The Clio messenger., 1916-09-15
Message for Young People

The following, clipped from a recent
issue of The Detroit Free Press is
worthy the careful perusal of every boy
and girl who aspires to do something in
life; to be factor in the great world
wherein intellect is, as it always has
been, the compelling force. And then,
after reading the article, the young
man or young woman will need to go
about doing the things that are required
to be done. 1t will take labor. 1t will
mean the foregoing of many pleasures
of transitory nature, but it will also
mean the garnering of riches of knowl-
edge and character that will open a
storehouse of refined and exquisite
pleasures in future days, pleasures that
the ignorant know nothing of and that
will richly repay any self denial of the
present:
"Isn't it time you stopped kidding
yourself and began to do some "honest-
to-truly" thinking? Some day you're
going to realize that life is a serious
business. BY forcing yourself to re-
alize it now, you will head off lot of
misgivings and regrets.
"You don't need to be told that you
can't drift along indefinitely without
landing on the rocks. You have OBJ
served too many cases of failure at so
to have any illusions about the danger
of dallying too long.
"Still you daily. Still you postpone
until some time in the haZy hereafter
the beginning you mean to make. Still
you speculate vaguely upon what it is
you're going to do
LAS matter of fact, your problem
isn't complicated. You want to be sure
of steady employment at respectable
pay. You don't want to face the pros
pect of separation from the payroll
just at the time of life when the con-
sequences will be deadly, You want
feeling of security based upon some
thing more substantial than luck.
Employment is matter of barter
and sale. Employers need service and
are usually willing to pay fair price
for it. Quality service always has been
and always will be at premium.
There is no age limit for the man who
can do what the crowd cannot. Capa-
BILE foremen, superintendent and en-
gineers are not dropped when silver
hairs begin to show. Architects and
advertising managers can look into the
future without seeing specters.
The worker with no service to sell
save that represented in the strength
and elasticity of his muscles-for him
there is menace in every birthday
after 40. The trained mind can range
without msgiving to 20.
where are you now? Somewhere
between Is and 80, perhaps. What is
your outlook-what your guarantees
for the years to come?
Benjamin Franklin is recognized as
one of Americas soundest philosophers.
His boyhood and early manhood were
an unrel!eved struggle against advers-
ity. He had poverty to contend with,
and narrow-mindedness in those who
might have helped him.
"While still boy he made up his
mind to get an education outside the
schools, since he hadn't the means to
get it inside them.
He wasn't kidding himself when he
made that resolution. He didn't put it
into cold storage, to be taken ont and
used next month or next year.
Later, when the name of Benjamin
Franklin was better known than that of
any other American, when the achieve
ments of Benjamin Franklin had given
him the right to offer advice, he offered
this:
Empty thy purse into thy head and
thou shalt never lose thy treasure.
''Some day you're going to realize
that life is serious business. Some
day-with good deal of life still be-
fore you-you're going to reach place
where only the treasure in your head
will stand between you and humiliation.
There is still ample time for you to
acquire the treasure of technical
training. But once the ''put-it-off
habit has fastened itself upon you, you
will have passed into the shadow of too
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