Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-09
DIR. Marden's
Uplift Talks
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARpEN.
VIM IS THE POWDER OF SUCCESS

There is no other success quail
ity excepting honesty which is more
in demand today in ali lines of human
endeavor than vim. Everybody be-
Heves in it; everywhere we hear:
Give us a man who can do some
thing; a man who has push; man
with iron in his blood" Ability is
worthless without the power to put
1t into action. Resolutions. however
good, are useless without the energy
necessary to carry them out. Push
clears the track; people get out of the
way of an energetic man. Energy is
what wins. Many men fail to reach
the mark because the powder in them
is not proportioned to the bullet"
More men fail to attain success in life
from lack of energy-that force which
achieves, accomplisnes, pushes its
way through obstacles-than from al
most anything else
No matter how much ability a
young man may have, or how clever.
courteous or amiable he may be. if he
lacks energy, the powder of success,
he never accomplishes much. There is
no success in weakness, no victory in
the uncertain step, hesitating will, lag
ging hand, or languid brain of an ex-
hausted man. Even small ability with
great energy will accomplish more
than the greatest ability without en-
ergy. If fired from a gun with suffi-
cfent velocity a tallow candle can be
shot through an inch board.
He who is hampered by depleted vi
tality is constantly losing opportu-
mites, because he lacks strength to
grasp them, to hold on to them, and
| to use them. He is forced behind
and sees men who have not half his
mental capacity, but who have strong
| physiques and all their power intact
forge ahead of him and seize the
| prizes. The great problem, then
| which everyone has to face is how
to generate energy, how to conserve
it, and how to keep oneself always
at the top of his condition. When
| ever you are angry or feel like grum
bling or pouting you are
| gloomy, fretful or morose-you are
consuming your energy, wasting YOU
vitality, and opening the sluiceways
In your mental reservoir, instead o.
| sending the power over the vince
to drive the mental machinery. Every
thing which frets, chafes, rasps O.
brings inharmony into life is vi
| tality-waster. Whatever brings dis
cord into the nervous system destroy
| power. Friction is a deadly foe t,
happiness and success. It grind
away the delicate bearings of life
machinery without doing any good o
increasing any value. To free lif
from friction, to lubricate all the fac
ulties and to stop all the leaks of en-
ergy is the first duty to onesel
and to others
Millions of people have made mis-
cradle failures in life by letting thi
precious energy, which might hav
made them successful, slip away fror
them in foolish living and silly diss
patton. Much of the worst kind c
energy-dissipation is not what
commonly called immoral 1t is ofte
the result OF ignorance, carelessnesi
or neglect; but it is dissipation, a
the same.
If you would make your mark i
the world, and do your part in advan
ing civilization, you must cut o
everything which is an energy-waste
or success-killer. Do not do anythin
or touch anything which will lowe
your vitality. Always ask yoursel
What is there in this thing 1 am g
ing to do which will add to my If
work, which will increase my powe
keep me in a more superb conditio
; and make me more efficient in tt
: service of humanity?"