The Washington times., 1919-02-11

that You will hit upon respectfully, H. F.
There is no such thing as luck OR fate But if you
must believe in one the other believe In luck rather tna
in fate Belief in luck harmful of the two beliefs
The fataIst saws Nothing makes any difference. 1t
was all written million years ago. may as well DRIFT
along The other foolish who believes in luck at
least can say to himself 81 will go out and keep busy GOOD
luck may come my way
IF on earthouaxe should occur tear hole in the ground
and expose vein of pure gold and you happened to be
passing and become the of the mne you ana your
friends might call it uck It would not be luck ana
ould not be of heat tied up IN the eaTn nun
dreds of millions years ago would cause the earthquake
If YOU happened to be the passing there would be no
fate, no luck about it; it would just happen
Careless man drops banana peel and you happen to-
he the one to STEP on fall down and break your arm NO
luck there 1t simply HAPPENED to be you tnat stepped
on the banana peel There such thing as an accident
the breaking of steering gear automobile going
downh and death following But there is no luck There
is no such thing lucky person. no such thing as an
'unlucky person.
There is, however the hopeful, optimistic man or
woman believing that everything coming out right 10
him things do out right for ne has the right mental
attitude.
And there is the pessimist who thinks all things are
wrong. He is VERY apt to find them wrong.
Put your eyes spectacles OF green glass; and the
world will look green Change to coored spectaces
and you will look in a rose colored world.
Whether your spectaces be green cOlored you
will have trouble if you do not make it habit to WORK
steadilv making up your mind what you do and
then going after it, leaving the theory of fate or luck to
others.
Belief in fate is worse than belief in luck. The
East is fatalstic, and it is therefore stagnant.
Why make any effort if everything is settled in ad-
vance?
'What is written written says the Turkish soldier
and goes into the battle calm cool and courageous abso
utey without fear believing that if he is not fated
die nothing can kill him. and if he is to die nothing will
him.
Won NAV saw to Yourself that belief in fate should
make the Turk a terrible enemy, fearless
But hopeful Irishman with belief in fate attacking
such Turk will say to himself eff fight hard enough
III surely kill that Turk And if you be which is
foolish would be wise bet the hopeful Irshman
Belief in fate very DID, part of superstition that dates
back hundreds of centuries has been conspicuous many
able
Napoleon sad after he had escaped from Arab horse
men, It written high that am to perish by the
hands of the Arabs"
destined you would be find you though you
were to burrow hundred feet underground
In the same spirit Lord Nelson said to who
advised him net expose himself reCkleSsy in battle
1.-THE bullet which kills will have it Horatio Nelson
his with speed ,"
That is how Napoleon and Nelson TALKED. But that
is not how they lived and WORKED
There was fate and luck in Napoleon. 1t all came
cut of his character his BRAIN his terrific energy The fail
IRE came from his ambition without limit 1t is dangerous
10 have ANYTHING without limit in world where every
thing is limited.
Napoleon won his battles, because he knew all about
his battles all about the conditions under which he would
fight He knew the enemy, ne studied his brain he first
thought out what his enemy would do then did the right
thing to meet it,
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