Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-29
A Bit of This and That
"COME BACK, BOY, COME BACKw


the High school and gazed out on the city ol
Americus Then we met in the old building and
from some of the classrooms upstairs student who
was unfortunate enough to have back seat could
see we'll the town to the north.
To me | gazed out the window on numer-
Gus occasions, the thought came, Boy, you re
needed down there. Don't you realize the fact
that the world is waiting, waiting with bated
BREATH for you to step into the whirl and grind of
it's commercial life?" -
And then this wilI-o the wisp thought would
hypnotic with wonderful ease and | would
forget | sat in a classroom. would fail to hear
my when called upon to recite. would see
nothing. 1t seemed to me that time was being
fooled away by sitting in classroom of high
school.
My friend, are you being led astray by such
will-o the wisp?
Did you think such idle dreams last year
when in your classroom? And do you now hest
tate to return to school for another year. or maybe
for two years? Have you just about completed
the course and you now thinking that you are
ready to step into the torrents with which the
world, commercially, is swept
If So stoP Yes, stopI And thinkI
One day was so weak to go the way of
that will-o the-wisp. And now plod and trudee
along, learning strenuous ways that should have
learned during those days of idle dreaming Now
realize more and more that the world is looking
tor no man. The world is amply able to take care
of itself. How often have we thought the world
would cease to whirl if so-and-so passed from
u.s. And the next morning the worlds news wires
ynJItd Haah Fkax
still the world moves on.
Listen, young mani The point is this Real
ize right now, as you stand on the verge of com.
peting your high course that it is the opnor
tuniy of your life. Your opportunity rs not ont in
the world 1t is not waiting around some bio fac-
tory, or store or bank 1t is not on some street or
along river, floating on lake. It's right in
yourself. It's your head, young man, it's your
headl Just now you at of the most crit
cal periods of your life. Don't make the fatal mis-
take of not finishing your high-school course.
Not long after had quit school was talking
to merchant-one who had plodded along be-
tween cash and credit for nearly quarter of a
century We became somewhat confidential in
our talk and during the conversation dropned =
regret tor having quit school, And right there thai
old merchant gave confession which would h
that OF ~ per cent. of those who make failures If
the commercial life of the world In part is wa,
as follows:
Young man, if there is any way for Won f.
get back to school, gol Don't wait believe +ba
the reason have not succeeded is because did no
nave the foundation, educationally, on which te
build didn't go to school, What | had when
/ started business was the increase in the price y
some land which had managed to get hold Of h,
hard work. That increase you see represented /,
this stock OF goods, but have never been able r.
make it serve as it should because don't have III
education It's education, boy, that counts in tbi
world that is, education that's rightly obtained an
then rightly applied. Show me the bow who Ia
gone through high school, and I'll show Won
man who succeeds unless an act of prov;danc
: strikes him back"
= And the more | study the old merchant
statement the more believe that he was riqbt
Education at home friend; abroad a
introduction; in society," an ornament; in solitude
> solace. And that is what you are rigbt NOV,
young man. about to put from you
= Don't do It'll Come back to school and 6n;s
: the schools course $3.50