The Springdale news., 1917-03-02
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From F. F. Reed

The following article Written bA Prof. k. R. Reed, now principal oi Browns Business College at Mus catine, Iowa, will be read with inter est by all correspondents, as wei as subscribers. Prof. Reed was former ly correspondent for this paper writing from Goad Springs, under the name of "Ory Dree." The article Is from a copy of "The Collegian," pub lished at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and is pub lished by the students of Oskaloosa College, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. The article follows:
 "A MAN OR i MOUSE"
 By Roy R. Reed, Ph. B., (Oskaloosa College, 1916), Museatine, Iowa.
 Genesis 3rd chapter and first part of the 18th verse reads; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"
 David Crockett says the plain Eng fish means Root hog or die.'
 We have come into this world with great possibilities before us. Where not by good fortune of birth nor by chance, but by the exercise of the det. ermined will, one may become a mar or mouse, an educated man or ar ignorant one It rest entirely with the individual
 Destiny is not carpenter but the material out of which structure is fashioned and built in accordance with the builders will.
 Will you be a man or a mouse The answer lies within you, not with out It is determined by certainly and not by chance No Democlean hail suspends the sword of fate above you for you hold your fate in your owr hand Your decree is absolute in al matters pertaining to your own mine and soul. You are master, pilot, com mander, manager, director, lord anG controller-that is, you can be if you will.
 Hands and feet are cheap, heads are pTlCeieSS edFHeTS.
 Crowded on the lower rungs of the ladder of success are the Won 1 dares" and don't cares,' who say the ladder of success is filled with splin. ters-yes, .'Tis true, but they pricl all the harder in sliding back down Better keep climbing.
 Existence continues to be a heart rending strife for multitudes, not be cause many fail, but because few evel attempt-there can be no falls without flights, or defeats without charges Excepting feeble minded and physical ly deformed. our environments restrie' only be personal consent.
 Jermey Taylor said: Bind together your spare moments into the cord o' some definite purpose and you know not what you may accomplish" OnlA a part of your day is engaged. The enjoyments and employments of youl character and intentions as we'll as the key to your future success in life.
 One hour spent each day in the study of any one subject will make you a master of it and if rightly used, vii make you noted for your knowledge of that subject anG-will open ur great opportunities to you.
 Edison truly said that nine-tenths of genius is hard work. We consider the achievements of Edison something most wonderful but when We realize that he has worked Is hours a day fol over 20 years which is equivalent tc over 40 years of the average perso ,'s work, it doesn't seem to wonderful.
 Sir William Hersehell became fam ous historian by using the midnieh' hours after the evenias's hard worL leading an orchestra. Horace Greedy wrote many of his greatest editorials while waiting for trains and slow peor1e, and many man hes secarec a E6era1 education aay by day wh.ls his wife was hooking up aer dres, anl putting on her hat.
 An hour a day for Zen years means liberal education and the dail! beauty sleep has claimed its thoas ands for the cause Of ignorance
 Make the acquaintance of the great est minds of the ages You can be in troduced to dozen of them every year by the printer and have a dail! visit with some one of them whom many men would have travelled thou sand miles to shake by the hand.
 You can learn something from ever, one eff these men in fifteen minute that he has taken lifetime in tn bitter school of experience to learn.
 There is just one helping hand, an' that is your own.
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