Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-08
Copyright 1915, by the Mcclure NeWspa'
per Syndicate.)
:. C0MPANlONSHlP.

Place the most literally educated
president of the highest institution OF
learning alone on a desert island, and.
if he lives, he will soon become more
animal than nan, perhaps crawling
on all fours, forgetting his native
tongue, and secoming Intellectually
below the domestic dog in intelli-
gence. He will even forget how to
talk to himself.
By ourselves we amount to prac-
tically nothing.
Although the human brain does not
lack individuality, it is pre-eminently
receptacle for the storage of what
comes to it from the outside. Not
what we possess, but what we obtain
from others, CT, to put it differently,
what we collectively receive by ex-
changing experiences with others,
rounds out a man and lifts him be-
yond the animal.
Man, collectively, is almost all-pow-
erful; to him impossibility does not
seem to exist. Individually, he is, or
would be, worthless product.
One of the principal causes of fail
ure is the tendency to live too much
within ourselves, to depend upon our
selves, to judge for ourselves.
am not asking anyone to give up
his individuality or to allow others to
dictate his every action, but | am
saying to you, young man, and to you,
young woman, that, if you would
round yourself out in usefulness, and
obtain a character and reputation,
you must depend upon others, ex-
changing your ideas for those Of 9th
ers, giving and taking, drawing from
the great world at large all that it
can give you, or, rather, all that you
can take Of it.
There is no other way.
The more friends you have, the
more you mix intelligently with others,
the more you get together, the more
you will amount to. You will not for
felt your individuality, but, rather,
you will combine it with that of 9TH
ers, making exchanges, swapping ex
periences.
go Depending upon yourself is laudable
and to be encouraged, but when you
carry that self-dependence to the ex-
IRENE, you will find that you have
nothing back of you which will sus-
tain you, even in small emergencies.
You need companions, companions
of your own kind-you cannot have
any other kind.
To be all acceptable and useful citi-
zen and to succeed in business, con-
tact with your fellows is absolutely
essential. Progressive business raen
are members of boards Of trade and
chambers of commerce. They keep III
touch with financial movements and
are never ignorant of these current
events which have a bearing upon
their vocaticns. Even competitors
lunch together and exchange expert
erces, realizing that only in this Way
can they keep abreast Of the times.
This intermingling is as necessary
in social life as it is in business. I'm
less you are constantly in touch with
your fellows, you will become toe
rusty to be considered of any conse'
querce III any community.
The more you fraternize with in.
telligent and honest others, the more
intelligent and the more honest you
will be. You cannot escape your fel
lows, unless you shut yourself away
from them; and, if you do, you might
as we'll jump overheard and stay
there, for the world does not want
you and there is no reason why ii
should.