The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-19
DR.. kREBS GIVES
final Lecture
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The might Of . mans mind is
not measured By his knowledge.
but by his length Of plan." said
DR.. Krebs, noted lecturer and
psychologist. last night in his final
number of the merchants and COM
munity institute which he has con-
Quoted in Aledo this week under
the auspices of the Kiwanis club.
Education isn't simply going to
college and schools. You can put
a fool through the best colleges in
the land and he will come out q
fool. Many a man who has knowl-
edge, isn't educated because he
doesn't know how to apply it In
order for any man to succeed he
must first have a plan. A man
may have any amount Of knowl-
edge, but II he doesn't have plan
he will never get anywhere. He
must do what the other fellow
doesn't IL he wants to succeed, but
plan alone won't do it He must
have push. With plan and push
there is nothing that cannot be
accomplished. The brain and mind
is given the human being to plan
with and the hands and feet to
push the plan. But plan without
push will never get man any
where for it equals theory. The
world is full Of good plans that
have never been pushed. SO they
never amounted to anything. The
worlds most famous men, who
have spent years on one plan, back
ed it with push and in the end
succeeded.
THE world also is full of people
who push, but have no plan. Their
ideas lead no place and they spend
their lives apparently busy, but in
the end accomplish nothing. That
is the result of push minus plan,
which results in business.
If an individual works out a
plan and backs it with push the
result is success. Some of the
worlds greatest inventions have
been but simple idea in the mind
Of an individual who had the cour-
age to push it and in the end gain
ed the thing that he desired. Pluck
is a definite line of action backed
with a definite line Of endeavor and
when you once get pluck, the world
is yours. Too many people have
a belittled conception of them
selves. They don't realize their
possibilities. A man doesn't need
to be born great. II he has plan
and the courage to push it there is
nothing he cannot do. Every town
has planners and pushers. 1t is
like a family. Once a member is
pulling in the opposite direction
from the others the plan is lost
and there Will be no result"
DR.. Krebs spOke,in the most fiat
tering terms Of the character Of
Aledo as city, and found only one
fault with the general appearance.
He referred to the untidy appear
ance of some of the alleys. you've
I, got everything here to make this
town second to none in the state
a county center, and you should
plan to make it a county center,
second to none and then push the
plan"
In referring to Aledo's problem
Of keeping the small boys off the
streets at night, DIR. Krebs sug-
gested a juvenile council, similar
to the city council, with boys from
| II to 20 years of age. This is an
idea Of Judge Lands of Chicago
and is being worked successfully
in many small towns" said DR..
Krebs." The boys hold the same
positions that the older men fill.
They have mayor and a chief of
police. Older boys are response
BILE for the younger ones, and if
one offends he is brought before
a boys court and tried. Not only
does this keep the boys off the
street and out Of mischief, but they
are learning civics, and are learn
ing that study in way that can
never be acquired in the classroom.
They are a part Of the town. If
the boys get into mischief. as ev-
cry normal boy does, give him
something to do to keep him out
of mischief"
! DR.. Krebs' second suggestion as
to way of meeting the problem
was Of building community CEN
ter, or better, county center,
where anyone in the county, with
out regard to church or business,
might be welcome. Smaller rooms
would be provided, SO that all clubs
and organizations would be free to
meet there. A swimming pool with
a schedule of hours for use, should
be provided. Rest rooms, where
the farmers wife might come,
would also help in making the
building a real county center.
while it might take two or three
years to accomplish this plan and
push, in the end you will sue
coed, and in the meantime there
are plenty Of places in Aledo and
plenty of organizations that could
take these Toys and find something
for them to do. There isn't finer
bunch Of young men anywhere than
the legion men, and while they are
too old to belong to the juvenile
court they can and will be of ines
Unable service to the community"
brought on by disease or physical
or mental strain, due to some emo
ton. It might be brought on by
alcoholic excess. He testified that
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