Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-02

diligent reading few persons can hope to become really educated or cultured. Self-education can become one of the pleasantest habits and cer- tainly it is of all habits the most profitable. Education-knowledg means power. IL generates ability, and ability means advancement Rec ords inform us that half of our most successful men never received a college education and that many of them Dever completed even the com mon school course.
 Edison, Eastman, Prick, Shedd, Farrell, Wilson, Simmons, Carnegie, Ford. Duke, Douglas-these, and many others who have risen from the ranks received very moderate amount of school education. But most of them have become educated men men of Knowledge, men of DOW. erful mentality, men of keenest ob- servation, men of the soundest judg- ment, men who have studied nature as well as business. Andrew Car neSia had a tutor even after he graduated to Fifth avenue man. sion.
 Even the busiest of financiers and captains of industry find time to read a great deal. Quite a few of them have cast iron rule to read for at least an hour every night before go- ing to sleep, no matter how late they retire
 Should RationaIize Work.
 In addition to doing a full days work at his bench or in the mine a young man should daily devote an other day to studying all about his work or his profession so that he can better understand the meaning or everything he does the why and wherefore of it, the principles under lying it and thus equip himself to rise to any height.
 Comparatively few American youths whose parents paid for their university education have reached the topmost rung of the ladder. but IL IS astounding to note how many Of those at the very top had to work their own way through college. We don't appreciate anything we get for nothing. The fellows who by their own sweat and their own self-sacri- flee had to pay for their learning derived the most benefit from it. They were wise enough to make the most of their opportunities. This also taught them frugality.
 That a college education, however. is not essential to tremendous sue cess in business has been demon strated over and over again. Did you ever stop to think that scarcely one oft he men who have made the very greatest business marks in America graduated from college? John D. Rockefeller never even graduated from high school Neither did Harri- man or Hill.
 Cultivate SeIf-Education.
 The vitally important thing for the young man is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cul- tivate earnestly, aggressively cease iessly the habit of self-education Education is to the brain what food is to the body. Without fresh sup plies of knowledge the brain will not develop healthily and vigorously any more than the body can be sustained without fresh supplies of food. The mind can become trained to become as a magnet winch attracts true steel but ignores dross. The mind must be disciplined to absorb useful helpful, valuable information and to ignore whatever is not helpful or valuable.
 Competition is so keen today that only the well-informed person can hope to draw ahead of the crowd No corporation, no firm, wants an ignorant employe for a responsible position. Let no man or woman feel discouraged becauseof a meager education. It took Noah 500 years to build the Ark. It may require effort, it may require rigid selfdis- cipline, it may require painful self denial to switch from careless, idle habits to a course of study, but very soon the pleasure derived from the good habit will immeasureably out weigh the false pleasure derived from the bad habits.
 When the most successful of our present day leaders were youths the facilities for self-education were la mentally meager. Today there are not only facilities, but inducements on every side.
 Mine Course Warmly Endorsed.
 Tho practical mining course offered by the Copper Queen to its employees will prove of extraordinary benefit to the ambitious men of this district. The first lecture will be held in the r. M. c. A. Wednesday, November 5, 1919, at 1 o'clock. The same lee ture will be repeated in the evening at o'clock An average of 167 at tended the last course and all claim that it is a chance of lifetime. For further particulars of the course see s. c. Dickinson, room 9, Sparks Klein building or phone no. The course is conducted by the educa-