The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-30

you throw your efforts and your mental attitude In NEU-
TRAL, you'd better call for the u%ndertaker.
Since YOU are all you have got, you have got to be salts
fled with YOURSELF~AND TAKE YOURSELF FOR BET
TER OR FOR WORSE; YOU'D BETTER PREPARE YOUR.
SELF PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY N MORALLY FOR
You can only do this by associating with people from
whom you can learn something-not with people you have to
tell things to. You've got to take care Of yourself, PLY
SICALLY, as well as MENTALITY; and you won't be PLY
SlCALIY FIT II you have hobnobbed with q lot Of going-to.
bes and paraded down Main Street oil evening In search Of
skirt. Then when you get out tho next morning, II you do get
out, you can't sxPeet + to S9n ,r q man who taxes s sHH.s OF
a Mor"s th "S' brIna " Sou down o. to their heir level. II YOU never
see them again. that will be soon enough
All these things came to me with q steellike thrust In my
brain. and cut deep into my heart but better still, ! seemed to
see and realize that they were also etched In the Granite OF
Time and lived In the common heart Of Things Worth While
rented nv soul to a better mana New Man-snd thanked
God that the new tenant had arrived.
had put myself in that positionIand i was up to me to
pay the price. The distance was Thirty Miles. l turned my
eyes to the East, the Rising Sun, and began the long and dusty
hfkeIbut in my soul was a new psaSe.l Wa RIGHT. and
CHANCE. And asl trod along through the long country road.
the hours our flew swiftly by, for I was going Onward: ....
HAVE ia a CENT = No CRED CREDIT ] Al ]; TH aSi HoTFGilMxN1 COULD
p2?, GO \ 5Q eh eFp 2p T2 go ! EYE syEE1 70 v W1RK; sz : a al /
HAD No %TR!EMDs 81 SIMPLY nI HAyE TO "M n
SELL s~oMEBoDY-AND COLLECT 4 CASH PAYMENT
can't tell you how l felt when the cold bitterness Of my
hltudlIOn came upon Hc ! COuIun cry, OteNSIoI y VI
lowed disaster. smiled sickly at my plight. felt the awful
suffering = man feels who can't cry. Tears burned my lids
like gravelg rits. l fought myself madly In and out Of bed
for two hours-I had to and | knew 1t. The Great Unknown
who molds our deStnes had placed a handicap-a great OBJ
stacle in my way-to test my mettle. Finally, did get out
and all day worked like . slave without rssult--untl four
o'clock In the afternoon, then ! sold FOUR ORDERS In rapid
succession-collecting FORTY DOLLARS In REAL MONEY!
True, ! fell from exhaustion as the last man signed his
order, and they carried me to a hospital; but | HAD LEARN
ED MY FIRST REAL LESSON IN SELF RELIANCE.
We are told that no personal narrative 10 complete until
n hripua tho Writerd down tO tho nreaont data A. n this I
have but to say that | had many more TESTS-and expect
many more-that | am merely Z Man In tho Making; and.
confessing my infancy, ! ask you TO remember: THAT OTHER
MEMS SUCCESSES PROVE THAT THINGS ARE MIGHTY
NEARLY RIGHT, AND THAT IF YOU ARE NOT MAKING
A SUCCESS-IT Is YOU THAT ARE WRONG. And this;
TO FIGHT THE BATTLE TO A FINISH. CONVINCE MEN.
MEET COMPETITION, CHANGE MINDS, OPEN POCKET.
BOOKS AND WlN-THE FIRST FIGHT TO WIN Is SELF
MASTERY; N THE REST WILL COME AS A MATTER
OF COURSE, 1T WILL COME