Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-20
A Run Started on Third Base Does
Not Count; Play the Game Right

life. I'm not going to be contented
until I am as big asa the biggest
spike in that barrel"
Seek Big Things.
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
struggled for birth to get you to be
I decent. Don't you go with a 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 gunman out
Of anybody. That's what they will
do. Some boys in Chicago used to
rendezvous in stale beer joints and
back alleys. read dime novels and
they went out and stole from the
street car barn two thousand dol
lars. They had to kill a man to get
that paltry two thousand dollars
Four of those young men, the old
est p, dropped from the scaffold
with ropes around their necks and
another one is doing a life term in
Joliet penitentiary. All for a paltry
two thousand dollars!
Have a definite aim in life The
road to anywhere is filled with pit
/ falls of disaster. If you find a man
on top of a mountain, he didn't
light there, he had to climb
Many of you start at third base
! The run doesn't count. No, sir You
are off-side; play the game Of life
unfairly If your pockets are empty
/ fill your hearts full of ambitions
and go to it, Tell yourself what
{ everybody knows-you're quit
I ter
Helen Keller I preached in Bos-
ton one night and they said, Helen
Keller is on the stage, she'd like to
| shake hands with you" I looked
! into her face-Helen Keller, blind.
| deaf, dumb, since a baby-she's got
a clothes basket full of diplomas
| With her example to shame you on.
stop knocking and go to climbing
| in the world. Many a young fellow
didn't know whether God wanted
him to become an. aUctioneer or a
/ college professor, but he has been
fortunate enough to be kept out of
| the poor house because he was
| lucky enough to marry a girl that
! has been brave and strong and will
! ing enough to bend over a washtub
to earn money enough to pay the
house rent while he loafed around a
stale beer joint, talked politics, ar
gued religion. held forth on the
principles of life and settled So
Geological questions.
Study your capabilities. Some
body said to a boy, kid, what are
you going to do when you are
man? ,"
He said 81 guess III be an cleo
trician.'
The man said, Why"
He said, Because l like to mon
key with door bells"
That was pretty good. If God
wants you to be an iron cog wheel
in a machine. the sooner you stop
trying to be a searchlight and
whistle and be the cog wheel, the
better you will be and the better
the machine will work and the bet
lCI lu6 WI III Will OG.
1t is as impossible for some
young men and women to succeed
the way they are doing as it would
be for a tom cat to teach or play
the organ at the Audubon society.
It's as impossible to make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear today as it
was. in the days of Solomon.
Oh, they might have lowered up
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had some ambition in order to win
out in the world i
Life Too Easy.
A plow horse makes more miles
in a year than a Kentucky thor
oughbred on a race track. One rea-
son why we have so many round
shouldered men loafing around
stale beer joints, sitting around
fashionable clubs, soused and
whisky soaked, is because they
were brought up too easy; they
cash in too quickly. They couldn't |
see that the thing to do WAS to !
keep on, to win for God and for His |
truth
So many people are good at be-
ginning but they are like the fellow
who was killed by falling on the |
roof-they stop too quick. That's
the trouble. Their aim is high but |
they haven't got powder enough to |
make the bullets pierce the armor |
of opposition. Aim high! It's no /
harder on your gun to knock the |
feathers out of an eagle than It is
to shoot a skunk.
One day they will go sailing
along like a COW licking salt. The
next day they will stroll around
like a fellow walking through a
reading epitaphs, and as
my friend, the late Bob Burdette,
said, Remember the world is older
by several thousand years than