Arizona republican., 1922-04-30
SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 80. 1922
Like a beautiful floscer f,dl of
color bat a0ithout scent, are the fine
a0ords of him 10ho does not act &C
cordingly. -Buddha.
The 4PuHp

There some young and older ones
who believe the 'pulr is essential rise in Iife
No doubt pull is helpful but it is of little value
to the who depends upon it, for pull" cannot
be sustained very long and when it is withdrawn
the beneficiary OF it slides back with thud having
neither ability nor confidence in himself to sup
port him
No in American life ever rose to greater
height than Ulysses S. Grant and no man ever was
given less adventitious aid in his upward climb He
had apparently one good start in his appointment
to West Point. He went through the academy,
emerging with mediocre record-half-way down
his class-which suppose. warranted the authorl-
ties in believing that his abilities were mediocre
though it afterward turned out he must have
laid a pretty solid foundation But thence forward
middle life he gave sign of the qualities which
were afterward to make him famous. He went into
the backwash of the West Pointers disappeared from
the service and became pronounced failure in civil
life. 1t was the reticence the backwardness and
quietness of Grant which kept him submerged both
in the academy and out OF it. Without pull" and
without that assurance which enables many young
to get forward he went backward and resigned
from the army In ten years Of service he had done
nothing to attract the attention of his superiors
When the civil broke out he was so far out
gressman through whom he could be brought to the
notice of the authorities E. B. Washburne, fellow
townsman. Beside. he was on the wrong side of the
fence-he was a Democrat and possibly in the early
days of the war that might have cut some figure
with the Republican governor of Illinois. the War
Governor Yates.
At any rate, with note from Mr.. washburne
Grant called upon the governor who was evidently
much impressed and the result was his assignment
to what amounted to clerkship in the office of
the adjutant general A little later he was set to
training awkward squads" which the first call
for volunteers brought out. It here that the
real life of Ulysses s. Grant began at the age of
forty He had come to that without "pulr except
the backward pull of failure.
And throughout his upward career he had only
backward pulls" the envy of men who had made
brilliant records in the academy and who had re-
mained in the army because they had pulls which
brought them promotions. They had powerful poll
teal friends in Congress and in the war department
influential political friends but he was
soon gain something Infinitely better the recog-
milton of Lincoln who had watched his steadily up
ward course.
1t was during this period that word was brought
to Lincoln that Grant was drinking too much whisky
whereupon the president, comparing the successive
victories of Grant with the bundering and failures
of others, said he wished he knew what brand Of
liquor Grant used that he might cause 1t to be dis
tributed among the other officers.
Lincoln exerted pulp in behalf of Grant
He merely removed obstacles from his path and gave
him free hand. And that is all the help the right
kind of a man or boy needs in any endeavor. The
one who must be continually assisted by pull"
should be displaced by one who make his
way In no other way have the highest eff
cheney in either public private affairs Legitimate
help and the pampering pulp are two very different
things