Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-01-04
Brave Men Never Give Up
BY Robert DUR

friend of writes; Imagine a man at forty-five
suddenly deciding 10 become lawyer OF you have
time ON your hands money in your pockets and keen
brains in head you try many things you might
succeed in of them IT, A. Mcdonald of West Point Ne
braska had lots of brains but much money. He
school anor But he had and the will follow through
on his ambition lie studied law long and hard day and night
and ultimately became Judge of his county
julius Jonas man. had four hundred
men working under his direction when without warning total
darkness came upon him Many under such circumstances
would have slipped away Walng wall cnge
complain and curse their fate But Jonas had character lots
Of faith in himself and God All of his darkness on the
side There bright light his fighting heart He COM
petey readusted his life and swiftly even greater
insurance Salesmana member of the 100000 club his
company.
Jack Joyce whose superb work stage still
happy memory for millions, lost his leg battle on the
Western Front in World War But show business was in his
blood and his soul and regardless his misfortune he re-
turned to the stage and to the people who loved seeing him
there and went over top in dramacs in bigger way
ever Herbert Marshall another the stage and screen
mad denlcay the same experience He's still going strong
today
There Munsey who owned a chain of newspapers and
grocery stores when he died Millions only of his fame
and fortune while he lived but when Munsey passed on
newspaper man summed this great Americans hearaches
courage and eonquess in short revealing paragraph:
Forty in New York forty failures forty millions"
Carl herman Unhan was born without Now there
IS first class handicap that would spirit of any or
binary person But Unhan not an ordinary person He
learned to shave himself use typewriter play the violin
ugge with his toes When he retired from the stage he
came a popular writer the theatre
IoScanni is very famous The music world yet
few people know of his physical handicap is the kind
OF man who does not recognize handap In his early DAYS
when he played in the orchestra he To memore the music
Tor all the instruments because he neasghed One dav the
director became i'll and Toscdnn conducted orchestra The
ovation was tunderouS Toscann became the director
Homer Milton and Helen Keller were blind The latter was
also deal Socrates was mountain guide stonemason and
horse breaker Henry Ford Thomas A. Edison and Andrew
Carnegie were born in poverty and had formal education:
out these men learned early life the power Of faith COURAGE
imagination and hard wofk-and the thrilling experience of
Seteducation
mere Is no such word failure in the vocabulary f .,
ambitious and brave TIE poet Horace said r
"ed TO the people Of his day Live undaunted and onnoee
gallant breasts against the sorked Of adversitv" The Snar
moie use to say TO their who were going IN war. or
your sword be too short and add step to it, William penn
couhSeed the young in the darkest DAYS Of opr b,
NO pam no palm; no thorn throne no gall no plor, ~
cross no crown Opportunity SAYS: 80 ~
wall not for precious chances passed avav'
Weep not for golden ages on the wane
Each night burn the records of the day
AT sunrise every soul is born again"
Brave men never give up"