Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-20

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ticisms and his idiosyncrasies and
stories Then they cried. Give US
another one, Tom That's a good
one When presently sense of his
/ better self seemed to dominate him
and he whirled upon, that gang oil
bar room loafers and he said, You
remind me of bantam chickens
picking the sore head Of an eagle
after his wings have been broken
Young men, he stood right where
you stand now, with just as bright
prospects before him as ever dawn
ed on your path. He stood in front
of a blacksmith shop in Louisville
Kentucky, one day and watched a
blacksmith welding a piece of red
hot iron and as the tears trickled
down his cheeks, he said, II would
take that piece of iron and hold it
in my right hand until IT cooled of
il l knew il would take away this
appetite for drink"
So don't you let the devil fool
you because you will lose out in the
world! Neveri And you bring me
all the dPunkards with their appe-
tites-they would be fathers and
husbands and sons and noble cit
liens, they'd be an asset instead OF
a liability to the universe in which
they live.
want to say something that will
help every one of you, old or
young, to put your life in italics so
that when you leave the world you
will leave something besides an
epitaph on a tombstone or an obit-
THE \
rest is in yourself, this hope in us
for better things that is clamoring
to grow and deVelOp-that's why
the emigrant leaves, my friends,
and goes west He is tired OF being
a molehill here; he wants to be a
mountain out yonder. That's why
the emigrant leaves the Father
land, crosses three thousand miles
of sea; he is tired of being a non
entity; he wants to be a factor in
the world, and that's why, my
friends, so many of your fathers
and grandfathers there away across
the sea come 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 between an acorn and a
stone, between a man and a mon
key; it is the quality in you that
will develop and grow.
Not to Grow Means Contempt.
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
IN q
midget in morals is a carbuncle on
are so many of them today, of SO
little use!
Like a woman came down TO
breakfast one morning and she said
to her husband, Il had a dream last
night. l dreamed attended an auc-
ton where they were selling hus-
bands. One man brought FIVE hun
dred dollars and another man
brought ten thousand dollars"
Why" he said. the man that
brought ten thousand dollars was
like me, wasn't he?"
She said, Men like you sold
three punches for a nickel"
You can't look up to a runted
mind and runted morals unless you
are married to the runt and then
every time you do it under protest
The only man that God ever con
demned was the fellow who hid his
talent in a napkin and wouldn't give
it a chance to grow.
God likes to see a man leave the
misty valley. climb the sunlit hills;
leave the subways of life and go up
on the roof garden
The humanity that wants to re-
main little, simply because it's cas-
Ter to loaf under the shade, suck
lemonade through straw, fan
and say. "Oh, amt it hot?"
is something vastly different, young
people, from that magnificent man
hood who will pull of his coat, sell
it, 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 putri-
lying assesses that bore their way
toward our spiritual and moral
yitals to leave your young men and
young women pieces Of human
iriftwood out upon the high seas of
ust and passion and of wreckage.
So he's dead, is he? What com
plant? No complaint"
Now, you've got to have q desire |
% grow. You must feel your need |
ike miser wants money, like a |
log wants sIop, and like a politician !
wants office. Feel your need OF it, |
It's a. good deal like watering a |
lerse A bow-Iegged, pigeon-toed,
freckled-faced, red
headed kid with a stone bruise on |
,ach heel can ride a Kentucky /
to water, but a col
eye professor with mutton chop
vhiskers> and forty-nine diplomas
amt make the horse drink if he
Doesn't want to drink.
So we can build colleges and
chools and universities, tax the
ieople, spend billions of dollars,
tut an education within your reach.
ut churches on the street corners,
[ you have no ambition to be de-
ent, then that isn't anybody's fault
ut your own. We can't do any
aore than furnish you with the op-
,ortunity. If you haven't got it in
on, then you are at fault.
It's a good deal like the young 7,
ian who says, 81 will never marry"
ut when some girl with hair likef
ravens wing, large, lustrous,
rown eyes set far apart in an in
forehead, a straight Gree
In nose, teeth like lodges of pearl
ehind lips of coral, with neck like
ne swan-GOod night, nurse!
When some girl like that crosses
is path he will fall so deep in love
nth her that his breastbone will