The Glenwood post., 1922-04-06
uacIe Tets Bed Time Stories
Current Events Tor the Chtldrsn
and 0zown-uys, Too
"aET BACK TO WORK"
ADVICE OF UNCLE TED

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"He sure has been gone long
time said Ruth, speaking Of Uncle
Ted who WAS away on trip.
"why he's only been gone week."
spoke up Jack.
"Well, it seems long anyway" was
Ruth's reply. "I miss his stories and
it doesn't look like he'd be back for
sometime
but he promised to write US a
story if he couldn't get back in
time,' said Jack, "and l wouldn It
be surprised if we would get letter
today. Gee! Look out there. That IS
. special delivery boy as sure as I
ive.'
Down the steps and out the door
Jack ran, and sure enough it was a
special delivery letter from Uncle
Ted. 1t didn't take our two young
friends long to get it open, and after
they had settled on the rug in front
of an open fire, Jack began to read:
dearest Ruth and Jack: I have
tried hard to get back, but plans
would not work out right at the last
minute. That accounts for this
lengthy letter, because I promised
your story no matter what happened.
1 have had an interesting trip and 1
have formed some opinions of my own
and found out some interesting facts
all of which want to tell you. The
thing that impresses me most of all is
the need for that old fashioned am
bition to work steadily, slowly but
surely. Too many people throughout
the United States are trying to get
rich-quick with all kinds of schemes
schemes, mark yop not WORK. In
many respects the difference between
our country today and yesterday is
told in the fable Of the Tortoise and
the Hare. I will tell you that fable
80 you will be better able to under
stand what I mean.
What dull, heavy creature,
says the Hare, lis this Tortoise!' sAnd
yet, says the Tortoise, TN run with
You for a wager 'Done,' says the
Hare, and then they asked the fox to
be the judge. They started togethet.
and the Tortoise kept jogging on
still, till he came to the end Of the
course. The Hare laid himself down
midway and took a nap, 'for,o saws
he, i can catch up with the Tortoise
when I please But it seems he over.
slept himself, for when he awoke,
though he scudded away as fast as
possible, the Tortoise had got to the
post before him and won the wager.
Children, the lesson that fable
teaches is that slow and steady WING
the race and so it is with men and
women. The war and the way our
country was handled during the war
period made an unnatural condition.
Too many people are trying to get
ahead-to gain wealth and ease by
by the methods of the Hare. They
squirt ahead for awhile-buy fake oil
stocks instead of buying things they
need and thereby doing their share in
the cycle of making business 90
What is the result. They sit them
selves down and take a nap expecting
the fake schemes to work and while
they are at it the Tortoise, the fellow
who is putting in en- honest davis
work, steadily and slowly, slips quietly
by and wins. They awake to find
their stocks and schemes empty
frauds. They have lost everything and
have thereby created another ripple
on the sea of depression.
81 don't mean by this that all
stocks are frauds-far from it. There
are lots of good stocks that pay their
owners steady income at fair rate.
What 7 am trying to impress upon
your minds is there are far more
losses than profits in buying stocks
that some agent offers for sale on the
prospect of getting rich quick. IF the
really thought someone could get rich
quick on the stocks, he wouldn u sell
them. But the people who buy that
kind of stocks are like the hare
they are so sure of winning the race