El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-26
By BEATRICE FAIRFAx.

TO you remember the old song,
Il Don't Know Where I'm Co
ing, But I'm on the Way" To
anyone who has adopted that for his
motto I want to shout a warning:
you won't get there"
No one lands anywhere at all IN
the whole wide world (except on the
ash heap unless he definitely decides
en- goal and starts out to reach 1t.
Let US put ourselves now through
the third degree. Ask each Of him
self: What do 7 want Of life? Is
there a word that sums up my SUI
preme ambition? Do I long for one
thing above all others? And am 1
making any effort to attain my
hearts desire2"
About once in every two OF three
months I find myself writing a little
article on a topic and under a cap
ton both Of which are great favor
ties OF mine-"You Get What You
Want" sums it up. Firmly I believe
that II you lind out what you want in
life and set about attaining 1t you can
succeed But you have 10 be sincere
with yourself
Recently a young girl wrote me a
rather desperate letter. in which she
stated that her one ambition in life
was ~ NC a AlAu1AEAdAAH anu uEE
parents were insisting that they could
not afford to let her study longer but
must put her at once TO work. She
claimed her life was Wrecked-that
giving up her career and going to
work in an office was going to kill
all her happiness and ambition
Going to work in an office hadn't
anything to DO with killing her ca
reeri our great musicians are not
recruited from the aristocracy Of the
wealthy and the well TO do. Poor bar
bers, penniless peasants. uneducated
maid servants-from the ranks of the
impoverished and lowly come our
great musical successes.
They come inevitably because no
sacrifice is too great for them to
nake-no price is too high for them
to pay-no payment too bitter for
them TO endure If at the end Of all
their sufferings, their goal may be
reached
Must Make Sacrifices.
II the little girl who signs herself
i'BrOkenhearted" has within her the
one supreme desire to be a great mu-
scian. she will walk TO work. go with
out her lunch, wear shabby clothes,
do extra work at home in the evening.
fill her Sundays and holidays with
tOil-and all that she may save to-
ward a little fund which will let her
return to the study Of her beloved mu-
SIC some O1y-
The people who fail either mistake
what they really want in life or. hav-
ing found what II is they desire. re-
fuse to pay the price Of achievement
Success is the one thing which
never meets anyone halfway. After
you have gone 100 percent Of the
distance that originally lay between
you and your desire (if il be a desire
for great achievement you will sud-
denly find that II has receded-that
it lies infinitely further in the dis
tance than you had supposed II you
have the grit and courage to keep on
going-to follow the little beacon that
wrinkles afar, eventually you must
Must Have Ability.
None but myself shall 1 meet on
the highway Of fate" wrote Maeter-
linck. That is more true than most
Of US realize, or, ealizing-confess |
No one can help you much as you go
life. Some one can give you a
hearing, chance to prove yourself. |
a start. But, given this. if you have
reither the ability nor the energy to
go on, the chance you had to prove
yourself only proves you a failure.
IndeciSiOn, wagering between
choices, doubt of what really is to |
you essential in life. are the things |
which must inevitably defeat you.
If you are a bootblack or a fruit /
vender. and you have a desire to be /
the head Of a great shoe plant or the /