Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-17
Will Power is the Measure of the
Man and the Secret of All Success
Many Failed Of of Weak
ness Of wii-our Civilization Might Have Reached
More Than 1000 Years Ago If the Scientists o AZ,
exandria Had Possessed Persistent wills



thought to be p miracle. Archinedes
founded the science of hydrostatics,
worked out the idea Of specific gray
ity. invented the screw pump, the
endless screw, huge crane for lift
ing ships out OF the water and vari-
Gus hydraulic and compressed air
machines
Where the Difference Comes In.
Individual development as well as
world progress can be measured by
the volume of will-p0wer that IL ex-
erted. Take the first thousand men
YOU meet on the street and set them
In line. Study them. Apply any
and every test you know. What diff
ferentiates them from one another2
Some win your respect, some your
admiration, some your pity and some
your scorn and blame Some are sue
cessful. others are failures. A few
have grasped almost everything that
was within reach, many have missed
every advantage and have nothing TO
show but a record Of defeat and hui
initiation. What is the unmIstakable
feature that distinguishes them and
grades them? II is not physical
Some of those at the top are frail and
fragile creatures, who make a hearty
meal from cup of clear soup and the
wing of a chicken: some at the bot
tom work IN trenches all day long, are
perfect giants and have never known
an ailment in their lives
Neither is mental equipment the
chief mark. There are men, branded
Enthusiastically as failures, and yet they
have not forgotten the mathematics,
the Latin and Greek, the history and
economies they learned in college.
Living side by side with them and
towering high above them in effect
iveness and value to the world are
men who have scarcely read serious
book, who could hardly pass a sixth
grade examination and yet they are
prominent in business in society and
In civic leadership, And. strange as it
may seem. il is not goodness that
makes the distinction-not conven-
tional goodness at any rate. There
are men of undoubted piety, immacu-
late In their private lives and gener-
Gus in their sympathies who are ut
terly inconspieuous because forceless.
Even their indubitable personal good
ness fails to add anything to the COM
mon stock of human virtues. Others
with no pretensions to saintliness. but
with a certain amount of rough-and-
ready current honesty, are neverthe-
less doing things that make the world
a more livable place and are putting
tens or hundreds Of thousands under
obligation TO them.
That which makes the final classi-
fication in this world is the amount
of will power that is developed and
utilized. The Will is the one decisive,
effective and executive element in hui
man character. The measure Of the
will is the extent Of personality.
Whether for good or III, for building
up or tearing down. for day or for
century in a back yard or over a
continent. ii is the strength Of the
will that counts In the last analysis
it Is the will that decides whether a
man born on farm shall be farmer
or finaneier; whether q child born
in q city slum shall be a tramp or
captain of industry: whether a life
that began in disability or in afflu-
ence shall end in Il palace or poor.
house.