The Washington herald., 1918-01-12
1nce Pertnacy and Push Bring Big Rewards in Game of Life


friends, and goes West. He is tired
OF being q molehiil here: he wants 70
be a mountain out yonder. That's why
the emigrant leaves the Fatheriand.
crosses 5000 miles OF sea; he u tired
OF being a nonentity; he wants TO be
factor In the world, and that's why,
my friends 50 many Of your fathers
and grandfathers there away across
the sea came TO America; that's why
you stand when we sing MY Country
| 'Tis OF Thee!" and cheer. This Is
your land: this Is your home now
This Is what makes the difference be-
tween an acorn and stone, between
a man and a monkey; Il Is the quality
in you that will develop and grow.
Not TO grow means to bring your
self under Just contempt and scorn
of those who do grow. A midget in
body can be turned into a financial
account IN dime museum, but mid
get in morals is a carbuncle on the
neck Of the body polite. There are
SO many Of them today, OF so little
use!
Value OF Husbands.
Like q woman came down to break
fast one morning and she said to her
husband. IT had a dream last night.
] dreamed attended an auction where
they were selling husbands. One man
brought 500 and another man brought
$1,000.
why" he said. ''the man that
brought $4,000 was like me. wasn't
he?"
She said. men IKE you sold three
punches for nickle."'
You can't look up to a runted mind
4 and runted morals unless you are
married to the runt and then every
time you do II under protest. The only
man that God ever condemned was
the fellow who hid his talent in a
napkin and wouldn't give 1t chance
TO grow. He said TO Gideon. Go up.
thou mighty man OF valor," and when
David threw the shepherds crook
down In the pasture and picked up
the crown that had fallen from the
head of King Saul and put It on his
bean and climbed up on the throne and
sat down. God said to aim. Dave,
you're q man after my own heart"
God likes to see a man leave the
misty valley, climb the sunllt hills:
leave the subways of life and 90 up
7 on the roof garden.
little, simply because it's easier to
loaf under the shade, suck lemonade
through a straw. fan yourself and say,
''Oh. amt 1t hot?'' is something vast
ly different, young people, from that
magnificent manhood who will pull on
his coat, sell Il, and. and with the
money buy a sword and then leap out
into the arena OF the worlds conflicts
and drive that sword to the very hilt
in the putrefying absecces that bore
their way toward our spiritual and
moral vitals to leave your young men
and young women pieces of human
driftwood out upon the high seas of
lust and passion and OF wreckage.
So he's dead, is he? What COM
plant? No complaint.
Now, you've got to have a desire to
grow. You must feel your need like
miser wants money. like hog wants
slop. and like a politician wants offiee
Feel your need OF it, It's a good deal
like watering a horse. A bow-legged,
pigeon-toed. cross-eyed, freckled-faced,
red-headed kid with a stone bruise on
each heel can ride Kentucky
thoroughbred to water. but a college
professor with mutton-chop whiskers
and forty-nine diplomas can't make
the horse drink IL he doesn't want to
drink.
So we can build colleges and schools
and universities. tax the people. spend
, billions of dollars, put an education
within your reach. put churches on the
street corners, IL you have no ambi-
ton to be decent. then that isn't any
& body's fault but your own. We. can't
DO any more than furnish YOU With
the opportunity. II you haven't got 1t
| in NOIl- then vOn ara at fauIf
It's a good deal like the young man
who says. 81 will never marry" but
. when some girl with hair like a raw
ems wing, large, lustrous. brown eyes
set far apart in an intelligent fore
head, a straight Grecian nose, teeth
, like lodges of pearl behind lips of
coral, with neck like the swan-Good
night. nursei
When some girl like that crosses
! his path he will fall so deer in love
with her that his breastbone will stick
out two inches. If some fellow doesn't
cut. him out inside OF elk months, he
Will be looking for a Fat, lacking down
carpet, hanging up pictures.
You let the desire come and they will
! drill a tunnel through the mountains.
You have to have a desire.
Somebody says. How are you going
to get it?" Well. you might ask me
how I think a tack would feel in a
keg of nails IL a tack could feel and
scliloquize. ] think the tack would
say: I'm not going to be fool enough
to be a tack all my life. I'm not going
to be contented until I am as big as
the biggest spike in that barrel.'
Good Company n GOdsend.
I will tell you what TO do. Go with
|, people bigger than you are. bigger in
mind: bigger in ambition; bigger in
morals. Go to college. Read good
, books. Go to school. Get an intro
duction of yourself to yourself. In
Gods name, young people, don't go
with anybody that will assassinate.
murder and electrocute every good.
. high, noble thought that ever strug-
: gled for birth to get You TO he decent.
Don't you go with dirty. sinking
bunch like that
The devil has, a teacher in every
man that will cuss or hit the booze.
A diet of dime novels will make a
, highway robber and a gunrnan out of
! anybody. That's what they will do.
Some boys in Chicago used to rem
devious in stale beer joints and back
alleys, read dime novels and they
went out and stole from the street
, carbarn s2,oco. They had to kill a
man to get that paItry 5000. Four of
those young men. the Oldest p, drop
Iped from the scaffold with ropes
around their necks and another one is
doing life term in Joliet peni-
tentiary. All for a paltry 5000!
Have a definite aim in life. The road
to anywhere is filled with pitfalls of
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