The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-10

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gypsy stroll to Romany land by plea
| SAINT streams and through fields of
flowers. 1t Is indeed strenuous test,
but there is inspiration and strength
| in every step of the march on the
road to Rome.
Upon the road to Romany
! It's stay. friend, stay;''
There's lots of love and lots of time
/ To linger on the way.
Poppies for the twilight and roses
| for the noon;
It's happy goes as lucky goes
| To Romany in June
But on the road to Rome, o,
It's march. man, march.
The dust is on the chariot wheel.
The sere is on the larch.
Helmets and iavelins
And brides flecked with foam;
THE mornings red, the worlds ahead,
Upon the road to Rome!'
Specialization and Competition.
But this is an age of specializa-
ton and competition, you say. 1t is
granted No one can be greatly sue
cessful today without a specially
|
| to every young man and woman It
does not come in any miraculous man
ner, as voice and vision in the
night. 1t comes through the con-
seriousness OF growing aptitudes. the
recognition of your special adapta-
lions, through dawning and increasing
interests. Don't be in too great haste
to interpret it. There are many de-
ceiving voices along the way. But
when you are sure of your summons,
then give heed to it with all your
might. You know that line of Rud.
yard Kipling-
"'When you ear the east a-calling,
| why, you can't ear nothing else,
On the road to Mandalay.'
Somewhere, early or late, you will
hear the call. Then, whatever be the
nature of your vocation, that Will
demand an energy and concentration
in accomplishment that must be I'M
RENTING. To do the thing to which
you have set your hand better than
your competitors means success, but
it costs effort. 1t is indeed grave
mistake to prepare In general fot
nothing in particular, but it is more
serious mistake to make the special
preparation without the broad, gen.
eral foundation. Don't try to grow
the tree before there is soil enough
to nourish the roots. Don't try to
center on one thing alone before you
have caught your balance in the so
cial order of things. 1t means an
impoverishm ent of life. 4 man who
is only a specialist is an intellectual
deformity, and in so far, failure. IT
is James Whitcomb Riley who sings
of that western frontier SO barren OF
POSSIBILITIES that
"It takes two pee-wees to sing one
song;
One says pee" and the other says
| "wee."
Training is Imperative.
| Don't be an intellectual pee-wee.
You know, and l know, in general
way, what the routine of our lives
will bring tomorrow, and the next
day, and the next; but life with all
| it's routine is largely made up of sur
prises and emergencies and unexpect'
ed demands. These are often critical
and against them neither our special
training nor impromptu preparation
will avail. instant and accurate &C
ton generally depends upon the men
tai rifle crease that has zen cut by
previous training. Probably the great
| est orator and constitutional lawyer
of this country was Daniel Webster.
The hours that he spent in funda-
mental training were long and severe.
His speech in reply to Hayne ranks
with the Hottest efforts in all the his
tory of oratory. Much of 1t seems to
be IN the nature Of immediate and
extemporaneous retort. But Webster
said that when the crisis came Ii
seemed to him as if the field of the
preparation of his whole lifetime
were spread out before him; that 1t
seemed to him that all he had to &"
was to reach out and Gull thunder
bolt. Success in the emergencies of
life, without general training, is rare
and accidental.
"As you watch the movements of 4
mighty engine when the steam is up,
in the midst of the turning shafts
and flying wheels and whirling bands,
all giving a constant, bewildering
sense of power, you note enc centra,
thing. the drive of the piston rod.
back and forth along the sure AMI
polished channels of steel SO as
YOU read the story of some great &C
ton, amidst the whirl and move
ments of events, you NAV catch tie
play of some central word. that like
the irresistible thrust and draw Of the
piston rod. gives all the NOM entIm
and the drive.
"In the most nervous and thrilling
battle that Julius Caesar recounis in
his campaigns, the battle with the
/ Nervii, where his own nervous haste
in the recollection and the telling car-
ries straight through whole page
with hardly pause, in the midst Of
the shoutings and chargings and
trumpet blasts and the hiss of jave-
| Inns, one single word catches and
! centers the attention as the source
of power. the Roman word exercitati.
trained"
The speaker here described wildly
how the Roman army, all in disorder
and unsuspecting, when surprised by
the rush of the massed Nervii and
Atrebates and Viromandui. because of
their long and steady training. with.
out waiting for a word of command,
were able of their own accord to form