The Washington times., 1925-12-12

| And the greatest service one soul
can give to another, Is just 20
helm him keep this kingdom which
Il his. Off by any mishap ne
has lost ito help put him Dack
again on his throne"
Every day The Washington Times
Is awarding copy OF "A son OF
His Father" to the best letter re-
ceived on the subject "herediry W..
environment"
Letters Should Be Brief
Make your letter short, interest
ing and to the point. 49,.
Now read the rest OF Oreon Marie
McRee's letter and then see II you
ton can't earn a copy or MI.
Wrieht's great book dealing WITH
the same subject you are inVlteo
to deal with.
Here liz the Mckee idea
awe live in world or effects.
we ourselves are but the effect OF
what has gone before. Our airs,
our ambitions, our very careers are
effects. It seems that we are
prone to ignore causes, for now
few Of us ever pause in LIES head
long course to ask-why am what
I am-why do desire to do-to
have-to be?
aTo answer these vital questions
one must 60 back to the source
from whence one flows, without
which one could not be and to
which one owes all.
Debt to Mother
ION the subject of inheritance, I
will speak first OF my mother:
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in all its glory and beauty. can
never remember her doing a mean,
unkind thing. She is a Christian
an ardent advocate Of right in all
her dealings with the world Of men.
These noble characteristics she mas
passed on to her children, In part.
not wholly. The whole, she could
not give.
Earth children must make Them
selves, and Mr.. Albee is quite right
in saying a man Is what he makes
himself-but the thing that counts
is the material with which Fate
endows him in the beginning, with
which to make himself. And that
material is mother and father ma
observation-disclosures. We must be
born with the germs OF qualities,
cannot do.
The same thought is conveyed
by John Burroughs:
THE stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave comes to the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor Deep nor
Can Keep my own away from me-
mot only did we children In
herit germs of good. moral quail
ties from our mother. We inherit
ed germs of her talents and her
superior convent education, includ'
ing music and art, as well as the
ordinary branches Of learning. /
am humbly grateful to my Maker
for my mother.
Father was Fighter
my father was q man Of indom.
table. iron villa man who with
one gesture Of the hand and a flash
of fire from his eyes, sought to
sweep all obstacles from his path.
The more he was opposed, the
harder he fought. He died a fight.
err to the end. Had all things been
equal, he would have been like the
great man he so much admired
Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
without the fighting qualities
and the iron will inherited from
my father / would not have had
the power to make the most Of the
talents I have inherited from my
mother. My great aspiration Is
authorship. It is my true inheri-
lance. NV mother wrote; her
brothers, all college men, wrote.
Writing was thrust upon me at
birth. With the talent from my
mother and the iron will and fight
ing power inherited from my
father / am going to succeed.
"A rose is created to be a rose
and no other flower. It will bios
som in a poor mans garden as
well as in a rich mans, II tended.
Ever since / was little girl
have written-just because I had
an inner urge to write; because 1
loved to write: because It seemed
to reconcile me for all the things
/ didn't have.
II can proudly say-All / am
or ever hope to be, i owe to the
talents and qualities handed down
to me from my mother and fatheE."