The Washington times., 1925-05-14
Don't Be in a Hurry, Young
Gentlemen
IF NAPOLEON Could Wait SEVEN Years, You Can Wait 81

young earth who fall because tey
lack ambition determination to advance There are many
more whose troube is hasv ambition They fail to realize
their present chances their hurried reaching out for some
thing better You may in club pooroom or otner
wasting time crowds of young men smoking ana
deplorlng their lack of success.
Give working three years at the same job and the
salary will say, land don see what chance
have for getting ahead
The young who talks in this way does not realize
that depends developing the qualities which are in
him He develop them he viii, no matter what his
place world Once he ready to do good work once
he is developed, the work will find him out
When Napoleon Bonaparte resting from his abors at
st. Helena, he used to tell this story:
Zone day on parade young lieutenant stepped out
of the ranks excited appeal to personally He
said to me that been lieutenant for five
and mad been able to advance In rank SAID to him.
Calm yourself years lieutenant, and yet
see that man may push himself forward for all that
satisfied officer self made Emperor of the French and
Of great many other nations He had to Paris thin
hollow checked boy from the conquered and de-
spised He stuck in the humble grade Of lieu
tenant for several years When the time he bOssomed
out
When he was lieutenant he developing himself. He
studied and mastered the art of He wrote the history OF
Corsica and would publish it. he wrote drama
which acted he wrote prize essay for the
Academy Lyons and did not win the prize On the
style These few failures enough to make ordinary
boy throw his hands and say "1ve done all do;
now let the world look out for me- "
Just when he become hopeful about the future when he
knew that he had real try genius he dismissed from
the and his seemed to be ended He made the thin
which he and his brother lived He could afford to
change his shirt only a week. He said:
I breakfasted off dry Bread but bolted the door
my poverty
he kept it, and all the time successful otherwise he
developing himself He developed into emperor Young
viii please notice that fact and the fact that Napoleon
worked and tried under adversely and monotony instead of
grumbiing
The reporter who does not get ahead
the author whose manuscripts treated Napoleon
first efforts may study with considerable profit young Amer
lean writer named Richard Harding Davis That young man
had been reporter in Phadpha for years. when he
went to work New York evening newspaper at small
salary. He had written and writing of his best
stories but could not get ahead apparently he
kept trying and developed himself When other young
busy talking about themselves deplorng their
lot Davis writing and grinding away out Of working
hours at the effort to get out and realize what in him
he succeeded.
few have been mentioned for young think
They selected at random No young need worry
about himself so long as ne honestly that he doing
his BEST Being in the place at the salary for
do you harm you developing during
that time what in you. But you may well worry you
drifting ainlessly ptyng yourself making effort your
mind stays in the sphere for years. that dangerous
Rf DON'T ohN