Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-18


 ,o,1d he good plan to take out ar Assurance policy against it, and lei lho l nremium be efforts to make our tnI nives p as perfect as possible. When se sso thinks of a person as being suc- oans1sful. on1 he thinks of him as being in csef .he front rank, at the very top, and .ho .ho+ ;s what success means. This is .,es' .ha dav of efficiency and the survival . e tho fittest. There is keener com- vt vota+;tion in the world today for this tps.aroost rank-success-than there !u luor has been. Therefore it is up to 's es' tho shapers of our own destiny, to ts.;,, uS, r ourselves and make ourselves fit tor tl, the great struggle that is being w,aqed ", even here in school-the great struggle for success. ' One way to be sure of success is to hove % an ambition. A bit of advice 4bot .1"' is quite often given is: "Hitch 'anr .asa wagon to- a star" In other :ysords yvad aim high. We should take for Mv. a"r coal something that is high, noble I oad within reason. If we have not at,a sha ambition to do great things, nat "ra,lv we can not do them,
 Another essential to success IS self nontrol. It is imperative that a man .rho wishes to get somewhere should ehstain from passionate anger; con- trof himself when temptations come; naver lose his presence of mind, and never do rash things on the spur of the moment.
 '' Accuracy is very important re- ouisite of success. Every kind of work needs accuracy, and is in fact of no va]ue without it. One can not be too tY accurate. Think of those big ste steel girders being used in the con- sstr,,ction of the new high school build ;no a across the street here. They fit @ oach other to the sixteenth of an inch. % In YOU think they would be of any value m if they were of the same weight and thickness. but were three inches % too short? I have heard it said of telepraphy that in sending and re- ceiying messages accuracy is not much good without speed, but speed without accuracy is no good at all. And this applies to other things be- sides telegraphy.
 Politeness is the greatest money making opportunity ever known, but the trouble is, it isn't known very widely. It is a case of all to gain and nothing to lose. It costs absolutely nothing to be polite; but Oh, the re- turns it brings! It will bring one many friends, the excellent opinion of strangers, and a worthwhile reputa- tion. all of which adds up to dollars l and cents.
 And cheerfulness! What that won't l do toward making you successful! It l is a quality worth cultivating. Cheer l fitness will make every mountain a . molehill. In other words, if you tack e A job cheerfully, it will not seem so
 much work, and consequently can be
 done much quicker and better.
 Consider the virtue of knowing your .6wn faults. When a person knows his
 own faults, he is able to correct them,
 and the fewer the faults person has,
 the better his chances at success,
 Look for the flaws in your makeup;
 try to see yourself as others see you.
 An Arabic saying states that four
 things never come back: the spoken
 word, the sped arrow, the neglected
 opportunity. and wasted time. There
 are but "A hours in the day, 365 days
 in the year, and the Bible says that
 only by extraordinary strength shall
 man live to four-score years. So
 you see that there isn't any time while
 we are here on earth to waste. The
 best way to save time is to have a well-ordered existence, a routine, in
 which there is time for everything, time for work, and time for play.
 No kind of work can be done instant
 aneously, so time is needed for the accomplishment of every kind of
 work. We have all heard at some time or other than Rome was not built
 in day, and this proves that time is one element that is necessary for all
 kinds of work. If time is of such im-
 portance, surely we ought not to
 waste it. And yet some people do.
 likeness is the greatest crime not
 punishable by law It is the same as
 murder, as every idler undermines his
 own morals, ideals and character, be-
 sides becoming parasite on society.
 Success won't come to you; you
 have got to go out and get it. And
 smoking a cigarette in a pool hall
 and wishing for somethign to turn up