The Washington herald., 1917-06-22
DR.. MARDERS UPLIFT TALKS
Cling to Your Ideal.
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.

Said Ruth Law on her return re-
Gently from the French front:
I want to drive one OF those big
biplanes that carry an extra man with
a machine gun and bombs. II we
have a congTess-woman why can't
We have a fighting aviator giTl?'
As long as America has such wOm-
en- as Ruth Law, women who have
the spirit to fight as well as to endure
We need have no fears as TO how they
will adult themselves in the war
ahead of us. American women Will
make an enviable record for them
selves, as they have done in every
phase of our history.
Ruth Law will he whatever she
wants to be. do whatever she wants
to do. She will be a lighting aviator
and drive a big biplane that will
carry an extra man with a machine
gun and bombs. If she want to. There
is no doubt of that. Why? Becau
she has the three qualities that insure
success in any undertaking that the
brain Of man can conceive. There are,
Courage, Sclf-COnfidcnCe, Perseyer-
anCc.
In her tri Imphaut fight from Chi
Cago TO New York. in which she
broke all records. Miss Law has
already shown US what she can do.
Although unable to secure an up-tO-
date machine like Victor Carlstom' :
-'N-la'l St lINtA tlI4dliNr On hCNDAlll VI
the great demand created by the war
for every available flying machine.
she declared that she would beaI
CarlStrOm.S record flight from Chica 80
to OiCan. y. Y. She started on her
trip, from Chicago. as everybody
knows. in an old OUt-of-datc machine,
and astonished the world by actually
doing what she said she would do. 1t
was an exploit that aStOUnded the
experts said the Providence Journal
'and would have been greeted as a
tremendous piece OF daring and d
done by man provided with the
best of equipment. Under the cir
cumstanCos. ii was acclaimed as
almost miTaCle"
From the FIRST this riucky little
woman avia' has kpI.t her mind on
her ideal 10 he. not a src-ud or third
class. a fairly good aviator. but 4
first, lass aviator. She had faith that
she could become the equal il not the
superior of any man flier. So far,
she has not only eQualed, but has eN-
celed most men fIerE. And that in
spite OF difficulties With which no
man has had TO contend
At the outset when she wanted 10
become a pupil in Orville Wright :
aviation school in DAYTON. Ohio, the
master inventor and f.iCr. not only
discouraged her, hut. .ridiCulCd the idea
of any woman bcCOfnin- a successful
aviator What" he exclaimed, when
she pronounced her purpose, you
want to become an Air woman. ponS
you want to be President of the United
States. too? Your chance for one
is just as good as for the other"
Flying Is no field for women, for they
are not mechanically inclined, and
without thorough knowledge of tn"
mechanism Of an airplane, an aviator
fliTts with DEATH
Was the young ld-hc-aviator
DISCOURAGED? This is what she said
of her interview with Mr.. Wright His
refusal was worth all my trip cost
me, for it led me to study both the
A,ienCe and the art of aviation in all
their mini test de ails.''
Lii. all the words achiCvCrs. dis
coura cement and obstacles only stiff
fened Miss Laws determination to
succeed in her chosen field. DiSap-
pointed. but not disheartcncd by Mr.
Wrights refusal to receive her as a
pupil. she sought instruction else
where. a -cr three months close
entered the Squatum Aviation School,
near Boston, where Lionel Beachey
taught her the art OF practical flight
The brilliant result of her studies al
the world knows.
1t has been said that no man is worth
more than a dollar and a half or two
dollars a day below his chin. The
mind is the great aChieveT. 1t must
always 20 in advance of the muscles
before we can accomplish very much.
Ruth Laws success is almost wholly
n matter of mind. of continually hold
ing her ideal; believing in her power
to attain it. preseYering. daring, en-
during everything for its attainment.
We cannot place too great empha-
sis on the importance of focusing
upon the ideal, of concentrating with
great Vigor and persistency upon the
thing we desire to accomplish. This
clinging to the ideal is
the secret of all achievement. No
great things are done without il.
Think Of the things you want"
The profoundest philosophy is locked
up in these few words. Think of
them clearly, steadfastly, persistent
ly, concentrating upon them with all
the force and might of your mind,
and struggle toward them with all
make yourself a magnet for the
things you want. But the moment
you begin to doubt, to worry. to fear
YOU demagnetize yourself, and the
things you desire flee from you. You
drive them away by your mental at
titude. They cannot come near to you
while you are deliberately separating
yourself from them. You are going
in one direction, and the things you
want are going in the opposite. di-
rection.
The result Of thought follows an
Inevitable law. Healthful thoughts
attract health. Disease thoughts at
tract disease. Success thoughts are
success producing. failure thoughts
tend to produce failure. We can get
in this world just about what. we
want, but we must hold the faith
which corresponds with our desire.
The strength Of our faith and the
quality and persistency of our Ell ort
will determine what we get
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