Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-02
The Star that
Will Not Fail
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

Friends may fail you. love prove untrue
and those united to you by ties of blood
may grievously disappoint. But none OF
this makes life a thing of desolation that
is not worth the living. When you fail
your own ideal Of yourself-then only
have you been hurt But then you can
start over and readjust yourself and try
again.
The ideal that will not fail you is the
ideal OF growth. The goal from which
no one can turn you is the goal of
achievement-the mark you set yourself.
Help from others will never really avail
you unless to 1t you add your own efforts
10 make it count. Others may set you
on your feet-but you must walk.
Suppose you have come to the city
counting on a friend from home who has
preceded you by five years and is firmly
established in high places. John once told
you that IL you ever needed help he would
give II to you. You come to town. For a
whole morning you cool your heels in the
outer offices that guard Johns sanctum
from the rabble. AT last you are adj
mitted TO his presence, and the august
and insincere being a little success has
made of John tells you sadly that times
are hard and that there isn't a thing in
his office, but that he'll give you a letter
TO Jones, and Jones to Brown, and at
last some one sends you back TO John,
whence you started, and in a sudden ac-
cess of fury. you tear that letter up.
And in that moment you are started on
the highroad to success. In that moment
you get an ideal of yourself as being
capable OF doing a few things for him
self instead of trotting around carrying
letters from one magnate to another like
an localized beggar.
Now you set ont on your own merits.
You are conscious of things you can do.
things you want to do. of a goal OF
achievement you want to reach on your
own efforts. And when you become con-
scious of lt-when you get that ideal Of
success-you are as surely started for It
as II one of those magnates had given
you a position. which you might have
failed to I'll we'll
No sinecure Is a real job. A real Job
is the thing you can do and want to do.
To get to the position of editor of a
magazine. a college man I knew once
was a waiter in the cheapest OF restau-
rants. But when he was serving ham and
eggs he was on his way to success. He
didn't despise his work. He regarded It
as a stepping stone, and stepped firmly
so he might leap TO the next and bigger
boulder that should carry him across the
stream of encouragement.
He did his mental job we'll. and saved
bit of money from the "demeanng
tips he had TO tAke-and could take
fairly cheerfully because he was serving
well enough to merit them. Then he
wrote his story. and wrote II we'll. II
was impressive enough to shove it's way
into the seventh paper he tried to sell IL
to-and then our hero was a reporter.
And from the position OF reporter to edi-
tor took him ten years of hard workout
Of work with a goal in view.
No friends had helped this man He
had an ideal OF himself as a being capa-
BILE OF work and Of success. He had an
ideal OF the goal for successful achieve
ment He reached It. No disappoint-
ments counted-nOne could count TO his
dRuntless soul
And a dauntless soul is about the best
gift Of the fairies. II you are unafrald
OF work-unafraid OF failure-unafraid Of
unkindness and afraid only OF failing
yourself, that fear will never be realized.