The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-05-26

dCulIy anu oIuuelto VI OHdlh Duo-
mess College,
want to talk to you this afternoon
for a few minutes on the subject Of
service. Before | came down to
Pennington to be here this year, /
had the pleasure of attending the
University of Missouri. One of the
first fellows met when / entered that
great institution Of learning was
young man, rather large, raw bone,
tall and fairly good looking. | re-
member the occasion on which | met
this young gentleman. ] was work
ing out on the track, and | remember
the young mans coming around ev-
ening after evening saying, 81 be-
lieve you could improve your broad
Jump if you would do this"
This young fellow was working his
way through school. When four
o'clock came you could see him as
regularly as the clock work practic-
ing every good day during the year.
Perhaps he had not told the faculty of
his record.
The next year / saw that young
man tie the worlds record in high
hurdles, and win the hundred-yard
dash in meet. / asked myself what
made it possible for this young man
to do this feat? The thing that made
possible Simpsons achievement was
consistent training. never knew
him to "eut" training, and when
training on the athletic field was done,
he was in his room working, and ]
want to say back Of the athlete abil-
ity is the man--not thing in the
man but what is on the square.
Now in order to be able to achieve
these things, in order to accomplish
anything, we have to go through, in
whatever field we have chosen, per-
iod Of training and to pay the price.
For instance, some of you start out
to be professional or business men,
and you find great number of peo-
pie who say | wanted to do these
things when | was young; yet, in
most cases you find that the person
was not willing to pay the price Of
hard labor. Work is the keynote;
work is the secret that opens the
treasury of knowledge and opens up
to us the door of success. Don's you
believe for one moment the man who
says success can be achieved without
hard work. Ability is simply another
name for hard work. We, in this day
and time, do not believe in geniuses.
We may have the inclination along a
particular line, but the thing is to go
through the probation period of hard
work.
When Lincoln was elected President
some people said he was not qualified
for the place. We remember the long
years Of hard and arduous labor
through which he went, and know he
was qualified as perhaps no other to
lead the people at that time. And
when he was called to that responsible
position he was in place where he
could serve the people.
Out in the middle of Africa there
is great stone erected to the men,
ory Of Robert Livingston. Over here
in your graveyard there is another
grave without tombstone, and no
body but friends know the person ev-
err lived. This one lived by himself
the other one left behind him friends
and followed the call, and so there is
a stone erected today to Robert Liv-
ingston in the heart of Africa. If you
are willing to pay the price, if you
are willing to go through the proba-
| ton of training, accept sacrifices that
are sure to be called for, if you are
/ willing to press on toward that goal
no matter what comes, there is going
10 come a reward. The reward is tbs