The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-02-06
PUT SAFETY LAST
British Sailor Reversed the Usual
Order of Things.
Much to Be Said In Commentator OF
the Change, Says Writer IN
Eastern Magazine.

Captain Campbell, V. O., royal navy
hero Of mystery ships, used to put ID
his night order book as a closing ad-
monition, safety last"
Time and again Captain Campbell
took a chance and came through, while
the cautious took their caution down
to Davy Jones' locker.
America was discovered because
Christopher Columbus dared to jump
across the sky line. The restless and
audaclous enterprise which advanced
the frontiers OF American business was
but a carrying on Of the explorer and
the pioneer.
The sheltered-llfe theory means
either premature demise or an over
supply Of weaklings. The street that
breeds strong men is not Easy street.
Danger and risk are as essential In
molding strength as air and food are,
observes the Saturday Evening Post.
America would do well at this mo-
ment to call back something Of the
devil-may-care bravado Of her cattle
kings and her clipper captains. They
were strong men with strong vices, but
also with strong virtues pungent char
actors In a pungent age.
The life Of Sir William Van Horne Is
A great sermon on the text safety
Donald Smith and his col
had a vision Of clamping all
British North America with IN iron
They came to Minneapolis to
consult with James J. Hill.
"You need" said Hill, "a man Of
'reat mental and physical power to
nut the line through. Van Horne al
10 It,"
From the first the scheme was prob
smatical. The railway man who IN
ertOok II was risking his career. Van
had before him an assured sue
ess in the United States, but asa
-lend put II. "He went or chasing rab-
Its into the wilderness" The task
hich called him was the execution
the greatest railway project in the
Orld. The natural obstacles 10 be
lercome were unparalleled. I'M
hunted he turned his back on the easy
aces and yentured forth.
Said one Of his engineers. "He al
avs acted as II nothing we're lmpos-
Die. He was not always right. He
the kind that would go out on the
lie Of I mountain and say Blow that
Iwn.' He would not ask If il could
done. He would say, Do itr Some
mes the thing was impossible under
binary circumstances. but he had
ch luck. Some accident or other .
'uld happen so the thing could be :
'wn up or torn down without any :
His luck, his daring and his .
lrlessness just carried him through"
to put II more clearly, pluck car
d him through. -
obstacles were the least OF
opposition met by Van Horne and
colleagues. "On one fateful day in
" writes Professor SHELTON. when
final passage Of the bill was being
sely awaited, the Canadian Pacific.
Ich can borrow S50.OOO.OOO any day
ore breakfast. was within three
RS of bankruptcy for lack Of a few
dred thousand dollars"
ptimism is a nice word, but right
: pluck is a thousand times more
It we are needing. Amid the soft
) OF today We need more stoutness
heart. There Is a Gaelic phrase.
'ul fear ferrall." which means the
; Of manly men," On the floor Of the
k exchange. on the floor Of the
Ing foundry, wherever there Is hest
m there Is a call for the sons of
ly men, a call for those who r
essed Of that good old-fashloned
o-saxon virtue of pluck.