Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-20

esty towards your employer, honesty
towards -your school, towards your
home. towards yourself Look the
world honestly In the face. meet every
man and boy honestly, win what you
win honestly. lose what you lose hon
estly. No man ever failed who was
honest No country. no employer, no
school ever wrote the word failure
after the name of the boy or man who
worked and lived an honest life. For
you, coming from this honest school,
where honest men have labored nom
estiy for your good. honesty Is not
only the best policy-ft Is the only
policy. Any other would be shame.
and disgrace. The first man or boy,
therefore. who suggests to you that
you do thing you know to be dis
honest, the first time temptation
comes into your life to do thing
you know to be dishonorable, throw
fit, chase Yourself. beat 1t for better
company, get away from that man Of
boy, that evil thought, lose it quickly,
for this is fit the third. IS Z.
In order To hit any sort OF HEX,
to have any sort Of steam behind
your punch, man mist he morally
fit BY moral / don't mean goody-
goody Goody-goody Is what a man
thinks of himself, moral Is what his
fellowmen think Of him. And the
world at large, this county in which
you live, this new life into which you
are going doesn't give WlIoop what
you think of yourself in the ways OF
morals. You may think yourself most
terribly spious, may think that, com
pared to yourself, the world is quite
wicked. but to society you may ap:
pear rotten to the core. And when
people in general think that, you'd
better wake up quick and look at
yourself In your own mirror: you'll
find the rotten specks all right Many
a man has cherished the idea that he
could fool people into believing that
he is good when he knows he Is bad.
If man conducts his business badly
he knows that sooner or later people
will know It. If a boy Is not doing
honest work at school he knows that
examinations time will show it. When
man plants weeds he doesn't ex-
pect his neighbors to admire his flow.
ers. But some men have the idea
that they can go on living putrid lives
and people still think them good.
Don't fool yourself People know. 1t
will all come out in the end. You will
get just what is coming Ito you, YOU
will reap just what you have sowed.
Morals Is honesty in the heart, and
without. 1t YOU will, never be fit, your
eyes will be blinded that you may not
see; without it you can never keep
this body of yours fit for the best
fight, for the good hefty punch; with
out it money, position, houses and
lands, wealth untold will not make
you a decent citizen, a worthy meDI-
Der of this good, God-blessed country
of ours. Morals in the inside of a
man shining through You can't get
along without it, you can't fool man
into thinking you have it when you
have not And to keep honesty in
your heart Is fight every day. 1t is
standing with your toes on the mark
all the time. But it is worth while
having: you've got to have it and
keep it or just give up the fight you
are entering today. And if you find
yourself beginning to think crooked
thoughts, IL you find that things you
know are wrong are beginning to look
less wrong than they did when you
we're a boy, throw a fit, get back your
honest boy heart, brace up, start over
again, for this is fit the fourth.
And what does all this mean that
have been saying? Just this, that in
the new life into which you are en-
tering this day, you are to be with
other men, No one is going to take |
care of you, no one is going to show
you step by step the way to solve the |
problem. no one is going to tell you |
what the answer is. You have got |
10 get into life and this world of ours |
And in this world there is a place
tor you, but into that place you have |
got to fit And if you are not fit to !
1T you will never fit And when you |
ind that you do not fit, wake up, |