The Washington times., 1922-12-20
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The "Soft Snap" Curse to
Any Man
Mr.. Soft Snap" Remains . Nobody-7His 80
Holds Him Down.

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soft snap" !. an American expression md Worldwide
evil The man engaged in the that slang calls soft
snap" thinks himself fortunate. he IL to be pttisd
He held fast deprived Of advancement BY the very thing
that he vaues-his "soft snap"
Many policeman hard duty snves the special assign
snt man. who sits indoors does little work and endures
hardship. M
But It il the special assignment that win become
the head Of force leaving the force in due time with the
experience that it gives, make career on bigger scale
The young fireman need his mate assigned to duty
IN thsatsr with harder than watching young ladies
and sing is not n tho lobby Of hsatr that
fireman develops into man Of success.
Workers in Offices stores factories al fooy envy the
man who gets sufficient salary for insufficient work
Such should be PITIED, not envied.
They usually begin Of superior intelligence They
have the cunning ability pausbty to get the soft snap
that makes hard work unnecessary.
The ability which enabled them get that easy berth might
have given thsm something worth while In the fsd Of
real work and struggle.
Phpps Of Pittsburgh with his fifty one hundred mil
Hons and his palace in Fifth avenue did not have soft
snap" He sold gunpowdsr in store closed the store at
night then walked six miles to keep sst Of books for
blacksmith and walked six miles back No soft snap" there
And lucky for Phipps that there was none.
Abraham Lincoln, before he began his real work. applied
for position in one Of the Washington departments
not position hard fill Il would have paid him few
thousand dollars year. and hs might have kept it all his e
What might have happened the United States and what
to Abraham Lincoln he had got that soft snap7 But he
into the world Of hard fighting and happened
Lucky for all Of US that Lincoln failed to get the soft snap
great blessing to the human race was the French Rsvou
on The genius Of Mabeau his famous speech at tho Sale
du u dc the spark that set fire to the rsvu
tionary gunpowder.
Mirsbeau was nobleman and the SON Of noblsman He
sought gain favor with the King and the Queen He tried
for Of the many soft snaps for which the people paid
and against which they rebslled
But the would have him. his father put him in
~ He rkod 0f
own class found soft berth nowhere and went in with the
common peopucky for France and the rest Of the world
lived for sna he BEEN
native city after the things that he asked had been refused
him. and he had known what he said to hold out
his hand for bread on the public highways
Shakespeare whipped by gamekeeper jailed for poach
Ing married against his will to woman older than himself
whom he did not like and his fathers failure meant deep
poverty.
He went London held horses outside the theae for
few pennies while the riders watched the shows and
BECAME THE REAL sHAKESPEARE.
the local magnate Sir Thomas Lucy had given Shake
lodge all the genius have been wasted over pots Of ale
in tavern at Stratford. F~"-
Why do you read ninety times out Of hundred that the
who achieved great rendered great service
the human began and for lived in harhp7
AMBITION. And ambition alone makes greatness
The soft snap that the foolish young American seeks
and the other foolish American snviss kills ambition and kills
In the nobility Of England thousands born wealth
and title All inherited the British soft snap"
England hears little or nothing of them Two men were
born struggled for everything they got one Alfred
Harm.worth later viscount Northolfe who recently died.
tho Of Irish woman the other Lloyd George son
Welsh woman These two men, born with nothing except
Ans rHn Ta4T
Northcfe did his work through fearless criicism Lloyd
George by marvellous constructive work.
Let others seek the soft snap" YOU look work to
develop what is in you. T
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