The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-28

YOU throw your efforts and your mental attitude In NEU-
TRIAL, you'd better call for the undertaken.
Since YOU are all you have got, you have got to be salts
fled with YOURsELF-AND TAXI YOURSELF FOR BET
TER OR FOR WORSE; YOU'D BETTER PREPARE YOUR.
SELF PHYSICALLY. MENTALLY AND MORALLY FOR
You can only do thif by s~ociatins with people from
whom you can learn something-not with people you have to
sICALLY, as we'll as MENTALLY; and you won't BE- ply
SlCALlY FIT II you have %hobnobbed with a lot OF going-to-
bes and paraded down Main Street all evening In search Of .
skirt. Then when you get out the next morning, II you do get
out, you cant expect to convince a man who takes care OF
himself that YOU ARE RIGHT! Better leave thoso fellows
alone; they'll bring YOU down to their 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. l seemed to
see and realize that they were also etched In the Granite Of
Time and lived In the common heart Of Thing. Worth While
to make mems lives better. l took them for what they we're
rented my soul to a better mana New Man-and thanked
God that the new tenant had arrived.
| had put myself in that positon-and II 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
hike-but in my soul was q new peace-l was RIGHT. and
something seemed to tell me that l WAS and that l had .
CHANCE. And as trod along through the long country road,
the hours flew swiftly by: for was going Onward:
my r Bout the he : END Wa o::,o nSt II, yss' mex, s, %syn rs:n FIAT 1@t'] ! p ID II
HAVE H cEST: So CREDIT II a The HofihL-xNp COUP
NOT GO TO BED, FOR | SURELY WOULD SLEEP ALL
R IA A ASP rs sEH Hf TOO s h1PE 72 AVE WHH * * sMSo "a !
For s I T. NIr TO AT r1 THAT N MY ONLY Y,! GHANGE
SELL SOMEBODY-AND COLLECT A CASH PAYMENT
can't tell you how felt when the cold bitterness Of my
situation came upon me. l couldn't cry. DISASTER mad FOL
lowed disaster. l smiled Nickly at my plight. felt the awful
suffering a man feels who can't cry. Tears burned my lids
like arayel.arit'; l fought myself m.dly In and out Of bed
for two hours| had to and | knew II. The Great Unknown
who molds our destines had placed a handicap-a great OBJ
'stacle In my way-to test my mettle. Finally, | did get out
and all day worked like a slave without result-until four
o'clock in the afternoon. then | sold FOUR ORDERS In rapid
succession-collecting FORTY DOLLARS in REAL MONEY!
True, l 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 Is complete until
1t brings the writer down to the present date. As to this, I
have but to say that l had many more TESTS-and expect
many more-that l am merely a Man in the Making; and.
c~onfessing my infancy, ! ask you to remember: THAT OTHER
MEMS SUCCESSES PROVE THAT THINGS ARE MIGHTY
NEARLY RIGHT, N THAT IF YOU ARE NOT MAKING
A SUCCESSLIT IS YOU THAT ARE WRONG. And this:
TO FIGHT THE BATTLE TO A FINISH, CONVINCE MEN,
MEET COMPETITION, CHANGE MINDS, OPEN POCKET
BOOKS AND WHITE FIRST FIGHT TO WIN IS SELF
MASTERY; AND THE REST WILL COME AS A MATTER
OF COURSE, 1T WILL GOMEZ