Arizona republican., 1915-09-27

! It ia fact that when you find so called genius, a man with splendid i talents. you usually find that he is too adVenturous-too volatile perhaps, and most always a person not to be relied upon Take your plodder fyou don't usually like them, they are uninterest- ] ing) the man who goes steadily ahead with the routing of business and on an even keel and you find that he acts with greater certainty-is more to be relied upon.
 The best intelects are most liable to start off on tangent to the circle and cannot be returned to their orbits by any attraction. The brilliant mind ex- cites wonder but often it misleads. Such minds have their uses however, and their up in the air ideas, may, by solid thinking fellows, be converted into useful purposes.
 l know men, whose ideas schemes if you like. are always good after they have been whittled down to working basis. The originator (if such a thing there may be) goes off on some other trail and the plodder gets the mazuma Cor the profiD that the brilliant mind has discarded. You hear it said of poets that they were born such-the same Of great generals, great lawyers great anybodys.
 Genius is STUDY Work of the hardest sort. Newton never wrote his Principia: nor Milton his Paradise Lost; nor Homer his Had without the very hardest kind of labor Do not think that it comes EASY. You of the high school and college-don't rely on your GIFT your TALENT or vour GENIUS. You havn't got those things It is case of settling down and working as you never worked before if YOU would be known as a genius or talented person.
 With REAL work should you become REAL genius vou can readily TRAIN yourself by MORE hard work and proper concentration to avoid going off on tangent. You will then have made yourself RELIABLE. Lack of stability lack of concentrating power is what r1akes Unreliable geniuses. He is but half genius who fsils-takes tangen- tial trips and permits others to profit by finishing the thing he starts
 At one time genius was thought to be supernatural. The possessor of genius was supposed to hold converse with superior beings. It was thought that the Genii themselves inspired them with powers that were supernatural Fitting is to be avoided and generally geniuses are filters.
 Paul. Borguese had fifteen different trades and plowed with all of them; Servin, one of the most learned and accumulated men of his age died drunk in a brothel: Edmond Allen. con temporary with Shakespeare died in his own almshouse; Corneille was poor to q proverb: Cervantes died a beggar; Goldsmith died owing ten thousand dollars more than he owned and Mrs Manly. authOress of the New Atlantes S'lbsisted on charity These are some Of the -eniuses who were out on a limb. up-in -the-air. unbalanced. half baked. tangential stars They had insufficient concentration.
 High school folks, just remember that in endeavoring to be geniuses it is not all WITHIN you. You must MAKE if oN WORKING for it You are not NATURAL genius-there is no such anImaL Natural geniases are merely freaks. You no doubt have few nuttv spots in your brain cranium. a lew shrunken cells and you must BAIL ANGIE Hard work is the medicine That is what makes geniuses who do not die of want
 Drape your ideas in a cloak of sense and stick in your orbit.
 WORK is the WORD for GENIUS.