Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-26

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This picture and the editorial arc
chiefly for the young men and women.
The old. getting down toward the end
of their little string OF life beads, are
serious enough nj a new years be-
Ginhins--it is not necessary to tell
them that they ought to think
year passes like a night The av-
erase man has a vague impression Of
events rather colorlcss and knows thar
the year is gone.
The split milk" is thoroughly spilled
the beads oh Father Times string viii
stay there No going back, no use In
regrets or rcmorse--unlcss in them we
md inspiration for better living
Here is a new year starting. What
about that bead Of time. labelled 1916
IN our era. with its 800 days and 36,
nights?
Eight thousand seven hundred and
cighty-four hours stretch out ahead OF
you.
You must take on, one-th!rd for
sleep. and at least 500 more hours for
exercise, bathing, going to ana from
work.
And take AT least 700 or 500 hours
Tor eating and dressing \, best. We
lost time enough
Ded"c'ing the time OF nonproduction.
yon have about $500 working hours
ahead OF you this year.
y great deal can be done in ono hour.
Multiply "a great deal" by $500 ana
the end OF year ought to see you
ahead.
VIII II?
Are YOU going TO concentrate daring
this year on your problem or ON tho
baseball problem. or the dress prob
lem, or the problem OF pleasure and
idlcucsS?
To say that in one year a career
can be made, failure changed to sue
cess and nonentity changed TO some
thing. is TO state fact. For every wear
IL is proved
At the end of this year the millions
who Will be 'rudging along a little
nearer 10 the gravc-uo other vron,
difference observable in them-will be
talking about this man. that mar, ana
that woman suddenly come into fame.
success fortune.
Every year has its limited crop of
successes and it's huge crop of failures
rms is the minute to stop--no matter
how often you have been discouraged
no matter how often you may have
faned--and make up your mind to
prove that this is the right year at
last.
What is needed is the spark, the en-
thusiasm, the determination, the will
power born in the brain-the power
the changes dull monotony and routine
failure into steady. upward movement
and final achievement
\ vast majority OF us can truly say:
The man who is 10 pass me by is at
my elbow. The man whose coattails
/ shall see vanishing into the distance
on the high road OF success a year
L. except that he means to succeed
For each one Of us Old Time strings
just SO many hcads--and that ls our
string. Twenty, fifty. seventy, perhaps
hundred beads on the string of time
and then no more.
Whatever YOU may do Old Time will
keep on stringng the beads for you.
He will finish your string with abso-
Lutte. rcmorselcss punctuality.
He doesn't know you, but you ought
10 know him. You ought to look at
his hands and count backward the
Number OF beads that you have lived
and lost.
You ought to look with intense in
tercst at the 1916 bead now going on
the string and with determination.
ambition and hope look forward to the
days of opportunity in that year and
in the other years.
You need not be discouraged by COM
petition, for ii is not very great. Look
at the young men about you. How
many of them are really working with
carncstncss and intensity?
How many of them ever discuss their
ambitions, their plans for success, rs
compared with the number that discuss
the baseball games or the fashions?
Success is not difficult, 1t is pitifully
easy.
The race in life is not necessarily to
tie swift. for n good prize and sur
icient one is always won by the man
who keeps going.
You need not be n genius or n super
man to make your life a success and
to make OF this year the foundation
stone OF that success.
What q man must have is will power.
And you get that. and the final result.
az: the florist gets the big rose on top
of the stcm--by cutting off the super
nuous and unnecessary things.
a florist trims his rose bush ruth
lessly. pruning buds and branches, and
he gets the big blossom.
Your life is tree Of the same kind.
What you have got to cut off Is the
nonsense. the wasted hours, the fool
ish talk. the aimlcss wandering of the
mind.
Make up your mind to decide what
you want and then go after it.
The first thing is to realize that you