The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18

liAc SHdEfIe 1HApltu ., you We Got lue
latest kink in the haircut, but take II
from me, his scrawiing signature on
bank check will pull more dough
out OF the bank vaults than your
name will in ten years with forty
thousand reams Of paper and ten
hundred typewriters.
And don't be so fresh that they'll
have to put you In salt to keep you
from spelling. People all over the
world are hunting for you and If you
are worth while they will find you.
Diamonds arc not so easily found as
pebbles but people are looking in
tently for them everywhere and II
you itch for fame you've got to keep
scratching. l tell you, boys. others
have succeeded in harder places than
yours: why not you? Don't turn back
and loaf around under the shade at
the first tree you come to because the
road ahead looks hot and dusty. No.
no. Keep a going.
Keep a Goin''
IF you strike thorn or rose,
Keep a goin'!
II II halls or If it SHOWS,
Keep a goin',
'Ta!nt no use to sit and whine
Cause the fish amt on your tine,
o. bait your hook and keep on tryin'
Keep goin
Nail your flag to a mast with nails
that clinch: turning a dead lion into
a beehive lis good business today as it
was in the days of Sampson. and men
of every nation who have knocked the
persimmons off from the limbs of the
tree Of life have fire In their veins
The Junebug has a silver wing; the
ligl aingbug the fame; the bedbug
has mn vino at all h9tf gate tbera i.tgr
the same"
It's the false ideals that strew the
shores with wrecks: It's eagerness TO
achieve success In realms you can't
reach that creates the hells that curse
the world. II all the fish eggs could
hatch out and all the little fishes
would become big ones, the old oceans
would be pushed from their beds and
our rivers would be eternally damned
with fish.
II all the young hopefuls should
hatch out fulifiedged lawyers. the
world would be mortgaged for fees.
and we would starve to death in our
attempt to pay off the aforesaid and
the same"
Now, the piowman who ploughs the
field TO win fame and fortune for his
wife and children Is better than the
financial Shyiock in Wall Street who
fellow men and play with the earnings
of their sweat, and with their savings.
like cat plays with mouse, or
cyclone with strawstack, Far, far
more!
hundred years from tonight what
difference will II make whether you
liked me or whether liked you? All,
but 1t makes all the difference in the
world what kind OF a young fellow
x1-ar NIB lrt ..l
you were. while you were on the Job,
1t matters little where was born.
Whether my parents were rich or
poor.
Whether they shrank from the cold
worlds scorn.
Or lived In the pride OF wealth
secure.
But whether live an honest man
And hold my integrity firm in my
clutch,
tell you. my neighbor. as plain as
l can.
That matters much.
Going Up or Down.
Therefore you never remain sta
tionary. You are going up or down
you are advancing or You are retro
grading every day that you live In
the universe. Therefore. ignorance
will be paralysis to you, worse. than
infantilc. Your size depends on your
mind. not on your muscle. tell you
1t takes something more than a NOR
cardboard cap, varsity suit, frat
pin and a bulldog pipe and ''rah.
rah. rah. sis boom bah."---you bet IL
does.
The engineer is bigger than the en-
gine--he runs It! The captain Is big
ger than the ship--he controls 1t.
That's why! Oh. tell you! Measure
a rosebud by it's beauty and its fra
GRANGE? That's impossible! Measure
it by its size? That may be possible
for you to do. Apparent size is one
thing. real size Is another. II you
don't believe It. you try and stop a
hornet with the end OF your nose
when he's going mile q minute.
reaches the home base or puts the ball
out OF the lot. Ignorance is stagna-
ton; knowledge is river. Ignorance
Is a desert; knowledge is fruit. fg-
norance Is poverty: knowledge IL
plenty. Ignorance IL - weakness;
knowledge IL strength. A plant grows
because It takes In the sunshine and
the rain. the quality It needs to build
itself up into fun fruit
XSQWt W0 6u KNOW tulSs IL - OetteE
to feed boys and girls books, schools.
colleges. churches than to feed them
booze and the things that wreck their
lives and blight them and assassinate
their characters. You can keep a cow
alive on. potato peelings and brush,
but she won't give any milk and when
y COW stops giving milk her mission
In life ends. We don't keep cows for
company.
How Carnegie Started.
Listen! Col. James Anderson
started the first libraries In the United
States He had circulating library
of 400 volumes He gave the books
out to the little boys around in the
neighborhood to read. One little boy
working a. bobbin boy for a dollar
and quarter q week got hold of one
Of those books, read It. 1t opened up
q new view OF life, inspired him. sir.
That little boys name was Andrew
Carnegie. He pours out his money
Ike water; builds libraries throughout
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