The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-17
BOYS, GIRLS, STEP UP.

Now the country schools are going
to work for new year and all the
boys and girls of the county have
an opportunity to get back into
harness. We must forget the fact that
the very short terms are not sufficient
to give our boys and girls in the coun-
| try what they should have and work
all the harder during the period allot-
ted in order to even up for the time
that is not given. The schools are
opening and no matter how small or
uninviting the start, it is time to work
and work hard. This is the golden op-
portunity for the boy and the girl
1t passes now and when we lose it,
this season for equipping never comes
again.
Girls, you ought to be in school
learning Of the opportunities that are
yours in life You ought to know that
to pass on with but smatterng bit
of reading, writing and 'rithmetic
means that you cannot even know
what you are capable of doing in the
world You will need more education
than it takes to look pretty. You
cannot quit with the candies and
smiles of younger days. There will
be time when the great problems
of life will confront you squarely.
You cannot pass them lightly. You
want to have part in the influence of
womanly womanhood on our advanc-
ing civilization. 1t makes no differ
ence about your being a country girl.
You are just as capable of moving the
world as those who are at it. You
only want to find yourself-develop
Gods gifts and then move on up high
err Don't stop and look for q coy
nook somewhere in the hazy future
where your dainty hands will be able
to fold themselves in infinite rest.
You were born in the world to hard
duty. You came here for mission
Are you going to make life mean
something?
Boys, it's your time to step up high
err Within decade the possibilities
of business will be upon your shout
ders. You want to be more than a
soda clerk-for that's only boy job.
Great affairs that affect commerce, re-
ligion, discovery, invention--all of adj
vancing civilization are touched and
colored by men who go up higher to
work in the greater places of power
and influence. You cannot even start
without knowing what you can do.
You must find that in school. EIe-
mentary training is the most impor-
tant training in all your life. In the
days when you are trying to stand at
the head of your spelling class you
are making your own possibilities
Whoever tolls late and goes to the
front by eternal effort will be train
ing for life's battles He will win i'll
spite Of all obstacles in later years
when he faces greater problems.
No great genius ever came to the
world by accident. Genius is work
1t comes by no other route. You may
be a man of tremendous undeveloped
power. But you will never make your
fellowman believe you are anything
more than just plain human being,
unless you do so by effort. Now is
the time. You cannot pass this way
again, If you can reach one of these
country schools, go and do your best.
1t is but eQuipping for the years to
come.
The greatest of all crimes is to pass
on down the years in ignorance and
narrowed life because you have not
even taken your elementary training
Pity the men who today cannot even
write their names! Hear some OF
them tell you they have made a sue
cess in life because they have accumu
lated property. How far they are from
what they should have been! How
far they are from what you must be
1t is not decreed that you shall pillow
and dig all NOur Efe-and DlOWing