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Show "Just as 'Long as You Are Green You "Will Keep on Growing" By W. G. EDENS, Address to Collego Girls' ClutK tJust ns long ns you'ro green, young ladies, you'll keep on growing. The wiy to keep on learning is to rcalizo that you need to learn. You will learn ns long as you try; you will grow as long as you admit you nre green. But tlio moment you begin to think you know enough, you will stop learning. Your mental growth will end right there. I began lifo as a Western Union messenger boy. I wna green nnd I know it nnd I climbed up because I realized that I had pretty much everything to lenrn. So I kept on learning. I got to be a mail carrier; then I wont into tho railway service and advanced to freight and passenger conductor. I became vice grnMd master of the Brotherhood of Bailwny Trainmen. I was assistant general superintendent of tho free delivery Bystom of tho Poetoflico department. As president of tho Illinois Highway association I had a good deal to do with the good roads of tho state. 1 am vice president of a bank now and I'm 6till green enough to keep on growing grow-ing mentally. Avail yourselves of every nvcnuo of learning. Do not neglect anything any-thing because it seems unimportant. Tho reason many pcoplo miss opportunities oppor-tunities is that thoy havo contempt before thoy investigate. Thoy do not admit tlint there is anything to he learned from a new and untried proposition. prop-osition. llero aro two valuablo aphorisms of Ben Franklin: "Learn of tho skillful ; ho that teaches himself has a fool for a master." "JIo that won't bo counseled can't bo helped." |