attained success. and true that many men who did not go to college have working for them college-bred men. Edison never saw a college. He educated
 himself as did other men who have attained success without college educa- tion.
 sIf you have not the advantage of a
 formal education, the time Is yet young. As I said last Sunday night you can use the intervals of time and educate yourself along any line.
 Education is learning how to think and how to use ones powers, and many so- called educated man is not at all educa- ted. These are not successes.
 A Basis of Success
 Here is a basis of success: The finding of a great purpose, the getting hold of an
 aim, the beginning of a quest Take carrier pigeon, and they are using them now in Belgium, transport him across the ccountry two or three hundred miles. Tie a message to his leg and turn him loose. He immediately will go up into the air about 300 feet. get. his bearings, and set cut for home. He gets there. | Have you ever seen the giant liners leaving the port of New York? Little , pilot boats slowly. painfully. pull the huge vessels out of the harbor and when they reach the gate leading out to the open | sea the pilots drop off and are left be- hind. The ocean greyhounds apparently | lift their heads. sniff the salt air, and seem to find on the distant horizon a | a,x1 frf,r1 Ia a | ly make a straight course for their desti- nation.
 1T know a boy who educated himself. little by little, fighting his way through | Princeton, and now he Is making history. | The ones he left behind him in the little | village are continuing at the small tasks | they occupied when he left them. Some ere clerking in the stores for small sal aries. others are playing dominoes and | marbles
 Hard work Is necessary to success and real work sometimes takes the place of brains or finances. The fact Is that if you can find a young man who is foolish enough to say he is going to work hard | and does hard work, that man will be hard to head.
 q went to the high school recently and noted how the stone steps are worn, and l
 said that the children could get parable of how hard work and stick-to-it-iveness would wear down anything.
 Did you ever think when you read novel of the hard work necessary in It's
 writing; os how the man who wrote 1t had to stick to his work persistently until | 1t was done? The same thing appears when you look at successful man. Be freer with your thoughts of such and remember that that man has worked while l you slept. In many instances the only
 secret & successful man has Is work. But determination and the attaining of a pur- l pose does not necessarily mean success A man may work for years and years and | still be unsuccessful. A man may work | years building a small boat in which he may cross the Atlantic. and still he will l not have attained success. A man may decide that he Is going to devote his life
 to discovering whether or not sycamore