The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-09-15
DO You Underestimate
Your POLUer?
Reprinted by Reqnest)


done all the things they might have DONE because they
controlled Intellectually horse is controlled physically
majority of men believe that they cannot do
thing They believe that what always has been always
MUST be-
The old thing is done in the same old way, and
millions upon millions Of human beings live and die all Of
them thinking that is THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT
And then occasionally along comes man who pesists
the of the Bit the bride of custom and habit upon
his mind, who determines that he will not be held by any
such msy powerand have the real who does the
real thrg
Napoleon crossed the Alps in the dead of winter When
he praised the skies for his daring and his genius he
said most truly II deserve credit except for reusn.
to believe those who said it could not be done.''
That is instance that shall quote to often, Tor
shows above everything else the particular quality that
lie rendles penness, sickly Corscan lad the great
est ruler that the world has known the greatest awmake
and most useful spite of the and crimes
to which his ambition drove him.
/ Custom bad no hold Napoleon There bit in
his mouth, halter fastened around his intellectual
chnery., He could always the thing and do it.
When his shooting at fleeing soldiers the
frozen lake. shooting at them from height Napoleon
looked for second at the and then gave the order
to lower the guns and shoot at the ice.
The balls broke the ice the fleeing army sank
the wafer 10 be drowned rescued at the edge of the lake
and made prisoners.
Napoleon time contemplated suicide in his despair
of ever getting ahead in the world.
After he had become Emperor young officer complained
that lie he young ofcer had been lieutenant in the
for five years and that there hope of advance
mcnt Napoleon replied, "Truly a lieutenant for
tLen five years. vet you that could arrive
When they sent Napoleon to Italy, representing tie
French nation that had been brought to life and made
think by the splendid Revolution, the old Austrian generals
felt only contempt for the lean bgeye young Corscan
leading soldiers many of them ragged-and he himself
tormented with the itch.
But those Austrian generals held down by custom
They did everything in the old way, AND NAPOLEON
DID EVERYTHING IN THE NEW WAY-H1S OWN
WAY.
When battle carried along the banks of river
the Australians followed the old pan which looked
upon sacred and Interchangeable They put half of
their side of the river and the other half of
the other side of the river marching up and
down. ready to meet Napoleon and beat hm-as they sui
posed-no matter which side of the river he might choose
Napoleon, free from CUSTOM thinking for himself kept
his whole army together He would take his WHOLE
along side of the river thrash onehaf of the
Austrian army then the river and thrash the other
half Of the and those old generals held by the halter
of custom, scarcely knew what had happened to them be
fore the Corscan boy had beaten them thoroughly and
we'll the way to make himself Emperor of France and
practical ruler of the world.
We cannot all be Napoleons There is room for only one
Napoleon at time and he must be made by circumstances
and by other men.
But all of take time, an hour or two on a
quiet Sunday to ask ourselves WHAT is THE MATTER
WITH us, WHAT BIT OR HALTER is HOLDING US
DOWN, KEEPING US BACK.
DO not imagine that it is necessary in order to succeed
no GIVE UP WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW
Success can be made AT ANYTHING.
Napoleon didn't have to get out of the army in which
he moving slowly, in order to find his success
Newton the greatest mathematical genius produced by
the human did not have to give up his little employ
ment with the Government in order to carry his
traordinary work.
In every field THERE is OPPORTUNITY. The clerk
in department store develop himself RIGHT WHERE
HE is well anywhere else the world and perhaps
better
He human nature in all of it's phases Opportunity
is before him if he will take it. But he mustn't imagine