Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-20
Week Starts With Three Talks Tomorrow

you are, young fellow, and it has
been so full Of smarter young men
than you that their feet had to
stick out of the dormer windows.
and when they died this old globe
went whirling on and not one in
ten million knew that they had died
or ever heard that they were sick"
tell you boys, know as much as
you can without blowing all the
packing out of your cylinder head
or pUncturing your tires. The
world has great need Of you young
men but no greater need than
young men have of the world. That
gives you your opportunity; your
clothes may fit you better than your
dads fitted him, you may get yours
at a tailor say your clothes may
fit you better than your dads fitted
him, they cost more, they are more
stylish, your mustache looks like
Charlie Chaplin's, you've got the
latest kink in the haircut, but take
it from me, his scrawling signature
on a 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.
Keep-a-GOing!
And don't be 90 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 are not so easily
found as pebbles, but people are
looking intently for them every
where and if you itch for fame
you've got to keep scratching. l
tell you, boys, others have succeed
ed 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,
Nail your flag to a mast with
nails that clinch; turning a dead
lion into beehive is 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 June
bugshas a silver wing;the lightning
bug the flame; the bed-bug has no
wing at all, but gets there Just the
same"
It's the false ideals that strew
the shores with wrecks; it's eager
ness to achieve success in realms
you can't reach that creates the
bells that curse the world. If all
the fish eggs could hatch out and
all the little fishes would become
big ones. the cid oceans would be
pushed from their beds and our
rivers would be eternally damned
with fish.
If all the young hopefuls should I
hatch out full-fledged lawyers, the
world would be mortgaged for !
fees, and we would starve to death /.
in our attempt to pay off the afore-
said and the same"
Now, the plowman who plows the !
field to win fame and fortune for !
his wife and children is better than !
the. financial Shylock in Wall Street !
who will juggle with the fortunes |
of his fellow men and play with |
the earnings of their sweat, and !
with their savings, like a cat plays |
with a mouse, or a cyclone with a /
straw stack Far, far more!
A hundred years from tonight !
what adherence Will 1t MAKE WheCh- !
er you liked me or whether I liked !
you? All, but it makes all the diff /!
ference in the world what kind of /
a young fellow you were, what kind !
of a young girl you were, while you :
were on the job
Never Remain Stationary.
Therefore, you never remain sta
You are going up or
down; you are advancing or you
are retrograding every day that
you live in the universe. There
fore. ignorance will be a paralysis
to you. worse than infantile Your
size depends on your mind. not on
your muscle. l tell you it takes
than a mortar