The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-25
A Young Mans Program.
~ On. FRANk cEANH
Copyright. ISIS. b. Frank Crane,

hereby set down these things that nave
resolved:
will profit by the experience of 9TH
ers and not wait to learn sense by my
own experience.
will study the older men meet and
find out from them what is profitable and
what is bad. will not insist on the ex-
pensive and often fatal method of trying
out everything on myself.
will be teachable. From every hui
man being encounter will learn some
thing.
Twill avoid egotism, boasting, speaking
of myself and all other forms of vanity,
as disgusting to my friends and weaken
ing to my own personality.
will decide by my intellect what my
tastes ought to be and make myself like
the right things. will put away the
weakling's argument that IL can't help
my likes and dislikes."
will find out what kind of food is
good for my health and learn to like
that.
will put no stimulant of any kind
into my body: no alcohol, tobacco, tea,
coffee, or drugs.
will keep clean, in body and in mind.
|. will investigate the sex question:,
find out the facts and laws of it. and then
settle it by my intelligence once for all,
so that will not be led into folly by an
unreasoning desire, but shall keep that
desire under my will, strong and help
full. to minister to my welfare and to the
well-being of those that love me.
will not accept as satisfactory
standard for myself what the majority
of people are and do; but will decide for
myself what is right and normal, and
stick to that.
l will allow no person nor institution
to coerce my opinion; my Judgment shall
remain unterrified, unbribed, unseduced.
In this will not be truculent and offen-
siye. but modest and open to conviction.
Twill not declare my belief in anything
religious. social or scientific that | do
not clearly understand.
| I will learn to do some one kind oil
work expertly and make my living by
that
will accept no inheritance, gift, loan.
bride, graft, or other unearned money or
goods. | will take from the world only
the FAIR EQUIVALENT OF WHAT |
GIVE IT.
I will never take revenge, will harbor
no grudges and utterly eliminate any
spirit of retaliation Life is too short for
destruction: all my effort shall be con-
structive.
| will not engage in any business or
sport that implies fraud, cruelty, or IN
Justice to any living thing. | will hurt
no child, punish no man, wrong no
woman.
In everything do shall strive to add
little to the sum of happiness and sub
tract little from the sum of misery OF
all living creatures.
I will constantly try to make myself
agreeable to all persons with whom |
come in contact.
I will never indulge in self-pity, nor
will speak disparagingly of myself.
will talk of myself as little as possible.
| / will regulate myself strictly, but will
never undertake to regulate anybody else.
I will mind my own business.
will cooperate with others in organi-
cations for service, but will belong to no
Organization that involves uniformity of
opinion.
I know death is as natural rs birth,
that am to die, and that no man knows
his hour. ] will not fret at this. nor
dodge 1t, but so live that am ready to
60 each day.
will believe that honesty is better
than crookedness. kindness is better than
cruelty, truth is better than lies, clesnli-
ness is better than dirt, loyalty is better
than treachery, and love is better than
hate or GOODNESS; and ] will trust my
life and my career to an unfailing reli-
ance lIpon this creed