The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-18
Ten Success lunches.
~ DR.. FRANK CRANE
(Copyrisht. 1916. by Frank Crape)

read your editorials daily" says the
writer, young man, land have been
especially interested in those that touch
upon ambition and opportunity.
Now | would like you TO answer me
just one question. What Is a young man
TO do when he reaches the age of twenty
one with no special training? He has
lots of ambition, besides ability to work,
but he finds that this talk about courage
and will-power Is nothing but rot. For
wherever he seeks an opportunity to
start from the bottom no one paws at
tention. The very men who preach op-
portunity and risirg to high position in
life by hard work refuse to make place
for him. They tell you about using your
brains, but at the same time they don't
give you chance to use them.
Can you explain how in the world
there is an opportunity in such case?"
Well, in the first place, living all those
years until twenty-one without training is
crime. But perhaps it was not your
fault. If you ever have children, how
ever, see that you do not wrong them as
your parents and the state, and possibly
yourself, wronged you.
Still, at twenty-one you have the world
before you. Perhaps these hints may
help you:
L. Don't be impatient. It's life Job
you're tackling. Set your jaw. Plan for
years, not for tomorrow only. Attack
success with the same terrific determine
ton the Germans used at Verdun.
2. Remember that your real success
takes place inside of your mind. It's
not facts, nor others acts, nor events,
that matter. Nothing matters in the
long run but the temper of your spirit.
Keep thinking success and the more you
are rebuffed the harder you must think it.
3. You seem sorry for yourself That
looks bad. Flee thoughts Of self-pity as
you would the devil. Are you alive and
kicking, and have you a clear head and
two good hands, and are you out of jail?
If SO, you're in luck
4. Study. I'll venture to say YOU
waste enough spare time in four years to
make a Doctors degree. Find out what
you want 70 do. Say it's engineering.
Take up a course of study in that direc-
ton. There are good correspondence
school courses. Or go talk to the principal
of your high school, or some professor in
college, and get advice as to how to
read.
5. Do well what you can find to do.
Do it with all your skill and enthusiasm.
Do it better than any one else can do it.
Do it-and keep your eye open for some
thing better. Be efficient Every fac
tory, store, and farm in the world 10
hungry for the man who can do the bust
ness and not make excuses.
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For which they get the wage"
6. Don't fret. Don't worry. Have
faith. Believe in yourself Believe In
the world. Believe in the Eternal Jus
tice. If you do, the stars will fight for
you. And If you don't believe, If you
complain and get it into your head that
this world is down on you, why, it will
come down on you and smash you, and
you'll get what you believed in. Every
body does.
7. Be persistent. Fortunes a tickle
jade. If she does not say yes the first
five times you ask her, ask her twenty
five times. After while she will favor
you, for she loves importantly.
8. Get the luck idea out of your mind.
There is such thing as luck. But that
is not what you are looking for. What
you want is success. And there's no luck
about that. It's just as certain as the
corn crop to those who know how to
raise it.
9. Don't expect anything Of anybody
but yourself
10. And keep cheerful. It's all in a
lifetime. Meanwhile there are dough-.
nuts and coffee. And the pleasant sun
is shining. I suspect you are missing a
lot of happiness as you go along because
you don't know it when you see it.
Do you remember what Lincoln saidf
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