The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-16

class at Alamaba Polytechnic insti-
| tute Tuesday, former Governor B. b.
| Conner announced the establishment
| OF neral to be given annually to
| the Auburn student who shows the
greatest proficiency in natural
science.
found thar my mind had gone the
| graduating extent; L have never
| found myself finished and With all
you ever feel that you have grad
uated, at that very time you have
fallen short of the mark.
O o o
Every Man u Builder.
You have found In your studies that
the principal requirement is dill
gence. Every man is the builder of
a temple called his body, more spe-
officially named himself. built after a
style purely his own. If you succeed
this must be done; you cannot escape
by hammering on glittering generali-
ties. We are all sculptors and pain
tiers and our material is our own
flesh, blood, bone and soul. Any no
bleness begins at once to refine a
mans senses and any meanness or
sensuality to imbrute them. There
is no truer facial painter of red in
the world than the product of the
moonshine still. 1t is not a pretty
matter of establishment that SO many
try it out.
Old Way and New Way.
The old way of slashing lumber,
brick, etc, together and erecting a
house any so~I of way is past, and
Just so the old stl1e of reading, writ
ing and arithmetic as basis for
"quituation' is past. Building is now
done with an architect drawing all
the plans, showing exactly where
each part of building material will
go and now it should be erected. This
from the foundation to the top.
If preparation is absolutely neces-
sary in the erection of a house of
whatsoever description, from the
largest to the smallest, how much
more so is a blue print, a diagra ming
of your mind, important in the cree
ton of your future, your manhood or
your womanhood. Give no thought
of tomorrow as to what you shall eat
or what you shall wear, was not
| spoken to you
Diagram the Future.
In the actual building of the house
| the first thing Is the foundation. The
greatest builder of mankind ever
known said 1t could not be done on
sand-it had to be done on rock. If
such a foundation was necessary
tn6U, now JHuCn IlOi iiiPOlt dHl INV .
Have any of you drawn blue prints
for your future? Have any of you
diagramm ed what you shall do or try
to do2
Neither Too High Nor Too Low.
Last year hunting goats in the
Klappan mountains of British Column
bia-and Klappan means big country,
and it certainly impresseS you as be-
Ing big and high had an Indian for
a guide. We had stalked a big billy
within 900 yards when he COM
menced to move. The guide said
shoot. At the first shot the guide,
markying the striking of the bullet
beyond, said: You are above him"
the next he said was blewo him; the
third shot he said. You hit him"
That was intermediate. This illus
trates the danger of aiming too high.
or too low. When you find that your
dissertation enough to change-find
the locality of the game and guide
yourself straight to 1t.
Optimism Is WELL provided you
have sufficient realism in you to keep
away from the dangers of fantasy.
Pessimism is well, too. because un-
questionably many of our hopes,
| many Of our desires should be
| gentled down with knowledge that
there is such thing as the impossi-
BILE. but he that does not stand on the
highest elevation possible and view
the promised land canont realize
those blessings in life which belong
to every man.
He that scatters his endeavors, TAX
ing general crack at creation. is
like the hunter with a shotgun, it is
only the small game he bags. The
big accomplishments of life, like the
| big game of the mountains, Is done
with intensive effort and a high
powered, far-shooting rifle.
True mastery is composed of SUI
preme qualities-it is heroism, it is
culture, it is enthusiasm, it is intelli-
gence, 1t is endurance, it Is faith, it
| is uncomfortable will. Have these
| and then you can truly be to your
| country cities and not walls. and you
| can without doubt answer the prayer
of every great community. which
| should be, 20 God. give us men,
Belief Versus Gnbelief.
| All great leaders have been in
spired with great belief In nine cases
out of ten. failure is born of unbelief.
Faith in yourself must be tho guild
ing star of your success. The very
minute that you entertain unbelief in
yourself. that minute marks the fall.
Thomas Field says: There are men
of such high conviction. whose very
| faces would light up an era. and there
are noble women In whose eyes you
may almost read the whole plan of
salvation"
Go to the ant, thou sluggard." was
long ago written. and we must ac-
knowledge that we frequently meet
people who ought to be travelling that
way.
O o O
No Ultimate Star.
Vice President Marshall in re-
cent speech spoke of the discovery
of very far, far away star and of
it as being the ultimate star. There
can be no conception of such a star:
that star is placed in infinitv and that
star now becoming a new base must
recognize infinity as just beginning
and the unfathomable as still beyond.
Otherwise the finite has begun and
man has attained the limits of i.nowl-
edge and this cannot be because we
know that we have the star soWn
deep of space and it is without limit