Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-06

tnlnS to turn up generally ind themselves turned down" in the end Fortune usually favors those will ing to go out to meet the opportu- nifty, to do something to create it.
 Sixty years ago, a lad who had oc- companied an expedition across the plains to California found himself at his journeys end with just fifty whine, nor cry, nor write back to his friends in the East for money. He made a wheelbarrow. When the
 first one sold, he made another; and then another. Soon, people be- gan to call him "Wheelbarrow" Studebaker. In five years, he had s3,O00 in the bank. Then, he came east to Indiana and began to make wagons. When he died, some time ago, he was at the head of one of the great industries of the country one known wherever vehicles are used.
 Let Us admit that this ability to translate purposes into perform | ances is one prime mark of genius l Thousands of mortals are well mean ing. They have sort of desire to 1 do something worth while in the | world. Your average high school | graduate carries, somewhere in the i back of his had spark of ambi- ] ton. He plans to rise a bit above | the ordinary, toiling millions. The
 purpose is wholly worthy and not to l be scoffed at. Let us not discourage young Lochinvar by the surmise that he himself will become one of these
 same millions. That all depends on
 whether he steps with good inten- tions, or obeys the dictates of an alert will. He may be one Of the 1 gifted ones. A certain amount of
 radium is found in the common dust, l and a small supply of Black Jack
 Pershings and Charles S. Schwabs is doubtless discoverable among the seemingly ordinary youth in our | schools and on our streets. In every
 generation, there is a proportion who
 will do noble deeds. not dream
 them all day long"
 Scores of scientists wanted to fly
 before the Wrights were heard of
 Orville and Wilbur not only wanted to fly but wanted to hard enough tc
 keep at it till they did the thing. Fo1
 three years, the two bicycle shor keepers experimented endlessly and
 tirelessly at Kitty Hawk, North Caro-
 lima. They studied every movement
 every boise of bird, and learned bal
 ance by it. Over and over again ; their glider was found to be wanting
 in some respect, and better plar
 was worked out It was not until the gas engine to their glider anC finally succeeded in flying fifty mine
 seconds against a twenty mile wind
 with a machine weighing seven hun
 dred and forty five pounds. Q But i
 took three years more of persisten
 struggle before anyone would talk, them seriously. What if the broth
 CTS had given up the third or tn 7 fourth year? It was not alone thei | inventive genius. or their mastery 0 the principles of flight, but their pa , tience and their moral courage tha , gave them ultimate victory.
 The thing one would like to be 0
 do is the blueprint from which tn : builder works. The plan is neces sary to all construction of house or Of character. But a whole room , ful of plans never raised a timbe or laid a floor. The \carpenter mus r begin where the architect leaves of So it is in that great moral proces called life. Intending good is onl /. admirable when it means doing gooC | later on.
 = All of which is of course a twic : told tale. Such counsel has bee dinned into the ears of successiv / generations since the year one-an
 some of it has been needed. It ha = a practical side. Thousands of youn ' men would like to succeed. Joh 1t Henry thinks it would be fine to s : at a roll top desk and direct the at Is fairs of a corporation. Day dreamin st will never bring him there. Joh It Henry, galvanize your will; don't car Il " wishbone where your backbor g ought to be!
 " THE LARSON.