Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-15
Uncommon
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body else.
You will meet with disappointments,
defeats.
But stand up and take it. Don't run
away.
Probably the job of attaining dis
tinction is more difficult today than 1t
ever has been.
There is more competition for the
high prizes.
There are more competitors who are
well trained and well educated.
Time was in the early history OF this
country when man who could read
and write and figure" had better
chance than most of his neighbors.
What are called advantages" are
more general now.
nliteracy has practically vanished.
You never know today with whom
you are competing.
1t may be the man next door. 1t
may be some fellow who lives on the
other side of the continent, but who
has the same ambition that you have,
and the same determination to sue
coed.
Now and then when some great in
vention is made, and some earnest
able studious man profits by it, you
find that perhaps a hundred people
have been working on the same thing.
But don't bother about that.
Everybody is on their own. If they
are gifted with the willingness to work
hard, and have keen and intelligent
minds, they are pretty certain to win
some kind of success.
With people like these you must COM
pete.
You never heard of them; they never
heard of you.
But you are in the same race, and
one among you is going to win.
That isn't easy. But nothing worth
doing is easy.
Get the best education you can at
the start.
Improve on 1t as you go along.
Cultivate as far as possible the in
terest and the friendship of people
who have intelligence and persever-
ance.
Play just enough to keep your body
in good health.
As for Work, indulge in it as much as
you can. Worry may kill YOU Work ,oon't
unless there is something the matter tUith
your physical system.
1t may be that, in spite Of every
thing you will leave no footprints on
the sands of time" but at least before
you leave this planet you will have
the satisfaction that you used every
thing you had, and that you did make
progress along some new path.
Except in partially civilized coun-
tries there should be no such thing as
provincialism.
Looking at Today in the news
the World papers, furnished
with electric eyes
and ears that do their work In all
parts of the world, happenings in Lon
don and Paris and the Balkans and
Constantinople are known to the whole
world the next morning.
Every intelligent man and woman is
a newspaper reader.
When l was a child in a little town
in the Middle West, the papers in the
nearest so-called cities printed briefly
events that now are given a number
of columns.
Once the man who lacked the means
to travel knew very little about what
was going on in the world.
Today he knows all the newspaper
correspondents and reporters and ed
itors know, and that is great deal.
AS result of the growth and i'm
provement of the newspapers there is
no longer any excuse for ignorance
outside jungle countries.
There are nevertheless many peo-
pie who will not take the trouble to
read, unless 1t is about prize ring
fights or bandits, or little wars in
South America.
If they get no benefit from the press
It is their own fault. It is there ev-
cry morning, or every afternoon in
clear type.
Every day the world is getting more
Today something that looks like a
war cloud is rising over the Balkans.
Once before a war cloud of about
the same size was observed In the
same place, and a few days afterward
The whole world was catching fire.
II you want to talk convincingly,
and to think intelligently you must
have something to think and talk
about.
You will find what Won wont whom