The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-21
HE MustBe In Want
A LECTURE TO HIS BOYS.
BY A. E. Ware.

by ~ WdTCs
Underlying every attainment, every
success, every movement, every pro-
gressive step, there is one essential
condition of want. Without this want
there is no real progress. Back of all
the struggles of every day life there
is want of some kind. We in our
daily pursuits are not trying to elimi-
nate our wants but to satisfy them.
Back Of every great effort, involving
great persistent want to be satisfied.
Without this feeling want, no achieve
ment is possible, no success is attain
able. Want was the first step toward
the satisfaction of the real needs of
the prodigal son, the first condition
!! of his return to his fathers house.
Back of eevry worthy effort toward
higher attainments in education and
culture, there must be a conscious
want. 1t a man is imbued with the
want of money, he will get it. He will
devote all his talents, all his physical
and mental energies to its attain
ments. He will sacrifice all his lux
uries, all his comforts and pleasures
to become rich. And as he accumu-
lates his desire for more wealth in
| creases and intensity of his want is
the measure of the extent of his pos
| sessions. If he aspires to political
distinction, his success in this partic-
ular depends upon the intensity of
his wan If he wants learning, the ex-
tent Of his attainments as a scholar
depends upon the intensity of his
wants.
The young man who would become
rich must know the conditions of
trade and the various methods of bus
mess. The young man who would be
scholar, who would be truly edu-
| Gated must know the conditions of
scholarship and willing to pay the
price. The heroes of history and the
worlds benefactors in all ages have
been men and women of great wants
| The boy who wants the least in school
gets the least. A great American ora
| tor has truly said that 1.-THE elect are
those who will; the non-elect are those
| who won't"
| Columbus followed the unconquer
| able desire for the discovery of new
lands, and the way was opened Edi
son is stimulated by an overwhelming
want to conquer the mysterious
realm of electrical science. So the
Wizard of Mimic Park" will make his
| name immortal among men Of
achievements in the worlds history.
The financier who wants merely
| money, the politician who seeks only
notoriety, is on low material plane;
hut he who aspires to intellectual,
moral and religious excellence stands
upon higher palms and has great
er view of life.
| Let every young man ask himself
! The question: what is my greatest
want, my dominant desire?" Do you
really and earnestly want to be edu-
Gated? Some of our young men attend
school without any definite purpose.
In q way, they would like to be ed
ucated, but there is no conscious
want, no especial desire to be edu-
Gated. They attend school and col
! Icge because it is change and pleas
| ant to return on special occasions and
| to be happily received on returning
| by home folks. Their strongest de-
isre may be to have a god time; all
else is secondary.
There are others whose strong,
steady work in all their studies is an
| indication of the want and the will
which require the sacrifice of ease,
pleasure and personal comforts. If
! the young mans want to master AL
zebra or Geometry is genuine and his
want becomes dominant the domain
and mastery Of mathematics becomes
his. Commonplace education is the
result of commonplace wants, and
commonplace efforts.
Too many of our young men in all
| our schools are living in "far coun-
try" wasting their time and their
opportunities in "riotous living" who
have not yet begun Ito be in want" of
Intellectual culture. The great law
of want is the essential condition of