The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-06-14

/ Continued From Yesterday
| while / can truthfully answer
The world is your field, it seems
to me that the sixth letter of the
word graduate stands for the
land of golden opportunity
America.
America that is second to
none / in natural resources;
America where the worlds wealth
Iiest men have made their fortunes;
America Of almost every climate.
from the balmy city of Key West
to the frozen wastes of Alaska ;
America that has produced citizens
like Washington, jefferson, Frank
lin, Jackson, Lee. fancy, White,
DR.. John B. Murphy, Charles and
William Mayo, Clara Barton,
Mother Seaton, Agnes Replier and
q host of others too numerous to
name.
| IF You can't find, in your de-
termination to be useful citizens,
what you are searching for. here
in America, then find it some
where else. But find it. Only re-
member that "A rolling stone
gathers no MOSS
T For Toll
But, in order to carry out
your determination of realizing
your ambition of being useful citi-
zens here in America, or anywhere
else, there is another quality of a
! genuine and sterling graduate that
is indicated by the seventh letter
of the word; an essential require
ment for success in any line. and
that quality is Toll, by which /
mean work and plenty Of it.
" sScientia cum sanguine-
knowledge maketh a bloody en-
trance-that we can freely trans
late by saying, If you want to be
q big success, prepare to sweat
blood, was saying of the
ancients expressive of their belief
concerning the necessity Of work
is success were really aimed at.
mo, you can't get something
for nothing. Did You read May
18th editorial in The Citizen
about free delivery of merchan-
disc? 1t may seem free. it may
be called free, but somebody pays
the freight. You cannot get some
thing for nothing. You get what
you pay for.
And the price you pay for sue
cess in any walk of life is work,
work and more work. Show me a
man or a woman who has made a
success of life. ] care not in what
walk, and ! will show you a man
or woman who has worked.
Fifty percent of talent and one
hundred percent of work will bring
true success far quicker than one
thousand percent talent with the
work left out. Work will make
up for deficiency of talent and
natural ability; but natural ability
and talent will never make up for
lack of work.
II have heard genius defined
as a talent for work. Thomas A.
Edison, whose inventive brain
startled the world and gave en-
ployment to millions of people,
was just such a genius-a man
with unlimited talent for work.
Asked one day how he got such
inspiration for successful inven-
tions he replied with smile: 1t
is one percent inspiration and
ninety-ninety perspiration.' Yes,
he worked and worked and
worked. spending days and nights
on stretch in order to get re-
suits. Edison did not watch the
clock, yet he lived to be an old
man. Work did not hurt him. He
thrived on il.
"A famous surgeon in the city
Of New Orleans. himself an in
defatigable worker and, ], do not
need to add. tremendous success
in his chosen profession--once
gave me the following poem en-
titled:
Diamonds
Diamonds are nothing but chunks
of coal.
That stuck to their jobs. yonI
see,
II they'd petered out, as most Of
US do,
Where would the diamonds be-?
II is not the fact Of making 4
start:
It's the sticking that counts,
I'll say:
It's the fellow who knows not the
meaning Of fail
But hammers and hammers
away.
So when yoa think you've reached