The Washington times., 1921-01-23
Sports and Local
In This Section

can repeat what used TO be.
The man who Is held down by his approval Of
himself, his idea of his own deserving based ON
the past, is another helpless creature. The world
Of to-day cares nothing for the past It cores for
THIS HOUR and for the FUTURE.
my third man over to the left Is not so numsr-
Gus, but he is to be Pitied Many man Il an
ohored, sadly waiting for rich relatives TO die.
Many Others and thsy include the sons Of
sometof the ablest mon in the country are held
down by their fathers' success and money. Thsrs
is NO NEED for them to struggle, 50 they DON'T
struggle All success is based on INTENSE IN
TEREsT in some small thing. But if you give
young man everything, without effort on his
part where is the intense interest to come from?
IF a man is hungry, poor, looked down upon
by Others he has AN INTENSE DESIRE to
change conditions. ~
If his ambition is taken from him by others
that give him what he has not earned, If he il BY
circumstances set free Of THE LASH OF NECES-
sITY, he lacks the whip that drives most of u
to any success we get.
my fourth anchored individual everybody
knows. TOMORROW is the anchor that
holds him.
"Oh, yes, he is going to do 1t, TOMORROW.
He will show them what he amounts to, what
stuff is in him TOMORROW
"And one of these To-MoRRow's they win
bury him with his anchor and that will be the
end of him. s
"For this individual were written shales-
peare's words, Tomorrow and tomorrow dragS
h its petty pace from day to day to tho last
yllable of recorded time And all our yesterdays
Have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Tomorrow and tomorrow, but NEVER
TO-DAY, is the anchor that holds millions.
Some day never comes, only THIS day.
''There are few words of Emerson that
every young man should know by heart If he
doesn't get these words in his mind when he is
young, they win be burned into him when he il
too old to have them do any good:
"'One of the illusions is that the present
hour is not The critical decisiUe hour. Write it
m your heart that eUery day is the best day in
the yeur. No man has learned anything right
ly until he knows that euerg day is Doon,s-
day." NJ
Mr.. McCay, following his habit, has written
his editorial better than others could do it for
him. Of those that are anchored" q majority
will look at this picture and think how admirably
it applies to SOMEBODY ELSE. It will not occur
to them that it applies to them. 4 few, however,
will profit by McCay's lesson and his picture
They will ask themselves lis anything, by chance,
holding me DOWN.
They will realize that the tide Of success is
always flowing, that possibility and opportunity
are always there. If they haven't moved for
weeks, months or years. some Of them, stimulated
by this useful Sunday cartoon, will say to them
selves What is not moved is tied, something
HOLDS it. With the stone it is the power Of
gravitation holding it to the earth. with me IL
must be something else. My feet move, my hands
move Why doesn't my BRAIN move, why am
I not progressing?"
In accordance with Mr.. McCay's request we
print here as end to this editorial the lines on
opportunity written by John J. ingalls,, the
brilliant man from Kansas:
OPPORTUNITY.
Master Of human destinies am 1;
Fame love and fortune on my footsteps wait,
Cities and fields walk: penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovels and mart and palace, or late
l knock unbidden, once at every gate
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