The Alaska socialist., 1914-06-30
ADDRESS BY 6. W. PENNING-
 TON 10 GRADUATES
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ther than an irksome task.
 One of the most distinguished women in the world to-day is blind girl, Hell en Keller. Think of her wonderful tall ent, and remember that for all her rare ability, all her charming personality and brilliant depth of thought, she is in debted entirely to her cultivated and powerful memory.
 Memory may de 1ikened to an invis- ible photographer who needs only the light of reason to blazon wisdom upon the film of the human mind Good memory is not only indispensable to success in life, but it furnishes the keen est enjoyment we experience, and to cultivate the memory you must of necessity cultivate your power to will and to think.
 One of the very finest of mental ex- ercises is to write n large characters on a card, such words as ---Fortitude--- DilIigence----Opportunity----Earnestness Courtesy -Endurance---I Independence words that are fraught with deep mean i1lg---fasten this card upon the wall of your room. and each day when ever the opportunity is offered concentrate your mind on these words. By such training you almost imperceptably acquire rich vocabulary and the power of easy and forceful expression. Such teachers insist that we write our thoughts and write a great deal, ---you know we acquire the ability to write by writing, and mental exercise of such character of course means improvement along every line. But most pupils are rebellious and re- fuse to try to write anything original
  from any gifted pen, but I can't write beautiful things myself Now there you make false start that's negation, not afirmation---and i'll mind training or in any important lesson of life you must positively affirm things, you must have confidence in your power to achieve. When you stumble upon any beautiful thought in literature---any able and pro- found exposition, write it down in your own language and keep it for future ref erence.
 Now let us presume that you will fol- low this council and perform these sim pie duties for period of six months, and I'll predict the result
 At the expiration of that time, your mental caliber will be fne---Your phys ical health will be better---Your eyes will be brighter---Your cheeks will be fairer---Your head will be held more C. rect---Your step will be more buoyant, and you will have awakened in VOLT be- ing a power of which you did not even dream.
 You know that in all our great instit- utious of learning professors of Psych- ology teach us that we all possess a sub- conscious mind. Now it does not matter whether you understand the full mean ing of hat term or not, yon may rest satisfied of the fact that you do possess a subconscious mind, and if you do, can you not perceive how beautiful 1t would he to get acquainted with tito com. 1nand tito bring it into Play--to in sist that it shall subserye some useful purpose i'll your life.
 And you can do this, without shadow of doubt you can do it. One of the start. ling things you can accomplish, if you will follow the simple exercise have outlined here, for brief period you can take ten or even twenty pages of man uscript that yon have copied or written yourself, and just before you retire read then, n1,er and r,her, 1.n11 lie down sa1