Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-06-04

worth doing at all is worth doing we'll,
so say practice thoroughness.
Intelligent Direction of Ones Efforts.
Second, / suggest efficiency, which
embodies thoroughness, but adds
thereto the elimination of waste. 1t
implies an intelligent direction of
ones efforts, so that every move will
count. Efficiency engineers in manu-
featuring plants study different ways
of doing things, in order to find out
how a task may be performed with
the least effort, and hence at the low
est cost. 1t is not the person who
works the hardest, but the one who
works the most intelligently that gets
the most done. Eliminate the lost
motion and make yourself efficient if
you expect to accomplish anything.
The Rolling Stone.
"Third, there is perseverance. Life
is full of mishaps and disappoint-
ments. He who is not dismayed by
them, but continues hopefully in his
course will succeed. Some farmers,
if they have crop failure, think the
locality is unfavorable and so they
move to another place. Probably
they will have the same experience
here. Before a farmer can really
make success of place he must oc-
cupy it several years, so as to get ac-
quainted with the climate, soil and
other conditions. This he can never
do if he keeps moving from place to
place. If you will exercise persever-
ance you can profit this year by the
mistakes of last year, and thereby
gradually acquire the knowledge nee
essary for success.
A fourth element is stability, which
is closely related to perseverance, and
| may illustrate it by continuing the
same example. The old saying is that
the rolling stone gathers no moss.
This is conspicuously true in farm
ing. The farmer who is always NOV
ing never gets ahead. Did you know
hat of the six million farmers in the
United States, 81 per cent have occu-
pied their farms for less than five
years? Needles to say, the farmers
who have the money are all in the
other az per cent. If a farmer is
tied to the soil, that is, if he owns his
place and stays with it, he takes an
interest in seeing that the roads and
bridges are kept up, that the farm
buildings are in good repair, and he
takes an interest in the schools, the
churches and general welfare of the
community. None of these things
have any interest for the "hy-by-
night" renter. Not having the sta
bility to settle down in one place and
stay there, he makes no money and
cts very little pleasure or satisfac-
lion out of life.
Set Yourself a Definite Task.
"A fifth essential to success is know
ng what you are about. Some people
just float aimlessly along, and, like
piece of driftwood at sea, they new
err get anywhere. Let me admonish
you in the strongest terms to set a
lefnite task for yourself, and then let
Ill your efforts be intelligently di-
rected toward the accomplishment of
that task No progress is ever made
ithout some definite program. The
lariner sets out for a certain port,
and he has no other aim except to
each that particular port. Similarly,
f you firmly make up your mind that
no matter what happens, you are 60
ing to have a certain number of ac-
res of land, improved and paid for,
you are sure to get it. Nothing can
stop you, because you have definite
purpose. But if you do not know
what you want, and just go aimlessly
along, waiting for something to turn
up, you will never get anything.
Success the Goal of Everybody.
81 have said that thoroughness, eff
ficiency, stability, perseverance and
definiteness Of purpose, are essentials
to success. / do not say that these
alone are sufficient, but they are a.
mong the essentials. They are quail
tiles that can be cultivated, and
therefore enjoin them upon you. Sue
cess is the goal of every person, but
what is success? 1t is as varied as
human interests, as different as hu'
man aspirations. Commonly we thinl
of it as the accumulation of wealth
but we find rich men trying to gel
satisfaction out of life by giving away
their money The man or woman wh'
is really successful, is the one tina
gets joy out Of life, and the creates
joy comes from creating something
The artist has his moments of great
est exultation, not when financial re
ward comes to him, but when h
paints a great picture; the engineer
not when he draws his biggest fee
but when he builds a great bridge o
a factory; the statesman, not whel
he lines his own purse, but when hi
mind conceives a plan that will bene