New Britain herald., 1927-01-11
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hands and the time I had to my self I devoted to culture and pre- paration. I was ever on the alert. l battled for what I conceived right. l went to war. I fought with that same spirit. I returned and con- tinued the fight. am still fighting and will continue, urged by my spirit until my task is done.
 Must Be Busy
 And, in my adolescent years this temperament coupled with hardship, drilled me for the tasks which later in life I was to face. The adversity of my youth, stretching year after year, trained me to meet difficulty and meet it by hard and severe work. It was inevitable that this constant grind to keep body and soul together and the desire to use my spare time in accomplishing some good would create of me a working automaton, more active and more powerful as the years passed. likeness was unknown to me, for, even when l tramped from town to town in search of work, l never failed to take along a volume of poems or philosophy. Work had be- come in me an ingrained habit. A beneficial remorse seized me when I was not engaged in some useful effort. I wasi indeed unhappy when there was not something to do. ] was one out of my world.
 It is just such training, I think, that should be given to our children. They should be drilled in achieve ment. They should be saturated with this spirit of work. It should be a part of their physical and men, tai equipment. The years of adoles- cence should be dedicated to the formation of sound habits to stand in good stead throughout life. fear for those in our schools and universities, who fool away their time in useless social pastime. The growing years are the formative years, and habits and rules of life should be inculcated which remain the dominating quality, regulating their future and determing their good to the world and mankind. I believe that as much liberty as possible should be permitted the child to determine his natural bent. Perhaps, one could call this a period of experimentation. of useful ex- perimentation 10 find out what he is best adap pted for. Once, however this natural inclination has been dis ! covered, the line of the child's con- duct should be fixed toward the aim determined, Severe applica- ton to duty and the cultivation of rules of physical and mental con- duct ingrained in the individual are | imperative needs 10 enable him to achieve the ends 10 which he may dedicate his life.
 Ancestors
 My ancestors so far back as we can trace. were devoted to the soil I come of stock whose long hours in the fields in the region of s3o- logna for centuries have developed race of sturdy progeny, through whose veins coursed the blood of countless generations of tireless tolers. Work was a heritage passed on from generation to gen. cration. My father left the soil for tho forge and anvil, where fire and iron knotted the muscles of his sturdy frame. My mother was a jealous searchcr and teacher of knowledge. They have left me priceless heritage in the body and mind with which I am endowed.
 Then, above and beyond my ac- quired and natural zeal of work. I have the great aim set before me to make my people great and to re- store to them the glory that was 1 theirs. My goal has been set. look into the future and there see the mark I have fixed. It stands as the powerful lure, prevailing on me 10 achieve, keeping me steadfastly i fixed, firm in my purpose to reach the end. My fourteen and sixteen ! hours of daily toll are as nothing which the future holds. This pas sion to accomplish for my people draws me to my task, I will not let one jot or little go undone that the great ann lldy De rtailZeu, that Italy may take her place in the fore front amongst the nations of the earth.
 ! Stern, unrelenting duty transcends 1 all to bind me to my task. There is the impcrious must compelling f the daylong toll to go on., The toll ! of the day must be done, for tomor- row will be another day, too, with | it's tasks and eXactions. Never shall 1 that which can be done today be | put off until tomorrow. Even into 1 the night the work continues that today's work be done today, 10 1 leave for tomorrow tomorrow's own 1 toll.
 The day long am in action I