Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-25
A Turtle Can't Dive with His
Head Held Up
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There Pretty Good Lesson That Fact Tor Young MenAnd
Old Men


turtle
The boy catches the turtle asleep climbs back with
his legs the turtle hppers and for exciting
ride the salt water
The turtle would dive if he could
But the boy who rides him has in his hands a stick
the stick under the turtles throat keeps his head
in the air, and the turtle can not dive.
His diving first put his head down and then
send big heavy body following the head he not dive
in that way, he will not dive at all.
1t is very amusing the boys who ride the big turtles
steering finally after good ride setting them free
The men who take the trouble to think might
another they had power riding their baca
like ambition enough and persistent enough to
hold their heads above water
Almost every human being starts in life with his head held
high do something and be something and con
tribute his share the work that do in this world
head up his glance straight ahead and he believes
that keep his head up until the last day when his chin
drops and his eyes olose-to stay closed
The trouble with nearly all get tired Ambition
weary longer drives and longer holds up our
heads.
You can see the around you beginning sink
the courage gone them They have joined the class of
those who talk about luck
They getting ready to join the great called those
that do not amount to much
The question for all How keep out of that
of failure?
yourself question that will test you, and
the question is
ARE YOU MAKING MENTAL MUSCLE OR MENTAL
FAT?
Almost fifty years ago W. X Clifford great
can put that question young heard his
at the Royal Institute
He quoted Spencer Principles of Biology.
He made them understand that the mind eats and dgests like
the body
And he impressed upon them as impress
young readers the important fact that the mind should develop
mental and moral muscle just the body develops muscle
You bodies in which all the food goes to fat With
every that they they become aer and useless
other bodies better constructed turn food into muscle
1t is just with the brain.
Some absorb information and simply produce sort
of mental fat, poor, worthless stuff.
Other mental and moral muscle,
intellectual machinery for conquerng life problems
When you read the lessons in books, take in through
your eyes and the story that nature has to tell does this
mental food turn to mental fat or mental muscle?
1t mental muscle that holds up mans head keeps his
courage working and prevents his sinking into the mud of fail
and hopelessness.
You do for yourself, you will what the boy the
turtle back does for the turtle
The turtle does not like it but he made useful in spite of
himself.
The man keeps up fights against Difficult
ties does not like it. but in later yearswhen others are poor
wage taking orders and he the GIVING the orders
he is glad that he had fighting courage
For the present we shall cOnfne the lecture
turtle to single point, namely; THE IMPORTANCE OF
KEEPING OUT OF DEBT,
We live a age of debt We might almost change the
motto COINS to the words Charge It. The average
awakened from her sleep and told that the
fire would probably say charge it before
covering her
The struggle of the ordinary American the end of
pay that which has been charged during the four
preceding weeks
the the United States tenths debt.
The nation debt Every city and county and State
in debt
railroads thousands of millions
Our whole business and whole life is based the
charge it plan.
The big opportunity for the who keep his chin
above the debt level
Keep debt and you keep danger
Keep of debt youth and you keep slavery
old age
Neither a borrower a lender be sand Ben Franklin.
and good advice a adviser.