New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

We can make our lives sublime
nd, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
/ know of no one whose life
moro plainly proves this than
Benjamin Franklin.
I commend to every young
person, man or woman, girl or
boy, as the most helpful of all
books to read, ponder over, and
study the Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin.
Born January 9Th (of Sum
day), 1706, on Milk Street, Bos-
ton, in dire poverty and the
youngest SON of seventeen chill
dren, yet by dint OF persever-
.nce, aided by plain sgump-
tion" or common sense, he
struggled onward and ever up
ward, until today, by universal
acclaim, he is deemed one of
the greatest men America has
produced. His life story, told
in his own inimitable "plain
unvarnished'' style, is SO replete
with wisdom and so pregnant
with helpful suggestions, that |
can do NO better service to the
great family of the Eagle PEN
Gil Company than to recom-
mend its reading and re.read-
ing.
/ shall not forestalI either the
pleasure or profit of it's reading
by telling more about it.
However, l do want TO en-
phasize one feature of it.
Franklin was a printer, and one
Of the first American publish
ers. In those early days, news
papers were not SO common as
now, and the movies" were
not even dreamed of or imag-
ined. The Almanac seemed to
stake the place of both in in
struction and entertainment.
ss FrankIin aged 26) FIRST be-
gan to publish his Almanac in
1892, and it is commonly
known as Poor Richards AL
manac." He rcaped consider
able profit from it, but it's read
ers reaped vastly more. He
considered it a proper vehicle
for conveying instruction to
those who had scarcely any
other books. He filled in the
spaces between dates with
proverbs urging industry and
thrift cas- a means Of procur-
ing wealth and thereby secur-
ing virtue" SO he said.
A proverb has been defined
as the concentrated wisdom of
ages.
Poor Richards (Franklin's)
Proverbs are as true today as
when he wrote them and posi-
bly,, in these cxtravagant times,
when all are bent and strug-
Cling along, under the High
cost Of living" or is it the Cost
Of High Living?) they are even
more useful than ever.
When your President asked
AZ would contribute something
70 "The Eagle News" sug-
1ested that he ask Benjamin
Franklin to do SO, and that he
request the Editor to run" in
each issue one of Poor Rich
ards Proverbs," and to urge
upon his readers the wisdom of
committing each proverb to
memory.
Thus and easily, quotable
eeliection Of the worlds great
sst wisdom may be acquired.
Here, then, is one Of them:
A little neglect may breed
great mischief"
For want of = nail the shoe
was lost; for want Of q shoe
tho horse was lost, and for
Nant of horse the rider was
lost. being overtaken and slain
py the enemy; all for the want
nail"
U Not too much TO remember,
s:s ss It? And it is worth remem-
nering, isn't it? And prac-
ucing, too?
Judge Fosters comments
'engamin Franklin's Thrift and I
ssglinent wisdom suggests that n
Qy since Franklin's death, 1:
ssfs ago, ever attempted to fill /
sece IN teaching, by printed wor
as Y fundamentals of Thrift and +
sstment until Henry T.. Doherty
came along with this car
which was started with I'll
I |S e rendering a great public Sc
e DO not think it IS too much
N mat ! believe Henry i. Doher
Aompany are the natural succe
" u to Franklin, because I know
Y other individual on institute
sss mas gone to such great lengtl
spread the same gospel aof Thri
3 WISE Investment. Do you
M wiil pay you, 1 think J, rs 4
aoush with Henry Il. Doherty
psny, 60 Wall Str6st, either Il
Or personal calls and they, vi
l.a to co-cperato IA every VA
s'p you practice Thrift intel
IA md then to inaest IN n 81
Sincerely yours, I & 81 8s
& a1 W. 46th ST, New York CIT