The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-17
'''DON'T Give UP"
KEY Of SUCCESS
HAYWo0D'S VIEW
In First Chautauqua Talk
Richmond Man. Distin.
-, guishes Between Kinds of
: Successful Men.

do with the art of living a successful
life. He began by cautioning his hear
ers against putting too narrow an in
depreciation on the ideal of success.
when We speak of successful
man." he said, I'VE usually mean one
who has done we'll in his business or
profession. This success is legitimate,
butt 1t Is not the highest success. A
man may succeed in business and yet
be failure as human being. would
rather be a first class man and a sec.
Ond class lawyer than to be a first
class lawyer and second class man.
To succeed as human being, that Is
the success worth striving for"
The art of living a successful life is
built upon three laws, the first of
which he described as being the neces-
sity Of having plan for ones life.
Goal 10 Necessary.
Jesus said we must enter in by the
few people are to get into life, but
he meant that in order for one to find
the life that is life indeed, he must
guide his feet along the straight path,
must choose his way, must have a def
mite goal to aim at. Nobody can get
anywhere or accomplish anything by
drifting.
John begins his gospel, In the be-
ginning was the Word II we were to
translate Johns meaning into our mod
ern American speech, it would read
like this: Now to begin with is the
idea. or plan, or ideal Everything be-
gins that way. Before you can have a
tent, or building or Panama Canal,
these things must first be built by
somebody out of the stuff Of thought in
the religions of the mind. This is
the law of life. If you don't have an
idea behind your life, plan for it, you
will merely drift around, you VIII new
er get anywhere, you will not accom-
plish anything.
Plan Born In Us.
How do we make this plan Of our
lives? We do not make it. 1t is born
in US.
1--WE are all familiar with the fact
that each and every man is born into
the world with physical peculiarities
A man Is tall and slender and awk-
ward perhaps, not because he would
have 1t that way, but because he was
born that way. Why is it not as obvious
that man is born also with mental
peculiarities?
Horace Mann, who was the founder
OF our educational system, and whose
Ideas have so permeated our Ameri-
can life. was a disciple of Hobbs and
Locke. who taught the tabula rasa
theory OF the human mind. According
to this notion, the child's mind is a
blank of white paper, on which par
ents or teachers can write anything
they wish. Mann had the idea that any
child can do anything any other child
does. If only it tries hard enough.
But this theory science and expert.
ence have proved to be fallacy. The
child is not born with a blank mind
1t has definite mental characteristics
at it's birth and one of the secrets of
living successful life is to work along
the lines of those capacities, with
which we were born.
Inequality Present.
"On the stock exchange, when a man
has more grain than he is called upon
to deliver. they say he is long When
he has less than is demanded, they say
he is short That is the way it is with
us. In some things we are born long, in
other things we are born short"
The speaker then recited a number
OF instances in which people were un
able to do certain kinds Of work. 81,
wasn't that these people didn't try tc
do these things" he said, "They die
try. They worked hard. The schoo
teacher who was unable to spell, toll
ed and labored year after year without
any success 1t wasn't that she didn1
work that made her unable to spell
1t was that she was born short or
spelling.
Each Of us in some line is borr
long. We are able to do things no.
IN,
school but because we were born will
the ability to do them They come nat
ural to us. We were taught to d.
them not by books, or teachers, but b,
Him who created u.s."
To illustrate this truth, the Rev. Mr.
Haywood cited a number of instance.
In which people had extraordinary tai
ents who had never had any schoolin,
for them at all. He pointed out tina
one common cause of failure in life II
that people attempt those things To-
which they have no Unborn ability
And that oftentimes they are too prout
to do the things which they were real
1y born to do.
Parents Make Mistake.
That is where parents make a mis-
take IN great many cases." he said
"They press their boy or girl into som,
profession or trade for which they ar,
untitled, merely because there is
promise Of fame or money in it. TIL,
Germans have better plan. When tn,
question comes up as to what profes
zion boy shall enter, the parents
teacher, the physician, the pastor ane
the boy have a conference, the aim O.
which Is to discover what it is tina
boy Is best fitted by nature to do
When boy enters a profession fol
which he was born long the world can
not prevent his success. II he enter,
q profession for which he was borr
short, nothing will enable him to sue
ceed.
THE third law of living a success
ful life may be summed up in the one
word dedication You are buildins
p career. Don't put rotten stuff into it
You may think that it will not be seer
but some day that weakness will bt
manifest and ruin will come as re
suit of it. Don't burden yourself with
unnecessary handicaps. And after 70,
have decided what it is you were borr
TO do in this world, stick to it, hang Oh
don't give up"