The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-16
DREAMING AND DOING.


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DRAINING AND DOING.
There Il great difference il dreaming and
1odpg. Most Of US drea1 wonderful dreams Of
mat We might acc9ab lish IL only conditions
80 d111ssenf Z only circumstance might be
TO suit our own ends. If we are talented
- .,xay. we are very apt to think ourselves
.~tsd, II we ara not given every opportunity
expression.
A'of Us realize the opportunities about us.
arvellous thing about life is the wonderful
is It gives to US all to make the best Of our
IL only we will The possibilities are so
+ and the opportunities SO many, that we
ut realy claim to be hampered. unless we
berately set hindrsnces in our own paths.
trouble with most Of US is that we do not
klize the necessity for cultivating every gift
4 grace we may have.
What should we think Of the gardener who
suuld keep his precious seed stored away in his
!. uainsry, who would fail to plow his fields or
sow his grain-0r having sowed it would fail to
reap it when it was ready for the harvest?
In each Of these seeds there is the germ Of
life, but it must be planted deep in the soil, it
must b quickened by the rains and warmed by
the sun before 1t reaches out to it's full growth.
It makes no difference what our possibilities
see those who seem to have no special gifts, rise
heaA and shoulders above the talented ones of
the earth. And if we seek the reason for this,
we shall find oftener than not that it is because
they have used what small gifts were theirs and
have brought into being every latent possibility.
There has never besn . time in al the history
Of the world when there was such opportunity
for acknowledgment a. exists today. Any boy
or girl who seeks an education may find it. For
there are many ways Of educating ones self and
cultivating ones talents.
The wonderful public school system of this
country offers opportunity to every boy or girl,
unless handicapped in some particular way.
There are few colleges or universities whose
doors do not open to the ambitious young man or
woman willing to work. But schools and univer-
stiles are not the only channels of learning Small
indeed is the village that does not have it's cir
culating library. If it lacks this, the young man
or the young woman who is truly ambitious and
eager to learn. may come in touch with the best
minds of the age through the rural delivery and
the parcel post.
When we hear the story Of the achievements
Of some Of the men and women of this country
who have wrested success from such seemingly
impossible conditions, we wonder not so much at
these accompllas>.3 as at the failure Of those
who are given opportunity for develop
ment. One of the strange rules of nature is that
things multiply in ratio to their use The more
we give out of whatever gifts or talents we may
have the more we shall have to give. The more
we use our tools. the sharper they will become.
The athlete knows that unless he exercises
his body, it will fail to respond when he enters
the arena for contest. The singer knows that
unless she exercises her vocal chords they will
TAU her; the artist knows that it is useless to
carry In his heart or mind wonderful picture
unless he puts that picture on the canvas; the
sculptor knows that he must chisel day after
day if he is to cut the immortal figure from the
block Of marble; the poet knows that if the world
is to hear his song he must not hide lit in his
heart.
There are wonderful possibilities in all of us,
and there are wonderful opportunities all around
Us for their cultivation, there are opportunities
for music and for art, and DIR literature, but
these opportunities lie fallow unless they are
used. # we do not read the books. how shall